 the past. Stay there. Do you think so? No, it's good. It's not bad. It's good enough. Do you know what I was just saying to you about earlier, which we can tell you about it again, but you flagged it up to me, you watched one weekend of the documentary. Yeah, I loved it. I thought it was brilliant too. Really good. Good show. It was good. It was uplifting. It was because obviously, given the subject matter and George Michael being dead, you'd think it would be, you know, normally those things like there's a negative relationship between them and then there's artistic differences, but him and his mate Andrew, they grew up together and went to school dreams and Andrew knew that he wasn't really the star is such and that's really good. Yeah, they were they had a great relationship between the two of them. Like I didn't know that like the grew up as kids and they were all of that's what was nice. I really enjoyed that. If anybody hasn't watched it, I would definitely watch it on Netflix. Yeah. All right then. Cheers. See you in a bit, Lee. It is the 90 noon show. Let's get a news update just a minute past nine now and we say good morning to Donald Kavanaugh. Thanks Greg. Good morning. A 50 year old man will appear in court in County Derry. They're charged in relation to this month's PSNI data breach. The man who's GB four Colrain magistrates also faces charges of possessing articles for use in terrorism. Delays to the approval of some cancer drugs mean doctors can't prescribe the appropriate treatment for one in four patients. On colleges say it relates to high cost anti cancer drugs such as immunotherapies. At the moment, new drugs must go through an extensive HSE approval process once they're initially approved by the European Medicines Agency. And that can take around two years. Consultant and Secretary of the Irish Society of Medical Oncology Michael McCarthy says such delays are unsustainable. We're not talking about chemotherapies. We're specifically talking about high cost anti cancer drugs. For example, immunotherapies. For those drugs, I cannot just prescribe these medications. They have to be approved for reimbursement by the HSE. The remaining challenges, I think, center around the pace of change in innovation and also delays from the time of approval by the European Medicines Agency to actual access for Irish cancer patients. Early Childhood Ireland says Donnie Gull's children are being let down because of a decades long focus on providing childcare for economic reasons. The organisation, which has 115 members in Donnie Gull, has called on the government and policy makers to completely rethink their approach to early years and school aged care. They say the emphasis has been on facilitating parents access to the workforce rather than meeting the needs of children. The government is being urged to get on with it and make a decision over the future funding of RTE. It was suggested an overhaul of the license fees on the cards following lower levels of payment alongside the recent controversies at the state broadcaster. The government's been given a series of options around the long term future funding of RTE. CEO of Shinnewill Larry Bass says government is elected to make decisions. And now it's time to do that. You don't have to reinvent the wheel here. There's lots of examples, but we just need to make a decision and get on with it. And these are hard decisions. And we as an Irish people haven't been great at taking hard decisions. It's time for to be led by, you know, their leaders and get on with it. Nearly 40% of people who are blind or vision impaired have been injured by footpath obstacles. That's the finding of a new survey among NCBI service users. The organisation's clear our paths campaign gets underway. Cars parked on footpaths were the most common obstacles followed by dog fouling and wheelie bins. Access and mobility manager with the National Council for the Blind is Chantel Smith. Very serious injuries associated with unnecessary obstacles on footpath. One individual sustained a broken ankle as a result of the unexpected street furniture on a footpath. We've had another person indicate that they couldn't pass on one side of a vehicle. So they had to go onto the road. And that's when they had a trip and went down and sprained their wrist. And with a forecast today rather windy without breaks of rain developing, turning heavier in the afternoon. Southwest winds fresh to strong and gusty. Top temperature 17 to 19 degrees Celsius. That's Highland Radio News. Back with news in full at 10 o'clock. Fittable. One must destroy in order to create. Star Wars Ahsoka arrives on Disney Plus. Anakin never got to finish my training. I walked away from him. If something's coming, something dark, I sense it. Once a rebel, always a rebel. Ahsoka, two episode premiere streaming August 23rd, exclusively on Disney Plus. Subscription required 18 plus TVC supply. The county's number one talk show, The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello. Good morning to you. Five minutes past nine on this Monday, the 21st of August to do. Hope you very well indeed. Hope you had a lovely weekend. If you were off or perhaps you were working either way, it's great to have you on board this bright but breezy Monday morning here from the Northwest of Ireland. And we've a busy show for you coming up on today for you. 08 660 25,000 is the WhatsApp and text number. If you want to get involved in the conversation or indeed start your own 00 3538 660 25,000, your WhatsApps and texts from outside the Republic. If you want to give us a call, Caroline and Eve, taking your calls today on 07 491 25,000 again from outside the Republic, 00 3537 491 25,000 doesn't say plenty. Come up in the show coming up on the show. Also, we chat to Brendan DeVaney a little later on after 11 o'clock previewing get tonight's DL debate podcast, but also getting his views on the lock. And it seems to be now that Jim McGinnis is to return as the Donegal senior football team manager. What a development that is. But anyway, that and so much more besides, right, let's run through what's making the front and inside some of the papers today. The Dairy People Donegal News inspirational Donegal woman Geraldine Mullen has spoken of how she plans to honor the memories of her husband and children for the rest of her days. She was speaking on the weekend of the third anniversary of the tragic accident in which she lost her husband, John and children, Tomas and Amelia aged 14 and 16. The Meville family had been returning from a day out in Dairy when their car entered lock foil at Quigley's Point on August 20 2021. Ms Mullen was guest speaker at the National Novena in Nock on Friday, where she recalled how her life changed forever in almost an instant. And Geraldine a regular guest on this program and always does what she says to honor the memories of her husband and children. And it's a tough every day is tough, but particularly when it comes around to anniversaries and what have you. So we hope Geraldine's doing well today. The Dairy News this morning, a heartbroken dairy mother has launched a petition calling for stiffer sentences for drug dealers. Pauline Duddy, who tragically lost her daughter Jasmine to drugs, is calling on the government to change the law so drug dealers could be prosecuted with murder. Jasmine, just 21, suddenly passed away in February, leaving her young son Theo. Pauline described her daughter as a very bubbly and caring person with a big heart and a brilliant mother. Onto the nationals now and two men who died in the Ironman Ireland event in your hole in County Cork have been named locally as guard investigations begin. The competitors have been named as Brendan Wall, who was in his mid forties and originally from County Meath, but was living in Solly Hole in the UK and either Chittenden 64 who traveled from his home in Toronto to take part. It's understood that the men separately got into difficulty while swimming. They were removed from the water and pronounced dead by medical personnel. Guardi were present in the control room of the Iron Man event all day and we're at the scene of the tragedy. Guardi will now prepare files for the coroner's court, but there's no suggestion that the incidents are being treated as a criminal matter. Post mortems will take place on the two men at Cork University Hospital today. Now, obviously, there's been a lot of commentary since and not surprisingly, it turned to questions today as to whether or not the event should have proceeded. I mean, there are those of you out there that have been involved in such competitions and you would know that it is not unusual, especially with a large field, sadly, for people to get into difficulty or to even die. I don't know what the ethos is in that. Does the show go on? There's a lot of questions being asked in the national media, so it should have been cancelled. It shouldn't have gone ahead. I don't know. I'd be interested in hearing, you know, what other competitors might think, what the families of the men who perished might think as well, because a great deal of commitment is put in to be prepared for these tough, tough competitions. So, I mean, obviously, in this day and age, it instantly goes to, well, who can we blame? The organisers, they should have cancelled it. That seemed to be the tone of conversation this morning, but I don't know. As I say, I don't know what the ethos is amongst people who participate in these. And as I say, I don't know what the views of the family of the men that passed were. And sometimes we just jump to, we just jump to sort of say or do a question what we believe to be the right thing without really knowing what the right thing would be in that situation. But if any of you out there have an insight as to whether or not it should have continued or not, let us know. But people did travel from all over the world, and it is a high risk sport. The Irish Independent this morning, there are hopes that consumers could see their energy bills fall in coming months as the market gets a shake-up from a new entrant today. It comes as households grapple with a cost of living crisis that could be further exacerbated in autumn and winter as they approach and consumers electricity and gas bills soar after a summer lull. Has there been a summer lull at all? Bills coming into the house for 300 euro for when you're not hardly using any electricity. It's hardly feels like a lull. That's the most recent bills. What have your bills been like over the summer? Has it felt like a lull? Oh wait, six, six to 25,000. If it's three or four hundred now, you'd worry about what it might be in the winter. But newcomer, you know energy, is promising it could save customers more than 500 euro a year on their electricity bills by closely monitoring their energy usage at home. Consumer groups are hoping it will force rivals to cut their prices, providing some respite for hard-pressed consumers struggling with higher bills for everything from energy to food. So this company, they don't need any further advertisement, but anyway you pay for your bills monthly in advance on estimates. They're about a little over 38 cent per unit and as I say, you pay monthly in advance but the catch is you need a smart meter. Now you can sign up without one but they will organise one to be installed for you. But they say they can save you 500 quid a year. They're the same people who do the pre-pay energy I believe. The Irish Daily Mail continues its coverage of the controversies at RTE. RTE faces a cross-party political revolt if it attempts to land revenue with the job of collecting the license fee. Ministers have warned the cashstrap broadcasters also raised the possibility of the current funding model being replaced by a new media license or a levy applicable to all households. The proposed changes have met stern resistance. One minister said are they for real? Are they seriously suggesting that we impose the TV equivalent of water charges in the run-up to a general election? T. Shockley of Radkar said that he believes it's nearly time to bite the bullet and legislate for funding of RTE. What do you all think of this? However, one minister says if we do this, let's turn to page four. In 2024 the public would be infuriated. There would be a political revolt of if this was attempted bringing in the equivalent of local property tax would be political madness. So do and all. It's like the LPD as well. Is there anyone listening to this show today that believes that people should be forced through a levy or through a revenue collection to pay for RTE services? And if you do, that's why I'm inviting you. I think the majority don't but I'd be interested to hear from someone who thinks that would be a good idea. 08, 6, 60, 25, 000. We were caught right at the time of the last budget. We were covering it and it was suggested and the general feeling was that it was a budget for people who are better off. That in fact it would make the rich more richer and the poor more poor at least or at least widen the gap between the two. And it's taken to now for this to be written about in the newspapers. The Irish Daily Star tells us that the gap between the rich and the poor families will widen if there are not genuine measures in the upcoming budget made to address the situation social justice Ireland has claimed. It also says the temporary cost of living measures introduced by the government are falling failing low-income households to cope with ever increasing prices. Last year's budget did not help the worst off in Irish society and in some cases had the opposite effect. The organisers, chief executive, the organisation's chief executive, Dr Sean Healy said. So that doesn't really come as any great surprise to me. And I'm sure you're aware of the story, the Lucy Letby story, the most horrendous of stories. And just to let you know as I read this it is a very emotive topic. It's about the murder of babies. And I'm just going to get deep into it. I'm just going to read some of the article here but just to let you know that that's what I'm going to be talking about. She's going to be sentenced today but she's not actually going to have to hear impact statements or anything from the court because of the way it works over in Britain. She can avoid all of that. Baby killer Lucy Letby should have the heartbreaking statements from her victims families piped into her cell, a UK MP says. The nurse who murdered seven newborns is refusing to attend court for sentencing today but former British Justice Secretary Robert Buckland insisted the proceeding should be played to her cell regardless of her wishes. He said yesterday, sadly the court's hands are tied. My suggestion would be to make sure there was a live link beamed into the cell of the sound and or send pictures to ensure that Letby has nowhere to hide and in fact has to listen to what the judge is saying about her case. It is the most shocking of cases and I feel for all of the families who might feel that they have some level of justice even though they've lost their precious little baby but then there was a number of counts where the jury failed to reach a verdict and their parents must be going through an awful situation as well and then of course there's going to be other parents whose children may have passed and weren't included in that investigation that will eternally have questions to ask but is the most horrendous of stories and finally I'm mentioning this because I'm sure many of you have connections to Tenerife if you'd like to go over there or you know people over there well anyway the Irish Daily Mirror tells us that wildfires raging across the island of Tenerife were probably started by arsonists police revealed and officials warned any suspects found guilty would face jail detectives have already opened an investigation into the fires firefighters and troops were last night still battling the infernos which broke out last last Tuesday all right that's a run through the papers thanks every again everyone who listened to or popped in to say hello but our outside broadcast on Friday I think by all accounts despite some weather interference it was a good weekend in letter Kenny for the letter Kenny festival and the pride parade seems to be incredibly well attended as well and we were there to mark we were there to mark the launch of those events but also on the show we had four young guests and I'm going to play we clipped from them just in case you weren't listening we had a youth panel together Cassie Lam Tiernan and Steven Sheridan Chloe Martin for wonderful young people that are involved in sort of you know activism or the student council or you know they've got a real interest in the future of not only their school and county but their country as well but I did ask them towards the end of the program and this is just a random four people if they saw their future in Donegal or Ireland and I'm going to play it out for you a wee snippet of what they said because as I say it kind of came as a surprise to me all four were of the same of you I said do you see a future for yourself in Donegal no I don't all right I mean I mean often you know I see myself going to the ATE when I'm older but I don't see myself staying here for very long then I'm not sure I don't think so to be honest I'm hoping to go to Galway for college and if I like it down