 worried when anyone looks at me over the glasses. Yes and that was a very concerning look wasn't it? You know you were saying daddy behave yourself. You know you are in trouble when looking over the glasses. You're doing it to me. I know I'm looking over to you. I didn't know what you were going to say. Did you know Donna Marie came in to work today with no she really rocked her socks. She came in with two different shoes this morning. Did you know that? Two different shoes. By accident. No. She misplaced her glasses. We have to get a picture of her. She had two runners on. Where's the social media crew when you need. I know and she was over in Kelly's centre. I don't mean I know where they are so. No I know but she was over. Greg let me tell you the false story. She was over and maybe she could tell her or just that but she was over in Kelly's centre collecting the papers this morning right and she you know she was lopsided you know one foot was lower and higher than the other. Hold on a second Donna Marie you telling me that they're completely different shoes? Yeah one is beige and one is white. And what about the heel heel size similar? No. Right so you are lopsided. Well thankfully I had a spare pair of boots. Well that's boring. So you've got the boots on now. Yeah. Oh that's boring. She changed very quickly you see. That's not fun at all. No there's no fun on that. Okay. Have you different collared socks on today? No. Okay. I'm wearing no socks. Tell me if we do well to get you into a pair of Honda pants let alone do the socks. Best time of the month. Have a good day. Thanks Greg. You take care of yourself. Have a lovely day. All right it's the 9th of noon show. We are about to get things underway but first we'll get a news update now from Donna Marie Daherty. Thanks Greg. Good morning. Minister of Agriculture Charlie Mcconalogue has announced a new scheme for the suckler farming sector. He says suckler farming is the most important farming sector in Donegal and that's SCEP will benefit the county. This payment will mean 150 euro per cow on the first 22 cows and then 120 euro for the remainder and that's a very very significant increase in the outgoing. A suckler scheme which for example would have paid 90 euro on the first 10 cows so this will pay 150 euro on the first 22 cows a very significant increase and what this means is that it gives farm families across Donegal a really good starting point in relation to suckler beef production and it's a good underpinning and platform for suckler cow farming in Donegal. The COVID pandemic will be declared over this year. The World Health Organization says it will make the call but isn't exactly sure when the Irish Independent reports that in the past four weeks the weekly number of reported deaths has been lower than before the pandemic. There have been almost 7 million reported deaths from COVID although the true number is believed to be much higher. Donegal County Council has confirmed the Locks Willey Ferry will not be affected by proposed works at Ratham Olympia in coming months. Responding to questions from Councillor Parg Mcgarvey officials say there may however be occasional issues with access and parking. When asked what measures would be put in place to ensure the Locks Willey Angling Group and the Sea Angling Charter boats will have access officials say they continue to consult with the operators saying alternative access by tender or from the beach can be considered in the event that the normal access route is not available. Two full-time community facilitators for the defective concrete block scheme are now available to support affected homeowners through their application process. One of them is working with the initial and development partnership while the second will cover the rest of Donegal through the DLDC. Public information sessions are being offered along with one-to-one support if required. And now to weather scattered showers and bright or sunny intervals at first today becoming windy later with south to southwest winds increasing to fresh, strong and gusty highs of 11 to 13 degrees. And that's all for now we'll be back again with the news in full at 10 o'clock and until then good morning. Hello and a very good morning it's just turning five minutes past nine on this Tuesday the 21st of March how are you keeping today? Happy World Dance in Drone Day to you all and if you want to get in touch with the program it's 086625,000 WhatsApps and text that number 086625,000 you know you can give us a call as well don't you? It's Caroline or Anne you're taking your calls on 07491 25,000. 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On his first review of Irish troops for overseas deployments the Defence Minister recalled the tragic killing of private Rooney while on duty in the Lebanon in December. The Dairy Journal this morning tells us that Ineshawn's newly appointed defective concrete blocks facilitator plans to hold weekly clinics across the peninsula to reach out to community members who are in the process of applying for the redress scheme. Michelle Coyle officially joined Ineshawn Development Partnership at the end of February and since then as hit the ground running were told one of two DCB facilitators in the County Michelle is only too aware of the challenging the challenges the roles will bring given the numbers of affected of those affected. Let's go to the Nationals now we'll start with the Irish Times and a shocking story really and one I'm wondering if any of you out there have been affected by and wish to speak about the first Irish study of people who were stalked or harassed found only half did not report incidents to unguarded Shia Khanna only 42% went to the guards for those who did report stalking or harassment experiences were more likely to be negative than positive so maybe that's why word gets around maybe that's why so few were coming forward but I mean being stalked or harassed is very very stressful it is a it's a crime but less than half of people who have been the victims of this go to the guards and then their experiences aren't fantastic a fear of not being believed because of awareness of deficiencies regarding guard responses to gender-based violence or a general lack of trust in the guard of regarding gender-based violence were the main reasons why respondents did not report instances one respondent who reported their experience to guard he said they were rubbish and another said that they said they couldn't do anything until they did something to me or one of my children now obviously this is taking the entire force as a whole I would hope here in the northwest from interviews that we've done and people have spoken to that the response here would be more favourable from unguarded Shia Khanna and they've actively been on programs like this to ask people to come forward if they are experiencing these things and have outlined the supports they offer and the follow-up that they provide so I would hope that things are better in this part of the country than perhaps elsewhere but according to the report undertaken by Dr Catherine O'Sullivan and Dr Keira Saunton of University College Cork in partnership with the Sexual Violence Centre Cork a number of respondents described being victim blamed with one saying that I saw the guard's face change when I said I'd slept with the person harassing me he started making excuses on the harasser's behalf he did not do enough and made me feel like I was just hysterical so as I say it's a very difficult thing to talk about it's certainly a difficult thing to talk about publicly but you can under the protection of anonymity if you wish to speak to us about that if you've been affected by it or have an input into it please let us know 08 660 25000 or call us an 07 491 25000 onto the Irish Independent and glass full snails live insects I think I'd prefer the live insects than the full snails and a dirty plaster were among some of the foreign objects found in food here last year according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland foreign body contamination was a frequent complaint to the Food Safety Watch Dogs advice line which dealt with 7363 queries and complaints in 2022 nearly a third of the complaints from consumers related to unfit food while more than a quarter of complaints were over poor hygiene standards among the objects commonly found in food were pieces of glass wood plastic paper metal hairs small stones medicine tablets and insects alive snail was also found in a pack of spinach while live well that's fresh isn't it I mean that's right from the garden while live maggots were found in fried chicken I've nothing to say about that part of a disposable glove was found in a rocky road biscuit and a dirty and possibly bloody plaster plaster was found in curry consumers also reported finding a false nail in garlic cheese chips a piece of glass in coffee beans and metal shavings in chicken wings other complaints included meats not being completely cooked mold on food products food on sale past itself by date and food served cold instead of hot now obviously this is a newspaper article and there were you know thousands of complaints 7363 those are the extremes what's the worst thing you've ever found in your food don't say carrots now but what is the worst thing you've ever found in your food what's your worst food experience in that regard I had a toasty made for me with a fly stuck into it once I kind of haven't really touched one since 08 660 25000 what's your worst thing you found in your food or your worst food experience in that regard 08 660 25000 I think I have this ability to compartmentalize I'm sure I've found really nasty things but I've managed to block the thoughts out but share it with us 08 660 25000 a growing list of demands is being drawn up by TDs as the government seeks to shore up support ahead of the vote on the eviction ban tomorrow this is the Irish Daily Mail a regional independence group issued a series of demands to housing minister Dara O'Brien given their support will be crucial in securing a government victory and I just don't think and I don't really know the makeup of the regional independence group I could name a handful of them probably but I just don't think they have the balls to vote against the government I don't know why it is or what they have over them and I don't mean in terms of anything controversial but I just do not believe that they will wobble a temporary TD Michael Larry told the Irish Daily Mail last night we made a number of requests that we felt should be highlighted we just have to see what the government comes up with he denied that this was about securing funding for the local constituencies because that if and I think any of these agreements between independence or any grouping for that matter and the government they should be made public because we're talking about a housing crisis you see we're talking about potentially at least 4000 people being chucked out of their homes on April 1st right now if this is about getting funding for a bridge or a footpath or a road and that's how you support the government on this issue there's something fundamentally wrong with politics in this country isn't there if it's about say I don't know providing housing or some maybe that's more palatable but if they go with a shopping list that's not related to housing with a view to supporting the government in housing the the politics in this country is finished really as far as I'm concerned I just think that would just be unbelievable but anyway he denied that the demands were about securing funding for their local constituencies however another TD told the mail that a few million to go towards a local project would make them happy so there it is one TD is not interested in housing according to the paper they're interested in getting a few bob for the local community and then they'll vote with the government that mean am I the only person that thinks that's fundamentally wrong I naively thought they were making proposals only on housing or something but they're actually going in with a wish that some of them are calling to this paper what do you think about that oh wait six six to 25 000 as I say I just think that is a terrible state of affairs for Irish politics Mr Larry said the requests include tax relief small landlords increase in the band rate and eligibility criteria for a scheme to bring vacant properties back into use again you know if it's about amendments to improve the housing situation I can kind of live with that but one TD said he needed a few million for his local constituency to support the government it's awful for the mcmonagall family jasmine mcmonagall of course was brutally murdered quite some time ago now in fact 2019 hard to believe and that pain unimaginable for her mother and family the rest of the family indeed you can only imagine you can't imagine actually I'll say you can only imagine but you can't and then they've waited this long for a trial in an effort to seek justice again it must be a just an awful awful experience for them and now the trial has begun possibly relief that it is about to begin and that you know justice can be found if it can be found through this trial of course I'm not in any way saying anything that might compromise the outcome of the trial I'm speaking kind of generally but then having to hear the the brutal details I'm not even fully comfortable in reading them out but unfortunately you know we can't hide away from these things either but for the next week or two we all need to think on jasmine's family and all those affected by this this awful crime as the trial goes on mother of two jasmine monagle met a brutal death in her own home and was found by guardian a pool of blood after she was strangled and had blows rained down on her by her on-off partner a murder trial jury was heard was total has heard I should say 32 year old richard burke of killy gordon originally from donagall tan was arraigned before the central criminal court sitting in monaghan yesterday he pleaded not guilty to the murder of ms monagle at forest park killy gordon on january 4th 2019 but guilty to manslaughter the jury's been told they will hear evidence from two psychiatrists who agree that mr burke was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing which substantially diminished his responsibility opening the case for the state and marie lawlor senior counsel told the jury that ms mcmonagall 28 had been in a relationship with mr burke on and off since 2016 she said ms mcmonagall was at home with her two children on january 4th when she contacted gardy at around 4 20 a.m with concerns about her own safety ms lawlor said when gardy from lyford attended the family home a standoff ensued after mr burke wielded a meat cleaver at members of the force a crisis negotiator attended and following a three-hour standoff gardy forced the way into the property at 7 30 a.m ms lawlor said jasmine mcmonagall was already dead by the time gardy entered the house but thankfully her two young children were found unharmed and thinking on those two young ones as well but i know they'll be getting all the support that they need from the family though the wider family uh on to the irish sun this morning the dup will tomorrow vote against a key part of the british government's deal with the eu on post brexit trade rules the uk parliament is to debate and vote on the storm and break a key part of the windsor framework it enables britain to stop new eu laws from applying to goods in northern arland if requested by a third of storm and mlas but dup leader jeffrey donelson has confirmed his party will scupper it he said last week i indicated that while significant progress had been secured in the windsor framework windsor framework across a number of areas it does not deal with some of the fundamental problems at the heart of our current difficulties it's our view that there remains key areas of concern which require further clarification reworking and change that being said there are enough numbers aren't they to see that through the houses of parliament so the dp can oppose it but it won't stop it so they'll have to come up with another plan of action finally in the irish daily mirror energy credits worth hundreds of millions of euro are set to return for everyone in the country after a new windfall tax law is green lighted this morning aim and ryan will ask the government to sign off on legislation today that will pave the way for them to collect up to 600 million euro from energy companies this summer the money will make its way back into bill payers pockets in late autumn we are told how much of it i don't know a senior government source last night told the irish mirror the windfall gains measures will consist of two parts a temporary solidarity contribution based on taxable profits in the fossil fuel production and refining sectors and a cap on the market revenues of some generators in the electricity sector can't ask us how much of that we will see we'll have to wait and see all right that was a run through of what's making the newspaper set today if you've any views on anything you heard there your worst food nightmares get them in towards two i'll wait six sixty uh twenty 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awaiting home support donagall has the second highest waiting time in the state and that figure represents a tripling in the waiting list in this part of the world I believe these details were compiled by home and community care Ireland Rory Cleary's chairperson have done done low active retirement and he joins us now Rory good morning to you good morning to you Greg um so just so everybody's clear because some for some people this hasn't come into their lives yet what is um what is home care support home support well I think that that one of the things that a lot of people will think about uh even at a younger age as they get older that there are going to be problems you know there could be medical problems etc when you go into hospital and when you need to be released from the hospital then there is a very good possibility that as you get older you're going to require to have some sort of home care package in place where some professional professionals come in whether they be nurses whether