 90s you mean like our heart and stuff like that and yeah, no wouldn't be for me that I don't read I like dance music, but the dance music in the 90s wouldn't like that the naughties was great for dancey stuff and that But 90s was weak enough that we're gonna have to come back to that Podcast What days tomorrow Friday pick up a tune of the 90s that is like all the tune of the 90s. I'll try okay leave it with me All right, that's Lee Gooch away. He said his challenges. He's away now To pick his song of the 80s. He'll do that tomorrow, too. I bet you but let's focus on today And let's get a news update at 11 o'clock and it's over to you. Makayla Clark Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Donegal County Council's housing committee has been told that the authority must look at acquiring some larger properties To meet the need that exists in the county the call came from councillor Jeremy Monaghal He told members that there are many larger families on the council's housing list Who will not be catered for under the council's current building policy Counter-McMonaghal says if the authorities current plans do not include the construction of larger homes and the council must look at buying them We have to use every avenue that's open this and if there's turnkey projects and we're dealing with developers who are building The these turnkey projects then we need to ensure that there is four and possibly five beds Included in them turnkeys. There is a great need for it. There has been for quite a few years now And I'm just about dismayed that we're not building more for Five bed houses and if we aren't going to build then I think we need to be purchasing them a new 25 million euro investment We'll see over it hundred and fifty new nursing posts created in Irish hospitals this year The plans are being unveiled by the health minister today in an effort to alleviate the overcrowding crisis Irish nurses and midwives organization, which is holding its annual conference this week has repeatedly warned of the danger It poses to both patients and staff Minister Stephen Donnelly says he wants to build on the record recruitment in the last three years But Labour's health spokesperson Duncan Smith isn't convinced this government and indeed this minister have a track record of Announcing funding for additional staff or additional resources, but never actually meet their targets So whilst we would love to see many more nurses hired into our health service and ensuring that we have safe work spaces There's very little faith that the minister has a plan to actually follow through and deliver this Western Eagle Concert believes footage of a legal dumper should be posted on social media as a deterrent It's after rubbish including a chair a strimmer and a children's push track were discovered discarded at close to Mockish Grotto Counter Michael McLaughley previously called for CCTV cameras to be installed at flight tipping hotspots He says those responsible need to be called out I do feel like I've asked for before we're going to have to go down the road of cameras and just catch these culprits because Catching them and finding them and and possibly as well with you that going further than that Putting the recordings up on social media might not be a bad idea to act as a deterrent to stop the rubbish dumping Whether or not some sunny spells with dry conditions today High Averett will become Clyde here with outbreaks of rain let later and highest temperatures of 11 to 14 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 Supervalue makes saving money as easy as one two three one We match Aldi and the products you love to great special offers like water wipe sensitive newborn nine pack only 16 euro exclusive to real rewards members only and three money off vouchers every week on the app So follow the one two three and save money at Supervalue season C's apply The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the nine to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio Hello, good morning to you four minutes past nine on this Thursday the fourth of May 2023 Good morning is to say how are you doing? I hope you're very well indeed and you're very welcome along to another show where hopefully we'll keep you informed and entertained over the next three hours lots coming up on the show We're gonna be talking about all the big stories of the day We have Mark Cohn coming on to discuss the expected interest rate hike today the European Central Bank expected to put on 0.25 or 0.5 percent interest rate hike So if you've any questions about your mortgage or maybe your first-time buyer or Trying to become a first-time buyer or maybe you run a variable or maybe you are on a tracker and you want any Advice in that regard get in touch with us and I'll give you the numbers for that and for whatever else you want to speak to us about We're also going to be talking about The fall in the price of milk and butter and what impact that might have on consumers But also of course on producers 08 660 25,000. That's the whatsapp and text number 08 660 25,000 or give us a call on 07 for 9 1 25,000 and your emails come on to us or come into us Sorry at comments at Highland radio.com. All right Thursday morning lots of papers Let's crack on with a look at the front of the Tricolor Tribune Deputy Podrick McLaughlin has told the Tribune a tribune I beg your pardon that information emerging in recent days about a reduction of a flam Falmick Physicians, I know the word, but you know when sometimes you just can't get it out up Thalmick Physicians at letter at the community services at the st. Connell's campus in letter Kenny is very worrying is a very worrying trend my apologies for stuttering through that I fear there is a management agenda in the HSE to send people From as far away as Mallon head and fan it to sli go for treatment because of one reason Lack of doctors on the community campus in letter Kenny surely the people of Donegal deserve more consideration than that says McLaughlin The Donegal news this morning cancel behind major land purchase news that Donegal County Council is behind the purchase of the recently sold 8.23 acre site in the center of letter Kenny's expected to be confirmed today Councillors in the letter Kenny Milford Municipal District are to attend a special meeting and workshop today as part of Ongoing discussions over the draft letter Kenny plan and local transport plan It's understood details of the recent purchase of the site which is located behind the town's fire station at High Road will be revealed News of the sale of the land was confirmed last month by Henry Makahi director of local estate agents DNG Boyce Gallagher However details of the agreed sale price and buyer were not disclosed the site had gone on the market last year at a price of 4 million euro The Donegal Democrat adequate water is vital for Bendore and summer local business people have said ongoing water pipe repairs in Bendore and are absolutely necessary if the town is to have a prosperous summer Councillor Michael McMahan said it was imperative the work gets carried out now Water mains are crucial for the continuing supply of water around the town He said it's important that they get fixed as soon as can be done as the amount of water used especially During the summer months is greater than at other times of the year The dairy news is the last of the locals this morning migrant workers could hold the key to addressing the ongoing shortage of taxi drivers in Derry in the first joint initiative of its kind in the city the Northwest migrants forum has linked up with foil taxi company to Encourage those from minoritised communities to consider a career in the cab industry Founded in 2012 the Northwest migrant forum is a network of individuals working together to tackle racial inequality and prejudice The organization's fundamental goal is to support and advise members of black and community ethnic communities who reside in The north so they're trying to link up vacancies in taxi work with members of the migrant population The farmers journal this morning Irish grain supplies are set to nosedive this harvest and straw availability will take a series hit as The cereal area plummets Irish farmer journal Irish farmers journal analysis is forecasting a one 17,400 euro hectare drop in cereal crop this harvest wheat barley and oats output is set to fall by around 440,000 or almost 20,000 compared to 2022 while straw supplies will be cut by more than 400,000 round bales On to the nationals now Let's start with the Irish independent and we read that consumers are set to see the prices of grocery staples Such as milk and butter fall further as big retailers continue their price war price cuts are being passed on to Consumers as supermarkets chains battle to maintain their market share by cutting the cost of dairy products They're also cutting prices for consumers in reaction to falls globally in commodity prices But the price war that has broken out on milk and butter comes at a time when grocery price inflation has been at record levels now price war I mean we are seeing a slight reduction in the price of milk and butter But it's still far in a way ahead of what it was two years ago So we don't want to be sold a pup here do we? Supermarkets as I say are keen to target consumers who are visiting for smaller more regular shopping trips Hence the faces the focus on staples Professor Michael Wallace of UCD an expert in farm economics said Irish shoppers can expect to see more cuts in the price of dairy products He said this was mainly due to a fall in global dairy commodity prices such as fertilizer and feed inputs farmers Are you seeing that reduction in fertilizer and feed inputs that are being reported in the papers today? Reading on here. There was also an under supply of commodities last year But now we're seeing the opposite and demand weakened last year We are seeing some excess in commodity supply in world's markets putting downward pressure on Prices but as I say the price of stuff still 16% up year on year So any fall is to be welcome, but let's not forget where we're at either Onto the Irish times now and the chief executive of web summit Paddy Cosgrave who lives in South Donegal He's written to doll authorities saying his reputation has been adversely affected by remarks made in the doll by Tarnished and me hall Martin It comes after mr. Martin described Investigative website the ditch as a political organization that wants to attack and undermine confidence in the government And he said he did not see the website as an independent media platform His remarks came amid opposition questions related to a controversy surrounding Fina for junior minister Nile Collins Mr. Collins has been the subject of a series of stories by the ditch racing questions about his wife's purchase of a property from Limerick counter-counseling 2008 There's no need for the background to that story But in the doll remarks last week mr. Martin said the ditch was partly funded by mr. Cosgrave while another individual Che bows Was a founding member of the website? He said both were political opponents of the government and mr. Martin said he would love to know who's funding the ditch in its Entirety will web some of his Information was released subsequently during an interview at the weekend, but anyway Paddy Cosgrave written to the doll saying that his reputation has been damaged through me hall martin's Remarks, which were made using doll privilege on to the Irish Daily Mail now and it may not surprise you to learn that nine out of ten nurses and midwives say Their work has left them burnt out and even more fears It has harmed their psychological well-being a shocking survey has revealed and things on the severe pressure in The hospitals last evening contacted by a mother who was in the hospital with her daughter in there since 513 the afternoon by 10 or 11 o'clock. They still hadn't been seen and at that point someone came out To the emergency department and said look if you don't need to be seen Go home So it's an ongoing crisis even though we don't talk about it all of the time But I'd be contacted regularly in the evenings by people who note how tough it is And the reason I mentioned that case is the one thing the person did say as well is that they felt very sorry for the Staff having to work in that environment and that again that here is reflected in this survey Hospital overcrowding long hours and staff shortages are leaving health care staff feeling exhausted with three quarters of those surveys saying they had Considered leaving their job in the last month the concerning figures released by the Irish nurses and midwives Organisations started its annual conference yesterday and sparked a dull row with Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald telling T. Shockley of Radcar That the health system is on its knees on to The Irish star this morning and Guardian now probing the theory that a mother of two whose body was found in her home died a violent death The star has established that the post-mortem on Angela Canavan was Inconclusive, which means the cause of the woman's death cannot be given definitively, but sources have told The paper investigating the death in Sligo town on Monday evening that they now suspect she died from foul play The post-mortem was inconclusive, but there is something not quite right about this case a source said on to the sun this morning and A double drone attack at the Kremlin yesterday sparked fears of a massive upsurge in violence in in Putin's Ukraine invasion Russian Russia accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate President Vladimir Putin and bad retaliatory measures But Ukraine claimed Moscow had staged the false flag attack itself to justify more slaughter President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted we didn't attack Putin or Moscow We fight on our own territory and it's a it would be a peculiar Attack in that there were people climbing up the roof before the drone even arrived Which I thought was a little bit strange and it was a drone of the size Not like the drones with the wings that we've seen landing It was actually a full propeller drone, and it didn't seem it could do any damage at all really and it didn't And Putin wasn't there But overnight and it's not in the papers this morning, of course overnight Russia unleashed a volley of missiles right across cities in cities in the Ukraine and Finally in the Irish Daily Mirror this morning more than four and a half thousand official reports of child sex abuse Were made to Tusla last year a charity has described the new figures as really worrying a select group of people Can make mandated reports of abuse to the child and family agency including doctors nurses Guardi teachers and youth workers. What's happening in this country where we have and it's not just this year It's happens every year four and a half thousand reports of child sex abuse Made to Tusla last year. It really is absolutely shocking. That's an awful lot of young innocent children affected That's an awful lot of perpetrators I don't I don't know how I don't I just don't know what we're going to do About it, but we have to do something about it instead of constantly fearing about what's going to happen To our children and I get that too in its important conversation But my word we really need to focus on there here and now and what's been happening historically four and a half thousand Official reports of child sex abuse made to Tusla last year This at the same time as a former GP Completely unconnected a former GP has received a fully suspended sentence of one years imprisonment for the possession and Distribution of sexually explicit images of children Dublin circuit criminal court heard Ronan Kagan or Keegan 51 was involved in thrill-seeking behavior and was meeting many women for sex and had sent out and Naked photos to and from many women of all ages, but he was eventually caught with those images In his possession but escapes jail Okay, that was a run-through some of the stories making the headlines today We'll be back with our first guest on the program very very shortly the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly centra mountaintop letter Kenny The 2022 C store national off-license of the year Blow to feed and straw supplies for more in your farmers journal his Paul Mooney 400,000 straw bales and half a million tons of grain lost as government policy fails Massive variation in feed prices find out if you're paying too much fears for farm incomes as supermarkets slash Butter and milk prices how the fair deal scheme can affect farm transfers plus why people building one-off homes in rural Ireland are set to save Thousands all in this week's Irish farmers journal your media brand of the year Connelly's Volkswagen letter Kenny your only official Volkswagen passenger and commercial vehicle dealer for County Dunnegull Pop into visit our showroom on Canal Road letter Kenny speak to them of our friendly team and drive away in your dream Volkswagen book a test drive on 07 4 9 1 double 2 treble 3 or check out our full new and used range at Connelly's Highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter Kenny to Dublin when you book online and travel for less Expressway bringing you the time at the time 17 minutes past 9 right, okay I hope I can speak to Mark kill and founder of money Sherpa dot a are you there Mark? Hi, I'm here Greg. Oh, okay. Thankfully good to have you on the show again. How are you keeping? Yeah? I'm very good Thanks, very good. Okay, right. We're expecting aren't we a further interest rate increased today No surprise obviously today or yesterday because we knew it was coming, but it was it has it been on the cards? It has been on the cars. There's been a little bit of Debate about whether this was going to happen Because of the banking crisis that we spoke about around a month ago however The the latest forecasts are that the ECB monetary council is expected to announce what they call a Rate increase in the refi rate the refinance rate the rate that they lend money to banks So we're expecting a rate increase of of 0.25 or 0.5 depending on How hawkish the bank is and that that announcement should be at 2 p.m. This afternoon That's actually the 10th increase this year. So it really has been a March of hikes for the last the last 12 months. Okay. Well, let's break it down as to how this might affect people So what about your your typical mortgage as much as we can call it typical for someone on? variable rates at the moment Yeah, so this this this This change will mostly affect the track of customers Track of customers because they're directly linked to the ECB rate So they'll be the first to see the impact So the average tracker mortgage rate is going to rise from from it was one point one five and in June last year and A 0.25 Increased rate the lower rate will take it to four point nine And if they go for the full whack the 0.5 that will actually take the average tracker to over five percent to five point One five percent. So on those rates the cost of an average tracker mortgage Will have increased by over 30,000 over the full term from this time last year. So that's 2500 per year it's it's over a hundred euro per month. So it really the customers on trackers There's just been a massive change So so what should they do because it's quite possible that someone on a tracker in if they got it say, you know 2006 or something we're paying a higher rate and then we we got into this period of Arguably and possibly artificial low rates that we might not see you gain and now we are edging up to 5.1% as you say so if you've got 10 15 years left on your tracker mortgage Do you stick with it if you can afford it or? Is it the time to try and fix if you can because you know, there is a Feeling I think that interest rates may not go up a great deal higher and my might actually even come back somewhat Yeah, so the general consensus is that we may be reaching the peak of the interest rate Cycle although there has been some false stones on this before and the