 A shopping trip to Dublin City Centre. For more information, call Highland Radio on 07491-25000 or visit HighlandRadio.com. Have yourself a good Monday morning, Gregory. What are you smelling yourself for? Nothing. Why did you smell your... It's just a wee note. Huh? There's a wee note off this jumper, I think. What do we... What's a wee note? A wee note? A wee smell? A wee note, aye. Aye. I've never heard of that phrase before, a wee note. Really? As that's a smell. Note. Yeah. There's a note off it, though. There's a note off it. There's a wee note off it, I would say. How was your weekend? Good. I watched the Late Late Show. I thought it was pretty good. Friday night, I watched Beckham over the weekend, which, surprise, surprise, I watched the four episodes and the one thing I was telling you. Look at you. I woke up on Saturday, I was saying to you, right? I woke up on Saturday, 20 past 9 p.m. and I said, right, I'm on my way to bed, and then I was just, what about Beckham? So then we started to watch Beckham, so I watched the whole lot. I know nothing about football, and it was interesting. Good stuff, excellent. I might watch it myself, watch the end of it, but he seems like an interesting character. When did you watch the end of it? It's just going to spoil it then, doesn't it? Well, it's like watching the end of Titanic. You know what's going to happen, don't you? Yeah, but if you're in the football, I would say you'd even like it even more, you know? Yeah, well, how did you sleep last night? I slept good, I think. I was being, someone had taken a hit out on me. I was being chased all night. You haven't exhausted it. Liam Leeson, after you. I know where you live. Yeah, something like that. God, that's wicked, isn't it? I know. We need to get this dream specialist on the show. I come on, I need to sit down with the dream specialist, because I have loads of stuff going on. So? Silly stuff. I survived anyway, but just about. Yeah, you're here. And no wonder there's a note off you. I've been running all night. Yeah. And there's always a one. Exactly. Have a great day, Lee. Chat to you tomorrow morning. It's nine o'clock, a minute past, in fact. Let's get a news update. It's over to Donnery Doherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. P.S. Nye and Tyrone are appealing for witnesses and information following the smashing of two windows at a house on Lachle Road, Killen. The incident happened on Thursday last, between 6.25 and 7.45 p.m. Those who believe they can assist police in inquiries are asked to call 101. The amount of aid getting through to Gaza is not enough for the 2.3 million people who need humanitarian assistance according to UNICEF. It says 17 more humanitarian aid trucks entered the region yesterday, containing food, water and tents. Its executive director, Peter Power, says these trucks brought in have very little in supplies. With the UN humanitarian coordination agency, our sister UN agency, Acha, they estimated that only 4% of the amount of supplies that are necessary came in through, via those trucks. So we need a massive scaling up of the access in order to bring in, we're talking about hundreds of trucks every day to bring in the amount of humanitarian assistance that's required. On Friday last, a multi-agency day of action took place in the Yenishon area. Guardi from Bunkrana Road's policing unit were assisted by RSA enforcement officers and custom officers in conducting checkpoints. A number of fixed-charge penalty notices were issued in respect of life-saver offenses, and one driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Irish people are to get more power over how their personal financial data is used and shared. Irish MEP Frances Fitzgerald is taking on a new role as negotiator for a wide-law to protect EU customers' financial data. It will ensure there are effective safeguards and controls in place so companies don't use personal data against their will. Frances Fitzgerald said the legislation will see the right rules in place for services like pensions and insurance. Within two years, we will have a framework for data access and we'll have proper regulation in this area. We already have it in relation to banking. We now need to have it in relation to all of the other services that citizens, that individuals buy from companies, and they need to be sure what's happening to their data. A free flu vaccination is available for the 2-12-year-old age group from this morning. Parents are being encouraged to vaccinate their children to protect them from the risk of more serious illnesses. It's administered as simple as a nasal spray and is available in pharmacies and GPs. Now having a look to weather, cloudy with rain developing this morning, turning heavy at times too. We're heading north later this afternoon, followed by scattered showers, highest temperatures of 10-13 degrees and a no-easter-day breeze. That's all for now. The next news update will be at 10 o'clock. In the meantime, keep up to date with the latest local news on our website, highlandradio.com. From myself and the news team, good morning. Since time immemorial, people all over Ireland have been settling for less at lunchtime. And every day, thousands of you make do with disappointing dishes and sad sandwiches. Well, that ends now. Introducing the Zinger chicken fillet more from KFC. More crunch from a crispy golden hash brown. More spice from a delicious Zinger fillet. And more sauce from burger dressing and supercharger mayo. All packed into a tasty baguette. If you're looking to renew your car insurance, we have some of the... Hang on a second. There's more to this ad. I forgot to mention the cheese. That's the limited edition Zinger chicken fillet more. A delicious baguette with a Zinger fillet, hash brown, cheese, burger dressing and supercharger mayo. Exclusively at KFC. And lettuce. It also has lettuce. Available till November 12th at participating restaurants only. The county's number one talk show. The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk from North West, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning. Just approaching six minutes past nine this Monday the 23rd of October 2023. You're very welcome along to another week of the 9 till noon show. I hope you had a lovely weekend as best as you could have. And you're