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I know everyone says it but it is actually really quite useful in getting the message out or on Facebook It's Highland radio news and sport or Highland hub right the papers this morning the Donegal people's press Hotels help out almost every hotel in Donegal is expected to accommodate some Ukrainian families on a short-term basis in the coming weeks The Irish hotels Federation has said several hotels in the county have already taken in small Numbers of refugees a number of other hotels in the county is said to be considering entering into arrangements to give our significant numbers or give over Significant numbers of rooms for emergency accommodation Megatocans hotel in Datterkeny has given more than 50 rooms to accommodate Ukrainian families Mihal Noctin a county chancellor and general manager of Megatocans hotel in Datterkeny said 32 of the hotel rooms are available for booking by guests Which beg is the question how some are being contacted saying that their rooms are no longer available for wedding Etc. He confirmed that the first Ukrainian families were expected to arrive yesterday and today The hotel is due to take refugees that could not be accommodated in three of the groups hotels in Dublin and Braemister Noctin said some bookings have been cancelled in recent days But the hotel has been trying to accommodate guests in the groups clan re-hotel or other hotels in the town He added and I just wonder if more rooms are given over what could be the ripple impact of that But you're not in that one particular hotel, but in the hotel sector, you know, obviously it would mean more calls maybe saying that unfortunately your Your your wedding has been cancelled or your booking has been cancelled But could it have a ripple effect to on the economy because I think a lot of people were hoping I Can't see us. I can't see how we can get these people back to their homes where they will want to be I presume in three months and I don't see how we can provide accommodation that isn't a hotel in In under three months if you know what I'm saying so whilst it seems to be three-month contracts You wonder will they run beyond that and if so, what does that mean then in terms of you know, people coming to visit Donegal? And I'm not being any way Heartless I hope as it relates to the awful tragedy that's unfolding in the Ukraine But you know a lot of people visiting the county and the impact that has on our economy and we're already going to be struggling You just wonder if there is any alternative way of of helping and accommodating these people, but it not having a wider impact Listen, if I can get an opportunity to speak to someone who's involved in the project I'd love to ask these questions as I say it's not to say that these people aren't welcome or to try and imply in any way that that is the case But I mean I'm just obviously there's wider implications for every action. There is a Reaction the Derry journal the greatest wish of a local woman who's seeking treatment for debilitating condition that has led to her losing her sight and suffering seizures is to be able to see her nieces and nephews again an important story From Laura Glenn in the paper today Thousands of euro has been raised in in a shone and beyond for treatment for Nicole McDermott who originally is from Derry and his married to well-known Burt man Kearn McDermott the full story there on the front of an inside that paper The Irish independent tells us today that farmers are set to get a special subsidy worth up to 400 euro for every extra hectare of land they use to grow crops this year Amid fears of fodder shortages as a result of the war in Ukraine now, of course on the face of it. It sounds good but the Costs associated with actually giving over your land to grow this stuff I wonder how close 400 might come to making it worthwhile for them to do so Cabinet is expected to agree today to set aside more than 12 million for direct payments to farmers to grow an additional 25,000 hectares of barley, oat and wheat crops this year Ireland relies on around 14% of its grain requirements for animal feed from Ukraine as well as 20% of its Fertilizer feeds the crisis in Ukraine has had an impact on Irish agriculture and supply chains with the pig and poultry sectors under severe Financial pressure due to their reliance on grain the National fodder and food security committee will meet today For the second time to discuss the ongoing drive to ramp up the sowing of crops Onto the Irish times and they tell us that several large offshore wind farms with capacity to power three million homes Are set to be fast-tracked from this year under a new maritime regulation regime as part of a multi-billion euro investment program Minister for the environment Aiman Ryan has invited applications from developers of six wind farm proposals For the Irish sea and one off the west coast under new powers the first tranche of projects using fixed turbines will be able to obtain Consent from the minister enabling them to go direct to Umbulplan Aleph and Consideration providing the meat planning environment and financial requirements. It brings the prospect of beginning to generate power from 2027 supplying three gigawatts of renewable power to the National grid now I hope like wind is excellent when it's windy. I think We were producing something like 85% of our electricity needs via wind last week because it was very very windy But as soon as the wind dies the capacity drops then as well our offshore wind farms Is it more pod magnets? I'm gonna sound silly saying this but is it more windy offshore? Or are we still going to be reliant on the wind blowing? Because I think to for this to be successful You need wind when it's windy you need to be able to store that energy But also you need solar when it's not as windy, but perhaps maybe as I say There has been talk of wave technology hydro technology in the past But we're putting all our eggs in the offshore wind basket. It seems there's still gonna be some onshore wind developments But I just wonder are Offshore wind farms less susceptible to the wind dropping off as I say I'm open to be called ignorant on that one because it does sound a bit ignorant The Irish Times also telling us that Ukraine is still fighting to retain control of its strategic southern Eastern port of Maripole after rejecting a Russian ultimatum to surrender a city where the top diplomat of Germany and the European Union said Moscow's forces had committed war crimes This city has been devastated 90% of buildings either destroyed or damaged they fear 40,000 people 40,000 civilians could be Under the rubble here that could have already have died if not more that is the extent of what we're talking about This is something that is just going to be with us forever that loss of life And you know whatever we talk about or whatever people talk about and I get it and we've done it on this program about What may have led to this, you know poking the bear and all that type of stuff and what the West might be guilty of and all of that I get it We have that conversation and it's important to look at things In the wider context, but but Nothing surely nothing Justifies the encircling of a city and the bombing of it with the loss of potentially at least 40,000 lives daughters children babies Moms grandmothers fathers sons Nothing can justify the wiping out of at least 40,000 people And that's what they fear that there could be that amount of people under the rubble or dead already in Maripole and that the worst could be yet to come and you could say right well, why don't they surrender? Why don't they give up then what is next a survey of Russian people and I'm Told it is a pretty reliable survey found that 76 percent of Russians I believe it to be 76 percent of Russians think that They should invade Poland next that's what that survey showed so if you give in there what is next Did you find that when you went into the shop yesterday? You're so reliant on your card. You've given up in your cash It's all about tapping But your phone your watch your card and it's done machine. Sorry. We don't take cards. Well. I've got no cash What sorry, we can't take cards. I've got no cash. Maybe you were left in a pickle Well, it's because card machines throughout Ireland were down yesterday causing losses of millions to businesses and sparking fears of a cyber attack I'm not I have heard no mention of a cyber attack But what it does show is how reliant we have become on digital transactions and we posted this I posted this on my socials yesterday a lot of the comments were cash is king This is why you need cash to protect yourself from this type of a scenario Well shops were forced to pull up signs telling customers they could only accept cash Online payments were also affected the problem was caused by a systems crash at the payment company Opao And also affected the UK a spar in Kilmainham South Dublin had signs that the tills asking customers to use cash Only and set the systems are affected across the country Well, we know they were they went down in mid-afternoon didn't come back up to 11 o'clock at night board A lot of people stand in there going well, what do you do when you don't have any cash in your car doesn't work your card doesn't work So maybe Cash is king. Who's to say a lot of people feel that's the case the Sun this morning The chief suspect in the shock shooting of brave mum of five standard boy It was last night being quizzed by Gardie the man who's aged 27 and was known to the victim was arrested near the city centre Area of Dublin yesterday morning on suspicion of murder It can now be held for up to a week before being either charged or released The suspect was arrested two days after Sandra lost her fight for life on that Saturday night and may she rest in peace and justice be Delivered for her family the star today Sorry, it's actually the mirror tells us that the High Court has made a pre-trial discovery Order in civil proceedings being taken against MMA star Conor McGregor the UFC fighter and associate to being sued for personal Injuries by a Dublin woman a rising out of an alleged Incident that occurred in December 2018 now I'm not saying anything happened, but a lot of you might remember a lot of you might remember That a lot of this stuff was being talked about in social media and people say well Why is it not being talked about in the mainstream media? But obviously there are rules that prohibit that because people have a right to justice and due process both the victim and Any alleged Perpetrator now I'm not suggesting there is a victim or perpetrator I don't know enough about the case here, but certainly Something's going on the order was made by mr. Justice Emily Egan yesterday Which requires on goddess you kind of which is a non-party in the proceedings to disclose certain materials and Documents to the woman and her lawyer mr. McGregor originally from Cromland and he strongly lies all claims of wrong doing against him will be furnished with copies of the materials Declosed by Guardi and they're talking access to his phones communications and all that type of stuff right are you? A football fan a soccer fan You'll be delighted will you because this is this I think this is going to be an interesting conversation this one Because Ireland we are set to co-host euro 2028 the reason being no one else is voting for it now Until covert is fully gone. We could be facing into a recession I just wonder is now the time for us to be pumping money into hosting a major event You know they say how many people visit here and what it's worth the economy But do we ever actually really know that or feel that but anyway listen? I think it's a good thing Ireland will co-host euro 2028 with England Scotland and Wales with Northern Ireland possibly joining the Anglo Celtic Tournament the cabinet will sign off its commitment on the joint bid till today The British government is also doing so which means the four or five nation proposals financial logistic and political backing from these islands The bid will be lodged with UEFA by tomorrow's deadline that one question I would wonder and as I say I don't want to be a party pooper is You know these things look nice and you know We can host this that the other and you get all the razzle-dazzle and all the dignitaries get lined out into the pitch And they have a great day out and drink their shampors and eat their prawn sandwiches But I wonder would it not be better would we not be better putting our efforts into Promoting and enhancing our national football league so that maybe more of our players here can contribute to the national setup And and have their glory days down the road Like I just wonder if we put the same efforts that we're going to be putting into this tournament if we said you know what? It's a bit of a vanity project Let's pump our resources into Supporting and enhancing the league within the island or on the island even whichever way it would work out best I just wonder maybe should that be where our interests are or should we just go for the glory stuff it? We might get a day out down in the Aviva or Croke Park, which would require Updating and of course then there would be football matches GM matches Which would be disrupted and so on and so forth But anyway, I wonder why no one else wants this particular tournament just us and our neighbors Right. Oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand that is the WhatsApp nine that is the WhatsApp line the WhatsApp line I said tonight the text number as well. 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Please visit their website www.forwardemphasis.ie or apply via their careers page Okay, right a man has been arrested after a paramedic was viciously assaulted While attending a call out in Datterkenny at 9 a.m. On Monday morning the paradigm Paramedic attended the scene of an incident at Justice Walsh Road in the center of the town While at the call out the paramedic was set upon by a male The medic received a number of injuries included a suspected broken wrist and facial injuries He was taken to the hospital where he was treated for his injuries Guard he confirmed that a man has been arrested in a follow-up Investigation and I'm sure this will be the subject of An appeal at later on in during our guard of community information item But this is just the latest really assault against people In the emergency services be it paramedics on scene or people within the hospital Cancer Jamie at Monaco chair of the joint police and committee and chair of the regional health forum rest Obviously, you know, this is a matter for the courts now. So there's not much we can say but we can certainly talk Generally speaking and and say that this is just completely unacceptable behavior on by any metric Yeah, good morning, Greg and you're good outlined it quite well. Yeah, and you're absolutely right it is totally unacceptable and You know, I hope that the paramedic who was injured makes a speedy recovery and is able to return to his work And as you say the ambulance service is nothing new unfortunately for all our emergency services they're at the The end of assaults regularly and particularly the guard II the ambulance service and the Farmer gate and then we have what's happened in actual emergency at times and it's just not good enough and From the point of view that people who are going out the daily work to help and assist And particularly this particular case where they will respond to a call of Health and need and going about their work and then to be officially assaulted It just can't be allowed to continue. Yeah, those are the physical assaults as well and we would know there's You know verbal Intimidation and assaults on the wards as well obviously not talking about this case specifically Do we need to look at and I think I think someone has brought forward An item on this. I'm sure we did an interview in it not so long ago But look at you know the the deterrent the sentence for this type of activity that we're talking about in January Do we need to be looking at them? Yeah, and that's what it's going to come on to that Our measures they serve as personnel need to be protected and if and when they come and be assaulted And the line of their duty then yes, they certainly need protection Look, I've been talking to people from yesterday since this news broke And that was the most thing that people were saying they'll get a slap in the wrist when they go to court Things need to be started out needs to be more stringent The sentence and this can't be allowed to happen. So, you know, it's out of our hands. It's out of the guard these hands They'll do the