truth is nobody actually knows so what we Advise people in general is if you can fix To fix because of the certainty that it gives you so for certain people Who've got a lot of affordability? Riding out the wave may be the sensible thing But for the majority of people the sound financial advice is to avoid them possibly getting into trouble on their home That's that's the biggest risk and that risk far outweighs the benefit of maybe Getting lucky and paying a little bit less in your repayments So there are actually 130,000 tracker customers who have have still yet to fix we've seen 58,000 track come off trackers in the last two years So there's been a massive movement away from trackers as people have looked to cat But there's still a lot of customers there who potentially could still fix and the rates Haven't really risen as much as you might expect so it's still possible The fix at three point one nine and if you remember Greg I've just mentioned the average track is now at five is going to be at least four point nine So that would save you around 14,000 So it's save you about half of the increase that we've seen from the ECB Is there any scenario whereby your bank if you're on a tracker will not allow you to fix your mortgage? Because I seem to recall last time we talked about this someone saying that they weren't allowed to fix it Yeah, so if you're with a retail bank If you're with one of the high street lenders one of the pillar banks Then that's not the case. You can you can either fix with your current bank And they will offer your rates or you can switch to an alternative bank and I would encourage people to talk to a broker about The rates that are right there because it won't surprise you Greg, but the most expensive lenders are the main banks So generally if you talk to a broker, they can probably rather than fixing with the bank you're with The best way to get a deal is to talk to a broker and get on another rate however, unfortunately, there are Around 60,000 customers with with the Vulture funds who are what we call mortgage prisoners who The right is no fixed rate if you're with a Vulture fund and Now you can switch away in theory for a retail bank if you're with a Vulture fund However, there are 60,000 customers who won't be accepted by the high street non-performing loans. Are there? Yeah, well, some of them are non-performing, but and this is a misconception that that's out there But a lot of them are performing People have paid their rates, but unfortunately, they don't quite make the affordability criteria for the new So they've always paid their bills, but they can't switch away because let's say the circumstances have changed or and I think this is really important to remember When the banks were handing out silly money back in 2006 2005, you know, they might have got a hundred percent mortgage and And over a 40 year term This is the crazy stuff that was going on back then and now the banks are saying, oh, no We're all proper and serious and we can't accept you even though they put them on their terms in the originally What rates are people with Vulture funds paying currently it does range, but some of them are quite horrendous. So, um, I Mentioned the track of customers earlier on and they're the people who most people who've seen the increase in rates With the retail banks high street lenders Variable rates have only just started to rat rise. So AIB put 0.35 percent through in February I do expand Bank of Ireland and permanent TSP to follow with these rates. So we will also see variable rates rise But the Vulture fund have been putting these rates through on trackers and variables from the start And that means that some of the variables now are on eight and nine percent So really pain all right. Yeah, and of course when we talk about switching and and all that type of stuff, too There's a lot of people listening in this region who have houses that are affected by defective concrete as well And they are trapped and some of them are trapped with the Vulture funds as well at those excessive high rates So it's a double triple and quadruple Whammy for some of those Right, so you mentioned there about the variable rates at the moment with the pillar of banks the people just on variable rates The banks have but I wouldn't say absorbed it But that they haven't really been increasing as such you've mentioned some increases The sense is is that now is it not with this latest increase that even if you mortgage hasn't Increased on a variable rate recently. It's it's probable if not likely that it will after this next round of rate increases Yeah, so it won't surprise you to know Greg that the banks haven't been Tapping the variable rates not passing through the increases out of the goodness of their hearts And what they've been doing is they've been keeping the deposit rates really low And they've been taking there are billions at the moment in deposit accounts. They've been popping those in offshore banks themselves and They've been getting 3% on that so they've been making an absolute pile You can see this in the in the accounts of the banks that have recently been released However, there is pressure Competitive leaders. There's now a 2% rate Available in Ireland through a company called trade republic and this talk of Revolute offering that rate They're not in the market yet But I would be counting the days to potentially them doing that so the banks sit on those low deposit rates There's a risk. They'll lose all that money and that money will go elsewhere and seek higher higher rates So they'll probably have to move those rates when they do move those rates They'll also have to move the variable rates and that's why analysts and myself Do you think that those variable rates are about to move and AIB as I say already moved them in February? So we're already in that cycle, right? Okay. What about first-time buyers? Not that there's a huge deal of activity in that regard but someone applying for a mortgage for the first time and I suppose that's where Whether you can do it now or in a couple of months it might There might be some difference in what you can get the rate at the fixed rate perhaps. Yeah So I mentioned that 3.19% rate that's available I'm expecting that to be withdrawn from the market any day now. It's been there for about nine months and It's extremely attractive ISIS what will happen is Because the easy people refinance rate goes up the cost of funds to The lenders go up and therefore when they issue six fixed rates They will increase those fixed rates, but we would expect those fixed rates They're available to increase and that will make things tougher Again on on hard pressed first-time buyers, you're right Yeah, and I mean obviously the argument for inflation rises. Sorry the argument for interest rate rises is to suppress To suppress isn't it inflation? But we are looking now at the next budget where the government is looking at helping people out with their mortgages to absorb to help them with the Increased cost of interest rates. It kind of seems a bit odd to me in other words It's state money then really that's just being flooded into the banks again Maybe it's not that simple, but if we are if in if interest rates is to to drive down inflation yet The government is assisting people With the cost of inflation It seems all counterintuitive to me. I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do But it doesn't make sense Yeah, there is an element of the right arm not knowing what the left arm is is is doing here and I do think the interest rate increases really are Pretty much the only policy Leaver that the central bank that's tasked with bringing inflation back down to 2% as And around the world This is what this is the medicine that central banks administer To governments to to to bring inflation back under check so they will definitely keep doing this I mean and they've stayed do you know what's crazy about that market and all this is not about mortgages, but inflation is being driven by artificially high energy prices Right because the companies aren't passing on the savings and also food art and food is a essential to live Food inflation is is is the cost of food is what's another key element to the inflation. So what do you want us not to eat? You know but they're giving us less money not to eat with anyway A caller says hi Greg. I'm going to track and walk. It's up. It's up 300 euro extra a month from last year I mean, that's huge mark 3,600 euro extra. How many of us could just absorb that? What do they do? I mean what do they do at this point? The really important thing to say here is The the numbers that I've just talked about are averages. So within those averages. There are a lot of different stories. There are Customers who've seen very little increase because they don't have many years left They don't have much amount on their mortgage, but there are on the flip side of that Customers who've really seen massive increases now If you can switch if you're not one of those mortgage prisoners As I'd said before Greg, I definitely get in touch with a broker. There are still Very good fixed rates. I know people have been concerned because and I think this has been one of the problems, frankly Because of the tracker mortgage scandal back in 2008 It was drummed into people back then And it was good advice back then Don't give up your tracker and and you know people are fearful Because so many people lost out when they did give up their trackers So get proper advice talk to a broker, but I really wouldn't sit on your hands if you are You know not one of the 60 000 mortgage prisoners and most people aren't most you know 100 000 of the 130 000 tracker customers and still switch Get on the phone and do it soon because those low fixed rates literally i'm waiting for I'm waiting for the lenders to to tell us that that they're withdrawing those from the market any any day now So so the time really the window the good news is the window hasn't closed The bad news is the window is about to close I call it says when bank of scotland left ireland loans were transferred to pepper Pepper cannot offer any fixed rates. They're just servicing the loan. That's the person that's trapped Is it yet? That's a great that is a great example and this is a misconception about the vulture funds um The vulture funds basically Fuck a load of loan sales a load of different business So the people who were on dance gear bank and in um back to scotland island They were all transferred over to vulture funds that are administered by pepper They can't fix now those customers typically by the way The ones that aren't prisoners that they actually have got the affordability and that they can switch But not everybody knows that what we're finding is a load of people think i'm with the vulture fund. There's nothing I can do again talk to a broker somebody who's reputable um and and and has all the lenders and You may be able to switch away and get on a decent rate All right, last one here with ulster bank and my mortgage hasn't been transferred yet I'm stuck in limbo at the moment because I can't switch to a non tracker rate. What can I do? Yeah, there is a there is a small sliver of ulster bank customers who had um a product Which was called a split which was quite an innovative product and the the problem that they face um Is is that no bank has the equivalent product? So they've been completely stuck in limbo. Um As far as I know, I'm not aware of any options for for for that customer group at the moment Is that where you pay half the mortgage interest only is it? Is that what? Yeah, sorry, it's it's actually where it was a merger of the current account and um And and and the mortgage so it actually meant your the balance you had in your current account offset All right, I'm out and it was a great product But unfortunately now those customers are are are trapped one thing that I would say is we do have a campaign around mortgage prisoners So people who do find themselves trapped. We have got an email address and we are trying to raise pro the profile and also um Give people support. So if if somebody does find themselves in that situation They can email us on um mortgage prisoner at money sherpa dot i e um and um We will get back to them and we'll either try and raise Um the profile in the media because a lot of people there's a stigma here A lot of people don't want to talk about it and and they should and that will help us kind of get action with the government Yeah, and the other thing is as I say some people think they're trapped and they're not So we are finding sometimes we talk to people and we're able to find solutions All right mark listen. Thanks for your time. As always. It's greatly appreciated and hopefully that gives people some clarity. Take care Thanks, Greg. All right. That's uh mark cull and their founder of money sherpa dot i e So hopefully it's the same mortgages and mortgage decisions Are things we can have a tendency to hide away from uh or shy away from so hopefully in that piece there You have a full understanding of um, what's happening with the mortgage interest rate hikes the ecb hikes and what impact It may well have on uh you Watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com The fishermen working the seas off ireland bring us a real bounty every day Like irish crab meat low in fat and brim full of protein omega three and essential vitamins and minerals For lunch or dinner irish crab meat is a delicious shellfish you can buy cooked and ready to go in your supermarket or fishmongers For great recipes online like crab pasta with cherry tomatoes and basil visit board via dot i e forward slash crab and make every day meals amazing It's the right price tiles and wood flooring biggest ever sale up to 50 percent of everything in store All tiles all wood flooring all outdoor slabs cladding and bath where everything slashed in price This sale is not to be missed right price tiles and wood flooring biggest ever half price sale extended until sunday Attention all pet lovers and owners gary's pet world letter kenny is open seven days per week offering the very best value on all pet foods accessories grooming and care products call in and let our staff help you spoil your pet today You will be amazed by the range of product for all pets with exceptional value on all leading brands Alternatively, you can browse and buy online at petworld.ie and we will deliver to your home Now delighted to welcome back on to the program Donahoe and good morning Donahoe. Thank you so much for joining us Good morning, Greg Um, right. We're speaking to you this time in the context of this footage amazing footage from multiple angles. It has to be said of a drone attack in Moscow, which the russians has claimed was an assassin an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin Zelensky out saying that We don't attack Russia. We don't attack Putin. We don't attack Moscow. We fight in our own territory And of course as you can imagine Donahoe and I suppose we're all part of it Everyone has their views particularly on social media. What's your analysis of of what happened? Well, there's a there's a number of angles you can look at this from one of them is um Can you hear me? Loud and clear. Yes. Oh, yeah, sorry. Um, so there's a number of angles that you can look at this from I mean one is that we have footage of of the attack and That in itself is of interest because it means the Kremlin wants us to see this You have there was an actual assassination that took place outside the Kremlin walls eight years ago of Putin's main opponent a man called Boris Nemtsov And interestingly enough despite the fact that it took place right beside the Kremlin no cctv cameras Or footage could be presented at that time, let alone disseminated But now we have from multiple angles From, you know, obviously Kremlin controls cctv Footage of this attack and therefore we have to ask ourselves, you know Why is the Kremlin interested us in in seeing this because you know face value over to believe it? It's quite an audacious attack It would be a humiliation for for Moscow many respects because you know the Kremlin should be one of the most guarded And indeed is one of the most guarded power centers in the world You would think that the air defense systems would be such that no Drone would be able to get through drones are relatively slow and vulnerable Ukraine succeeds in in taking down most of them before they they land on their targets So how it would manage to to more or less strike the the Kremlin is is is remarkable And when you think of how in the past the Kremlin has responded to actual successful Ukrainian attacks Such as the the sinking of the flagship Moscow in the Black Sea you might remember that last year in april The Kremlin went to extraordinary lengths Not to be humiliated and they came up with the ever more exotic excuses You know they said there was a fire because of somebody smoking on the on the ship that it wasn't a missile attack That they ship sank because of a storm when it seemed to all in sundry that this was a successful Ukrainian strike So why this you might say more modest attack at least in military terms not not in terms of symbolism Of course why they're publicizing this is very interesting in itself I mean if it was an assassination attempt as the Kremlin is claiming It was a remarkably modest effort because you know Putin firstly is rarely in the Kremlin So they weren't even going to get him at home. He usually stays in his residence west of Moscow And in fact wouldn't it be much make much more sense to attack him when he's known to be in the open At 10 a.m. Of the ninth of may when he has to be in red square For the ninth of may victory day celebrations So why would you you know wait not wait until then if you were planning an attack on the Kremlin? So there's lots of questions out there, but another question then let's just say this was a false flag What would Putin and his administration need such a false flag event for I mean they can obviously and they do bomb Ukraine at will or you know whenever they want to What might this is this to try and Whip up Russian support if indeed it was a fact in fact a false flag and everyone has different views like what would be what would be the Advantage to Putin and his administration in creating this false flag event because obviously they would have to accept as you've pointed out that it does To some extent made them look weak. So where's the where would be the upside for Russia? Well, that that's an excellent question. Greg and that really gets to the to the knob of the matter Because they are playing with fire if they have orchestrated this so it makes you begs the question Well, why is it to justify an escalation? Well, you would say that they've probably thrown everything they can at Ukraine So why would they need to to to have the self inflicted? You know negative pr story, you know to justify a further escalation And it's not of course that they haven't done that in the past one right Remember when Putin came to power first in 1999? There were the the bombings in Moscow and Volgodons which was used to to justify an all-out war against Chechnya interestingly Dmitry Medvedev Who was of course for four years president of Russia and very much ally to to Vladimir Putin? He said yesterday that this attack on the Kremlin justified the physical elimination of Vladimir Zelensky and his cabinet But again, you're left thinking haven't they been trying that from day one? They mean they started with an attack on Kiev back in February of last year So the second point that you raised may be about mobilizing enthusing the russian population that they face this existential threat, you know Maybe somewhere closer to the truth, of course the lack, you know the mobilization last september was very lackluster It prompted hundreds of thousands of russians to to flee russia So perhaps that might that might be it But there's another intriguing possibility in that that there's some kind of internal power struggle Uh within the russian political elite that this may not have