 And then I look at Greg Hughes. Oh. Hello. You've no worries, anyway. So much money. You wouldn't even know what a worry is. I know. That's right. I'll not even argue with that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Put the money past the notion. You slurped away your tea. What was the story with... Did you get... I'm not going to mention the secret sanks. I know you get very nervous about it. I do. But did you give a clue out this morning? No, I didn't. Well... I was reluctant. What are you calling that? I heard that gentleman talking about putting in your pocket. Sean, he'd give a clue out. No, he did not. He did. He came in here to do something else and he says, come on, about time you give a clue. Oh, that's right. He did, Greg. And was it an accurate clue? It was good enough. Because you could put your hat in the car if the truth were told. Well, you could put your hat anywhere. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Put the hat on top of the Christmas tree. Come here. How are you? I'm good. Changing the weather. I heard the wind last night. Milder. It's nice. But it could be we patches of black stuff about the place. I still could be. It was bad in certain places last night. Bored. You know, it's going to be wet and windy now for the next day. Afternoon should be clear though. I would say so. Yeah, good stuff. All right. Lee, have a good one. You too. All right. You're back tomorrow. Thanks a lot. All right. It is the 9th noon show around the corner. But let's get a news update first and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The steering committee of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly has corrected a drafting error, which led to allegations that some ambulances from Northern Ireland weren't able to cross the border into Donegal in the wake of the Cree slot tragedy. An updated report correcting error has now been adopted. Ellen Butler has more. The committee has clarified that at a sitting in October this year, claims were made that individuals were said not to have been able to attend the site of the Cree slot tragedy as the appropriate visas were not held. As a result of a drafting error, the paragraph referred to ambulances not attending instead of paramedics. The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Sovereign Matters has updated its report to correct the error and to acknowledge a statement from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service that its response to the tragedy was not affected in any way by border or visa issues. It confirmed in presenting the report to the Assembly and in subsequent media interviews, the chair of the committee, Senator Emer Curry, reflected in good faith the content of the report as did subsequent media reports. The committee has apologised for any confusion and has again extended its sincere thanks and appreciation to the Ambulance Services and other emergency services which attended the Cree slot tragedy. A man has been arrested in Dublin in connection with a string of thefts in latter Kenny on September the 16th. Detective Gardie from latter Kenny travelled to Dublin over the weekend. The man in his 30s was detained, interviewed and charged to appear at a sitting of latter Kenny District Court on Monday. Gardie's enquiries will continue in relation to the thefts. The Dunningall Joint Police and Committee has been told that people in Milford and its environs want reassurances that they will not lose Gardie when the local station loses its district headquarters status. Councillor Michael McBride said while it's welcome that Dunningall will remain as a standalone guarded division, Milford will not be a district headquarters into the future. He says with many stations such as Kilmachrannan still closed most of the time, people in the district cannot afford to lose Gardie. There's a lot of yards working out of Milford station and they're also looking after many of the other stations that are off Milford. There's a lot of concern out in the general public about what level of placing that we're going to have going forward. Is the yards and the staff that are working in the Milford guarded station going to be redeployed to other guarded stations and other headquarters? Weather night today will be wet with spells of rain or drizzle. The rain will be heavy at times and may cause spot flooding. Isolated thunderstorms are possible later with highest afternoon temperatures of six or seven degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The Counties number one talk show, the Ninetal Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Ninetal Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And we go again. It's five minutes past nine on this Wednesday, the 6th of December, 2023. You're very welcome along to the middle show of the week of the Ninetal Noon Show. How are you all keeping up there? I hope you're very well. Indeed, as Lee was saying there just before the news. It's a bit of a change to the weather. I might not have thought everywhere yet, but certainly we're not seeing that cold weather we've had for the last wee while. But anyway, we'll crack on regardless of the weather. The lines are open for you right now to get involved in the conversation to trigger your own. If there's something that you want to talk about, a piece of information you want to pass on, an issue you think we should be talking about or something positive as well that you think needs to be platformed. Please get in touch with us. You can call us an 074 9125,000. 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The father of a Donegal man with Dan Syndrome who died in January has spoken of the family's horrendous experience in Letter County University Hospital. On Thursday nights, his father, Phil, addressed a public meeting at the Manta Ergal Hotel which was organised by the Letter County Hospital campaign group where he outlined the difficulties they encountered. And that's featured across the front of that paper and inside it this morning. The Innish Times this morning, local garter bosses hope to have a new superintendent allocated to the Bunkrana District shortly. Chief Superintendent Aidan Glacken has confirmed that a request has been made to have a recent vacancy filled. Superintendent Barry Doyle transferred to Sligo in early October. In January, he succeeded Gretta Sheridan, a superintendent in the Bunkrana District. There are now three superintendents of the Donegal Guarder Division, Karen Doyle in Balashan, Gretta Sheridan in Letter County and David Kelly in Milford. Chief Superintendent Glacken has asked Guarder Commissioner Drew Harris that the voids in Bunkrana be addressed at a meeting of the Donegal Joint Police and Committee on Friday. Chief Superintendent Glacken was asked about the make-up of the Donegal Division. There are currently three superintendents, but none in Bunkrana. He's set in response to a query from the Donegal Post this morning. A cold, crispy Bundoran on Monday afternoon was the order of the day when a sod-turning ceremony of sorts or an unplanned solo mission by councillors from the Donegal Municipal District took place at the site of a new multi-million social housing unit development in the east end of the resort. Preliminary grand work has already commenced on the new 12.5 million 42 housing unit development at Drummer Crinn in Bundoran of the past week, which will be the first major social housing investment in Bundoran in 20 years. Moving on to the nationals now and we are rich again as a country apparently. Corporation tax receipts have defied predictions of a slump with record returns last month pointing to another strong year for the public finances. Alarm bells had been ringing in the Department of Finance after receipts from the business tax fell for three consecutive months between August and October, posing a risk to the government's budgetary arithmetic. I would imagine you would feel they should have a good reliable hold on this but they got a big surprise because the latest check and return show the government collected a record 6.3 billion euro in corporation tax receipts in November alone. That's 1.3 billion or 27% higher than the amount collected in the same month last year. Corporate tax receipts for the year to date to 22 billion 4.2% up on last year and on cause to exceed the government's 23.5 billion forecast which had begun to look shaky in recent months. November is the biggest month of the year for corporate tax as most companies with a December financial year end make a preliminary payment but the finances are incredibly strong and I think it puts to bed really that argument of why are you spending money here you know people pitching one group against another when the reality is there's a massive excess in billions that if they wanted to could be spent on a lot of these stuff although that being said I did hear the finance minister saying that they are using the money on housing health the Guardian etc but it's what people feel on the ground isn't it on to the Irish independent now and meath residents face Ireland's longest average commute to get to work according to a central statistics office study published yesterday they spent an average of 35 minutes getting to their place of work wow that would be dreamy this compares with a 23 minute journey for the average employer in Galway City who enjoys the shortage average commute while meath's average journey time is the highest it's closely followed by the average 34 minute travel of workers from Kildare, Wicklow and Fingall meath also has the highest proportion of workers who endure commutes and one in four of all commuters from Leightown, Bessie's Town Morningtown and Donna Carney in meath and it goes to Townlands around meath take over an hour or more to travel to work I think a lot of people in Donagall do too but anyway it's not reflected in these figures what is is the employment rate Longford I beg your pardon the employment rate was 8% in April last year across the country that's down from 13% in the 2016 census and from 19% in the 2011 the counties though with the highest unemployment rates were Laos Longford and Donagall at 11% so we have an unemployment rate 3% above the national average here in Donagall the Irish Daily Mail this morning Sinn Fein's attempt to remove the justice minister spectacularly backfired last night the opposition party being hit by a series of scathing political attacks after winning the confidence motion by 20 votes a defiant Helen McIntee told the door that Sinn Fein wanted instability and not solution saying their mantra is to sack, sue and bully she added it may surprise Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonnell to know this is not an episode of The Apprentice you cannot fire your way out of the situation in a blistering debate let's go inside here where is it page 5 page 6 I beg your pardon in a blistering debate Sinn Fein leader was compared to former US president Donald Trump when she was accused of seeking to exploit the crisis following riots in Dublin after three children and a childcare worker was stabbed outside of a school so do you believe Sinn Fein were right to move that motion of no confidence I have sort of indicated I couldn't understand the logic to it to be honest with you at this time do you believe to have backfired or at least that's what the papers are saying or do you think it was the right thing to do what do you think 0860 25000 was Sinn Fein right there were names being bandied around the place as well someone had to go at Sinn Fein's Pierce Daugherty as well I don't want to misquote it but anyway I'm not sure of the motivation of it if it was just a statement on that debate in history I'm not really quite sure but anyway it got quite feisty in the doll last night the Irish Daily Star this morning former Northern Ireland and Celtic footballer Paddy McCourter successfully appealed against a conviction for a sexual assault the 40 year old of Wheatfield court in Moff Donegal was found guilty after a trial in May of sexually touching a woman in a bar in Derry in January 2022 at Derry Magistrates Court in July district judge Ted McGill was suspended for two years Mr McCourt always denied the allegations and he successfully appealed against the conviction yesterday after Northern Ireland's public prosecution service offered no evidence during a brief hearing at the County Court in Derry Rosemary Walsh appeared for the PPS said they had issues around witnesses who previously identified Mr McCourt this was a matter concerning an allegation of sexual assault against Mr McCourt and there hadn't been a dispute as part of the lower court proceedings that the victim was the subject of a sexual assault by one of two individuals who were at a bar and situated just behind her at the material time she said but that he successfully appealed that conviction there on to the sun this morning and maybe you did hear Richard Boyd Barrett's speech on Israel he didn't hold back he's been questioned about it and is not backing down a TD has refused to apologize after branding Israel a filthy apartheid racist regime and a psychopathic state which is quite the statement really because it it really paints absolutely everybody with the one brush and I believe there are people within Israel with different political views but he said the entire state is a psychopath people before profits Richard Boyd Barrett made the statement on a pro-Palestine march in Dublin on Saturday it had called for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled from Ireland Mr Boyd Barrett told the rally this should be a moment of truth for people who have lied to us or are lying to themselves that a state that is capable of doing this is a psychopath Boyd Barrett added that the filthy apartheid racist colonial settler regime that is Israel needs to be dismantled incredibly strong words which I wouldn't be surprised would be borderline facing the wrath of any new hate speech laws hate speech laws you would imagine and finally stranger things than have happened than Conor McGregor seeking the presidency he is flirting with the idea I think he's playing it down today with a bit of a joke but anyway Elon Musk who's an incredibly influential person whether you like him or not he has backed Conor McGregor to run for the president of Ireland after he claimed to be considering the career change the UFC star tweets are being investigated by Gordy for allegedly inciting hate but that has not stopped him voicing his views on X after the Dublin had dismissed his likely rivals Jerry Adams and Kenny and Bertie Ahern on age grounds ex-owner Musk tweeted I think you could take them all single-handed not even fair McGregor who's fiance D Devlin gave birth to their fourth child last week responded with a lengthy post which said I'd fancy my chances Elon 100% and in some of his comments he seems to misunderstand Conor McGregor the sort of role of president and the impact a president might have and what they have a say on and so on and so forth but anyway that is where we're at with the papers today we'll be back with more on the 9 till noon show after we take a quick break stay right where you are the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra mountaintop letter Kenny the C store national large four court of the year for 2022 9 till noon show sponsored by Evolve clothing Merry Christmas to all 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ground breaking OK so Allview Healthcare we are a national provider to both public and private for dermatology, ophthalmology, plastic surgery vascular, some other services but in dermatology in particular we'd be the largest dermatology provider in the state and how we do that is through teledermatology as a tool within our service so a patient would come into a nurse-led clinic within a clinic and we have a local clinic in Letterkenny Sligo, Galway and we have them all around the country so you come into a nurse-led clinic and that nurse uses basically specialist medical equipment which takes microscopic photographs of the skin, of the lesions you can see the blood cells so enabling that all those images so a patient could have about 50 images taken in a case that is up into the cloud where consultants around the country are able to diagnose that and the specialist part about this for that case, seizure case so the technology if you have a lesion so dermatologists have sub-specialties acne, lesion, psoriasis you know, pediatrics and our system will allow your set of images the patient's set of images and all their medical history and their GP notes all before in front of the right consultant so that means you're getting the right care at the right time and that allows the consultant to give a diagnosis and a treatment plan about half those patients don't need to see the consultant face to face so our GP's, we have a half dozen GP's work for us as well in our service they will actually contact the patient discuss the consultant notes issue the prescriptions