the air I might stay and I could go to England or do back back what did you just say Dubai anyway right Donegal is my home it's where I grew up it's where I go to school but do I see myself achieve my hopes and dreams here no look even already um doing the youth activism I can't stay here um and going into the future whether by college or work I can't stay here okay I mean that's shocking isn't it is that the conversations that are happening in in your houses or does it just so happen that those four great 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one six double three highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter kennedy doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time well the time is 21 minutes past nine on this monday morning now i believe well the mcgill summer school has wrapped up for another year our reporter mckayla clark covered it over the course of the three or four days and you can see her reporting on that on our website also in attendance was independent senator eileen flinn good morning to you eileen how are you getting on good morning agreg thanks for having me on the show this morning no thanks for accepting our invite and it was off the back of a tweet you sent out and you had attended your first mcgill summer school so did you go out of curiosity eileen were you invited or what took you to to glentes for the summer school as for years i was interested in because i hear about that at a national level as well you know when you tell people your connection with donnie gawd they'd be talking about the mcgill summer school because 46 years over set up as a political platform so people could buy their opinions but today in my opinion it's it's one sided it's an establishment really it's part of the system and unfortunately that's how it is today so people has always encouraged me around it so i said i would go because i have a great interest in what's happening with ukraine and russia at the moment unfortunately and everything that's happening with arden giant and nato trying to encourage us to giant nato so but that's where my interest was and i went over to participate as an ordinary person really and admission was 10 euro 70 euro for the week it was very expensive and when i went in the door greg i'm going to be very honest from looking around there were no young people i was probably the youngest person there apart from the young men who was doing the the media and then the social media and you know it was chaired by farmer td and then m e p passed cock and and i just found that it was very you know he's done which wasn't was one sided and when we put up our hands we wasn't allowed to speak he knew who was speaking in the room i i just thought this was you know it was pointless going because the discussion was already had so you believe you believe that the it was that it was set up really with a preconceived outcome really and it was just to discuss what everyone agreed on and and really maybe not bringing you into the conversation because maybe you might steer the narrative in a different direction well the title of the of the event i went to was russia's future and basically there was a woman there bruggett laughery that i believe is the most nato driven person in europe that promotes it that you know supports nato there was a a chinese corner there ex-corner and he he had a different not much of a different picture from the poll from the anti-russian person who was born in russia but he's a he's anti-putin now now look i'm anti-putin he says um and again that's been on the shoulder saying that i wanted to talk about being on russia's i want to a broader picture and unfortunately broader picture wasn't there it was more of a conversation around nato and what was around russia's future in them in in the world to some extent even though you know maybe it wasn't what you wanted it is and i think it does give maybe does it quite a good insight into what the establishment actually think and believe oh yeah i said just because again it was the people that the panel people one woman and i believe she was innocent she was an ordinary woman sitting there she she said she would like to another side of the story and the chairperson said he wouldn't he wouldn't chair anything like that right so in other words if anyone strayed from the uh that that uh that we you know say for instance that ukraine must go into nato we must back ukraine the west must do everything to to fight russia in ukraine if you vary from that at all at all that there was no interest in that i mean we have to be able to have nuanced conversations do we not but those your your feeling was that there was no interest in that at all no no interest at all and again as i said the admission in the door was like ten euro which is very expensive no young person in the audience as far as i could see there were no uh young person a man brought a child born that was like two or three years of age that was the youngest person that was uh in in the audience i just spent was you know because again i've been in done egot and bought an activist now for the last six years and people be saying to me you know it's the one-sided event it's and even the other events like there are people speaking in at other events that i know from working at a national level with them that i wouldn't be their feet you know and i'm thinking to me says why is this allowed why is like that person is not wouldn't be professional enough to speak and this discussion they should have gotten say and another person that's in done egot that would be involved in in the context you know so again i just think i've been walking in the room to me it was like it was more of an establishment was more uh older people and it's no harm it's brilliant seeing older people participating in events like the McGill's summer school but however saying that to not see your young people the future and to be led astray i think you know going for a talk to to be educated because we all need to be educated around what's going on with rush and again we're just after all i was media here and we don't know all that because there's one i mean i i was just listening to someone mcayla's coverage there was a quote from a uh a chile's gentleman who said that China's doesn't back Russia at all you know and and even on that basis i'm not sure if that was in the same event part of the event that you i'd like i mean even that i think deserves to be challenged to some extent i mean that is one person's point of view but that's it's kind of demonstrably untrue because china and russia are carrying out military operations together that china is is is is taking an awful lot of the oil and gas that europe isn't and i don't think uh greg if you are interested in in in the news and china and russia and look at it in depth to the way i would look at you know you wouldn't understand that you don't understand that it's not just a friendly chat around the room you don't understand that they're looking bigger into the future and that would love to challenge but saying that he was probably in my opinion when it came to nato and he was probably the person that everybody else was against because he was speaking some troops not all troops but he was he was probably the only person there that was speaking some truth in my opinion and again i would have loved to challenge that because if you look at national and international news you would know that russia and china has a relationship and we don't know if that's going to be dangerous for the future we don't know what that holds for us but again we're just uh laughery like she's a pure uh and nato driven nato and again i just thought the discussion was if he had a sadness it was about ardent giant nato and then correctionals i probably wouldn't have went anyway you know but i can ask you in terms of uh just in terms of participation okay because you are a person with a uh a very high profile platform you're a national national politician uh and i'm actually before i ask this question have you ever been invited to uh join a panel at mcgill summer school no okay but anyway what i was going to say is so so to have you perhaps contribute from the floor uh would be really quite significant and i'm sure there are others with you that would like to have had their say did you get an opportunity or did anyone get an opportunity to ask a question or to make a contribution from the floor at all yeah they did um they were about four people and as i said to one woman who who said she'd like to hear another side of their debate and uh pats response was he wouldn't share it ask he wouldn't he wouldn't share it ask so again um and i know lean put up his hand to speak because lean lean lean will be really good and uh and what's happening was a russia new krain to be fair to him and he put up his hand but he said to me at least three times he said i won't be able to speak because he knows that when he lives here and he's been involved in the three years and i said i know you will put up your hand of course you'll be allowed to speak and he wasn't he he wasn't allowed to speak because again he probably would have challenged the the the panel yeah okay well listen it's as i say you went in there with your eyes open you didn't know what you were to expect and and that's honest i do think this should be far just the summer school and you know where they're involving young people the problem but the problem is is aileen and i don't wish to cut across you i i just wonder and as i say i have a lot of respect for the people involved don't get me wrong but i have to have honest conversations as well i just wonder if you know the guest list might be more difficult to sort of pull together if there were some dissenting voices now i'm not saying there weren't any dissenting voices i wasn't there but my point is is that you know they you they get an awful lot of high-profile government politicians up if they were going to be challenged on that stage you know if i was moderating one of the one of the conversations and maybe asked a difficult question you know maybe that's not what they want maybe you know what i mean maybe it is you know maybe it is what it is and and the reason they don't have you up on the stage is because maybe you know a government rep or a miss laffon might not accept an invite to come back again i don't know in my opinion miss laffon is you know pure and nato she just driven one way and i i didn't see any extreme high-profile people like you know the like the minister ryan wasn't there even though like around the climate debate she didn't go and charlie mcconnell yeah was there but again high well i could we also had a member of shins i've wrote about what's up there shins main so again i don't think like the people that he had there was extreme and if you want to say like high-profile people not the main page these marketing is gerry adams me hall martin's of the past yeah okay i get you i like i was at a summer school gerry adams was shown summer and to be fair to that summer school and and and and and and that fact it was people from the floor got to speak people with different opinions and i genuinely thought that be similar you know without people just saying that and you wouldn't get the opportunity to speak or to engage but i do think the mcgill summer school should look look at themselves and say actually the young people is their future they should be doing things differently even for a bigger audience and being able to band in it and the program as well but it's now for the six years i've been in duny god you know around education and say the mary from the law festival whatever it may be i am invited to it not that i think i'm anything far from it but it's having the implication to be there and to be able to participate like other public representatives you know which is really really important and this is the first time that i've been to and especially it's a political school as well and and you think that you'd be you'd be fine there because it's your your profession really and again like people might look at me and think i'm a one trick pony but i do have other interests such as nato and and peace you know i'm very interested in what happened in russia and ukraine at the moment and to not be able to have that space to be able to have a really conversation and for the politicians to be able to take it again it's programmed in one way the politicians are going and that's that's that's basically it all right stay there a second joe you want us to get into this conversation what's your views well well my views is that i would then agree entirely with senator rufflin there and about that element of one side of this and establishment view that is at miguel and like whether that's about ukraine and russia this year or global economics and the emergence of china or any other subject down the years i find that i tend regularly and local up and down the road in front down but i mean it's it is a little bit like that and it is sad to see it and it is true to say which says that like in the end and you know a lot of the guests that are there a lot of attendees that are there are councillors from all our counties who are on expenses and largely getting back to even the fee for going in for locals then it's very very expensive to go in a lot of locals don't attend and that's such a pity because the councillors that are there are getting and such like people or or media people like your good self say like you're not going to be charged you're there doing the job and fantastic see mckayla there i'm looking forward to that blog and you know so it is it is very one-sided towards the establishment and yes the dissentant voice senator clinton said not the dissentant voice yeah the opposing the opposing sorry exactly yeah you stick your hand in there as often as you like but you might not get the call because they have already an idea what this journalist or that councillor might want to say and i will say there was one occasion this year i attended a few sessions and one gentleman was told on maybe the second or third night oh look look at you've asked you've asked a question every night well that was very unusual and again it was somebody probably with an interest like he was certainly wasn't local and so there's a lot of like the whole russia thing the whole ukraine thing it was very very evident that there was only going to be one voice and that that voice had the trump there had as senator plan to say you know it was going to be extremely pro nato there was that situation where where the question wasn't even about nato with the question that was been answered was all about nato and i forget exactly what that is i'd have to look at that sorry don't worry about that i'm not bringing that up but but but it is like it was like as she says and and expensive to get into i think and she talked about the young people there that that uh on sound the thing the the thing about that is and again i know some of those young men with their local and the fantastic thing about that is there's a the corpory of young men there now in glendies who are obviously part of the miguel summer school committee and who are coming of age and and and involved with the organization of it everything and i think that is absolutely fantastic and you know compared to the older establishment like like jomal holland has put 46 years or whatever it is of his life into it which is absolutely brilliant remarkable and it is nice to see remarkable but it is nice to see young people coming on and i need a chance but they could they could give local people a chance to and i'm only coming up with that by what senator fund said of it being extended to get in and sticking to the country they're all on their stand so quite a little young man now they're getting involved with the government quite a little they not see that but they're they're they're they're not forward to go stay there joe i didn't do you want to come back in there yeah and and just like again i'm not bad mountain the organizers it was set up for good intentions but for the last five six years i had went down and became an establishment unfortunately in in in my opinion that's what i think and it should be like the young people and only god have no they have to as like your previous caller you know listening to young people like that and there should be a platform also for those kind of young people that's going into universities that to cost the accommodation crisis now they did speak about climate but climate change but like again it wasn't young people wasn't engaged in that and i mean if we don't if we don't start listening to young people and sort of saying right what can we do to give them a future here we are in some bother in the next five to ten years time because we're going to see a complete depopulation of of of areas like donna goal because for our four young people we had with us on friday all of them simply at this point and we hope it changes that couldn't see a future of themselves in this county joe before i let you go you still attend those there's enough there that interests you uh yeah well as well then breaking older establishment but i've been attending i've been attending the young man but yes it does frustrate me i mean i mean i saw a local man uh stand and ask you a question a very direct question i think it might