been authorized by the government, but by somebody else Um, you know it just smack up that, um, you know very exotic story of from 1987 I'm certainly old enough to remember when a young german man metheus rust. He landed a plane Uh, he flew it managed to fly it into red square and it landed Right beside the kremlin and of course it led to a huge re-evaluation of the soviet union's Defense and they the gorbachev sacked the defense minister and the commander of the air defense So maybe there's some kind of internal, you know maneuverings going on within the defense sector That they're trying to demonstrate that, you know, the leadership isn't doing its job properly And maybe there's other people trying to, uh, you know get promoted. Who knows? Could it be also possible that obviously, uh, they have to Uh, uh, uh, greatly scale down public involvement in victory day celebrations And maybe if they can present a threat in moscoe that that might make the public feel that oh right okay I understand what they're doing because if I know correct, I understand I'll read correctly don't I can You know better than I of course you do Uh, part of the uh, the celebrations is that people will walk through the streets holding pictures of loved ones that that would have died in war normally the second world war Russia might be afraid of an awful lot of people walking the streets with pictures Of the hundreds of thousands of people potentially that have died in the last couple of years And that would not play very well. I'd imagine Well, that's an excellent observation and again, it's one of the possible theories, uh, you know Because this victory day is certainly like no no other there's there's no victory to celebrate and and, uh, You know The kremlin must be wary at this stage this very delicate stage of of of its war against Ukraine of of any mass mobilization Even if it's state orchestrated as you say It could be a vehicle for people to parade with their Photographs of their loved ones that have died in the in the conflict in Ukraine because traditionally as you say they it's usually You know family members of veterans who died in world war two, uh, who who parade But you know who's to say that it could it could end up being something else already Governors of regions in russia had communicated to the kremlin. They were cancelling their regional Parade so already in advance of this attack if it is such on on the kremlin They were already moves to downscale this and to lower expectations about what victory day celebrations might look like Certainly, this will be a victory day celebration like no other in russia Yeah, and history of shoulders too that often these days of celebration can actually turn into Days of protest just briefly don't look if you don't mind what do we expect over the next couple of months because Uh, uh, we've been hearing about this ukrainian offensive for for quite some time now And even the fact that they're perhaps because of leaks keeping some of that information and planning to themselves And not even letting on to to international partners and then we hear that russia's planning something as well Uh, what do the next couple of months have in store for for us? Donner as we as we watch on uh to this awful situation Well, what we know is that ukraine has taken A beating over the last couple of months in terms of this kind of terrorist attack on the civilian infrastructure I mean, we often forget when we look at spectators like the attack on the kremlin that, uh, you know Just yesterday 21 people were killed in a massive russian attack on on the city of her son Which was recaptured by the ukrainians in november a few days ago 19 people were killed When an apartment block was killed in the center ukrainian town of uman So this this goes on every day And indeed this morning we've had attacks in kiev and in other ukrainian cities in zaporizia and odessa So that's that's kind of the the drones attacks. That's the the the air attack But we then have the the the war of attrition in donbass where the front line is and the russians have thrown everything at capturing Bakut, which is a city about the size of galway Um, and it's it's completely depopulated. Uh, they but they haven't captured it after several months of trying Uh, estimated russian losses are 20 000. Um, it's been a remarkable Uh, you know lack of success and and and during this time ukraine has been promised and is now received More than 250 state-of-the-art tanks 1500, you know armored vehicles and all signs aren't that they're preparing preparing for a major counteroffensive The question is where of course it will target because as you might remember in previous counteroffensives They were quite good at keeping it secret up until the last moment and indeed giving the impression They were going to attack somewhere else So they've made a point of of not showing their hand and even to their allies and therefore The first people who probably will know about this counteroffensive are the russians themselves when they feel the artillery don't have Thank you so much for your time as always. I greatly appreciate it Not at all. Okay. Take care of yourself That's uh, don't go or be coin who is a professor of politics at the school of law and government doblin city university Where he lectures on post-soviet politics unrecognized states and irish politics as well A caller says if you want to talk about a false flag, how about America and iraq and weapons of mass destruction? Indeed that was uh, the biggest false flag of them all But that's some time ago now. We're talking about what's happening today, but I take the point. Okay. 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Kenny retail park Style and perfection at incredible value an email here. Hi greg. I'm sitting in the emergency department in letter. Kenny hospital Myself my sister and my mom who was staged for cancer and she was at her gp Yesterday morning and she referred her straight away to go to the hospital She has fluid in her right lung and she's breathless and in a lot of pain And we went into the hospital at 1 p.m. Yesterday It's now 9 30 in the morning and she still hasn't got a bed It's an absolute disgrace that a cancer patient has to sit this long to be admitted This hospital is a complete mess the many people that we're waiting to see young and old It is just heartbreaking in this day and age can nothing be done They're spending money on this and that but what else would you expect from this joke? Of a state we're sitting here with our poor mother and there's nothing we can do to help her Thank you. Greg. Would you please highlight this? With something seriously needs to be done kinds regards Another scandalous the number of hospital trolleys yesterday It's now treated as normal same with the housing crisis and homelessness All our young sons and daughters emigrating which is heartbreaking to parents And more contacts about people Being told in the ed last evening who'd been sitting there for much of the day that if they can go to go But the one thing we hear time and time again is that People are sympathetic to the staff that they are trying the They are trying their best in very difficult circumstances Neil Donahoe is industrial relations officer With the inmo covering the northwest and he joins us now not surprising Then to hear from your members that nine out of ten of them Say they were at least somewhat burnt out because of the workload and the conditions they're working in Neil Absolutely and and thanks for having me on just to make a point to mean that that story that you've just shared Greg It absolutely is shocking and and our members share a death Um, I do have to say that in letter can he ask that we have seen improvements in the recruitment over the last couple years But it's just the attendance levels are massively massively high Um, there isn't enough space we keep hearing from management for all the patients and equally our view is that there are not enough staff in order to carry out the workload And that burden is is very very real You know, there's an emotional burden for the staff there who who feel guilty for what their patients go through They want better standards They're members of the community also There may be service users also themselves and they want to have a better better health system But it's just not functioning to a level that we believe is safe or that our members believe is safe And we want to see that change desperately What needs to be changed then because this can't continue we can't have a situation where Almost the entire body of nursing staff feel burnt out Something eventually has to give we have consultants speaking out saying it's at the point now whereby Despite their best efforts, they have to almost treat patients like numbers. So what Changes to improve this situation Well capacity is something that we keep hearing from the HSE is a problem And that's going to require a significant investment and time in order to put in place But this is a very immediate problem. We can't wait six months or two years or whatever it will take to have that capacity built It in this moment in time What we believe is required is to have the right staffing levels there in order to deal with it No matter how many people are attending if you have more more staff there that are highly skilled Highly capable, then you'll improve the flow of patients and improve the outcomes And again, there's evidence of that I mean, there is an evidence-based tool to decide safe staffing in Ireland now The difficulty is it isn't fully implemented and not fully funded and we need to see that in leverkenny hospital We know that just looking on based on that evidence based tool looking at leverkenny medical Words surgical words and the ed alone. They need at least an extra 60 nurses for that No, that's not taken account of all areas. That's just for the medical surgical and emergency department So you can see it's a massive deficit. I mean, there's members there Where on their good will that service is running that you know when a shift isn't filled for whatever reason if there's A massive influx of patients if there's a very high demand They come in do extra hours to help out or they'll stay on maybe to do an extra hour As an addition onto a very long and difficult shift already in order to help their colleagues out And to help out the patients that they see suffering every day Yes, but I mean, how are we going to recruit into a health service with this type of an advertisement going out? Well, listen We have to start by by fixing the problem We can't shy away from that and it is a genuine problem Like I said, there's an evidence-based tool that is sitting on a table waiting to be fully implemented And we believe on that stone. It's not just about recruiting people in it about retaining the staff that are already there We hear every day of people that are leaving because of that burnout If there was an extra pair of hands to help them with that workload It might encourage them to stay and we start that constant cycle of losing the absolutely brilliant experience that exists amongst nurses and midwives Yeah, um and Obviously people probably thought the pressures through covid were a temporary thing But it seems to be permanent now in that we're not talking about winter plans anymore We're talking about an all year round type of a plan presumably Staff feel they're not getting any break or or they they can't steady themselves or get back to a Steady footing pre covid as bad as it was then if you know what I mean Absolutely, it's become become an absolute constant We used to talk about the winter surge But people will say now that during the summertime it's almost the exact same There's really no reprieve at all. They're working at full pace all the time. No rest. No letter Um, I suppose when again when you're talking about a winter plan I mean the winter plan is very seldom if ever in on time in order to address the concerns in advance of the winter We want to see I supposed to hit you Hit to see being more proactive and again, it's a yearly plan They know every single year that there's going to be a surge It shouldn't wait until the last minute to put measures in place and the difficulty with that And we saw this back in december and january in particular where there was massively high attendance In the acute hospitals is that it always falls to the people at the cold face It will fall to the nurse or the midwife that is there To pick up the pieces because of a failure to plan and that again is going to impact very negatively on retention We know a lot of people have left the acute hospitals Maybe with 20 years experience in an ed you know that type of skill level that type of experience and knowledge level Bleeding out from hospitals Because of that failure to plan and because of the pressure they're under and they're not just leaving the country They're going to community areas as well But realistically if the hospital problem is going to improve they have to really work on their attention News and that evidence-based tools is key. It has to be a solid stable foundation That we're all working on the health ministers announced the funding for about 800 extra nurses through this year's budget He made that announcement obviously before he's due to address the conference Is that the good news or is it about how is that going to be delivered or How will that news be received or how is it being received? It's it's absolutely good news to hear that there's investment I mean again, we know that if you invest in nursing that you will improve the patient outcomes We've seen that in in studies that we're done Again, you know even reducing the number of secondary admissions I mean the hospitals a lot of people say it's almost like we're evolving door for patients that they go in They get treated that they maybe are leaving to swiftly and they're back in again a couple of weeks later When you invest in nursing and improve the the nursing Um Workforce levels you actually improve the patient outcome as well. So it should help reduce that But again, like I said, it's great to see the investment, but retention is key here There's a lot of people like we said that are leaving because the exceptional exceptionally difficult conditions So great to have the funding to bring people in but keeping them there is what's key We can't just have staff coming and leaving and keeping that cycle perpetuating What kind of reception do you think the minister will get uh in front of delegates? Well, I mean recently we saw the head of the on goddess you can't or not get a very favorable reception in front of the g r. A What do you think? I mean, what is the view of steve and donnelly amongst nurses? I think our our members are steadfast. They're absolutely resolution this that there must be safe staffing We're not asking for I don't believe it's a massive request It's just asking for safety for the patient safety for the staff And that has to be achieved. So I'm hopeful that he'll have some positive things to say on that As for how will be received by the members that they're well able to speak to themselves They're very vocal on this issue And I'm glad to see that he's coming today to hear what they have to say Okay, uh neil. Thanks for your time this morning. I appreciate it That's neil donna who who is the inamos industrial industrial relations officer covering the northwest And we shall see a little later on what kind of reception steve and donnelly receives 08 6 08 6 60 25 000 A caller called in to say why can't the triage and urge nurse send you for an x-ray or bloods to the lab while you're waiting for a doctor Another uh says that woman shouldn't have to go through the ed It should be straight into the oncology ward But unfortunately, uh, we were speaking to a gentleman last week whose mother was sitting in an ambulance outside ed for four or five hours She was a cancer patient as well. And that was the question he posed. 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I'm akilah clark with the news at 10 o'clock The health minister has announced funding for around 800 extra nurses through this year's budget Stephen donnelly has revealed it today before he's due to address the biggest nursing union in the country The irish nurses and midwives organization published a survey yesterday that raised concerns about workplace stress Minister Stephen donnelly says this new announcement is something the union has called for before today I've announced that we're allocating full funding through the budget for this year to fully roll out the safe staffing Framework in all hospitals in ireland. This has been a core element of the program for government It's something that the ianmo have been calling for for many years While ianmo's industrial relations officer for the northwest named donnelly says why there has been an increase in recruitment At letter kennie university hospital the number of staff at the hospital still falls well below the need to deal with high Attendances he told the nine to noon show a short time ago that immediate action is needed This is a very immediate problem. We can't wait six months or two years or whatever it will take to have that capacity built In this moment in time What we believe is required is to have the right staffing levels there in order to deal with it No matter how many people are attending if you have more more staff there that are highly skilled Highly capable then you you'll improve the flow of patients and improve the outcomes Donegal county council's housing committee has been a tool Told that the authority the authority must look at acquiring some larger properties to meet the need that exists in the county The call came from councillor jerry mcmonagall who told members that there are many larger families on the council's housing list Who will not be catered for under the council's current building policy? Council mcmonagall says if the authority's current plans do not include the construction of larger homes Then the council must look at buying them We have to use every avenue that's open this and if there's turnkey projects and we're dealing with developers who Are building the these turnkey projects. Then we need to ensure that there is four and possibly five beds Included in them turnkeys. There is a great need for it. There has been for quite a few years now And I I'm just about dismayed that We're not building more for our five bed houses. And if we aren't going to build then I think we need to be purchasing them A well sunny gold concert believes footage of a legal domper should be posted on social media as a deterrent It's after rubbish including a chair a strimmer and a children's push-trike were discovered discarded a close to muckish grotto Cantor Michael mclafrey previously called for cctv cameras to be installed at flight tipping hotspots He says those responsible need to be called out. I do feel like I've asked for before We're going to have to go down the road with cameras and just catch these culprits because catching them and finding them and and possibly as well with you are going further than that Putting the recordings up on social media might not be a bad idea to act as a deterrent to stop the rubbish dumping Take a here like off the left for it's to northern municipal districts says the closure of the castle fin credit union Is a huge blow the ballet buffet and snorler credit union announced that the service in castle fin Would cease to operate on july the second due to the termination of its tenancy at the premises Efforts are now being made to secure an alternative building Cantor pagea mcguyan says it's another example of a loss of a vital service matter what the service is in any town or village it's We don't want to see anyone been lost and and I'm sure now Hopefully I know that some building wall Going forward because I know from speaking to a number of people and and and around castle fin They certainly would be very good to see that Because I was doing me in there zero pesticide Exceedances were identified in public drinking water supplies in