they be home care who will come around to do things for you in the house um so that you can go back into your house and I presume there's a variant in that level of care isn't there that some would require very little uh support others might require a bit more absolutely I mean I was speaking to somebody last week whose mother fairly recently had broken a hip now her mother was 96 and she went into hospital and obviously at that sort of age uh coming back out and looking after yourself is going to be very very difficult so the the level of care that she needed was very very high now there was a care package put in place but the problem was it took two weeks after she was released before the people started before the carers started coming into the house now that immediately causes her problems for family because um it's expected at that stage that who else is going to look after them apart from the family now I think that in in the sort of rural areas that we live in we're fairly lucky in that um a lot of people are employed locally and so they're more caring towards the staff and so they will say okay we'll take an hour here an hour there etc but it is very very difficult when you're released from hospital and you have some form of disability from the operation or whatever it is that you've actually had in in the hospital and before we talk more about uh obviously the impact on people and the community have to make the connection of course as well this is part of the problem with overcrowding at letter candy university hospital because they will only presumably discharge someone when measures are in place for their care and we do know that at times there can be 20 30 people awaiting discharge for a number of reasons but amongst them uh are family not available to to provide care or support or no uh home support packages available so it's we are talking about one area of course but it does also affect the acute hospital um and what are people's when we say there's a waiting list does that mean some never get it or they have to wait a long time to get the support and also I presume we have no problem uh can you hear me okay right okay rory is just going to check on something there he'll be back with us shortly uh right no rory what i was uh what i was going to ask you there is is that you know do people get the home care we're talking about a waiting list does that mean they have to wait a certain amount of time or they don't ever receive it sorry greg i'm i'm obviously having a problem in here and what you're saying there can you just repeat the question i'm just saying do people get the care that they're required on this waiting list or or does it never arrive right okay so yeah but more often than not what i've heard the the care does arrive but as you say one of the problems is first of all is that the people uh become it's a horrible word that people use but they use bed blockers and as you say they they can't be released from hospital because they're not well enough and they need care when they get out now there has been talk and it is talk at the moment i believe that in letek any hospital or in the area of letek any hospital they're going to build a hundred bed extra uh place where people who need the care but the care provisions are not in place can actually use that facility so that it frees up the main beds for people who really need to get in because of of um medical problems themselves um and hopefully that will solve a lot of the problem but that's only talk at the moment and how long are we going to be before that actually gets into place yes well we got an update not too long ago and hopefully that does that that does come to fruition quickly but of course people also want to be cared for at home or in their community so that's not going to fix every problem and also i had imagined rory unless we are recruiting more home care staff the current great staff we have are going to be spread more thinly which is an awful lot of pressure on them and unfair on their uh the person receiving the care absolutely and you know even at the moment uh somebody else told me that's there they get care people come in in but they're only given 15 minutes or 20 minutes to deal with the patient and not only that but the family have to get things in place so when the carers come in they get the job done as quickly as possible i mean these carers obviously have a very very difficult job but they're not really given enough time as well and again as you say it repeats um taking on extra people in that position it's something that's always worried me um as you get older and i'm just turned 70 last year and you know you think yourself what is going to happen with the years and as you get further down as you can tell from my accent i'm not from this area at all so i have no family here but if i was to go into hospital or my wife was to go into hospital then we don't have family who can help now to be fair the people here are fantastic the the the local people are fantastic the irish people are known as that for that and it's really good that they would come and help but it really needs to be more resources need to be put into the home care packages and also we owe the older people who built this country for us and laid the laid the groundwork on which we live now we owe them that we do not we don't want to live in a society that older people feel like a problem or a burden there's absolutely no reason why that should be the case this is down to a lack of planning for many many many years and also a lack of resources and will being put into this sector right about now and you know this is this is not just about the care of person this is how this makes them feel as well it's not right what we do yes absolutely um it as i think that the the other thing that a lot of people worry about as they get older is monetary wise and you know they are concerned that they're one becoming a burden on their family two have they got enough money to pay for these carers they're going to have people coming into their homes that they don't know but i mean the carers are fantastic people etc and so you know generally it is a great problem and and then of course you should get older they you've you've got the situation as if people cannot be coped at home you have to start looking at care homes etc and that's the last thing that people want to do because they want to be in the community they want to be in the home they want to stay in the home apart from any house it's going to save the the government a lot of money by having people in their homes rather than being in a home or whatever so it is very important that these facilities or more monetary items are put into the care home sorry into the care facilities within the house and you it's not an immediate problem now maybe as much but you keep mentioning the word home and people being in their home the problem that's going to be perhaps for future generations maybe sooner rather than later is more and more people are renting and may never own a home and we don't really have a plan what do you do in that regard when someone can no longer play rent or the house is too big for them we don't have alternative accommodation and we're not planning for that so we are switching to sort of almost like a a rental nation like other nations in europe for example but we don't have any plans so that's going to amplify the concerns and worries people have as they advance into their older years they don't have the home that they you know that we the many people just take as i want to be in my home i want to be in my home exactly and it in the in the long term it is cheap of the government to have them in their in their own home rather than to have to look to put them into care homes something like that or people having to give up jobs to look after their their relatives their mothers or their fathers or whatever and you know that is another problem that that can happen one of the things that we i think we lack over here one is homes specially for older people i know that particularly in letter kenny they're looking at the present moment of building homes specifically built for older people and also there there should be more look people should look more into um what they call sheltered accommodation where you can have your own flat but it is it is within a complex where there are carers on site all the time so all these sort of things need to be looked at and the willingness is there because i've spoken to what i've spoken to older people living in very large houses three or four bedroomed houses and they have they approached the council and said can you find us a one bedroom bungalow there's a we are in a family home that will look after a large family and they wanted the council to facilitate facilitate that that makes perfect sense doesn't it to find them or build them a property that is closer to services for example or the hospital that suits their needs and free up this three or four bedroomed house for a family for for the rest of their lives but unfortunately there we don't have that level of joined up thinking and rory there's a lot of go ahead i think that there are that there's a lot more discussions going on at the moment particularly as it always happens in doubling you know around that area where there are more of these places being built which are specifically for the older people i think that that is good but you're right yes better the length than ever because this conversation i talk of was four or five years ago uh you know and that was if they had not saying they should do anything off the back of what we're talking about but if they listen to the public if the decision makers listen to the public a lot of the solutions are there and very finely rory i want to talk about another group of people and that are families uh under great deal of pressure now they've got their own children they've got maybe uh both adults in the house working you know struggling with bills and all that type of stuff and that scenario you talked of earlier where an older person uh or even not a older person needs additional care a great deal of pressure on them to provide it because it's family and stuff but the realities of life means it's very difficult for them and the lack of home care packages or home support is adding greater pressure on to the the the children as well who are in an impossible situation all of the time absolutely you know if you think about it it is a very awkward situation for people for families and the worry that they would be going through and having to rely on you know sort of you have to get people together families friends etc and help out each other and it's not the right sort of thing and i think that you know as we say there ought to be more monetary items put into the uh home care situation etc fine exactly and again it's like so much we talk about on this program spending the money saves the state money in the long run you spend a five or and you save a ten hour you know you know what i mean we we with proper planning and proper decision making it's actually less of a burden on the state's finances and that's what always confuses me as to why progress is so slow uh robert rory sorry it's been lovely speaking to you i really appreciate your time thank you thank you very much indeed and enjoy the rest of your day and best wishes to you and your partner right okay any views on that 08 6 60 25 000 you know that's the whatsapp and text number don't you if you want to give us a call to 07 4 9 1 25 000 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter kenny c u dot i e like cracking easter offers from aldy fresh hot cross buns in store now and from 23rd of 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seven dot i e not long till our trip to aards and north down i can't wait to dust off the golf clubs or maybe i get some r and the spa we could begin some paddle board or maybe kayaking this time the kids would love that there's loads of great options for dinner and drinks the main question is what do we do first create moments to remember find great value breaks at visit aardsandnorthdown.com slash offers shop evolve clothing for calvin kline tommy hillfiger paul and shark ant and many more casual and streetwear brands menswear superstore letty kenny retail park or online at evolve clothing two floors of fashion open seven days now do you remember yesterday we were contacted by a member of the public who was at now docking car and donna and we didn't mention car and donna at the time to give them an opportunity to reply they were at now dock at the weekend and they wouldn't accept a card payment it had to be cash they asked does anyone know why this is as we had to go to the town and get cash from the atm so as we committed to we endeavored to get an answer and it is as follows care doc have provided now doc with some up devices to accept card payments we are aware that car and donna have been having some issues with their some up devices but this is being looked into and it will hopefully be resolved soon so effectively the machine that reads your cards weren't working car and donna but they're working on it to get them working if that all makes sense so into the future hopefully uh you'll be able to be able to um pay by card there if you have to call in right chelsea joins us now chelsea thanks very much for doing this i think this is really important to get a good message out there uh chelsea good morning to you i'm all right you're not uh too well i would say because scammers have been able to access your revolution account and you've lost a ton of money well it seems a ton of money to me anyway uh tell us what happened um so basically it started with um a notification through my revelant account last monday it said that someone had logged in so i went in and put my code in for my revelant um and i thought nothing of it so then it went to thursday and i got a phone called from what i thought was my revelant account um and they knew everything about me they knew all my details they knew where i was from um and they told me that my account had been hacked they said that it was through my emails um so basically they told me that they were going to try and secure whatever phones that i had in my revelant and i told them like i don't really use revelant so it's not a big um loss to me but they said so is your revelant connected to your aib or your you know your your bank and i said yeah it is um and that would be my concern because i get my wages paid through my aib account um so basically then um they said that aib was going to call me back so that fellow hung up and another fellow rang me back um and he claimed that he was aib and that my aib account was going to be put into a block and no one would be able to get out of it so we said because of this the hacker that was on my revelant account is in my aib account um and he won't be able to get out of it for 12 hours and that just before just before we carry on the conversation both of these guys are scammers yeah they both started they were both both scammers right it's very complex but i at the time i also thought that i was talking to yes for sure i can see i can see why yeah yeah um so basically they said that my account was going to be on block but the hacker wouldn't be able to get out of my account for 12 hours and i asked him well what happened only that's in there and they said look we're going to keep an eye on it and whatever is taken from me will be put back in your account so basically the aib hung up and the revelant boy rang me back and he said that my revelant was safe i was going to phone him i'm mute for over an hour while he said he was doing security checks um and then they said look your revelant count is safe now but your aib isn't so they got me basically transfer some of my savings from my aib going to my revelant so that if i needed money it was there um and that it would be more secure there as the hacker was still in my aib so they're saying look we've made sure your revolute account is safe get your money out of the unsafe aib account into revolute while we work on shifting the hacker out of aib yeah wow okay yeah um so then it was it actually took my sister to write me and say tells me something's not right it was two days of being on the phone with them um and she said tells me something's not right here you need to go on to your aib and your revelant so we did and basically over 13 thousand euro was taken out of my revelant to a crypto app called finance and that's when we kind of knew what i what i got myself into that is absolutely heartbreaking 13 000 euro of savings and you have to work that's a lot that's a lot of earnings after tax before it comes savings that's actually heartbreaking chelsea can we go back to the start what was the original contact then that that started this whole chain of events it it was an 085 number from dublin um but now when you when we try to contact that number back it's an actually an IVF clinic in dublin they've just they've just cloned that number yeah yeah yeah and it said the original tech said there's been some unusual activity on your account or what did the original tech say it said that someone it was it wasn't a text message it was actually through my revelant app yeah and it was that someone had logged in to my revelant and that just started a ball rolling and they dedicated an awful lot of time to this as well they had different people from different banks i mean anyone would have once the conversation started i think chelsea anyone would have fell for that because yeah it's just that level of complexities what we don't normally hear of chelsea yeah now they're they're just to what they're doing anyways and what about i mean you've effectively um and this is just a reality it's no reflection on you you've kind of really effectively approved all of these transactions by accident effectively no no no they they were in my revelant account to present it themselves right i guess i get you they had got access to that at that point and they were able to draw the money over yeah they've been on my revelant account all week and i can see that now and they're still in my revelant account so they went down then and approved of the transactions what a revolution what a ab