 I'll just just frame that in proper context. I'll put it up in the front room. Right. Just the tree? Yeah, that's... Yeah. What else is there now? What do you use to put up? We put up the tree. What else? A garden? Aye. I just... The main thing is just to get the tree up and then we can have fun. We only lost two balls as well. Yeah, did you break any balls? Obviously, they make it a delightful noise as they smack off the wall. No, but would there not be all plastic balls? That's what you would think, isn't it? But there's a non-worn ball, so that's what you would think. But we'll not open that kind of worms on air. No, we won't. We'll keep our things to ourselves. But I would go for plastic balls if it was left to me. Plastic, bouncy balls. There's a lot of talk about balls, but we'll move on, won't we? Yes. Come here. Good luck. See you later, Lee. I don't know what page it was. Did you clear the glitter off? No, the glitter's there. Did Hudson scratch you in the nose again today? No. No, the other side? There? Yeah, he possibly did, you know. He... You need to cut his nails. He gets your... They grow so quick and young ones, aren't they? They do, indeed. And that's also not my problem. OK, what is your note? I drew an awful lot of those. Good luck, Lee. See you later. It is a minute, two minutes past nine. Let's get a news update. It's Officer Donemory Doherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Donegal County Council has approved works on a number of public projects, including a cycleway which has been described as the first of its kind in the country. The projects are in South Donegal, letter Kenny, Milford and Fanad. Alex Rowley reports. At the plenary meeting of Council in Lifford yesterday, members approved work on six projects in Donegal. One of them, a shared pedestrian and cyclepaths, linking Bali's Shannon and Bundoran, was described by Councillor Barry Sweeney as the first cycleway linking two towns under an active travel scheme. The construction of 10 two-story social housing units at Mulroy View, Tamney, was also given the go-ahead. It'll consist of a mix of one-bedroom apartment units and two, three and four-bedroom housing units. Results are approved works on the letter Kenny Cultural Corridor, linking on Greenin Theatre, the regional cultural centre, and the Donegal County Museum as part of the letter Kenny Connect programme. The green light was also given to improved pedestrian facilities on Kilibeg's Road, Donegal Town and Cooper's Road, off the market square in Milford, as well as public artworks at Mahrakar outside Bundoran. The Justice Minister says she doesn't want Garde operating with one eye over their shoulder. Helen McInty has asked the policing authority to review how much force Garde can use when dating with serious public order incidents following last week's riots in Dublin City. She says it will consider what additional equipment and resources are needed, and that could include access to the legs of the dog unit, stronger vehicles and non-lethal equipment. I'm also asking them to look at and to provide clarity when it comes to use in force. I do not want members of Unguarded Sheep on looking over their shoulder responding to these incidents where they feel their force is necessary. I want them to have the confidence to respond in the way that they deem appropriate. A temporary ceasefire in Gaza has been extended by two days, with more hostages expected to be released later. The truce was due to end at 5 a.m. Irish time, but Qatar, which has been leading negotiations between Israel and Hamas, confirmed two sides agreed to extend their truce. 50 Israeli hostages have been released so far, and in return, dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed during the day as a Palestinian political analyst. We are in uncharted territory on so many levels. All of these prisoners in Israeli captivity are viewed by the society as hostages of the Israeli occupation, and so any of them released is welcomed by Palestinians. And finally, there are calls for dedicated leave to be brought in for women and couples who are undergoing fertility treatment or a miscarriage. The proposals by the Labour Party are due to be discussed in the Shannad tomorrow. The party says couples are forced to use annual leave if they're affected by an early miscarriage or are undergoing reproductive treatment. Looking to weather, there was a frosty start today with some of the mist and fog lingering that will slowly clear through the morning, leaving a mostly dry day with spells of sunshine and scattered showers, highest temperatures of four to seven degrees in a light variable wind. That's all for now. From Highland Radio News, the next news update will be at 10 o'clock. In the meantime, keep up to date with the latest local news on our website, highlandradio.com. For myself and the news team, good morning. Because your health means... VHI are here for the whole you, with the whole of us, our own doctors, our own health centres, and a wide range of our own specialists, from dermatologists and pediatricians to women's health experts. VHI, because your health means everything. VHI insurance, DAC trading as VHI insurance, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. The county's number one talk show, The 9-Til Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The 9-Til Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning. Six minutes past nine on this Tuesday, the 28th of November, 2023. How are you getting on? You're very welcome along to another edition of The 9-Til Noon Show with me, Greg Hughes. And you as well, we want you involved in the conversation. Start your own conversations, get involved. The lines are open for you right now. WhatsApps and texts to 0866025000. If you're listening outside the Republic, it's 00353866025000. Give us a call to 0749125000. Caroline, of course, have her present. Shannon, working on the show as well, 0749125000. Any new comments from anywhere in the world? Comments at HighlandRadio.com. Coming up on the show, after 10, we've community guard information with the latest... And you'll hear it for the first time here, the latest appeals and information from one guard of Shia Khanna. God, a grant you're joining us for that. And there's so much more besides, so stay right where you are. Let's see what's in the papers this morning. We'll start with the Donegal Democrat. The Minister of Health has admitted certain aspects of the health service are currently not acceptable, but stress things are improving in Donegal. Minister Stephen Donnelly turned the sod on the new Letter Kenney Community Hospital last Friday morning and beforehand held a meeting with local general practitioners with a later appointment taking place with consultants. And Sean Murphy, the manager of Letter Kenney University Hospital, talks in Letter Kenney, he said, we're positive with more to come. Donnelly commended the great work being provided by healthcare workers and also the work within other medical facilities which have been a significant factor in the steps on the road to recovery thus far. There are, though, still steps to be taken with the next locally being the 37 million euro 80 bed Balashanen Community Hospital which is expected to be opened within weeks. Okay. On to the Irish Times now. And Dublin communities may form vigilante groups to protect themselves from violence unless the guarder cracked down on fogs and far-right extremists. Councillors have told Guarder Commissioner Drew Harris during a tense meeting following last week's riots. Dublin City councillors complained Guarder Management had taken a soft approach towards the far-right and appeared to have a policy of appeasement towards them. In replying to criticism of the Guarder response on Thursdays or to Thursdays violence, Mr. Harris said, Guardi often felt their hands were tied in dealing with public order and cases taken against Guardi in the performance of their duties had resulted in a chilling factor or a loss of confidence amongst members. Green Party councillor Janet Horner told the commissioner that people did not feel safe in Dublin. I've heard talk in different circles of vigilante groups in multiple areas being organised in response to dangers they feel for the communities. But I mean, the majority of what happened, however you want to choose to describe people politically, the majority of what happened on Thursday, are we in agreement, wasn't far-right. Was it, it was, it was thugs, not just from a certain part of Dublin, either from all over Dublin and from outside Dublin. They saw a bit of civil unrest, they saw a bit of public anger and they thought, right, let's go and get ourselves some runners and a push bike and a scooter. They weren't politically motivated and I would say they probably didn't really even know or couldn't articulate, you know, what we're doing or how they were doing it. I mean, obviously there is a, as it's described, a far-right element, but I don't think it is they that were responsible for that chaos we saw in Dublin last Thursday. Now there are, of course, videos and audio files circulating, calling people out to the streets, but I don't believe that's why these young people did what they did. Onto the Irish Independent now and public attitudes towards media, democracy and trust in other people in Ireland has become less positive in recent years, according to an Economic and Social Research Institute report. Sociopolitical attitudes born out of austerity led to public satisfaction with democracy, politics, media and in society declining substantially after the 2008 financial crash. Ireland started and finished the study period of 1998 to 2023 with some of the most positive social and political outlooks in Western Europe, but some attitudes became less positive after 2019 while the study has underscored that social and political authorities are more positive in Ireland than in the North. There has been a fluctuation over time report author James Lawrence said the T-shock reveals, sorry, the research reveals important insights into the conditions that influence social and political attitudes and citizens' connections to and trust in the society and institutions and in relation to the media, it's really quite simple. People are switched on, people feel they can curate their own news and get their own news and information elsewhere and unless the media challenge power and ask questions that are relevant to the public and not be PR for whomever's in power, then there's always gonna be a dissatisfaction with the media. On to the Irish Daily Mail now. More on Guardi and the tools and permissions I suppose they have to enforce the law. Guardi is set to be given new guidance which will empower them to use force when necessary on the plans set to go to cabinet today. Now I saw videos of Guardi or maybe the rapid response, I'm not sure, or the riot police, whatever you might wanna call them with their shields out, battening people. Saw quite a bit of that. So I don't know what further powers they need or are missing something here. I'm not here anti-Guardi or pro-Guardi but I did see them battens drawn and using them. But Justice Minister Helen McIntyre will today tell cabinet that the supports available to on Guardi Shia Khanna dealing with public order incidences including clarity on the use of force and to be reviewed. It's understood the minister believes that Guardi should not have to look over their shoulder or second guess themselves in circumstances where the use of force is warranted and necessary. A government source said she wants Guardi who put themselves at risk to have clear guidance on how they can use force when necessary to do their jobs. Ms. McIntyre has asked the policing authority in addition to their ongoing oversight work in the area to review how frontline Guardi dealing with serious public order events such as the riot in Dublin last week can be further supported. Is that something you would be in favour of? Do you think the Guardi need more clearer? It seems to be a theme coming from guards though that they are afraid to use force for fear of reprimand or being suspended in long-term investigations and so on and so forth. What do you think 086625,000, what did I, oh yeah. Colin McGregor, he's been incredibly vocal. I mentioned this on Friday. If he were to stand for politics however he might do it in this country I think he would actually do really quite well. But anyway, Colin McGregor is now officially part of an investigation by Guardi over alleged incitement to hatred around the Dublin riots. The star has learned that following an examination of recent social media remarks by the UFC star McGregor is now part of a wider official criminal probe which was formally alluded to yesterday by Guardi Commissioner Drew Harris. Commissioner Harris revealed to Dublin City Council's Joint Police and Committee yesterday afternoon that there are now three live investigations over the horrific events of last Thursday. They involved one on the stabbing of the girl, one on the riots and another on social media commentary suspected of inciting hatred. The star understands that McGregor, who posted to ex-formerly Twitter both before and after the riot last Thursday is one of the individuals now under investigation as part of the criminal probe. Again, this is a very, in terms of legislating what people can say and how they say it on social media this is also getting into a bit of a sticky spot here because who police is what you say and what you can't say. I saw his tweets, Ireland is at war and a few other things but if you weren't allowed to say that on social media, it would be, I don't know, I think they have to, from a legislative point of view, there is certainly stuff that needs to be police but they have to tread carefully here, don't they? McGregor, who tweeted that Ireland was at war and you reap what you sow, has not been spoken to by Guardi at this juncture and a spokesperson for him did not return a comment before the article went to print. Okay, some shocking statistics coming out from Childline. This is in the Irish Daily Mirror. Childline volunteers have told of their heartbreak of listening to children complain of the monster who enters the bedroom at night. The ISPCC yesterday revealed its dedicated hotline was contacted more than 100 times in relation to sexual abuse in the last month. That's 100 kids that rang Childline because of sexual abuse in the last month. It gets an average of 26 calls on a weekly basis about child sexual abuse. In addition, 169 contacts this year were due to incest in between five and 10 calls a week from teenagers about rape. The charity also said 120,000 calls a year classified as level four, which is the most concerning and accounts for one quarter of their total calls. And as I've said before in this program, I understand, well, I don't understand what I hear and it doesn't say whether I understand it or not. I hear of the fears people say they have about, you know, the future and threats to children or whatever it might be, but there's an awful problem in this country at the moment and has been historically and people need to get motivated and talk about it as well. When you see those statistics of young children who should feel really, really safe and protected in their homes, the amount of them calling Childline, 120,000 calls, now I presume some of them will be multiple calls, but 120,000 calls a year classified as level four, which is the most concerning and accounts for one quarter of their total calls. Now we're living through that right now. And I think that's something that we really need to get a handle on and look after our young ones. And finally, I kind of gone off watching football, i.e. soccer a little bit now. I just find it a wee bit disjointed and messy and a lot of it's down to VAR. I find it's disrupted the games, but things could get worse. In fact, the game of football now could last two hours because VAR might be used for corner kicks and free kicks. Premier League matches could turn into two-hour marathons if footy chiefs waived through plans to extend the VAR system. Extending the checks to free kicks, corners and yellow cards will be discussed at a meeting today. Lawmakers at the International FA Board want more involvement from the video booth, but the FA says the move is a step too far and it would infuriate fans already angered by stoppages and howlers. The IFAB will meet at Heathrow Hotel and a source close to the talk said this could easily hand more decisions over to video referees. Can you imagine throw-ins and corners and yellow cards all being the subject of a VAR review? Maybe it's something you'd welcome again, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. All right, that's a run-through. What's making some of the pages of the newspapers today? We'll be creating our own headlines after this break. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop Letterkenny, the 2022 C-store national off-license of the year. The Ninetyl Noon Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. 