Donegal last year It marks a significant reduction in the number of exceedances for pesticides and public drinking water supplies in the county In 2021 ishka erin detected three exceedances for mcpa and bento zone The utility however is urging people to continue to consider the environment and alternatives to pesticides when gardening farming and maintaining sports grounds Whether I some sunny spells with dry conditions today However, it will become cloudier with outbreaks of rain later and highest temperatures today off 11 to 14 degrees That's all from highland radio news for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then. Good morning The obituary notice is for this thirsty morning may the fourth The death has taken place of james t's durable manor cunning him family friends and neighbors welcome to his niece Hilary thompson's home durable manor cunning him from one o'clock this afternoon Funeral at half past two tomorrow afternoon in hillary's home followed by burial in refo presbyterian burial ground The death has taken place in glasgow of breed huge on tenison negal her glasgow and formerly baltony gorethork Her remains will repose at the family home two more evening from five o'clock until rosary at nine o'clock Funeral mass in christ the king church gorethork on saturday afternoon at one o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjacent cemetery The funeral mass can be viewed live on cairn rorty funeral directors facebook page The death has occurred of bernard ward burton port his remains will repose at mcglint's funeral home done low This afternoon from two o'clock with rosary at eight o'clock fall by private removal to his home Funeral mass two more morning at eleven o'clock in synclombage church with interment afterwards in belchurch cemetery Family flowers only donations in lay of dunno community hospital Heist is private after the rosary and on the morning of the funeral The death has taken place of jimmy bradley monia linds fort boncranah His remains will be reposing at porter funeral home main at gory from seven until nine o'clock tonight Funeral from there two more morning at half past ten going to the star of the sea church desert tegney For eleven o'clock recreation mass with burial in the adjoining graveyard The death has taken place of john mcgrory nine synt oliver's avenue boncranah formerly drum endure John's remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there two more morning at quarter past ten going to St. Mary's church cock hill for eleven o'clock recreation mass with burial in the adjoining graveyard Funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv The death has taken place of lc crompton nae berg late of coronation park syme mills Reposing at her daughter liz pierce's home eight coronation park syme mills Funeral leaving her daughter's home tomorrow afternoon at half past one For service of thanksgiving in syme mills presbyterian church at two o'clock Interment afterwards in art straw new cemetery Donations and leo flor's place to melmont manna residence comfort fund kirk quickly funeral directors family time please from 11 p.m. Until 11 a.m The death has taken place of the vet roland nae mcormick of swords at county dublin originally from harrick cloughard dairy beg county dunigol remains reposing at the family home in maharick cloughard Wake today from 11 o'clock until 8 o'clock rosary at 8 o'clock Heist private after rosary and on the morning of the funeral Funeral mass in st. 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Vincent de paul shop as a lot of the credit union customers go up to the shop after they complete their business in the credit union a big loss of income for svp shop it is as much a social loss as a practical financial service loss for the community it's a meeting social point for the local community on saturdays the credit union should engage fully with locals and maybe some vacant property in the town could be found and renovated even if nothing is available at the moment another the closure is going to be such a big loss to the people of castle fin and the surrounding areas who avail of the sub office on a saturday it's used by young and old alike and some who might have difficulty getting to balibah fey all the time also the credit union in balibah fey closes at three hopefully they'll be able to source new premises in castle fin uh and although it's a terrible blow for castle fin and i know greg will hear how it will seriously impact the community particularly the older members of the community traveling to balibah fey is just not an option for many and now particularly when the balibah fey office have still not reverted to their pre-covid opening times 10 a.m to 3 p.m is barely suitable for those in the twin towns area so it's now reliant on the saturday opening again we're going to be covering this of course uh in more detail but if you want to get involved in the conversation uh on the future of the castle fin credit union which seems to have been decided 08 6 60 25 000 on our social media on highland radio on facebook uh we uh have the following question hope first holy communion season has begun and for many families it's now become a costly one day affair do you agree with this get in touch with us uh and leave your comments on that social media post is it putting pressure on you is it a problem uh for you 08 6 60 25 000 if you want to get involved by text or go on to our facebook as elaine and agnes have elaine says i think holy communion is about how 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today and um what have you done overnight where have you a bed or a trolley or you see no no we're sitting in the hard chairs yes we are the doors come out one stage and give us a blanket there's women here with our children waiting they haven't got through there's been no x-rays done they're still with no x-rays yet us desperate here and have you been told anything about your condition mary obviously you wouldn't have attended if you didn't think it was serious no i'm just among the queue i asked about 30 months ago i'm on the queue so i'll be here a while yet right and terrible you don't know if you need to be admitted or anything yet either i don't know i have never seen a doctor yet no medication no no nothing just no nothing no right yes and what was it what was it like on those chairs overnight mary it's not comfortable definitely not no some people were in wheelchairs we were just sitting there in the hard chairs the nurses did come on one stage and give us blankets when we're getting cooler but the witness horrendous definitely and how many was it busy well at one stage just now there was 104 waiting right and the place was packed here and do people just get up and leave mary or do they hang around a lot of people left last no a lot of people left last night about seven o'clock a manager came down to have a word we had listened to her and she told us anybody had felt that they could go home could go home and they'd be sitting this morning again otherwise the worst delays yeah indeed and that that touchy tally's perfectly with so people left but the place is packed again they start to pile up now again we still were not getting priority from last night we're just sitting here waiting there's children here we've broken haven't got an x-ray yes right okay and are you gonna stick it out mary you have to don't you i have to i have to yeah i sat this down now i have to yeah and are you on your own i am indeed yes yep and what about yeah we've met and with other people we're talking we keep them on another company but we're not getting over and what about a cup of tea or something to eat or yes the camera in one stage one lady here lovely lady from karen dronell went to the shop turn the net and took us all back sandwiches staff did come around with cups of tea all right and tea and toast to keep us going it's unbelievable mary that what you're having to go through that yes we've heard it on the radio for but until you experience it here that's awful i know and people think we kind of go on about it but i think until as you say you've sat there and have you ever seen anything like this before if you have to attend before or no never seen a speaker crowd here before no definitely not and you've no idea when you might be seen either i haven't a clue the last time i asked there about 30 months ago they told me i'm only two i'll be here a while yet and are you worried about given the fact that it's a clot in your leg or potentially we hope it's not and i also have blog directories so i have to stay put but sitting sitting on those hard chairs couldn't be good for you yes no it is not no but sure you just get up and walk around if i can get the chance i said right okay yep and if you're perfectly so what's the bad situation okay all right mary definitely does right okay listen i'm sorry for what you're going through i really am okay well it's not just me there's a lot of people here okay yeah i seriously i heard them all right the nurses are great they're doing their best but there's something not right definitely something's gone wrong and you're saying young people there with suspected broken bones and stuff as well oh yeah they're sitting beside me yeah young lads sort of playing football and that coming on this night they were coming on the early the only lads beside me were broken out to swarm his nightmare any medicine for him at all or anything as mom to got some painkillers for a while ago yeah and he's been there all for night as well yep mm-hmm a young lad doesn't know young lad of 11 he has a broken wrist nothing happened oh my word okay yeah all right sounds like absolute chaos mary it really does um i does indeed yes and then what you have too you've got people and i'm sure you're one of them that then you know don't want to hold anyone else up or you can go in front of me or whatever but everyone's got their own problems to try and get sorted that's right yeah mary thanks thanks for your insights no problem all right keep it updated all right mary thank you okay well indeed thank you very much bye bye that's mary there's uh 18 hours um coming up in the emergency department she is uh has a suspected clot in her leg a suspected clot in her arteries i think she mentioned didn't she and uh she has not been seen yet she's had an acg and nothing else no medicine and you heard from mary they're sitting alongside young fellas in this case uh with clearly what sounded very much like broken ankles and broken wrists no x-rays yet they've all been sitting there overnight um summon wheelchairs mary herself on a hard chair she's had tea and toast and a blanket and thankful to the staff of course but um another listener was in contact with me um i won't give her name uh just because there's probably but i'll just read what they say and they've sent me um they sent me a video as well i mean a and e uh the manager just came around this is exactly what uh my last guest was talking about the manager came round and announced that if anyone feels they can go home and return tomorrow morning they say it's a disgrace i'm up with my wee girl for an x-way we've been here since 20 past five yes to the evening i still have not been triaged i got calpol because i asked uh took into triage and took the calpol sent out um and no word about the injuries that was at 10 to 8 last night that's when i got that message and then i got an update at 20 past seven this morning so that's uh another 11 hours later i've been to bed and everything hi greg i'm still here i'm still sitting here with four other parents 14 hours now waiting on a simple x-ray um and that's their situation and we might actually get to speak to that person if they're still um still there and to get an insight a further insight as to what is going on there and people's experiences uh why can't gps help you the same way anymore i don't understand why is this the way i don't think gps ever really could do x-rays and stuff but as i said before in the program i remember going back going back quite some time ago that um you'd go and get an x-ray in the hospital in donningall town there was no talk of going up to letecranny or anything like that uh right okay uh let's take a quick break back with more stay tuned by the way watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com celebrating 50 years of rugby and the official opening of their new changing rooms ini shown rugby club will host holster versus 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you might remember we had dana on the show and played the song out there not so long ago and she's been singing it to a number of places and of course it would make perfect sense for her to do so this evening to mark this this anniversary i'm delighted to welcome on to the show bishop donal mccune now good morning to you bishop thanks so much for your time today you're very welcome today good to talk to you again yes indeed 150 years it's a long time what is the focus of this anniversary because i suppose you try and pick a theme do you or well i i suppose it's enough opportunity like all anniversaries are whether it's the good friday agreement or a birthday or anything else it sounds to look back on the past with gratitude to enable us to look forward to the future with confidence and so it's it many ways it celebrates a stage in this cathedral's life in that they began planning shortly after the catholic emancipation act of 1829 in other words the mid 1830s and actually we took 100 years before it was completed and and and paid for 1936 a full 100 years so what we're celebrating this week is the opening of the building on the 4th of may 1873 and celebrating all the the things that have happened and only people have come from it you asked about the theme we chose three themes to highlight just this place one was women and the shirt factories and marie horton has done an absolute masterpiece of a charitable and a mightier for use in the cathedral here celebrating the shirt factory women um talent that they had and the contribution they made not just to making shirts but to building communities as it happened sunday we emphasized the mission to young people who really are in a desperate situation in terms of stress and distress and loneliness with the blessing yesterday of the statue of blessed carlowa it is that young 15 year old saint from italy who died in 2006 and we emphasize the environment as well with the presentation last sunday of two oaks uplings for every parish in the diocese so we've tried to to to take up themes like that that can be quite concrete yeah and i mean it's got a a wonderful history and i'm sure it's had a a huge impact on so many people's spiritual lives and outside of the the spiritual element of it if you separate the two so all of that will be be marked i would say there's just so many memories that people have those that are still with us and those that have passed associated with with this great building i hope so yeah i'm a stranger here i i'm only nine years in dairy so anything that happened before 2014 is all alien to me but we had the apostolic nuncio with the pope's ambassador to ireland who only arrived in ireland tuesday of last week he came to us on sunday and took part in the ceremony and as he was leaving the cathedral he said to me bishop you have a living community here and i hope that's what we can celebrate a community that enjoys coming together a community that's turned out in great numbers over this past couple of days a community that's proud of its identity and it wants to continue to be an active civic partner and making this a wonderful city and it has done down through the years so yeah i think it's a time for for recognizing yes maybe famous people bishop kelly who was the man mainly involved in building the cathedral but the enormous numbers of ordinary people who simply have used this as a place to come to laugh to cry to celebrate to hug to be comforted to sell all of those things um i hope we can we can sort of see it as a as a faith community particularly this evening somebody was at the office an element of the cathedral at the mother church of the diocese yesterday was young people but today is the local parish community yeah a statue has been commissioned for the cathedral as well as part of these celebrations can you tell us a little bit about that yes as i mentioned there's this young guy carlo right okay yes i didn't pick that up okay go ahead bishop sorry yes we decided um with a special emphasis on on how to be hand how to be hand on mercy and healing and hope to young people who as you know yourself are suffering so much from stress and distress mental illness fear about the future progeny of relationships violence on the streets all of those things how can we find someone who in the midst of all of that offers hope so we actually commissioned a carved statue from orteez a in the north of italy of president carlo with his his mother sent us a lock of his hair so we hope that it can become a place that will enable young people to find strength and courage with their consolation to believe that they too can be saints and they like many people before them can be a blessing on the world by their commitment to justice environment to peace to love to forgiveness to reconciliation and all of those things so it's meant to be just a symbol of of that call to holiness that we want all young people to hear to be heroes in their own time yeah and as you mentioned there's been a number of masses already tonight at 7 30 p.m. you will be celebrating a mass bishop as i mentioned dana will be singing the song she released recently which is a great story in and of itself behind it dedicated saint patrick at the mass everybody is welcome it should be a very special occasion i think it will be yes somebody was a diocesan mass will be a people from every parish and water was brought from every parish in the diocesan blessed and then we were all sprinkled but that was used yesterday as well this is the local event this is the parish event this is where everybody is about to come along whether you've been here a lot recently or whether your granny used to come here and you talk about it or whether you saw it on on the webcam during lockdown this is meant to be much more of a relaxed local community event and ice cream vans afterwards and all of that sort of thing it's a celebration of the community that has has has made this a sacred place by by by their prayers and by the feet that they've walked in and out of it so often all hours of the day and night so i hope that the celebration of their local identity and of their confidence in terms of facing the future as well what's the last nine years been like for you bishop what have you learned about the community go yourself it's a very talented city uh and obviously the cathedral parish and the long tour parish are large parts of that it's a very talented community in terms of music in terms of artistic creativity in terms for example of that fabulous chalice chathable that marie horton has made at home this is a commitment to artistry there are gracious people who i saw that especially at the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday they can look back on the past with all its pain and all its distress and yet sort of say yeah we have compassion of where we were a bit like the town i love so well um phil colter song looking back on times were tough and just about enough but we saw it free without complaining there were happy days and so many ways in the town i love so well there are gracious people who have been able to become i think great in their own way not despite what they suffered but particularly because they suffered so much together but it was discrimination or violence or whatever else so i i think it's a big enough place to have huge numbers of tourists coming to us and small enough to have a sense of being homely so i i feel blessed to be here after 36 years in belfast i'm looking forward to them burying me whenever the time comes well we shouldn't talk about that for a while uh bishop thank you very much