have been the same session that senator flinn was talking about and she might remain in filmena also on this he asked a direct question like why all of basically i'm paraphrasing senator flinn might qualify this he asked a very very short question he says why all of us and why all the retrospections over uh uh ukraine now and why did nobody speak up in 2003 when the u.s and america and britain invaded iraq and that question was not answered each one of the past and to say the pat cox was was one-sided sadly and i've seen pat cox there down the years but particularly this he was senator i would agree on that to he was belligerent to the point of and saying things like well i'm not going to cheer out or i'm not going to answer that what do you say the problem is is you see but joe i think the problem with that question is is that no one really has an answer that's palatable do you know what i mean nobody's answer is palatable but but but when somebody asks a question when you ask one of your guests on your show a question greg it is it is you desire an answer and of course it might be palatable or vice versa when when there's discussion at all and somebody asks you a question you will attempt to accommodate them you will attempt you you'll never slap them down i say the point you're making nothing to deal with that i'm making yeah okay yeah i see exactly what you're saying joe thanks for your time see you next year okay greg uh what would you uh before i let you go senator because i don't want to take up too much of your time what would you like to have seen discuss social safe for instance uh the floor is yours what question would you like to have seen posed or what question would lean do you think have posed either or uh to the panel what would you like to have them have addressed as part of the conversation i would just uh just around um the nuclear weapons i would that there would be one of our um one of our questions and then um because they were going on so much about uh nato we would have asked their questions around nato as well you know just to get a better understanding and that relationship with russia and uh china that is very very worrying uh and that there was a question i would have asked myself before i was able to uh to uh to to uh to speak but again like you have the question here because you're alive at the event and stuff but no no i guess you know i just wanted to know it i'm not looking to the exact question senator i was just curious as to where you'd like to have seen the conversation go and i get you yeah that's what i was anticipating you know greg i would have loved to see uh even through zoom or whatever an ordinary person that was living in them in in russia and how how was the impact in their life what's going on now because i know that we're uh talking worldwide about how bad russia is both for me as a as a like a person that's on about human rights i can't help to think about the the women the children and young men in in russia at the moment what they must be going through because we do don't we speak about the russians well it's the russian leaders we don't really know what the general population think because they can't express a view for fear of no very very serious sanction and even their research is driven and we all know them the corruption in in in russia and we all know what uh Putin's russia is you know but for me it's it's the people the ordinary people in russia that that's probably fernford or life fernford or future and people who wouldn't be looking at it as an economic as the way russia is now do you know so for me that's what i would would have loved to see and questions i would have asked as well it's about ordinary russian citizens like how are how are they you know because a lot of people are saying that a lot of the russians are are pro-puting and are going to be voting for Putin again in them in march is that a choice or 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double three yeah looking forward to going along to the truck fest it's a fantastic couple hours out or a full day out if you've never been to one before and the young ones particularly love it there's a great mixture of an audience at it so that's the truck fest we'll talk about that a little later on in the week but great to have them on board and i'm sure it's going to be cracker and the weather already actually is suggesting next weekend is going to be actually okay so we'll see as we get closer to it is the mcgill summer school not organized by finnegale ask solicitor i thought it was well known it was a talking shop for finnegale no it's not it's organized locally the yes people go to the mcgill summer school they don't want any challenges on anything and other than mcgill summer school experience is an example of what is wrong with modern work culture or woke culture there's only one view allowed dissenting views are not permitted this in society leads to division tensions and pushes people towards far right groups discussion and differences of opinion of the cornerstone of democracy every battalion has its marching songs patrick mcgill clearly there is only one song being sung at the mc the mcgill summer school sorry well done senator flinn greg eileen's right we're not allowed to have a balanced debate and i think russia was a hundred percent wrong in what they did like anything if you do not agree with the consensus then you are condemned but listen whatever we have to discuss we need to start discussing because you know hundreds of thousands of young people sent to their deaths inevitable deaths and it's happening all the time and that's both russian young people who who are conscripted both and ukraine where they're conscripted they're not allowed to leave the country in their center to the battle lines and on it goes and i would love to see something done to try and come up with a resolution to it but no one seems to even want to talk about that okay let's return to uh local matters again and i'm delighted to welcome on to the show aran daily good morning aran thanks for your time today appreciated good morning greg thanks for having us on no no and you're speaking on your behalf but also advocating for your daughter sofia uh who is a wheelchair user and the bottom line is is we really have a extreme shortage of proper toilet facilities here in donningham what's the experience to be honest the we i grew up in donningham so um we go back and i now live in dublin but we go back um every summer for a couple of weeks to uh and the show and and we travel around you know now our daughter sofia has 17 years old she's a wheelchair user she is fully dependent on us for her needs so we need to change sofia during the day as it as it goes you know um and what we're finding is it's increasingly hard every year in um donningham we find a suitable changing facility where we can we can safely and hygienically uh change sofia so to give you an example um a normal accessible bathroom has only got an offering for a wheelchair and the wheelchair user to maybe um get in and use the the facilities with sofia there's normally a carer and normally two carers and we need a hoist and an adult size changing bench and the changer and get her back on their chair and to be honest with you there's there's there's only one register place in donningham in in uh naringham for me and i'll give you an example we we were up there for the last 10 days we we we traveled about on the show and as we do and we were we have to take a mattress uh like a fold-up mattress that goes in the back of the van with us and if we have to change sofia then we take her out of wherever we have try and find a secluded spot take her out of our wheelchair put her in the mattress and changer and then put her back in the chair now if we go into dairy across the border 10 minutes away there's a number of places that are ready there is there okay that we can use yeah that there is no no i am part of the changing places campaign um which has been campaigning and we successfully got the building regulation changed um over the last three years with the department of housing so actually legislation has been brought on the effect from the first of january which actually becomes compulsory from the first of january in um 24 that any public buildings or public spaces or places that meet the criteria will have to now start providing a set standard of changing places with a hoist a change in bench uh an increased slower space and and and the other bits and pieces like a privacy screen and stuff like that well that's that's fantastic and a fantastic achievement uh is that with new developments going forward or where there is the space and it and it suits iron would that be done retrospective retrospectively as well all the way so so what it is it's an amendment the cardam of the building regulations which normally would uh include for the the provision of facilities for say additional needs you know um and and actually all new buildings all new buildings will um need to meet the standard but but retrospectively if we have public buildings around the place and they will have a time limit to get themselves up the up the cracks as well yeah because they will they will have to meet the standards you know and it's uh it has to be said to Aaron that the facilities that you talk of uh came off the back of you know campaigns fundraising uh local action you know what i mean so if it wasn't for that and for the people responsible for that we wouldn't even have the one i mean it's an awful state of affairs and i know people as well i'm not sure you'll find it that if you're going anywhere you're almost you know the hot spots where these facilities are right across the country and you know you have to sometimes meander your way down to mayo or something to to to make sure that you hit the few places that have these proper changing facilities it's crazy it's it's very interesting because the point that you make is exactly what happened to us there's a big international change a big international um being parked down from over from the uk in longford and it has become very well known and it's designed around bikes there you know the whole center parks thing and we now go there um twice a year so she is 18 in December and she's going to go there for her 18th birthday um because it's all wheelchair friendly they have a couple of these teams in there really brilliant fair places center parks we have it we have a disability lords there which which which has a hoist on it you know i would i would much rather be spending my money and don't go i get you giving it i've been getting it over there the the one important news was was um there was a lot of local fundraising and a lot of um activism locally but the the whole point of this now greg is the the building regulations the building regulations nobody should have to campaign for this because the building regulations state what the standard should be so it's up to donnie goll county council now and every council in the country they start looking at this and start putting things in place that if they want people with disabilities to come along and spend money in the town and be included then they have to they have to start providing facilities and when that one in narenham port exactly when that one in narenham port new was was launched like it was great but i said to to the guests in studio at the time i says we need to get to a point whereby one facility being opened is fantastic and it is is a news story like you know this should be this should be the norm you know like as i say that's not taking anything away from from what was achieved but it shouldn't be a new story that we have one proper uh uh toilet facility for people with disability you know as people as people could see see us change in a seventeen-year-old in the back of a van in 2023 you know that's that's a new story in itself but but like we're in the end of shown peninsula there we stayed on let's find that for the couple of weeks we're not going to travel over to port new just so that we can use the teams and we shouldn't have to anyway but you know if there's one place and don't go out and it's kind of out of reach for us we all know how bad our idea is yeah but i had a very constructive meeting with um jack Murray when we were up there we actually came back to Dublin last night and i and i tried contacting a few people and jack Murray met with us he's going to take the council as well and just say see if they can be proactive with it especially we've just spent the fortune developing swan park we walked through swan park there's public toilets there for the general public but we have to go back to the car park or drive back home to use the hoist if we want to change her daughter you know so that's the thing so this is coming down the line this is coming down the line i hope donnie got council can can get on board and start being a bit more proactive with it but again you know and it links under the bigger disability thing of you know beach access and park inclusion in every element of life aran i wish you had more time best wishes to sophia and the rest of the family and i hope you enjoyed your stay and well done to you and the group for for forgetting that legislative change and let's hope now people do the right thing and sort of adhere to it retrospectively as well thank you so much that's aran daily father of sophia uh mcginnis there and that is the state of play in 2023 we shouldn't really have to have parents having to fight and advocate and for what should be basic uh basic provisions okay stay right where you are we're going to take a break for the news and the obituary notices and then we'll be back after it's the nine to noon show in association with the northwest truck fest this saturday and sunday at milford mart with live music family fun and 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not something that people should fear but it is something we need to prepare for i mean we're talking about enlargement now it won't happen overnight but it will happen over time we will have to decide on the shape of the budget if and when enlargement arrives and you need to start planning that process now nearly 40 of people who are blind or visually impaired have been injured by footpath obstacles that's the finding of a new survey among ncbi service users as its clear our paths campaign gets underway cars parked on footpaths were the most common obstacles they came across followed by dogfouling and wheelie bins access and mobility manager with the national council for the blind chantel smith has been outlining some of the injuries sustained very serious injuries associated with unnecessary obstacles on footpath one individual sustained a broken ankle as a result of the unexpected street furniture on a footpath and we've had another person indicate that they couldn't pass on one 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indeed and i don't know enough to comment about it and i think sometimes you know uh particularly radio presenters can jump in with their two feet uh watching i'll tell you what my initial reaction was watching as they entered the sea the sea looked really really rough but they have done this before i presume uh and it would have been very difficult uh swimming out to the buoy and back but then again who's to say what caused these gentlemen's death see that they're incredibly incredibly sad but i don't know enough to sort of go oh well that should shouldn't have happened or that should have happened i really simply just don't know but thank you for your insight as someone who's attended these events uh the nurse has been sentenced to capital punishment by lag and she knows it's only a question of when greg i only wish my electric bill was 300 for two months my last one that came in july for may and june was 577 euro a dread what a winter one uh is going to cost i wonder what is causing that i mean is it these pumps in modern houses they have like 577 seems really high uh for the summer like i did feel i got away with it a little bit at 290 i'm not going to lie to you but uh what are your average bills coming in can you let us know we'll get a sense of it just simply text in how much your bill was yeah your most recent summer bill and we'll see if we can sort of get an average um and if there's any particular circumstances that you think is driving up or bringing it down text 08 660 25 000 so mine was 290 uh i think ashlyn's was 390 and this listeners was 577 so they're going up so let us know what you think uh or not let us know what your bill was and we'll see if we can get sort of an average um right uh let us see here this one almost slipped away a complete whitewash with energy companies the bill just keep going up and up believes that caller there yeah and it does feel like that doesn't it just listening to that gentleman talking about toilet facilities for people with disability and wheelchair users i would like to mention about my daughter who went out at the weekend to a very popular public licensed premises here in donagall with her friends she had to leave these premises to go to a local hotel down the street to get a suitable toilet uh i said this on the show before uh socializing um it was only when i was socializing with a relative uh who's a wheelchair user that i realized that just because there's a door