saying to you so aib can't do anything they've tried to help me but because the money was moved over it's out of their hands but as the revelant they are not helping um i've shown them the press that there has been another account in my app and they are saying it's all my fault i shouldn't have moved my money over that i approved of it even with the press that the other phones in my account they are doing nothing to help absolutely nothing wow this is devastating for you isn't it yeah yeah so so revelator washing their hands they are not working with you on this at all and so there's very little no so basically up until last night the transaction was pending it hadn't fully gone through yet i had asked i have looked please freeze this payment until at least just investigate it but they said no we're not we're not doing that wow they they had an opportunity to they were speaking to the count holder and that was still pending they had an opportunity to freeze it and they didn't no they wouldn't do anything for me i know it's completed it's gone through and they're still saying oh well there's nothing we can do at your own fault wow that's just awful chelsea i mean you're saying at this point now you know if you're on revelant get off it that's what yeah that's what yeah definitely yeah they are not helping even if you look up now they might just people that is going on about revelant is shocking and i mean normally at this point there's a somewhere to turn but even if you notify the guardian i'm sure you have or you will yeah i mean they might look at it as a crime but the chances of recovering this money at this stage are non-existent like i mean this is yeah this is an awful loss to you chelsea yeah that is um i have no hopes that the stage is getting a bath i just want people to be aware of it at the stage right all right chelsea well listen we all have to learn uh but i mean at the end of the day this is so complex how many of us would have spotted it in time because yeah what they've gone through to sort of make it make they made out they were helping you that they found a problem that were assisting you all the while behind the scenes what they're they're the ones actually scamming you it's terrible it's terrible chelsea but listen thanks for helping us spread the word um i i do i appreciate that it's no comfort to you whatsoever but i do know that you've gone public on this so is to avoid other people suffering the same fate yeah all right chelsea again i'm really sorry you've gone through it there's nothing i can say other than this all right chelsea bye bye thank you all right take care chelsea farrell there um lost 13 000 euro just i mean i think any of us could have fallen for that the one thing i will say and i was in the room with someone when this happened to them and it just happened to be after a transaction so it looked legit and they almost lost a thousand i think it was about a thousand but managed to stop it quick is they the the scammers now can clone numbers excuse me and they can clone a number in a way that it appears in your thread so if you open up your sms on your phone with your lending institution or your credit union or revolute you have a thread of texts that says you know it could be you know your six digit code to approve the transaction six digit code to approve the transaction you transfer 20 euro to whoever and then in that thread they the scammers can make this message appear um so you open it up it is from revolute now of course further investigation will show you that it's from a different number a clone number what they can put these sms is in the thread of your lending institution and once they've done that and once they shock you enough um then they kind of can have you so just be extra extra extra careful and we really thank Chelsea for helping us uh to try and spread the word there um it's very very much appreciated though it's no comfort to her i don't think at this point because i mean to accumulate 13 000 euro you have to work so hard and you have to earn much more than the 13 to get that into the bank too that's the the other side of it so many hours of grind uh graft you know to get that money 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 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increasing fresh to strong and gusty highs of 11 to 13 degrees now you may have heard reports or read reports that aren't Irish people are among the biggest users of cocaine in the world this according to a new report by the un office on drugs and crime ireland trailed only spain the netherlands and australia for cocaine use and consumed the drug as the same rate as the u.s and austria in joint fourth highest place globally uh this effectively means that uh just short of one in 40 people in ireland reported using cocaine the previous year 2.4 percent now i presume that's of the general population right so if you well i'll ask actually steven mcgloughlin clinical director at white oak centre in moff who joins us steven thank you very much for joining us good morning i'm not sure if this is you know between ages but if you were to pull out the people least likely to take cocaine so very young people maybe or people over a certain age uh that percentage probably increases quite dramatically yeah um the way i would i suppose i've experienced it working here at white oaks is that we almost assume that anyone under under the age of 40 and coming in for addiction issues that cocaine is pretty much likely to feature along yeah maybe with alcohol alcohol would still be the uh the most prevalent uh cause of addiction but cocaine certainly over the last seven or eight years i'm working here about uh almost 11 years and for myself and my colleagues we've noticed um a very significant increase in the number of young people basically between the age of 20 and 40 who are coming in with uh cocaine addiction i'm sure this is i'm sure this is down to sort of popular cultural influences and every tv show that you watch you know they're snorting cocaine and very often they don't present the uh the the negative elements of that i kind of get the feeling that cocaine has kind of moved a little bit into the realm of cannabis where you'd have a lot of people that say look it's just uh it's just like drink it's just for a night out it's not a hard serious bad drug i'm not suggesting that for a second but i just wonder amongst younger people if that's the perception and then of course once they're hooked yeah i i think certainly it has become much more normalized and in previous times it may have been seen as something used more exclusively uh by those who are better off perhaps those who worked in high-pressure jobs etc and that has all gone and cocaine use is now uh much more prevalent and is a much more normalized among people of all kind of age and social groups um and i think a lot of that is down to the easy availability of the drug can you talk to me about that what you've learned from people you speak to about the availability and the widespread availability of it presumably then people see it as very easy to get your hands on yeah well very much so i mean anecdotally speaking to to people who come up for treatment they would certainly be of the view that um as someone said to me maybe a wee bit flippantly it's easier to get a bag of cocaine on a saturday night and let her carry that is to get a pizza now that that may be slightly tongue-in-cheek but what they were saying is that when people are out and about young people are socializing um there is very little difficulty in being able to get cocaine i think it's also because the fact that we may have this perception that it's been supplied by these gangs and gangsters and people sort of in in dark corners um the the sad reality is that it's people's neighbors it's people working in ordinary jobs who are doing this as almost a sideline because it's quick easy money and therefore um it's becoming easier much easier for people then to to to avail of of cocaine when they're out socializing and very often it's friends supplying to friends um you know people who perhaps have a drug addiction themselves um and who are then able to feed that addiction by also supplying to to friends within their their network i'm not saying it's the reason but i i do wonder um does it contribute and i've said it numerous times over numerous years over the course of what we're seeing is an increase here that whilst we uh make alcohol uh you know less attractive through price and what have you and and and whatever at the same time we should have been recognizing that younger people who want a buzz or a high at the weekend and and booze is too expensive and and they are going to take something that they will go for something that's cheap on the street hand to hand uh interaction and away you go like i just wonder if you know a lot of policy we've we've drove we drove people from drink to the likes of these drugs but we didn't recognize that in advance and didn't sort of say right we also need to be making sure that we address the inevitable drugs problem as i say i'm not saying it's the cause of it all but i really do and i have felt for a long time that it is a big contributor yeah but in a sense that that can almost take the view that it's an it's inevitable that people are going to um become to some extent dependent on on substances no no no what i mean yeah but i'm talking i'm talking but but steven just to be clear certainly substance yeah but to be clear steven i am talking about those that do the majority of young people actually don't drink up until a certain age but i'm on about those that are inclined to drink and it becomes incredibly expensive it it's within that cohort they will look for another alternative you know there's a correlation there in terms of cost um i mean the reality is a present it's about a hundred euro a gram uh for cocaine um that's not exactly an inexpensive kind of uh habit to develop um we would have young people come in here perhaps who are earning good money um you know maybe involved in the building trade uh could be earning in excess of a thousand euro a week but yet by a monday morning they've nothing to show for it no okay fair enough except that i mean you're the expert yeah it's not it's it may have got maybe more accessible more available but i don't think that necessarily translates into being cheaper than i get you so so the the driver would necessarily be the financial element of it okay i get that steven i accept that of course i do what are the what how does this addiction impact people what do you see in them when you know like how is their life um quite often either they themselves or their family members would would seek help when the person is finding it difficult to manage their lives quite often the first impact uh is uh the breakdown of trust whether it's with a partner with a family member um they don't know where they are money seems to be uh missing spending a lot of money they're being secretive in their behavior so there's a breakdown of trust with people close to them uh the other thing that's noticeable is that a person's mental health begins to suffer because um they they're they become easily agitated uh they get easily stressed by the smallest of things uh they're no longer dependable um they maybe start to miss work um and then there's physical symptoms of it where you know they're not sleeping properly um they're restless you know they they have mood changes um those are the signs that that people close to them usually pick up uh fairly quickly and then it develops from that particularly if a person develops a serious addiction whereby um you know they can get involved and end up running debts and we would have uh particularly family members coming in here telling us of the kind of sums of money that they're paying off to dealers because their son their daughter their husband whoever um has has got involved and has ran up significant debts that they're unable to pay off uh there's a worry the fear for family members because quite often the dealers then aren't just going to stop with the individual who's using the drugs but they will demand the money of whoever is is closer attached to to the user so there's a whole series of of ripple effects that stem from the person's usage yeah and um it's not by any means um you know a harmless drug or people talk about using it recreationally uh that's far from the truth because you know once a person becomes dependent on using cocaine uh in order you know as a stimulant uh to derive some kind of pleasure the simple fact of the matter is that they will build up a tolerance which means that they will have to use more and more of the drug to get that original buzz uh that that they would have had and so it it's a it's a greedy drug in that sense yeah it takes more and more of the person all right okay and listen I mean obviously we we don't want to see reductions in in police uh drug drug units within an ungodly she can't on what have you um as we try and deal with this problem Steven listen thank you so much for your time I really appreciate it wish we were speaking on different circumstances but 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Good morning it's Donna Marie Daughty with the news at 10 o'clock Minister of Agriculture Charlie McConnell has announced a new scheme for the suckler farming sector applications are now open and will close on the 2nd of May he says suckler farming is the most important farming sector in Donnie Gall and that's gap will benefit the county this payment will mean 150 euro per cow on the first 22 cows and then 120 euro for the remainder and that's a very very significant increase in the outgoing a suckler scheme which for example would have paid 90 euro on the first 10 cows so this will pay 150 euro on the first 22 cows a very significant increase and what this means is that it gives farm families across Donnie Gall a really good starting point in relation to suckler beef production and it's a good underpinning and platform for suckler cow farming in Donnie Gall. Brexit and its impact on northern Ireland will be discussed by EU foreign ministers today the general affairs council is expected to formally accept the Windsor framework which was negotiated by British government and EU officials last month however DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said he would not be supporting the new deal and when it comes before the House of Commons tomorrow speaking ahead of the council meeting in Brussels ministers of state for European affairs and defense Peter Burke believes a new agreement will be approved. In terms of Windsor framework it's important today that we get the formal decision to bring forward the amendments to the withdrawal agreement and obviously that would provide the pathway for the joint committee to sit on Friday and also I know there's a vote in the House of Commons during the week so we have a huge busy schedule. Cases of the winter vomiting bug are on the rise. 394 cases have been reported in the first 10 weeks of this year which is four times more than last year. Most of the cases have involved children under the age of five and people over the age of 65. Anyone with symptoms is being asked to stay at home. Donnie Gall County Council has confirmed Locke's Willie Ferry will not be affected by proposed works at Rathmore and Peer in the coming months. Responding to questions from councillor Parke McGarvey officials say there may however be occasional issues with access and parking. When asked what measures will be put in place to ensure the Locke's Willie Angling Group and see Angling Charter boats will have access officials say they continue to consult with the operators saying alternative access by tender or from the beach can be considered. That would be in the event that normal access routes are not available. Councillor McGarvey is welcoming the answer. The last Willie C Angling Group raised concerns over the access to the marina and their boats from the Peer with the works out for tender at the minute. They also raised concerns that their insurance didn't cover them for the transport of their customers from the beach. I'm happy that the council has assured me that they will communicate with the group and the envisage that the pontoon can remain in use and will have an alternative access to the marina. I'm confident that there a solution can be found to ensure a hassle free and smooth year for the last Willie C Angling Group. The Covid pandemic will be declared over this year. The World Health Organization says it will make the call but isn't sure exactly when. The Irish Independent reports that the past four weeks the weekly number of reported deaths has been lower than before the pandemic. There have been almost 7 million reported deaths from Covid although the true number is believed to be much higher. The government is preparing to go head to head with opposition parties this evening over its decision to end the eviction ban. A Sinn Féin motion calling for the ban to be reintroduced will be debated in the DAW later and voted on tomorrow. However, the government is to sign off its own counter motion this morning. The regional group of seven independent TDs says a position will depend on how the government responds to eight proposals it's putting forward to alleviate the housing crisis. And finally, two full-time community facilitators for the defective concrete block scheme are now available to support affected homeowners through their application process. One is working with the initial and development partnership while the second will cover the rest of Donegal to the DLDC. Public information sessions are being offered along with one to one support if required. Laura Mannion of the DLDC has been outlining how the service is operating. It's to provide some of the physical barriers that people might be suffering or experiencing through the scheme. Things like access to printers, scanning the necessary documents, access to the computers and office space. The second area then really is guiding people through the application process themselves. People to further information requests, access to information around folios, boundary issues, etc, etc. And lastly, it's just also signposts and home owners that are affected to older support services within the community, counseling, mental health support. Of 11 to 13 degrees. That's all for now. We'll be back again with the news headlines at 11 and until then, good morning. The obituary notices this Tuesday morning, March 21st. The death has taken place of Mary P. McLaughlin, Fraser, Church Town, Cairndona, and formerly of Casual Guinelli. Removal from the eternal light chapel of rest, Mountaintop Letter, Kenny, today at 2.30pm, going to her home in Church Town, Cairndona. 