 Dumb person K identified in the Greenwich report as having been involved in multiple murders and attempted murders in the Northwest between 1989 and 1993. The recently published report details that so-called person K is believed to have been involved in the deaths of numerous people, including the assassination of Councillor Eddie Fullerton. Senegal Deputy Padre McLaughlin was speaking during statements on legacy issues on Northern Ireland in the Dull last night. He's calling on the Justice Minister to examine and act on the findings of the report. This person is closely identified with the murders of Jared Casey, Councillor Eddie Fullerton, Thomas Donahue, Danny Cassidy, Maliki Kerry and the maskers at Castle Rock and Grey Steel. Minister, I'm appealing to you and your department officials to deeply examine this report, particularly person K. A masked murderer with a license to kill, he must be brought to justice. A tonnagal senator believes the terminology currently being used in child pornography legislation is harmful. Senator Eileen Flynn has moved to introduce a Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material Amendment Bill to address what she says is a very important language issue. She's proposed the legislation used to term child sexual exploitation material as opposed to child pornography. Senator Flynn told the shunned that the change is necessary. The term child pornography is not only incorrect, it is dangerous. Why? You heard the term child pornography and understand what it means. Why then is it dangerous? Our laws already provide measures against it. The reason is what is happening in these awful incidents is not pornography. It is abuse. Pensions to raise the retirement age are in doubt today. The Eroctor's Committee on Social Welfare has opposed plans to incrementally increase the age at which you can claim the state pension up to 68. There is concern that within the next two decades there won't be enough workers to adequately fund the state pension. But committee chair Dennis Nocton says they spent a number of months assessing four proposals from the pension's commission and felt the one suggesting an increase in the retirement age was not appropriate. We feel that it tied the hands of the committee in terms of looking at things outside of the very tight confines of the state pension. And we're recommending that the commission package three which looks at PRSI rates and extracurricular contribution should be the approach that should be taken, which as a result of that would not include a rise in the pension age. Whether or not a mix of Clyde's sunny spells and party drizzle in places this morning with highest temperatures today of 8 to 10 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, it's important to self isolate straight away. This helps stop the spread of the virus and protects other people. You should also get a COVID-19 test, either an antigen or a PCR test. Find out which test you should get and book it at hsc.ie. And please don't attend work, school or social events if you have any symptoms. Stay at home and get a test from the HSC for us all. Bluebird Care are hiring nurses and carers across Donegal. Call 911-295-62. Bluebird Care are sponsors of today's show. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hiya, good morning. It's another Wednesday, the 2nd of February. This one is 2022, four minutes past nine. You welcome along to the 9 to noon show here on Highland Radio. Loads to come up on the program today, including Paddy Diver. He'll be joining us. We'll also be having, I suppose, almost a final conversation. I'm not saying it is the last one, but just to find out precisely what the implications of that announcement was for the leaving circuit yesterday. And there's so much more besides. We want you to stay with us and we want you to get involved. You call us on 07491-25000 or text to WhatsApp and 08660-25000. Kieran O'Donnell will be in later as well. Of course, previewing the Business Matters podcast and what we'll hear from a caller about her experience at Latter-Kinney University Hospital. And there's so much more in there. Your comments via email to comment at highlandradio.com. If you want to watch the program today and see many of our guests as we interview them as well, you can hop onto our webpage, highlandradio.com. You'll see a Watch Live link there. Click into that and you can watch it in your browser. Or go onto your Facebook or YouTube channel and watch us there, right? The paper is this morning, starting with the English Times. And this is a story we'll be talking about later on in the program as well. Students with special educational needs attending Skolmora-Bongkranah are being taught in substandard facilities, according to one concerned parent. Anthony Harkin, whose son, AJ, is one of 20 pupils in the school's special needs unit, described the building the unit is currently using as damp, moldy and lacking accessible toilets. That's to say, he'll be joining us later on in the program as well. The Donegal Post tells us that a former soldier from Donegal a member of the Women of Honor group which advocates justice for women and men who've suffered alleged sexism, bullying, sexual assaults and rape while serving their countries now, demanding a full independent statutory tribunal, not the toothless replacement announced last week. Retired CMSQ Karina Malloy told the Donegal Post that the group felt ambushed by foreign affairs and Defense Minister Simon Coveney over the terms of reference of an investigation into addressing their serious allegations and testimonies which were first raised in an RTE documentary last year. They weren't first raised there, they've been raised there since I think you could go back to the 80s but certainly for this current era, that program certainly brought that conversation back to the fore again. The Finn Valley Voice tells us that Finn Valley Youth Club closures are putting young people at greater risk of under retrieving at school drug misuse and alcohol misuse according to a committee member of the Donnelly Loop Youth Club. John Byrne's been speaking to the paper and says that the last two years with COVID-19 have been extremely difficult for youth clubs in the area and they are in jeopardy due to a lack of volunteers and of support. On to the nationals now and we read of major tensions between Finnegale and the Greens, this is in the Irish independent, apparently threatening to destabilize the coalition. Splits have emerged over a range of issues including housing reforms, an army barracks, a gas pipeline and stalled road projects. Three former Finnegale ministers openly attacked Environment and Transport Minister Eamon Ryan last night. John Paul Phelan said Mr Ryan doesn't have any understanding of rural Ireland or anything outside the pail. Paul Keough accused the Green Party leader of a sleight of hand and Charlie Flanagan called it a gross discurtecy after Mr Ryan suggested Cahill Brewer army barracks in Dublin could be turned into housing and this was a remarkable announcement because he announced it as a fact even though there was a review of it ongoing, but also these barracks are already home to many within the army and I don't believe that was referenced in Eamon Ryan's statement so it would be a case of would it chuck them out and create housing for others. The fresh coalition tension came after it emerged over the weekend that some Finnegale backbenchers are threatening to withdraw support from government. They are angered by the shelving of several major national road projects by Mr Ryan because of funding constraints. Mr Ryan spokesperson acknowledged some difference of opinion but insisted there was a positive working relationship with government partners. Our cracks beginning to show there I wonder. It's amazing too the things that really you know motivates backbench politicians to speak out and threaten to undo a government isn't you know stalled road projects I get that maybe the development of an army barracks I get that that's what's on the front of the papers destabilizing the government it's not safe for instance and we'll be talking about it later Micah it's not health you know the state of our hospital system it's other things like that it's peculiar on which hill people choose to fall on. The Irish times colleges won over cruel levels of great inflation and this is as I say something we've been flagging on this program for a while. High levels of great inflation inflation in this year's leaving cert exams run the risk of students on high points losing out on their chosen courses due to an increased use of random selection. Higher education sources have said the warning follows Minister for Education Norma Foley's announcement that this year's leaving cert will be held as a series of traditional exams this summer with additional choice and fewer questions significantly the minister said the overall marks would be no lower than last year's record breaking set so how does that work and we're going to try and find that out a little later on in the program I mean if someone across the board you know scores the equivalent of a DSA for example are we saying that those points will be elevated or is it overall how does that leave the competition for places of course people last year deferred tens of thousands of them did as did others the previous year and then there's adults sitting their leaving cert as well and all of those people going into a nod a an elastic amount of college spaces it's going to be a problem and of course you can't then leap heap this on students next year or perhaps the year after so this is the new level the new high but how do you work that out in the long to in the medium term let's say without disadvantage in some year but anyway higher education sources last night said that cruel and inverted commerce level of great inflation were not sustainable especially for high points courses such as medicine dentistry and pharmacy universities in many cases were forced to use a lottery to determine entry into high points courses last year and you know the reality isn't it's a cruel reality perhaps that what you will have though is that maybe students that in a traditional sense would have achieved the points required to get into those high demand high demand courses are being displaced by those that might have struggled to so that natural selection isn't there and will that reflect will that reflect the quality of graduates then in years to come and what impact might they have it is kind of a ripple effect the Irish Daily Mail tells us that the pension age is to stay at 66 at least that's a recommendation the pension age should remain at 66 and not be increased to 68 this is according to an Arctis committee people age 66 or over could not reasonably be expected to keep working due to the physical and mental stress that their jobs have caused over many years the committee on social protection said in a report yesterday the government previously stated it won't be able to pay for the dole and other social supports by 2040 unless the pension starting age was delayed and yesterday's report contradicts advice the government's already received from the pensions commission what was interesting in it as well nothing this is important is that they also recommended that the retirement age for people in physical labor would be reduced to or would be retained or reduced to 65 which I think is also a significant is also a significant addition because of course you know you might have someone that leaves school at 17 or 18 or straight out of school straight onto a building site or some other form of of intensive labor so they will work 40 years very very quickly and be about 56 but you might have someone then that goes to college they might not start full-time employment called 24 25 and their 40 years would leave them at 66 so is it not only fair that those that may you know go into a tougher line of work in terms of the physical strain it might take on your body that they should be able to retire a little earlier I think that was a fair proposal in those proposals we might talk about that a little later on as well too right the Irish Daily Star tells us and we may hear from the GRE later that the God of Representative Association has called for a full review of how better to protect unarmed officers when confronted with armed aggressors the call was made by God of Brendan O'Connor of the GRE following the sentencing of Stephen Dowling 25 of Boron Road Carlo at Letter Kenny circuit court yesterday the court heard how officers many unarmed put the lives on the line when Dowling went on the rampaging glinty's armed with a high powered rifle he got eight years you know and is there an issue with sentencing in this country because I mean it is very lucky no one was killed or seriously injured or left in a wheelchair or you know whatever the consequence might be shooting at patrol cars or at least in the direction of patrol cars shooting at buildings or at least in their direction if you can do that and get away with eight years it's not bad is it you know eight years you won't serve the eight out and four or five maybe does the punishment fit the crime in any of much of our our sentencing you do wonder a follow-on from the story we were covering yesterday this is in the Irish Daily Mirror the calls have been made in the doll for the HSE or they will be made in the doll today for the HSE to stop sending in debt collectors to collect overdue fees from cancer patients and others the social democrats are bringing a private member's bill asking the government to step in and tell the health service to change its policy co-leader Roshan Shortwell said it was unconscionable that cancer patients are being pursued by debt collector agencies for bills relating to the chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment documents obtained from the social democrats other co-leader Catherine Murphy and through freedom of information request showed that the HSE collected more than 500,000 a year through debt collectors in the past three years miss Shortwell told reporters if you don't have a medical car or private health insurance every chemotherapy or radiotherapy appointment costs 80 euro to a maximum of 800 euro per annum but what was it said yesterday that the cost for the state to bear that cost would be 30 million I think it's a non-brainer people should not be being sent regardless of the letter coming out from the HSE that's maybe one thing but to have debt collectors and we know the tactics they employ and we know the language they use and we know people are still maybe going through their treatment or have been told midway through their treatment that things aren't going as planned to be getting debt collection letters it's a disgrace isn't it in the sun today finally the government's looking at bringing in thousands of foreign workers to staff the embattled hospitality industry just as it did years ago with builders and it did with the hospitality industry in many of our towns and villages in the mid to late 90s you know I think the majority of people working in hospitality were not the majority sorry many of those working in hospitality were foreign nationals but anyway moves to plug a 60 000 worker shortage came amid soaring food and drink prices as one public and warns he'll have to wallop customers with a 70 cent hike in a pint spiraling wage production delivery and energy costs are already now paving paying over an average of five euro a pint now of course you can pay up to eight nine euro for a pint 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are in thousands or others as well it feels like we're no further on sometimes too no definitely definitely does but like at the same time the reason I can't anyone on on the thing is because my my my frustration to start off on one side of stuff as the frustration of the country council we've six meetings cancelled that does that's like that's my thing a council official without any more less that I shouldn't be saying that it's a a shambles I think it is a shambles Greg and I'll explain why you get six meetings cancelled and at the same time we want answers of if we get a first five thousand emergency moment as used to fix the next channel or people want to walk under the house bad enough for the scheme taking so long but when you when you kind of more less run past the front door quick to make sure just in case that somebody's gonna come down we want answers of when this is coming as there are as a program lined up for it and they're on a house fight they're on house Friday let's do my heaven now that I believe that five thousand emergency fund is uh it comes from the department of housing but not the council but that doesn't mean that's not true that's not true when the when the five thousand when the five thousand is passed by the government it's going to the council and the council then allocated to the people so what I want what we want to know is I fold up the council to find out what's what's the plan is there a have they got a program lined up for it of how it is allocated what way it goes and there's no there's no answer so like that's what they should be getting the answers ready for instead of the house fighting and that's been honest and I nobody thinks any different or like a council first I went to newspapers and said that I shouldn't be saying these things over social media well like I think they should be using their energy and getting these at least their ducks lined up on a row instead of and getting these meetings passed passed on the kind of six meetings cancelled and those are shambles I mean at the very least you want these issues to be being discussed uh by those that are elected and paid to do so well that's that's that's their job like at the same time some of these people only their names only seem to come out whenever the council's called out and then they come out they come out and rant in but what are they actually doing in the back what are they actually doing in the background I'm being honest I'm not against arriving against the council there's plenty I'm not going to start naming names in case if we get some in case if we get someone there's plenty of people I respect down there and I actually am massively respected on the go into council for putting a stamp on us here and turn around and and standing