indeed okay okay take care of yourself thank you very much indeed that's uh bishop uh donal mccown there right 08 660 25 000 is the whatsapp and text number or call us an 07 491 25 000 increased sales of electric vehicles EVs have not made a dent in transport emissions a leading expert has said and he has called for SUVs to be phased out of the market trinity college doublin professor in the department of civil structural and environmental engineering brian corefield said ever-increasing sales of SUVs or sports utility vehicles are canceling out the emission benefits of EVs contributing to transport emissions rising just when they should be uh falling shane odonohu is a motoring journalist an editor at complete car and he joins us now they're coming for your SUVs uh shane i mean i understand the point uh he is trying to make in that you know we are seeing quite a big proportion of of new car sales now being uh either full electric or some variants on it but the streets are a throng with big big cars with one or two people in them yeah um i mean i will point out a different dessert but that i don't care whether people buy SUVs or what kind of cars they prefer i don't have any preference myself but i do think the angle here is wrong um i think you know brian's obviously a very intelligent guy he knows what he's talking about but i think he's got the car market wrong and he doesn't understand car the car market and car engineering actually um the term SUV is just too broad now once upon a time you know SUVs the the the phrase was imported from the US and it very much defined a very big huge vehicle and in fact when the people like brian talk about safety of SUVs um and the size they got but they still refer to american data a lot of the time whereas when you look at the market in ireland the new car market in particular the top 10 and actually i looked it again this morning you need to go to the the 40th best selling car in ireland before you get to an SUV that's large it's very big are you you want to buy like a big seven seat or like you know something that might not look tiny beside a car at the lights in the us yeah absolutely so the top selling cars in in ireland are um they're actually used to be called crossovers and it's probably the car makers own fault for marketing them as SUVs when really they're crossovers yeah they're a bit they are larger than hatchbacks and smaller cars but they're not these gigantic you know stories like this actually when you see in the media are often illustrated by old Range Rovers or big four by fours where and that's actually not the majority of the market isn't that at all yeah the majority of them are out they you know two-wheel drive maybe 1.6 1.7 diesel engine 1.3 petrol engine and then some combination of a hybrid uh low brake horsepower probably about 120 130 you know these aren't the big gas guzzlers that people might associate with SUVs then no when people hear the phrase SUV though those are the things that come to mind the the phrase gas guzzler the Chelsea tractors of that but ireland isn't completely overrun by such things um yeah the vehicles we have for the most part are relatively small engines as you said two will drive a lot of time actually um and again looking through the the new car sales a huge number of them are hybrids are plug-in hybrids and so Brian's point about the offset just purely on the offset of emissions that he he's discussed it isn't quite right even that just looking the top two sellers it's the Haena Tucson and the Kia Sportage this year yes more than half of each of them are selling more diesels than anything um boss nearly half in each case are hybrids or plug-in hybrids and they come with very low emissions so his masses don't and also too i'd want to know are they taking cars away from bosses and lorries uh if you know what i mean because i i had imagined just a slight pivot in the car trade would that really have as big of an impact and the overall output of of pollutants i wonder i don't know if he has figures only for cars uh or if it is across the board um i know i think in this particular instance uh it seems to be you know an anti anti-svv message um and it's something that uh Brian in particular has has been you saying for we love SUVs in this country though we do love Brian obviously doesn't like them and that's fine but the the Irish love an SUV they're the most popular body shape at the moment aren't they am i correct in saying that uh yeah it's kind of hard to the way the uh semi the society of Irish motor industry defines body styles is a bit all overplay sometimes um if you look on its website now it's saying that the hatchback is actually the top selling body style in the country um but there's no doubt look i'm you can't get away from the fact that SUVs or crossovers realistically are far more popular than they've ever been um but you know what what's the alternative people are buying them for a reason okay sometimes you will see people commuting and on they're on their own and vehicles bigger than they want um bigger than they need i mean um but most of the time people choose a car that they need so by banning larger cars or penalizing people that buy larger cars you're going to be penalizing families for instance that we do need but we were talking yesterday about um the waste awareness plan you know and about how we need to get into how we handle our waste and i was putting it to to my guess that you know well we have to we our stuff comes in packaging you know it's not necessarily awful we don't want the packaging we export on boats our recycled waste out of here in other words they ask us to do stuff all the time but i think the powers that we need to do what they need to do and one of those things in the area of motoring is motoring is proper alternatives like we are just up the road here from letter kenny shane and if you want to get around letter kenny you probably need to take your car we don't have you know a modern electric bus service that circles the town a couple of times of an hour that gives us a couple of years to sort of change how we think if you live in mallinhead it's not easy to get to letter kenny university hospital if you need to do you know what i mean so i think before they they push us out of the vehicles they need to be giving us fair alternatives give us a fair crack at the whip chain i think you've made that point yourself yeah absolutely that points we made here before with you Greg that um you know this this anti-car rhetoric is fine and yeah and in an ideal world we'd all be zooming about in electric trams or whatever absolutely but the reality in Ireland right now and you don't even need to go uh to letter kenny you know even even very close to Dublin there's the public transport is not good enough it's not fit for purpose well a study out today whilst you're saying it ranks Dublin with the it's got the worst it's got the worst public transport in Europe of a capital city that's right capital city yeah yeah absolutely and there's no doubt about it um and you know there are lots of there's lots of talk about improving it but it's taking a very very long time and that's just in the city what hope have we for you know smaller towns in Ireland and people need cars we we we have to drop this anti-car rhetoric and instead encourage people to drive more efficient cars you know to to choose cars that are better for the environment um and and yet within that we need to accept that people need cars of a certain size sometimes and also we've got a free market you know you can't just say everybody has to drive a micro car it's just not realistic okay uh before I let you go we were talking yesterday about uh so some of you plans it seems to be uh to our 16 year old said drive cars uh and and we had a lot of people contact us no one for it uh and also to a couple of professional drivers who said it having a limiter on a car would be problematic because they as lorry and bus drivers it takes a lot of experience and time to actually be able to drive with that with that uh with with that limit on but anyway we got no one who thought this was a good idea uh do we have someone on the line today who thinks it's a good idea and you Shane no I'm afraid not no I'm absolutely strongly against the idea as well made mainly for road safety reasons I agree I think the speed limit thing is completely unworkable as well but yeah mainly for road safety I think it's a really bad idea we've seen in other jurisdictions for instance in the US where some states allow it the fatality and crash rate among 16 year olds even in comparison to 18 and 19 year olds is significantly higher all the data points were being really bad idea that's it that's a fate of complete really isn't it that it shouldn't happen if if if we have statistics that show uh an increase in infertilities then that should be enough shouldn't it I don't know who's driving this or where it could come from and we don't have the roads really the multi-lane roads that you might need to accommodate someone ticking along at 45 kilometers per hour it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen yeah I agree and in fact the whole idea of it is uh has come from countries that want to help mobility in rural areas um and you know those roads are even smaller and less safe again so can you imagine can you imagine somebody flying along an 80 kilometers in our road and come around the corner and suddenly there's you know a 16 year old driving a car limit to 45 kilometers an hour um no I think it's a really bad idea yeah and let's face it our traffic laws are a basket case as it is and we can't even really figure out how to to get scooters on the road or not uh so I think I was trying to figure out how to to sort out 16 year olds that's even if we wanted to I think it's about 20 years down the line anyway yeah there's there's so much we have to fix about the country and road safety on our roads before we could even shouldn't consider such a thing all right this is great traffic on the show as always thank you so much uh take care of yourself that is Shane oh don't know who is the motoring journalist and editor with complete car check them out online for more information what do you all think about that 08 660 25 000 that's what's absent text from outside uh the republic 0035 386 60 25 000 give us a call on 0749 125 000 as well we have paul coming up after 11 uh taking your gardening questions so if you want to question for paul get them into us now we have seen rapid growth now we're right in it aren't we we're in the fun zone in terms of getting outside and even if you don't have a garden maybe you've got a windowsill maybe you've got a little space uh a little space at a flat a small balcony maybe you want to know if there's something you can do with that you don't have to always have some uh big luxurious green space to ask a question of uh paul right okay we are going to speak to another person heavily impacted by what's going on at the letter kenny university hospital after this break if you've been the victim of a crime it can sometimes feel like you've been left in the dark with nowhere to turn for answers or support but help is always available no matter who you 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details hold your memories in your hand with mcgee's chemist letter kenny okay we heard from mary who has been in letter kenny university hospital overnight um keeping the brave face on it seemingly um gerildine is another person who's been stuck in the hospital for a long time now thanks for for taking the call gerildine no sleep i'd imagine hi gray how are you i'm all right um yeah no i'm just pulled i'm here i'm just still on the way home from letter kenny um i've must have been probably 15 hours at that stage um we probably got out around half nine this morning from 20 past five yesterday evening and the reger there just had uh just needed an x-ray and there was about another four um parents there with their kids as well that needed x-rays and we were all sitting they were still there when i left and um the nurse that's called the purpose only came on there this morning and she couldn't believe that we weren't told you know last night to come back this morning at eight o'clock because that's when they start so in other words you said that you sat there all night and it's not that you were in a queue there was actually no one on that would do the x-rays like they were giving us hope that you know the doctor would get around to us and um maybe get an x-ray so we were going with that but like like i kept going on asking you know like where am i now and they were saying all your number seven now your number five spell number five and like you know that kind of that that keeps us going that we might be seen for sure the next thing i looked out the window was daylight you know like it's it's an awful long time like the weekend had to go to the car and have a sleep do you know what i mean i had to pull the car up near the door so that i would see her out the window she must have been exhausted and in pain too so you went into the staff yeah we'll get to that if you don't mind Geraldine but you went in at 25 past five obviously she yeah your daughter uh uh injured her ankle i think it was wasn't it so when you know it was her wrist her wrist so when you went in then you would have thought right we might be here till 10 or 11 o'clock talk to us about how do you talk to us about how the evening went because i think then you also heard the manager come in like mary did at about 10 to half seven say look at yeah i can't remember exactly whatever time i had i did had text you or whatever just to let you know what was going on and um so we came out and announced to say whoever wants to go whoever can go home to go home i'm going to return in the morning you know but not meaning like we were still thinking that we were going to be x-ray you know what i mean um so like we stayed like my daughter was very sore and um like that i as i said i got cowbell and i was taken in the triage nurse um gave us a cowbell and didn't really ask anything else and sent us backwards so like i had to go back into triage again right okay so then that what was overnight like you talked about your daughter uh being able to get out to the car which is not ideal having to pull the car close to the door you yourself stuck on a chair were you and there was another person as well that pulled third car because their son had um an injury to his ankle and he was waiting on x-ray and like there were so many there that was there was a bunch of us there that there was probably 10 between the kids and the adults there was 10 people that could have went home and came back up for eight o'clock this morning instead of that whole everybody lying on any and at one stage there was a woman with a child lying on the floor because she couldn't um she needed are we asleep yeah she actually put a blanket on the floor and lying on the floor right and there was very little communication overnight i'd imagine no like we we went on for updates but we were told like that is your number seven your number five and the hope that we would soon be seen but the hours passed and the past and never we were never seen and um then eventually like very early morning as i'm like maybe around seven or whatever um the nurse says to me you know the purple um zone that deals with the injuries you know for x-rays and all is starting at eight o'clock so i was like so you mean tell me now it's going to be eight o'clock you know as i'm so she was like yeah they deal with that so i'm fairness um when they did come on i went back in and um the the nurse there couldn't believe that they didn't tell us all to go home and return at eight o'clock this morning because they could have said to you up to eight o'clock last evening they could could have said sorry people but the injury docs are off duty now eight o'clock and won't return to eight o'clock in the morning you could have gone home and then returned yeah absolutely we could have all returned and like the way like all the ways they were they were all knackered they were lying trying to get comfortable nobody was comfortable it was just it was awful and like there was another older lady and she was there in her room and not one person came out there was people like taking her to the toilet and getting her coffee tea and like she was there on her own and nobody came out to look at her like i don't know like to me the management system is just i just i don't know what to say have you ever seen anything like it i really don't i do you know what i've been up on a me before but i from the time that i walked into that hospital yesterday evening i thought oh my god there was people standing everywhere but like regards to x-rays there should be a room where people have taken four x-rays and get them and get them out there's no need for like say 10 or 12 people that need x-rays to be sitting there like 15 hours yeah so that's just picking up space for people that you know the mean like that is really sick you know that kind of way yeah well 104 people were in there at one stage we were told uh your daughter's wrist not broken i take it tendon damage or something no it's badly it's actually badly sprained and she's just blunt on it's lying for two weeks so right and that often is the case you're seeing if we could get people like her through the x-ray quicker use would be in and out do you know what i mean i just i just don't yeah i just don't get it right okay listen i better let you back on the road and get some sleep if you can okay probably don't with all the other life responsibilities oh don't but come here listen thanks very much for keeping me updated and helping us to tell this story i appreciate it safe home and best wishes to your daughter thanks and hopefully it heals up really quick thanks very much indeed for that paddy's with us too paddy what was your experience it wasn't last night but uh you were in the hospital you went in on friday evening did you yeah it's great i went down on uh friday morning and um i had some white pains or and the chest on friday morning and i struggled on as long as i could and i'd come to a stage in general just i couldn't the pain was that bad so i landed up and um i was on now in fairness i got on the back after ambulance and then i got that so saturday morning saturday morning i was on and they turned around and they says right we're sending you down for a cardiac investigations for a stress test on tuesday tuesday at some time so i says right that's grand what do i do can i go home and free this bed up and come back on tuesday as outpatients or something like that oh no no no no you have to stay here in that bed and i says there's a woman down that corridor she's 83 years of age she's lying certain in a wheelchair all night and she asked the night porter to turn around and give her two pillows and your man says what do you want the two pillows for she says i'm feared to fall off this wheelchair and split myself a five fall asleep she says all that i want is to lie and that floor there and two pillows and your man says oh no no no no you can't you can't lie down there so this is 83 years of age very great she says will you win me out that that place the out past the the canopy the day and the your man says oh no no no you'll be grand that woman lay there all night day i think it was about half half three and then i was setting up lying up in a bed that i'd i was well fed to go home and come back up on tuesday morning and i all day tuesday past i've come a stage where i says right i'm gonna walk down here to this cardiac investigations to see what's going on i walk down and i says to them i says it's part of him off of here i says i was to get on and give a a stress test on here the day and i says she locked up the thing she says you're not even your name is not even on this and just as that i had to i had to get out of there i said so you're you're saying that i'm not i'm lying in the bed all the weekend and i wasn't even booked on the doctors didn't even