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Hi, Greg. People I know buy cocaine for 50 euro per gram in letter Kenny through Snapchat. It is blatant. That would be my information. That figure and lower or higher figure was given earlier on, but I think a lot of younger people are buying it. It's quite caught quite a bit and I don't know the ins and outs of it, but you get seven or eight lines if you do it thinly. And, you know, a 10 or each and away you go. Do you know what it means? So, but as I say, there's all different levels of drug usage and what have you. Well, where exactly does the money go at now? Doc directly to the doctor on call also is maternity care not covered as I recently attended when pregnant with migraine. And as I was pregnant, I wanted to rule out high blood pressure or something more serious. I queried this and was told maternity care was not covered. Also, when you contact now doc and the nurse refers you to A and E, you child or adult to build 100 euro. If the doctor refers you and you have a GP visit card for the child, it's free. Hard to find logic in this surely no matter what professional triage is you and carries out a clinical assessment, the costing method method, I beg your pardon, should be the same. I don't I presume the doctors are salaried. Now doc is a private company. It runs that side of things as it relates to maternity cover anyone out there with any information on that. I don't know. And also, I was also under the impression, though I haven't really had experience of this, that if you were referred by the GP, even in now doc, you shouldn't be built 100 euro. But I think those charges are going anyway, aren't they? Greg, I've heard you many times talk about the shambles that is letter Kenny A and E. Well, I got to see it for myself yesterday. I arrived just after 1pm with my very sick mum to cut a very long story short. She eventually got onto a ward at 5am this morning. So that is a long wait, isn't it? That's 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 hours. This is a lady who was so ill and was left to sit on a horrid wheelchair, like many other elderly patients. The place was absolute mayhem from the minute we went in until I went home. If a farmer did this to animals and what they were doing in A&E last night, the ISPCA would have them in the courts. There was absolutely no system in place in the year 2023. It really was atrocious. People who come in hours after us were sailing through while we sat and sat and sat. I hope we never have to go through this again. I hope you never have to go through it again. A lot of it does depend on when you turn up and the assessment, the triage as well, of course, and whether or not a bed is actually physically available. That's in no way to offer an excuse or to lessen your experience. It's just the hospital is packed. It was full, absolutely full there a couple of days ago. Good morning, Greg. I was thinking when I heard the thanks very much for that. There would be no need for an evictions ban if the government introduced legislation that stated that banks looking to sell off mortgage books and landlords looking to sell residential property must first offer the property at discounted prices to the resident or tenants and follow that offer to the local authority before allowing any other party to buy it. Also, a prohibitive tax on vulture funds charging extortionate rents and interest rates should be introduced to deter vultures from the market. The only thing is that you, and I mean, this is a bit of a dilemma for some people. I presume it's a dilemma for some people. You're kind of telling the government is kind of telling people what they can do with their houses, right? And I don't know if you make a differentiation between the principal private residence where you live and an investment property, but this is however they acquired it through hard work inheritance or whatever it might be. This is people's property. And you're talking there about having the government to introduce legislation that determines what people can do with their own property. I thought there was a huge resistance to that and evictions ban is doing that as well. You know, obviously, there is the right of someone to be housed and everyone should have the right to housing, I think. But these are properties that are owned by private individuals in Ireland and that it's being legislated what they can actually do with their own property, which I at some time or for some people that would seem a massive overreach from any government to tell people what they can and can't do with their property. What's next? Hollywood homes, caravans, camper vans. Do you know what I mean? I'm not, as I say, I'm not really, I'm not really insert myself into the whole debate, but your text is talking about controlling what people can do with their own properties. A caller says we were talking about what the food experience is. I found cockroach legs in my food in Spain. I was working at the bar at the time, needless to say, I stopped eating there. Cockroach legs. But there are new burgers in little, I saw them in the frozen section. And these, it's not a mistake, it's mealworm lava burgers, patties, they call them. Did you see them if you tried one of them? It turned my stomach just looking at them. But I don't really know what service purpose they serve anyway, because they're no good for vegans. I suppose maybe it's looking for alternative, more sustainable ways of getting protein. But lava worms and another ingredient patties in little, did you see them? If you bought them, did you try them? Are they any good? 08, 6, 60, 25, 1000. Hi, Greg, regarding TD's Mark McSharry, he said he would support the government in an old confidence vote if they gave him the cath lab for cardiology in Sligo Hospital. How wrong is that shameful carry on? Another good morning, Greg, what it shows is we need to do something like Holland did. Our politicians don't care. Let's not fool ourselves that they do. We need them all out, so-called opposition as well. Traders to the state that a lot of them believe to call him. Good morning, Greg. Food companies are allowed to have a certain amount of insects in their food. Well, I don't know. When you get insect burgers available for public sale, I'm not going to fall off my seat at that suggestion. I see a lot of four province flags around Donegal. Anyone, any idea what they are about? This is in the Ardra, Glen, Column, Kill Area. I have a picture of them here. For those of you watching, that's what they look like. But you've seen them. They were around last year as well. And we put the call out on the radio last year to try and find out what they were about. And I don't recall getting a response. Oh, by the way, the trailer, do you remember we were talking to Brendan from CBM Signs? Yesterday they found the trailer, the power of radio. But did you see where they found it? If you want to go on to, I'm not sure if it's up on the Highland Facebook page yet, but it's up on my Facebook page. The trailer has been found, believe it or not, it's actually intact and usable. But I think it's muckish somewhere. It's down in the middle of a field. I don't know how it got down there. I certainly don't know how they're going to get it out. I don't know if the Rescue 118 can be tasked for such a mission. I know it can't, but you know what I mean. It is in the A-hole of nowhere. And I mean in terms of proximity to roads, by the way, it's in a beautiful part of the county. But it was found, thank you. I don't know who out there found it, but they found it after the radio appeal. But you want to see where it's at. As I say, I have a picture up on my Facebook page there. All my Twitter feed, Greg Hughes too. But anyway, it's there. They're glad to have it back. They're going to get it out. It will again be on somewhere, advertising something again. It is not dead. It's alive. A caller says, what training to home help workers get before they go out to the public caring. I look after my own mother for six years and they do not stay there the proper amount of time. They don't do their work they're supposed to do and they just don't seem to be given the proper care that's expected. Is anyone there to oversee them? It's a complicated area because a lot of these people are told that, well, you can go there and you've got a certain amount of time. And sometimes I seem to record travels included. They have to go in and do what they can. And then it's on to another client then as well. Obviously people's experience are going to vary from dependent on where they are, but it's not the same everywhere. And I do believe that they are overstretched. Anyone with an insight into that, though, to give us the both sides of that, please let us know. 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We'll start with a burglary in Letter Kenny, Sean. Yes, it occurred at the shop premises in the main street in the early hours of Monday the 13th of March, which is between midnight and 6am. So entries gained the premises and a substantial amount of jewellery is stolen. So we're appealing to any road users who've dashcam footage or retravel in the town centre between midnight and 6am. Contact Letter Kenny on 0749167100. Also, if anybody observed any suspicious activity in the area between those times or has any relevant information, we'd ask them to make contact with us. You can use the area confidential line also 18006611. All right, and Garda also investigating a theft in the Business Park Road area of Letter Kenny? Yeah, it's occurred on Tuesday the 14th of March between 3.35pm and 3.40pm. So a red Toro 21690 is 53 centimetre lawnmower was stolen from Business Premise at that location. The van entered the grounds and a driver and passenger proceeded to load the lawnmower onto the van and then left the area. We were particularly interested in any settings of the van in question, which was a blue Pugel partner. So if anybody travelled in the area at the Business Park Road around that time, as dashcam footage or if they observed the van in the area, we'd ask them to contact Letter Kenny on 9167100. All right, now an assault at Upper Main Street, Letter Kenny now? Yeah, this occurred on Saturday the 18th of March approximately 4am. So a man was at that location waiting for a taxi home when he's approached by a man who has not known him, who proceeded to assault him. So the injured man was taken to Letter Kenny University Hospital as he sustained injuries. So we were looking, if anybody witnessed the assault or if there any relevant information to the incident, we asked them to contact Letter Kenny on 9167100, again the confidential line 1800 66611. Now your colleagues in Milford investigating criminal damage at Loch Rose? Yeah, this occurred on Saturday the 18th of March approximately 9.50pm. So a report was received in relation to the damage that may cause the parked car, the rear window and two side windows, the car being smashed. It's believed the damage was caused by a male who used a hurl to do so. So we were interested in any settings of a low male in the area at that time question. Or if anybody travelled in that area between 9.40pm and 10pm, through dashcam footage, you asked them to contact Milford on 9153060. Yeah, and that crime like the rest so far, there's bound to be witnesses. It's just a case of them coming forward with any bit of information that they have that forms part of the wider guard investigation. Exactly, any information is valuable. Yeah, okay. Next up, it is criminal damage in Letter Kenny? Yeah, this occurred on Wednesday the 15th of March at approximately 5.10am. So Gary were alerted to the fact that the man in the area of Crocker's mountain top in Letter Kenny was causing damage to a car that was parked there. So we dispatched the scene and discovered that one of the front tires of this car had been smashed but the man had left the area. No entry had been gained to the car. So we were repealing to anybody, particularly taxi drivers, who may have been in and out about the roads. Or may have observed this man or catching him on dashcam footage to make contact with Letter Kenny on 9167100. All right, so that's the appeals for now. We had a question actually in following on from last week and this comes up from time to time, believe it or not. Is it a traffic offence to drive with fog lights on during the day? The short answer is yes but it depends on the circumstances. No, before you get into that then, so your fog lights, because I could never find the switch to even put them on, it's a struggle, let alone leave them on. That red, the bright red light at the back is a fog light, isn't it? That's right, yeah. And there are fog lights to the front. That's right, yeah. Not on all models but some carers do. Right, okay. And are they, they're not the lower lights down on the ground? They're the very low ones, yeah. Are they? So they're classed as fog lights, you shouldn't drive with them on? During the daylight hours. Right, okay. So anyway, go through the ledge for the legislation. Yeah, well look, there's legislation covering this. It's the road traffic lighting of vehicles regulations 1963-2014. So these outlines, which lights must be fitted to care and how they must be used. So fog lights, the definitions must only be used if you cannot see 100, more than 100 meters in front of the vehicle and dense fog or falling snow or nighttime driving. And fog lights must be switched off when visibility improves. So look, the reason for this is they're bright and powerful and if used when there's no dense fog or falling snow, then cause glare and dazzle at nighttime. But also according to the legislation, it is illegal under the road traffic lighting and vehicle regulations. Now, I don't want to put you on the spot, but say for instance, some of these LEDs, they would take the eyes out of your head. Are the specific regulations in terms of the brightness of headlights? I wonder, I know, I know there are in terms of, you know, the levels that they are, and if you've got a particularly high vehicle, it can appear that they're higher than they should be. But do you know of whether or not, how bright your headlights are, whether or not there's any rules governing that? There's not in the legislation to the luminosity of what exactly the measures are. So short answer is no, there's nothing to say. But I presume in terms of their direction that, you know, there are guidelines. Because that's covered in the NCT, isn't it? Right. Okay. Now, it's our final reminder, and it's an important one, this. It's the 2023 Donegal Garda Youth Awards. I love this competition, so remind us about it. We're told it's our final reminder. Yeah. So the nominations must be received by 12 p.m. That's this come on Monday, the 27th of March, to be considered. So Daniel, you're towards our association, JSPVC, and they celebrate outstanding young people between the ages of 13 and 21 from throughout the county. So we're inviting the public to nominate any young person or a group of young people that know or committed to making a difference in the community during 2022. So you can download a copy of the nomination form from the Donegal County Council website or the Garda website, which is Garda.ae. You also collect the nomination forms from the following stations. We'd let a Kenny, Mulford, Bunkrana, or Balashana, they're open 24-7. Okay. Now, okay, you've mentioned then you can download them, post them off, post them off, or drop them into that kind of Garda station, Markford, the Tension of Garda, Grania, they can go into any station if need be, and they can be, they'll find their way to Grania. Exactly, we'll pass them on. Excellent. Okay. Now, and we want a big, and everyone who is nominated in that process is recognized. So, you know, we need to celebrate, as we do all the time on this programme as much as we can, our amazing young people, the contributions that they can make, little initiatives that they do, actions that they've carried out, and as I say, even nominate them, there's a recognition element to that as well. So go to Garda.ae and check out more details there. And as I say, give a young person a real lift. They can stick it on their CV and all that kind of stuff. I think it's a really, really worthwhile exercise. Right. County final of the Garda Schools quiz. Yes. Judy took place tonight in the Mount O'Reagall Hotel here in Lerner County. So we'll ask all the quiz teams, could you be the hotel at 7pm? And we look forward to seeing all the kids, but their families and the teachers there, best of luck to all of you. Very competitive, might kick off. Will there be a High Garda presence? Well, I won't be there, but I'd say there'll be plenty others. All right, okay. Well, we wish all those taking part in that competition the best of success. Garda Sean Sweeney from the Bunkrana District Station, thanks so much. It's been great having you in and we'll be back with another Community Garda information item just after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday. The Community Garda information slot is brought to you by Sheridan Security Systems, protecting what you value most. Call today and get your zero-wire alarm system from 299 Euro, Sheridan Security, 911-26025. 