with a wheelchair on it it doesn't mean it's actually a usable toilet um and this is for a healthy strong upper bodied person um it doesn't always tell the full story sometimes it's just a sign on a door really and the facilities aren't suitable for someone to go in turn and come back out again the national museum in kildare street doblin isn't accessible above the ground floor if there is no lift they've been making excuses for years inclusion what inclusion asks this listener and mother i was in dairy last week with my three-year-old uh i couldn't get a toilet for her i asked in four different shops and eventually went into a furniture shop where the staff were very lovely and others used their toilets it's a disgrace there are no facilities and has got worse since covid they just don't seem to want the hassle anymore uh is these shops but like again i don't know the the ups and downs of the situation but we can't always rely on private companies to provide what should be public facilities either um have things changed in terms of accessibility to toilets and public shops this caller says particularly in dairy they feel it has hi greg oswin letter kenny on saturday around lunchtime it was a complete disaster to go around to get around the town um it's destroyed with traffic lights and still more going up said that to the wife dairy from next week on from a shopping now there was a big event in letter kenny at the weekend now maybe you weren't aware so there were certain road closures to facilitate a parade and facilitate a concert and street events so it was going to be particularly busy at the weekend so maybe give it another try next weekend before you decide that maybe you want to go somewhere else Greg could you please wish grania and michael mcdevitt karan in balaba fail crane a bigger pardon um balaba fail very happy golden wedding anniversary from tommy and breed uh grania and michael mcdevitt in korean balaba fail happy golden wedding anniversary to you please play return to sender by elvis from my mom kathleen woods from refoe from your loving daughter pauline larkin and letter kenny uh another happy golden wedding anniversary to grania and michael mcdevitt in korean balaba fail from all the family please play walk of life well i don't play much music on this show because we've so much chat to get through uh but someone will definitely play those songs for you later danny quickly will be doing a charity swim starting this morning at the bridge in lyford to the atlantic 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bmcsports.ie and get your free delivery it's a nine to noon show in association with the northwest truck fest this saturday and sunday at milford mart with live music company fun a truck convoy and much more okay liam old donnell is secretary of carragans tidy tans and he joins us now hi uh liam thanks for joining us this morning i wish it were under different circumstances but here we are thank you greg thanks a million for giving us a chance to come on the radio and speak with you about the the bit of vandalism that happened on the village last week um tell us what happened laterally uh we put up a lovely um old-style pump and a number of um planter boxes on either side of it in order to protect it they're really substantial really heavy and someone last thursday night it appears uh deliberately had to be done with the vehicle moved reversed into or whatever moved one of the planter boxes down on top of the pump and damaged it damaged the planter box box um and left left the the community and the committee obviously very disappointed that it happened you know um it's the second time that it's happened the the items were funded by uh local um fundraising activities um for the community the street is known as pump state and a pump used to be there years ago and this was one of the things that we did to to try and enhance the village um through funding as well from the Dunningall County Council and um we find that um people just can't leave it alone you know some some people or persons or whatever um have deliberately uh damaged the item and it's and it wasn't easily done you know what i'm talking about what what's going through people's heads do you think i mean how i don't i don't know um Greg it's it's just unbelievably disappointing and we'd really seek the public's uh help in um identifying the culprits uh perpetrators as um as as something needs to be done about it you know we've reported the incident to the local gary d um and we would ask that anybody in the locality if they had any idea or if they want to do it uh in in in secretals yeah just reported to the garage or call into one of the other local stations um Newton Cunningham or even Lifford or or whatever you know and uh reported anonymously and we don't mind it's just that we just need to try and and try and stamp this out you know i believe that there was some serious vandalism and ballet buffet last weekend i'm not saying it's the same people but um it's just hard to know do you uh Greg what's going to get inside people's heads because as you say right and people watching we'll be able to see see the images that you posted on your social media these uh the planter boxes as you call them these are big items now i what would it take to to push one of those as far as they did and cause that level of damage uh whatever they used it damaged you know what i mean like i just don't on this is not something you could do physically even a group of people i think would struggle to move them in the fashion that they did very much all uh and placing them there we we used a um um a tractor um and with forklift and um as the fellas as they were they were there specifically to protect the pump that that was positioned between them um and and obviously obviously substantial effort was made um with we believe a vehicle of some kind in order to uh to move them again you know um that's uh extremely disappointing no i'll probably that's Greg i don't think any a group of young lads did it um uh as far as as if it's somebody with a damaged vehicle or whatever that maybe came down the street uh um maybe not in full control or vehicle or whatever um or or otherwise um we just we're just seeking the public to help if um if there's anybody with any information out there we would we would ask them even if they want to do it anonymously just to report it to us give us an idea of what what uh what way we can approach client uh because you know get some resolution to it you know yeah there's a couple of things going on here firstly it's you know it's it's a sickening thing because this is a community uh presentation a community facility it costs not in significant amount of money a thousand euro local people uh donated uh you know through fundraisers to get that in situ it's a it's a beautiful old pump it looks like the handle has been and been broken off it uh and and then i mean then do you have the heart to put it back again until such time as someone does something stupid to it again do you know what i mean it's that now i know it's monday morning and things might feel a bit different in the afternoon or tomorrow but that's what you'd wake up feeling like what's the bloody point well that that that's the second time that that that that has been vandalised um and as such at the first time you can put it down to okay we'll replace it and get it sorted out you know but unfortunately on this occasion it's much more substantial and um yeah it does really take the take the good out of the effort that the community put on and the committee to try and replace something that um was obviously there previously historically and uh just a wee nod to the name of the street that's pump street and a wee nod to the to the to the um facility was there and utilising the past by the the residents you know and it's the type of thing to the tourists visiting the area will take a wee picture of because the pump street signs behind it and there's a uh you know there's some uh butterfly graphics behind it i mean it was a pretty thing it's a it's a shame hopefully someone out there has a conscience or knows something and passes the info one because it's not the first time um and and one would like to be confident that it wouldn't happen again but that's not gonna happen if the person faces some sort of a sanction uh or or what have you so i hope there's a resolution all right i really do hopefully greg and thank you very much for giving us our time oh no i i i i i'll just say liam next time we talk make sure it's about something positive and we can promote the carragans for all the good it has but it's important we get this stuff out too isn't it liam that does indeed all right take care of yourself thank you very much very much all right bye bye bye liam or donnell secretary of carragans uh tidy towns there um i don't know why that stuff happens i don't know what he's going through people's heads a corner says enjoyed the world cup over the past month thought england were physically powerful athletic spirited and an honest hard working outfit spain skill level possession first touch and passing was a joy to watch feared for them during the warm-up it has small they look compared to the stronger looking oppositions yeah they i thought they were uh i i i enjoyed the world cup uh an awful lot more from what i saw without because i didn't really watch any british media and i think i couldn't have watched it uh if if you know the way the other way it can be right which is great it's fine but if you're you know if you don't it keeps put you off a wee bit too i uh the game on sunday morning i thought england were like part of me was watching it going you know if ireland had got a couple of things that went their way or an extra player or two we could have won that competition is that creative me to say that i don't think there was a ton in the top teams i think ireland kind of maybe were up there and if results had went their way you know we could have gone really deep into that competition i don't think there was much there for england i know they were in terms of they were in terms of the last third as they say uh they didn't seem to have any bite whatsoever now and oh there were players and suspensions missing but still um i think the better team won on the day anyway i think i can say that without any fear of uh uh contradiction okay so a new survey as you would have heard reveals that an early 40 percent of respondents who are blind or vision impaired have been injured by footpath obstacles as clear our path campaign launches now regular listeners to the show would know that this is something we discuss uh regularly on this program and for good reason because things aren't seemingly improving and we were talking about inclusion a little earlier on in terms of uh toilet facilities and accessibility but to be able to freely move around like other people can uh even if you have a disability that's a right that people should have but uh four out of ten don't feel they have that right it would seem um as it should be graham agrar communications executive with the national council for the blind of arland joins us now graham uh thank you for your time today how are you keeping not too bad greg how are you i'm okay so i suppose it's important to do these surveys uh because then we get a real sense of what people's lived experience is but graham in truth is there anything about this survey that actually surprised you um i will i will say um it's not necessarily a surprise no um the reason we we we kind of um held the survey is because the the anecdotal evidence that we've been given on the kind of front lines with from the people who use ncbo services and every day we hear we hear stories about people encountering something on a full patch that can that either seriously injured them or seriously kind of worried them if they weren't injured um so i wouldn't say anything anything was a surprise really um the the top three um obstacles that we encountered um just so people know cars park on four paths was a huge one though i will say from my uh from my own experience and haven't haven't spoke to um some of our service users and some of our advocates that was maybe a surprise we mean we've known the likes of dog fowling and we know we live in is a is a big one for people but um yeah cars park on four paths came out as a kind of clear uh a clear um issue for people um and i think members of the public it's one of it's one of those things you might park the car in a full path as you run into the shop to buy a point of milk or whatever it might be um and you don't really think about those two or three minutes that are in the shop um that temporary obstacle in the form of the car can really cause um serious injury or distress to people who are blowing the vision impaired um it's not only that they could walk into the car you know it it's it's it's a full path that's sufficiently blocked it may force people out onto the street and that's where we know people are getting in your job and the examples given uh one person um came across street furniture sustained a broken ankle again street furniture comes up regularly in this program you mentioned cars and also hanging uh branches overgrown branches scraping people's faces that comes up quite a bit on this program as as well because some of them can really dangle you know people will know they've had to move their head to avoid it but if you can't see it you don't you're not able to do that now you see it's not only those instances which are really important Graham I presume to highlight what we're talking about it's then the sense people have as to is it about to happen or you know the anticipation of it because it's happened before and they expect that and what there must be a very difficult way to to move around your towns and villages wondering you know am I about to hit something that shouldn't be there I'm about to get a branch in the face that shouldn't be there you know so it's not actually the instances but I presume it's the the sense and even the fear and trepidation that it um that it brings to people absolutely absolutely um again one of the questions in the survey kind of we ask people uh we ask the respondent had a um had running into one of these obstacles are coming across one of the obstacles affected the confidence to get out about independently and nearly 70% of people and who responded to the survey did say that it affected their confidence now that's a that's a huge team and the NCBO walks with service users all over Ireland and to kind of to train and to make sure that people are able to keep that independence and and when they when they get out and about and confidence is a big big aspect of that and you can imagine if someone has acquired soil loss and and they've they've been used to maybe um walking down the street freely um all their life and then they've learned all these new skills and learned how to navigate a town um in a safe manner then you run into an obstacle like that and it bumps your confidence and and it can it can it can affect how people get out and about and then that that's all kind of snowballs as well that can have effects on people social lives if they're afraid to get out and about it can affect people in so many ways yeah so people have no go where are you don't they have no i'm not going near there because such and such now listen a lot of this is common sense stuff and and maybe it's a bit of ignorance in that you know if you parked that car there do you consider well what would happen if such and such a situation occurred i.e. someone needed to get passed or someone's in a wheelchair or someone's pushing a buggy if you don't pick up the dog poo do you you know a lot of this can be fixed with just basic consideration for your fellow man and woman do you know what i mean it doesn't we don't need legislation and referendums and and and you know this is just to say right if i do something what are the potential consequences of it i.e. just thinking about your community of course of course in in theory this is a really easy fix and we're asking from our perspective or exactly like you mentioned we're just asking people to kind of put yourself in in the shoes of someone who won't be buying the vision impaired and when those people want to get out and just live their lives like anybody else would and and just kind of think about those small actions that you have you know when you put your beams in and they're collected we've everybody has seen then the what's left is that the beam's kind of strewn across the path just kind of think to us if you get up in the morning right i better run out and make sure those beams aren't blocking the path are the same same which i can just take the extra minute or two to maybe find a more suitable parking spot they're running into the shop or if you're you're out which are out which are dog and to just pick up after them it's it really really are they really are simple fixes to this and we don't want to we don't want to bash any members of the public at all but it's just it's to ask it's to ask to just yeah the consideration put your put yourself in the person who is blowing the vision impaired put yourself in their shoes and think how the stress and it would be if you're using your weekend and it's it's touching off the ground obviously and it runs through dog poo