to them however about 35% of them will need surgery and about 15-20% will end up seeing the consultant face to face for full skin exams and onward management of psoriasis so just in terms of how it works in the hospitals where this is employed how would someone end up in front of one of your nurses, are they referred can people pay to access it or how does that work so they can pay themselves just to come and use their service and if they're a VHI patient it's covered under all insurance but if they're VHI they have an exclusive rapid access 10-day appointment time anywhere in the country that's then followed on by surgical to face all done within the following 2-3 weeks so from the date we accept the referral and the patient to their stitches been removed normally it's done in 30 days that's in stark contracts to say patients were seen for go a letter to Kenny Slago at the moment a very small volume have come to our system and they're currently waiting about 5 years what happens there is the hospital actually send the referrals to us then we contact the patients on behalf of the HSC bring them into our clinics absolutely look after them end-to-end care until they're totally cured, discharged surgery done, sutures removed some of them are long-term care so they have acne or psoriasis we manage those as well and that's basically how they come by the HSC route the hospital themselves send out their referrals and really where the issue comes down to is we guarantee we've won tenders with the HSC for the last number of years and they've been repeated some hospitals use the service some don't, we would have given the HSC a capacity of 20,000 patients to be consumed by us this year about 5,000 patients have gone through the system by the HSC procurement procedure so the hospitals don't pay for the service it's paid for by HSC head office so just to be clear currently the public health system is using 25% of the capacity that the HSC has approved funding for correct, correct why would I mean obviously we'd be aware that the dermatologist at Lederken University Hospital has recently retired and we've heard also from the dermatologist in Sligo that he's incredibly concerned with his workload let alone the increased workload from Donegal patients and he's saying effectively we can end up with a situation that most people have to travel to Galway for certain types of treatments so why would a hospital like Lederken University Hospital for an example not take up some of this capacity Lederkenu themselves just to be clear Lederkenu Hospital are absolutely behind our service the business teams all want to use the service just not to be confused in that they would love to see the service go live I think we've been talking to them now for about a year and a half similar to Sligo but they are controlled by the Salter Group and the Salter Group basically the clinicians the team down there the business team the COs want to go ahead it comes down to we're not sure where the blockages but it's somewhere within the dermatology department why the patients have not been given access now we do believe some of the consultants may have concerns around the technology piece the National Clinical Lead for Dermatology who's based out of Talah Hospital she has pretty much rejected the use of teledermatology you know in Ireland however she's never engaged with the service engaged with us, engaged with teledermatology the H.C. have approved it it's used what's the accuracy rate I mean I see an upholster behind you 98 melanomas and more than 700 other skin cancers in patients who would have otherwise waited on hospital waiting lists until their cancer was much harder to treat or terminal has been identified but in terms of you know picking up cancers 99.3% is what our current status on our accuracy of diagnosis anything we can diagnose to teledermatology is automatically brought in for face-to-face the consultant or any patients that have certain parameters like a family history of cancer, previous melanomas so the certain trigger points are in the system what percentage are false negatives of the questionable cases kicked up the line so to speak we would from a consultant not knowing what the issue is from teledermatology 0.7% that doesn't mean that's all that's see face-to-face so lots of triggers in our system would indicate a patient needs a full skin exam everybody ideally should get a full skin exam every 18 months there's not enough consultants to do it so ideally a lot of GP's specialize in skin and that's who should be used for skin check however their concern needs to go to a consultant the real core of the issue is there's not enough consultants globally it's not an Irish issue people blame the HSE for not recruiting enough consultants and you can't get them they can't get them anywhere the UK have over 120 positions for consultant dermatologists at the moment Ireland we positions globally there's just not enough dermatologists so teledermatologists become away globally to try and ease that so a consultant could see 4-5 patients in an hour they can see 15-20 patients through telemedicine that enables them to work on patients about 15% of our patients have nothing wrong with them that's a very small number per 100% a lot of people say there's nothing wrong with those patients that is factually incorrect most people on the waiting list GP's will refer them in for a reason and we've done 20,000 patients in the last 2 years our data fits with all the global numbers there's lots of papers written on this about 15% of nothing wrong about 50% in general are managed remotely so the consultant reviews us the consultant reviews the entire case issues their management plans and then our GP's talk to the patient about the use of consultant time and if the consultant for any reason is unsure or thinks I need to see this patient remember the images of their entire body so they're able to see this person has factors that I need to see them and give them a full skin exam they're brought in for that so the technology is only part of the service a large part go to surgery that's all done traditionally just brought in but it's done rapidly so the stumbling block here then is that there are people in the medical profession or the decision makers that have an opinion on this style of diagnosis correct but yet have not engaged with actually looking into the service or the facts or the global facts where the HSE have the HSE have been out here there's other telemedicine providers in the country a lot of them facing the same this is not why we have the top tier of management in the HSE you're in fact the minister for health who is the overall very pro the service very much pro the service it's down to local level politics that is stopping it so the column Henry the minister all these top people in the HSE are actively pushing hospitals to use our service and I know that every month comes up in the national waiting list discussions about it so we don't know really whether they have been up and used hospitals in Dublin have seen huge benefits taking thousands of patients off their lists by using this model the traditional model I've seen every single patient face to face around half of them could be managed remotely is extremely inefficient 28% of deaths are caused by cancer at the moment your own doctor and the dunny girl general practitioner's group they have huge concerns about melanomas so melanomas time sensitive the quicker you get the better outcomes for the patients we heard that too from our soul dermatologist in the north west listen every which way you turn now and particularly obviously in the summer you hear the advertisements talking about the dangers of skin cancer and what have you I mean I'm not I don't have a medical background and I don't know what those that are opposed to this what they might be thinking beyond my I don't know either but you know you are of the view and obviously other hospitals like St. James, Beaumont, Connolly our lady of lures that they have used this technology this soul view telodermatology service and they have concluded it's drastically reduced their waiting lists 15,000 HSE patients in the last two years you say you've got much greater capacity that's simply not being used because someone has an opinion that this is not the future correct I actually only last night I'm delighted only last night we won the best hospital project at the Irish Health Care Awards and that's our second year to win such projects with Beaumont hospital with RTSI and with St. James as we won awards for the what we've actually done with working and partnering with the hospitals and so hospitals that do use the service are really impressed by it it works very well we could see about 50 patients a week in letter and we have a local clinic there so those patients could all be seen and managed very locally if it was allowed go ahead we also have the smallest Brezlo thickness or the lowest Brezlo thickness in the country and that is how you measure cancer stage 1, 2, 3, 4 we're at 0.68 the average is coming in nearly 2 around the country so we are dramatically lower than any other service and that's just purely due to rapid access so we can take a patient referral and have them in the clinic for 10 days and have them diagnosed and if they need surgery they'll be in a week or two who does the surgery they're going to the general hospital the acute hospital they come through our services so we have consultant dermatologists, consult plastic surgeons, consultant maxfax of his pathologists we have our own histology labs we're the largest dermatology provider and by scale actually probably the largest dermatology department and that's primarily we do both public and private services so yeah so we're a very big so theoretically then it could be a case that someone might be opposed to availing of this service if they have this notion of or not notion because that sounds like I'm just disregarding it which I'm not if they believe that you know these are services that should be provided in hospital that this money should be spent in public hospitals with these services provided in public hospitals and this is going down the slippery slope of privatising the health service someone might have that view and see this as to why they might not endorse it for an example there is certainly reluctance in the healthcare system to use private providers all private hospitals at the moment have capacity and we're only one of six of the main hospital groups who would be on the HSC framework to provide these services to the hospitals and so we know places like water don't use any of the services any of the providers and same it you know solid to do use in certain areas we're actually doing ophthalmology work for the solid group but it tends to be the dermatology that always is the issue it's kind of interesting because the Minister of Health in this program two weeks ago defended the use of the likes of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for an example he always he is of the view that it should be a two-track approach okay well listen it's food for thought thanks for explaining it and helping me through that Owen as I learned really to be honest the other wasn't aware of these and just for yourself your listeners as we would always say just think if you're a privately insured patient you know you've been seen in 10 days 40 if you're public in that area it's currently running at five years same service same technology, same consultants so our question is why you know where is the blockage alright and congratulations at the Irish health care awards as well thanks thanks a million take care bye bye and there was local success at those awards because the letter Kenny University Sports and Social won the national award in the Irish health care awards in the workplace well-being champion section so congratulations to all of the committee members there for all of their hard work throughout the years and to all the members who make as I'm told the sports social club a very special group to be a part of so again at those this is just by coincidence at those Irish health care awards big winners on the night letter Kenny University Hospital Sport and Social they won the national award in the workplace well-being 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so we start with what's nearest first I wonder yes so we'll kick off today actually kicks off our latest dates of posting so if you are sending a parcel to the likes of Australia New Zealand Canada or the US today is the day you should be getting in the post if you want to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas and so that's our kind of standard standard kind of parcel delivery then before we get to that right before we move on right because someone's just jumped out of the chair now and tripped over the coffee table running to get into the post office but that's guaranteed it's possible if someone's made an error heard this and is panicking if it goes in the post tomorrow it's not guaranteed but is it could we even say it's likely it might get there in time so our latest dates posting great they are a guide you know they're just kind of like today would be the latest date we'd say for Australia New Zealand to guarantee delivery but obviously we'll do our utmost to get parcels delivered in time for the big day and if you are kind of concerned that you've missed the latest date you can ask the people down at your local post office you know about other options like express post because the date that we would give would be for standard letter and parcel delivery so do chat to your to the clerk down at your local post office about the different options that are available to you but like I say you know it is a guide just to guarantee delivery in time for the big day are there any rules on what we can and cannot post I mean food stuffs into Australia New Zealand because their islands of course they're very defensive on that do you have guidelines in relation to that or is it up to the person posting to double check what applies to whichever is the destination country we do have guidelines yet you can find them all on our website on post.com but a general rule of thumb is you know act with common sense and you can look up the guidelines yourself in terms of you know we don't you can't post batteries and the like and then with regard to food stuffs when posting outside the island of Ireland it's not even kind of up to us it is like you said yourself customs in other countries well anyone who has watched those programs on random satellite channels about the Australian customs will know the New Zealand customs they will know they're pretty stringent so be extra careful in relation to that and what about tax you know tax in different areas because that's kind of we've I think been well the likes of me who doesn't post internationally very often has become more aware of inward post you know there might be a tax or a vat or whatever that's in addition to it is that common knowledge does anyone is there any information we need to give to people about those implications in posting far and wide yeah it is it's becoming more common knowledge especially with brexit having come in in recent years and so there there will be some customs to be paid and if you're ordering goods from outside the EU so that will be the likes of America Australia and the UK and so just we would say to customers to be mindful when they're ordering online generally the website will tell you if customs is included if the you know the company that you're ordering off has taken care of it themselves or if you might be liable to pay when the parcel comes into the country and then if you're posting abroad your local post office can help you with the different forms that you might have to fill out for posting to the likes of America and Australia OK so the rest of the world is today the US is the 11th is that correct or did you group for for letters or Christmas cards it's the 11th but it is actually today for standard standard parcels so we focus on the parcels then because people can figure out the letters so what's the next deadline then for parcels so the next deadline then we have coming up for the rest of Europe is December 14th and so that will be the likes of France Spain Germany all those countries and we'd ask people if they're sending there to have their parcels in the post by December 14th to guarantee delivery and then we get right up to very close to Christmas with December 18th for standard delivery of parcels to Great Britain so if you're posting to England or Scotland or Wales December 18th is the date you need to be looking out for then we're then very next day for delivery to Northern Ireland December 19th and then right up until December 21st you can post your cards and parcels for delivery within Ireland but I acknowledge I've just given you a rake of dates and information there upload.com forward slash Christmas is the best way to hop onto our website