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Bluebird Care are currently seeking Cares and Nurses to join their ever-expanding team. The immediate starts for Cares in all parts of the county, especially Letter Kenny in Ishawn and Donegal Town. Bluebird Care are also looking for registered General Nurses for day and night time 12-hour shifts. Contact Bluebird Care on 0749129562 or bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home. Now fake news around cancer treatments and unfounded curers are putting patients with the disease at risk. A leading health academic has warned. He is Professor Declan Devane, a Professor of Health Research Methodology at the University of Galway and he joins us now. Good morning to you Professor, thanks for taking the call. Good morning Greg. It's good to have you with us. Right, I think in the past we've kind of had high-profile individuals or high-profiled cases where people you know entrusted their care to them or signed up to their ideology or whatever way you might want to describe it. Is it more common than the odd sort of high-profile case that people will take poor medical advice in this regard? Yeah, I think unfortunately the misinformation around cancer treatments is all too common. I think especially when we have the benefits of the internet and social media, such big parts of our lives but with them also come some consequences and one of those is that spread of misinformation and the problem is when people as you say may believe in those ideas and that can ultimately lead them to make poor decisions about their health and sometimes put their lives at risk. I mean obviously there are people that didn't agree with the handling of the COVID pandemic whether certain drugs were used or not used. People all of a sudden got behind doctors who weren't medical doctors but had a theory and subscribed to that and would have climbed Aragul with them. They trusted them so much. So are we in a position whereby they say never waste a crisis that some might see that distrust of traditional medicines and let me put it like that and try and exploit that? Yeah, that's a really good point. I think it's comfortable to sometimes think that people behind cancer misinformation can be people are deliberately out to be a scam but often it can be celebrities and influences as you mentioned so the public figures it can be well-meaning individuals who genuinely believe in alternative treatments or therapies and they may spread that misinformation unintentionally. You do raise an important point around that people's trust in science. I think one of the challenges we had during COVID is that it can be tough sometimes to explain the uncertain side of science to people. It can be tricky for a few reasons because as human beings we usually like to have clear black and white answers but science often comes with shades of gray and people find that uncomfortable. So we prefer clarity sometimes science information can keep changing so understanding of various topics keeps evolving and explaining how we know today and how it might change tomorrow can be tough concept to convey as can staying accurate and up to date with that information even as somebody working in this full time it's difficult to stay up to date with a field of research that's evolving so quickly as it did and continues to do like COVID research. And there's there's two real motivators for us as humans I think and both you know can be exploited one's fear and one's hope and both can be a false fear and both can be a false hope. Again when we're at our most vulnerable we're perhaps more easily exploited or not even exploited perhaps because you say that there's different motivations for people that offer these alternatives but I just think people can be at a very low ebb and either of those two emotions can be leaned upon to make poor decisions. That's a really good point yeah and it is I agree with you entirely I think particularly you know with people with impacted by cancer I think they can be more not doable but more vulnerable to misinformation due to what you describe that stress and emotion so you know faced with the life-changing diagnosis be the person themselves the diagnosis are their loved ones they understand if you're scared anxious and really desperate for answers and hope and solution and that can make them more susceptible to misleading or false claims that promise hope or quick fixes and that's some of the things we're trying to kind of convey to people impacted by cancer so they can perhaps you know think a little bit more carefully about the the claim they hear to make better informed decisions so just in terms of of what kind of controls there on it let's just use me as an example I've been doing this show for a while and I'd hope people would trust me to some extent what is to stop me stopping doing this program right and saying that I felt compelled that I had to leave because throughout my years of covering various topics I have discovered that the system is trying to stop you from realizing that such and such a product can actually cure cancer and I have now given up my career and I'm going to focus solely on saving people's lives because I know that this works right and maybe that trust that may be hopefully I've accumulated some here that I could start exploiting that and then charging people you know money is there anything to stop me actually doing that no there isn't that's a worry isn't it absolutely I think you know we have what I would regard as a heavily regulated system in place for pharmacological treatments for any disease but when it comes to some of these other you know lotions and potions and other therapies there is no effective regulation that can prevent somebody from doing so and often when we come to people who are influencing some of this misinformation and these claims they have no health qualification no health experience and yet what they're trying to purvey is health information about the alternative treatments for example are about particular curers that should be pursued so no there's nothing to stop you doing that and I would hope that we can as a public you know try to understand why people may be motivated differently because if you decide to leave the your current role to do so there possibly is some motivation behind that yeah and it's just you see and it is a minefield and it's very difficult all we can do is trying to get through to people because let's say for instance I said you know well someone said not me that these crystals can help prolong your life right and you go what how could crystals do that why why does the government not provide them and I said to you well big pharma controls government and chemotherapy radiotherapy they're making billions out of it so of course we don't want you to know that these crystals for 100 euro can work it's very hard because there are people that will go for that it's very hard because when you're explaining you're losing to professor do you get where I'm coming from so it's almost like where some might listen to this and say well of course used to would say that because use a part of it you know use a part of this cover-up it's just that's how it's so difficult to get this through because to do with trust and what have you professed you know you get the challenge because you're you're a cold face I completely get the challenge and I completely get why people have that view and and I think that point you make about that personal experience that people have they're critical because they can be very powerful motivation for someone to say well this worked for for me I have a similar type of disease or I have a similar issue that needs treatment and but I think even if you don't agree with me I think that people should think about what role personal experiences play so don't have to agree with me at all but I think you people would should consider that personal experiences can be influenced by manufacturers for example a person I think a treatment worked for them but it really didn't because something called the placebo effect so that's when a person's belief in a treatment makes them feel better even the treatment itself didn't have any real effect and people's own individual experiences can be influenced by you know natural variation in the disease or their use of other treatments and that's why we used you know control studies like clinical trials to test drugs or other treatments and by doing this we're taking into account or trying our best to take into account at least all these other factors and get a clearer picture of whether treatment really works so personal experiences are important but we need to also rely on scientific evidence to make sure the treatments are safe and effective and also I've kind of been using some extremes you know like crystals and stuff like that there but there are then others that make the career that will sort of say there's a particular diet or a food item that can can cure cancer for an example but we I mean we know the importance of eating healthy whether you're sick or not but there's no evidence is there to suggest that a particular food group in and of itself without any other additional treatment so what have you can cure cancer no there isn't there's no evidence that a particular food group or particular food itself can actually cure cancer absolutely none and again it's back to the old mantra of a balanced diet being the most suitable to keep people well but no and we see that all of the time these myths around you know sugar feeds cancer cells it might be particular vitamins supplement it might be a particular food group as you say in terms of people changing the diet dramatically as you know and that's the thing we all do know this because we all have been exposed to individuals who've been impacted by diagnosis of cancer so we see often the treatments that they might pursue but no there's no good evidence about underpinning a lot of those treatments unfortunately yeah and I think there's a really useful tool being launched later this year it's funded by the Irish Cancer Society it's a free online service to be launched by the University of Galway of course and it will give cancer patients the tools to examine what's real or what's not when it comes to information around the disease the only like there's no negative to that and don't get me wrong professor it it's it's but I don't feel people who are looking for an alternative or who are peed off with the system might be inclined to log on to that service do you know what I mean I think those who might are you're pushing an open door I think there's it's the other group that perhaps will seek out alternatives that might not go there to get where I'm coming from yeah I do entirely and we're funded by the Irish Cancer Society to develop the program the the the next stage we need to look at is has it been effective so who is accessing this program does it change people's views of particular treatments or particular therapies for example but yeah I agree with you I think there are some people whose mind we won't change and I accept that we're not trying to change the world with this but we're trying to maybe make it better for some people at least and I think there's a large group of people in the middle here who actually would um value a resource that would help them think critically I agree yeah definitely and the important element of all of this is we don't want or you don't want I'm sure anyone delaying treatment treatment that we know that can can help make people better better outcomes prolong their life any delay to that is is a problem or discontinuing treatment for that matter or without consulting your medical team doing anything that might limit how well your medic how well your your treatment might work as well I mean that none of that is is good that's all life shortening yeah you put it really well um exactly so for example if someone thinks a particular food can cure their cancer they may very well ignore the advice of their healthcare team and not get the treatment they really need or they might follow a risky alternative treatment that has no good basis behind it and ultimately that can lead them to to delayed or inappropriate treatment increase anxiety cost often is increased and ultimately we've evidence that they can lower chance of survival so I think it's essential for everyone particularly those impacted by cancer to have access to accurate libel information to make the best decisions they can yeah and I think it's very important that critical thinkers or people who see themselves as critical thinkers actually are and you know do multiple areas of research multiple sources make sure the person that you're trusting this is not their latest hobby horse that they're on and they'll move on to something else the next time do you know what I mean if you want to think a little bit outside the box do so that's fine but actually really dig deep and make sure that really where you don't end up is back at conventional treatment and you've had a delay and it's going to have a negative impact on you exactly and and your point about cross-checking that information from multiple sources is a really good piece of advice I think you know regardless of who's giving the information you know is that coming from is that the same or similar advice from multiple reliable sources and if it's the one group or individual that's offering you multiple sources for that information again if you're a critical thinker dig deeper yourself absolutely okay right professor we'll talk again hopefully maybe when this is launched I'd be interested to see or even a couple of months afterwards to see how it's gone down and as you say I think there's a lot of people that would be incredibly trusting there's a the biggest proportion I think is in the middle the the unsure or that need guidance and I think I think it'll be a very popular tool and we look forward to speaking to it closer to its launch time thank you Greg and I might just mention just the ICS Couch Cancer Society daffodil day is on 24th March and as we know every cent that's given there goes towards fulfilling some of this lifesaving cancer research that goes on all right well done professor thank you very much indeed professor Declan Devan there he's a professor of health research methodology at the University of Galway any views 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 right morning Greg I fully agree with an earlier caller about carers not providing the care that's on the package they are given no one oversees what's happening thank you right I understand what you're saying there now in terms of the the the care that's provided does not match the commitment I get you what time does the repeat of the night till noon show be on at night Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday at 12 midnight Friday at 1am but don't forget that at any stage that you want you can go on to our we can go on to our website and listen to a podcast of it it's called a podcast everyone's doing podcasts now aren't you aren't they but what it is is really just a replay or you can go on to youtube and watch the show there if you want to as well at any time now just in case that suits you I'm just putting it out there I paid 25 euro for a bag last weekend no one pays 100 anymore I'm not sure if you're being serious or not but I would actually even if you even if you're not being serious I think that's closer to it and out of that eight or nine lines you know what I mean for some that's a night out for a few people I'm not in any way condoning it's incredibly dangerous and what have you but I know there are 17 18 19 20 year olds who don't have tons of money that are casually using it not necessarily in the that are and and it's creating problems the issue with drugs these days is most young people think they're different they'll not get addicted they can take a leave it then they find themselves in addiction center wondering how they got there look how many of us started smoking for a bit of crack when you were thankfully well maybe it does happen now as much someone gave you a cigarette or you had a cigarette and you thought it was a mate you know you thought it was so cool or you know rebelling against your parents at 13 14 and then at some point you buy a box and then that's it your stock you're addicted and it's the same with alcohol but particularly drugs as well certain types of drugs it starts off as our well sure you know I only do it with mates or I only do it in the night out all right it's only a bit of crack and next thing you know you're dragged into that addiction and we've heard from mothers particularly whose children the children that they loved and were so close to over a month being completely different persons people they no longer recognize living under the roofs compared to the way they once were and often is because of an addiction and particularly a drug addiction okay we'll be back with the weather forecast shortly a beautiful day and one you too songs of surrender out now this print now offer printed mugs cotton bags rulers and pens they make printing easy and affordable with quality color printing to suit all businesses and budgets called this printer never can be a 91 double seven nine double five or visit this print dot are you anyway last week I was in the house I'd done a crossword that's the bit of telly I made about 40 cups a day and I just thought today's the day you see I haven't been out much since before the pandemic but I knew the bridge night was on so I went I just crazy them all they're a really good laugh I missed that reconnecting with others is always good for your health maybe it's time to say hello again world a message from 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increasing fresh to strong and gusty highs of 11 to 13 degrees now i've just read the weather forecast and and for the majority of people listening you know they will have a roof over their head and it might be an inconvenience if you're want to put washing out or if you want to go about and do your everyday business but for some the weather forecast is literally the conditions they'll be living out in and more so now uh than ever uh we are in a homelessness crisis we're seeing record figures no dailies ceo of the northwest simon community and he joins us now no thank you for joining us and i think you know worth emphasizing again that homelessness is a country-wide problem it's not unique to urban areas or uh anything like that there we have homelessness right across this country good morning greg and thank you for having me yes indeed homelessness stretches throughout the county of genegal and across the north west we work in genegal laterment sligo and uh we we encounter homelessness