up for the people and sticking to the prior title and saying they're not going on ahead with applications until it's sorted so massive respect from on that side of stuff but the house fighting out of the shambles out of the discretion has to stop yeah in terms of foundations being included in the scheme it was an out I thought it was announced on this program I'll look back at the tape uh I think Charlie Mcconnellog said foundations would be uh included uh and then as it turns out it's still being looked at and they're not included at this point I mean it's crucial isn't it that that foundations are included I mean if you were doing an out leave you know that's controversial enough but if you were putting that on foundations that were going to go themselves I mean you're throwing good money after bad well you see that's that's the thing like when we were on the working group when we were on the working group and when I was on the even what seven or eight months ago now we were the ones on there demanding that's here we were the ones demanding doesn't we can't be building a house on top of bad foundations there's a new there's new stuff up there called prior title there's new stuff we didn't know about it and like that's all our self-right minerals and they have to be addressed and it can't keep going on but like nice nice the frustration towards the council as well as they had a representative in there ready to back out ready to back our corner but didn't back our corner we were unfounded and the person question was coming up for us here and now the scheme has collapsed now the scheme stopped because of we're going back to the same thing that we should have been addressed way before six or seven months ago but at the same time the scheme can't continue without without prior title being on it because as the more knowledgeable I've got onto it and I I'm just learning like a lot of like a lot of like a lot of use but at the same time there are smarter people out there in the department of housing and engineers and all the rest they know this here straight away sure it's in Canada it's all over Canada they wouldn't even entertain anything through a prior title Germany is the same the european standards are the same like we're a million behind us this is absolutely I mean it cannot go continue without it and my problem is again both the county council side of stuff when they didn't do their job on the working group I hope now that they do because as we speak now Greg they have never been conversed with us like myself or Michael that's that's not good enough because we've got all the questions and just to be clear and fair paddy are we sure they haven't met with Michael Doherty there's no meeting with him last week I was I thought I read somewhere that may have met with the council last week no it may the metal might make a mess but isn't it there's no meeting there's no meeting to the council I've phoned the council looking looking to get talking to top officials and asking questions so are you saying that there's been there's been no throughout all of this there's been no meeting between some council officials and maybe a couple of councils and representatives from the mike action group that has not happened at all no I'm not I'm not seeing some I'm not seeing some like you can turn around and then team out maybe two or three no I mean a formal meeting I'm on about like you know whereby it's it's even a public forum where it's a public meeting where there's an exchanging of views like that a formal meeting hasn't taken place and all that was on there like in that last meeting was cancelled and and the make action group have never met at one stage yeah that's what I mean yeah that hasn't happened so that hasn't happened and that's that's not good enough like going forward I could fire you out there questions that uh well like the homeowner is a big action group like Michael Doherty says I haven't worked on this at all man and he has got he could fire he couldn't he knows more stuff than there may be more less than a lot of concerts so they should be using him and he should be in most of their meetings if they want to go forward because they're the ones in talks with the department of housing so if they're in talks with him they should be seeing the concerns and what's his plan is and you know what the main plan is and the main thing is it's no good without approach this here's no good without a project manager listen there's no good without a project manager and that means a timeline a rollout scheme and things to go like like being honest it just so happens that I tell him a conglomerate ended up phoning me last night and that's the first time a long time he's phoned me but otherwise I asked to give him the courtesy answer the call he asked me where he at this is Mendoval he says do you want to meet for a coffee after the wall and we went for coffee this morning and the next thing this is what I relayed to him I just tell him there's no good this is the council sits on to your department Darryl Binks is on tomorrow and you say it's on here I just like where is your where where's the plan I said we've got the problem I said we've got the SCFA we're all with them in that now in February I said then you support it on them that don't with them in the legislation I said where's all the questions in the background the docks lined up on a roll and then one and that means the project manager him I just say who is it and he's off there's going to be there's a man appointed I said what's his name I'm not sure of his name I said there's a panoramic because as far as I'm going to send us panoramic I thought I'd only been used as a project manager on the engineer side of stuff I said so without a team this is no good going forward and I said it's nothing nothing big the meeting last for we're changing for about 40 minutes and I said to him sorry the home wouldn't need hope I'm at the moment I says you sir you sir killing it like I says it shouldn't be the government against the people I said I would only go to county council against the people I said that's this is a commandant carrying crisis I said it needs sorted did you come out of that meeting with minister mcconnellogue any further on in your in your own head uh listen that's a topical politics cannot meet in um no I was gonna say at least was the coffee okay but uh I'm not being I'm not I'm not making light of it but uh it's frustrating but I could see the first station and how to say it as well I don't want to be using Charlie like pardon pardon my ignorance patty but you know say for instance if we have a major say there's a major rogue project that's ongoing you know you have contractors involved in that you've got the council involved in that you've got other parties involved in that and then you might employ another company that over views you know that that that that oversees all of that and is responsible for how it works liaising between various agencies that are involved in that is that not what we're talking about that what we need for this uh to deal with this crisis well that's exactly what we have listen we we we've had a person on there I'm helping us I mean he has a project manager over so everything and he's been helping us all along give us a real good way of our project team lines up something like the big companies I'm not going to mention name on here but at the same time they wouldn't really entertain them we kept trying to push them they would they wouldn't they wouldn't really entertain them but that's never going to work without that and I don't care if it's a person we put forward or a person they put forward as long as as good as the job that's that's what we need what Charlie did turn out and says was he says the testimony I says Charlie don't mention testimony to me as I was getting it back he says I says that's that's that's that's that's not the thing but he says listen the emergency morning the testimony is going to be passed now in two weeks time as you're telling me that in two weeks time people is going to the testimony is going to be passed on to the don't go count to count so that's five thousand so anybody I says like myself I says I generally don't say if I'd rather take it down I says the plaster right over my front door is all both sizes it's ready it's ready to come down I says I says so I can get that scaffolded get that scaffolded get that all chipped off and get that replastered I make sure it doesn't come down and have my daughter on top of the head he says on two weeks time it's going to be passed on to the don't go count to count so and then they had manifested it the way they're going to pay it out when you see that's what my problem is again how's the don't go count to count so got the program lined up now if it's paid in two weeks time great that means in three weeks time I should be fun to get my yeah and this is this is the importance then now we're getting down to the nitty gritty and what I mean by that is I start to understand clearly this is the important of council meetings because yes questions and discussions to be able to ask like are we ready now to start administering this money as soon as it's released from the government to the council and we don't know that because these meetings weren't ongoing exactly this is why I'm calling them a shambles and they are no disrespect to the chairperson of jack because I know he's trying his best at the same time at the same time on frank's on frank's defense to an extent some of the questions that he's asking I would love to hear them answered as well and he does well you know what I mean but I said listen I don't like the way it goes about asking them so that's a different story and let me see what else is so in terms of where you feel it sat and maybe you got more out of the conversation with you got the conversation with Charlie mcconnell we're getting bits so we'll get the 5000 emergency funds but we don't fully know how that's going to be administered or how long that might take the refunds on the testing that's coming down the line but the rest of it the is four six five and it being you know it being widened out to make sure that people aren't excluded from the scheme who should be in it and when the legislation will actually be passed were you given any like is this september date still there or is it sooner or or is it later the way Charlie kind of put it to me was he says listen he says if the emergency money has passed there and a house is safe to be loving on and you can get it you can get it you can get it ready if the scfs comes out now on february and has passed off at 150 160 170 whatever it is and the people know that they can get their house fixed for a hundred percent and the Dario bring doesn't interfere with it and he says and I don't expect him to he says I can't answer a question he said but I don't expect him to and I don't expect the sliding scheme to be on it he says if the two of them things is done he says surely the people would rather they got a house that stands the test of time what I understand I'm right and and this legislation's passed and I says so I says right I don't understand I says I don't like it I says but I do understand it I says so you're telling me now I says that the people that's already passed for demolition that they can go on ahead and they're going to get onto this new the new scsa when it comes on ahead and all the rest that's more or less and I'm not chill the way the way he's put it he expects these two things to be done if people think they get a hundred percent and people think they get emergency money surely they come with uh the local months he says until the legislation's passed for the priority that does more or less he says I'd love to pass it I tell him Charlie it is everywhere how this is not I says I'm I says I'm not chill am I right here I says the apartment of housing Dario bring if he says yes priority needs to go on it then it goes to stage two then it goes to ministers and I say so at the moment this is far as I'm concerned Dario bring is holding us here up because he has to say yes forced and how can nobody like yes is the only answer here there's no other way there's no other way out of us what he turned around and says was I said to him my big problem Charlie I says my envelope was leaving around the little desk from my grandma and there's a new house been built and my envelope are 14 years of age says well why did they how come out there houses they're newly built he says how do they know they have a good maker now 14 years once is us and as I said to Charlie this is the big problem Charlie I just how I said there's new things come out there there's there's there's blogs ICF or whatever what you call it and all the rest I said me myself personally I never want to see another block again I said I'm going to my friend and he says oh listen he says to my friend he says there was 25 percent of the population going to my friend from now on and that's the way he sent to me and I said but you see it shouldn't be Charlie I says they should be allowed to go whatever they want I said but the standards is not there the rig the standards as you said you said five but we still don't know at this point there's no guarantee and I put the question to Dara Brine myself as the government still don't know if defective blocks are being used to build new houses or if microaffected houses or pyrite or whatever it might be houses are being repaired with defective blocks we don't have seemingly a system in place to to ensure that that you know you can say with absolute certainty that that's not happening which is crazy no that was crazy I listened I was chatting with Jack Murray lower day as well and I was and I was saying to him I said Jack right fair enough use of now think now you can keep going on ahead with your meetings right if you keep going on ahead of your meetings the last the last thing that the people want to hear now is I listened I was exploring new things when it we were with we went further detail get your ducks in a row and if you and if you think you can't get meetings because Frank's not there double the meetings double the meetings you know I mean get the meetings don't money's not there a faster it takes because we we we can't have used on their squab in the way and I'll rest and then here turn around somebody turn around and say oh we'll wait for your detail the government are passing us half five thousand pound to every homeowner out there and two weeks time and three weeks time I expect to get my five thousand but I expect I know right I'm not going to get it in three weeks time because they haven't got a team lined up could you could could you obviously tell me Greg that you think that the staff even trained already for us I mean in the absence of this stuff being made publicly available or being discussed at a meeting and clarified and questions being answered we have to presume not I mean hopefully there'll be a pleasant surprise but I get where you're coming from it's a valid question did you mention the foundations to minister mccann mcconnellogh we said it we said it before I said you said on Highland radio I said the foundations would be on foundations would be tested I said you said it I said Daryl Breen said it I said but on the paperwork he says no how's that a lesson come here be honest no point in saying on it over see the I just there I could not get that state answer and I tried the three times so I just couldn't I just says lesson I so put one day and then it just goes back to the whole less legislation lesson I couldn't get that answer you know yourself how they bring it around but at the same time that's just the way it is like we need like well what is next though patty because it's kind of it is it's it must be hard to get your head around it because it just seems like at the end of the tunnel but then it seems so slow and then it seems a constant battle and then you you know there are question marks about whether if money's available who's going to administer it how that would work what's next for the likes of you with this campaign patty or what is it is it all we can do is sit and wait is there's something witness shouldn't be gone don't I know it I like I know as I said to Charlie Charlie there's 80 year old people there's there's there's seven year old old age old age pensioners there's people out there that's not the scheme is not going to not somebody has to control us here for them as they're a program for us here and the only way we're going to get all these answers great as a big action group and they're going to go into council are meeting weekly and then and after every week or whatever it is public get to know what was said and what progress has been done because of the month as far as I'm concerned with the month there's only going to come to council staffs as they're not trained do they even know where were these two liaison office is going to be I hear there's going to be one and let a Kenny one and channel are they even lined out I want them I think it's that they're fighting and get all these answers done then we could be moving forward it's not just the government's putting us here back here now tomorrow at the moment or don't go to council need us need to step up as well but they have to converse with either myself or Michael Dordy or Mike or or whatever preferably preferably don't mean Mike they have to they have to us that's going to be no good Mike converses with them they can go to the department of housing and we can start getting places also to there can be meetings between a member of mag and a member of the council whatever but I think it's important that meetings are held where minutes are kept you know where it's very formal because that's how you you can say well back we had a public meeting or we had a formal meeting in January and such and such was said and nothing's happened you know individuals meeting it's grand and that's fine for passing information but we I think what we're looking at here is you know formal meetings that are on the record that have minutes that people can say well that was said at that meeting and that means it's more likely to either be progressed or you can call people off if it doesn't happen but as questions have started off of when they're asked one week they should be ready the second week and if we were on or if Mike was on