 The University Hospital this afternoon, over what they say are unsafe working conditions, the ILO Mosez staff are unable to take adequate breaks or use their animal leave because of excessive workloads and burq is the organisation's industrial relations officer for the area. All members work extremely hard at work but they can only provide care to the best of their ability and they know that despite going in there to work every day and every night trying to do their best that they simply aren't enough of them to provide timely and safe care to the patients in their University Hospital. Ani Lingri, Mr Fogg, will clear this morning leaving a generally dry and bright day with spells of sunshine, top temperatures 9 or 10 degrees Celsius in a light west to northwest breeze. Those winds will back southwesterly by evening and that's how in radio news we're back with news in full at 10 o'clock. 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Hello good morning start of another week start of another 9 to noon show it's Monday the 15th of November at just turning five minutes past nine you're very welcome along to the program I hope you enjoyed your weekend had a good weekend and you'll stay with us throughout the course of this show and throughout the day here in Highland Radio a busy show an interesting show lots to talk about lined up for you but of course we want your views and for you to raise your topics as well how do you do it well you what's up or you text the following number it's 08 660 25,000 08 660 25,000 and if you want to call Caroline it's 07 491 25,000 your emails comments at highlandradio.com and a good morning if you choose to watch or listen to the show on our social media we're broadcasting live right now Highland Radio News and Sport and Highland Hub on Facebook and also Highland Radio Ireland if you want to watch us on YouTube and you can access that live stream through our website Highland Radio.com so we have you covered all we need now is for you to stay with us of course now let's start with the newspapers the Donegal News lovely picture of our Lee Gooch and Noah they switched on the Star of Hope at the Polestar roundabout and Saturday evening watched it live on Facebook a lovely lovely event it seemed but the main story is a mother who lost her teenage son in a car crash has made a heartfelt plea to the public to be respectful and mindful on the road Carmel Boner from Dunlop lost her 19 year old son Jamie last September when he was killed in a two car collision on the end 56 near Chrysler to Mark Broad Remembrance Day for Road Victims this Sunday Carmel has spoken out about the very tough journey families face after losing a loved one you can read more inside that paper on that very important story today the Dairy News a new creative writing competition inspired by the words of Lyra McKee was launched in Derry at the weekend Ms. McKee a 29 year old journalist was shot dead by a new IRA gunman while watching rioting on Phan and Drive in the Cregan area on April 18 2019 the two stranded competition has been inspired by it won't always be like this it will be it will get better from the pen of the young journalist and writer on to the nationals now and as you can imagine Colvin very much in the news at the moment and it's not about the cases that people are particularly concerned about it's the hospitals and the fact that hospitals are under a great deal of pressure with hundreds of people being treated with COVID being helped to breathe and getting very intensive care in actual intensive care it's around about 100 and 607 but those on wards or in certain areas the hospital getting intrusive not intrusive care but you know intensive care but it's not in an intensive care ward it's going up and up unfortunately and hospital emergency departments are creaking under high patient numbers with winter viruses and the COVID pandemic heaping on the pressure the Irish independence survey found that the majority of hospital groups nationwide are now reporting higher patient numbers than usual this is already leading to long wait set for warbed beds with some hospitals now asking no urgent cases to avoid the ED where possible University Hospital in rick is among the hardest hit it is experiencing a historically high level of A&E visitors with 71 staff absent on one day last week alone in Bowman Hospital Dublin last month there were 14 instances where patients waited over 24 hours and there's more inside the papers there as well I'm not sure if this is a reference to letter Kenny University Hospital but I suppose we're well aware of what's the situation is here thankfully no one in ICU at the moment and the number of patients in the mid to high teens it hasn't you know gone way ahead of that for some time and let's hope it stays that way more on that in the front of the mail but first to the Irish Times and the company at the centre of a bitter dispute with Sean Quinn has expressed safety concerns after the former billionaire said he remains determined to remove key directors from the business Mr Quinn criticised Manok directors in a weekend interview published days after the special criminal court convicted three men for the 2019 abduction and assault of Kevin Lonnie a senior management figure in the company this is one of those bizarre stories that I think we'll be watching programs about in a few years time and we're living through some of the developments right now the attack on Mr Lonnie came amid a wave of death threats violence and sabotage against the business known for years as Quinn industrial holdings Mr Quinn denies any involvement in the kidnapping or the campaign of intimidation but told the Sunday Independent that he still wanted directors removed and he said I will do anything I can do in my power to get these boys out he said asked whether it had any response to his remarks Manok said from a safety perspective his comments are concerning but we remain encouraged at the commitment of police service at North and South I did to identify the paymaster and those doing the paymasters bidding so as I say it's it's happening before our eyes but as I say it just feels like it's going to be a documentary we are going to be watching in in a few years time right the Irish Daily Mail T shock me he'll Martin yesterday refused to real out rule out to return to tough restrictions it really frustrates people I'm not going to keep saying it of course he's not going to not rule anything out for crying out loud but he's refusing to rule out tough restrictions as the country battles a renewed search in cases of COVID-19 it comes as the government has said it will crack down on unsafe behavior by members of the public as it tries to maintain control of the crisis with plans to develop a rapid antigen testing regime in schools likely to be intensified though you're not going to see that for weeks by the way so it can't be that desperately that's going to take weeks kind of I say that with my tongue in my cheek of course it's also planning to extend COVID cert rules to Jim's hairdressers and barbers what do you think about that speaking to people out and about you know there's a mixture of views but I think there's quite a bit of fear out there people are making decisions they are canceling events are not going to events or you know they are making their own personal decisions as it relates to what they do and don't do COVID certs are you know it's patchy their enforcement I suppose but people sorry the government's considering introducing them for Jim's hairdressers and barbers would that make you feel safer or would you feel it's a further infringement on your rights and it would make you cross we want to hear from both 08 660 25 000 it's what's going to happen is they're going to tell people to work from home as much as is possible which has an impact on society in terms of you know people eating out in kaffs at lunchtime or shopping or what have you. Miho Martin said the reopening of society has increased the spread of the Delta variant which has in turn led to rising hospitalization numbers we have to be very mindful of that and we can never rule out having to take measures to reduce that impact he said so in Austria for example there in other parts of Europe they're reintroducing lockdown measures in parts in Austria they've introduced lockdowns for the unvaccinated in Germany their languages this is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated that's what we're seeing in other parts of Europe does that mean that's what's next here is it something that you would like to see I don't know the majority 90 almost 93 percent of adults are already vaccinated so perhaps a measure like that wouldn't be required here would it because I think people have made up their minds for the most part now whether or not they're going to get a vaccine but we shall see the Irish Daily Star tells us the surge in support for Sinn Féin has put the party 16 points clear of their nearest rivals according to a new poll Sinn Féin are the country's most popular party on 37 percent ahead of Fina Gael on 21 percent and Fina fall on 20 percent a behavior and attitude survey for the Sunday Times has shown the Green Party was on five points you think they'd get a bounce with what's happening in Glasgow if you know people were making a link between the Greens and the Green Agenda and COP26 but seemingly I mean if you plus or minus you know it's what three or four percent statistically they could be down at two percent but conversely they could be up at nine two I suppose the Green Party are on five points Labour and the Social Democrats are tied on three percent while solidarity people before profit and gain two of one percent each Sinn Féin have risen six percentage points since the previous poll Fina Gael are on change and I said unhinged Fina Gael are unchanged and support for Fina fall has dropped by three points so is it something that Sinn Féin are doing or is it what the government's doing I wonder um 08 660 25 000 I don't not think this one it's not something we talk about but I think it's something we talk about a lot amongst ourselves perhaps and that's the problem of drugs in this country and you know maybe people thought previously it was an urban problem it's not it's everywhere cocaine is readily available and lots and lots of our young people are taking drugs because it's uh as accessible almost as booze and it's cheaper and um you know it's just happening kids as young as 13 we're reading in the sun are addicted to cocaine as Ireland's drug problems spirals out of control our special investigation their special investigation exposes how addiction services struggle to cope as TD say coke is now devastating rural towns and villages is well you know I'm not even going to ask is it the case it is the case we know it's the case don't don't we um do you want to talk about it 08 660 25 000 are you a parent of a young person how worried are you about what's going on um let us know let us have the conversation call caroline an 07491 25 000 the Irish daily mirror now and finally the importation of Pete to Ireland does not make environmental economical or ethical sense and independent reporters warned we didn't need an independent report we've been talking about it on programs like this for ages uh it doesn't make any sense seeing this Pete being uh shipped hundreds of miles to come in here crazy stuff uh it recommends the government ends this practice and indicates that our own production could be partially revived to assist the horticultural sector the report from the working group which was chaired by Dr Munu Prasad was submitted to the department of housing local government and heritage in October 20th it warns that the department a continued supply of Irish Pete to the professional horticultural sector in Ireland is essential at least in the short term and preferably from Irish bogs in order to allow 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people living in mica homes showed the disdain the department of housing officials has for those affected residents claim in one email principal officer paul benson who's been taking part in the discussions on how to address the scandal which has seen thousands of homes crumble due to defective building blocks accused a mica campaigner of wanting to cause a scene the emails were meant for his colleagues but instead were sent to mica homeowners department officials and a housing minister dara o brian in recent weeks as a decision on how to solve the mica issues delayed again talks between the government and affected residents in donnelly call mail have at times been anything but cordial critics say i'm reading here from a newspaper article it's understood family reps taking part in the working group have told the coalition that the engagement since the start has been continuously thwarted and stymied right so in this email it appeared to criticize donnelly call rep eileen daherty she just wants to cause a scene saying we have misrepresented their submissions he wrote he can reply and tell her that we will not use the summary but include their full powerpoint presentation in end documentation going forward to minister o brian mr taylor sorry mr benson told colleagues well the named individual eileen daherty a long time mica campaigner now has joined us on the program now eileen thanks i suppose in a way it's isn't it good that we're getting to see this we're getting to see their attitude that the curtains pulled back and we're getting to see what kind of operators these people are absolutely yes good morning greg yes absolutely useful to see and uh yeah so those emails were sent actually a while back they were sent around the time of as they were concluding the actual report from the working group and they sent those emails an error to actually they sent that one particular an error to me so it was interesting to see what they were saying behind the scenes and the context of that basically was that for about a week we had been asking for a copy of the draft report which was going to be a combination of the work that we all as a working group had worked on over the summer and we I repeatedly kept asking on behalf of the family representatives to to get visibility on the report for us to review it before we could sign off and they kept refusing to send it so that was the day before the final meeting with Mr O'Brien and basically I sent another email saying given that you haven't sent us a copy of the draft report can I assume you will understand we won't be sending off in the report and that was the response so basically they had no intentions of showing us the draft report and that was a response from from Paul Benson to his colleagues who just wants to cause a scene tomorrow when Mr O'Brien was in the meeting which in fact we didn't even mention it but just a couple hours before the meeting I did reply and copied all of the rest of them and to his email to say I assume you meant to send this to someone else so did he reply he didn't no he didn't reply at all he ignored it he didn't reply and he didn't apologize right no apology no apology nothing no just pretend it didn't happen okay buried the head in the sand um so like what do you I mean you've kind of outlined it there but what do you think this tells us about their attitude to this process well I think what it clearly tells us about the attitude the process which we actually to be honest with you we worked out quite a lot during the summer was that for a lot of the officials there was never the intention of actually finding a solution that I think they just wanted to say that they've ticked the box that they'd gone into this process and tried to work meaningfully with us which in actual fact they definitely did not now the exception to that is that in August we worked closely with the housing agency with the John O'Connor um who was the chief executive at the time and his colleagues so that was very meaningful and very valuable engagement and they really gave us very good advice and worked closely with us to help quantify the costs for rebuild and stuff like that so there were exceptions and he was probably about the only exception on the working group to be honest and he now is actually working with minister brian closely and us um and trying to um broker a deal really between all of the parties so there was exceptions but the majority of the people who were in the working group I think did not intend or have any intention to try and find solutions but that was a pity um but in saying all of that there was a lot of value that we got out of it because it actually kind of forced us with the working group to actually quantify and to really put down on paper and articulate very ungreat detail what we meant uh the requirements were from family so process was valuable but the actual engagement was very difficult we have uh well we we wrote to um the department um looking for a statement as it relates to the emails that they sent out to you um this is how it reads i'm not sure it's not very satisfying i don't know i've only glanced over it uh there's no spokesperson available they say government are acutely aware of the urgency of this matter and want a scheme that works for