in every area of the three counties we have uh resettlement and it's a statement work they're working in donny garland she travels from in the shorn to karik fin down to gillie bags and bundo and so everywhere you can find people living there people at risk or experience in some form of homelessness the majority of those uh in homelessness in the northwest and we're grouped with three counties living in an emergency accommodation do we have a particular do we have a problem with people having to to uh live in a car or a tent or whatever it might be it's it's uh well obviously for it's very difficult for the person it's a relatively small in number in comparison to what we have in other parts of the country we occasionally meet people that have been sleeping in a car we try to get them out of it as quickly as possible with the assistance of the county councils um the official numbers of homelessness for homelessness is based on the number of people who are provided accommodation by the county council and what is emergency accommodation generally speaking um in donny garland emergency accommodation is primarily hotels houses tourists houses and beanbees there's a number of beds in the column keel hostel here in letter kenny uh now in 2022 the last set of figures that we have what kind of work did uh northwest simon community do in in terms of uh the numbers of people they helped well throughout the the northwest we worked with 239 households in 2022 they contacted us that was to be precise some people would have contacted us seeking accommodation expecting that we are going to have a bed available or house available straight away and and when they find we don't have that immediate answer they don't continue on contact but the total number of households that contacted us looking for support last year was 239 all right and and thanks to uh support uh the northwest simon community was able to help uh a lot of those people with the although i i i don't know how this is going to play out politically but anyway as it stands now from april first the eviction ban is gone and we don't know the numbers of those that have been served uh in in in this region over the last while but it means that it's unlikely we're going to see a reduction in homelessness i think in the northwest is that how you would assess it i would i would be very surprised if we have anything other than a significant agrees i don't know the precise figure for notices of termination at any goal but at a recent meeting with the local authorities we were told that lego county council and lead some county council both know of 20 families facing eviction at the when when the would you like to see that and i don't maybe it's too political for you as a spokesperson for the northwest simon community to comment on but would you like to see that eviction ban extended yes i would yes i i i think it's important that we plan we have to be doing something we have to be doing something while the band's in place yeah six months ago we had when the plan when the when the eviction moratorium was brought in we called on government to immediately begin developing response that would make it possible to end the the moratorium without people ending up homelessness unfortunately nothing effective has taken place in that time now you're uh urgently in need uh your group the community the northwest simon community are urgently in need of support um talk to me about that well at the moment based on the figures i have at the moment we we are guaranteed 50 000 euro from dunagal county council um potentially 10 250 from slago county council and we have rental income from properties that we have are buying under the capital assistance scheme and then for the year we're looking at a gap of 145 000 at the moment that's just to maintain that's to maintain the services that we're providing at the moment so is it a particular appeal on the businesses the business community of the northwest yes we we're we're appealing to we do we normally have done two appeals in the year now we need to ramp that up because we need to we need to get in more money so we're making a specific appeal to businesses and corporations that are present in the northwest to see if we can get additional funding from them and at more significant levels so we should appeal last week and also we're also we have uh fundraiser going on at atu next Tuesday night it's the 5k fundraiser being won in conjunction with atu now we are allocating many many millions rightfully sold to assist people traveling into this country fleeing um fleeing war torn parts of the country the world sorry in this climate with with the amount of money that's being spent to to home and house and support people coming into our land should the northwest simon community really have to be making appeals like this surely we should be providing funding to to organizations like yours to ensure that we treat everybody equally do you know what i mean so this is not so that we can maintain our commitment and do the right thing uh for people that are that are fleeing into this country but it it doesn't sit easy with me that someone like you know who worked so hard uh for the northwest simon community that your organization has to make this appeal and i don't want to in any way dilute that appeal but if we are allocating funds we need to ramp up i think funds to organizations like yours and that is in no way to pitch one group of individuals against another yeah well i suppose the first thing is to say that it's very essential that we offer protection to people for sure and and that one really clear the other thing and the other thing to be very clear i've been working i started working in homelessness in 1984 we've had this problem for 50 60 70 years nothing new it's nothing no the lack of funding not where simon's funding has always been inadequate from the state yes of course the whole process for the allocation of funding is still worked on a business model they're working out and and they're doing proportion like officially our figures in the northwest count count for one percent of the number of people who are counted as homeless in the country and our proportion of funding is allocated on that basis so there isn't i would just love to see the shortfall bridged and i know historically this is not a new problem and people coming into our land house not cause this problem but i'm saying maybe now is an opportunity to not approach it like we do so that groups like yours could do the amazing work that you do but in the meantime we're calling on the public out there businesses throughout the northwest to help out during this most severe homelessness crisis as you say great things going on at the atu upcoming how in the last minute that we have how can people support the northwest simon community norm well anyone who wishes to support us can make a donation to our website at not west simon.ie donate now button you find the details also on our facebook page on our instagram page and and any other social media all right keep up the good work and hopefully something is done so that we don't see this problem in worsening whilst we attempt to make things better no daily CEO of the northwest simon community thank you so much for your time thanks okay it is just a minute past 11 it's time for a news update and we welcome into studio now donna marie daugherty thanks greg good morning two incidents of theft occurred in letter kenny in the past week the first took place on the early hours of monday morning which seen entry gained to sharp premises on main street and a substantial amount of jewellery had been stolen the second incident occurred on the business park road on tuesday afternoon last where a lawn war was stolen by two suspects driving a blue pugil partner van gardi are appealing to anyone with information or dashcam footage regarding either incidents to contact them at better kenny garden station a bunkrana woman has lost 13 000 euro in an elaborate scam chelsea farrell received a notification from her evolut app claiming another user had attempted to log into her account it was followed by numerous back and forth phone calls over the next two days from two scammers purporting to be from both revolut and ab before her money was sold for cryptocurrency minister of agriculture charlie mcconnelloke has announced a new scheme for the suckler farming sector the new scheme will see farmers receive 150 euro per cow for the first 22 cows and 120 euro per remaining cow applications are now open and will close on may 2nd brexit and its impact on northern ireland will be discussed by eu foreign ministers today the general affairs council is expected to formally accept the Windsor framework which was negotiated by the british government and eu officials last month ran afast in donnie gall is the least has the least interest in us presidents in ireland digital funnel examined google searches for the last five visits to ireland by an american leader the research comes ahead of joe biden's visit here next month and finally cases of the winter vomiting bug are on the rise 394 cases have been reported in the first 10 weeks of this year which is four times higher than last year most cases have involved children under the age of five and people over the age of 65 anyone with symptoms is being asked to stay at home that's all for now we'll be back with more news headlines at 12 o'clock okay donnelly thank you very much indeed we're back with more on the 90 noon show after the break the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie show the monday blues the door kick them into touch banish them for good with a wheat treat at kelly's diner in letterkenny maybe a coffee and scone or an all-day breakfast or a burger and chip with 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it's a line in the anther marlin's call okay brilliant that that makes an awful lot of sense if that's the case okay thanks for that so apparently it's rugby fans putting them up who puts the flags up though because they got on polls and all um are you behind it uh why do you put them up of course maybe this listener says it's because of irish rugby um but as i say they're pop-up all over the place so it's done in some sort of an organised fashion i think koala says i have two amazing home helps that come to my mother and i have another two who simply want to get paid without showing up they complain about everything and are in and out within seven minutes for a half hour visit there is no reflection of if this is not a reflection of all home helps and a lot of them are genuinely very caring however some are just there for the money and if you complain you're threatened with no care i've heard this before by the way some people are afraid to upset the apple cart if they're not getting a proper service service because they're threatened with the care being withdrawn so what what happens in that process just so we can get to the bottom of it or maybe call it out or expose it if it needs exposing why complaining what is the circumstances that if you complained about the home care you're receiving or that you love the ones receiving that that care could end up being withdrawn altogether help me understand that please so we can shine a light on that this koala says it's a catch 22 situation mostly they want to say that i feel the standard of care definitely is slipping and when i retire the home helps will probably just wave in the window and drive on at that stage you know i get where you're coming from hi greg just got an esp bill 520 euro for a bungalow with two people living here i rang them they said my contract was up and i was paying full whack they said they're not obliged to let the customer know the contract is up so i lost my 10% discounts in september i think this is really underhand let your listeners beware to keep an eye out on their contract yeah really very important switch every year with all of this stuff electricity broadband it's not like the old days where you're without internet for five or six days switch your broadband switch your internet switch your home insurance make sure if you get home insurance that you cover the cost of rebuilding your house don't say oh 80 grand um and that'll do if you cost 380 000 euro to rebuild your house ensure your house for 380 000 euro because that's you know you will need that money god forbid the worst were to happen but shop around great savings to be made in that area as well your car insurance shop around uh you'll save hundreds every year if you do now none of us have the money to spare do we to waste hundreds of euro but shop around don't be loyal to particular phone companies or particular all the broadband services are pretty equal they're all using the same lines they just switch from one company to another uh now of course in terms of cost of support support and what have you there is a variation but look if you've got fiber into your door it's all the same line it's just a different company that you are paying uh i'm very keen to sort of have a word on um the to get some of your comments yesterday about the football because we had arshin kehlion and we had um brendan davenian and we were discussing you know the future for donny gall um brendan daveni i think kind of is of the view don't want to paraphrase it uh but he's a former into kind of player as well of course that you know don't get your expectations up for any major titles uh in the foreseeable arshin of a little bit more optimistic he's saying look get over the first uh game in holster who's to say you couldn't make it to a final and pull it off on the day i think i'm paraphrasing correctly there as well uh but a caller say so not a caller all of you are saying greg i agree with the texture um lads should be called for trials to play for donny gall not pick plenty very good club players sitting twiddling their thumbs i think times these managers i think it's time these managers open their eyes uh can they focus on the ladies also two points from three halves of football and beaten out the gate on friday and the manager blames the ref um let me see there's a mixture here of course right okay i'll actually just go through different varieties i thought they were all the all the same but they aren't greg no matter what any experts say the banks are predestined to fail the elite want to get rid of the american dollar and bring in crypto as the only currency it's only a matter of time i think crypto's really gone out of faith for now to be honest with you and all the big players that were backing it before seem to have moved away now um hi gregs it just me or do any of you listeners think there's a deliberate pattern involving within our government politicians evolving uh regarding political debates in so far they rarely answer questions continuously interrupt the opposition even to the point of nearly shouting them down and flagrantly boast about what they've done for the country i think that's down to the moderator i i think more of a problem i have um is that politicians now senior politicians very well paid politicians ministers don't want to go on radio stations and be questioned about decisions that they make and they certainly don't want to go on with other listeners uh some don't want to go on at all that's their choice uh and uh some don't want to engage with other politicians so i think it's down some of it's down to the moderation uh but other people you know if they don't like the way things are going if they feel their things aren't going their way uh or they don't like they blow back from some of the decisions they may they simply disengage with certain media or certain radio programs um is that fair i mean you pay their wages i mean do you not pay their wages to hear from them uh but some of them believe they're above it okay above above being questioned about certain things uh so german bishops in the catholic church have voted to bless same sex marriages with bishops in austria belgium and holland to follow suit no surprise there with one third of the clergy in europe throughout thought to be gay will irish bishops be next to defy the vatican and bless homosexual and lesbian unions what's uh bishop mogokian's view well we can certainly look at that issue uh back to football the top four teams in the county four players on the county team seem strange there seems to be a lot of uh uh disquiet to about some of the selection that's happening we also heard yesterday about the wife of a footballer as they would describe praising her daughter who stood up to a bully and punched them in her face and we sort of asked what do you think about that should it be celebrated or what have you this caller says my grandson was being punched every day and i told him to turn around and punch him back as hard as he could that was years ago and they ended up friends a lot of what is called bullying is just kids being little brats and schools expecting everyone to love each other just a pity they are not learning all these lessons naturally there are some children that are vulnerable and it's perfect to look out for those but in the main kids can sort their own problems out say so listener um let me see here uh britain and america are not going to go against israel because of the profit between these countries and that is what it all boils down to our land actually imports very little from it so we see no point in a campaign that was talked about yesterday boycott and israeli goods we started to boycott russia and it served very little purpose in the fighting of the war in ukraine until we get the bigger states behind the truth of what is happening there is uh there it is a wasted campaign but you see i suppose it's how one might feel as an individual in taking a stand or doing something back to football greg what about the county board should they not be coming on your shoulder that the supporters know what is happening at the minute it just looks like a fiasco and their silence doesn't help the situation surely supporters who pay their hard earned cash and travel long distances deserve to know what's really happening otherwise you have all this speculation flying around back with war after these the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio 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 