book me and the management and that miss craig has to go and everybody and dunagall and around here needs to get behind this and drive this on now keep that drive because that there's people line up there that woman was it i it didn't matter to me but there's people there at 83 and 85 90 years of age that's cruel so that is not humane at this day and age and i'll put money or whatever they need to take the money out of somewhere else and pump it until like it's not that's not to say that i think you are or something else this is that's people in there and the politicians are a waste of time here in this county here everyone and i would tell anyone on that tether face and i'm telling it in the live radio now the whole thing i have never witnessed this to what i witnessed at the weekend and i come up i come up i was out the back then yesterday footing about uh i just just poisoned land in the hospital and i come out to get um to get front and on i was just and then you're out of breath they don't know they've never even done the test and the thing is not even booked on all right so you're still i don't know like i don't know what's going on you know well patty make i know you're worried about other people but look make sure you're you're you're looking after yourself if you had chest pains and you're short of breath too do you know what i mean you have to make sure that you look after yourself too patty okay i know but that's the management i'm the place okay the management like a man lying in the bed for saturday sunday monday and all day tuesday and if i was there the day i would still be sitting and that thing wasn't even booked i went down to that shone office and that man hasn't even run like i'm only that's not what i tell you i'm not there's men on there with arms what not hanging out from i'm i'm not i mean thank god but there's people worse off than me yeah a lot worse off than me and if they don't do something about it i tell you that place there that i took a walker in it yeah the plaster is even hanging out the walls their dampness out and the door is going on and out of the place the place has a shams all right patty listen all right i have to head for the news patty make sure to look after yourself will you all right greg no go right get off look after yourself take care arville stop playing with the bluffs and burn harry does he look like he wants a face tattoo teaching kids what's right and wrong is important that's why bank of irelander teaching over 418 thousand students in primary and secondary schools the financial literacy skills that will help them get it right in later life because your financial well-being is our priority register your school today search bank of ireland schools bank of ireland begin bank of ireland is regulated by the central bank world fantastic value at homeland letter kenny gardens centered this saturday 6th of may with a garden super saturday summer flowering bulbs and all roses by to get one free heavy duty six-seater picnic bench only 179 euro gas barbecue now only 179 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this year's budget steven donnelly's announcement comes the day before he's due to address the biggest nursing union in the country the irish nurses and midwives organization published a survey yesterday that raised concerns about workplace stress meanwhile the iron imo's industrial relations officer for the northwest need donna who says while there has been an increase in recruitment at letter kenny university hospital staff are still struggling to deal with the high attendances at the hospital he says 60 additional nurses are required in the medical surgical and emergency departments currently dunagall county council's housing committee has been told that the authority must look at acquiring some larger properties to meet the need that exists in the county the call came from councillor jeremy monagle who told members that there are many larger families on the council's housing list who will not be catered for under the council's current building policy a failure by government has forced people with disabilities to spend an extra nine thousand euro a year on transport that's the claim from the regional technical group of td's as it renews its call for the greater grants and supports for those with mobility the carelock of the lyft sternone municipal district sends the closure of the castle fin credit union is a huge blow the valley buffet and sternone credit union announced that the service in castle fin would cease to operate on july the second due to the termination of its tendency up the premises efforts are being made to secure an alternative building and zero pesticide exceedances were identified in public drinking water supplies in dunagall last year it marks a significant reduction in the number of exceedances for pesticides and public drinking water supplies in the county those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much indeed sleeves rolled up mayo on the chin your mates side iron the fancy bun saving the crispy coating crumbs for last now that's how you know it's good the mcrispy from mcdonald's with 100 chicken breast fillers for those that know chicken oh that's mine from 11 a.m subject to availability all right um lots of you messaging in as you can imagine uh we're going to take a break from those calls in a moment just to answer all your gardening questions so stay right where you are but just i want to get to some of these uh comments why aren't people going straight into out in the gulf and my mother was seen in 15 minutes with no weight i'm not really quite sure how that works to be honest with you not the less of a weight just going to that hospital instead uh letter kenny hospital is a pure nightmare greg and has been ignored long and often investigation needs to be done on how bad this is the poor nurses are just so under pressure they can't cope uh that woman in the ed marry that is its ridiculous system they say hi greg we unfortunately had to attend letter kenny ed yesterday with a 15 year old we waited over 15 and a half hours it was excruciating staff could not believe how busy it was no human should have to go through that um and there's a couple of other things on different topics there here we go we need to grill these tds in the hospital management and ask the hard questions we are paying taxes for this treatment what service do we get in return it's a disgrace and last for now i'm a farmer and i can get a lamb seen to 24 seven for x-rays it's unbelievable big changes need to uh get underway they say indeed and that's the care of an animal um not necessarily the care of a human all right let's uh pivot a little away from those issues which we will return to by the way and welcome into studio and i'll poll McLaughlin from Balakdur garden center good morning to you poll good to have you in what's the story the story is we've been colder today than had been for a few days we're kind of spoiled for a while there but yeah indeed but the weather temperature wise and what have you's going to pick up again as we head into next week and i read in the papers today uh they're predicting an El Niño might have a really positive impact if you like hot weather on our weather but anyway you know yeah we'll take it if we get it paper doesn't refuse in Keith though so i don't know how i don't know how true it is it was the beast from the east cell was coming every one third oh that's it i presume the uh a bit of moisture around and a slightly warmer temperature is good for growth though it sounds like it's very very much it would be i at growth quite slow with the minute the temperature over sort of the late spring has been quite low for for the time of year so growth has been a bit slow but hopefully a wee bit of moisture now and but a heat everything should kick off nicely yeah indeed um right okay so um people have been getting out i think the first cuts a lot of people if they're lucky enough to have a bit of grass they've got out and got their first cuts it's all safe in that regard isn't it yes i for a risk of frost or anything no there'll be no no there'll be no frost to do grass any harm or anything that got there if you know what means we're not i think at the stage most of the danger frost has passed all right so there is a possibility though that people are lulled into some sort of false sense of the weather in that it hasn't necessarily been glorious but it hasn't been very wet either so you know what do we need to make sure we're ensuring gets enough water at this time yes pretty much anything in parts of them and anything you've established new this year say anything you planted over the spring or even late last year back in the autumn time just take a wee look at it and see if it requires water if you think and if you think if you're in any doubt if it's in the ground throw throw a half a bucket on it lull it no harm but definitely potted plants especially stuff like people with the boxes at the front door um it's been quite dry and it's actually the wind at the minute is quite drying so it's definitely worth throwing a wee bit on them yeah how do you probably water these plants then you know i mean let's get back to the first time you ever walked through this door the type of question i might ask but yes you know you talk about the drying whether it's drying the top of the soil is it when you watering your plants what's the most effective way to water them why do you put the water just basically on top of the soil yeah depending what you have if you have someone's particularly flowery it's better just do on top of the soil because if you actually moisten the flowers don't tend to drop off a bit earlier so the wood so generally a couple of times a week and a potted plant say at the front of the door front of the house there a couple of times a week give it a good soak and once your pot is good drainage you can't really over water in the sense that the excess water the plant will take what it needs and the rest will drain away yeah so it's better to air in the the side of too much than too little yeah i think a lot of people out there if they did more a bit of land that they might have will have found it riddled with moss yes dependent where it is yes moss has been a huge problem this year all right so it has and generally once again a good rake and a good scarifying this time of year would help remove it and if you do remove moss or especially a big area moss it's important to oversee the grass seed because the actual if you don't recognize the grass it's just an open area for the moss to come back in again okay so then let's talk about how you properly seed it then yeah generally if you're using a machine such as a scarifier or someone it's cutting channels in the soil as it is so that will have roughened up the surface and it will look quite shocking to begin with it can do all right so it can it can look very sort of bare and butchered for a while but it's two weeks it'll be back to back to itself again hopefully better than ever so just throw the seed down mix it with a bit of sand mist a bit of a bit of peat what what what's pretty much a bit of compost but a seed it's not so much that the nutrients to be on the ground to grow it but uh peat and uh sand keeps it moisture so it's just if you get a dry period then the seed doesn't actually dry it out and score and you just sprinkle it you don't have to compact it or anything no no just sprinkle it on the top okay and in terms of matching right now part of my ignorance on this I presume all grass is green is it yes uh so he doesn't like you're not going to find yourself getting a different breed of grass that's going to look like a big green patch rather than it can it can happen all right generally you have grass seeding of lawn seed lawn seed comes in three grades you have number one which is more less bowl and green number two would be the most common which is sort of a nice lawn and number three then we sort of a rougher version on grassy like a farmer would use so generally farmers go for species of grass that'll be thicker in the blade so you get more bulk for silage or yeah of course all right and if you use that on a garden you would be you'd be sick of my one basically uh do how do you know whether or not at this time of year that your lawn needs feeding uh generally if you're going to be taken out I would sort of assume at the stage that it probably does unless it's a lush green a lush green bone green if you know what I mean but uh the notion would be sort of assume that you do if you're in any doubt take a couple of pictures drop into your local garden centre and they'll be able to advise you on what what would be best right I think the last time you were in we were I think we were expecting a bit of frost in the coming days and there was some war warnings about uh you know gardeners not being too um keen in planting so what's the story now with bedding plants uh bedding plants I would cautiously say you're good to go yeah um I would definitely said that last night today it's a slightly different story the fact that the ones picked up a good bit if you're to put baskets out to a tender plant in them it would actually they'd be in slight danger you better keep in the movie but sheltered but for the most part for the danger of frost to be granted don't any sort of caveat I would put on that would be the marigolds or cosmos sort of African based plants like that would be particularly frost they'd want a few more degrees at night to be to be confident of them now but if you have like sort of first communion season people of weddings going up so I would if you have an occasion come up I'll certainly put out the put out the baskets but if you can afford to wait waiting a week at this time of year could actually stretch your plants almost a month at the back end right so these when we talk about potted plants sorry to to rehash old questions we are talking that's window boxes hanging baskets as well isn't it right okay um right fruit trees fruit trees yes hugely popular since covid they've actually been hugely popular right that's they've sort of had a re-emergence of them if you know we have apples in the apocalypse is that pretty much your apple apples and your cherries and stuff like that but now fruit trees the climate I don't think all is particularly suited to growing fruit trees they tend to do very well so they do so actually your apples cherries plums and pears pears can be easy to grow but they can be quite hard to get to ripen because we don't have the correctly grey sunshine but they're they're trees for the garden it even if you have a small garden they're a great tree for that because you could blossom at this time of year and you have the benefit of getting the fruit at the back end of the year yeah any particular place in the garden to plant them um generally no any anywhere's kind of suitable because they are decorative enough to uh be like to be nice looking even if you have some of the centerpiece too don't they in the yeah absolutely because like I say you have the flowers the same year and the fruits can actually be quite decorative almost in the autumn time too yeah so when you buy to plant a fruit tree what are you actually buying buying how mature is it uh generally the ones we would sell down there you'd be chatting it'll probably three four years old and it'll be like five feet around that sort of five six feet depending on the variety and you will get fruit on cause the grafted trees you will get fruit on them the first year right okay um how long before that might mature into a what looks like an established tree yeah pretty much established tree after about five years you could have a decent size tree you had me up until five years but you're constantly getting fruit all the time so you have you have someone to keep your interest yeah I know I know and in terms of how you and obviously during the purchase process uh the the customer would be advised but um how do you plant that in your garden then yeah pretty much it'll come in a pot or a bag yeah bring it home dig a hole sort of the same depth as the pot but twice as wide break up the soil nicely add a wee bit of fertilizer and you're good to go yeah and you know as you say they look good they they blossom and all and I think too we we're always trying to get our children to eat different types of food and if you can sort of go from the tree to the to the plate to the belly yes absolutely if you invest them in the process of growing the food actually it definitely does have a good effect on their consumption of it all right I have um I have lilies coming up in pots I think there's a bug attacking them what can I do right generally lilies it could be bugs or probably more likely to be slugs so the first thing probably do is be vigilance and keep in terms of see see what is attacking it and you're gonna treat it appropriately if you want to go in the chemical route sort of you get organic slug pellets now they're sort of they're based on salts that dry out the slug row and uh used to be the old toxic ones they've sort of gone off the market now so you have that sort of lois I would say possibly slugs if it's um if it's aphids or something like that attacking it there are sprays you get or you could even try the garlic spray yeah and turn the wheel how far have we as as the public moved away from using toxic chemicals uh have you found generally there definitely is um uh more conscientiousness there in terms of not just been found chemicals that stuff and people are definitely looking for sort of more organic ways around it but there so unfortunately some infections and plants like if you're if you have a valuable plant there unfortunately sometimes the chemical route is the only way to get out but you can sort of exhaust other things first yeah what about leatherback worms this uh caller's lawn is uh run with them and I seem to get rid huge problem this year there are sprays you can get um they're more your garden centers can't really sell them at the moment they're more geared towards agriculture for crops and stuff so if you ask and like see your local farm supply shop they should be able to advise you on sprays the if it's a small lawn the traditional way to do it was covered with black plastic get up and down and remove the black plastic though all been surfaced and then the birds will come and do the work for you but it's not foolproof by any means no and it's not it's hit and miss presumably that's very hit and miss and you'll never get the whole population yeah what's the best way to keep a brick path clear of weeds and grass between bricks cheers now I did say one of the discount stores I think is one of the the yolks that the brush yeah yeah um but now if you've got uh a presume if you have um sand or cement in between them those yeah brushes could be quite aggressive towards them they can be quite aggressive dealer away generally what I would out the back of my house I prefer like a bricks and just a power hose at once a year and it's just a matter of keeping on top of the weeds then by like you say using one of them brushes and raking them yeah and I would sort of because we've a cat knocking about it would be conscientious you do many chemicals that sort of thing but there is actually if you look up on google can't remember the recipe now but there is an organic weed killer you can make up a space and vinegar ebsom salts and phylic would yeah and the thing with those beads organic or otherwise it doesn't happen straight away there's a process that has to it takes two or three weeks doesn't it generally it does actually if you put on some of the more chemical or round up or someone like that there the weed actually grows more vigorously for about three days because it's in the growing process that it brings in the brings in the product if you know what I mean there you go all right but not generally like I say I wash it once a year and it's sort of manageable after yeah I get you I've got horse tail taking over my lawn how do I tackle it uh horse tail or mare tails generally is