people who are right now watching their homes crumble the issue is being treated with the utmost priority and proposals in relation to enhancements to the current scheme will be brought forward as quickly as possible a working group was established earlier in the summer to address the concerns of affected homeowners in relation to the existing scheme the group met on numerous occasions importantly progress was made on a number of issues the government acknowledges that the current scheme is not working as it was intended and significant enhancements will be made minister o brian is continuing to engage with the coalition party leaders a minister for public expenditure and minister for finance to agree significant enhancements and these discussions will continue this week the government want to help effective homeowners and want to scheme which works for them so it doesn't reference at all the uh it's a reaffirmant i suppose of something of a commitment but it doesn't unfortunately as we requested it doesn't reference the emails sent by um by that gentleman that happened in to be end up in your inbox um right okay what do you think about that island not surprising perhaps well i mean it's not surprising to be fair i mean the the emails and and that will did come from the officials as opposed to politicians and i suppose what we're hearing behind the scenes is that apparently minister o brian is pretty supportive of our position and i think that the campaign has worked in that raising awareness and the difficulties families are going through but you know the one thing i would say is that you know it shows a lesson and we've spoken to other people who reached out to us you know the people who are campaign for the mother and baby homes for example they reached out to us over the summer and told us that they had a terrible experience too with officials so it would seem that this is not unusual but this is almost um these people are gatekeepers and i think they try to wear the the grip down so i mean we went in and i think you go in and we said this in the working grip we went in with this bird of trying to find a solution and there was very no sense of trying to find a solution from the officials they definitely were on like a firewall almost to finish buster and yeah and to frustrate a process but obviously that wasn't going to be allowed happen because to some extent you've been uh we've been down this road before so a lot of lessons have been learned this whole process though i think has been incredibly valuable um hopefully from from the mica perspective because that's what it's all about but in exposing what goes on how governments work how the permanent government operates who who is the power who pulls the strings their attitudes towards certain things like i think many people may have already known what's going on but i think this has opened up this to the the general wider public and i think it needs changing the whole system needs it needs looking at because this is no way to run a country it's not and the one thing i would say Greg is that because we've been in this process for so long like eight years and i know one's ten years for example you know we kind of have come up against a lot of opposition to a scheme for years and years and years so in one sense we were kind of well versed in this process by the time we got to those that were coming up a lot of the opposition to anything we said was not new to us and i think there was a kind of an element of the pie too if i'm honest with with officials because i think if they thought they were coming up against a team of kind of novices i suppose who weren't willing to sort of be challenge them and willingly they were very mistaken and i think that sort of shows in that tone of that email too she just wants to cause a scene because we didn't accept everything they said in the meetings we did challenge them we did always fight back and say that's just not good enough so i think that was what i also read between the lines and those those kind of emails too so the process was definitely worth it and what we came up with in the end in terms of the output i mean i've been speaking to people within the department the last few weeks and they told me that we came up with a spreadsheet in the end which had all of the issues and the current stance and also potential solutions for everything under great detail and i've been told that the department are using that a lot as we're discussing the actual final revised scheme so very valuable process but very difficult all the same all right what is the time frame now eileen i mean i know the indications are that daryl brine is batting for the families but we just don't know until such time as whatever the decided is made public but but what is the time frame as it stands now in terms of when we can expect to hear something the time frame as it stands as a week tomorrow we hope to have a good cabinet and the announcement should be made on that day that's that's our current time frame and we'll be touching base with people in the department this week to see if there's any change but that's the time frame that we're working towards just a minute the other thing that might be worth noting is that there's 20 i think 22 of us actually are going to brussels on the 30th of november yeah so we're going to pretend it's not significant because i know it's been it's been reported but you know it's still well worth going over again it's not insignificant say the least so what's happening then at the end of november and what who are you meeting who are you speaking to okay so what's happening at the end of november's we're actually presenting on the 1st of december in brussels and the european parliament and joe morgan from the rokenne coordinated about eight petitions over the course of summer and basically what happens is there's a process within the european parliament which is the petitions committee and basically you submit petitions as an EU member state or a new member let's say and you um based on non adherence to EU legislation that exists so basically these petitions are a way of saying to the EU look ireland has not abided by legislation that you have set up and as a member state they're obliged to do that so we get now to go those petitions were submitted and we go in front of the EU petitionist committee and the european parliament on the 1st of december to make a case for them to go back to the Irish government and say you actually rightly these your citizens have rightly come and put a case forward and we need you to fix this issue so it's about the fact that they allowed concrete products to go into the market there and and not have proper governance and oversight and that the as a result we've got this catastrophe so this is a way of changing the light on basically what the Irish government should have done ten years ago maybe should be doing now i mean is there is there should be doing now is the governance is the governance there now i wonder all right Eileen we'll be speaking obviously before the end of november but we'll be covering of course that that trip to to Brussels thanks for your time Eileen appreciate it all right take care bye bye Eileen Daugherty there micah campaigner 086 60 25 000 that is the whatsapp or text number call 0749 125 000 today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with Ulster tires winter is coming get your tires winter ready call into Ulster tires in letter Kenny and Bali buffet today letter Kenny shopping center is where real Christmas begins get everything you need for the 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the first instance they need to show that they have thought that they have covered immunity um so most the majority of our visitors to our nursing home certainly will have had their um covid vaccinations and indeed many of them will have their boosters at this stage so i certainly haven't had any problem we have always been asking people when they were visiting whether or not they have covid vaccination and 99 percent of the visitors have had vaccination and are well up to date with their vaccination and their vaccination status so is it the case really that this is guidance that's catching up with predominantly what's already been happening on the ground yeah absolutely okay so you don't really anticipated then being excluding many people i've never excluded anyone from no not you i'm saying do you i know you don't i'm saying do you think the regulations will exclude people the regulations i can't imagine that the world but um i think that nationally the rules have been applied you know they haven't been applied um evenly across the country so i don't know what's going to happen but certainly for my own nursing home um we we never have and never will turn anyone away we will always facilitate um relatives but we this issue the idea that UK or Northern Ireland um q codes wouldn't be acceptable um that's a to me that's an awesome yeah it might be one of those stores where people try and look for where the problems might lie rather than the actual because i think a lot of this actually has been driven by and this is nothing not uh been suggested of course um about your nursing home or any that i know of uh is that some nursing homes aren't in you know aren't being careful enough and it's actually families that have been sort of driving these changes as much as the the governmental method of the hsc themselves oh you couldn't be careful enough and uh i don't know that there's there's any uh wall that you could ever build that should keep this virus out but um and you know absolutely every measure that we can take we will take as well indeed as well our staff our residents themselves and people coming in to visit the nursing home um the boosters have been pretty much rolled out as i think you know in the higher age groups and now with over 60s in terms of your staff where are they um where are they in the just call it a queue for the sake of it where are they in the queue for boosters many of our staff um have already had our boosters um they're currently administering the boosters to staff so we're very lucky that the the vaccination centre is just across from the other side of the high road and so um the staff have been nipping over just to get their booster i'd say that 50 to 60 percent of our staff have already had the boosters obviously you care uh and and home uh people uh many people that would be in in the more at risk categories do you get a sense of that this that the vaccine has offered protection that has saved um people catching covid there is no doubt in my mind that it has um we certainly have um we're the small outbreak recently uh we had no i'll rephrase that we had a few residents who tested positive recently maybe uh september october but other than that they had positive um swab results you wouldn't have known that they had covid okay and how often are people tested now in that setting and um they were only being tested we only tested those people because we had we had reason to test them yeah we had one or two people who presented with just head cold and we just thought to to be sure to be sure we tested them and actually were surprised that they had covid but these were people in the very vulnerable age group um but they were you know they were asymptomatic positive uh which is uh good news um it didn't affect them so what is your heading into the winter uh we're in it hadn't autumn into winter now is it a nerdy time and is it very very very scared because and the main concern is main concern is that um you know staff will undoubtedly contract covid and will have to stay off duty and it's very difficult to cover in the event that um that we have staff shortages it's very difficult to cover but and that said um the vast majority of our staff are double and triple vaccinated and have without a doubt have um followed the guidelines in the for the last can't even remember how long we're in this now two almost two years and and so you know we've managed before and we'll we'll manage again it's a big pressure on though these people a big responsibility i suppose every birthday every wedding every invite um has to be mulled over and assessed and you know because it's not just themselves that they feel they are yeah really really considering things very very carefully the staff have lost you know a very big proportion of our staff would be he doesn't make any difference what people are but a lot of them are younger people who like going out like going to night clubs like going to the pubs and honestly they they in the main haven't haven't been doing so um it had they been doing so i fear that we would have had more covid and health care than we have had and we haven't so but it is becoming more difficult and of course when you see cases going up and maybe if you keep in a particular eye on the lettercanny lea you start wondering well you know the more of it's out there the more risk it is to to to um the people that live with us a caller says do i have the right to ask the person asking for vaccination proof if they've been vaccinated i don't have any right to that well you can ask you might need to get an answer but you can ask uh yeah okay right um if they come to helcrest if they come to helcrest they can be sure that um whoever's asking them will have been vaccinated yeah yeah still that there's that still head knocking you know i mean and it's you you're i don't know what's when you read things like that there you know people trying to in some way undermine the the vaccination program whatever um you know they might have their own deep set views in relation to that is someone who operates uh in the business of caring for people primarily vulnerable what emotion does that trigger in you if any oh you just move on okay and thanks for your time this morning thanks great you too take care oh eight six six two twenty five thousand an gala her there owner of helcrest nursing home in letter kenny uh hi greg i need to review my medical card i've tried to contact the hsc but the phone number is not in use could you please find out what the number is thanks so much um oh eight six six two twenty five thousand what is the number you're always very good in that a person needs to review their medical card what number do they uh contact locally oh eight six six two twenty five thousand today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires are your tires ready for winter call into ulster tires in letter kenny and bally buffet today buy 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national fuels on 9137 400 okay the weather forecast i'll just get this up for you now and i can tell you that i clearly start um with patchy rain and drizzle clearing dryer with lingerie dryer afterwards with lingering mist and fog slowly lifting becoming generally dry and bright by afternoon with spells of sunshine temperatures of nine to 12 degrees now um ain't to have been inquiring in the doll as it relates to uh children in state care and figures that they were given show that 42 children died in state care over the last um 10 years the ain't to representative for letter kenny is mary t sweeney and she joins us on the program now thanks for joining us at mary t and tell us about these figures and how they were required good morning great good morning listeners well really they're harrowing statistics it's difficult to believe that over a nine-year period some 206 children have died while they were directly either in state care or indirectly they were they were the state was aware of them so of them there were 42 children who died and uh of that 18 died there was a result of suicide and you were talking earlier our drug overdose one was murdered a very famous case or infamous case in 2010 and it's absolutely horrific to think of one year alone there were seven deaths and five was the next class but it's been quite difficult to get exact um details from the state to say specifically which regionally where these children died um it's a 2010 case with the murder that happened then but for to think that 30 42 people uh children not people children a total in the care of the state have died and especially to consider that what help was available for them with with suicide uh or with counseling with mental health issues or with addiction to to whatever drugs they were taking um i think it's unacceptable um we need to investigate this further you know and what specific questions do you have like the um why do you feel it's important to have a county by county breakdown well then you can target specifically what needs to be put in place to address the issues and you mentioned in the program earlier but we are all aware of the significant drug condition that's happening from the secondary schools on and there has to be something put in place directly linked to the schools to get a better information program and a better support network but at the moment the support networks are failing us across the board and do you feel any questions the level of state care uh do you know do you think the need more information uh needs to be provided so you know we can determine what level of intervention or what action was taken in specific