investigation. They'll present the Defendant to the courts the courts that need to look at that This is people who are going about the business on a daily basis Protection and many times saving our lives and then they're being subjected to these attacks. And as you said, they're on the rise It's since 2018 and then in the rest again in 2019. I've been further increases and then years in and it has to be stopped So there needs to be a not a good and sufficient deterrent and if that means then Introducing jail sentences for people who attack members of our emergency services Then that needs to be the deterrent because it has to stop. Yeah, I think an assault against you or me Has to be treated differently to an assault against someone in a life-saving role Or guard, you know what I mean people in this type of industry has to be some I'm not sure Maybe there is I probably should know but there has to be a difference between as I say an assault on the likes of me Versus an assault on a medic or a guard or a fire person or whatever it might be Yeah, because they're not going to affect you that Greg and this why there was a physical assault physical injuries yesterday there also has to be No an attack and long-term, you know sort of mental language come out of that that every call They're gonna go to is there that worry that concern that they could be put in that type of Situation where an assault could occur and then would leave the people thinking, you know what I would like to do that But it's I'm not you know, I don't want to be involved in that they weren't going to be assaulted Well, there needs to be a deterrent. We need to protect them They're doing fantastic jobs and especially now during what we've come through this last two years Then them people have been turned up for the work every single day Expose themselves to all the dangers that COVID was presenting for them and ensuring that they give the best care They could they've done training for a long number of years to ensure that they have the medical experience and skills That are needed to save people's lives and then and since like this are happening and it's not good enough because they're in there and Chris So there needs to be a sufficient deterrent These actions happened against them. You were so far away from that though because what you do see in cases like this Is that you could have a victim who is still in hospital? Or just home recovering from their injuries and a person who might be Suspected of being responsible being free Yeah, I mean, how would that how would that make a victim in an instant like this feel I wonder And that's what I'm saying the long-term effect on the victims and we've heard through your show over the years About the long-term effect of whether it be assaults or burglaries because there is that long-term sort of mental anguish and Someone as you say who was a victim of the assault in the hospital and the personal age of the Responsible for it. It's like walking about the street and and maybe then the victim is off work for a number of months Then, you know, this is this is where these with the potential to come across An alleged perpetrator as well as I say we're not talking specifically about this case, but we know we've seen cases in the past I mean, it's hard to believe that that's that's the way the way the system is set up Well, look, we see the court cases quite regularly across the board. You see it every week in the papers a lot of people are commenting that it has become very Lien Consistent persistent offenders been getting off and off But I think in cases that gets where people who are providing the medical care the the garrity fire service Who people that you're providing emergency services They need to be specially protected because they're doing special jobs and we need them people when they continue They need more of them. So that way the situation we know the problems we're having at the hospital We know about ambulances queuing up because of the increased demand and footfall and emergency department And yesterday was particularly Hard day for the ambulance service and the hospital and their staff and then we have this at nine o'clock in the morning Yeah, all right, okay, listen, thank you very much indeed for your comments on that councillor jay mcmonagall chair of the joint Police and committee and chair also of the regional health forum west And I'm sure that will be the subject of a conversation at the next meeting of that forum A caller says I think this census is an information gathering this year How many bedrooms do we use a bedroom tax on the horizon new bill being proposed including the possibility of the government having The power to take ownership of our private property for the greater good. What is that reminiscent of I be careful, you know, a lot of people, obviously Depending where you get your information being whipped up into thinking that absolutely everything is is a precursor To something else. No, let's say for instance, if you're asking how many bedrooms we use we get an insight then Into, you know, the size of homes that people have then we can maybe and how many people might live in those Then we can sort of look towards maybe future planning in terms of what kind of houses we build, you know It's anonymous. I I don't think and I you know I talked to an awful lot of people that there's any Possibility of government coming in to try try and take ownership of your private property I mean the why would I mean obviously I know people fear that but the people fear an awful lot of things But think about it another caller says Ireland is such a small island with a small population. It's quite incompressible Why a policy was never put in place or kept in place that we cannot feed ourselves or our livestock We were a farming country and now is the perfect time for everyone who has any type of land garden lawn to start and try Grow something to complement our weekly shop salads onions herbs, etc. It's incredibly easy Encourage growing in schools. Yeah, indeed listen self-sufficiency living off the land We are an island nation But we are also have to export because we probably could produce more stuff than we can consume But that's a huge part of our economy. I just I get a sense that obviously, you know We hope as soon as is possible the situation situation in Ukraine is Resolved to stop the bloodshed to stop the loss of life, but of course then that has other impacts It seems to be I think the direction of travel is that they're going to come up with our resolution Before the end of May March start of May that seems to be the direction of traffic there and if that happens, maybe things might recover More quickly, there might be a change of leadership in Russia as well Who's to say because their country is going to be in serious at bother post this war Right, so we are going to be talking about actually abandoned properties in the Finn Valley area in the Balaba faced After these messages the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost Let her Kenny credit union 9102 1 2 7 From the smallest shrub to the largest tree in an awkward place Donnelly tree services provide a complete range of tree surgery services Whether you need to remove a dangerous tree or some nuisance branches Donnelly tree services have the experience and expertise to carry out tree surgery to the highest of professional standards Call 08 3 005 9 39 Donnelly tree services Donegal. 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It's also Pervading in places like the Finn Valley. I've talked about this before Even driving down to knock there at the end of last week and driving back You see little villages where the major the major businesses is no longer there and You almost wonder will those villages be there in any populated form In in a in ten years say for example, it's not that bad in Bella buffet and Stran Auler yet It's still a vibrant area lots going on But something needs to be done. I think you can't we can't keep talking about it having the highest Level of vacant properties for the every year for the rest of our lives Yeah, well actually what happened there was that that Geodirect They do try to do that They do a survey every year, but actually the survey something like 80 towns out of about 500 come early they look at the West Coast and Unfortunately, I'll say has topped that now for about three years and a row and that's on vacant commercial premises Now, there's a couple of big. There's a couple of big commercial Properties that are vacant. I wonder if they were taken out Yeah, that might make I was using an example. I say like at McLean's Cornstone order There's quite a bit of property there. Now, some of it's occupied Some that's very direct on that and there is an opportunity because the one thing you can't do you can't go in just to go one empty bulletin on the street because first of all you In order to say put resonance into that you have to fire proofs the buttons and the inside of you You have to make them the same old access you have to obviously put in a small family unit in there You need to have some backyards place for bands park and and somewhere for children to play So the best way to do it is to go to multiple buildings You renovate them or take down them buildings and put back up at town houses with backyards and accessibility and so on And there is a number places both in Glen Fun Street up at McLean's Corner and a few other Both Brown Brown and Greenfield State. There is an opportunity there We're talking about different types of housing though, of course, you know, yeah That sounds very complicated Do you have to take these buildings down and do you have to provide backyards and what have you? I mean, you know, a lot of people might find apartment attractive where you wouldn't have the expectation There are Greenfield areas I mean look at the beautiful park that is in the heart of Balibu, France and all are incredibly unique I mean, there has to be a way to quickly convert some of at least some of these properties into, you know Two or three apartments get them onto the market get people back in To the heart of the towns, you know when you start talking about Demolition and making sure there's back gardens and swings and I'm not being facetious in saying that don't get me wrong Maybe on the sites that you talk of but in town, let's build up. Let's convert them to apartments I can tell you Greg and most councils tell you the same See the people that we would have primarily on the waiting list most of them would not want to go into apartments The majority of them and that's from many years of experience would like to have their own front door their own yard No matter how small it is because this thing about sharing front doors and having guns and different things communal spaces is a problem It's a problem for local authorities a bit management Yes, you can take out every other building or sorry you can convert every other building But if you're going to turn that into a residential property, you have to ensure the property needs safety As as fireproof and so on and it's a lot easier to do But most of the family units now are a lot smaller in the way years ago years ago A lot of families loved the bubble shops and towns and that but it become unbearable to be level in them conditions Whereas now The units are a lot smaller families as maybe two adults and one child two or one adult one child So we're not as two bedrooms We and within the county council on the waiting list our biggest need by far up to maybe 60 70 percent Is for two bedroom units. So yes, you can have Some of these townhouses could be converted But in order to give any sort of facilities for parking for buns Except that they need some ground and it'll be easier to do it when you have a number We do There the position unbalanced in store is there is quite a few empty derrick buns beside one another So it was easy to do the job right It's in keeping with government strategy as well And the and the tell us that money's there There's been a raft of launches of new strategy last year in McGillan this year The money's supposed to be there and we have called on the council to set up a dedicated time Within the county council now a different team for make a different team for housing applications and housing grants A team then that will look and revitalize in all of our towns from there Kelly about fate delivered all of them because we can't keep building on greenfield sites There's also opportunity. There's vast grounds of not just derrick buildings, but vast backyards Where you can have two three four houses and in the town centers. We have all the services Yeah, how do you get people on board with that though, you know firstly identifying who actually owns the property? Secondly, uh, you know Acquiring it from them or getting them on board or whatever, you know, like this is it is comes down to I mean, obviously people are entitled to own their property and do with what they want with it to a certain extent But these things always get bogged down in the complication of reg tape bureaucracy You know and and the current framework within which we have to operate I mean, how would you fix that problem? For example, in terms of if you talk about say, let's say for instance There's four buildings on a row four owners, you know two of them Want to sit on their properties the two on the outside are happy to work with the council You know, how do you solve the simplest first stage problem like that? Yeah, this has been discussed Time and time again in the county. So you're right Some people have been left a property in the middle of the town to don't have the courage for all the money to do it up And it's not it's not worth an awful lot of money Nobody open to now Wanted to buy it because we would actually been purchasing the liability nothing was very heavy Charges from the kind of country to be it up planning fees, etc, etc And sorry the fire authority. So now on to this new scheme the council has a power of cpo in these positions The council also it's quite easy to find out who owns these buildings within the last two weeks I was able to find out the ownership of two buildings one one belong was belong to Lending agency and they had sold it off to some group called Mars and somebody else But we were able to find it out We were able to contact them and we're able to get some remedial action because These buildings are not not just on cycling that take away from the whole town centre As you can see recently you drive through balcony You would see one building spin had to be carded up in the last week where reported by snitches coming up The roof down off the main national primary road like some of these buildings have been like us for 10 and 20 years There's no excuse the money's there. There's a need there Not everybody's gonna take a long time Does there need to be and and and and and I know there are plan plans and all that kind of stuff But does there need to be something more structured? Yeah, like like I think what there's a 2040 plan for letter Kenny, isn't there is it 2040 I believe it is is that what the ball of a face to an all area requires There's no no As you say, there's no need for a long plan the government has put on their own plan Which identifies now that any of these they can get like properties on safely properties and town centres The council now can actually go Go after them work with developers work with the owners or use their own power of cpo and buy out the buildings either Do them up cost them and make more suitable buildings and town centre so it is a one one There's no need for town plans Nothing like that at all that the government has brought this and and we need to act on that now And that's where you're asking our council to beef up their housing section that deals with that stuff and to get on with it There's an open door there now. We need to be questioned All right, well fingers crossed. I mean all these things feel an awful long way away But there's no reason why it can't happen if the will is there Councilor McGowan, thank you. Thank you. Take care of yourself. That's councillor Patrick McGowan Which is that something you'd be in favour of or do you think might ever happen? Oh wait 60 60 25 000 you WhatsApp sand your texts to that number The nine till noon show with letter Kenny credit union Mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly credit union. 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Dr. Mick crotty who's an obesity Obesity specialist at the my best weight clinic. Good morning to you doctor. Thanks for joining us Not at all. Thanks very much for having me today. Um, is there a precedent here? Do we use any other? drugs To suppress appetites currently or is this the first? And so at the moment there's three different medications that are licensed for managing excess weight and obesity. One of those medications is a prequel to this new one that's available One called lurid luteid. Um, so this kind of family of medications were developed for diabetes But what we notice was they're highly effective in managing weight So essentially these are medications that mimic a hormone a fullness hormone. We have in our body So they act on areas subconscious areas of our brain that regulate hunger and fullness so that We kind of turn down the volume on people's biological drive towards food because we know that you know people who are living with excess weight No obesity. It's not because of a lack of willpower. It's not because of motivation This is a complex medical issue and predominantly centered in the brain Um, so these are these medications are kind of going to revolutionize management of weight long term because They're effective. They're safe and and really, you know, they mean that we're treating this like any other medical conditions Whether it be blood pressure or cholesterol or asthma um, and would these uh injections be available to You know, you I presumably don't want them not you don't want them You want them to be given to people whose health is at risk, you know And obviously we're told we have to control our weight. But in other words, if someone fancies losing a few pounds This is not what we're talking about here. This is with with with This is for people who have a condition because of their weight at least one condition Exactly. So these are not cosmetic aesthetic medications. These are not to drop a few pounds before we go on holidays They're they're not a new diet kind of pill These are long term medications for people who are living with excess weight And when that weight is having a negative impact on their health, so whether it be their psychological health They're functional or mechanical health or metabolic health If somebody's weight is affecting their health long term Then these are medications like blood pressure medications like asthma medications like depression medications So, you know, these are not intended to be kind of, you know, the latest greatest slimming tool And really, you know, we're not trying to you know, just shrink people to fit into society's ideas of beauty Or aesthetics. These are medical treatments on prescription only for people who have a negative impact on their health from weight And we have to bear in mind that not every person living in a bigger body is going to have, you know Health impacts from their weight and those people should just continue, you know, living their life But if if somebody's health is impaired then that we can improve that and really it's it's not about losing weight It's about gaining health. Yeah, and obesity is Uh, uh, as it's been described locally here as it is a disease. I think you're you're of the same view It's almost unique. I can't think of anything else where there's almost two conversations going on There's like the conversation you might have whereby, you know, you see the uh, the the the implications of it on someone's health and you would have no qualms, I'm sure if someone sat in front of you saying if you don't do this You are the consequences could be that but then there's another conversation where there's about You know body positivity and you can't talk about weight and there's just I don't think there's another conditional disease like that Yeah, it is I totally agree. It's a very controversial area We have kind of the intersection of kind of diet culture and this kind of everybody's striving to be thinner You know and the negative effect that you have on people psychologically and you know physically You know, this is not about diet culture. This is not about kind of losing weight, you know for aesthetics This is this is treating people for whom weight is affecting their health And really, you know, I totally agree with you You know by you know when we're having a conversation about weight We need to do it in a non-judgmental way. We need to approach it sensitively You know, it needs it needs we need to ask people's permission to talk about their weight because it's it's a very sensitive topic But if we do it in the right way and if we approach it in the right way It's very acceptable to people and many people, you know, the studies are showing that, you know The vast majority of people want their doctor to talk to them about weight But we shouldn't be doing the old-fashioned blame and shame telling them just to go away and eat less and move more Telling somebody who's living with excess weight to eat less and move more long-term or diet and exercise Is is like telling somebody with depression to cheer up. It's a great way to put yourself together. You just don't do it Yeah, yeah, but we've learned that though, you see As it relates to people's mental health, but it takes a long time to to learn that conversation then And i'm not going to digress from what we invited you on to talk about but then if that is the case If we we we don't want to to to judge people speak to them like that then do we need to stop? uh You like magazines platforming, you know Larger weighted people as if to say no, it is normal be who you are, you know, is that part then of uh A responsible conversation about Someone's health if that makes sense So so you mentioned the kind of healthy at any size or body positivity and i'm i'm all about kind of body positivity So so again this comes back to me, you know the definition of the chronic disease or obesity is excess or abnormal But can i in any yeah, but in in any circumstances could i walk around full stone overweight with there not being A health impact. Yeah, it's it's it's certainly possible And certainly would be a talk with this metabolically healthy obesity I think long term if somebody's living in a bigger body, they're statistically at risk of certain medical conditions But it's not a foreground conclusion that they're going to suffer with all of those Nor is it i presume that someone who seems to be the perfect weight that they are healthy Exactly, so i think there's there's a discussion here around separating health and weight You know, there are many people that i treat who are living in a bigger body, but they make very good food decisions They're very physically active, you know, they're very conscious of their health, you know, they're not smoking Whereas there are other people who are technically within a normal, you know, whatever that means kind of weight category Who who have high blood pressure diabetes or other medical issues and it's very very variable Depending on our physiology and our genetics. So so really it comes back to me as this this is for people whose health is impaired And it's about improving their health long term It's not about achieving a certain number on a scale or a certain size or a certain, you know, body mass index This is about, you know, we know that if somebody has an impairment of health of 5 to 10 reduction weight Is very effective in improving their health long term and this drug in trials has shown an average of 17 percent, which is really quite significant. It's a weekly injection But presumably it will have to be Used in the real world before the likes of the hsc would consider making it available on a medical card or part of any Reimbursement scheme that would be a wee bit down the line. So who's going to have access to this? Where would it be administered? Yeah, so the the challenge of this is like you said, it's not reimbursed So it's people are paying for this out of pocket the the new medication that's just been approved physically It's going to be probably, you know, four to six months before it's available in Irish pharmacies. It would be on prescription only And it will be kind of, you know available then we're using the exact same ingredient medication and lower doses for diabetes at the moment You know safely and and effectively. So, you know, many people are using this for diabetes and having a good Improvement in their health and as I said, there are other medications licensed for weight But physically this one will be available probably in four to six months time And we really need to fight to have this reimbursed. We know the healthcare economics of this are make ultimate sense You know, why should we wait for people to have kind of complications and more severe issues before we intervene? Um, so on that why should someone have to have Um, at least one weight related complication. I mean, I presume Uh, pretty much most gps, you know, is the risk safe for instance of developing type two diabetes is that Uh one weight related complication. So in other words, there's a million people in Ireland that are classed as obese theoretically there could be an argument made for All of those to be receiving this drug Yeah, and I think, you know, certainly in in my practice, you know, we know that 60% of the Irish population are living with overweight or obesity So it's not feasible for everybody to be treated If we look at kind of the the approval for this medication It's actually a body massing that's greater than 30 or greater than 27 with a health related medical issue So, you know, again, it's it's coming back to that. But if I'm seeing somebody I'm not basing it on their weight or on their bmi on this and on their health You know, is this person going to improve their health by managing weight? Um, so, you know, I suppose this has to kind of, you know Be targeted towards those who would benefit most from the medication initially and they're the ones with the most impairment of Help, but really I couldn't agree with you more. I think we should be, you know, intervening sooner to treat people before You know, we know that our physiology and our biology defends a higher weight So the higher weight goes that's where our brain feels is normal and it will try and get us back to that weight So why should we wait for people to be more severely affected before intervening? So I completely agree with you, but I think on the licensing for this, I suppose they have to have some kind of guidelines for sure But I mean, obviously we also we unfortunately we still haven't got a head around the way and I'm not talking necessarily about this specifically But if we spend 10 euro In 2022 it avoids us spending 60 euro in 2027, but we we've never really made that financial decision for some peculiar reason Yeah, and it's it's about investment in health and you can look across the health service and see this in so many other places But again, in addition to reimbursing the medication, there should be improved access towards bariatric surgery Which is another fantastic treatment. There should be, you know, funding of specialist weight management services with nutritional support psychological support, you know, physiotherapy occupational therapy, you know, this this this isn't just a kind of You know one and done, you know, we treat other chronic diseases with this multidisciplinary approach Uh holistic looking at the person, you know, not just a number on the scales And and we should be doing that kind of, you know far far away from obesity Yeah, but that goes back to um that goes back then to how we talk about this conversation in the round because you could ask 10 Overweight people do you believe you have a disease and five might say yes and five might say no And could could make a legitimate argument In both you couldn't with other diseases, but anyway, finally just in a couple of minutes doctor if you don't mind um In terms of how someone emotionally deals with this then, you know, you talk about the suppression Um, does it does it trigger anything else or does it all The you know the mind and body work that if you understand where i'm saying because Go ahead. So I suppose the you know the underlying causes for why somebody might struggle with the no genetics are a huge factor The genetics regulate how our brain controls hunger fullness and the reward from food Lots of things in our environment. You know, whether it be sleep or stress or medications or trauma Lots of those things kind of exacerbate that further. So this goes to the biology It treats the excess hunger. It treats the lack of fullness. It treats the Hyperactive reward system in the brain. So that we're turning down the volume on the biological drive So that somebody who is is experiencing this, you know, it is if we turn down that biological drive It's much easier for that person to make the choices. They know they want to make Essentially, we're giving them the neurology of somebody else who doesn't struggle with weight Um, you know, because you know, they don't lack motivation or will power They're just constantly, you know more at risk. So, you know, the way I kind of talk to patients is if if somebody is Genetically predisposed and biologically predisposed to take in 5% more food than their body needs At each meal if we take that over the course of thousands of meals that person is going to struggle with weight So, you know, this the the statement and bias in society This is not that people are eating rubbish and not exercising. This is a case that, you know, in the environment we live in This is this is a high risk very finally in the first case anyone using this will have to pay for it Isn't that how at the moment? It's at the moment. It's not reimbursed. So I don't have to pay out of pocket And it is expensive and very finely. Um, I when I stopped smoking to put on five stone I'm so depressed last night alone thinking on it all night. No sleep till 6 a.m I also have lupus can hardly walk with weight that person would qualify for this Uh for for this as as much as we can say over a zoom call, but yeah, that's the type of In general, like I like we said, you know, if there's a psychological impairment if their function and day to day You know mechanical health is impaired or if they've got a metabolic impairment Then absolutely that person would probably hit at least two two, uh, two two, okay Listen, that's uh, that's very informative. Thanks for so much of your time this morning by the way Take care of yourself. That's uh, dr. 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It's ten o'clock donal kavna at the highland radio news desks There are more calls for protection for emergency services personnel After a paramedic was assaulted in letter kenny yesterday morning The incident happened in the canir lane area at approximately nine o'clock gar thee say One man was brought to letter kenny university hospital for treatment for what were described as non life-threatening injuries A man in his 20s was arrested. He has since been released pending court summonses Well councillor jerry mcmonagall who chairs the hsc west regional forum says attacks on Emergency services personnel are increasing across the board and he says there is a need for more deterrence As you said, they're on the rise It's since 2018 and then the renegade in 2019. I've been further increases in them years since And it has to be stopped. So there needs to be an adequate and sufficient deterrence And that was councillor jerry mcmonagall speaking to greg on the nine two noon show a short time ago There are calls for more protection for emergency services We've just heard that piece from councillor jerry mcmonagall US president joe biden says there are clear signs that russia is considering the use of chemical weapons in ukraine The white house is also warning vladimir putin may order cyber attacks in response to the tough sanctions being imposed on the kremlin ukraine's president says his country's forces have managed to slow russian advances on a number of cities vladimir zelensky said He would consider a referendum on non membership of nato, but said that would require a russian ceasefire Joe biden says russia's tactics could become increasingly severe He's asserting that we the america are biological as well as chemical weapons in europe simply not true They're also suggesting that ukraine has biological and chemical weapons in ukraine That's a clear sign. He's considering using both of those He's already used chemical weapons in the past and we should be careful about what's about to come A growing reluctance to test for covid-19 is contributing to rising infection rates according to a rural gp Dr. Ilona duffy says 60 of patients at hurtlinic say they've had covid in the past few weeks Official daily figures have remained stagnant over the period at between 12 and 14 000 And that according to the monohun gp suggests that there is underreporting of positive antigen tests Dr. Duffy says also many people aren't testing despite having symptoms People are reluctant to to test themselves are perhaps having mild symptoms and trying to explain it away as being a head cold But the reality of it is well, they may not feel unwell. They may have the virus and may be spreading it So I think that's really still an important message that if you have any symptoms that are potentially covid Presume your covid. I think people should be testing repeatedly while they have symptoms And I don't think it should be on an every second day basis. I think it should be on a daily basis Postmasters are warning they could stage industrial action over their mounting frustration with an post and the government They're holding an emergency meeting next monday to consider balloting for industrial action They're expressing concern over a lack of investment in the postal service And also planned changes to postal order and foreign exchange services Which they say would mean extra work for them without any extra pay Ned O'Hara is general secretary of the irish postmasters union morale is very low We've worked hard to call but as I said we are providing new services We do 85 percent of all post office transactions across counters We don't know we want to give meet the members hear their views We want to see that there is frustration. We don't want to do industrial action Today we'll see sunshine Improvers that it goes on it'll be mainly dry with just some isolated showers in the late morning and early afternoon Highest temperatures today 15 to 17 degrees celsius moderate to fresh south easterly winds will ease later Mainly dry with clear spells and missed patches tonight lowest temperatures three to four degrees celsius Dipping close to freezing in some areas inland with a touch of grass frost possible Light south easterly breezes will continue overnight tomorrow Wednesday will be mainly dry and sunny with highest temperatures of 13 to 17 degrees celsius in mostly light south easterly breezes And that's island radio news. We're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team. Good morning The original this is for this Tuesday morning the 22nd of March The death has taken place in trinity court newton cunningham of james doran formerly of carrigans James's remains are reposing at trinity court with viewing from 12 noon today Family time please from 10 p.m. To 10 a.m funeral from there on thursday morning arriving at st. Baton's church st. Johnson for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery The death has taken place of bridget mcbride necoyle cheer homin milford Her remains will repose at her home from seven o'clock this evening funeral mass on thursday in st. Columbus church mass mount at a time to be confirmed Followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery rosary tonight and tomorrow at 9 p.m funeral mass and rosary can be viewed on the st. Mary's fan of faulty and st. 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wednesday afternoon from half past four with removal at half past five to st columbus church dunny loop requiem mass on thursday morning at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of seamus mclochlan late of 22 benview estate dairy formerly of blackmore moth his remains are reposing at his late residence with funeral from there this morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st patrick's church ishkeheen followed by interment in the city cemetery dairy family fires only pleased nations if desired to foil search and rescue care of mclochlan funeral directors done given the death has taken place of cathleen k kemp named mclochlan five sea crest shore road bunk rana her remains are opposing at mclochlan's funeral home bunk rana with viewing from 3 p.m to 5 p.m and 6 p.m to 8 p.m today and tomorrow funeral from there on thursday morning at 20 past nine going to st mary's oratory for 10 o'clock requiem mass burial afterwards in cock hill cemetery the death has occurred of derrick galler her mean more and key road done low his remains are opposing at medlands funeral home with viewing this afternoon from 3 to half past 5 followed by removal to st columbus church acres for 6 o'clock where he repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 with interment afterwards in belkridge cemetery and the death has taken place of eddie herrity formerly of knock in the fire done for a he his remains would arrive in st michael's church creasler this evening at approximately 6 o'clock to repose overnight funeral mass there tomorrow morning at 11 followed by burial in dough cemetery mass can be viewed live on mcn media dot tv for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to hide and radio dot com oh my god that's an award i'm speechless but well this really goes to the small businesses we work with like jerry the farmer for 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3.1 envisages that the state could declare war with the ascent of daul air and indeed and that's what we were discussing yesterday to joe kelly like it's aspirational rather than constitutional hi greg i'm listening to the doctor i'm type one diabetic was put on oz and pic but finding it hard to lose weight what's the name of the drug i just had it in front of me it's just not here at the moment but this is a much higher dose and it's been studied widely and has been found to be very effective wegovi i believe is the pronunciational wegovi it's w e g o v y i call us this you've got to give us the name of the new drug for obesity what is it called please that comes in from bridget there's your answer bridget but as i say it's just not available just yet as far as i'm aware but those in the business of helping those who are overweight and have medical complications because of it i think this is great so the finnegale finna full councils have overseen the desolation of twin tans for decades whilst bringing swimming pools schools the base baller etc no balanced approach though time for council made up of business state and community before buildings fall down another really makes my blood boil that the people responsible for assaults against the likes of ambulance staff guard etc tend to be released pending afar to the DPP surely a crime like this should see immediate punishment and no doubt we will be paying free legal aid into the future for these kinds of crimes greg dr joe kelly is right it is past time for arland show some leadership in the interest of peace in the ukraine but leadership requires courage and there is no such thing as courage in dublin very tragically arland has returned to being a connolly this time round a connolly of brussels and arland has stopped being an independent sovereign nation look i was saying at the time when people are driving driving lorries into the gates of the russian embassy when the councillors are discussing changing the name of the street on which the embassy sits on i was trying to make the point when all this stuff was happening that we obviously can condemn it there's no size to take in this one you can't really say you know usher you know vladimir this that and done but we should try and take a position in the international community where we can phone ahead of government can phone pewton and reason with him or try and broker or use what was achieved in north and arland to our advantage rather than the approach we seem to be taking having a conversation about armies and european armies and smashing in gates and changing the names of streets as i say i understand why people do that but it just i just think that there was there's an opportunity loss that we would be in a good position to try and broker some kind of settlement and it would also improve our standing greatly on the international stage but maybe i wasn't making the points at that time as clearly as i had intended but that's what i was trying to say and i just think we could and we should i'm waiting bariatric surgery and was offered a different type of injection similar to this but it isn't available on the medical card is this one available on the medical card if so i will be contacting my consultant in go away at the moment it's not available on the medical card and it's not available with the uh re the refund scheme um that will come down the line um is the impression i'm being given here is the situation in belibu first is the situation in belibu face to an all are not down to a few individuals owning lots of property and leaving them empty um i don't know what the story is but whatever it is you heard from the counselor there he believes that if uh if if that's the property is derelict or not in use that they can cpo it a government have written a clause uh about being able to take a property for the greater good i don't trust the upcoming referendum at all agenda 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy stated in the world economic forum website that's you know i don't know where you get your information um but that's simply just not the case it it do you not remember everyone was put up to high dope as people said there there was laws legislation that means people could be rounded up uh and onto a an army barracks and and contained there and it was all linked to covid and all that type of stuff people are interpreting things that are in the constitution that that's never going to happen can you imagine if they tried to do that here or in any other country um should be the same punishment for all assaults it's not just as bad if i say a bin man is assaulted while working or anyone else whether they're working or not equal punishment for equal crime well if the the reason it's different the way i think it's different and the reason i said that these people are out to save lives okay now if you assault someone and it means that they cannot provide the care that they were sent to do that is a greater crime than someone assaulting me if a guard obviously is is out in the front line and and they're assaulted and taken taken out of their police keeping duties i think that's worse than assault on me if firefighters in the course of their duties as they try and save people or respond to an emergency if they're or their vehicle is assaulted uh or damaged i think that's worse than it happening to me but i i take your point and um maybe i'm not just quite as aspirational as you are but maybe that's the way we need to be uh greg why don't ireland introduce a bill as in england assault on emergency workers which allows for tougher sentences on culprits i know we interviewed someone i'm not sure if it was a senator or whom it was i just can't get their name from within my brain at the moment who was calling specifically i think for tougher sanctions for those uh who assault the likes of uh doctors and nurses and eds and presumably that would extend out then to to ambulance workers 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good i'm good uh i saw a few pictures of you and everybody else at the letterkenny st patrick's day parade it seemed to uh be a brilliant event organized at short notice but you wouldn't know well it would a good bit of work done with the chamber and ourselves i suppose and the day went well the weather was good everybody was in good humor and everybody enjoyed themselves so it went doing well good stuff okay right okay let's get into it now because we have some information upcoming but uh there are appeals now for any of you out there that may be able to help solve these crimes uh or instances or assist in finding out information there's a mixture we'll start actually with that information required as it relates to a a road traffic collision uh in bonkrana yes gregg this is a road traffic collision which occurred last Wednesday the 16th of march eve of st patrick's day at park more bonkrana at approximately eight p.m uh the collision occurred between a car and a pedestrian uh the pedestrian suffered some injuries unfortunately none of which are believed to believe to be life-threatening the car involved was a white kea it was traveling from the direction of the cause we rode towards versus lane uh at the time of collision so we're appealing for anybody who may have witnessed the collision or any information in the matter and anybody who may have traveled in the area at the time who has you may have had dashcam to make the footage available and again witnesses to contact the guardia bonkrana 0749320540 all right now there was a burglary in the Dunlowe area over the course of uh either the 17th or 18th yes this is a burglary that occurred on st patrick's night Thursday the 17th uh between 9 p.m and friday morning the 18th at 6 a.m so that had been sometime during st patrick's night it occurred in the area of tuber keen Dunlowe uh tuber keen is located between maherie and Dunlowe and a vacant building at the location was entered and substantial damage was caused to light switches furniture and windows broken uh nothing is believed to be stolen at this stage but again substantial damage done so that's a burglary in the townland of tuber keen Dunlowe and again we're appealing for residents to contact the guardia in milford or if deserved any suspicious activity in the area again milford can be contacted at 07491 53060 that's 53060 now your colleagues in bali shannon are investigating a burglary too yes this is a burglary that occurred in a holiday home at st bridgetts terrace in bandorn between last Tuesday march the 15th and patty's morning march the 17th the owner of the property arrived probably for the weekend to find that the side door of the holiday home had been damaged and entry had been gained some of money had been stolen from the property greg and again some damage done so we're appealing to residents in the area to contact the guardia in bali shannon if they have seen or heard anything that might assist with the enquiries there that's bali shannon 07198 53530 all right now is there anything that we need to be doing that we're not doing and this is not as it relates to the victims of these crimes but you know vacant properties holiday homes um i mean obviously alarms and what have you would be yes alarms alarms are a good tool to prevent the crime and again if you're aware for a weekend again the usual story you know not leaving your bin out not posting up on social media where you are in this thing and it's tough not to and again maybe somebody have somebody leaving a late on have somebody calling giving a key to your neighbour have somebody maybe a bit of activity around your house to to deter these criminal yeah because there are people and it's hard to believe what there are people that will befriend others or there's a network of people who will use information like there could be people attending a funeral or it could be people as you mentioned away on holidays and that information is circulated and used to target people i'm not saying it's happening widespread i don't want to worry people but you don't know everybody on your friends list no and then they and unfortunately the person in the burger or the criminal might not be too far for you and might be known to you and if your facebook page or whatever your social media page is open to the public they can type in your name see where you are and what you're doing and when you'll be back all right um now uh we are going to talk about an assault in rafau yes this is an assault which occurred on sim patrick's night last the 17th of march between 11 15 p.m and 11 45 p.m a young male was assaulted at location and received medical treatment for the injuries sustained and again fortunately none of the injuries are life threatening so that's a young male assaulted on the mcbride street area of her foe on sim patrick's night we appeal to anybody who was in the area around the time and who witnessed the assault or may have information to contact the garrity letter kenny 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 100 and again anybody who traveled on the mcbride street over that time period who has dashcam to make the footage available to garrity all right and uh another assault this time in letter kenny yes this is an assault which occurred on sim patrick's morning on on the wednesday night towards the morning in the beachwood park area of letter kenny between um 3 a.m and 4 10 a.m that had been on the wednesday night a young female had walked up the high road from the direction of town and greg she had walked into beachwood park state and where she was the victim of a non-provoked assault by a male who was unknown to her she received some injuries but fortunately they're not of a light trait in nature we have a good description of the male involved who was on his own he subscribes been 5 foot 7 to 5 foot 8 inches tall a shaved head and a beard and he wore a very distinctive red top and his mid the 8 20 mid to late 20s or early 30s so again 5 foot 7 5 foot 8 a shaved head and a beard and wore a red kind of a what looks like a kind of a ghillie jacket that are very common at the minute so quite distinctive jacket so we're appealing to residents in the area our taxi drivers have been around the beachwood park high road area at the time with dashcam to make themselves available to garrity letter kenny 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 100 and i and people will be listening and might want to know and maybe you don't know or maybe you don't want to really reveal it for operational purpose purposes what was the nature of the the assault was there was it was to be not poor was there are no alternative no physical assault physical injuries and the the assailant the injured party has a good description of the assailant and and is satisfied that he's unknown to her okay so it's totally unprovoked and we need to yeah of course of course that we need to get to the bottom of that one for sure okay now um a few appeals in here now isn't there yes this is a this is a number of road traffic related matters correct that happened on the 7th of March past in relation to the dangerous driving of a white bmw car partial registration number cv 15 so i think that'd be fairly distinct if anybody had seen it it actually the dangerous driving ensues started in the bally rain area of letter kenny and right down to lyford between 11 45 p.m on sunday the 6th of march into the morning of monday the 7th of march so if anybody was traveling in the road between letter kenny and lyford and a dashcam footage we'd appreciate it to make the footage available to the garrady uh and again 07 49167 100 that's a white bmw partial reds cv 15 or indeed if anybody had saw the car at another location we might be able to trace the the owner and have him or her interviewed in relation to the matter right okay um now bike safe a new initiative what a new initiative but it is an initiative tell us about it yes this bike second if you describe it will continue to provide it by the roads police and division doubling castle during this year 2022 it's initiative has been run by engarde chicana offering bike safe workshop and on the road assessment ride accompanied by advanced garden motorcyclists now these are the highly skilled motorcyclists that you see in the city you know you often see them there at parades or matches or vip escorts and and they're they're on the top of their game there so it's giving you a chance to go out on the road with them to increase your your skills and motorcycling make you more aware what's happening on the road there's any little habits that you yes and it's available to all motorcyclists holding a full motorbike license and applications coming made through the garrady website and the link to the play is also available on her own don't they call garrady chicana don't they call facebook page and again look at the you see now they the evenings are getting longer and the days are getting brighter and you'll see more motorcycling dusting them off less than maybe the bounce on 13th yes and unfortunately 10 motorcyclists haven't have died on the roads this year that's one on every four road that's great you know and over representation yes it is yes so and when you're very vulnerable on your motorbike and this initiative will increase your skills and make you more aware of the road and everything around you okay now another reminder for people to get their nominations in for the donagol garrady youth awards for 2022 yes the youth awards is on it nominations on at the minute and the closing date for nominations is 5 p.m next monday the 28th of march so those awards celebrate outstanding young people between the age of 13 and 21 from twitter county who've made a difference to the community that are living or working in and again the link to download the form is available on the garrady chicana facebook page and nomination forms are available for download on the garrady chicana website or the donagol county council website or from any garrady station yeah okay now uh a big game coming up for uh donagol versus our ma on sunday march the 27th it's going to be super sunday really for division one but we're here to talk about traffic management around well it's a super sunday rather than permutations yeah we're not actually going out well at the minute so a big game on sunday in o'donnell park there are can you throw in 145 p.m there are a lot of permutations for a lot of teams i think we can actually five teams are in the mix for allegation so we're expecting a big crowd arm i have something to play for there and we play them again in the championship so a lot of people want to see so we're just making people aware to the forecast is good arriving time and i suppose look at when we go to crow park or clonus or brefty in these places we all were prepared to park up and walk but sometimes in our own county we tend to i don't want to be a party pooper but i know after these matches i'll get the photo sent to me or we'll get the phone calls of cars up on footpaths you know people unable to to move for buggies around or wheelchairs maybe people visually impaired um there will be people that will disregard what you're about to say and then there will be people that feel that maybe the guards need to be a bit tougher on this well it's it's a happy medium you know but we will have guardian duty at the venue and just to make people aware there's no parking at the ground or no parking in the immediate vicinity of the ground as you see bally mccoolward at park is is a residential area and we have loads of people out walking buggies into town going to the aura or whatever we will ever cones out we will ever guards and duty and just to make people aware to park in the numerous car parks in the town walk to the ground or avail of the free shuttle bus service there will be a partial road closure at the kernan shop which is known as black's black's corner there so not people go to the match will not be permitted to drive past the barrier on the road there will be access for residents of people going to the aura or availing enough the other amenities out there but we're asking people going to the game arriving time use the car parks in town and walk to and from the ground but you'll get access for local residents uh or if you go into the aura you said that i think which is correct which is quite important just think on on others that's it it's not it's not a hurting to do you know okay uh you know thank you very much okay i appreciate that as always thanks for having me so no it's our pleasure that's got a sergeant union waltz that was the community guard information for uh tuesday march 22nd uh it'll be back for you again next tuesday and if you missed anything it'll be available on our facebook pages uh and indeed on the goddess you can't don't go on facebook page a little later on this afternoon the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster 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by the way i live and what i earn that is one person's reality there every shilling they earn out the door with no space uh for themselves uh we're going to continue talking about uh the cost of living uh derrick joins us now hi derrick good morning to you hello great good morning to you too right you've been looking at the price of oil yeah you mentioned there yesterday there uh and one of the times that you were talking there about the the price of uh the oil and so on and it's been on the plan and that just didn't go up uh the price of oil didn't go up since the um the invasion of uh what yeah but what i was saying there was there was there was movement in the market that was affecting the price of it prior to obviously the dramatic uh the dramatic upward increase is as well as getting that derrick but back back in 2008 oil had reached 147 dollars about i think it'd be maybe july or something yep yep price of i'll i'll just walk with him a farmer and i'll walk on the price of tractor diesel tractor diesel has just about a thousand euro per uh for the uh thousand litres a thousand euro for a thousand litres now that was the highest that there's ever been up to recently now back in the eighth of uh march there at 1700 euros now the price of oil today is floating on around 100 dollars i've had reached 120 or something there maybe a week ago but uh i honestly think there's somebody profiteering out of that there because it's so so expensive now for kerosene car diesel uh or tractor diesel it has come back now um and around 1300 to 1350 euros for a thousand litres that's one 35 or whatever per litre if you want to break it down but uh back back then the crude oil was 147 dollars but it only reached a thousand euro or a pound a litre or a euro a litre you know why is it so expensive now and and you take everything across the board steel timber everything that you go to buy now even down to a tube of glue that you're buying the hardware whatever everything has last had in six months they blamed it on the supply because the covert had interrupted the supply of stuff and there were so many people off work and so many factories was closed and all that sort of stuff you know and now suddenly the covert has rarely mentioned the numbers is fairly high now it's all to do with the war but the oil that's been pumped today or yesterday or last week doesn't reach the forecoats of the following stations i would think now and i'll stand to be corrected for a mighty long time so how come at when when the price of crude oil goes up a little bit the the price and the forecoats of the following stations is up the next day or two days later or four days later or whatever why you know why and then when it falls it reached a hundred and twenty dollars there now it's back down to a hundred but the price of oil hasn't really come back in the forecoats it's come back because the government took 20 percent off or 20 cents or whatever way you want to call it yeah i think i think we have to be careful though in comparing now to 2008 because you know it very for instance in 2008 i was reading up on this a little bit in 2008 it was a much shorter time that the prices went up compared to what we're experiencing now do you know what i mean i from my reading 2008 was it was a peak and that peak sort of washed through before it would have had an impact on petrol pump prices if that makes sense plus the fact demand dropped as well because we were in a recession at that time so even though the price of oil went up dramatically the demand for it also fell so therefore you know there was plenty of it's a lack of supply that's driving up where we're at now it's not simply the the raw price of the fuel if that makes sense right but the demand for the the oil has dropped because of the covid there's well great but we're out of that now the planes hasn't been flying they have been less trucks on the road it was very noticeable back there 12 months ago the amount of traffic was on the road was much much less but they turn the supply off and on to suit themselves but Derek i mean the bottom line is this though um the the old companies are continuing to make equal profits the same profits as they did record profits you know obviously the governments take on tax the governments take on oil on petrol and diesel i'm not sure if it's ever been higher and i don't think the four courts are losing money we're the only group of individuals it seems that are taking any hit on the current situation us the consumer at the bottom of the food chain yeah yeah but the higher the oil prices goes the government gets more yeah i took me a while to work that out but yep that's that's the fact there's no and and and and and as people are running businesses or running cars to go to work and so on so forth it's just awfully expensive for what you get now um for even for a drama carousel insurance 20 odd quid coal coal is raising seven euro bag or something now that's some of that is the the government levy on coal which which seems unbelievable at this moment but even in the north too it's raising as well yeah other supplier demand but i know probably the prices has little to do maybe if you look at the pictures on the television of the cities and lukewarm that has been bombed and the amount of people that has lost their lives and things as opposed talking about the money and the thing is no i know i know and that is the difficult space but we have to we we also right there's the i mean it's all for what's happening in ukraine but there are families also experiencing an awful situation here in a different way and you can say oh yeah but your house hasn't been flattened but there are people who who can't afford to eat or who can't afford to run a car anymore so we can't we we have to have a space where where people can talk about how it's affecting them but still recognizing that there are people in the rest of the world that may be are suffering worse uh derrick and i think you're very far in what you're saying but we have to be able to talk about its impact on us as well but also it's going to put an awful lot of pressure on people here in iron and then probably other countries too i don't know whatever else at the camp mcgaines meet and they may not think it might be worth a living well god forbid yeah yeah you know i don't know it's hard to say but this is where governments now need to govern right because i'm all shopped around out derrick i don't know about you but i've shopped around i think i'm saving as much as i can on my petrol my electricity uh another sort of discretionary spends i don't think uh there's an awful lot more i can trim back uh and a lot people there's people much worse off than i am and there's an awful lot of people better off than i am as well but now it's the time where a government the government has to govern and say right we are in a unique set of circumstances here is our plan to protect the most vulnerable i don't think them saying well we can't insulate everyone from all the impacts of a war is good enough they need targeted help for those that need it and it should not be beyond them to do that yeah absolutely look the pressure on people is getting to be and and the way that things are sloping that's going to be there for the rest of this year you know but the lots of things that the war is not going to settle down and the price of stuff i think i heard there a couple days ago the biggest steel factory in europe was bombed there so if the other factories in the world can pick up the flag maybe they can but yeah you see the problem we have too is for them to oust putin the plan is going to be to stop buying any or gas from russia anything out of russia so even if the war stops and i would hope it you know in the next couple of weeks there'll be big movements in that regard to try and force putin out and to put the pressure on the russian people we are going to have to even if that war stops we are going to have to face the consequences of not buying any produce from russia for the foreseeable future he's never going to be he's never going to be trusted again the rest of the world do not do business with him but it's shocking that one man in russia has yes they control the world and what's happening yeah he's redrawn he's changed the world completely but that's why it's going to take a change of leadership over there hopefully he's replaced by someone who is more negotiable and we can sort of rebuild relationships much quickly because all of this is on putin so if he goes and is replaced you know it's easier as hard as it is to imagine for the poor people of ukraine on a global level it's easier to return to doing business with with that country but you're going to take decades to build them suffice again you know we talk we talk about the micro here in ireland and that's going to take whatever seven thousand houses or whatever but you know that do ukraines listen to the interviews that they say we will build that ukraine is the people it's not the buildings they're sick of journalists asking them you know oh have you got you know can you get out to the shop and buy milk they say no we're not worried about that we're worried about stopping the war stop asking us questions we can survive without milk for a couple of weeks yeah what you need to ask questions as is when is this bombardment of our country going to stop and the ukraine is its people they will rebuild their cities and their villages the same as we would hear i think uh derek both the wedding building built all over european yeah and world war one and world war two and things that was all rebuilt again and bigger and better maybe but uh you talked about the food there you know the talk about ukraine being the bad bread basket of ireland or the world you know 30 percent means an awful lot of supply of food and green and and and all that stuff and i suppose down to oil as well as a both a good love without oil but food there's going to be one thing that's very very necessary we've been we've we had supported a more diverse farming industry here rather than focusing on certain sectors and and tried to sort of be more so self-sustainable we wouldn't be having to try and undo uh you know decades of policy that stop farmers doing certain things and growing certain items you go back 40 50 years ago every man had some green they had some potatoes they had some cows they had some sheep and they had a few pigs and whatever else casted and regulated out of that and now we're trying to undo that yeah that's exactly now the minister's going to the the the government today to put a package forward to get farmers to grow green but no and i forget now what my acres have talked about but the second problem is getting the seed to plant all that extra acreage there are some seed available at the moment but if there's something announced now for i don't know many acres they're talking about a couple million acres or whatever i'm not 100 sure but where is the seed going to come out on the fertilizer and the fertilizer and the diesel i know diesel has come back a little bit but boys are just all very expensive to run a tractor and and and we're only 100 a hundred a hundred year a hectare i think it is uh in diesel alone for grain growing i would i would well believe it yeah yeah and and and the tractors is back now in the last manpower on the back one 50 years ago or even more i remember she'd been on with me father and hundreds or other men in the country sitting on with a 35 tractor were five gallon of diesel they kept going all day and there were two or three of them now the one tractor goes on them goes the whole thing and you know they are quite shown diesel but the manpower is not there either you know i don't know the the power of the oil companies though must have in that it's like governments around the world they don't seem to be able to say anything you know it's fine for BP and and max all and and and shell to announce record profits it's okay for that no one are any government saying look you need to be you're going to have to absorb this is a worldwide crisis you're going to have to absorb some of the losses here and help the people no it's also a game they use our money to help us if you know what i mean they're cutting a cotton that is money out of our pockets they're nearly they're nearly controlling the government you'd wonder wouldn't you who's pulling who's who's strings and the same for the big large supermarkets here in pyrton they control the prices of everything because they they're going to make their profit to their shareholders at the end of the year and who ticks the the the farmer at the end of the day because the middle man has their price and it was on them and the price drops the farmer has to take it up and sometimes you say god i kept that thing for a year or whatever and and the supermarkets made more profit out of and and a week and i made out of it in 12 months but it's just interesting now though that all of a sudden it's good to see progress being made on the foods ombudsman although it's being called something else and now farmers are being seen as as as they've always been seemingly on the national stage people in the necessity Dublin or in a city cork or go away and now starting to take more interest in farmers in the last two months than they had probably in the last 20 years starting to realise what you guys actually do and how reliant we are on the work that you do it's it's it's funny not funny it's strange that it's taken a crisis for this to happen yeah everything that's nearly on the shop shelf it's edible has come from a farm or somewhere down to the pot of strawberry jam on the shelf that comes from a strawberry farm or where and glass houses or wherever the potatoes the vegetables the apples everything they're meat on the table they're chicken the chicken man as i'm sure is fine that very tight the same as the pig man the pig man's who lost some money every day but now i'm hearing that some people a person i might as well be honest it's not some people who would have said our farmers are always crying now they're saying we need to support farmers and give them what they need for us to be as as self sustainable as possible it's funny how things change yeah absolutely and you know now is the time maybe the farmer should be supported because it takes a long time for the potato to grow on the ground to get to the shop shelf or the grain to grow to make the loaf of bread or scone or whatever or the takes or whatever there's no point like closing the stable door and the horses gone when there's no grain in the stores you know it shows how quick at the um the warehouses can empty out but do you remember that i don't know if it's similar but do you remember there was the there was the shortage of was it silage or hay we were important round bales there was a big panic on a few years ago coming out of England yeah there were lorry loads i mean this is on a completely different scale than that potentially but then the farming is so much controlled by the weather as well yeah that's it it's nice to look out there today and the thing the ground's drying up and the farmers are getting on way we're plowing and maybe starting to plant seeds and barley and so on and getting slurry out we are controlled like the month of january was a grand dry month where farmers could have went out and put out about a slurry it wasn't allowed to now uh when in february come on probably has been the weather's february for a long time they weren't able to go out and i was on one man's yard and the slurry was coming up through the slat and it couldn't it couldn't do anything it wasn't because it wasn't allowed and the weather was so bad what do farmers need the weather to be like for the next two or three weeks something like today dry good dry and and the temperature rise up if we had the ground temperature needs it's about six or seven i think at the moment you needed around that or or above more if we had about 17 or 18 or 20 there that would be ideal but then ireland can't do it's like water either you know you know don't start Derek i have to go to the user 11 but if it's dry for three days we're out of water because i well because we decide we decide to collect water in sources above ground and those sources dry out very quickly i'm talking about reservoirs and what have you in spain and portugal they get it from underground and it's more sustainable but anyway yeah sometimes things can be exaggerated but to see you know what um that makes news or whatever you know across the world of water but you know um i know we we we we need dry weather and we need rain but we could pick a bit of dry weather now to love the mood of everybody and all that sort of stuff i know we're talking about serious issue but last week this is no joke it was raining and i have a small house it was raining at the back of the house and dry at the front of the house yeah it's quite awkward if you if you look there places if you're used traveling about you travel on the road and you go to a certain distance and you see oh god it's wet there and 10 yards down the road then it's dry and on the beach and downings last summer and you could see the rain over letter kenny it's uh yeah and it's on the beach directly listen thanks for spending so much time with me this morning it's been lovely chatting to you and good to you too thank you very much take care all right thanks so much indeed we're going to news now shortly 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 there are so many ways to enjoy fresh irish hake for every day or weekend meals like mouth watering baked hake with a herb dressing 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emergency services personnel after a man was arrested following an attack on a paramedic in letter kenny yesterday morning gar thee attended the scene of the assault on kenyer lane at approximately nine o'clock when man was brought to letter kenny university hospital for treatment for life non-life threatening injuries they were sustained during the incident man in his 20s who was detained has since been released pending court sciences councillor jerry mcmonagall the chair of the hsc west regional forum says more deterrents are needed meanwhile gar thee and letter kenny were investigating two assaults one on a woman in the beachwood area of the town in the early hours of sin patrick's morning the other on a man in refo on sin patrick's night you can hear more details and an appeal for information from sergeant union walch on our website island radio dot com that appeal was made on the gar thee community slot on the nine two noon show this morning u.s president joe biden says there are clear signs that russia is considering the use of chemical weapons in ukraine the white house is also warning bladda bear pewton may order cyber attacks in response to the tough sanctions imposed on the kremlin ukrain's president says his country's forces have managed to slow russian advances on a number of cities joe biden says russia's tactics could become increasingly severe a former member of neffat says we should hold off on reintroducing mandatory covet 19 restrictions for now mary fave the covet advisor to the irish college of gps says however we do need to be cautious over 1300 patients remain in hospital with the virus while nearly 64 000 cases were reported over the course of the four-day bank holiday weekend and another gp in honor toffi from monah and claim today she believes that the number of positive cases and particularly positive antigen tests is severely under reported gar thee and bonk rana are investigating a collision between a car and a pedestrian at park more in bonk rana on wednesday evening last at approximately eight o'clock the pedestrian suffered injuries none of them life threatening the car a white kia was traveling from the direction of cosby road toward ferris lane at the time of the incident gar thee are urging anyone who witnessed the incident or may have dashcam footage to contact them on 07493 2540 and sports facilities in local communities should benefit from irland's co-hosting of euro 2028 according to the public expenditure minister the government is expected to formally back the joint bid with britain at a meeting of cabinet this morning it looks likely it will be the only application to uef to hold the tournament in six years time minister michael mcgrill says there should be some investment into grassroots facilities off the back of the event and we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon all right donal thank you very much indeed so that weather forecast improving sunshine as the day goes on will be mainly dry with 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treatment a person has been arrested in connection with it and released as far as i'm aware um pending a file to the dpp cahill galler is a chief shop steward for the northwest national ambulance service with sip do and he joins us now cahill uh you know it's awful to hear what's happened to your colleague particularly as they're out there trying to save people's lives trying to make people better try and get to the hospital so you can never prepare yourself you should never have to prepare yourself for this happening in the line of duty across the northwest in fact right across the whole country and unfortunately we're no strangers to assault but it's mostly verbal assault is what we have to put up with and when it's the physical when the physical aspect comes in it's really brings home the fact that we're we're working in a vulnerable environment at times like you did say in your your introduction there we are there to help people that's the the nature of our business and we rock up on our and our vehicles to provide care pre-hospital care to patients to you know get them uh on the road to recovery transported to the hospital and we provide a service and uh yeah it's just it's difficult to what happened yet and in my experience cahill your teams are great in the most difficult to circumstances they're busy uh their assets they're doing what they have to do but they also are considered to the impact that's having on others around so I've nothing but the highest of praise but cahill you spoke to to the person in question as much as you're comfortable in saying did he explain what happened and and his injuries no problem understood they are also highly traumatized because they witnessed the assault and in our training we always hear about scene safety you know if the scene becomes unsafe you you try and get yourself out of that scene uh while in the back of a vehicle it can be difficult to to actually you know get away from the danger that is there what happened uh the the paramedic actually did manage to um get out of the scene and and uh uh the then left the the area and uh they made the way down to safety and um yeah that's a difficult one too as it could be any one of us uh and I want to wish uh the two paramedics the the person that actually suffered the physical assault and the partner and the partner you know uh you know a speedy recovery and get them back to work is he had a hospital uh cahill do we know at this point yes yes they're they're at a hospital yes he's at a hospital yeah let's talk more about the the variable element of it as well because that's something uh we're more I was going to say thankfully but I don't mean it like that I hope you understand that's the more common assault and we've seen stats on it and it's not just ambulance staff as we know it's ed staff it's hospital staff and this is just in the healthcare area I mean it is common it happens really really regularly it is almost part of the job to to be on the receiving end of it it is common but it's still you know it's not acceptable unfortunately when you have people that are in highly stressful situations so from a crisis uh psychiatric illness or even other influence of drink or or drugs yeah we we have been the victims of verbal assaults but thankfully within the organization we have a group of peer support workers that will you know hopefully assist the the staff member that has been affected by uh the assault and you know going back to it is still not acceptable it does happen and unfortunately unfortunately during the covid people seem to be under a lot more pressure and stressors and you know patience and tolerance is is at an all-time low and that was in fairness being egged on as well um suggesting that those in the health service are are complicit in something or other it eroded I think a bit of respect which I hope is back or comes back very quickly not amongst the majority of us but amongst some let me just ask one another question because I think you know you've touched on a couple of things there the instant reaction is to talk about tougher sentencing you know to try and discourage verbal or physical assaults but I think you're very fair in what you're saying if I'm reading it correctly that in some circumstances there could be other reasons behind this and tougher sentences may not be even a deterrent what is there anything we can do or should be doing beyond the obvious what might feel like a knee-jerk reaction to um to assist to stop this happening. I make a campaign explaining what the ambulance service is about and what is you know tolerated and what's not tolerated and yeah you know people when they're in crisis when they're suffering a medical or a traumatic emergency obviously uh you know their pain thresholds could be uh you know um at an all-time high and reasoning might not be you know achievable but we we try and perform our duties as professionals in a calm and caring manner. I believe I speak for all my colleagues in the ambulance service that that is our core value is to protect people provide care and promote recovery but we also have to protect ourselves as care healthcare workers that we're not exposed to unnecessary dangers uh or traumas and you know where where these things happen yes they need to be investigated and if the the the courts decide or the investigation proves that some needs a custodial sentence um maybe as a message that will I suppose get the knee-jerk reaction the opposite way rather than attacking or or verbally