 That's terrible. No. No, no. Did you get away the goodie bag? Give away the goodie bag. Oh, it's all done, done and dusted. Yeah, giving you a free rolling. Yeah, thanks very much. Okay, thanks. See you at the weekend. We'll talk to you soon, Greg. Bye-bye. It's the 9 till noon show here on Highland Radio. Time for a news update, and it is. Good morning, Emma Ryan. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Two teenage boys both age 16 have died after getting into difficulty while swimming in Loch Anna in the Temple Road area of Derry. The police received reports shortly after 6.25 yesterday evening of a number of people in difficulty in the water. One of the boys was transferred to hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body of the second was taken from the water and he was declared dead at the scene. A third teenage boy was also taken from the water and hospitalized for non-threatening, life-threatening injuries while three other friends who were at the scene were treated for shock. Stratfoil counselor Rachel Ferguson says the community is shocked and saddened by the tragic news. Which means that he's waking up today completely shocked and saddened as the names of three young boys have lost their eyes at eating that quack last night. A number of them have gone on their bike. My understanding is that one had become distressed whilst trying to swim in the water. Another one had gone out to his aid and also became distressed and unfortunately has resulted in the tragedy of losing two young 16-year-olds who just were about to return to school after the GCSE this week. Agriculture Minister believes the conclusion of public sector pay talks is a welcome step. Union officials described the process as difficult as they left the Workplace Relations Commission early this morning. They were now brief members on an advised offer from the government. Agricultural Minister Charlie McConn-Loke says it's important there is a proposal on the table after weeks of uncertainty. We finally have a proposal this morning and of course the objective of the government here was to combine and recognize the cost of living pressures that are on workers and the need to probably reward our public servants for the very important work that they do and combine that with balancing our national budget as well as ensuring that there's sufficient funding for investment in services and public infrastructure. A European Union-wide cap on electricity prices and a major reform of the EU's electricity market is urgently required to address storing bills according to FinGill's Colin Markey. The Midlands Northwest MEP said the current system is not fit for purpose as currently wholesale electricity prices are linked to the price of gas. That's despite only 21% of EU electricity being produced from gas. FinGill MEP said at a time when homeowners and business face astronomical bills, emergency intervention is needed. Electricity that's generated across the EU only 20% of it is generated from gas and over two-thirds of it is generated by renewable energies. But the key thing is that the cost of producing renewable energies hasn't changed. So we need to put a cap in place that reflects the cost of producing 80% of the electricity that's not produced by gas rather than it being linked to gas which is only producing 20% of the electricity. Rather now, today we'll be mainly dry with a mix of cloud and sunny spells. Light, isolated charge are possible, highest temperatures of 20 to 22 degrees. That's all for now. We'll be back with a news update again at 10 o'clock. But until then, good morning. Finally, you can live your best life with Ireland's lowest rate of loans over 20K. Apply now at ompost.com slash loans. Ompost money. More money for your world. Mending criteria, fees and fees apply. New applications only. Info correct or live 14, 2022. Source, CCPC for Ireland's lowest rate. Ompost acts as accredited intermediary on behalf of Avonkardak. Ompost trading with Ompost money is authorized as accredited intermediary by the CCPC. Avonkardak trading with Ompost money is regulated by the Centre Bank of Ireland. And now it's time for the top of the Northwest, the 90 noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning. You're very welcome. Long to 90 noon show this Tuesday the 30th of August 2022, four minutes past nine. And we're back at base, back in studio today. And thanks to everyone in beautiful Rathmoreland who made us feel so very welcome yesterday. It was great to go up and meet so many people up there. And we had a great time in the weather was great. The weather seems quite nice again today. But anyway, we have another busy show lined up for you here over the next three hours. The WhatsApp and text lines are open for you right now. 086 60 25,000. That's 086 60 25,000. Or give us a call on 07491 25,000. 07491 25,000. If you want to email the show, it's comments at highlandradio.com. And if you want to watch the program as well, hop onto our website at highlandradio.com. And also you can go to our YouTube and Facebook channels. YouTube's Highland Radio Ireland and the Facebook, just search Highland Radio. It's there, Highland Radio News and Sport and Highland Radio. We're on both of them. And you can comment and tell us where you're watching from. And if you're listening on your smart speaker or on your phone or on tune in, tell us where you're listening from as well. 086 60 25,000 from outside the Republic. 003538 660 25,000. The Donegal People's Press focuses on the age of first-time mothers. More than four in 10 births in Donegal are outside of marriage or civil partnership while the average age of women giving birth for the first time continues to get older and older, continuing a trend over the past 20 years. The average age of mothers giving birth for the first time in Donegal now stands at 30.4 years compared with the average age nationally of 31.7. The overall age of mothers giving birth in Donegal is now 32.4. The majority of births are to women in their 30s with 149 in the first three months of 2022 being to mothers in Donegal age between 30 and 34 and 108 to mothers between 35 and 39. There are 31 births in the county to women aged 40 or more during the first three months of this year according to the latest vital statistics report released by the Central Statistics Office. No word on men here, what age bracket they're in, but anyway, not from the paper but in these statistics. Only seven of the 421 births were to women under 20 while just 37 were in the 2024 age bracket. On to the Derry Journal now and they focus on that big fish kill in North Donegal. A major fish kill that left over 2,000 salmon and bran trout dead in Glenneganon River has been described as disappointing and upsetting for the entire community. In Land Fisheries Ireland, the state agency responsible for the protection and conservation of freshwater fishing habitats is investigating the major fish kill incident in Karnedona after environmental and fishery officers in North-Western River Basin District were alerted by a member of the public via its 24 hour confidential hotline number on Friday and following patrols conducted along the river on Friday and Saturday IFI confirmed yesterday over 2,250 juvenile bran trout and Atlantic salmon were killed and there's a picture of them on a sheet of tarpaulin and very sad to see that and very damaging for them of course but for the river in its future potentially as well. On to the Irish Times now and EU is preparing energy price intervention but to what extent remains to be seen. The European Union is preparing an emergency intervention in its energy market to drive down ballooning power prices. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday the skyrocketing electricity prices are now exposing the limitations of our current electricity market design. It was developed for different circumstances she said in Slovenia. That's why we are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. I mean currently you'll know in Spain they are capping gas prices as it relates to energy development or not development generation. But what is happening is then you have other nations like France and others around that Spain are saying alright okay we like a bit of that action let's buy our electricity from Spain and Spain then could find itself subsidizing other European countries electricity. What I don't know as it relates to us here is we rely on Britain for our gas. Britain is outside the EU they're not going to be involved in this energy price intervention so what are the consequences for us if it is sort of a gas related cap. As I say we buy our gas from Britain so I've been reading up the various experts in inverted commas and no one seems to have pointed that out to any great extent or suggested how it might impact on us. But we shall see. T. Chuck Meehan-Martin met Eamon Ryan and Minster for Finance Piscot Pascal Donohue to discuss energy security price and supply and how energy prices had grown significantly over the past number of weeks especially one source said there is growing concern in government over the scale of the challenge at this winter they are going to have to do something let's see what they're capable of now. The Irish Independent tells us that drivers are facing the threat of diesel going up again drivers face paying even more tax on diesel under a proposal from an independent group set up to I advise Finance Minister Pascal Donohue a report sitting on the minister's desk has called for the hikes ahead of another rise in fuel prices as diesel and petrol are expected to hit two euro per litre again this week. The recommendations from the Commission on Taxation and Welfare also include scrapping the green diesel concession for farmers a large hike in property tax increasing per aside payments by the self employed higher exercise duty on home heating or now can you imagine with a government at this stage when we are facing into a winter of great discontent they're hardly actually considering increasing exercise duty on home heating oil and diesel I mean there might come a time when that's appropriate surely it is not now now this is a report sitting on his desk he can follow the report I presume or he can ignore it but surely at the end of next month he's not going to increase levees on diesel and home heating oil this report anyway is also told Pascal Donohue there should be a levee on holiday homes and a congestion charge well you know what you can have the congestion charge it's not going to affect us much the Commission was set up by government to independently consider how best the taxation and welfare systems can support economic activity employment and prosperity the list of proposals after a year long review of tax policy is set to challenge government thinking ahead of the budget and this is a perfect story for journalism and I'll tell you why because this is a report that's on his desk right it's a bit of fear porn here it doesn't suggest that he's going to follow the recommendations of this report but he's not going to come out and say that he's not going to because they do not discuss taxation measures in the round ahead of a budget so they can print this story everyone can be scared and you know purchase the paper and have a read through it and be even extra scared but it doesn't really indicate whether or not the government's going to follow this direction and really the government would be breaking rank by coming out and saying no we're not going to do that because then you might say well what about increasing social welfare by 50 are you going to do that and then the answer to that would be well we don't speculate about measures at this point because the negotiations are still ongoing so it's the kind of perfect story that you can print, scare the living daylights out of people and really the government probably can't come out and poo poo it. We mentioned on the program last Friday morning that Dara Kalliri is favourite for a junior ministry and they're reporting on it not what we said they're reporting on it on the front of the Irish Independent today. Former Minister Dara Kalliri's tip to make a comeback to the government team tomorrow as T-Shock Meill Martin picks a replacement for Robert Troy. A week after Mr Troy was forced to quit as junior enterprise minister Mr Martin's expected to bring the name of his replacement before cabinet for necessary approval. In reality the choice is entirely up to the T-Shock to pick from the FINA full ranks. Excuse me please. Other names have been cited including Kildare North TD James Lawless and Kevin Monaghan Deputy Neve Smith but it seems that Mr Kalliri is going to be welcomed back with open arms there. The Irish Daily Mail this morning. It could take 15 years to clear the hospital waiting list of over 900,000 if Budget 2023 does not deliver up 5,000 additional beds needed by 2030 consultants have warned. The Irish Health, Irish Hospital Consultants Association has told the government the business as usual is not an option. It comes as the Matter Hospital has appealed to the public for the eighth time this year to avoid its ED because of overcrowding and nurses and doctors across the country way up strike action and we know that advice has been issued I think more than eight times so far this year as it relates to our local hospital here one of them Lederkenny University Hospital. Meanwhile Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street has confirmed that three complex scoliosis surgeries have been postponed for the next three weeks apologizing to the children and parents affected it said that all other spinal surgeries would continue during this time. Now you can only imagine the distress caused to those young people who had built themselves up to this and their families only to be told that those surgeries are not going ahead. The hospital said surgery in recent months has resulted in pressure on beds surgery theaters and staff. Okay let us get on to the Irish Daily Star now and I suppose you have to explore space don't you do you I don't know but just with everything that's going on in the world sort of a NASA vanity project to send a big rocket up into space it just does not seem appropriate at this time for me but anyway NASA axed the launch of its first rocket in 50 years which just looks like a big pint of lager actually. It axed the launch of its first rocket in 50 years capable of taking humans to the moon after a gas leak made an engine overheat though they don't know if it's capable of taking men or women to the moon because that's the purpose of this launch. The 20 billion 322 foot space launch system rocket was due to carry an unmanned capsule and a 2.3 million mile 42 day mission into the moon's orbit but NASA called off the launch from Cape Canaveral Florida yesterday morning after controllers failed to get an engine on the unmanned rocket to cool down to its correct temperature maybe they need to go and see Elon Musk because he's putting rockets into space every day and taking the back down and then sending the same rockets up but anyway they're spending billions upon billions upon billions of money to try and get man buck up on the moon. We talked also recently about Dana being snubbed from a special but that's being put together by RTE to celebrate Eurovision and this paper seems to have been on to Charlie McGettigan to see if he should pull out in support of Dana. RS Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan has said pulling out of a concert following a snub to Dana would leave too many people out of pocket. RTE only invited six of our seven song contest champs to perform in Dublin's National Concert Hall on October 13th. Bosses didn't name Dana the first Eurovision winner from Ireland in 1970 with all kinds of everything in the special events lineup but Charlie McGettigan won't pull out of the show with the RTE concert orchestra. He told us if we were to say we are not doing it without Dana so many other workers would be out of pocket. We'll take a stand. You know what I mean? Sometimes you have to protest and you know what if the protest worked maybe more people would be in pocket than out of pocket. I think it's a bit of a cop out. I understand exactly where he's coming from. It's not a criticism of him but still has there been an actual explanation as to why she was snubbed. Are you likely to get road rage when you're out in the road? Most people are it seems. This is in the Irish Daily Mirror. Driving behaviour has emerged as a modern key factor that adds to people's stresses in everyday life. As many as 30% of drivers claim the maddening