and then you pick that up and they might not know when they pick it up and it's on the hands you know that's not a nice experience for anybody and it's easily fixable by just picking up after your dog right okay and in terms of awareness there is ncbi has a web page aimed to supporting members of the public just to maybe get an understanding and and you know say right i might think a little bit different going forward what is the the url how do people find that information graham and so if anybody is interested to have a look all they have to do is go on to www.ntbo.ie and on the very front of our home page there is a navigation to the specific page for clear paths and the information on there just allows people to have a little bit more background if they want to chat to their friends their family just according to help them then inform and the people who are around them so and we'd encourage people to go on there and and have a read and have a think all right graham thanks for your time graham Mcgrath communications executive with the ncbi via email it's naive to think that anyone in russia can speak the truth about their lives in russia they and their families would be instantly arrested that comes in from grind yeah and grind you that's exactly the point isn't it you know because the the narrative is is that russia as a whole is for this or engaged in supporting it uh but as you say yourself that may not be the case but we don't hear those nuances it's just if you read the news or listen to the news you'll see that it's just russia not the russia leadership per se so i think that's the point uh and you've made it there to some extent uh ask the teenagers what are the chosen careers to see why they couldn't see a future in donagol don't all young people want to get away from the family home it's part of growing up well they might do but more and more living at home well into their late 20s now such as the the world that we created for them that their aspirations to move into another house aren't achievable here and that's the problem they can go abroad and fulfill that um right of passage you could call it what's happening now is people are moving home uh in their 20s 25 26 27 28 29 what was the figure 60 percent now live what's wrong caroline do you want to speak to me speak away there don't be shy i do have two ad breaks okay don't be shy caroline i just wish what you say my year went out on air as well big fun uh i was looking at the photos from a recent uh gale school prom prizes were given for best dressed teachers pet etc a bit of crack but the sashes were written in english i know it was only a bit of crack but surely a gaelic speaking school should keep all those things related to the language they are taught in doing it in english kind of made me think this is typical the school teaches in irish but students clearly revert back to english in everyday life so what's the point i don't know what you're talking of look i know what you're talking of what you're trying to explain is it possible that one of the students got a hold of a few of the sashes that were already in english and they just went with it for the crack i don't know but i i take your point thank you the exhaust of a motorbike fell off on the long lane between st johnson and newtown conningham last night between 10 and 9 p.m 10 to 9 and 9 p.m sorry very specific um it's of great sentimental value as the bike belonged to a loved one so did you find the exhaust of a motorbike on the long lane between st johnson and newtown conningham last night between 10 to 9 and 9 so a very specific window it's of great sentimental value so if you saw that or nowhere is please let us know and then we can let that person know um right is an interesting one that was posted at the weekend of the week and can you match this um a lady a friend on facebook posted this i'm just letting people know about our health system my husband's mother who is dead for 37 years got a hospital appointment yesterday to go to kilibag community hospital on tuesday to get x-rays and both knees and a chest x-ray so this lady god rest her soul has been passed for 37 years the letter is her date of birth which is in 1903 which obviously would leave her 120 some health system slow but sure they say so they're able to see i think a little bit of the uh now we do get these letters when someone's recently passed and it can be really quite hurtful but this lady dead for 37 years may she rest in peace born in 1903 she was called to kilibag community hospital on tuesday to get x-rays on both knees and a chest x-ray if she were alive she'd be 120 so she'd also be the oldest person in the country i bet you know one can match that can you match that um i don't know how that might have happened but that would make you think that this the whole appointment system needs curating doesn't it that it needs looked at they need to hire a team in to come and say right what's going on here we've just sent out a reminder letter to a 120 year old lady who's actually dead for 37 years as to say it may of course some upset but i think judging by the way it's been described um that's not the principal issue here have you ever experienced have you ever seen anything like that i've seen the letters by the way in case you think that's just something that's been made up or fabricated it happened a lady passed for 37 years um but would be 120 of her life called for x-rays on her knees and chest on tuesday in kilibags watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show brought you by the northwest truck fest taking place this saturday and sunday in the grounds of milford mart with proceeds to donnie gall down syndrome are the signs of aging creeping up on you are you not happy with the way you look or feel at letter kennie medics private clinic we're here to help you offering botox anti-wrinkle injections derma fillers skin 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seems they're really really quite high right now there is a new project as exploring lgbti plus history and it's being unveiled in the donagall canty museum and judith mccarthy of the donagall canty museum in fact it's creator curator joins us now in studio good morning to you how are you getting on judith good morning out too bad okay so talk to us about the background uh to this project okay well it started off as a project in the national museum of ireland called rainbow revolution trail in 2019 and what they did was they curated a series of stories archival material etc telling the kind of history of the lgbtq plus kind of story and how things have changed over the last 30 40 50 years and it included material from an rte filmmaker called edmund lynch who'd created a documentary called a different country and he had interviewed some very well known household names who have played a role in this history people such as nell mccafferty gay burn our previous presidents mary mccalisa mary robinson who were all very vocal in terms of supporting the lgbti plus community so subsequent to the launch in the national museum we worked with them to then to actually bring it out to all of the 12 local authority museums so there are 12 local authority museums in the country so we each of us now have this digital podium that tell these stories and the idea is is that in each community then so in each county say for instance here in dunny gall we will add that story has that journey began yet in terms of adding to that story because this is a national picture that's currently yeah no the journey has actually just begun here in dunny gall um there's a project that just got funding this year um called lgbtq plus heritage they got funding through the heritage council and they are starting to collect stories from dunny gall so they've just started on that process they've created a website where you can feed into the process or you can contact them they have an email address that you can contact them on um and they're starting that so when those become available there'll be an archive and there'll also be stories or histories that we can then put on our digital podium and share with the community and is it is it sort of you know all elements of it i mean for a lot of people listening now who are in that community their story is one of moving away or hiding who they were or living as you know living a different life publicly as privately absolutely yes and it's not it's about people wanting if they want to share their stories not everybody is in a space where they want to do that not everyone wants to be part of a movement they just want to live their life absolutely absolutely but if they do want to be part of this and want to share their stories then they can do that by contacting the project and we will then in turn assist them in in sharing those stories with the public and it may be just that they you know it might be in terms of um letters home it might be in terms of their their oral history they're actually telling their story it might be in terms of photographs and and also as you say it might not be their story here in Donegal they may have been born and raised in Donegal but they may have moved away to live a life in in Dublin or in London or in America and that's part of their story as well it's part of the story that they have to tell yeah and we don't really know how it's going to go in Donegal here yet which is kind of interesting isn't it no absolutely not well you know you never do when you're starting on any project really you know often we kind of get to have a conversation at the beginning of something do you know no no absolutely and it is very very much the beginning the very early stages so we have absolutely no idea but I always say about projects like this often the end result isn't what's important it's the journey yeah it's the journey through the process and the project and meeting people and talking to people and even if those conversations never become public they have to be of benefit to everybody I think for sure I mean we are to coincidentally just off the back of the first ever pride parade in Letcher Kenny I think Bonkran had its first this year or last year second yes last year last year was its first so you know it's still way behind now it's not for for it's not for any particular reasons it's just in terms of what it was organized it's not like there was resistance up until now but my point is is that it's just things I mean that is was a historic moment for something that meant an awful lot to a lot of people yeah no I was actually there I was I participated as part of LK Fitness which is a group I'm involved with we do Zumba and we do Broadway Boogie and so we participated in the event outside the theatre and also in the parade and it was amazing I mean it really was there was huge numbers of people it was a very positive experience a lot of people the pictures really yes daddy day care saturday very colorful and very um very positive it was a very very broad representation of society very very much so and very and a very positive uplifting experience and I think you know that's where we're moving to but do you know what it was you know what these things are to sometimes they've just become a few and far between and regardless of someone's sexuality or gender or whatever an opportunity to come together uh and in a supportive happy non-divisive celebratory community give us a hug high five yeah positive you know forget everything else well don't forget you know what I'm on about yes it's even that how almost last time something like that happened we're always arguing fighting disagreeing counter protesting but we're Irish yeah I know but isn't it refreshing that it's just you know and it was I mean let's get together and just wait you know as I said before as I haven't said before someone far more intelligent than I said there's far much more unites us than divides us and that's across everything it's just nice to focus on the united side stuff I think so I mean and that's part of what we want to try and do in the museum as well as museums are very much about about community and about telling the stories of our communities and you know so it's and it's all of our stories it's not and those stories within the communities I think people should realize if they don't that like in any group of individuals within movements there are differences of opinion oh yes and some things that people are in favor of and some things that are just because you are a particular gender or sexuality it does not mean that you automatically have a certain set of views but that that seems to be lost in in a lot of the conversations that are ongoing I'm not getting into that now but no yeah people are all different no absolutely in all different ways I think that's that's key to our understanding of people is that we are all different yeah so I mean looking at me you might think well she's you know she's a past middle-aged white female so she must think or believe in a particular way middle class of course museum curator but that's very you know that's not who I am you know I'm much more complex than that and every individual is much more complex and just because you're part of a community doesn't mean you think exactly well did I hear you say Broadway Zumba what was Broadway Boogie I do I do Broadway Boogie I do Zumba I also line dance which people when they look at me think she'd line dances I didn't know that it's good so now how do people access or engage with this this project okay in letter Kenny well there are there are two ways yeah well there are two ways first of all you can simply visit the museum and view the digital stories on our digital podium it's in our first floor gallery come up have a look at it and it'll give you an idea of what of what we've done so far the LGBTQ plus heritage project they have a website that they're creating at the moment and they also have an email which has done it go lgbtqheritage at gmail.com and they can be contacted through that if you want to find out more about their project and maybe get involved in that all right listen Judith let us know if you need any assistance down the line in plugging this further we appreciate you calling up no problem at all water and ever just oh there we go okay wasn't wasted Judith McCarthy and she sucks of water and departs Donegal County Museum creator thank you so much Judith for calling in it's been lovely having you on the program okay I pay 129 euro per month my direct debit I checked my account last week and I'm 560 in credit okay two-month bill 144 euro with board gosh that comes in from calling in Colin in letter Kenny another last bill 376 average house two adults two students for the summer holidays that's that's big these are big bills people keep them coming into a cell wait six sixty twenty five thousand there's someone's kindly with a smart meter sent in a breakdown of their bill we'll go through that after 11 a caller says hi Greg you must be living in cloud cuckoo land if you think Ireland could have won the world cup maybe maybe I do but I don't know my point was and maybe it was off the back of the final and some of the other games that the the quality you know at times was of a level I think we can perform at right that's that's all I'm saying and yes maybe it feels like we're living in cloud cuckoo land I just feel that maybe we're not as far away as one might have thought as it began if things have kind of gone our way England had a very lucky ride I think into the final and kind of come on stock then but anyway listen I'm not going to row with you about it but if you agree or disagree text oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand and let us know caller says enjoyed the world cup over the past month thought England were physically powerful athletic spirited and an honest hard working outfit spain skill level possession first touch and passing was a joy to watch I read that one a little earlier on thank you for that another as a regular attendee of mcgill summer school over the years I would admit that there is an element of prime time tonight show on tour about it same spokespeople politicians and journalists we see and read in the media with predictable views can be a good social event with interesting chats afterwards and that's what it's all about isn't it okay and I'm glad you enjoyed it and we're not trying to detract from it at all but listen we have to be able to have these conversations and who's to say that things might not improve off the back of them okay Brendan Devaney is going to be joining us very shortly he's going to be talking about the weekends G action previewing tonight's pod and also offering his views on Jim McGinnis returning to donnie gall the nine till noon show brought you by the northwest truck fest taking place this saturday and sunday in the grounds of 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letter kenny a 50 year old man is appearing before chlorine magistrates court in county derries they charged in relation to this month's ps and i data breach he also faces charges of possessing articles for use in terrorism today's in the approval of some cancer drugs mean doctors cannot prescribe the appropriate treatment for one in four patients oncologists say it relates to high cost anti-cancer drugs such as immunotherapies at the moment new drugs must go through an extensive hsc approval