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Pre-Christmas individual running conditioning program for listed training panel. All need to be logged on an app. January to March, collective running in S&C work, mandatory attendance and fitness test markers, pre-middle and end, and on it goes, we'll get through some of those. Well, I won't, we'll get Amy McGee, former Intercanti footballer, columnist and club footballer as well. You still had it, aren't you, Amy? No, I'm finished up now, Greg, thankfully. Then when these charters are starting to come in, I'm just on the other way out. I'm trying to figure one to a level, which one forced you into retirement here? I think I've gone through all them rules and broke every single one of them now, so thankfully that's not a thing for me anymore. Right, so looking down these rules, I mean, emanating from the west of Ireland, I don't know if we know anything more specifically than that, maybe you know, I certainly don't. But looking down through them, what do you think? Is this the future? I think that's the way that the club game's been going now for a while, Greg, in terms of the commitment and what's to be expected. And for me, it's just someone, and I actually thought this will wind up when it initially came out, and it turns out it's genuine enough. And for me, it's just someone that's in management that just doesn't get it. Like, he thinks he's dealing with six or seven-year-olds and will set boundaries, and you're dealing with adults, you're dealing with human beings, and it's just silly stuff. But we've seen this, we've seen this coming with the club game. And you have to take the into reality too that the club game and the inter-county game are different and they should be different. The inter-county game now is as elite as you can make it for an amateur organization, and the club game is supposed to be, although there's competitiveness and they want to be elite, but there's supposed to be a bit of enjoyment and there should be a clear distinction between the two. Yeah, but that being said, see how some of the level that some of these teams operate, like Glen, for example, would give a lot of inter-county teams a run for their money. Like, some of these club teams are operating at an incredibly high level. They are, and there's fair enough, but you would think that they're operating at a level close to inter-county, but the level, the golf, is massive on it, and they're still, for me, and I know people have different opinions in this, but for me, that there's still a room for that player that wants to go out for the few pints, doesn't want that all encompassing, this is my life, kind of mentality of sport, and the elite mindset, that's the word I'm trying to get there. Yeah, and do you think, really, that when you run through these, you can see, right, this is maybe a manager that says, you know, this is what I want for my players, but it's when it sort of encroaches into their private lives, do you think that's when it's a step too far in terms of the training regimes and logging? You know, there's probably some young fellas and women that would go, right, I don't mind that, but is it when it sort of starts saying, you can't do this privately, is that when it oversteps the line? Yeah, and I think, you know, there's one there, I don't know what rule it was, but in terms of what sports you're allowed to play, you're not allowed to play soccer, athletics, golf. Now, personally, I would ban the golf, just completely ban golf altogether. I don't think that's got anything to do with this list though. But no, that's the one that you have a problem that you are going into the personal life that you can't do this with your own time, you can't do that with your own time. So that's where I have this. And the tracking thing, the tracking's in already in terms of there's apps out now for the gym programs where you type in, then people that are monitoring the apps can tell exactly what you're lifting and how many reps you're doing. So that's there, and it's just the thing, you don't need to be doing, you don't need to be, if you have a good dress room and you have good lads, you don't need to be doing these, putting these rules and regulations about it. So I think just in a pre-conflict with Caroline, you said you could see the club game going this way. I mean, is that if one or two teams employ this type of regime and they start doing really, really well, that others say, well, look, if we're going to compete, we have to do it? Or why do you think this could creep into sort of a norm? Because I see it's the same for my own time, with Skidore and with the different types of commitments involved in it. And it's like the arms race where one team does this and then the other team has to do this and it just keeps escalating and nobody's going to step back from it because the reality is the more time you give to something and the more time you invest in it, the better you become in it and the more you give to that. And that's why I think the Intercounty thing and the club should be separate. You get that and the Intercounty, you give yourself completely to it, but what the club, there should still be, you know, that wee bit of breathing space, but I could see it common in terms of, you know, there's just so many different commitments involved and what should be told or should be pointed out also that it's not bad to commit to something. I think that there's a part in society now where, you know, you're frowned upon where you totally commit to something and you go about your high achieving, that shouldn't be, that shouldn't be kind of cast society. They're like that, but you should still have a life within that club game. Do you, GEA has a role in sort of looking at things like this and saying, right, we have to be careful here because it's like a ripple effect. You know what I mean? This could eventually have sort of effect participation or the game itself. Like, do you think that there needs to be a DICTAC coming from Dublin or the provincial councils to say, look at, you know, we need to establish, you know, we need to establish the difference here, perhaps, between intercounty and club football? They definitely should, they definitely should, but whether clubs would listen to it, like I think a high percentage of clubs, we were in a pandemic and a high percentage of them weren't supposed to be trained or remain collectively and a high percentage of clubs were militants. So whether they listened to a DICTAC from Crow Park or from the headquarters is another matter, but they definitely should be coming out and leading on this topic because what will happen and we see it in intercounty football already, people are just saying, no, this isn't for me. And that's fair enough. If it's not for you, just walk away. But you should have the club game as that because you love the game, you get involved, you started from a young age and you shouldn't be chased from the club game because you can't give that whole commitment. So there should be definitely some kind of leadership from Crow Park. Yeah, because if you talk to players or former players, often if you ask them some of their greatest achievements or their greatest games, even if they've operated at the highest level at intercounty level, it's often what was achieved with their club or a particular performance or a particular title, which was one. Ah, yeah, yeah, and a lot, there's a lot of love for the club game. And in terms of the rules too, like you go through them to players and a lot of their best memories won't be on the field at all. It'll be interacting with their teammates, be that socially out for a few pints or just having the crack. You know, no messing about on the golf trips or whatever it was. What's your problem with golf here, Amy? Oh, seriously? That's a whole show. Have you not even tried it? Have you not even tried it? No, no, no. You're retired from football now. Come on, you need to be competitive. I might join one of these golf societies and get the all-trop once a year in it now, but that'll be the height of it. Yeah, and is there, I mean too, someone from outside of Ireland or perhaps maybe outside the sport might think there's a booze problem in GEA because there's an awful lot of focus on drinking and I think even you talked about the few pints with the lads, you know, it's not tearing the backside out of it either. We're talking really about socialising, aren't we? We're not talking about boozing. No, no, we're not talking about these binges. Definitely not talking about that. There's just the opportunity to go for the few pints with maybe after the game and leave it like that there. And it's just about creating that environment that there's a connection to be made and you form a connection with that teammate. Like, and that's one of the things that I'll always have. Yeah, and again, speaking to former players, that's often the biggest miss that camaraderie. Exactly, and if you create a sterling environment where you can't do this, you can't do that and it just becomes a chore, you're not going to make them connections. All right, OK, we shall see where it goes from here. Aiman, always a pleasure. Thanks so very much. Thanks, Greg. Aiman, McGee, former Intercanti footballer, former club footballer and current columnist there as well. A call to say is that enjoyment is taking out of playing now. Years ago, the fellas went for a few pints after most games and had the crack nowadays. It's too serious and it's the same with the women as well. Please can the person or people in Boncran that own a dog that's let out frequently in the middle of the night that barks incessantly for hours, please cop on. Do they not hear the dog themselves? There are children and families, those who need their sleep disturbed by this barking, echoing over the hills on a regular basis. If it was somebody out shouting every night, the guards would soon be called noise pollution disturbances. Think on, please, and that sounds like someone who perhaps didn't have a fantastic night's sleep there. We had a comment into us, which we stuck on our Facebook page and it read as follows. Hi, I'm so tired of letting cars out of parking spaces or roads and they haven't managed to put a finger up of thanks or a wee bee, put a flash to the hazards. People used to do this. It's like people now expect you to and people have forgotten with the COVID break how to be nice and civil to each other. No one says hello when out now or look at you strangely if you say hello, so much for friendly Donegal or friendly Irish, do others feel this way? I don't feel this way, but it doesn't matter what I think. But they say, sorry, so then some of the comments coming from this. I let people out and I get a beep, though it's usually from the car behind me, so I then drive extra slow for a bit just to thank them. I get you. I always let cars out and if they don't give me thanks in some sort of manner, I'm the worst of a mood all day. Drives me crazy as for people not saying hello anymore. I haven't experienced that. I find people are generally very friendly, but not so much on the road. Manners are easily carried. I just don't get people who would just ignore you doing something nice for them. Now, I don't, I love getting let out, but you see when people do it like that, you know, when they wave their fingers, if to say, I'm letting you out now, hurry up. If you're going to be like that, be graceful and offer the palm of your hand and a wave and that's how we can have our connection. Another caller says, I always wave or beep if someone lets me out and I let people out too. And they always do the same. People are always looking for the negativity these days. They don't see what this listener is seeing. Another, I always let cats out of spaces of side roads, but if I need out of a space, I'm sorry, cars, not cats. I always let cars out of spaces or side roads, but if I need out of a space, other drivers aren't so courteous. I have spotted it and in my head, and I'm going to say it out loud, I do see because I often have to say, Pollan tiered island, there is a trend as to who lets you in and who doesn't let you in. I'm working on it. I might reveal it when I have more data, but another listener says, this is something I've noticed. People don't have the decency to let people out sitting for ages or even when crossing a road. It just takes a little common courtesy. It doesn't take much to be a little more kinder. Is there an island I seem to recall? This could be an urban myth or what have you. Maybe it's Jersey. I don't know why they don't have traffic lights or anything like that there. And all of the driving is based on courtesy. So it's one, one, one, one. Do you know what I mean? Drivers do that themselves. As I say, I heard that a long time ago. I'm not sure if it's a myth or not. Yes, this totally rags me too, says another listener. You wish then you hadn't bothered to let them out. It's just common courtesy to say thanks. Another, absolutely. There's such a sense of entitlement now. Manners are very much lacking. Another couple here. Yeah, and also people would barge through you and not smile, say hello, would gesture to move from one end of the main street to the other. Another, I totally agree. It's not just a normal whole thing. Either I normally drive up close behind them if they don't say thanks. A few other agreeing. Why stop? There'll be, there will come a natural break in traffic. People stopping along a busy main road to let two cars out of a filling station. Not worried about the 900 cars behind them, they're holding up. They're even plight as, there are even plight AHs stopping on roundabouts to let traffic go. Another yes feel the same, very sad. And across the socials, people say that, you know, you let someone out, they've lost the manners. They don't say thanks. Let's do it on the radio. If that's something you've experienced. Oh, eight, six, 60, 25,000. Oh, eight, six, 60, 25,000. Or give us a call on 07491-25,000. Right, we are going to be talking after this break and have a conversation about government plans to fast track and expand controversial new laws to help quell riots and disorders. It deals with the fallout from last week's violent scenes. 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Okay, so let's have a conversation about this. We'll speak to a former guard sergeant in a moment, but first, Liam Henrich, Herrick Abegapard, an executive director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. I mean, some might perceive this as the government not wasting a crisis here to bring forward something that has been itching to introduce for quite some time now, Liam. Yeah, surely, Greg, there is a difference between, I think the minister and the department of justice who want to bring in facial recognition technology for policing and other members of cabinet who don't, and groups like ourselves who are identifying that there's significant legal human rights and civil liberties barriers to doing it. One of the key reasons why the government had to drop its proposals for police use of facial recognition technology earlier this year is because it may very well be illegal under European law and the European Union is currently setting standards around artificial intelligence which may make this illegal. But I think there's not that much in the announcement this week because, as you say, the position already was that the government was gonna bring forward separate new legislation for this to be debated and discussed sometime next year. I think what is different, though, I think what's different is, is that if you want to introduce something, you hang it on an issue that is very emotive in the public eye. You know, I don't think the timing can be dismissed here. You go, well, hold on, we don't want shops looted and we don't want violence. So, yeah, we're gonna back you on this now. That is, I'm not being cynical there. It's as clear as it looks on my face. I think you're absolutely right, but in terms of the stages that have to be gone through, they're still the same in that the Department of Justice is only preparing heads of bill at the moment. So that's a memo to go to government to set out its broad intention and then the government will give them the go ahead and then sometime next year, the minister will have to come back to the Justice Committee with some sort of proposal and they'll go through an examination. So we're talking with something that's still a long way off and I think all of the legal issues about why this technology is deemed to be controversial, that it's too inaccurate, it's too unreliable will still be there. So obviously the timing of this this week is that the government wants to indicate that it's taking measures to respond to what's a very serious situation, but I think that we're still a long way from having the debate around facial recognition technology before the Iraqis. And I wouldn't be so sure that this is likely to see the light update before the next election. I mean, from what I saw of the coverage at the weekend, the majority of people had their faces covered and they had their hoods down. And then I wonder if this might discourage people to legitimately process protest, however you might describe that. So it's mass monitoring, right? So say for instance, there was a 30 odd thousand people in Donegal marched on the defective concrete blocks issue. Would that discourage 10% of them who don't want to necessarily be marked as a protester or that it could in some way, infringe on a decision made about them into the future? You know what I mean? I think those are genuine concerns that at least need to be addressed by the powers that be. Yeah, I mean, I think you're spot on Greg. I mean, I think there's two real arguments against police use of facial recognition technology in public spaces like this. One is that if you have a situation where everybody has been filmed, being matched against databases, that it's a chilling effect on innocent people taking part in public events and strikes and protests and so on. And even just going about their daily business, the sense that you're being surveilled and observed and tracked in your movements does change your relationship with the state. The other reason though, is that the technology doesn't work. And there are serious concerns emerging from the United States and elsewhere that it's too inaccurate and that it's not just glitches in the particular programs, that it's a structural problem in the technology that can't be easily fixed. So even where you have facial recognition systems with large databases, it's shown that they don't perform as well in matching women as they do in matching men and they don't perform well at all in dealing with people of different skin color. Is that the racial bias that people talk of? Yeah, it's a racial bias, but it's not just, I