driving behaviour of other motorists top their list of stress factors according to new research but only 14% of motorists admitted in the latest study to having no bad driving habits. So I mean driving to and from work if you're getting stressed doing that what hope do you have at work? Let's see this is some research by Aviva. It found that over half of us eat behind the wheel 54% of people eat behind the wheel which some claimed is the worst bad habits. So are we talking having they're probably talking having their KFC or McDonald's while driving? The spokesperson added this was followed by driving over the speed limit 45% of us do that not letting other drivers out at a junction 25% do that and the 25% that do it and it's the one thing that does bother me. I'd prefer if they didn't do it but do you ever get someone who waves you out and they gesticulate at you as if they're going to knock your head off you know rather than a gracious open palm saying come on have a lovely day if this finger going across as if to say you've got 30 seconds or I'm ramming you but anyway it's nice to get out a further 25% added to letting the fuel tank run too low we all do that don't we? Well obviously we all don't only a quarter of us do well I'm in that quarter while only 14% of drivers claim to have no bad driving habits 14% of people in complete and utter denial but anyway what's your worst driving habit or what's the worst driving habit you see out on the road await 660 25,000 okay we'll be back in just a couple of minutes Get a free pair of 1000 mile socks with every pair of men's and women's running shoes at Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure run the roads the beach or the track and comfort and style with the latest arrivals from top brands and cleaning asics books and new balance whether you're looking for extra cushioning more lightweight shoes or trail shoes you'll find the perfect pair of runners at Michael Murphy Sports dot i e build a better future with a digital transformation course with digital transformation courses from advanced center you can improve the way we work together and do business the power beyond three of Ireland's leading universities UCD ATU Sligo and TU Dublin have combined to offer flexible accredited digital transformation courses from individual modules to full programs starting in September your future is enrolling now see advancedcenter dot i e do you suffer from high cholesterol many of all symptoms digestive issues anxiety aches and pains or lack of energy the highly trained team at the natural way letter can I can provide advice on natural remedies for a number of individual health issues the natural way also has its own brand of herbal treatments to help fight fatigue relieve digestive discomfort maintain a healthy immune system and alleviate common menopause symptoms the natural way letter can a shopping center your one stop health shop right okay those awful news that started to emerge yesterday evening and worst fears were realized two teenaged boys both aged just 16 have died after getting into difficulty while swimming in Loch Ina in the Temple Road area of Derry police received a report initially after 625 yesterday of a number of people in difficulty in the water a third teenager was treated in hospital and there's another three young people who are going to be maybe not physically injured by this incident but it's going to take a terrible toll on them you'd imagine father Michael canning is vicar general of the Derry diocese thank you for joining us father sorry to be speaking to you under these circumstances it's just the the worst news isn't it yeah this is a higher news for any family and the community parents need to see and the immediate family and of course the whole community the greater water side and maybe city people here are traumatized and shocked and saddened this morning at this harrowing news that emerged last evening an overnight of these two young boys who were just enjoying the afternoon evening sunshine with their friends but it was ended up in tremendous tragedy and that's a terribly sad sad time for them and their families for the whole community today everybody's really numbed and saddened by it father what do we know as to what happened well in my understanding that these about six of these boys got on their bicycles from a water side here and travelled towards that in a loch which is as you mentioned earlier on the way into Strathfoyle and it's not an unknown thing for people to go out there to swim even on the coldest days and I sometimes see people in their swimming and they just they do it but nevertheless it's not uncommon at this time of year for people to go out there to swim or to play with these boards that they have in water nowadays so these boys obviously engage in the same activity and it just ends up in tragedy as to what exactly happened I am not afraid with but I know that that's the sequence of events yeah. Now these are young dairy boys but their background is Syro Malabar Yes these boys would have been born here in the city 16 years ago as you can imagine but their parents came about maybe 20 or 22 years ago here to the city and the two of the parents are two mothers and are nurses and other works are nothing other than hospital and local business here so they've come here over 20 years ago on their home and as you mentioned they're from south of India a place called Kerala and they also breath with them their faith and their faith is Syro Malabar communities and they use our church for worship every Sunday at half past three and they have of course also their own chapel here in the city as well from India. But they also attended our primary schools and received confirmation in our schools as well. Yes but maybe their wider family back in India too just the worst news to have to relate in them so far away. Yes it is certainly something that they didn't expect yesterday even none of us expected it and then they are very very saddened, they're very gentle and kindly people very into community sticking tight to each other, they just say they're so far away from home and this will have hard on them and it's very very very hard on them fortuitously their chaplain was here yes leaving and he was able to minister the sacraments to the system comfort and so far as he could to the parents and to the relatives but it's certainly and of course then of course some of the extended family live elsewhere in the north of Ireland and maybe even elsewhere in Ireland and indeed of course the extended family and grandparents etc are back in India so it was the terrible news that goes right across the continents. Indeed so terribly sad. Father, Canny thanks for your time this morning. Thank you. Okay take care. Mark H. Durkin is SDLP Foil MLA Mark as I was saying to Father Canny there you know we started getting some news early evening yesterday and then it just got worse and worse awful. How did events unfold from your perspective? Yeah well there was a shock across the city that made this museum and they did also enter them back in the clock and I think today that shock has been replaced by sorrow as it's confirmed to young lads have lost their lives. I live very close by I was about half a mile from the lock I was made aware by a member of the community of an ongoing incident which I swiftly attended to see myself and other representatives were able to assist the emergency services in any way i.e. by helping divert traffic and what have you from the scene but it quickly became evident that we were on the scene of a tragedy. Families of all the young boys involved were arriving at the scene there was chaos and confusion and awful of stress and it was just awful to be there and have such a sense of helplessness and not be able to help the people affected by it or thoughts and prayers. Obviously with those affected by the tragedy the families of the two boys who have lost their lives particularly the friends who were with them who were in an awful state as you can imagine and who will have to carry with them for the rest of their lives what they witnessed yesterday evening and it's important that we are there to support them. The Kerala community as Father Kammy has said is a very close knit community and they'll support the families but I think we have a later community in the city here to support them all at this dark and unimaginably difficult time. And a word for the emergency services because all the training in the world it will prepare you to carry out an operation like this but it would never really truly prepare you for having to deal with this loss of life and I often find myself thinking on them too because it's tough on them I'm sure. Absolutely they're heroes and I've command them for their response last night and their valiant attempts to rescue these prayer boys and to open up success and recovering these boys so that the families suffering can be reduced even slightly at this time. Enough Locke, is it a popular swimming spot do we know what may have happened Mark? Well there hasn't been a tragedy of this nature here in 34 years so what you do have is maybe a new generation of teenagers here in the immediate area who aren't as aware of the dangers maybe those of my generation might be the Locke has also used I have to say for structured recreation we do have groups that use it for canoeing for paddle boarding and so forth and there's actually been our efforts on the way that I'm involved in other elected representatives and community representatives to help regenerate and develop the Locke's potential because obviously they'll be put on the back burner now that the priority now has to be to ensure support for the families affected by yesterday's tragedy and safety going forward. Incredibly sad but the good people of Derry will rally I'm sure and offer as much support as is possible in this incredibly difficult time. Mark thanks for your time this morning again sorry to be speaking to you under these circumstances as well for anyone who was on scene yesterday I'm sure it was very difficult and it will take some time to get over but thank you for your time this morning. Mark H. Dirk in there who is an MLA for FOIL. You could win 10,000 euros in cash yes that's right Greg Hughes will be ringing one lucky person on Friday the 2nd of September at 11.30am have you bought your tickets yet you can go to HighlandRadio.com click in the link answer a simple question and purchase a ticket for 10 euros 6 for 50 euros or 10 for 80 euros what would you do with 10 grand in cash. 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Ireland local insurance is a tide insurance intermediary of acorn brokerage limited acorn brokerage limited trading is acorn insurance is regulated by the central bank of Ireland ok now a caller says Greg such sad news what a great loss God love and comfort their families at this very sad time in their lives indeed it's really really really sad and more of your comments coming in on those others as well which we'll get to in a moment right ok we are joined on the program now by Helena hi Helena morning Greg how are you I'm good I'm good right so we've been talking about crossings road crossings and you're talking about the one aura talk to me about it yes I heard Pat on the radio yesterday morning and I couldn't agree more with what he was saying and I've been meaning to call in for a while I live out that road past the aura leisure centre and there's been pedestrian crossing at it for maybe a year at this stage maybe maybe a bit longer and I've just noticed that children or teenagers or adults or whatever stand there and wait to cross and the cars just fly past and they don't seem to understand that they're supposed to stop and let the pedestrians cross and it's incredible because I'll stop I'm not saying we all make mistakes obviously as motorists but I'll stop and see cars on the oncoming lane just continue to drive through even though I've already stopped and as I say there's a child or a teenager there a lot of the students come down from you know St. Union's and Loretta with their sports bags or whatever after school and they're standing waiting and it could be three or four cars before a car will eventually stop and it's incredible it's like they don't know that you're supposed to stop but pedestrian crossing and I just think it's a huge safety concern at some point there's going to be a collision I would think this is a full crossing with the orange beacons as well is it that's right yeah the orange flashing lights at the top so it should be obvious we've all passed our test we should know that you're not supposed to just drive through those and there's a pedestrian there and I know we don't have that many of them and don't think all compared perhaps with Dublin or whatever but there are a few and even if there's not we're supposed to everybody's supposed to know what you do at them that you stop you know is there issues with line of sight people not knowing they're there or is it just a basic not a lack of understanding as to the rules of the road I think I think it's the lack of understanding of the rules of the road to be honest because when you're coming from the Glens valley side there's a good couple of hundred meters on the street and there's they've also put up signs I think this must be fairly recently so maybe 50 meters back from the pedestrian crossing not only is there white lettering on the road caution crossing ahead there's also a sign saying caution crossing ahead you know a lollipop sign if you like so and now you could say coming from the letter Kenny side it's a bit of a shorter run up to us maybe it's a bit less but there still should be plenty time and this is still a 50 kilometer zone the cars shouldn't be but I think the problem is there's such great luck in letter Kenny now that when they get past that great luck there at the Skid Lally they speed up they're like okay I have a free run now home or wherever I'm going and speed up there and they're coming around that corner so fast and then they think to themselves oh the next car will stop or you know by the time I stop now I'll have to screech to a halt and that shouldn't be the case because that is a very built up area there's houses the whole way along there you know it sounds like it is a disaster waiting to happen Helena well I think so because my concern would be at some point a child or a teenager or whatever will think that a car is slowing down to stop for them and make that mistake and whereas in reality the person driving the car may be changing the radio station or unfortunately looking at their phone or something and they're not slowing down at all they haven't seen the pedestrian crossing and the signage is already I don't think there's much more can be done in terms of signage because as I say there is two lollipop signs one on either side of it there is a lettering on the road and there is the flashing lights it's not the flashing lights they're out of order or anything like that yeah I mean with so many different types of crossings now we have black and white zebra crossings but they don't have the flashing orange lights and then we have all the types of crossings that aren't black and white lines at all at all but you're not buying that you don't think this is about necessarily confusion or poor infrastructure this is just down to driver behavior Helena I'm afraid so yeah I think so I don't think we can blame that maybe with the benefit of hindsight given that cars aren't stopping there as they should maybe it should have been you know a traffic light where the pedestrian can press the button and the lights will then go red for the cars but again this is you know as I say we all make mistakes yeah but drivers don't want that because what happens is you know people press the button and they don't see traffic they run across and then 30 seconds later the traffic has to stop for a blank crossing you know if we respected these types of crossings better it would do us better in the long run because I think traffic lights would not be a they're not a fantastic solution if a pelican crossing is being used correctly like what does it what does it take then does it take maybe a guard on scene just to sort of observe what's going on and maybe advise motorists for half an hour for a week just to try and change behavior I don't know what how do we resolve this Helena if you come up with any solutions yeah perhaps that would be an option you know and as you say if it's just done in Russia one morning or one afternoon for even for a couple of days and just you know to point out to any motorist that aren't stopping but I suspect when a guard's there everybody's in high alert and they slow down immediately anyway but I don't know there needs to be better now that the schools are back especially it's a very busy road coming into Letter Canyon unlike a lot of the roads coming into Letter Canyon you look at mountaintop there you look down the Balbacay road it's a dual carriage so those are big wide roads and this isn't it's a small narrow road you're already in the 50 kilometer you shouldn't be going too fast that you can't stop there but I think a lot of the cars are they're accelerating out of better canny as well as you say after the relief of escaping the gridlock the foot's down that's it that's it or they're still coming into Letter Canyon they're still on that high speed and they only start to slow down when they really have to and I think unfortunately when they're going past there they're still you know they're still in the mindset of a higher kilometer speed limit which it's not it's only 50 a caller says the crossing is in the wrong place if you're coming from Don stores heading to the aura you're on top of those lights before you know it you accept that maybe the lines of sight aren't as good coming as coming in the other direction but you don't think that's a good enough excuse because I mean like I mean that's a good enough excuse I think if you are from Timbuktu and it's your first time in Letter Canyon I would imagine what 70-80% of this traffic knows that road they're well used to that crossing being there I mean it's not new drivers all the time absolutely right it's not new drivers all the time the majority the reality is you shouldn't really be doing up to 60 or 70 coming round that corner such that you can't get stopped in time you should only be doing the 50 and the other thing that road is used a lot by cyclists and it's a narrow road we should be aware of that and we should you know we just we just shouldn't be coming so fast that we can't get through a halt at that and no motorist wants to be the one that knocks two or three children over coming around that corner you know I mean no one wants to be that person because you know that's your life ruined as well like okay as I say I know it possibly is not in an ideal place but as I said before you know I think people know it's there now this is not all drivers that have never been on that road that are going through it it's people who say stop it I've been waiting long enough and letter Kenny I'm heading I'm heading out this road now and nothing's going to stop me alright Hilly net listen thanks for helping us appreciate it greatly 08 660 25000 WhatsApp send text to that number or give us a call on 07491 25000 alright staying on the roads why not have the zebra crossing regulations like they have in Northern Ireland what do you think about that we were talking about road rage in relation to road rage I have found a lot more people blowing the horns at people especially roundabouts what is achieved by blowing the horn though I don't think it actually really achieves anything in that scenario other than relieving frustration like I won't say the words but you know what I mean I don't think it achieves anything but perhaps we've all been guilty of it in the past Paul says I've experienced road rage on several occasions in Donegal I travel from Chrysler into letter Kenny and although I drive a tractor I find tractor drivers are the worst they never pull in and allow a long tail of traffic to pass leading to mountain rage from drivers behind it's a toughie that because I imagine it would take a long time to get where you have to go if you were driving a tractor which pays its tax insurance and all that kind of stuff if you were pulling in all the time am I being a wee bit generous to tractor drivers I just think we are in an agricultural community and if you were stopping all the time or pulling in all the time to let traffic pass would you ever get away right okay Greg I am road works sorry I think road works I believe this should be I think road work should be postponed until after 8.30am and the school run is done there was a traffic jam at the back of the convent of St Colham Kills National School this is in letter Kenny again heading towards St Union's College my son was going into his second day of secondary school and literally fell out of the car in such a panic because he was afraid he'd be late his phone fell out of his pocket his water out of his bag and he started his day full of stress because he was going to be late it's not good enough is it realistic to start would that have an impact positive impact on traffic pardon my ignorance if you deferred the start of traffic works until such time as the school runs were over we get that call annually it seems to make sense but there must be a reason as to there must be a reason as to why they don't do that most annoying habit texting while driving says a texture another the worst driving habit is tailgating it's also against the law and used to be that you had to keep a specific distance from the car in front of you maybe this is one to ask the guard well we will I've been on board with people that tailgate I don't like it I don't know what the purpose of it is it doesn't achieve anything but some people do do it I live near the martin I've noticed that hardly any of the trailers have number plates on them it's a safety issue I think it's important that it's brought up if there was an accident or a near miss you can't identify the vehicle the guard he should investigate I take it I understand where you're coming from it is attached though to the vehicle in front though so unless they decouple it and sort off you should be able to find out who's responsible in the case of an accident but maybe the guards do follow it up I'm sure there's people out there have been done with no with having no number plates is that a big problem RT have scored a massive own goal over the Dana Eurovision issue instead of censoring her profile pro life views they've put them at the forefront of their planned celebration and empty seat at the head of the table speaks volumes but is that why she has been deplatformed I wonder you know people are entitled to their views it doesn't mean you get cancelled for your achievements I don't see why if she holds pro life views which many people in this country do as well by the way let us not forget that there are different views right across the country I don't think that in and of itself should be a reason for someone not to sing is that the reason Jim texts that Jim I haven't read everything about this I wasn't aware that that was the issue I think it's a decent shout as to why it might be but I don't think that in this day and age that's useful these days we're all looking for healthy tasty family meals and lots 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Greg so we're coming together this friday and it's really an opportunity for everybody in the local two villages of as you say crossroads and Killy Gordon to have their voice heard and there's been a lot of work has gone on recently across the two villages in terms of you know improving the appearance through clean ups and planting schemes and we're really looking to build on the momentum of that and create a collective vision for the villages and ultimately create a plan that we can then use going forward to improve our whole area yep these plans always work best when there's community buy-in Kathy absolutely you know we could we could write a plan tomorrow morning ourselves but it would have no meaning so we needed to be authentic and we needed to represent our local people and friday really it's a it's a workshop so it's a it's quite going to be quite interactive quite informal and it's an opportunity for people to come along all local residents stakeholders you know our businesses schools as well as people who have lived in the area for a long time you know we people who have lived here for multiple generations and it's important to harness that heritage and that history and make sure all our community voices are heard in the emerging plan we're going to set a vision for 2030 and beyond and really the purpose of that plan is not just to shape what it is we need to do in the short, medium and long term but it will also enable us to engage funding because as you know yourself a lot of the funding that's out there and I it has to be along a strategic plan so that'll allow us through that and get things moving on the ground in the villages yep and we were in Falkari yesterday and I think they're a little bit ahead of you but this is very similar to what they're talking about up there and they're starting to maybe see what you know funding you know drawing down funding and what funding sources are there and it's working very successfully in other areas as well so what's the starting point here Kathy has some work been done or are you right now at the beginning of this process I would say we're already we've kind of started the journey and this is we had a few meetings a number of months back with the communities and this is really the start of our more planning journey where we have support from doing our local development company and we're looking at following the smart villages framework which looks at key themes you know around health or infrastructure environment business and employment recreation those key things that matter most to local communities and we're very conscious that you know communities are facing a cost of living crisis and we're very conscious that there's very real issues that our communities are facing at the minute so we want to see what we can do exactly but also this is short, medium and long term as well so sometimes we have to work beyond what the immediate problems are and say right hopefully we're on a steady footing in five or ten years time where do we want to be there where can we grow in maybe some sort of a bounce back or whatever it might be and that might be much sooner than five or ten years I'm just saying that for example so what kind of things are we talking about here Kathy I have to be really careful because you don't want to be inviting people to a meeting and they think this has already been decided I'm just going there to make up the numbers so what are the sort of areas that we're talking about you've talked about health and that type of stuff but what kind of things well what are the talking points I suppose that you want to hear people's views on? Yeah and you're quite correct we don't want to preempt anything and for this to be you know an authentic community and participation event obviously we have ideas in our head but we want to hear what local people's ideas are so we'll be exploring key things such as the said health and recreation quality of life so you're talking about you know potentially you know improved walking roots or improved local environment also what to do with green spaces exactly our green infrastructure and other issues such as you know our environment and sustainability but also thinking very crucially around those short term issues around things like cost of living and fuel poverty all those things that we need to be addressing and so we'll be looking at maybe potentially sustainable energy community initiatives you know issues such as climate change and climate resilience but also looking at business and employment and seeing how we can work more closely with our local communities and harnessing and bringing those stakeholders together with employers and industry that are anchored here very much in the local community so it's really about bringing this all together and seeing how we can work more collectively. Yeah and as you say you know you talked about sort of climate and energy and then you talked about business those two things are there's great opportunity there those two things are interlinked as well everything is interlinked but do you know what I mean you also have to see what options or what is this too also about you know preserving the community and the size of the community and maybe even growing it into the future does that form part of plans do you think? Absolutely I mean no community stands still you know and I think it's very important that we anchor our community and our spirit of place and what it is that makes Crossroads and Killy Gordon special and that's one of the first things we do actually on Friday evening is to actually explore why people live here what it is that they like about you know what makes Crossroads and Killy Gordon special you can say this without interfering with the outcome of this meeting come on. Well as you can guess Greg I am actually blowing I guess I don't know that kind of stuff doesn't even end to my head but anyway go ahead I'm originally from the North but yeah I love it here for me it's the sense of community it's the local people and they're so friendly and so nice I have a girl who goes to the local scale which is excellent but it's also the local environment it's such a beautiful place you know the Finn Valley is so beautiful and I think sometimes we maybe don't take that time to reflect and look around us and actually appreciate just how wonderful a space this is and beautiful heritage with all those things that come together to make a lovely place to be so we want to build on that and we don't want to lose that either you know we want to retain that spirit of place what makes it very unique but as you said no community stands still Greg you know we need to be thinking about the future we need to be thinking about our kids and employments and that green recovery which is so crucial to us all so there's lots of things that we need to be thinking about so we can be as it were ahead of the game to leverage the funding and make sure that we're a thriving sustainable place for the future for sure because all the things are interlinked like we've said before you know the success of a school or the growth of the school depends on how many students are around the place and the more students the more the population the better the you know it's all interlinked and you know I think I think every community should be doing this even if it's not to talk about where to go into the future even to sort of establish where they're at now because I think we have to help ourselves you know and this is not getting political or what have you but it's very easy to get to fall behind or to get forgotten and I think you know communities need to organise themselves identify the positives maybe where things need to be improved and it makes it much more difficult then for you know things just to ebb away Absolutely and this is about maximising our opportunities there are lots of opportunities out there and it's not just about money sometimes it's about working collaboratively with other agencies and making things happen on the ground but we can't do that without a plan you know we can't do that without local voices being represented and it's important that we have that that we have that momentum behind us and that you know credibility that we can go to a local agency or a council or a funding body and say look this is what local people want this is what matters and this is why we should be doing this particular initiative or project it's really important that people come along on Friday evening and tell us what they think It's a lot to discuss in an hour and a half so I presume it's not all going to be done and dusted in the one meeting Not at all I mean this is the start of our journey as I said Greg so this is where it's all coming together and maybe you know joining people who have similar interests or whatever it happens to be and really begin to build that momentum across the whole of community so no we won't be finished on Friday Here's a comment from a listener and if they were from the Crossroads in Kiligordon area they need to turn up on Friday there are a few as local villages of the pride of Donegal I hope this village keeps its ruralness builders and bad planning destroy small villages like Kiligordon what will be done to keep the village as it is while embracing regeneration well that's exactly what this process is all about isn't it and it's almost the perfect comment to set up why someone should go to this meeting Absolutely and 100% correct and that's what I was saying earlier around retaining that sense of place so that we don't lose the unique heritage and the unique character of these local places which make them so lovely to live in and visit and work in so yeah unless we know what makes something very special we can't retain that and we can't make sure that the correct decisions are taken in terms of planning and sustainability in the future and instead of having outside forces making decisions for you get organized get involved get a plan and then you have more control over your destiny in the future it's a no brainer right okay Crossroads in Kiligordon community they're hosting this meeting we've been talking about it's a planning meeting this Friday evening it's not a huge time commitment 7pm to 8.30pm and it's in the cake center all in the local area welcome yep that's it thank you very much Greg alright thank you very much for your time take care of yourself alright that is Kathy Burns there 08.660.25000 the caller says trying to get accommodation for the Gareth Brooks concert is impossible it's a mess it's too expensive I've seen tickets being given away and they can't go the stadium is going to be empty and the government are getting away with it well let me assure you the stadium is not going to be empty there's I agree fully with you but Dublin hotels have been ripping us off for generations long before Gareth Brooks in fact even before the last Gareth Brooks concert the problem is is they're pretty much packed anyway between one thing and another so for the last 10% of their rooms they can absolutely gouge you that is the reality of it what can the government do maybe say to the Dublin hotels you see that 9% that rate that you have well we're going to have to take that off you if you keep doing this type of stuff secondly he sold 410,000 tickets okay so you know what 1% of that's 4,000 2% 8,000 so let's even just say it was 5% of people sort of said I can't go because of accommodation that's 20,000 tickets which would make it appear on Facebook that no one was going but I assure you the place will be absolutely wedged it's only a small percentage of people that trying to shift tickets it's not as I say this 410,000 tickets sold but there is another issue here and that is the situation with the hotels particularly in the capital because even before the concerts are confirmed as soon as dates are speculated about you can't even get clever they have the prices up already well in advance that's why a lot of people are going down on bosses by the way there seems to be loads and loads and loads of bosses being planned but it's a bit of a bomber to go up and down and sort of takes away from the maybe the whole special weekend of it I don't know right okay it is nearly 10 but I have some comments here I want to get to Greg I drive from Bonkranata letter Kenny most days and the many slow drivers from Bonkranata Bridgend doing at the most 40 miles per hour are holding up traffic it's unbelievable I encounter it most days and it ended up with people being frustrated and passing in dangerous places these people are every bit as dangerous as fast drivers it's the speed limit they're not 80 kilometres and 40 miles per hour is not far off 80 kilometres I know it's a little bit under it maybe those people live in that area and have seen tragedy on the roads and they just want to get there on you know get there alive rather than get not get there and be late if you know what I mean but maybe it's 40 kilometres per hour you're talking about I don't know but that road is not fantastic either tailgating is illegal says this caller remember the ad that we never hear anymore only a fool breaks the two second rule that's right forget about that Greg after hearing the comment about cyclists not using the cycle lane yesterday I also noticed a cyclist on the road instead of staying on the bike lane in letter Kenny is there a point in investing in bike lanes I'm not sure about the bike lanes in letter Kenny you know because a lot of drains and what have you are in those bike lanes and they seem a bit tokenist to me I'm not a cyclist really I can ride a bike but I'm not a cyclist but the bike lanes in letter Kenny some of them at the very least I wouldn't fancy riding a bike on them because the drains seem to be in the middle of the bike lanes but anyway cyclist out there let me know if I'm talking rubbish another caller says the same can be said for bicycles regarding number plates that the elephant in the room they need to pay tax and insurance to use the road if they damage do you car they're not insured it's very important for everyone's safety well let me put it to you like this plain and simple do you think it is time that cycles bicycles particularly with a lot of electric bikes about do you think it's time now that they were number plated and they had to pay tax or insurance or have insurance and we're talking more maybe you know casual cyclists or whatever do you think cyclists should have to have number plates on their bikes tax and insurance 08 660 25000 let's see what you've to say The Donegal Suffolk sheep breeders show and sale will take place this Saturday 3rd of September at Ruffo Mart show was at 10am with the 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Hope to make children smile This is Highland Radio News Good morning it's 10 o'clock I'm Emma Ryan two teenage boys aged 16 have died after getting into difficulty while swimming in Loch Anah in the Temple Road area of Derry police received a report shortly after 6.25pm yesterday evening of a number of people in difficulty in the water one of the boys was transferred to hospital where he was pronounced dead the body of the second was taken from the water and he was declared dead at the scene a third teenage boy was also taken from the water and hospitalised for non-life-threatening injuries while three other friends who were at the scene were treated for shock Stratfoil councillor Rachel Ferguson says the community is shocked and saddened by the tragic news The community is waking up today completely shocked and saddened the news that two young boys lost their lives at Enoch Rock last night a number of them had gone on their bikes and my understanding is that they couldn't become distressed while trying to swim in the Loch and other ones had gone out to his aid and also became distressed and unfortunately it resulted in the tragedy of losing two young 16-year-olds who just were about to return to school after the GCSE this week Meanwhile, Fowler Michael Cannon vicar general of the Derry Diases added on today's Naintown Insure that this is a harrowing incident in Indian descent where the boys have lived in Derry for their whole lives These boys would have been born here in the city 16 years ago as you can imagine but their parents came about maybe 20 or 22 years ago here to the city and two of the parents, two mothers are nurses and other works are nothing other than hospital there was a local business here so they've come here over 20 years ago and they'd buried their home and as you mentioned they're from south of India a place called Kerala they also brought with them their faith and their faith is a community and they use our church for worship every Sunday motorists have been urged to obey the pedestrian crossing at the Aura Leisure Centre the pedestrian crossing was installed over a year ago to assist pedestrians across the busy road however it's been claimed that many motorists do not obey the crossing speaking on today's Naintown Insure a Helena appeal for motorists to be mindful of the busy road children or teenagers they never stand there and wait to cross and the cars just fly past and they don't seem to understand that they're supposed to stop and let the students cross and it's incredible because I'll stop I'm not saying we all make mistakes obviously as motorists but I'll stop and you'll see cars on the oncoming lane just continue to drive through even though I've already stopped and as I say there's a child or a teenager there a lot of the students come down from you know St Junans and Loretta with their sports tags or whatever after school and it could be three or four cars before a car will eventually stop the agricultural minister believes the conclusion of public sector pay talks is a welcome step union officials describe the process as difficult as they left the workplace relations commission early this morning they were brief members on a revised offer from the government agriculture minister Charlie McConaughey said it's important there is a proposal on the table after weeks of uncertainty we finally have a proposal this morning and of course the objective of the government here was to combine and recognize the cost of living pressures that are on workers and the need to probably reward or public servants for the very important work that they do and combine that with balancing or national budget as well as ensuring that there's sufficient funding for investment and services and public infrastructure and finally a European Union wide cap on electricity prices a major reform of the EU's electricity market is urgently required to address soaring bills according to Fingale's column Marquis the midlands 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dairy in the north west area the greater north west area she's a friend of the program so if she's available she'll speak to us but this caller says Greg of course it's a disgrace that Dana is excluded from the Eurovision show what reason did RTE give is it because Dana is from dairy because she's an older woman because she's a practicing catholic or because she's pro-life or is it all of the above all of the above should not preclude her from being part of that if those were excuses those are no excuses at all this caller goes on to say Dana was our first winner probably celebrated all over Europe but not in the Dublin bubble that is RTE we might actually get on to RTE as well and see if they'll release a statement as to why they've excluded her it's not a campaign it's just you know with this day and age I think we're entitled to know we're funding all of this we fund those orchestras people that sit around doing amazing musicians nothing personal but we pay millions upon millions of 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August last week at number one Krannamadi damaged the rear door window broken in a patio door theft of property copper cylinder kitchen units damaged kitchen units immersion heaters that sort of stuff now obviously a house either being done up or in the process of being built or whatever so you know we're just appealing if anybody's seen anybody in that area around Krannamadi and Burt does that would we need then and you always have to be cautious Paul do we have to be concerned that maybe you know they're out looking for metals and that type of stuff and maybe make sure sites and houses generally are secured I would say your spot on there that seems to be the trend you know crime trends are starting to increase again you know we came out of Covid we had the summer and all that but I just see another one there in letter Kenny where a new build where over a thousand euro sorts of armour cable was stolen there's a couple of other things that are linked to the construction industry we see down the country there nationally vans are starting to work man's vans or work people's vans are starting to be attacked again you know so they're using different types of techniques to manipulate locking systems and all of that but I suppose if you can and sometimes it's not practicable if you can if you have specific equipment or expensive equipment try and remove it out of the van overnight that's not always practicable maybe get the van into a garage or something like that or in some cases we've seen where people have extended their house alarm into the van you actually can do it in a wireless situation so that if the van is interfered with now most vans modern vans have good electronic alarm systems as well but it just that trend is starting again if you empty your van and say have a sign on saying this vans emptied of tools at night time is that would that deter? I don't know to be honest and one other thing too we don't have statistics to handle such call to lean on so maybe just from your years of experience in the guards that you've seen the highs and lows of the economy when the economy is squeezed do we see an optic in crime where items of value are targeted you will and you know people will unfortunately buy things at below the price and you can be sure if it's good to be through it normally and the problem is then is have you titled to that equipment or them tools if you bought them as opposed to what we're linking and then with the JPC where they bought two TELUS property marketing machines and we can have started rolling them out over the summer and a number of the festivals were important out in Meenacrosh in Ardra Balai Shannon and up in Clonmani where people were able to bring in it was basically only just a snapshot or a teaser to see but we would hope to maybe roll it out particularly initially to the farm and community at Mark's network if property is marked and you know anybody can mark your own property very very simple with a UV marker or a permanent mark that you know but all you need to do is just photograph that mark and say well my item is marked a net spot there's the mark so you can prove title to it then and it makes it less attractive to the thief so that's something we'll have to be doing going forward. If the general economy is tightening squeezing then you see more activity then on the black economy in other ways more stolen home heating oil you know people probably more inclined to buy home heating oil because they're desperate now obviously you're discouraging people from doing that but we are we have to what I'm trying to get at here so we have to make sure we're extra on our guard then as you know it seems we are going to go through a spell where you know there's less money around well they will and you know see the headlines there this morning that you know fuel is going to spike again and that they're taking away they're talking about taking away the reduction on farm diesel or green diesel and that sort of thing so like you know when we go into the winter months there's going to be a squeezing there's going to be a reduction there's going to be a lot of things and like oil tanks are hard to protect really because in the main now used to be metal or steel they're plastic and they're easily accessed as such unless you have some layer around them i.e. have them in a shed or in an enclosure or something like that or maybe in extreme cases covered by CCTV for large amounts but at the same time CCTV will only show you what happened in the past so you need to have some sort of alarm system if that volume starts to drop that's exactly what I'm getting and we talked about this before and a lot of listeners then were firstly I think there's two reasons why to monitor the amount of oil that's in the tank because you know you can't order the well not a lot of us can't just order the 500 litres you're ordering in lower amounts you want to know you don't want it to run out because the damage to your boiler won't have you will get a notification to your phone if the level drops rapidly which is more immediate as you say CCTV's retrospective as opposed to the advice is to try and keep them away from it you know and whether it's been done on a semi-commercial basis where people are stealing the oil and then selling it at a lower rate that should raise alarm and if people if customer residents start buying fuel in that fashion it'll only drive the crime and people need also to I think be aware all the time but extra aware after just having a fill because the criminals will want to get maximum bang for their book and we can't be naive to suggest that they will not be following we've seen that before we know yeah and that's a good point of where people ordered their oil weren't at home on the day Tank was filled during working hours and then they came back and the next thing all gone so it's just look it's a tricky one and I suppose at the end of the day that's where we're asking the community to come in here if you see something like that going on please make a phone call it's easier to check it out at the time people may be able to view the garage aren't interested that's what we're there for the cars are out it's a matter of passing on what you see so someone going in the back of that house not happy with it rather than the home owner coming home in the evening and the fuel all gone yeah definitely I agree we are going to have to help each other out in this one right okay so you mentioned copper and deciliter loft ladder kitchen units damaged or stolen so if anyone saw anything around that area in the Karanamadi Burt area 1245 on August 23rd okay this is pointless and causing distress criminal damage instance as well in Kalanmani yeah and this is an elderly person's house an older person's house eggs being thrown at a house and it would appear and I see Karanamadi handed me a note about something she may give it to you as well rang in there about damage to a number of houses up around that area over the last number of weeks and we're just we're just having a look back for in the last seven days since the last guard program so the guards were while they were up there they observed that this house had been pelted with eggs as well and that's very disconcerting for older people and it happens now and then in relation to that I had just seen one that came in overnight where there was damage to two playhouses at Klunta National School one on up there that was just reported yesterday evening at the Klunta National School and a lot of damage to the house and it would appear that the place might be used by youths for drinking or whatever over the weekend so we'd ask the community up around there to talk to their local guards it's not good enough really and it's disconcerting and any information again in relation to anything in Brungrana District 3205 Articonfidential Number 1800 Travel 6 Travel 1 Alright now more instances again this is one to mark your card on more instances of commercial fishing equipment being damaged or stolen this is not the first appeal we've had in this regard in the last while talk to us about this one it's in Milford District Yeah Teftal Opster Pots it wasn't reported to the 25th of August we've occurred sometime after the 14th because obviously the pots were let out down in Mulroy Bay there was 15 lobster pots cut and drift they were attached to a boy by a rope and there was 33 went off in another direction but they were repairable so that's somebody's livelihood the catch is what maybe they were after but you know each individual lobster pot costs a lot of money to people in coastal communities and linked to that going back a number of weeks ago if you just bear with me there was other fishing equipment damaged down in and it isn't any shown I'll just come to it in a second Greg yeah have it here at Lower Drummoir in Greencastle where there was anchors and ores and that taken that was on the 8th of August the guards attended there and again a lot of 5 lobster pots taken there and the value in them at 50 euro each but nets, boys that sort of thing equipment and any equipment that people use going to see you know they might not notice it missing until they actually need it and that can have terrible effects devastating effects of people and people in coastal communities so you know we see that with boat engines and all of that sort of thing going missing and being stolen so like lobster pots somebody's livelihood the value of the catch, the value of the place and you know it's quite significant so any information around the Mulroy Bay area around now it's hard to put a time on it wasn't reported at 25th and Milford at 07491 53060 we have to be the eyes and ears on this one because it's very difficult otherwise and people will have seen something right okay now we are going to the letter Kenny district here letter Kenny between the 22nd of the 8th and the 23rd last week it was a new build closed up around quarter past 5 and the following morning the notice that I had mentioned Armoured Cable stolen the Armoured Cable was quite valuable so again it's in the Kestleshanan area out the Remelton Road and linked to that Greg just there was a few came in overnight I haven't them on the thing but on the script in relation to damage to this container on a building site up at Meadow Hill Kilt High the container was it was an empty container thankfully but it was set on fire and the fire brigade attended so we have no evidence at the moment how it started so the investigation is going on going but that's damage again to property it's taking the fire brigade out on maybe they were needed somewhere else so that was overnight last night that's why I haven't it on your script there I think you've been a bit generous calling it a script but thanks thank you very much well it's my script and you know how my script can usually consist of one page it's in Wallace language I'm not sure cryptic, lucky to have it at all exactly we're getting the information out there thanks very much for the water confidence there right back to school now and you know through different correspondence and calls we're having here Paul you know a lot of disquiet out on the roads we all are road users pedestrian cyclists, lorry drivers tractor drivers it's all our shared space and we have to share more of it with back to school don't we so there's some things we need to be extra careful on I think the schools in the main went back yesterday and I suppose there's a lot of probably a lot of little sleepy heads there this morning for people going to big school and after the long day and all of that so no children and it's a big step it's a big step for them so we have increased density on all the roads in Donegal urban and rural and we would just say to motorists take care the schools are well flagged now with the advance warnings we're just looking coming in to Ellison there this morning you know they have the speed thing 60 and then the flashing lights and around bus pickup spots and drop offs in particular where they may be that aware and walk out from behind you know a bus as it's just pulling away and it could be the students first time on a bus what do you see it could be you know what I mean we have to also presume as a driver or a cyclist or whatever that we can't presume that every child getting off that bus is really experienced and won't make a mistake isn't distracted maybe they're hungry and not thinking straight you know you have to approach that situation presuming a child's going to run out in front of the bus and I think in America you can't pass the bus yeah I did I saw that somewhere you know I had experienced there on Sunday morning myself where I was driving along and there was a wee boy coming from the shop in the football strip and he was behind the wall and I didn't see him until he came out from behind the wall the wall was higher than he was and I got a fright and it just shows you it can happen so like as you say it might be the first time on the bus in a national school or the second level or whatever expect the unexpected I heard somebody talking on radio last week about you know the safe cross code that we all learned it seems old fashioned but it's the same thing any parent or guardian or whatever if you get a chance with them when you're crossing the road just stop for that second and get them to do the left and right looking and all of that sort of thing and remember put on the belts and be quiet you know because mums in that in particular can be stressed out in the morning getting into school and it's important that everyone belts up and not be annoying your mum or your dad or whoever's taking you again careful alighting from a vehicle steps all that sort of thing and as you say particularly this week they're probably distracted in a big way in that you know it's all new it's you know what the way school went for a long time it's all new that we'll be tired long days that sort of thing so if you're walking or cycling to school be aware of your surroundings adhere to the rules cycle paths if they're provided as we go into darker times then you know think about the reflective vest lighting and that sort of thing they are very vulnerable particularly the ones going into as they say big school at a national level but they're our future they're very vulnerable and they're precious to us so you know think about them and things for people who've got into a way driving through the summer and not expecting certain things in certain places things are changing this week and into next week okay we've discussed some safety concerns as it were not safety concerns but security advice as it relates to work vans and home heating oil very convincing email from revenue there purportedly from revenue offered me a refund of €324 or something gone be the days where you know the scam was that you'd get some share of a multibillion euro lotta or something you know I checked the URL it was a link we don't click links and emails or texts we know that it was actually a Japanese email address or registered well you see they've changed their technique as well now one time it was offering you big sums of money and all that now they'll offer you maybe €25 and you just think well should €25 be handy you could put it in the car or wherever and that's to lure you in because like at the end of the day it's social engineering that's very best it's gathering of the salient information they want your account they want your name they want your gender they want to birth your account number to launch the money but obviously it's to empty your account as you say that just this morning just looked a lady in the Manor Cunningham area reported that she was getting broadband installed she received a call from what she believed was the customer support then they sent a text message for her to click on she clicked on the message and it took control of her mobile device straight away €726.50 out of her account you know so that just I think it's a great example that about how fast that could happen when I mentioned the revenue email I posted on my social media as a warning to try and advise people or to help to share information and I don't think I can mention the person because I'm not sure if I'm not sure I have the permission to mention them anyway but I was calculating as to where they got my email address from so this person works in cyber security and was able to run a scan on my email address and he was able to tell me where my email was leaked from it happened to be linked in linked in had a security breach right so my email was leaked from that security breach and my password as well and he was able to asterisk out elements of my password and it was a random password that I had there it was so my email now that was only one leak it also been leaked from another a number of other companies change your passwords big long passwords change them regularly I never expected to see someone able to send me send me an old password I didn't realize I don't know I never thought it through people are thinking on various different levels and a lot of us include myself at the basic level but there are people there that's their whole thing and it seems very simple to them and they just they're wondering why they're not more safe guards and people think it's the HSE selling their information it's not it's a lot of these are hacks yeah into the likes of linked in Plex people who use the Plex server system recently they got hacked that's another username and password so important to use different passwords for different websites and to change your passwords and it's only something that's really come home to like people who there's some people still using zero zero zero zero zero and one two three four you know so you need to be a bit more ingenious than that okay right now um car sales yeah this is one that is propped up where they advertise on the sales platform and hope the one you know the like of don deal is very popular for car sales the perspective that the big one of this and it's applicable here because we've had one victim currently in Donegal the customer seeks to meet the person in Northern Ireland saying that they're working or they're too busy or whatever but they are interested in the car and they produce a bank draft and they say take a photograph of the bank draft you'll be get that's going straight in now and all of that and believe it or not excuse it that's the air conditioners just spewed out ice a number do you want do you want ice no I have water in my face that's the third time and every time it happens it's the gods it's the gods well I did never seen you move so quickly no that's the police man's response you say but believe it or not they take the photograph of the draft and they hand over the keys and hand over the car it's gone one car was purchased in Northern Ireland and was stopped by the UK going down the M6 the following morning police yes so it's high value pressed each cars border geography has been exploited here there's no crime here because it happens in a separate jurisdiction and we have one victim currently in Donegal who parted with us BMW and it's gone it's just gone and the investigation process is complicated and basically they're saying meeting Derry Sturban Armagh he's dotted around the border and you know I'm just working but I can't do it but I really want to buy that car I have money sitting here for you maybe even sending you a photograph of the draft and all that sort of thing be extra extra careful we can't get through everything that's on the list I think there's an assault though in Quigley's point that's at the bottom this might be quite time sensitive just an assault in a licensed premises in Quigley's point on Sunday night between nine o'clock and a quarter past and your party went into the toilet and assaulted by an unknown male but ended up in Lerner County Hospital so it must have been the injuries must have been serious enough so Burnford, Gardie or Bunkrana are investigating that at 9320540 and just Greg just two that came in overnight if I have time no go ahead one in Movil entry gain to vacant property at James Street, Movil by smashing the back door a lot of damage caused inside doors, walls, toilets, cisterns banisters all that nothing taken but damage and that's not good in any community and again in Movil or in Greencastle, Main Street Greencastle last night a guy was observed jumping on the windscreen of a car I think it was a Volkswagen Golf the guards it has been reported, no it was a Silver Audi A6 sorry but again anybody that was in that area last night that was between a quarter to one and a half one so I think the guards might have a fair idea where they're going with that but just to mention that and lastly 3rd of July, Balnahon and Fawn gain in Bunkrana District, it was 12,000 euros worth of sheep stolen full-time farmer and I've visited them very much, I have to call out and see them in relation to that but you know there may be, I know it's a bit on it's almost two months now but there might be somebody who knows something in relation to that so just like to mention that a lot of sheep very important as well Pelican Crossens there's one out at Aura I'm not asking you to comment specifically on that one if you don't know the ins and outs of it right away, a pedestrian or the motorist there's a hierarchical structure there you know the person on foot has ultimate access or right away at a Pelican Crossen, this has to have the beacons anybody walk and the pedestrian always has and then it's the person on horseback and it's the person on the pedal cycle and then it's the motorist so a lot of motorists complain about cyclists and I am one myself as you know yeah but they complain about cyclists but cyclists have more of a right away on the road now if the cyclist out in the middle of the road that's different but if they're cycling as they should be so that's the hierarchical structure because it comes, the person walked first then they came on horseback then they started the cycle and then they designed the motor car I understand exactly what you're saying right but I don't want to find ourselves confused in the situation any further so let me put it to you like this we're talking about the Pelican Crossen but if you were to say go to the Zebra Crossings in Strunaller the hierarchy is different there because they don't have the lights and the motorist I believe is the right of way but they can be gracious and let someone pass so in relation to where it is a signed crossing like the one out at AURA for example if a motorist sees someone standing on the side of the road and it's clear their intention will be to cross the road they're obliged to stop to let those people cross are they I'm not sure about that I'm not going to get it wrong and I would actually go out and look at that crossing because I just can't recall it at the moment but if someone is on the side of the road with an intention to cross at a crossing point I would be hearing on the side of that they would have the right way to do that without stepping out they have to satisfy themselves that the traffic is going to come to a halt so everyone has shared responsibility as opposed to the best way to answer it but they're at a designated crossing point if there were 100 metres up the road and just decided to walk out they're at a designated now it's a good while inside it my driving test as you know and probably people are saying he should know that but I don't and I'm not going to let on but I don't but I would would say that if someone is intent to cross at a designated crossing point and you see it a lot down there at the hospital as well but they have the lights there but these ones are lit up or anyway we'll get some clarification on that appreciate your honesty and it's a topic I would have to be honest to you Greg wouldn't I you'd soon catch me out I don't think I would you never told me to be on time today well you didn't listen to him on the second bit but you did on the first you didn't have any 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clothes that they're wearing and they want to keep them out which is you know I mean in this day and age it's their business it's their private space I suppose but I wouldn't be too comfortable with that but anyway what do you think out there if you're on our social media Instagram and Facebook have your say there or text us your feelings as well are you comfortable with business premises excluding but if it was a high end restaurant in inverted commas people probably would go well of course you can't wear a tracksuit in there is that not the kind of the same thing what's your views let's tease it out also want your views on whether or not you believe that cyclists should have to have number plates to identify them in case of damage to a vehicle or a crash or something a caller said that should be the case we want your views 08 660 25,000 get them into us let's tease out the conversation a caller says I'm researching socio-economic issues I heard Greg speaking about travelers facilities with a member of the traveler community during the week but I don't know where to find that interview now can you help of course I can help you can go on to our website it was last wednesday by the way you can go on to our website and check it out there in the playback section just go to wednesday or on our social media as well we archive the programs there you can check out our facebook page or our youtube channel go back to last wednesday flick through and you should be able to find what you're looking for we got a letter in the post today hi Greg on the topic of housing eukranians I know of a large bed and breakfast which has been condemned because it has mica and can no longer operate as a bed and breakfast but now it's stuffed with eukranians and is receiving the same rate as a small hotel this is wrong and greedy at the highest level according to this listener surely there should be checks on these premises I hope you read it out of course I'll read it out well you see all rules are in a situation because these are people not getting into the internet but are fleeing a country which any part of that country at any time russia could drop a tactical nuke could do it on kiv you know where people keep listing all those hotels and all they could drop a tactical nuke on kiv at any point whatsoever anywhere they can reach they can they can reach to bomb so people with their young families are saying you know what I don't think it's safe for me to be there for my young family so I'm going to flee to other countries in Europe or countries in Europe one of them being Ireland and in that scenario really whether a building has been condemned for general habitation because as mica the same rules do not then apply to in that situation that's just one take on it 08 660 20 1000 okay we are joined on the program now by sister sister good morning to you sister thank you very much for joining us good morning thank you for having me it's an important issue you have described Ireland as a haven for human traffickers what has led to that statement sister it is my belief that the vast majority of people in Ireland are not aware it's even happening and while it's not happening there's no outer age from the population about it it's not seen as something urgent it's happening all the time in kind of an invisible way so if the situation were reversed if they were Irish people being trafficked into other countries there would be a great human cry about it but the offence is mostly against people from other countries like in Nigeria, Brazil, Romania and Eastern European countries so there isn't an outcry because those people are silenced I just wonder sometimes when we use the term human trafficking if people find it difficult to become outraged because what does it mean what are we talking about because it's a catch all okay and I think it's hard for us to channel our emotions in a catch all umbrella term human trafficking I suppose maybe yeah that is a very good point and people can be confused between human trafficking and people smuggling we see they hit the headlines when somebody the awful tragedy of people in containers for example or people crossing the Mediterranean or people like that these hit the headlines all the time we want from where you are we can relocate you into this place pay us 5,000 euro and we will guarantee you safe travel and often they die in open waters haven't fallen from boats or they're found in containers that would be trafficking a few minutes yeah that is human smuggling you're okay when they safely arrive in the country they want to go to or a country from which they can access where they want to go to the smugglers let them go free they have no more to do with them on your way off you go you're free but with trafficking it's a different thing traffickers keep hold of the people and they are in charge of them they threaten them they frighten them they can be physically violent against them and they exploit them they don't let them go they bring them for a purpose and that purpose is to make money for themselves so that could be through the sale of sex presumably it could be other type of work very low paid at all type of work that's how the victim is impacted is that correct yes very much so it could be domestic work it could be cannabis growing it could be domestic work and forced begging those occupations but we're concentrating mostly on trafficking for sexual exploitation there is no money in that if men primarily do not buy it if they understand that engagement it's exploitation of a person a person may well having to do that against their will yes that is the case and while there are buyers or users or exploiters whatever you want to call them while they're there there's a huge demand and so the traffickers will be bringing them in and using every opportunity for example Ukraine there have been people on the border in dire straits having lost their home lost their hope maybe and they have been actually trafficked and some of our European colleagues and the bordering countries have told us about that and they're actually working and trying hard to combat that and sister we'll return to this when we have more time but in the final minutes you know we can call on people to try and do though a bit to ensure this doesn't happen but we expect the state to take it very seriously to investigate all cases to follow it through to discourage it and I think the state is letting us down in that regard but not entirely they are really you know they have stepped up they have definitely stepped up recently especially in the light of the tip report the trafficking in persons report in which we were on an level with countries like Kosovo and third world countries but they are definitely I know because we are in touch with the Department of Justice and definitely there has been activity there have been some arrests but of course not enough I think it's public awareness the amount of unawareness out there is just unimaginable and people can do things you know so what can they do for example a lot of this stuff happens in hotels especially children children are exploited in hotels for pornography and for actually physically being sexually abused so if you're using a hotel check with them find out if they have trained their staff for human trafficking and there's an organization I'd like to remind you about it's called MEKPATS M-E-C-P-A-T-H-S MEKPATS who train and have trained numerous hotel staffs throughout the Republic in this so don't use a hotel if you're going to have you know a wedding reception or reunion after a match celebration whatever don't use the hotel initiative checked in advance but there is no human trafficking there and that they can show you a certificate of training for their staff that's one thing we can do we are working very hard here in the secondary schools so that the younger people coming up will have a different attitude those boys are in secondary school now but please God they won't you know finish their education come out and start working and turn into men who will be you know using these women from overseas so we have a program for the secondary schools with that one yeah and we need to train our doctors also to be aware I speak to anybody and my own GP said and she said I never heard of it I didn't know that was happening so the doctors need to you know they're in a prime position to when women come to them and there can be Irish women who unfortunately have picked up sexually transmitted diseases from their husbands who have been quite to these places so they're in a position to get you know information which is helpful and of course the children talk to your you know your own teenage children your boys, your girls and you know to see if anyone in their friends group has divulged anything to them and listen that's you know you're giving us some tools here where we can actually make a difference here and do our bit to raise awareness and I think that's been really very useful sister thank you so much for your time this morning I really appreciate it yeah thank you have a lovely morning okay so that's sister Elish Co a member of the act to prevent trafficking alright still another hour to come on the show we're a little late going to news my apologies at a minute past eleven good morning Emma Ryan thanks Greg good morning two teenage boys both age sixteen have died after getting into difficulty while swimming in La Ana in the Temple Road area of Derry police received a report shortly after 6 25 yesterday evening of a number of people in difficulty in the water one of the boys was transferred to hospital where he was pronounced dead the body of the second was taken from the water and he was declared dead at the scene a third teenage boy was also taken from the water and hospitalized for non life threatening injuries while three other friends who were at the scene were treated for shock the PS9 says it's treating it as a tragic drowning incident Gardier warning of an increase in the metal and construction materials following a number of incidents in the county on August 23rd around 12 45 p.m. Gardier received a report of a burglary at Carol Maddie area in Burt and damage was caused to the rear door window and patio door of the property a cylinder copper a copper cylinder kitchen units and an immersion heater were stolen during the incident in a separate incident in Castle Shannon in letter Kenny over one thousand euro worth of armoured cable was stolen from a new build house last week between August 22nd at 5 15 p.m. and 8 a.m. on August 23rd Gardier surgeon Paul Wallace is warning of an increase in construction related thefts and urged homeowners to secure their properties motorists have been urged to obey the pedestrian crossing at the Aura leisure centre the pedestrian crossing was installed over a year ago to assist pedestrians cross the busy road however it's been claimed that many motorists do not obey the crossing and speaking on today's 9 till noon show Helena appealed for motorists to slow down and to be mindful the agricultural minister believes the conclusion of public sector talks is a welcome step union officials described the process as difficult as they left the workplace relations commission early this morning they will now brief members on a revised offer from the government agricultural minister and Donagall TD Charlie Mcconalogue says it's important that there is a proposal on the table after weeks of uncertainty and finally there's been a call for a European wide cap on electricity prices and major reform of the EU's government electricity market required to address soaring bills this according to Finn Gales Colin Markey he said that despite only 21% of EU electricity being produced from gas the vast majority comes from renewables whose cost base has not been changed significantly as a result of the crisis he 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apparently the people who saw it were surfers they would probably know what they were seeing in the sea it looks as if it was a submarine and it was inside the territorial sea area but the activities of NATO and Russian submarines have been ramping up since the tensions have increased over the cold war we would expect over the new cold war I should say we would expect during the exercise which is planned for the end of September early October that there'd be more activity but it looks like they're around a bit early what is it I mean obviously we can to a great extent on surface marine traffic or air traffic is there any such way to track submarines for the general public normally a submarine if it was travelling inside the territorial sea area would travel on the surface two Russian submarines passed through the channel a few days ago it could be one of them and they travelled on the surface because obviously it's a busy sea lane but also they had to pass through a territorial sea area so they've got right to transit in that sort of situation and certainly outside the 12 mile limit under the UN law of the sea they're allowed to transit either on the surface or beneath the surface but they do cause a danger there's a serious side to all this during the cold war in particular there were a number of incidents notably in Ireland the Sherelda one Northern Ireland the Karen one more recently but boats have been lost fishermen have been drowned and so on and it's important that submarine and military activity particularly exercise activity is notified and certainly I would hope that in September early October when the next NATO exercise is on off the north of Ireland west of Scotland there'll be notifications of madness I mean by definition I suppose well not by definition but submarines are there really not to be spotted aren't they I mean even NATO who might be tracking Russian activity or vice versa even they may not necessarily know what submarines are where at any particular given time well it's the raison d'etre to be invisible if you like and you won't get comment from the likes of the Ministry of Defence or the other defence agencies on them but there is regulation covering this and ironically it comes about because of a campaign we ran some years ago about 40 years ago which was picked up by the Irish government by a TD in particular Euburn and the Department of the Marine and they raised the issue at the United Nations and from about the late 80s onwards there was international maritime organisation regulation governing this behaviour now NATO in recent years have tended to behave responsibly not all the NATO countries France in particular is a bit ambivalent the Russians are a bit of an unknown cause and the Americans are totally dumb on submarine activity now say for instance obviously there's a lot of fishing going off the Donegal coast or the coast as well trawlers and that type of thing and while submarines are there to sort of mask where they are so to speak it's the responsibility then of the submarines to know what's happening on the surface and to avoid that what kind of technology do they employ how easy is it for them to make sure they don't find themselves getting caught up in fishing nets for example well they should have sophisticated technology but you've got to bear in mind a lot of people don't assume this they see films like Das Boot and all this sort of thing that submarines are fairly small I mean a modern submarine particularly a ballistic missile submarine is the same size as like cruiser was in World War 2 you know you're talking about 9000 tons and some of them are even bigger than this and there's a massive area of sea net behind a fishing vessel as any fisherman will tell you as well so these I think the governance from the IMO is they should keep a mile and a half from fishing vessels I mean that's pretty tight and often fishing vessels are snagged indeed the Choralgo was snagged by a very much smaller submarine HMS paupers in the 1980s and it was dragged on there in literally a few seconds fortunately the crew members there from Clock Ahead and County Lout for a rescue but the sub didn't surface to assist them by the way that was the other thing in that incident and in other incidents like the Karen one it didn't surface and the MOD never owned up to it for several months and in the case of the Antares sadly the fishing vessel which was sunk on the Clyde the sub only surfaced after two hours when they knew there'd been a tragedy so it is a big danger to fishermen in particular submerged submarines and I know there's people take this sort of lightheartedly when they read an article about mystery submarines and so on some countries don't take it that lightheartedly certainly the Swedish Navy for example have depth charged suspected submarines in their kind of warning depth charges in other words say we know you're here get out without it being sort of like a direct confrontation yeah well quite because the last thing you would want to do is damage particularly a nuclear submarine they'd want that explosion to be felt on their equipment so there would be a message going back to what you said before Greg about the span you know the danger span of this it's also not realised that the submarines for communications purposes sometimes have a toad array behind them which can trail out for several hundred yards indeed some of that material that came off a submarine a few years ago was eventually recovered on the Irish coast and returned to I think it was the United States Navy so there's a lot of complexity around this and if this submarine has been openly on the surface inside the Irish territorial sea area I would think it's given pause for thought down at the Department of Defense in Dublin or it should be they would be so brazen as to do that it's a bit unfortunate these chaps didn't get a photograph of it but I suppose if you're out there why might they why might they surface you know for half an hour or something I mean it's not like and I'm not being facetious it's not to take in the views or what I mean it would not be something they'd want to do presumably so what might force them to have to surface like that I wonder it's generally it's communications the one big problem still for submarines is secure communications and certainly in the case of HMS Corpus which sank the Chiralda the county left go dimension many years ago the reason that they had showed themselves and indeed we were able to get a photograph of them about 12 hours before the sinking was because they'd had communications difficulties and they had to surface and surface close into your the other scenario and I am being facetious is it's a bit like that Alan Arpin film the Russians are coming and they wanted to see the beautiful Donegal Coast yeah maybe it could just be a recce how many would you say sort of submarines might be off the Donegal Coast could there be one or two at any given time is it a rare enough situation I wonder well for a NATO exercise and certainly I think there's one from 1st of October it's all about the 14th to 15th there'll be a number of submarines from both NATO countries including the United States but that will attract a significant presence from Russia as well and I believe I saw a report somewhere that surface based Soviet or Russian they call now auxiliaries are back in the area off the west of Scotland and north of Ireland so they generally work with submarines what they're doing is they're monitoring traffic in and out of the Clyde complex it was very much more important during the Cold War because of course there was an American base there as well Polaris base and indeed you know there might be moves to revive that but there'll be a lot of activity certainly from the end of September including surface vessels and submarine activity because I presume at any given time to Bernard there is always some level of positioning of positioning of your resources strategically you know I mean we might think something is never going to happen but I presume sort of the military and intelligence of countries are always posturing or positioning in one way or other things don't happen necessarily by accidental for no reason I imagine all that kind of stuff is ongoing you know all the time well yeah and it's not just black and white if you like the Russians and NATO often there's competition between the NATO countries I mean the last major incident in the Western Atlantic involving two ballistic missile submarines was between a French and Royal Navy submarine that were playing captain mouse with each other so yeah you're quite right they're all jockeying for position and I would imagine Donagall Fisherman and Fisherman from the six counties as well need to be very wary certainly at the back end of this next month and into October because there'll be a lot of activity off the west of Scotland including incidentally and this is to go off on a tangent a bit they're going to sink some warship west of Scotland so you know we're inquiring into possible pollution from that at the moment so let's hope it's not coming the other way and very finally you know we're here of you know strange situations where whales randomly are finding themselves washed ashore or up an inlet they shouldn't normally be I imagine given the way these animals communicate with each other and how submarines attempt to communicate we can't say these instances aren't linked yeah I mean that's the great environmental tragedy it's done immense damage this captain mouse under sea war with marine mammals in particular and there's you know there's lots of incidents documented now of strandons and vessels being in an area where subsequently pilot whales other groups have become disorientated and unfortunately have been lost to nature so it's a tragedy the whole business and the fact that after the end of the Cold War it's now ramping up again is a real worry but you know I suppose these are just things that will have to be tolerated but as I say the main threat to humans is to the fishing community and certainly to fishermen that work the waters of the west of Scotland and west and north of Ireland all right Bernard Celtic League military monitoring there's loads of questions that I still have as it relates to sort of generally what you be monitoring and what you see but maybe we'll revisit that another time thanks for all of your time this morning well thank you bye take care of yourself okay so lots of people listening to this program maybe are out at sea at the moment or would be regularly out of sea have you spotted any submarines did you happen to take a picture send them into us not recently any time at all talk to us a little about that god knows we've enough eyes from this county out on the water you're bound to have seen something over the years let us know 08 660 at 25,000 car new windows a 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knocking on the door to come in they're actually meeting today to discuss whether or not to ban Russians people from Russia from holiday in the EU that's the conversation that's being happened today I think also to we and an awful lot of this was said during the covid crisis and rightly so that we need to think for ourselves there are plenty of people out there who are following playbooks from the United States and Britain and elsewhere who are trying to scare the living daylights out of people as if there's a crew of people coming over to destroy the country or whatever it might be and I understand people have their concerns but now as much as ever it is time that we all think for ourselves and look at the facts and see how things affect us or affect our lives or affect our communities and formulate our own opinions for our own reasons rather than being scared no more so than I pointed out the front of the Irish Independent trying to scare people into sort of reading articles it happens and it happens from all quarters that people try and scare people to think like they think and there's always often a reason behind it so it's just a case that we always as much as we can think for ourselves and formulate our own opinions and there's a threat, how realistic is it what's the consequences and so on and so forth Greg I was trying with great difficulty to cross the street in Balabafe one day a man said to me there is a zebra crossing up there I don't know is there more to that story there are a number of them some of them are just crossings casual crossings but the black and white others are actual traffic lighted crossings I'm not sure which he was directing you towards once a pedestrian places one foot on the pedestrian crossing they have a right of way and motorists must stop standing at the crossing is not enough but personally for me if a car is coming out of letter Kenny up towards the Aura Leisure centre at 80 kilometres per hour I'm not going to play chicken with the car and stick my foot out and say right you know you're supposed to stop I don't know how that works you just stick a foot out and expect a speeding car to slam on the brakes and there's probably two more cars up behind it I don't know what you're saying is Kehirlock of Donagall County Council and also a rep for the Milford area good morning Liam thanks for joining us good morning Greg right okay some people are complaining of a foul smell in part of Milford what have you been hearing maybe you've witnessed it yourself It's not just some people Greg and I don't blame them one, but it's disgusting what's going on there in Milford and the stentions is disgusting on it there's a last long number of ones So I'm going over years but came and went at times but the last number of months since the way back before the summer came at all so it's been terrible. Do we know where the smoke is coming from Liam? It's coming from the Seatford plant for the Sears Seatford plant there in Milford. The problem with it is it's not fit for Cubasti, it's not fit for what's coming into it. I think that seems to be the problem with it. Now water is telling us that we're going to build a new plant that's going to take all the sewage from Milford and Melton Rath model and we hope to have it operational in 2026. We all know when to say that we hope to have it operational in 2026. You've had $4 or $5 years on to it. You couldn't ask the people offered a way for another day. Never mind another seven or eight years. You couldn't ask anybody. And even to drive through the town and that's not to have to live in the town even to just drive through it. That's disgusting. And the man is working on the plant there and it's not there for $30 all he can and have the great work called in the years. But you know they have to work on them conditions. The people work on beside it, live on beside it. You have the health centre, you have the guide bar, you have the county council offices. You have a whole lot of residents there. And because I think it may be a little bit worse these days because of the very, very, very mild weather and no, there's no breeze. If you had a bit of a breeze or one that would blow in one direction or another and unfortunately the direction of the one is blowing and that's the people that get to them. But I'm dealing with phone calls in the last couple of weeks. So you've made representations. Irish Water is saying, look, we hope to have a new system operating by 2026. You would just hope that people aren't being made to tolerate this to try and strengthen up the argument for this development to go ahead as his planned. I'm sure nothing on the hand would ever happen like that. But are they saying there's simply nothing that can be done between even now and the weekend to mitigate? You know, as you said quite rightly, we can't expect people to have to live with this for however long it might take for a new plant to be established. No, I don't know if that thing can be done there all of them spend money on it and increase the capacity that's there because it's not for porpoise. There's an influx, supposedly, of other people coming to the town as well as ones that already is landed there from other countries. And it's going to increase the capacity by 20 to 30%, I would say. The schools has come back now again, the national schools, the tech and the convent in Malford, they're all come back in again. And I did not know what was going to happen. Yeah, it wouldn't be hard to see a trend because, you know, in the summer when maybe the population is somewhat greater is the problem worse compared to the winter. Now with the Malford population growing substantially because it's from a relatively small base and a wider scale. So people being moved into the area, it is a significant population growth and as you mentioned schools going back and what have you. You know, it's not hard to track if things are going to get worse perhaps before they get better. This is the type of... I mean, the infrastructure is going to have to catch up with the population growth quicker than the timeline Irish water have down at the moment. Definitely, without a doubt. I've been on with this for a number of years now. And it's unfortunate that I have to go to yourselves to see if you can help us along the way. But I've been accused of Malford not being represented, politically not being represented. And I'm doing it all I can. We have no role with Irish water. But we do have a direct line to us that we can't get nowhere with us. And I just want to let the people in Malford know that we're doing what we can for us. Unfortunately, that's not enough. But there's nothing more I can do about it. And I will encourage them to make the phone call to Irish water every day. Daily there's a spell on Malford. 1800 278 278. Unless they keep receiving and get unundated calls, I don't see anything we've done on the near future with us. And that is really important. Someone might come up with the idea of getting a petition and getting 300 names. That would be classed as one contact with Irish water. Anyone in Malford that doesn't like this smell individually, you have to get on to Irish water because then when we contact them and we say have there been any complaints, what if they have hundreds of complaints? It can't be ignored. What's that number again, Liam? 1800 278 278. OK, so we're going to do our bit. We'll make our representations. But if you're in the Malford area and you're affected by this, bombard that number with your complaint. And as I say, the more people that do, then it can't be ignored because either wise, it's one representation from us, one representation maybe of a petition that's been signed and two or three representations from local cancers. That's not enough for them to be embarrassed into doing something. And unfortunately, we're going to have to, in some sort of an organized way, do that. We're going to have to contact them in big numbers and embarrassing them into doing something so it can't be ignored because they might get 100 complaints today across the country. Why not get 350 complaints today from Milford? Exactly. I would encourage that to go out. All right. Because unless we do that, we're definitely not going to get anything. Whatever chance we might have, what's going that route. And as you say, a petition has just classified as one because it's seen as a person without encouraging people to sign their name to something. And that's therefore, it's only classified as one contact. Okay. But I would encourage everybody to make that one call. Unfortunately, we have to do something like this, but... And you're not the first... Hopefully, I'm not saying... I'm frustrated, expressed frustration in the dealings with Irish Water. They can be very... Even though it is, you know, much of the work is carried out by council staff. It is Irish Water that call the shots and they can be hard to pin down on an issue. Right. Okay. Well, we'll make our representations. People in Milford, if you don't like the smell, contact that telephone number and log a complaint. Don't use any sort of templates. Formulate what you have a problem with, get in contact with them, and let's get 100 into them, 200 into them today. We'll make our representations. I'm sure you, Councillor Blaney, as Cahirlock are doing what you can. And let's see if we can embarrass them into something that they simply can't ignore. Good on you, Greg. All right, Liam, thanks very much indeed. Councillor Liam Blaney there. It'll only take a wee second. Register your complaint and say, I'm living in Milford and this smell is no longer tolerable. I'm living in Milford. I can't hang clothes out in the line because they come in stinking. I'm living in Milford. You know, I don't want my children playing out the front because of this toxic smell. I'm living in Milford. We can't even open the windows in our house. What's going on Irish Water? Enough is enough. This is the way we do things. This is not the way we do things. This is obviously a strategy that's going to have to be tried because what's going on now is not working. And many people in Milford are affected by this. And I'm familiar with the story, but I wanted to hear it in Councillor Blaney's own words, which we did, okay? And we can affect change. We really, really can. And as we continue to do as a radio programme on your behalf, we will make representations to see what they have to say. 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Hi Greg, Luke Kelly, the love of visiting song that comes into the dam. Can you please remind motorists to indicate it's driving everyone else crazy, it's very unfair. I agree, I think, you're in the right lane. Around 25,000 cyclists are insured through cycling Ireland and as for tax and cyclists why not tax pedestrians too? There are also road users. What would you achieve if it's just a compositional point? Probably what would achieve? I don't know. It's great that cyclists are insured but how do you identify one cyclist from the next? Say for instance if I'm driving dangerously someone can notify the guardian and say you want to see that. You want to see the way that fella's driving or whatever it is. And then you say well who is he? Well this is a bold fella. That's his number plate and then that's how I'm identified. Would that be useful? I don't know. Greg, why don't the council get a marina started out at the Port Bridge and Greg, that river and have boats leaving the port and stopping at Remelton and Ruthmolan and then to Boncran. A letter for Kelly needs a marina for tourists in the summer months, a swimming pool in Letrakenny. We need a marina that would make a big difference. That comes in from Michael in Letrakenny. Anyone share Michael's dream of a marina for Letrakenny? 086625,000 Rightio, now Liam is back on with us. We're speaking in the context of an investigation which has been launched into a massive fish kill in the Glenneganam River at Ineshaun. The incident was declared on Friday after thousands of dead fish were sighted in the water. They've been gathered up to a great extent. A picture of them on Tarpaulin on the front of the papers today. Horrible to see. Liam, good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Good morning, Greg. What's likely to have caused a fish kill on this scale from your experience? Well, my experience before with us is more slurry, slurry, seeping on or being washed on and it had to be a large volume of stuff for that amount of fish to be killed. It had to be a large volume of stuff and it's been under the system. What it does is take the oxygen out of the air because that's the gills of the fish. Small as the fish. They just go belly up and drown. They drowned, effectively, in the water, don't they? Yeah, they basically drowned. That's what happens. They start for oxygen on the water with all the nitrates and all the pollution. The water really goes green with it. You can see it on the water. I had the experience looking after my own uncle's cap when he was away in Haldes I've seen it in Haldesland where I was looking into the stream where the whole water was all green algae and looking to the side of the wee lolls of the current all the fish were thrown up along the side, the young juvenile fry of salmon and that there, lying up along the side and that was only the sector of the uncle's land but the streams were run from a far distance because everything goes that comes one way even through land the whole lot comes to it all ends up in the sea, ends up in the rivers from turbidity streams Liam, do you think this could possibly be natural? You know, people might say well it hasn't rained much, maybe water levels are low maybe that's triggered some sort of an algae bloom or something along those lines is there any natural explanation for this in your view? Yes, there is a lack of rain and that would any contaminants would go into the river now would there would be enough dilution there because the current would be slow the rivers are very low throughout the country at the moment and if you go into deeper water the water stagnates the current so it would settle and it would accumulate slower where you have a fast flowing river it would likely dilute quicker but for that there had to be a large volume of large volume of so you'd be convinced there has to be there has to be a man-made element to this there's a man-made element to this and you have you do have a lot of agriculture and that going on there's no chemical plants there has been spoilage of the chemical plants before up in the Tauron area and that there was this large species of fish as a fisher man we were suppressed out of our fishery to protect it to close down for salmon stocks but we were forced to do it use with the eyes and ears the custodians of Thaw Rivers because you saw what's going on the anglers now would be custodians we're up in fresh water everything has to go to breed some it has to be protected to breed we're asked to go to fish we're asked to put on certain sizes of net size to allow the juvenile fish to give in it the same with the rivers the specimen fish have to go to enter rivers to to give in it and breed there's an amazing thing that happens in nature in that the fish will return to spawning grounds and I think a lot of these were sea trout and salmon some of them were brown trout I don't know maybe they live their lives in the river but what does this mean for the future of a river when there's a fish kill on this scale is a chain broken well it depends how far up the system it has how far up the system it happens and I do know people on the river trust there they're doing a origin job like it takes the feed and all out the weed makers things that then we fish will nearly go out off the main rivers up on the stream the river food and all the weed migrants the weed bugs they feed on them and it could kill all them it depends how far up the system it was maybe above the system but if the pollution they'll have to do salt tests and gravel now to see as the spull went into the salt and all and how the river is planing but they would merely find the source of the fish coming down stream they would nearly track it to the area roughly to the area where it's about to do talks and tests and see it's coming out of a stream coming onto a river because I'm not saying there's no chemical factors running out and that's just with the weather we're having and all rain just added to the effect that there was no official flood water in the area the water washed away and it went quick through the system and as you've seen maybe on the news last night again rivers are very narrow river it's not a big wide river so the dilution of it the dilution of it and do you know what if we had two or three days of torrential rain we probably wouldn't even have had the impact it has Liam, thanks for your you look big and all the thing we can't blame whereas much to blame ourselves if you look at the chemicals here for cleaners and supermarkets and all the rest now what we had years ago there's more toxins going into the water now from chemicals and supermarkets and all the rest it all goes through the water and it all finds its way and you hear on the day there's a lot of gills and one thing and all grating but sure we get the input of it we get the input of it like we see a lot of this we even see our books here where we're anti-fouling now to keep the coast off the bottom the seaweed off the bottom we see where we're stagnated water this time of year where a river run into the harbour because the nitrogen's on the ground the slurry's on the ground it's coming down it's not getting away quick enough there's no growth on them because it's coming it's not getting away it's building up and what happens it defeats the purpose of the of the anti-fouling and this time of year it's all these the rain and you do need the rain to take it away and dilute it better that's not happening we can't know where the investigation is so we can't really you can't even say let the people that's in charge of it and let them work now but it's sad to see like it's sad to see it's terrible, it's terrible, it really is I'm not to respect it there's nothing about dippers and plastic even roaming and fishing here like taking the stuff ashore it's not hard to do if you go along the fall there you see the amount of junk along the shores and capture along and nets and that there banks and all the rest some of them are as bad then the day we use it we get the use of it, respect it indeed, Liam O'Brien thanks for your time as always I really appreciate it right okay let's go to Sinead assistant manager of the Finn Valley Centre good morning to you Sinead good morning, sorry for you not too bad, right you just talked to social media to highlight an issue and it must have been pretty bad to go to those lengths so tell us what's happening well we're huge advocates for people with disabilities here at the Valley Leisure Centre we are trying to encourage people with disabilities and their carers and families to use the centre more for their own quality of life but we've an ongoing battle with able-bodied people parking in the disability parking base at the centre we did we did advertise last year on social media for people to not park in the base unless you sincerely have a blue badge displayed and the person to whom the blue badge is associated with is in the vehicle exactly, yeah exactly so like even yesterday now we're at the end of our tether we just have a strong opinion that people should not be parking in the disability parking base when they don't need to whether it's to drop off or less drop off or less for rugby football whatever it may be there's a lot of parking spots in the main parking area but yesterday for example we had a person parked there we asked them to move and she said I have a blue badge and then my question was the person to whom the blue badge is referred to is that person with you and she said no then ignored me and walked on I said I want you to move now you need to move and it was a huge issue and it was actually embarrassing you still want that consultation no you don't it's not fair in our style you didn't go into work to sort of have to say right enough is enough we're going to challenge some people you don't want to have to square up to them you know what I mean okay then what happens and then we did request the supervisor and myself did request her to return to the vehicle before she went any further that we did want it moved unfortunately we had to explain to her that we have a lot of people with disabilities using the centre and just 20 minutes after that one of our swimmers who has cerebral palsy and a wheelchair user we had to go up on the vehicle and at that stage we had to print up more signs saying not to park in that parking bay and she can manage it's okay if I park here so I explain to her yes it's for the likes of you and your son so you know like that's an example for someone who is able bodied you're having to ask them two or three times to move and then for someone that that space is provided for they're politely asking if they can use it exactly and all in one day it's crazy isn't it yeah all within the half hour you know and this Greg this is an ongoing issue you know it really is there's another three parking bays down at in the main car park as well and there's often times that one vehicle would park right across the three of them so as a person with a disability would have no access to any of the three of them parking bays and people genuinely think it's okay because they're only going to park there for one minute you know and like it's not it's not fair like we have people travelling from Ladder County from Bali Shan and from Dunlow and from Glancy's we have people travelling here because of the facility that we offer and you know it's not fair that we have to actually go out and argue our point exactly and I'll tell you what's interesting about it is obviously you and the staff at the Finn Valley Centre have gone out of your way to make it a very inclusive centre and I think you're really lucky in that you have lots of people with a disability that choose to use the Finn Valley Centre and I think that's a testimony to what you're doing to make it such a welcoming place that's a place for everyone and then the parking the one thing that maybe it's a little bit harder to control that's where the issue is which is somewhat early control other than making appeals like this and asking people to move it's a shame isn't it yeah no it's a shame because it's such a challenge like if we do ask people they don't they never ever never wanted any person to turn around to me and say oh my gosh I'm sorry I'll move now it's actually ended up a challenge and I just think it's a disgrace but like we have to respect everybody we have to respect each other and we more so have to respect people with disabilities because they have so many challenges in life in general without having to deal with these situations of ignorance and that's all it is you know okay well again it comes down to putting ourselves in the position of a parent dropping a young person off with a disability or anyone with a disability trying to pull in there we need to start thinking what it might be like to be somebody else and what it would feel like if then we were to try and use one of these spaces and enable bodied person was using it because they're a little later they're running later there'll only be a minute I'm only nipping in and out you know okay Sine listen thanks for that I appreciate it now and hopefully the message will drive it home for a lot of people in general no matter where they're parking just stay away from disability base we're well able to park elsewhere and walk to our destination so it would be brilliant if people would actually start using their brains really more though than anything else and that is a luxury that could be taken from us at any time at any time through injury or whatever okay thanks okay thank you so much have a great day Neutrace lamb feed offer directly supported by the Arrivo fodder support fund is now available at your local homeland store buy 10 bags of Neutrace intensive lamb or Neutrace lamb creep crunch get one free contains intake booster for higher intakes better thrive and faster finish season seas apply contact your local homeland for additional specialist today visit Neutrace.ie for full product detail suffering from hearing loss Kingsbridge hearing care has arrived in the northwest yes we have a brand new clinic location at Kingsbridge private hospital in Bali Kelly and can offer you a full range of hearing care provision including enhanced hearing 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advertising at highlandradio.com Highland Radio we are here for you a caller says Greg the war is confined to one area when the troubles were ongoing Ireland had to keep going well it didn't many many people in Northern Ireland for the safety of the children or indeed in some cases to avoid people being conscripted into the army the war is currently in Ukraine focusing the east and south at any point at any point and there is intelligence suggests that it's not impossible that it might happen Vladimir Putin could instruct a strike or tactical nuclear strike anywhere I can assure you right now he is not finished with it and the more bloodied his nose becomes the more far reaching his assault will be because they can't continue to hemorrhage and lose soldiers like they are so they will try and make an impact in other ways and how did they do that how did it at the beginning bombing wherever they see fit because they can easily target anywhere we're getting a bit sort of maybe relaxed about not relaxed about what's going on there but an escalation could happen at any stage perhaps even likely it's even likely that it might okay that's where we have to leave it on the 9 till noon show for this Tuesday morning we're back with you tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock so hopefully you'll be able to rejoin us then but don't go anywhere a full day of great programming for you next up it's John Breslin around the north west but at 12 noon let us get a news update we'll be right back