circumstances by the state i think the figures speak for themselves it's shocking to think that 42 children have died quite in the care of the state now they have not provided any information on the 164 children that they were aware of that have been reported to to um the child protection services but we have no details on what intervention or why they weren't brought into the net and why they didn't get support that would be crucial to find out that type of information uh so there were 25 young people that died in care 17 in aftercare 17 by natural causes one homicide as you mentioned 12 suicides six drug overdoses road traffic collisions accounted for four deaths other accidents as they described counting for a further two that bringing the total to 42 the reality is that 17 children died from natural causes and there's no clarity or definition which you know we do need to know what has been neglected here what what could be put in place was there services missing was there support groups missing and these are questions that i'm aware of situations even in donny gole uh of young people that have related stories to me about their experience in in in care and uh not all stories are very happy in the stay in age currently so we need to be made aware of these and we need a system in place that's going to pick up and not let children fall through the cracks we really need to try and put a better uh support network in place yeah and it'd be uh it would be useful i think to know too you know from what population of children are it is are these figures relating to do you know over uh the period of 10 years how many children would be classed as being in care and then how does that compare to the sad loss of life in under 18s in the in the general population i think that would be useful too to know that wouldn't it totally totally and with the history of suicides in donny gole you know it's very pertinent and especially a lot often with our young male population but another area for me that i that highlighted um concern for me was the fact that over the last five years there there were the number of children going into state care is falling by over 200 this last two years in in particular when i would have thought that would have been a very stressful period and it would make me question if there had been in that nine year period where we have figures 164 children who died who were had been highlighted to state services but they hadn't been brought in under the network then how many children are not being taken into the net that should have been taken in and given protection and assistance and support even though the system that was supposed to support them here has obviously failed well the one of the reasons um because we're talking possibly we're talking numbers under five per county you would imagine maybe areas of large population might have more in terms of the figures uh it is across the board because we've seen it with covid cases how they're reported one of the arguments to slagae for not given a breakdown was um to protect um confidentiality to maintain confidentiality uh do you believe that to be a satisfactory explanation absolutely not how can you put a network with the teams on the ground i know teams that can's not are from my experience have been overall you know there's just not enough qualified people they're working in the services mental health is a disgrace at the moment and i do hope that you know i know so many young people that are living on their own in in apartments or in flats in situations where they are still very very vulnerable and you know what horrified me was i was listening to the government.ie during the week the report by Ann Robert in relation to the grace case and the report there started four years ago over seven million has been spent on that report and yet Greg dismissed all the deadlines for completion how many children you know could have benefited from an efficient well conducted report that was going to give real support to the networks across the country as we've seen it go if that analysis uh were in some way to make sure that something like that could never ever happen again to be a blueprint to ensure that every child is absolutely protected as much as we can it might be multiples of million well spent but if it's a document that's you know not accessible or sitting on a shelf or not acted upon truly is i mean obviously it's important to get to the bottom of these answers uh but you know that money as i think which is what you're saying could have been better spent on improving the services for people because that million would go an awful long way in the areas that we're talking about because a lot of it's just people employing people and giving people appointments we've seen the desperate situations where we found 15 or 16 year olds having to go on to social media crying out uh for an appointment with some of these services just to try and get themselves better that's absolutely what i'm finding on the ground and haven't and some of the services are too happy when you phone up to try and intervene to give support to people that are not in a position that they're really well when you're sick you're not well able to represent yourself you do need support and you need and again in my experience there's been a lack of support from mental health uh in the community we don't have enough well qualified community health mental health nurses advanced nurses going out that can give very specific help or should it be medication changes or should it be reviews you know if we don't have the doctors then we're going to have to provide more advanced nurses that are specialists and they're feeling that can go out into the community and have power but they need power and need to be you know well qualified but with power to be able to identify and interact immediately when they see i have some crisis cases that i'm aware of across the county and um if we don't do something there's nobody going to do it yeah and i mean there's a line has to be walked as it relates to confidentiality uh and all of that i do get that but that can't either can't be used to mask a problem or to stop us having a conversation about it or to see you know let us have access to what's going on so that we can put the pressure where it's required to improve it you know what i mean we can't have everything in secret and then it's very hard to get to the bottom of things to try and get resolutions to try and get improvements i'm aware of one case that that without specifics i'm only young lady that had over 10 suicide attempts in four years and the family were having to scream to get help you know it's just not acceptable they'd be absolutely desperate i know that myself from contacts we have here it's heartbreaking because the parents feel helpless and they're not getting any help themselves either and it's a a terrible terrible situation um thanks for coming on mary teed to discuss this with us uh i know uh your party's continuing making inquiries in this regard and perhaps we'll talk again in the future and if anybody has concerns or needs to come forward they want pattern to bring this forward in the dive to try and get them support please i would invite them to come forward to contact me i'll do what we can all right thanks mary t sweeney there ain't no representative in donny gall 08 660 25 000 that's the whatsapp text number give us a call on 07491 25 000 07491 25 000 hi greg i just wondered do people realize or really care about the failure of the climate plan according to mary romans it was a failure thanks i think it was a qualified failure i think she was very disappointed as it relates to the watering down of um commitments as it relates to uh coal and what have you i think from from listening to the same interview i think there's quite a lot in there that she thought was quite positive is it an absolute failure or the best that could be achieved i don't know uh re uh greg re cove it's all about money in the tills and nothing is going to happen before christmas or after i don't i don't anticipate it to be honest with you but we shall see who's to say um if you work from home sorry if you work from home help caring for the elderly it's hard to work from home yeah i know what you're saying hi greg would someone please explain what's the difference between a person who is vaccinated for six to nine months now and a person who is unvaccinated the only difference i see is the vaccinated still can get the the the venues oh sorry can still get into venues and the unvaccinated can't for the majority of the population population they say uh that um people vaccinated after six months as i say the general population the general you know younger healthier population uh they still have uh adequate protection um i don't know i can't see that those restrictions easing i can see them getting that tougher if they're going to be going in any direction um fina full minister darrell brian principal officer mask has slipped island is correct that they the department are trying to wear them down usual government tactics to suppress action groups we saw it used with hospital downgrading garter station banks and post office closures uh perhaps but i don't think this is something that uh they might action group and those supporting them and party differ uh etc are going to be uh ground down by these people let's put it like that right we'll be back with much more in the show after the news and obituary notices stay where you are and as i say chat to you in about uh we'll just after 10 today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires ready for winter call into ulster tires in letter kenny and bali buffet today show your appreciation for dunny gall business this christmas with by dunny gall visit by dunny gall dot com to see a host of participating businesses and special offers to start your shopping list to get involved by a product or service from a dunny gall business and share on social media by dunny gall takes place from the 5th of november to the 31st of december for more visit by dunny gall dot com sheridan security now introducing zero wire smart alarm systems zero wire zero mess and a real 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of santa on his sleigh it's a great evening for all the family this friday at the letter kenny christmas light switch on see the shop lk socials for details live on air online and on the ireland radio app this is ireland radio news good morning it's ten o'clock donal cavena at the news desk the cabinet subcommittee on covid 19 meets this evening to consider what action needs to be taken to tackle the escalating covid cases the wider use of vaccine certs and due to tests and working from home are all up for discussion 596 people were in hospital last night with covid 106 of them in icu at letter kenny university hospital there were 19 covid patients none of them in intensive care professor sam mcconkey from the royal college of surgeons says while vaccines are protecting against serious disease they're not very effective at protecting against transmission what we're finding is that this this vaccine tune is more of a vaccine against disease and severe disease and death than a vaccine against transmission so it doesn't really this particular vaccine you know getting into muscularly it doesn't provide sort of immunity in your nose to stop you catching it and unfortunately stop you passing it on to the people around you as well as it does to prevent disease and death the hsc says the health care system is overheated and under serious pressure chief clinical officer dr column henry says staff had to provide critical care outside icu settings over the weekend we've seen our intensive care units particularly in the dubbing region under serious pressure no doubt about that having to cancel other operations and having to exchange patients between hospital and having to provide a form of intensive care outside intensive care settings too a member of the mica action group says comments made about her in a department of housing email were disappointing over the weekend the independent published details of emails sent by housing department officials regarding defective block working group meetings when such email was mistakenly sent to mica campaigners in the working group describing campaigner aileen doherty as wanting to cause a scene she says it shows a fundamental lack of respect well obviously we are very very disappointed at the very unprofessional manner in which the department of housing officials um really viewed the the family representatives from both donald male and the working group were very disappointed um really we entered into those talks with a very sincere intention to find a solution to the mica crisis and it's pretty apparent from those emails that um that the department officials did not have the same perspective in mind they did not enter into those talks you know was really was showing us uh respect and really in a professional transparent manner so it's very disappointing a 30 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire in the rathmore road area of dairy in the early hours of this morning there was no one in the building at the time police say the blaze which was reported at half past 12 was tackled by the northern arland fire and rescue service it's emerged that the car park at lindsay national park reached full capacity on 24 occasions this year meaning cars were being turned away at the gates after getting the statistics in answered with all questions on equal to the pierce doherty says that urgent action must be taken to ensure that locals and those who wish to visit the park are accommodated minister darrow brian totem in a draft visitor experience development and management plan is being drawn up w doherty says that's to be welcomed but must be progressed speedily it's good that there is a wider plan for for glenvey national park and it goes way beyond obviously the car parking facility what we now need to hear from the minister is when is that going to happen while glenvey national park remains open it's no point being open if people can't get out of the car and experience what is in an asset here and going also we do need to hear from the minister in terms of the time frame for expanding that car park capacity and crucially we need to have some interim solution before the people of next year's meeting and the government is being urged to link job seekers benefit rates to previous pay levels that's the call from the Irish congress of trade unions as the weekly pandemic unemployment payment is to be further reduced from 250 to 203 euro from next week the proposal would mean offering those who'd lost their jobs between half and 90 percent of their previous salary for a limited period of time ictu spokesperson michael taft says putting a ceiling of three to six months on it would press people to find a job quickly so allows me time to actually find a job that's suitable to my needs because one of the problems with a very low unemployment payment is that you know i can't afford to be unemployed for too long you know for three months or six months so i'd better go out and grab the first job i can get which may not be suitable to my needs there may be a misallocation of skills in the labor market any lingering mist and fog will clear leaving a generally dry and bright day with spells of sunshine highest temperatures this afternoon nine or ten degrees celsius in a light west to northwest breeze that'll back southwesterly by this evening tonight we'll see a little bit of mist and drizzle developing and we'll see temperatures overnight of two to seven degrees celsius that's island radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning the rich notices for this monday morning the 15th of november the death has occurred of donal boil upper bell critch his remains will repose at midlands funeral home from four o'clock this afternoon with rosary at nine o'clock tonight viewing tomorrow from three with removal at half past five to st marie's church kin cashla arriving at six to repose overnight wake limited to family close friends and neighbors only please funeral mass at 11 o'clock on wednesday with interment afterwards in bell critch cemetery no flowers or mass cards please the death has occurred of patsy brezlin aya ardra his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 11 the church of the holy family ardra for funeral mass at 12 noon interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in louis desired to coronary care letter killing university hospital care of derrick mccabe funeral director or any family member the death has occurred of tommy porter monorgan ardra his remains will repose at mccabe's funeral premises in ardra from five o'clock to eight o'clock this evening removal from there tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock going to the methodist church ardra for funeral service at half past two interment afterwards in st connell's churchyard ardra removal private to family only please donations if desired to the church funds care of derrick mccabe funeral director or any family member the death has taken place of kathleen mcclochlan nae ron breaded len movill funeral from her home tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st mary's church ballet brach followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the death has taken place of james toner drum devon turman james's remains are reposing at his late residence with funeral from there tomorrow for mass at 12 noon in st columbus church turman followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on the st columbus church turman facebook page family flowers only please donations if desired to the donnie gall hospice care of any family member the death has taken place of tom hodgson 408 victoria road balamigori formerly of derry funeral service at his home tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock within term and afterwards in derry city cemetery the death has taken place of phil galler her rock town falkara his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral mass this morning at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjacent cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on mc in media falkara parish church the death has taken place of hue bernie fawn anon millford requiem mass this morning at 11 o'clock in st peter's church millford with burial afterwards in millford cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family flowers only please donations if desired to odyssey donnell nursing home patients comfort fund care of any family member or patrick sweeney a funeral director the death has taken place of bernie death magnum e three ashfield court mulhollard dublin formerly of kilty fergal funeral mass this morning at 11 in the church of reputable suckered lind fin with burial afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery family flowers only please donations if desired to the alzheimer society care of any family member funeral mass can be viewed on mc in media dot tv the death has taken place of eddie mclochland cock hill road bunkrana funeral from his late residence this morning at 20 past 10 to st mary's church cock hill for 11 o'clock mass with burial afterwards in the adjacent cemetery eddie's funeral mass can be viewed online on church services dot tv and the death has taken place of treza donnelly nape thanigan 53 primrose park sign mills formerly of cortober caragon shannon funeral from her home this morning at 25 past 10 for requiem mass in st treza's church sign mills at 11 o'clock in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in luah flowers please to melmont manor residents comfort fund care of quickly funeral directors requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam on church media dot tv for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highlandvideo.com safeguarding is about putting measures in place to uphold our rights and support our health and well-being safeguarding involves us our families services and professionals all working together to prevent adult abuse and neglect or coercive control it also means empowerment if we face challenges with our capacity that our voice is respected adult safeguarding day is friday november 19th safeguarding day supported by safeguarding Ireland it's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio it's monday the 15th of november you're playing on the green sheet the reference number is s6 it's game number 46 the numbers are 59 88 70 66 69 22 11 33 29 and finally 44 phone your claim to 910483 before eight tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your ncbi bingo information at highland radio.com all right those were your bingo numbers and you can get them as well on our website but why do we do the bingo and who benefits obviously lots of you played and lots of you benefit out there we had a 20,600 euro winner last christmas that was one of our jackpots since then we've had three further jackpot winners throughout 2020 amounts include 6600 6400 9400 plus a share in the daily prize money increases those winnings even further now june tinsley is head of advocacy and communication with national council for the blind of arland good morning to you june thank you for joining us thanks for having us on right it's good to have you on it's good to be working with you on this bingo promotion because you know presumably it's more difficult to raise funds now maybe it's somewhat easy now i don't know how things may go but anyway it's been a turbulent couple of years to say the very least trying much so now and the radio bingo has been just so so successful in the dunagol area and much appreciated to all the players and i hope they get as much enjoyment out of it as anything else but essentially the funds that are raised are a core lifeline to the provision of our services there are about 2000 individuals who are blind division impaired in the dunagol area and we work with individuals young and old offering a suite of services to them all designed to make sure that that individual can kind of live independently and confidently and stay socially connected with all their their peers and be a core part of the community just like anybody else yeah and that's right from say for instance uh if someone were diagnosed with a condition where they may see their eyes deteriorate or perhaps they're uh born um with a visual impairment you're there right from whatever stage someone wishes to engage with the service aren't you that's correct yes i mean i suppose if a a baby is born with the sight loss condition ncvi is there to work with the parents to make sure that the infant can still meet their developmental milestones all those kind of things and as the child ages will work with the individual to try and maximize any residual vision that they have so that the child can navigate their world independently and safely and can fully participate in school and all those kind of things right up through to older adults who might post-retirement acquire a sight loss condition and suddenly find themselves in a situation where their world has been turned upside down and needs assistance not only to work through that adjustment and the impact it has on themselves and their family and but also just in terms of any hobbies they might have or any outstanding work commitments that they might have all those kind of things ncvi is literally there through every stage yeah and if it weren't there it there would be huge gaps in a lot of what you've talked about there you know and that's why it's so important that people support the work of the ncbi as much as is possible and one way you can do so is having a bit of fun with the bingo here in highland radio yes exactly i mean the radio bingo has as i said proven to be such a success and as it ensured that we can continue providing these services and i suppose if you can visualize for someone who has acquired a sight loss condition ncbi is literally there to ensure that they can navigate their own world safely through long cane training for example or to offer practical advice in the home how to make their home more suitable to their needs link in with their employer and ensure they can retain their employment and offer them advice around what statutory entitlements they have i suppose every service that we have is there to match the the needs of that individual yeah and again i'm repeating myself to some extent but this would be one of the the core funding streams for the ncbi and that's why it's so important very much so yes i mean we do have other funding streams but as you rightly said at the beginning many of our fundraising activities have had to be curtailed due to covid so without having this radio bingo on such a consistent station it really wouldn't be able to deliver those services in that locality all right listen thanks for your time we're going to speak to people who access your service but for now i want to thank you for joining us june we appreciate it greatly thanks very much okay take care of yourself that was june tinsley head of advocacy and communications with the national council for the blind of arland delighted to welcome on to the program now uh mary crossen originally from dairy but living in donningall for over 20 years you'll be soon classed as a local maybe mary another 20 or 30 years perhaps yeah i'll give it another few years yet i'm still a blurman but yeah i'm here nearly half a lifetime but i've been welcomed with open arms so of course now tell us tell us about your your situation and your visual impairment is it something that came on in life or something you were born with mary so my condition is um is with me since birth um it's uh called nystagmus it's a involuntary movement of my eyes where i find it hard to focus so it makes me extremely short-sighted um and some of my siblings have this condition as well so probably growing up i found it difficult at school um difficulty maybe seeing the board um and the teacher was explaining things and uh getting around and recognizing people um but i i've just adapted i suppose because i've been used to it and have not known uh good what good eyesight is um i've adapted and yeah did you did you have to uh mary um i'm not sure what it's like now or when you were in school but did did you feel that you had to you and your family had to work around this was there much support in terms of saying right well uh let's look at mary's condition let's see how we can make the situation as best as possible for her in that sort of learning environment there was there was some support but this is over 20 30 years ago so um i did get issued with magnifiers and stuff but i suppose i find using them difficult in school because i didn't want to be classed as different um so i often didn't use them um but i know um nephews and nieces have went through school and they definitely had an assistant with them whereas i didn't so facilities now are and assistant as much more um prolific now in in schools for for children growing up um but i suppose when we went through school you're talking 30 years ago so there was some difficulties right okay got through got through it is it relatively recently that you began engaging with the ncvi mary yes so when i moved to donnie gall 20 years ago i moved here to do a music uh course traditional music course and i initially got in contact with them just to get uh registration registered with them i knew in the north um i had access to free travel and living in a rural area here in donnie gall it was hard to get around so i made that initial contact maybe about 20 years ago um to get registered with for a bus pass free free travel and things like that and they were really good giving me an in-depth assessment to see what my needs were here in donnie gall and um they just provided me with extra magnifiers to help me with reading and even tv glasses to help me watch tv and read subtitles and things like that so that was my initial contact um 20 years ago and then recently i got in contact with them again life progressed and i had a few children and um so but i just found over the last couple of years my my eyesight deteriorated again and they have provided me again with extra better magnification and um helped out with technology helped me um get the hang of uh making technology more accessible where i can see things on screen um with my harp tuition as well i play the harp so i found access and tuition quite difficult because i can't drive um but um everything's online now it's amazing i can uh contact my harp teacher over in england so NCBI have helped me um access or give me information about different stands i can have for my music and um yeah do an online courses and uh touch typing and just just generally being supportive and that's what i was gonna say because a lot of it signed posting and look we this we know this could possibly work for you but does that support element of it too which i presume is is really important that understanding that sort of maybe even bring you know solution focused with you that kind of stuff yeah absolutely like they're very they're the staff at NCBI has it's have been really beneficial and fantastic they're in letter kenny and all over as well whoever's been in contact with me they have been very supportive and understand them it's a really vital service um what they provide for the people and i'm very thankful and grateful for them so um yeah they give they go the extra mile they think of solutions i get them the problems that i have um and they come up with some solution our way around it so they're definitely very very helpful and beneficial to the community your house is full of music by the sounds of things mary yes we have a musical house i play the harp my husband plays the pipes mix the pipes and they all work well together the pipes in the hog you think they wouldn't because the pipes are relied and the harps are quiet but they actually put him in the back room and you you do i need i can't hear myself play whenever he's playing but they actually do blend quite well and of course they're the national instrument of Ireland so um yeah yeah they actually go quite well together invariably your three children um twins 11 and another seven they're they're going to be uh have the the musical bug no doubt about it yes yes i continue to um i'm teaching my daughter the harp as well so um yeah yeah they'll they'll carry on the tradition too so wonderful maybe one day you might play something for us maybe maybe thank you for giving us um you know an insight into the work of the ncbi and and how in real terms it can can can help people uh we really appreciate it thank you thanks for having me on the show from the show take care the program the show mary cross and they're originally from Derry don't go for two decades uses the services of the national council for the blind of Ireland so that is just to uh as i say the it's not a the bingo it's not a club you know it's not like something oh well sure they're at it for ages it's not like a bingo hall where you might be nervous walking in which they're all very welcoming i don't mean that in a as a slight but my point being is is that you know you can play bingo at any stage if you go to your local shop around the northwest you'll probably see the buck close to the till you can pick one up and play the bingo it's five euro for the week a euro for the day and obviously only if it's for fun and and and you have the spare cash but if you do so you can win uh daily cash prizes in the hundreds of course and that jackpot's always up for grabs uh growing all of the time now even if you aren't successful you can still perhaps have one last chance to win because you can send in your books for weeks 47 48 and 49 multiple books break them off and send them in separately you know um i 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on this monday the 15th of november right okay let's get to some of your comments thanks so much for them coming in we really appreciate it wondering if you could highlight that the school bosses are moving to 100 percent capacity between the this week and next extra bosses have been on to accommodate 50 percent capacity how could they be moving to 100 percent capacity with cases the way they are at present we're being asked to work from home limit our contacts and yet they're piling all our children on to the bosses now at 100 percent capacity i don't know the answer to that question um if i knew i would tell you but uh it's not spreading in schools is it so maybe it's not going to spread on bosses i don't know i've stopped trying to work it all out to some extent it's too hard right now uh you're good with the statistics is there any figures for those who are vaccinated and got covid and those who are not vaccinated and got covid no that's there's no statistics there um you are slightly less likely to get covid if you are vaccinated you're slightly less likely to pass it on uh you're much less likely which is the uh you're much less likely to end up in hospital with a uh being assisted to breathe with a ventilator if you're vaccinated according to the statistics 65 percent of people in icu and receiving extra care are not vaccinated out of the the eight percent of the population that chose not to but still people I suppose are trying to counter-arguate one way or other and that's perfectly fine hi Greg can you clarify this or explain it to me as I understand it's legal but i think it's very silly there's a family in my local area with two sisters who are nurses they live in two separate houses the daughters and ones on us tested positive for covid but because the nurses are not showing symptoms they're clear to go to work in hospitals what sense does this make long-time listener well there is a testing regime in hospitals I would imagine those nurses have triple vaccinated and they're not walking around you know without PPE on as well um so I don't know the ins and outs of it uh but I'd imagine that is the reason um but who's to say it's no wonder the emergency department to flat out and struggling ran now dock yesterday at 4 p.m the nurse called back after nine advising the doctor would ring shortly after 1 30 a.m the doctor ran in rang nine and a half hours after we made initial contact initial needs more than one now dock a big area for one doctor to cover now dock and the gps are overrun at the moment according to reports we're getting in from them at the moment hi Greg I'd be a hundred percent with any venue hospital and nursing home doing an antigen test on me before I would enter their premises I'm just so afraid what effect the jab would have on uh your organs is it um I don't know it depends the uh you could have issues with covid in your organs as well I don't know um I think I can understand why you know people are very cautious um some people are um but I suppose you know we tend to trust the doctors with everything else and then people get you know more inclined to trust someone on facebook on on this matter I do struggle sometimes to get my head around it but uh everyone is entitled to believe what they believe uh so they ask everyone are they vaccinated so the covid was brought into the nursing home unit by a vaccinated person um says that caller Greg just wondering all I know is I don't know if that person has a part a loved one in a nursing home um personally for me if I don't have someone in the nursing home or I'm not trying to access a nursing home I don't really feel it's my position to comment on whether it's right or wrong I think it's up to them um to to decide whether or not they believe that to be acceptable or not I don't think it should just be chucked into the general uh narrative I mean these are people many of them are are vulnerable with their health and as I say the nursing homes uh the people in them and those who visit those people I'll leave their opinions up to them because they're the ones directly affected by it and know what's best I'd imagine uh Greg just wondering will you highlight the issue of the three top organizations uh or I'll come back to that one because I want to do a bit of research and just check that one claim you made in that text just to make sure it's a hundred percent accurate uh and it's I'm not saying that you'd be misleading me I just want to be sure because it could have consequences otherwise uh climate change evidence was physically to be seen in Donagall 30 years ago the developed world lost this vital period to address the issues all over the world says a text to there um good morning Greg I fully agree with the comments made by Eileen about the response from the government officials to the mica groups demands these mandarins are allure into themselves often misleading ministers in the general public I've been representing a civil service uh civil servant in a work related dispute for over four years now the mandarins concerned have repeatedly delayed the process and have misled the relevant minister related to a protected disclosure in the case so fair play to Eileen and the mica groups for sticking it out and showing these unaccountable people uh for what they really are uh good morning Greg I didn't uh don't think you would be shocked to hear the level of invasive species that have been and probably will continue to be imported into our environment and foreign soil these species have been destroying our essential indigenous species such as the humble earthworm now in decline we need a much more conservative approach to import similar to Australia and policy in this matter well done Mexico and returning to home grown seed and showing uh Monsanto the door they say right okay uh keep them coming into us 08 660 25 000 give us a call 07 491 25 000 uh it's time for a little bit of uh music uh and uh who 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joined on the program by a number of these people katie warden mea mea mea what is your surname i beg your pardon it's not written down here bakey okay representing gomskull mc germida from ironmore island both of you very welcome thanks for joining us it's good to have you on right tell us about your mini company because this is the one that picked up this ward i'll start with you katey tell us a bit about it uh during ty we did a mini company under the steward's on this brand and we did uh we came up with the idea of a road recovery safety sticker this was essentially a two meter adhesive sticker with the word recovered printed on it and reflective writing that this would be used to perform a simple yet essential act of a car accident where a car has landed in an unsafe area like a ditch the sticker will be stuck to the exterior of the car after the passengers or the driver of the car have vacated and got the assistance that they require depending on the accident this will ensure the drivers passing by at the of the incident that everyone has safely exited the vehicle and not to approach as they can get into trouble while trying to see if everyone is safe and this is where we come up with our slogan don't that one actually trailer well what a brilliant idea because i've seen this before and i'll i'll give the example in a moment katey like what made you come up with this one because that's a it's a it's a super idea that's not katey sorry mia i'll ask you that mia sorry it was a part of the mini company idea and katey's dad and katey were out one day driving and they came across a car that was in the ditch and they didn't know what the digital ground check went off because they didn't know if the people were selling it but they realized that if they went and they would cause damage to themselves or they would get hurt so they came up with that idea then yeah because as i say um on my commute to and from work it's going back a bit now there was a car in a ditch in a very dangerous area but people going past kept slowing down in this area to see if everything was okay um right so it's a it's a it's a simple solution to a problem um katey have these been produced or did you actually get any of these printed out or what's the story what happens next um we actually got 30 of them were just by company and ran a fast bed and other sites but because of covid we had three productions well stay there listen i'll wait till that announcement's concluded because uh you're you're being very brave they're talking through it stay where you are i'll come back to you and uh then we can talk a little bit more neil galahertz there as well representing rosses community school dunlow good morning to you neil good morning thanks for having me it's great to have you on the program right now tell us about your award what did you get it for neil we got our award it was the group award for making a difference in the community and uh how did you want to make that difference uh we wanted to make that difference by breaking the stigma around periods and period poverty given that many people can access these products in very easily and it should be an essential service to be getting these out and uh we basically wanted to move forward in that direction so we set up dispensers we got in touch with the woodwork department in the school and we had a few of our other male students design dispensers that would dispense certain sanitary products such as tampons pads and we also sent out surveys of what students wanted and we took that on board and we were able to adapt that to the product itself and we actually have a working dispenser set up in our school in the girls bathroom so the access is there and we've talked about this uh both at this level and to senators and others in the past you know it's in your school it's in the toilets there it could be a pub it could be a nightclub it could be it's breaking this stigma isn't it and this this difficulty with access but also as you've been mentioned the fact that someone's how much money they have could be a barrier to access and that just is not acceptable in at any stage but certainly not in 2021 no it is not um we also have had in our dunagall county council we've had a motion passed to which basically entails that all dunagall county council buildings were to have either a dispenser or free access to sanitary products for free and every building and what has been the reaction in school you know um are people more comfortable talking about it now you know that it's not seen as an issue maybe it never was i think it might be a generational thing neil but has it helped in sort of people having a conversation feeling less stigmatized or whatever it might be what has been sort of some other positive elements of this project well it's been a positively staggering response it's a lot of the students do now feel more comfortable to take that conversation into hand because beforehand you wouldn't have heard it from say like a lot of the male students wouldn't have known anything about it it wouldn't have been mentioned by any of the female students would have been brought up in conversation even between teachers staff etc students were very very uncomfortable when it came to asking for these products many students that would have access to them would have brought them with them to school even though there are products in the school the students just felt completely uncomfortable in asking and requesting these products but now students have been coming back using the dispensers even giving us feedback what they needed what they didn't need what they find suited them best and any other tips to take on board we've been taking them on and it's it's been a very good response and even the male students are able to converse about it without feeling any awkwardness or any stigma around it and once something's out there it's out there you know you you know once people feel they can speak freely and can be open um you know well that that uh that's gonna be the way it's gonna be are other schools looking on Neil to what you guys have been doing and maybe they probably already have their own initiatives perhaps in some schools but is this something you'd like to see rolled out across the county and beyond? oh yes definitely um a couple of schools have taken these uh I suppose steps in motion and they've taken them on board to take into account into their own school and maybe that there is a a stigma there in their own school or there is not any product availability and um there's also been working groups set up to make these plans a reality um no excellent because what you're doing is feeding into the school community uh it's good that it's feeding into uh the decisions that'll be made at counter-cancell level and it's also good that this conversation is now happening in the shanard level and the doll level we're a little bit behind the curb compared to other countries but uh hopefully this is the type of a conversation won't have to happen for the next generation Neil definitely the problems will be fixed good man well done to you I appreciate you coming on the program right so uh that was Neil Gallagher uh Katie and Mia still with us uh the announcements have concluded so I think was it you Katie was telling us that you've already printed up 30 of these or or what happens next with this idea? um well we're in the sixth year now so we can't actually carry on with it now so after the leave and set we're hoping to carry on with it and produce more and sell them onto the we're hoping to put them into the new cars developed on the market but that'll be a step away in the in the future hopefully if it happens on what we want it to. Mia any other ideas I mean your time I suppose is short now in in in your school used to be going on to other things but I mean uh did you have any other ideas or any other areas you think we should be looking at in this in this area of road safety? Um well whenever we finish school maybe next year we'll be able to look into it more come up with more ideas for it but for the meantime we're just going to we're just got we have a few people still want to to buy them off us that are made but um we'll promote it more next year maybe. Brilliant stuff well let us know and we can help with that uh it's a great idea it's it's so so simple and but but some of the best ideas the simplest why wasn't it done before uh and what did you say the slogan slogan was again don't let one act what was that? Don't let one accent a card for another. Yeah accent stuff brilliant okay thank you so much well done to the pair of you uh that was uh Katie and Mia there representing Gomskull uh McDermade on Arranmore Island a beautiful part of the world of course and Neil Gallagher uh very well uh doing very well all three of them uh but Neil in representing Ross's community school in Dunlowe and also I want to mention Ben King from Kreisler we have mentioned him before uh but he won the national award in the individual award category he was nominated by pro social island uh the pro social island drivers program it's a safety initiative that was set up in 2012 pro social island six to improve the driver behavior of some of the higher risk groups now the pro social island uh piece four funded garage project focused on engaging with young people who were engaging in or who were identified as being at risk of endangering uh engaging sorry in anti social driving behavior the target age group was uh for the project was 17 to 25 years of age and comprised of both males and females and uh Ben had his role in getting that going and making a success and congratulations to him he was a mentor and uh encouraged the students alongside the tutors to use their energy and creativity in a positive way and I'm told Ben showed leadership throughout the program and excelled in his ability to mentor the other participants just four of our amazing uh young people we have uh in this county Neil Gallagher Katie and Mia uh Baki I think it was and uh Baki and Katie Ward and also um as I mentioned there Ben King brilliant young people okay back uh with more on the Ninetown Noon Show shortly today's Ninetown Noon Show is brought to you in association with Ulster Tires. 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What would the case be if I sent another person to have my car tested whose PPS would be recorded? In that case previous to Friday I always used my passport card as identity. Thank you. I don't know if that's a once-off or not but let us know what you think. 08 660 25000. 08 660 25000. Right Anne joins us on the program now. Hi Anne. Good morning. We're talking about services and services that aren't running. You know cash on the core in Bunkrana. Tell us what what this service is and how long it's been closed? Well it's a third day services for people with disabilities. My grandson who's 26 goes there and it's closed now going on to the fourth week because the staff from cash on the core they are hired by the HSE or whatever and then they're redeployed onto residential seven square there was a night break. So cash on the core was closed and we've had no word of but when it's going to open up it's going to open or what's happened. What has the impact been on your grandson? I do us a certain cry about it. He's gone back to do things now that do you know what he'd ask Greg in the morning now he gets up and he says to make granny a boss McGonigal's boss because that was the first boss he used to go out to in Bunkrana. He now has a change boss because he is the boss but it's the McGonigal's boss that he keeps going on about and he takes me to the front window of my living room every morning and stands there at the time that the boss should be coming up and when he knows it's not coming up then he gets all upset. And every day it's the same every day? Yeah and he's gone back and back and back and doing things that they had forgotten about. Yeah he's regressing. He's gone back. He's regressing big time. And you're seeing that and you're laughing to death. Absolutely. It's breaking my heart. Sitting here and watching him. Greg is such a great guy. He's such a great guy. And I absolutely do not. I've always said it and will say it. I never ever ever want to see Stephen's personality changed but unfortunately it's happening before me age right now. And it's just terrible. Right. It's just terrible. We're going to make a few calls and find out what the story is. Yes I would like if you could find out. Of course that's what we're here for and I'm going to follow we're not going to chase up and stay at it as well. Please do. You can you can you have my word on that. Yeah it's discrimination. It's total discrimination against the people and cash in the corner. In my opinion. Yeah. And it's my opinion that I'm going on. I know it's terrible. Yeah you feel discriminated against and also that's on a on a on that emotional level but there's the sadness the scene progress that that story you tell of the daily heartbreak it's new every day for him. He goes to bed at night. Yeah. I can't show him at the same time and I'm on Tuesday and Friday morning because you know he was only get he used to get five days and then they got it back to three. I cannot show him on a Monday Tuesday or Friday morning at the same time as he normally is because he thinks he's going on the bus. Triggers of routine. Yeah. Yeah okay. So like you know nobody understands unless you're in a situation and it's just not a nice situation to be on. Right. Not for us and certainly not for Stephen. No. Would you leave it with me and as much as we can do we'll that's great. We'll chase it up and see at least I think explanation at the very least is required. Yeah. At the very least. Absolutely. So there's something to process. Yeah. And listen we'll love to you and the family and Steve and your grandson did you say. Yeah. I think he's very lucky. Yeah. He's got very lucky to have you. There's no doubt about that. Listen thanks Sam. Thank you very much. Take care. Bye bye. Okay. 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You tuned to your number one local radio station. It's Highland Radio. This is the nine till noon show with me Greg Hughes. Lots coming up in the next hour. We're going to be talking guest sport with Brendan and our Monday focus is going to be on domestic violence. We have a number of guests joining us. We want you to stay with us for those important topics. But at eleven o'clock it's time to break for the news. Good morning once again. Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you Greg. Good morning. The CEO of the HSC Paul Reed says the situation in hospitals is stark and there's a high level of stress and duress across the health system because of COVID-19. As of this morning there are 617 patients in hospital with the virus. 106 of them in ICU. Latest figures for letter Kenny University Hospital showed 19 COVID patients in the hospital last night. None of them in intensive care. The Cabinet Subcommittee on COVID-19 meets this evening to discuss what measures may be needed to cope with the escalating cases. The wider use of vaccine certs, antigen tests and working from home are all up for a discussion at that meeting. The Kenny University Hospital was the second most overcrowded in the country this morning with 43 admitted patients awaiting beds. Of those eight were on emergency department trolleys. There were 19 people awaiting beds in Sligo. 12 in the ED that gives a cumulative northwest total of 62. Latest IMO figures show 401 people waiting for beds at hospitals across the country this morning. A 30 year old man has been detained on suspicion of arson following a fire in the Rathmore Road area of Derry in the early hours of this morning. There was no one in the building at the time. Police say the blaze, which was reported just after half past midnight, was tackled by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service. It's emerged the car park at Linvey National Park reached full capacity on 24 occasions this year, meaning cars were being turned away at the gates. After getting the statistics in answer to a dull question, Deputy Pierce Doherty says urgent action is needed to ensure that locals and those who wish to visit the park are accommodated. Minister Darrow O'Brien told him in a response that a draft visitor experience and development and management plan is being drawn up. Deputy Doherty says that's to be welcomed, but it must be progressed speedily. And the government has been told it must bring forward plans to link job seekers benefits with previous pay levels. The call has come from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as the weekly pandemic unemployment payment is to be further reduced next week from 250 to 203 euro. The EC2 proposal would mean offering those who lose their jobs between half and 90 percent of their previous salary for a limited period of time. They say it would give people time to find a suitable job. And there are the headlines we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon. Okay, Donald, thank you very much indeed for that. Back after the short break. Safeguarding is about putting measures in place to uphold our rights and support our health and well-being. Safeguarding involves us, our families, services and professionals all working together to prevent adult abuse and neglect or coercive control. It also means empowerment if we face challenges with our capacity that our voice is respected. Adult safeguarding day is Friday November 19th. Safeguardingday.ie Supported by Safeguarding Ireland. Okay, we're continuing our dementia understand together our involvement in this initiative. 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It's healthy like exercise for the brain and it supports well-being which has positive benefits for the person. Staying socially engaged with friends and family has also been shown to boost self-esteem. A dementia inclusive community enables people who are living with dementia to do just that to live whether that's staying connected to or joining a club taking up a hobby or visiting their local shop being with each other to talk and share experiences nurtures the soul and gives a sense of belonging. You can be that connection. For more information and support free phone 1-800-341-341 or visit understandtogether.ie from the HSE in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland and Age Friendly Ireland. All right thanks for that. You're welcome back to the program. Brendan Devaney is going to be in studio with us shortly but some of your comments in the meantime. There was a neighbour of mine taken to Dublin hospital for an operation to find out of his cancerous spread. He was fasting. Went through all procedures in hospital for the appointment for the operation sorry then an hour before the op they cancelled it saying some of their staff had covered and send the man back home to Donegal. This is a god damned shame to quote them directly. I presume what they were saying is that they don't have the staff to conduct the operation and that is you know if people want to let the disease spread as it is at the moment this is the consequence of it. It's not always about whether or not someone will catch COVID or get sick of it. It's the knock-on effect it has on other areas of health tragically. Read the call or wandering 100% on school bosses. Never mind the crowding on school bosses. The providing your child with additional vitamin C and D is a barrier to viruses like we got when we were going to school back in the 70s. No viruses were overcrowding in A&E's back then. I think you need to just open the history books there if you think there were no young people dying in the 70s I'm afraid from viruses. If the government is this worried about COVID why don't they give the testing kit for free like Northern Ireland? Yeah or subsidize it heavily. Maybe that's what they'll end up doing. Right okay. Brendan Daveney is hot-footed into studio. I think you could call it hot-footed. Hi Brendan how are you? You were hot-footed in Friday night not dance from Gregor's. Fought loose you know. One second there now before you. If you're going to give me a good touch I want people to be able to hear it. You know there's no point you wasting your energies and people not getting it. Right we're good. Your mic's up there now. How are you keeping? Good, good Greg. Well I have to have a quick word on your DV ball. You must be delighted with how it went. A lot of organization, a lot of effort went into that. Hi. It was a bit crazy. Greg yeah first time I've ever did anything like that in my life so you know so many people behind me helping me you know here in town Ciaran Brogan and Ciaran O'Donnell and Alan Foley and Aiden Cannon in all my family that we're we're digging in but a lot of things did come back to you you know there's a lot of things happening there because people were texting, messaging, tickets and tables and sponsorship and different things and market but around town my sister and so many businesses donated to the wrap. Yeah you're going to end up with a dose or something now that's what happens you know because you're so much you know but there's so much adrenaline goes into something like this and so much time and you build yourself up and then it happens and you know it's like oh right okay there but anyway yeah I'm not too sure how do you feel in the days after that's it it was just non-stop Greg right up into the night yeah but everything went well in the night everybody agreed and fundamentally a lot of money was raised for very worthy causes and I'm sure down the line you'll you'll shut that all up the GoFundMe page is still getting getting money and how do people go on to that if they want to yeah just to V's Charlie Boff you just search a GoFundMe just pop straight up and you click and it's very simple just go straight through your phone couldn't be all right good stuff right okay you barely had a half an hour in bed I would say and you were back out at the sport then on on Saturday I was listening to the commentary the both years it was it was excellent at the weekend so I presume that's the action the games of the weekend is going to be the focus of the DL debate tell us what's coming on yeah we're looking at obviously the Intermediate final replay out at the park great I was just thinking all the games are at the park I live up their own he's handy for you also it's a big difference the Intermediate final was yesterday of course the fantastic fabulous news about Charlie McDonough and you're finally getting this a joke with their last day in his journey you don't get this all still going to be riots let her get it if we trouble and untermined I'm tell you it's going to be trouble everywhere but I think finally the recognition was fantastic who's terming coming up the division mown so it was a good weekend for everybody on terming as well so fantastic weekend for for downing and we're going to look across the various championships as well to run to more one and to run and there's some people having one title in 67 58 years yeah there's history being rewritten isn't there and they have been for the last couple of weeks as well there's a lot of underdogs yeah underdogs in a lot of lot of places seem to be coming through do you know what the problem there is it's your pundits because user user put these boys down as underdogs and these girls down as underdogs and they're just proving you're wrong they they step so it's not let's say nothing's happening on the pitch it's all you guys getting it wrong could that be it it could be the tipsters there what was your surprise result of the weekend what do you say I would say more surprise performance all right you know last week don't know two weeks you don't know played played phenomenal come in this game clock and early everybody said played none but the difference then it completely flipped I mean it was so strange last week in the first game was 7-2 it had to be done on complete control this week it was clock and early we're 7-2 exact same opposite score line difference was there was a kick then and clock and early with goals and they come back but they were absolutely phenomenal that's where coach and tactics comes into it does it that the clock and early made the changes and made on low says right we we did well with how we we played last week we'll just keep more of the same yeah I've seen that myself involved in replays if you played fairly well in that first game and it's a draw and you think the other team they have so much to come up but listen they were they were absolutely brilliant and then yesterday a lot of people found that there kind of gales down and scheme hard to call and gales just didn't turn up at all yeah I think there was a few people you know gales supporters were we bit nervous about that one going in themselves I don't know it looked like listen I haven't seen enough of them to really comment on it but they had their defensive ship right but going forward then there didn't seem to be you know downwards had quite a bit of ingenuity players would pick the pass maybe take a man on and take a score and it seemed like gales had got their defensive parallel pitch okay but going forward then they didn't seem to have much in attempt at all it really peered out you know and there was so much I suppose atmosphere the down part is great for that type of crowd because everybody's in the one stand you know they're not they're not here no they're not everywhere they're just in that stand and it creates a great atmosphere but it was lacking yesterday but I think a game requires it to be somewhat in the balance either that or amazing football but it requires a game to be in a balance in the balance and that game wasn't ever it seemed from early on it wasn't in the balance brand yeah downwards we're in complete control at a time when Lerick and Gales desperately needed and the game needed a goal Downing's got the goal and it was just I see out the time then you know it was getting so dark there used to be as well but listen Downing's after losing last year's final no after losing last year's final I suppose it's massive then to come back and I was just thinking about Clough and Eli as well all the hurt that they went through and I was just thinking that their journey maybe meant them a wee bit tough that they were able to come back last week was done no young team down maybe they have to have a few experiences that before they can jump back get a few knocks yeah seems to be the way of it and bounce back abilities isn't that what it's all about right okay so it's going to be a packed show run it through us again what's on the show this evening yeah just I said intermediate and junior recaps we're going to obviously talk about Geraldine we're going we have a fellow on Michael from Gillick Life he's going to talk to us about Dallster Champions of course looking ahead this Injunans game next week with Glen Mahrab big game again so of course I don't know who's involved in scheduling but you must be slipping them if you could just at the video game of course and what time does that one start at it's half one next on the you sure earlier playing on the Saturday at the park against Steelstone as well so yeah it's it's just great to see mixed job mixed life wee buddies excellent good stuff all right listen the deal debates on after the seven o'clock news this evening and then lots of people choose to to podcast as well it's going to be a cracker what are you going to do with only spare time now I'm sure you have nothing else to be up to you take it take it take a big sigh the couch is going to be my best friend I think the rest of the week goes all right well said a cure in the dawn is even on we're coming on for for a yarn in the show as well so he's he's popping on here later I think so happy days all right listen well done on on Friday again you did really well you pulled out a big show and it was really well supported and also good luck with the show this evening yeah I'm looking forward to seeing plan internationally cancer care west and focus Ireland great because everything we raised on the night went to them because my buddy in New York only two expenses and it was the sound system and the band and my Keir and Keevney Ross common man he paid for them so every penny came in and it's good to see them platformed to get an opportunity to explain the difference it would make too because often that that gap isn't bridged so people got to to see that all right good stuff Brent thanks very much all right we'll be back with more after the break today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with Ulster tires are your tires ready for winter call into Ulster tires in letter Kenny and volleyball today ho ho festive folk it's fair to say we deserve to go big this Christmas and at tk max we've got every fabulous gift you need to Christmas to the max as a designer steals for everyone from your mum to 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make a start park for free and enjoy your christmas shopping this year letter kenny shopping centre bringing you the time at now you're very welcome back to the program the time is just approaching 17 minutes past 11 and it's time now for our monday focus we're discussing domestic violence donagall recently launched a new resource pack called donagall domestic abuse resource pack for professionals working with children and families it was launched by the domestic abuse working group of the safe and secure committee of donagall children and young persons service committee we're joined in studio by three guests today firstly we'll say a good morning to superintendent gretty sherdon thank you very much for joining us it's good to have you with us also a regular guest on the program dr mary hainsworth manager of the donagall domestic violence services good morning to you morning great and also we're joined by inspector shivan mollahan if i have the pronunciation correct yeah you have it there okay listen thank you very much all of you right um i suppose shall we we start with you gretty i suppose the important thing some of the important information to get out there is that the services are there the help is there and and and for people to engage with them that's correct and i'm supposed to start off to say what domestic abuse is greg and for the listeners that it's physical sexual financial emotional or psychological abuse of one person by another within a family environment or by a current or previous intimate partner and it occurs regardless of socioeconomic group race religion gender or sexuality so it like we see it it's occurring across all walks of life all ages all status in society so here the guardian donagall and ireland have attended domestic instance on a daily basis overwhelmingly the most common type of call we attend to is when a woman is being abused by their male partner past or present however men can also be subject to domestic abuse and there's you know they don't report as much it appears children homes where domestic abuse experience this domestic abuse also can be present in the shape of abuse of older or vulnerable persons by their carers partners or relatives there's diversity among victims the abuse we see varies from low level and persistent abuse to short and extreme abuse and we are mindful of the escalate the of escalating abuse within society and I suppose we recall incidents on a regular basis you know even the weekend past again a number of domestic incidents so that's just to give a brief outline to domestic and is there sort of a typical typical example of those calls is it a dispute and a property or something and someone will call in an emergency situation or is there a it could be just a simple sometimes it may be a neighbour ringing in about you know here and maybe a domestic next door and it may be it may have escalated a physical violence at that stage yeah and of course that is counted in statistics but it's not going to be newspapers or in the community guard or slot but it doesn't mean it's not going on and you've said quite clearly it happens very regularly oh it's it's it's worrying you know how often it happens and we don't hear about it all but it's certainly it's going on across all elements of society because of course abuse can be ongoing all the the types of abuse you've mentioned there that and it might be just in a in a one occasion that that phone call is made that doesn't mean it only is happening on that in that one occasion yeah often when a victim actually makes the decision to contact the guards things have come to like you know like to a point where they can't cope anymore and up until that they've experienced the research would indicate they may have experienced over 30 incidents of domestic violence at that stage before they actually have the courage then to ring and look for help this is a purposely leading question how seriously do the guardie take domestic violence and these types of calls if anyone's listening and going I'm sure what's the point you know it might take them hours to get out here and at that stage and do you want to talk a little bit about the resort the attitude towards it from ungodly shukana and the resources and how they're deployed when needed domestic violence at the moment is at the the forefront of our policing needs from the commissioner down to ground level there is you know a vested interest in investigating domestic violence incidents all guardia staff guardia members from commissioner level down to ground level have undertaken online training in relation to domestic violence we have our own protected services units been set up across the country and one here in dunigol also where we have staff trained in relation to domestic violence and we have domestic violence champions across each of the districts also so certainly there's manufacturers to domestic violence and we we would encourage anybody listening today who has a victim or who suspects that they know someday that may be a victim to contact the guards and at the very least Stephen to get advice in relation to what's going on and we've talked about this on a number of occasions in this program there is procedures and ways of dealing with these issues as well once contact is made isn't there and you know is it around anonymity and things like that there and guardia understanding that maybe someone has someone watching their movements very closely or whatever I mean that's all thought through and there's plans in place for that yeah absolutely and at the end of the day even if they contact the guards it's not always that there has to be a prosecution the thing is that they actually look for help and then we can point them in the right direction to the likes of Marie and her team or to others services that are out there like I mean we would never put anybody under pressure to make statements or complain to us that's the priority is to get them to make sure that the victim and if there's children or anybody else involved that they're actually that they can feel safe in their home so one cold does not necessarily trigger a train of events there's processes and procedures and options and all that type of stuff yeah and there's loads of support and the only reason I'm emphasizing that is because it could be a barrier to someone ringing but that doesn't that's not there so what we're going to say that I was just going to say like you know you don't have to you don't have to to leave to be supported you know it doesn't mean you don't have to leave your family hope to be supported so there's there's Siobhan do you want to talk about this domestic abuse resource pack yeah so this was launched in October and as part of social inclusion week in Donegal myself and Marie are on the CIPSE Safe and Secure subcommittee and I suppose it was launched as a resource from our working group which included the Donegal domestic violence services and the Donegal women's centre the MACE project and the St Johnston and Carrigan's family resource centre and Toosla and I suppose it's a road map really for professionals or people who may come across people who are experiencing domestic abuse you can see yourself in details all the services that are available from the guards Toosla the sexual assault treatment unit and Donegal domestic violence services and also importantly the signs and symptoms I suppose of domestic abuse and what to look out for you know and coercive control and just in relation to that is really really quite it's interesting because you know there might be people that pick this up and would read through the type of domestic abuse and not realise that they might actually be in an abusive relationship yeah very definitely I mean we see people who don't realise they're being abused themselves and sometimes even though it can be visible to people outside that person could be traumatised and they could be suffering from trauma and not realise that they actually are a victim they make that connection yeah so maybe a friend or a family member if you know if they come across somebody like that just to see what's available see what the signs are and talk to them support their friend and refer them to the services as necessary there's also interesting information as it relates to terms you know domestic abuse terms and phrases because you know lots of people maybe hearing more coercive control lately over the last couple of years but might not know precisely what that is or what's you know if something's happening to them on a financial or social level I mean that's all laid out quite simply there in this documentation as well yeah and it's available online for anybody at www.sipc.ie.cypsc.ie and there's also hard copies available if you want to contact myself at letter Kenny Garda station or Marie or Anne Timoney me and the Sipsy coordinator as well yeah and as you were outlining too in this booklet as well it's what happens when you make contact what happens next too that's all contained within it Dr Marie Haynesworth your manager of the Donegal Domestic Violence Services I mean we speak on a regular basis don't we about this and also to maybe resource issues in you helping people what is the situation now from your perspective in terms of you know the tools you have to hand to help people when they reach out or refer yeah I mean obviously the last couple of years has been particularly difficult because of the COVID you know and access to resources has been a little bit more challenging but the biggest challenge facing us at the moment is accommodation because that's it is a national crisis in terms of housing but particularly in Donegal there is an extreme shortage of properties and even though during COVID they announced the rent supplement you probably saw that where someone who is fleeing a domestic abuse relationship is no longer needs to be means tested in order to get the rent allowance the problem is you still need a house to flee to and that's our biggest hurdle at the moment people often you know often the guards are called out to a situation we want to make it as safe as possible for the people who are being abused and often the only way to do that is to provide them with some additional accommodation and that's where we're meeting difficulties what can be done about that because obviously there's a lot of people competing for properties and houses aren't they they're not competing but you know a lot of drain on unlimited resources and the bottom line is I mean the Department of Environment needs to be providing more social housing because that's where that we're aligned too much I think on the private rental market which was never designed you know to compete with social housing and it's because of the lack of social housing you've got a lot of people looking for rental properties and the rental properties are going up like they're now hitting over a thousand a month which you know that's almost like a hundred percent increase in the last three or four years so there's a lot of people who are accessing the hat payment rental allowance or on social welfare they just can't they're being moved out of that rental market so it's not even a stand-in for social housing anymore and at the moment like luckily drawing COVID Tisla have up fronted some of the payments around emergency accommodation we've had to use hotels B and Bs but that funding will all stop next year local authority isn't paying it because their department says that they're not responsible for domestic violence homelessness and to start only providing funding through refuges they don't do informal so we're going to be stuck shortly we need a short medium and a long-term plan this you can't with with the difficult job that's already being done we can't just keep firefighting every problem we need a plan don't we we do and it's no good having guards going out to a situation and then looking to move people on and then there's nowhere to move them on too so like there's a huge dependency there that we can provide hotel accommodation to back up their work and that's been fine over the last year but it's next year that we're worried about you know what happens then yeah and is there anything we can do like is there any like implore the public if they've got a property available to make it available I don't know is that realistic I mean how do we we have had offers and I know people are obviously out there you know they have to meet all the requirements and stuff and people have offered properties the problem is the cost of it who pays because at the end of the day nobody's going to offer property for free if we have got access to the property that's great but then we need the backup of state authorities to give us the funding to pay the landlords and that's in the absence of no social housing so that's really where we need the lobbying we need it lobbying that hat payments aren't enough you know they're not meeting that shortfall and I know the homeless sector is involved in that but we also need people to lobby that we need additional funding you know in terms of housing specifically yeah it needs specific focus you know I got you now let's talk about the 16 days campaign launch which is taking place on the 23rd I don't know which one of you want to speak to that is it Marie I think yeah we are organised as it starts on the 25th but we're actually I suppose hijacking the launch of the resource pack which is also happening again Sipsy have a launch on the 23rd so we're actually as part of our 16 days we work with young people I think some of the youth reach services and some of the schools in Lederkenny have produced artwork on the back of the healthy relationships program that we do and we want to use I suppose this forum to publicly show it because it's quite hard with Covid we couldn't do anything last year it was all online so this year we're looking to do it at the Angrenian hotel looking burnt it's important there's a conversation awareness and education of our young people isn't there so you know we try and stop the conveyor belt of people that believe it's okay to treat other people like this that it's in some way acceptable that it's positive or constructive yeah the conversation on you know just respect within relationships and healthy relationships which impacts on everything it's not just domestic abuse it's bullying it's all the rest of it but it is that notion that yeah how you treat other people is important that we can challenge negative stereotypes or negative behaviours at an early stage so I think the artwork has been a good way that people have kind of thought about the issue and put it across in a way that other people you know sometimes visually it says a lot more than written statements or people talking about it all the time yeah because Gretty obviously we've been talking about the guard of response ideally we want to get to a space where we're stopping this sort of behaviour ever starting yeah and I suppose on that and as I alluded earlier you know this abuse has taken across has taken place across all age groups so there are teenage and young boys and girls who are currently victims of domestic violence you know in their own relationships and again it's just creating that awareness and understanding that you know that that type of behaviour is unacceptable and and again it's between ourselves and the guard she kind of do and work with the schools and do and work with families and other I suppose like say the likes of hairdressers or taxi drivers people that are out and about that are going to be interacting with young and old people if there's an opportunity to get information in relation to or give information in relation to the services available to victims of domestic violence that's what we can do that as well but yeah it's just it's to start the conversation I think to start the conversation the conversation has started but I think it's to spread the conversation that and it's not just happening behind closed doors sometimes it's happening blatantly in the public we're probably likely the financial control and the coercive control but again it's just that the young people and the old people across the board that everybody's aware because maybe quite naively someone like myself might have hoped that you know that the conversation we were having for instance about you know coercive control being a crime we had one of the first convictions we had the first convictions I think without a trial here in in in Donegal and then those subsequent convictions down the country has that led to more awareness or is it more detections or more instances you know what I mean because sometimes when we see an increase in figures is it happening more often or are people sort of saying right you know I can contact the Guardian about this what's happening to me is a crime not just in that area but in domestic abuse generally I wonder I do think certainly the legislation change and the media you know awareness I've created around that certainly escalated I suppose our protected services units have been established there's more awareness across all all agencies and there's more interagency work going on and I think people are maybe more aware there's more information available online in relation to the matter so they are coming forward and we do have you know families work colleagues neighbours you know like reporting in as well in relation to you know concerns they have so I think there is more talk about it but you know I'm worrying about the people that are not engaged in because you know they are Can we talk about that and I don't know which one of you might prefer to but someone who's listening who feels there are trapped in in in an abusive relationship fearing that it's only a matter of time before it escalates who do they reach out to at this point is it the guards Siobhan certainly yes I mean in an emergency situation obviously you call 999 straight away if you really are in fear but if you want just to make a phone call to your local station all the district headquarters are 24 hours a day just to see what your options are or any of the support services like the Donegal domestic violence services Can I just talk talk on that and this is I'm not trying to say anything negative about the guardie but there might be a historic attitude that may be this is seen as something that can be fixed in the house or you know what I mean or not taking it seriously or whatever I mean I have heard stories of that historically things have changed now in terms of how those calls are dealt with what actions are triggered people being trained to deal specifically with this type of of instant I just want to focus specifically on how that's perhaps wherever a problem has changed now yeah well I mean domestic abuse it's a top priority for all guardie across the country and when we receive a report or we go to somebody's house and we deal with them we do a call back with that victim within a week so that call back is can be in person or by a method chosen by the victim for example by email or by phone call whatever suits them but during that call back I mean we'll be asking them certain questions to risk assess their safety will help them safety plan if they need to do that maybe to escape a violent relationship we'll give them information on the barring order safety order whatever you know option they want to take and as superintendent Sheridan said they maybe that they want to maintain the relationship but just give them to support maybe they should get a safety order to ensure the protection there and then in the house and they can call us then and if we become aware of a breach of an order we are duty bound to arrest that person and bring them excuse me before the court so there is that but just generally information but as I said it's a top priority matter for us and not only do we call back within a week we also call back within a month and three months again okay and during that time all the time we're hoping to build up a relationship you know convey trust to the victim that they'll be able to tell us and if they want to get involved in the criminal justice process that they'll feel confident to do that yeah and I suppose that's superintendent it's your role to make sure that's resourced and is actioned upon yeah well I suppose like there's four districts in Donegal so you have Boncran, Letter County Mulford and Body Shannon so I suppose really like there's vested interest and from our chiefs the superintendent Terry McGinn like there's a vested interest across the across the county to you know support victims to domestic violence and you know the families and the the children have to be conscious the the children that are experienced and that you know they may be lying in their beds but they're still experienced you know they're still exposed to domestic violence so like there's definitely support across the whole organisation to police it and that's also addressed Siobhan isn't it in the the pack here the impact it can have on children and signs and signals there and one thing also that's written across every page that's been mentioned in an emergency it's your ring one one two isn't it nine nine nine what do we need to be doing more of you talked about I suppose you know Marie about when you are trying to help people but to try and break the cycle or something and it seems a repetitive conversation how do we start making in Rose what do we do to actually say this is completely unacceptable behaviour it has to stop you know I know people probably texting in going and it was already referenced early you know men get abused too that's been accepted but not how do we get past them and us that we see as a whole society problem regardless of a gender of gender sorry and that we all play our role in it's so avoidable like it is I think one of the things about domestic abuse and why it does get so gendered is because it does play on the dynamics of gender you know and it plays a lot on the traditional roles so it becomes quite easy for one partner to suppress another just because of the society and so they're the kind of things that we need to start challenging early enough you know that there's no you know the gender stereotyping of young children that girls are expected to do this boys are expected to do that until we have more general conversations around equality and acceptance you know these attitudes will continue to prevail and that's that's unfortunate you know even within you know the different agencies domestic abuse is quite a complex crime so you know there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes to you know raise awareness around what is high risk what is low risk you know when someone you know often guards are called out to a situation that has perhaps de-escalated by the time they get there so how do you review a crime scene how do you review who says what how do you take evidence from client you know from victims so all of that kind of education is also ongoing with agencies and that was part of the thinking with the resource pack that agencies need to be up skilled a bit in terms of dealing with domestic abuse and then we can begin to filter that conversation down and if in the meantime we're having more conversations around equality and you know just engaging with other people and healthy relationships so it's kind of different pronged you can't do it all at once you know it's not a simple solution but I think you know what's positive and certainly ventures like this show that there is that communication there is that willingness you know the guards also have an interagency forum that we feed into where they are now reviewing their risk assessment tool you know bringing forward cases it takes time but that's the kind of work that needs to be done you know we do need to work collaboratively we can't all do it as one agency Inspector how do people get hold of this this book I mean they might not want it in the house for for obvious reasons are in the car you talked about it being available digitally as well or how do people so it's on the CIPSE website okay if you go on to the Donnie Gold page of www.CYPSC.ie and there's a link to it there on the page and we hope to also get a link on the Garda website as well but it is available in hard copy if you if you want it I'm sure Karani you'll have a link done on the the Lunagolf Facebook page too it's not though it is both professionals so you know I don't I would expect people to have it in their car right okay sorry if this is specific for professionals because I actually thought it looked really quite useful for the general population as well but we kind of thought maybe there was a lot of information and it might be too much for somebody who just you know we don't want to overwhelm people but the idea is that people working and coming across people okay I guess you're right that might have it and so that was the emphasis but you know we would like to see it around and about yeah I get you okay but definitely if you're involved in professionally in anything in this area you need to get your hands on this as well okay so it's just so well laid out I've presumed that it was for it's very useful okay and I think that you want to I was just going to say Greg on that like we do provide information packs to victims okay the guards when we call back to them within the seven days of an incident happening but the packs you know we say professionals but it's really anybody who is you know in a position a professional should have it yeah but like we generally we generally can choose to have a look but it'd be worth what a bit of professional should have that show we're talking hairdressers beauticians locksmiths you know like across the board any taxi drivers shopkeepers people that are interacting with people were looking to get involved like that do you know sort of to see something and say right I'm spotting something here there's red flags here that have read in this I'm going to contact the guards the people will be but I know it's about that should they be they shouldn't be but they may be but we as a part of our plan are going to go going forward are going to do briefings with people working in the community we're going to start in January with hairdressers and we're going to go from there just create an awareness and start the conversation again and again like I mean when we get these presentations like we will know if there's somebody in the audience that has as a victim you know they're presenting to work every day and we don't know what's happening behind closed doors you know and that goes across the board with every profession whether it's the guards the hairdressers somebody working on the hospital like we just nobody knows what's going on back home in closed doors okay and one of the things I think yes we do the trade in that people say is that they're worried about not making the situation worse? Do we say something that that will alienate the person or you know and I suppose the message we're putting out there it doesn't really matter like you know who it is that you're working with you're just having a conversation you know we're not asking you say anything you know highly you're not going to upset somebody you're just asking questions just making it routine just giving them a bit of information that's all you have to do you know so it's maybe that's another piece it's about breaking down what domestic abuse is it is a big issue and complex at one level but each little step can make a big difference yeah I get you it's important information anything else that you want to add? I suppose just for for victims who are at home listening today or who people that might think they know somebody that's a victim just to maybe you know to keep a record of what's happening within the home environment you know they can do it discreetly there's an online app called Bright Sky yeah that's that's we talked about that in the past that's quite useful for recording as well and stuff isn't it? yeah and that's and that's it's an excellent tool but but just if they can record notes because sometimes you'll find victims find that they might you know they'll they'll find they're losing their marbles because you know whereas if they're writing things down and maybe from one week to the next they're forgetting what happened because it may be because it requires control and somebody negatively influencing their thoughts and again like that if there's any witnesses to incidents just to keep records of that as well and that will all you know if they do ever get the courage then to come forward to the garrison at least they'll have a diary of events that have happened up until that okay you mentioned the out there bright because the last time we talked about this we've got quite a few calls afterwards people wondering where it's from it's bright sky Ireland it's available to download on the App Store FryOS or Google Play for for Android Siobhan anything you want to add before we wrap up? yeah I just want to add in relation to the sexual assault treatment unit yes for people that are experienced sexual abuse in their relationships or indeed on a one-off occasion that it is a free and a confidential service and it's available to all genders and they carry out at the statue they carry out medical legal examination and depending on the time frame of when the incident would have happened but they also provide health care and treatment of injuries and sexual health screening cervical screening and they would refer on to specialised services and cancelling services when required and I know that they have reported approximately an increase of 20% of people being victims of intimate partner violence attending to the statue services so and you know the information is in the booklet but it's online if you google and the number there for the statue 24-hour service as well okay right so and just finally to focus on the professional side of things I don't want to in any way muddy the water is the domestic abuse resource pack if there is a hairdresser's taxi or people that work with them any professional organisation like that that want to distribute it to the staff even I don't know how do they get hold of this pack either physically or online I'm sorry to repeat myself but I know people will call in afterwards asking again maybe perhaps try and put some of these in the the major guard of our stations because that's probably the place that people profess they may not know where the Sipsy office is or anywhere else so maybe well what Sipsy is so you know so the better the access the better so we can get it out to the communities and just to say as well our own resource line you know the help line is available not just for victims but for people who want information and support so again professionals can access that in order to get information and we also have copies of the resource pack that we can get out to people okay listen thank you very much all of you for calling in I really appreciate it you've been hearing from Superintendent Gretty Sheridan Inspector Siobhan Molochan and Dr Marie Haynes worth who's manager of the Donegal Domestic Violence Services if you need any numbers any clarification on any information there if you want to contact Marie even in terms of you know available accommodation anything like that at all or contact us our number is 0749125000 as well and we can pass that on because you might be very familiar with ours and we can sign post you to all what we've been talking about so far okay we'll be back with more on 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would have got if that call had been made I'm sure you have by the way I'm not questioning it for a second my daughter was in a really bad domestic violence situation and getting her to make a formal complaint was impossible and she still hasn't despite him leaving her indeed can I as a parent call to get advice on how to help her the answer to that is a clear yes that the key thing with the guard situation is and anyone can do that about anyone by the way is and it would help you because you're obviously carrying a very big burden there because the person that you brought into the world and love so dearly you're seeing them in a situation and you can't help and you feel helpless and that's a terrible burden on you as well and you have your concerns so yes you can ring the likes of Marie Haynes worth there at her centre or ring the guardie it doesn't trigger a chain of events and I think that's what people might be afraid of and it's the same when reporting when you're the victim of a sexual assault or sex crime it doesn't necessarily mean that you make that call and loads of things automatically happen ring these groups and organisations there are professionals at helping you steering your right direction giving you the right advice as mum or dad I'm not sure which you are in this scenario and make that call for sure definitely and I know you probably wanted to hear the experts say that but I know that's precisely what they would say if they were still here Greg in relation to Covid cases in my opinion there are two groups involved in the spread of virus first the people who won't take the vaccine and secondly the businesses that don't enforce the Covid surpass let's be honest none of us wanted the vaccine but for everyone's sake we took it I mentioned to a premises I was in at the weekend about not being asked for a cert the reply was most of their customers aren't vaccinated so that's why they don't ask we all have a responsibility to keep our hospital as free as we can there are a lot of people out there having their treatment postponed operations delayed this is a very serious situation and doesn't matter what government to Tony Hulind says it's our hospitals that can't cope and businesses who are not obeying rules should rethink indeed and I know what you're saying and rather than the vaccinated in vaccinated saying back and forward to one another wake up wake up you know all that nonsense that people are still going on about just think for yourself and say look regardless of give use on the vaccine people are catching something you might believe it Covid or you might believe it not and it's clogging up the hospitals and then you can talk about well you know that's because of generations of underfunding in our hospital services be that as it may it is where we're at now and whatever our belief is we can all do our bit to keep the pressure off the hospitals and I think that's kind of the thrust of what this caller is saying but there comes a point where our shared interest is what's happening in the hospitals rather than what our differences may be as it relates to government action or inaction or Covid or not Covid or whatever it might be you know we have a collective responsibility to think and look at the hospital and say what's going on there my friends coming from South Africa on holiday and he's in his 70s I was trying to get him insurance for car but no one will cover him any insurance company can you help so it's someone they're coming on holiday is it and they need temporary insurance is that it and you need to put them on as a name driver or something but you're having difficulties I wonder is it the licensing issue but if they were hiring a car there's ways around that isn't there I don't know it's an interesting one and just let us know are you trying to put them on your own insurance let us know because they're always in a car that's lying idle give us more details and I'll be best better equipped to be able to help get an answer a listener says that she identifies with the mother who was on the phone earlier about her son she too has a disability and where she is not a student she's tried to get a job all over letter Kenny but no one looks at the CV they only see the disability not fair at all another coach from the north coming into Donagawa has been stopped a couple of times for overcrowding and underage drinking however they're still in operation and still the same thing goes on how can they be allowed to continue to operate this service if this is the case I wonder is that a story that's been passed through a number of people I don't know but give us more details as well right I think that's where we have to leave it on the program unfortunately thanks to all of you who took part in the show if you watched or listened