abusing ambulance staff that people would think is it oh hold on these are people these are human beings they have a right to go home safely after a tour of duty or after a shift of work so yeah it's it's it's a it's a two-way thing Greg. Have you chanted to your colleague again uh pass on our best wishes to both of them in fact if that's okay uh cahill thank you for joining us this morning I take care right cahill galler there chief stop shop steward for north west national ambulance services with SIPDU a file is being prepared for the DPP by the way um the person arrested has been released pending a court summons a drum of kerosene is now 45 euro one point say so listener it was under 20. Hi Greg governments are purposely going to collapse the current financial system in order to bring in central bank digital currency transport costs have skyrocketed to answer that man's question uh when oil was 140 dollars a barrel the euro exchange rate was 113 now we're getting 110 and it was 108 last week it's the euro which is weakened against the dollar which is the issue not companies inflating the prices of course and factor into that as well as I mentioned in 2008 we're comparing a shorter period of time to to what's happening in 2022 and also because of recession demand fell greatly as well so there are variables that doesn't mean we're here trying to defend the oil companies right but you know we don't want to drink everything that's offered to us as well as it relates to what's going on we're told to do our research that's what we're doing isn't it we're trying to find out okay um we're going to be talking about a situation facing the post office network potential industrial 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or five issues that we have had within post over the last 12 or 18 months and particularly during covid when post masters would have worked hard and provided services throughout the pandemic i think a morale is low that would have been treated like this by a post given the efforts that we have made to improve our situation so for instance two years ago we got a grant art report said that we needed 17 million to secure the network post master's have worked hard we've taken on new services like bank violence like we're the community bank like new custom services because of brexit and stuff like that and that's 17 million has been significantly reduced but haven't said that on posts still find difficulty in dealing with what we see are small issues much to our annoyance and frustration the latest one is there's new rules money-launching rules in relation to foreign exchange and postal orders or postal money orders people would know them as where you have to fill out a form for any size of a transaction yeah now this is and i mean i think most of us understand the language but what's happening and what people are feeling on the ground is they're trying to change 80 euro into sterling and i have to fill out forms are a five euro postal order you have to fill up a form give your address and your date about and in fairness to people great and like i personally take exception to a number of people who ask if your date about and i give people a fictitious date about i give them the first of the first two thousand and what we're doing is we're being asked to ask people to fill in their date about five euro money order is this to do with laundering is it to do with laundering does the same happen in the banks it does but see because we deal with the public mostly in banks it's they're known customers and the banks have got out of foreign exchange so we're the main foreign exchange dealer in the country at the moment so if you want 20 quid sterling to go to do something in the north you have to fill up a form and give your date about and we just think that it's bureaucracy why is it why is it not a set it some figure like 500 or a thousand or that's our point that's our point i mean you'd be a long time laundering the proceeds of of crying changing 20 euro through your post office every every five minutes i know it's ridiculous and we've had that discussion and post and post explained to us that it's a law it's coming from bosses it's legal requirement and if that's the case that's fine but then they expect us to do it for nothing we are trans we are paid by transactions so we're expected to suck this up and deal with it and take the abuse from customers like we have respected people who buy posters who are telling us to buzz off that they're not giving us their date about so like we're faced with that or we're discouraging people who are coming into post office or we put down fictitious information so the information the whole purpose of the exercise becomes ridiculous yeah and listen that that affects the public and i can understand why that's pushed to the fore because you know it's going to help in in the public feeling sympathy for postmasters and i don't mean that in any way you know if i were advising that's exactly what i'd advise as well to try and process it but there's other things as well additional pay for 2021 christmas payments withheld why would that be withheld for example well the only reason we we know we we got an additional rate we pay double payments for social welfare or Christmas and in 2019 and 2020 we got an extra a few pence pence is what we got but it wasn't becoming available in 2021 and the only reason we can see is that on post bottom line is under pressure and they're trying to cut costs whatever way they can and i think it's linked back to the to the fact that the network needs investment from the government if that network hasn't or that investment hasn't been for common on post is squeezed financially so their bottom line their friend is trying to save every cent and they're squeezing it out of us like postmasters generate 85 percent of post office transactions throughout the country and it is our view not confirmed by unposts but it is our view that is pressure on their bottom line that is causing them to to to waste for want of a better word on small amounts of money and like all the issues that we have are small greg and like it's it's just the frustration that why just don't do it it's not a big issue and they did it in in relation to the christmas family it was done in 2020 2019 and 2020 it was held in 2021 and we just don't understand that other than it's pressure on the bottom line and if that's the case the government should invest and back to a point i made at the start two years ago i'm told and estimated that it was 17 million investment was required in the network we believed that's reduced considerably so let me read this if i'm reading the the language correctly are you suggesting that unposts are using postmasters as pawns to leverage against the government i i don't know i don't know i mean they recorded 33 million euro profit in in 2020 now and although though there was i'm not sure what the position is in 2021 our understanding is that there wasn't the profit made in 2021 certainly 20 that and in fairness the pandemic cost with everything that's going on i just don't understand why why squeeze on the postmasters you know i presume this other area of businesses that they you know that they could come back on i mean is there is there another motivation here because this is reneging on on a commitment is quite significant for a company of this size to not be following through on on on contractual commitments well i can't other than we're deducing it's adding to our frustrations and that's why we're calling the meeting like we're not we're not in nature we want to provide services to people we have worked hard to provide services we have we're we're trying to portray and we are portraying a more positive image we are providing services we have we are becoming the community bank in relation to doing bank of iron services we do aib we do even though also or even we're doing also we want to do more of that stuff and we can do stuff from that that for the government we can do identity verification we can do password verification all of that stuff the government is or promise us this time last report on services by the post office hasn't appeared great so i don't know can you cost this in other words for um for on pass to to meet the the the basic five demands uh to avoid this and and maybe they'll be compromising if discussions happen but how much money would you say we are talking for them to satisfy the concerns of postmasters across the country it's it's i haven't funny enough i haven't done that some but it'll be less than a million well okay it's not it's not much money in the context of an 800 million organization or 900 plus million in 2020 but i presume that's going to fall back and this is this is the frustrating part for us like we are contractors we're agents we generate 84 or 85 percent of their revenues through the post office network to the contractor contractors part of the post office level we are not the enemy here their way to make money is for us to do more business because we only get paid if we do business and if we do business they do business it just baffles us and like frustrating frustration isn't the correct word for it and like that's that's why we finish the call in the meeting next week right now what does industrial action look like by the way finally what does industrial action look like now do you want a verdict but i don't know it would look like it won't involve soldiers because we're too important to so many people in a relationship with service people like if maybe we're through all of some services i don't know we'll be guided by the members Greg but we don't want you'll want to put the squeeze and on pass rather than your customers i presume in any case whatever you decide okay yeah right Ned okay thanks for your time this morning appreciate it now are Ned O'Hara their general secretary to the Irish postmaster's union oh wait six that explains when you're going in and you're almost asking you're inside leg measurement it's coming from Brussels via the network but i mean 80 who's laundering 80 euro i don't know all right a call says there are thousands of vacant holiday homes in Donegal why not utilize them to house refugees and re-vigorate rural areas like Fallon who've suffered the population over the years well that's people's investments we heard earlier on people going well the census is being used as a means for agenda 2030 to take people's homes off them that's your that that suggestion is similar to that these are people's properties do we want to go down that route where people maybe don't trust banks maybe don't trust 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290 390 whether dedicated and experienced loans team will be delighted to help you loans are subject to approval terms and conditions apply bns credit union limited is regulated by the central bank of arland alice doil is national chair of farm family committee with the irish farmers association and joins us now alice good morning to you how are you a respended scene behind you but the cows aren't moving so i'm gonna edge my bets and say that's a picture that's my farm earlier in the year down here in the southeast so hopefully it's a sunny morning and the sky is similar to what it is today the grass might be quite as flush but other than that doing good good stuff now um there's a lot to get your head around isn't there with the the fair deal scheme it's complex it's complicated maybe even more so uh for farming families yes it is going um it's a it's a well-known scheme by lots of people have been using it and farmers as well as business people and people outside those both areas have been using it for quite a number of years but for farmers in particular there has been a number of changes made in the last year or so in july and october last year 2021 and a new development came in where the scheme the nursing home scheme had an amendment brought in which put a three-year cap on the payments for farmers if they make certain criteria now that applied to most people who own houses etc outside farming for many years but until last year farmers were allowed to pay seven and a half percent each year of the value of their farm or their assets ongoing with no cap but fortunately the minister brought in an amendment to mary butter on the 21st of october last year and this has had a significant impact on the amount of money that people would have to pay back and i think it's quite it it's quite obvious why a cap needed to be put in there particularly with farms the role in the family and and how the past through generations for those reasons alone um do you accept the ifa the 7.5 percent uh max of a the value of a farm business assets each year capped at three years is that the best deal that could have been achieved is that fair well at the moment yes we have been spent we spent a lot of time we spent nearly nine years negotiating that to get that so it it may sound like an awful lot to still have to pay and it is and nobody is denying that that it is a huge amount still to have to pay but it is certainly better than having to pay seven and a half percent ongoing with no cap on it but certainly we'd love it to be less but it is seven and a half percent we have to accept that um and we accept it sorry pardon my ignorance Alice is it up to seven and a half percent because obviously farms of different size uh you know um would would be worth different amounts of money seven point five the maximum yes seven point five it is seven point five the amount of what size of your farm so whether you have a farm worth three hundred thousand or a farm worth eight hundred thousand it's seven half percent of the value of that so the higher the value of your farm the seven half percent of that is higher value it's higher percentage it's a higher amount anyway it's still seven and a half percent but that's a higher amount and how is that uh how is that taken from because some of it's going to be assets presumably you know not necessarily cash how is that leveraged against uh the value of of the farm okay okay and if you are in the new view avail of the amendment what happens is in that situation in order to avail of the three-year cap what happens is the farmer that was we take it that it's the farmer is going into the nursing home it could be his wife either but we take it's the farmer in this case so if the farmer is going wants to avail of the fair deal scheme the first thing he has to do is he has to nominate a successor because um this is a very very important part of the new arrangement so a successor must be nominated that successor can be son daughter son-in-law daughter-in-law but um or Lisa can't go outside that you cannot go farther out than that and they must be nominated to take over the farm that person must agree to farm the farm for a six a minimum of six years and the also they must agree to pay seven and a half percent of the value of the farm for the first three years the person being in the nursing home i'm not looking for to be particularly negatives but is there any concerns that farmers or farm families could be exploited through this process in what sense Greg in in in the sense of maybe you know being coerced into signing the farm to somebody else or um things like that there i mean i know there are protections and and uh what i'm i'm just wondering if if it sounds like something that someone might feel pressured into going into um say for instance a nursing home by a member of the family or something yeah there is always that worry of course but whether it's a farmer or somebody with just a house yeah and you do the same pressures of course you know the need for a nursing home you'll have to fund it you don't have to fund it and and you do have to try you may have to look after the person it may be the only way so yes there are i suppose there's always that good worry there that people feel coerced into doing it but they they do it voluntarily in the sense that they have to sign it and as you say it's across the board it's not unique it's not unique to it it's just the fact that it's also a family business it's maybe slightly different than than a property but listen as i say i'm not trying to amplify any negatives here Alice and i guess too the fact that it's a family business is a lot of consideration goes into it before that that farmer side people don't do it rush it you know in rush way and we would be advising for my name very much so to anyone who's considering the availing of this scheme to take a lot of illegal advice to take a lot of financial advice don't sign the form the seven is put in front of you you know something you realize well my mother my father needs to be