or apply online via our app or in office today keep your car or van running smoothly with the service at hegardy's ford in letter kenny not only will it minimize the risk if a major repair expense but it will be logged in your vehicle's service handbook 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15 off the menu for all senior citizens a kelly's diner mountaintop letter kenny highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter kenny to doblin expressway bringing you the time at the time is 17 minutes past 11 really pleased to welcome into studio jeena grant whose chairperson of dance syndrome donagall and her son christopher who has dance syndrome both of you you're very welcome to the program christopher how are you i am good i see you in a school uniform but i don't see you in school so it's good to get the break from school isn't it yeah well maybe not christopher you are a student in st union's college you're in third year how's school gone for you it's very good um i'm with first you know i can't believe that um he's nice um i'm so like happy and but i'm gonna do right next year so um hope i get there so oh yes of course you will in transition year is fantastic and what's your favorite subjects at school or what do you enjoy most of my favorite judges art yeah um i love drawing and coloring at house i will color and do anything for my imagination and my mind so okay so you could draw anything down on paper you like to just think freely about it do you yes and you also love music i think don't you yes i do i'm afraid to ask you what music you like can i what music do you like i like a lot of songs um i like singing a primary um if i was in the car my mum always wanted to put on primary for me and i would like so happy and excited to see how long it would be to play music um but i love music so yeah proud mary is a tough song to sing though it is yes i wouldn't fancy is it the Tina Turner version that you like yes i do all right okay that is a cracking song a brilliant song and a wedding too it gets everybody up out dancing and also as well as school you're very busy because you also have a weekend job as well don't you you work where i'm making pennies okay what do you do there because i have no cleaning but now i'm at the kitchen now cooking um i could like laugh um i could like soup and dishes and so yeah i'm gonna i'm not gonna cook but um sometimes really hard to follow distractions and see what's going on yeah but that's a good thing about learning isn't it because you know cooking is complicated now so it's good that you're getting that experience in macklehenny's isn't it yeah and um you what else do you like to do christopher um i like on the walks yeah um sometimes mum will tell me like take a bit of a walk or a dog i would take them out for a walk and on the weekend i will just drag it home but sometimes i go out and walk i'm making my mind fresh out and all that's good it's great you've got such awareness for such a young person that you understand how important it is to get that fresh air and be at one with nature and yeah walk in the dogs did you say yes what's the dog's name the dog's name is kippard and who does the dog prefer you or mom um well it's me but sometimes i feed her so okay very good and let me ask you when you finish at st. union's college or when you finish your education is there any particular field you'd like to work in or what would you like to do after you finish school christopher well i'll talk about going to etu yeah um i want to like uh bow sign see me as my brother right okay because my brother's doing the same thing for etu i think and that would be a really good day if i join in with them and see what's going on in the life so yeah brilliant of two but you also have to leave enough time to enjoy your passions of drawing music and the outdoors yeah all right okay it's exciting times ahead uh jenna um christopher's mom we are speaking on uh world dance syndrome day how important are days like this i often wonder it would be great to get to a point where we didn't need a particular day or there wasn't a need to or maybe we'll always need a day to celebrate i don't know what's your feelings oh i think an ace used to have cake and i love days to celebrate it and to have world dance syndrome day for us is massive because it gives us a great positive reason to celebrate and coming into the world of disability especially intellectual disability is very difficult when you see the barriers that we as a society put up and hold up for our members and and those with down syndrome have huge challenges ahead so world dance syndrome day opens the platform for people to discuss opens a platform for awareness open the platform for people to ask the questions and it helps society see that maybe inclusion yes is there in part but we've still got a good way to go and what is inclusion do you see what what what when we get there what do you see as inclusion being everybody having a right to make a choice and that choice being being respected and supported and unfortunately when you come into intellectual disabilities especially for those with down syndrome that isn't the case yeah and um in terms of the education because we're talking about uh christopher and his plans you know obviously yeah this first day i heard that i wanted to go to atc you know what that's why uh i'm a good interviewer christopher because i get the information that even mums can't get and i think it's lovely too that looking up to your brother i wanted to join in with what what he's doing uh but in terms of is is it any more difficult for you uh than i mean do you face any particular challenges in terms of the sort of education the funding of education supports or what have you well parenting and education and and anybody who is apparently special teenagers know what's bloody hard regardless of disability and it's really hard to kind of see you know to try and help that pathway open up but especially for intellectual disabilities there is no pathway currently for third level education right now if christopher was at age and did want to go to atc you he wouldn't be able to but that is changing and that is something that we are pushing for now there is no ability there is a dare program but that's for those with physical or sensory it's not for those with cognitive or intellectual disabilities it's hard to believe that we're still pushing having to push these things in 2023 with everything that everyone seems to be campaigning about you think we would have got these simple things not simple but you know what i mean yeah the basics correct wouldn't you but that's where it's great to have days like this because it opens up the platform for discussion right and second level education is while inclusion is much more difficult now in national school and and in pray groups and in preschool it's accepted and it's normalized and thankfully the generations coming below are naturally assuming it's there so there's no but we still have a long way to go to support the post primary schools to support the the etb's and further ed because there is no natural pathway there for those with intellectual disabilities and the pathway for program that saman harris had given to third level education and in fact i'm part of an n-hef group it's a national group for those with intellectual disabilities the first steering group in ireland to set up and the atu dunigol has joined with slago and mayo and we actually have employed they've employed a person to assist them to make a module and the pathway open and hopefully in the future in the next couple of years we will see that available availability for the first time yeah in ireland um and what we are are we making progress oh definitely we are okay a hundred percent yeah there's still that's what i mean the areas that we have to go into is in choices of adults respecting them and employment places and like currently now we have hsc funded services i'm not knocking them but that's the only choice that's there and that's not fair you know that's where people with Down syndrome and people with intellectual disabilities across the board should be given full choice of having adult consensual relationships which currently they're not allowed legally by law to have employment choices respected to have training choices respected there's no reason to be respected as individuals exactly and then if they are we don't have to talk about the various branches in which they aren't being that's it and in our health care system we also need to provide adequate health care for those who have the the extra chromosome because research has shown that there's a specific health issues that will occur in them when we turn into adults and that isn't currently being adhered to and there is i don't want to say neglect in the health care system to look at this resource but there is definitely areas of need that need improvement because we know that the extra chromosome can cause specific health issues so they should be aware of that whenever they go into different different health centers and different different health fields and that currently is in the case but these are all avenues that need to be and and as each year progresses that World Down syndrome now was stamped approval for worldwide on 2011 and look how far we've come Christopher and there's another young student and they're with Down syndrome and St Junans and they're thriving yeah and our members and our families are so positive and happy and we have a reason to celebrate and i i'm not a big fan of the catch lines and the hashtags and stuff but i like this one with us not for us what is not for us i also like to see me camp here because the see me yeah and and and and also to with the we had the book that's uh there's the time with macklehenny's there that was just a beautiful piece of work that's still available isn't yes it is um i just thought that was lovely but that's why we need to go forward we need to see the person not the syndrome and we need to bring people with Down syndrome out of you know not behind closed doors but out of the comfort of not knowing give them a voice give them the ability to advocate for themselves and also to you know we talk an awful lot about and quite rightly so what the HSE needs to do what the government needs to do sometimes look at introspectively what do we as humans need to do how do we view other people that are different or you know not different but you don't want to know about i'm trying to use language that's that that resonates with the point i'm trying to make that you know or we see past something or we are inclusive for you know what i mean we as a society also as humans to have a role to play in that everything can't be legislated for or funded or whatever a lot of it's about and i think the book and other initiatives do great work in that regard i think the book does and i think it's to have people see there's a person behind the syndrome the syndrome doesn't collaborate the personality the person that that that they are christopher has an extra chromosome that's when he's 46 other chromosomes that one extra chromosome does not create who he is the environment he grew up in the people he's around the expectations that are put on him and christopher is adorable and i adore the bones of him but he equally drives me demented in the house he is a typical boy there's times that you know christ is in the room gina i know but i'm saying that that extra chromosome doesn't negate i know everything else and a society that we have to start looking at the diversity we have to start accepting and don't be frightened can i ask a question just talking about the change of minds it's obviously we had an actor whose name escapes me at the moment with dan sin drum who who did very well one you know was in an oscar winning short film james martin thank you very much gina and then we have a new film woody harrisons got a new film yeah champions yeah does that is that what is the view on i mean obviously james martin that's different uh because it's it just goes to show what everyone can achieve but just then films that sort of sometimes yes of course it is whenever you know it's like everybody needs to try but whenever you see james martin on the oscar the fellow with dan sin drum what was it you were shouting in the sitting room about the dan sin drum when i was like sitting in the sofa mom and dad was in the side beside me i was like saying that tell me ma'am and but couldn't i just over to my brother i was like i love you i would have mom and dad no you said that could be me that that's the first time before all that you showed it yes yes that could be me and that's exactly what everybody wants to say i'll tell you i've no doubt it could be christa for the way things are going between being an artist or a chef or whatever ah the oscar the drama but no that's it's just to see and i think society just needs to lift their nervousness of saying the wrong thing and the nervousness of i don't know what to say or do or you know to hold a head tilt whenever somebody has a chance with a disability and yeah exactly and yet we're getting into we're getting we're into a world now where everyone's extra cautious of everything that has to be said and then obviously we don't normally as people feel we can make the right choice at the right times do you know what i mean but anyway christ was well able to stand up for himself i would say certainly to you jena oh definitely and that's where we need we need those themselves who have to face the word for them to be the ones to advocate for themselves and i think it is is give people give christ for the opportunities yes and he will knock it out of the park and respect is right to make a mistake yeah respect is right to fail respect is right just to live the same as all the rest of us do right christ for this now i'll not hold you very much longer um your mother mentioned cake is they're going to be cake later this is the first year this is the first year in life that i haven't got him a cake for world down syndrome day why did you decide to mention it on the radio station yeah why you know okay people see the act is really really hard to get a gluten-free cake and i'm no good at a baker right so should we find out there's any proper cake as you see uh the the right cakes out there anyway if anybody has a gluten-free cake that i can buy anywhere so this chain isn't depressed you've made the rod for your back jena did you mention cake christ for i never mentioned great i never have more missing cake in the entire life of jena that mentioned the cake today nobody else so every year i used to bring a cake to school every year we christopher are are innocence in this now you've got to get it and i know you're not very busy so you've plenty of time to get cupcakes and testicles we're going there all right chris friend do you want to say hello to anyone any of the work colleagues at macklehenne's or yes i want to say hi to my family go to in my city units and i want to say thanks to sandwa who's my manager in macklehenne's and i want to thank everyone who's working at macklehenne's and thank everyone for listening so and mom and mom as well okay right christopher anything you want to do you will do i can say whatever you want to do you set your targets you'll do it i can see that in you there's no doubt about that you're a fine young man and we appreciate you coming up good luck with your studies uh good luck with getting the cake the right cake mom and uh is there a bit of a party at the weekend yes there is this is the first time since pre-covid is fabulous we celebrate we the association celebrate our members and the fact we're all together and we've met so many friends and we've had so many positive experiences more than negative and and and this journey so we're celebrating a more down-center day our party's going to be in monteregal this weekend we have a group of other parents organizing it 400 people go into it over the minute yeah that's we've had to yeah we haven't had we've had always around two to 50 but this year everybody wants to get together with almost that that contact with almost that you know that celebration hopefully they play proud mary that's the only thing i'm worried about here he can sing it anyway even if they don't right christopher listen thanks so much for calling up is there's something you've got something on the tip of your tongue you want to say go and say yeah well i hope mom get caked for today i actually do mom so every time i want to say to me get cake get cake well listen we've set the north west out looking for a cake so can i just say if we don't limit people with Down syndrome he can bake his own cake flowers are nice you see always is that and she's right because mom is always right and i hope you got cake a mother from mother's day didn't you know you you can't expect a cake if mom doesn't get a cake so did you get a cake please tell me you got a cake you know cupcakes you you you receive what you give all right listen christopher enjoy the rest of your day best look with everything i'm sure we'll chat really really soon and enjoy the party at the weekend and make sure to throw some shapes or however young people describe dancing nowadays and uh gene grant chair of donna got of Down syndrome donna got it's always a pleasure to have you on the course and all you're incredibly brisk busy today so we appreciate you squeezing us in thank you so much christopher good luck to you bye directly to your current account it's spring outdoor painting season foie and company are the largest autists in the northwest of all the best quality exterior paints best for the exterior of your home fencing sheds or garden furniture foie's qualified in store paint consultants are on hand to help you pick the right paint for the finish you want and the right color to suit your home top names include the fleetwood weatherclad exterior collection do you looks weather shield and color trend to name but a few call into the paint department at foie and company bali 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you i'm doing very good now when i was talking about uh some of the statements coming from people in their experience with the guardie