 50s was found in Sligo Town. His remains were discovered at an apartment on Conocton Road in the town at around half past 10 last night. Garthys say he had suffered significant physical injuries. It's the second suspicious death in Sligo since Monday, while there were also reports of an attack on another man in the town who was assaulted and lost an eye. However, it's unclear at this stage if any of the incidents are linked. The man in his early twenties is being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act. Sligo-based journalist Sarka Crowley says he was arrested just before 2 o'clock this morning following intense scarlet activity and backup. A few hours ago, following what they described as intense local guard activity and inquiries, they arrested a man in his early twenties in Sligo Town on suspicion of murder. They were also assisted by the armed support unit. This man is being held at Sligo Garthys station and they are now appealing for anyone with any information on this incident to make contact. It's quite early at this stage to say if it's linked to the murder of Aidan Moffitt or the earlier attack on a man in Sligo Town at the weekend. Meanwhile, Garthys investigating the murder of Aidan Moffitt and Sligo this week are examining if he may have met his killer online. It's also thought it may have a hate-related motive. The 41-year-old auctioneer was found dead at his house in Carteron Heights on Monday night and has said to have suffered significant physical injuries. Minister of State and Finegale TD Frank Feehan knew Aidan Moffitt well. He says there's now a cloud of worry and fear hanging over Sligo. The last few days have brought a huge concern and again they're trying to come to terms with the country terms what exactly has happened that a man died violently and last night another man died violently and again last weekend a young man lost his eye in three incidents which I don't know are linked to but the level of violence is absolutely shocking. The cost of gas and electricity is set to fall when cabinet sign off on a number of measures aimed at reducing fuel bills this morning. The package will see a cut to the vat charged on electricity and gas down to 9% though not petrol diesel and home heating oil. A man has been arrested following the death of an elderly woman at a house fire in County Dunne Gaul. The body of the woman in her 80s was found after emergency services attended the blaze in Duhere yesterday afternoon. A man in his 60s has been arrested for criminal damage offences and is being held at Bali Shanangar the station. And there's calls for an urgent meeting over coastal erosion in Inno Showam. The ongoing issue is said to be of major concern in the lag Kildaf and Bali-Liffen areas. Councillor Martin McDermott has proposed a meeting to be held with the relevant department in a bid to find a pathway forward. He says despite numerous attempts to engage with the relevant bodies the matter seems to be falling on deaf ears. I just feel and I've felt this for quite some time the department and the OPW have no interest whatsoever in dealing with the coastal erosion issues that we have here in Dunne Gaul. They've made it quite clear by not replying to emails and not replying to requests for a meeting. The minister came to the county 14 months now we've been trying to get a meeting he came to the county three or four or five weeks ago and still hasn't offered a hand to come here to any show. Low cloud slow to clear this morning but it will give way to some sunny spells but will linger near some coasts while many areas will stay dry there will be a few scattered showers about mild with temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees. That's it for now we're back with more 10 o'clock until then good morning. COVID-19 can still cause serious illness especially in people at higher risk we need to keep protecting each other so stay home a few of symptoms wear a mask in healthcare settings public transport and busy places let fresh air in if you're meeting indoors keep hands clean and get a COVID-19 vaccine and booster let's keep looking out for each other from the HSC for us all and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello good morning to you five minutes past nine this wednesday the 13th of april how are you doing hope you're doing very well indeed and stick with us for the next three hours and beyond here on Highland Radio still have dozens and dozens of comments from our conversations yesterday to bring to you looking forward to doing so lots of different views in there on the issue of turf a big reaction actually to our conversation on the national anthem yesterday and much more as well and we've a whole new raft of topics for you to get involved with how do you do so well your whatsapp or text 08 660 25 000 if you're outside the republic by the way worth noting wherever you might be watching or listening to us from 003538 660 25 000 of course on whatsapp you'll incur no charge there if you want to give us a call it's 07 491 25 000 where Kayla is in for caroline today answering your calls right so we've got businesses coming up for you later on we're going to be getting the latest on the big crackdown on the kinaans quite a remarkable story we'll be hopefully getting an update on the situation in slago and also we're going to be looking at the mica redress process that people experiencing delays in that regard and what is effectively you could say a stalled process so if you want to get involved you know how to do so if you want to just sit back relax and listen feel free to do that too and also if you want to watch the program and our guests as they join us get on to our website highlandradio.com you should see the link to watch live there or go straight to youtube highland radio island or facebook highland radio there's a twitter option there for you as well the papers this morning starting with the fin valley voice 23 children and 28 adults from kiev odyssey shinobl crack car for you for beg your pardon and all the ukrainian cities having fled russia's invasion have been warmly welcomed in the fin valley they are living in rooseville house glenn finstery balaba face since the 31st of march and there's a full story there in and on the front of that paper today uh the donnie gall post excuse me the donnie gall post a group of young donnie gall teenagers attending a concert were left stranded on the streets of doblin when boss erin cancelled the 12 35 a.m. boss the 17 ages from south donnie gall had booked their return tickets they only found out that the bus was not running when they came out of the concert councillor neve kennedy who raised the issue at tuesday's meeting of the missable district of donnie gall said one of them had an email on his phone to say the bus was cancelled they were heading towards uh boss aris after the concert and the story goes on and it seems i wonder uh well it doesn't seem i do wonder though um is this something unique to donnie gall these boss cancellations uh inside of and to or from donnie gall uh using the boss or boss erin service or is this something that's happening all around the country it'd be interesting to find that out the front of the inish times they have ruined our community in malinhead and it's going to take somebody to get lost one of us is going to get lost before anything is done this was the grim prediction of malinhead skipper of the felon namara fishing vessel anthony harley he was referring to the fact green castles the peninsula's only designated port for boats under 15 meters fishing non-quanta species this means boats belonging to inish on skippers and registered in the north can only land there between 2 p.m and 8 p.m from monday to friday on to the nationals now the arch independent not good news if you're hoping for a reduction in the cost of your home heating oil not through the markets but through government because families who primarily heat their homes with oil will miss out on cuts to energy vat rates aimed at alleviating the cost of living the government will today announce plans to cut vat on electricity and gas to ensure homeowners are not affected by the upcoming environmental tax increase can you imagine the government itself having to offset an increase it's bringing in itself and all with our money however it was unable to secure a deal with the eu to allow it to also reduce vat on home heating oil this means the proposed carbon tax increase will add 19 euro and 40 cent to the cost of a 900 euro sorry a 900 litre tank of kerosene next month so that's a significant increase on top of increases already uh government leaders aren't out to deal that will cut vat on electricity and gas from 13.5 percent to 9 percent families are still facing an almost 20 euro increase in their energy bill next month despite government commitments to offset carbon tax increases but the vat move could save bill pairs 49 euro a year on electric and 61 euro a year on gas and will cost the exchequer around 75 million euro before the end of this year so i think many of us rely on oil don't we or trying to rely less on it but we're forced to um it was really quite a remarkable uh situation yesterday when uh the guard and others uh held a press conference to um outline their case and sanctions against the kinehans um because they've been untouchable uh daniel kinehan particularly uh he has been pushing his profile uh big time you could say he's washing his profile using boxing to do so being uh trying to portray himself as a a legitimate business man and you would have had boxers like uh billy joe saunders uh tyson fury and many others bob aroma amongst them as well i think uh who would have come out and uh said that he's a great guy he's great for boxing you'd had the big guys too like eddie herne of matchroom frank warren um of queensbury all working with him and defending working with him saying that and they wouldn't have said it but the general uh conversation on social media and elsewhere would have been that uh you know he's not been convicted of anything he's good for the sport he looks after boxes uh and all that type of stuff conlon uh from bell out of belfast also uh was being represented or at least was connected uh to mtk which was in some way connected to kinehan though he distanced himself from it so all the while uh he's out in jubi uh living the life of a respected uh businessman uh he was at nindia a couple of years ago and not too long ago actually as well where he was hailed for uh what he's doing in the sport and now like something out of the wild west there is a reward poster up for him five million us dollars for information relating to his arrest or uh conviction it really is quite a remarkable turnaround for him and the kinehans in general and it leaves boxing particularly i think in a difficult place because uh he is intertwined within uh and an awful lot of people deleting tweets yesterday in defense of him and so on and so forth so a lot to come out on this but i'll read the story anyway and to be honestly is that someone who enjoys boxing i'm delighted to see him separated out from the sport it was always uh a niggle in the back of my head uh but um it seems now that he won't have much involvement if any at all because if you do business with him now or businesses he's associated with you are breaking an embargo the authorities in the united arab emirates will now feel under increasing pressure to support the international criminal investigation into the kinehan cartel after the united states offered award of up to 15 million dollars for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of three senior members assistant commissioner john o'driscoll who has led the guarders fight against the kinehans and other associates said the cartel had generated about one billion uh by leaving addiction and violence in its way he added they had done this in many working class communities which were the stronghold of the sport of boxing which daniel kinehan was seeking to control seven of the cartels could figure six of whom are based in dubai and three companies linked to them have solved far been placed on a us department of treasury sanctioned list it means they are effectively locked out of the us banking system and cannot trade with people or companies in the u.s of kinehan now the kinehans now the three main named uh no debit cards no credit cards they can't get on u.s planes um they can't come into europe obviously they can't come into the united states and the united arab emirates have given up two other um characters let me let me put it like that uh who were involved alleged to be involved in criminality because of the ua e wanting to have a good reputation and to endear itself to the united states so i would not be surprised if we see at least daniel kinehan before irish courts before the end of this year all right as to say we should have more on that for you a little later on the irish daily mail uh garity are investigating the gruesome murder of a sly go finna get activist as a possible hate crime and they've warned people to be extra cautious when using online dating officers last night confirmed that they are investigating whether aid and moffat met his killer online sly go counsellor said the community is in fear after the appalling discovery of mr moffat's body at his home he's known to have contacted people online after going to a local pub on sunday night garity believe he was killed sometime afterwards by someone he led into his home as there was no sign of forced entry to the house now of course since the papers went to press most of them there has been another apparent killing in sly go which seems very similar in relation to this in other words the person was found with gruesome interest in with with gruesome injuries as described by gardy a man in his early twenties has been arrested in relation to the latest murder but certainly a lot of fear and anxiety and upsetting concern in sly go i am sure there was a terror in america in brooklyn yesterday ten commuters were shot and six others injured after a gunman opened fire in new york subway during morning rush hour yesterday the attacker a man in a gas mask and wearing an orange construction vest uh who let off a canister was still being hunted last night five people were in a critical but stable condition the incident happened at the 30 30 36th street station in sunset park brooklyn one witness said so many rounds were fired that she lost count she added the man about five tall dropped a cylinder that sparked graphic photos and social media showed injured people lying on the bloodstained platform now remarkably given the amount of shots that were fired or maybe it's relating to the weapon i don't know everyone who was shot and injured is expected to make a full physical recovery but the hunt is still on for that person barris johnson uh well you would say he should not in any normal circumstances be in trouble but he's not he has been fined he's the prime minister of britain and has uh broken the law effectively and life moves on it seems over there barris johnson faced furious calls to quit last night after it was found he did break the law over a number 10 party lockdown uh during lockdown he became the first sitting pm to face a police penalty when he was fined over his birthday get together outraged brief relatives of covet victims accused him of taking the public for mugs as it revered as it was revealed that met police also find his wife carrie and chancellor rishi sunak who's in bother uh generally speaking uh but shameless mr johnson snubbed pleas for him to go instead offering a heartfelt apology and this is a wee bit that's wrong with the press i think at the moment or it's been always been the case because i was looking at some of the front pages of the british newspapers yesterday and uh in one front page it was like you know with everything's going on this is no big deal let barris get on with his work and on another front page it was like this is the worst thing ever you know he should be kicked out of uh he should be kicked out of office and i think you know we should move past the stage now where newspapers try and tell people how to think and i'm not talking about all newspapers but particularly in britain and you see it uh in the nationals here to some extent write your bloody stories and let the public make up their own minds stop trying to tell people how to think but that's precisely what they do the irish sun like all papers today they also have a front page that's done out like a wild west wanted poster but sure look at the one published by the guard yesterday he's not far off that itself and the story exiled kinahan cartel chiefs are on the run from the u.s government after it slapped a mighty 15 million dollar bounty on their heads king pin daniel kinahan his brother charlie jr 41 and dad christy 65 have also been hit with sanctions aimed at crippling the vicious gang these uh those include bans on using u.s banks and taking u.s flights the extraordinary maruved was announced in doubling yesterday by u.s ambassador to arland clare cronin and they were very pointed direct and uh clear in what they were trying to achieve with their comments right before we go to a break i want to catch up on some of your comments yesterday we've been discussing it for a couple of days now and this is the fact that uh well the fact that it is reported that cotton turf for your own personal use on your own bog is is not at this time going to be at all but what is these are the proposals is that if you were to cut turf and sell it banned if you were to cut turf and give it to your neighbor give it to your friend give it to your son-in-law whomever it might be banned but in the the now to some of your comments uh if the eu is the eu making the rules on turf it's crazy our government is complying to this nonsense the way it's going uh is if a neighbor knocks on my door some morning looking for a bit of milk or sugar until they can't get to the shop and you tell them sorry i can't it's against the law now i mean that sounds crazy and it will never happen one would hope it would never happen but you would never thought giving someone a bag of turf would be illegal would you uh do they cut turf in carry i wonder what the healy raise a view on the turf war is another so i can give my neighbor a bottle of whiskey or any liquor but not a bag of turf waking up government another caller said it's no wonder they call the irish stupid it's a real laugh i think the irish government forgot about the irish people who calls us stupid i hope they don't are you seriously saying someone can't give their elderly parents a few bags of peat time to get rid of amon ryan before he ruins us all unfortunately that is effectively what is being proposed now the local green party chairperson said that this was one independent td's take on it but amon ryan's had three or four days now to dispel any uh mistruths mistruths and he hasn't taken the opportunity to do so a caller says i can cut for myself but i can't give them to granny yep that's the situation i don't see many going around giving free turf to the neighbors that comes in from james well james it happens uh and it's not just neighbors it's family and friends it does happen uh i've seen it myself uh why was the no threat of legal action against double incorporation when they introduced a smoky coal ban the green party continued to press the self-destruct button they will be wiped out like the diamond saws at the next election another caller says over the last few years since the arrival of large turf cutting machines huge amounts of turf are easily accessible resulting in huge amounts of bugs being removed many people who cut turf have no right to be there because they don't have turbity rights i.e. be a registered land owner this has led to a lot of tension in some bugs where people take a chance and cut turf when they've got no legal rights and encroach on legal owners good morning greg many hotels traditional pubs in donogalburn open turf fires does this now mean they can't uh turf now well unless they have their own bugs but theoretically yes they couldn't buy the turf for their fires or they couldn't even be gifted it but they go on to say as purchasing for anything else bar self-use will be illegal from speaking to friends who work in hotels this is something tourists absolutely love it's a tradition a nostalgic throwback to our wonderful heritage that tourists come here for obviously home heating for families is more important than this aspect but look it's worth that pointing out thank you um hi greg a similar story to your previous text a returf burning what a load of tosh from the green party turf is not harmful to health my father cut his own turf for around 50 years and even supplied two lorry loads every year for us as long as uh as well as eight of his children went to school my parents lived to be over 90 and neither they nor any of us his eight children have or had asthma and we are still alive and well pure rubbish uh that turf burning is detrimental to health look i appreciate that that's your personal experience but i mean i know people that smoked and lived well into the 80s and didn't die of smoking but that doesn't mean smoking isn't dangerous but listen i'm glad that your family is healthy and hearty and long may that continue right we also talked yesterday about the afterlife and i want to read a couple of comments on that we were chatting to a lady who says she is a medium that she's a healer and we teased out what she believed to be the ins and outs of the afterlife but this caller says it's so good to hear this discussion about the afterlife people love this topic but are reluctant to chat about it another i thought when our soul left our body it went to another level how can a soul talk if it's left the body well it's the spirit that talks and i don't think if you believe what she believes and i'm not saying i do i don't think it's one or other i don't think it precludes them from going to another level right how do we tell what is a good spirit visiting us and an evil spirit in disguise visiting for harm greg please ask your guests about the afterlife of abort you know i know where you're coming from but this one person texts the same an awful lot about the same issue and i get that where they want to frame abortion in all conversations i understand that but i'm not i got that question after she was on you could ask the same of miscarriages of course does she believe that those who take a life as a murder another is forgiven or spends eternity in hell that didn't seem to be evil people or people that go to hell in her imagination not imagination in her interpretation i once heard an interview with an ex medium she said the spirits were demons pretending to be past loved ones it came to light when she attended catholic mass her spirit guides revealed the real identity to her in anger and finally i do believe that 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relates particularly as it relates for payments to be made uh just on to the issue of the anthem the Irish national anthem is grossly offensive to the austral Protestant community anyone who believes that he relighted Ireland as i do knows that the current national anthem will have to be ditched before uh or upon reunion reunification that comes in from sen in st Johnston another caller says every our national anthem just ordered two books as gifts a fabulous idea they are lovely books we were talking to the author yesterday of these books which are um for directed towards children they give a bit of an outline of history to the the national anthem it's nicely illustrated and uh the conversation was going along the lines that are we doing enough really to promote the use of it um line one's not working Michalis you have to put them through to line two greg i totally agree with your author every single charge should be taught the national anthem in school and certainly should be taught it in secondary school every class assembly should start with it to instill pride in our country but the way things are going in this country that will be the next thing banned in case we offend other nationalities in this country but you see that's the problem why should that uh be offensive when a shared island is obtained we may need to create a new national anthem say so caller that's on the table i believe uh it's i've heard discussions of it greg did i see you stand to attention for our national anthem uh another hi greg 50 of us 50 of us uh in sorry 50 of us in the car today knew every word of the national anthem there was two of us but 50 sounds better okay well sure look at 100 percent 100 percent isn't it greg i only know the national anthem in irish and i haven't a word of irish i'm 55 years old and still don't have a clue what it means uh why was i not taught this in english we'll get that book and you will see it for yourself right uh eileen darty can you hear me okay i can yeah thanks greg thank you uh the heart moved across my chest there couldn't hear you the first time but it's good to have you with us also uh we have like herelock of dunagol can to cancel cancel jack mori online with us as well good morning to you jack morning greg all right thanks for joining us eileen i'll start with you at the moment what is the status of the scheme before we start talking about delays and any confusion it's a stalled scheme at the moment is it well the situation with the scheme at the minute is that the expert grip um who are tasked with reviewing and the the final enhancements to the scheme have submitted the report to the minister and the minister is considering um their report and then he will bring that forward then to legislation over the next short while so we're hoping that that's going to be a very uh fast process okay so we'll wait and see in that regard now uh a lot of people seem to be having issues in terms of receiving uh payments can you talk to us as to to what the general experience is being yeah well there's a number of different delays that's happening at the minute um and really there's a couple of delays in terms of the application process first so people who have submitted for stage one which is eligibility to the scheme there's a huge amount of people who have got caught up in the backlog and their applications are just sitting there now there's an issue with as we spoke about a few weeks ago greg uh the emergence of another mineral called pyrite and then some of the applications where pyrite is a key issue in fact the key issue that warrants say demolition those applications have been stalled until that protocol is revised which we can't understand that until you understand it more but there's lots of other applications at stage one which are on the on basically based on their micro content and on the existing protocol they should not be stalled there's nothing to suggest that they should be stuck in the system and there's absolutely lots of them that are we don't believe that this is a director from the department we believe this is an issue at the local authority level and really to be quite honest with you it's unacceptable and then in the situation that I'm in which is stage two which I have already got stage one eligibility I put it in costs for my rebuild in the middle of November last year and was promised that it would be six to eight weeks which is by the middle of January I would have approval to go ahead and get the home remediated and demolition rebuild I'm sitting here 22 weeks later still nothing every time I ring the department the council I get told it's with technical every time I ask to speak to technical I'm allowed to um it's absolutely a joke um families and there's not just me I mean Pamela and Ciaran the master and McLaughlin for my little are waiting nine months nine months at stage two I mean they are one of the first families to be affected the roof is caving and in their house I just do not understand what the issue is and why these applications are delayed Councillor Moray have you been able to get any explanation I mean that's why we have elected representatives presumably to engage with uh to to engage with the council executive and to get these answers it shouldn't be too difficult for you to tell us precisely why these delays are such yeah that's fair enough and that is my job and the chair for the council so my job is to try and seek solutions to these problems first off I would say it's totally unacceptable I'm not going to come on here and be an apology for the council or the department for any delays nobody should be waiting nine months so what's causing the delays as I would understand it and I know what I intend that it's with the council that the information given to me is that there's delays within the confines or the guidelines of the department that the council have to work with them because the council are merely administering a department scheme and have to work within the guidelines of that what I've said is a lot of applications that are coming in partially I think complete further information necessary yeah but some of the some of yeah but some of the people are some of the people are finding it very frustrating that yes they're provided all of the information and then they're being requested to provide additional information or that information I think I feel that some people feel that they're being deliberately frustrated in this well see quite clearly there's there's a gap there it's purely evident there there's a gap that there's something gone wrong there so but I what I've asked and I spoke to a number of council officials I've asked it rather than an application coming in sitting with the council for three three weeks four weeks going back to the engineer for three weeks four weeks coming back more information being needed and bouncing to and fro that we would have a system like a pre-planning system where the council will go out sit with the engineer with a very stringent checklist saying if you don't have all this information that can't proceed sit down be an hour two hours talk through the entire process make sure that every single piece of information is complete and then move forward and hopefully remove that painful delay and non-acceptable delay that has existed with that with that resolve your delay issue Eileen a move like that well I presume you are you not satisfied that all the documents you have in our teas cross dies dotted well I can only say that full confidence in my engineer my architect in the qs who put the application together the issue I have and I mean that's what what jack has suggested obviously would be a help but the issue I have is that they took 10 weeks to ask me the questions from the first place so why why 10 weeks before they worked out that there was insufficient information and let's just say that they needed more information now it's another it's another 12 weeks since I provided them with that information so I don't accept I totally and utterly don't accept that this has been pushed back to the engineers I'm sure in some instances that that may be the case but if I'm honest with you I think it's a cop out I think that there's an issue with resource if I'm honest well let me ask that because obviously uh jack morris the cahier luck of donna gold counter cancel how many staff within the council are working uh in in processing these applications full time as well can we ask the question yeah yeah yeah I'm not sure that this moment of time but I can get to think you should know that jack with all due respect to you I should but I asked the question last night were they were they properly resourced with something the engineer he said they were fully resourced before they're not he said that there's there's a panel of staff ready to be recruited at at any moment that they're needed now give him what alien is saying that clearly should happen right away so if there's not enough staff and there's staff available and the resources available then that that needs to be uh like employed like it's kind of frustrating because it's an I'm I'm I've nothing to do with this but I know I asked the question at least it could be six months ago that do the council have the staff to be able to process these applications and everyone seemed to be saying that they do or they will and yet here we are well I'll tell you now the council told me to have enough clearly what alien is saying is that they don't they're telling me that they've a panel that that staff to be taken from I'm I'm concerned more that there's there's an average of 60 new applications coming in every month so whatever bulk of work is there now it is uh increase in next month like you say what concerns me a little bit jack is you're saying that you're saying that what you're being told is that the council are trying to do the work but it's operating within the department of housing and that's what's causing delays and then you're saying but the council don't have enough staff is it both things or one or other no I'm saying that the council said they have enough staff but clearly what alien is articulate merits that they don't so I'm saying that there's staff available additional resources available and what I'll be saying now to to the council is employ more staff if the staff are there bring them in the work's going to get more like it's increasing month on month so it's going to get heavier and heavier so we clearly need more staff do you know if anyone any elected representatives has contacted Dara O'Brien's department and said look at the way the housing department is dealing with this issue it's slowing you down it's frustrating will you do something about that do we know and you're not going to know jack obviously if any of what all other politicians are doing but do we know if those representative representations have been made that the that that department is being put under pressure being called out publicly to say that you're frustrating this process yeah well I know that I facilitated a meeting fully on Micah where every councillor was able to bring forward their concerns which would be raised with the department further than that in the week after next there's a meeting lined up between council officials and the department will be teasing through these problems I will be attending that meeting and I'll be again relaying all these concerns directly with the department as well as it being relayed through the council via that meeting so we are doing everything we can like we're it's important to look I live in Montcran where which is the epicenter of uh the Micah crisis so everywhere I look there's houses full down all my friends family you can't escape but within the whole county council with including the staff that are dealing with yeah we're all in the same boat we all know these people yeah and all our friends and family affected by everybody have it so we're all on one page like I'm not going to come in here defend any delay or say any delay is acceptable that's that's clearly not what I'm going to do I want to work with Eileen who's an extremely tenacious and professional woman who's fought this campaign for 10 years like I see my role is working with Eileen with everybody who has these problems to get a solution and I think I think that's one thing that we're all completely in agreement with like that recognize the problems that they're and then let's work together to fix it because it's clearly not working it's clearly not Eileen did you want to come back in there yeah I suppose thanks to that for Jack for that um I suppose the key thing is to say about the resource issue last June when we were in the working group we asked specifically um to the department can you ensure that there's sufficient resource um they said that they approved resource at that time um to make sure that we were getting up and running and that the council had sufficient resource my understanding is that they haven't even availed of that I just do not understand I mean to ring up constantly and get told that's what's technical you're at the back of the queue you know there's people in front of you that all suggests to me that there is an issue with resource all of those things there's people in front of you well if you had lots of resource there wouldn't be an issue about cues and this has been going on for 22 weeks and as I say Pamela and Kieran McLaughlin the master from the little nine months I mean I don't know what we need to say besides this their system is broken so you can sir you uh you know how you say that you know we're all in this together the council uh are affected by this everyone's affected by this and all that if that is it is the case but all of this information should be laid out there right we shouldn't have to guess or speculate or whatever if the situation is as you described that everyone's affected brothers sisters council staff everyone why is everything not out in the open why are we really having this conversation and we don't truly really know what the situation is if the situation is as you describe we should know everything even if it's not pleasant let us know it let us fix it yeah look that's extremely fair like that like I nobody's going to disagree with that uh but I would say that that meeting um that we had the the the special meeting on mica in which like there was wide range of concerns across the board on the mica scheme where we're articulated our questions by the councillors I got confirmation this morning that all questions and good good bad or whatever it's going to be published I'll have them this afternoon I'm happy to send that on to yourself you can publish it on your website and that'll be in its entirety the information from the council's position now we can see what that I haven't read the document but we can see what it's like and we can decide what we do with that how we progress with it but you're right people deserve information obviously it's a public scheme fix yeah I mean I mean and the other couple that you mentioned should be told exactly what the problem is exactly what the date is you know if you book a passport you're told a rough estimate as to when your passport will be issued it's not always accurate but it gives you some it gives you some idea and that happens with ncts whatever way you interact you're given some indication what's happening here is people are being it sounds to me being fobbed off that that's it's certainly how it must feel for them yeah can I just make a point I'm sorry for coming on there Jack just to give you an idea how the impact of not having that timeline we were told six to eight weeks in mid-november that would have brought us till about the middle of january we then went out and tried to procure a house because as you know houses are few and far between at the minute and unassumed so we got a house set up for the start of february so we have been paying 850 euro a month since the start of end of january start of february on top of our mortgage we have double the bills because we haven't even been able to get our ESB connect disconnected in the house and every and that is costing us every month 850 euro until we're approved we don't even know for eligible to get those back onto the new scheme and so the delay every week is costing us a serious amount of money and a serious amount of stress and and people would say well why did you go ahead we went ahead because we were promised that we would this would be sorted by the middle of january at the latest and we moved at the start of february we had the house agreed we had to go ahead these are the kind of things that every time I ring up and get told it's with technical you feel your blood boiling because you think you've no idea how this is impacting people you understand Greg so this is a very serious issue and the council seem at arms length to these issues with us and they need to sort it out and have it as a resource issue or if it's an issue with the department we need to be told and not keep getting told that it's with technical which means absolutely nothing to anyone which is a fair if we're all in together which is a fair request I think roshine gala her joins us well roshine thanks for joining us good morning to you roshine can you hear me yeah i was just on mute and sorry no problem right what's your situation you're at stage one i'm at stage one and uh i have that kind of written down here because it's a very detailed situation so i'll keep it really short and time be as concise as they can so i'm at stage one for 22 months now i did get approved i um i did get my refund um and i engaged with the scheme in june 2020 was when i first engaged with the scheme so there was no questions asked there was no uh request for further information i was recommended utterly for repair only and the whole thing was done and dusted by november completely done but i disagreed with the recommendation from day one and especially when the results of the lab came back and it turned out my outer leaf is stronger than my inner leaf so i'm not an engineer but to me that said you know you can't repair an outer leaf only when you're you're leaving the rest of the house with mica and so i was never happy with the recommendation but i trusted the professionals i i entered the scheme in good faith and let it go ahead against me better judgment and it wasn't long after that that i kept asking my engineer could i could i resubmit this report because this was a mistake it should never have gone through i will say that um when the lab results came back and we discovered that the inner leaf was stronger than the or was weaker than the outer leaf i i have big questions as to why that was approved in the first place why did that go through approval because there was no measurements of any cracks taken in my house and so there were no requests for further information when the application itself was flawed the report was flawed so i don't understand how all these requests for further information are vitally important at some parts but they're not important at all for others this way back in june 2020 so i'll just get on with it in november 2020 i was approved then i'm still waiting for john galler to get back to me of the council since january of this year as for an explanation as to why that was approved may 2021 i finally got my engineer to agree to redo my report and resubmit my report so my home had deteriorated greatly in that time in the course of a year um but the engineer wasn't coming back out to my house to you know i knew that we needed measurements taken we needed to get a record of the bow and on the walls we needed to get our photographs for of the crumbling block after the render had fallen off and my engineer didn't want to come out and do that so i did that myself so i went out with the spirit level i actually used my daughter's lol ruler it was the only ruler i had in the house and i measured the cracks myself i got the crumbling block onto my hand i took photographs of all of it the spirit level up at the table wall and photographed all that and sent it to my engineer i waited and waited and the report was never that i was always at the back of the queue and the person was very friendly all the rest so in august 2021 i had no option after speaking to engineers ireland and trying to get this moved on i did work then changed to a different engineer so my report went in uh my second submission of my report went in in october 2021 there was no need for further corin or anything like that because the results were already there and already evident and and during all this time i had got advice from uh a few different engineers and an architect and they looked at my report and the results and it should have always been option one full demolition uh grip four and the the visual estimate of pyrotype and sulfide minerals is between two and three percent of my property so it should have only been option one so it's very confusing to me how that approval went through the first time so um i changed engineers my my report is in since october 2021 um and march i discovered that a small batch of reports so i've been told that i don't need to wait for any alter eight or any um um information from changes from is four six five it's very straightforward i was in a grip i was told a group of 300 or 350 people who are just waiting for approval it doesn't need any legislation or any changes with is four six five it's there all the evidence is there approval for option one but in march 2022 march of this year i discovered that a small batch of applications have been sent to the department for further analysis so unluckily for me i am one of those people but that means now that i am on the same 22 months but i do have to wait possibly another 12 12 months before i even enter stage two right okay so so just so quickly stage one is what is stage one but maybe eileen do you want to go on eligibility so in other words your house is micah something needs to be done eligibility just means is you're eligible to apply that's your prime principal private residence right so stage two then costing costing and stage three you're just in you're in the process of remediating okay uh councillor marie listen to russian's story there i mean that's that's completely uh unacceptable i mean the torture of micah is bad enough without this without being compounded as it is yeah well well aware of russian's problem i've watched russian fairly well the cc's been contacting me throughout this process looks like extremely painful on top of everything else everything the cheese went through what she's articulating to is an emerging and more widespread problem that we're coming across and that it's an evolving situation this time last year i think 30 to 35 percent of applications were for full demolition right now it's 90 to 95 percent so it's clearly changing i think there's in the region of 60 to 70 applications have changed from like from say option two or three to two option one i'll see the department are trying to have as few demolitions as possible it doesn't make sense though because there are people to if they need to to come back into the scheme i mean your father off if you're gonna do it to do the job right the first time it makes no sense clearly like the science has evolved and they understand that this problem has evolved and you would have seen the research permission and then pulled on up regarding paratite so we so we know more now than we did this time last year we have a greater understanding of the need for demolition more than we did last year but from a council level what can you do to help the likes of roshine there you say you're very familiar with it as to say you are the chair of the council there's almost 40 of you elected to the council what can you do as a collective uh or individually so that we're not talking about this and highlighting issues we're actually fixing them yeah as i say i'll be attending the week after next i'll be attending the department and we'll go and be able to to raise specific cases but even even russian specific case is reflective of 60 to 70 people in some situation so i'll be able to raise that directly with the department at that meeting i'm happy to come back on the show to to report back yeah please but that's what i can do from my own someone's someone's know what is that what do you do not what he is you know what's the council doing what is the plan to repair council or replace council stock homes what what uh yeah well that that's ongoing and is there a plan at all or anything there there is either the people that live in houses that have like a council stock will will be aware that they'll be moved fairly soon also we've we've a fairly significant problem and with a lack of available housing to move but what's the plan to repair these homes replace them because i know people who've been told yes you've got mike at some point you will be moved out that's it no contact for six months like what what is the plan the council's plan to repair their houses and the council has set out their plan we're working through it's a worst first policy where the people whose houses are greatest level of deterioration are getting moved out there's been a number and yeah but is there a plan to rebuild them i know people are being moved out oh yeah unless the timeline on that i wonder for the worst first well there's 50 identified in montcran to be starting this year to get the worst 50 but we're going to be going through it like if you're looking for an honest timeline we're going to be looking at this for a decade no i understand yeah it's not going to be happening today okay it was all the plan jack rather than sort of you know for you to give us an absolute timeline can i make a final point if you don't mind yeah i just wanted to pick up on something that jack said and it's not to pick on jack by any means jack's obviously privy to this and this is the conversations they're having jack made a comment that the department's position is as few demolitions as possible now that's been our experience with the department for years and it's an awful pity that they still haven't moved from that position of as few demolitions as possible given that they're supposed to be led by the science as roshine said like the reports are meant to dictate what happens you don't preempt we will have as few demolitions as possible you do what you're supposed to do which is not do an outer leaf if you need a full demolition and it's an awful pity and i think jack will be aware that i mean this needs this conversation needs to go back to the department and say it's about time you listen to the science you read the reports and you did what you're supposed to do in the houses as opposed to trying to save money this is why we're in the mess we're in they have been trying to save money they have been trying to retrofit a scheme to us that isn't going to work and until they start being led by what actually is supposed to happen we're going to be having the same conversation Greg in six months and 12 months yeah um and obviously roshine you feel it's your life if it's not difficult enough what you're going through these delays this uncertainty the sense you're being messed around it can only it only makes matters worse obviously it's absolutely outrageous and i'm a family person i'm always you know speaking to all of these people all the time and but the but my patience has gone now i have to think about my husband and my two young children um and if anybody is finding it uh that i'm given any personal attacks or anything that's not my focus none of this is personal we need to get this sorted and i refuse to allow my application to stay in dubbing it must come back and go to the pile where it originally was imminent approval and that must happen and they're telling me that can't really happen they're telling me that can't happen i have no idea how are we fine i do sorry go ahead yep sorry Greg last week i sent an email um to the council and i asked them take that application back i did i never gave permission for that for 12 months to be added on possibly to my application absolutely no way we can't do that my family can't go through this for 12 more months on top 22 months already but i was told that i gave permission to share my information when i signed the application form and my engineer gave permission to share my information when he's the application form no i gave permission as we always do when we get into websites and all the rest we share we click that will share information we don't mean that we're going to add 12 months of hell onto a young family we do not that is a different thing altogether okay i was very hoodwinked there in that one i was also recommended when they replied back to me that i always have the option of reverting back to my original recommendation of outer leaf only and i took that as an insult because that's ridiculous like our jack or eileen like are we applications constantly in process or are they not being approved like what's happening all our houses being approved have any houses been approved we know if not that we know i mean they're saying that they're being processed if i'm honest you the line is that they're being processed but i have not heard of any approvals for some time this is a problem do you know i mean you we talked about all these difficulties within this that and the other but i mean surely one or two a day or a week should be trickling through as approved if the system is actually functioning yeah like absolutely we faith houses we both like no but i'm asking you internally in the council right because we all are in agreements that it's an absolute disgrace i'm asking you do you know or does anyone know our applications actually going through on a conveyor belt uh and they will they're all being approved but it's a painfully slow process or are they not approving them at all if the truth be told i well but a bit of a lick extremely extremely slow no i know there's another process is slow but is there an actual end to that process do we know if as it stands there is an end to the process so that the painfully slow frustrating process actually can lead to an approval we haven't heard any approvals in the last few months i don't know if jack has heard of any is the scheme actually running really or is there's something else going on well there hasn't been in the last few months but even if working within the housing department was confusing right there should be one that pops out there should be one that doesn't need further information there should be one that can find its way through the the hurdles the housing if one has not been approved well then you have to start asking are they actually really approving any any is it a system or are they actually just not approving houses yeah yeah i'm not coming on to defend this look that that that question needs to be answered needs to be answered absolutely look at like i'll be meeting with the with the housing officials in the housing department um i don't know as i say i'll come back to you on the back of that to see with greater clarity on this was i i know i'm the i'm the chairperson of the council but i'm not going to defend that i mean that's unacceptable the clearly i think it's i think it's disrespectful to you as chairperson of the council if everything is not told to you if you don't know everything if you and it's not i'm not putting this on you by the way jack i don't want you to think you've come on here and i'm trying to uh i'm trying to do a hit job that's not what i'm at here but you should be privy to everything yeah well see as of this afternoon see that that mean we had on my get was wide ranging those was like it was on for maybe four hours with like every aspect of the scheme uh scrutinized and questions asked i'm going to show that this afternoon i will have the detail and the answer to everything from that this afternoon as i said i'm happy to forward that straight to you and by the way when i just want to be i just want to be clear because it's important when i say you should be privy to everything i'm not saying that you're not asking the questions or you're not interested i'm saying it should you should by by course it should be furnished to you as the head of the council so i just i don't want it to be sound like i'm being unfair because that's not my intention at all at all as of this afternoon i will have everything like in that wide range understood and by by me having it to the public will have it okay and can i just say the very final thing sorry greg if you don't mind this is the last thought it's just that i think that the people who are at the council need to really start thinking about the pressures of families like russia and myself hamlin here in the master all of us are under you know we ring up we're at our wits end our homes are having to get demolished we're having to move out and we ring up and to be quite honest with you we we had a brick wall and it's not a it's not a make a brick wall either it's a wall that literally they don't treat us with respect either don't treat us with any respect in terms of they don't allow us to ask questions they don't allow us to speak to anyone they don't give us any idea where we are in the queue we have no idea of the timeline and to be honest with you i think adding that additional pressure on to families is totally and utterly unacceptable and it needs to be sorted out yeah all right listen thank you very much for your time roshine thank you for your time this morning i really genuinely hope that things move along for you and your young families you described yourself it's a torture that no one should have to be going through especially when we supposedly have a scheme that yeah i really like to finish by saying that i don't want people to think that um my situation as well as the head of people we are going to try and fight as much as we can to get this sorted out before i know there are thousands of people coming behind me but don't lose hope i i just want people to understand my case is a bit extreme definitely as extreme 22 month fucking stage one is not the norm okay listen i'll get through it and i think we should just definitely still stick together and still keep our heads together and get through it well done uh roshine thank you very much indeed we'll be back with more after the news at 10 which will be slightly delayed let's call his name mike denvering concert with guests philomena begley ray linem and brendan shine at the millennium forum dairy on saturday april 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town in the early hours of this morning just four hours later following what they describe as intense guard activity backed up by the guard the arm support unit in male the male coach road area of sligo town they arrested a young man in his early 20s the justice minister helen mackin tees says she has spoken with the guard the commissioner about the killings in sligo and gar thee will ensure justice is done pay shock me hill martin says he's deeply concerned by the violent deaths and is urging anyone with information to come forward as you've been hearing on the nine till noon show questions are being asked of donny god county council over major delays in the application process for the mica redress scheme a substantial amount of applications are said to be stalled on stage one while other families are waiting up to nine months at stage two those affected have expressed frustration by a lack of progress mica campaigner eileen doherty believes that the issue lies with the council there's nothing to suggest that they should be stuck in the system and there's absolutely lots of them that are we don't believe that this is a directive from the department we believe this is an issue at the local authority level well the hearl of donny god county council councillor jack moray believes a pre-planning system needs to be put in place to speed up the process that we would have a system like like a pre-planning system where the council will go out sit with the engineer with a very stringent checklist saying if you don't have all this information that can't proceed sit down be an hour two hours talk through the entire process make sure that every single piece of information is complete and then move forward and hopefully remove that painful delay and non-acceptable delay that has existed the cost of gas and electricity is set to fall when cabinet sign off and a number of measures aimed at reducing fuel bills today the package will see a cut to the vat charge done electricity and gas down to nine percent though not on petrol diesel and home heating oil a triple week payment of the fuel allowance will be paid and the pso levy on gas and electricity is expected to be scrapped age action said a more targeted approach is required to ensure those most at risk of fuel poverty are helped policy specialist with the organization not o'connor says the money is being stretched too far which will result in the most needy losing out well part of the problem is that the government has chosen to do quite expensive things by cutting excise or by cutting vat for everybody and that stretches the money very thin rather than targeting the money on those people who need particular help and that includes many older persons also others such as single parents in society who need more targeted help there's calls for an urgent meeting over coastal erosion in in a shown the ongoing issue is said to be of major concern in the lag kldaf and bali liffen areas consular martin McDermott has proposed a meeting be held with the relevant department in a bid to find a pathway forward he says despite numerous attempts to engage with relevant bodies so far the matter seems to be falling on deaf ears i just feel and i've felt this for quite some time the department and the OPW have no interest whatsoever in dealing with the coastal erosion issues that we have here and done it all they've made it quite clear by not replying to emails and not replying to requests for a meeting the minister came to the county 14 months now we've been trying to get a meeting he came to the county three or four or five weeks ago and still hasn't offered a hand to come here to show and pig farmers are losing between 60 and 70 000 euro per month and need a bailout to survive that's according to the irish farmers association which says the sector needs 100 million euro urgently it's appearing before the agriculture committee later along with meat industry ireland to outline how covet and brexit have let left the sector in crisis if a president tim cullinan's calling on the government to act on farmers proposals all we have to do is look at the assessment that chagas have presented we're showing losses over the last number of months totaling 160 million art both in context at farm level the average farm would fight 600 thousands losing 80 now between 60 and 70 000 per month so it's a very very serious situation underground whether now low clouds slow to clear this morning but it will give way to sunny spells but it will linger near some coast some scattered showers about a mile today with temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for wednesday morning the 13th of april the death has occurred of dan reid avulty gort crossroads killy gordon funeral leaving his home tomorrow at half past 12 for service in st patrick's church crossroads killy gordon at one o'clock cremation afterwards in lakeland's crematorium in cavern the service will be streamed live via st patrick's church crossroads killy gordon facebook page the house is private and no flowers please the death has occurred of john macklehanney le scully castle fin his remains are reposing at his home tomorrow from 11 a.m funeral leaving his home on friday morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock service in st patrick's church crossroads killy gordon interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard the service will be streamed live via st patrick's church crossroads killy gordon facebook page the house is private to family and close friends only please the death has taken place of ann bradley knee turish 209 bommini letter kenny ann's remains are reposing at home wake today from 11 a.m to 10 p.m please funeral from there at quarter past one tomorrow afternoon going to st yunan's cathedral for a funeral liturgy at 2 o'clock which can be viewed live on church services dot tv and term it afterwards to conwall cemetery family time please on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of michael doherty armor donnaf urus clon mani his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral leaving there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to st michael's church urus for a service at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations and lou if desired to cancer care west care of any family member or commiskey funeral directors the funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv and the death has occurred of bridget rogers named mcmullen upper kildrum clay her remains are reposing at her home funeral leaving there this morning at half past 10 going to the church of the immaculate conception clay for requiem mass at 11 o'clock interment immediately afterwards in newton conningham cemetery for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com okay you're very welcome back to the program uh do you know when the 200 euro for the esp will allocate it be allocated well i know some people have received it already um so i don't know presumably when your next bill it comes through with your next bill i presume maybe you get yours later in the later in the month uh what is the name of the book about our national anthem i do think this should be taught in schools in english and irish thanks i will get that for you uh before the end of the program hi greg they won't worry too much about turf in glengad as all they seem to burn around there is rubbish our quality is so bad on holiday here what a shame that comes in from mc i'm sure it's not all of glengad might even be blowing in from somewhere else greg if it's legal to sell turf how come germany can sell turf to arland it's not illegal yet it's a proposal that from september first i believe that it would be illegal to sell it has all council housing been checked for mica a good question i don't know we'll be returning to that of course hello caroline greg hope all well can you put it to your panel that the majority of homeowners cannot even access the scheme in any shape or form what advice can they give us please many thanks okay josephine we'll try and get an answer for you on that uh jack is a current figurehead for donagall kind of council and uh you are giving a pass on the questions he must and should know the answers hi greg could you ask jack moray what are the plans to fix the entrance to the round the river on the town side of castle bridge in boncran it's not wheelchair accessible and parents struggle with posh chairs also there is a beautiful walk around the river but i've seen wheelchair users not being able to use the facility well that's an absolute disgrace it really is and when you are more aware of the lack of wheelchair accessibility you know when you actually look to see what people in wheelchairs have to endure it really is shocking and it's not just in places like this that appears to have no wheelchair access it's even in places that claim to have wheelchair access and in reality in a usable way they don't really have wheelchair access accessibility at all or how tables are laid out in calves and restaurants and stuff um greg morning greg sounds like jack moray's just making up answers to cover himself not good enough thank you um greg what are they renting for 850 euro a week why did these people not just buy a cheap mobile home absolutely nothing wrong with mobile homes that comes in from mary anvil but if there's a house available to rent um and you know you have to and you can why not i don't understand why you would not rent a house but instead get a caravan some people have chose that option because they want to be on site and maybe they can't afford that the the additional rent i don't know last for you on the national anthem greg sang it in irish the whole way through we learned off by heart as children at school it was also played after the dances and all dance halls yes indeed and thanks for your nice comment as well another know every word of the national anthem because we played it yesterday do you see how many of us knew greg five of us in the office only one knew it which is around about the figure we heard from rachel yesterday uh as to in her vox popping how many people actually knew the national anthem right okay uh this is your last call for flight competition now if you want to enter highland radios holiday giveaway it's coming to an end now you've heard uh plenty about it over the last while we've given away a trip for two to turkey we've given away uh two what prices of 1000 euro and it's time now for the big one tomorrow on the program between 11 and 12 and by the way thursday show because we're not here good friday thursday show is friday show does that make sense we're going to have a thursday panel lined up for you there's lots to discuss uh so the thursday panel will be joining between 10 and uh sorry 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dry there will be a few showers scattered about becoming isolated later in the day it'll be mild today temperatures 13 to 16 degrees in light southwestly breezes so it sounds like if you want to get out for a walk this afternoon in evening um then you can okay because the weather's looking midland hi greg listen to your show it's obvious mica homeowners are getting nowhere counselors and tds taking a hand look how quick they can house and lift laws to let people into the country why can't they do the same here house has mica just got it fixed well it's it's it's a bit different sort of ringing a hotel and saying look we'll pay you to give us 50 rooms to house people coming into the country compared to demolishing and rebuilding houses i do understand i honestly personally don't feel the arguments advanced any by trying to compare it to us trying to help people coming from a worn torn country but that's just my opinion um hi greg went to visit the glee gallery recently fabulous place lovely walks and lake unfortunately my young daughter was terrified as there were dogs wandering around without leads bounding about there are signs everywhere there to say keep your dogs on the lead why is it not enforced and why are people so selfish or the people who are afraid of dogs as do not adhere to these signs also the place is covered in dog poo such a shame in such a beautiful area everywhere seems to be overrun with dogs and unfortunately we could have that conversation on a daily basis seemingly because um people not keeping the dogs on leads and it worrying other people uh 284 euro to park your car at Dublin airport for 12 days next week are there any alternatives to this excessive pricing well there are airport car parks all around Dublin um and they're not necessarily on site but you can park there and get boston i've used them i've never i think i've once parked actually in Dublin airport when i used to be able to travel uh a little bit more regularly um but i used the car parks just on the outskirts or a hotel for example too you can you can stay the night in advance in a hotel and some of them have relatively cheap parking that could be an option for you as well and you might even get a free hotel uh room you know for the 284 euro if you get where i'm coming from so there are options uh anyone out there probably shouldn't because there's competition and all that but you look at it's down at Dublin anyone got any tips as to where someone should park the car in Dublin for 12 days next week 08 660 25000 we can help that person out because you know holiday is expensive enough we're getting away uh 284 euro that would be nice in your back pocket or at least you know a proportion of that morning Greg i'm a full-time home carer i depend fully on carers coming into our home every day i have a total of 12 different carers between people off sick holidays etc it's very stressful with so many different faces at the weekend another new carer came who we didn't know and we had no choice from the provider that they were sending another carer this is causing great anxieties there's someone looking into what's happening with home care or a politician who could help thank you so um this is someone who's uh not happy with the amount of different carers coming in to provide uh care for a company there it seems all right 08 660 25 000 your whatsapps and texts we have an ad break to catch up on because the micro conversation ran on so stay with us uh lots coming up with the program we're going to be getting an update from canty sliger with the auto events out of sligo town over the last couple of days we're going to be speaking to a journalist about the the kinnahan story and the big crackdown on uh their uh business if you can call it that uh we have cure in on business matters and so much more besides so stay right where you are it's going to be a really busy hour and uh 37 minutes hi everyone gene kern here to let you know that the highland radio book club is back our first book of the season is the nightingale by american author christin hannah set in france during world war two vian moriax says goodbye to her husband and one as he heads for the front she doesn't believe that the nazis will invade france but they do in droves of marching soldiers caravans of trucks and tanks in planes that fill the sky and drop bombs upon the innocent when a german captain repositions vian's home she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything without food money nor hope as danger escalates all around them vian is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive described as a heart wrenching and compelling novel it is a story perhaps more relevant today as we witness the horrors of war in europe once more we will be reviewing the book on my show on sunday the 24th of april and as usual if you would like to take part or give your comments email me gene kern at highland radio dot com or tune in to the show on the night uncover belfast this easter and embrace a giant city experience guaranteed to surprise find a city alive with culture and entertainment from festivals and live music to world-class attractions and everything in between with great hotel deals come for the day and stay for the night so come on in uncover belfast today find out more at visit belfast dot com i'm stephanie prizner one of thousands of autistic people in ireland everyone experiencing life and autism in our own unique way unfortunately many of the things connecting us are the barriers we face every day barriers most people don't face and so don't even see barriers to a proper education barriers to employment barriers in society that leave autistic people isolated and left out help us remove these barriers and give autistic people the same chance donate at as i am dot ie beat the cost of brexit and no customs charges do you need a uk address for your limited company or personal use space hub and dairy can provide you with your own virtual office or mailbox have your post and parcels delivered to space up and collected your convenience also brand new 20 foot shipping containers now in stock ideal for all your storage needs at our spring town and co more depots find us on facebook or space of dairy dot com or call 04871 878077 for details now as you may remember we had a lady on the program um was it earlier this week or towards the end of the last week who was a regular visitor to ards forest park and she was aghast as someone who goes out mushroom picking and and and there's a love of uh love of the outdoors to see what she described as large parts of the forest flattened didn't look very nice at all it looked at almost um epileptic if that's the right word i think it is but anyway let's continue with our coverage of this uh charlie galler is part of friends of ards ards forest park group he joins us now good morning to you charlie good morning greg are you uh understanding happy unhappy as to what has been going on there i am very happy for what happened uh in the ards forest park that particular area area which is up near the what is known as the old sawmill now i don't understand anybody coming in with a picture part of the park could see that uh that looked like a desolation it looked like a battlefield totally chaos total chaos and branches lying everywhere and then out of the stacks of lumber it's there now i'm i'm afraid the culture i believe i understand issued a statement which uh was ahead of me and how i have said most of the things that i was planning to no well carry on because people the majority absolute majority of people aren't familiar with that culture statement so proceed as if it hasn't been released the situation is of course a citrus roof is a commercial crop and like any crop that has to be harvested so uh the culture have explained that now that it does harvest that they're going to have a more uh another was of an alternative system rather than a more of a mix of conifers and broadleaf trees but what i'm saying is the the habitat there in other words the ground that was called clear fell is an ideal habitat now for wildlife and for the next 10 years it will be a very exciting place for anybody that wanted to listen or up to observe wildlife because uh the reality coniferous forests are very poor for uh for wildlife in fact there's only a small number of specialized species that enjoy you could say uh coniferous wood but what i would have to say is there's one particular bird that i'm looking forward to that may utilize this newly clear clear fell area and that is the night jar it's a summer visitor and very few people would know about them nobody i have never seen one but uh we're lucky that around this area creased little funny area in the rough and the moorland upland areas that can be heard it has a monotonous shoring core a continuous and at night particularly and reverberates through the forest i'd imagine yeah exactly that's what the wood they wouldn't realize what it was but it's a night jar and it's one of the inmates as far as Ireland is concerned it's been a dangerous species so the clear fell is an ideal habitat for it it sits on the ground during the day and at night it takes flight and it flies around it's a very silent place something like an owl and it feeds on most night flying okay this could also be good for the good squirrel the red squirrel yeah oh yes that's the indigenous square of ours isn't it yes exactly i belong to a small group we could call it an ad hoc committee a very small group who love our forest park and we got together and we made up a number of we discussed and drew up a number of proposals that they could give to culture you know to in other words to improve the amenities of the park and one of those we're very fortunate of course at the time that at the same time as we were talking like that culture had commissioned a forum of consultants to survey the park and assess ways in which it could be improved and the amenities could be improved so we in our tour then presented our proposals to this expert group that had already and they were delighted because i found that the proposals that we made matched almost the same as what they had drawn up but the one item that that i think was novel was that we proposed the the introduction or going to say the reintroduction but they were never there the red squirrel to arch forest park so can we say that we fully understand someone who visits that area regularly returning to see this that it does and i think culture themselves had said that it looks untidy at the moment we can understand how someone could be shocked by that but if we look at the long picture that the long-term thing it will take a while to sort of evolve with this new mixed woodland habitat and we'll bounce back better that's correct well i thought it out i'd according to the culture's culture statement they proposed to more broadleafed i would imagine more mixed wood conifers now i should say that that area exactly a small area at some point called the old sawmill area which is near the old graveyard but that's for the for the and i could be i would and i looked around there and it's the massive amount of lumber stacked up and some of it well past it's fell by that some of the chunks are massive but now that the the lumber's moved out that area will be a very interesting place for the next at least the next 10 years really charlie thanks for your time for helping us explain that as i say our caller original caller was quite christine i think it was anyway but she was quite open minded as to what might be going on but we accept that it would have looked like you know a war scene in the first instance but i think you've done a great job in explaining it to us charlie onwards and upwards looking forward to hearing the night jar maybe spotting a red squirrel who's to say i should say that as well as we were hoping that for a day as a result of we're fortunate that one of our committee worked with a forestry commission at scotland and had had a lot of ideas on an administrative basis and there's a lot of ideas as well but what we're going to do for the red squirrel was that we were proposing effort we're all to work out to have feeding hoppers a high up on selected trees convenient to where the trails where children particularly would enjoy watching them big frequented by the red squirrel feeding and running up and down the tree what do you view in the gray squirrel charlie well there is no this is the one plus for ours there's no gray squirrels if the gray squirrels are our project just wouldn't work because it's quite invasive isn't it the gray squirrel it's not it's not natural the tent to wipe out the red squirrel anywhere there but actually i've classified as a bear man yeah okay right all right listen thanks for that charlie this is great to hear an explanation i appreciate your time 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there was a discovery of the body of aiden moffat in connecdon road in canty sliga well-known auctioneer finagle activist and also a peace commissioner he was discovered at his home in carton heights just out sligo town blaine gaffney is a friend and political colleague of aiden and of course first and foremost my deepest condolences on the loss of your friend by all accounts he seemed like a lovely man blaine yeah and i think that's the message we're trying to get out there and about how good of a person he was you know how kind and caring he was and how the horrible things that happened to him you know just don't fit the nature of the man and he was you know he was in terms of himself you know he was a lovable type of a character very friendly very caring very you know i would touch him down as i've been a touch of class yet that just that's a bit of an aura about him when you were around him he was a person who loved horse racing really enjoyed ross common ga really enjoyed country music and obviously the pints in the crack and that's where i originally met him a number of years ago but our relationship has both built around our involvement in politics and and his keen interest in in politics and history and he had a very sharp political and business mind it seems blaine yeah very intelligent one of the most intelligent people i've come across you know very astute could see trends developing before the people could see them and very very just a very intelligent sharp strategic mind and i suppose that's shown true in his in his business career and also then in his involvement in politics on a number of different campaigns was he involved in the campaign of yours or director reflections or what was the situation he would have been the brains behind my election in 2019 and actually was quite funny i remember um much maybe four counts before it became clear to i that i was going to miss out you know by the short number of votes that he uh he had spotted at five four counts before that and i kind of was just a little bit annoyed at the time but you know he was right he seen the trend and then just the type of man he was you know he was when we were going into areas i'd be going in just with the mindset of just meeting people but he'd be looking at the particular topics that were going to be there and potential issues that were going to rise in the doors and that was really the type of man he was very strategic very very caring very very self-natured and you know if you walk into a room he'd be the first one to try and purchase a meal or purchase a pint he'd give you the shirt off his back or to see that he was sitting on that's the type of a person he was and i think that's important that's Aidan and and the person that he was is is really amplified today and not the horrific things i think that happen to you know but i mean it like i mean obviously we're all experienced lost and we lose people it's the it's the manner in which that you've lost your friend and his family and other friends have lost him in that everything that he seems to have been and what he stood for you know it makes his death even more his murder his brutal murder it seems even more horrific yeah and unfair if that makes sense it's just the word that's being used around and media and things like that is just potential motive for a hate crime like there's no hate in Aidan in Aidan whatsoever the two just don't don't fit and you know something so undignified to happen to such a dignified person it's just very hard to to to comprehend i think you know the entire community i woke up this morning just to try and and get some sense around where we were at in terms of had somebody being arrested or where over that and then to learn then this morning that was similar similar horrific murder and last night and it just doesn't bear and also an awful attack on another gentleman who believe last uh last tonight um you know there's three things in in close uh amount of time you know i mean obviously sleigh girl's got a big population things happen but nothing like this and on this scale this is like netflix this is just some horrendous stuff that doesn't seem really it does not seem really this is like we we heard of the attack on playdown and and you know quite concerned considering what was potentially being being discussed and then obviously this heartbreak for what happened on on Monday evening or Sunday Sunday evening but we heard about it on Monday and then to hear this against this morning i think people were just pure numb and shocked and doors but the only positive thing we're learning is that essentially that the um are not potential that that the suspects that believe um may have been linked to these these three horrific things and isn't possibly and that's that's so much and reassuring in in in some small sense yeah listen you've got a wonderful person and experienced engagements to reflect on clearly blame and to get comfort from but it's a tough time and it's going to be tough uh but as we do presume hopefully people will rally together and get through it best they can but uh it's still i presume doesn't feel like you're speaking about aiden in in the past tense he sounds like the type of a person that you'd never felt you could speak about him in the past tense because he was so full of life it's crazy it's just beyond but again i just think it's important that what we're going to hear over the next couple of days is it's horrific it's going to be um you know discussing detail in the media and that is going to be the headline words i think we should be focusing on take a person who aiden was do you think we need to have a at some point when it's appropriate blame revisit the broader conversation uh if there was a a hate motive motive behind this about you know there's a there's a toxic toxic spaces out there where you know a lot of these thoughts are shared and harbored and maybe even encouraged and uh i don't know what it's going to take to try and get a handle on that but it seems almost acceptable to say whatever you want about anything or right i mean i've experienced uh situations where you know people who are just clearly off the walls be writing to you and and and making all sorts of press and accusations it's it's the online space again but i think what the guardian were trying to say was you know for people who are using online sites and things like that there was a big clarification yesterday to really um have due diligence there in terms of agreeing to me somebody you don't know and i think people need to look at that but also we need to look at you know how these sites operate and how people can potentially be able to go on here and be able to uh plan these particular these particular things yeah well listen we'll have time for that conversation another another time i think blaine i'll leave you uh now uh thank you for speaking to us and uh thank you for uh painting the picture of aiden for us and it's a beautiful picture and we appreciate your time take care blaine gaffney their friend and political colleague of aiden moffat there murdered in sligo and then as he said there we learn of another man in his 50s murdered again seems to have been a horrific murder and of course um an attack on another gentleman who was seriously injured now i'm not linking those three blaine suggests that there are local suspicions that they are linked be that as it may a man has been arrested and is being questioned at least in relation to the most recent murder that's the man in his 50s by the way he this is after god he was called to an apartment at conakton road sliger where the body of the male victim was discovered he had received significant physical injuries and that was a a description of the crime scene uh of the uh as it relates to aiden moffat's murder as well okay um that's keeping you up to date on that story and our thoughts with blaine and the rest of aiden's 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where do i go you know where's the signposts uh because everyone's in needs or can be can feel uh individual and it can be hard to navigate so with that in mind uh the new website for parent hub has been launched yeah so parent hub has been in in existence since 2013 and uh that need was identified through members of statutory and community groups in donagall who seen that there was a burden on families trying to access services and they seen a need for this one stop shop so the website was developed at that time and an information on different services was put on the website to ease the burden on parents but just recently um uh last year we took over the coordination of the website and we consulted with parents to see what it was that they liked about the the old website what they didn't like and kind of what they thought parent hub was so was was it what they thought it was and is there anything we can do anything we can do differently so we took the con we consulted with just under 100 parents um by a survey and a focus group and with that then we made the changes to the website so the website has changed uh aesthetically there it's a little bit easier to navigate well it's nine years on isn't it ten years on yeah it was a wee bit cluttered some of the information around services where it was outdated some of the service weren't in existence anymore so there's a wee bit of work to do around that so some of the changes that we made was we created a calendar which is still in its infancy so we're trying to create that so that parents can go into the website and see what's happening in the county of donagall on a month view and so that's kind of work in progress there's not too much on that calendar at at the moment but hopefully there will be and and again it's just to try and get parents to put in say keywords areas that they live in can you give me an example of that like how a parent in bad if it might benefit or engage from the website so they can put in the area that they live in so they can put in balbufeister norler and it'll show them the services they can also put in the age groups of the children or specific categories of support they require so we get requests for groups like you know universal supports parent and toddler groups and then we get supports for more specific you know more intensive supports that they need where it be clinical where they need to be signposted to services for therapeutic support for example and that's something we're really seeing post-covid for parents and children you know that there's real anxiety and I think one of the big things that's coming up for us that we're seeing is a re-frustration among parents with the waiting lists and services you know they're they're they're on waiting lists for sometimes a year sometimes more so they just need a little bit of mind in in those times in between so it might be just that listener support they need from a service yeah so it's not just a website that tells you where things are there's an element of support and there is yeah so they can they can anonymously put questions in via the there's like a facebook or messenger tab at the bottom of the website so they can request they can ask questions anonymously through that there's a phone a mobile phone number they can direct the contact and then there's an email address as well and it's important too sloth obviously well they're funding it but the hsc are involved in this as well because well the hsc are fund pathos parent support service as well as too sloth yeah and they would be they're involved in them they're one of the members of so there's a number of members around the table for parent hub so it's not just me that makes the decisions that there's a number of community and statutory services involved in making the decisions and it sounds to me that obviously there's a lot there at launch but this is something that can grow that's more information becomes available maybe populates the calendar a bit more and that type of stuff definitely and you know there's no one service that can do it all you know we're very much of the idea that we all have to collaborate i'm on the website here sorry excuse me it's not ignorant i just want to have a quick look whilst we're talking you know we all we're of the opinion as well but at one at some point in our parent journey we all will need to access supports you know be it that kind of group where we we need social support from other parents or be it you know you're you're more intensive supports but we don't we don't get a manual um you know so there are questions that you have as parents and yeah but what happens is this is questions that come it's just nice what i'm trying to get is that the internet is a mess okay is what i'm really trying to get out and you can get the wrong information or the right information and variants of it so i think people like it's like it's like for instance if you want reviews of of restaurants or holiday destinations you just you find one place that you trust and you tend to go back their old products right and and that's presumably the aim behind this that it rather than doing a random search each time something comes up there's one place that they can trust and hope the information is there if it's not presumably you want people to feed back in and say that look at we're interested in this why is that out there yeah we want to hear from parents what are the needs you know like we want to be able to respond to them so the the members of parent top come around the table and they say what they're experiencing as services and what parents are coming back to them to say but parents can also message in or contact parent top directly and say this is you know this is the issues that are presenting but we are at the point of contact as well for parent and programs across the county so if a parent has you know maybe the idea that they'd like to look at doing a parent program they can contact us and we put their names on the list and if there's one running then in if there's going to be one running say in their area that in the area that they live we'll contact them directly then yeah and I think really what people should do is go on and have a route around yeah go on the website and have a route around parent hub parent hub doneagall.ie interest links top search but google does that for us but if you just put in parent hub it it comes out at top and just go in and have a look around yeah and we've got a quite an active facebook page and only recently set up an instagram page as well so you know we'll share anything that's happening in the county with regard to parenting that may be useful for parents to see and to make it easier hopefully or so it moves into a new area for example it's it's it's can be hard to it's hard enough sort of to get your bearings but to know what's available around you okay anything else you want to add that I've missed out on yeah maybe just to touch on and the HSE are have given us funding for a parenting initiative through slantia care it's called building healthy communities and that's going to be running now up until 2023 and so there's funding there to provide parenting programs and initiatives for two target areas in doneagall one of which is in a show and one is west doneagall and but those those supports are only for parents of children up to 12 so are we a bit restricted that way but we will be running plenty of programs and initiatives in those areas so parents can reach out to parent up doneagall as well to express interest and availing of those those programs and initiatives in the west and north of the county brilliant stuff all right Chloe thank you best of luck with it and maybe we'll touch base again as things develop it's nice to have had you in Chloe McGinty there parents support team leader with the donagall parent and family support service if you want to check out the new and improved parent hub 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bumper at the moment if people are attending an appointment they need to leave extra time has that been your experience let us know 086 60 25 000 the call says like to thank parent hope for sharing events for early alienated parents as well all right more to come but it's time to take a break for the very latest news at 11 o'clock and we say good morning to kathryn gaffney thanks greg good morning a man in his 20s is still being questioned about a suspected murder in sligo town a man in his 50s was found dead at an apartment and conoxone road at around half past 10 last night it follows the killing of aiden moffat who was found dead at his home in the car trim heights area of sligo on monday gar thee say both men had suffered significant physical injuries meanwhile the justice minister helen macinty says she has spoken with the gar the commissioner about the killings in sligo and gar thee will ensure justice is done he shocked me how martin says he's deeply concerned by the violent deaths and is urging anyone with information to come forward questions are being asked of donnie goll conty consul over major delays in the application process for the mica redress scheme a substantial amount of applications are said to be stalled on stage one while other families are waiting up to nine months on stage two the cost of gas and electricity is set to fall when cabinet sign off and a number of measures aimed at reducing fuel bills today the package will see a cut to the vat charged on electricity and gas down to nine percent though not on petrol diesel and home heating oil there's calls for an urgent meeting over coastal erosion in in a show the ongoing issue is said to be of major concern in the lag kldaf and bali lyfan areas culture has moved to reassure visitors to ards forest park that a significant felling of trees is part of a wider biodiversity project concern had been raised this week over the scale of tree cutting in the area and up to 50 000 people a day are expected to fly from dublin airport this Easter weekend as new guidance for passengers is issued travellers are advised to arrive early but the airport authority says anyone flying from 8 30 a.m onwards shouldn't be turning up before 5 a.m that's it for now we're back with more at 12 noon okay kathryn thank you i think the um that information isn't related to flying out of dublin's getting more confusing all of the time be early but not too early be early at this time of the day but not that not that time of the day uh it's the national airport the biggest airport in the country this should be able to organize it a bit better sits kus spruce of a very shallow root system and not that safe in stormy weather their needle leaves make the soil and runoff water very acidic which is poor for fishing streams look forward to a broadleaf content in the replanting mix in ards forest park and that was part of the reason they chopped them down because the weather was taking them down anyway um we made an inquiry to the council as it relates to how uh applications for mica payments are being processed and this is the response from the council generally when all support and documentation has been submitted the stage payment request is processed within two weeks if the council cannot verify the extent of the works or value of works carried out which should correlate with the remedial works plans this can delay the process of the payments while these clarifications are being sought from the chartered engineer that's what they say um right let me see good morning greg can you ask a government minister next time you're talking to them how come they put vrt on and then say they can't go against europe on the tax on diesel yep i think that's a derogation but we're not being fine for them uh on the mica topic and you show i feel that the council doesn't have the staff or expertise to carry out this mica scheme the department of housing knows this and the council are going along with it the local council is in td should be more critical of the council and the housing department any idea when the road works mess on the port road be finished or what is being done still looks like two lanes each way nothing but a footpath after years of work um i'm trying to figure which figure out which ones they are which is the port road mekela do you know which one's definitely the port road is that the four lanes is it i should know it's not okay listen i'm i'm really bad i have to go by places a shop a pub a building um i'm terrible at remembering the names of roads i received a very convincing scam call this morning claiming they were from a security firm they told me 270 euro was taken to purchase a phone and thousand taken in bangladesh they asked for my mobile number and i gave it to them someone then rang back to say they were from the western union and that money had been lifted by my son in bangladesh but i don't have a son there the call was so convincing as they had the 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nujant good to have you with us kieran right uh liquid therapy how long has it been around how long has it been um accepted to uh be a helpful therapy um so we began in 2011 by offering one single program um in 2019 we were named the national lottery good cause of the year um and last year in 2021 we finally achieved our dream of becoming uh the first registered charity of our kind in ireland so we're on the go 11 years now yeah so can you talk to us then about uh the work of your charity and how it helps people sure yeah so we offer a range of um surfing and ocean based therapy programs to young people with additional needs or anyone who might struggle to participate in mainstream surfing environment yeah and i spoke to you uh years ago or one of your colleagues years ago and people that were using uh revealing of this and and they they were amazed at the benefits of it yeah yeah so we've always known ourselves that um just being in the water and being surrounded by the ocean is just um it makes us feel better in our day-to-day lives and now we're beginning to discover that science is actually backing us up in that as well to show that the benefits of blue space and blue space therapy is just good for the mental well-being of all of us so we're um yeah we um yeah it's always good for it to be broadly accepted but you knew this from day one you were seeing the benefits immediately sure and like as a surfer myself in the water using myself i um i would have known even myself that um i always feel better after being in the water or after having a good surf so to see that translate into the kids is just um it makes us all feel good yeah before we talk about um the different experiences and camps that are available um like who would benefit from this um so it's young people in their families really so we're talking about anybody that might have a diagnosis the likes of anybody on the autistic spectrum down syndrome people like that and their families as well it offers a valuable period of respect to their families as much as the young people themselves because the young people will um you know they will look forward to coming to us and that might might give them um might give them a better home life for the weeks leading up to it and then after they've been to the beach with us they might have a bit of an afterglow effect which will just make their life a little bit easier for them at home and when are the experiences in the clubs and the camps run is it all year round or is it whether dependent um Kieran well obviously the water temperatures in Ireland don't really allow us to run too many programs throughout the winter months but our season this year is um we're running from May until the end of October and our bookings for this season actually will open on Friday that's the 15th Friday good Friday actually and anyone who's interested to available in any of our programs should head over to our website that's www.liquidtherapy.ie and you'll find a list of our programs on there and you should um find the program which is best suited to the needs of your individual I would say and players do fill up quickly so don't delay is it possible too that maybe a parent of God you know caregiver might not know what might best suit their child like can they speak to someone to sort of lean on the experience you have to say that yes you know we have found that children like this benefit from that yeah and if you look at our website all of the programs will have a little blurb on them which um details which would be suitable for the investors to the individual and you can always contact us on www.liquidtherapy.ie if you have any queries around that all right talk to us about for instance the surf experience that's actually wheelchair inclusive as well yeah so the surf experience is our kind of um foundation program for any young people coming to the beach you might be for their first time coming to us it would be um just to maybe do our first test or session they're getting into the water and as regards the um wheelchair inclusive surf experience again that would be um maybe somebody who's coming along for the first time who is a wheelchair user and along with that we will be opening Ireland's first ever inclusive surf centre this season and that will have fully accessible changes of facilities for wheelchair users that's pushing boundaries every every year liquid surf club and the surf camps tell us a bit about those or if they're the one and the same so the surf club this year actually is um aimed at um participants who have been coming to us for a number of years and who have grown on their own and can avail of our facilities without the need for us actually giving them one to one support in the water so they might be children who have come along for many years and who have um grown in their own surfing skills in their own confidence in their own ability and who are able to step outside and they just surf on their own under the guidance of us without needing full support and the what was the other thing the surf camps is yeah the surf camps yep so that's actually um a program that we started last year for the first time it's very exciting it's a um um uh the family camp so we have kids coming to us with their siblings and it's always just gives the whole family an opportunity to get into the water and it gives the um the siblings something to converse about with their with their brothers and sisters and do you find in your experience um is the benefit in the moment in the activity or I think you mentioned earlier on there is an afterglow which can have benefits uh or do the benefits of the liquid therapy being involved in these activities um carry over um you know outside of the events themselves oh for sure yeah yeah yeah and we've seen ourselves like the um it just gives the kids a little extra bit of confidence in themselves that they're overcoming something some sort of adversity surfing is not um easy by any means so by them just even learning the basic skills of surfing it just gives them um great confidence in their lives going forward and it's also the social aspect as well of it because um they get to engage with their peers and they get to um just grow as a person yeah so then the benefits then are from the environment but also you know the discipline uh the the three B's all of that uh intertwined and the rest is is that where the real benefits are coming from yeah exactly yeah so the three B's are breathing balance and um environment beach environment yeah beach environment yeah on this um thank you for that on this um was brought about by our um sort of during the pandemic um obviously we had a bit of that in time so we developed our health and wellness well-being program called Adito which stands for a drop in the ocean and through that program we aim to um empower the kids with a range of skills and tool kits that will help them to um just look after their own well-being and their day-to-day lives away from the beach environment you know we get we teach them like coping skills and just mindfulness techniques and yeah the goal the goal is that um they will take these elements away with them and be able to use them in their day-to-day lives away from the beach yeah now listen people travel from all over the place to avail of this it's uh so unique uh unique here in uh in Rosnalla isn't it in South Donegal so I mean you say that booking opens on Friday like is are there lots of spaces available like do you think this will uh fill up quickly because there is a you know there's a limited amount of time and resources what's your feelings as to people's chances of getting a space Kieran yeah so um place has always filled up extremely fast um this year we're hoping to engage with over 500 families from across Donegal um and indeed the entire country we have people coming to us from as far as cork to avail of our services and places do fill up very quickly so I would advise everyone to get on there as quick as they can on Friday good Friday and to not be disappointed if um we can't find a spot for you this year okay listen Kieran thank you very much indeed for that that is uh Kieran Nugent uh volunteer officer with liquid therapy um there is a climb taking place it's called the Aragile Climb for Autism uh Kieran Kerwin is a member of that and joins us now Kieran thanks for taking the call good morning Greg uh it's good to have you with us right now uh this climb takes place on Sunday the first of May at 11 a.m to raise funds for this year's chosen charities jigsaw the mental health charity and liquid therapy so why did you feel it important to choose liquid therapy as one of the beneficiaries um well my children have been going to liquid therapy now for nine years and um Molly would be one of the kids that are older and she done the adito program that he was talking about last year and um have you found the uh sorry the lines breaking up by Kieran have you noticed the benefits of it yourself oh god i i mean it's nice to get to the beach everybody knows it's nice to get to the beach and all but um to watch all these kids they've come along to uh liquid therapy um you know to see them grow from you know going to the beach and muddling and the and the sand at the shore and then they'd be getting on a board and learning to stand up on it and they'd be coming in and you see them dancing on the board and you know um just to see them grow through the years and it's lovely for the parents to get and you know you meet so many families um and with a group like that everybody it's just one big family you know um but the benefits for the kids as well um the siblings are able to come along on different programs as well um so my other kids have been able to come and um one of them now he doesn't like the sand at all and won't entertain liquid therapy because he just has too much sensory and um but um one of my girls Molly goes one of the twins Molly goes and Molly has severe ADD and her concentration is so bad i mean she's was poorly in school like because of that but liquid therapy seems to be the only thing that she's stuck with um you know she's tried Irish dancing and gymnastics and all these things but she gets bored with them very quickly um liquid therapy is the thing that seems to have you know captured her uh her interest and it's great for her but it sounds like it's great for you and the rest of the family as well to see that Karen yeah it does you know and um she's grown so much through liquid therapy um her confidence her socially you know meeting people and and and getting to know everybody through the years you know um and she's 15 now and she'll be finishing up with liquid therapy next year she's 16 and i'm actually hoping Molly might you know maybe volunteer or be able to help out with and and and use some uh that her love for written interest in it definitely uh okay so it's clear then why you wanted to include liquid therapy as part of the the the fundraising climb as i mentioned it's climbing Eregal Sunday 1st of May at 11 a.m and registration from 9 30 a.m on the morning yeah from 9 30 we'll be there but we don't really start to about 11 but if people some people come and they go on up ahead and then we turn the way back down some of these climbers can be stubborn and off they just go on a go on ahead yeah they just like i'm going on ahead and i'm not waiting for nobody you know and um it's Eregal climb as it's a great day out um megettigan's always do a free boss for us every year we've been doing it now since 2014 and um cahill always has a free boss going out so anybody that wants to get a boss out just contact cahill um we uh we're trying to get money to get out these um the surf place that that uh they're talking about um it's nearly finished we we need some more stuff to make some toilets and some changing rooms so if there's anybody out there would like to donate anything we'd we'd love it but um that's what the climb is for we're trying to get some money to to finish off the surf centre and uh hopefully we'll have a great great turnout yeah indeed so uh in terms of registration and the fundraising element of it that's your turn up on the morning isn't that how that's done yeah well we we'll be having a registration now next week um prior to that some people like to just get it done before the morning you know but yeah we always do your registration on the morning and um yeah it's a great day out okay ice creams tea and coffee all day all right karen listen thanks for your time this morning i wish you have your success with that thank you all right thank you all right take you care take care right now margo said good morning greg the port road is between the dry arch roundabout and the station roundabout i know i should know that and i'm so sorry uh i suspected it but i didn't have the confidence to go through with it uh margo goes on to say the current road works are taking place between the dry arch and the pole star roundabout your previous contributor is correct when they say the only work being done is building a footpaths while the main road falls into further disrepair well listen i've as a road user as someone who uses that road i find it very frustrating it's clearly damaging to vehicles uh i've not seen much like that before especially as the main artery into a town where the focus is on footpaths and the road seemingly is falling into disrepair i've tried to push it along by speaking to local councillors kind of giving up at this stage it is what it is uh presumably there's a program of works there and that they're going to get it done on time um but it is what it is okay uh any more views on that or anything else for that matter keep the calls comments coming into us oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and texts a call oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand the villarose 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also brand new 20 foot shipping containers now in stock ideal for all your storage needs at our spring time and cool more depots find us on facebook or space hub dairy dot com or call zero four eight seven one eight seven eight zero double seven for details around facebook says tom and the guys at liquid therapy should be congratulated as they've brought so much enjoyment and self confidence to so many children and their families such a deserving cause well done uh karen i want to say also by the way a very happy 90th birthday birthday to edith darty she's in beach hill manna nursing home from all the staff and residents a very happy birthday to you edith i hope you have a lovely day a caller says why can't the army do the pat downs at double an airport to free up security staff at least then airport security can do scanning and army to the pat downs no training would be needed for the army for this uh right i suppose there is that uh i just got a call to say about i'm not sure you see they are doing the security it's not just for the uh for the for double an airport obviously it's for the planes uh maybe registered in different jurisdictions or flying to different jurisdictions i'm not sure if it's just simply a case to put more personnel in there and just because someone's in an army uniform presuming that they have sort of the authority to do it correctly i'm not questioning whether they would or not but i presume they're it's not just quite as simply switching out uh switching uh in and out staff maybe not that being said look at you know it's three and a half you're there for three and a half hours i mean you know on the wider scale of things it's a it's probably a bit of a nightmare but you know it's three and a half hours you could be going driving through ballad buffet and all or it could take you 50 minutes to get through um it is an airport is there mostly i think to facilitate people going away on holiday just a little bit earlier i know that sounds maybe a bit harsh i don't mean it like that but also uh dairy uh knock airport island west airport through them in a shot if you can get flights out out of there particularly island west i just got a call to say about traffic i've i've just got to call to say about traffic it's bumper to bumper in the twin towns causing awful delays please can these works not be carried out during the night uh hours thank you greg we don't really tend to do that much um and if we do i don't know how quickly things progress it would make an awful lot of sense but maybe the contracts would be more expensive maybe they'd be an unwillingness to do that and maybe with people residing close to the road works that would cause upset as well so there's probably many probably many different reasons why that can't happen now caller says i'm getting calls all week all different numbers saying they are from amazon okay the biggest cause of pollution in towns is not burning smoky fuels it's chip vans and takeaways where does it stop people are being dictated to and are being told they're now can't sell the turf people need to take to the streets and stand against this i think there's two things going on there right firstly you can monitor the the air quality in the likes of letter kenny and around about rush hour or when people like the fires in the winter you can see uh the damaging particles peak it's it's not really disputable it's there at those times you know you can see the correlation there between traffic and the the poor air quality and also when people might be inclined to like fires as i say it's there it's evident that doesn't mean that that's being called by burning caused by burning turf either right so the two issues are kind of the same but i don't think it strengthens the argument an awful lot i mean it's clear burning burning smoky fuel in a town environment is very damaging to people who have respiratory illness it doesn't necessarily cause asthma like a caller said earlier on uh that you know they live in the town and none of them have ever had asthma that's fantastic but if you're if you and many many many people in the northwest more so i think than other places are prone to respiratory illness and if you are it's just indisputable that in a town environment the cars and the burning of smoky fuels damages people's health that's just uh the way it is uh but that doesn't mean that turf gifting turf should be banned either do you know what i mean um why can you what can you do when your engineer won't answer your text emails or phone calls we need to get our report back to resend it back into the council well that shouldn't be happening either right okay business matters is on the way we're going to get an overview of the uh kinehan gang uh developments all of that uh between now and 12 so stay right where you are it's mike denvering concert with guests philomena begley ray lineman brandon shine at the millennium forum dairy on saturday april 23rd tickets at 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to the program kirno donnell's going to be joining us very shortly for business matters so stay tuned for that uh just on the roads uh the traffic is bumper to bumper in bala buffet there'll be a lifetime doing this work as they seem to only be allowed to do a certain amount each day hopefully not another highgreg letter kenny they believe is a disaster to get around at the moment and they've stopped going into it and go to dairy instead of course people wouldn't like to hear that uh all right it's time for this business matters in association with the faculty of business at atu dunne gall looking for a career in financial services consider the level nine ma in governance compliance and data protection take the next step in your career and contact the exec ed coordinator on nine one eight six two zero six or email exec ed ex ec ed at lyit.ie today all right so okay right uh once not the lyt anymore we might have to update those things perhaps uh kirno donnell presenter of the business matters podcast joins us good morning to kirran good morning greek how are you keeping i'm good greek how are you week that's been good day good do anything interesting um of sturdens and michael started the bridge into anthony on sunday west in shondurans and uh so michael's in the first shondurans first league game so it was cold and low but very entertaining so i enjoyed it how did it go shondurans go over the line of course they did right okay now let's start with some business news kiran and we'll start with a weaving course launch yeah i should see a focus up yeah we missed a few times yeah we missed a few times greg the build up to the course being sort of filled up and rolling there in the last number of months so the first certified weaving group in the country has been launched until care was developed by donnell etb following consideration to support the preservation of donnell weaving as an indigenous craft that existed for centuries so eight pioneering students have signed up for the 41 week course that will help them develop the skills and craftsmanship of a donnell weaver the full time traineeship has been developed by donnell etb through his further education and training service and is certified by the scottish qualifications authority nice one right now the council is to get 2.3 million in funding for housing adaptation grants that seems pretty much around about the mark that normally seems to be allocated donnell etb is set to receive 2.3 million in funding for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities which is an increase of 346 000 on last year's allocation grants of up to 30 000 euro are available to assist disabled people in carrying the necessary work to make a house more suitable for their needs additionally grants of up to 8 000 euro are available to assist older people to have necessary payers or improvements carried out on their homes and grants of up to 6 000 are available for mobility aids so the fund provides 80 percent of xjacker funding through the department of housing local government and heritage with the remaining 20 percent and funds coming from donnell etb council all right we know there was a significant intervention to assist businesses during the pandemic we have a figure for that now yeah 55 million euro and financial support was provided by donnell etb council to donnell businesses during the pandemic 24.3 million came in the form of restart grants 2020 14.9 million was through the commercial risk waivers 2020 while 12 million was via commercial risk waivers 2021 the euro supports accounted for 2.2 million while the remaining 0.6 million came from small business assistance scheme for covid now i wonder when lonely planets are putting together their guides um how extensive their research is isn't i mean how many pubs do they visit or how do you wonder how they call it all information yeah now they in fairness to them they have hit the hit the mark with two uh of of our pubs but you just wonder how it all works yeah but anyway yeah what's the good news yeah chat chat hoody big and good or and the rusty mackerel and tilian have both been included among the top 20 pubs in errant by international travel guide publisher and website the only planet the guide says errant is home to more than 7 000 pubs many of which share food are open all day and lit into the night and host unbeatable irish music sessions decent return 10 out of the 32 counties yeah we're staying with the licensing trade um a familiar place for uh many in the south donnellgoal area up for grabs yeah killcare house and killcare has been placed on the market with a guide price of 495 000 uh the price sorry the premises comprise a bar lounge kitchen and a three bedroom living accommodation upstairs and the sale is being looked after by michael o'flaharley of castle estate agents would you ever get into that business i mean the notion of it sounds good you know look i would i would have worked socialising i worked for a long time when i was younger gregg part time and uh when i was at school that i enjoyed it but the whole game has changed completely tough gig then an award no all right okay right uh that is just a rundown of some of the news in the business world so let's talk about the focus of this week's podcast kieran yeah my guest this week is parry loge owner of loge's bar in cramford and chairperson of the mulroy drive tourism group parry began working in the family business while he's still at school he was assistant manager in the kerry gert hotel for eight years before taking up a full-time position at loge of cramford in the late 70s in recent years parry has concentrated more on the food sector construction of a new coffee dog and fifty seater restaurant around the famous old forge is at an advanced stage and both are scheduled to open in june parry is also one leading figures behind the mulroy drive tourism group established in 2012 to assist businesses in the area and help create the potential for new businesses to set up along the striking mulroy drive parry said he sees great potential for the whole area along mulroy bay the scenery are all along the bay and um it's just magnificent and most of the scenery in the wildlandic way is it's all brilliant but it's rugged terrain whereas mulroy bay is an inlet it's like a lake in the mud it's an open sea but it is like a lake and it's totally different and i mean it's the like of it's suitable for the like of activity sports like we have eco atlantic now doing the canoeing all the time and it's the possibilities are amazing like and we have three um horse riding stables around the dotted around the bay realistically weather-wise and donnie gall when we're looking for tours and we can't promise the weather but we have to provide other services for the moment if it is a bad day that it can go and pass the day and like we have the rock hole caravan park and and kerry keel with an activity center there we have three riding stables we have eco atlantic on the bay we have a dive center in kerry gart and they take you out diving and they have a pool there for to teach you to dive and we have dive sites in the bay and it's all on our website there you can check all the phalems and everything the depths so everything's there for you to take if you do come and haul it yeah and that's what it's all about kieran isn't it it's not just about an individual business of what it has to offer it's part of the whole package the whole holiday experiencing and you don't have to be traveling from go away or kerry or wherever you know um just a wee bit outside the air you get a very different experience yeah and of course in that area greg you know the well he listed out the places to go and the things to do and the activities and he mentioned you don't need good weather to come and haul in donnie gall I suppose that's the old thing and in relation to the group at paddy's part of um they missed out on the part of the wide atlantic way so rather than do nothing they took a proactive approach they got up and running and in the last number of weeks there were 10 you viewing points were unveiled so as very much people helping themselves and trying to promote each other and trying to promote the area in a very onselfish way and any word of all expenses paid invite to the grand reopening of the new 50 city restaurant was that mentioned well I was just thinking she hasn't made contact yet after the last week but I'm sure he'll be looking to get some pickings isn't it yourself I've decided to to just you know forget about my own pride and it's not working a last party if you can come along right so you have a good long chat with paddy about all things very much about myself as well paddy's very interesting character he's seen huge changes down the years obviously he during the pandemic he took along thinking about what he wants to do there's an old Ford's there which was built by his grandparents they came from Scotland 100 years ago 100s of horses were shed there and that's going to be a feature now of the new renovated and refurbished loads of cramford which is a very well known location in that part of the woods okay listen um you can get the full interview with paddy log available now on our website highlandradio.com you can podcast it on Spotify and iTunes as well um and also it's on air uh Kieran yeah it goes out after the six o'clock news Greg on Sunday evening and what if anyone wants to get in touch with you some feedback on the show suggestions for items going forward maybe they want to be featured how do you uh get in contact with you yeah just drop me an email please buzzersmanners at highlandradio.com all right you must be pushing the tonne now yeah what was 87 like 87 you think but you know fine rightly it's 87 all right keep it listen Kieran thank you very much indeed I appreciate it as always good morning Greg all right that's Kieran O'Donnell there 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Irish story and then sort of a sort of a different international approach to particularly Daniel Kinahan did you think a day like yesterday would ever come no absolutely not Greg and in my 20 odd years reporting on crime and working in the newspaper industry I was taking a back when the internet was made yesterday just a few minutes into the press conference when you had the American ambassador to Ireland you know revealing publicly that three individuals Daniel Kinahan his brother Christie junior and his father Christopher senior were now the subject of a five million dollar reward for information leading to their arrest but also information leading to the disruption of their business interests and the Americans had issued a statement just before a number of hours before the press conference talking about economic sanctions also being placed on the three individuals but also four other associates as well and that was quite striking news as well but when the reward details were mentioned that it's quite a stunning development but I think the guards were at pains to point out yesterday that it was about the first phase of the investigation but I think it also showed because of the American involvement the extent of the international cooperation between the Garde and other law enforcement agencies so quite a stunning development a little bit about that yeah and before we talk more about that and its implications and Daniel Kinahan and what this might mean for him and the rest of of his gang I mean we know it don't we in this country but talk can you give us a brief overview of the Kinahan the Kinahan gang's history yeah well they started off Christie Kinahan senior and was someone he was involved in fraud and other criminal activities but he moved into the drugs industry because he could see the profits that were being made by other drugs, guns especially in the inner city areas of Dublin in the late 80s and his first venture into the the drugs trade ended in failure because he was caught with heroin and an apartment block in Qantara from North Dublin and the subsequently jailed for six years but I think he utilized that time and when he was in prison to learn four languages to also study economics as well and but when he came out of prison in the 90s he moved to Spain and I think it's during his time in Spain that's where he concentrated these contacts with very serious players within the world of organized crime those from Morocco those from Holland from Spain and far east and also South America so over the years they built up this huge network and they were known in southern Spain as the Irish mafia and in 2008 we saw that Patti Dahl was one of their their henchmen he was murdered and then I think the Spanish started taking an interest in them because of the fact that people were being killed and it was bad for terrorism and the Spanish then launched a huge investigation and a huge surveillance operation and when we were doing the research for the book we were able to obtain the Spanish investigation file and it pointed to this group being involved in weapons training and being involved in drugs trafficking weapons importation as well but also undergoing anti-surveillance techniques and talking about you know different measures that they could take to stay in Papa and stay at one step ahead of the authorities and then it just grew and with the money that was coming in from the drug shipments that was used then to perform many companies and businesses and invested in property and power even Christie Kenan got involved in the cement industry they even put importing chicken feet from China there was everything about an angle and trying to invest their money in places like Switzerland the Cayman Islands Panama Lichtenstein so it just built into this huge narcotics criminal gang but that was because of the context that they made and the logistics and resources at their disposal but as that grew so did their associates and the people from Ireland were involved but also people from Morocco people like Nafl Fasi was from Morocco and was caught in Dublin in 2016 so it just went on to become a major and recognized as a super cartel because of the individuals they were working with it just became huge now I mean obviously I'm skipping over an awful lot here because we can't take up too much of your time here but did what is the reasons he shooting when things like is that really when we stepped on to the path that's led us to today? Yeah I think so there were investigations into the Kennedy Cartel obviously in 2010 the Spanish and the Dardi targeted them on their operations shovel some charges were brought against them but some of those they've taken a very long time to come before the Spanish courts some have now been dispensed with the cards in south inner city Dublin had an operation GoldenEye targeting key members but they that lost a bit of resources because of the recession but I think following the Regency and because of the level of violence that we witnessed on the streets here I think there was a determination I think the state had to respond in a robust fashion to do something about the threat because they were killing a lot more people than other criminal groups they killed 18 people and such a short space of time so they posed a serious threat and I think that's when the state decided to dismantle them and disrupt their activities and in 2018 Andrew Harris the Cartel Commissioner took over he was briefed on the threat posed by the kind of ingripping and that's when the negotiations with the Americans and other law enforcement agencies stepped up and I think over the years we have seen high key players within that group have now are now behind bars seven are currently doing time for murder others are doing time for directing activities of an organized crime gang drugs weapons with 20 million worth of drugs have been seen seven million in class so there has been a huge response from the state. I asked you about sort of Daniel Kinn and how he's you could say laundering or tried to launder his reputation in terms of the actual activities of the gang actively in in the drug scene has that been completely disrupted or is it suspected to be ongoing? Well it's been ongoing so that they're still classified as an organized criminal grouping who engaged in trafficking weapons trafficking drugs and also in murders so it would be ongoing they are still a gang you have many tentacles and many associates in Dublin who they work closely with they have the capabilities and the resources to you know arrange shipments of drugs into Ireland and even after the regency in this case there's a few taking place and the spotlight being friendly on them that the guards don't see 20 million worth of drugs that they have connected to this gang they see a massive amount of arms as well 48th weapons too so it shows you that they are still in business even though they are in Dubai they still have people who are operating in their path and just a few weeks ago one of their key players Thomas Kavna was jailed for 21 years in the UK and that was for masterminding a 36 million year drug shipments between 2016 and 2017 so again that was in the middle of the feud where they were killing people they were still arranging shipments into Ireland. Now there was a strange thing going on the likes of yourself and your colleagues writing extensively on Daniel Kinahan at the same time he had managed to get himself very high up in boxing circles so he would read this stuff in our papers here and at the same time we'd look at the likes of IFL TV and other sort of online boxing journalistic kind of outfits sponsored by the likes of your Queensbury rules or all matrim or whatever so to some extent I'm not sure how probing they could be in their questions but we knew everything that was going on here but out there you had the likes of Billy Joe Saunders and others and defending him saying he's a great guy looks after the boxers Frank Warren working with him as I say matrim working with him a rum working with him him being loaded in in the UAE in India and it was like two different universities running at the same time it was indeed it was bizarre to see this huge media campaign being launched by Daniel Kinahan to distance himself from the Regency first of all we had a video or a film sorry a short film based on the Regency Hotel and painting Daniel Kinahan as being the victim of a state sponsored initiative to kill him then you had a rap song about him we also had a book placed online about the true story behind Regency so that was all part of an orchestrated campaign for him to legitimize himself and to paint himself a legitimate businessman and it also stands from support from Tyson Fury on social media other boxers as he just mentioned there Greg we were also supporting him and it was him distancing himself from any element of organized crime and trying to paint himself as a key player and a power broker in the world of boxing but I remember speaking to Frank Warren before and his words to me were we published this story that he's a very he's a man of honor and when I asked you know Frank Warren about you know the the links to the the ongoing feud and the devastation that was being caused it was like you know this is a like a media prison conspiracy you know two newspapers in Ireland and some rogue guard trying to ruin this man or something like that that's the way the kind of impression internationally uh it was going on so um also there has to be an ego here if he had of disappeared to the middle east and not tried to get his profile the way it is we probably wouldn't be where we are now I don't think he's been very clever at all I think he's trying to be clever I think the ego stays a massive part here where he has probably instructed the key players in the boxing industry in the boxing world to publicly back him publicly support him people like Bob Aram but that's now backfiring once you have the americans involved and the americans restricting his access to financial companies and banking institutions in the united states he operate on a global basis as well I think that's that's a game changer and you even have Bob Aram saying today in an interview that he won't do business with Kenan Aram previously spoke about how this was meant perhaps Daniel Kenan the focus of arish media you know do you remember the time around that big summit they were having uh and every single comment including a rom was about how uh you know if it wasn't for Daniel Kenan if it wasn't for Dan so that's quite a shift and I see an awful lot of tweets and stuff being deleted in the last minute I have with you uh and there's so much more we could get into but the net is closing here because the refuge of the uh of dubai how long will that be available to him dubai have handed other people over particularly when the united states are involved is the refuge there for many longer and there's nowhere else he can go what he'll be he'll be back in arman this year won't he I think you could take a number of months I think this stage of the investigation is about intelligence it's about gallery evidence with the ultimate objective is to bring him before a court with the possibility of charging him with directing the activities of an organized crime guy I think he's going to be extremely paranoid because that's a huge amount of money for one of his associates to maybe come forward and work with the authorities and telling the authorities what they know about Daniel Kenan I think he's going to lose friends in the boxing industry people like Bob Aram that's already started I think his name is now toxic it wasn't before among many in the boxing industry whereas the people of Ireland and the media and society knew what the Kenan name meant in terms of the devastation in the innocent lives that have been linked to that organized crime group so I think it's it's a game changer and when the americans get involved there's more power and resources behind those and they have more influence on the dubai authorities that they could say we want them out yeah and boxing has to clean itself up too to the point whereby you can't ban a manager because of their background but it's okay if they're an advisor they that this is going to have shock waves through that sport I think because let's not forget the reason why we haven't seen Katie Taylor and others fight in this country can be directly linked to the fact that the guardi won't okay because of what happened at the regency so it's been very damaging to sport in this country as well not to mention the lives lost etc Stephen thanks so much for your time this morning thank you all right Stephen Breen there crime editor with the Irish Sun co-author of the cartel back tomorrow morning with the Friday panel on a Thursday to the Thursday panel the entertainment slot and so much more besides John Bresnan is coming up next after the news at 12