and get all the latest dates posting because there's a very clear table there no matter what you say no matter how hard you try and push the point there's going to be a large group of us posting on the 22nd and the 23rd and then worry about it for the rest of Christmas alright good stuff anything else you think we need to know are we still posting do we still post letters obviously we don't do it not letters, cards, Christmas cards obviously I don't think we're clearly not going to do it in the same volumes that we used to once but there's still a good amount of Christmas cards go about the place isn't there absolutely yeah we actually kicked off we're really trying to encourage everyone to send their cards and parcels this year there is nothing quite like getting a Christmas card in the post it really is a lovely human touch so actually last year 3 and 5 adults sent Christmas cards with on post in 2022 so people definitely still are sending them 9 and 10 within that number we're sending across Ireland and 1 and 2 we're sending love to the UK and obviously there's so many Irish expats now over in the likes of Australia and America and Canada so it definitely is you know still a trend and people are still doing it and then just with regard to kind of good practice for posting your cards and parcels we would say make sure you wrap up your parcel really really well seal it very well especially if it's going abroad to include the return address as well that on the very off chance it doesn't get delivered we can get it back to you so that's really important as well yeah and I kind of joked about after these deadlines but in all seriousness you should note that there'll be no mail delivery or collections from the 23rd until the 27th so there will be people might be waiting on a delivery on the 23rd or 24th but delivery and collection cease on the 23rd until the 27th and then your next post after those dates or the next time you can post something expected to be processed is the 28th delivery and collection services return on December 28th so if you haven't got it by 23rd you're not getting it yeah I mean as I said we the staff both in the post offices and the mail senders across the country they are flat to the mat at the moment making sure that everyone gets their cards they're like your little elves Sarah aren't they they're like your little elves but busying away but it is a colossal effort we really are doing our utmost to make sure everyone has everything that they need for Christmas Day and all the festivities which is why as you said the latest dates of posting they really are kind of important to follow so we can all work together to get everything sorted and deliver to you in time for Christmas Day yeah it's a huge logistical thing the postal service alright listen thanks for that Sarah I appreciate your time happy Christmas no problem at all happy Christmas to you too so standard post for parcels for Christmas date days for the rest of the world it's today for the USA it's today for the rest of Europe December 14th or Britain which is where you want to call it December 18th for the North the Northern Ireland it is the counties December 19th for the Republic of Ireland December 21st and there's no post either deliver your collections from the 23rd to the 27th of December it's the post office doing free delivery of packages and letters up to one kilo to nursing homes this year we'll ring back and check that Caroline if that's alright we'll find out was it a COVID initiative I haven't heard anything of it since but anyway hi just wondering could you tell me when you to send the parcel to Australia thanks great show Greg thank you for the lovely compliment today get down to the post office if it's standard delivery today is the last day where they guarantee as much as they can that your parcel will reach your loved one or your friend in Australia this Christmas it has to be Evolve letter Kenny retail park or online at EvolveCothing.com open seven days Christmas has arrived at Patterson's Christmas trees and decorations now on display Christmas gifts from Hollywood mirrors to wall art to home fragrances you'll find the perfect gift at Patterson's there's a large range of dining tables and 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Nominations close on December 13th. Whatever the weather this December, Larry Kenny will bring a warm front to your shopping and great value for your pocket. Highland weather forecast brought to you by ShopLK. Today we'll be wet with spells of rain or drizzle. The rain will be heavy at times and may cause spot-flooding. Isolated thunderstorms are possible later too. It'll become windy this afternoon and evening with fresh to strong and gusty southeasterly winds highest afternoon temperatures of six to seven degrees. So your handy working putting your outdoor decorations or trees is going to get tested over the next couple of days. Bettina joins us on the program now. Hi Bettina. Good morning Craig. Thank you for having me. Lovely to speak to you Bettina. You wanted to go upon what has been beautiful crisp mornings to visit on Greenia of Alja and you've as a family were left disappointed. Tell us why and what happened? Well I got there about two to thirty and I found that the monument was locked the monument itself and there was another couple a German couple there and they obviously came a good distance to see the monument and they found very disappointingly the gate closed unable to get inside and as I walked down a travel coach came up with fully fully seated fully booked with people having paid for to to see the monument and being left very disappointed and frustrated as well to return from the monument without being able to go inside. And what reason has been given and it's I suppose it's dictated by the sign as for access to be restricted. Well yeah they basically I presumed they haven't done an official statement the OPW on my social media I had someone commenting echoing the opinion of the OPW and basically the line was it's for for our own good for our own safety because we are probably too reckless and would go stairs which are frozen and therefore might put in a claim towards to the OPW. I don't even know if that is legally possible because I'm not sure but the liability is there but also other comments on on my post made it quite clear that it not it it wasn't just yesterday or the last couple of days where there actually were icy conditions but that the monument has been closed for at least three weeks. One person who commended was at a conference on the 14th of November and he took up two guest speakers one from France and one from the UK around the same time as I was there yesterday two to 30 and the monument was locked and other people who commended had the same experience for this period of time. So the monument has been closed day in day out for the last three weeks. You're of the view really that you're of the view are you that really any excuse any excuse is being used to to withhold access to this monument. Yeah, I mean, as I saw the tour bus yesterday, it kind of dawned on me because tour buses are still coming. And as I said, they are paid booked and paid tours. And if two operators not only take home a load full of frustrated visitors, but also will receive complaints then tour operator probably will cut down on visits to the monument because of the problem occurring that they do not know if the monument is open or not. Yeah, the inconsistency means the inconsistency means that it becomes unattractive. That being said, just to play devil's advocate here looking beyond the closed duty due to IC condition sign, it does look kind of frosty and icy on that footpath. Do you think it should be opened and treated or it should be opened and people should be able to assume their own risk? It could be treated. I mean, I visited the Queen and for the last 27 years. And I never actually seen it treated that is the photo is where the new access is for the wheelchair understood. And it was frosty. It wasn't icy water actually quite runs off quite well from the monument and from those from those new access wheelchair access. So I mean, if they have someone in charge there, they could treat it. But one of my fondest memory of the monument are mornings on a snowy morning when I went to the green and my footsteps were the first on top of the monument. And then I took a photo with the Christmas car from it is something absolutely magical about it. You know, I think I do have to move on it just seems that it's almost come to the point that more often than not we're talking about access to this wonderful immunity being being blocked. And we've discussed this in great detail in the past. I mean, and also to I mean, we can't be wrapped up in cotton wool either. You know, we have to be able to know your own common sense to some extent you would feel but anyway, we'll get an official response better. Now I have to go for the news at 10. Thank you very much for your time. 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Don't miss your last chance to kick off the holiday season with a great lineup of stars including Michael English, John McNichol, Claudia Buckley, our very own David James and introducing Jack Koeh. This promises to be a brilliant night. Doors open at 7 30 PM show starts at 8 30 sharp. Tickets are flying out the door with just a few remaining at 25 euro each available at Highland radio, the Mount Eric hotel and at the outlet at Highland radio dot com live on air online and on the Highland radio. This is Highland radio news. Good morning. I'm Achille Clark with the news at 10 o'clock. The steering committee of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly has corrected a drafting error which led to allegations that some ambulances from Northern Ireland were unable to cross the border into Donegal in the wake of the Cree slot tragedy. An updated report correcting the error has not been adopted. Ellen Butler has more. The committee is clarified that at a sitting in October this year claims were made that individuals were said not to have been able to attend the site of the Cree slot tragedy as the appropriate visas were not held. As a result of a drafting error, the paragraph referred to ambulances not attending instead of paramedics. The British Irish Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on sovereign matters has updated its report to correct the error and to acknowledge a statement from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service that its response to the tragedy was not affected in any way by border or visa issues. It confirmed in presenting the report to the assembly and in subsequent media interviews, the chair of the committee, Senator Emer Currie, reflected in good faith the content of the report as did subsequent media reports. The committee has apologized for any confusion and has again extended its sincere thanks and appreciation to the ambulance services and other emergency services which attended the Cree slot tragedy. Families living in unfinished housing estates affected by defective blocks are stuck in limbo. Concerns have been raised that estates not yet taken over by Donegal County Council face a lengthy way to access the defective concrete block grant scheme. Councillor Paul Canning says those homeowners are unable to obtain a compliance certificate needed to engage with the scheme. He's calling on the council to put provisions in place to ensure all homes are remediated. One of the items that they have to obtain is a compliance certificate for planning and for following control. I have requested that houses that are within a housing estate that haven't been taken over by the council and don't have a management company in place or maybe the treatment system isn't working properly, that those houses that want on the scheme should be given a waiver from obtaining a full compliance certificate with the understanding that this estate will eventually be taken over by the council who in turn will bring the estate into compliance. The Donegal Joint Police and Committee has been told that people in Milford and its environs want reassurances that they will not lose Garde when the local station loses its district headquarters status. Councillor Michael McBride says while it's welcome that Donegal will remain as a standalone guard of division, Milford will not be a district headquarters into the future. He says with many stations such as Kilmachran and still closed most of the time, people in the district cannot afford to lose Garde. There's a lot of yards working out of Milford station and they're also looking after many of the other stations that are peripheral off Milford. There's a lot of concern out in the general public about what level of placing that we're going to have going forward. Is the yards and the staff that are working in the Milford Garde station going to be redeployed to other Garde stations and other headquarters? It's only about right that we get that information and put it out into the general public so people know what's happening around them. Boris Johnson's preparing to face two days of questions at the UK COVID inquiry where he's expected to apologise for mistakes made by his government. The former British Prime Minister arrived at the venue three hours early with a large bundle of papers. Some victims' families are holding up pictures of their dead loved ones outside the venue in central London. Professor Anthony Costello is a former director at the World Health Organization. I hope we'll hear today a bit more particularly for the 230,000 bereaved families about how we might have shut this epidemic down at the very beginning and much more quickly and what lessons we must learn for the future. Aman has been arrested in Dublin in connection with a string of thefts in Lettercanny in September. Detective Garde from Lettercanny travelled to Dublin over the weekend. The man was detained, interviewed and charged to appear at an upcoming sitting of Lettercanny District Court. Garde saying inquiries will continue in relation to the thefts. Whether night or day will be wet with spells of rain or drizzle, the rain will be heavy at times and may cause spot flooding. Isolated thunderstorms are possible later, highest afternoon temperature of six or seven degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock. Until then you can keep up to date with the latest local news on our website at highlandradio.com. The obituary notices for this Wednesday morning December the 6th. The death has taken place of Nikki Hanlon, Swilly Park Remelton. Remains reposing at the residence of his daughter Sally and Shawnee Mooney, Castle Street Remelton, from five o'clock this evening. Funeral Mass on Friday morning at 10 o'clock in St Mary's Church Remelton. Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral Mass can be viewed on churchservices.tv. Family time on the morning of the funeral. Family flowers only, donations if desired to Remelton Community Hospital, care of any family member or Patrick Sweeney funeral directors. The death has taken place of Margaret Patton, Nebo Verde, mid-cotted drum cane. Her remains are reposing at her late residence. Punal leaving from there tomorrow afternoon at quarter past 12 for one o'clock. Requiem Mass in St Patrick's Church drum cane followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard. Family time plays from 10 o'clock to night and before the funeral tomorrow. Family flowers only, donations in need to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member or Terence McClintock funeral director. The death has taken place of Jim Douglas, 19 drumminy Rod Brundenet and formerly of Glasgow, reposing at his home. Punal leaving his home tomorrow morning at 25 past nine for Requiem Mass in St Mary's Church clock or at 10 o'clock. Interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers please to Cancer Research UK, care of Quigley funeral directors. Family time please from 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock. The death has occurred of James Woods, the bridge Bali Monaster, Balandreit Lifford. James's remains are reposing at his brother Gerrtheis Dreenin Strinola. Funal from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 going to St Patrick's Church murlock for funeral mass at 11 o'clock and burial immediately afterwards in the family plot. The death has taken place of Patrick John McLaughlin, Manny, Trenet Hubbard, Caldaff. Patrick John's remains are reposing at his home where you're welcome to pay your respects today from 11 o'clock until 10 o'clock. Funal mass for Patrick John will take place tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in St Patrick's Church on Huklae Mallon, followed by burial in St Mary's graveyard at Bukin Caldaff. Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Alzheimer's Society, Kandana Branch, care of any family member. The death has taken place of Patricia Pat-Logue, Ney Devine, of Blackbrae's Campsy County Derry and Kill Dunfanahe County Dunningall. Her remains are reposing at her lit residence in Dunfanahe. Funal mass in Holy Cross Church Dunfanahe tomorrow at 12 o'clock, burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard. Mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia.tv. Family time please from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock and on the morning of the funeral. Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association, care of any family member or James Harkin Funal Director. The death has taken place of Marie Denise Barr, Rathgard Dublin and formerly St Orange Road, Bunkranach County Dunningall. Removal from Fanagin's funeral home Dundrum to more morning to the Church of the Good Shepherd Church Town arriving for funeral mass at half past 11. Mass and burial on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at St Mary's Chapel Cochill Bunkranach. And the death has occurred of Sally Gallagher, Main Street Mines-Charles. Removal from Gallagher's funeral home Station Road Mines-Charles this morning going to the Church of the Sacred Heart Mines-Charles for 11 o'clock funeral mass with interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. Family flowers only please. For family information and more details regarding wigs and funerals please go to highlandradio.com. Betty Morgan talks about her son. Amy was one of life's givers. When he had a sudden brain hemorrhage and sadly died his organ donation helped two people transform their lives. It's consoled us so often. Amy was a giver in life until now he's giver of life. Organ donors save lives. Make today the day you decide to be an organ donor and let your family know your wishes. For more visit hse.ie forward slash organ donation from the HSE. All right, just a reminder of our lovely comp. We've got running an association with Cabri all this week. We're inviting you to tell us why you want to send chocolate secretly to someone special this year. Why do they deserve it? What good reason do you have to send a Cabri secret Santa Bob? Tell us about someone in your life who deserve your secret Santa Bob this year. But remember to keep it a secret just to invite you once again to call in text your reasons. But be careful. Don't reveal who it is or you'll ruin the surprise. Just tell us why they deserve it. Okay, I'll give you some examples here of some of the fantastic entrance. And by the way, the person that you nominate for the rest of this week receives a wonderful Cabri's hamper. It is beautiful. I'll get a picture of it for you and post it up at some point. But the person you nominate will receive this beautiful Cabri's hamper and you'll get the joy of knowing that you've lightened up their life. I'd like to nominate Sheila. She went into a coma for three months during which time we were told every day that she wouldn't last till the morning. She came out of the coma but spent another four months in another hospital where we were told that if she survived she'd end her days in a nursing home. She got home. She's now back happily in her own house living her best life. That comes in from Brian. Thanks for that, Brian. You're still in the draw. I'd love for my sister to get the Cabri hamper prize. I've just had my third baby and she's been a superstar helping with my two of the children. When I was in hospital even though she had a baby herself nine weeks ago we lost our mum at the start of this year so we never imagined we'd be going through this newborn stage with a mum to guide us. So what a mix of emotions. They're the joy of life and then of course the sadness of losing someone but as you say your mother is there to guide you. Thank you. Could I please nominate my 11 year old daughter? She's a great wee girl. She helped care for her uncle when he was diagnosed with MND. She'd help feed him, get him things he wanted. He passed away in July and she's finding it very hard. She misses him so much I know she loved that she would love this wee surprise and be chuffed she would split the hamper between her and his three young children regards from Mary. Thank you, Mary. What a wonderful daughter that you have. She is of course still in the running to receive this beautiful hamper from Cadbury. I'm nominating my mum and dad Josephine and Shawnee. They got Covid and got through it. Very good parents then they do anything for anyone. Big heart if someone is lonely they take them into the house. Thank you for that Maeve lovely suggestion. I'd like to nominate my home help my home help Katrina. She does everything for me since I was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 48. She's my personal counsellor and even batch cooks my favourite dinner for me. I don't know what I would do without her. That comes in from Caroline. I would like to nominate my aunt Teresa. My family was involved in the tragedy in April where we lost members of our family. She was there with us throughout then. First weeks in hospital and all while helping our friend go through cancer treatment our selflessness never wavers always helping others. Please consider her many thanks Glett. We will of course and thank you for that and what a wonderful person. So keep your nominations coming in for someone who deserves this very special treat this Christmas from Cadbury. And just to remind you to look out for a poster near you if you want to send the Cadbury secret Santa bar to someone special they're popping up all over the country or search Cadbury secret Santa for more details full terms and conditions. You can visit Cadbury.ie and again just to encourage you that if you entered earlier in the week please resubmit those entries as well as it's not just like a one bite of the cherry situation. All right. Let us take a break for the bingo numbers. Good luck if you're playing today. The county's number one talk show The 9 till noon show on Highland radio. It's time for MCBI bingo on Highland radio. It's Wednesday the 6th of December you're playing on the blue sheet. The reference number is S3. It's game number 49. The numbers are 60 73 72 83 42 76 2 36 33 and finally 84. 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A ham joint or a succulent tri-aid sirloin steak. Then call in to Jumegee Butchers at Glencar Shopping Centre and the Letter Kenny Shopping Centre where we have Christmas all wrapped up for you. Nine till noon show sponsored by Evolve Clothing Merry Christmas to all our customers and thanks for all your support every year in store at Letty Kenny Retail Park or online at EvolveClothing.com Okay, so we're not this week that the Department of Integration has confirmed it can no longer provide accommodation to all international protection applicants. The spokesperson for the department says tents and sleeping bags will be provided to people where required due to a severe shortage of housing. A total of 107 people were accommodated over the weekend. However, from earlier this week the state is not in a position to accommodate everyone. Women and children will still be housed and it seems open-ended as well Bulumeh Dubey is Community Links Officer for the Donegal Intercultural Platform and he's in studio with me now. Bulumeh, thanks so much for joining us. It's a pleasure. What's your reaction to this news? Well, I think obviously it's preposterous. I mean, it's unacceptable that people should be living on the street. The Irish government has got a duty to take care of people that are seeking international protection and people that are Irish because I also feel this has got a potential of putting local people, Irish people and international protection applicants at local heads. But the actual person to blame is the government. That's just not providing housing for everyone. Yeah, and of course, you know, we did hear that in November there was a record intake in terms of corporate tax and we have more money at this time now than we anticipated. So it's not either or. You know what I mean? A lot of people would feel that is up to the state if it has signed up to international obligations that they meet those rather than this situation we're seeing now where, as you say, different groups of people are being pitched against each other. It's and it's horrible to see it. Isn't it around the country? Yeah, that's true. Well, the government has always been away as early as 2018 that there was a shortage of housing particularly for asylum seekers, you know. So this is not new. This is something that has always been known. Unfortunately, of course, we have to accept that there is a huge number of international applicants. But this could all have been sorted much earlier. In 2018, the government knew that there was a high volumes of people in direct provision and that there was not enough housing and they could have been proactive and actually done something about it. Well, we've been talking about people being stuck in inverted commas in direct provision for ages. That used to be the big story, didn't it? What about this? There seems to be people seem to, some people, sorry, seem to distinguish between people fleeing from Ukraine and international protection applicants. You'd be familiar with this terminology that's used quite widely now that people are fearful of large groups or even individual young men from Africa Muslim men, whatever it might be, young military-aged men coming to Ireland. That seems to be the pinch point there of people's fears and anxieties. Do you get that? Do you understand that? Does it frustrate you? Does it annoy you? Well, first thing, I think there's actually no need to fear people. I mean, we are all human beings at the end of the day and people come here for various reasons because they are fleeing, running away from some form of danger. I suppose to a certain extent again, you could blame the government as well for not preparing the Irish people and educating them about the reasons why people are coming here. I think there should be programs. There should be an investment in community education about why people come here. But the policy is actually not to consult with local communities at all. At all, it seems. Yes. Let alone educate but simply not say what's happening. Yes, I suppose again, the fault falls directly in front of the government again. That it should be making proactive attempts to actually integrate those people, make people aware who is coming through and why they are coming through and make the community aware. Like you are saying, consult the community as well. It should be a consultative participatory approach to things instead of imposing as well. Because I suppose everybody wants to be welcomed instead of being regarded with fear. Do you think though, the genies out of the bottle that it's going to be hard to fix the feelings that are out there and the fear, the concerns, the anger. We've seen what happened in Dublin. We've seen what happened in Dublin Thursday week last. I mean obviously an awful lot of it was just dancing social behaviour and writing but it was rooted in this concern about mass immigration. Well again, I suppose the anger is directed at the wrong people. I mean if it was a protest against the government's lack of action in terms of housing and providing social care then that protest tool they've been applauded as right. But again, it's not the immigrant's fault that the government is not providing or is not taking responsibility. So I think the anger is directed at the wrong people. The immigrant is not the reason why there's no housing or that social services are feeling so much pressure. Well with that in mind then, Blume, and I'm just using this to tease this conversation because I'm really a big fan of talking. You know, when we don't talk, we have problems. Is it the case then that until such time as we get the house in order that we get a proper accommodation, that we improve services such as access to GP services, acute hospitals, schools, places and what have you, is there an argument that we stem the flow of immigration into the country so that at the very least we can provide those that are here and the new residents of Ireland here with proper services rather than inviting people into a broken service? Well I don't know whether you really invite people, you know, because people are sort of... You just use that word to be honest because I struggled for a word. Accept people, whatever the word might be. That's no meaning to that word. It was just a word to try and describe the point. So my point is really, I don't think you can get to a point where you say immigration should stop so that we can fix this. These things okay concurrently. I mean, when the Irish government signed up to this, it knew that it had, you know, deficits in terms of housing and they could have anticipated that there was going to be pressure on social services. I mean, it's a given that if you've got a new group of people coming in, they'll use your services and you cannot subscribe to something where you cannot be able to provide. And like you said earlier on, Ireland is equipped with financial resources to actually be able to provide those services. It lacks maybe political will and political impetus to actually provide housing and provide not only for the asylum seekers, by the way, but for its own people. Even if you took away asylum seekers, you still have got a problem in terms of provision. And we've had a housing problem and a homeless problem that predates any increase in international applications, protection applications or the situation in Ukraine. I think anyone, we know that. That's the case. So, and also what the situation we find now and I don't have any solutions to this, but what we're going to have now is parts of Dublin, most likely, where there's going to be large groups of individuals, you know, that are going to be living in tents. And, you know, people are going to take pictures of that video with and it's going to create this imagery, right? Which is again, really going to be counterproductive because we've seen these tinted areas burned down in the past. You know, they are, they have been attacked. Well, again, I suppose a civic society has got a huge role to play in terms of that, you know. We cannot anticipate the negative and say, this is what is going to happen. Why should that be happening? We should be talking to people, engaging with everybody involved in terms of what there's a problem of housing. You've got people sleeping in the streets. We should not be anticipating that they're going to be burnt down or they're going to be hit or assaulted and that. We should be finding solutions, really, you know. At the end of the day, even the people that we're protesting, they're protesting against the government because the government is not providing social services. If they were well-cattered for, they would not be any of that. You know, like, I mean, as again, I really do think it's very, very important that we have these conversations out in front. I don't think, I mean, obviously housing is the issue. Mm-hmm. But an awful lot of what seems to motivate the conversation online is someone's religion or the colour of their skin or an area changing or Irish tradition being lost. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think sometimes, for some of the commentators, the housing is a smoke screen, really. But if you're deep down, it's Ireland for the Irish. Ireland is full. You know, now an awful lot of these people can't even speak Irish, which I find is really quite ironic. But anyway, so are we sort of in a cultural shift in Ireland that we just have to come to terms with? Is that your view, really? Because I think if everyone had a house, Balumi, if everyone had a house, I think we'd still be probably having these conversations put in a different way because people are seeing cultural changes in their community and some people are instilling fear and saying, well, that's a very bad thing. These people are going to hurt you. These people are going to rape your women. Do you know what I mean? And that's the language. That's unfounded, obviously. That's always very unfounded. And let me just back you up on that before you answer the point. We've made many inquiries to the Guardi and the senior Guardi in the county, at a recent meeting in Lederkenny, he said that with the arrival of new people in Thelonigol, it has not in any way changed the dynamics of crime. Yeah, I couldn't get rid of that. It takes forever for culture to change. So that statistically is true, right? So talk to me about the people that feel that Ireland's culture is at threat and that, you know, it's changing. And because I think that's what's driving a lot of fear. Look, for me, I think this is an opportunity for Ireland to actually live 50 years ahead of time. This is what the world is going to be. You will find people living in the same space, practicing different cultures, different religions in 50 years. And it's unprecedented. We won't be able to stop that. You'll find Irish people deep down in South Africa, Zimbabwe, living there for one reason or another. The concept of migration is forever, you know. So the question of whether your culture is going to change or not is also essentially about whether we put social programs that actually protect cultures, that protect religion, but also it helps people to integrate, to actually relate to each other without necessarily saying our intention is to change anyone, you know. Of the people, have you been speaking to any new international protection arrivals just to get a sense of what they're fleeing? Because, again, it's put out there that really they see Ireland as a welfare state and it's a good place to come and make a few quid or whatever it might be. What are, in your experience, what are people fleeing? What are they fleeing to come here in terms of risk to their lives, oppression or whatever? So there are several reasons why people actually flee from their homes, but let me just emphasize this. Nobody runs away from their home just to come and stay in it exactly. Yes, home is where everybody would want to be. And I'll tell you, 90% of the people would rather be at home, but the things that they are running away are previous, you know, they are grave situations which are actually life-threatening. Nobody would want to live here and say, well, I want to live in somebody's home for the next whatever years, you know. So some people are fleeing war, some people are fleeing political persecution, religious persecution. There's a plethora of reasons why people come here. Definitely not for the €38 that they get weekly. I mean, that's way less than what a person will be getting wherever they live. And remember, again, nobody wants to live their home. Home, no matter how poor it is, is home. It brings comfort and so on, you know. There's a lot of problems in this country, at the same time, maybe we take for granted the country in which we live in the freedoms that we have, the opportunities that we have. Do you think that maybe, for a lot of people, they don't actually fully understand what is actually happening in other areas? Like, for an example, the situation in the Ukraine caused an awful lot of hostility, civil war, violence in parts of Africa, for an example, that people don't really see what's going on outside of just whatever sky news or BBC news present them, that rush of activities in other parts of the world, and that, you know, there are an awful lot of areas that are very, very unsafe to live in. Yes, I suppose, again, perhaps that's an area which civic society can actually play in educating people about what's going on around the world. People don't really come here because they feel like going on a holiday. It's difficult. It's very difficult being away from home. And some people have been here for longer than 20 years. I mean, that's not fun to be away from your family and friends in that. Some people have no choice, really. They've got nowhere else to go. They are stateless, you know. So, yes, people need to be educated about what's going on in Southern Africa, what's going on in South America, what's going on in Somalia, Sudan. There is war all over the world. And not only that. Yeah, everywhere. Yeah, but they should also be educated to a point where they can actually take action and help civic organizations to make a change in those countries so that people don't... That's the only way you can stem the flow of people coming here is by actually taking part in political activities that are social change activities in other countries, you know. Bilime, in terms of the demographic of the international protection applicants, what we see majority is younger fellas, right? Yes. I mean, they're not necessarily are they under more threat than the women and children. Is it that they come or not here or go to any country with a view to establishing a base so they can be joined by their family, by their partners, or their mother or their father? You know, why is it the majority of international protection applicants are men? I don't know if that is true. I don't know if that is true. And if it were true, I suppose the younger you are, the more able you can be able to... But is it with a view to trying to find somewhere safe for your family? Like, is it likely that a lot of these applicants have successful in getting residency here would want to be joined by their families or... Not necessarily. If you are fleeing war or if you are fleeing persecution of any sorts, you just look for a place where you can find refuge. Okay. You don't think of, okay, I'll go first and then my family will follow. There's no logic in that when you're... No, I only ask... The only reason I ask is because I'm trying to sort of... No, not at all. I think that's the perception that is mostly perpetrated by people that assume that people are here to siphon the social welfare system or that. People are running away from danger. People are running away from possible death. So when you run away... In fact, if I were to give you an example, there are refugees in Congo. There are refugees in Kenya. There are refugees in poor countries. They are not all refugees run away to areas where countries are rich. Yes, yes. Yes. So that's exactly my point, that people are running away from danger, from any sort of danger. Wherever they go, where they can find it. Yeah, I wasn't suggesting... And the reason why they are is because they are able to run away. All people probably would not have the capacity to do so. I know, I understand that, but I would also find it hard to leave my family behind me, you know what I mean. So I'm not... I wasn't questioning it in a negative way, but I would struggle to leave my family behind me and travel to another country. So it was an honest question, like, is that the plan, not because of money or whatever, for opportunity and safety? Yeah, but the younger you are, the more opportunities you probably will have. You have... Some people have to walk in actual fact to be able to run away from situations. Yeah. So ordinarily, you'll find younger people because they've got nothing to lose from living anyway, you know. So the demographic, if that is true anyway, that you've got young people and so on. I also think that the reason why people have got that perception that it's young people mostly is because you've got young people that are grouped into certain houses. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So then you find them in one house. But, you know, you've got all sorts of democracies. You've got all people coming here. You've got, you know, young people and so on. Good stuff. That's why we're chatting to get different points of views and perspectives. You believe that there is room that it shouldn't go on to tense. You believe there is available space around the country that the government should be looking at? Well, yes. I do believe that for instance, there are certain rural towns that have got a high incidence of free rooms and that. But again, I'm not a specialist in terms of rural housing or housing for asylum seekers. What I'm saying is that the government should live in proactive in sort of sorting this out. As early as 2018, they've been aware that these high volumes of asylum seekers and then that accommodation is full. And they've done nothing about it since that time. And like you said again, they've got the resources to actually sort this out. They do have the resources. And I suppose the fact that they also have got an obligation to provide that. If you have signed up for something, then the logical thing is to provide the accommodation. You know, yeah. Sorry, dropped something there. So what do you say then to people that say, yes, okay, I'm not against immigration, but we should look after the Irish people first. Well, you should look after all people. That's the right thing to do. If the Irish people were out there in the cold and they didn't have housing, I would feel obliged that I should protest as well. I should say something about it. You know, like I'm not coming from an opinion-based as such because I want to hear your opinion. But I do read and I do find statistics are incredibly important. And it is very important to note. That for generations, we have had homeless people. We've had a shortage of accommodation. We've won in seven children in poverty in this country. It's probably much higher here in Donegal. A lot of these problems are historic. And it's actually, if you were in government, you go, right, this is great. Because now it's not the government that's getting the hassle. It's the immigrants that are getting the hassle. But we had all of these problems pre-Ukraine, pre the numbers of international protection. So I don't buy that argument. And that's why I come back to the cultural thing, where the people are afraid of the cultural changing. Because as I say, anyone who knows knows that we've always had these problems. So you say that the world is going to change anyway. So if someone says to you, like, we want our Irish culture, we want Ireland for the Irish, we want Ireland to remain the way it is, you're saying, forget about that, not disrespectfully or argumentally. But you'll say, forget about that. Things are going to change anyway, and they're going to change all across the world. No, no, no, no, no. Or what are you saying? No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. There is an important, it's important to respect the Irish culture. It's important to respect any culture. But culture can exist, they can all exist in one space. Yes, they can coexist in one space. There is no need for anybody to be afraid that their culture is going to be lost. But again, the government has to play a part in this. Civic society has to play a part in this. You have to create systems that actually protect culture. And again, I do not feel that the presence of an asylum seeker next door has got any effect on your culture. How? People can practice their culture and still coexist. It reminds me of an old, I don't know if you're familiar with the band Public Enemy, but they had a very interesting song on all of them. And it was effectively about fear, you know, and fear of change, okay. Anything that you want to add, Blume, I hope you don't think I've, I'm coming across as anti-anything. I'm not, I just really, as I say, and I'm sorry to reiterate this, I just think talking is so important, you see, you know. And I could try and hide away from phrasing certain questions towards you for fear of offending you. I don't think there's any benefit in that. I think we have to have respectful open conversations and it's really interesting to hear from your perspective, you know, the attitudes, whether people like it or not, but they're hearing the words from your mouth. Yeah, I think, well, it's a good platform to sort of start these conversations and I agree with you that we need to have this kind of dialogue, you know. There is no need for people to be afraid of each other. In fact, in most of my association with Irish people, I mean, we sit down and talk about these things. And honestly, we get to a point where we realize there's nothing to be afraid of. Sometimes you also realize that there's a need to put pressure on the government, to do something, to find social projects, to find community projects that can actually help people to come together and realize that there's nothing to be afraid of, you know. It's kind of strange too, balloon mate, that we're revisiting this conversation when we are now because I kind of, I really feel sorry for, you know, there's a huge population of second generation immigrants in this country, you know, young black kids, young Muslim kids in schools, children of colour who were born here for 15, 16, 17 years of age now. You know, the parents might work down in the hospital or somewhere else and they're being looked at as if they just came into the country yesterday. It must be really tough. It must be really tough to have, at this stage of your life, all of a sudden feel like, well, why are people conversing about whether they should be here or not? That's true. You know, because there is... Yeah. You know, and I just wonder if those people have a voice as life changed for those young people, our nurses who were in the hospital for the last 15 years, all of a sudden getting sideways looks, walking down the streets of letter, Kenny, do you know what I mean? Because people think, oh, have you just come in on a bus? Yeah, most immigrants that are here find a source of income. They work hard. They contribute to Irish society in one way or another. They go to school and try to educate themselves about the Irish culture and Irish ways, and they get a job and they work. They contribute to the tech system, you know? So really, at the end of the day, I think maybe we need to get to a point where we learn something from each other without really talking about the government and civic society. Whenever we meet, we need to talk and realize and find common ground. There is a lot we can learn from each other. There is, and you know, there's not a great deal of logic if we weren't in this situation. We were just in the street and I blamed you for me not having a house. Yeah. You know, I don't know how you've probably, I don't know how long you've been living here, but do you know what I mean? It's not, you don't provide the house, you don't take the house from me. There is a very well funded organization, i.e. the state, that their duty is to provide both of us a house. So why should I fall out with you? Because that's true. That's so true. I'm not on a very basic level now, as I say, you know, I'm not all woke and everything's rose in the garden. Every day for me is a learning day, and my opinions are always changing and moving and what have you, but I do believe in statistics, I believe in history. And I believe that also you need to direct your anger in the right directions as well. What's the anger? I mean, your drive and your motivation. Yes. So the pressure should be put on the government really at this point, to try and provide housing, so that there's no conflict between, you know, communities. And that will be sorted easily. Finally. Finally, COP28 is ongoing at the moment. They've created a fund. We're contributing it to sort of, you know, what the West, the damage it is doing to countries and other parts of the world. Do you believe the West should be doing more, or, you know, Europe should be doing more to make areas in Africa and Asia or wherever they might be, more hospitable, more peaceful, like in other words, I presume you said most people would like to stay where they are. But the way the world is going, people have been driven from their homes effectively by the action of a small group of other countries. Do you think we need to be also at the same time doing more to make people's home countries more hospitable, more prosperous, more safe? Oh, yes. I had this conversation with my manager just recently, and I was saying to him the same thing you are suggesting now that, you know, in the 80s, independence in South Africa was won by people all over the world. There were protests in London to free Nelson Mandela. There were protests everywhere so that there was liberation in Africa. The same thing should be happening. Instead of chasing away asylum seekers, you should be saying, how can we help you so that you solve the problems that you have at home? It will take a long time to solve, but that's the only way you can be able to sort of stem these influx of immigrants moving into the so-called rich areas. Take part in civic activity to change things. And another thing just to make that point too, and it's very, very clear, and if you look at some of the documentation from Russia and what have you, it is very clear that Vladimir Putin, whether you love him or love him, most people love him, of course, is that part of his strategy was to cause unrest by driving Ukrainians into other countries. Yes. I mean, that was his strategy. And then he says, if we keep enough of these people out of Ukraine in other countries, within all of a sudden, the support of the West will start to wobble because we start having the conversations here. So displacement of people is actually now a tool of war. That's very true. And in actual fact, if you go to a point where negotiations could take place in some situations, sometimes war is preventable with the support of everybody else. But there will be instances where you will have situations where people are driven out of a country by situations that you can't control, like climate change. And that is not just going to affect Africa or a certain poor country. It's going to affect every part of the world. Ireland itself might have that kind of problem. And if they were to move themselves, will they accept the same reception? You know? Well, many of us have moved. And when I talk about how so many of us have moved to England, to Dubai, to Australia, to America, people automatically come back and go, yes, but we go over there and work. But you know, even immigrants here, if you go to accommodation centers, at this moment, you probably will not find anybody there because all of them are going to look for work or they're all employed, you know? So there are not people that are here really to come and scare anyone or to hurt anyone. If you listen to their stories, you'll realize that there are people that are here to contribute. There are people that are here to start a new life. There are people that have run away from a certain situation. If they were comfortable, they will not be here, you know? Yeah. All right. Listen, it's been an interesting conversation, Billume. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for calling up. We'll keep the lines of communication open. I think it's always good to talk and hear different views and stuff. But for now, Billume Dubey, community links officer for Donegal intercultural platform. Thank you so much for your time. It's a pleasure. Thank you very much. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com. At PTSB, we know our customers' needs are evolving. So we're evolving too, by bringing the best of technology and people together. Every interaction, every innovation and every connection is built upon a better understanding of you. And it all comes together to create a banking experience that's all together more human. PTSB, all together more human. Permanence TSB peels you trading as PTSB is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. 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It'd be interesting to hear from you too. 08, 6, 60, 25,000, like did you listen to that and go well maybe I don't think like that anymore or I do think or maybe I think like that more now. Interesting, just would be interesting as a sort of a bit of a social study to see those types of conversations which will always have, you know, do impact people in any meaningful way or are we now so enshrined in our opinions or entrenched in our opinions that it doesn't really matter what anyone says anymore. If the persecution, sorry, if the persecution in these countries is as bad as these illegals say, why isn't the EU sending an invasion force to remind the various regimes? The truth is, Greg, they're coming here for the money and their presence is no help to those who are genuine like the Ukrainians, they call or say. Ask your guest why this is in some cases the fifth country they've landed in. Another, the sense of entitlement of that gentleman is beyond belief coming here and dictating to us about not giving them enough. Most people I know are more than generous in trying to give as much as they can afford. Can't understand how we're considered a rich country. I'm working all my life and I'm not rich, but I contribute what I can. But your way of life, but our way of life, our freedom contributed to a quite happy lifestyle. Good morning, Greg. Asked that man what country he landed in, Europe, and before flying into Ireland. I'm not sure how long he's been here for probably a long time. Let every other country look after itself. We've enough to look after our own and can't even do this. But I will say, just for the conversation, a lot of the looking after in this country is done by people from other countries. That is just the way it is. So what are you saying? That if we are going to look after ourself, do we clear everybody out? And who works in all the jobs that immigrants do? In this country? Or do you say, you want your k-knee to say right? Well, we'll keep in the ones now that are there useful and get rid of the ones I don't like. You know, what does that mean? When you say, when someone says, let every other country look after ourselves, we've enough to look after our own and can't even do this. So what do you, so are you saying anyone who is not originally from here goes? And if that happens, the health system collapses. So what do we do then? I'm just, as they say, I'm not expressing a point of view. It's a counterpoint to that just to make us think or not think. Hi, it makes sense. Sorry, that's a different one there. All right, Greg, people are not against immigration. What they are starting to object to is the unlimited number of people where we have no place to put them, which is ridiculous. Another problem is, as this gentleman said, it's an inept government policy. Irish people have always been very generous, but we always try to help people. Good morning, Greg. These people are guests in our country and want us to change it to suit. Imagine calling around to that man's house and start changing his house decor. He wouldn't allow it. Another, good morning, Greg. Will you tell that man that the government's first obligation is to its people? Yet they put immigrants first. Now we're full. They are complaining about the government. The HSC are the people who have fill his up, fills up our land in no time. A bucket only holds so much water. It is the government's fault for letting too many in at the behest of the EU. Well, it's not the behest of the EU. This is something we voluntarily signed up for. The majority want immigration curbed. For God's sake, it's obvious we can't take and don't want anymore. We are being taken for mugs, believe this, Litzner. How's that, gentlemen? No blame for his own government. Our government can't make houses pop up like mushrooms. Our working population is meant to provide for all those driving into our country, as well as try and provide for our families. We can only help so many. Another I've registered two rooms in my house to help with this a number of months ago. I've got a return call to confirm my offer, but I've heard nothing since. Greg, why does the Irish government owe foreigners a home, whilst we have to pay for it all, says Litzner, and on it goes. Thank you very much for all of your comments. If you have a positive comment as well, too, please. I would appreciate you getting the phone out and sending it as well, just for balance. But maybe that is the majority view as well, which is the way it is. 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. The weather forecast around the corner. The sound of the keys to your new 241 Skoda waiting for you to collect in early 2024? 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Highest temperatures this afternoon, six or seven degrees, so a little bit more milder. High, it makes sense for on green on to be locked. Can you imagine someone slipping down the stone steps there would be a claim made for sure? Yeah, okay. Well, but where is the personal responsibility? Like, are we if we slip on a set of steps now? Is it someone else's fault? I mean, what about personal responsibility? But anyway, yesterday's mud slinging from Finnegell and an opposition party has got to be a signal to the people had desperate the art to hold on to power. Back to our conversation we had earlier this hour, which African country offers social welfare payments at the rates that we do. No, but always there's always something better than where you came from. There wouldn't be the anger out there if the government had housed the Irish homeless for us. This could have been done years ago, knowing what we know now we've we were told there was enough money, but all of a sudden, and it's really been all of a sudden, they housed over 100,000 in a matter of two years, Irish people have an anger against the government, not the people coming in, but when is enough enough? It's clearly the country can't continue this open door policy and even listen at the end of the day, the housing solution that we've employed, you talked about housing over 100,000. That's not a long term solution either. All of those people really would need to be put into a decent long term accommodation, wouldn't they? Because, you know, a hotel room one night with it with one child is tough. You wouldn't want to live in that situation, would you? Or maybe it's better than what you're fleeing and you've no sympathy at all. OK, back with news. 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Concerns have been raised that estates not yet taken over by Donegal County Council face a lengthy wait to access the effective concrete block grant scheme. Cancer Paul Canning says those homeowners are unable to obtain a compliance certificate needed to engage with the scheme. Israel's military says it has engaged in intensive battles in Gaza with its forces in the heart of the territory's second largest city. Hospitals say they've run out of floor space to treat people. Finn Harps and the latter Kenny regional sports activity hub are to share over 800,000 euro in funding. The money is announced today by Minister Katharine Martin will see over 326,000 euro going to the latter Kenny regional sports activity hub while Finn Harps will benefit from 693,550 euro. And a status shallow wind warning has been issued for Donegal today. Metairn says it will be very windy for a time today with south east winds gusting up to 100 kilometers per hour in some areas. Motorists are advised to expect difficult traveling conditions as a result and be unalert for fallen branches and weakened trees. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. Mikaela thank you very much indeed. The Department of Social Protection is working to improve disability payments in Ireland. There is currently a consultation on how these payments might work better in the future. We want to hear your views on how the system might be improved. To find out more please visit golf.ie forward slash disability payments reform. A government of Ireland initiative brought to you by the Department of Social Protection. Now I want to play a very special happy birthday request to Neil McHugh from Falkara. Neil is 94 this week and is a regular listener to the show. Neil thank you very much indeed. I hope you're keeping well Neil and it's great to have you listening to the program. I hope you had a lovely day yesterday and who's to say the celebrations won't last all week. But have a lovely day Neil. Have a lovely day Neil from all the family but especially all of us here at the 9th till noon show. We hope you had a wonderful wonderful day Neil and it's great to have you listening. Happy 18th birthday to Ella McBride in Kerry Keele from Granny and Granddad today. Happy 18th birthday again to you Ella in Kerry Keele. Have a lovely day this time from your mom dad Brian Clara Ashling and Cahar. Jimmy and Bill Glenn. Happy birthday to you from the McMenamums, the McCafferty's and the Fawns. It's great to have you all on board celebrating your birthdays today. Right last call today for you to nominate someone who you believe is very special to receive a fabulous hamper from Cabri. We've got one to give away today and one to give away tomorrow to a very special person in your life and then on Friday we have a 250 euro shop local voucher. 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Clerical staff is kind of a catch-all phrase you know and you know some might think oh well that's pen pushers or whatever you know yourself so I want people to have a true understanding of the work the important work the clerical staff do in the HSE in the various departments and how it's crucial to the running of the executive. Well I think that you're right in that that's the interpretation sometimes of the clerical lab men and the managerial grades that work behind the scenes we'll quite often hear about doctors and nurses and the pressures that they're under but if you even take Lecher Kenny University Hospital as an example we've got clerical and admin staff that vary from entry level grades three all the way up to management level and they cover your main switch board so if you ring the hospital looking to get through to award to talk about a family member or about your appointment or your x-ray there are all our clerical and admin staff that man those phones and deal with those queries from patients and families across Donegal and then you've got the ward carts on the wards that do your letter to your GP when you're being discharged or your result to a consultant all of those things are the admin and clerical background support that go on on a daily basis 24 hours a day to support the services across the HSE in our acute services and in our community services so the vital links in a chain it's like trying to ride a bicycle with four or five links in that chain missing it simply wouldn't work the chain will be just lying on the floor absolutely absolutely and there would be a crash okay let's let's we'll park my metaphor there that's all right Michelle so what is that what are our clerical staff your union members what are they actually looking for that that has led to this this protest and so we've currently got this moratorium on recruitment but actually started with clerical and admin grades and you may be aware that actually over recent weeks the HSE have extended that to most grades of staff within the HSE excluding some doctors and nursing graduates and and staff like that but across all of the grades within the HSE this moratorium is in place and the effect of the moratorium means that when staff leave for whatever reason be that retirement maternity leaves and be it promotional opportunities they are not being replaced at the moment and this is having a severe effect coming into the winter period on all our all our services both in the acute hospitals and in the community and just like one yeah go ahead no I want the example please Michelle yeah so I was just going to give you one example in that in Leicester Kenny University Hospital at the moment they have 20 plus vacancies of clerical and admin grades and these are critical posts that involve new service development posts, staff replacements, maternity leave cover and it has a knock-on effect both on the clinical staff who don't have their admin support as well as admin staff having to carry the work of vacant posts and the hospital switchboard staffing level at the moment is at a critical level and admin staff across the hospital are being asked to volunteer to cover those shifts to ensure that the switchboard is answered in LUH so that just gives an example of the pressures that the staff are under at the moment and it's part of the problem too that sometimes things are introduced as a temporary measure and then all of a sudden become the norm like we can go back years ago where people say for instance around 208, 209 you know where there was a freeze on pay increases for an example we've seen it with solicitors and on others and then you know 10, 15 years later those measures are still in place and people have lost out on an absolute fortune and career progression in the meantime is there a concern as well as other concerns as well that this is sort of trying to introduce a new norm? We would have a concern in the HSE back when the financial crash happened there was a moratorium in recruitment at that time that lasted the guts of 8 or 10 years without any kind of promotional opportunities for our clerical and admin members during that time so obviously we would have major concerns for the career progression of our members within the HSE and also we're coming out of a Covid crisis we are having to deal with a backlog from that and so the HSE are putting all sorts of measures in and dealing with their and you know pushing forward with launch care all of these new service developments that will be really beneficial to patients across the country but they needed to be they need to be resourced and staffed properly in order to work and pardon my ignorance from the outside looking in but if this is about budgets for an example and there's been much conversation about the HSE being underfunded if there is a supplementary budget atop of a bailout however you might describe it then these measures then should be reversed and if they're not reversed then it would point to a different motivation as I say that's an outside looking in interpretation is there any accuracy to that I I would agree that these measures would need to be reversed if there is some intervention from the minister and the department of health and further funding provided you know the the our clerical and admin grades and our grades across the HSE are not responsible for the overspend in the HSE you know for an example they had arguably the low hanging fruit they absolutely are and and it comes back to our very first point in our conversation in that the clerical and admin staff are very much underestimated and underappreciated in the provision of the services across the HSE well the protest that letter Kenny University Hospital gets underway at 1245 whether you realize it or not you probably have engaged with some of these staff as part of that sort of network at the hospital so you can go out and support them and give them a toot if that's what you're inclined to do and we'll see where it goes from here what's next by the way after this action Michelle this is is this only today that are Kenny other places tomorrow and then how do you ramp it up if you aren't successfully in your aims and yeah so we've got these lunchtime protests happening at various sites tomorrow to Wednesday today and tomorrow and then our strike committee that's part of our national health team in Dublin will actually meet to decide where we go from here any of the engagement that we've had through the WRC with the HSE have failed to address our concerns and even the ask of one person out so one person leaving one person that person being replaced at the moment is being refused by the HSE so our strike committee will actually meet after these demonstrations today and tomorrow and decide where we go from here all right have a lovely day Michelle thanks for your time Michelle Conakdon Forza Union official for this region here some of your comments here Greg I'm not a fan of Conor McGregor because I think the UFC stuff is too violent what I think he's really responsible for is all these young boys running around wearing suits with jackets that are too small for them maybe it wasn't them maybe it wasn't him but I have it in my head that it was him who started this trend well yeah I I think two definitely the checked jackets and stuff but you know what fair play to the young lean lads if I had the figure for it I'd probably bag on one of those jackets too it just simply don't have it anymore I'm like that there's a meme goes around of a dog lean against the wall don't google it the way politics is going throughout the world i.e. Trump becoming president and more recently in the Netherlands Gret Vilders who was voted in so the idea of McGregor heading for the RS doesn't surprise me but Giddy God can you imagine if he actually won maybe he'd get a surprise though people the one thing I'll say about the presidency what you'll see a lot of commentators on the X say is that well does he not realize that the presidency is there's no power to it well there actually is quite a lot of power the president has it's just it's not very it's not employed very often like the president's position is reasonably powerful you know to scrutinize legislation and what have you signing legislation it can be there there are powers that the president has that that can defer that or refer that so I don't think it's as powerless and ceremonial a position I think that's what it's been turned into but the president does have decent powers and I'm convinced if someone like him and I was poo pooed a little bit in this comment if someone like him comes forward an anti-establishment vote be it in a general election or a presidential election they will do very well because it'll be people that believe in them it'll be people that don't normally vote would say right this is change and it'll be a protest vote so if he actually did get the nomination and did run he would upset the apple card I'm not saying he'd win but trust he wouldn't get two or three percent morning Greg Sinn Fein aren't as revolutionary or ideological as their rhetoric implies and the track record installment reflects this and although the question is not if Sinn Fein was right in bringing forward the motion of no confidence in the justice minister they are the opposition they think they have to do this to look good for the people of this country but truth be told Sinn Fein is no better than the government of this country what did they say one time we're all in this together and the people know this Sinn Fein are not the Sinn Fein of yesterday they are they are in cahoots with the people who were on this country one hundred percent hi Greg Sinn Fein we're right to try and get rid of Helen McIntyre if children being stabbed in broad daylight can't do it anything nothing can there have been three other knife incidents since then also when it comes to Richard Boyd Barrett calling for interfather that means violence against Jews like suicide bombs in coffee shops that's hate speech and anti-Semitic and I did say it right at the top that that language under whatever the proposed hate speech laws certainly would have one toe in them in any case right I think this we were talking about the the we were talking about I can't remember the name the companies just escaped me about a skin cancer melanoma diagnostic tool which the HSC is funded and approved but is not being adopted in the Seattle hospital region this caller says so he wants the government to pay for a for a private service on this occasion I agree with the hospital it's not the hospital that are against it as such this is a Seattle situation but anyway why would they pay for a private service it would end the possibility of a public service ever returning is this not another private clinic so that they'll take away the public clinic they're not paying a new doctor to come in my dad got knee surgery done in Balli Kelly 23,000 pounds is what he paid got 17,000 pounds back they didn't change the currency at that time and that's why he wasn't fully reimbursed if you're a medical card you'll be unaware can I just give you a piece of advice by the way if you haven't resolved that situation yet would you please contact the ombudsman and and and file it with them make a complaint with them or or make representations to them just don't accept it if it was about they didn't change the currency and you douse out 6,000 pounds please at the very least not that it might do anything but please raise a case with the ombudsman this is something the that office is really really interested in but reading on here if you have a medical card you'll be on the waitlist for three or four years private health insurance and you're seen straight away my neighbour was on a three year waiting list for hospital she didn't pay because she 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responsibility and your advising parents caregivers to think to think strongly about whether or not they can go through with this 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 year 15 year commitment well that's it exactly I mean you said it's not just for Christmas and it is a big commitment a lot of dog breeds tend to live till like you said you know 12, 13 the smaller breeds live a lot longer and yes it's Christmas as well isn't a great time you know you're you're out you're visiting people you're partying you've got lots of guests coming over it's stressful for the you know the new dog all that sort of thing you need to be around more you need to it is a commitment you need to make sure that you're there to let if you get a puppy to let the puppy out you know if you re-home a dog you've got to you know you've got to be around a lot more and yeah and just think about it's a it's a big commitment it's um yeah think about what you're doing and all that sort of thing well let's talk about sort of the day-to-day commitment of dog ownership you know what a dog requires what kind of care it needs yeah of course so I mean it all depends on what age of dog as well so um I would never recommend leaving any dog all day so if you're doing you know a nine to six eight to six whatever job and you're away all day I don't think you know a dog is the right sort of pet for you um you know you need not just for toilet breaks for the dog the dog needs socialization you know they're sort of a pack animal they want to be with you they want to have a bit of contact with you and things like that if you're having a puppy if you're getting a puppy again they need to be let out every hour every couple of hours they need to have a play they need to have training all that sort of thing and then the older dogs they need the walks so you know they do need to get out have their sniff go to the toilet you know have a bit of exercise and that is very as well dependent on the breed that you treat and I imagine too that's important to stable behavior that energies burn tough but you know there is that bit of socializing things that are normal because you know we often say you know say for instance if a dog snaps or bites or something like that there there's often contributing reasons for that as well too you know I mean we always blame the dogs I think you know us humans have a role to play as well Oh 100% 100% there's always there's always a reason behind everything and a lot of the working breeds so your your colleagues your pointers your cock espagnols you know they need a job and whether that's just going for a nice walk and having their sniff and getting the ball and things if they don't do that their mental stimulation they start finding things you know chewing things up you know and we get cross with them but it's because they're not getting enough mental stimulation not just physical you know running about and like you said with the snapping and things there'll be cues in behavior that has led to that it won't just be the dog randomly snaps there'll be cues that we're missing and yeah it's a lot of a lot of exercise and mental stimulation will help all of that as well they used to say that sorry no is often a much harder work as well and I think too I don't think so we kind of talk about the responsibility and the commitment to a dog but also too we have to think of a young person you know seven or 10 or 13 or whatever that the idea of something and no matter how much they tell you what they might do and how they might care for themselves oh I know quite soon after that depending on the child and like dogs were all different right but you know very soon that novelty can wear off and it is mom and dad granny and grandad that end up having to pick up the pieces there not just the practical stuff but actually the socialization the playing the walking and stuff because you know young ones can change their minds really quite quickly and move on to the next exciting thing yeah so I mean it has to be the adult decision that has to be you know do you want a dog not just if you're six or seven you are once the dog you know do you want all of the taking it out lasting at night for the toilet taking it for walks and like you said we unfortunately have a lot of people not a lot but a few people come into the clinic where their dogs have sort of anxiety you know that lot of COVID puppies a lot of you know people got dogs in lockdown and then because of the situation we couldn't socialize them so it's all about that as well you know it's um yeah if the adult is prepared to take on the dog for 10 to 12 you know years or longer then that's great but um yes I'm sure you know kids they move on to the next thing don't they yeah for sure and two years from like 11 to 13 like a a bloomin' lifetime and also two you know each dog has its own personality and it has to fit in as well so I'd say there's people you know you do see sometimes people post we need to find a home for this dog because it's too lively for us or it's too you know what I mean so the dog brings a personality into a home as well that you have to factor and it might not be exactly all the the better roses that you anticipated it might be no exactly and that was like going back to the breed you know looking doing a bit of research you know having a google seat asking your vet for example what breed do you think would suit I've got young children you know I don't want to I don't like mud I don't want a dog you know maybe a big labrador wouldn't be for you then you know things like that you know asking about the breed but I mean a dog is a wonderful pet I don't want to put people off getting a dog it's just having a having a good think about it and also I mean we've got so many rescue centres over the county that are inundated with dogs mother full though Catherine so I mean it's up to people what they do individually but you'd have to sort of morally say that you know if you have our dog homes full of dogs to go and sort of source another one and bring it into the county as well as I say I'm not judging people it's up to people what they do and all but if you're a real dog lover would you not sort of look to a rescue dog first maybe not guilty anyone and I feel bad saying no not at all no exactly I completely understand both sides but that's you know that's what I was saying you know we deal a lot with them a lot of charities I might I do think they they don't like to re-home at this time of year because of the the Christmas you know getting a dog for Christmas but definitely chat to the charities I know there's a big one in Derry that's having to close one of its kennels so a lot of dogs need re-homing there so I mean have a you know have a chat to your local charity and then you can go and meet the dogs and see and there's a lot of dogs that just you know unfortunate circumstances it might be that they're a beautiful lovely dog but their owners have to move out of rented accommodation or something like that so definitely chat to your local dog charities and um I would definitely go down that route and see but I understand both sides if people you know the puppy situation I understand both sides of the story but the puppy doesn't last long is there an argument to sort of saying it's a little bit like you know trying to give up cigarettes or lose weight on the 1st of January to wait a couple of months so if if the big pushes on for Christmas we'll leave that decision to February April and then see oh definitely see if it's still yeah exactly even if you do because even a couple of months because as well as that too like even the freedom you might have you know in terms of heading away for the day going on holidays heading around to visit people you even if you have a dog you can have and the expense you can as you say I don't think either of us are trying to put anyone off but like you are taking on a real significant responsibility if you like your freedom of movement and stuff I know 100% it's um you know you won't be able to just drop and go you know to kill their village for the day you need to have somebody lined up either family or a good dog kennels you know just do a bit of research and like we said we're not putting anyone off but we want to try and minimize the dogs that go back into these rescue centres so we want people to be aware of what they're taking on and going back to the puppy yes a puppy is only a puppy for you know a few months but they're blooming lively I can tell you so as long as you're prepared for that as well and we've we've got a young dog that we rescued in Christ it's um my other dog is eight and she's she's very calm compared to this pup so I'll tell you it's um yes it's very different getting a puppy to a mature dog that's for sure let's see whilst I have you and I won't hold you much longer but a few questions of people who I'm not saying they're regretting the decisions but why does my dog pee when it sees new people do you know now it can be one of two things it can be excitement so if it's a young dog and it's a really sociable dog you know excitement of any form so you know running jumping up wagging their tail like oh so it's like to see if they can let out a little bit of wee and that can be because they're so excited and that can be just a young dog controlling its bladder not going to happen to the best of us it can also be nervousness so really try and assess the body's the dog's body language so is the dog rushing up to the people really excited and having a little dribble of wee then I wouldn't be too concerned about that if the dog is cowering and is you know tailing through its legs and then let's out a little bit of wee that could be more sort of fear nervousness submissiveness you know if they show their belly it can be showing to a if imagine they're a pack situation that shows I'm at my most vulnerable and I'm nervous so just assessing the body language and then obviously if it's an older dog you know maybe think is there any problem there is it is it incontinent is it you know so there's a few things I'd say if it's an excitement thing it's just yeah pure excitement in the young dog my dog doesn't like it when I show physical affection to other people like a hug or a kiss she barks like crazy what's this about now if this is a long-term partner there is quite a strange whole procedure one has to go through to try and acclimatize the dog to the situation like your partner kissing the dog for an example and showing affection to it but if it's everyone I'd say this person secretly loves it but obviously it's not great if you want to hug and kiss other people but what do you do the dog barks like crazy it's jelly yeah it is exactly it's just jealous it could be jealousy it could be if the dog depends what breed it is if it's protective of its owner it could be doesn't know that you're hugging I mean dogs don't hug so it might be that they're worried that that person is getting within their person's boundaries and they're a bit concerned I mean setting up situations where you've got a friend that's happy with dogs you know getting treats if the dog is like food positive reinforcement I'm all about positive reinforcement rather than no and telling them off it's all about oh well done you didn't bark here's a