with us now to keep us company for the next three hours in this show. And throughout the day, here on your number one local radio station, Highland Radio, the lines are open for you right now. Anything caught your eye, anything you'd like to see. If you have any additional concerns you over the weekend, share it with the rest of the Northwest on 086 60 25000 086 60 25000. Take your phone out if you've never texted a radio show before, and let today be the first day that you get to share your opinion, as I say with the Northwest region. You can give us a call to an 07491 25000. Caroline taking your calls and emails to comments at Highland Radio.com. That does a little later on, but first to the paper, starting with the Dairy People Donegal News. Two popular and well-established Donegal businesses have been forced to close their doors because of biting running costs. Owners of McCarrie's bar made the hard decision to close their doors at the weekend after struggling to keep up with rising costs. The bar which is situated between Chrysler and Don Fanehi has been run by Ryan Moore and his partner Kira Cannon since 2019. Once bustling with local trade and tourists in recent times, the pair have found it near impossible to keep the bar open. Putting their final pint, or pulling their final pint last night, Kira said there have been a lot of factors behind the closure. On to the Dairy News this morning, up to five major Ebrington events next year. Dairy City and Stubborn District Council will assume a programming role for the future events in Ebrington Square. This new arrangement will apply to five major events in 2024. The number currently permitted on the site under existing legal constraints. Let's go to the Nationals. Now we'll start with health. And the Independent tells us that HSE Chief Bernhard Gloster has been warned his decision to extend a hiring freeze means health workers may not be able to deliver safe services this winter. In the letter requesting an urgent meeting, the main health union representing more than 100,000 staff say a recruitment embargo that has been expanded to include junior doctors, agency staff and home help will have a severe impact at a time of increasing demand. They warn the hiring ban could be detrimental to his plans to improve services by extending the working day. The union's warning to the CEO comes as clerical, administrative and managerial members of Forza are set to ramp up work to rule already underway in protest at the recruitment freeze from Friday. Of course, and we know an awful lot of what the unions are warning could happen is happening at our local facility, Lederkenne University Hospital, according to people that work there and speak to us. And we'll be talking about that further in the second hour of the show. The head of SEALTA is back on the programme to answer more questions. We have a bit more time to put those questions to him as well. The Irish Times this morning has quotes from Eamon Ryan. He is the Green Party leader, of course, and he says widespread trolling being carried out on social media along with the... I can't say the words. Sometimes I get... dissemination of fake news. I got there. Conspiracy theories and disinformation now pose a threat to Irish democracy. Party leader Eamon Ryan and deputy leader Catherine Martin have devoted key passages of their respective speeches to the party's National Convention in Cork at the weekend to harsh criticism of the effects of social media platforms where trolls were bombarding people with false information and prejudicial opinions. Mr Ryan said this was particularly so in relation to messages on climate change. Mr Martin, the Minister for Media, told delegates her department was working as a national counter disinformation strategy. The digital revolution has a darker side. Mr Ryan told delegates during the keynote speech. There you go. OK. I think everyone has to make sure, though, if that's the case, that everything everyone puts up on social media is actually accurate and true because if you have someone who polices what is information and disinformation, well, the same rules have to apply to absolutely everybody, don't they? The independent President Michael D. Higgins is under increased pressure this weekend for his intervention in political matters internationally and domestically. The President was subjected to a ticking off by the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Dana Elrich, over the inflammatory effects of his remarks on the Middle East conflict. Ms Elich Erlich claimed the President has made misinformed comments that have had an inflammatory effect on the Israeli Hamas War, so there you go. The President, now also being accused of putting out false information effectively, the Ambassador said when it came to claims that Mr Higgins had spread misinformation for her, it has been a case of ifs. Sorry, what's that saying? Yes, and that is the President, and I obviously can't criticise. Meanwhile, Independent TD Michael FitzMorris accused the President of bare-faced hypocrisy for saying more should be done to protect people from flooding. But why has the President said that is so controversial? It seems that stating that Israel has a right to defend itself as every country does, but don't bomb civilians. Hamas are on the ground. The civilians are on top of the ground to say that one should be cautious in that military approach. Is that now caused to be cancelled? It seems to be. The Irish Daily Star this morning there is significant problems with morale in the Guardi, as a rising number of members are leaving the force over bullying, unfair treatment and work-related stress issues. The God of Representative Association has published a report to establish why officers are leaving the job. In 2022, 107 members resigned while so far this year that figure stands at 106, which is over double than in the year 2017 when it stood at 47. The GRA interviewed 40 police, so Guardi, sorry, who had left last year was disciplined, cited low morale while working in the force. It found 70% felt they were unfairly treated and bullied by management. Over 30% had work-related stress and burnout, and over 32% said the workload was too much and they did not have enough resources. On to the Irish Daily Mirror. Were you watching the lotto draw? I didn't really