one of the things that unfortunately chemicals are pretty much the only foolproof way to go on and cause they've got a very waxy coating on them the best thing to do is get a big stick and bat them for a while which breaks up the it takes out your frustrations with them and it breaks up the surface so then they'll take in the chemical yeah and they grow quick too as well they grow very quick and it's the nature of them the if you go to politics it just breaks off yeah the roots still there they're survivors they've been about since the time of the dinosaurs I reckon yeah um so it is and you can get a chemical it's it seems to be it's the only option you can get one that will not damage the lawn it just attacks them no for them it's generally someone's a sort of a kill all really yeah so you'd have to sort of patch patch test if you know what I mean do you used to be a very effective one for it there was a powder based one but that's but five years ago it's been banned right okay that's how bad they are okay uh does Paul agree with no more may I think I'll try it myself now this is a presumed to allow the dandy lines and what have you you know to listen to the birds and feed the bees yes absolutely not no more way no more may it's very hard to say actually but has become a big thing actually there's a thinking about in the post though I say we leave it about it actually sort of promoting it there but yes if if you have the sort of patience for it and have the area for it it is a very effective way of helping along pollinators this time of year generally they reckon a queen bee needs the pollen of 6000 flowers a day this time of year to set up the colony and all that and dandelions are one of the major sources of it yeah so it is so if you if you have the patience and have the are happy enough to do it definitely it is worth doing but I mean obviously for some it can look messy yes and it can look like you're not looking after your house and also to by the time June comes around it could be a streamer job or a double cut and people probably have you know a cheap lawn mower that's not really fit like this I get where people come from and what if we can do we should do but I think practically for some it's just a non-runner and suppose suppose if everybody did someone along going to sort of dedicate an area if you are lucky enough to have a big garden dedicated an area of it that you could let rewild a bit so and could be sort of out of sight but not everybody is that luxury if you know what I mean exactly something's eating leaves off of climbing hydrangea plant what do you do well um what would you do there someone like you could try the alfalfa liquid just to try and remove it if it is if it's doing the damage at this time of year the new fresh leaves coming out in the hydrangea would be quite sweet so things will tend to attack it so um feeling that you could try your garlic spray as well to actually make it unpalatable to the to the things that's just matter boil up a couple of cloves of garlic and use the water then to spray onto the plant yeah another listener their daughter's lawn is getting wrecked with leather jackets yes that's the same question effectively same thing yeah a huge problem this year yeah we hadn't we haven't what's the other than being unsightly your icky do they damage the lawn yes they do they actually you'll notice your lawn from a point just turning yellow and sort of the yellowness spreading out and they will kill the whole lawn very quickly so they will um the immature daddy long legs and what happens is about august time they lay the eggs in the soil and as the sort of larvae or whatever come out they eat the roots of the grass so your lawn could look perfect on the top but there's no roots anymore and just all of a sudden just dies off gone so i mean it's probably not practical for most people the black bag over exactly um try some of the agricultural stores they have sprays for it yeah so they do all right okay they'll be busy i think just by some of the text coming in my peonies peonies my peonies my peonies buds is turning black yes what can i do about that um sort of probably the first thing to do is check for some peonies going like that there generally the ten they're possibly even two i think they've been over watered there's sort of a fungus sets in but um just check for sort of the water level make sure there's sort of thing but they can be a fickle a fickle enough thing anyway so they can okay once again if you're in any doubt take a couple pictures and bring it bring it into your local garden center what time of the year can i plant a large magnolia tree could you ask paul please yeah magnolia is supposed to actually um magnolias come out sort of february march but once the plant's in the pot you can pot it anytime of year so the only time i'll tell you not the planting has really already happened isn't it if it's in a pot it's pretty much yeah exactly the only thing i would tell you not to do sort of month of july august because it's very dry it's hard to establish plants so but pretty much any other time of year you'd be perfect uh is it too late to prepare my soil for the summer months now absolutely not that's perfect time so what is is mulch the same as compost uh mulch and compost they'd be sort of intertwined slightly in the sense so mulch is finally finally ground up grass is it no pretty much i would people can use different things like bark mulch so they got to use bark of trees so generally a mulch is used to decorate the top of the top of a bed or even to suppress weeds whereas compost is actually to actively grow in the thing so do i accept bark would work as a mulch but it wouldn't work as a compost whereas compost can work as both all right um soil in pots people might be taking them out now and the old soil is there it looks quite dark brown looks good to go yeah but how often should you replace soil in pots uh replace soil in pots supposed to depends on the size of the pot yeah generally in what you're intended to grow because if you're doing something like summer bedding you want a good return out of them so you need a good bit of nutrition so replace if it's a very large pot i would leave a bit of third and replace two thirds if it's a small pot i would replace and mix it or just leave the stuff at the bottom right okay so it's just sort of it's working as a sump to hold water more than actually have a nutrient in it but if you are ready to be very careful check around the rooms and stuff for slug eggs something like that there all right um should i plant in containers garden beds are in the ground it's supposed to be a very very very broad question it kind of depends what you're growing um flowers are something to get out of your lacking space pots do work very well and even for sort of herbs vegetable stuff like that but if you have the space for them garden beds are probably you can grow sort of bigger more impressive plants but once again be thinking go into your garden centre and ask them what you intend to grow and they can advise you on best sort of spot for them and there's lots of people listening to us today that uh might live in a flat or an apartment or an upstairs section of a house that don't have uh any outdoor space there's absolutely no reason why they can't get involved in some of what we're talking about uh you know if they've got a window or even just a small little balcony or something to add a little bit of colour and freshness to the house funny you can actually even go back to the fruit trees there you guys should get fruit trees now geared towards balcony yeah they have two varieties the one for pollination and don't get to about a metre high but you will get a decent amount of fruit tiles cute cute too all right um which flowers last the longest in the summer uh last longest in the summer generally bedding plants like that they're if you're going perennials or someone on the ground james would be hard to beat this g-e-u-m they're very good the the both flower from now right up to almost halloween yeah if you're looking for someone for pots or baskets the if known say towns or even round pubs that you see the massive big baskets they're all based in trailing petunias which are sort of the star of the show for the summer yeah so if if you're doing up baskets that day would be the direction that we go yeah and but to maintain that longevity uh regardless of whether it's the the the the the the long-lasting ones or not it does require deadheading and care doesn't it exactly sort of watering is key obviously if if they're allowed to dry it a couple of times it really takes the life out of them so keep an eye in the water keep an eye in the deadheading and you'll she gives them right up to halloween or after what's the best way to deal with the green foliage left after the daffodils have finished flowering yes common problem and everybody's tempted to mow them off which is the wrong thing to do because that's the energy from the sun has been stored in that greenery and it wants to find its way back down to the bulb again so if you want to speed up the process the way was just to tie a knot in them it sort of takes the height down off them and makes them rot back down into the bulb a bit quicker but now just if you can avoid it at all don't be tempted if you want them back for next year exactly okay um how uh do you clear invasive ivy invasive ivy once you can depend if it's on a wall or on a tree or something like that the best thing to do is actually cut it off at the base with even with a saw or something like that and actually leave it alone then for maybe a month or six weeks the plant will actually die off and it'll become much looser to take off yeah so it will lose its grip yeah pretty much it loses its grip as it dies off but even then it can be a torture of a job yeah okay um and just back to the lawns finally can you get rid of moss on the lawn without raking it uh generally there is a sort of newish products but now we had the last couple years it's a product called mowbacter and you spread it on the lawn um it's supposed it's sort of like a fungal element to it that eats up the moss but i've used it before and it tends to work it works okay if you have a very slight case of moss if you have a heavy case of moss it's not as a moss wins pretty much right so unfortunately it out there rakes the best all right so what's the buzz in garden centers across the region now i start to see people coming in yeah funny the last two weeks since the good weather's come along it's actually been very busy um a lot of people just sort of doing their spring tidy up just maybe a wee bit late if you know what i mean and vegetables and all still a big thing even sort of into tomato season that yeah strawberries and all is very very popular at the minute and in the next couple of weeks then it'll be just all about the bed and plants yeah okay and yous have been working to get them ready for quite some time now pretty much yeah they start the last week of march we start getting the bed and plants ready yeah and they're sort of continuously coming from that on and they're some ready to go already but for the most part it's sort of into the middle of may start frame time for them excellent okay listen paul thanks very much as always i really appreciate you calling up and i think we got through pretty much well 90 95 percent of the questions that had come in we'll see you again soon thank you very much all right that's paul from balak dhara garden center we'll be back with more on the nine till noon show after we take a break stay 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after yeah and it's not just that uh there's signage being erected as you mentioned waste bags which of course have to be disposed of responsibly as well you're trying everything here in terms of trying to persuade people to do the right thing that's right yeah that's true um and it's probably only just a a handful of irresponsible dog owners if that who are responsible for this because we know the majority of dog owners are very responsible yeah well we find that all the time we have a lot of responsible dog owners but then you get the odd person in the pumps and they're just not responsible at all all right so where are these dog bags available because they've been made free for a while haven't they or at least they've been made available they're yeah they're available beside the the new play park and mobile on at the entrance to the green and then and uh there's all there was over there at laffordy's lane and there's there's buns disposable buns for these bags as well so when was all this uh when was this all launched marion actually it was just at our meeting the other night right okay so a lot of this has to be put in place yet does it well everything is available now in the resource center and mobile and then we meet every saturday morning at half eight and we meet outside the cosy cottage or at the resource center and anybody wants anything or wants to help us in any way it's quite uh free to come along all right but it might take a wee while i suppose before we find out if these initiatives actually uh fix the dogfiling problem particularly in the shore path and bath green uh areas yeah that's that's quite true people like to go for a walk and look at look at the scenery but you're looking you're looking down at your feet all the time on the path the way the the footing is it's terrible and listen we don't need to remind people but buggies people with a wheelchair a walking stick or a cane that's quite you know we know how discuss or get it on your shoes it's it's horrendous and it's it's harmful particularly to young people uh also though the leave no trace behind campaign uh that's for general waste too i presume is it marion that's quite true yeah that's that's that's for general waste yep yep all right and anything else from this anything else from this uh consultation process that jumped back out at you in terms of uh concerned actually really it it was mostly in the dogfight it was the main thing you know so if we if we tackle that now and we can see how it goes but like we have a water park mobile and they come from all over dunny gall and all over the northern irelands you know through the water park and they'll be on the green and there's nothing worse than the dogfight yeah and it should be a place where you can throw a blanket down or just sit down or walk or you know you shouldn't it shouldn't be a minefield of dog poo and in this day and age yeah there's there's plenty seats on the green that we've we've replaced all the seating in the green this year and it's all recycled plastic you know and there's not you know sure that people can put their rucks down and all that but there's plenty sitting on the green as well and can we how many of you well how many is this sort of the core membership that it's doing all this great work in the area marion there's ten of us but then we have other people we have a lot of pensioners that come out we have lorns and herniated come out every Saturday and do a clean up you know they're they're in their eighties blast that way with a lot of people that that that was come out as well but really if everybody got faster they're only would have no bother no but look at we've been trying to convince people of that for a long time marion and you mentioned too that volunteers are always welcome so talk to me about when everyone can meet up well we're there every Saturday morning from half eight and they're bound to see us about the time you know we've seen the town every Saturday morning and maybe two or three times week but always in the Saturday morning fair play um and and it's the it's the in terms of the rubbish it's the pointless stuff like takeaway boxes plastic bottles uh you know the stuff the stuff that people should take home and put in their bin for crying out loud yeah yeah we find a lot of people's cars and just throwing everything out the window beggars believe doesn't it that's quite true yeah you know and then people like yourself and others have and the two gentlemen you mentioned having to go out early mornings at the weekend and pick up the stuff they've just threw out their window on a Friday night it's crazy yeah yeah yeah they're kind of us quite every the committee quite every Saturday morning and then you maybe have the volunteers but you know yeah but progress is being made all the while you've talked about what's being made there was an initiative too wasn't there uh as it relates to uh making people think twice about the use of takeaway coffee cups that's had an impact has it yeah oh that was that was unbelievable it was unbelievable we had the coffee cups the people are still using them and then when they go into a coffee shop they get 10 percent off their coffee yeah all right okay and and I think I saw in a post too that while you do great work as well you were quick to to thank uh other groups in and around Mulville for what they've done particularly yeah yeah in the leave no trace uh arland campaign that's quite true and the community college and the schools we've everyone helps out and the Gaelic and the soccer clubs everybody helps out and everything great stuff is there a competition running at the moment finally yeah there is there's a painting competition I forget mouse and I use name I forget just what it is it was distributed around the schools yesterday brilliant stuff there's uh coloring categories four to eight uh to create a poster eight to twelve uh an awareness leaf 12 to 18 uh and competition entrance if you did get one of those uh flyers must be submitted by 5 p.m. on the 19th of May and can be given to a Maville tiny towns volunteer or handed into Maville library and Maville district family resource center so a bit of fun there as well yeah that's quite true it gets everyone involved all right keep up the great work uh Marion and we just ask people in and around Maville and every other town and village and the countryside please pick up after your dogs that's great great thank you very much bye bye Marion it's been nice speaking to you take care of yourself all right bye bye right okay uh now um we were speaking and we have a couple of times uh on this program and we spoke to um Deputy Burke about his concerns about codeine uh usage and the direction of traffic seems to be that the uh products are going to be banned Margaret O'Doherty is a regular guest on the show uh of Rafale pharmacy and uh she joins us on the program now Margaret thanks for taking the call today good to talk to you as always Greg yeah what's your reaction been to this conversation we've been having about uh the amount of prescriptions for codeine contained products and people's over reliance on them I mean you're at the call face talk to me about your reaction to the conversation that's been happening yeah well unfortunately I didn't hear your your conversation with deputy Burke so I can't comment on that but um certainly some of the headlines we've seen over the last couple of days have been quite worrying for people who are taking these medications and who have been prescribed and by their doctors for very good reasons a lot of people are suffering they suffer from chronic pain they suffer from acute pain they need to have pain relief and they need to have safe and effective pain relief and that's why they go to their doctor and that's why they get a prescription for it so it's worrying for them when they see headlines suggesting that you know everybody's addicted to these drugs which just isn't the case yeah so codeine uh or the tablets that people might be taking it becomes like a dirty word and they think they've got a problem when actually they're being properly prescribed a medicine that they need exactly I mean there is a stigma with taking any medicine and people don't take painkillers you know for what they don't have a reason to take them people do suffer from there's a lot of chronic pain out there particularly with long waiting lists for operations waiting lists to see physiotherapists the only option that