process once they're initially approved by the european medicines agency oncologists say that's taking too long early childhood island says donnie gall's children are being let down because of a decades long focus on providing childcare for economic reasons the organization which has 115 members in donnie gall is calling on government and policymakers to completely rethink their approach to early years and school-age care they say the emphasis has been on facilitating parents access to the workforce rather than meeting the needs of children the carrigan study towns committee has had a vandalism incident on their installation at pump street which was vandalized last week on the national news show today secretary lee mcdonnell outlined how a large planter box was dragged into the pump damaging both the box and the handle of the pump he told crecus a vehicle had to have been used in the incident he's urging anyone with information to come forward and spain's world cup hero was told after yesterday's match her father had died two days earlier olga carmona scored the only goal of the game as spain beat england one nil in sydney she posted online i know you've been watching me tonight and that you're proud of me rest in peace dad the 23 year old's father had been fighting a long illness and we're back with news headlines again at 12th donal thank you very much indeed for that okay brendan divani is going to be joining us after we take a very short break the environmental emergency with the problem this big where do you even start how about right here with super value every time we buy from our local producers every time we cut our food waste every time we pitch in for our communities that's real action let's forge a more sustainable future from our own homes stores and towns because at super value we believe that every local action makes a global impact super value real food real people real action okay we're in studio now with brendan divani presenter of the dl debate podcast hi brendan what about you greg how are you getting on i am the very best right this is a particularly busy weekend lots championship started at the weekend um and there's more to look forward to and of course there's the big story uh about jim mcginnis's imminent return to donal where do you want to start i've i've i've my throat's been crooked this morning i was going to sing jim is one of my yeah we've got people we'll get rory gallard to do that i've rory gallard's an interest name to throw out there uh of uh the revs yeah the revs yeah i knew that's what you meant yeah all right come here um so it's a don deal now there's a meeting amongst clubs this evening it's an interesting one like you know i only want to be positive about it but it's just it'll be interesting to see how you reflect on this in a year or two yeah um yeah as ever from the last process i suppose group we're looking for some somebody like a front learner someone who we really wanted to get the job the people we approached last time nobody seemed to want it and then we we pulled together this management team and went on to have a uh a very tough season uh so for someone like jim they come back in the picture it's absolutely massive and i think this is going for quite a few weeks now greg even probably by the time the selection committee was assembled there was a strong rumor that jim was in the background um maybe they were assembled in case that didn't work but it seemed to be from a good few weeks back that it heard that they were in talks once they're in talks a lot of people can't understand why they're what's the issue but there's a lot of finer detail in here you know obviously jim's coming in full time that needs to be sorted you know his background team has to be unbelievably professional and who he wants and that costs a lot of money you know you're on top s and c nutrition doctors physios so you're not a few hundred grand anyway but you that's it and he's going to want guarantees that that's there now the minute last year listen obviously but everything happening done it all fun reason didn't really happen so the minute finances aren't great in the country but they will be when jim comes on they'll get behind him so i suppose they had to tease out what he would have needed in terms of his team and his background team and who that's going to be versus what what the deal is going to be so it's not just jim comes on you take a box he's the manager there's quite a few things to put in place he's got a wish list as well that's it so let me ask you this in your view what brought him back um like what does he see there because you know he knows expect now he'll come out and you'll manage expectations but he knows where expectations will be at and we discussed this a little bit last year i mean like he's an Ulster enough i don't know if it is anymore right so but you know more than i ever as everyone knows but like what what what what does he see in the county do you think that he says right i can do something here because he wouldn't come back otherwise would i yeah well i think the first thing is that he had to kind of maybe put the i suppose the soccer side of his life to bed i i know that obviously where he was that journey went on great between being over at Glasgow Celtic in terms of his rules there you know he'd overforced his performance in that with with with under 20s and and he took his coaching badges then and then he ended up getting a number two job going out to china i mean it's a i mean it's a phenomenal story ends up then at charlotte you know you look at charlotte now either in it during the top flight mls where mess he's playing you know he was so close to that so when he came back here then you know he still was doing a bit of a city and i think he still was looking about potentially taking a a soccer job well his name was linked to the finn harp shop yeah that's it well there'd be league errand or or wherever i was league or something but this didn't seem to materialize now obviously he was doing a bit with down last year and he had offered to help out with if rory caven and karlis he had taken the job to be part of their management team if you like now that so so he he at that stage i suppose was kind of thinking about coming back but for him now looking at it maybe he's decided right it's time to come back in i think it's a brilliant time for him to come in because there's so many players missing last year that'll come back the lads that come in protecting the championship you know really showed their merit and skills so you know if you're putting a team listen we played we beat we beat monin with a side which is missing a host of players they ran doubling right close to the last few minutes of the game so you're thinking putting those players in you know we're certainly going to be a match again for two rounds and four you know and he's he's he's got a god like status let's let's put it like that that he's going to get an extra five to ten percent on any player at at least i would say even more you know like you know just because of who he is yeah i mean first i would have to say again fair play the like mage roug and patty bradley that they did somehow turn donny gals fortunes around last year and i think it was one of the best quotes of last year was malik a rogue after we lost eight herones and i'm i'm going to go down go gonna go and lie in a dark room for about a week now i mean the stress and the pressure must have been immense on him but listen to the great job so yeah beginners comes in on a what three years minimum well i think that's another bit of small there was this word about but no but one year rollers that's not that's not good i would say greg really it's his job for as long as he wants it i mean let's be honest let's just look at the scenario if jim isn't in we're back to the scenario of we approached a few people last year and then we might approach some of them sounded them out this year there's very few candidates out there and there's none like him so i mean the fact that he's in there now he's in the left the lefty they'll give the lads the players the whole county the finances are running behind them because when people see it's it's like a spiral effect where things start to go down when there's turmoil nobody wants to know and then when it builds up again everybody gets back on board would he have any demands expectations or inquiries as it relates to the structure of how the sport is run in this county yeah well that's the thing people are on with caroless he joined caroless he's a work on the calcu the minute the word on the street is that he isn't going to join them i thought that would have been a nice fat thing because carol is very well got uh as a coach in in bonus time but uh yeah for him um i think that's great there's there's no doubting our fortunes will will go up his organization now people say the game has moved on as well but he'll be ready for that i think his love of dunigol we have to put in there his his attitude and his i suppose what he brings to it in terms of who he is and the knowledge that he has and so the lift that he's going to give everybody there is going to be huge but you know maybe not locally but certainly nationally eyes will be on what kind of football he plays because you know there is a lot of feeling out there that he introduced a certain type of football albeit successful that really the legacy of it we're only probably starting to shake now yeah well is that phrased okay yeah i'm trying to be i'm trying to be really careful here you can't it's obviously things is always evolving yeah and this and his tactic changed the whole game you know three officers we couldn't get across the line also he won three and four years two all two all out in finals one one last one early you know you'd have to say that as the football has changed now he's going to be very much aware that in terms of that you have to get a certain mark like he was stopping team scorn maybe 12 points in that and we were we were always going to be that was the game plan hit them on the counter attack now everybody's got wise that so what you're seeing even with done it all this year the breaking out from defense is the key the fitness and the ability of everybody to be able to contribute going forward whether be with with with being on the ball and putting the ball over the bar so i think he'll be very aware of but we have the players to do that i don't imagine he'll set really high standards for players to be part of this squad as well in terms of availability for training or traveling or things like that there because to compete with doubly kind of i mean everything centered closely in terms of traveling for training conditioning physio all that type of stuff it'll be i'm not sure any county can really truly take them on in the long run unless you can get close to what they're doing off the pitch yeah oh it's huge so it'll be interesting to see in a big county what the man's he might yeah have in that regard with players like a way different places college working you know particularly the boys coming down from Dublin there is there is always that element to it but but certainly you look at you're on about commitment there's no doubting that things is going to rise you look at the four years we've done it all there did seem to be after that you know a few people were affected by the heavy training maybe there was a bit of a lag after it from his time so but that's the focus he brings it's all about here now and it's your life's dedicated to the team and that's it and that's the way it's going to be but the lads will revel in that great because you asked any footballer give me a block of of a few years where it's absolutely hands-on and the county's all behind it and there's a lift but there's coaches you know outside of carol obviously legs of mark mcquees down with ross common but paul durkin and call mcfan this brother and i was in training with sligo you know you obviously have legs of you know iman mcgee and and the clune involved the 20s and so there's a load of lads from his time you know and what's really interesting is firstly a he will players will believe that they can win an all island under him that they the glory days can come back yeah they'll genuinely believe that but second to that as well there's it's almost a perfect time for him to come in because there is a transition there is the 2012 boys that are going to be maturing into that role into the future as well so you could argue that this if all goes well bodes well for a generation almost because maybe michael murphy might be ready whenever jim decide i know i'm getting ahead of myself here don't get me wrong but it's nice to be looking forward where there's you can see a path do you know what i mean rather than it being a scramble just to find out who might actually want to take a job does that make sense yeah well that's that's interesting i'll tell you because of you know if you look at the candidates that we would have had ready a lot of them guys that mentioned they were all doing butts and pieces of coaching but they wouldn't be ready to take the done and all job was such but outside of a rory calvin and a carolese would have been last year now they would be different but neither of them is going to be involved in this setup if jim was to take in you know even the likes of a michael murphy even if it wasn't this year if some states if he was to join in the fact that we could get guys to be in jim's standard now obviously they've played under and that's a very different thing then when you join the management team so i'm hoping a few of those guys are managing join his back room team and they could be managers for the future as well any idea of the back room team any any guarantees there's there's more techs flying about than i care to mention yeah but listen it's all rumour like the minute but hopefully tonight i mean normally the county county meetings are monday night square there's a special one tonight it can't be for anything else but still up to delegates to rada found but i think this i don't i don't think there'll be anybody saying well hold on a second i think they'll be like yeah let's do it right okay so obviously there's gonna be some chat about that tonight but the championship the championship kicked off through in at the weekend in earnest yeah yeah we're always wonder whether there'll be a shock in there somewhere the games pretty much all went with who we were thought you know um i was just looking back at a stat there's probably i think it's maybe eight or nine years since someone outside of what we call the top four actually beat a top four team you know and that's the level there's plenty to spare in most of the games too there was yeah i suppose there's a few teams now even people saying they've gone on unions are a bit ahead the good or have lost maybe six or seven players between lads away and a couple of injuries and that's there badly depleted calcare just tucked in i think behind the lexus in unions and and they've gone on i was at the union's game on saturday evening there against sentinels since it knows again you know well organized you know committed stayed in the game as long as they could there was three points on it but ten to go you know unions eventually opened up i was out of glens woolly uh you stood against our drafts you know glens woolly looking looking really well as well like mega murphy's your maintenance still doing damage up front gary mcfagin was brilliant for them copper you didn't get along to the the 10 point thriller between full masters and a ruino no that scares me now peter cambell was doing updates they were just a wee bit ahead of her game and i felt really sorry for him because at one stage he was hoping for a game to break out in the mud late that is uh listen it's a it's a i suppose a bit of a dammin score line in terms of even even at leglamp found one you know uh michael's one five to five uh friday evening that was bad now uh seven three they drew up both teams playing very very defensive now now geon great come back to this thing of of them getting ready to beat a bigger team they think right well this that's the game plan we have to play the card i mean yesterday strange the our draft actually tried to keep three or four players up front now it left them a bit open at the back which glimpse why profit from so so what what do you do like i mean to me it's up to the the bigger i suppose sometimes this depends on how you want to go out yeah but do you want to go out do you want to go out have and kick three points so do you want to go out having scored 112 but you know them scoring 160 you know it depends on yeah it's a tough one to me the bigger teams have to set the tone and the bigger teams are still playing counter attack and you know it'll be interesting game if jim begin his course managers together yeah yes huh you'd love that wouldn't you well that he can send you out the air we're movie i'll do what i'm told all right come here jungle day gary mcdade both championship winners they're on the show tonight interviews with glenn swilly vice chair barry milloy as well the show is live just after seven p.m on monday podcast at tonight podcast on highland radio dot com the o o b look brilliant last week yeah lovely setup really looked apart actually well it sounded great too which is the important thing that's a great visual archive too people can check that out on youtube the deal debate it was live from sister sarah's last week all right okay anything else you want to mention that's a great note and next week jaby barry milloy he's just mentioned there he's he's a vice chairman out at glenn swilly just just a wee bit of talk about what happened what happened like a lot of people wouldn't be aware of how much work goes on in the background there's there's good things happening out at glenn swilly good performance history but a lot of good things happening around the club so i talked to barry about that and i'll put that on the show we'll see him yeah colas says it's high time young players are given a chance to play for donogall there are many many players that have never been seen that could play for donogall it's time we had serious scouts to find such players fact they say great yeah money will have to follow jim mcginnis if we're to get back up there again that's why mayo are up there for so many years in my opinion yeah indeed yeah fanatic fanatic old mayo fans yeah listen some countries the major it's it's terrible you look at it the counties who can generate the most money actually counties at the top you know it's almost like chicken and egg isn't it it is a bit yeah weather conditions on friday evening glenn finn versus saint michael's was atrocious yeah listen that's what i'm saying the weller was terrible i heard that i was chatting a couple of people was at it so i'll give them a pass tonight was bad i'll give them a pass all right brend you better go and get your show right then so fantastic stuff brend and divany the deal debate is on tonight another packed show with a review of the club championships from the opening weekend as i mentioned the feedback analysis and interviews across the big games brendan's guests on the show include championship winners 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checks with expressway travel root 32 from letek entity doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time mass 21 minutes past 11 a call assess i don't think our land had enough to win the world cup we could have secured free draws if it wasn't for an unfortunate own goal and a needless penalty wouldn't be enough to qualify for the next round but would have been nice to return home as the only unbeaten team in the tournament okay i think it's sad about dunigol not providing enough changing facilities for those with disabilities i worked in retail for years and back then not sure if it's still the case you are only required to get accessible toilets in if you provided food into the establishment to shame if this can't change okay thank you for that right on a monday after 11 o'clock we allocate a bit of time to talk a little bit more in depth about a a topic and it's called monday focus and on today's monday focus we talk to the banking and insurance mica redress focus group they've been meeting with the banks and insurance groups on the financial shortfalls that families face in the new redress scheme shawn mckave and sarah shovelin are joining us now good morning shawn good morning sarah thanks for your time good morning greg greg thanks for having us oh no it's our pleasure it's really important shawn i might start with you if that's okay where are the banks and insurance companies at right now in terms of what help or that they might provide or what liability they might accept is there any movement from them at all we've engaged with them all Greg at this stage we've engaged with all the major banks and indeed some of the smaller ones including the vulgar funds so the BPFI the Bank and Payment Federation of Ireland a facility that they're meeting with all the institutions and we've put across all the necessary points that we feel at this time that is urgent so short term and finance and all our finance facilities largely being to the fore they have essentially at this stage they are taken away our input and they're hoping to come back with products and engage with the government to see if we can get financial products in place that people urgently need we've stressed that to them we've stressed that to them that this is now an urgent matter you know it has been for some time but before we met them they had no clue of the gravity of this so we're waiting on the banks to come back they've given us variable reassurances but we have nothing clear you know in terms of products at this stage and the bottom line is is this is born is it not shown from the fact that for a lot of people if not all people there is going to be a short fall and access to credit is going to be the option for most to try and make up that shortfall and I suppose we would hope that the banks would see that it's their interest to have their assets return to full value and would work with the home owners but then some might say they're just going to sit in their hands because the job's going to be done for them anyway well it's a result of a failed scheme great we we we shouldn't have to engage with the banks so you know it's a result of a scheme not being set for purpose as we all know so unfortunately you know we have to engage with the banks because people need to move on and that's the general feeling amongst the public and and indeed us Sarah and myself as the fact of black home owners as well so yeah so I mean the government and the scheme has failed us so because of that we've had to look for this alternative method in terms of engaging with with the financial entities and hopefully you know it's been quite positive to date but you know I'm I'm I'm optimistic but I'm cautious because we now need we now need evidence of what they're going to do and that's we're really moving from one phase to to the next phase in regards to our negotiations with the banks as I'm sure you appreciate it it's a very detailed ongoing process time consuming etc and we're hoping now that they understand the issues and from from our first meeting where they clearly didn't across all lenders and maybe even the government to a certain extent when we met with with the minister but now there's a there is an acceptance that this is a necessity for people to move on with their life so you know that that's where we're at with the process so we're optimistic but cautious I'll come back to you Sarah I mean did it surprise you in those early meetings the lack of awareness that the the lending institutions actually had and can you talk us through sort of how you tried to let them know the reality for people out there yeah it was a relay opener for us Greg when we met with them on the 29th of May in the banking and payment federations office in Dublin all the main lenders were there and we basically laid out the reality of what's facing homeowners and several of us within the committee are have started and are already you know a significant way through this process and one of the clear things was that it's obvious that there's been little or no discussion between the government and banks I would say given that they they didn't have any awareness of how extreme you know on the 1910 scheme that we were all on up until a few weeks ago how extreme the gap between the funding and the grant was like we've we've engaged with the Irish culture banking board as well and those guys are they're initial responses that you know there's a hundred percent and I quote here from a letter a hundred percent funded scheme will commence when regulated regulations are updated so everybody is believing the government's propaganda that it is a hundred percent funded scheme when the stark reality is that it's not and a very obvious gap in the scheme is obviously the foundation so any work you do to the foundations would have to be covered by yourself but we still haven't we still haven't we still haven't even got any confirmation in relation to a critical element of this moving forward Sarah I mean it's it's kind of shocking isn't it that you's had to go up there considering the amount of money the bank has on the table here but also the responsibility many people feel they might have it's astonishing that you had to go up there and say this is the reality we're living in and they're like oh right didn't quite realize this why should it come down to people who are affected by this crisis to be making the banks aware this should be happening surely at the highest levels within the housing department within government the financial department whatever it might be the government should be turning the screw on banks saying look we'll levy you unless you do the right thing here or we'll levy the vulture funds unless that you reduce interest rates this is I like it I'm flabbergasted that it's people who are living in these homes that are falling down that are having to open the eyes of the banks and keep the fingers crossed that they do the right thing absolutely Greg like there was some very simple low hanging fruit that could be one easily with the banks you know for example like everyone who has a defective home needs to make their mortgage provider aware that they have a defective home because that ultimately will be a certain risk factor to the banks and those banks should be reporting that risk back to the central bank and and the powers that be but like you know there's there's other things when when you contact the bank and say that you I mean for you can give them your report and you know if you are a person who needs to be demolished there is a default clause on everyone's mortgage that if you demolish your home that you are in breach of your terms and conditions of your mortgage like the banks need to be helping people through this whole process and there is what is classed as a vulnerable client for the banking groups and if you are a vulnerable client that you've got some life event going on and let me just say there's no larger life event than potentially losing your home you know they need to be trading every defective homeowner as a vulnerable client even having simple ways of contacting them on their website you know there was no dedicated line or contact centre for many of the banks in relation to mica and we found that when people were phoning up and and talking to whoever answered the phone that there wasn't a specialist in expertise knowledge of the scheme the people in the banks didn't know anything about you end up having the same conversation over and over again with a different person yeah and people will say to you well what do you need the money for it's a hundred percent like the propaganda has really worked everyone you know within the banks believed that it believed that it was a hundred percent and and we know that it's not so we have asked for a dedicated line to be sent up so that when people contact the banks that they are dealt with you know in an appropriate manner and that the person on the other end of the phone has some sort of understanding of the scheme and can talk the homeowner through what they need to do in order to be potentially able to release some credit for themselves yeah and it's hard to believe we're talking in communication yeah it's hard to believe we're talking about really trying to get a loan facility for people when you know that's further debt further it's really is crazy and I'll tell you and no one's going to convince me otherwise banks loan books do not reflect the true value of their assets someone said that they do how could they because they don't know how many of their houses are effective in the workplace in terms of a bank shares or their value or how their loan book is performing no one can tell me that it's accurate because it can't because it does not reflect the reality that much of the much of the property in Donegal is worthless effectively and they I would say that's not reflected so Sean when you talk about optimism or hope what is it what could they come back with what are they suggesting they might come back with to try and help their customers yeah yeah good question Greg and you touched there on the loan so we're very much of the belief that any short term entrance entrance finance loan should be zero percent and we've made that very clear and we've made that public that are at the raucous meeting on the 5th of July so it's really important that people out there understand that we're not lobbying these groups they in any way help the bank's profit from from our misfortune I want to make that very clear today so in terms of optimism optimism we're hoping and we're fighting for a zero percent entrance finance loan on a short term basis and we're also asking for all our products for all our people across the whole situation in regards to defective blocks so that's people that need to rebuild their homes and are going to accrue obviously extra cost and you know we give an example of that at the raucous where there was a huge shortfall dynamic date displayed that very clearly at the raucous meeting I think the shortfall was over 112,000 to date so that that's one area and then the other areas for people that are they're going to have what I would call a larger than scheme cap size home loan shortfall which allows people that maybe exceed the cost of the cap to also complete their homes and then people maybe that decide to knock everything down demolish completely they also need and very importantly and very crucially our vulnerable members of society the people that are in their latter years of life the pensioners out there they need to be helped and we really emphasised that we need what I would call sympathetic underwriting in regards to that and that includes as I mentioned people in their latter years and also people through no fault of their own have accrued maybe late payments or arrears due to the the situation that they've found themselves in and we've put that across to the minister Michael McGarh we put that across to the banks we put that we will put that across to the insurance companies as well as we move forward but it's that's hugely important so if people take anything away from today I wanted I wanted to be not out there to in any way help the bank's profit from our own mesh portion definitely not and Sarah like there are some people that might feel that this is almost like wave in the white flag that you know the banks absolutely not no I know that I know it's not Sean but I want to say now rather than read a text when you're off air that in other words you know the banks should be themselves funding any shortfalls because until such time as the mortgage paid you know it's their asset let's put it like that there yeah well go ahead if the government's if the government's game Greg was put for purpose we wouldn't be here today talking to you yeah indeed okay that's the bottom line we shouldn't have to go to the bank we shouldn't have to go to the banks okay we shouldn't have to go to the banks so you know if the scheme was put for purpose and clearly it's not fundamentally fundamentally it's still not put for purpose it's not put for all to enter even though they've lowered the the the cost there to for testing etc but it's still not put for purpose because there's still a shortfall no matter what area of bill that you're in yeah well at the door committee five auction one to five at the door committee meeting we heard a a civil servant say that he believed that this was a 100% redress scheme for most and we heard minister charlie mcconnellog recently in his comments saying that he does believe this scheme is fit for purpose you're not of the same view obviously Sean well I mean we've given examples we've given very clear examples it's on public record and you know people need to come forward and and also sort of back that up with the banks but we've given very clear examples build costings detailed costings on excel spreadsheets I mean we can't be any more explicit on that there's a shortfall across and I challenge anyone that that says that they're able to do stuff based on current building materials cost etc labour which will only increase with indexation and with availability across the county builders don't want to engage my builder friends don't want to engage with the scheme why would they have to wait so the shortfall would have to wait for for all sorts of payments tradesmen etc would have to wait so you know and you know and you know as much as anyone we all know they're up to their ears in work anyway they don't need to be doing work that's that they have to wait months for their payments Sarah exactly are the banks aware or do they have an interest in the fact that this scheme as it stands is currently designed to rebuild houses on potentially if not probably defective concrete like I wonder what they think of that they have so much ignorance to this scheme to begin with do they realize that the proposed proposition at this point is to rebuild houses or partially rebuild them on potentially rotten foundations I think I think one of the answers from them Greg and I might not be direct for but it's it's near enough is that they said they'd be led by the experts so you know you've got your engineers reports so they'll follow the engineers report if the engineers report tells you to demolish then that's you know the bank is happy for that to happen but I think where the big disconnect is that you know we have engineers saying that you shouldn't build on your foundation and we have a government scheme that says if you take it if you take that approach then not only have the CEO of Donovan County Councils himself John McLaughlin and again I don't want to misquote him I think you said if it were if it were he he wouldn't he would try and get the foundations done as well that's pretty pretty striking that commentary Sean and Sarah it's a I mean you signed up for this to be part of this and fair play to you because it's incredibly technical and incredibly time consuming Sean and incredibly frustrating along the process but as you say there Sean you're trying to retain some optimism and see what they they come back with but it's a tough piece of work you Sarah and others have taken I think on as part of the focus group on banking and insurance within the scandal Yeah yeah that's right Greg and thank you for taking the time to let us talk about it today can I just say to the the public like I know it's very difficult we're all dealing with this and it's a hugely difficult difficult issue it's become a humanitarian issue you know it's beyond the housing crisis but I would ask them to inform their lenders inform their insurance companies because currently the lenders and the insurance companies aren't keeping numerical statistics or figures around the gravity of this and the more people we have coming forward and letting them know then they can they can measure the gravity of it and it prompts them to engage with us I would implore people as long I know how difficult it is and a lot of people have literally you know stepped to the side because of the the mental health and the stress and all the rest of it and we totally are empathetic to that as I say we're defective block homeowners ourselves but I would implore people to come forward engage with the lenders because the lenders to date as Sarah alluded to earlier on they aren't recording the statistics so which they should be doing and we're going to put this across to the central bank as well and when we met the minister the minister he was very interested to hear that from our interactions with the banks and the financial institutions that they aren't recording data so if they're not recording data the problem doesn't exist no they should see a cluster of they should see a cluster of problems in the north west how long do we have to do something here Sarah is there anything that you want to add finally and just and you know this redress group came together by a call out from russian and a few others looking for volunteers and we're still very much looking for volunteers there are many people out there with expertise not just in the banking and insurance sector but you know social media and other things like that to try and keep the issue in the media and you know try and push for resolution for everybody to try and make this process a whole lot easier so if you have spare time and you have an expertise it would be really good to come forward and try and help out where you can it's you know it doesn't have to be hours a week it could be 30 minutes or an hour a month it doesn't matter every little bit helps Sarah Shofland thank you for your time I appreciate it and not just your time in talking to us but the time in what you and Sean are doing when you're dealing with this this crisis yourself so Sarah Shofland and Sean McCabe both 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ireish hospital consultants association and martin good morning to you good morning greg the bottom line is is you know we speak to quite a lot of them that say right i've been there for eight nine hours you know it's too uncomfortable nothing seems to be moving and i'm away home and and this is really i didn't expect it to i didn't expect the figures to be as high as they are i don't know what your view and it is martin yeah the figures are very very high and they're a major concern for consultants and for the hospital consultants association so we're very concerned about these figures they indicate to us that patients are obviously leaving before the treatment is completed and you have to ask the question why i think the primary causes of this are actually the capacity deficits we have in our hospitals we've been saying this for a decade or more there are far too few beds in our hospitals and we're far too few consultants we're about 40 percent below the EU average on board counts and in fact when you look at our consultant numbers the permanent consultant numbers we have approved let it continue up to 31 percent them are not filled on a permanent basis so that's a shocking figure well if you look at it like this martin if we're 40 percent behind the the EU average and in let it continue one in three posts aren't filled in this part of the world we're significantly below any EU average then you are absolutely on that count and even when you look at the beds since covid since early 2000 the country has expanded the bed capacity in our hospitals about by about 1000 beds but only 69 of those beds have actually been opened in the west north west to hold sale to region so that's 7 percent of the beds been opened in the west whereas you have 70 percent of the population so again you're falling behind relatively speaking you can confirm what's been done to try and expand the capacity so we're quite concerned and we've highlighted this already and even in our pre-budget submission over a month ago and we're calling the government to put in place a rapid extension of the capacity in our hospitals because if we don't do this we will see a continuation of what we've been seeing here to forward but what do we do then though martin because if I put that point to if I put that point to Stephen Donnelly he would say 30 million extra went into the hospital last year we've approved 31 posts consultants posts are there they're fully funded you know what else can we do here do you know what I mean like so what I'll ask you what else could the government do even being local on it for a second to to fill those vacant consultant posts in that or can he before then you could even talk about increasing staff to support them and therefore increasing beds I think what you need to do is first and foremost recognize the fact that we're coming from a position of hugely insufficient capacity start with so putting an extra 30 million while we're going to figure into the system is he is only trying to catch up on the deficit so that has to be recognized from the get go now secondly very importantly if one is to fill those positions at the same time expanding the capacity is crucially important because the substance of frontline staff are finding very difficult working conditions where you don't have the basic capacity provide timely care to patients so approving posts is one thing ensuring proper terms and conditions for people to work in is hugely important you want to fill those posts and retain staff and the difficulty is we're starting out with insufficient capacity so people who are in a position to work anywhere in the world are looking at their options and it's very difficult for people to ignore the fact that they might have better capacity to treat patients in time elsewhere and that's actually starting to work against us and as a country as a whole and we haven't invested properly in our public hospitals for well over a decade even prior to the financial crisis so the catch up is significant the minister said he was a rapid bend of 1500 beds we support him fully on that he said he was to open three or four elective hospitals we support him fully on that he says he wants to open six additional surgical hubs to bring down the wait list we support him fully the difficulty is he doesn't have the money in the budget for that yet and that has to be approved and next opportunity to approve that is in the budget in October so getting the working conditions right just like you and I we go to work in the morning we want to know we can do our job we want to know we have the basic facilities to do it it's doubly hard to work when you don't have the basic facilities well look at we've been talking about that for years up here you know the comments from one former consultant went national in that he was sitting twiddling his forms because he couldn't do the work that he wanted to do but these figures are people both you and I recognize that of course Martin and you know in terms of the 1259 people that left the ED at letter Kenny before the treatment was completed like what's their age demographic are these the older people that contact us are these the older people that say I'm not going back there again are these the older people that their lives maybe potentially and not just older people but the lives are potentially being cut short because they can't get a GP appointment and they don't want to sit for 14 hours in ED and their families are saying please mom please dad you need to go in and get looked at and they say I don't care if I die in this bed I'm not going back in there that's the health system we have now and it's so so scary and so worrying now anyone who needs to go to the ED should and they'll be prioritized if they need the assistance but be that as it may that's the perception that's out there Martin that it's not a place people want to go and we don't know what that means for their outcomes yeah that's that's a big concern because while patients are triaged and hopefully those who do more serious illnesses the more urgent illnesses are actually treated of course won't kind of be 100% sure until one actually gets to sit down with a patient and do the full examination as to what the risks are so there's always some risk there and therefore we would advise people if at all possible wait for the treatment that you have arrived for and of course you're right we need more facilities in the community as well we need to be able to discharge patients from our public hospitals who have completed their treatment and a clinic is discharged by their consultant and medical team but we need step down facilities in the community there are about 6,800 beds generally which are actually occupied by clinic discharge patients who are waiting for step down facilities be it a home care be it a rehab be it a nursing home whatever but again there's two or three wings to this operation that the country must get right yeah the only thing too is is it a fact or two Martin and this is not to get into any other sort of debate but just a reality that we have had a rapid acceleration in our population as of late I presume that has to set us back even further because there's a considerable increase in the population like in multiples of percent all looking to use the same facilities that are already on the resource 40% behind the European average that has to in other words we need to almost redouble our efforts to account for that I'd imagine no we do yes absolutely respect what I said earlier we're playing catch up here our population is growing faster than any other country in Europe to my knowledge and that has been the case for a long time and that's going to be more in recent than last year or two for obvious reasons so we really need to redouble our efforts and while the minister says he wants to rapidly build the extra in the year this year and next year if you don't put the money in the budget that can't happen and you need a very firm highly focused plan to do it and I believe it can be done in particular in hospitals around the country adding on incremental blocks of beds is certainly time effective if one goes about it properly but we don't fund it in the budget not even in the starting blocks okay so we haven't got out of starting blocks or we won't unless it's funded in the budget all right martin thanks for your time this morning martin volley their secretary general of irish hospital consultants association we'll be back with your comments as we head towards the end of the show after this break it's a nine to noon show in association with the northwest truck fest this saturday and sunday at milford mart with live music family fun a truck convoy and much more it's the big brand sale at super value and there's great special offers like selected nestle and kellox cereals now half price selected goodies like Cadbury large bars and a donald's sharing crisps and 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ambulances to come and save lives that are members of those communities and i presume it's nice for them if it's visible and they're recognised by their employer it's i don't think it makes the ambulance go any slower or stops the sirens working or anything but it's not something and i say that not facetiously though it sounds it because it's not something i really would see as an issue my experience with eds people who know people working in there are skipping cues i sat twice with a relative and saw this happen first hand now it might appear that but people are triaged and brought in dependent on their medical needs i've not seen any evidence of that myself but listen if you've seen it and you believe that i'm not saying you're wrong greg does anybody think the banks give a dam about the people with mica they make you pay no matter what shul and sarah the banks know all the reality for sure they just want their money more electricity bills here hi greg this is a breakdown of my bill which i get because i have a smart meter i also have saturday weekender which means i've got free electricity from 8 a.m to 11 p.m i do all my washing drying in sometimes batch cooking on that day yet i'm charged for laundry according to this i questioned this and their explanation is that they know when i used my machines and that is what the algorithm identifies there are only two of us in the house and i think it's too expensive for what we use the price they have quoted for others is ridiculous and that comes in from bernie was old smart meters they're the best thing since sliced bread uh bernie doesn't use her washing machine uh unless she's on the free electricity apparently i wonder maybe do they have a limit as to how much you can use and that's how they're doing you there uh well the bill was uh 336 euro there bill and this is a family now who keep real close tabs on how and when they're using the electricity uh cooking 57 euro entertainment 45 euro presume that's your tvs and what have you laundry 39 euro though bernie says she only does the washing when the electricity is supposedly free the refrigerator to keep that going 39 euro always on so things that are on standby like your tv and stuff like that 28 euro lighting decent value in lighting 12 euro for the two months although that is in summer probably use a lot of led bulbs bernie do you but the other which is probably phone chargers and stuff is it i don't know 116 euro which could be anything that could just be a little you know a little tax on the tax but that bill in total 336 euro that's from someone with a smart meter who's clearly keeping a close eye on things so uh i i just wonder do they limit how much free electricity you have at certain times and they're sticking that on to you anyway i don't know uh let me see i wanted to get to this question as well hi greg and team just wondering is it possible to get donningall counter council to give an update in relation to the enhanced scheme when they expect the transitions to be completed we are on the priority list to transition to the enhanced scheme but it's been six weeks since the scheme opened we resubmitted our request for information which was requested on the 31st of july on the same day and we've had no response from them i called dcc today to be told it's with the technical team and no date to be given as to when it would be processed the opinion is that dcc are doing all they can but yet we have been waiting so long the delays are costing the homeowners just further anguish right so what was the response applications under the previous scheme were at various stages when the enhanced scheme commenced on the 3rd of july the council is now required to transition each of these applications to the new enhanced grant scheme there are 1296 applications to be transitioned as part of this process given the significant number of applications to be transitioned the process will take a period of time and we are working hard to complete this in the shortest possible timescale the council appreciates homeowners continued patients and understanding as staff manage the heightened workload during the transition period so it's pretty clear but what i read that says they're having to move each application one at a time at different stages and then marry it to the new scheme and that is taking time and it's extra work for them so as i say that's not really maybe a satisfactory response to our email but what it says is is that they'll get to you when they get to you but there is a sounds like quite a long winded process to get through right oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand don't forget you can keep your texts coming even when we're off air or if you're listening to us overnight i was chatting to a lady in letter kenny who says i'll put her to sleep every night i wasn't quite sure whether to take that as a compliment or otherwise but anyway it's nice to know i'm beside you when you're tucked up at night but 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