think initially it was understood that this was because the technology was initially trained on disproportionately white faces. So it wasn't as accurate with people from other minorities. But now I think computer scientists in London and elsewhere are saying that actually the technology itself struggles to observe and match people with darker skin pigments than people with lighter skin pigments. It's a structural flaw in the technology itself which won't be easily fixed. So it leads to miscarriages of justice, but it also means that it's very useless in terms of monitoring large crowds. And as you say, try to link this discussion of facial recognition technology to what happened last week. What happened last week happened on the dark November night. The CCTV cameras in some cases were turned off or were damaged. There was smoke, there was fireworks in the air and most of the participants involved in the violence were covering their faces. So I think we need to be having a conversation of what happened last week and all of the various serious complex issues about police resources, training, and so on. What do you see? This is a distraction. Yeah, and that's the thing. And I'm gonna bring Christy Galligan now in a second, but that's the thing you see. If there were more guards, say instead of 400, there were 1200 guards on the streets, they would be able to apprehend people involved in poor activity at that time. But we could sort of say, well, really if we had facial recognition technology that would help. It wouldn't because you would, as you say, you can't see them. So it does feel like a bit of a distraction rather than talking about guarded numbers. Christy Galligan, former Guard of Sergeant, good morning to you. You're in favor of facial recognition technology. Well, I see the F.R.T. is just another tool that can be used by the Guard in its arsenal of crime prevention and detection. It's purposeful under the legislation. And that legislation is quite a way away, as Liam alluded to it, was for serious crimes like rape and child abuse. But now retrospectively includes violence disorder, like what we saw last Thursday. And it is a retrospective tool for the Guardie and it will be used to parse the information they have instead of having to sit and look at the word thousands of hours of CCTV phone. It's on its own, is not going to solve crime. Let's put that in here. Yeah, but we have to be very careful because there are many other aspects of crime detection. Of course there are. Guardie will monitor CCTV and phones and there will be eyewitness accounts, there will be DNA, forensic, all of that. That's all part of it. And a court, like let's put it, we go to the court and the judge in a jury or a judge on its own will make a decision whether or not that evidence beyond a reasonable doubt is sufficient to warrant a conviction. Nothing about the F or T. And I think there's a lot of scare among there, but F or T. I remember I read an article in relation to the European Environmental Research Service that did one on the regulating facial recognition and it was done in 2021. And one of the things they did say, while there was concerns over the respect for fundamental rights, especially data protection discrimination, however, the benefits brought by such technology that can actually improve security through more accurate authentication and heightened security are undeniable. But there is an issue and no one's going to deny the technology is only as good as the algorithm put into it and we need to get rid of the biases within the system itself. My biggest concern. So how do you see it being employed then? Okay, so let's just say, for example, it were in place on Thursday because this has been the catalyst for expediting the whole thing. How do you believe facial recognition technology would have improved policing or the response to those rights on Thursday? Because we can't say, well, maybe it didn't on Thursday because this is being used as the catalyst to speed things up. So how, from a police perspective, do you believe it would have improved the situation on Thursday? I mean, the issue in relation to the information, I mean, to pass the information, which I already said that instead of looking at thousands of hours, it takes up a lot of thousands of hours of man hours, Guardi, that should be on the street and be sitting behind a computer or computers, looking at iPhone or technology like that. And so by passing the information after the fact, I would never be used in a lay context. That's wrong. It's never going to be used by a HEC and it'll be overseen by a HEC or judge where permission for its use will be required. It's not just willy-nilly-nilly-nobby or full-time. Do you not feel that it's gonna mean that it's up to an individual, say it were I, that I have to disprove that that's not me? Because it's almost like that. We have FTR, we have FTR on number plates. I've got random, I've got a random fine from not go safe, the motor wave cameras, whatever they're called again, e-flow. And it taught me three days to disprove that it wasn't me, that someone had screwed on number plates on a different, I had to prove that. Again, I just don't think FTR technology on its own will prove a case, will ever prove a case or will ever prove anything on its own. There are other aspects of guard investigation, as I said before, in relation to forensics, eyewitness testimony, fingerprinting and all of that, DNA, the load samples, you name it, they will have that as part of their practice. I'm not a former guard, I'm not a former guard. But if I've got DNA, eyewitnesses, evidence and all this kind of stuff, and then a randomized computer opinion, not randomized sorry, but a computer's opinion that that's my face, I actually don't, where does that, in the evidence chain, that seems almost irrelevant if you've got all the other stuff that you're talking of. Absolutely, and as I said, it's only another two on the arsenal of the guard as you commented, the dirtier question. But you have not convinced me yet. As I said before. You haven't, this, I'm coming in this to be honest with you, whereas I have my concerns about mass of watching of people, whatever the bloody hell the word's called, surveillance, that's it, you're, as a former guard, you're not convincing me at all of the actual policing benefit of this. Well, I mean, I find safe, safe to do it in the arm. Interesting. It'll speed up the process of information along with other identifying features and process. That's nothing more than a tool for the guard to search more effectively. It allows them to start separate out images, but they must be satisfied for core purposes beyond a reasonable doubt. You know, it's only an extra tool in the arsenal of the guard as you can. I mean, if we're, I mean, no one wants to see another violent, public disorder, we saw last morning. None of us want to see that. And no one wants to see anybody taking advantage of as terrible, terrible incident like that stabbing that happened. No one else wants to see that. I'm sure Liam and everybody will agree with me. No one else wants to see that. But with respect, with respect, I don't believe, I can't say just in this moment as horrific that crime is, how facial recognition technology provides. Oh, no, but I mean, I'm saying people took advantage of that and large groups of people came out onto the street. Yes, some people had covered their faces and there is a different inherent difficulty where people cover their faces of trying to identify. And that's part and parcel, unfortunately, of what we see today. Liam, have you done a 180 in your views now? No, I mean, I looked at the European Parliamentary Research Service, sorry, their report. And they're saying that the EU approach to biometrics and particularly facial recognition would rest on a more or less strict legal regime. The EU approach appears to complement the already applicable strict data protection and non-discrimination rules with a new layer of rules governing the placing on the market of facial recognition technology. So the EU haven't discounted it. OK. But they haven't agreed on its use. Right. I mean, the European Union will be introducing the Artificial Intelligence Act sometime early next year. That will restrict the use of facial recognition technology. It may ban its use in policing completely or it may restrict it. We don't know exactly yet. So the Irish government can talk whatever it wants about facial recognition technology at this stage, but it can't determine what will be permissible under European law or not. I suppose the really interesting question here, Greg, is why are we discussing facial recognition technology this week when we probably all agree it's not really that significant an issue with regard to what happened last week. And the reason we're doing that is because the Minister for Justice issued a press release on Saturday night that our first response to what happened last week was going to be changes to the law she published sometime next year. And again, today we're discussing what package of measures the minister wants to bring to cabinet, and this is in there. But the real questions, I think, that need to be looked at are the training of guards because the GRA came out and said their members are adequately trained, that they're not clear on the law about how they can use force or not. We have questions about the management and the deployment of resources, especially in a crisis and the ability to respond when a situation gets worse. And we have the issue of intelligence about far right extremist groups that have been organising violent events in Dublin for the last year and haven't been dealt with effectively. So ironically, ironically, the greatest- The real issues, I would say. Yeah, ironically, the greatest video footage that the Guardi actually have to tackle Thursday, citizen journalists who put the camera in all the faces of the people that were involved or many of the people involved in this. Last word to you then, Christy. Now, we've invited you on to discuss this as a former Guard, but would you then agree with Liam that the more pressing issues are the number of Guardi, the training of Guardi, clear guidance of the use of force? Absolutely, and I've said it time and time again, there's 138 Guard servers signed so far this year, 100 suspended Guardi who are on public audience here in Donegal, put on stand by several hours after the incident happened in Dublin. Too late. The intelligence service, I think we should need a separate intelligence service in this country to look at extremism, far right, far left, totally separate from in Guardi Yukana. I've always advocated that all through my career. I might have got a fair kick in the backside for it, but I always believed in it. And what we should be doing is focus on social media companies whose products and platforms allow extremists to connect, which in turn is allowing them to spread hate content. That's what we should be focusing on as well. I think that's very important. And the guidelines, they're not following the guidelines, allowing far right extremists to amplify those misleading or false. We can have probably another full conversation on that because no surprise that's also in the headlines right at the moment because that's seen as the big problem. All right, thanks very much, Christy. Christy Galligan there. Also, Liam, thanks so much for your time. It's always good to have you on the show. Take care of yourself. Thanks, Greg. All right, bye-bye. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be back with a comment from Sinead after these. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. Employers, employees love getting benefits and rewards with CleverCards digital prepaid master cards. 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It's going to get cold tonight though and it's going to continue cold right through the weekend. Don't have time for a caller just before 10 so we'll come to our callers after 10. Where were the army last Thursday night? Well, the army can't be there to sort everything out and taking the army, there are issues people would have with that as well. Another caller says the government should look at what is the cause of public unrest instead of putting more restrictions on their rights and the issuing cameras to the guard. For example, the reluctance to condemn Israel for the killing of innocent people, also the murder of a young girl in broad daylight and the killer up for parole in 12 years. They should talk to ordinary people to get some common sense. Another from what I can see this right plays right in the government's hands and convincing people that this legislation is good. It's not, it's deceptive and it's diabolical. We all want criminals caught and prosecuted but not at the expense of our rights and freedoms. People are again being fooled into totalitarianism China looking very close to home right now, they say. Right, okay, that was a long debate. So we're going to take a break now for the news and obituary notices. We're back after 10 with the latest appeals and information from Monk Arashiyakana. The Ninetyl Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. How many life changing conversations have you had? For the past 35 years, hidden hearings expert audiologists have been having these conversations every day. They know how to listen and they had the experience to recommend life changing hearing solutions and it's never a one size fits all approach. Fancy a life changing conversation? Well, they're all ears. To book an appointment for a free hearing consultation today, visit hiddenhearing.ie. 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But the fact is that the fishing community has been neglected and especially Al-Chaharan. A 45 year old man has been charged to appear before Oma Magistrates Court today in relation to an incident that occurred in St-Ban. He has been charged with the offence of grievous bodily harm with intent. The assault reported to have occurred in St-Ban at around 10-6 on Sunday evening last in the St Coleman's Drive area of the town. The charge will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service. There are calls for a dedicated leave to be brought in for women and couples who are undergoing fertility treatment or a miscarriage. The proposals by the Labour Party to be discussed in the shanad tomorrow. The party says couples are forced to use annual leave if they're affected by an early miscarriage or are undergoing reproductive treatment. Labour spokesperson for workers writes Senator Marie Sherlock says dedicated leave is needed. I suppose anybody who's gone through early miscarriage right up to that point knows the enormous distress that they experience when something like that happens. I suppose the other situation of course is fertility leave and we know that one in six couples in this country experience in fertility and there are thousands of people every day going through fertility treatments. Barry Cohen is to run for the European Parliament. He's issued a statement confirming he will be putting his name forward for selection as a candidate. He says now is the right time for him to try and deliver for his Midlands North West constituency at a European level. The Justice Minister says she doesn't want Gardie operating with one eye over their shoulder. Helen McEntee has asked the policing authority to review how much force Gardie can use when dealing with serious public order incidents following last week's riots in Dublin. 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Funeral leaving there on Thursday at quarter past 10 going to the church of the Sacred Heart Cairn Dona Rayquiem Mass at 11 a.m. with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral Mass can be viewed live on churchmedia.tv. The death has occurred of Moya Kirkpatrick, Nea O'Donnell, Wara Veg Dominic, Mahara Boy Road, Carrick Macross County Monaghan and Middletown Guidoa County Dona Gall. Reposing at Derry's funeral home, Carrick Macross this afternoon from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Removal tomorrow morning from her residence on foot via the bridge to St Joseph's Church Carrick Macross arriving for Rayquiem Mass at 11 a.m. burial afterwards in St Joseph's cemetery, Carrick Macross house private please. Family flowers only. Donations in lieu of flowers to Carrick Cancer. Directly online or via the donation bar care of Derry's funeral directors Carrick Macross. Moya's Rayquiem Mass can be viewed via St Joseph's webcam facilities. The death has occurred of Paddy McKinney, Graphite Castle Finn. Reposing at the home of his son and daughter-in-law Noel and Julie McKinney Graphite Castle Finn. Funeral from there tomorrow at 11 p.m. for Rayquiem Mass at 12 noon in St Columbus Church, Donnie Loop, interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. The death has occurred of Eileen Gallagher Neema Glinchie, Donnie Gaul Road, Ballet Buffet. Remains are opposing Adelaide residence. Funeral leaving from there tomorrow at half past 10 for Rayquiem Mass at 11 a.m. in the Church of Mary Immaculate St. Orler, interment in Old Cemetery. Rayquiem Mass will be streamed live via churchservices.tv. Family time from 10 p.m. and before the funeral tomorrow. The death has taken place in Hollingburn Kent, England of Bridget McClune, New Walsh, formerly of Derry Rush Ross Muck Connemara County, Galway, resided in Catford, London and surrounding areas for over 50 years. 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But first, did you hate speech laws coupled with the proposed facial recognition technology and the proposed programmable digital currency are all steps in the erosion of citizens civil rights, particularly the right to protest. There are key steps towards the Chinese social credit score system, which suits governments to control citizens and how they should be injected to by the population. I wouldn't go all the way down that road with you, but I appreciate your comment. How can you argue for technology that is not accurate? Imagine how inaccurate for it would influence the course of an investigation. That's coming from Martin there. Good morning, Greg. Again, no word about the migrant who stabbed the kids are about immigration. Um, this is not we were talking about facial recognition technology, which we've talked about the child and it's care who was still in a very serious condition in hospital and the peace been here. I'm not going to split hairs with you, but he's not a migrant as such. He was a migrant. He's now a I think I misspoke on Friday and referred to him as an Irish national when obviously I meant Irish citizens who apologies for that. But anyway, cameras that only pick out the Irish not people of color is the answer. The guards battered people on Thursday on saying they don't know what the laws are. Will there be claims for the people who were battered? Well, that's why Gardie are reluctant to batter to use force with people for fear of action being taken against them. I absolutely hate reality TV refused to watch it now. Imagine living your life as an episode of Big Brother everywhere you go, everything you do, everything you buy, we are already partway there with our online banking and push for castle society with the complete loss of freedoms, but sadly the younger generation do not exactly realize what's at stake, which is a fair comment, perhaps this didn't work in Britain. This is to do with controlling and tracking people. It didn't stop any attacks or improve safety, but if you can scare people, you can control them. My deceased dad used to say idle hands make work for the devil. Why doesn't the government open free sports centers or other past times with an education element to improve safety and safety? Well, I don't think it's going to work. I think it's going to work instead of facial recognition technology and other seems if you speak out or go on a peaceful protest, we're all going to be called far right. And on it goes. Thanks for all of these comments coming in. By the way, I hate cars beeping because they're not happy with the driver in front or beeping when they see friends. I hate hate hate it. You see that in the way and you don't know that in this game, you're right, it's a long long break away from everything to recharge and come back refreshed. I believe all sports are a great great way for young people to express themselves wherever that is the game should be based on quality, not quantity with acts of sports. Personship at its core value. Thank you, right? Okay, let me see. and it affected him or her, I certainly wouldn't be happy. Doubtive Amon McGee would. There's a balance though, to be struck of course, and you have to trust the players to make their own decisions, don't you rather than try and legislate for their private lives. Maybe one rule they want to bring in drug testing in GEA like other sports might get a big shock sadly. Back to courtesy on the roads here. Hi Greg, re-courtesy on the roads. Can you imagine how people here would get on if the same laws applied in towns and villages as they do in Germany where cars coming out from a side road have the right of way, do they? Okay. Greg, yes it is Jersey. I've driven all through the We Island and that's the system. Everyone has to let at least one other driver out coming in from Mary. Thank you, Mary. I really appreciate that. I just had it in the back of my head and it popped forward and you've confirmed what I had read previously. I always let cars out and pull into let traffic past and the only people that will give you a wave or a flash to the indicators are Northern Ireland drivers and this is coming from a Donagall man. All right, okay. Those children's stats are so terrifying. What are the Guardi, Tusla and Irish society doing to reduce them? I agree with you. We should all be doing so much more. It's live right now 120,000 calls in a year from children who are facing the most awful of situations and it's been happening historically and it's happening as we speak. On sports commentary, this caller says, good morning, Greg. Forget about VAR. It's female commentators that put me off. They just haven't got it. They're having a clue they try but that's it. Do you agree or disagree? I mean, it's not a comment on gender here as such but I think I think what listeners or viewers prefer, perhaps maybe, if the person has played the sport, for an example, like women footballers commenting on the men's football game. Are you okay with that? Do you enjoy it? I have no problem with it. To be honest, to say for instance, I don't want to watch Premiership but say for instance with the Women's World Cup, the Women's European Championships. I didn't really notice whether or not it was a fellow or a woman the same with boxing. If there's a female boxer, often they have a female co-commentator. It doesn't bother me at all but it seems to me I've read that people watching, it seems particularly football, don't seem to like a woman commenting on the main male game. I'm not saying that's the case with me because I don't watch enough of it really to care. I watch a fair bit but I don't really pay much attention to the commentary and I certainly don't watch the analysis. 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Call today and get your zero-wire alarm system from 299 euro. Sheridan Security, 9126025. Okay, you're welcome back to the program. It's 22 minutes past 10 on this Tuesday, the 28th of November. It's time for community guarder information and we're joined in studio now by guarder Granja Daherty from the Letter Kenny Guarder Station. Thanks so much for calling up to us, Granja. Thanks for having me, Graeme. No, it's good to have you up now. Let's get straight into the appeals and we'll begin. Will we with a burglary in Letter Kenny? Yes, this burglary happened in Parkview Drive in the area of Gartley, Letter Kenny. Happened between the 3 p.m. on Saturday, the 25th of November and 6.30 p.m. on Sunday, the 26th of November. A window to the rear of the property was smashed, entry was gained to the house and a number of items were taken, mobile phone and a number of packets of cigarettes were stolen also. We're appealing to anybody like who may have observed any suspicious activity in that area, the area of Parkview Drive, to contact Gartley in Letter Kenny on 9.167.100. The Guarder confidential line is always for all of our appeals may be reached on 1800.666.111. Now, appeal also now in relation to criminal damage in Newton Cunningham. Yes, this happened in the area of Mon Fad in Newton Cunningham in the early hours of Tuesday, the 21st of November and around 3 a.m. to 3.05 a.m. So a resident in that area, they were in their bed, they heard their dogs barking, they then heard footsteps on the gravel outside and then they heard a quite a loud bang. So upon a further investigation, they went down, they discovered that one of the front tires of their van had been slashed. They checked around the property, nothing appeared to have been stolen from the property. So we're appealing to anybody who may have traveled in that area in the early hours of last Tuesday morning around that time. So between 3 and 3.05 a.m. to make contact with Gartley, if they observed any suspicious activity, vehicles in the area or people on foot in the area, maybe there might have been a taxi driver. So I suppose that's really the usual traffic that would be out at that hour of the morning, and they usually would have a dashcam. So if anybody like that was in the area with a dashcam, we would ask them to contact us in Nettor Kenny on 9-1-6-7-1-100. All right, an unusual theft now from just outside Lahi. Yeah, so this is an in-dispension, that's the make of this. It's a tri-axle tilt bed car transporter. It was stolen from Dramanis Glee in Lahi. So it was parked up in a yard just along the N-15. It was stolen between 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 23rd of November, and 10 a.m. on Saturday, the 25th of November. We have a picture up off this transporter on our Garda Shea Khan Adonigal Facebook page for people to see there. The word indispension.com, that's to be seen clearly across the rear tailboard off the trailer. So we're just asking, look if anybody has any relevant information in relation to the theft of the trailer or in relation to its current location, we're asking them to contact Gartley in Valley Shannon on 0-7-1-985-8530. And as always, the Garda confidential line either, maybe used. Yeah, of course. Now, Gardi, in a show investigating instance in a car park there at St. Mary's. Yeah, so somebody parked their car up in St. Mary's car park in Bunkran. It was a quite a short time period this one. So between 1.20 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 23rd of November, the car was parked up, and during that short time frame, the Vauxhall logo was stolen, removed from the grill, forcibly removed. Damage was caused to the grill if the car then is a result. So we're just asking if anybody was in that area, if they've seen anything that made assist with this investigation, we're asking them to contact Gardi in Bunkran on 9320540. Yeah, if you saw it, you'd remember it, I'd imagine, someone at that activity. Right, real traffic collision being investigated now in Newtown Conningham. Yeah, this collision happened in the townland of Tony Habock in Newtown Conningham. This happened on Wednesday the 22nd of November in around 5.20 p.m. So a driver, they had been driving from Derry, actually, they were traveling along the R237, and they came to a stop upon reaching the junction, they were going to enter on to the N13. A car which has been described as being blue in colour and possibly a Volkswagen collided with the rear of their car as they had come to a stop. The driver then, of this blue Volkswagen that didn't remain at the scene, they travelled onwards onto the N13, turned right, headed on in the direction of Burt Bridge End. So we're appealing to anybody who may have travelled on the N13 between Bridge End and Newtown Conningham on that date, between 5.15 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. who had a dash cam in particular were appealing to those motorists to make that footage available to Gardi and Netter Kenny. All right, a couple of theft from vehicles in the Ballet Buffet area now. Yeah, so this, a couple of the recent tests, these occurred very neighbouring townlands, actually Glencovet and Nock and Ballet Buffet. So a van was parked at an address in Glencovet. It was broken into between 4 p.m. on Sunday, past there, the 26th of November and 6.30 a.m. on Monday, the 27th. Entry was gained to this van, no damage was caused to the van. A number of tools were stolen from the van, namely a Milwaukee battery grease gun, a Milwaukee cordless drill, a Milwaukee half inch rattle gun, a tool bag containing sockets, two backhoe socket sets and then there was this very, very distinctive and unique Zebra industrial tablet, industrial style tablet. It had a hard case and this tablet in particular should stand out. You know, if anybody's offered it for sale or if they come across it, you know, for sale in a second hand. It sounds like someone's ability to make a living there was taken from them, at least in the short term. Of course, yeah. Yeah, a lot of their work here was stolen from them. I believe there was another few items, well smaller items of tools stolen. The van was cleared out, you know, and that's devastating. Of course somebody's out there trying to make a living using these tools and it's a devastating thing to wake up to find that your livelihood's been impacted so badly, you know. Another breaking as well. So this town and these two areas are very close together, Nock-Ballé-Bouffet. So a car was parked up at a house at Nock-Ballé-Bouffet. It was also broken into between the same dates, between 9 p.m. and Sunday the 26th of November and 7 a.m. on Monday the 27th of November. This car was unlocked and entry was gained to it. A beige MK purse containing bank cards and cash were stolen from the car. We're appealing this morning really to residents in Glencovet and Ballé-Bouffet. I have there a Nock-Ballé-Bouffet, I should have said, to check around their property. You know, check garden chairs, maybe you have a vehicle parked up that you haven't been in or you haven't used in a few days. Check it, just make sure that nothing was stolen from it. Go out and check your garden shed. If it was left unlocked, quite expensive items are kept as you know in sheds, you know, and just check around your property to see was anything stolen from your property and please alert Gardie immediately if you do discover that something was taken because obviously there was some sort of activity going on overnight that night in that area and opportunist thieves may have been presumed to have, they possibly could have been used to say no. I would imagine they didn't just go to these two properties and strike it lucky and also I'd say they tried numerous properties. We're asking everybody please check around your own property and ensure that nothing was stolen and let us know if it was. And if anybody observed any suspicious activity and these areas overnight on Sunday night and to Monday morning please contact us on that or Kenny on nine one six seven one hundred and of course it goes without saying if anybody is offered any of these tools for sale or that zebra industrial style tablet please contact us also and the guard a confidential line may be contacted again on eighteen hundred six six six one one one. And it's important for people to know that and we've had updates in the past that any information is very very useful because obviously the way it works and that you know an investigation is ongoing maybe someone's arrest and charge we don't always get updates on it but these aren't just appeals that are chucked out there and then lie idly as such I mean they're all part of an ongoing investigation with a lot of success in many of these cases as well. Of course and somebody in that area may have seen something thought nothing of it at the time still maybe this morning they're listening to this they're still thinking nothing of it but they thought it might have been a bit odd just let us know you know it could be something that could be massive you know it could be a massive part that we need to put the pieces together as part of this investigation or even if you observed a car that you didn't see in the area before even you caught the first few digits of the registration number of color of the car just let us know any wee piece of information to us can prove to be invaluable yet for sure all right let's talk a little bit about operation Thor yeah operation Thor so this was established eight years ago to target burglars so the winter phase has been underway since October 1st and this year we're hoping to continue to reduce the number of burglaries taking place including those in people's homes so as part of operation Thor checkpoints and patrols take place throughout the winter they're during the day and all throughout the night intelligence is gathered in relation to known offenders and we're regularly issuing crime prevention advice you know Sergeant Wallace there and ourselves in the community policing unit we call out to groups we issue crime prevention advice and of course here on the radio and on our social media um so we're we're um asking the community really to help us you know help us target these burglars by following a few simple steps to protect their home over the winter months because this is a time when burglaries tend to raise you know the rates of burglaries go up in the winter time unfortunately so our advice is please turn on some lights and the LED bulbs can be more energy efficient you know the times that are on it we're all trying to save money so the LED bulbs may be more energy efficient use timer switches motion detectors lock your doors and windows um i think we're all guilty of that at times we're not going up next door you know and we think we think we'll be back in a few minutes or what's going to happen you know and these people they're in and out they're in and out and they can be in and out in two minutes they're gone they lift cash something handy just they're gone you know use a house alarm store keys away from windows don't keep large amounts of cash or jewellery in the house now and of course look if somebody has a large amount of jewellery you know just get a safe get a good safe invest in a safe make sure that it's well secured to a wall and it's also good to log all of that stuff as well isn't it take pictures of it for in case god forbid you are broken into because often you find when people have been the victim of that type of crime it can be a couple of weeks later before they realize a particular item's also missing as well so you don't want to prepare for a robbery but it's good i think to have a visual representation of your valuable goods it is photograph them you know and items take down jot down model numbers i me a numbers of phones things like that and there is a property app that was developed and it's available on that it's a garter property app on the play store there and even look if you're not tech savvy and you don't know how to download this app take note of it in your own house take photos of expensive items maybe on the back of the photo jot down the model number of the item you know but keep a record because it can be very useful to us also should the worst happen and your items are stolen but often a lot of this stuff turns up then you see be pushbikes or what have you you know the guards do and it kind of turn up down the country as well they do end up you know cracking a case or whatever and and finding stolen items and then the struggle is getting them back to the rightful owners of course you talked about how sometimes we neglect to lock our houses windows and doors i think we're probably more guilty of uh houses and sheds not being secured or not being monitored yeah and i think this was mentioned last week you know in relation to sheds you know that it's equally as important to lock your shed because even what the expense of items in your shed you know ride on moors part tools whatever you store in your shed but besides that you know somebody can gain entry to your shed if your sheds left unlocked they have ladders they've all sorts of tools that can enable them then to gain access into your home you know so please lock your shed lock up your shed lock up your car if your car is parked in your driveway the same thing look if it's parked down the town it's the same advice applies don't keep large amounts of cash or valuables and i'd lock it up ensure it's secure bleep it there and give it a lock up before you go to bed and the same make sure your shed's locked before you go to bed don't keep large amounts of cash or jewelry in the house we've mentioned that one and um i think it's just important to be vigilant you know in your neighborhood to watch out for neighbors especially if you have any neighbors who are in the elderly are vulnerable and you're aware that they're living on their own alone just keep an eye out for them you know and back in the olden days i think maybe people were a lot better at this and now maybe because people people have a fear of being viewed as being nosy and also watching their neighbors the truth is is and i heard um superintendent kelly yeah reference this is i think we're actually more inclined now you talked about the as a part of operation thought daytime nighttime checkpoints and when people always think it's trying to do someone for a month out of date tax or whatever it might be but a lot of those are for operational purposes as part of operations though and i think rather than actually keeping an eye out for suspicious vehicles many people now are more inclined to warn people of where the guardian you know we've really shifted here in from from keeping an eye out to sort of try and evade or to disrupt the work of the police and i get that and i think sometimes people don't maybe perhaps realize that's what they're doing well i think people maybe think they're doing a good turn for their neighbors and friends and they're trying to save them a few bob in case they get a fine you know and i suppose like that's human nature and why that's not right um i think sometimes people don't realize that as you said a lot of these checkpoints are for crime prevention purposes you know for intelligence gathering you know for for reasons like that and we always hear stolen property or materials in the car that might be used for breaking an entry or drugs in a vehicle i mean often they are picked up on these random checkpoints that they are there of course yeah yeah and as well as that um you know you know by posting on social media and you do often see that you know checkpoint at whatever location and they're warning their friends and whoever their facebook friends are and they can be doing a lot more harm than good you know and the reason for these checkpoints is just not always sometimes it is to check your tax and insurance of course but as you said sometimes as part of operation through these checkpoints are for intelligence gathering purposes you know who's in the car who's traveling with them you know maybe a search of the car could be conducted and by warning people at these checkpoints are taking place you are really doing a lot of harm to your local community you know check my link is a new facility it's out there now i actually think this is more important in making people think about links rather than actually checking them because really if the truth be told unless it's like highlandradio.com or rt.e it says be careful here potentially you know what i mean so i think it's it's it's it's greatest function is to get us to think about checking links rather than necessarily the information it might provide that's not to do with a disservice or whatever but anyway it's there it's free give us a bit more info yeah i think now coming up to christmas too i don't know what but you do you do any online shopping but i know i'm a devil for it i'm steady online shopping as it's you were actually telling me before we we came on out that you have everything done for christmas all your shopping have all my shopping done christmas decorations up i don't know no no no i don't i didn't go that far yet the first to december i draw the lane now before december doesn't have you seem a traditionalist we don't wait to the eighth well i might i just might wait till it that gives me more time to relax again but i think i think it's i think i do the majority of my shopping in person but i always find this stuff i want that i can't necessarily get locally so it's a blend so do do some online shopping well thank you there's just so many there's so many new websites popping up now they seem to be offering too good to be true days you know online and we've all seen them online and it's very tempting when people are one times you're tight for people and they're trying to save everywhere they can you know and it is tempting times it's a mixture of either a scam or crap quality stuff a lot of these are drop drop shop type of outlets you'll see the links on twitter and facebook and elsewhere where it the item is like you know an electric bike for 59.99 or something stupid like that there you'll get something for your money and they won't necessarily clean out your account but you have to be careful of the quality of the stuff that you're purchasing as well as giving your details to an organization you can't trust yeah well look that this i went on to this other evening to check it out actually i put in five or six different websites just to check did you try it out as well i know i went through my sms's you know and all of the spam messages yeah to check them out as if i needed to paste in on dot past dot robbery dot you're done dot com i think i still checked it they were all legitimate sites i was checking to you know when i should have been putting up my tree probably but anyway this um so this look this is a free online service it's designed to prevent shoppers from being scammed so it's check my link this is a security tool it was built by monster technological university cyber skills in collaboration with scam advisor and garda shea kana and other partners so shoppers are being advised to be vigilant while shopping online in the run up to christmas and always not just in the run up to christmas so this service is easy to use it'll help you determine whether a website is likely to be legitimate or a scam so it's just useful to have a way to check that this website that you're buying from is authentic and then it's not infected with malware you simply type in the address of the website that you want to check and your results will appear within seconds so the site can be accessed at www.checkmylink.ie yep so it's kind of trustworthy dubious don't go there but it makes you think and that's why i think it's useful talking about being safe and being seen and this is not to in any way attribute blame or to call people out but i was driving to work this morning pitch black um and and the school bus runs had started and a school bus pulled into the left hazard lights on and then two or three young ones ran from the far side of the road uh in all black um and there was oncoming cars and lights and they were invisible grindy they were literally invisible and i just thought if someone could have been impatient and saw that the traffic lights hadn't gone around you know not thinking that kids will cross the bus to the other cross the other side of the road you know what i mean yeah and it just put me in mind of hi vis or something along those lines would have been really useful there but that's just one example of one thing i saw today and it makes you think oh you know no one done anything harm and didn't think but it really uh appeared really quite dangerous to me but you have an appeal now for pedestrian cyclists general road users as well grania aduin actually was traveling home from work myself this night and through the town and a man crossed from a shop an elderly man he was crossing over to the other side and as you said just totally black clothes and that was within the town it was well lit i had still had trouble seeing him to be honest now so if that had been out in a country road you can imagine you definitely wouldn't have had a clue that person was there so we're just continuing to urge all pedestrian cyclists to ensure that they can be seen clearly when you're out in the road remember when you're out walking cycling or running that you can see the traffic the traffic you know the cars are well lit up but the driver might not always see you put on a high vis or some high visibility armbands you know carry a torch with you maybe it makes all the difference you know even something so simple as our most people have a torch in their pocket now they do they do yeah yeah the phone the phone has a torch but even times you would see school children there in the mate of a reflective i know the rsa do them you know the we reflect of teddy bear or even something like that hanging from their bag you can catch the glimpse but you still see it so something even so small makes a big difference so and cyclists please make sure that your basic lights are working before going for a cycle there was a problem there for a while i know and people were having trouble accessing or getting their hands on high vis gear and so we've managed to get a few box loads of high vis vests for adults and children and their atlet or kenny station so if anybody wants to call in they're more than welcome to call in to collect them all right brilliant stuff granny as always thank you so very much indeed that's granja daherty there 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yourself too will be maybe aware that maybe you're not i'm not sure but roughly about two weeks ago there was a bill bought in through the doll which passed by passed by over maybe over a hundred votes hundreds in favor maybe ten ten against sort of the thing in relation to pro-life protests now basically what it is it's called a safe access zone bill so basically what it is it's the plan with this bill is to criminalize any pro-life protest taking place within a hundred meters of any facility that carries out abortions you know now i'm talking about i'm not i'm talking about peaceful protest within the law now before when this was at a raptor's stage um the garden commissioner drew harris was asked for his you know expertise in the area with police and basically what he had said was if if any public order offenses took place out for any of these you know facilities that exist in public order legislation is sufficient to deal with any issues that may arise now so my issue would be like to date my own knowledge i haven't heard of any issues arising and i've definitely heard of none going through the courts because i mean it would have received quite a lot of media attention you know so my point is this sort of bill is very discriminatory because it criminalizes pro-life protesters who are peaceful protesters i mean they're not they're active within the law so amen when when when you protest outside uh one of these facilities what is the aim of what's the aim of of of the protest because whether people like it or not a vote was taken and and and people were given the right to this uh type of health care and inverted commerce now put it in inverted commerce because some would say well it's not health care and i don't want to get it i don't want to i don't want to i know but i don't with that says that has been well discussed in advance of it but anyway i know what you're saying what would the function of protesting directly outside one of these facilities be what's the the aim what what would one hope to achieve yes the one the function is i mean within law everybody has a right to peaceful assembly peaceful protest yeah no matter what the issue is you know but my point is this criminalizes only one somebody protesting on a certain issue like just just give you an example like topically at the minute now i'm not i'm not taking sides in this and it's just to compare like for like there's a lot of protests at the minute and protesting against israel and and you know and because pro-palestinian you know support there's nothing wrong with that and that's everybody's right but i mean we don't i mean i wouldn't like i think everybody no matter what the issue is should have the rights of peaceful protest i i i can't see that but but i want to understand i get you but i have to understand it because you see for someone who i presume it's a very difficult decision to make they've made that decision and i'm sure too for the medical professionals um you know they feel that they have to do this some don't it's there anyway but what i'm trying to ascertain is is what is the function of a protest directly outside a facility that facilitates abortion yes well the first of all um i mean as i said before everybody has the right to peaceful no i get that and i i get that i understand that yeah but like generally anybody i mean if you're protesting on any issue generally speaking i know i'm generalizing but the process generally takes place outside the building that you have the issue of concern with or like like you know the facility like say for example um there's a strike with say nurses right they'll be on strike or even if they're maybe not on strike but even protesters generally speaking outside their place of work yeah do you know what i mean so abortions take place like in medical centers and sometimes in hospitals so i mean that's the same concept you know like i was hoping earlier on but would it not make more sense aim would it not more make more sense and you could say this of a lot of protests that the decision that the firstly the person going in there you don't know their circumstances you don't know it could end up being could end up being your niece or something yet we simply don't know right that the decisions are made in the door and surely that's the place where legislation is is debated and written to protest why why upset someone who's probably already gone or perhaps was the victim of a sexual assault for an example and i hate using extreme examples or i don't think that further's any argument but this is it's a probability right what is the what i don't understand the function of putting them through seeing that when really the people that are making the decision are sitting in doblin yes well you think the thing is great i mean if you if you believe as i keep i know i would say it's okay i might get you believe in a peaceful protest i mean this is all within law like and the guarder commissioner was asked and his expertise was of existing laws will deal with any you know issues that are right and no issues to my knowledge have arrived because i haven't heard anything you know being reported in the media but like right i mean we could turn that around you could say like why at the minute there's a lot of protest as i said you know pro-palestinian process understand that they protest outside you know they protest outside like push their part but you're protesting an individual you're in court you're protesting an individual person's decision let me put it to you like this right so whilst okay i get you but say for instance there's something about you i didn't like amen right and i'm not saying there is uh and i decided to get no there is no there isn't there is name but i decided to get seven or eight people together okay and stand outside your house and it would be peaceful okay but you and and if you had a partner and children would have to come in and out of that house every day right and we'd be there with pack a placard that would offend you or your view or a decision you've made yes i would be peaceful in my actions okay but do i not have some responsibility for for the anxiety and stress i'd put you and your family and your children through it's something i would never ever want to do you know it's well the yes well the first point i'd like to make it with that break i mean i'm not sure if you would be aware generally speaking pro-light protest they're very small in nature anyway and they're very sporadic i mean there's very few of them that be indoni god but generally speaking just to give your viewers you know if they've never seen one before generally speaking they'd be mean there might be five or six people ten at the most yeah they might have a they might have a placard you know saying that they oppose abortion or whatever and generally speaking the people are praying the rosary that's generally what goes on they're not stopping anybody going into hell i know that but i mean you know the effect you know the effect that has on it has a person going a person going in there a person going in there it's designed to it is designed well whether it's designed to it's going to intimidate hurt hurt them it's going to make life difficult for staff potentially and you and i know a man with the best will in the world that protest is not going to change anything the only thing it's going to do is emotionally impact the people either a access in the services will be providing the services you know it's never going to stop it in the nature of the protest that you've described if you get where i'm coming from yes great but there's lots of protest that take place that's like first of all let's say anybody any pro-life person isn't going out deliberately to like um upset somebody do you know what i mean that's not their their aim but like there's lots of protest that upset people but i mean i would still say the person has the right to protest like just say for our arguments sake um like put your topic now i'm not getting into the rights and wrongs of it but just say there's a lot of protest now at places um refugee centres where people are actually living you were you mentioned about your protest now it's like somebody's house very you know but like these refugee centres are places where people live too you know well let's just say for example would that not speak to the people people have a difficulty with that there was a there was a candlelit vigil organised uh in memory of uh the awful stabbing incident uh in which a young girl remains critically injured and i care and we wish them a full and speedy recovery they had that protest outside a refugee centre in east wall in county dublin yes now it had nothing to do with the stabbing but my point is my point yes but aim at just one moment you know just let me finish the sentence the function of that only could have been to make those people in the detention centre many of them children feel uncomfortable and that's the point i'm trying to make like does it matter yes if you're a hundred meters away from the front door of a facility that provides a borsch like why do you have to be right outside it yeah but that doesn't apply to the but that's discriminatory because it doesn't apply to anybody else that's protesting on any other issue that's the point do you know what i mean it this is a law specifically for pro-life protest it doesn't i understand your point i do understand your point why this in particular but i mean i'm not saying i'm i'm just giving examples about israel and about like refugee centres i'm not saying the right or the wrong the point i'm trying to make is that these protests do take place outside where people might be emotionally affected by them too that's my point it's not that the right or wrong no i understand that i do understand that of course i do but you're you're uncomfortable with this this legislation anyway suffice to say i mean there's no other piece of legislation i mean as i said everybody has the right to peaceful protest but there's no other i genuinely can protest on that's going to have restrictions like this that's that's my point i mean the garden commissioner has said that there's no real need for us i mean and that is on record so and what i'm trying to get out no matter what your viewpoint on these protests are i mean surely it's discriminatory when you um say that a certain person hasn't hasn't got the right to protest no i take your point i i do take that that's the issue it's not the right or wrong of abortion or that that i'm getting at it's more about the protest the right to protest on it i understand okay you know well it's name and i hope you feel hurt uh you've uh yeah your views were hurt so thanks very much for your time and well thanks for referring um contact me to come on the show caroling contact me that's good well thanks for accepting that invite okay emina hara there if you 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good morning residents of knock and glen covet in ballet buffet are being urged to check their vehicles and sheds to ensure nothing has been stolen from them the appeal comes from gardy following two overnight thefts which seen one victim's livelihood taken those who also see power tools that match the description of those stolen are asked to contact gardy barry cohen is to run for the european parliament he's issued a statement confirming he'll be putting his name forward for the selection as candidate he says now is the right time for him to try and deliver for his midlands northwest constituency at a european level an investigation is ongoing following an act of criminal damage on a van parked outside a home in monfad newton conningham at around three a.m on tuesday last a resident was awoken by their dogs barking and then heard footsteps outside followed by a bang nothing was stolen gardy are repeating to anyone who may have traveled in the area around that time to make contact with any relevant information or dashcam footage the final working light has been broken at the main pier in burton port leaving the fishing community there working in the dark consular me he'll call on the gala asbug says once again the community has been neglected consular magilla asbug has requested to generator be put in place in the interim however that is yet to be implemented and finally a 45 year old man has been charged to appear before oma magistrate's court today in relation to an incident that occurred in stirban he's been charged with the offense of grievous bodily harm with intent the assault reported to have occurred in stirban at around 10 to 6 on sunday evening last in the st colman's drive area of the town that's all for now from hide and radio news we'll be back with more news headlines at 12 o'clock until then good morning thanks very much Donna Marie if you're not with you know energy chances are you're paying more than you need to for your electricity as ireland's 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by senator eileen flinn good morning senator good morning egg like thanks for having me on the show this morning no it's our pleasure it's an important issue too patrick a young traveler lost was shown on r g one last night you took part in the program and i have to say uh running through uh social media there seemed to be uh and given the subject matter it's an awkward way of phrasing it but a very positive response i think it opened people's eyes made people think uh talk to me a little bit about the program um the documentary was aimed to raise awareness on um traveler mental health and suicide and um this mental health um issues within uh our community and one in every eleven decades travel communities caused by suicide travelers a traveler women uh six times more likely to die by suicide than women in the general population and travel men seven times more likely to die by suicide than men in the general population and greg for years uh the national traveler mental health network and activists like myself has been raising um this national level our program of government in 2020 early that early february before they uh formed the government they promised a standalone uh travel mental health strategy they promised to invest in them in travel mental health and unfortunately i'm here in uh lentzler house for the last three years like a broken record um and there's still uh no implementation on a traveler pacific um mental health um equality if you want access to services uh that um ring uh around uh support for a travel community like any other community there's addiction there's um all sorts happening like poverty as well but in our community but most importantly racism discrimination cases uh just because you're a member of the traveler community is absolutely appalling in the 2023 ardent it is appalling as well given the rates as you mentioned seven times higher for men than settled men six times higher for traveler women than settled women and given the numbers that we're talking of it should be very easy for whichever department is responsible to say right okay we need a focused response to this we need to put in specific measures in place to ensure that we're giving people the support that they need it's actually really quite embarrassing as a nation that we haven't done that already given the glaring obvious issue that's there let me say in in general i think our mental health services in this country is not this for purpose and that's no disrespect to the staff that's also a government problem it's it's we need to invest in it we need uh we need to invest in our workers you know as we've seen um to other um health like nurses doctors people are leaving the country we don't have the workers and that all needs to be uh to be dealt with we need better support and better support Greg for young people in general like we have one the highest in Europe for a 19 18 year old uh young women signed by suicide in this country and that's something that's not spoken about you know when that annual show this morning saying that like a traveler mental health there's a crisis within the traveler community like i've seen young people that i was barred and murdered with that no longer is is alive due to suicide the mind passed away last July uh due to suicide my cousins have a few cousins that passed away due to suicide and honestly i if i get a phone call at 11 or 12 o'clock at night from a family member i do be terrified of me life that's one of my brother her sisters that's passed away uh true uh true suicide and even within my family you know i i i i see addiction and people with a struggle with their their mental health and their well-being and they know where to go they absolutely know where to go and to sin you know we've seen part like that documentary last night wasn't a big show you could see in that documentary Carter was a young man a young boy but absolutely loved life he loved he wanted to be uh be a youtube star his mother and father loved him you see he opened up a little uh person for his 11th birthday he was delighted and his father telling him how much he loved them the child was so loved and valued by his parents but unfortunately outside of that the child being um being as the parents believe being being bullied and that bullying is just because he was a member of the traveler community like we do have issues within our community of course and and you see the actual off communities and like even even local little communities in our in um donnie garl would have little uh little uh ups and downs you know what i mean and we have it in our community too where you know we're not all meant to think the one way and be the one way um but it's unfortunate that you see a 12 year old child uh taking his life due to bullying we see 13 year old uh um uh young people taking their life as well and it's like you know this part of story and fortunately is not unique to our community which is extremely sad you know i've i've i've seen young men at the age of nine and ten attempt at suicide but i suppose is it part of the not part of the issue as well but also just thinking in that you know if you were to sit a young person like that down i have to be really careful with my language because of the topic that's here but i'm on about sort of then you say you know about the future so maybe a person of 13 or 14 who feels different or singled out or bullied or whatever or or held back or oppressed or whatever the word might be you know unfortunately the way society is they may feel well that's what it's like as an adult as well do you know what i mean yeah where i can go what i can do who i can get a job how will be treated what might be what might be said to me so that's that's if that's the future that's ahead you know i think we have to sort of deal with that as well because that really probably can be really quite difficult to overcome yes my own experience uh greg as uh like when i was a young moment you know i was i didn't want to be a member of the calvary community there were a sense of shame until i reached the age of 25 years of age and that sense of shame came from the rejections from society you're never going to be good enough you were always seen to the nackery you're never going to be anything or values within society and like i lived with those demons like many young travelers are living with uh living with today and i'm just touching on my own experience you know i like a straight look i got out of all that like by staying in education but that's not the case for every member of the traveler yeah but still as a as a as a very successful woman as someone uh very high up in politics as someone with a voice uh you you still are the first comments that that come uh towards you are still based on your traveler background i mean you have to deal with that i mean if you want to operate in society your tax is that you're you have to deal with being singled out in everything that comes out of your mouth because of your background that is the way you have to live your life you know what i mean and if you're strong that's fantastic but you can never escape it it seems in this life and even sometimes people who come across strong is not all that strong i haven't put one of my comments on my social media uh to be just because you know no matter how strong you are no matter where your role is uh you know everybody has demons and uh like after i had billy i had very bad polemic depression and thankfully through our light at the end of the tunnel there for me too you know and uh and again i said last night and show uh greg like young traveler children want to be do they watch fireman fans hoping to be a firefighter they they they watch uh pop patrol like my children today hoping to be guards or be to be pleased you know what i mean and like with the children of barnford hopes and ambition and so so is so is the traveler child and so is the traveler adult as well because i was once that young person that had to hide her her dress to get a job in them to get a job of the young person i always wanted to work you know and that's like many members of the traveler community but some of us have more support than others and to think in 2023 uh our lives you know that traveler children are still on our youth timetables that travelers still can't get a job like many travelers they can't get a job and you know sometimes even in this job that i have you know i'm like why did i even be why did i put myself in this situation because some days it's better than others but last night watching that documentary scene catrix parents scene uh bernie power other travelers speak so eloquent and and the show itself was driven by travelers it was there were no professionals from the setting community and i think that's all really classic the heart of them of of our society and you know something as overall for caren and lovin and a community a society as well and i think that's really important and i know since last thursday you know there's been a lot of fear within within society and i've heard you speak just just there about barriers going up outside of lester house etc i will say one thing i was speaking to a woman this morning in the cafe getting me a cup of coffee and she was telling me about some of the staff in lester house the women who's wearing hijabs people of color black and brown people the fear that they have just like in any other workplace and the fear that people are actually it's funny it's it's quite interesting in one of the videos that was released to try and rally people onto the streets the traveling community were singled out uh in in relation to that as well and there's just one thing i want to clarify not for you because i think you know where i come from uh eileen but just in case anyone picked up when i said you can't escape uh you know as an adult you can't escape uh the abuse it's not escape your background it's a to live in a society whereby you're not abused because of your background and i know you know what i meant but it's just in case anyone picked up the wrong way there's no there's no way out so what do we do right so what do we do because we've had these conversations and they're always happening right and you were very quick to point out yes there are problems within my community and and this that and then so but how do we move forward rather than you speaking so eloquently making your point someone feeling the need to texting in and say well travellers are our worst enemies how do we move past this or get around a table or have a conversation whereby we actually make progress if you get where i'm coming from because it's grand punk day the 1963 report the itinerary report refers to travellers as as thinkers and washed and changed like i would absolutely encourage your listeners it's not something that you can read overnight if you were to take an hour out each day for the next few a few weeks and read through that report it would absolutely make the hair rise in your head you know because of how like you really want travellers to be fake that people and again we have thoughts in our community just like in any other in in any other community but the biggest thought is the lack of implementation and the lack of political will when when it comes like you know i for the last three years Greg like you know i spoke last night about exhausting but like the community is absolutely exhausted for the last three years i sat around tables and no point but people say to me you're very strategic island you're always very kind bloody black i could get up there and give it loads and i don't do that because that's what they expect from me i try me very best to have that dialogue for for positive outcomes for travellers and to make life a little bit easier for all of us in in in in society but again there's been very little implementation and the four recommendations very little implementation on um mental health and i'm doing the order of business today to really in like beg the minister for mental health will she stand by our award will she implement what she promised that and the government promise owed in 2020 that national traveller strategy that will help it might it may not save many like Greg but it will help to yeah okay the line's dropped on us there okay uh yeah unfortunately we've lost the line there to senator eileen but uh she made her points very clearly there uh and just to let you know that there are 24 hour supports available to you the samaritans 116112 pieta 1800 247 247 you can text about it to text it by simply starting a text conversation hello to 50808 and childline 1800 66666 some of your comments here hi greg harrowing program president higgins summed it up as to how it would affect you some was at school with uh with a traveller child at national school said he was the best intelligent good hearted just never given the help sometimes he would have a scorn on his face but this was because he hadn't had a breakfast he was misrepresented as being hot headed so would you if you hadn't eaten that tv program last night was a hard watch poor parents of patrick such a loving and caring family yet he was bullied by anti traveller abuse at school people need to cop on and stop racism against travellers reminds me of how irish were treated when they emigrated to britain and the usa years ago uh on to uh some comments as it relates to our conversation about protests being banned or moved a hundred yards up the road from outside facilities that offer abortion services greg the main purpose of these gatherings is to let it be known that there is help available which would enable them to continue their pregnancy to birth mother and baby government benefits don't kick in until after the baby is born so it's to let mothers know that there is support including monetary help available through voluntary pro-life groups but of course we also have to do you're not sorry have to also respect that a woman has made that decision for her own reasons and are presumably not on the spur of the moment that has thought hard about it perhaps agonized about it and is not just thinking oh i must have an abortion because i didn't know there's benefits available i mean we have to give people a bit of credit as well as to the motivation for their decisions uh there's no point in showing concerns about the child victims of the stabbing but turning a blind eye to those going to be aborted they are all children okay but there's no point also let me add in turning your attention away we get no messages about this or not enough messages about this in relation to the 120 000 children that called Childline last year because they are being abused physically sexually 120 000 calls last year what about them you know this is right now this is our history right now as we speak and no one is protesting we're coming out in the streets or saying enough is enough uh for those children i'm sure there are sorry but i just don't see the calls and the messages in the text hi greg what's the ratio of people having abortion in Ireland due to rape or abuse against those of personal choice i have no i have no idea to that greg werther one supports abortion or not it has nothing to do with peaceful protests lawful assembly so continuing to ask that gentleman why protest outside abortion centres is unnecessary and maybe why people don't want to go on the airwaves with you to discuss topics which i've never come across before um he came on and i was very respectful to him it's a very basic question as to why if you can do it a hundred meters up the road why you want to do it exactly outside it i think that's a legitimate question it might help people understand the motivation beside them it's not a a gotcha question or a trick question it's simply a question that's it anyway however as seen as we've seen elsewhere they want to say in recent years the government of the day allows or supports protests that align with them and condemn whatever they don't example the lockdown protests the black lives matters protests pro-palatine pro-palatine uh palestinian and anti-immigration etc etc there's a there's there's something to that that does seem to be a different approach depending on what the protest might be but we are talking in the context of last thursday uh riots and disorder which aren't protests um i've never seen a regular protest dispersed as such um not off the top of my head can i think of one but i take your point um in regard to that okay let us take a break the night till noon show is brought to you by letter can you credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account could you train the next generation of skilled workers if you're a qualified tradesperson you could become an 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greg thanks so much for calling in you don't need those on unless you're comfortable with them on it's completely up to you it's just myself and yourself perfect okay so talk to me a little bit about the remelton community employment project what's the work of it well the work of community the community project um has been going on since about 2010 there was a previous scheme there um and it looked after ancestry they did a lot of research around that area but for some reason anyway it fizzled out and in 2010 then um a group of four men put together the c scheme um ian mcgarvey um called a meeting in the town and four men stepped forward joe bernie edd Edward diver um john mcdade and tony boys and decided it would be great to support the community you know where maybe it was uh volunteer and didn't fulfill all of the the jobs that needed to be filled in the town so from that then um the community employment scheme looked after various activities and around the town from the community center the town hall you know various um environmental works around town and that um the church's graveyard it's a whole vast vast array of activities in the town and in 2019 then i had the fortunate opportunity to come to denigol and um work with a fantastic motivated bunch of people in the community scheme in remelton you were talking about the calendar because it's a calendar with the calendar then but we'll not go straight to that if that's okay because it's part of a fundraising effort uh for the tidytowns group they want to buy street sweepers that right they do indeed yeah and are we at the beginning of that process are we topping up a fund or what's the story we're well we're kind of at we're we're a part way through that way so um we decided like there's a lot of ways of managing you know litter and weeds and that around town and we would like to do it as sustainably as as as we can at least so we thought by eliminating the use of some of the more poisonous weed killers and things like that if we managed um the weeds and that by removing the soil you know and the muck that gathers along the edge of the caribs then that would eliminate that problem so we um set about putting together a plan to to do that and street sweeper was a really good option to do that because it maintains all of the the verges um around town and again it eliminates all the hard work and the poison being spread yeah of course which is good uh right so on to the calendar itself because you know it is an iconic town uh i think we can all agree remelt it's the most beautiful place and it's one of the i think it's one of the towns that we have whereby you get a you get a sense of i don't know you get a sense of the history of it if you know what i mean you get a you know what i mean there's the age to it yeah but i'm not like i'm not very artistic and stuff so i can only go by my feel of course you know but you just feel that there's a connection there to the past if you know what i'm saying um and and the calendar then is is absolutely beautiful all the pictures you should expect to see but there is a difference to it so talk our listeners through the calendar as i show those watching well as you said it is as you said it's it's renowned for being an iconic town um you know beautiful buildings heritage buildings um the lovely river obviously running through it yeah you know meeting the swilly so um and everybody knows it for that but the people that i work with have such a fantastic sense of humor and they love their town so much that we decided to bring a bit of a twist to it so we animated it a wee bit yeah it's lovely and we've put in some lovely scenes all around the town with our own twist of various events that happen throughout the year and occasions and that like it works on a lot of levels doesn't it there's a bit of humor there there is the scenery there's the personality the community and there's a recognition of the stuff that goes on as well as a particular lovely photo there with the the 118 uh in the background there okay yep so that's the type of stuff right um um it's it's not very expensive either it's only eight euro and it's wonderfully produced it is uh we were very fortunate everybody contributed voluntarily to the production of it for anyone so the production of it was uh only made possible by you know good good will in the town so everybody participated um photographer um it was all done free so the costs obviously we've managed to produce it reasonably cheaply because we aim to maximize our profits um so that we can contribute to the the town sweeper for the tidy towns growth brilliant stuff and it's always nice when you're asking people to put their hand in their pocket you're giving them something in return for sure and it is a calendar for 2024 and it is in this day and age with everything's going on you can't beat a calendar on the wall can you try to find the calendar up on your phone can be an issue true enough true enough but it's like it has the iconic sights it has you know fabulous people with humor in town um it's a lovely twist and a great stocking filler for eight euros yeah where do people get it um so the calendar will be available in all retail shops around town I do believe um and in the charity shop and if you really can't find one there contact us on our facebook page on our tidy towns uh remelton tidy towns facebook page or you can call the office can I give a number or an email address you can call us in the office at 074 915 2545 or you can contact us by email at tanya nick at remeltonce.ie that's t-o-n-y-a-n-i-c at remeltonce.ie and we have all of those contacts for us and people because I say it so often probably know our number off by heart and the cost of the calendar is just 80 euro and all profits go to the purchase of a town sweeper and for all the reasons you heard Tanya uh outline uh to keep it beautiful uh as a place to live and to visit and what have you and to work yeah okay listen uh tanya thank you very much for that we really do appreciate it thank you Greg uh it's a lovely thing so go out and get yours you're covered for next year then and uh you also support uh the ce and uh the work they're doing thanks so much tanya really appreciate it that's tanya andy kareen they're back with more after the break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie at tesco we're helping you become more christmas cover off the neighbor's gifts early with large selection boxes like galaxy christmas collection and capri stocking selection box and more three for ten euro or go all out and get them gift sets like the nivia feel gorgeous gift bag now better than half price should they'll be glowing brighter than their lights tesco every little helps club card required 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capacity tickets on sale this friday at 10 a.m from tickets.ie don't miss this huge north west farewell concert for more follow summer sessions and all social media platforms right okay sarah's just standing at the radiator trying to get a wee heat up okay uh we are joined on the program now by shanae shanae sorry about not getting to you just before the news at 10 just wanted to make sure we had plenty of time how are you keeping not so bad how are you doing apart from getting it off yeah you you think the government's using the riots as an excuse to introduce facial recognition cameras are you in favor or opposed to this new technology i'm not opposed to the technology per se but i'm opposed to this and i think it's quite cynical what they're doing i'm opposed to this facial recognition technology because for as the the experts on the subject previously outlined there's so many problems with them um and the fact that it could also you know you're you're looking at potentially is it going to be used for mass surveillance what is it what exactly is it um no they're definitely using it so they're just using it for for this and this has been on the couch for a long time it's something they've been trying to trying to introduce for a while um and now this is quite a cynical attempt like i don't want to be i don't want to be uh exaggerate the situation but is it then a big reach that you know uh every camera your you know say if you have a chime doorbell for an example you know it's on a network you know where does this end in terms of if this is so important to what lengths would one go to to to access this type of imagery in other words we could theoretically if the worst come to the worst pretty much be observed in every element of our of our lives effectively correct and also what you have to think about as well as you're saying things are are contained in the cloud now with um irish public civil servants uh understanding of technology and security and data security um i would be extremely worried about that because they don't you know as i was saying earlier the people the people who were organizing that you know the the known people who are organizing all this stuff within 10 minutes of that incident horrible horrible incident in Dublin last week within 10 minutes they were on their usual channels these people have had their face all over youtube all over social media for years there is absolutely you know but you might not like it if we're talking about the same people and i presume we are you might not like what we have to say right you might not like what you have to say but you don't want the right to say uh withheld from them do you just because it doesn't align with with your viewpoints because uh you know like counterpoint the arguments you know uh gets the silent majority of some might have it to speak out is it really do we really want to de-platform people just because we don't like to hear what they have to say that's not what i'm saying at all um and i am firmly as you know i am very keen on the base and have an uh view there where it's straight what it's straight into though where it crosses the line um i mean yeah where there are people organizing and they are literally if anybody wants it i'll send it to them uh they are saying that uh they're organizing to go down to the town in in Dublin the town centre to kill any foreigners they see now these are people who have had their faces on the media on social media on youtube for years these are the people that the likes of and i just see actually today ifa galler our own don't go woman the ifa galler has a piece in the in the ocean dependent um specifically about this an expert in the subject within 10 minutes this this sort of chat was going on now you can't tell me anybody can tell me you know that that wasn't foreseeable that was not foreseeable because it was all out there within 10 minutes of that and with all of the the the stuff that's been going on for the past couple of years in ireland senior guardie and i'm not blaming the rank and file but the senior guardie should have known that this had the you see the problem is why are they not tracking this there's two there's two things going on here uh because the guards said uh the senior guardie she quite rightly uh made that distinction they said you could never have predicted this yes you could because there was a we all we were all predicted because at six o'clock there was videos going out saying right to lob a get down here meet you at seven uh now is our time so if they didn't foresee it then be they they don't have the intelligence and i don't mean that in terms of their brain power i mean in terms of the manpower they don't have the intelligence to monitor social media and say right lads uh we have an issue here because there's a call to action at seven so even in even by saying that no one could predict it i think it actually exposes you know gaps in the policing because they should have seen it because it was forewarned it's bad policing it's as i said it is very perplexing and it's not to do with as i say rank and file guardie who are doing what they can within the space that they have within the restrictions that they have but senior guardie should have a dedicated um there should be something dedicated to monitoring these spaces i mean this is this is not this is not brain surgery stuff here police forces across the world have this why do the guardian not those are the kind of questions that should be being asked i mean as i said we've been predicting this i've been on this this show um talking about this many times over the cat past couple of years greg you and i've had many conversations about it so for yeah to say it couldn't be predicted yeah it's it's it's ridiculous but no i do not like but also the the guardie um the guard i really want to be careful with our phrases because i i'm of a firm believe i don't like people being labeled because of different views i think we need to to debate and discuss uh what have you but i then of course there are very extremes that there are very extremes i don't want to go in there either but my point is is that you know the government would have had you believe there is no uh concerns about a different political ideology emerging in this country uh the guards would have said the same um and i've asked that question many times in this show and and it was like well you don't do it because then you just amplify it or you don't talk about it because it amplifies it and in other words trying to pretend that there isn't a growing movement in this country that could be represented in the doll by in five years and i suggested that on friday and and it was dismissed i don't believe so i think we're very close to that now uh so so the we have to have conversations because it's happening we do and like you know there's no point in burp burying our heads in the sand now i don't know about five years period and i hope i i genuinely hope that the events in Dublin have opened people's eyes okay well let me say let me tell you why i believe that's the case right because let's say for instance um three two three years ago uh peter casey some might agree with what he says and some might disagree with what he says but in an instant on one topic or one at least in the in the initial instance he completely threw that presidential race on its head potentially and and potentially could have been elected as well if a a conor mcgregor type person were to come forward who speaks to the masses with a really high profile i believe that he could very easily be elected to an office he won't because that's not what he's game and that that could all happen very quickly so i actually genuinely believe that could happen not this election but election afterwards uh for the reasons of my mind yeah no i don't know about the time frame i mean like it's a much more crowd of freedom when you're talking about local politics and you're talking about you know national politics and tds and consolation that kind of thing so i'm not a hundred percent certain that that would be the case within five years but i agree with you in that if we're not careful we're not absolutely be careful and we're not seeing this for what it is and it is a danger to irish public society everybody in it because the look the people with that ideology they're not good for anybody not us but can i just say that i don't know i don't i'm not saying i see that as a danger either i just see it as a potential reality i don't know that's fine but i don't know i don't know there's a lot of people with views that feel aren't being represented by any political party uh and they're not they're not outliers what have you they could be your family or your friends or my family or my friends uh but anyway okay shane listen i appreciate your comments as it relates to you believe in the government are using those riots riots as behavior uh to to introduce legislation that they wanted to introduce anyway so i appreciate and i'm gonna say i'm gonna sign off by saying what i usually do and just also shout out to anybody because as i said we did have a statement up there after all of those events those horrible events we have a statement up on facebook there from bum crana for all and we just want to make sure that everybody is aware that you know that is not reflective of the of of the society here of the vast majority of society here and again i'm going to appeal to everybody as i always do please be careful what you're reading on facebook please be very careful verify it get it get it verified and don't fall down that rabbit hole please all right thanks very much for that shanei to call us as i heard an interesting comment yesterday that there is no such thing as a settled traveler you're a traveler full stop would the senator agree there is or isn't a difference well i would the only the only uh if you were to ask me to differentiate between the two is just where one might live whether or not your uh residents settled in a particular area with your roots laid there or you uh you you are inclined to move around more that's no maybe that's me being ignorant or naive but that's the only thing i thought that referenced to regarding that documentary last night one of the problems is that there's no travelers now they are doing themselves no justice by referring to themselves as travelers especially when it comes to jobs they're no longer travelers they're settled 99 of them living in houses now but again you know there's more to being a traveler than than where you live or how you live as well i presume look it works both ways there's so many settled people intimidated by travelers every day especially older people made to pay for work that's only half done i'm not saying that doesn't happen but we if this is the constant approach where we have a representative from the traveling community say things need to change and then we have a representative from the settled community saying well it's the travelers fault themselves it's got that these arguments have been made for as long as i've been doing a job like this and and we're not getting anywhere really are we uh let me see uh this three-party government and that's what it is a party who have failed time and time again and now they can't even protect our children roll on the next election they're dazed and numbered after the terrifying attacks on under 10 year old children right okay we are going to be back with our next guest in just two minutes the nine till noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter Kenny credit union 9102127 foreign black tag event is now on at curries treat them or treat yourself with the samsung 55 inch smart olad tv now only eight four nine save 50 euro or save 50 euro on the 15 inch hp laptop with intel 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showers temperatures four to seven degrees winds light mostly dry tonight with clear spells and isolated showers cold lowest temperatures minus two to plus one degrees so there will be frost and possibly ice in some areas areas of mist and fog will form as winds stay light and variable a new report has found that ireland will miss you targets on recycling and less changes are made to our waste industry the circular economy and waste statistics highlight reports from the epa shows that municipal waste recycling in ireland stood at 41 far lower than the 55 percent needed by 2025 the reports also found the report also found that just under 28 percent of plastic packaging generated in ireland was recycled in 2021 we don't want what most of this plastic packaging by the way uh i think most consumers don't anyway selene horners senior scientific officer in the circular economy program at the epa and is with us now good morning selene good morning how are you uh good good good so why uh why are our recycling rates so low well what this report does is it pulls together lots of different waste streams and we can see in overall that we are generating more and more waste each year and what we want is a circular economy where we you know take materials out of the earth use them many many times and recycle and then have minimal waste that's what we want so it'll be a circular economy what we have is a linear economy where we're using stuff just the ones recycling poorly and then a lot of it's going for incineration so we really need to change our ways it's not just about improving recycling it's about reducing the amount of waste that's generating in the first place so um that's how we're going to achieve our targets by you know reducing the amount of waste i mean i heard you talking about consumers don't want the packaging and that's true i think we need to do more on industrial size of things that people are getting less waste into their bins that's um you know we've lightweighted the packaging that we've designed our packaging differently that we've designed our waste materials and how we use them better at the beginning because once you have a waste you have to deal with it but we need to design before the waste is ever created and how do we do that how do you get there i know you talked about industry but in reality how do we get to that space well there has been some progress i think if we look at the ban on the single use plastics that came out in 2021 there was also with that um directive there was a requirement to put more recycled material into plastic bottles so when you buy your plastic bottle now there's a requirement to have recycled plastic in that and that creates a demand for more plastic to be recycled so we need to see more of that we need to see more um products being required to include um recycled materials in their makeup but then the material is circulated again rather than sort of just being used once and you know being incinerated for example the other thing is that you know at the moment we're sending 400,000 tons of black bin waste you know your residual waste actually i shouldn't use the word black bin it's your general bin because i know everyone has a different color bin that's like i understood what you meant if that helps okay thank you your general waste bin you know 400,000 tons that is actually being exported now for a start we shouldn't have that much excess waste because we do have two incinerators in Ireland but exporting is sort of a waste of a of a resource because you know that's going we're paying other countries to come take that and burn it in their incinerators providing energy for their homes and businesses and we think that this is something Ireland should really be taking advantage of you know all the energy potential that we have in our own waste streams yeah because i think consumers uh or the general public feel a little bit led down to some extent um in that you know we have our black bin and our blue bin as as most listeners might understand uh there is just sense often that it all just ends up in the one bin lorry so why we're separating it to begin with i'm not saying that happens routinely but it certainly does happen and then it's sorted at a later date you know we go to the clothes bank and and dump our stuff in the clothes bank thinking we're doing the right thing but that ends up uh lying in rivers and and often uh you know dumped in in an african country somewhere uh you know and and we often you know we feel we're i just feel like you know the the the public's being let down quite a bit and it's not being called out as much as it should be because lots of people do feel that they're trying the best they're doing the right thing but then they're having to deal with this excess packaging and then uh no faith in what's happening with their waste when they dispose of it responsibly yeah i i do agree we're not going to be able to recycle our way out of this waste problem we have a waste problem and we have to reduce the amount that's generated when you talk about clothes there's been a huge change in how we use clothing we have to stop buying fast fashion we have to get more into repair there's a repair directive coming out again for electrical goods and we need to get more into reusing and repairing stuff we need to stop trying to you know over consume because over consumption needs to waste but i think people need to be supported in this we've seen in our waste characterization study although there's two-thirds of the waste in the general waste bin shouldn't be there it should be in a brand bin or a recycling bin when we go to apartments it's much worse so this shows to us that if people have a better system in place you know better uh bins better segregation they'll get on board a lot of apartments don't have good segregation because they're not given a good waste system so do you think everyone should have to have a brand bin for an example which would be for everyone to have to have a brand bin from this year it's law that all businesses can have a brand bin from july this year and by the end of this year which is just you know tomorrow basically every household can have a brand bin so you can get on to your your waste operator and ask for a brand bin and it has to be given to you and i think it's important to remember that even that mucky manky stuff from the bottom of your bin is a resource you know we can compost that we can use the energy from it through anaerobic digestion we can produce soil conditioners and there's lots of companies doing that so we need to get the material to them so that they can make this material circular make it useful make it a soil condition that we can actually use yeah so we're exporting in a potential asset really too as well though we want to reduce our overall waste you know we're taking stuff out of the earth using woods it makes no sense we need to circular circularize our economy and and that's the only way we're going to get out of this problem because recycling on its own will not work recycling is important we have targets but I think people are beyond sort of caring about targets they want to do something for their environment they want to do something to reduce our climate emissions and again to help us you know I mean for a long time if something went in you wash your machine or your dryer all parts are unavailable for that oh they don't produce parts but we've got this brand new one here for two nine nine or three nine nine you know it's good for us that we can maybe start to get parts and repair things and keep them you know that's what we want again as consumers I mean exactly I think we all need to have a better relationship with our products rather than trying to get rid of them as soon as you know they they need a slight repair and and I think we need businesses to get behind us and help us as individuals to manage our waste by not generating so much waste in the first place there's reuse options that they could use refill options that work in other countries you know they would offer by crates of water fizzy water whatever they bring back the crates and the bottles the next week and in effect you're just buying the water rather than you know having to deal with you know the packaging that came in and that's a reuse system and I think more of that needs to happen and to help householders and businesses to to deal with but their waste and reduce the amount of waste. Celine thanks for your time today have a lovely day. Thank you YouTube. Bye. Bye Celine Horner there senior scientific officer in the circular economy program at the EPA should we get some of your comments here as we wrap up the show. Hi Greg I've noticed that there are a lot of female commentators on sport recently some are very good and knowledgeable particularly those females who've played the sport at its highest level however there are other female commentators and presenters who are not quite up to the mark and their observations and comments can be lacking in insight it's not a gender issue but rather a feeling error on the part of the broadcaster in its haste to correct the gender imbalance some of the female commentators and pundits are being fast tracked to appease the guardians of political correctness at the expense of good journalism while this is happening they're inadvertently showing some females in a poor light and doing a disservice to future female commentators and presenters that comes in from Eugene but Eugene you'd hear as well as all of us do you know some people can't stand certain commentators either regardless of whether they're male or female the government is slowly trying to take away our human right to have a say in what's right and wrong it's all to protect the government so no one can say anything about or complain it's to shut us up if TDs would for once do as they promised at election times the people would not be turning against them but it's how it's how one turns against it you know it's about at the ballot box rather than elsewhere is it the rights in Dublin were wrong says the listener but they were caused by the growing tension of government policies which treat Irish citizens and residents as second class citizens 12,000 homeless and growing over the last decade it's 13 now I believe meanwhile 700 modular homes earmarked for Ukrainians in Dublin and Cork and over a hundred and Sligo in Blanchirstown in Dublin there's been an African gang of youths hooded wearing all black armed with machetes terrorizing an area for years but that's down to policing isn't I mean that shouldn't be the case I'm not quite sure of all of that but anyway look at the end of the day I don't think those ones that were out protesting sorry rioting at last Thursday really are doing it for any political reasons or what have you I don't I think it's just was opportunistic the sea the media seems to have deluded itself into believing that if people simply stopped talking about mass immigration then public concern about the issue would go away hi Greg the Irish government is being made fun of on Twitter for how ridiculous and China CCP like the new hate speech and facial technology they want even Elon Musk has noticed seems you can only have one opinion the political elites and posh don't Dublin's opinions I would be Elon Musk is funny he's held up as this I mean this fellow is the richest man in the world he's the richest man in the world he lives in an ivory tower he has access to anything once he can do whatever he wants he can say whatever he wants I mean if I was looking for a hero it wouldn't necessarily be he he uses platform for his platform for his benefit the reason he's so opposed to hate speech or one of the reasons is hate speech in inverted commas is because advertisers won't advertise on his platform because of it now some of the advertisers are too easy lobbied and make poor decisions but he's not doing it for you he's doing it for him he's doing it protect his 44 billion euro investment you know he's not just the hero you might think he is Var has made football hard to watch on with you Greg yeah indeed I think so one of these Fridays before Christmas will have a good Manor's Day on the road for driving I drive a school bus and people have no manners at all it takes two seconds to let someone out people have manners at roundabouts in old town we should all have a Friday where we let people out that comes in from Paddy Megatik and Paddy what should we call it we need a catchy title friendly Fridays should we do a friendly Friday where we're all polite and say hello and how are you getting on and we wave to each other as we let you out and we say thank you for those being let out give the horn a wee toot or whatever it might be I don't know it's an idea friendly Fridays we could call it congratulations Tanya and the Remelton Community Employment Scheme and everyone involved with contributing to the calendar production you did great work around Remelton best of luck with your street sweeper and a better woman Tanya from a Remelton resident I agree totally with Senator Eileen Flynn travelers and men especially are taking this avoidable option far too often and it's not being highlighted an even worse addressed in an effective joined up thinking evidence based way following the documentary on travelers says another listener it was apparent that he was bullied online the first ad that came on after the show was for mobiles the government have a lot to answer for children under 18 should not be allowed to have mobile phones there's too much pressure on parents to buy them for children listen thank you so much for all of your comments and thank you very much for