doctors have to offer them is in most cases a painkiller and in many cases coding is the most appropriate painkiller for them and in that case they don't need to be you know having added worry about will I be able to get medication that's that is working for me and it's helping me yeah are there separate groups of people and maybe you can sort of give us an idea Margaret like there are those are there not though that perhaps their pain has eased and they they feel they're reliant on coding tablets and will continue to go for prescription that's one group a they may exist or not you'll let me know and be people that have a dependency on the over the over the counter tablets that do contain codeine I mean there for some people is there an issue that we need to look at then but at the same time not make people feel like criminals for taking tablets that they actually need exactly I mean there's no doubt that coding is an addictive medicine a few are taking it for a long time some people become dependent on it not everybody but like any medicine that has addictive properties particularly people that have addictive tendencies or that are addictive to other substances they can find that when their pain is eased when they've had their operation and they try to reduce their pain killers that you know they they have a dependency on it and that's something again those people need help with that and often we don't have the services for them to help that so it's it's it's very hard work for both the patient and for their doctor and for their pharmacist to gradually reduce their their usage of it but you know that doesn't mean that you just sort of say no no you can't have it anymore you have to deal with that problem and deal with it usually on a long-term basis that there isn't a quick fix for it yeah and I think your intervention is a timely and important one because you know we don't want people who are taking codeine because they need to for pain and then start worrying about well am I addicted to this and then stop taking it or for their life to be disrupted for for no good reason because of some of the headlines that are out there and maybe in our conversation with deputy Burke we contributed to that I did have the conversation with him though not exactly what you're saying but along the lines of that you know this needs to be talked through as to what's going on and if we are phasing out the over counter sale of it how we do it if there are people that rely on them but anyway listen let me just get back to the core question we don't want people in pain to stop taking these because they might fear there are addicts or something no I mean if you have been prescribed something by your GP your doctor didn't give it to you without having a good reason to give it to you and if you feel that you're taking too much of it or that maybe that it's not working for you I mean that's a conversation you need to have with your doctor it's not something that you need your neighbors or your friends talking to you about you need to talk to a health professional about it I think really the core the core situation we're in here as well too though is the over the counter stuff like do you believe codeine tablets that contain codeine should be prescription only do you think there was a problem with people dependent on the I think it's neurofem plus might be the most popular brand who go in and buy them in the pharmacy do you think they should be prescription only well I mean at present the situation will see over the counter medicines is that they are for acute pain for short term use and certainly there are people who use them long term because either they have an addiction to them or because they do find that they're very effective for their pain so again just making them prescription only in a situation where we already have very difficult access to doctors whether it's hard to get appointments you know it's not always easy if you have a toothache on a Saturday you know you're not going to say to somebody when you need to go and get a prescription to deal with that you know you have to have some some means of helping people and acute pain but what the best solution is is something that's going to have to be worked out over the long term not you know we can't do it just overnight and when we talk about the addiction that people might have how does that present itself Margaret do you know like how do people know that it is these tablets that they feel they need to take in the case where there is that there is an addiction there is it if they don't have them for a while do they feel awful or how do you do you know how that presents itself well I mean any any addiction is that if you try to stop taking something you get physical psychological effects your body tells you that you that you need this medicine and your mind tells you that you need it you need your fix so to speak so that's how people are affected and they will like go to quite extreme methods to get hold of whatever it is they're addicted to more than an alcoholic will do their best to get hold of alcohol and do whatever it takes to get hold of it so they'll you know people will come in with stories about fictitious illnesses or pains that they have that they need this medicine and people will forge prescriptions people will go to doctors and try to get prescriptions so all that does happen but those people are the minority they're not everybody that's taking the medicine there are a small minority who do need health but that being said though Margaret can we ignore and I know you're not ignoring I mean can we as a society ignore the statistics which show there's been a 22% increase in the number of prescriptions for medicines containing codeine in 10 years last year 1.1 million prescriptions for the pain relief and codeine drug were issued through the public medical schemes last year so that doesn't that's not all of it you know we are a population of you know five plus million is that not a very very high figure that would point to or else there is an incredible amount of people living with chronic pain in this country it's one or other well it's both I mean to be honest with you a lot of people do love with chronic pain and the fact that our health service isn't able to deal promptly with people who are in pain who are suffering from arthritis who need hip replacements who need other forms of care you know they've had their operations postponed postponed postponed those people have to have pain relief and that's driving that's I mean in my opinion that's what the most the biggest driver of the increase in demand for pain relief and when you talk to people they'll tell you like that's why they need it okay a caller probably sums up much of what we've been talking about here I agree with Margaret it's not fair to be tired as an addict when I'm living in constant pain and I don't think those of us who you know might have an occasional pain you might get a toothache or a repulsed muscle or something and you know how horrible that pain is but I don't think we can understand what it's like for people who waking up every morning who possibly don't sleep at night because they have pain be it from a road traffic accident or work accident a farm accident you know people live for years decades both that chronic pain and they have to learn to manage it and most of them have figured out their own way of doing it they don't talk about it they often don't you know because they know that nobody really wants to listen to what it's like for them so it's very hard for those people when they have figured out some way of just about coping to then have a suggestion that their mechanism is going to be pulled away from them yeah and I suppose these headlines lead to questions like this as well if prescribed codeine and have never took it before would Margaret recommend taking it or trying an alternative now they've been prescribed codeine by their doctor so presumably the advice Margaret would be to take it then obviously absolutely I mean if there was an alternative I presume your doctor would have given it to you or you would have tried it already very few people get coding you know certainly not regularly for as a first line it as a second line treatment for people who haven't responded to other forms of treatment or that they're not available for them I was prescribed a drug methyl trexate for rheumatoid arthritis on the fifth day I passed out in my bathroom as a result the doctor prescribed sulfidine for pain for hip replacement pending in the future now what they say well exactly I mean that that's a person who obviously needs adequate pain relief and I mean it's not fair to frighten those people at will still be available to them there's no doubt about that it's not I mean there's no question about it being taken off the market completely or anything like that and that's some that's a fear that you know I don't want people getting that idea there may be restrictions it may be slightly more difficult to get it but certainly the people who need it will still be able to get it and and even the deputy himself who surprisingly didn't even didn't know he's been on a health committee for years didn't know about its availability in the north or not but anyway hopefully they that doesn't surprise me I just hope that they if they are making these decisions that they actually brief themselves on really obvious stuff like that but be that as it may I mean if we saw restrictions here you would see people traveling to the north traveling to Britain going to wherever they can get the stuff I mean already people travel to the north because it is more it is more easily available over the country than it is here yeah okay so as I say I hope they know all of that stuff before they make decisions and also he did say that it's probably going to take quite some time I have a feeling we'll talk about this for a little while and then it'll go off the agenda again my daughter was on soulful doll for a broken bone and had a bad reaction to the code and it made her very sick and affected her liver but again obviously that's something you go back to your GP within the they looked for an alternative I presume exactly I mean like any medicine it's not it doesn't suit everybody and you have to find what works for you and for some people it will be coding containing medicines for other people it won't be okay right okay thanks for bringing a little bit of balance that conversation and it's noted to myself I think for future conversations I have on this as well Margaret so that's the the importance I think thank you for chatting to us and just giving us a different view on it it's very much welcome now to tell you welcome on it and Greg as always of course Margaret your wealth of knowledge thanks very much indeed Margaret or daughter T there who is a pharmacist and regular contributor here to this program as a panelist on our Friday panel and as I say always seems to talk sense blow to feed and straw supplies for more in your farmer's journal his Paul Mooney 400,000 straw bales and half a million tons of grain lost as government policy fails massive variation in feed prices find out if you're paying too much fears for farm incomes as supermarkets slash butter and milk prices how the fair deal scheme can affect farm 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street that are Kenny and at what's in menswear.com okay you're very welcome back to the line till noon show here on Highlander ready it's great to have you on the board listening and some of you watching of course we really appreciate that and just don't forget if you miss any of the show and you want to if you want to listen back we podcast the program on our website highlanderadio.com every day we split it up into three hours for ease for you and also you can watch it back on our youtube or facebook channel so no excuses to miss a thing right a caller says I think the ball was dropped on codeine anyone can become dependent and it's important we recognize more addictive medications indeed uh so also we've been having the conversation on social media communion season of course right upon us costly one day affair is the question Elaine said my children donated a third of their communion money they received on the day to Mary's meals and that was their choice well what fine children you've raised fair play Greg I put 10 euro in cards for my grandchildren my friends do the same I don't agree with putting any more in cards kids are bragging at school and about getting 50 euros and more I think 10 is perfectly fine and you know what if 10 is not enough well they the kids need a reality check because life gets tough as you get older and there isn't always an abundance of money is there I think you're a very generous grandmother I think 10's a nice amount this caller says communions are now turning into mini weddings mini weddings with many not all trying to outdo each other with the style the party the entertainment the presence I just wondered to myself how much emphasis is put on the actual meaning of receiving the sacrament of first order communion as it puts into organizing the actual event that's only my opinion well I think I was going to say I remember it's that blooming long ago since I was going through that ritual in school not ritual do you know what I mean sounds like I'm being condescending or something but I'm not there was a big focus on on the religious side of it of course then parents at home if it's their will also have a role to play to don't they we can't leave it all up to the teachers who've got loads of different classes to fit in I just like the idea you know with people recently making the confirmations and what have you whereby it's done in the school uniform and then everybody is equal and it removes that competition and communion is different in that it's an important big day and people want to be able to dress up I don't know but anyway let us know what you think I'll wait 60 25,000 I just like us all sort of being equal and and and I just remember back when we were going to school you know even then there was great competition and and we didn't have I mean we were well looked after don't get me wrong but you know there's lots of hand me downs and all stuff like that there and you would be sort of not picked on but been seen as different for for for not having the same clothes someone else might have tidy tan stuff and general environment a group and I volunteer to clean up the Gortle Hawk area and at least three times a week there are takeaway bags containers and food waste on the side of the road it's extremely disheartening I'm from Crawley I go for a walk every day there are dogs roaming freely and their owners do not care to watch them firstly and secondly clean up after them and I talked before about being on beaches and dogs running wild and pooing everywhere and I don't know it's not the majority it's a minority but people seem to think that their dogs run the place I don't know what the story is there some people a small amount okay I'm not anti dog owners or anything please don't get me wrong but what about then the role of takeaways in all of this then is there a role for them what could be done because time and time again it's the core you know those silver curry trays or the bags or the burger boxes or whatever it might be we've got hundreds and hundreds of fantastic volunteers that are going around every weekend having to pick this stuff up you know what could or should takeaways fast food joints be doing to help even an awareness or the type of boxes or number plates on the boxes and they have to be able to play a role don't they John was is on watching us on Facebook he said well said Margaret indeed and I just want to say good morning to to Kathleen good morning to you thank you very much for watching with us here Liz commenting on the situation that a kind of university hospital Liz says that man's right it's the management in the hospital that needs to sort this out there has to be change Celia also commenting fair play to that man for speaking about speaking out about the hospital Hilda where are our TDs to answer on how bad letter Kenny hospital is good morning to you Charlie as well back watching in Edinburgh haven't spent four weeks in Gwendoor blessed with the weather he tells us Beth good morning to you as well Anita I hope you have a great day thank you very much for joining us Annie is there as well as is Paul often first to comment in the morning's Paul a very good morning to you as well call us as the three lights are still out on the main road outside Red Door in Farn it will soon be two years and still waiting is there anyone you know who could sort these out thank you now I'm not familiar with the Red Doors actually somewhere where I want to go I think if it's the same place I'm thinking of but the lights are out in Farn what's going out are these public light street lights leave that with us we'll chase that up so it is three street lights if you can text back just give us a little bit more detail and we can certainly try and sort that out for you a caller says if the nurses and doctors and consultants said today we had have had enough we can't stick this any longer what would happen then forget about spending 10 million euro on a project in Ballet Buffet that's not going to benefit anyone really other than people who have time on their hands to sit on benches and look around themselves the health system is falling around falling down around us and then there is money that's received from government spent on silly stuff get the priority sorted first then spend money on the non-necessary stuff now I get exactly what you're saying okay but you can't think for one moment if that development in Ballet Buffet were to not go ahead that that money would be spent on the hospital it's like the housing crisis and what we're doing in terms of housing refugees or what have you not doing that doesn't mean houses get built not building this new open space in Ballet Buffet doesn't mean the hospital gets sorted the countries are washed with money we're told and yet still the money or the or the will can't be found to fix the problems so as I say not progressing what's happening in Ballet Buffet sorry would not impact the hospital there's enough money for both I drive a 151 diesel car says this listener my mechanic who has over 60 years of experience stuck his fingers into the exhaust pipes and both of them came out as clean as they went in the mechanic looked at me and said where's your pollution there would love to know everyone else's thoughts on this okay well I would bow to the authority of your mechanic but it's the particles that you can't see that are the ones that apparently most damaging I call it says I remember a few years ago asking in a pharmacy for a bottle of cough mixture with code in costing perhaps around five euro they say it required a doctor's prescription I then had to drive over 30 round trip I'm not sure if that's miles of minutes paid over 50 euro for a doctor's prescription and then went to buy the cough mix the cost would soften any cost now I don't know how long ago that is or what that was but an interesting story nonetheless I call it says I would rather stay sick at home than go to the ED I'm actually quite emotional about it please I understand what you're coming from but in us trying to highlight people's concerns and experiences in a snapshot of time I would never want it to discourage anyone go into the ED if they were sick so please if you do feel you need the hospital get along to it and finally let's finish off with a request can you play a request for Seamus and Susan Martin in Dromna Craig Fannard who are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary today enjoy the day lots of love from Una and Kathleen okay thanks to Neve and Donna Marie working on the show thanks to you for listening we're back with you tomorrow morning with the Friday panel from nine tune in for that but don't go anywhere yet because John Bresson's just around the corner at Centra feel good and shop smart with great