know, to be honest with you, that it was still done on TV, the National Lottery needs a complete overhaul of TD as said after Saturday's jackpot draw had to be abandoned due to technical issues. Finnegell Deputy Bernard Durkin believes bosses need to give a full explanation into what went wrong, which resulted in the draw being done off-air. In a statement, the National Lottery, which is operated by Premier Lottery's Arland claim, the broadcast had to be halted due to a technical problem. It was abandoned while on air with a post saying the draw would be completed as soon as is possible. As I say, Deputy Durkin believes there needs to be a full investigation into the workings of the lottery now. And have you got €825,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Well, if you do, you could buy a shovel used by the US astronauts on the moon, but actually you couldn't because it's already been sold for €825,000. The Moon Rock Scoop helped collect £211 of lunar samples during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. This included the £26 big mooly the largest rock collected during the Apollo missions. Some people just have money to burn literally, well it's not literally because that would be burning the money, but to be able to spend €825,000 on a wee shovel that may or may not, some believe it may isn't, some would believe it may never went to the Moon. But anyway, whoever bought it clearly believed they did. Good morning to you Dolores, Linda and Kate here amongst those watching the show. Don't forget you can watch all of today's program as you can every day on our website. It includes subtitles for those who may be hard of hearing but also want to keep up to date with what's happening in their region. On YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland you can watch on your smart TV, your forestic and across your devices. Or you can watch on Facebook as well, Highland Hub or Highland Radio News and Sport. Right, okay, that's pretty much all the detail as to how you stay in touch with us, but we'll move on to our first topic of this morning. And over the weekend Paddy Cosgrave announced his resignation as CEO of WebSomber to beg your pardon. Paddy Cosgrave lives, Cosgrave sorry lives in Donegal, by the way, just in case you're not aware. Mr Cosgrave said I'm resigning as CEO of WebSomber with immediate effect. Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from the event and our team, our sponsors, our start-ups and the people who attend. It follows some controversial posts he made in the wake of the attack in Israel and the subsequent Israeli response. We're joined on the program now by Professor Kevin Coran Professor of Cyber Security at Ulster University. Good morning to you, Professor. Thanks for your time. How are you keeping? Good. Good morning, Greg. It's good to have you with us. The WebSomber, how significant is it? It was originally based in Ireland and I think Mr Cosgrave believed he wasn't getting the support he deserved and then moved it to Lisbon. Is it a big deal? It is, yeah. They're expecting 70,000 people to attend and, of course, most of the major technology companies were present at this again. It lags behind one I attended for eight years in a row Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which has about 120,000 attendees but WebSomber is still one of the largest technology conferences in Europe. And this was established by Paddy, wasn't it? Paddy Paddocker? Yeah, Paddy was a co-founder really and he's been the main guy behind it all and it's been a few years since I was there but I did compare one of the events again where I interviewed or had to compare and actually interview Eric Mijakowski and he was the guy behind Pebble which was the original smartphone the one that had the most commercial success and I remember about 3,000 people in the auditorium and it was well it was really well executed the whole event and the pavilion and everything else and it was down in Ballsbridge actually that's where it was but it was a superb conference it was just as good as any I've ever attended. Do you think him resigning as CEO though will be enough to save the brand? I suppose whatever they might try and get it over the line and have some measure of success in Lisbon but then it's in Qatar then as well which in and of itself is really quite controversial the following year. Yeah we have to see what happens really I mean because the major brands like Intel who hire so many people in Ireland again Microsoft, Google, we can go right down the list they've all pulled out and again you know whether they come back again but sometimes in a case like this wasn't exactly the web summit executive came together and issued the statement this was one individual so the fact that he's resigned may be enough to allay some of the you know the actual disappointment in people because he was naïve here he understood he misunderstood his audience really that so much of Silicon Valley is owned and created by Jewish people again Steel Ballmer the co-founder of Microsoft is Jewish, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is Jewish, Larry Ellison of Oracle is Jewish there is so many Israelis working for these companies as well he really misunderstood exactly who the people are that he's dealing with really in his life because he does have a history of making political statements really but in this one I mean just come back to buy them. Yeah and I suppose in the first instance he said he wouldn't relent some of what he said well firstly in almost the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack in Israel he published a graphic which showed the amount of people that have died at the hands of Israel versus at the hands of Hamas in Israel and that was almost immediately after this attack and he tweeted things along the lines of a shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders and governments with the exception in particular of Ireland's government who for once are doing the right thing war crimes or war crimes even when committed by allies and should be called out for what they are and what happens what's happened this is a lot of people that perhaps wouldn't be fans of his Kevin are sort of finding themselves sympathising with him in that they might agree with the thrust of his points but perhaps don't agree with everything else that's come out of his mouth on social media particularly. Of course yeah there's a lot of pro-Palestinian people in Ireland both North and South of course there is, Ireland's always a bit of a history in that respect so there will be people who agree with him with extreme views as well of course there will be but again in this case you just got to be careful of what you post on Twitter I mean really you know just don't try to be too smart it can come back I mean unless it's a computer science story or something I post anything on Twitter I will like them maybe and be sure I don't touch anything political on Twitter because it's not my job I'm not a political commentator I'm a tech guy and why I believe strongly on anything it's going to be some people who are upset and it's not my place again if I want to change someone's opinion I change it in person in my discussions nothing I will say will change anyone's mind when it comes to anything outside technology again so any people I can change is obviously my family, my friends maybe and give my opinion and of course I'll debate anyone but I don't have to try and go online and give my opinion about something which is not in my area But that's one of the reasons on Twitter Stroke X is that everyone has an opinion and wants to express it even when it's probably just informed by something they read 30 seconds ago Of course there is but my advice there is just for younger people again just be careful you know just be careful when it comes you know do you have to get involved in that if you're in tech or whatever else like I said just be careful about what you share whatever because it can come back to bite you very much again it's just like again don't go on social media when you've had a few drinks This is all very solid advice for a Monday morning from Professor Kevin Card thank you what does it actually mean when I mean this is more of a business than a tech question but as he steps away from CEO he retains his interests presumably in the company and some level of influence would he Kevin do we know we don't know yeah I mean the board might meet and if you fire it again there's obviously contracts there's closes in any contract you have whenever you're on anything like this again and if you go outside of whatever the rules are in the contract then bring it into disrepute disrepute is what he has done there is clear grounds for getting them fired from it as well You would have been just more generally one of the first adapters of course to social media what do you make of it now what is it how influential is it how divisive how destructive is it it's usually we just take Twitter I mean really that's the one really it's hugely influential because so many people subscribe again and you have a kind of an elite on there but it's also really it's really dark as well and really frustrating I can only take it for a little while in pieces again and then at WALF and of course I do have my people I follow there with extreme views and what the truth is on both sides but it actually really is annoying there's days I just don't go near it because I just get so annoyed and so much hate on there but again there's always going to be some I'm not blaming Twitter as such or ex there's always going to be some water and hole like that which is for those political debates and whatever else we want on there again and we're seeing how Threads has literally died again Threads couldn't compete with Twitter try to be just no one's on there really but he didn't really seem to and that of course is from Meta there was this sort of rapid launch unless it's went out of my head but I'm pretty active online Mark Zuckerberg didn't seem to push it beyond the launch yeah no that's correct but again it's shown us again they made it as easy as you could to bootstrap the social network by just within two minutes you've signed up your profile pictures there across from Instagram but yeah what happened and it had all the features that ex has and yet what happened is really people didn't really go across to it the people who influence it in the modern world so again it just shows you how difficult it is to break the incumbents in social media alright okay listen thanks very much as always Kevin have a lovely day take care of yourself Professor Kevin Corrin there reacting to the news that he lives just outside Rossnell and now Paddy Cosgraves announced his CEO of Web Summit and it just goes to show that you know he's a controversial character himself he calls out the government he's called out companies and how this country is run and been quite successful in that I suppose you could say but then you take on a different issue and all of a sudden that's it you know longer the CEO of the company you founded and it's going to be a difficult way back in that regard okay back with more like a break we know running a home can run up your cost too that's why you can save up to 30% on our home insurance get a quote today together we've got this AXA know you can policy terms and conditions apply premium as 160 euro a 30% discount is available after 3 consecutive years claims free 15% after 2 consecutive years and 10% after 1 year claims free AXA insurance stock is regulated by the central bank of Ireland now it is 9.27 now we were speaking about the fallout of comments made by Paddock Cosgrave on social media and I suppose we're going to stay in that kind of in that realm the social media world Dr Vicki O'Rourke Senior Lecturer in Research Development at the Faculty of Business ATU Donegal's with us good morning to you doctor thanks for your time good morning thanks for having me here we're speaking about an event being hosted by ATU Donegal tomorrow it's the Minding Media event and it's aim is to empower children to use the internet in a critical way so explain that a little bit more to us that's right so in terms of being able to be critical consumers of media messages that children consume I think what we've noticed over the last decade but in particularly since the pandemic that children are expert users of digital media perhaps more expert than some of the adults around them and there's an assumption that because they're experts in the use of digital media that they're also able to critically evaluate message content that's not always the case so the purpose of the Minding Media resources are to enable children to be able to stop, think, check before they believe any messages they see so in terms of the Minding Media resources we focused on four different aspects of media literacy as such we focused on media itself on being able to recognize media on advertising been able to recognize a paid for a commercial message been able to recognize fake news and been able to bring all of those together and use social media safely. Yeah and how do you do that when the majority of young people it seems and maybe this applies to adults as well there's not necessarily a randomness to how they use the internet they have celebrities in their minds that they follow and what comes out of their mouth is gospel anyone with children perhaps at some point they've come up and said something that KSI has said or whatever it might be you know and that influence on them is far greater I think than any influence on previous generations be it online or offline so how do you sort of get past that trust and relationship they have with the person they're getting the information on and get them to think critically about it and that's very possible because it's all right to like a message it's okay to like an ad and you can choose then to believe the ad or not so for example a lot of the messages the children receive over youtube they're paid for their commercial content there's lots of different techniques that are used for example maybe sometimes there are appeals to fear for example fear of missing out there are appeals to emotions for example a cute cat or some funny music or a tiktok meme and there are then the logical appeals the factual appeals so what these resources do is they teach children that there are different types of messages and that it's all right to like the message but that doesn't mean to believe the message what you need to do is need to stop and think and check the facts and make up your own mind if you believe the message and some of the resources and send these messages we use youtube videos we have interactive quizzes we have Minding Media Minecraft education worlds that are dedicated to kind of challenges and tasks to solve media literacy related issues and we have some classroom based activities and some of those are for example design a campaign for an influencer of your choice so we're getting them to put together and to use the tools that they have learned about during these Minding Media resources and to be able to apply them and use them for make recommendations for influencers that they're so familiar with so the idea is that we're trying to bridge the gap between what happens within the classroom and outside the classroom by giving children what makes themselves that social media influencers use and allowing children to enjoy using them themselves and as I'm listening to you I know this is focused on children it's so important but we need these classes for adults we need these classes for adults as well because we believe sometimes that we're thinking independently but then you look at where you're drawing the information from and it's from a cohort of people who all think the same that's not independent thinking that's just echoing what other people are saying to you but anyway and I presume and we'll talk a bit more and I know you touched on it there as to how the approach here but if we promote critical thinking in a space where people spend a lot of time i.e online social media and what have you hopefully that then extends into the real world so to speak because we need critical thinking people in the real world too Absolutely So critical thinking has a place in everything we do and the implications of being able to assess media messages of impacts for health, politics, economics, education every aspect of our lives so it's very very important these skills are not just skills we use to consume media they're skills we use throughout life however I think because of the amplification of messages on social media it's become critical that we remember to use these tools because you're enjoying social media And one of your specialties is marketing ethics do you believe there is enough oversight in terms of rules, what's allowed, how it's allowed you know I mean that's the first firewall there isn't it what are you allowed to do legally on social media how are you allowed to present something you're endorsing or selling in relation to that like hashtags and stuff but do you think we're doing enough to regulate online marketing and what have you particularly I suppose that's targeted towards children There are lots of activities being carried out at the moment and Be Media Smart is a national campaign that's happening this week and it's initiative of Media Literacy Ireland which is an informal alliance of organizations and individuals who are working together on a voluntary basis to promote Media Literacy Ireland and this organization is facilitated by the commission in the month, the newly established media regulator and members of Media Literacy Ireland include and Be Media Smart include actors in the media academics industry representatives so that's one activity that's happening there are a multitude of small scale initiatives educational interventions training workshops for adults etc happening and I know there are some happening in South Ireland over the next two months as part of the Be Media Smart campaign and if you go on to bemediasmart.ie you'll be able to find out more about those in terms then of the global scale we of course have some rules and regulations in your media and social media is global so it's very difficult to enforce rules, regulations all of the time what we need is we need a multi-pound approach we need education, we need regulation we need all actors and we need all of those things to work together so that we can all be informed and enjoy media but enjoy it in a critical and responsible manner OK so this event is tomorrow it's from 9.45am and who's invited I mean are there spaces left by the way sorry Vicky there are a small number of spaces left and you mentioned something earlier on that I just wanted to come back to and that is that yes the Minding Media resources are for primary school children aged 8 to 12 and therefore teachers and parents of primary school children aged 8 to 12 but the talks tomorrow are actually for everybody because some of the talks we're delivering around what is advertising literacy why does it matter so what is stealth marketing, how can you recognise it why is that important to recognise and another one of the talks we have is by a consultant in the region and she is going to talk about social media and she's going to talk about the tips and tricks and tactics that social media use to keep us engaged so why we spend forever scrolling on TikTok so Emma Boylan from Out of the Box is going to talk about that Dr Owen Fury from the faculty of computing at ATU Donegal is going to talk as well about recommender systems and algorithms which sounds very technical I know but actually we see them every day because we scroll through Google or Bing search engines that we use and that very much influences then what we think, the types of information we consume so the talks tomorrow are to create awareness of all of these aspects of engaging online that we should be more familiar with and they're equally relevant for adults as they are for parents and teachers of children and there are a small number of spaces available we have limited capacity there are a small number of spaces available and if you log on to the news section of the ATU website there's a piece about Minding Media and at the bottom of it there's an application form where you can register your interest to attend tomorrow and if you have any issues or any concerns or if you'd like to access the resources and you're not able to be there tomorrow and if you'd like to learn more information before you would like to go tomorrow you can always email me bickey.org or work at atu.ie and those resources that you talk off to are available at Minding Media.eu as well that's right and what they are is there are a set of resources so designed for children aged 8 to 12 we have training videos so we've got short YouTube videos around media advertising fake news and social media and then after each video there's an interactive online quiz and there are resources developed for children aged 8 to 10 and resources developed for children aged 10 to 12 so they're designed to align with the primary school curriculum and that two-year cycle they're designed to align with the well-being and learning outcomes in primary curriculum so that's one of the resources that is there another resource then is that there are four Minecraft education worlds and they can be used within or outside of the classroom and there's four sub worlds around media advertising fake news and social media and you can complete media related challenges and quests so for example you've got to advise a person who wants to sell donuts on the kinds of messages they must put together in advertisement you've got to have somebody spot pieces of fake news in a bus station etc and then last but not least we've got step-by-step lesson plans for teachers who teach children ages 8 to 10 and who teach children ages 10 to 12 and we've got supporting lesson plan slides so that they can use them with ease in the classroom essentially the lesson plans are designed to be step-by-step ready to go for teachers to facilitate their use in the classroom okay brilliant stuff just remind us once again if people want to express an interest in attending tomorrow what's the the contact there viki.org as atu.org alright thank you so much for your time I do appreciate it Vicky that's Dr Vicky O'Rourke senior lecturer in research development at the Faculty of Business atu Donagall watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at highlandradio.com get ready for the most wonderful time of the year at sister Sarah's letter Kenny secure your preferred party night now with fantastic food and a festive atmosphere throughout December sister Sarah's crowd sponsors of today's show on clore employer excellence to quit Folchia Ireland the goxess co-luckta in Arnall Natura Sorgta on shimsa is Lou goody on toast on is mo glockport leshna Kate the co-luckta Ella at Ogmeala Dini Ord Comma So 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all good shoe stores KateAppleby.com hope you enjoy my shoes pylon radio weather updates with Ireland west airport where you can now fly daily to London Heathrow with Air Lingus and connect via Heathrow to over 80 destinations in New York and more well thankfully we're going to escape the worst of the wet weather it seems but it will be cloudy with rain developing this morning turning heavy at times the rain will move off to the north later this afternoon followed by scattered showers high temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees in an easterly breeze staying rather cloudy with showers but they will become more isolated later in the night lowest temperatures 6 to 8 degrees with lighter breezes okay hello Greg welcome back to Neve Connell who won the Donegal senior championship yesterday two in a row from all their supporters indeed and we'll be speaking about that victory and the rest of the weekend's action with Brendan Daveney just after 11 o'clock as we preview the DL debate it was I enjoyed the game it seemed very one-sided I'm not sure Neve Connell obviously are fantastic Guidor will they be kicking themselves in how they performed I don't know what do you think 08 60, 25,000 your views on yesterday's Donegal senior football championship final congratulations of course to Neve Connell they seem incredibly well organized outfit as it relates to President Michael D Higgins comments actually Paddy Cosgraves comments Raymond says Paddy Cosgraves did the right thing speaking out for the Palestinian right to life under Israeli bombardment Paddy was a victim of Israeli semitism and it's worst where one cannot speak the truth to Israel but as I say it wasn't just that commentary in of itself of course web summits web summits is going to Qatar next year Qatar are said to be supporters of Hamas so that doesn't look good Paddy Cosgraves unapologetically has heavily funded the ditch which of course most of you might know is an online publication that's exposed quite a bit of controversy in Irish politics but at the same time too they've taken a very pro-Palestinian position okay and then there's other things and it's the timing and it's the graphs so I get what you're saying but it's not just one tweet in and of itself there's much more to it than that and I think that's really what was his downfall. Caller says we need a proper fair deal scheme for home care similar to what they have in nursing homes which is tailored to the individual as opposed to a blanket scheme the home help scheme is not enough okay right we are speaking now to Andrew Webb chief economist at Grant Thornton good morning to you Andrew thank you for your time today good morning. Right now a series of two public meetings are taking place in Donegal tomorrow one in Kili Bakes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then letter Kenny from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. now you're seeking the views of the public and anyone with an interest I'm sure in the sustainable development of your local coastal area so who is actually seeking this information who are who are these meetings being held on behalf of? Well good morning and thanks for having me on because we're keen as you say to get views from anyone who's interested these meetings relate to the board Ishkawara and then the Fisheries Local Advisory Group new strategy there's European money that comes down through the Fisheries and Maritime funds and part of it is the Fisheries Local Action Group element and really our job in Grant Thornton is to support the flag as they're known the flag board in the area to really learn what the challenges of the area are what the needs are and then ask for views on what could potentially change that so we're having a meeting as you say in Tara Hotel in Kili Bakes tomorrow and Mount Arigal Hotel in Letter Kenny and really as many people as possible we would want to see and come along and tell us just what they think the needs of the area are the coastal area I should say specifically around are there any actions that might help grow the economy and diversify the sector reliance on Fisheries and coastal economy maybe more tourism type initiatives festivals those have been quite successful in the past but as I say we want to hear as many and all ideas as possible and then it will be on us in Grant Thornton to sift through those and see which can be potentially funded over time and some people instantly when they would have heard me introduce this would have thought well what about the maintaining and supporting the fishing industry but just in your commentary there you said that about diversification diversification so is sort of if people have comments about the fishing industry how it's supported how it's run are they welcome too or is this focus sort of go ahead yeah absolutely absolutely welcome I mean I think the way that the various themes for action are articulated it does talk about actions to diversify the income of Fishers and coastal community economy I would take of you that's about adding to what's there and supporting and protecting what's there and hopefully increasing the economy as a whole so that would include fisheries as I said tourism as well and any other potential opportunities for growth in coastal areas you know we see since the pandemic during the pandemic and with a good connection to broadband we can work much more remotely and that's much more accepted so are there other events that could happen along the coastal areas that could maybe grow and support economic activity and tourism is an interesting one too because there are some areas that tourism has replaced other industries and in local communities there's not terribly happy with that sometimes in that it can be very very busy for a couple of months and then incredibly quiet and nothing there to sustain a population over 12 months those views would be really quite interesting to hear as well I'm sure. Yeah we need to hear all these issues so we will be having a I suppose a context piece if you like which is really what are the strengths what are the challenges and then how do we take those and turn those into actions you know even just thinking about tourism you're right real real strong period of the year but how do we maybe think about growing more and just I suppose in the context of Halloween coming up for example you know are there festivals and activities that could be built up around that to extend the season and attract more people in are there different ways to attract people over a longer period of the year and then give more income spread more generally across more than just summer season and what is the pathway for the information gathered from events like this being put into action when that decision is made I think who administers it how would the people feel their contribution impacting them down the line so that we in Grand Thornton are supporting the flag board and then the flag board over the probably early into the new year and beyond will have funding available and then they will receive applications so under the various elements that we want to see around that diversification of income innovations towards growth and niche tourism etc. there would be projects that could be applied for funding and then it will be on the flag board through the approval processes to see if those could be funded our job really is to I suppose just gather in sift turn it into a strategy and I suppose just meet the requirements of the European Union which we're all quite used to but it's quite interesting and more important for people to get involved now whilst there are Inkili Begs and Latter Chem Eats for the entire coastal community of course of the region but if you feel there are great strengths in the areas but there are gaps if those gaps are highlighted and then an application is put in that maybe fills those gaps to some point down the line it's a very simplistic way of looking at it though that's how you could get your needs service to some extent so it's really important as many people as possible have their input now it is absolutely this program will run over a number of years and there will be regular calls for applications over a period of four or five years so it's really important that we frame it correctly now and it's without getting too technical it's a concept called community-laid local development that really relies on the local communities telling right up through what are the issues and how do we go about solving those all right okay