treat you know just setting up the situations in a calm environment where you can maybe do a little bit of physical touch to someone so hold their hand or pat them on the back and then if the dog doesn't bark oh good boy and give them a treat that sort of thing to gradually build up rather than in a big crowd you're hugging everyone the dog is stressed out of its mind I think gradually, gradually yeah another call says my dog scratches all the doors and floors they believe it's looking for attention how do I stop this it depends when they're doing it if they're doing it when you're there and sitting watching Kelly and they're just doing it then that's sort of more of a behavioural thing and but if they're doing it when you're not there it's probably anxiety you know being left left alone so if when they all leave the house the dog is scratching the floor scratching the doors it could be a like we said before that it's not mentally stimulated enough or it's sort of anxious being left on its own so things you can do is leave the radio on leave the tele on and you can get lots of these special toys that you can put food in so these special treat balls or a lick mat where you can put a little bit of the dog's wet food on a mat and they can lick it just to sort of entertain them you can even get these clever little puzzle boards for some of the clever colleagues where they have to push it all around and get the treats out just again a bit of mental stimulation if you're not there make them a bit more happy last one and not a pleasant note my dog does terribly smelly wind how can I stop this presumably it's diet related exactly yeah a lot of it can be diet related so dogs can get sort of irritable bowel and things from their food a lot of the time if the dog is really happy and is in good form but has upset tummy so diarrhea or smelly smelly you know wind then it just look at the food so sometimes the food we're buying it might not not agree with that dog so look at changing to maybe a sensitive or either ask your vet or ask your local pet shop my dog's you know a bit sensitive can we try a different food or something like that is it dogs chew grass too don't they is that to a digestion or is it something else maybe that's enough I mean it can be so no no my dog she will eat grass in when she's in 100% form so she loves the long grass so they don't self medicate with it no they don't self medicate with the grass I think she's doing that my dog for extra fiber it's not because she wants to be sick but then some dogs do do it to help make them sick so it's just again gauge is your dog actually under the weather is she poorly is she looking to be sick or is she out on a walk happy as Larry wagging her tail and just munching a bit of grass here and there so yes it can be both things really right two quickies then I have a six month old Labrador she chews her bed and blankets how do I stop that and how well when do I stop it sorry when do I stop it unfortunately Labrador's just love to chew things again maybe if she's six months old so she's probably still teasing so maybe getting her things that are suitable to chew so getting the safe sort of choosing the pet shop these rubber Kongs that she can't destroy all those sorts of things hopefully she will grow out of it a little bit but food Labrador's love food so if she could stuff a treat ball full of food and when she's doing it is she doing it when they're not there is she doing it just in general but yeah it's probably just a young dog thing that hopefully she'll grow out of and very lastly what does it what does it mean when a dog licks your face dog licks for lots of different reasons so it could be that you've got something yummy around your face you know ice cream or or residues of food um it is a sign of affection as well um and it's very affectionate to their genitals and stuff as well though that's yeah you wouldn't want to be the second no licker I'll probably say what I was going to say we're going to go on yeah we'll gloss over that um yeah they're just being affectionate they're showing their love and exploring you aren't they I mean they're exploring I mean toddlers do they don't have you know exactly they don't have hands and things that's how they that's how they explore things exactly all right and on that note Catherine thank you so much for your time sorry but I didn't realize we were going to get the questions in but people wanted to ask and you answered expertly thank you so very much indeed Catherine take care bye bye Catherine Macaloon of the Blue Stack Veterinary Clinic in Ballet Buffet okay and whilst we were listening to that we were watching little doggies and puppies playing on the beach and the grass so lovely Chris Ashmore is not in with us today but I want to let you know that his guest on business matters this week is Kulkarmann Barry Doherty who is chief executive officer of Duncan Eley based CMB Agri Enterprise Limited it's a very very interesting business with considerable potential the firm uses seaweed and fish extracts to manufacture a natural sustainable product known as biostimulant which can be used on crops to boost growth and quality it describes the biostimulant as a multi-vitamin for crops the potential market is vast and earlier this year as explained to Chris a major multinational Japanese company took a stake in the Donegal company is now engaged in considerable research and development with numerous with numerous trials in January this year we took on an investor into the business Japanese conglomerate really Mitsui and Co they're called they're a big massive company in Japan they employ about 44,000 people 110 billion euro turnover so they're big players they're in all different markets but they're also in the nutrition market and they really now have been just past 12 months moving our R&D work you know from where we could only really afford to do one or two trials per year at the moment we would have 37 different trials going on in 17 different countries at the moment on all different plants from almonds to strawberries to wheat and barley and then in Japan to all different types of lettuce that they grow over there so yeah it's very exciting with them the results that are coming through are fascinating and it's shown very encouraging signs for for for good growth over the next you know five to ten years and just to let you know that you can listen to that interview on full in full right now on our website highlandridio.com it's the latest edition of the business matters podcast and it's also going 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you good morning and thanks for joining us good morning Greg morning Greg Herbert I might start with you I mean you know your recollections on that day I mean we don't have time to go through it now but I'm sure it's as if it were yesterday for you still exactly exactly you just read it yesterday I spoke to you it's past 10th of August and I just didn't think I didn't have ideas for the evening I say it yeah Robert you were listening and Herbert you were listening to Micheal Martin's comments this week about the killing of Donagall man Michael Leonard he was 24 years old when he was shot dead in 1973 by the RUC near the Donagall-Fermanagh border I suppose at looking at what Micheal Martin commented on this week Robert and then sort of learning from your experiences with the the the killing of Henry what was your emotions listening to Micheal Martin I was listening to your news yesterday morning I couldn't believe it and no disrespect to the family that was involved and the same time as Henry's but I met Micheal Martin in 2009 up and up and up and double him and he hasn't brought our case up and I've discovered listening to your thing he's brought this other case up several times now what's his problem why Henry was only a young 16 coming from the world and this doesn't go away you know yeah do you feel Robert that Henry's been forgotten Henry was forgotten even when it happened in 1973 we know now that the moderator of the Presbyterian church and I resumed with news the next day that who done it yet now our Mullenfeller went to the graves not being told why was that happened why did that have to happen why didn't it come forward and sit there with Mullenfeller who done it and and how about you're feeling this too of course being there in the day and sharing the same parents as you can imagine you have the same emotions as as Robert has as it relates to you know yeah yeah my boys made me a greatest because I had about a cancer I spent 10 months when I came there and my voice box was going to go on but you know what I mean but you'll still hear me loud and clear Robert loud and clear yeah good man no I'd never go the way you know it's here every day and really what's really hard for the card they're not nobody seems to think I know a lot of kids and I'm not going against that there's a lot of kids have been mentioned but Henry has forgotten about which is very sad for you that's very sad very young it could go on but that's very sad thank you thank you he was working we were down there four or five months working they walked from up on John Tyler the same graduate McDonald's from Delphine and they worked on items he wasn't going to ask if we were down to the ground normally but we normally we never thought anything else we went so we were walking there but thank you but five months lovely summer evening come up a motorway the motorway running on down on that below the footpath if I can fly over at the footpath at that time yeah they found a path when they went down to the bottom they found change at that time yeah after years ago then you had to go turn up the array up there and they all had to go to Castle Dawson but we went on to Wiena Road that's where we were working down in Glen Garmin at the time and every termination of people was working on people's work it got Catholic persons churchwilder and others nobody bothered about that there but we were targeted for something we never got no warnings or any grade or that's just it now that's just it we walked up and down the wound on 1969 or 70 we were going to go over here we were besaid as a bodyguard the boys that day the people were distracting and we every day nobody bothered them and they bothered nobody and we ended up about fast and that's what happened there Robert if you could speak to if you could speak to Micheal Martin now or any representatives of the government what would you say to them I would say but first of all I'm going to say to you now as I want to before I go forget this I want to thank John McIntyre who first highlighted our case being when we started looking about when I found out who it was it I also would like to thank Podrick McLaughlin who was the only politician that came to my house and I met Martin McGinnis down in the valley the day I met Neil Martin and Martin McGinnis came over to me and he shook my hand and told me I was a brave man and he brought the case up with Tony Blair but that's as far as that went and if I met me and Martin now I would be saying tell them the Irish government 50 years ago were cowards and I say today they're still cowards and they're certainly not to be trusted okay Robert Cunningham Herbert I spoke to you before Robert I think that's my first time speaking to you Herbert hopefully you're you're on the road to recovery both of you thank you very much indeed and strong words heard loudly I'm sure thank you yeah thank you very much take care Robert and Herbert Cunningham there open seven days 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december in lettercanny see shoplk.ie or like us on facebook okay let's have a look at that weather forecast then this afternoon will be windy with rain turning persistent and heavy highest afternoon temperatures of 7 or 11 degrees 7 to 11 degrees with fresh to strong and gusty south easterly winds tonight early tonight will be wet and windy with fresh to strong and gusty south easterly winds the rain and strong winds will clear from most places overnight will persist the further east you go highest temperatures of 5 to 8 degrees we had a wonderful wonderful response to our competition in association with cabri so many of you nominating special people in your lives it's the kind of competition you don't want to pick winners or you do want to pick winners but it doesn't feel right because we've we we heard some amazing stories of people and it would warm your heart and i wish every all of you could read all of the the stories that we have had right okay so here's today's winner i'm just texting in for the competition to win a cabri bar of chocolate but it's actually the person that you're nominating is for today and tomorrow is winning a lovely hamper the person i think deserved this is my granddad gym my granddad gym he had a rough year with breaking his hip and started to attend dialysis in letterkenny hospital three times a week he praises the staff and is so thankful for this service they do for him granddad plays a big part in our lives we're so lucky if i win i believe the prize is a hamper but instead i'd like if this went to the staff of the dialysis units in letterkenny for all the hard work they do for granddad so the winner of this beautiful hamper today is the staff at the dialysis center dialysis unit in letterkenny and hopefully they'll keep a few bits side to one side for granddad gym when he's in he's in three times a week and praises the staff and the service that they provide for him so we've got a lovely cabri hamper and it's a beauty heading down to the dialysis unit in letterkenny university hospital as a big thank you for all the hard work they do and as i say hopefully they sneak a bit for granddad as well okay listen thank you carl for sending that in and we'll make that happen and we're going to have another opportunity for you to win for someone you nominate to win a hamper from cabri tomorrow and then we have a 250 euro voucher then on friday so it's all very exciting isn't it but as i say it would warm the heart reading some of the wonderful stories we were talking about buying a pet for christmas or adopting a pet this is one listener's experience i have a friend on a farm they tried to adopt a dog and they were turned away they were told it wasn't a birthday present the sister then ran the husband did too they were turned down they had a house and a farm they couldn't adopt they had to buy lots of paperwork involved they offered them a hamster instead what good's a hamster ask this lady why it's so hard to adopt a dog and i have asked other people that in the past and those responsible for re-homing dogs and they take into account a whole plethora of things and they have to ensure that where the dog is going it's good for the dog i'm sure your place was as well but for whatever reason for whatever reason you weren't successful being irish in my opinion is a mentality of community work to make life better for us all not based on colour the biggest fear is extreme religious views islam that may come into our country and forced upon us by force by weight of numbers example sharia law but that is like worrying i mean people go well climate change isn't real nothing's happening there but they think like islam's gonna take over Ireland and we're gonna live under sharia law you know i mean is that realistic good morning greg ask your guest what an irish person would get in south africa what are the benefits like greg you portray irish natives bad and refugees is good not at all i literally having a conversation where i was putting across some of the stuff that you read and hear to have a conversation putting it to that person now ice irish are the best nation in the world we're the best nation in the world i'm not saying anything other than for a second and we are so generous and we're so welcoming and we're so giving we're one of the biggest givers and in donningall we're some of the biggest givers and we are doing more than our fair share more than any other county to host and welcome people so i'm not suggesting that for a second it was trying to have a conversation where all the cards were on the table and all viewpoints were covered and responded to he is incorrect about how to stop the influx the only way is to close our borders like we should have done a long time ago and other nothing to be afraid of tell that to the people stabbed last stabbed last week the families of the two irish beheaded in slago last year the family of ashley murphy and i get exactly what you're saying of course but i could list off very unfortunately and people i know who were brutally brutally murdered by people here as well so listen i'm not saying you're wrong or right i'm just saying that it's not like we'd all be perfectly safe just go down to the courthouse and see who's landing in there for the various things that are going on as well it's a mix i'll tell you that plenty of locals okay that's it we're going to see you tomorrow morning at nine stay tuned