in a nursing home in a hurry because they've had a bad stroke maybe i can't be don't feel that you have to sign that form immediately so we would strongly advise okay right so the webinar is on Tuesday the 22nd of March at 8 p.m which is today you can register online at the ifa website it's one of those things knowledge is power and even if it's not on your horizon immediately i think it would be worth logging on to hear what what's what because this as i say it is it's it's complex and you have experts on hand to describe to discuss this we would very much urge people to log on tonight it's very easy to log on because we will have the experts from the hsc and also Heinz who was the an expert in this area and will be on tonight and he would be there to give it a and understand you how all this happens and you will also take questions so we urge you to join us tonight at HVAP and you can log in through the ifa website or you can contact the country plural in Donnie Gold who is Tom void and Tom has given me permission to give you this number which is 085 757 9026 and Tom will give you a link to us as well Alice thank you very much indeed we really appreciate your time this morning that was Alice Doyle national chair of farm family committed with the ifa as I say if you're interested in that go on to the ifa's website that webinar tonight march 22nd at 8 p.m okay now we're joined on the program by John Dean O'Keefe criminologist and lecturer of law and forensic psychology you good morning to you John thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today uh John can you hear me okay right okay we'll come back in a moment to that in the meantime I'll read uh just a few of your comments here all health care workers say this call should be covered by law against assault whether it's in a hospital setting or outside their work another reality is now the last nation in Europe to remain neutral in the face of Russian aggression well we're not politically neutral certainly military but not politically while other neutral nations like Finland have joined the fray cowardly despicable hypocritical island is rattling collection boxes and sending uh really ready-made meals the fighting Irish don't make me laugh the only fight the Irish put up is when last orders are called at the bar I think that's a terrible assessment of uh also as a nation uh right John Dean O'Keefe John Dean good morning to you thanks for joining us good morning as I mentioned uh it's John Dean uh or John or John and then Dean O'Keefe Dean O'Keefe sir name okay I like John I like John Dean it's very we could have worked with that but John it is okay as I mentioned just in a preamble there you are a criminologist and a lecturer of law and uh forensic psychology um now Vladimir Putin is uh going to be discussed at LYT's uh psychopathy uh psychopathy lecturer uh which you're involved with what's your assessment of uh of Putin and his actions can we tell from afar you know it's it's going to be pretty difficult to tell from afar I mean there's a huge there's a huge temptation of course to describe him as well I don't know mad bad or sad or perhaps a mixture of all three but look making any sort of clinical assessment or even quasi clinical assessment from this distance is farcical I mean there are some things we can say about him I suppose um it's hard to come to a formal conclusion about his mental state but um you know we could look at it one way and we could assess if he were suffering from a true psychiatric illness so for example schizophrenia or paranoid schizophrenia and I think that's highly unlikely you know those listeners who are unfortunate enough to know somebody with that particular illness will know it just simply doesn't manifest in that way those unfortunate people make bad choices for everybody else but also for themselves which Putin doesn't appear to be doing so I think we can rule what we might call a true mental health illness heavy quotes out which brings us to another area of course which is that of personality disorders and is really uh if I can put it this way a happier space to consider him in personality disorders are where we have difficulty extreme difficulty living with ourselves and others and this is in the extreme about 14 percent of any given population or assess to be suffering from it although obviously mostly undiagnosed and there's one particular cluster of personality disorders emotional emotional and impulsive which he's often thrown into for his actions in other words the dark triad of behaviors of narcissism malignant narcissism as is called and psychopathy which is what we'll be talking about tomorrow night I think it's probably a bit easy and a bit tried to just call him a psychopath as well a because we just simply don't know and certainly he appears to have psychopathic traits but then again there are others he appears not to have one of them being uh impulsivity we can see it on one level but actually it appears as if a lot of his actions are thought through so I think it would be difficult to ascribe him that I think probably where we're closer to is what's called malignant narcissism which if you like is a cousin of psychopathy to put it simply and is the kind of my wadi version if I could call it that it's somewhat diluted there will be elements of genuine remorse occasionally in that person's life he could certainly be falling into that type but can someone who is completely on an even kill and sane instruct an army to effectively kill 44,000 people uh in a city in Ukraine I mean can a truly sane person do something like that well the sad truth is absolutely um so if we put aside for a minute personality disorders mental health illness in in total what we can have is heavy quotes a normal person who is the product of their social environmental and family backgrounds I mean we don't we don't need to go into his history now it's pretty well known amongst most of us but of course he was he had a very very sort of strange upbringing with his his mother and father and there's real dispute about whether the mother and father who claimed who he claims to be his mother and father were in fact his mother and father two older brothers both who died before him in childhood a very strange upbringing based on um his father you know talking a lot he worked for Lenin and for Stalin as their cook kind of a strange upbringing based on the sort of uber masculinity of the soviet union um and of course he was then I mean to cut a very long story short he was then head soon to be head of the old kgb liaising with the stasi in eastern Germany and then subsequently head of the fsb which is the new version of the kgb in the russian federation so what we have to do is look at those look at that background and what formed him and indeed the russian nation and then look at perhaps a couple of really interesting headings the first is which is what all humans have a desire for is cognitive closure to feel the need you know for the assurance for our future that there's going to be a beginning middle and an end now of course humanity is a spectrum for you or I it might simply be gotta hope have a nice lunch today you know that was a decent show and you know it might be quite simple stuff but for others it can be expanding the russian empire you know it can be bringing back the good old days as they would see it so we all look for that and what does we get cognitive closure by black and white thinking like no other which of course is what he's doing so everybody's against russia the russian federation at the moment they're all against him and this almost creates the perfect in and out group for him you know the middle football club chant no one likes us we don't care it would be almost better if the world was divided on their response to him you might say because then he would have to assess that nuance position but now it's easy it feeds into all the black and white strategy he has closure and more importantly everyone else is wrong sorry everybody else is wrong everyone is wrong and it's much easier if you don't have to nuance everything that's okay and of course he can't nuance it could then he'll be completely wrong yeah his whole life will have been a lie and and the lives of his people will have been a lie so he creates this terrible out group and of course he's looking for another thing personal significance you know and again it's a prize like no other we all want it some of us want to be a footnote in history some of us want to be a footnote of a footnote this is where this is his state might be questionable because if he is you know of able to make if he's not a psychopath or whatever right he surely must see that he cannot rebuild the USSR because the world has changed and that would require engagement with NATO and then that would lead to you know third world war nuclear winters and and millions of death so he can never recreate the USSR within the world as it is so he must be looking at a bigger picture or he must not be following control of himself well I mean we can say he'll never create the USSR but he thinks something different we need to walk in his shoes not the western shoes we need to walk in those Russian shoes that he's been plodding in for almost 70 years now and by the way there's a lot of evidence to suggest he could be right you know he does what he wants in Syria nobody interferes chemical weapons are used biological weapons are used nobody interferes he then invades the Crimean Peninsula nobody interferes eastern Ukraine he takes over nobody interferes and now suddenly we're interfering but guess what we're not actually interfering so we are neighbors oh well we are I mean I'm not saying that's not a political necessity I'm not suggesting I'm not suggesting I'm just saying we are caught between a rock and hard place if we think he's caught between a rock and hard place it's nothing compared to the rest of us because we have given out this mixed message of weakness and quasi strength which is exactly so you've got to get into his mind as far as he's concerned he is getting back to Soviet Union and he only has to now move on to Latvia Estonia and the other Baltic states and everything would be hunky-dory and are the West going to press the button no they're probably not going to press the button so what he's doing is this madman theory you know if I behave mad enough people will actually think it there's an element of that I think going on that's not to say he doesn't have personality it's of course we have to assume there are some there yeah but whether he's the madman that he's portrayed as I'm really doubtful really don't well let's can we look at someone like Boris Johnson I'd be interested in your in your assessment of him and I'm not in it now Boris Johnson got into trouble for talking about the Ukraine resistance being the same as the Brexit resistance he didn't actually quite say that and I was really quite disappointed in the BBC how they reported it because I believe his comments were misrepresented but listen he's got a history be that as it may I'm not comparing him to Vladimir Putin but in terms of you know in the face of all types of criticism sticking it out as it relates to the Downing Street parties pushing Brexit through and still maintaining that's a good thing even though you know that the consequences have been really quite poor for his country what personality traits do you think Boris Johnson possesses and well look I'm not I'm not so entirely sure that Boris Johnson is that different from Putin I just didn't want to say it I just didn't want to say it's okay I'm not I'm not convinced at all in fact I'm more convinced he is like him now is Boris Johnson going to go to war in the way or any way that Putin has absolutely not but just park that for the moment there's reasons for that I would suggest but he's evidencing all the traits of Putin which is a remorseless disregard for others and the only satisfaction is in the self now I'm talking about a lack of remorse and a lack of empathy that is 100% now that doesn't mean of course that some of the times you won't engage in shallow emotions and look as if you care and Boris Johnson tries the lower wobbly lips sometimes it doesn't work very well he's not very good at it because he really doesn't care I mean that's very obvious he doesn't care he wouldn't be so different from a lot of politicians to be quite honest not all of them but a lot of them and our entire can be entirely self-serving from a personality perspective the difference of course is is Boris Johnson's interests are he not going to war you know he was brought up in a different environment where you know democracy almost has a military ring about it whereas Putin is brought up in an environment where military means military so it's very normal in Russia to go to war it's very normal to be hero worshiping to talk about valor to take your shirt off to sit on a horse and look like as we might say in Ireland and Egypt if not a half Egypt but that's not the way you interpret it when you're sitting in the Russian Federation so Boris Johnson may not press any buttons he may not go to war he in fact he almost certainly won't but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a very similar personality to type to to Putin and indeed many other leaders over the years. Is cognitive closure a new thing not or are we more aware of it now like I'm thinking of an awful lot that's happened over the last few years be it elections in the United States I'm not sure if this falls into the that same bracket but you know the divisions in society people's reaction to COVID something people being so passionate about mask wearing or whatever it might be is is that all in the space of cognitive closure? Yeah I would say it is look I think since time immemorial humans have tried to get closure it might be just running around with a club in your hand seeing if you could kill a deer you know might be as unsophisticated as that but guess what when you can eat that's the long day closing that's okay that's a good day of course things are much more sophisticated now but are they it's really the same principle of course like everything else in psychology we can stop talking about it and we do love a good label so everything gets labeled and I can be criticized for that here today but cognitive closure is important we all need a beginning a middle and an end we look for chakras that close out in our lives every day we look for resolution and guess what black and white thinking plays into that good and evil in-group out-group Satan God same sinners order chaos on it goes it's really simple and and of course Boris Johnson you mentioned him earlier is falling into that exact same pattern of course which is that Putin is evil and we are good and Putin is saying no I am good and you are evil and on it goes but regardless the cognitive closure is something we all look for what we don't like or shades of gray because frankly that's a bit boring and requires us to think okay bad men in good jobs personality disorders psychopathic and putin it's the LIT law society hosting this on Wednesday the 23rd of March tomorrow it's at 6 p.m in room 1101 for a talk with the person we're speaking to now leading criminal criminologist and lecturer in forensic psychology John Dean O'Keefe John Kenny in a couple of minutes tell us more about this roller coaster journey that you can take us on well it'd be but it's just a snippet here but what we're going to do is tomorrow evening try and look at Putin's life look at things that happen them in his childhood in his middle life and his later life and see if we can get a framework within which we can begin to potentially understand Putin and people like Putin the Hitler's the Franco's the Mussolini's and and then you go back as far as you want you go forward as far as you want of course really one of the conclusions and it's not a spoiler alert here is that guess what humanity is a spectrum and we all sit on this spectrum and some of us are incredibly good whatever that means and some of us are incredibly bad and people like you and I probably have the Goldilocks syndrome you know we're hanging around the middle we're not too good we're not too bad you can have a laugh with us but we can get angry and we're going to explore all of that tomorrow brilliant stuff I think it's going to be fascinating I've heard fantastic things about your previous work so I'm sure that's going to be excellent too thank you so very much indeed that was John Dean O'Keefe criminologist and lecturer of law and forensic psychology the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees 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