they'd expect to see him okay everyone's on everyone's you know I think everyone wants the one thing you know there's different ways of going out but everyone everyone wants the one thing listen Paddy thanks that are you looking after yourself are you looking after yourself I mean obviously you know you're you're flat out working up and down the road you know you're clearly a very passionate man this has been going on for a long time I hope you're looking after yourself too Paddy no I'm going away shortly for over the pulling for four days now so I'm going to hold it so I'm looking after myself right now they'll be worried about me put the phone leave the phone behind you and just go and and relax one other thing that the children let it get in there the children let it get in there they're doing a bit of a protest in the school and there's no a big massive thing that's a sad thing a sad that the children have to decide to do to do this they want to have their voices heard so I think us as a snow stuff it's a big march for like Lufford or Bunkerana or there or Dublin or not only got but anybody's about I don't be free should go and support them where is it where is it Paddy do you know when where and when I'm not I'll just we'll find out we'll find about there's a couple of hundred people and they're doing it on a school I think it's I want to they're doing it a school in there at Jenny but if anybody out there could look to see I think I get they're looking for a drone they're looking for a marquee and anybody got there and everybody's on a team should go and support them I'll be there myself but I'm going to thanks for that great all right listen take care of yourself Paddy enjoy Poland whenever you get away that's Paddy Diver there Spokesperson well not Spokesperson well I don't know how he's a he's a he's a campaigner of course a campaigner involved with Mag and and all that sort of things 08 660 25,000 the WhatsApp number the text number 07491 25,000 I've listened to Paddy on the radio for a good while now and he's doing stellar work but he needs to mind his health as well it's funny you should say that because that that was a point I made and he says he is the government have to regulate the quarries concrete and block industries regulated not priviricate the mica people are being fobbed off and that is a fact they say Donegall County Council I'm waiting almost three years for a response to an issue with my underfloor heating. Hi Greg listening to your interview with Paddy Diver this morning isn't it obvious that the accountability of County Council officials need to be returned to the council not left as being responsible to central government are elected County Councillors and nothing but Lane Docks rubber stamping the will of the concerned minister I'm sure they would argue strongly against that but you're entitled to your opinion too Paddy very stressed and his voice needs to take care of himself I think some people you know I'm kind of like that a wee bit I'm always sort of on the go I think some people that's just the way they are it's all a delay in tactic says this texture as the building of houses is going to go burst as things are at a hand inflation is through the roof whole thing soon going to go belly up I think you know that's something we can worry about you know the state of the building industry and the economy generally in the situation there I think if there's a finally a scheme in place that is satisfactory to most or as many as is possible as many as possible is probably then we can maybe talk about how that scheme might work in the general sort of construction space when is the 15,000 year old rent allowance going to be available can we use this money to renovate our garages because we can't get somewhere to rent that is as far as I'm aware currently being discussed and ironed out the people being able to use that 15,000 year old convert accommodation for themselves I don't think the decision has been made in that regard yet by the way I just want to say this in case you're out in the roads if you're passing woodland school the road at woodland school apparently there's a bad oil spill on that stretch right stay with us in the 90 noon show lots to come the 90 noon show brought to you by bluebird care providing nurse led home care services in dunnig all call bluebird care 91 29562 and bring care home it's the right price tiles on wood flooring half price sale get up 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there they're off campus they're in um they're in a building i know it's like 400 400 yards away from the main school but the building itself it's just a house greg and it's simply not for purpose it's not wheelchair accessible and there's there's clear damp and mold issues and um it's just it's just not it's not a good place for the kids to be all right so um it's only special needs students that are in this lake house that's right yeah and why is what why was that decision made to move those particular students out of off the school grounds well originally it was down to covid um which you know it was what it was at the time everybody was concerned and and it was only supposed to be temporary but we learned there uh just before christmas i happened to be in there and i was talking to the teachers and it you know it became clear that there was no plans to move them back they were going to be staying here at the lake house or there at the lake house until this new um this new building was finished that they have uh i think they have planning permission okay so what has changed um as far as you're aware and i want to talk about the condition of this house in a moment but what has changed as it relates to capacity on the school grounds between now and before covid like why is there why now is there no space for the special needs students compared to pre-covid well the only information i got after school was they have over 800 students and they don't have the room for the special needs students back in their original facility but i don't understand them moving and a whole cohort of students that uh all have special needs why is it all of they that are moved out of out of the school presumably integration uh and all that type of stuff is important on many levels i don't even have to go through them like i don't understand why the one group of students it's they the ones that that are moved out of the school and not back in again it was they were just the it seems like they were just the easiest group to move because they have no need to move from classroom to classroom they had two dedicated classrooms in this uh it was the old it was the old nunnery on the school site yes beautiful beautiful building high ceilings wide doorways like lots of space it's what we were it's what we were showing when we moved to schools and it was just this is definitely the place for aj for us and uh i happened to be in the lake house yesterday because aj uh had a seizure and i had to pick him up at lunchtime and uh i just didn't want i didn't want to be in the building myself it's just not a nice it's not a nice place to be and uh i had to walk around and you can clearly see the mold on the walls and that there was paneling done last year to hide the damp there's a section of the floor in the main classroom that's given away and it's been it's been covered by a sheet of ply there's no room there's another child as well as aj in a wheelchair and he can't even he is able to you know get himself a base but he just he doesn't have any room you know they like they're like they're stuck in a cage compared to where they were it's heartbreaking yeah sorry to go back to to why they were moved though like many schools are operating a situation where students in secondary schools will go in for example and it might be the same in others but they'll go in and they'll stay in the one classroom all day do you know what i mean and and they don't move between classrooms for obvious for obvious reasons with what's been going on of late again i still i still don't fully get and unfortunately the schools release a statement which i'll really read but they won't explain to me i can't understand why it's the special needs students that have been moved out all of them moved to this other facility as i say you know in terms of integration and that that doesn't make much sense to me now as well as not being integrated into the mainstream school my son is is segregated from his own peers within that pod because the rooms just aren't big enough so he and another child are in a room of their own for the for the most part of the day um they were just they were just the easiest group to move um it's always the way greg in my opinion you know the you know the most vulnerable are the ones that get kicked and i think as a community you know the age we live in now it's it's just not acceptable anymore this is pushing us back 20 30 years to when you used to tuck them away in the corner hide them almost well what age is age if you don't want me to ask you anything 15 how old 15 and what do you think of all of this age is non-verbal okay but in terms of his behavior or you know how you can understand him um anthony is that is that possible if you see any change in him do you feel it's affecting him as much as you see greg agey agey never made it in to the to the okay so this is this is what he knows yeah okay this is what he knows but i mean i can tell you greg i was talking to the staff before christmas and that's when the alarm bells rang in my head um i i just happened to ask because i didn't realize at the time i was going on when they were going back and i could see it in their faces like they just i know i know that the the staff in the special needs unit are fighting for the rights of those kids to get back to where they should be but i mean they've left at every turn so it's up to us as parents to step up and fight the corner for them and the city as well you know i mean obviously colvid is being blamed for this decision it was being blamed it still is i can tell you after the statement in front of me it still is i want to read one line to you anthony just to see if if you believe uh in your opinion this to be the case i'll read the full statement the accommodation in question was adapted to suit the needs of the students being placed there do you feel it was adapted to suit the needs of the students no it was adapted at one stage as i believe an outreach center or a daycare center but it's it's not and i would like somebody an independent body to go in there and do an inspection because i don't see how well i'll tell you what i would do um i would ring i would contact the the the is it the hsa whoever's responsible that goes in and inspects uh places for for their suitability you know as it relates to colvid i could ring i can't remember i think it's the hsa i could ring them or public health and ask them to come in and inspect this building if i felt i wasn't safe in the building they have to come in and do that maybe that's what needs to be done with this building to to see if officially if it is if it's adequate for the needs of the students that have been placed there quite frankly i'm i'm i'm not happy about being on the radio with you today greg i was i was communicating with the school i was hoping yeah i was hoping we could just this was your last course of action i get that let me read the statement to you uh and to our listeners skull more has worked very hard in terms of opening and operating special classes and in the last four years has opened five units these classes were open to facilitate students with special education needs and their families in the local community rather than traveling to letter kenny at the time of opening we were promised additional accommodation by the eds which is not yet arrived so we've to make the best of the facilities available the good news is that the school has secured funding and approval for building of a new complex with special class units now that's going to be a long way away but anyway this is involved this is involved sorry let me just finish this and i want to get come back to you this is involved a lot of time and extra work but the plans are approved and hopefully it will move to construction stage very soon they say that all times skull more has worked very hard to ensure that all students and especially special class students get the best education possible within the resources available when our school was required to socially distant students alternative accommodation had to be sought we were fortunate to secure off-site accommodation with garden facilities to the so near to the school the accommodation in question was adapted to suit the needs of the students being placed there this is a temporary arrangement and will be revisited when school covid guidelines are revised by the department of education and skills now the problem is there and tony hulhan is going to tell an octopus committed today that he believes that covid guidelines in school should remain in place for the foreseeable future so that means a jay and his classmates are facing schooling in this building which you believe is not fit for purpose i think for the foreseeable future anthony not only is it not fit for purpose i mean it's it's off campus you know age you went to school east kinn in bunkrana at the national school and they had it they had it just they had it they had a perfect they integrated the classes with the mainstream classes and it was good for both sides you know um it's going the opposite way that there are alternatives for scorer to put prefabs on site it's a it's a big campus you know i wouldn't even even if the facilities were good off campus i would still want our kids back on the school grounds can i ask you as far as you're aware do you know if there are special needs students currently being taught in school morrow or are or are or are have they all been moved to this house no i mean i don't have that information i have the autistic there are specialized classes for children with autism and i and i had heard that they'd have been moved as well but i you know i haven't really looked into that i'm more concerned about no of course but i hope you can understand why i'm asking anthony because that might help when we're trying to tease out why this decision was made um and and when it might be reversed and and all students can be taught as much as is possible in the same vicinity in the same uh listen what we've made our inquiries inquiries will stay on it miss rosalyn grand is the author of this email she says personally i would have been delighted of our new complex have been completed by last september and i've been assured by the board of management that will continue to do their very best to secure the new 11 room extension as soon as possible but you know soon and as soon as possible um that's that that doesn't help your situation anthony i mean do you look at your options are you comfortable uh are you comfortable sending ag into this facility hi greg i mean when we when we first looked to put an ag into secondary school obviously we thought we were going to be sending to little angels a group silly i'm sure you know well in medic any um and then we moved the facilities at school where we just couldn't believe it we couldn't believe how lovely the facility was and how how he was going to get to go back in with his his classmates from the national school um it's like i don't score is a good school it is a good school and the principal has the school's best interest but there's no two ways about it they've pushed the special needs kids under the bus to make way for the for the mainstream students here's the comments from another parent good morning greg my child jack is one of these children in skol mora he has a severe learning disability and struggles academically he thrives on social interaction with his peers which was one of the reasons that chose to send him to skol mora he had a fantastic first year in a lovely new classroom in the main building and got to experience secondary school just like all other teenagers but unfortunately due to covid they were moved my understanding was that this was to be temporary but now it seems that they have to wait for new building before they'll be moved back to the school which i fear will never be finished in jack's time the teachers and sns and skol mora are amazing and go far and beyond their job it is the building that is not suitable and the children are being excluded and isolated away from their peers which is vital in their learning that's from liz and that's what works best for her i would prefer a better explanation as to what covid measures have forced the movement of these children and what covid measures changing would allow for their return unfortunately i haven't been able to put those questions directly to a decision maker but i think in certainly in the interests of openness and transparency that those are very important questions anthony for the likes of yourself and liz there that need to be asked and need to be answered the fact of the matter is greg our kids could be moved back tomorrow but they've repurposed their rooms but that's the top middle and bottom unfortunately i can't i can't ask that question anthony but listen we're gonna continue to try and get an interview to i mean i think parents uh everyone deserves specific answers on such an important issue anthony listen thanks for your time this morning as i say and as you've said yourself i know this is not the road you wanted to go down to you've tried to avoid it but here we are and we'll we'll follow up on it and see um a caller says my daughter attends the same school and i can't even get learning support for her uh she says you're only a number right leave us with anthony best wishes to everyone and we'll see what we can do thanks for joining us thanks for your time greg all right take care all right that was anthony there if you're affected by that as well and you have a view 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or maybe you've a better understanding of of why this decision was actually made and what would need to change for that decision to be reversed so that these children could go back and start to learn with their peers uh in the main school um as i say we'll continue to follow up on it as much as 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good to go northern ireland we're good to go brought to you by tourism northern ireland in partnership with uk national tourism bodies live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal kavana at the highland radio news desk at unigold deputy says it's astonishing that justice has never been served on person k identified in the Greenwich report as having been involved in multiple murders and attempted murders in the northwest between 1989 and 1993 the recently published report details that so-called person k is believed to have been involved in the deaths of numerous people including the assassination of councillor eddie furitan in mcranum deputy podrick mclockland was speaking during statements on legacy issues on northern ireland in the dull last night he called on the justice minister to examine and act on the findings of the report this person is closely identified with the murders of jared casey councillor eddie furitan thomas donahy danney cassidy maliki kerry and the masters at castle rock and grey steel minister i'm appealing to you and your department officials to deeply examine this report particularly person k a mass murder of a license to kill he must be brought to justice deputy podrick mclockland there a leading micah campaigner has voiced frustration over a lack of progress on the delivery of the enhanced micah redress scheme announced in november paddy differ claims donigold county council needs to refocus its efforts on the line to ensure this morning he said he hit out at what has become a cycle of council meetings saying instead of what's happening at the moment the council should be concentrating on ensuring that the 5000 euro emergency fund for micah homeowners is administered as quickly and efficiently as possible that's what they should be getting their answers ready for instead of on house fighting a council official went to the newspapers and said that i shouldn't be saying these things over social media i think they should be using their energy getting their ducks lined up on a row and getting these meetings passed passed on the kind of six meetings cancelled the unhouse fighting as a shamble so those are discussed in the house to stop serious concerns been raised over not fit for purpose facilities for students with special educational needs at a school indian shown and the harkins 15 year old son a.j. attends school where in bunkram and along with other pupils with special education needs he's been moved to a facility off campus with covid cited as a reason for the move mr harkin told greg use this morning that the building his son has been sent to is not up to standard the tourist building i know it's been 400 400 yards away from the main school but the building itself it's just a house greg and it's simply not fit for purpose it's not wheelchair accessible and there's there's clear damp and mold issues and it's just it's just not it's not a good place for the kids to be in a statement to highland radio this morning the school said the accommodation in question was adapted to suit the needs of the students being placed there it's a temporary arrangement they say and it'll be revisited when school covid guidelines are revised by the department of education and skills in the meantime the schools say they have secured funding and approval for the building of a new complex with special class units this they say has involved a lot of time and extra work but the plans are approved and they hope it'll move to construction stage very quickly parents are facing numerous difficulties in accessing gps according to a leading doctor it's after revelations that there's now just one gp for every 1000 people hundreds of doctors are due to retire in the coming years the irish college for general practitioners says there aren't enough supports for new gps coming into the sector dr nutmo from the igp says they need help it is a vocation of a job and genuinely it is you know we get into it knowing how busy it is but it can be better and it can be more organized access to services can be better supports can be better for new gps coming down the line we need to actually support those gps to set up and practice in a way that's not going to saddle them with with massive amounts of debt for 10 15 years to come at the start of their careers donnie old senator says the terminology currently being used in child pornography legislation is harmful senator ellen finne has moved to introduce a child trafficking and child sexual exploitation material amendment bill to address what she says is a very important language issue she's proposed legislation used the term child sexual exploitation material as opposed to child pornography senator finne told the shannard that the change is necessary the term child pornography is not only incorrect it is dangerous why you heard the term child pornography and understand what it what it means why then is a dangerous plan our laws already provides measures against it the reason is that is what is happening in these awful incidents is not pornography it is abuse a mix of cloud sunny spells and patchy drizzle this morning cloudy or this afternoon with outbreaks of rain and drizzle becoming widespread highest temperatures today 8 to 10 degrees celsius in moderate west to southwest winds and that's how in radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notices for this wednesday morning february the second the death has taken place of john burns 61 cuny road funeral leaving his home on friday morning at 20 past nine to the second heart church moth for requiem mass at 10 o'clock and term it afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house private for family time from 9 p.m until 1 p.m the death has taken place in the shetland islands of mooring robertson nate gambel formerly tollnery cardona county dunne gall you know we'll take place later in insta shetland the death 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including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to highland radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the night and noon show on highland radio and you're very welcome back to the program now some of your comments here a caller says the classrooms at skull mora that were used for special needs students have been turned into a library and an r e room now i don't i'm not sure what that has to do with uh covid which was uh talked about in the press release we got uh but we're gonna we've put a further inquiry in to find out if that is the case um because i don't didn't see anything in the covid guidelines that called for rooms to be turned into a library or an r e room so we're trying to get some clarity on that and if you're the tech less listener to send that in by the way i'm not doubting you for a second but just it is unbelievable um i'm a teacher in the school says this uh listener and we've been speaking to them and i satisfied that they are i have to agree with everything anthony has said there were two units that were not moved they did move in the beginning but they have been returned the gardens are not suitable because we've requested that the grass be cut they weren't cut from september until april the children couldn't use it all of that time another my son attends the school as well he is also a wheelchair user his first year at school was fantastic but now he's lost out on so much the social aspect for my son is more important than the academic elements another i'd love to know how many more children they've told uh they hold in the lake house because my child is starting in september okay so you're wondering will your child starting in september be in the the main building of the school or in the lake house which i think is a legitimate concern and question um a caller says um right we'll come back to that because it's a separate issue you are tuned to the nine till noon show lots 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information okay we're joined in studio now by anon mcdormitt who's education and communication officer with the students union at ly it soon to have a new name from the first of april i think anon thanks very much for joining us thank you guys good to have you in with us right okay so from the 14th of february um shag week and rag week or is it shag week which includes all of it begin in letter candy is that it oh well originally it's supposed to be just shag week but uh given the whole situation exams we had to push out rag week um i just want to thank you for you know giving a bit of shed and light on the whole exam situation which has you know pushed forward rag week um just you know when you set on the students speaking on um about exams that gave us a bit of leverage when going on the negotiations of senior management to reschedule exams that would cater more to students i know students satisfied with that now not get caught back up in that subject again but yeah listen like uh we can all agree yes not the it's not the best option in the world but uh for final year students you wouldn't want to be sitting an exam in may and then obviously you sit in the exams during the january when you thought you're supposed to be off and people make commitments go in abroad work whatever i think this here's the best possible compromise um listen i'm not happy with it and not all students are happy with it but i think you know they understand yeah exactly and i think that's that's that's as but much as as as we can hope for isn't it right shag week so people listen to shag week right maybe they haven't been in university college for a while maybe they never went and they think what this effectively is is that a week uh and apologies to any sense to veers by the way we'll be talking about this for about 15 minutes they think really i would say they would say well this is a week where everyone just shags well there's a bit of misinterpretation about this shag week is uh is a campaign drawn by usi and hse since 2014 usi is the union students of ireland they're an overarching students union of entirety of ireland um so shag week stands for sexual health awareness and guidance week um uh it talks about things like contraception on pregnancies uh sexual empowerment uh consent um and yeah for our shag week we'll be having a sex sport called caroling west she'll be speaking about having good sex and we'll be having uh steve bennett he's a comedian from down the country he'll be doing sex toy vingo um you know just to break that taboos and like this here's something like we're doing like to raise awareness about sexual violence and gender based violence and anything to do with sexual health and i i think you know you could pretend that no one's having sex and they're waiting to get married if they choose to marry them normally you know i mean you know we might say well that's the way she'll be about the west that's the one but what's happening is is uh students are out and about the meeting up with each other having sex it's it's a bit different a bit different now maybe it's different now than it was uh you know because you know maybe there's less errors in graces people just meet up if that's what this is how to do so it's happening this is about making sure as best as possible that it's 100 percent consensual uh and as safe as as possible whether people like to think that young people are doing this now it's to ensure that they are doing it no it's not to ensure they are doing it the are doing it is to ensure they're doing it as safely and yeah with absolute consent yeah and i think that's important that you know we are able to have an open conversation about sexual health and you know that you know especially with the stigmas around the stis um i'd just like to say that are the are the college if you're our student we can there's a completely free sexual health and screening clinic offered by ourselves throughout the entirety of the year and they you know there shouldn't be any stigma around um you know having sex or or getting an sti you know these things happen like and i think really it's always important but sorry to get back to the issue of consent um but that really really is a very important message which i presume forms part of the talks and the information that's out there oh yeah um it'd be a huge part of it um uh for for us caroline west we're trying trying to raise issues trying to address issues around consent by having a speaker and caroline again she does talks about sexual violence and gender-based violence also so she'll be raised a bit awareness about that okay and um is this a series of events uh in different places around the town or or the shag element of this is this on campus or what way does that listen there's a but there's uh events on campus so obviously like we'll be out in the corridors given out these weeks here with that there's a week so inside of that there uh there's just a week there's a wee leaflet uh just about consent uh and there's wee johnny in there too Greg okay um what else uh yeah so Steve Bennett he'll be up in the archer doing the comedy gig um and then uh another obviously we had the sexual health and screening clinic up within the college and then and sister sarahs will be having a traffic late night so out there it's just you know we're shouldn't get get out and talk into each other and i mean the card is pretty simple but it hits on the main points uh consent is sexy stis um talks about that as you mentioned that's interesting that there is uh free screening available on on campus um advice about when to get tested and then talking about how you as best as you can prevent yourself um you know from catching anything you know so what's planned for the uh rag week element of it is a good crack a lot of people miss that was there anything last year or obviously we couldn't do much there wasn't much that could be done last year nothing you could make in the radio no way no that was quite enough of power Greg i can assure you um for the rag week this year um obviously now with the opening of 12 pub over for the opening of the country again that you know we are allowed to have more events so uh nightlife we'll see a return there will be a 12 pubs event on the of the Wednesday so there'll be the 16th and then the day after the end the the callers gets the day off for a rag week so uh there'll be a rag day and obviously it'll be running all our char a char day events also to raise raise money for our selected charities okay listen uh enan thanks very much for joining us is ena or enan ena ena you should have corrected me at the beginning my apologies no it's your name it's important i'm sure you're your uh uh your your parents thought long and hard about it so you don't want me to get it right uh what's the the the the mood down at lyt at the moment in terms of um it's the atlantic well what is it the atlantic technological university yeah atlantic net atu yeah at um that's that's that was uh officially officially signed off on yesterday morning and i think it comes into effect from april uh are you thinking much about that is exciting times oh listen the students are delighted that they're going to be coming out coming out of college with a piece of paper that says they graduated from a university yeah it's significant doesn't it yeah because they were doing as much work as everyone else so and also it means like it'll give us more leverage for better infrastructure in the county in terms of accommodation and transport because that is a big issue especially as we try and accommodate you know deferred people deferred students new students and what have you there's no point creating loads of new uh there's no point creating loads of new uh what there is a point in creating loads of new courses and positions in the courses but if people have nowhere to stay it creates another problem oh yeah and that's there's a big thing for us because obviously like we like every year we promote all we've loads of places available that's course places but in terms of places actually available to stay that's a different story like i think uh the last person that we moved out of hotel was back there in november so there's a few months into the college year and they're only moving out of hotel then yeah um but and and you know with having a university more people might choose to to study closer to home as well so i don't know they'll have something aina thank you very much for joining us what does aina mean by the way uh bird lake bird like okay very good all right lovely name by the way aina thanks very much for joining us uh and stay safe and have fun oh yeah totally okay uh you are uh to our listeners education and communications officer with the students union at elway it okay we'll be back with more in a couple of minutes bluebird care are hiring nurses and carers across dunnegall call 91 29562 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that the hsc is doing this i know a woman who had to sell her 5000 euro city for 500 euro to pay off the hsc because she borrowed from a loan shark to pay them off their people were knocking her door constantly she took this loan to pay the hsc because she was afraid if the hsc wouldn't pay uh weren't paid it would affect her child's treatment the loan sharks and the hsc's agency didn't care that her child had cancer it all comes back to need for cancer patients to be given a medical card without being means tested can you imagine dealing with everything else and having to sell off uh your 5000 euro city for 10 percent of its worth uh to pay off loan and to pay off debt collectors employed by the health service executive i mean it's icky isn't it any word on the brandon report reached renewal or abuse will the calms carry review get swept aside in a similar manner amazing how much the orange people put up with uh changes needed badly we do see the political landscape changing but those who held power for a century are doing the utmost to still hang on irrespectively uh just noted that uh no stist that don't go waste a charging five euro per month for operating the account this is on top of the bin charge of 12 euro uh for it being emptied i suppose is it a uh a standing charge to service the account maybe uh not all been not everyone's putting a bin out now i don't know what the motivation for it is but it is happening because we checked as a resident of strabanna just wonder what people think of the new look for the ps and i shirt and tie has been replaced with a t-shirt i like that it makes the men and women look the same but do we really want to be down dressing our authorities some communities of little enough respect for them without adding to it i don't know i didn't know this was happening is it though they uh appear hip and trendy or is the more practical reason i would uh imagine that uh if you are involved in the police force wherever you are wearing a tie 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up we'll also be speaking to a listener of her experience and i don't think it was a terribly pleasant one if i'm not mistaken at letter kenne university hospital that and so much more besides so stay tuned with us until noon here i want to wish kyle mclean from miltang convoy a happy fifth birthday have a great day from claire liam abbey casey holly and your buddy andrew could be kike as k y k e so it's either kike or kyle maybe you could send that back into us again so we get the request absolutely spot on all right here's a an oldie bit of goodie from shakespeare sister all right that is a shakespeare sister from the 90s i believe some of the dj could probably tell you what year and who produced it well have you but unfortunately i can't i believe it was the 90s and that's about the height of it hey came here and only fell off me chair last night congratulations to air of course air feature relatively regularly on this program well congratulations to air because they have won the excellence in customer services management award for 2021 what an achievement for the company they were awarded this fantastic credit by the by the public sector um ireland 2021 excellence in business awards underlining air's commitment to connecting investing and investing in ireland so congratulations to air for winning that um excellence in customer services award from public sector ireland i don't know much about public sector magazine i know it's got 37 followers uh on twitter so i'm not sure if it's uh maybe it's a big hidden secret but anyway um well done to air and hopefully now i'm going to be shortlisted for the hairstyle of the year awards for 2022 hopefully that's uh hey anything can happen it might happen yet who's to say um right now tomas on facebook says the teachers and s and a's in skull moribund krana are fantastic the department of education has responsibility to look after our vulnerable children to safeguard them through uh safe buildings like we as parents do at home a progression not regression okay thank you tomas for your comment there and the rest of you commenting on facebook uh annie uh marie and charles and others commenting it's good to have you on board watching the show right okay dear grant joins us on the program now um and uh we welcome her good morning dear good morning to you great okay right take us back to uh last april your experience of another kind of university hospital so last april i went in for elective surgery so it was planned and i was quite happy to be going in for it and i was scheduled to be in for two to three nights maximum and i went in went through my operation and woke up in high dependency and everything was in order and on the 14th of april i was allowed home and i got to say that those first 24 or 48 hours there was absolutely nothing wrong and i couldn't have said one bad word about the hospital either to be honest with you um i wasn't home very long i felt tired and i fell asleep and when i woke up i had quite a sharp pain in my back on my back and it went on for a while and eventually as the evening was drawn in i phoned now doc and they said look you've had an operation 48 hours ago or thereabouts you need to go to a&e and that's where my drama started all right so you landed in the ed i did what was the story well the first thing was that most people in there were not wearing masks which kind of freaked me out considering that i was sitting with stitches having been operated on on the monday and this was wednesday uh some people were sitting playing with them around their fingers but anyway i was eventually this was last april at the height the height of concerns and what have you as well it was okay so um i was taken in and i was eventually seen by a doctor he took me for an x-ray or sent me for an x-ray and i was sent home with a prescription for 10 paracetamol and a muscle rub and i said i'm kind of asthmatic and this doesn't feel like a muscle problem and you it wasn't a muscle problem but anyway that was his diagnosis and i was sent home again all right but i mean obviously uh from what you were telling now doc they thought that this was beyond uh paracetamol and a back row they wouldn't have sent you to ed in the first place before we talk what else did you smell anything else in ed people's experience because you were probably there for a few hours i think we've all done you know i've done two nine-hour shifts in there myself yeah what did you see around you well no on that first night that i was in really and truly i wasn't such discomfort that i noticed very little around me that evening okay and i was in for about two hours and i was sent home right and the following morning the pain had got worse and i hadn't slept all night i eventually phoned my own gp and she said in view of what's happening here i think you should phone the hospital and ask to speak to one of the team and i phoned the hospital and i spoke to the registrar who immediately said you must come in dear drought we will take care of you i will have a bed organized he said unfortunately you've got to come in through a any again that's the only way into the hospital but it will all be ready for you and we will sort it out and i have got to say and i have repeatedly said this i could not say one bad word about the surgeon or his team i thought they were fantastic all the way through so anyway i had to wait for my husband to finish work and i was taken in then to a any again or ed and i arrived at about seven fifteen in the evening and went through the usual procedures again and again the people were there with no masks on i was taken in on a trolley and eventually at about eight thirty the surgeon who had operated on me knew that i was coming in and came in to the cubicle i was in and instructed the doctor and he gave him poor instruction and he left i never saw that doctor again and i lay there well i actually lay there from seven o'clock in the evening till six o'clock the next morning and boy what did i see during that hour at first of all it wasn't busy and there was for example a cup of coffee was spilled out in front of the cubicle along with the doctors or nurses were working so are you behind the door sort of where the x-ray department is or actually in the the waiting area of ed i was in a cubicle in the waiting area where they treat you in these cubicles okay and the curtain was open and um the coffee was spilled and people literally walked over that for hours before eventually a young girl came along and wiped up what was left of it um i was trying as the hours went on and the pain increased and i was lying there i remember at one stage saying to a young nurse to come in to look at me i said are we waiting on somebody this isn't the wee hours of the morning are we waiting on somebody to die and she said what do you mean and i said well you don't send people home in the middle of the night so unless we're waiting for somebody to die surely there's no bed for me tonight here at night she thought i was being facetious which i probably was at that stage and she said if we have no bed we'll send you somewhere else and i said well no you won't because my doctor and my surgeon and his team are here so i will be you know that is where i'll be treated um at about two o'clock in the morning i said to her you know when the surgeon came in he asked that um i have a long um x-ray done and she said no no no no and i said he did i said not only that he asked for three different things apart from that to be done and nothing has been done and i was ignored and then about half an hour later she came in oh yeah you were supposed to have an x-ray this was a thing maybe three in the morning and i was sent down for the x-ray then uh they were supposed to check my urine and then the way back from the lewis said i think somebody was supposed to do a urine check she goes too late now so that was the sort of attitude that was there now there was an old lady lying in a cubicle across from me and she'd been there when i went in and i literally never saw anybody look at her and she was still there when i was eventually taken out of there was she on her own or on her what of course she was on her own nobody else is allowed to see did she seem in discomfort or she never moved literally never moved and at one stage i thought i wonder is she god forgive me is she alive because nobody had gone near her for hours or so it seemed i mean i was trying to figure out if there was a manager in the place and at one at this point here before we talk about that so what was was everyone so busy that they couldn't say to you and say to this other lady do you know what i mean like did you get the impression that they're absolutely not so in your opinion and it's an opinion was it just a lack of organization then is that what is that what you're absolute and complete lack of organizing is it possible that that lady that you was speaking to as soon as she went behind the double doors was absolutely run off her feet working another area of the hospital and was able to just dip in to see how you were god only knows okay but it's possible but i know it wasn't busy it is possible um i mean one of the things that happened was because everything was wide open and it wasn't busy um there was one lady that i thought might be a manager and she was looking for a doctor to come down to a and a and it was apparent that the doctor was busy and was saying i can't come down now and she tore stripes of them are you refusing and i could hear the other conversation i'm not refusing i'm saying i can't do it well when she came off the phone and she called him pally alley now i haven't a clue who pally alley is but all she kept saying was pally alley's no more pally around here we'll start him out she spent the next hour telling everybody that came past her her story about how he hadn't been able to come down and she had put him in this place and i heard that story at least 20 times and all i was thinking was have you nothing more important to be doing and talking about this because i knew that i was lying there in gross discomfort and nothing was happening for me and it didn't seem as i said there was no big rush of people coming in and out no big turnover of people what really really got to me was at eventually six o'clock in the morning i was taken up to medical too and later in the day i said to the nurse you know was there no bed for me or was this bed here she thought that she says we would have much preferred to got you last night she said we hit when people come in when we're finishing a shift i've no idea why they didn't bring you up because the bed was empty since four o'clock and how was your condition at progress at that point at that stage i was feeling worse than i'd felt when i went in and at some stage in the evening and at this stage i think i became delirious because i got very sick they put me back in high dependency and i had i was told then i had a blocked bowel and i had hospital acquired pneumonia and i had lay there from seven in the evening before till six the next morning on a trolley when that bed in in medical too had been available from four o'clock plus of course the long x-ray presumably would have picked that up if it had been done sooner it would have been picked up correct wouldn't you think exactly right so then then your experience in the ward um what did you come across there for the most part and i will say that the nurses were fantastic now i do think there's a sense of you have a job to do and you don't do something that isn't your job so if something falls on the floor you wait until somebody whose job it is to pick it up comes and picks it up but for the most part the nurses were fantastic now i did come across one nurse who felt that i shouldn't be there god bless her she actually transferred me out of the ward at one stage um and when the surgeon discovered that i'd been moved out of medical or out of high dependency he came into the ward and went ballistic and said you're a very thick woman and i cannot give you proper care in here you have to go back to high dependency and i said to him but that nurse didn't want me in high dependency she wanted me out and he said i don't care it's my decision and i'm putting you back in there and i was put back in the high dependency again where i spent i think it was nine more days and no i spent seven more days in total in there um silly things things like you know the physiotherapist who came in um for to get me mobile and had to put me on to a mobile oxygen unit because i was on oxygen um dropped the the little nozzle that goes into your nose on the floor and it lay there until he was ready and he picked it up and put it back in the nose again you know um you wouldn't do that to a child a baby a baby soother or something you know exactly in terms of what you witnessed to uh there was a another lady in the same ward as you that was a quite a concern for you absolutely now she came in in the last two days that i was there and no disrespect to the woman probably a lovely woman she seemed to know an awful lot of people and members of staff who were not in nurse's uniforms who were clearly in work men's clothes came in some of them stood at the door with no mask on and talked into her some of them came in and stood at the foot of her bed and talked to her and like there was only there was a total of four beds in this ward so there wasn't do you know what i'm saying there wasn't a whole pile of people in there and those people came in unmasked and stood and had full conversations and all i could think was i hope you don't have covid or was near anybody who had covid because you're standing there now and this was this happened several times that day i mean i just i mean there was two bed managers that came in a few times and they would wander around and uh very pleasant spoke to the the nurses at length casually and then would how are you doing hello how are you doing and walk out again but nobody was ever asked is everything okay how are you feeling what just in relation to the mask wearing i mean there are protocols in place it is a controlled environment so you know we don't know the ins and outs that everyone is tested presumably so so maybe that is where there's a bit of latitude there but i'll take your point now this lady you estimate to be late 80s or early 90s oh this was on the last two days yeah tell us i was briefly but not briefly but we we are heading towards 11 so i want to get the story out to your dream yes i was eventually put into a two bed ward with a lady who was 90 and uh the poor woman had a severe infection and and and she was you know in fact she was quite lucid at times on the second morning they told her they were going to take her out and put her into a chair so she could look out the window and they did in fairness bring in a big soft comfortable chair and put her into it and she was able to look out the window and that was before midday at six o'clock in the evening when somebody came in i said to them will you please please put that woman into her bed because every time you go out she's lying half asleep moaning very uncomfortable to the sounds of it and she needs to be moved and they said well we need to respect her her wishes now what they would do they go over to her and say do you want to be put into your bed and then she would say Maggie Maggie would say um what time is it well it's six o'clock but sure nobody goes to bed at six o'clock so she lay there at eight o'clock or eight thirty i was so infuriated because i was very aware there was only myself and this woman in the ward that she was really uncomfortable and i said to her i said to whoever came in if you don't put that woman into her bed i'll get out and try to do it myself and they eventually came in and got a hoist got her into the bed and merciful god the stench that rose and all i could hear was oh holy god she's raw red go and get whatever that woman had been lying in her own thoughts i'd say for hours because she had moaned for and groaned for hours and what they did then was because i could see it the curtain was drawn obviously while they were doing this work but it only came to the bottom of her bed that took that dirty nappy threw it into a bag and put it in the bin at the bottom of the door between our two beds and i said to the girl you're not honest they're going to leave that there and she said it's not my job to move it uh the other thing that it was the lady had a catheter on and they would check the urine out of the catheter and they had this thing that it's almost like um which you put eggs into that quality and they would empty the catheter into it test the urine throw it down the loo and then throw this thing back up on the cistern again there was rings upon rings of urine marks on it how could they're testing the positive or proper when it had to be contaminated for days on end now you you were so upset and moved by by um the experience of this other lady that you wrote a letter of complaint i wrote a letter of complaint about all that went on to be honest with you and what how what response did you get first of all i got an acknowledgement from the hospital that they'd received it and that they would look into the matter i also copied it to hikwa charlie mcconnellogue pierce daherty and the minister for health and i got an email from the minister from health office then that because of covid they hadn't time they would look at it later that was eight months ago uh i got no response at that time from either of the two politicians and um in maybe june time i wrote again and said surprised i know you're busy surprised i got no comment charlie mcconnellogue secretary did phone me and speak to me at length and uh i've not heard anything more and i got absolutely no acknowledgement whatsoever from pierce daherty's office so for a man who seems to care so much about the community and the people i got no response then eventually and this was pure principle at this stage um in maybe october i sent an email back to the hospital and said i'm surprised that after all this time i did no response and by the way you might send me my medical record this is six to six eight months after oh god of course yes right okay uh back i think just before christmas i got a letter from the hospital with the biggest load of waffle that i've ever read in my life and uh excuses uh can't remember how would they remember eight months on um uh terribly sorry we're sorry about this and we're sorry about that nobody can remember and that was it and uh i asked from a medical record just in relation to that letter yeah was that the hospital effectively from their perspective drawing a line under it in other words it was one specific time eight months ago we're sorry it happened but we can't really pursue it uh but thanks for your complaint from their perspective that was that was their response and that was that matter dealt with okay so your medical records then arrived my medical records had actually arrived before that and uh in the middle and i was particularly interested to see what they had in for the 14th of april the night that i'd first gone back into a&e when i went sent home with the famous prescription for 10 paracetamol and muscle rub and i was missing it's not there and in its place i have a medical record for somebody that isn't me um a gentleman uh his name his date of birth and i'm not going to give his name out over the radio because i think that would be grossly unfair his name his date of birth and his hospital number and his very personal details and i mean very personal details you want to get them back to that person i'm sure but the hospital want them back as well oh here i sent an email to the hospital and saying look got your response biggest load of waffle just wanted to know it means nothing to me and by the way when you sent me my medical record you also sent me a medical record for mr a and i immediately within 48 hours got a registered letter back from the hospital within 40 hours saying oh those are very important records and we would like them sent back immediately because of you know regulations and we are eager to give them back to the patient and i thought yeah right you are and uh and they would even come and collect them from me if i wanted did you give them back reality i did not absolutely not and we've been worried about that because we almost uh dear dr um because if that gentleman happens to have to visit that hospital um well it was a it was all photocopies i didn't get the originals it was photocopies okay so so if he had to visit that hospital they would have his medical records available well you would hope so but i mean the the day that i looked for in question the 14th of april my medical record isn't there and this man was also in there on the 14th of april in a and a you want to get them back to him um we'll figure that out but but the point being is they were very quick to respond and to chase you down registered letters would even call round to the house to retain to try and get these medical records back but in terms of dealing with your complaint and your concerns it was eight odd months afterwards and it was a wishy washy response that you got why do you think i haven't jumped to send them anything back okay yeah uh nothing back from the hikwa nothing back from minister for hikwa did say that they do not deal with individual cases nothing back from the minister from health for health and more alarmingly because at the end of the day it's your taxes and my taxes that pay to run that hospital not a word from either of the two politicians what yeah you did have a conversation with a rep from charlotte mcconnellog but you're saying you've got nothing back from pierce daugherty or his office okay no um right just in in in 30 seconds uh does this make you worry about going back into the hospital do you feel it was a one-off experience that maybe with everything that's gone on with the pandemic you just didn't get the what you were not the service you normally get absolutely not i think that the hospital management is not set for purpose i make no apology for saying it i don't think the problem is on the medical side i've said it so many times the teams were phenomenal 99 percent of the nurses were excellent i think it must be so destroying for them up there to be in a situation where management is diabolical and it should be run like a business and it's not all right dear to listen we obviously have made inquiries we'll see what response we get back thanks for sharing the story i hope you're well now i'm doing great good okay right dear to listen thank you for that okay that's dear to grant and her experience the nine till noon show brought to you by blue bird care 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becoming widespread temperatures of eight to ten degrees okay loads to come in the last hour of the show state right where you are you won't want to miss it it's an interesting one but it is 11 o'clock so that means it's time for a news update and we cross over now to mikaela clark thanks greg good morning jenny gold deputy says it's astonishing that justice has never been served on person k identified in the granite report as having been involved in multiple murders and attempted murders in the northwest between 1989 and 1993 the recently published report details that so-called person k is believed to have been involved in the deaths of numerous people including the assassination of cancer eddie fulerton there is concerns have been raised over not fit for purpose facilities for students with special educational needs at a school in in the show on anthony harkins 15-year-old son a j at 10 school were a bonk rana and along with other pupils with special educational needs have been moved to a building off campus with covid cited as a reason for the moved move it's claimed the property is not wheelchair accessible with dump and mold issues in a statement school word says the use of the off-campus unit was a temporary measure and will be revisited when school covid guidelines are revised a leading mika campaigner has voiced his frustration over lack of progress in the delivery of the enhanced mika redress scheme announced back in november valley diver claims dunning gold county council needs to refocus its efforts the social protection minister has said she'll consider a committee report which recommends against increasing the pension age an eructus committee has said it rejects the pension's commission recommendation that the retirement age increase beyond 66 a dunning gold senator says the terminology currently being used in child pornography legislation is harmful senator eileen flinn has moved to introduce a child trafficking and child sexual exploitation material amendment bill to address what she says is a very important language issue and patients are facing numerous difficulties in accessing gps according to a leading doctor it's after recent revelations that there is now around one gp for every 1000 people hundreds of doctors are due to retire in the coming years with the irish college for general practitioners saying there aren't enough supports for new gps coming into the sector those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much indeed we're going to be speaking to garter sergeant uh paul wallace he's the national executive member for connet holster of the association of garter sergeants and inspectors i suppose really teasing out what lessons need to be learned what action needs to be taken off the back of that uh case englenties in which the person found responsible was sentenced yesterday that's on its way including senator eileen flinn talking about her uh wishes to have the 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career with bluebird care now a man who went on a shooting rampage with a high powered rifle in glentes has been jailed for eight years 24 year old steven dowling of boron road in county carlo went on what was described as a wild west rampage in february of 2020 he was sentenced at letter kenny circuit court yesterday uh now obviously we've been speaking to people who were caught up in it on that night and them sharing their experiences but obviously too uh we've been hearing from representatives of on goddess here conna we heard from brendan o'connor and now we welcome into studio goddess sergeant paul wallis he's the national executive member for connet dulcet of the association of goddess sergeants and inspectors thank you very much for joining us paul good morning it's good to have you in thanks i mean there's a lot to to unravel here but firstly my um firstly what i've been feeling is is that we were very lucky you know we were very lucky in terms of no members of the public getting injured or killed here and very lucky from your perspective as well uh from from no members of the force being uh shot uh injured or killed and a lot of that's down to obviously the skill if your colleagues don't get me wrong in in how they would do with it but look and we can't be relying on look no exactly and you know i suppose we would never thought that you would have like a hostage situation uh unfolding on the streets of glentes above all places and very nice quiet and law abiding town and west only gall but it just shows you this can happen everywhere anywhere um we were we were lucky uh as you say the people of glentes were lucky the young people coming on the bus from kelly bags were lucky the guards were were lucky you know it just was one of those things but you have to have a plan and you have to be operational and be operational safe and you know the guard current guard omission statement is it connell uh denny slan uh is keeping people safe but that also has to apply to our members as well and it's not to go saying all the wrongs of this but uh i suppose the important thing and what what i think both rep is it rep bodies uh agc and the g r a have called for is there has to be a review now again we've we've we've looked for this for a while we've looked for um the resource and we have to acknowledge that the commissioner has put a next through unit into cavern which is in our region as such you know we have to acknowledge that but that's far away we have to acknowledge that because you know that might say well we've put a unit into the border region yeah can they travel through north and arland no they can't i mean come on and i don't think we have to know and you see the as opposed to big one here greg is geography plays a big part here uh you know it's like the symbol from false ireland up here we're different and we are different but up here we're on our own is more important you see the thing about it is is that the only time these guys would be required and i use that across genders right is in a situation whereby and we see it all the time someone is in a house and there are weapons within within the house maybe we've had it we've had it here maybe someone is in there with them a situation like this where someone is roaming the streets with a gun you know there is no wiggle room in time that is these people need to be on scene if it's not to defend the public and protect the public all those involved your members standing you know effectively with a baton and a whistle yeah we're a non-armed force and long maybe we continue and we please by consent and all of that has been said but the dynamic of various society has changed we see it all the time it unfolds every day turn on the news turned on the news yesterday evening the first five or six stories was something to do with the guards the guards were doing this they were doing that they were looking for this they were looking for that so you know we have to uh but geography is playing a big part in dunny gall in relation to armed support and we've seen it and like the unusual or not the fun it's not funny not funny about it but that was the second barricade if you want to call barricade incident in the county one was just finishing when that started one was just finishing letter kenny um and you know if you're down the country if you're down the midlands anywhere around there you have various different divisions that you can call on for support we don't have anybody so we have four districts here where are they based because they came from milford right yeah well that was the armed the armed detective that was the detective members that wasn't the armed support but they had guns those they did yeah they have they carry firearms yeah so in other words like generally speaking are there are there guards of a particular rank that carry weapons throughout the county yeah yeah you have plain clothes members to carry what they call carry weapons but they're really personal specialists then yeah but they're them the weapons that they carry are really person protection weapons i think they call a sig used to be in smithton west and uh they used to carry the Aussie submachine gun and that was what they're on and there has been there's been a whole debate about that as well so in terms of the official arms response so these are the people that come in that can deal with the barricade situation where is the nearest team to us bali channel okay and we've we've called for a resource in there there's one sergeant there now at the moment it's not enough we need a review of the strength there and the capability they have you see them driving around they they use x5 bmw this large jeeps with arm support written on them they're very professional very competent and very well equipped from what i know i don't know much about firearms but they're you know they are the people that deal with that and very professional what they do they're young they're agile they're committed they're they're very courteous people they're top top class people but we just need we we need a review as a result of this incident about the geography of duny god that's the first thing the second thing we need is the post incident support um we need a mandatory system in place it's not to support your members support members in a moment because i want to talk about this that's no problem yeah that's a very important yeah it is well it's an important issue for me of course the members you represent but in terms of what is realistic okay are we talking about maybe having these specialists based at every every 24 hour station for example i mean is that a realistic call i think in duny gall and you know as opposed you have to be careful not to go into the operational side of things but and i've said it myself a number of times as i said before there the geography um bali shannon is where we have the arm support in duny gall it's at the bottom of the county to get to some an incident and it's shown you're still talking an hour an hour and 20 minutes no matter what type of vehicle and what type of light you have because you're going on good roads bad roads twisty roads all of that sort of thing i suppose strategically why they're based in bali shannon is they can go south to cover sligo and the the sligo was a busy busy area so that's the elephant in the room that's the elephant in the room because really really if the truth be told i would say at least one and a half eyes are on sligo yeah i would i would in how they're being positioned yeah i couldn't disagree with that and like at the end of the day to duny gall from a garter point of view there's one road in and one road out is the road coming up past where you live and that's it it's it's the main n15 coming up uh we don't have other routes where people can come we can't call on the ps and i um we you know you could have an arm support sitting in straban uh tactical support i think they call it uh you could have an incident in lyford we can't it doesn't happen it can't happen so at the very least we need if not the what the the guys based in sligo we need 18 based in a relatively central location which could actually even be letter kenny well it would probably be letter kenny in duny gall yeah and we're we're having a review or a change in our divisional structure and letter kenny is supposed to become the the centre for the division resort a hub or whatever to call it the different but of course that would also send a message out to those who perpetrate crime now well it would i don't think there was any well if you look if somebody wasn't if there wasn't a unit in letter kenny and it's not that they're always sitting in the station they're out in patrol and they can't be everywhere either uh but at least they could they could get in the shown within a reasonable time frame they could get to west duny gall where this case unfolded in a reasonable time frame and they would be in the population centre yes which is letter kenny which which obviously there's a bit of logic to that it's lopsided in balichana no matter what anybody says it's definitely lopsided and we have our authorities the department of justice the government the guard authorities the commissioner they have to look at duny gall is still a different case uh and that it's it's surrounded by water and there's one road in and one road out it's a border county as well yes and we know the border the border can be used at times you know yes has been historically has been historically i mean it's i think if you ask anyone down the country if they said effectively effectively we have no arms response unit now you could i mean obviously balichana but it's right at the bottom of the county you know it's in a different it's in a different electoral area um you know well they can be in slago and you know in a very very short time frame of course 40 35 30 minutes probably well at at full tilt probably 15 20 you know that's right and and and you know and that's what they when they go they have to go and they have the vehicles that's the reason they have them uh type of cars uh but but to get like to get to letter kenny to get to any part to get to bloody foreland to get to in ishone as i said no point labour in the point no but it's actually quite important because people listening are going right if something like that happened here now you see i our people our people we our people really should have that level of problem i have with this is now have to be careful because it's we're local and the people that maybe have been negatively affected by this might might not might be listening but you know we need these people on scene very very quickly before something escalates well the people just put it up the people of clentis that night were very very lucky like when you had somebody firing off indiscriminate rounds you know there was one went into a private house there was one went into a car there were two into the patrol car or whatever um and and and well can you comment on this i don't know the the the detail of what went on and i don't need to know well we know bullets missed your members by inches yeah eight years max sentence presumably might be three or four who's to say does that send out a strong enough message from can you comment on this if you can't say no does that send out a strong enough message to say that you can't even point a gun in their action uh or or or possibly of the force strike a patrol car well yeah well some people yeah i can comment and i can't comment i suppose it's at the end of the you know it was it's probably on the upper end of of what we see in sentence in the netherland um the sentence is a matter for the judge the judge did make a very good statement and he said that when when the government or when the people of ireland grant somebody a firearm certificate they're granting a certain level of responsibility what it is well i know this that man was very young he's only in his early 20s i'm sure this is something he'll regret for the rest of his life but when you have when you have our members going out and you see the testimony from detective guard of jennings like where he said he he did think he knew he was going to be he was outgunned he did think that he wouldn't be seeing his his wife and children home again yeah and i spoke to sergeant griffin miss afiam and griffin who who joined the guards we both went to the regional college together years ago and i called him to his home and he was very very shaken and he's not a guy that shakes easy and we're going to talk about that support again but this notion right that uh we had to rely on all armed guard he first responders there leading they did a very good work at the scene i know but it's embarrassing no i know it's not not what they did no it's not that i shouldn't say it it's embarrassing but it's embarrassing not but let me phrase it you're not saying it it's it's embarrassing of us as a state that we have to rely on them employing such amazing tactics and thinking so quickly quick thinking do you get do you get where i'm coming from it's not in any way a reflection i'm not it's other reflection on there on the members they didn't very good work amazing but the fact that they had to show that level of the fact they had to show that level of ingenuity yeah and tenacity and and you know uh fear and everything else all these human emotions come into what like they did very well they did amazing but they were left exposed exactly and the people were left exposed and and if i were in a decision-making power would be me that would feel embarrassed for putting them in that position let me just say that that's an easier way of putting it now you talked about supports right yeah the how this impact is on people talk to me about that what needs to be done there well the jr a have called as well and we have called we had a full conference a number of years ago in relation to welfare supports and a number of things and certainly things have moved on and and some extra supports have been put in place but we need two things that's probably needed is a mandatory hot debrief after an incident like that that that people are taken in they're asked what happened that information is collated very very quickly first thing second thing the need to meet there needs to be mandatory post-traumatic stress welfare support um the people because as opposed when if you're in a situation where it's traumatic um you probably want to go into a corner not talk to anybody um sometimes we still have that feeling that it's a feeling of weakness if we have to reach out to somebody we need to break that myth and the way to break it is if you are on scene you have to come whether you like it or not and sit down you mightn't get all the support you need on day one but it sets in a chain of events and we have to have that for people it has to be so this should be standard operating procedures in relation to that as well as the location and all of that because you know when you listen to the testimony or what we did read it through the news and it's been well covered and all of that um put yourself in that situation maybe they hate to see it a responsibility to to make that type of service available to yeah but it can't it can't be ad hoc it has to be if something like this happens and as opposed fortunately for us and unfortunately we see these things developing in other parts of the world particularly in America and places like that there and I suppose it's nearly a roundtable discussion to get all these people in uh to have the standard procedures in place standard operating procedures so that people are the right proper people are there and if you're there your manager you have to I mean that is something the Guardi will have to decide to do you're making the call the GRA making the call the location of a a special armed response unit at letter Kenny we hope that forms part of the letter Kenny you know we'd be seeing central to let's say that might form part of the redesignation or if that's what you would hope that what else what else needs to be done really to deal with this level we've talked previously about all the resources so we won't get into all of that but I'm not about in response to a serious incident like this series there anything else that needs to be done to help your members well what you would hope in relation to that that if there's a meaningful and structured review into this it'll throw up the what else yeah okay it's not for me to say uh some of this is operational and all of that and to say this that and the other um the guards that were on duty that night were fortunate to come away with their lives we've seen it down happened uh with the members in in Dundalk and down in County Loud how they paid the ultimate price and anybody can go out and pay the ultimate price but particularly if you're a member of a frontline uh service uh increasingly we are being put into that place where we need them supports where we need to have uh proper reviews been carried out and we would hope reviews can't be carried out until after the court case knows the time for action in this in this and the strong comments from the job judge should be should be a catalyst for that too detectives are armed as you mentioned also there's a highly trained army armed sorry 24 daily patrol in Finner Camp Bally shallon that are available in an ATCP role uh the military backed up the guard for many years on the border and the Dundalk region yeah it was part of that can that is that something we should be looking at obviously there's no guard there's no army in Livford anymore no there's no army in County any more as far as somewhere so you know is there well that might be that's probably a meaningful consideration and a meaningful consideration uh discussion uh when there would be a review or when there is review and we would hope the review would happen sooner rather than later where all these factors could be taken into place uh but certainly for our members um the location strategic response strategic availability of resources uh follow up um uh support from a point of view of welfare and all of that they are the things that we would be asking for now and finally just on the sentencing side of things i suppose you know in reality that the instant emotion is you know lock someone up and throw away the key but i suppose having your liberties removed from you for eight years is not insignificant either i mean if he were to serve the full sentence is going to be in his 30s i mean it's yeah he's a young look he's a young man um the members themselves said he cooperated well with them uh once he was in a fit state to do so um he has his life in front of him it's his going to affect him you know he is i think one young child you know it's there's no wonders in the like of this but it's the message has to go out to that if you are in possession of firearms or you know somebody who's in possession of them there's there's very very strict and serious responsibilities in relation to and like initially the guards were of the opinion that this was a shotgun very very quickly this is a very different different case it was that this was a high powered rifle plus he had a lens or a telescopic lens and then there was an item strapped to his body that they thought was something else some sort of explosive device which was a a moderator or a silencer in ordinary words so this man was very well equipped um plus dressed in camel gear and this is a life-changing thing for him and for his family and you know we can talk about but as you say he's going to be approaching 30 years of age when he when he gets when he gets free but what this is rare and it hasn't happened before or it probably won't happen again but a uh a situation in a property where someone has access to a vehicle maybe there might be other people in there and and access not a vehicle a weapon and that could be a knife you know what i mean these things happen with the regularity so i don't you know whilst it's important to focus on glentes and and that might not have ever happened again up here no but situations that require the level of response that we talk of to save life and to protect both your members and the members of the public unfortunately do happen with some regularity well that when they do like that's why when you think we had one one one closing down one armed or barricade incident and another one opens up just literally on the same day in the same week we've had a number in the county so nobody can say that uh anywhere doesn't happen there anymore you don't know the dynamic of people has changed we have people coming and going to different areas whether they've accessed a weaponry or not be it legitimate or otherwise these are all factors that have to be considered and you have to think about that um the members that were there you know i want to come add my commendation to them you know they did very well they acquitted themselves very well they probably will have the scars of it going forward for for something nicely all words obviously are are important but the local community themselves have written to the god of commission or believe looking for them to be recognized for their action so when your own community or the community that you serve uh also make that same call it's it's all the more meaningful i think yeah and i think the community in glinty's you know they're to be commanded because they were very forthcoming to the investigation team they they didn't go out talking left right and center to different people they kept it all fairly tight which is important from an investigative point of view as well and uh but they did the meaningful thing by writing to the guard of commissioner and asking them to to recognize these people all right then um god of sergeant paul wallace nationally national executive member for comment ulster of the agsi we appreciate your time this morning and pass on our good wishes to colleagues if you happen to be speaking to them thanks great thanks great then i until noon show with bluebird care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home oh traffic we're going to be so late we're going to miss the vows everyone will see us sneak in it's so embarrassing we'll have to get changed in a lay by oh oh look mcdonald's do you know they're doing a chicken big mac probably best to just blend into the crowd after yeah it's not like we're family the chicken big mac has landed but hurry it's not around for long served after 11 a.m. subject to availability until the 15th of march new this week in home store and more all fitness is half price but better hurry because when all our half price fitness is gone it's gone 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absolutely disgusting that these uh that this phraseology is is on the statute books yeah like the uh greg i feel very uncomfortable even hearing the word uh child pornography you know a child doesn't consent for their pictures not to be taken of them with no clothes etc and i think it is abuse you know and i think any adult any adult in their right mind but like who who have who's sensible if you want in the right mind would not sit and watch a child pornography in my opinion it's abuse in in every way so therefore you know just looking at changing the language in our legislation to a child sexual exploitation material and would this require a huge legislative change or is it easier to change terminology eileen have we been able to determine that uh for for us in in our office uh greg just to say to you we've been working on uh looking at changing it since last year you know a lot of work has gone into it a lot of um and you know legal advice uh getting people to uh examine how how it can be done uh you know uh to the best of my knowledge uh it's never been been done before it's never no one has never tried it before but that's not saying it can't be done you know and what what would happen is it would change to phrase uh a child pornography to a child to um to a child sex to child sexual exploitation materials and basically that would change the name of the child trafficking and pornography act and the amendment act of 2000 and 2004 you know and all that would be renamed to a child trafficking and child sexual exploitation material act 1998 and the child trafficking and a child sexual exploitation material amendment act 2004 and all of them will rename all of the legislation where it says uh child um where it says child pornography now in relation to uh child sexual exploitation material i mean obviously i presume the terminology has been formed from legal advice in and of itself uh you know people might say well why isn't it not called child sexual abuse material because the children are being abused the pictures are abuse whereas exploitation maybe might not have the same gravity uh in reporting of this uh as the word exploitation might have for for us again you know from from our work that we've done in this for for last year Greg it's the best way for us to change it and we can even look at it going forward is the exploitation because you're putting children at risk you're you're you're showing images of children and some people may argue that it's not abuse and that is like we all know that as abuse you know but for legal reasons we believe that it's child sexual exploitation with material you know using children you know so yeah i understand that's what that's what i suspected because you can't leave any wiggle room and it has to be legally sand a lot of things Greg to be honest with you a lot of things seem to be uh simple but when you're in here and trying to change the laws trying to change the language which in this case we're trying to do is is the language because language to find those language spreads fast and i know that's more more than a lot of your listeners due to being a traveler woman that a lot of the time it's this stigma of language that we need to change and within our within our laws within our legislation the language really defines what what the crime is you know and i believe in our african other senators that i work with in the civil engagement group also believe that you know it's it's the language it's it's going forward you know people will change twice about your crime and it doesn't it doesn't have the focus and and then and the victims of the focus of the crime then is and the perpetrator which is very important okay i can't imagine anyone would resist this in defense of using the phrase child pornography might there might be legal defense or or whatever or or uh what what i presume we've also been putting the feelers out to government is this going to happen as far as you can determine eileen you know i i'm not a hundred percent sure because in politics you don't be a hundred percent sure but i i hope so it seems to have got positive reactions from uh from uh for cross party uh support and you know uh greg again i think a lot of people are very uncomfortable with the term uh child pornography it doesn't sit right with a lot of uh with a lot of people and especially uh people like ourselves who are parents of very young children you know so i actually think it's the right thing to do it's to shift that narrative um thinking and um you know and that we together can and this is only the start for me personally in our office to change some of the legislation the language in our legislation and we just need to move forward and stop trying to cover things up in this uh in our society and making things sound uh not as bad as what they are we need to name it for something that it is you know yeah okay listen i wish you every success in this area um and the sooner uh the better thanks very much for joining us this morning thanks so much uh greg and we're hoping if it does pass that we can get a pass uh in uh in the dial as well over the next common month to to push us from our angle here in the office as well thanks so so much greg to your listeners okay well done eileen thank you very much indeed that is senator eileen flinn 08 6 60 25 000 your whatsapps and texts the caller says um they're missing the big picture uh someone responsible for a crime like this should get 10 years for drug taking and 20 years for firing a rifle another caller says thank god that no guardie and no members of the public got killed or injured in that rampaging glentes the guardies certainly need more resources to protect us and to protect themselves as well right um we were also talking to dirger grant and that test her experience has resonated uh not surprisingly with lots of you out there and here are some of your comments in relation to that uh greg i think that dirger is a very important voice for all of us because what's going on in hospital is awful all you hear is covid restrictions and people not allowed in now you can make an appointment i think for half an hour it's a way of hiding all the uh effing s that's happening and of course i understand i can't read the language out but i understand your language and also the gentleman we spoke to yesterday 88 years of age right 88 years of age from initial and he traveled down to see his sister who's getting weaker she's 87 in hospital just in case you didn't hear this yesterday it was towards the end of the program i think and he couldn't get into the hospital because only one person could go in and he was with the his sister's son his nephew okay and his nephew was able to go on and see his mother but he couldn't now i put it to him because i don't want to presume just because he's 87 uh that he would have any mobility issues or what have you uh but you would imagine you would say okay well you go in with that or the person just so you know where you're going in the hospital and and all that type of stuff uh but that didn't happen now we've made an inquiry to the hospital as to what's going on there but do we really want to live in a society and as i said yesterday the reason i think most of us went along and made the sacrifices we did was to allow a situation where an 88 year old man could go in and see his 87 year old sister who he fears is getting sicker in hospital that's that's what for what else i mean we did it for other reasons but you know what i mean so it's there's all the things going on as well greg i'm in bits listening to dirger about that poor lady that was left on the chair and ended up with sores um it's absolutely disgusting thank you very much dirger for highlighting this and thank you greg for letting her listening to dirger makes me so sad my elderly parent was in lu h in september 2020 we wrote a letter of complaint and are still awaiting a response god love and protect the elderly and the vulnerable another i agree 100% with dirger uh the a and e's the shambles they say another greg we need more people like dirger to speak out the true facts of what's happening in the ed needs a good wake up call finally the truth the truth has come out good girl dirger another have very brave of dirger to highlight the major problems at letter candy university hospital what is going on there there doesn't seem to be any organization at all here and how come nobody's ever held accountable for anything another that woman would be a nightmare poor doctors and nurses imagine her having someone else's records and not returning them we've been living through a pandemic now i get where you're coming from but if out of that whole story of of 25 minutes if the takeaway from that from your perspective is is that she's got photocopies of someone else's records i think maybe didn't listen to the full interview and and the experience of dirger but also a vulnerable lady okay so i get where you're coming from but there was an awful lot going on there in that story except for that bit greg i can concur so much with dirger's story it would take me a month to write it up so much so that i need surgery for the last three years plus and won't have it done greg i totally agree with dirger it's definitely management problem in the hospital my elderly mother went by ambulance to hospital and to stay in the ambulance for three hours outside casualty as there was no cubicle inside not alone was this uncomfortable for her it held back that ambulance that may have been needed for an emergency in the community when she eventually got in she ignored she was ignored for six hours before i had to insist she got a CT scan the reason she was there as she had hit her head at that stage nine hours earlier another i hope the next time mr murphy's on your show you give an opportunity to comment on the issues raised by dirger we never avoid questions or issues when we have access to show murphy so you can be sure i will um and don't let him fob you off by saying that he can't comment on individual cases i know ways around those responses so don't worry about them um and sometimes the non-answer is the answer okay it's not just whomever you might be speaking to you ask the question number of times if there's not an answer that's the answer oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and texts kirin old donnell's on his way in shortly the nine till noon show brought to you by bluebird care providing nurse led home care services in donnie gall call bluebird care nine one two nine five six two and bring care home for great fuel deals contact gortley sales and hire large sacks and trailer loads of logs also briquettes coal kindling and gas with free delivery locally contact gortley sales and hire in letter kenny on nine one two six two seven six thinking of hiring a locksmith or do you provide locksmith services did you know that 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information and despite popular demand i mean due to popular demand we welcome back into studio kiran o donnell the presenter of the business matters podcast here from highland radio it's available for you to listen on demand on our website highland radio dot com via spotify in itunes and it's broadcast for you to listen on a sunday evening as well and popular it is okay kiran good morning how was your week we were talking there about how january just disappeared and we're it's already heading into february what's going on the january usually seems a very long month but for some reason this year it seems quite short i would say maybe the lift of restrictions and the sense of hope and optimism maybe well factored in in the way we're seeing how quick times going back yeah it's scary and okay it's probably an age thing as well i think we talked about it a little bit just before we put the mics up i think as you get older does time move quicker so if i'm going as well as year when i'm on your age i'll be quite happy you won't leave a few years yes but if you need any tips about getting to my age before you do i'll let you know right let's get on some let's get on some news northwest business optimistic for the year ahead which is good because sentiments important very much 75 percent of northwest businesses have said they are confident their business can grow in 2020 despite ongoing pressures a new survey has found so a survey of dairy chamber members revealed optimism and optimism for the year ahead from the northwest companies despite the ongoing difficulties presented by COVID-19 and rising costs when asked about specific costs increases 65 percent cited energy costs with 80 sorry 58 percent cited staffing difficulties six in 10 businesses said they were considering price increases in the next months the next 12 months in response so we better down side of that one yeah well i suppose there's only so much uh increases they can absorb and i suppose it depends too in which area of of business they're in right there is funding available from rethink arland and there's a message for those who might be able to avail of it yeah local social enterprises are being encouraged to apply for funding through rethink Ireland's social enterprise development fund 2022 which has officially opened for applications there is 400 000 and funding is being made available to find and back their social enterprises in Ireland by making cash grants and strategic business support available to awardees so we'll check out rethink Ireland's social media platforms for more info and listen i checked it up online myself here last night it does seem a very good and i should have to get involved in yeah and there's quite a few funding sources out there and might be people listening think well that's not for my initiative or my business you know get in there get your application so not for profit organization and they're very much getting behind enterprises that are going to be are going to work all right new car sales a different picture locally nationally it seems yeah just slightly there was a two and a half percent increase in car sales for the month of january 2022 compared to the same period last year six six hundred and nineteen cars were registered for the month just passed an increase of 15 on the figure for january 2021 so nicely new car registrations for the month of january are down slightly as point two percent twenty five thousand nine hundred and three when compared to january 2021 twenty five thousand one hundred and forty used car imports saw a forty point eight percent decrease in january compared with january 2021 which is significant and new electric car registrations reached their highest month on record with two thousand seven hundred and fourteen registered in 2022 compared to nine hundred and seventy seven uh in january 2021 i mean there's a few things going on there i think the the shortage of new cars is a problem i would say those figures would be much greater both locally and nationally if the new cars were available obviously there's a shortage of chips and what have you and that means the pipeline is just i think we'll see a big bump in the towards the end of the first quarter and into the second quarter as more new cars become available because there are people on on waiting lists for these vehicles and secondly also i do wonder you know in terms of imports i know a lot of people that maybe deal in imported cars stocked up quite a lot last year maybe did that skew the figures a little bit or with brexit and all the knocks charges and everything else maybe do you know if we moved to driving on the right hand side of the road it'd be a piece of cake yeah you know we look at all the places we could get second hand cars from we're stuck we're stuck at the british market because we drive on the left there are a lot of variables i was surprised that nicely it had just dropped stately um locally it has gone up stately so uh i was talking to somebody there recently who um were offered uh the same money for their car that that that they bought it for three years previous yeah no bother to them all right no winner it's not to be able to replace it though but if you're going to change and your position to change it it's a no winner in terms of left hand drive left hand drive car right say you were in the market for a car yes and it was say right hand drive um right hand drive say 20 grand but you could get it in left hand drive for 16 grand would you drive a left hand i would uh we're luckily how would you be getting the exact same car how long you get the exact same car right the only difference would be you'd be sitting in the passenger seat for for for 4000 more i would probably have to set the right drive on the right hand side i wonder yeah it's interesting though all right uh hi greek would you say well done to cure in for his good run at the race last weekend from tony mccarrie still going well for an early and old boy i thought he's still running for an old boy he describes yeah take tony's a good friend of yours isn't he right a big a big farm um a big farm changed hands yeah and on its own farm has been sold for one million euro the 116 acre plot had an asking price of 850 thousand euro boncran a state agent darah fury told the farmers journal that while he wasn't in a position to say who had bought the land he said the buyer was a wealthy individual from the republic affair and all right whether we're being encouraged to do so we're choosing to do so one way or other we're spending more on our cards yeah total debit and credit card spending including atm withdrawals had a record 8.4 billion in december as consumers spent more on shops and online and the leader for christmas according to the central bank this was the highest spend recorded in the series which began in 20 and january 2015 it was also an 8 increase on the december 2020 period point of sale spending was 10 percent higher in december when compared to december 2020 at 7.2 billion while atm withdrawals decreased by 2 to 1.2 billion a lot of money a lot of spending uh and december great yeah certainly was um right okay that uh is cure no dawn there we're going to be hearing what's coming up on the business matters podcast itself after we take this quick break the nine till noon show with bluebird care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home it's deri grind live at the millennium forum deri on saturday the 26th of february derrick will be joined by special guests olivia douglas and oan mack last remaining tickets are available now from millenniumforum.co.uk that's deri grind live at the millennium forum saturday the 26th of february i practice mixology it's like biology only with more gen andy bartender i am a caffeine delivery sharon barista i use my experience to make yours better stanley tourism experience manager 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district martin is also vice chair of dunigalt etb he's been a publican in the twin towns for 31 years having started out life as a carpenter before becoming a postman and doubling in 1983 a transfer to balba fae in 1985 will eventually leave him to setting up his own business five years later i asked martin what was the best lesson he'd learned in business look after your customers and and um treat them well and you'll always i can say probably in 28 years we've been here i've seen a lot of people come and go on in different businesses on the on the main street in the pop game and uh and every time one came you always think this person's gonna come and they're gonna close you down and you obviously think oh this is the end of me now this is they're gonna take all my business but people will move around and they'll go to the repose but i think if you if you look after them and treat them well they'll always come back to you and they'll always there's always a business there's always plenty of business for everybody and that's that's the main thing i always find that you always think that people think that there's never gonna be enough there's always enough there's there's loads will will have enough to do this and uh that never was um money never was one of my gods in fact um i'd be opposed i would sponsor different things during the years that um if my wife Denise really actually knew much i sponsored during the years she wouldn't be impressed but i don't mind i i've loved doing that i've loved helping out all right he's involved in a lot of things an interesting person and a lot in that interview Kieran yeah as he said Martin said there's plenty of business to go around just one thing that i forgot to mention Martin harvard ambitions of becoming a chef after he left school and he had a decision uh to become a chef or to become a postman he took the option of the postman but he went back uh not that long ago to become a chef and he's developed his culinary skills as well and obviously that helps the business but it was something he wanted to do and he succeeded and that he talked about going back to school and go back to the learning environment as well it's just an itch yet to scratch by the sands with them very much very much as you say very much part of the community uh very involved and will be uh known as as a very very genuine and a very keen person all right that full interview um is available for you to listen to when you like with Martin Harley it's available now on our website highlandradio.com in the playback section and also on Spotify and iTunes um and if you want to listen to it on air Ciaran remind us yeah we'll be broadcast on Sunday evening Greg after the six o'clock news and if anyone wants to contact you or comment on the show or suggest an item or request or whatever it might be uh you don't do requests i mean request an interview yeah just drop me an email please businessmatters at highlandradio.com and you can have a chat 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would be afraid to tell another hi greg wouldn't it do it sorry i don't know that's a relation to the story is it it is awful yeah hi greg my elderly terminally ill father was diagnosed with hospital acquired pneumonia after spending a night in ed he was admitted to an overflow ward for five days but was moved to the short stay ward the following friday because the overflow ward was closing after being moved to the short stay ward he contracted a secondary chest infection and a serious bacterial bowel infection the ward was severely short staffed the nurses on duty admitted that they were run off their feet and couldn't give the patients the level of care they deserved dad ended up spending two more weeks in the short stay ward and was in hospital for three weeks in total the ordeal took so much out of him that he now needs 24 hour care at home morning greg i fully agree with your last texture about the brand and report not being made public and no one being held responsible donagall people need to open their eyes to what is going on with the hsc the next scandal will be our elderly thank you i would say with respect to you we're living in that um we're living in that scandal at the moment um separately people texted in for all different reasons the street lights on main street in balaba fae and snow are very poor it's very hard to see people crossing at night i wonder are they to be upgraded err oh my god can't believe they've won an award for customer service three weeks ago i tried folding for a full week to get my mom's bill and package sorted but never got speaking to anyone just an answering machine around the shin fane office and lovely lady called shanae got it sorted in three days thanks greg yeah it was a turn up for the books to say the very least okay that is where we're going to leave it on the program for today thanks to all of you who listen to the program watch the show if you tuned in on social media it's been very good to have you on board and for all of you who text and commented in or just sat there and listened it's very important and we appreciate it greatly stay tuned because gene coran is on the way around the northwest that's coming up for you very shortly that's after the news at 12 with donald cavern but for me greg hughes and caroline all who researched and produced the program enjoy the rest of your wednesday we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine all right then it's just coming up to 12 noon and we cross over to the newsroom and we say good afternoon to donald cavern thank you greg good afternoon a dunigold everybody says it's astonishing that justice has never been served on person k identified in the granite report as having been involved