and what have you i was minded of a lot of interviews that i've done with people involved in this area in our county in our region uh and i just wonder are are are things a bit better maybe in donna gall's and there might be elsewhere or am i maybe being unfair to victims of this awful crime well from like um services we've provided and they've shown uh it's over the last 28 years and i have to say there is a change in the last 10 years previous to that of what i would have been 100 behind them there but things are changing and people are afraid to admit you know as i say we work with families who've been abused and we all know that when someone has been abused they are psychologically abused they're convinced that nobody'll believe them so to go to the guard of them they're convinced nobody'll believe them because they're told it all the time now in our experience they guarded definitely have improved they're learning more they're becoming more aware they're working more with the community and they have to be realistic to guard or human and we're going to get we are going to get people aren't going to um no matter what service you're providing there's always going to be one or two who will dismiss people for whatever reason but in general i have to say we have found that there is an improvement there's more awareness they're more involved with our service definitely and i'm sure and uh they're willing to listen now just in relation to no no mary they say i appreciate your time over half of the perpetrators have been partners direct partners of the victim um and and may not over I thought it'd be more but it's around 52% do you think now too that people uh uh are more aware that they are victims of something do you know what i mean rather than in the past before we knew the words and had the conversation are he or she she she won't give up or she wants me back or this that and the other and never categorized it correctly as abuse that is affecting their lives it's affecting their well-being like are we more aware of it that it's unacceptable and are quicker maybe at some point to call it out for what it is all without a doubt there's more awareness out there and I think we just made more awareness with young people within this good that's where it should start you know before people go into jobs whether it's a garden whether it's social welfare whatever um yes there is more awareness out there what was the other thing you asked me sorry Greg no that's it that we have a name for it that we we realize that it's not just a nuisance or an annoyance that it is a it is an offense yeah yeah but the thing about it is you have to realize these people are being manipulated all the time and they're being told nobody will believe you and they actually believe that themselves yeah so it's very hard for them to go anywhere even to a service to admit that this is happening now we have quite a few people who ring in and ask is this normal there's still people out there who aren't a hundred percent sure I don't know why because there is more awareness as you said and I do think that training and awareness to me is the only thing that's going to change it when I'm talking about training awareness we need to start the garden I have a great program well um what is it called now it's all right be kind online it's a a primary school program and I've just got it recently and oh my goodness I just think that was very exciting and that's the garden who's doing this yeah and also like we highlight it or not yeah and when we talk about the word stalking right this is not just someone messaging uh you know why aren't your answer my calls you know why don't we get back together or even some might message you know I was having this conversation there not so long ago saying you know if you don't answer my call I'll kill myself or something like that there and then it can get to threats it can uh it can be sharing intimate images uh you know that whole area of harassment and stalking it can be incredibly negative and impactful on the victim's life can't it it can get really really bad oh it's like it don't I mean that is very overprone it is such a mental health a different person in their lives and I think that people don't realize what stalking means I think you have said it all but in all honesty I think people in general you say stalking what's that do you know what I'm saying so maybe it's just we need to make it yeah highlight it it's like different forms of abuse people think that abuse is just just sorry that's found it awful but they feel as when somebody has been attacked you know they don't realize it means stalking financial abuse sexual abuse all of that yeah and of course now too with uh with social media with mobile phones with people creating secondary cancer and all that type of stuff uh cloned accounts like people there's no escape from it and I think that's why the definition of stalking has changed so drastically I understand why uh Mary that this report has been published and I understand too that it is designed for things to change my only concern when reports like that are issued that actually it might discourage people from making a report what is the point sure there's been a big study and over half the people thought that uh there was no point going to the guard so why should I so I should say I understand that's not the motivation of reports like this but I fear really what they actually do is potentially discourage more victims from coming forward because what's the point that's not the experience that you have Mary you're encouraging people not to suffer in silence yeah yeah but the reason I came on really Greg was just to let people know know there are changes the guards are moving on they're doing things now that they never done before and do you have confidence in them like as I say sorry contact the service and if you've been that the guard aren't listening the service will support you and go into the guard even so there's all of that right there as you said I don't want to put people off we do want to come forward and I've spoken to some of the team on this program uh they will meet people in plain clothes they will come up with they will do check-ins there's loads of different things that they do in this county there's some amazing people involved in it and as I say I don't want if people have had a negative experience I don't want to sound like I'm against them I'm not let us know and I'm sure look the guards are always prepared to learn finally Mary just at lifeline in a show and um are I mean obviously there are certain triggers for more people being in distress uh you know uh you know tightening finances can cause an awful lot of problems in a home and what have you seen anything lately at the moment Mary that we should be aware of in terms of trends or what's happening or what you're seeing well we just found like COVID had an awful effect and that isolated people further into what they were living with and finally I met a woman just today and she was just saying that the things that keep people back are finances now they're homeless I mean we're talking about the homeless earlier on clients and we couldn't find any accommodation for them the the refuge was full I mean it's just scary and um but the only good thing is the services are there please use them come forward they will support please and it's just that yes in general as you know Greg anyway COVID has affected so many people in so many ways but especially people who are in this situation they have maybe felt they can't get out and you know it's so important right that leopards generally don't change their spots and we know that certain types of behavior they escalate and it's one thing after another and over time it can get worse and get out get out before uh before and the supports there now now one of the things I do want to highlight and I keep highlighting it is people say oh it's all to do with drinking drugs sorry they uh the abuse is there that only escalates through the drugs and alcohol and escalates gets worse but it's there without the drugs or alcohol all right does that make sense it does of course it does yeah I get exactly what you say you know people of this myth it's only people who drink that abuse sorry that's not the case yeah no no it's an important point Mary and I understand exactly where it's coming from Mary Doherty yes go ahead our guards are great okay right take care Mary and on this show thank you take care Mary Doherty of Lifeline in a show and we appreciate you coming on to react to that study 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 stop highland radio are 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to the residents of scion mills tell us what was discovered um a bag of drugs which seem to resemble either coquian or the drug called speed and where was it found charliane i was literally found across the street from my mother's house my mother actually loves where the drugs were actually found um i was getting out of the car i had the big girl with me i was just calling down my mom wanted me to call down um and whatever something grabbed me as i turned around and looked and i seen the bag on the ground and i was like i was like oh my god i know what that is do you know what i mean so the weekend was in the car so i said to my mom you know i'm gonna left us and get this out of the way and um she was like what is it what is it and i said his mom has a bag of drugs she was looking away she's at that sort of you know edge where you know she's never seen she's never seen any of this kind of thing you know whereas i've drawn drug courses and you know work with the special olympics and things like that and i'm sort of aware of these things um i just i could not get over it i thought what if a child lifts that up or an innocent animal comes along and eats it like that that could be a certain fatality and i got it and then i contacted um a good friend of mine andy patten he's running for local councillor in the derg buy-in no area and there actually is i don't know if this is available everywhere but it should be it's a bin that's located up in the siam mill shop and it's to dispose of any type of um drugs whether it be prescription it's no longer being used or if it's illegal substances that could be found on the street or found anywhere which is absolutely brilliant because it's taken the the police lift it and it's analyzed and find out you know what the actual substance is and i think that that's really really good because some people left it and they don't know what to do with it and it should be disposed off correctly and i think you're highlighting this and raising this issue it kind of feeds into a conversation we were having earlier on it started the conversation about how commonplace and widespread drugs are yes this is a baggie that was dropped and thankfully you found it before a child or an animal consumed it or took it but you know it started that conversation about how damaging drugs are but how widespread their availability is yes you do know what like i was chatting about before as well to certain people everything's changing and economy at the moment drugs are changing people's people's changing like it would really scare you what's actually in these drugs especially these drugs are full yes you know and i'm a mother of six children and i try to make them aware i have two special needs that one wee boy wouldn't even think he would just pick it up and he'd be like what's that it looks like sweet do you know what i mean and parents need to be more aware of this not only do they need to be aware of how how easy it is to find on the streets how much it's being distributed out in the local communities like there is drug dealers everywhere once they give you product and you give money you're no concern to them and they don't care about your health your welfare the short or long-term damages these drugs can actually do and affect a person and let's talk a little bit about the short term side of it too surely and because look they will cut this stuff they buy this product raw they will cut it and cut everyone down the line cuts it until it eventually ends up on the street anything could be through that the same with tablets they're cut with or mixed with really is the phraseology they're mixed with all manner of harmful substances it only takes and this is the scary part for me surely and everyone sort of you know through the lives experience experiments or takes chances or whatever but it only takes one line of this drug or one tablet being taken and that could be it wipe out do you know what i mean that's what really worries me because a lot we talk about the addiction and if someone gets addicted and and that happens and we can not take our eye off the ball don't get me wrong but it's like the one punch incident the one taking instant could be enough when your children are out from on the uh not in eyesight and that could be it see that's that's great you know like i know families that have unfortunately lost loved ones due to it might have been a one night out took one tablet next morning they were found and it is completely devastating for any family to go through that and then you've got people out in the street handing these things out to children that and adults not just children adults as well which they don't know what they're thinking now in some explicit tablets there's actually catamine which is a horse tranquilizer a horse tranquilizer and that a child takes that there's there's washing powder there's so many different ingredients and these things that are so harmful to the system not you can leave you with a mental disability you could be left with permanent brain damage not to mention what the family is left with they don't think of the aftermath of these things yes the wellings are good you take them on the night you could be fine but that's that percentage of people that actually aren't fine that either die from taking this stuff or are left seriously life-altering changes and this is what i'm what angered me so much was the fact that obviously whoever whatever individual dropped this they didn't want to drop it you know but the fact is people are walking about the streets with this kind of stuff in their pockets again for a poor innocent individual to come along and pick up but what i want to see is i find the justice system with these things yes a lot of things is brought on mental health and things like that mental health is one thing but taking drugs look there's help out there there's lots of organizations that you can go to get help um but when these things happen what have we've seen around say in malls because of this like this isn't the first case of this what happens is it ends up being drugs drug and alcohol field parties they come out there's been cases of drink driving driving under them to students of drugs accidents have happened ambulances has been called or police have been called but what do they get they don't get anything what i would call as punishment it's a slap in the wrist a suspended sentence and they go back and they do it again where's where's it going to end to the point where they want to end up killing themselves or killing some some per innocent person yeah i don't know all because of these drugs i think communities need to get together and drive the drugs out of of the communities it's um i would have i'd have my concerns and i still retain my concerns that drugs are relatively cheap and younger people are are choosing uh drugs over drink now i do know it becomes very expensive and it's beyond the reach of money when they get very addicted but i i kind of know to be honest with you i know because i speak to young people i know that a lot of young people now are switching away from drink to drugs and it's perfectly acceptable and coke is seen as seen as a recreational drug exactly and i think i think unless we start sort of realizing that and it's all different types of people from different backgrounds it's right through our community now and we need to find a way to rid our community of it surely and thank you for helping us in in in raising awareness and making some really really good points there and we really appreciate your time all right take care and best wishes to you and all the family uh thank you very much indeed Shirley Ann Mcdonald there 08 660 25000 whatsapps and texts to that number a caller said i'd advise people not to eat potatoes now anyway unless they are organic because they're sprayed or to death for blight and everything else and i've seen it firsthand a lot of stuff we consume is though isn't it and other caller says i would have thought less people eat potatoes now than ever they are no longer considered a main ingredient in our diet i couldn't tell you the last time i actually made her a potato so what's switched in is it pasta because i'm trying to think rice or pasta what else can you have instead of potatoes everything that tastes nice is bad for you anyway potatoes are delicious cut into little slices and fried with salt and vinegar they're delicious mashed with butter and salt absolutely delicious uh then you can pack them into little patties fry them potato cakes beautiful waffles delicious yeah that's they're too nice to be good for you aren't they anyway and everything's good for you in moderation i suppose greg i've just discovered we've a bird nest in our extractor fan just wondered what can we do or is it a case of having to leave them now and i'm not being facetious i had that problem and i've about 10 years ago and i've never used the extractor fan since anyone what can you do with birds nesting in your extractor fan uh we'll maybe mention that one again in the morning uh just in case we well we are too late to get a response now look at that's where we have to leave it thank you so much for making another really busy show we talked about everything didn't we we do that every day here and hopefully you enjoy it you continue to listen which is great anything you want to talk about you know the numbers we're back tomorrow morning at nine have a lovely tuesday will you and stay safe thanks for listening to us and say from me caroline and on yes see you later the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny