 Is that what you're in about? Yeah. Is that a harmonica? What did you call it? But there's a different name for the harmonica. What did you call it? It's the French something. It doesn't sound like a harmonica to me. That is a harmonica. It doesn't sound like a harmonica. I know, Caroline. He needs his ears tested. Seriously, it doesn't sound like a harmonica. It's definitely not a saxophone. Harmonica's really annoying and then you... No, that's played, right? No, but you're here sucking and blowing. Yeah, what do you do? You see you get two different notes. Yeah, that's not a harmonica. You must have played. You must have done a bit of blowing in the past, is it? Do you know what I mean? I've never used harmonica in my life. Have you? No, but there's a different name for the harmonica. Is there? Mouth Organ. Mouth Organ. Yeah, nothing ever did that. It's just the Mouth Organ and the harmonica. They're two different ones. I was finding the very own hygienic. Put your spit in and suck it back out again. Have you seen? I've never sucked in that. You know what I mean. I know. How do you clean it out then? You just don't. No. You suck it all clean. Imagine picking it up a month afterwards. I'll get away. Yeah, it's been nice. Well, at least we've won around the house. Imagine you're in the pub, right? And I said, give us a... Throw it over there and I'll give you a tune. No. Don't go there. I don't even like sitting on a warm seat. Yeah, mine. I know. I actually genuinely... You were scolding me yesterday. Well, if you were sitting on... That's like a so-called leather chair. I saw a video on Facebook yesterday, one of these things about the staff and all that kind of crack. Caroline Orsey's Superficient, yeah. No, but you know I'm the most organised person here. No, you're not. Yeah, yeah. No, no, you're organised. I come in here. Yes, we perfect. Yeah. I am annoyingly organised. Yeah. Who has this studio set up for you so it's perfect? So you don't appreciate me, no one appreciates me? No, you don't appreciate what I do until I go away and hold it. Well, I took my hold of this off at the same time. Well, we take this outside, won't we? I'm going to bust you. All right, okay, four o'clock. All right, see you in a bit. It is The 9-Cle-Dune Show. Let's get a news update though first and say good morning, Miquela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Today marks 25 years since the OMA bomb. At 10 minutes past three on Saturday, August the 15th, 1998, a car bomb detonated in the town's centre, killing 29 people and unborn twins. A short private service will take place at OMA library this afternoon, while relatives will then lay flowers at the glass memorial that stands on the site of the bomb on Market Street. Meanwhile, the mass was held in St. Mary's Oratory last night, during which the three Bunkrana schoolboys, eight-year-old Orin Doherty and 12-year-old Sean McLaughlin and James Barker and two Spanish visitors staying in Donegal, killed in the explosion where remembered. The parish priest of Bunkrana, Father John Walsh, says the bomb was an attack on human dignity and a sign that those behind it hold human life in contempt. A bomb in OMA, for example, is a horrible intrusion on normality. It seems to be proclaiming with a sort of global contempt that in the final analysis, individuals are expendable and human beings don't matter at all. Father John Joe Doffey says while a tsunami hit Chrysler on October 7th last year, the community was lifted by a tidal wave of support. He was speaking as he led the National Avena at Nock Basilica last evening. An explosion at a shop in the village last year claimed the lives of 10 people with Father Doffey describing the initial scene as one of tremendous shock, horror and disbelief. He says it was a day that will never be forgotten. Chrysler is a small village that few heard of. However, that was changed through this cruel and unfair tragedy that befell us. But we are surviving and we are gaining strength and becoming stronger. Our hearts will never forget those who are taking from us. Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has described developments in relation to a leaked document from the PSNI as upsetting. An investigation is underway after a redacted version of the document containing the names of PSNI officers and staff was placed on a wall in West Belfast overnight on Monday. The sensitive information about all-serving officers was posted online in error last week. Bertie Ahern says it's a difficult situation to witness. What has happened, I just don't know. I don't get it how 10,000 people were all in one system, particularly high intelligence people. I don't know where that'll all come out in the wash, but it is very upsetting. Weather night today will be a bright day with sunny spells and scattered showers high as temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Are you suffering from dodgy internet connection? Symptoms include endless loading, embarrassing freeze face. There's a cure. Three home broadband in Ireland's fastest and most consistent 5G network. Get it free for the first three months and for only 39 euro per month after that. Plus, no setup costs. You don't want to miss this. Visit in store or 3.ie. 24 month minimum term. Subject to location and availability. Speeds may vary. Based on analysis by Utlov, speed test intelligence data Q3 to Q4 2022. The county's number one talk show. The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. Just four minutes past nine on this Tuesday morning, the 15th of August 2023. You're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 till noon show. I do hope you're very well indeed. Plenty coming up over the next three hours. Coming up after 10 o'clock, of course, community guard information where we'll bring you the latest appeals and information from on guard issue kind of that and so much more besides. So don't go anywhere. Your calls and comments welcome into us right now. WhatsApps and texts. If there's an issue you wish to raise, a topic you want to discuss, some information you wish to pass on. Or indeed if you want to play a request for someone special in your life. 08 660 25000 the WhatsApp and text number. You can also obviously text and WhatsApp us from outside the Republic. 0035 3866 25000. If you're listening in Derry to own Lanzarote, the Cayman Islands, we've got people all over the place. If you want to give us a call, of course, 07 491 25000. Same again, 0035 37491 25000. And any emails from anywhere also comments at HighlandRadio.com, right? The Donegal Democrat this morning, a man charged with murdering another man in Southwest Donegal has been remanded in custody with a book of evidence expected to be served next month. Allen Vile appeared at Letter Kenney District Court on Thursday afternoon via video link from Castle Reprism. The 38-year-old has been charged with the murder of Robert Wilkin, whose body was found floating in waters off Sleeve League on July 3rd. Vile's sister, Mr. Patsy Gallagher, set his client consented to the matter being adjourned to September 4th. On to the Nationals. We'll start with the mail this morning. Number of young adults still living at home almost doubled in the past decade. Do you have your adults? I was going to say your young ones, but it could be anyone now at this stage now. Do you have them back home? Do you have them living at home? Is it good? Is it working for you? Are you glad or the stage of your life where you would hope that they're out on the road and you have a little bit more privacy or independence or whatever you might call it? Well, more and more adults are living at home now. The scale of violence housing crisis is laid bare by new figures showing the number of young adults still living with their parents has almost doubled in the last decade and young men are less likely to leave the family home compared to their female counterparts according to new data from Eurostar. The latest figures show that 68% of Irish adults aged between 25 and 29 were still living at home last year. Now, is it truly because they can't get a property? Is it because they can't find somewhere to rent or are they enjoying home cooking? What's your experience? Maybe it's something that you're indifferent to. Maybe, as I say, it's something you're confused about or maybe it's something that you're quietly upset about. Feel free to share your views confidentially with us to 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Well, 68% of Irish adults, as I mentioned, aged between 25 and 29 were still living at home. That compares to an EU average of 42%, so it's 50% higher, not insignificant. For women in this age group, 61% have yet to move out while almost three-quarters, 74% of men have yet to fly the nest. However, a decade ago, just 36% of those aged 25 to 29 were still living with their parents. So, as I say, is that something that's working for you or something that you would like to see changed? Let us know. Share your views with us. The front of the Irish Times this morning. You just heard some commentary on this during the news bulletin. Police in Northern Ireland are confident the information released in last week's major data breach is in the hands of dissident Republicans. Simon Bern said yesterday it was now a planning assumption that they will use this list to generate fear and uncertainty as well as intimidate or target officers and staff he added. Now, all of these aren't based in Northern Ireland. I'm sure there are a number based in Donegal that aren't too happy with this information being released and are uncertain now about their security. The Police Service of Northern Ireland chief was speaking after data appearing to be from the leak was posted on a wall opposite the Sinn Fein office on the Falls Road in West Belfast. Sinn Fein, Mela Melae, Melae and policing board spokesperson Jerry Kelly said it compromised approximately three to four A4 pages of the leaked document but with the names of officers removed. On to the Irish Daily Men. A big crisis in teaching in this country and you know there was perhaps a summer to actively go out and go to these foreign destinations where so many of our young teachers are teaching now and say look come home we've got some full-time jobs for you here and maybe sweeten the package for them a little. I'm not sure if that happened or not but as it stands now we've got 1,200 teaching jobs vacant. This is unbelievable really when you think of it. School principals across the country are scrambling to fill almost as I mentioned 1,200 vacant teaching jobs just weeks before the new term begins. The recruitment crisis is particularly acute in Dublin where the high cost of housing and a shortage of supplies forcing teachers to leave the capital. New figures show there are now 1,170 vacancies at primary and second level nationwide with almost half of the on-staff teaching positions 528 in Dublin. Well they're not fleeing Dublin to find the jobs in the rural communities or they would be filled so they're going somewhere else. Principles say they are down to the wire as they frantically compete to try to fill posts. Karen Jordan of St. Catherine's National School in Dublin City said the teacher shortage is very real and is the worst I've seen it in my seven years as principal. I read these stories and then you chat to people out or they message you who are teachers struggling to get some permanency or to get positions and I always struggled to square that circle. Maybe if you're out there and that's relevant to you you might be able to share some information with us and give us an understanding or maybe that information is outdated now at this stage and there are simply more posts than there are teachers. We don't know the extent of vacancies in Donegal however. Let us see what should we go to next. The Irish Daily Star and former Minister Ivan Yates has weighed into the RTE controversy. He says he believes RTE will run out of cash by December and will be in need of a state bailout and the opinionated ex-minister as is described said the broadcaster was heading for a financial crisis because it has burrowed 95 million of its 100 million limit and fears for the 1,800 staff working there. The former Tonight Show host also weighed in on Ryan Toberty's potential return to the station saying he needs RTE more than RTE needs him admitting anyone can talk poo for an hour and I've said that on this programme before that is a slot that you could put a talking clock in and you would record two, three hundred thousand listeners and it's just the way it is. So I would agree with him, I don't often but I would agree with him that Ryan Toberty definitely needs RTE more than he or it needs him and also as I say, as I said in the show yesterday nothing against Mr. Toberty is probably a decent family man I'm sure he is actually. If they are looking to get rid of a toxic culture he has become that poster boy for it. For right or wrong it's just he's part of this whole controversy and I just don't see a way he eases back into that slot without that toxicity following him in there. Not to mention it's still not clear whether or not the staff that may feel unfairly treated would be very willing to work with him. Opening up about the RTE pay scandal Ivan said, I think the public are missing the point here with each passing week the whole debate about Ryan Toberty is deck chairs on the Titanic. It is now facing a cash shortfall of 50 million. I believe RTE is now technically insolvent. They were borrowing, they have borrowings of 95 million. But in, you know, there is a playing field out there that we're in, news talk are in, today FM are in they don't get any license fees, money and continuing to provide a service. I don't think that comment is going to make people feel sorry for RTE and want to pay their TV license if they have already decided that they don't want to. The Irish Sun today, it is time to manage the banks after they fail to pass on interest rate hikes to savers. The Chair of the Arctis Finance Committee has said Finaful TD John McGinnis suggested bank levy should be increased as a threat to the banks for not passing on hikes to savers fast enough. He also words the government to threaten the institutions with sanctions if they don't comply. What I don't understand this is maybe it's not in the gift of the government but why is no one calling for the vulture funds to be sanctioned and hit with heavy levees to try and offer better value or lower interest rates to Irish mortgage holders who are stuck with them and I mean particularly those who have defective concrete homes are the vulture funds beyond the scope of levees and if they aren't beyond the scope of levees why isn't the likes of the Chair of the Arctis Finance Committee not imploring the government to levy them to the point whereby they stop gouging people who are already going through an absolute nightmare. Now the problem the banks will say is if they and this is separate to the vulture funds the problem the banks will say is that they will argue that well if we we want to maintain our profits at some level so if we increase interest on savings we're going to have to start rolling out interest rate hikes on mortgages they have already but not to the level they possibly could so I hope in their actions that they don't hit those who are struggling to pay their mortgage in an attempt to get more interest rates for themselves on their savings because let's face it is there anyone in the doll that doesn't have significant savings that would benefit from an interest rate hike I would suggest not to say most of them must have or else they're not very good with their money we don't want we would just want to make sure that in their efforts to insist the banks do that that they don't then at the same time give the banks the free rein to increase further mortgage interest rates which will hit those that don't have the luxury of 100,000 euro plus salary so I just do hope they do get it right. The Irish Daily Mirror following on from story we read out yesterday they have the comments of a leading priest he said the church needs to urgently look at accepting female or married priests as existing clergy are dying on their feet because this out of Galway yesterday we heard that we've heard it from this county in this region as well there is a reduction the number of priests is falling and inevitably this is going to lead to issues in terms of funerals christings all that type of stuff and we have one priest here father Paddy Byrne saying that the church needs to the Catholic church needs to accept female or married priests is that something you would be in favour of have you had an issue with it now of course if you don't really care you're not a practicing Catholic or you're not a Catholic and you don't go to church it probably doesn't matter as much but if you are a regular church goer and you can see yourself things are changing is it time the church changed and said okay married priests and females should be able to do the job what do you think 08 60 25000 whatsapp and texts to that number or give us a call in 0749 1 25000 well father Paddy Byrne added this is nothing new or radical Pope Francis is asking us to embrace the signs of the times the port leash base cleric said the church must take accountability for the vocation crisis he added we have a responsibility to perhaps put up our hands to put our hands up as the church and say well actually unfortunately we got this point by we got to this point by failing to listen to the people on the ground I think though there is a very strong not a very strong there is a significant I don't know how strong it is or not group of people that says the church needs to be consolidated you know that if people aren't going or maybe it needs to be compacted stick to its laurels not bow or change or swerve to try and suit modern life that it sticks to its guns and if it becomes smaller so be it but it retains its 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mental health blogger and he joins us he will be joining us sorry shortly I beg your pardon we'll come back to darah in a moment but I'll get to some of your comments before we do from yesterday because the show was very busy yesterday and I didn't get to all of them a caller says there are people out there that let's see who is still a good person in this country and do the right thing I wish to God I had the money and would not even give it a second thought by giving this person her dream regarding with tattoos this listener says I'm sure back in the days before the David Beckham tattoo phenomenon had he stopped someone with a tattoo I'm sure he would have asked more questions from that person because image back then told stories in the mind but we're not back then things are different unfortunately regardless of the frequency of tattoos in the modern era present confrontational training would dictate that they can be antagonising regardless I know some fine individuals with tattoos but it is the individual customer person whom they deal with ps always remember man in the 60s with wringled faded tattoos wishing they'd never got them that comes in from off you know right that's one way of looking at it right back to more of those comments in the moment as I mentioned joining us is a digital communications and content lead with a lost for life and a mental health blogger good morning how are you getting on good morning good I'm doing good I'm doing good now we read the one in ten adults between the ages of 18 and 37 have been a victim of intimate image abuse according to a 2021 survey and it's increasingly happening more often to men this means it's likely that several people you know has had this happen but can't talk about it due to shame and stigma but Dara you found yourself in this position under this threat and you decided to take a different route tell us the background to the story yeah so it's about two weeks ago now I was basically made a victim of this and it came a bit because I was I matched someone on a dating app called hinge we're chatting just getting to know each other pictures were exchanged and then it was revealed that the person I was talking to wasn't the person I was talking to and it was actually a scam artist looking for two thousand euro in exchange for not leaking my photos which I refused to pay and block them on everything and eventually they left me alone and even in even since that's happened several people have gotten touched saying it's happening to them now it's happened to them in the past and you know looking for kind of advice on what to do and like it's not like I'm an expert and just bear my own experience but I think the main thing is to don't pay these people because as soon as you pay them they keep coming back asking for more and they bombard you with messages and they just kind of plague your existence and then yeah I guess for me because I didn't have control over the images anymore I wanted to take back some sort of control so that's why I started tweeting about it the tweets have subsequently kind of went viral a lot of people knew about it a lot of news organizations picked it up and now I've kind of become I suppose and not involuntary but like it just has happened that I am now talking about it publicly hopefully help people because a lot of people do end up taking their own lives and it can be very very traumatic and cause a lot of mental health problems so I'm just trying to talk about it as much as I can in the hope that we can help people get through what is an incredibly challenging experience before we get to how people deal with it if they find themselves in this situation has it given you pause for thought on sharing intimate images like are you advising people to think twice about that if you know what I mean I think it's an awful lot more common than people might imagine you know if you do it it might seem like the craziest thing anyone could do right but you know I'm sure a lot of people don't see it as a problem yeah I suppose it's a generational thing like anyone who's a millennial or Gen Z or below it's pretty much the most normal part of it is a normal part of dating in the modern world but I can understand it probably seems absolutely bizarre for anyone older than that but yeah like my learning is that I'm not going to be sending those types of images anymore and especially like you know you're sending them to people you think you can trust and then those people are betraying that trust so it doesn't come down to like oh I'm not sending them to the wrong people I'm just not sending them to people because there's no point in taking that risk anymore not that I would say it's my fault that they've been leaked because you know the crime was committed against me it's the person's fault but at the same time you can lower the risk by not sending them do you think the scammer ever has or has any intention ever in these cases of actually releasing the images or do they presume that they hit on people maybe they're in a relationship maybe they're a member of the Guardian maybe they're a judge or maybe they're just incredibly shy do you think that they're banking on people not taking the risk like do you think that these scammers actually do publish these photos I presume they end up posted somewhere but you know as part of this blackmail scam I imagine in certain contexts they do but I'd say like this one felt very much like because the man in question was based in Nigeria that it's a scam firm like and I've been thinking a bit and having conversations a lot and what I've kind of concluded is that leaking the pictures actually is bad for business for want of a better phrase because if it becomes very normal for people's nudes to be leaked online then we'd be seeing people's nudes left right and centre and that would make it normal for people's nudes to be leaked which would take the sting out of the threat of leaking them because it'd be like oh there's nudes were leaked and nothing bad happened to him so if minor leaked it'll be fine and then people won't be paying it's the threat that has the power and that's when people pay but if it becomes a thing where nudes are being leaked all the time then that threat won't have the same power what was the nature of the exchanges you know in the early stages so obviously once they had obtained these intimate photos of you do you believe the sort of the language from there was automated or was it someone you know ranking or ramping up the threat to try and get you to pay did that play out the back and forth before you eventually blocked them so like after they got the images say well it was quite sinister like so they text me the images on Snapchat and they said I had 10 seconds to tell them to stop and then they quite condescendingly started kending down from 10 in text so I told them to stop and then this person actually rang me via Snapchat from the you know the girls snapped out of it I thought it was texting and it was a man's voice and he said you have it really nice in Ireland you have nice jobs you have good money I want some of that money it's not that good here in Nigeria then I said that's not my fault why are you making me the victim of this and then he said you're going to pay 2000 I said I don't have 2000 euro he asked me how much I got for it I said 500 he started laughing that's not enough then he asked me if I had bitcoin I said no then he was quite annoyed at this he was like how long do you have bitcoin I just said I just don't have bitcoin and then he said okay you're going to have to get bitcoin and you're going to have to download this app and once he started saying that I hung up and he rang back immediately and was very angry he was like why do you hang up on me don't hang up on me again and I said oh I thought you told me to hang up on you then he started going on a bit some app again I blocked him again then I blocked him on Snapchat then he messaged me through Instagram from a burner account saying I'll reduce the price to 500 your photos are being uploaded now this is your last chance let's settle this with peace I don't want to ruin your life be a good man do the right thing and then I blocked him again and that was kind of the last I heard from him now I have subsequently heard of people who had paid the initial fee and when that happens they're fair more invasive like they've messaged you off well they've got they've got to hold you at that point because they know that you're and was there ever a price that you would have paid early on I mean obviously it's been a whole learning process since but at the beginning if he just said 50 euro would you send did I wonder like when he said 2000 then I came to offer it with 500 he said yes to that because of the panic I was feeling the walls were closing in I probably would have paid that and that would have been a terrible mistake to make so it was lucky that he said 500 was okay maybe like 40 minutes after your initial contact because I had calmed down a bit and I could kind of start thinking again so yeah 500 I probably would have paid because I could have afforded it it was just at his price point that I couldn't have afforded it anyway so I was lucky in that sense like it wasn't this level headed I knew exactly what I was doing move it was very much a I just can't afford this price yeah so Dara obviously you've used this opportunity you took the decision to go public with it but in this day and age as well that in and of itself puts you out there and you know there's a lot you talked about anonymity there's a lot of anonymous accounts out there and social media and what have you what has been the the the response I mean obviously you've been platformed and you've had the opportunity to get the information out there and I think that's really good but as it exposed you to any other elements of of social media that you weren't expecting like people say no it's your fault or nasty messages or whatever have you received any of that yeah like for to be fair for the most part it has been extremely positive and supportive and people reaching out to see if I'm okay there has been elements of shaming sometimes from trolls sometimes from real people the editor of the Irish Medical Times for one was shaming me publicly on Twitter and what's probably the most surprising is that a lot of young women have been shaming me and telling me it's my own fault and victim blaming and that that's surprising just in the context of the world we live in where we're very much against victim blaming when it comes to sexual assault against women as we should be but there are you know and like not a majority of young women by any means but a certain amount of young women have been victim blaming me for this happening which just seems inappropriate in the world we live in now so it does happen I mean I knew when I was going public it would happen like anything you put on social media there are going to be a lot of people who are on your side and there are going to be some people who it's just a very very complicated world now there's just no right wrong black white whatever way you want to describe it's just you know you put it out there you put yourself out there on any subject and there will be those that try and take you down okay Daryl listen thanks for your time this morning I do appreciate it I hope you're getting on okay and hopefully these images don't pop up anyway because it's your own you know private self and it wouldn't be nice for anyone alright take care of yourself Daryl Fleming there digital communications and content lead with a lost for life and mental health blogger 0866 to 25,000 whatsapps and text to that number on that issue maybe you've been a victim of such a scam it'd be hard to know what to do in that situation there was a point he says yeah I would have paid right back to the issue of tattoos and guardian tattoos are a sign of low intelligence please a listener I'm sure that's not the case at all another totally agree tattoos a yuck hidden under clothes is one thing but will I take a guard serious if he had tattoos all over his face would I feel safe he came to my door not sure he would I think the tattoos over the face thing is maybe you know you don't see that very often it is very very rare but we were kind of talking more about tattoos on the forearms as far as I'm aware Erlingus don't allow tattoos on cabin crew apparently Erlingus now recently have only just done away with has only just done away with being able to compel women to wear high heels a caller says the reason we shouldn't feed seagulls we had a text in yesterday that says look and reference the bible and saying it's good to feed seagulls you should do it this caller says the reason we shouldn't feed seagulls is because it's rewarding unwanted behaviour what gets rewarded is repeated so the seagulls will congregate around areas where people have fed them before in built up tourist locations this can be very off putting seagulls will also adapt and start stealing food from people and indeed I've seen the tiktoks a caller says on the subject of the increase of drink costs spas are now charging 350 for a bottle of water 350 for a bottle of water but I suppose it's not just the water you're paying for it's the service it's the light it's the heat it's the seat maybe it's the music I'm not saying that is I'm not saying I agree with it fully but I'm saying that's the argument that might be made hi Greg went out for a night during a festival couldn't believe the expensive drink out one euro fifty sorry a hundred and fifty euro gone and nothing to show for it not even a hangover I'll be drinking at home from now on thanks Mary loving your show as usual thank you very much indeed Greg did my hgv test in the town years ago now when someone says in the town you know they're talking about Ladder Kenny this is the only town that exists so I'm looking at Caroline in the town no I go to different towns not sorry Caroline sorry but anyway that's fine it's not something bothers me at all hi Greg did my hgv test in Ladder Kenny years ago and coming down from Gautley Brait Oakfield roundabout there's a yellow box traffic was stopped at the red light and I came down and nicely took an ok back to the test centre sorry took it nicely and then trucked back to the test centre I failed because I didn't stop first before moving off because the stop sign was turned sideways to me and I didn't see it wrote to council about this but no response and didn't even fix the sign got it hi Greg typically the excise duty on a pint of 43% ABV beer is 54% the minister and non-alcoholic beer is not liable for any excise duty alcohol beverages are subject to the standard rate of that currently 23% the profit made on non-alcohol drinks is massive thank you for that puts a bit more meat on the bone 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One where a candidate would be required to provide a list of people who could be co-opted to fill a vacancy should it arise. Such a system is an operation for European elections and bringing into the dull elections would remove the need for by-elections, Mr O'Brien told the Commission. Let's get Declan Meehan's views. He's a former candidate in the local council elections. What do you think? Are you of the view that, good morning, sorry, Declan, I've lost my manners. How are you? Good. Thank you. Good to have you on the programme. Thank you. Right, OK. There's one of those switches that is on and the other three are off behind you and it's doing my head in. But anyway, OK. OK. Thank you. Sorry, for most people in radio land don't want to know about, Declan's joining me via video. All right. What's your view on scrapping by-elections? Look, I mean, I'd be opposed to it. My opinion is very much that by-elections are a crucial part of our democratic process. When a vacancy arises in the dull, the normal course of action is for a by-election to be held. We've seen examples of when government delay as much as possible at times, the time in which to hold the by-election, usually because they're worried that they won't be able to hold the seat if the vacancy that's arisen comes from a government TD. Over the past 10 years, there's been 11 by-elections and nine of them have gone to opposition parties and two have been held by the government parties of the day. So I guess you would expect it to come from a government party, particularly maybe from Minister Dara O'Brien, trying to scrap by-elections. But I think that throwing by-elections out and replacing with an alternative list system devalues the electorate's participation in the democratic process. Yeah. And it's kind of an interesting thing to even propose. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't think it does the minister any suggestions by even putting this forward because particularly if someone loses a seat in controversial circumstances, you know, the public will want to have their say and maybe, you know, punish them for that rather than seeing someone perhaps with the same moral compass and political ideology just slide into that. It doesn't sound democratic to me. No, absolutely not. I mean, it would be unthinkable that in a dull by-election where someone had to resign because of corruption, scandal or misconduct, that someone else from that party would be able to hold onto that seat regardless. I mean, by-elections are a great barometer and a great measure of how an electorate thinks within a constituency and it's their opportunity to react to changing circumstances from the last general election. So again, by-elections are crucially important for that reason. So what's your view and I mean, obviously we can't have by-elections at council level. Do you have any views on the whole co-option process? Because that too can be interesting in that, you know, someone who is stepping down by choice might do it a year out from election to get someone in to give them a year at it and then they can stand for election themselves. I know it really is kind of a separate issue, but it kind of is similar at the same time as well. Do you think maybe what we see at council level is a perfect example as to why we need to retain by-elections at national level? I do, yeah. I think co-option I think is a very, I suppose, cynically practical kind of a measure in terms of council by-elections, but it kind of speaks the volume that central government doesn't really value council elections in the same way that it does to all elections. And yet they're very important for local government. And so when we have a co-option system in place, while I suppose it saves the electorate and the taxpayer money in terms of not having to run an election on a small scale within an electoral area to replace someone on the county council or city councils, it still kind of devalues, again, the kind of democratic process whereby the custom is simply to allow the family of the person who's resigning, particularly after a death, to put someone forward, to take that seat and said, and all parties including independence kind of buy into that system of co-option whereby it has to be obviously voted on by the entire council. But, I mean, by-elections would be ideal in that situation. I mean, we see it in the European Parliament, that's probably the system at the minute where there's an alternative list, which is what Dara Bryan suggesting that the Commission look into for all elections. So, most recent example would be when Ray McGinnis moved into her commissioner role and Colin Markey was on her alternate list, but the people weren't afforded an opportunity to vote on that. And that's a very, very high profile and a very important position at the European Parliament level. And I think what's interesting about that, too, is there's great efforts being made by MEPs and staff in certain areas, all over the place, sorry, to try and talk about the importance of Europe, and that's counterintuitive because it's like, well, how can we can't be that important if you just airdrop someone into a visit? You know what I mean? But then again, they might be concerned as to how many people might turn out for a by-election and how much you might cast. But, I mean, how many people turn out for a by-election is up to the people. I mean, that's exactly it. That's, I mean, 37% of voters didn't turn up for the 2020 election. And that was their choice to do so. And that's also part of the democratic process is turnout. And as you say, you know, there's been great strides made and great efforts by MEPs and by European institutions to try and address the democratic deficit where people don't feel a direct link to the European Parliament. And the European Parliament now has an enhanced role within the mechanisms of the EU. And yet to not have a by-election when a vacancy arises sort of diminishes that and kind of undoes that good work and the people are trying to and have been trying to undo over the past number of years. So I think it really is about the people's connection to the democratic institutions. So Minister Dara Brown and his suggestion for looking into scrapping by-elections to the doll would be a most unwelcome development in this area. They're also going to be looking at lowering the voting age. Do you have a view on that? Yeah, I mean, the voting age, this is something that's been going on for years. As far back as 2013, the one of the first constitutional conventions recommended that a referendum be held so that people could decide whether or not to lower the voting age to 16. Another constitutional convention, Citizens Assembly in 2018 voted by 80% to lower the age to 16. There's been a number of moves. There's been a number of private members bills, both in the shadow and the doll from Sinn Féin senators and also from Donnie Gauze and Thomas Pringle to lower the voting age and to have a referendum based on those constitutional convention and Citizens Assembly reports. The European Parliament also passed a report back in 2015 to lower the age to 16 for European parliamentary elections. And the whole idea behind that is to engage younger voters sooner rather than later. I always feel declin that that conversation really comes down to, you know, parties or individuals that might benefit from the votes of the 16 and 17 year olds, because they might be maybe more liberal or they might be, you know, and then those that maybe would seek out a more conservative vote afraid that that could be damaging to them. I don't recall ever having a or hearing a debate on, you know, the benefits or negatives outside of that, if that makes sense, you know, and what it might do or what how it might change the political landscape or what what might come from it or what might be the advantage or indeed what might be the disadvantage. Have we ever really had that debate outside as to who might benefit from this cohort voting? Not really. I mean, National Youth Council of Ireland have done a lot of work on this and it's been kind of a policy of theirs past 10, if not 15 years to campaign for a lower voting age to 16. And their, I suppose, reasons for campaigning for that are that, you know, a lot of the decisions that are taken in terms of taxation, benefits, whatever else, you know, they're going to impact 16 and 17 year olds for maybe 10 and 20 years to look at the bank bailouts, for example, which impacts all of us for such a long time, and people who weren't able to vote at that stage. And so it's about giving people a voice on issues that will affect them. The other argument to be made is that, you know, you're able to have a family from the age of 16 and to get married, and you're able to consent to medical procedures. You're also able to engage in employment. So, you know, I guess the reason or, you know, why not? Why shouldn't they be able to vote at that stage? I guess there is obviously a conservatism within the established parties around lowering that age, because you look at any polls and you'll see that Finnegale and Finnafall are not very popular with the under 30s, never mind the under 18s. So you can imagine why there might be medicines there to changes. But this particular thing that's been asked of the Electoral Commission to look into under the voting age was actually a green initiative on the programme for government. So again, I guess you see that this is the nature of coalition government. You have a number of tasks being put forward for the Electoral Commission to research and consider, and they come from different ends of the spectrum within that coalition. Yeah, I'd say nothing will change and they'll just have a chat. But anyway, it gives us an opportunity to have a chat. Declan, thanks very much for your time. Thank you very much. Have a lovely day. Take care of yourself. Okay, that is Declan Mehan there, who was a former candidate in the local council elections. So A, do you believe by elections should be scrapped in favour of a list system? And B, would you like to see 16 and 17 year olds get a vote? Oh, 86, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. Greg, real local elections, do you realise that to check if you are still registered to vote that you have to insert your PPS number to get access? Is this not just another way of bringing us closer to a national ID card? The PPS number is supposed to only be used by the Department of Social Protection, although they've called it destruction and I suspect it is not a typo. I find it hard to comment on that or whatever I'll throw it out there because I don't really, I had to get one of those national ID cards for something or other. I don't know what it was, which involved your PPS numbers on it. And I don't really, I don't I don't really have a great protection of my PPS number. So I don't really get the concern about your PPS number or a national ID card. For an example, I just I don't have a concern about that. So it's hard for me to. So just throw it out to the listeners and see if you agree or disagree. A call to say simply Greg, yes, there should be by elections held. Now, can anyone answer the question as to why these people cannot be deported after completing their sentence? And that goes for anyone who's given asylum and then breaks the law in America. Awesome lot of other countries you would be deported after serving your sentence, this would be a great deterrent. Another that fella is sending nude photos in the first place is all what is wrong with societies. These dating sites are rotten. And just as it relates to that first text, the person, if you're referring to this sexed ocean, they were not living in this country. They were outside the country. Regarding tattoos, I often wonder why people feel the need to deface their own bodies. Is it an indication of low self esteem? Personally, I think tattoos are ugly are and are in no way attractive. I understand that some people like them, but some of us are equally entitled not to like them. And you do that really, I suppose by not putting them on your body, rather than maybe criticising other people or questioning their self esteem. And I mean that with absolute respect, but that's what personal choice isn't that you decide what you put on your body or you don't. But if someone decides to have a tattoo, free choice, then it's not you sort of saying, well, you're doing it because you've got low self esteem. But anyway, it is well known that parental alienation contributes up to 10% of Irish suicide. So why are there no special services to help them? Another caller says in my uneducated opinion, I can't see the misogyny of the Catholic Church ever allowing female priests. Sure, weren't the 12 apostles all men, according to the four men whose gospels are used at every mass. And yes, I'm a practicing Catholic. That comes in from Rita. Rita, great to have you on board. Thank you so much for your comment this morning. A caller says, as it relates to where are the Guardi, I think we've the fourth, fifth highest rate of Guardi in Donnie Galper head of population. A caller says Guardi are obviously behind desks or in cars. They're not on the beach. The strategy of this government is that Guardi react to incidences by looking for camera footage and the population to supply evidence to them. That comes in from Daniel. In my opinion, southern media are slow to report or not at all on sectarian abuse by banned members parading in the north, brush it under the carpet effort perhaps. Certainly not the case here. If someone rings in or sends a text in or what have you wants to discuss that we discuss it, and I believe the instant of them correct that you're referring to was covered on the news here. Hi, Greg. Good to have you back. Thank you. It's great to be back concerning DBS. As anyone who has this is defective block scheme, as anyone who has had application number applied and preceded through scheme being contacted by council regarding the enhanced scheme, surely there should be informing us all on what the next stage will need require. The scheme has gone backwards by five years in this callers opinion. It's like snakes and ladders. Keep the pressure on lad. You're our only voice. Well, as much as I can do, I will do. All right, let's take a quick break. The 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges. Letter Kenny credit union 9102127 The world awaits you. Make that dream your next adventure. 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You can choose from their quality product range and a relaxed atmosphere and their sales staff will be happy to help you make the right choice. Whatever the occasion, Armaculloch Eulers making moments magical for generations. A caller asks how did RTE run up debts of 90 million was the no oversight of their spending or the competence of default? Surely the crazy salaries being paid to third rate presenters was a cause for concern. The director general seems to have had an open checkbook now that the crows have come home to roost. She has like the swallows flown off to Sonia Climes with a suitcase full of our license fee money. She won't be getting any more of mine. I agree that RTE does not need Ryan Tauberty. If the test card was being shown for those two hours, it would be the most watched program of the week. OK, Morade joins us on the program now. Hi, Morade. How are you keeping? Good. Thank you, Greg. Now, your daughter and I've I've been through this myself over the course of the last six or seven months. Your daughter was due to get a driving test in June, then it slipped back to July, then it was August. She's checked again, the estimator, and now it's September. It's a nightmare, isn't it? Yeah, it's a nightmare. And just I don't know, has anybody else got this problem? I was talking to the driving instructor and they say that there is no one's driving people doing the tests now in letter. Can I get them on it? They're off the past two weeks and they're waiting on somebody and it's going to be another seven weeks. Just we don't respond to college. There's no public transport to us. It's going to be two and a half hour drive for me during the Sunday evening. Take her there. Two and a half hours then for me to come back. Then again, maybe on a Thursday evening or Friday. Just wondering, is there anybody else in the same boat that's waiting away on Perth and can't get it? And it puts a lot of pressure. It puts extra pressure on her as well, the pressure to pass, you know, with every month that slips by. I know Lee, my son's in his case. It went from May, June and eventually he sat the test in late July. Have you considered switching test centers? I wonder, does that work? I mean, obviously, Laura Kenny, there'd be huge demand. Have you considered Donegal Town or Boncran or maybe if you did switch, you'd go to the back of the list. We don't know. Maybe that's what listeners can help us with today. Yeah, I don't know. Just in driving a structure said that she thinks that there's, um, the things that there's a weapon of everywhere at the minute, as opposed to say that there are a state of like that, but that's a thing. Um, just. I suppose we'll just fair up waiting. Yeah, for sure. Every time you go in and you look, um, and it's another date. So that's just all just about it. And I'm sure she's ready to go. And you'd be very keen to see her driving because you say you're in rural Donegal. She's going to college in Cavern. There's no boss route, and that would mean a great deal of inconvenience for both you and her. So I'm worried we'll put it out to the listeners. See what they have to say. If anyone's got any advice. But it is a bit of a nightmare situation, and I hope it gets resolved soon. Thanks for your time this morning. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye-bye, some rage. Thank you for your time this morning. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Research by some rates, doğ was to get her driving test in June later Kenny. Then it went to July. Then it went to August. Now they've checked the estimator, and it is a September, and the door needs the car to head to college in Cavern. For obvious reasons, there's no local transport there. Right a caller says I am a Catholic all my life, but the Catholic church is the most corrupt religion in the world. All they care about is money, money, money. money money money and most of the parish priests still think they rule the people of their parish and this is taking place. Why? Because of the people they have in their committees. All of those people are yes people. Is that fair? I've never really come across that much myself now. I'm not saying I'm a regular attendee. Don't get me wrong, but that wouldn't necessarily be a church that I recognize. Okay, we want your views on that and everything else of course that we're discussing this morning or indeed for you to raise your own issues. Oh, eight, six, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number or give us a call at 07491 25,000. It is the Ninthal Noon Show. We'll be back with the next hour after we take a break for the news and obituary notices. The Ninthal Noon Show is brought to you by Lettercanny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. 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Relatives of the victims of the Omer bombing will lay flyers at the site of the blast in the town this afternoon. Today marks 25 years since a 500 pound car bomb detonated in the town centre, killing 29 people and unborn twins. A mass was held in St Mary's Oratory last night during which the three Bunkranna school boys, 8-year-old Oran Doherty and 12-year-olds Sean McLaughlin and James Barker and two Spanish visitors staying in Donegal killed in the explosion where remembered. The parish priest of Bunkranna, father John Walsh during his homely, says a bomb is an attack on human dignity and a sign that those behind it hold human life in contempt. A bomb in Omer, for example, is a horrible intrusion on normality. It seems to be proclaiming with a sort of global contempt that in the final analysis individuals are expendable and human beings don't matter at all. Father John Joe Doffey says while a tsunami hit Creasel on October the 7th last year, the community was lifted by a tidal wave of off-support. He was speaking as he led the National Novena at Nock Basilica last evening. An explosion at a shop in the village last year claimed the lives of 10 people, with Father Doffey describing the initial scene as one of tremendous shock, horror and disbelief. He says it was a day that will never be forgotten. Creasel is a small village that few heard of. However, that was changed through this cruel and unfair tragedy that befell us. But we are surviving and we are gaining strength and becoming stronger. Our hearts will never forget those who are taking from us. Teachers are calling on the education minister to overhaul the profession to attract more people into the job. The Association of Secondary Teachers in Arlington says 81% of principals or deputy principals have hired an unqualified teacher in the last year. There are at least 416 vacant teaching jobs in secondary schools across the country. The ASTIs Kieran Christie is calling for action from Minister Foley. What's needed now from the minister is a strong structured and fundamental change of mindset that will solve this problem, maybe not in the next week but certainly in the coming couple of years. A woman remains in hospital following an incident involving a cyclist and a pedestrian in Derry last night. It's unclear what the incident involved but it occurred at around 2210 and police say access to the area was restricted as they and the ambulance service attended the scene on Belt Road in the waterside area. The female pedestrian was walking with her dog at the time and was taken to hospital for treatment to injury sustained where she remains at this time. Police are appealing for witnesses or any motorist who may have dashcam footage to contact them. Mackerel scanners are to be installed in processing plants in Kili Beggs as part of an international scientific initiative. Final information will then be gathered to help inform the management of North East Atlantic Mackerel. Ellen Butler has more. BIM is working in collaboration with the Marine Institute and Pelagic Fishers and Processors to install Mackerel scanners in processing plants in Kili Beggs. Two tagging units installed in Kili Beggs at the end of last year are already capturing important data. Dr Andrew Campbell, Pelagic Fisheries Team Lead, Marine Institute says in total 66 tagged fish have been detected to date and he's hopeful that more valuable tag return data will be generated from the Irish Mackerel fishery as more scanning units are installed. Mackerel's worth to Ireland was valued at 95 million euro in 2022. Weather night today will be a bright day with sunny spells and scattered showers, highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees. That's all from Highland video news for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The obituary notice sits for this Tuesday morning, August the 15th. The death has taken place of Ann Mungin, 25 Casio Park listening in Letter Kenney. Remains will repose at the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest, Carnamuga Letter Kenney where you may pay your respects to more from half past four until half past six. Removal after to the Church of the Irish Martyrs, Gortley Letter Kenney, to arrive at 7 o'clock and to repose overnight. Puno mass on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. Burial afterwards in New Lex Cemetery. Puno mass can be viewed on the Church of the Irish Martyrs YouTube channel. Donations if desired to the Donegal Hospice, care of Patrick Sweeney Funal Directors. The death has taken place of Patrick Mellon, 17 Aunt Shruhan, Remelton, Coventry, England, and the Moe County, Taroan. Patrick means are opposing at his late residence. Puno from there to more afternoon for Requiem mass in St Mary's Church, Remelton at half past two while by interment in Tully Cemetery. House private to family please before the funeral tomorrow. Puno mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member. The death has taken place of Yuna McLaughlin, late of oct, Chur Moth Donegal. Remains reposing at his parents' home, 11 Carnaby and Road, Dunkiven. Puno from his parents' home to more morning leaving at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock Requiem mass in St Joseph's Church, Bannerhur, interment immediately afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if wished in lieu to the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, care of McLaughlin, Funal Directors, Dunkiven. The death has taken place of James McFadden, 14 Chestnut Grove, Remelton. Remains are opposing at his home. Funal mass to more morning at 11 o'clock in St Mary's Church, Remelton burial afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery. Funal mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv. Family time before the funeral tomorrow. Family flowers only. Donations if desired to the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland, care of any family member. On the death has taken place of Breed McGinley, of Main Street, Dunfana He. Wake is taking place at her home. Funal mass in Holy Cross Church Dunfana He today at 12 noon, with burial afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery. Mass can be viewed live on MCNMedia.tv. Family time until 11 o'clock. Family flowers only. Please donate in lieu to the Lake Heights Comfort Fund, care of any family member, Argeums Harkin, Funal Director. For more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals, please go to HighlandVideo.com. Fuel your day, the happy pairway. 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I live in an estate and the estate next door runs to the back of my garden. They've got a dog which they let out at about nine in the evening and it goes mad barking. This is the time when I'm just putting my kids to bed and it's driving me crazy and making bedtime routine impossible. Is there any laws around this talking to the owners? It's not an option, they believe. Have you had a similar situation like this in the past? And this does come up from time to time and people have messaged in on this issue during our legal slot with Seamus. I don't know what role the council or dog warden has in this but I do understand exactly what it must be like when you're trying to establish a nighttime routine for young ones in the house and this barking starts every night. I wonder, is there any way you could maybe drop a letter into the house rather than confronting them? Say, look, I live close to you, I've got young children, your dog barks every night. Is that an option? But outside of that, outside of appealing to their better judgment, is there any realistic option open to them that perhaps maybe avoids direct confrontation? I'm not saying that that's what they want to avoid but the tone of the message suggests that. Hi Greg, just wondering when is the new canty manager expected to be announced? The club championships about to start surely an appointment should be expected before this starts. We know Jim is strongly linked, however that's only your rumour at the moment. I wouldn't put any money on that. I'm not sure I didn't get to listen to the DL debate live last night. I know that's something they were discussing and there would have been a good insight in that but I'll send out a few texts and see if we can get an answer for you. A caller says, I had to wait four months for my driving test. It's a disgrace there should be made resources available to improve this. Well they are promising extra testers to cut these waiting lists and that might be good for people in the future if it comes to pass but there are those waiting now and it is very complicated when you can't drive particularly in rural Ireland that what happens into the future is of no comfort to them right now. Morning Greg, I don't agree with 16 year olds being allowed to vote. They haven't enough knowledge of life and I don't mean that disrespectful to our young. Lots of young have completed their leaving search and don't really know what they want to do so don't see how they can decide at 16 as to who or how our country should be run. Stick with 18 in my opinion. I'm not being smart or facetious or whatever. I'm literally putting this out here as a genuine point of view. There are those that would say it's been left to adults 18 plus for quite some time now and what has the outcome of that been? You know, could it get some might say I'm not saying it. Some might say could it get any worse if 16 and 17 year olds had their say maybe it's their knowledge that might change the direction of the country if you feel it's not going into the right direction and I'm just throwing that out there as a not even a counter view as a further point of discussion. I just say just a message to say the O'Doherty's Keep in Swan's Park Boncran is up for sale and would make a great museum so Donagall County Council please don't miss out on buying it up. I think later on in the show we're going to hear from someone who believes that the gold fund we should be put together to try and keep that in public ownership or out of private hands. Stay with us. Great numbers attended mass celebrated by Father Sean Doherty in St Newton's Cathedral letter Kelly last night such a beautiful special evening. Faith is strong and quite evident to see when so many of all ages queued to receive Father Sean's blessing well done and sincere thanks to all involved in organizing arrangements so those presents had an opportunity to be present on a very special gathering that comes in from Kathleen in letter Kenny and finally just before we take the bingo numbers I want to give a mention to a convoy community family fonday. 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year because um we're looking at a 38 38% increase in accommodation fraud last year compared to 2021 and uh this is the time of year it happens august and september people are mad looking for accommodation 50 of the victims are on their days of 25 and 55 of them are female that was supposed the ladies are more organized than the males and a lot of times and again half of this crime occurs in dublin uh but you know we've a lot of money being taken um over two millions stolen in accommodation fraud over the last five years so like it's significant plus it's not just a monetary cost as well it's you have the whole thing of the uncertainty then and trying where am i going to stay and distances and all that and we've heard and and you know you're probably aware of it yourself of people traveling daily on the bus from letter kenny to dublin to go to college like it's it's unbelievable so i mean they're able to to tap into people's desperation and panic as well so how generally speaking does the fraud work or what are the red flags well they'll not be able to show you the property as such to pay the deposit and you'll lose the deposit um what'll happen then is people start to panic they don't think to look at this address simple check like on google maps what does the place look like to ask the person who's doing the rent and what services are nearby where's the local supermarkets that sort of thing and they blindly pay over the money uh young people do a lot on over their phones and all of that using revolute in the different financial platforms and that suits the fraudster as such because they can make off they probably aren't even in the country um and the messages will basically only come through uh messenger or whatsapp and all that you know there'll be that degree of distance between the interface between the person looking for the accommodation and the person saying they're going to provide but to all intents and purposes until it becomes clear that the property does not exist or is not available or the person has no connection to it the fraudster uh it it will seem like a regularly normal transaction transaction yeah and like what we would be saying or the advice would be to do your research use the recognize letting agencies um talk to your college or your students union who will guide you there uh and be careful of cloned websites ensure they're real check the url and that sort of thing uh know your rights and um if you've decided if you decide then to take up the accommodation use only trusted money transfer systems like paypal or something like that because it's the same as buying something on ebay if you get in if you're involved with an auction or purchase and well particularly may be an auction and if some experience of this and then the person context you and said well look at i'll take a bit less you know we'll do the deal between ourselves you've lost the protection of the the the money transfer system then and you're really at the loss and i think really our geography uh works as a disadvantage to us because you know people might say they might say to you listen you don't need to come and see this perfect i'll send you some pictures of the inside you know and because it's a probably an eight-hour round trip in some cases you go right okay that will do again that they can exploit that the can and and you know we would recommend that you use a credit card where possible because there's protections within that never agree to rent a property without having an opportunity to use it checking that the key keys work that you have proper details uh the rtb the residential tenancies board are people who provide back up here and again as i said looking for the exact address and you know i'm reminded to a company over in the southwest of the company county um when there was a bit of a famine there for containers you know metal containers kind of post-covid uh and they purchased three containers i think it was about four grand a piece ending in the uk and sent their money off and everything and then they got on to us and the business owner knew me personally and i can't explain the first thing it is can you send me the address and into the address and the address was a three-bedroom semi-detached house in some part of long you know and he said i've never even thought of that yeah you know simple stuff but i mean if you can't get down to view the property have a key in your hand turn the lock there's something serious you miss i mean that's a to request that and not be allowed yourself well we've got other people coming today and they might you know that's what they'll do the pressure as you in that it's all this intense pressure social and engineering at its best and you know like really most people that live in dunningall know somebody in dublin that maybe even could do a drive-by of the place and say what does it look like is it well kept what color is the front door you know a simple question like that you know is there a letterbox on the door something that would tie and where's the closest supermarket super value Aldi little that sort of stuff you know so like basically it's just look at buy everywhere and if it seems too good to be through it normally is yeah okay so you can employ the likes of google maps the rtb.ie you would hope it is that registered if they're not registered with the residents tenancy board that would be a red flag and yeah like and i know from being a college the students union are great they know and you know that this is relevant to letter Kenny as well because we have a lot of people coming today to you know as well and you have these fraudsters who might not even be in the country to use that and we had one with a similarly with a caller earlier on who was being blackmailed for nude images and the presumption was that this person doing it was in arland of it's all remote now i mean that could be anywhere there was a house in dunningall that was put up for an airbnb on facebook market you know and loads and loads of people both north and south lost money that the property simply didn't exist it was a picture of a house in west dunningall and they stated it was in russia so because of the remote nature of things now it can be anywhere it can be anywhere and it's a very good point point you know that these people most likely won't be in the country they're doing it remotely you can work for a minute and we've had the antidotal stories of people buying cars and going and it's not and it actually happened myself one time i went to london to buy a car and the car that i went to look at wasn't the car that was advertised because i when i looked at the ad and it was probably in the infancy of this um it was it was on a four court and then i met mistakenly or foolishly met and thankfully had somebody along with me but we were actually glad to get out of it because um it wasn't it wasn't the same the minute i was walking up and you it was wrong so like we all can get caught we all can let down our guard we all can maybe think oh this is great and all of that um the accommodation one is a difficult one because it does pay or play on people's vulnerabilities in relation to moving away from home and going to college for the first time all the costs that are associated with that and about a panic as well and and often maybe the first time people are doing it and there's a pressure going up the line like no this is perfect mom this is perfect this is the one you know so there's many different reasons one big red flag in this and i probably missed it there you know they're unable to meet up this sort of thing and they want the money before the you view the property or sign at least because they say you have to secure it or someone else is going to give us and don't allow yourself to be so look at it's just the time of year it's timely that we would be talking about this and you know it's really centered on the main urban areas where the colleges are but we have a very good college in our own area as well and hopefully we don't have anybody coming to the end of a string of really successful community events often despite the poor weather um no major instances to report from no and you know uh things things are going grand over the summer and i supposed to just put on a note about that you know we had the dunnigall rally massive crowds mariefund and low international festival the clown mani music festival all went over very well um yeah you'll certainly have your normal a couple of public order of incidents and maybe associated the quality of life incidents is then like some damage maybe to property and that but when you have large crowds moving around and you don't have any serious life changing uh crimes happening or uh accidents or fatalities uh it's great to see people out and enjoying themselves again and we're still as opposed operating on them the umbrella of post-covid and getting back to the normal things so it was great to for that to happen and then with that in mind um we've the letter kenny festival uh between the 18th and the 20th um it's opening on friday evening at hapa seven with the gig rig at migetagans hotel there's a soapbox derby organized for the port road for sunday the 20th at two o'clock they're meeting up at the griddle car park and then there's music on the gig rig at sister serves at five now they're expecting large crowds and there will be some planned road closures to run some of the events like particularly around migetagans hotel and the port road and areas like that on the 19th then uh is uh i think that's saturday um we have a family fun and entertainment at the green and tater it happens two part of letter kenny pride uh there's a parade it happens four and there's music and entertainment throughout the town all day and they see there's some great acts as well you know playing around some of the the pubs and uh i heard you talking about convoy there just before i came on on the 19th again they have a fun day out there at the arsenal ground speech from 12 to 3 o'clock so we'd hope the weather will be it looks like it's going to be a bit more favorable anyway we shall see right i mean uh obviously uh you want to talk a little bit about our coastal communities came to the fore recently uh with major uh drug finds uh significant quantities of cocaine washed up on our shores but also we hear of crowd pots lobster pots multiple engines boat engines all that type of stuff still quite a bit of activity in that regard so you have some general advice and observations yeah look um that that incident um really brought to the fore we always thought or what would have we would have probably known differently but people the perception would have been the southwest coast of ireland carry and cork and down clear down along the air but we've had it you know brought very much to our attention locally and we're just appealing to residents and coastal communities and in the islands to be alert for what we would say unusual activities and people in them communities know best what crafts moving around who's moving around what are these guys like are they competent and capable of what handling maritime craft and all of that and they these can be the red flags there um summer season we normally have a notable increase in activity in dunigal and down the west uh and but that can be used to mask criminal activity and we've seen that so what do you is a fair question to ask what what do you believe happened with those uh drugs do you think they were were discarded a long way away do you have a and i'm not necessarily saying what's the guard of you but your view would your would your suspicion be that they were to be intercepted by a smaller vessel and miss them or they could have been in the water for months we don't know do you do you what what would you suspect happened there i don't know personally i don't know that much about it because i was off on leave yeah no more than what i read in the papers what everybody else but you know it seemed to be very well wrapped and packaged there's possibly more of it about maybe stuck in crevices or whatever or maybe picked up by people we don't know um it possibly happened in a transfer from a larger boat to a smaller boat there was a boat that the guards impounded and it was um it was in maharoti uh so um and i think even talking and to do to the front to people down there uh it was noted that these people that were using that boat weren't that seafaring hadn't great capabilities yeah and they were probably lucky that something worse didn't happen with their lives and all of that sort of thing so look there's craft moving around all the time if you look at marine traffic in any given day there's a lot of yachts there's a lot of everything so you know it's but it's basically the community our eyes and ears we want to work with them uh and what we're basically saying is um people may can be that comfortable talking face to face to somebody about it the local district headquarters you know we're opening on 24 seven basis but we have the confidential line which is 1800 treble six treble one and revenue have their custom stroke watch confidential line on 1800 295 295 so they're two avenues that are open to somebody even if you're not too sure that you're just operating on a hunch you know um you should do something about it because it are they are our communities and these criminally minded people will take over and will you know we see the prevalence of cocaine use and cannabis use and all of that we're seeing it on the roads now very much every week once you look through so uh and the other sorry I think you were going to talk about the same thing too but we just have to move along a little bit um people with their outboard motorism what have you there is an opportunity to get that stuff marked that that type of theft spikes as you said loves their pots with board engines on lakes and boats in the coastal communities every summer it goes up straight up and down and there's obviously a market for them but the county council with the joint police and committee have bought two telus machines the guts of six or seven grand investment there and they are available to coastal communities if they get together talk to their local community guards or their local guards um they will come and do in fact we were going to do a marking session in Dunlop at the waterfront day that was cancelled due to the weather but that's there and you know if property's marked it's less attractive to the thief no more than an easy to get back because a lot of stuff is recovered yeah there is a lot of stuff covered yeah get back to the rightful owners uh speaking of getting things back to the rightful owners dogs particularly go missing well it's as opposed to the lighthearted part of of the whole thing with property marking and all that but you know we all note that there's been you see granny puts it up on the facebook page there there's dogs and custody and different guard stations around the county they're part of a family unit and when they go missing it causes great anxiety and I was just thinking about this and you know I know a dog went missing there lately and the dog had its name and its tag now some people say don't put the name on if somebody wants to steal it and can call and da-da-da but you could put on your phone number or even your family name and aircode and it would make it you know it's instantaneous and in fact I seen the dog down in Whartonport last week was knocked down and it had a tag and within literally two minutes we knew who the owner was and he was able to come and take the dog to the vet and thankfully the dog recovered so engrave engrave your aircode your family name a contact number something to think about attaching to your dog and cats yeah there's a cat too you know yeah yeah not big family cats but they were collars as well of course they do now uh we still don't know what the story with these gooters is I mean we do we don't like well ground you mentioned this to me and kind of I wasn't really following the debate you may probably need to tell me more about it but there seems to be a big gray area about these gooters and seemingly this road traffic and roads act 2023 has just been enacted and what they're doing is they're going to categorize these as a personal power transporter like some you see in star wars a ppt they're not legal for use on public roads at the minute regulations will clarify them saying the power the speed the weight I think it's going to be under 25 kilometers per hour or or a certain output they won't need to be registered over it now it's yet to be followed over they might so that has not been enacted or decided yet but what is the situation in using them now is it illegal because we see them everywhere is it illegal on both the footpath and the road at the moment to ride an e-scooter well the common sense should prevail it's illegal to ride a bicycle on a footpath it's not though do you think it's not all right it isn't it's it's it's not actually illegal in and of itself I'm not disputing well I was going to say footpath is the clue is in the name yes that's not a tire path it's not a tire path not a bike path you have cycle ways that are jointly used by people and bicycles classified for that use so you thought you got me there but uh well I am going to get my phone at and google it 38 years in the job I'm not going to 38 years in the job and it takes an upstart like me to push telegraphs going well isn't it don't they look well as Daniel has done let's say don't look a day over 38 38 years in the job if I had to think on this day 38 years ago that they'd be sitting here I know with you I know such a star yeah so as you say common sense prevails no like it's it's going to be cleared up by the end of the year I suppose we're in a limbo at the minute and there's no point in me going being Paul the guard saying this is illegal and that's illegal at the end of the day common courtesy if somebody's walking if you say yeah if the statute book of Greg who's on hidden radio says I'll not argue against now come here so as I say that will all be cleared and common sense and finally and very importantly if you don't mind unfortunately we are seeing awful devastation on our roads one death is one too many but we are seeing way more than that up until the 14th of august 24 pedestrians 41 are these road CS41 drivers two e-scooters 15 motorcyclists a cyclist and a billion passenger make up a total loss of life of 105 people that aren't hit with us anymore and just the devastation that we've seen it in Domingo so I mean we have to go back to the basics yeah and I was looking through and I know I haven't done any appeals not that today look there was nothing really jumping out but what it was jumping out at me was particularly drug-driven there was a number of accidents around the county in the last week and when the people were tested they were over the limits on cannabis and cocaine they were the two things and I suppose I'm not saying this but as a you'll always have your drink drivers and drink drivers as a result of accidents but this number with the drug drug drivers are coming up there and it's no more than with the fatalities when you see e-scooters there was two fatalities off one of them so it shows the danger of them as well so you have like the the the comparison for august to date is um there were plus 12 you know plus 12 people over august 22 and that's that's that's that's just terrible news to be honest and then 23 of the people who lost their lives were in the age group between 16 and 25 that's one in four and then the motorcycles 15 you know compared to 41 drivers so you know the stats are there and the roads are dangerous how concerned are you about the feature of particularly cocaine now in all communities you know very very it's everywhere and there's an acceptance around the two which is even worse you know and um I heard Martin Harley on with you yesterday I think he said and he said he spoke to a guard years ago in Balboffet and like Martin's chairman of the business and all that and he said you know if if somebody comes home with drink taken you'll nearly be glad of it and um see the cocaine is if look if you read the evidence it enhances people they think they can do things they can't particularly then when they get behind the wheel of a car or any motorized vehicle where there's a can be motorbike as well you know and it's just the prevalence of it and the the the the amount of it's about and talk to anybody in any town in our village and they'll tell you you know there's no point in saying it's not anywhere it's everywhere and it's everywhere in this county and it's very worrying and it's worrying you know even if they get away with the road traffic part of it it's the mental health parts then and you can see that um we see it then what calls the domestics you know where people are literally off their heads you know and and the children are suffering the spouses or partners are suffering and all of that sort of thing so you just wonder where to lend or what you know or is it going to reach when you look at I was watching that film last night painkiller I don't know you know the oxycon thing yeah it would straighten you up in your seat now yeah you know and when you see you know so it is a worry it really is okay i got a sergeant paul wallace uh congratulations is it congratulations 38 38 years 38 years to the force not be much more of it it's quite the milestone would you get to 40 no i can't get to 40 can you know no can't because i went to college before i joined a lot of people joined 18 19 i was past me 24th there you go it was a the regional college here doing electronics maybe they'll make an exception well you can get extensions now because of the recruitment crisis and all of that i think they're hand them out particularly to guard sergeants and inspectors nothing to the higher ranks really for whatever that's all about um but um no i've looked at and working since i was 14 yeah same as okay all right guard sergeant paul wallace thank you very much indeed okay that was community guard information for this week we're back uh on uh we're back with it on this program after the 10 o'clock news next jues day watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six reply online via our apper in office today pst hey come here to me i defended the rebels in the ryzen still a bullet in me breaks hi did you know my stones are home to rents butterflies even native lizards well cham i've been a canvas shelter gold 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after she had her breakfast and her tea and that and she came back out the two dogs were gone another wee dog was still at the house now they are i'm going to show on a picture for those watching on our social media we'll put it up on our website as well they're very striking dogs aren't they they're two beautiful uh animals describe them to us hi they're two lovely animals i uh one has a wee bit of white down the middle of his forehead and another has more like a black kind of face and it's you know they're two fawn animals like they're they're both lovely pets you know that kind of way and they're nice and you know calm and playful you know typical boxer uh nature you know uh i'm just uh devastated you know the whole family's devastated it's like losing a family member that kind of way like uh when did they when did they disappear sorry you said they were put out was when was that uh they disappeared roughly around half nine or half nine yesterday morning yesterday morning okay now is it possible they hopped off the fence or ran out through a gap in the fence or something and and and ran off or are you convinced they were taken i'm leaning towards more that they were taking you know i've been asking all the local farmers around me you know i've been round rock would ask them to walk around their fields you know and they're saying yes walking you know that they would take a look a look as well you know that kind of way and like i've been driving around the roads all yesterday looking for them and they're you know uh i can't see us like a sign of them and they were like my mother there she the dogs went nothing in about half nine and my grandfather and he went up the road driving looking for them and not a sign of work to be seen like you know like if they were lost that kind of way like they never left before but if they were lost they would you know someone would have seen them that that sort of thing exactly at this point over 24 hours on they are so distinctive someone would have heard or seen the appeal and you would have had some information i think if there were the locality at this point yeah like you know and like i have a shared in facebook all all uh business pages have it up working on with me here too i have guards contacted i have uh the microchips alerted saying that if they were scanned anywhere they would flash up saying that the dogs were stolen or lost like i'm just uh you know and there's a there's a cash reward they're going to for anyone that has any know about so whereabouts the dogs or if they can return them safe the house would be great yeah because i mean look they're they look purebred highly valuable dogs as well but you know you you hear a lot of suspicion about dogs being stolen you don't actually hear about genuine cases too often if you get where i'm coming from aid and you know a lot of people be concerned about a car slowed down by the dog and you see but it's not often you actually sort of hear of a dog or particularly two dogs actually being stolen it does seem to be rare enough unless i'm very much mistaken i will see that's just kind of the worrying thing about it like you know like if one dog was still standing there you'd be thinking you know one went off and i seen but when the two dogs was gone and no one had seen a trace of them this long time like you know it's very concerning you know that's uh just you know a bit of a shock you know yeah okay so they're missing from the kreisler area since yesterday morning ruby and lexie they're quiet quiet they are quiet dogs they're boxers very distinctive looking they look just like boxers obviously uh one of them has uh one of them has a bit of white where did you say uh white down the middle of its face yeah and there was just more of a black face and like they're they're used to wings and stuff you know knocking about the family home there and they're you know they're very kind natured dogs like okay well listen and they're very valued bold uh very valued members of the family as well and everyone keen to get them back all right aid and listen it's out there we'll see if anyone can come up with that i'm thinking to you know maybe if someone works in a if you know a garage or a petrol station or a restaurant or something and and saw two dogs like this in the back of a car or heard barking out of a dog trailer or something along those lines you know what i mean maybe that could be the key to uh coming up with a solution to this but we hope it's resolved as soon as possible and we'll share it out of course aid and we hope you get ruby and lexie back safe and sound as soon as possible that's perfect thanks very much great take care that's aid and McFadden they're calling us out of creasler so if you know any information get in touch with us we'll pass it on or contact the guards directly or what have you okay so there are currently 13 positions in primary schools unfilled by teachers in post primary it's five it's not insignificant but it's certainly not along the lines of what they're experiencing Dublin 329 vacant posts in primary 199 in Dublin poor curly is the Donagolan Sligo representative of the Association of Secondary School Teachers in Ireland. Patrick this is a concern so close to the start of the the new year what what is the impact on on schools with so many vacancies in teaching posts hello Greg how are you doing good morning nice talk to you um yeah look did this retention and recruitment crisis has been going on now for quite a while um I think the immediate effect that you're going to have in schools is basically that there'll be students that will be in simply being supervised rather than being taught because there's the actual specialist teacher is just unavailable they can't be got I mean that's really significant to impact on a child's education obviously it is yeah and I mean what management are trying to they're absolute best to do is try to to fill those roles but inevitably if if if the position cannot be got the the school will inevitably have to withdraw that subject so it can lead in some cases then to a lack of choice among subjects so very very uh you know you could get an example where for example chemistry would be taken off the timetable or would say different subjects taken off the timetable or even an effect on the um the special needs education where they take teachers out of that role and put them back into mainstream because they simply can't get the the teachers to fill the jobs now we didn't wake up this morning with this problem it's been no gathering pace for many many years now and we know exactly the reasons why uh there obviously is that the paying conditions but then of course there is the cost of rental or or property ownership particularly in the capital and other urban areas and then there is uh that carrot being dangled from abroad all of these problems were ever are ever present or we saw them coming down the line a long time ago has anything been done in your view uh to sort of by the powers that be the Department of Education ETC to sort of say right we need to stem the loss or we need to employ these measures to try and attract uh people to either stay in the job or stay in the country yeah that's a great question well the the ASDI is is a stakeholder in in a department of education group that was set up called the teacher supply working group and a little bit toward dismay in the ASDI this involved um basically junkets and things where they try to encourage all these people that the Irish taxpayer has paid to educate and train throughout all the years the the thing was to try and get these people back from Dubai and um UAE and Australia and stuff like that and it's failed and our general secretary Kieran Christie is calling out this says people it's it's it's pretty um proven now that offering people part time or fixed time positions is not going to tempt them to come back from a job abroad where they're getting actually very good pay in some cases accommodation flights two or three times a year and and prospects you know the the the casualization has been a huge issue here right so so say I was a teacher in Dubai right and I see all these jobs vacancies and I have the qualifications can I not come back and and pretty much instantly be guaranteed a full-time teaching post absolutely not why you'll be getting a part time or fixed time position because what that does basically is leaves flexibility to the school where they can change up and change what position they want to fill so you have you have teachers now younger teachers that are six seven years in the job and they're still going from one school to the next but that they'll not get they're not getting they Patrick pardon my ignorance why is that a case if you've got vacancies that you can't fill and you've got teachers potentially that might come back with some employment certainty and and some respect why would you put a barrier to that I mean that is shooting yourself in the foot well there's a lot of things in that because if you keep keep staff generally on the on the short term positions or part time what you have is a lot of control over that you have a lot of control over whether you can move it say from from one subject from Spanish say now the next year you want a French one you can chop and change and there will be moved around different schools that's become a huge issue in in in the teaching profession in the last I would say 10 years where people that just simply aren't getting the full time one of the hours so they move them around to this this thing now undoubtedly there will be a few that's not the the total case but for for the most part a lot of the positions have been part time or fixed term positions and they're saying they just don't have the hours to give them yet and if you take in like the ASTI has put forward the position where this this thing has to be looked at and so obviously now the same as an awful lot of of of professions the housing crisis is a real one you mentioned that where people are are heading off out but the other thing that that that the ASTI has been concerned about basically is the cost of the teacher education and the actual length of it five years and yeah so I mean if you look at it I was talking to one of my ex-pupils the last time and they said they were they were they were us as different jobs and they were in temple more doing the guard the stuff and it was basically eight nine months and they and I said well I was talking to the guy at the nice guy and they were trained and obviously they would get ongoing training on the job but if you look at it as a as a teaching profession five years and the average cost to the to to the parent or to that person with accommodation expenses and the whole lot is in the region of 13 to 15 thousand a year that's a lot of money before you're even trained but I think to some extent to and I'm going to throw nurses in here if you don't mind and a midwives that I think those groups and teachers are still treated like as if that work is a devotion that in other words yeah you know what I don't know how you would actually clarified or define it or whatever but the way they're treated it's as if you know we will facilitate you fulfilling your dream and your calling rather than I mean let's not forget these before a lot of these teachers are even finished their studies the people are over from the UAE and elsewhere saying come over here we'll love you we'll give you this we'll give you that and what are we doing we're saying well you know what uh five years out it you must be really dedicated it's seven years for the priesthood come on stay here in Ireland we're not competing it's like a vocation is the word you're looking for all your rights of calling and you see I mean if you get a job if you go and get trained and the sooner you're into the workplace you're starting to pay back those fees but the extraordinary thing in the teaching profession is after this five years you didn't have a dread induction when you start teaching and after five to six years actually teaching you're still viewed as a very very junior teacher in the school and you're in your late 20s at that point really effectively aren't you well you're you're well basically I see that most of the teachers now they're they're well in their 30s they're not on any they don't own any property they don't own pretty much an thing they can still have a have a short term contract so people are voting with their feet they're saying listen if I do five years in in a third level I'll be going for some other sort of a profession so if we looked at this I mean it said this is a statement it's astonishing that the minister was seeking to lure teachers to return from other countries this summer on the promise of part-time or fixed-time positions this must change where subject to satisfactory probation permanent appointments are made available and shortening of the extraordinary long teacher's pay scale and doubling the number of middle management posts in schools that's another thing too there is act very very little promotion in the teaching there are people in there are people in donagall and not conflating issues but there are people in donagall that would have seen when the campaign was on for a proper redress scheme for defective concrete the battle for the public's minds in other words the taxpayer can't foot the bill for this it's absolutely you know what I mean and that was it was done and it was I mean it was you can see the tactic but I thought it was a dirty tactic I just wonder too sometimes if people rely on the general views that seems to be there in the population or does pop its head up that teaching is handy you get loads of paid holidays and such and therefore I just think sometimes that's used by the powers that be as some sort of a shield do you know what I mean the battle for the public's minds that they can get away with maybe not doing what possibly should be done for teachers again I hope that doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory but sometimes in the absence of something obvious you kind of have to say well if it's not that it must be this I've come across that attitude you know an awful lot and look at it it's tongue-in-cheek and a bit of banter but generally you'll always find that there'll be there'll be sympathy for the nurses and the quite the opposite for teachers now I suppose we're you know you don't want to be seen as whinging and complaining all the time but I think from my point of view I would like to leave the profession in a healthy state that younger people would feel that it's a good career path it's a good job that be well educated motivated people going into teaching because if you look at the alternative then you look at other countries and where there's a very low morale among the teachers that you know and the education profession very soon goes goes to the wall and then you end up with any parents in that position thinking oh my god I won't go for public school I'll actually pay for my son or daughter to go to private school because they'll get a far it'll be education there whereas it's it's more or less and you know out in the numbers in in in public systems that is not just now it's not just now to either I mean the ramifications of this felt in for people with special needs for those who have not in terms of outcomes in terms of progression to third level then chucking the whole situation with AI and how that's going to influence things I mean we really don't know where what we'll be outpotting in terms of students in five 10 15 years time but with all of these challenges we could lose a competitive edge really really quickly I think it's imperative the government the government whichever government is this one or the next or the one after that really see the importance of all of this pork thank you very much for your time I really do appreciate it poor curly dunagall and slugle rep of the asti the night on noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit 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McKenna thank you very much indeed whether it's a five or 10k half or full marathon everyone's running journey is different find your pace with a summer of running series with irish life dublin marathon search irish life summer of running series to sign all a better life with irish life all right welcome back to the show now uh you uh might if you're in a certain service provider being inclined to offer a tip it's seen quite broadly in different parts of the world but what you might have noticed which is a little bit different here is that websites at times are now asking customers to show support by adding a tip to their purchase is this something you've come across what do you think about it let us know will Sharon you're a lawler is managing director of think plan do consulting good morning to Sharon thank you very much for joining us good morning Greg how are you I'm doing good yeah I mean listen if you go into a restaurant or something and you get a good service you you know you might leave a tip but it would seem unusual to offer a tip in advance of receiving a service or indeed a product so what are we seeing more and more of now yeah I mean look first of all what I'm going to say on this is I think that the sequence of something like this is all wrong um because the the consumer in the shop is very used to having a particular sequence so you ask for a service you receive that service and if that service is good you will you know very happily reward that service um you know with with uh with with some sort of a gratuity but when you're being asked to actually pay that gratuity in advance of receiving the service how do you know if the service is going to be good if that service is going to be bad so it's very much in the wrong sequence in the in the customer journey and I don't think the choppers are going to be very happy with having to to make that advanced decision for me as a as a shopper strategist I think it's the wrong strategy to take and the thing is is they're taking that decision with evidence that people don't like it because for how long has there been a pushback on a service charge which in effect I think uh is really a tip in advance do you know what I mean before you've had use so we know the public don't like that and in fact we've seen in recent years a move away from that so for people to be stepping into into this space in the digital space really seems quite bizarre and out of touch yeah I mean as I said I'm all for and I think that that technology allows people to you know to digitally give that provision of a gratuity much easier in that physical environment but when you start to get into the space in an online space of asking somebody you know if I'm if I'm purchasing something of even if I'm purchasing a service I'm going to a beautician or the hairdressers I want to know what I'm getting before I decide on the level of that gratuity so I actually think it's quite dangerous um from the perspective of I think you know ultimately the person providing the service staff lose out because you can't in that instance reward good behavior and great service and you're you're forcing the customer the shopper to actually make that decision and quite often they're going to fall down in that regard when they haven't actually received it can you at least understand the logic as to why some businesses might do this yeah I mean I think they're probably trying to cover costs and you know they're trying to make sure that for those of us who may not or those people out there who may not want to to you know to to provide a gratuity and provide a good gratuity but from my perspective I mean there was an article in The Times on Sunday and the examples in that particular article by Julianne Ford in The Sunday Times were for products that they were looking for a tip on as an advanced tip on a gratuity on as opposed to for services so these were things like I think there was one closed boutique there was a pet a pet shop and in that instance you're asking for a tip or a gratuity for a product being handed over as opposed to for a service being given I'm a hundred percent of the belief that if you go into you know petitions of hairdressers if you go into a restaurant you sit down and you're provided with a really good service they should be given the opportunity and the staff should be given the opportunity that if they prove that good service that they can actually benefit from that but the idea of actually handing over a 10 5 10 20 percent in some instance and gratuity for a product in advance not even post having but in advance of having received it I think you're covering a cost a certain element of cost in the wrong way in in my view as a as the shopper strategist yeah I haven't seen to be honest with you how it's proposed but I mean firstly it would say to me is well why do you not have faith in the product that you can charge enough to make a profit and sell it secondly like it feels a bit like grifting you know I mean surely make me saying to my friend shop here it's great or leaving a five-star review is the is the real tip like I can't see how it can be propositioned to the public where they understand to go oh yes right okay it screams to me desperation bad business grifting a hundred percent and the other thing I would say is that it adds an unnecessary step in that purchase process so we all know from a you know from a retailer perspective you want to move the the customer along their purchase journey and move them from browser to buyer as quickly as you can and if you start adding another step in that process and in that instance you know what what they're actually asking in some instances will you tick for five percent ten percent fifteen percent or you then have to choose none and none tends to be the fourth option in that I think it adds an unnecessary step into that purchase process and it makes the shopper feel uncomfortable quite early on really when you have to make that decision and as I said it's one thing when you're making a decision in a service retail industry or sector where you know you've been given a really really good service but for an online purchase where you don't know as you do that whether it's going to arrive on time or in advance or what state it's going to arrive in when it comes there I think it's a very nervous it's something it's something I wouldn't be happy and I certainly wouldn't be advising any businesses that work with me to engage in yeah but it's not necessarily individual companies that are coming up with this Shopify which facilitates a lot of this online shopping they've made this service available so while there's some markets outside of Ireland where this is kind of the normal seen okay because I presume Shopify wouldn't go down this route if they would see it affecting their bottom line down the line eventually yeah well I mean when you look at how it's set up I mean there's lots of ways that when you when you work through the capability of a facility like that that it can be put to very good use so for example if you're a business that supports a charity and you're setting up that as somebody's buying you know making a purchase that they can you know add a nominal donation to a particular charity there are many of us out there who will do that you know and if you even in physical terms if you walk into the likes of you know McDonald's as you're you know buying your big mac are doing your order you'll have to see something at the bottom to say would you like to make a donation to our Ronald McDonald charity and many of us in those instances will say yes you know and it's fairly nominal so I think there are there are times and instances where something like this could be put to good use but the instance from a service perspective where you're asking somebody to pay that you know that specific amount in advance of having you know received the goods or the service itself I think it's it's a it's a dangerous road to go on particularly in current economic climate yeah and again the public will see through it because in some cases the the company is a middle person that may never even handle the product so they're looking they're looking for a tip to maintain them rerouting a product to you uh I don't think it's gonna yeah I don't think it's gonna catch on though Sharon is it's not gonna work in this market I don't I I wouldn't see very many businesses taking that on and I think particularly as I said in the current climate where you were trying to keep yourself as competitive and as interesting to the shopper as possible I think that that becomes a point in that purchase journey where there's a pressure put on the customer and I think we don't like that type of pressure um people's response to that type of pressure is to you know is to potentially just back back off and that that that um that purchase process so you run the risk of somebody actually exiting their basket at that point and saying do you know what I don't feel comfortable with and I'm sure Sharon in your experience you you might deal with a company that and you talk to them about look at okay if you're going to charge a little bit extra tell the story of your company get people to invest in it get people to even you know if they can get the product a little bit cheaper elsewhere to understand it tell your story bring them with you on the journey it requires more effort but you know if your margins are too tight you could you could try that route before you get the begging bowl out like I mean believe you me I look at retail trends all the time and one of the most important things that I say to businesses is to story tell your story so whether it's you know your investment in the staff that you have whether it's the products that you're selling and there's a story behind those any good retailer with story tell I was in London last week doing some safari reconnaissance and all you could see was that element of storytelling right throughout that process within stores and I say to any business do that but when it comes to something like this it's the wrong type of storytelling and I think as you said earlier on it actually says a lot in the raw in a negative way about a business as opposed to a positive way so definitely a no no for me yeah we see some big companies that do exactly what you've talked of and we don't really necessarily like Ben and Jerry's for an example how did they make such a name for themselves in such a competitive ice cream market they took a stand and they took their customers along on a journey with them and it happens all the while Sharon thank you so much for your time this morning and hopefully the right ears have heard it because I think we're all in agreement and consumers out there as well thank you thank you very lovely to see you and chat to take care bye bye Sharon you're all lawlers so if you're on a shop there's one company say for instance Spirit clothing it's a fashion retailer in Longford and there's another pet store headquartered in Ireland both use Shopify and they are inviting and they're amongst others for you to just tip in advance for their service I don't know anyone would do that do I maybe I don't or maybe I do I don't know but anyway I just don't think that's going to work in our little land mass our little blip on the earth I call it says I'm a nurse and all I hear is the amount of teachers were short of but we go to work every day with an even bigger shortage of experienced and qualified staff regardless of the shortage we have to carry on teachers can make 10,000 euro extra in the summer by correcting papers teachers train while in school as an earth I study as a nurse I study on my day off I have to work hours after my shift finishes yet a teacher is out the door at finishing time they believe it is very unbalanced now it's very possible that a teacher might see it as a a different way that summer work sometimes can push a teacher over the threshold for a Susie grant for an example and they don't take that work for those reasons for some it suits for others it doesn't a caller says that the footpaths in letter Kenny are a death trap with people cycling bikes in these scooters but there's not a garden site to enforce these laws when are we going to start seeing consequences for these people you see as I am going to check it during the sad break I was under the impression it's not actually legal to cycle on footpaths in fact I don't think I invented this knowledge I believe it actually came up with a recent council meeting and that's where I have it see I store a little bits of information as they come along but I don't always know where I get them and as I was speaking there I seem to recall that it was a local councillor that raised the issue at one of these joint policing committee meetings where that was outlined all right okay footpaths are for pedestrians and not for vehicles of any description should that be a bike or a scooter a little law enforcement is needed especially for the protection of the elderly on footpaths another why is there a driving limit for drugs it should be zero tolerance there is no safe limit I don't believe there is a limit for drive I think if drugs are detected in your system that's it there is no as far as that that's the first I've ever heard of that maybe that was said in passing I don't believe there's a limit if you've got drugs in the system it's illegal you can't be driving there's no limit but let me double check that because now you've got me doubting myself let me see hi Greg why don't insurance companies making compulsory to have a dash cam installed in your vehicle surely it would be a massive help in solving claims yeah I can see I can see the logic I've never had a dash cam Greg can you ask the guard about lane closures and the four lane project can the contractor close a lane anytime ie 6 p 6 15 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now on highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter kennedy doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time us it is 18 minutes past 11 we welcome on to the program now james morracy who is author of real to real garret brown and cladder records good morning to you james thanks so much for joining us today thank you very much great okay so tell us about mr brown and cladder records for the for those who may not the few that may not be aware garret brown was the son of lady unik Guinness who was one of the golden Guinness girls one of the direct descendants of Arthur Guinness he grew up in very privileged circumstances originally in castle McGarrett and county mail and then later in a wonderful location in lug alone county weight loss like a lot of all people with with considerable wealth and he had a lot of time on his hands he had lots of money but he didn't want know what he wanted to do he ran away from two schools and along the way he became interested in irish music and decided that he wanted to preserve and retain irish spoken word and irish music which he felt was in the mid to late fifties in the rapid decline because of the emergence of pop music Elvis Presley the groups uh the the tide music coming across the atlantic and the tide of music coming across from from the irc and the Beatles and so he set up in 1959 when he was still 19 years of age he set up an irish record company and recorded artists over the next 10 20 years it was a huge undertaking on his behalf as you say he was very well resourced but it would also take a great deal of determination and the right people to working on this because it's such a huge undertaking an important one too yes and one of the first people one of the first individuals that he met was Ivor Brown the well-known psychiatrist no relation and they were both pupils of a pipe maker and a piping teacher from Johnny Carney in Dublin who taught them uh how to play the pipes and they fell in love with this now Garrett was as good a student as Ivor Brown Garrett listened but he didn't learn too much about the intricacies and and he and Ivor decided they should record Leo Rosen who at that time was the only piper and the only maker of pipes uh so he was very very important they recorded the first album with him king of the pipers uh also Leo Rosen was the teacher uh who had two other very very important pupils much more successful than Garrett one was Liam Mufflin and the other was Pallimoloni of the Chieftains that really spawned the beginning of Cladda and on from there Garrett recorded both music and the spoken word he recorded Patrick Kavna in the 1960s Seamus Heaney Lever and he was responsible for the setting up of the Chieftains Pallimoloni worked in with Cladda Records as a an office manager and was playing music at the same time so it really became a melting pot for Irish musicians and Garrett travelled all over the country spent a lot of time in Donegal, Sligo, the western seaboard meeting and recording artists and it really was his life's work he died in 2018 and he when he died there were 50 steel boxes in the vaults in the bank of Ireland in College Green and Dublin which had been left there for years gathering dust but in great condition and I was asked because I'd been working with Garrett for some time would I get involved in the writing of a book and would I assist in the revival of Cladda Records and that's why we are where we are today and I mean obviously you know we'll talk about the importance of what he's done it's not just music and the spoken words which are part of our culture but you know in terms of his impact in archiving our culture but he was also a very interesting character and you talked about the Elvis Presley and the other influences that were coming in here he enjoyed spending time with them the likes of Mick Jagger, Brendan Beaton, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan like he did like to socialise and mix as well with his friends. He did and because Lugger Law is such a magical place it was a wonderful place for parties and quite a lot of the time Garrett's mother Lady Uniganus was a wonderful host but sometimes a new party would start before the last one had finished so you tended to have a lot of people from all walks of life if would have been in Lugger Law that Paddy Maloney would have met a lot of the artists that the chieftains recorded with that was a huge door opener for the chieftains. Garrett was quite eccentric in many ways he wore two-eat suits bonnie and pullovers he had a pony in track which he rode into Dublin and was known to park it outside the Shelburne Hotel pay a tip to the doorman who would feed the horse at regular intervals and he would return in due course having visited various hostries now he sometimes would return not necessarily on the same day that he left the horse there so there could have been lengthy delays he was a wonderful character he was terribly gregarious I spent a lot of time with them in his latter years working on this book and it really was a journey of discovery and a wonderful joyful journey for me I have to say and you obviously have remarkable insights as a friend and someone who spent time with him working on this book and then access to the items that you talked of for those who may feel that they know Garrett Brown they're probably in for an awakening with this book because you know people will get a real detailed insight and understanding to the man's life and what he achieved I think so and hopefully that was really the purpose of this really to shine a light on somebody who has played a unique role a really unique role in the preservation of Irish music and you know living in large houses and having access to lots of money doesn't always mean happiness and Garrett had had a terrible tragedy in his late teens early 20s when his brother Tara died in a car crash in London he was socializing with Paul McCartney the night before and I think Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones and his car crashed on the King's Road he was killed instantly and it was that that was the accident the incident that triggered Leonard McCartney to write I heard the news today oh boy Tara Brown went in one direction he liked the whole 60s scene and London and the beat scene and all the pop groups Garrett Garrett stayed with with his Irish culture and really was a journey of discovery from him for him he didn't grow up with with Irish music in the house he went off and found it for himself so how difficult was it for you to sort of sign off on this project to say right that's done because obviously you have the book and then that's not just it this comes as a package right so there's a lot in it was it difficult to say right was it difficult to say right that's that done now you have clearly an insight into creating things because the awful part is getting to that signing off and you really have to a day has to come when you say that's it that's done I don't want to have anything more to do with this I can't do anymore I've tried my best I worked for six years it is occupied or maybe obsessed me for that period of time and you know you say please don't show me this again I don't want to see it anymore I don't want to read another draft take it away from me and but I was very lucky with with with the editors and with the designers and I had a number of people who read red drafts but it's an interesting your question is is very interesting I find I don't want to see the book now I actually I live in fear and dread of actually because I will see something I hope I don't but I will see something that I that I wasn't I'm not happy with or whatever so I really I much prefer to move on to something else and just forget about this this is gone I'm finished with this well hopefully in time you'll be able to sit down and enjoy the all your efforts so the book is a 228 page book it's accompanied by masters of the craft the cladder collection LP again which also had to be curated and that presents 17 remastered tracks from cladders immensely rich catalog and also a never before released poem from Pulitzer prize for poetry and TS Elliott prize winner poet Paul Moldoon so this is it's a significant piece of work and a considered purchase I'd imagine but something that you know that should hopefully be treasured in someone's possession that's what you would hope for I presume well thank you very much Greg I'm only the carrier all all the creativity is in the work of the people that I've written about their musical creativity their artistic creativity their literary creativity I really am I'm kind of taking it from A to B and that's and and and this is to showcase those artists this book is to showcase the artist as as is the LP I I'm a forager I suppose I'm a social inquirer I I drill down but I'm I'm I'm only maybe does the conductor an orchestra he doesn't play he doesn't play a musical instrument that's all so maybe I'm a quasi conductor of pulling something together with it with a lot of very enthusiastic people and I'm part of my ignorance if this is off the mark but to some extent are you are you presenting your friend you know maybe without the perception or without the misunderstanding or perhaps with like do you feel a responsibility in that in that it's maybe a job for you that people fully understand Gareth Bran who he was what motivated him what motivated him because people have perceptions of of others don't they well this is your opportunity to present the the person as he actually was in essence you're absolutely right Gareth had had a lonely latter period in his life and and that loneliness affected his his affection greatly this is to celebrate the life of a man of a man who went out and who made it his life's work to gather to collect to compile and to preserve a wonderful heritage that belongs to all of us or most certainly that we are all part of and that's what this is this is this is that and this is about Gareth Brown and it's about all those artists it's not about anybody else yeah and and you know there's two ways of looking at this from my from from our am site because he could look at his work and and and he's rightly referred to as the greatest archivist of Irish culture of all time but then you wonder where would you be at if he didn't undertake the work that he did where would we be at now what would it be like now what would we know where would the chieftains be you know sometimes it's got sometimes more interested today at the moment and sort of reflect on what someone's achieved by wondering what it would be like if they hadn't undertaken what they had well I think you can bring that right to today in a sense because James Heaney first met only met Patrick Kavana once it was in the Bailey pub in Dublin a few months before Kavana died and these are all these are all happenings or events that were never planned young poet meets the father figure of Irish poetry I don't think we can analyze exactly what happened as a result or what would have happened if something else happened the now is that that we're talking about it and the now is that perhaps there is there are some of your listeners who are young musicians who really want to do something who have who are going out on the limb or who have literary skills literary talents and would like to follow them are insure or unsure insecure about it but they really want to do it and certainly if if there's one person out there who's motivated by encouraged by something like this book please go for it I would say to any of them because that's what we're all part of the continuity here great we're all part of this is this is a continuance yeah but you're in a fantastic position in that you straddle both you straddle the past and all of the people that you're writing about and you're talking of and and if you're foot into the future to present it to hopefully a new audience and to infuse or encourage or inspire others I just hope that this isn't a full stop and that we lose our you know with the development of different technologies and all I hope we don't lose our creativity and this is not like a full stop on Irish culture in these areas but I doubt it is I don't think I don't think it will I don't think it will for two reasons there's an enormous amount of talent out there there are so many young emerging Irish writers and musicians and as somebody who grew up in the west of Ireland local radio is very important local radio is very important in peeling back in in opening the book of life for people to see and to hear and and as I say someone who might be listening who says you know I've this idea I'd like to pursue and an idea doesn't always have to go to the very very very very end the journey is the discovery and that's why you know finishing this book is a bit of a bore to be honest with you the journey was fantastic the journey I wish the journey was continuing but then in parts of me I was going to say when you say use the word finished it lacks a bit of conviction well it's after the publishers now so you just go to have to wait and we'll have to wait a little too because it is not released until the hard book and vinyl box set is due for release on the 29th of September via cladder records and you can go and check out the website there as well which I think would be a useful resource even prior to that book being fully available cladderrecords.com it's been wonderful speaking to you and thank you for giving us that personal insight into such a really important part of our history as well James it's been wonderful to speak to you great thank you very very much and a privilege from me thank you bye bye James that is James Morris the author of reel to reel Garrett Brown and cladder records and he a friend of Garrett's as well and spent plenty lots of time with him particularly in the latter years of his life and as I say maybe it's not as apparent now but in generations to come his impact and influence and his achievement in what was archived and how it was done will be celebrated for generations and generations to come watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account the new corolla hybrid 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the individuals themselves that were nitpicking but be that as it may this information is released and um why not get a bit of uh a bit of mileage out of it shane old donna who's head of media and content for the irish school of motoring good morning to you shane hey greg we're becoming an incredibly sensitive nature nation aren't we yeah that was my first reaction to it as well i mean i am sympathetic to people doing the tests um you know they're balls of nerves of course they are um so i can't i can't imagine parking the car and five months later forgetting where you i mean like you know but i mean that's nerves that that's fair enough you can't say much about that but i think what's the big question because i think we've so we've seen um a freedom of information request like this before and the question i had then was well do any of these complaints come from people that have passed the test or is it really is it only people who have not passed the test and are disgruntled and you know i understand that it's it's it's not great they've put all the effort in and they failed the test for whatever reason um and it's natural to be annoyed about that and i guess to try and take it out on the tester itself but i i definitely go along with you i think would become a bit sensitive and we're only hearing one side of the story aren't we another complainant said they were told to put down the driver's side window during the test despite torrential rain outside this caused my right side to get soaked and affected my vision due to the rain coming in on top of me it doesn't go on to say but thankfully i later went on to pass my test no it doesn't say that does it no i mean that's an unusual one um and that doesn't sound very fair i guess but there must be some reason again we only hear one side of the story that's the big problem here yeah and then what happened was shane when we mentioned yesterday we're contacted by a lady who sat her test recently and the test lasted 47 minutes and over that 47 minutes she eventually accumulated enough uh marks to fail and subsequently reset the test it lasted 27 minutes and she passed with flying colors i'd be more concerned about stuff like that there that we'd need to make sure that that kind of thing isn't happening that everyone sits the test that it's fair it's reasonably uh the same in length of time do you know i'd be more concerned with those types of stories rather than a feeling that you were being scolded for whizzing past cars yeah i agree with you actually and the ism's position on that is always that the test is perhaps too easy which i know there's going to be people out there who are struggling past tests that would have been an issue with that but perhaps it doesn't go far enough it doesn't test enough and get make you ready for for the road of course it's crazy you don't go on a dual carriageway uh if you're in donagall town you don't see a traffic light you don't drive in the dark you don't drive in the frost you don't drive in the snow um you know so it really you just get your 25 minutes out of the way get your license and off you go free to do whatever you want and to encounter the actual dangerous conditions that's really you were never tested or talked about yeah that's right there is zero training in terms of car control and an emergency or a skid or something like that and i think that's severely lacking um in our driver training in ireland and i think one point you you picked up on there is inconsistency um so somebody is doing a test in the middle of dublin city with a very different set of conditions to put up with as you said in comparison to somebody who's doing in donagall town and that inconsistency is perhaps unfair um on learner drivers but it's also not preparing everybody in the same manner or to the same level um i would definitely like to see a drastic reshuffle of the driving test and we think of it and one of the things we've talked about here before is driver education um you know more training and not just to pass the test actually um it'll be great perhaps to see it more of it later on throughout your career you know like say for instance if you are called for speeding or dangerous driving in some courts you are sent on certain courses to correct your driving behavior do that in transition year that is not a bad idea at all i think it'd be great to be getting younger uh younger people training in some way and getting used to the idea of world safety not just how to get your test but how to be a safe driver and a courteous driver any updates on what the story is with testers again off the back of of reading this article look we do recognize it's silly season so you send the the freedom of information in on driving tests it's i'm sure it's in the diary for 2024 already um but yeah there is the serious issue then that came up after this of you know one local person here the the test was supposed to be in june july then august now september they're due to start college they the college is in cavern and there's no transport out of where they're living to get to letter kenny or some other hub you know real those are the real issues i think and it seems four months weight is pretty average now at this point around about these parts in any way in any case shame any inroads in terms of recruiting more driving instructors so that these uh these waiting times are more manageable more realistic i wonder yeah there has been improvements around some parts of the country though i don't believe most most parts of country you're waiting three four months anymore i think that has significantly improved there was talk about longer hours but as it is i mean the instructors are doing 10 11 tests a day you know you can't really inspect instructors to more than that i think it is more a case of training up new driving instructors and it is an ongoing issue but i believe it is improving perhaps not exactly where you are shane always a pleasure thank you so much for your time have a wonderful day all right take care of yourself that is uh shane al donahoe head of media and content at the irish school of motoring 08 660 25 000 have you have you give us a call on 07491 25 000 why should our young people come back to teach here says this caller in this country how many of our nurses who were called back and promised everything during covid actually got work our government is a total disgrace they believe and an embarrassment to the intelligence of most people that's coming in for man yes do you remember your country needs you come home we spoke to a couple of people who did and that's you know i mean that's just a tiny sample and there was nothing for them when they did arrive could you ask greg to advise home owners waiting for an email from the council on what stage they are at and what to do next to check their junk spam folders mine had gone in there for some reason thank you interesting thank you very much amory for that good advice you know we might do it if we're waiting on an email about a driving test for an example so certainly well worth checking your spam stroke junk folder just in case you're affected by defective concrete blocks you're waiting for an email back as it relates to that scheme from the council this listener found their email in the junk folder great advice thank you very much it is greatly appreciated a caller says i had the same problem in a long wait for a driving test we went to dairy and had the lesson there and there was little to no waiting time on a test the test is done when the driving instructor thinks you're ready to do it she too was waiting for a job and really needed her license for her job i wonder how many of you out there have crossed the border to get your driving test or indeed vice versa i wonder how many of you have straddled the border in either direction because it was more beneficial in terms of getting your driving license okay back with 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happened you're out with your little dog anyway i think yes i was up in the northwest in mahr or t the beautiful beach there and uh went down early in the morning on sunday because i'm from dublin and i had to get back to dublin that day so went down for a quick swim and i walk with my little dog teddy who's a little cavapoo three years old and and while we were on the beach um this woman and her dog were walking towards us a big dog i think a german shepherd or an al-sation now she called out don't worry about him he's he's big but he's friendly so he came over to us and as dogs do they kind of said hello a bit of sniffing and all of that and next thing they were fighting and this huge dog um grabbed my poor little teddy and basically had his leg in his mouth and was kind of shaking him and it was very frightening it all happened very fast and uh the owner was genuinely upset as well and and she managed to kind of get them apart and she teddy was bleeding and it was just it was just horrible it was just really really upsetting so she was very upset herself she said that um her dog was totally friendly and had never done anything like this at all and that uh you know she what could she do to help in all of this kind of stuff i'll be honest with you i just had my towel with me on my dog because i had initially just gone down for a swim so she was like i'll give you my number if there's any best fees or whatever so anyway as it happened i didn't get a number from her or her name or anything like that um but she uh she had been seemed like she was very genuine in terms of wanting to help we brought teddy back to dublin and then we later that evening i brought him to the vet because he was quite you know lethargic and not well so went to the 24 hour vet hospital up in ucd and he had to get antibiotics and he had to get you know anti-inflammatories and painkillers and the poor little dose like he's not himself at all you know so listen i contacted you because i really felt that this woman was genuine and i just you know she did offer to to help with the vet fees and stuff so i just thought i'd call in and see if anybody knew this dog or this woman uh who were walking on my roti there on Sunday so the bill almost 200 year old you as i say she in owners wanted to assist with any vet bills well there it is you didn't get the number on the day for obvious reasons nowhere to write for starters but also you didn't have anywhere to put a pen by the sounds of things exactly but you but we have your number and if that lady or if that lady wants to contact us we can put you in contact so we tell he's still not right i mean it's i presume it's it's it's like no you know like it also humans if we go through something that's distressing the the wounds might heal a little bit quicker than the memory might yeah well that's the worry i suppose he's a very friendly little dog and he's not fazed by other dogs or anything so i did ask the vet on Sunday you know psychologically could this affect him and she said actually it really can affect them you know it can affect their personalities like you know yesterday morning now he um he has one of those cones on as well to stop him licking the wounds you know and he looks very furlorn altogether but he sleeps in a crate at night and when i opened the crate yesterday morning usually he comes running out and he's really enthusiastic he just lay there and looked at me with his little brown eyes and i i felt so bad for him exactly i know it's awful it's like having a child i'm sorry i'm not trying to make you feel worse but i'm sorry i just put myself in the mind of teddy for a moment sorry i i'm not trying to compound you're upset by the way that's not my taste no but it is i just slipped out i know i know i know yeah it is uh it is heartbreaking you know that's how you might feel exactly but you did nothing wrong enough and i think you do too uh i mean the lady obviously with the Alsatian german shepherd she got a bit of a gunk in this as well because she's now reevaluating i'd imagine her relationship with her dog because she seemed convinced it was not capable of what it did so that's something for sort of her to process and contend with as well yeah absolutely i mean they're big dogs everybody knows that i mean i'm and um you know at the end of the day all dogs are animals and they're going to act on instinct it was just very strange it wasn't that there was food that there was going for i i don't know what's really triggered it because you know you know yourself and you're at walk and dogs they always just come to say hi and they have a little sniff and they do all that so um yeah she was very upset now she wasn't she wasn't from mario i think she was just visiting um so i don't know but i i just like to say if she happens to be listening or anybody knows a woman who's walking mario as we speak with the german shepherd like i say i really got the sense that she was genuine and she was a dog lover and she was very upset by what had happened she doesn't see you out of the book either well it was 200 on sunday and where there's going that that's because he had to get injections and various things and it's an out of iris consultation and then we do have to bring him back for review so you know i mean i wouldn't grudge him i don't mind paying it for him to make it more comfortable but given that she did make the offer i just thought i'd put it out there and see what happens a cavapoo is uh it's a beautiful dog if i've got the right dog it's a it's a it's a crossbreed is it is that how you describe the remix breed or what's the term it is yeah it's a cross between uh a poodle and a king jarls cavalier so he's called teddy because he just looks like a little teddy he's about eight kilograms and curly kind of golden hair and big brown eyes like he's he really is like a little teddy bear come alive you know um so he's a little sweeter so i'm just hoping that you know what i was asking the vet on sunday and she said look the best thing is to try and keep him socialized and and for to check yourself so if i'm walking along and a big dog is coming that i don't get nervous and that'll transfer to him to try and make sure that he doesn't lose his lovely little personality and become very uh you know afraid of other interesting to see it'll be interesting to see when teddy sees uh either a beach or another dog as well too of course yes yeah because sadly we had to leave donnie gall on sunday and come back to dublin and so he won't be on that's certainly not one on one of those nice beaches for a while but uh yeah i just like i said i just hope because we often go down to our local park and there's often dogs having to run around or whatever so i just hope that he doesn't become you know afraid of those well it's out now Moira hopefully the lady in question is listening and does want to come come through on the commitment wish teddy a fallen speedy recovery and has to say um for yourself as well it's you know it's it's an image i'm sure that you you would prefer not to have in your mind a mom wish uh which you wish to forget okay thank you so much for your time all right Moira take care we'll pass on the information we get all right it's our pleasure now before i go i just want to remind you that uh we have our highland radio mega summer cash drawl uh we've already given away two and a half thousand euro but we have so much more to give away we've got three more two and a half thousand euros isn't that correct it is i've got the right readout yes uh i'll read it actually and then i won't misrepresent it so we're inviting you to enter highland radios mega summer cash drawl you buy a ticket today and you'll have four chances to win big every friday from the 18th of august to the 1st of september we'll be giving away two and a half thousand euro that's not all so that is three prizes on the final uh drawl that's the final friday on 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