 It will stage a major protest if the government doesn't give them the financial support they need. The Irish Road Holleyers Association met with the Minister for Transport last night to discuss ways to deal with record high fuel prices. Holleyers say they can no longer survive the rising cost of doing business. A cut to excise came into effect last night, which will see the price of diesel reduced by 15 cent and petrol by 20 cent per litre. IRHA President Eugene Drennan says truck drivers are prepared to stage bigger protests if they don't get better financial support. It will be far more much of a lockdown if we will upset all supply chains and it will upset other industries a lot as well. So you just don't want it to be in protest and nobody wants to have the outcome of it. But if we go to protest it will be very, very, very serious. There are calls for more armed Garde in light of a serious assault on a member of the force last month. Garde Padraig-Scott was fined in a disorientated state, injured and covered in a flammable substance after he was attacked while on duty in the Black Lion area of Cavern on the 27th of February. The Garde remains off duty while he recovers from his injuries and the trauma of the late night attack. Dene Galclan, Sir Michael McLeafordy says the tools Garde currently have at their disposal are clearly inadequate. The Garde are not equipped to deal with these situations because it's clearly society as such to a certain extent has gone mad, they've gone crazy. The situation in Cavern with that poor Garde proved that. That can happen anywhere. It's time that the local Garde and all Garde in fairness would need to be looked about to be unarmed. It's all they have at the moment, it's no better than a piece of tumour you find about your house light in the firewood. Kili Beggs has seen a new lease of life as a result of remote working. According to Dene Galclan, Deputy Thomas Pringle who was speaking in the doll in support of a labour motion on flexible and remote work. Deputy Pringle says this way of working has allowed many Dene Galclan people return home from Dublin and further afield which they previously wouldn't have been able to do. But he believes the right to request remote work bill doesn't go far enough and more needs to be done so both workers and employers can be given that flexibility. Remote working has breathed life into our times again and we have all seen the proof of this during the pandemic. My own town of Kili Beggs which has for long been a picture of derelicts in an environment in the commercial sector, companies have been doing well but the town itself has been declining, has seen a new lease of life with many new entrepreneurial ventures seen throughout the town which is very welcome. It just shows that the great things people can do when given the opportunity and the flexibility to do so well. Weather and I called on Frosty this morning with ice and fog in places but this was clear to leave a largely dry and bright day with sunny spells and highest temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Maybe I'd like this new me. Exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscript from the Quieties and C's Apply. Another good morning to you on this Thursday the 10th of March. It's just four minutes past nine. Welcome along to the program. It's another busy edition of the 9 till noon show for you. Busy throughout all three hours. So stay tuned right up to midday if you can on this program and of course throughout the day here on Highland Radio. Our lines are open for you as we speak. Caroline's taking your calls and 07491 25000. If you want a comment on what we've got lined up for you, raise your own issues, share a story with us. What's apps and texts as well? 08 660 25000. 08 660 25000. Now, if you want to watch the show hop onto our website, HighlandRadio.com in the featured contact contact. What is it, content box? Yeah, you can click that and watch the show in your browser or go straight to Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube or Highland Radio on Facebook. Watch us there. Right. Let's look at the newspapers. It's a Thursday morning. So always busy this morning and lots of you out there will have spotted this and it's reported in the Chicano Tribune, John, of course, with his finger on the pulse. The government's mightily efforts as he describes to reduce excise duties on fuel were wiped out. 24 hours ahead of the deadline with hundreds of four courts increasing their prices by as much as 20 cent. The cuts in excise duty came in at midnight on Wednesday. That's last night, of course, and it sees petrol reduced by 20 cent, diesel down 15 cent with green diesel cut by two cent. Now, on my journey, I didn't see this reflected, really, to be honest with you. Some places, the petrol and diesel, both 205, other places, 199. I did spot one four court where it was down at 184, I believe, from Ledid, which does appear to incorporate the rate, but it's very hard as a consumer to feel any benefit from the prices remaining static from Wednesday to Thursday. In some cases, as I say in others, I've seen an increase of six cent between yesterday and today. So if you take off the 20 cent on petrol, that's actually a 25 cent increase to us, the consumer. At the same time, there's a rebate, not a rebate, but reduction in excise of 20 cent on the petrol. Doesn't make any sense, does it? It's as if it never happened. I think most of you might feel that. If you feel differently, please let me know. But what are you seeing out there? You can be the eyes and ears, or particularly the eyes on this one. I'm sure everyone driving to work this morning, who was driving to work or on a bus or walking, had a look, took an interest in this. Last night, at midnight, diesel was cut by 15 cent, petrol was cut by 20 cent. Are you seeing that? As I say, I see it seemingly only at one place so far. Now I only see seven or eight or nine service stations, by the way, so my opinion is purely anecdotal and I accept that. Well, the motoring public and the haulage sector said it was back to square one, while farmers said they're shocked that green diesel would only be cut by two cent a litre. Brendan McLaughlin, IFA chair in Donegal, said they expected to cut off at least 25 cent. And what they've got shows how much out of touch the government is in so far as farm costs are concerned. Right, the Donegal News this morning, bringing mother and children from Ukraine. A Donegal man has spoken of his heartache and pain, watching thousands of refugees cross Ukraine's western borders. Paul McGlinchey from Retterkennie was in Berger Surrani, a Hungarian village near the Ukrainian border. Yesterday, Paul and his wife Inga, who had just arrived from Budapest, made the trip to the Ukraine border to collect their friend Julie and her two children, Polina and Carol. Paul, 13, is Inga's god daughter. They're all pictured on the front of that paper and the story is on the front and inside of it. The Donegal Democrat this morning, Google Maps should be the all-knowing geographic assistant that gets you where you need to go. But after some botched navigation in West Donegal, one local councillor says she has trust issues. Visitors and locals alike rely more and more on the Android app for plotting routes, finding businesses, scoping out neighbourhoods, booking hotel rooms and so on and so forth. But councillor Neve Kennedy raised her concerns at Tuesday's afternoon meeting of Donegal's municipal district. She said it appears Google Maps may be leading tourists to Guidor in search of the highest sea cliffs in Europe, a sleeve league which are outside Telen over an hour's drive or approximately 50 miles away. We're gonna be speaking to her a little later on in the programme. It'd be interesting because a lot of these use are generated and I would find myself relocating things in different places and if you do it enough, you're sort of a trusted source to do so. Particularly businesses, I've been to five or six businesses and their actual location of the business was not in sync on Google and you can suggest edits and then it's edited. It's usually generated. Google aren't going to the sleeve league and saying that sleeve league and dropping the pin. That is built with AI over time and with those that contribute to it saying, no, this business is now such and such a business and then it waits while then it gets approved and that's kind of as far as I was aware how it worked. Irish Independent now of course, they are as all the papers are, war in Europe, furious Russia bombs and maternity hospital, awful scenes. It's hard to see how Mira Paul's children and maternity hospital could ever have posed a threat to Vladimir Putin. But yesterday, Russian jets bombed the hospital anyway, burying expectant mothers, babies and children under its rubble. After two weeks of fighting that has become even more horrific, Russian sank to a new low. Just after 5 p.m. local time, Russian war planes flew over hospital number three in the centre of Maripul and dropped at least one unguided so-called dumb bomb. Video footage and photographs showed the devastation and destruction the airstrike left in its wake. The Russians of course are stating that this was being used as an outpost or a base for Ukrainian soldiers but the Ukrainian government are rejecting that out of hand. One side of the hospital suffered extensive damage. All of its windows were blown out and ceilings carved in or caved in parts of the building that took the worst of the hit were unrecognisable. And there's an image of a heavily pregnant woman being carried away by five men on the front of that paper and it's that picture as well that dominates the front of the Irish times. But elsewhere, the doll voted last night to approve the government's proposal to cut excise on petrol and diesel but ministers and senior officials fear that the tax reduction will be wiped out by soaring price rises and we know that's already happened. Opposition TDs complained that the reductions by 20 cent a litre for petrol and 15 cent for diesel were none on off while the Minister for Finance Pascal Donahoe said the government cannot protect citizens and businesses from the entire cost impact we're experiencing the consequences of what he said but you know, we did see yesterday the price of a barrel of oil dropped $17 but will we ever see such and now I know it's fluctuating but the UAE made a comment as it relates to supplies that satisfied the markets to some extent and the price of a barrel of oil fell but you just get the sense that we're not going to see that, are we? The cuts in excise which will begin in August will cost the extractor 320 million euro. Petrol and diesel prices in Ireland are at the highest level on record with the current average just under two euro per litre. Average prices this week spread over 12 months will cost motorists over 1,000 more than it would have in 2020 but they say the averages 199 we're already seeing across this region in a way prices at 205 in some places but as low as 184 in another that's quite the difference I don't know how that works as it relates to updating the board if it's a particular brand of garage who determines it? Is it the garage? I don't know. In the Irish Daily Mail today the parliamentary offices of Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have been targeted by vandals after the pair voted against a motion condemning Russian aggression so this is Clare Daly and Mick Wallace they voted against a motion condemning the Russian aggression. Officials of the European Parliament in Strasbourg are investigating after Nazi stickers were placed on the offices of the two Irish MEPs and those of 11 others the independence for change members were among 13 MEPs to vote against the European Parliament of Resolution which also argued in favour of the speeding up of Ukraine's candidacy for EU membership. Ms Daly reiterated their position in condemning Russian's war of aggression against Ukraine and urged further diplomatic efforts to end the war. The two foreign secretaries, the Ukraine and Russian foreign secretaries are meeting today. Hopefully, you know, I mean I think they'll probably be talking about how people, innocent civilians can get out of these cities as safe as is possible but we hope there has to be some sort of some sort of effort to come up with some sort of a solution because we're only heading in one direction of traffic as things stand. China has also offered to mediate they're very close to Russia refused to condemn what Russia is doing of course and we'll be watching things very closely themselves they are a superpower and probably have their own ambitions so the sooner this all gets calmed down very much the better not just in terms of you know the price of petrol and diesel and grain shortage and all that kind of stuff but the actual devastating global impact this could have if it continues the way it's going in terms of its escalation and then that will be worrying about a whole different range of things if the worse were to come to pass the Irish Farmers Journal a multimillion-euro package to significantly expand the area of feed and fodder crops is in the pipeline the initiative comes as input and energy costs continue to soar and animal feed supplies tighten strong supports for planting additional cereal and fodder crops this spring along with increased incentives for multi-species awards and red clover will form key planks of a government strategy to reduce Ireland's dependence on imported feed and the fertilizer. In the Irish Daily Star today and this is a question that I put to Colomal Gorman yesterday because it does seem to me anyway the way things are going with the language that's being used because there's two ways wars are fought there of course it's on the ground but it's also in the minds of people and it seems very clear to me that Vladimir Putin in the language that he's using is covering himself in the event that he uses you know small yield nuclear weapons that he can claim that this was the development of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and that's what my fear is and others seem to share it too in the mirror in the star today sorry Vladimir Putin could lash out with tactical nuclear weapons after becoming frustrated at Russia's lack of progress in Ukraine America's top spy warned yesterday CEI director William Burns said the Kremlin's military doctrine allows for the use of smaller battlefield nuclear weapons officials are increasingly concerned Moscow is desperate to accelerate the pace of its invasion after being confronted by fierce Ukrainian resistance and you know people talk of this stalled these stalled vehicles at north of Kiev but we don't know what his plan is we don't know what is next everyone is supposing but this could be all part of his plan the Irish mirror tells us that more than 10,000 generous Irish people have signed up to house Ukrainian war refugees this according to the Red Cross an overwhelming outpouring of kindness has seen thousands of people a day flocking to a government portal where you can register to provide accommodation the numbers have rocketed since integration minister Roderickle Gorman received details of his plan last Friday given a growing from 183 to more than 10,000 the register is being run for the government by the Irish Red Cross and a spokesperson told the Irish Mirror that they have been bowled over by their response but as I say we saw similar for Syrian refugees but a lot of these places were went out they surveyed them and they thought it was inadequate and this, that and that and it might be different this time round because of the way we're looking at it and finally the Irish Sun today Eamon Ryan has come up with his solution to the soaring petrol prices he says motorists should slow down to save money the transport minister told hard hit drivers battered by rocketing pump prices to reduce speed in a bid to make their tank of petrol or diesel last longer the Green Party leader made the comments at a press conference where finance minister Pascal Donahue and public expenditure minister Michael McGraw confirmed their excise duties and motor fuels were being slashed from midnight and someone we've read about that but after the news of the imminent excise cuts leaked prices at the pumps increased overnight I'd love to know why that is I think that should be investigated Minister Ryan was asked by reporters what worried citizens could do about mounting petrol price diesel bills you know and it was 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programme onto it we welcome Neve Kelly, policy manager with one family Neve thanks for taking the call this morning Hi, good morning Greg thanks for having a fun Right, now tell us about this new research and its focus Well, our research is looking at contacts between children and parents in separated families and these are families that we work all the time with we have services supporting one parent families and people who are parenting alone and sharing parenting throughout the country and what we see is that there's no uniform approach to contact between parents and there's no support or very little support and guidance for these parents and there's also the same as true also for legal professionals so some families many families will arrange contact between parents and child informally between themselves however for other families particularly where there is acrimonious separation or there's poor communication between parents the courts can get involved and even at that level there is no guidance on what is in the best interest of the child or what should be set in place for contact arrangements there's no uniform approach so there's different things being arranged for different families and there's not much data or information on what is happening at the moment so this research aims to look at that and to provide that guidance and part of the research is finding out what the situation is for parents so we have a survey open and we're looking for parents who have experience of arranging contact or having contact arrangements for children under the age of six to take the survey and tell us what the situation is like for them what were the good points what worked well and what didn't work so well obviously as you mentioned you know maybe with those most likely to be experiencing a rough time of it be most likely to engage and it's very subjective I mean are you confident you will get a very clear picture through this process given the subject matter yeah I mean I suppose we are looking at all different scenarios but really I think those those and I hear what you're saying about the kind of more extreme cases might be the ones you're more likely to hear about but I guess they are the ones that are in most need of support as well and they are the scenarios that we're most looking to put it some structure around and really put the focus back on children yeah because you could have two people who were safe for instance together previously both sharing care for a five year old and both giving you very very different experiences of the process and how they think it's working and what's working for them and what isn't working for them absolutely and we want we want to hear both sides we want to hear from from mums and dads and we want to also hear from people who may not have been in a relationship to begin with and then also people who were together and had a separation during this time and we also want to hear from anyone who has experience of this age group and sharing contact and sharing parenting for under sixes but maybe it's in the past so we're looking for anyone who has relevant experience up until their child is currently 18 years of age so if anyone has had this experience in the last 18 years say we would be interested to hear from them also what we see in the courts process a lot of the time is that one parent has their views of wishes and another parent has their views and wishes and what we really want to do is bring it back to the child and what's in the best interests of the child so you know the courts at the moment tend to balance what both parents want plus what's in the best interest for the child and we really want to bolster the child's interests and examine them and see what WAAS guidelines can be put in place based on the experience of parents in Ireland but also a core part of our research is looking at international best practice and looking at WAAS is in place in other jurisdictions How different is what's in place here compared to what we would consider the best international practice? Well I think that fundamentally it's just having no guidance in other jurisdictions you know there would be Well we don't have guidance Certainly in the courts there might be what some might feel a default position though Yeah I mean what we're seeing in the courts is that there is no default position that what's being put in place but invariably invariably is it not the case that the child will generally stay with the mother Yeah for a very young child So is that done via is that who makes that if there's no guidance in that regard as you say there's no guidance well who's making that determination is it individual judges just or whomever is arbitrate and just feel that that is the that is the way things should be I'm not saying that it shouldn't be that way by the way, Nia it's just interesting when you say there's no guidance but I think most people know the way regularly plays out Yeah absolutely and I mean I think in most in most instances particularly for very young children you know the assumption there is that the child stays with the mother and you know it may be that when we develop these guidelines that may be what comes out of it however there are also benefits for young children in having contact time with their other parents as well and it's looking at that looking at issues around their development their physical and emotional development their attachments and taking all that into account and seeing you know the guidance for a very young pre-verbal child might be slightly different in the guidance for a slightly older child we'll be looking at all of that and in terms of you know as far as I'm aware this is not something I've looked into in great detail but in terms of rights there are very different rights say for instance to unmarried parents between the male and the female is that being looked at is that part of this experience in other words if someone were an unmarried father and maybe they don't have the same rights as a married father in a separation do you want to hear those stories if that is the case? Yeah I mean I think the issues around guardianship are probably outside of the scope of this research but we would be interested to hear those experiences absolutely How can you remove guardianship from parenting? Sorry say again If someone is the paternal father how do you separate guardianship from parenting? Different in the sense of one is the legal recognition of the parent and the other is the kind of practical day-to-day and we're really looking at the practical day-to-day piece rather than the legal rights side of things but I guarantee and I'm sure parents will be raising those issues with us and we will include them in the research but they're not the focus of the research And if someone were to enter if someone were to take part in this survey for example and they believe there's an issue with parental alienation do you want them to just say parental alienation or do you want them to not necessarily use that moniker but to explain their situation? Do you get where I'm coming from? Yeah well I mean the survey is on our website so it's onefamily.ie It takes about 25 minutes to complete so it's a relatively in-depth survey and there are lots of questions in there that explore those areas so if someone does feel there is parental alienation or any other issue there will be opportunities to outline that but as much detail as people can give us And just I think you mentioned at the beginning but it's an interesting point this is focusing on under sixes but those who have been through this in the past are being invited to enter the survey as well but the child has to have reached the age of 18 Yeah so I suppose we put the 18 limit just so that we're not looking because so much has changed legally in you know beyond those years we thought that if it was going back further than that it might not be as relevant the experiences might not be as relevant to nowadays so yeah we're looking for anyone whose child is now 18 or under and has had the experience at that particular period around a very young child so it's fixing under to take part Now of course You go ahead I was just going to say we absolutely want to hear from mums and dads and we encourage everyone to log on to onefamily.ie Yeah with any combination as well of course I presume so we get a really true full picture I mean obviously from zero to six you know this is about parents some of it at least is what parents believe the impact has been on the child you know it's not practical as opposed to try and find out what or to even be able to determine from a child's perspective the impact on them Yeah I mean obviously our survey is looking at parents views we do ask about the impacts on the child obviously it is parents views on the impact but I mean no one knows their children better than parents so we do want to listen to parents views on that and the other side of the research will be focus groups with professionals to seek their views and then obviously a really in-depth research around what's happening to other countries and seeing what is in place in other regions so I think part of the I mean I don't want to I suppose jump ahead in terms of research findings and stuff but certainly I think it's likely there will be recommendations in the guide around how to hear children's views even at a very young age and how that can be how they can be gathered and that's particularly around the courts and that legal arrangements the children's views will be thought there's a few interesting questions like even simple questions like how they view home what is home or you know stuff like that I'd be fascinated to get another other questions because it's the children that are the most important thing of course Neil finally the final thing will be for you to remind us how people can get involved but how might this impact the way we do things in this country will this be used like do you have a direct line into government and they will consider it is this used to lobby government saying look we've done this research this is where we need to be like what happens with the findings of this survey yeah absolutely we would we will be lobbying on the findings and really making them available for people to use as well so that we are looking at developing a guide and so it will be a practical resource and the focus of the resource is around and legal professionals judges anyone looking at working in the legal profession with families and then also social care professionals who are working to support families through this time but really crucially we want this guide to be useful for families as well we want families to be able to refer to us and use it and to give them some support in what is oftentimes quite a difficult period in parents and children's lives and if people want to and you're encouraged them too to get part in this survey how do they do so they can go to our website it's www.onefamily.ie and the survey is available there it's available it's to take part in until the end of March so the deadline is the 31st of March and we encourage anyone who's interested to log on there and take the survey. Thanks for your time this morning Eve I appreciate it greatly Nev Kelly there policy manager with One Family a caller says well done to Nev from One Family for rating the issue of contact between children and their families the lack of contact often broken even against a judges court order breaches the children's rights this is what causes parental alienation and damages children for life I advise fathers and mothers who are experiencing parental alienation or estrangement to do this survey thankfully the government is soon to report on this extremely important issue and of course there's more just not there's children mom and dad's but granny and grandad's and aunts and uncles can get involved be affected and impacted by it can you ask Greg about the children flying around Glengannon called after the main road on quads no helmets on three or four of them on the one squat quad I we've heard nothing about this and other has been issues with young people on quads and the party very worried about it because there's quite a few very serious injuries and death as a result of quad bike accidents annually in this country but that's something I just wasn't aware of until that listener raised the issue there a caller says I think it is foolish to be taking a census on the population of Ireland the first week in March because then well it's actually in April sorry but anyway because in the weeks and months after that our population could be increased by over a thousand with all the refugees so the census will not be a true count of our population and then not another census for at least four years surely this census could be put back until September at least and hopefully by then this conflict will be over well you're more optimistic than I it's not until April I take your point but presumably presumably there are questions for each person in the household and we'll get a sense of what the story is there I know what you're saying though is you're saying it won't reflect the true population of this country but it's another month away we'll see but I take your point I don't think though I think you have to pick a date and take a snapshot in time I don't think you can wait and sort of do it when you think you'll get the answers that you want I don't think that's really the way census work Greg horrendous as the killings in Ukraine is and it is horrendous and heartbreaking especially so that at least 15 innocent children have been killed but Putin is just using the invasion of Ukraine as his scapegoat to get an America and Europe to get at them he hates them both he's got bigger plans beyond Ukraine it's a huge story but in the very end Putin and his allies will you lose that comes in from Mary of course no and the truth is and I don't think the bottom line is is that you know whilst Putin is using the Ukraine to get at America and Europe and flex his muscles and maybe to follow on through with his bigger plan Ukraine has been has been not used I would 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listening were you Michelle what do you think of what she had to say I was yeah I just I just want to say that I don't agree with some of the things that she said I think some of them did make sense the thing that I don't agree with the most and that made me very upset was she said we shouldn't indulge children for the fact that they come from maybe poor backgrounds or we shouldn't take into account their lifestyle at home I have to completely disagree with that because you have to take that into account when dealing with children you have to not say make excuses but that has to be taken into account for if a child hasn't done their homework maybe there's a reason behind that is that fair to take that out on the child when the parents are doing their best I just don't agree with that side of things I kind of got the impression Michelle what she was talking more about those within the school itself and you know it is not to say that perhaps they don't make allowances for situations like that I don't know the ins and outs but you're saying that really this vision that she has it's not going to fit into the reality for a lot of families out there well I don't think so I'm a one parent family and I saw children ranging from two to fifteen and there's some nights we're currently in a mobile home and there's some nights where homework just getting it done isn't a reality because the younger ones are playing up which means the older one can't concentrate it is and it's not just me there's lots of other people in different situations that they all have things going on at home and I think the school system in Ireland I think from my experience does take that into account and my kids go to a very good school and teachers are aware that I'm a single parent and they're aware that there's limitations sometimes on what kids can do they understand that and work with you on it they do they do they're very good just in relation to more of what she says though was about how they're taught you know facing the teacher with a strong focus on making sure that you know if a student is struggling that they're brought forward and maybe in that scenario you would have less homework it would be easier because sometimes you might be able to feel that in schools there's a bit of learning and memory work and then the students are sent home with the homework and no one has an idea how to do it they left to their own devices No I would agree with some of what she said but when she brought up That hit a nerve I think didn't it? It did hit a nerve because it is the reality for many people that life just does sometimes get in the way no matter how much of parents we don't want it to it does and we all try our best but sometimes there's going to be issues where the kids might not have one of their shirts might get ruined so it might take a bit longer maybe a few weeks to save up to replace that shirt that is the reality of living for some people and for me and many other people are in that situation and I think just her view on that really really that really struck and obviously it's almost like walking mine in my shoes and then see if you have the same opinion and obviously you're looking at the cost of things going up and what might be ahead Michelle is it a big worry for you? It is definitely yeah it is you do look at things and wonder how what am I going to cut back on now and you try to keep the kids involved in activities and stuff as well and all costs? Yeah you sort of think will I have to then cut back on the activities in order to heat them over I mean you have to make those decisions but I suppose my kids are happy and I'm lucky I live in a really good community and my kids are happy and they're safe and they're well and they're enjoying life so as long as I can maintain that balance I'm happy with that. Well it sounds like you're doing a great job Michelle thank you very much indeed sharing your opinion I really do okay we are going to go to Mick now hiya Mick oops Mick has gone we'll try and get Mick back in a moment he's talking about fuel prices in the meantime before a break I'll take some more of your comments here all research shows that having two parents parenting positively in a child's life is beneficial to a child's life's outcome indeed of course but breakups can be tough and the reality is sometimes maybe parents put their feelings and what they believe right is ahead of the children so ideally of course but the world doesn't operate in an ideal way good morning as the Ulster bank is closing in the next few months it would be beneficial if you could discuss bank charges for the basic savings account and others AIB example AIB in Bank of Ireland well I'll tell you what we'll do we'll get the money doctor on at some point okay and we'll focus solely on mortgages then bank accounts savings accounts current accounts would that be useful for you we'll do that for you no problem if you're thinking of switching a person wants to know why St. Joseph's hospital in Strawler is not allowing any visiting still she called head care who say the visiting should be allowed for one hour seven days a week she and her his siblings are currently being granted 30 minutes of visiting time on a Monday Wednesday and Friday her siblings work weekdays making it difficult to visit and have a quality visit with her parents visits are not in the ward but in a side room it's very distressing for both parents and families maybe someone from St. Joseph's is listening and can explain that situation for us a lady drove from letter kenny to bon crana and saw no reduction in diesel a minus two cent petrol 15 cent sorry she saw no reduction okay I maybe they haven't updated their boards it would be very unfortunate if the day the time exact time almost that these exercise reductions were coming in that the prices went up equal amounts yesterday morning 8 a.m diesel 186 at 430 diesel 199 this morning 8 a.m 204 euro per litre 204 cent per litre thank you so that diesel effectively then that diesel effectively going by this caller has gone up 14 and 15 has gone up effectively 30 cent isn't it 30 cent in the course of the day and has completely gobbled up any increase increases okay our next guest with us just after these messages is your water safe to drink? if your water tastes unpleasant or has a foul smell it may be a sign that something is in your water brother's tec dunigol provide a complete private well water treatment service using the best water treatment equipment to meet your needs or maybe you drill the new well and you can use it and you can use it and you can use it to meet your needs or maybe you drill the new well and the water isn't satisfactory at brothers tec their expert team will also service existing problematic systems if you are concerned about the quality of your water call brother's tec on 087 638 7057 at creaseless supermarket we offer daily specials at our deli with fresh and delicious food to go available butcher's weekly specials or choose from a range of healthy options plus many more offers in store. 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Thinking of a sun holiday this summer with a family? Flight to Alicante, Malaga, Faroe, Mallorca and Milan with Ryanair. Ireland West Airport, you're flying. Okay, so let's have a look at that weather forecast and a cold and frosty start with ice and fog patches in places. But this will clear to leave a largely dry and bright day with sunny spells and just a few drizzle patches. However, it will turn cloud year later this evening, becoming breezes, light to moderate, southerly winds increase, fresh to strong and gusty through the day, highest temperatures of eight to 10 degrees. Okay, right, Claire O'Reilly's the proprietor of the Nesbitt Arms boutique hotel in beautiful Ardora. Thanks for joining us, Claire. Thank you, Greg, thank you. Right, now it came up for discussion at a recent council meeting that hotels and yours and others, I presume, are losing out because there aren't enough electric charge points. So what is the background of? What period of time are we talking here? Probably over the last couple of months, Greg. You know, we've had a few cancellations, you know, due to the fact that we haven't got a charger in Ardora. Now, I do believe there's one in the other towns, you know, in Lenties and in Kilibegs, but we really need one in Ardora, you know, apart from the bookings, the few bookings that were canceled, like it's a no-brainer. We've been asked to be sustainable more and more every day. And the people I chose to buy the electric cars, you know, they need to be looked after when they visit Ardora. Yeah, and I mean, you know of 15 cancellations, but you don't know how many people were reviewing where to stay and simply looked away from Ardora because of the lack of this facility. Well, we can guarantee you that, but it certainly would be a very important point that we need to address to get the electric, you know, the charger into Ardora so we can offer that service, you know. I mean, Ardora is a bustling town and now we have the distillery, so there's going to be lots of more people travelling into it, and especially with the opening of the distillery this year. So to finally look after them, I mean, we're calling on the council to really give us their attention, you know. So we need to look after those that have, you know, become more sustainable and bought the electric cars. And more and more people are driving electric cars and I think the basic expectation might be that wherever you are staying, particularly, I mean, Ardora is not a tiny place, you know, you would expect to be able to charge your car overnight while you're having something to eat or sleeping. Absolutely, even if you're only passing through, you know, the option should be there like in every town and it's really, I can't understand why it's not there already, you know, we're really calling on the council, you know, stolen and as fast as possible. Yeah, okay. Listen, thanks very much for that, Claire O'Reilly, proprietor of the Nesbitt Arms Boutique Hotel in Ardora. You might get Claire back on to me. I forgot to mention that other thing, if that's possible. Claire will rejoin us in a moment because I wanted to mention something else but we'll switch our attention to now to Stephen McCahill. I mean, you're going to echo, I presume what Claire says. Is this an oversight or what do you think? It's hard to imagine Ardora doesn't have a public charging point for electric cars, Stephen. Hello, Greg, thanks for calling me. No, the way back, I was on a committee a number of years ago and they were looking at the time that Kenny Beggs and Glenty's units were installed, it was very much, it was an experimental idea to see how it was working and I had pushed very much at the time for it as a dominant tourist destination that really it should have been considered. But the opinion at the time was this is that it's all going to be ruled out very quickly. And this is in conjunction with ESB and a section of Donegal County Council but nothing has ever materialized since and really like, you know, like with all the pressure and the minister continually on about green environments, certainly there seems to be no program and that's the biggest worry, there don't seem to be any plan at the moment that I'm aware of. But there is a section in the council and for the life of me now, I can't remember what section but there is a section that should be dealing with that. So it'd be worth having a word with them on that. It certainly would and also I wonder in the people's transition study on Ardora, the promise of it was to map the problems, listen to the public and find solutions. I presume at some point, now this is not connected to the council as such but a similar point, people say, well, we know where to charge our vehicles. If you lived in Ardora, would you buy an electric vehicle unless you were getting a home charging point and you probably wouldn't, Stephen? Of course you wouldn't because you know, you've seen it. I've seen prime time doing a program on it there recently and really, you know, if you can't get service, I mean, people can't afford to be sitting waiting for somebody that's there at one stand and you can't get at it. Like it really needs to be laid out. Like how could we buy a car and go to Dublin? We can't get service on the way or you have to sit and wait for somebody. It's just not practical. So there's no point ministers in that pushing this green agenda until they actually set the framework. We really need a framework in place before we can move and certainly Claire's right, like that is a concern for Claire and others here in the tourist sector. And I've found it in the pub myself that people have said to me that, look at all, you know, where the nearest station and you know, it's come up now more and more in the last while, I noticed. Of course, more and more people are moving and particularly with hybrid because you know, especially the plug in hybrid, it is what makes the car as economical as the company's claim. Yeah, and you know yourself like you talked and either the car sales company there and either sales people will tell you that, look at the electric car it's probably not as efficient or as viable as it will be over the next couple of years. And that's why people that we're all holding off on the electric charge we see. But the sales are growing all the time and they would grow even quicker in this part of the world if people felt that there was some security for charging. Exactly. That's the point, Greg. That's the point. That's the reservation that I'm sure you have and I have when I think about it. Where the hell am I going to get a service? Like even on the route to Dublin and the whole, infrastructure needs to be put in place. So something needs to be prioritised. We should be talking about, you know, there's three electric, there's three charge points in our draw. We need six. We shouldn't be talking about there is none and who's responsible and the council need to get on this. What saddened me slightly was that I would have been involved a way back at the early days of like 2010 or 2000. And it was the thing that was coming true. And like, I would sort of say like, why was our draw live down? Don't worry, it's just a matter of time. We're just experimenting here with Glentis and Kilibags. But it needs more and it needs more Glentis too and it needs more and Kilibags. And particularly, notwithstanding what's going on with the international markets as it relates to the impact on fuels, but we are being taxed out of petrol and diesel. And you can only be taxed out of petrol and diesel in a fair way if there is an alternative. So in other words, the taxation is there to drive you to electric. Now, that's fine. I don't know if it's fine or not. But my point is, is the people of our draw are being taxed, but they're not being offered, all people from other parts of the country coming to our draw, they're not being offered the carrot for the taxation stick. Thanks for that, Stephen. Take care of yourself. Thank you very much, sorry. I was a bit premature, Claire, because I wanted a quick word with you just to mention what's happening on Friday night, if you don't mind. Yes, this Friday night, we normally have a stake. 19 every Friday in our draw. But this Friday, we're donating 50% of all our sales of food and beverage toward the Red Cross, the native, the Ukraine appeal. So just let people know Friday night, stake night, 50% of all sales on food and beverage is going to the Ukraine. Well, that's very generous. So if people fancy night out, they go to the Nesby arms. Every time they make a purchase, half of that goes to the charity. Ukraine. Right, okay. This Friday night, yeah. Okay, that's really significant. Okay, well done, Claire. Thanks for that. Thank you, Greg. Take care, all right. Oh, wait, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. That was a call in 07491, 25,000. I heard on tonight's show that you burn the same in terms of driving slow. Isn't it illegal to drive too slow to cause accidents? TVs are going to be insulated via their hefty pay. But wait, what didn't happen? They got their drivers back. Okay, yeah. So they don't fill up themselves, let alone how much, they know, let alone they don't know how much a pint of milk is. It had to be rushed through the door, so they're on their two week St. Patrick's Day junket. Amen, Ryan was asked, should we lose weight too while driving? He said, that's one other mode of mechanism that can be aided, right? I didn't hear all of those comments that are being attributed to the minister there. This government is not in touch with reality. They've never faced making the decision between food, fuel, or paying a bill. Something has got to change. Another, I drove to Galway this morning and the entire way, no cotton prices was implemented for midnight last night, yet they can implement the increases immediately. Another, we are still not getting the money for the fuel and the electric. Another, I pass a petrol station every day. Yesterday, petrol and diesel, both at 1.99 a litre. Today, the same price, no change. That's the report that we're getting from right across the region that people aren't seeing the reductions. Greg, I've noticed last night some petrol stations up their prices before the reduction came in at midnight, so it's only buttons it came down. A controller or whoever needs to check this out. It'd be interesting to see to how much if you are part of a chain, are those prices decided locally or is there a dictate comes down from the company? I don't know how that works. Is this the same, maybe someone who was involved in the industry or is, might be able to help us out with that information, okay? But listen, people woke up this morning thinking they were gonna save 15 on diesel, 20 on petrol per litre. What we're getting this morning is that simply not happening. But we're open to correction. And if there's a forecourt out there that feels they're doing a disservice, get on to us and we'll announce it if you've implemented it or were able to implement it. Or maybe you can even explain why there was an increase prior to this excise cut so we can understand. Because in the absence of that information, people feel that something on fair has happened. And that very much may not be the case. We're not presuming that. Back after the news at 10 and the obituary notices. 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Find out how we're changing people's lives for the better at specsavers.ie. Live on air, online and on the Highland Radio app. This is Highland Radio News. Good morning, I'm Akhila Clark with the news at 10 o'clock. Russia's invasion of Ukraine will top the agenda at a meeting of EU leaders in France today. T-shirt Miho Martin is attending the two-day summit along with the 26 other heads of member states. They'll discuss the growing humanitarian crisis, a greater common defence strategy, and Ukraine's request to join the EU. Shona Murray, Europe correspondent with EuroNews, says Europe's reliance on Russia for energy will also dominate discussions. Two other sanctions will be a spare bank and Gazprom bank added to the SWIFT sanction list. So those are the two Russian largest banks. But the problem is the reasons why they're not on the list for SWIFT to be removed from the SWIFT messaging, financial messaging system is because that's how EU member states pay Russia for their gas. Truck drivers say they will stage a major protest if the government doesn't give them the financial support they need. Irish Road Holley Art Association met with the Minister for Transport last night to discuss ways to deal with record high-fuel prices. Holley Art say they can no longer survive the rising cost of doing business. A cut to excise came into effect last night, which will see the price of diesel reduced by 15 cent and petrol by 20 cent per litre. IRHA President Eugene Drennan says truck drivers are prepared to stage bigger protests if they don't get better financial support. It'll be far more much of a lockdown if we don't set all supply chains and if we don't set other industries at last as well. So you just don't want it to be in protest and nobody wants to have the outcome of it. But if we go to protest, it will be very, very, very serious. The chair of the Regional Health Forum West is warning that COVID-19 is having a serious impact on Leicester-Kennedy University Hospital. The hospital is currently dealing with 70 infectious cases of the virus with a number of wards converted into COVID wards. Cancer Jerry McMonagle says the spread of the virus is having a knock-on effect on the delivery of other services in the hospital. He's appealing to people who want to again be mindful in a bid to prevent further pressure being put on the hospital. If the staff are also being affected by it, then we're going to be losing doctors and nurses and salary staff at the hospital. So I just ask people to be very, very careful. COVID hasn't gone away. And I ask people to continue to follow the guidelines that we're always there around washing our hands, wearing masks, where we think it's important to do so, because we need to stop the spread of this virus. If we do that, then the hospital will be open again to all the services. There are calls for more armed Guardian Light of a serious assault on a member of the force last month. Guarda Podrick Scott was found in a disorientated state, injured and covered in a flammable substance after he was attacked while on duty in the Black Lion area of Cavern on the 27th of February. The Guarda remains off duty while he recovers from his injuries and the trauma of the late night attack. Cancer Michael McLaughley says the Chills Guardi currently have at their disposal are clearly inadequate. The Guardi are not equipped to deal with these situations at hand at the moment, because clearly society is such a certain system, it's going mad, they're going crazy. The situation in Cavern with that poor Guardi that can happen anywhere. It's time that the Guardi, local Guardi, and all Guardi and fairness would need to be looked at with an arm to see if there's a trauma you find about your house late in the fire once. Kili Beggs has seen a new lease of life as a result of remote working. That's according to Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle, who was speaking in the doll in support of a labour motion on flexible and remote work. Deputy Pringle says this way of working has allowed many Donegal people return home from Dublin and further afield, which they previously wouldn't have been able to do. But he believes the right to request remote work build doesn't go far enough and more needs to be done so both workers and employers can be given that flexibility. Remote working has breathed life into our towns again and we have all seen the proof of this during the pandemic. My own town of Kili Beggs, which has for long been a picture of dialects and the environment and the commercial sector, companies have been doing well but the town itself has been declining. I've seen a new lease of life with many new entrepreneurial ventures seen throughout the town, which is very welcome. It just shows that the great things people can do when given the opportunity and the flexibility to do it as well. We're the night cold and frosty this morning with ice and fog in places, but this will clear to leave a largely dry and bright day with sunny spells and highest temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The obituary notice is for this Thursday morning, March the 10th. The death has taken place of Michael Doherty Glasgow. Michael's remains will repose at his sister Donna's residence at Derry Hervdon Fannayy tomorrow evening from six o'clock. Funer from there at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning to Christ the King Church, Gorta Hork, for recreation mass at 12 noon and term it afterwards in Gorta Hork Cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on MC and Media Gorta Hork or in the Kearn Rorty Funal Director Facebook page. The death has taken place of Jared Coleman, Jerry, Cara Ray, Curry, County Sligo, formerly of Palmfield, Upper Bala Adirin, house open to family and close friends. Remains reposing at Sintres, funeral home Curry Village, Curry, County Sligo this evening from five until eight o'clock. Funer mass tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in the Church of the Immaculate Conception Curry followed by burial in Bonacrana Cemetery, house private tomorrow morning at please. Family flowers only, donations and lay of flowers to your where Sligo and Shine. The death has taken place of Josephine Doherty, formerly Kilma Crennan. Josephine's remains will arrive at St. John's Cathedral letter Kenny at six o'clock this evening to repose overnight. Recreation mass there tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock which can be viewed live on ChurchServices.tv and termed afterwards to Newlake Cemetery, letter Kenny. The death has taken place of Winifred Wilson and Nick Halhyn, Mullinate Burt. Her remains are reposing at her late residence. Removal tomorrow morning at quarter past ten to send Angus's Church Burt for recreation mass at eleven o'clock while by interment in Burt's Cemetery. Recreation mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv. The death has occurred of Paddy Hurston, Clonklaue, Clonk, Donegal. Paddy's remains are reposing at his late residence. Jonah leaving his home tomorrow morning at half past ten for recreation mass in Our Lady of Perpetual Soccer Glenfin at eleven o'clock with interment afterwards in Kilty Vogue Cemetery Glenfin. Recreation mass can be viewed on the parish webcam. The death has taken place of Mary Teresa Hepburn and Nate Peoples, 21 Castle Grove Ruffaux, formerly Mountaintop letter Kenny. Teresa's remains will repose at her late residence from five until ten o'clock this evening. Funeral from there tomorrow morning for recreation mass at eleven o'clock and St. Unan's Cathedral letter Kenny fall by burial in Newlake Cemetery. 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But it's people out trying to make a living at the same time too. Presumably these people are local people. That's their job and they're on commission. You know what? It doesn't take me long to open the door and say I switched recently or give me the details or indeed sometimes take them up on their offer. It's everyone I suppose it's up to individuals. Maybe put a sign on your door saying no cold calling maybe that might help you. Greg this government's not helping ordinary Irish citizens more interested in foreigners. Okay I don't know really the basis of that but that's what they say. And other fuel prices at the four courts have passed this morning are all at least $1.99 a litre for both petrol and diesel. The same is there were yesterday morning. Some places were dearer last night than yesterday morning so that discount could be absorbed by the multinational fuel businesses. Fuel 1779 and 1769 a typical lazy solution by the government just like the first flat rate COVID payment. People working one or two days per week got the same payment as people working five days per week. Another only two four courts between Fanad and Derry have reduced prices as far as I could see. The price displays are mainly electronics so could be changed in less than five minutes. So that is no excuse. Thank you for that. Right morning the person who delivered the census form asked me how many males will be at home on the night we fill in the forms. How can we give an answer to that than the person had to scan my answer? What's that all about? I don't know if anyone has an insight into that it's a quite specific question. But the whole idea of the census it's who's in the house on the night isn't it? Not who you think might be because you could fill the census form in that day if that were the case. We all have to cover our own expenses so what's different about politicians? Well you know if you make the rules you make the rules that are going to work best for you aren't you? And that's what it is the rules are set by government for its members not government but for the doll itself it's opposition everyone that benefit from it. So you know of course they're not going to vote for reductions are they? It's like the turkeys and christmas you know yourself. I just wanted to point something out heat and fuel prices at the minute impossible on a local on a low wage. We are struggling we're just surviving everything I have is budgeted but I have stopped going anywhere unnecessary in my car at all less shops less shopping once a week only that's not helping the economy more jobs more people affected but that's what this is doing to people and the local oil company I bought from forever has lost my business and heating oil and coal because when the announcement made to lower they hiked the price instantly to take the hit and make more profits to fill their own pockets I like I don't want I mean obviously I would be very interested and speak to someone within the industry sort of they could explain this I just don't want us to be sort of presuming that oil companies I mean they have to buy the oil in but they just buy it on a bigger scale you know we heard speaking to the guy from the agri company yesterday he buys his oil in his diesel unit 2000 sorry 20 000 litres at a time he has to buy that and then he has to make money in doing the work for farmers and I presume the oil companies are on that but on a larger scale they have to buy it off someone and then sell it on and pass on whatever those increases are I don't know how it works I don't know how it works but I just don't want the default position until such time as someone explains it to us for me to presume that you know there's a bit of gouging going on right okay but listen thank you very much for your comment Greg without taking any away from the poor unfortunate Ukrainian people I just find it amazing how quickly things can move in this country when there is a will to do it the other things are bogged down with reports reviews wonder where we're all going to put all these people that were going to be taken in this will not be a temporary situation as there could be more for a few years we'll have to build some sort of accommodation as they can't stay in hotels forever or in a room in people's houses and there are only so many hotel rooms in the country we are apparently taking in 100 000 people well apparently there is talk as well of temporary villages as such they go on to say I wonder what the micro affected people and homeless people will be thinking as they see all this going on and there's still no farther forward well I would imagine that they understand that their fight continues but we can't really leave you know young children can we at the at the border saying no we you can't go in as everything's fixed here because if that were the case we'd never see we'd never be able to help them right if you would like to win a brand new TV it's a 50 inch LG smart TV so it's a good size TV what's a smart TV mean for those of you don't have one well it means that it's got apps built in so you can watch Netflix is already on your TV obviously you have to subscribe to it amazon's already there the rte player is already there amazon is already there youtube there's an app for that as well facebook watch where you can watch programs like this 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farmers journal is paul mooney as constant farm sore minister to seek multimillion euro emergency package for farmers farmers will be paid to grow red clover and multi-species wards plus new supports for tillage farmers and we reveal what your cap payment will be in 2023 and beyond and don't miss six pages of analysis on what the war in ukraine means for irish farming inside this week's irish farmers journal on sale now it's been described as the best steak promotion in donigol and it continues every saturday at kelly's diner in edderkenny for just 11 euro you get a succulent eight ounce irish sirloin steak cooked to order and served with all the trimmings including a choice of different sauces it's available from three every saturday so why not treat yourself this weekend in kelly's award-winning diner at mountaintop edderkenny okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show here on highland radio we're joined on it now by definitely thomas burr and minister of state for european affairs and we're speaking ahead of a meeting in south donigol a little later today good morning to you definitely thank you very much for joining us morning thanks very much for having me on it's good to have you on now just a couple of things and obviously i want to get your views on what's happening in ukraine at the moment but one of the measures that the government has taken to try and ease the burden on the public is a deduction in excise to reduce the cost of fuel to the consumer by 20 cent for petrol and 15 cent for diesel and to a much lesser extent on green diesel now i don't know what's happening in your part of the world but none of us up here are seeing any of those reductions what's going on well i had a look this morning and we've seen in my area seen some reductions in some stations but i have to say in other stations i'm very disappointed with what i saw yesterday which is quite frankly gouging has been going on and i'm really hope that the competition and consumer protection commission will be looking at that that is calling on them to do so because you've described this as gouging and you're a government minister so yeah if there was any agreement or any concerted practice by petrol stations to do this outside of the normal price fluctuation that's a criminal effect and that can't happen and also there's 350 360 odd million euro right that's that is falling into a black hole it's your responsibility and the government's responsibility to immediately find out who's benefiting where is this 360 odd million going this is a matter of absolute urgency isn't it oh absolutely yeah absolutely and there's no question about this but the situation in terms of the way the oil price is changing it's changing all the time it's going up and maybe coming down slightly but back up and it's that price is completely outside of control and we have some control over excise duties um which we can leverage at times and we've generally speaking governments have been reluctant to reduce excise duties because there's always the risk of this type of gouging but let's be clear about this and i want anyone anyone who's made any phone call about this or who has spoken to anybody agreeing or deciding to do what people are doing it's a criminal effect and it can't be done and it certainly would be calling on the competition authorities to investigate this people are doing this in a concerted fashion and this is not allowed and it has to stop and it is a deep concern for government and should be investigated as such if that's what's going on well i'm driving past garages and it's five cents more expensive this morning than yesterday morning uh i'm not sure there's that level of fluctuation i mean we we saw oil drop 17 euro a barrel i mean can someone explain to us the consumer that's getting hit by this why price increases happen immediately price reductions don't seem to happen and that garages can for one reason or another increase their prices one garage had to have increased their price between last night and today by 30 cent because it's gone up 15 cent since the same time yesterday and the 15 cent reduction or 20 cent reduction in next size that's complete gouging if that's happening yeah it's not justified by market prices certainly there yesterday and if it's happening as i said in concert with any other garage if people don't make individual decisions about this it's a criminal offense so as a legislator what commitment can you give listeners today well the the commitment i have is that it is against the law to do that uh under competition law if people are doing it together uh and that the garden can actually investigate breaches the competition law if that's what's happening now i know evidence that the agreements are considered practices but if there are it is illegal and it certainly looks like there could be uh among among certain filling stations because others i have to say there are some that haven't done that now what i will say is though that obviously the price of oil globally is outside our control we don't have any oil wells at all and it is going to be very very difficult for the Irish government and for any government in the in the coming weeks and months if this crisis continues i mean Joe Biden was asked yesterday what can you do about the the price of gas as they say over there he basically said nothing because effectively it's it's it's to do with this conflict and the tension that Putin has been ratcheting up for quite some considerable time so the government has some levers at our disposal we used one of those levers last night with the limitations of that lever and any price reduction that you talk about in terms of excise duties there are limitations to that and we've seen we've seen some of them already that you're listeners and anyone driving around the country they wouldn't see so so that's that's the reality that we're in there are energy experts there who are giving i think very good advice on how we reduce consumption of fuels um i know people are already doing that because of the high prices and we're already watching uh things but you know those things can help households right well he's urging people to slow down that and he is obviously a green minister and a senior partner in government do you think the advice to public should go beyond um one of the top three in government saying people should slow down well look i'm not that applies in some roles absolutely not sure applies in some regard because you don't have motorway into the world but certainly on a motorway there's a massive use of fuel between 100 and 120 kilometers an hour so if you're using motorways if you slow down to 100 there's a huge reduction in fuel i i don't know whether you could the same rationale applies on country roads and national climate roads really going at the lower speed undoubtedly over 100 kilometers an hour on motorways certainly uses up a huge amount of extra fuel there's no there's no getting away from that and people might it's nearer at the advice sometimes i've seen on social media that is a fact i can't extrapolate that to country roads or the normal day to day driving the most of your list in the city yeah well it's not the case of sneering at it i think it's just maybe people are looking for i mean he was set up by the question i will concede that uh but i think people just expect maybe more uh nuanced uh and official advice but to be honest on a motorway that is good advice anyway listen there's much more going on than what he says i know and i've only one part but it's a small part of it and i just applied the vast majority of people's driving except how concerned is the government as it relates to the situation in ukraine obviously in terms of uh what's happening to the people we couldn't be any more concerned and that is a given right but you know there are a lot of people that believe that we need to be prepared because we are there are many people experts say that we are in world war three now it's just a case of how it escalates uh you know it's clear that the west and russia either by proxy by proxy are at war in ukraine well look i'm not going to say that that's the easiest thing in the world i'm one of the the worst things in the world to be is an armchair general to sit there and speculate about what conflict might spread or where it might not spread that's the last thing i want the last place i want to be um what we want to ensure is that peace is brought to the table that this conflict can stop that we can squeeze russia to the greatest extent possible to stop this conflict that's i think that's happening all over the world including in ireland i'm not sure what the effect of it is yet but it's certainly squeezing russia really really hard as again i've bought and said the other day that the value of a ruble has now down to a u.s sent basically like i mean the currency is collapsed which is going to lead to severe difficulties for people there so we're doing that um what we in ireland don't want to do is have any involvement in escalating this or we just want to concentrate on trying trying to stop this before before it would get out of hand do you think we could have had a better rather than and through the likes of leo virard car and others you know taking a very strong position on it to the point where you know the conversation from those within government and national journalists sparking the conversation about our our neutrality or where we should be going into the future i would have thought that we should have been in an ideal position to obviously not be completely impartial but to use our our independence to use our quasi neutrality as a means to sort of be a broker to position ourselves you know to have a unique position in this conversation instead we just have rolled straight in behind barris johnson and joe biden no we happen well i mean look where do you want to be do you want us to be with Belarus with syria with eric treya um i can't remember the other countries that supported russia at the un with the 85 that's not what i said but that's the point so who do we line up with and then do we line up with the abstainers do we line up with china do we line up with uh india other countries no i think our message is to be uh is to be on the to be supportive of democracy so we're not involved in a military alliance and there's no immediate possibility of us joining a military alliance but we cannot be politically neutral i mean the constitution requires us to respect international law and our dealings with states fundamental principle of international law is that countries are allowed to protect their own borders so we're obliged legally to support that international law and that's what we've done and if you look at the un security council we've our ambassador geraldine burnison and our deputy ambassador jim kelly they've been extraordinarily strong voices at the security council give some fantastic speeches speaking straight to the russians there uh the problem of course of the un at the moment is that the the russians have a veto at the security council so it's very very hard to get things done but i think our land has been incredibly strong voice but we're not going to stand back and say there's two sides to this because i think anyone watching them will tell you no no that wasn't my suggestion but i understand where you're going with it but that wasn't my suggestion at all um you know we can condemn it in the absolute terms but we can try and you know not smash the gates of embassies or change the names of roads of embassies you know we can do everything we want to to support ukraine but maybe i just think we could have maybe there was a role for us as some sort of an arbitrar but perhaps not okay as i say that doesn't mean we support russia or play down the middle that's not what i was saying either um it's an interesting question because it's kind of an ever-changing question that will be discussed in the abbey hotel in donogaltown tonight at 6 30 p.m and that's inviting the public to discuss the future of the future of europe and it's an uncertain future but i suppose there are some some certainties there as well yeah well i mean look at this event tonight in donogaltown i think this it's a good event we're trying to bring the conference the future of europe out to the regions and to every part of our island as best we can and what's happening with the conference in the future of europe is that there is a discussion going on right across europe and that is in about the future of europe the french government have really been to the forefront of pushing this but we've all agreed that we would have this discussion and this different idea is going around and different perspectives so the key thing about this is that sometimes we think of these official conferences are the politicians its leaders it's all these getting together telling the rest of us what to do but in fact the conference future of europe is different it's been actually listening to people finding out what their views are and feeding them into the process so in terms of what comes up with donogaltownite it'll certainly be feeding into my perspective on the conference representing the government but also goes directly into what's called the digital platform of the conference and then get analyzed by other people as well and we've done a number of these events in person we did a lot of events in online as well and we also have this the irish politicians, ministers and there's a number of irish families, exit citizens involved in the conference future of europe as well when it meets formally in strazburg but all of these events then feed into it so i think it's a very good opportunity in donogaltownite and what is the format of it i mean are there talking points well the format in general is that one would basically get together and have a discussion that's facilitated and moderated and there's no sort of limit on what the discussion can be and this is something where we really want to get what people's views are what whether they're for european union whether they're against european union what we're doing right what we're doing what the european union is doing wrong and my message to everybody really is that we think of the european union as some people sorry think of the european union of strazburg and brussels but really the european union is dunigod and letter kenny unfortunately now it's not dairy because of brexit but we've got to remember that the european union is with the people right across europe and we've got to make sure that everybody's voice is heard and people you know people really i think in fairness i think should be getting involved because it is about all of us and indeed at some of the events that have been asked around the country i've been really pleased because i think people are sort of taking initiative to to discuss these issues that are difficult and sometimes they're you know they're controversial the whole issue of of military neutrality is not not particularly something that we will uh you know that i expect major changes to happen out of this process but these are these are difficult decisions and that i'm funding of member states as well the whole issue of the environment and how we make sure we bring people along with us at european level how we make the digital transition how we make sure that everywhere including the highlands and islands as such are very much included in in in the future of european union so so it can be difficult um but i think it's it's really really worthwhile and this this process then leads to a kind of a kind of a conclusion kind of a conclusion on the night of may which is europe day where a lot of the recommendations that come from all of these events somehow get we're working at moment on how we actually get everything together and i would hope after that then we see some concrete proposals that then are sort of easier to discuss with their concrete proposal at the moment there's a lot of thought and ideas just coming together understood okay thanks for your time this morning uh i really do appreciate it that's deputy thomas burr and he is uh minister of state for european affairs that event this evening is at 6 30 p.m in the abbey hotel in donnie galtown an opportunity to discuss the future of europe you register from 6 p.m there's refreshments as well and it runs until 8 30 so it's a two hour commitment you've got the minister thomas burr and speaking there and others the meeting is organized by the european movement arland right we're going to take a quick break we'll come back with a piece of music if you've a song if you have a request that you want played let us know we'll uh do that for you maybe it's a birthday an anniversary or you just want to say hello to someone the 9 till noon show with 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effectively went up 18 cent overnight because of course uh the uh the the key question here is it's very important for us to know where 360 million euro is going that is the cost of this initiative from government up until the end of what was it the end of august right so this is 360 euro of million euro of your money okay the lady we were spoken to earlier on who is uh who has to make big decisions as it relates to heating her mobile home and and all that type of stuff with her and the four children okay her money uh it's your money whoever is listening it's your money we need to know we're entitled to know we should demand to know where this 360 million euro is going we cannot allow it to disappear down some black hole now if it is not going anywhere uh you know if no one's making money off the back of it that is fine i just don't want a situation where we find major companies record record profits like we did see uh and huge dividends for their shareholders like we did see when the uh support the business support scheme was put out there some people made an awful lot of money you remember that controversy right let's not wait till the end of august to start in september to have that conversation that's ministers like the minister we just had now represent us the people our money they're spending our money right that's a decision they made they never did nothing for us they decided what to do with our money we need to know where that 360 million because that will cover a lot of things that would build a lot of houses for example for people affected by mica those are the type of answers that we demand and it's i don't think honestly and it's no disrespect to the minister i don't think it's good enough that someone in government kind of goes well it could be gouging or we hope it's not i think that's something that they should know today what's going on they should be able to say well we've checked with uh with we've we've checked with the industry and they tell us 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doing something logical if you reduce your speed you'll save money and fuel but i think that we lost something fantastic in this country in the 80s and the 90s or i'm going back to the 80s and 90s where when i was going to college and when i was going to work first i thumbed the lift or i car shared and i thought those were great days and the camaraderie and the friendship she built up and i'm from over west on you go and i mean at that time in the mid 80s there was probably a half a dozen carers going to let the kenny to the uh on a daily basis and they were they were filled out with passing your particularly students like myself going to go to the college and you had to put those cars uh literally year to year to get a lift to let her can i and it was the dumb thing and you knew who was going and the crack that used to be in in in those car loads and the literally the relationship they're built up the things that that you know i still remember and remember very fondly and i mean it's the same with the college in slago uh i thumbed or in training in val and an as far as where it's doubling i thumbed uh and this came to actually not with your discussions where and it came to light for me at the weekend there was clinic they had it kind of came on an old folder a school folder or college folder that i had folded four ways with balanas lego leather kenny and done it all written on it and i could turn that folder around you'd hold that out in front of the carers as to give an indication of where you were going and that's it i mean i i'm with all due respect i i just wonder because i thumbed all over the place myself if maybe you're looking back with rose tinted glasses a little bit i mean that with respect because i know i was lucky enough i never had an instance but i do know at least two of my friends things happened in cars you know what i mean like experiences happened that that was the last time they ever thumbed a lift again i was lucky enough but sometimes you know that they didn't come and you ended up walking you'd have to walk you know i just don't really think i i get the car sharing thing and you know maybe we think that all of us should have our own car and sit in the car and our own and i get that but in terms of the thumbing stuff i think it was of a time i don't think certainly you know for for women maybe more so than men but not exclusively it's probably not a solution to anything it's just something to look back look back on fondly but i mean that sadly those things probably did happen but sadly thankfully there were an absolute minority i mean i can think of it going out the bundoren road in slago uh to thumb and the only danger you're in was a row that would are up between between and usually people were in pairs you you you thumbed with a body and and if you saw somebody heading in the left of the pole and you tried to stand there the people that were already there before you there's a roaring and get them on but and yeah good memories i'll give you that much the correct it's a lot but again but leaving aside the thumbing which is probably more of the young person's game but uh the car sharing i mean you know when avid's was going strong in dunny galt in dunny galtown back in the still going strong but in the early in the first iteration of avid's and people were traveling from as far away as lezman goard to to dunny galtown to to avid's there was a good few cars from the glinty's area that car shared to dunny galtown my wife was on one of those cars for over 20 years and you know again friendships that were built up there was a mini bus mini buses used to run to avid's in dunny now it wasn't run by the company i i don't believe it was and it was it was probably run by i just think i think you know that was at that time at that time and maybe it's not as much now it's about manufacturing i don't know maybe there are assembling things okay and people had shifts eight hour shifts and i just think an awful lot of the employment in this country is in this county sorry is you know it is it is if you know that it wouldn't lend itself to how many people working i don't believe so i mean avid's still work shifts work longer shifts to work three shifts people like primarik and lezkenny you know the healthcare math employers they work shifts if the employer and and a bus company got together and came up with some sort of a scheme that they could encourage people to leave the car at home and that like i drive over minora every day and i mean i meet mostly people in single occupant cars like it is absolutely crazy yeah i guess you know i mean and it's the same at schools look it's the same at schools you will see almost i mean obviously there's some of the students are on buses but you will see almost a car per student yeah and that's i mean when i again when i would have went to college first in the urkney or in slago it was extremely exceptional i can particularly remember in urkney one girl in our class and the amazing thing was it was all fellas it was a telecoms class and it was all fellas and there was one girl she was home from america and and she had a mark 2 rs 2000 because the family were very wealthy and shoo we were all a goggles and everybody wanted a lift in that car a lift in the car as much as it was a young lady that owned the car but she was the only one that had the car nowadays even at our secondary schools we had people driving to school at 16 and 17 in their cars and probably maybe a family car initially or their own car and i look at what i'm not sure how routine that is but i take you i take you for all the point but there are some if they've stayed back in you the minister i could do to talk to his to his colleague the minister for education and if he came up with something i don't know people say oh you can't do that well how about banning any secondary school student taking a car to secondary school and instead coming up with a a a bike to school campaign we get there is a bike to work scheme and people buy good expensive bikes lots of that maybe also do though when you're helping back right when you're looking back like you know it was easy to own us it was relatively easy to own and run a scooter um or you know a small motorbike you're like you used to be small motorbikes yeah everywhere we 50s right now you have to jump through jump through so many hoops to get that people aren't going down that road i mean lots of us got around on 150s we did actually that's another very good point yeah and now you don't see it you don't see it now because they're scared to firstly they're legislated off the bike but scared to because everything's going to kill you you know i mean crossing the road will kill you so and and then what we have to do is we have to do 12 tests and you have to do this that and the other you know so even an an old alternative like that taking the 150 now obviously it might be a modern equivalent but a scooter yes you know an electric scooter but so you can't go on scooters and even if you can use an electric scooter they're dangerous so we have to get them off the road and you can't use that there and so you know we're we're we're pushed into cars i'm back i'm back to talking about the minister again there is there is a a a a dearth of legislation around around ebikes and e scooters and that uh at the moment it was talked about often and yet we have the people that should be driving those scooters and that are are 16 euros and 17 euros i'm not going to encourage 12 euros and 13 no but i'm on about like all about people who are old enough to go to work because a lot of them are going to work right 16 17 18 year olds that they couldn't get a car it's it's it's very hard to run a car but the hoops you have to jump to to get into one in the first place it's a nightmare if they're old enough to work and hold down a job and pay taxes you know let them travel the four or five kilometers or 10 kilometers on a on a on a scooter or a small engine motorbike or even the old old push bikes that you could drop the motor down onto the front wheel but we don't allow that we're every the whole idea is that everyone has to get into a car and in you know 10 years time no one's going to be able to you know young people are going to find it hard to get into an electric car for example but it definitely starts in the home at that rate of going because like i mean you know we encourage we don't stop or we don't make our our our young our older teenagers think about buying that first car and we especially don't uh we're as a derelict student duty almost uh uh uh pronounce it almost to allow that um 17 year old or 18 year old to drive a car to secondary school and then hence what i say if the ministers would come together and say well that shouldn't be allowed yet we will give them literally give them a free second uh top class mountain bike or whatever give it an anonymous call but i'll roll on gear it's funny you see joe i mean i i get what you're saying but you know uh if we thought if parents thought i think that their children could cycle to school safely they might be more inclined to actually encourage it they won't need to be told to do anything by the government but i'm thinking in my situation or other people around me situation would you comfortably allow someone to head off in a dark winter's morning heading for school on a bike you'd say no because the roads just simply aren't built for it like they might be in a in a like i'd be interested in how many dutch students cycle to school it's probably much greater than here and that's probably down to their infrastructure the minister for some some uh dutch minister was was he not on your show back a couple months ago i was up on fanad looking out and listening to it uh where a dutch minister was in ireland for some event and uh he was he he he was in his electric car was not at any he was in his electric car but anyway what we have to do he couldn't get a charge and then the discussion came up about how the facilities are much better and and and holla look at you only have to see exactly you only have to see uh when schools are off in the mornings you can travel around comfortably when the schools are on everyone's in a car you can't but but we maybe have to think about that why do we why do we not have any exclusions on you're talking about about and we all notice that how the road run was quite over school if you're coming in from from from church hill or from fintan or from glennie western evolved and tell her kenny in the morning and you come to blacks corner uh every morning uh there's a traffic jam there because four or five schools up the back lane there that you have the loretto you've seen dunes you have the two nice no schools and everybody's up there and you've done so old on stores care up right there and i cannot understand why there's all right i'm going to leave you with this one because this is a sign of the times joe call us there's a relation to car sharing that's all right until there's a crash and everyone you have given a lift to makes a claim on you that's the way we are living you can end up in the high court and i think that's a really good point but your points are very interesting and well made thanks joe thank you very much bye bye take care all right so thanks for listening and taking part the night till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letter kennycu.ie or in office today highland radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime plus five grand spending money get your ticket now at highland radio.com answer the question and start packing stuttered draw takes place april 14th on the nine till then show get your ticket early and enter a bonus draw for an extra week's holiday in turkey start planning your ultimate getaway only on highland radio dear daniel ever since you 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liter without further government intervention a cotton excise duty came into place overnight however many four courts have put up their prices yesterday a number of tds have written to the competition and consumer protection commission this morning asking them to investigate areas where there are school places available may be the first to receive ukrainian child refugees education ministers admitted the finding school places for the estimated 30,000 children who need them will be a challenge meanwhile in midlands northwest m e p is calling for a temporary postponement of some e u climate targets that farmers have to meet so that they can divert their efforts instead to ensuring fruit security in the e u colomarky says the war in ukraine may mean changing priority away from climate target policies embedded in the likes of cap and farm to fork the chair of the regional health form west is warning that cova 19 is having a serious impact on letter kenny university hospital the hospital is currently dealing with 70 infectious cases of the virus with a number of wards converted into cova wards cancer gerry mcmonagall says the spread of the virus is having a knock on effect on the delivery of other services in the hospital there are further calls for an increase in electric vehicle charging points to be rolled out in dunny gall and our draw hotel owner claims she has been subjected to a number of cancellations due to the absence of a charging point in the town and killie baggs has seen a new lease of life as a result of remote working that's according to dunny gall deputy thomas pringle he was speaking in the doll in support of a labour motion on flexible and remote work jebley pringle says this way of working has allowed many dunny gall people return home from doblin and further afield which they previously wouldn't have been able to do so those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mckella thank you very much back after this short 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know often we talk about uh stuff relationships and we will because we'll get to people's questions but i mean you know every relationship i think is going to be affected by external influences and we've just come through the covid pandemic and it was very very tough and an awful lot for people to we're still going through but for an awful lot of people to cope with but you were able to sort of have some control over that situation i think and that might have helped people now we seemingly out of that and we're straight into an existential crisis we don't know where this is going to go and we are out of control we can feel out of control in it how do we have any tips on how we can we can we can cope with this you know because people will be reading the news and wondering where this is going to go and what kind of world we actually could end up living in this could scale up to something like most of us have never seen before keely absolutely and i think one of the things that we need to take responsibility for and it's very difficult is how much news we consume because it's having a massive impact it's starting to sharpen the therapy room and you know the reality is if we just perpetually watch it and go from app to app to app uh keeping up to date you know i have many clients who who are from um from europe who speak different languages and i'm beginning to realize they're also watching the news and their various you know home home language and and it's all creating increased mental health problems anxiety panic attacks and so one way is to try to limit some of your exposure to the news and that maybe you particular choose a particular time of day that's also about auditing your phones because if you're getting news alerts and updates um that's not particularly helpful and again just like the pandemic even though it is different it is uncertain times and uncertainty is very difficult for humans because we like to be kind of we like to have often the illusion of control and that's one of the reasons why when situations are unsettling it can be so detrimental but it's to know that you know we've come we've come through the pandemic we you know we're on the other side ish hopefully ish and and and and and listen you know and i guess some of this we're just going to have to watch as it plays out and i suppose too we have to understand that look you know your your bbc news your sky news and what have you this program obviously we discuss current affairs so it's going to feature on this program uh whilst that program is always there you don't always have to consume it either uh you know even i as someone who works in the media i will as much as i can switch off i'm struggling more so with this crisis than i have with previous crises but you have to as you say it's the perfect advice i think just because the information is there just because it's being broadcast it's there for you to tune in when it suits you it's not there for you to sit there absorbing it constantly because none of us could insulate ourselves then from the stress and anxiety i don't think any of us could be strong enough if we were constantly bombarding ourselves with it that is what's happening and that is one of the factors that are you know starting to show up in the room more often panic attacks especially for people you know who are closer to the countries surrounding the ukraine and that's totally understandable and again you know we have got the skills we have developed them through the pandemic you know about taking more responsibility for ourselves our own well-being focusing on what you can truck and control is there a humanitarian group in your area are there things that you can do because we know sitting there consuming isn't good so what action might you be able to take what causes might there be available to you that you can assist so that that helplessness despair worry and fret and the pessimism doesn't take over you because it's a real issue for sure and you're talking about it on a countrywide scale and i agree and i can understand that too but if things get even more tense you're going to see a difference between how someone in Glasgow might be dealing with it compared to London because obviously you know London is the capital and god forbid if things were ever to escalate you know you would start seeing an increase in anxiety in our capital cities okay right okay great advice let's get to some other questions if that's okay keely my best friend is married to a man who tracks her every move she was talking to us all about leaving him the next thing is she's pregnant she's clearly very unhappy the other day i met her for coffee we had planned to go to one place it was packed so we went elsewhere he was immediately on the phone asking her where she was and why she wasn't where she said she would be she was clearly embarrassed and wanted the call to end the next thing he asked her to switch the phone to camera so we could see where she and where she was and who she was with afterwards she cried with embarrassment what do i do to help with clearly this woman needs to get out of this situ ASAP but what can her friends do to assist her i wonder keely in situations like that it is about encouraging people to seek some professional support letting them know about helplines that are available to them domestic abuse helpline samaritans signposting and endeavoring to not be judgmental which isn't always easy because you know naturally we care about our friends and we don't want our friends in certain situations but endeavoring to not be judgmental and to understand it's complex it's really complex lives are you know relationships are formed pregnancy so it's it's it's tricky and that can be really difficult for friends but signposting is is fundamental yeah it's worth pointing out too at least in this country that that is actual criminal behavior that is coercive control which is actually a crime here and there have been convictions not only in our part of the world but nationally as well uh how to handle in-laws that refuse to speak sorry it's just in-laws as soon as i see that word i don't know i go back to carry on films or something but this is very serious how do how to handle in-laws that refuse to speak to in front of your children and they'll go out of their way to make you feel worthless but my other sister-in-law is the best thing since sliced bread that's a horrible situation so so just found that by me yeah so this person the the uh their in-laws refuse to speak to them in front of their children i don't understand the significance of in front of the children and they'll go out of their way to make them feel worthless but there's another sister-in-law uh and they treat her like the best thing so i mean basically really uh she doesn't understand or he doesn't understand why uh his in-laws dislike him or her but i presume it's a her but there's another sister that she's obviously the golden child sister-in-law well well the dynamic is what do you need to do to protect yourself from that situation often if you challenge people when they're treating you poorly they may deny it they may try and act like well what than i was wrong with you so you know you may have a conversation with your partner about have you noticed your parents are a little bit off with me see where that goes and if not think about what choices you need to make to protect yourself because if you're at the bottom of the totem pole and that's been an issue throughout your life you know not being regarded being overlooked this can tap into bigger self-esteem issues and and taking responsibility for yourself therefore kindly declining invitations where you're going to be subjected to this kind of behavior is in your best interest and may well be uncomfortable for everybody else if you're not agreeable however if you're in situations where you're being ill treated undermined overlooked again it's our responsibility to look after ourselves yeah my husband has lost all interest in sex now the caller says he's a hundred percent not seeing anyone else now obviously you might say they need to talk about this but the problem is is the caller wants to know how do i get him to talk about why this part of our life is dead so how do you get him to engage in the conversation to try and find some sort of resolution because as we've said before you don't know what might be going on in his mind absolutely not and it can be a taboo subject it can be a subject that evokes embarrassment i think the challenge is to have the conversation about the impact it's having on you and encourage the individual to either seek help professional help maybe go into the doctors is something wrong downstairs do they tend to avoid but again to avoid the conversation means that there's only going to be a build up and what's going to be the impact on your own libido you know there's usually a kind of a long-term consequence for that because it's not just a physical uh actors and it's an emotional act as well absolutely and it's an important part of any you know intimate relationship and if you're both at the same point where you both don't want sex and that works for you whoopie do but if you're not it can be particularly you know particularly problematic and you know quite symbolic in terms of when the sex goes out of a relationship that's a very interesting time yeah all right uh just time for one more keely i've started dating a man we're in our early 30s before this relationship i had a bad breakup and some unfulfilling flings so i want to hold back from having sex for a while however he seems to be losing patience with me and says we need to know if we're compatible in the bedroom as well in the rest of our relationship am i wrong to delay sex my friends tell me i'm crazy because i uh i don't he'll find it elsewhere well if he's not prepared to accept her on reasonable i think they're reasonable terms i think that's a nice early big red flag for her yeah well it's her t's and c's you know and it can be very difficult to hold your boundary in relationships especially if we've been waiting for mr right to come along and then we meet someone and we've made a choice that we're going to with you know we've hold weight delay sex because often in the past we may have given it up too freely and those relationships haven't manifested as ever this is something to communicate to the partner in terms of your rationale if you choose to not that we always have to explain ourselves and i guess the challenge is if someone doesn't agree with that is their space for compromise i think it's about having the open dialogue letting somebody know where you're coming from but if that doesn't work for them and they're not prepared to wait and sadly that's that's where that relationship will kind of hit the buffers keely thank you very much as always keely is a psychotherapist author and coach if people want to check out more about you and your services keely how do they do so you can find me at key4change.com you can use the number four all right f o r key4change.com all right stay happy stay safe thanks keely take care all right bye bye that's keely tavernor there uh or tavernor sorry psychotherapist author and coach she'll be back with us in three or four weeks if you want to get a question into us you can email comments at highlandradio.com we'll endeavor to get an answer for you the 90 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 driving the new fiat 500 is choosing an all-new all-electric car with an impressive range and not to 80 percent fast charging in 30 minutes it's choosing a car that's so full of tech it will confidently and safely drive you into the next decade it's choosing to believe in a better tomorrow welcome back future new 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and it's all on different scales as well john mclaughlin of gml transport or jml transport and recycling joints as john thanks for taking the call this morning yes greg welcome back now you really are john probably at the cold face in terms of of you know having to buy a lot and having an impact on your your day today hi it does is it's unbelievable how much an impact is having and and the price is just going through the rift and i just took a photograph of lost services this morning 110 and 114 or 210 214 that's what the diesel and petrol is uh it's just a necklace where it's going and i do listen and i hear people saying yeah they're taking 15 cent off but i i'll take a few weeks for the 15 cent to come off because they'll they'll do a bag of tricks and people put up the pressure down the pressure to confuse people and that's that's that's the name of the game in ireland just confuse the people that's that's what it's all about yeah what have you hearing back from the meeting between the Irish road haulage association and um the government last night i heard they weren't seeing them yesterday all right i didn't hear no news back today from the Irish wood haulage to see what the story is uh i was a member up to a couple years ago until i'd done that other last demonstration and then i stopped because they didn't want to do what i wanted to do and was that the one towards the end of last year uh no way back a few years ago i'd done a blockade up in Dublin and here and everything else and then i went to Dublin and we got seven centimetre back for the for a rebate for the lorry divers but i wanted to do it for the bus men the taxi men because we're all using diesel we're all hurting and it affects everybody but uh i've had more people than enough for them in these last two weeks and i'm driving back and forth england as well myself and and more people that might not do nothing or why am i not doing nothing so i've just come to the conclusion it's time to do something and the only way i see that we get something done in this country is start a war because when you start a war things get done right away so are you on about like protesting i protest and i'm going to i'm going to put a thing together now with the bus men the taxi men the haulage men we have to all get together and and pick out a team and and do it right this time and is there a government as well you know i mean obviously we can talk about the the tax take from the government and all this kind of stuff but is the crisis not such i mean we actually could be looking at 350 a litre uh in the not too distant future so the external factors are such right is there any is there any advantage uh what can be achieved what can the government actually do once prices get to such a level do you know what i mean like it's like you're not really need to be planning to run your business on three euro a litre no i'm not no but then the the only way i can explain it to you is put a hundred people in front of you now today gregg and you asked a question how many people knows how much the government's getting out of one euro of diesel and she who puts up their hand i'll put you on a bet now that probably four or five people put the hand up and tell you knew nothing exactly right if not right but i think more people i think more people i think more people might be aware now than would have been a couple of years ago but look at you know you you see i think also in your comment you talk about as well you know our services in this country being overstretched and maybe we aren't capable of bringing in and supporting more people okay but it is the likes of the tax on the petrol and diesel that is used to provide services and to support the people living in this country so you're asking them to not take it off you guys so where does that where does that shortfall come from then i mean you can't have you can't have it both ways you can't criticize the lack of services and then say well don't take tax to pay for them off us because we can't continue in business yeah i know but what's wrong is um for instance our cancer patients is all means tested at the moment our local people it's all means tested our our local people that is homeless our pirate people that's got all their houses and my daughter's one of them houses falling around their ears and they're fighting over pennies and yet all of a sudden a war in ukraine and they're leaving on a hundred thousand people what's happening of course now i don't have no don't get me wrong i'll be the first to put my hand in my pocket to help them i'll be the first to help on any shape player farm but i just where's all this money coming out all of a sudden and and the we're borrowing it so we're borrowing it you know we we we borrowed 60 on billions deal with covid and we're gonna just go borrowing it again i mean listen when we're back to 2008 the yoon break where obramovich had a big boat and and now they're looking to take the boat off him like i can't get where you're coming from john i just think that this this this is the potential to scale to such an extent uh that that that that 208 209 recession will look like tiddlywinks that this is this is at such a scale here john you know i understand where you're coming from and we have to protest but this is a this is a global situation that obviously the elite and the rich will be well insulated but they'll not be insulated from everything no they're not no i know just i came on the boat last night and i was listening to a conversation on the radio station where a family of seven came to england yesterday morning sometime uh and looking for help to stay somewhere and uh they were turned away and told them to go back uh they landed on their three month old mercedes cheap seven of a family and looking for a hotel to stay on free of charge and they were turned away now it doesn't matter what they landed on where was a van a jeep whatever they still should have been helped because obviously without quick but it's just some of the things that's going on is ridiculous uh what do you know yourself if you're a clever person uh you know they could have maybe been too successful business people in ukraine they could have had a loan out for that jeep uh but their jobs are gone their businesses are flattened their houses are flattened so i don't really see the relevance of maybe they can sell the jeep uh and contribute to their to the expense but yeah it's a motive but i mean it doesn't tell the full story what you're saying there's money on the bank for to do all these things and yet we can't help the people of the male people with their houses we can't help the homeless we can't help our own but we seem to be able to help everybody else all right well on that then just on that question right let me put it to this 10 000 people 10 000 people have offered spare rooms to ukrainian refugees that's the public this is not the government now why do you think we need to ask why we never fixed the homeless crisis that way we never took all these we never took all the homeless and dan trodden people in off the streets even over christmas why are we flinging our doors open and right you know and rightly so when people are doing that but you know like that's a that's that's also a public question that's not a government question there john no i know you're pulling the hard strings there that's what you're doing uh now for as going for the homeless people the homeless people would be coming from backgrounds of alcoholists we don't know the background of ukrainian people yeah i know i know but the the way the irish would look at it as there were druggies alcoholics or whatever they wouldn't open the door so quickly to them as where the government would just let them sit along the side of the road um and fairness like the do you pull with your hard strings and as i say what's happened shouldn't be happening and but again the government let this happen right from a business point of view yeah where's the tipping point oh good question um that's very neared i've made actually went over the tipping point at the moment but uh that's common very very close to it uh that we're just going to have to either switch off and possibly park up and and wait to see what happens maybe that's maybe the best thing to do because if it goes much higher that's what we're going to have to do because what we're going to what's happening at the minute we're passing it down to the consumer are down to the people that we're working for their passionate to their people and their passionate right down to the people that's buying the products so the product is not going to be bought which will end up me going you know i'll be doing this much work so it's it's it's not going to affect the whole time but the government uh the government is great at confusing people and everything else like that sort of job that the confused people as in you know when they're not looking one way they're doing something else that but you think they could be doing more to make the likes of a business then all right right let us uh be interested to see what when when this protest takes place what form it will take i'm sure we'll talk closer to that time thanks john all right all right thank you very much indeed okay so we've been talking so far haven't we for the most part about the 10 cent 15 cent reduction being lost in in increases but what about the two cent that was offered on on green diesel joseph is a farmer and he's i've lost joseph there we'll try and get joseph back again um because he is an important point to make in the meantime let's take a few messages the nine till noon show with letterkenny credit union mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly credit union email mortgage at letterkennycu.ie at smith's daleside our monty range of highly palatable calf feed enhances room and development and 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can now welcome joseph uh who is a farmer onto the program hi joseph thanks for taking the call all right no bother right so as part of this excise cut announcement was it two cent a liter on uh agricultural diesel what impact is that making in real terms that that's what i would love to know there's the people that made that two cent reduction do you think that that's going to have any influence on the situation when you think about a thousand liters of their abstracted diesel at thirteen hundred and forty on monday and you get twenty euros down if from that so that's what that two uh sent equates to it would be saving twenty euro on a thousand liters of green diesel and a thousand liters so it's it's effectively it's nothing really that's just about it that like i'll call an insult to the intelligence of the firemen community how is um rising fuel costs going to impact on farming in your view joseph uh well if it carries on it's going to stop it as simple as that like we couldn't carry on like you take the the thousand liters of tractor diesel at thirteen forty on monday the monday before that it was nine eighty nine a jump of three hundred and fifty euro and a week very hard to claw that back can't can't be done can't be done and the minister and the minister trying to get people to grow extra barley or wheat or feed stuff or cattle next winter at those kind of prices and the price of fertilizer that's just not going to happen it's a perfect storm isn't it between you know us uh supply shortages asking farmers to increase their outputs but farmers not being able to do so because of the cost of doing so i mean it's very it's going to be very hard to sort that one out well it's not practical at all now simple as that what do you think should be done what do i think should be done well i don't know who's who's to blame for it all but unless the prices drop again like fertilizer is over double what it was last year and so and so was the fuel are there any alternatives to buying in fertilizer not very much um other than reduce the cell off the stock and not have to grow as much feed stuff for the winter no that's not that's not helpful either see that's every time you look for a solution it creates another problem doesn't it joseph yeah that's that's only happened right just whatever whatever grows naturally will be what will be feeding cattle for in a lot of cases that summer how worried are you for this year i'm very worried now very worried now about growing growing a bit about they're growing anything like we're they're talking now about their own bill of sale is just to be billed unwrapped at 20 euros a bill the fertilizer alone would cost about eight euros a bill at today's process at today's process and possibly more by the summer time so that's going to be very very dear feeding for next winter yeah all right okay joseph thanks for your insight i appreciate it so effectively to a farmer the uh excise reduction was the equivalent to 20 euro and a thousand liters of oil more of your comments here the filling station in raffo that greg mentioned was selling fuel for 184 it's still selling it for that price no sign of it going down i never mentioned any uh specifics by the way but um maybe a listener did fitting station in burnfoot was selling its fuel at 198 last night at 9 p.m when the caller passed it this morning it's at 202 uh caller used to run a service station the owners of the service station were not given a rebate of 25 automatically at midnight last night the government can't reduce the price straight away as they are working with stocks of fuels which they've paid the higher price for now on that right okay i accept what you're saying and i understand that so the the new fuel is where the saving might be shown but you can't tell me that when there's a fuel increase that everybody runs out of fuel at the same runs out of fuel or gets restocked with the fuel at the same time and all the increases seem to go on at the same time mid stock seemingly mid stock or else everyone runs out at the exact same time so i take your argument but presumably if it can be balanced out with an increase can it not be balanced out with a decrease but a caller says the government should explain to the public that it will take service stations at least a week or more before they can pass on the discount depending on stock levels to the government and the public expect the service station owners to take the hit no business could sustain that but again let me ask the question are you saying that petrol station owners do not increase the price uh on the stock they've already bought in if the answer to that is is uh no they don't well then i'll fully accept your point of view uh i i fully accept your point of view and i but you understand it will make more sense to me time for us to have an election fina full of no idea what they're doing and as usual the priority seems to be business and not ordinary people we need to show government the strength of ill feeling towards recent decisions by voting them out of office as soon as is possible i just wonder is that anyone would anyone be that keen in getting into government now i think uh they probably wouldn't want to be okay right important to issue here now uh we're going to speak to uh kelly marie mcculgan who is chair president of autism family support group uh kelly marie thank you very much for joining us today good morning greg and thank you very much for having me on your show i really appreciate it no problem can you talk to me about the support group what work it does how many people it helps how many people are involved yeah yeah i'll give you a wee background on us um our group is run by volunteers most of whom either are autistic people or parents of autistic children young people and adults the volunteer their time providing support for parents by sharing experiences and being a listener to each other and we create awareness locally and support local business businesses and schools when they ask we have enough volunteers when we have enough volunteers we run in-house group social groups uh and um and training for all the families we also organize family fun days out in the community and activities and for the social inclusion part of the children's or the adult and all the autistic people's lives and these groups and activities are so important to autistic people and their families because autism can be a lonely lonely journey our children can find it hard to be involved with their peers or even have a connection with peers of their own age group of all ages of autistic people and what area would you service uh kelly marie it's literally just a volunteer and and we do but what area of the county sorry do most of your clients come from if you could the letter of kenny right okay members we call them yeah members okay that's that's that's good to get the correct terminology now you find yourself in a situation where you are that the presumably the future of the group might be in doubt because you're down to um a very small committee yeah um in the last we'll say maybe six months it was down to two active committee members and then um now it's down to just myself in since friday now within our group i have shared and invited parents themselves to step up if to have the time um to support each other and to keep the committee going so that then we can do the activities that we love doing to support each other but at now this stage i'm looking at what where the group has come from and it has been run by parents for many years and autistic people and adults i mean um that now why not just branch out and ask members of our community to invite them in um to join our committee so that we can have a more diverse and equal board what would the role of a committee member be for those listening they go right i might have a little bit of spare time well this is something i've been interested in so what would a committee members role be well it'd be just like a few hours a month to commit their time to like organ like support and organize um activities and outings and and social inclusion and stuff like that and support us all in the community okay and um you're hoping hoping people son how many other committee would you realistically need the more um obviously the more the more the merrier because that that spreads the workload it's an awful lot for you to be taking or maintaining on your own probably not possible okay no it's not no it's not legally for illegally of course there's a legal element to it of course yeah because we're um registered as a cro company but it's it's um all organized fundraising and we we don't like make money if you know what i mean from funding um and it's just like we're just reaching out and asking people if you have time to just reach in an email you know email us and i'll reply you know when i have time yeah but i will get back to people and the email by the way is and i'll mention it again towards the end autism letter kenny at gmail.com um there's that this is time sensitive to you for a little over a week really to form a new committee and if not this group is lost and when something like this is lost it we know from history don't we uh kelemary it's often not replaced i mean is there another support group that that's not a competing support group don't get me wrong like i'm trying to find out what i'm trying to ascertain why why have you been reduced to sort of having to try and do things in your own and as you mentioned legally legally you can't i presume you you engaged in and worked with and helped lots of people with or affected by autism yes we have now i'm only i've only stepped up to join the committee in the last um six months really and then of course sadly i can my crying story i i got covid and then i just stepped down all together for a lot of months there but as i step back up then when i step you don't actually come come away from your your post like i was always chair but i just was too unwell to to be actively volunteering with the group but it's just the stress and strains of the parents themselves that they can't run it and like there is people now that have stepped up um and said that they want to be involved and they want to be on the committee and that is fantastic our own members you know parents and um and autistic people themselves but i'm reaching out to to get more we want more people in the community to kind of support the group as well and and volunteer we're always needing volunteers to run us and stuff and when you join in there's there's no specific experience needed at all and no no experience at all and we'll provide the training we are supported by and involved with Donegal local development company and Donegal volunteer center and as i am the bridge forward program and they'll help us to mentor us to train and support the member the committee members and volunteers okay so it's a call out for committee members and the committee members is is the most time pressing i imagine because you need to form a committee before a week is out effectively to keep the autism family support group going and if people also maybe want to have a role in volunteering it's super it's superbly rewarding and it's very useful for for your cv or whatever your motivation might be it doesn't matter what your motivation is if you can help the more people do it the less time commitment so it's a case of putting the call out there in our calamary and seeing you know how many people go right i have a couple of hours a month that's what we're talking about and greg it's important to to um say as well that it we have to have it's essential in house guard of it and has to be done of course i think people understand that yeah yeah and um two children's first training and e-learning um has to be done and then the extra training as i am um bridge forward training and the the committee community communications training from Donegal local development company that's like it's not essential but it's up to the enriching all of the stuff you talk of is uh i mean obviously some essentials but the rest is the rest is enriching and i presume you know you want to be looking towards a a summer program rather than the this this group folding yeah definitely usually we try to have family days out like we see in arena seven or even longer you know petting zoos and stuff like that and we then link with with them and ask them to kind of lower lights and have it more artistic friendly and the community up until now have been so supportive and amazing when we do get get involved outside our own kind of building but when we run in house programs and groups mainly to socialize the children and adults because that's what they need the most they need the social connection and the fun and playful environment and then but the do the do-do and really do need to be supported to have that environment and have it safe and supportive for them to to be able to communicate with each other okay but it's amazing right we can look to to the government and the hsc and say you need to do more but this is something that's within our own power this is a people power situation so if anyone wants to have a role in this once more information autism letter kenny at gmail.com a calamary will get back to you just as soon as she can but a committee needs to be formed legally by the 18th of March so if you think you have a few hours to spare what a better way to to spend it than working with others autism letter kenny at gmail.com that's how they get in contact with you and hopefully you have a good response to this calamary it's basically it's generally around the letter kenny area so might be better suited to people living locally so they're not using up more of the time than they might if they were from outside the area but you're happy to listen to anyone i'm sure anybody at all no matter where you're from and volunteer and it's so rewarding i've been doing it for many years myself and i just love it it's it's it's like you give but you get back all the time especially with with children with autism especially needs they're just extremely special human beings you know okay calamary thank you thanks i hope you get a good response i really do sounds like it's a service that we don't want to lose okay right thanks calamary mccolgan their chair of the autism family support group that email once again autism letter kenny at gmail.com and i say this from time and time again lots of people want to help others but they struggle to do so maybe it's for financial reasons or whatever here's another opportunity to be able to make a big difference in other people's lives and as calamary said that yes you're giving but also you're getting back in spades as well the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no 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that's following on from what are we doing to try and save some money uh government took tax off fuel so it should come down straight away but uh callers are saying that they already bought this fuel with the higher excise price and when it runs out they'll be buying fuel with the lower excess excise price and that's where you'll see the saving but as i say it doesn't seem to work that way on the face of it when things are moving in in the other direction right okay Kathleen Marley is joining us on the program now hi Kathleen hello Greg how are you nice to chat to you right you are having a night on saturday to raise funds for a really important service the mountain rescue and coast guard why did you decide to uh why did you decide to host this what what's your interest in it well i've been a hill walking for years i was in a club in Dublin for over 40 years and with the swilly hikers now in letter kenny for probably maybe around five years but like i know i know that any if we need rescuing they're there to come there's no they don't think about it they just go and help us and i never had anything no any problems on the sea thank god but i know the coast guards are equally as good and they're ready to go all the time um did you say that you were rescued once or at least were assisted by mountain rescue i was yeah that wasn't in in Wicklow and the Dublin Wicklow rescue team and the glen of Amal they came to to help me out i just i went into a hole i'm just the leg cracked and it was broken in two places but the rescue they came up to me they couldn't they couldn't land the helicopter because there's too much wind so the fellas and guards came up by foot and they were just so professional um they worked on me right away and got me on the stretcher and carried me i don't know how far to a land rover got me down to an ambulance listen that do you know what you couldn't buy that and you know what that's what they do but there's so much more to it because they often fundraise themselves for all their gear for their equipment their vehicles they have to maintain the equipment after they rescued you and you were safe they had to go back to base clean down all the equipment so it's available for the next rescue you know there's an awful lot involved in in in this type of volunteering outside of kind of what we would you know think right they turn up they save you in a way they go there's so much more to it as well Kathleen you appreciate that now you had a big enough birthday last year you didn't get to celebrate it but i'm told i'm been told that but this is not a birthday celebration for you on saturday either can we not even sing happy birthday to you no coast guard not not about me it was last year but sure you couldn't celebrate it last year i know well the family celebrate it wasn't a fair place to them they did it good everybody with masks on right of course now it's cars party night but not birthday now it's cars party night in aid of mountain rescue in the coast guard it's this coming saturday 8 p.m finger food which is my favorite i would almost take finger food over sit down food finger food served at 9 p.m mark boys is providing the entertainment and you look in for supports and donations uh on night you want people to have a bit of fun have a bit of cracking at the same time help the mountain rescue and coast guard teams yeah people were saying they had nothing to go to now i'm giving them a party to go to and this isn't the travel room in milford of course that's uh that's the travellers in a milford a brilliant spot of course and it's quite central for a big part of the population kicks off at 8 p.m are you going to be doing any party tricks or anything do you sing a song kathleen told you it wasn't about me no i'll get other people to do that okay listen brilliant stuff so but you know what i have to say as well yeah like it's not easy asking for money you know especially with the ukrainian and all you know uh so but i'm just hoping to do the best we can and i hope people will come well let me put it to you like this as we try and maybe if we try have to pull in our belts a bit more people might say right you know what what's free going out for a walk doing a bit of hill climbing enjoying our our and for us to do that we do need people to be there in case something goes wrong so this is a worthy cause because we might be doing more uh using the outside a bit more and we need the likes of the mountain rescue and coast guard right so it's cars party night tonight if the mountain rescue coast guard this saturday night at 8 p.m finger foods at nine and mark boys is providing the entertainment and it is in milford the travellers in travellers in in milford listening enjoy the night yourself too have you got that something nice to wear kathleen for for for let me on to to uh to try and look for some support thank you so much no good stuff listen and enjoy the night as well i'm sure you will i 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journal is paul mooney as constant farm soar minister to seek multimillion euro emergency package for farmers farmers will be paid to grow red clover and multi-species wards plus new supports for tillage farmers and we reveal what your payment will be in 2023 and beyond and don't miss six pages of analysis on what the war in ukraine means for irish farming inside this week's irish farmers journal on sale now okay we're a bit early with that my apologies that's the news coming up for you at 12 we'll get to that in a moment but what we do want to do is get a couple of comments out there before we get to that point government that took the tax off the fuel so it should come down straight away believes a caller there another the rest of us farmers only get 2 cent off the diesel because minister charlie mcconnellog used all the money to bail out the pig farmers so no word of all the bumper years they had that's one person's point of view there another here greg in this country most animals ie calves calves and bullocks are housed indoors over the winter what do farmers do with the manure these days years ago before there was artificial fertilizer manure was all that farmers used to grow everything on their land now it's called slurry uh can leo not save us uh can they sorry not save any uh can they not use manure anymore asks mary a good question i do not know the answer to right so i'm sure someone in the farming community will let us know uh hello greg col also going up at least three year old per bag from monday crazy situation that comes in from a regular listener another because we're a small open economy and over dependent on exports greg were badly exposed to global events that comes in from patrick indon low indeed another two stations in my area are 215 for diesel 210 for petrol there is no way the fuel was up that high uh to come down to those prices after the reductions it looks like to me the garages are hiking prices to cover the costs where are the politicians today to find out what's happening what we had a minister on his uh response to the situation was well uh it better not be happening um if it is a case that they can't pass on these savings yet well then someone needs to explain that to us so we understand we're just humans we're consumers all we can see know uh and see is what is going on okay thank you very much for listening that's