so these events two public meetings being held tomorrow if you're free in the morning 11am to 1pm that's in the Tara hotel in Kili Begs and in Latter Chem Eats between 2pm and 6pm in the Mount Aragile Hotel as well I'm sure they'll be well sign posted once you enter reception now Andrew Webb, Chief Economist at Grant Thornton thanks for your time this morning I hope you have a good attendance thank you very much take care of yourself all right so who's to say that your needs could be met if you let people know what they are great to hear recently president Higgins and Pope Francis singing from the same hymn sheet during a meeting at the Vatican Library looks like the age-old controversy of women priests and same-sex marriage in the Catholic Church will be approved at next year's Synod Role on Vatican 3 met Aaron having given a red weather warning since some people in Donegal claimed from for loss of business for the last one that didn't materialise did they? I wasn't aware of any successful claims in that regard another caller says I'm a smaller retailer in Latter Chem and I'm getting so annoyed on a Friday morning and it's the same every Friday morning I have so many people who call into the shop to buy bin labels and bin labels only there is no profit in this sale for me really it's the service I'm providing could people think about the small retailer and buy at least one thing extra to keep me staying open and provide the service for you wow okay I wasn't aware of that I would have thought considering that you are providing that service there'd be a little incentive for you to be part of that didn't know it okay so if you're buying a big bin tag on a Friday grab a coffee or something as well or whatever it might be available there Greg can the council please replace the light at the main intro junction beside Farn Health Centre this is a very busy junction with cars, walkers and a bus stop located there and for staff and the public using the health centre it's very dangerous in these dark evenings thank you says that listener morning I'm wondering can you mention this I've been to vote a phone about three weeks ago to buy two charging cables for my phone and they don't accept cash told me that they never got there told me they never got their till back since Covid so this week I was in Donegal town and I went into the voter phone shop there for the same items but as the lady was walking away to get the products she remarked we only take card payments so I told her no I was paying by cash they wanted you to buy safe chargers for your phone but won't accept cash can you highlight this please at some stage today as I have to now go to a tech shop to buy my charging cables which were almost 20 euro each thanks so much okay well you see the problem is that that is a voter phone policy they got rid of cash or cash sales and it was in and around the time of Covid but they haven't reserved that decision and as long as they advertise it in advance that's a business decision that they're allowed to make mind you this is as it relates to God or morale and why they are leaving the stores the guards can bully themselves easy victims and won't deal with major issues says a listener there that's just their experience of course I know the professor inferred that being pro-Palestine is an extreme view I didn't pick up on that I also note that he went into some detail as to Israeli influences in tech and social media before advising people not to comment on political issues online he suggested that sharing opinions on social media doesn't change opinions as a tech security expert I'm surprised he holds that view given the influence of Cambridge Analytica the company was banned due to its influence via social media so to unethically affect elections humanity is in everyone's interest speaking at against Israel's war crimes and genocide actions or genocidal actions against Palestinian civilians is the right of every person on the planet right okay I take that and I think most people certainly here might agree but obviously there are those with influence that don't and they've cost his job and potentially the future of the web summit that remains to be seen right keep the calls and comments coming in to us so wait 60 25,000 that's the whatsapp and text so give us a call on 07491 25,000 we'll be back with more after the news and obituary notices Christmas party nights now available to book on 9122238 sister Sarah's our proud sponsors of today's show exciting news Kia at iMotors are thrilled to introduce our stellar offers for 2024 enjoy peace of mind with a complimentary service for the first two years plus an additional one year if you're a Kia customer already 1.9% finance on EV cars 3.9% PCP providing flexible and affordable payment options to receive a 500 euro super value voucher when you purchase a Kia these offers are designed with you in mind don't miss out visit iMotors today in 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wait until the Minister visits the hospital so that will be arranged as soon as it can be in the meantime though Minister Donley has taken this really important step I believe of asking the HSE ED specialist team to get involved in terms of assessing the challenges of the hospital and working together to ensure that they get that specialist support PSNI and Tarone are appealing for witnesses and information following the smashing of two windows at a house on Lachle Road Killen it happened on Thursday last between 6.25 and 7.45pm those who believe they can assist in police inquiries are asked to call 1-0-1 more supports and cheaper child care are needed to help mothers rejoin the workforce has a very low participation rate for mothers particularly those from a low educational background the CSO's Labour Force survey for the second three months of this year shows 61% of working age women are in employment compared to just over 70% of men according to the Irish Times lecture in gender studies at UCD Dr Mary McCullough says the cost of child care is taking choice away from some mothers to participate in the workforce certainly there is the idea that there should be a choice for women who are mothers or indeed fathers can choose to stay at home for some part of the child's early life and that is very important that that choice is there but I would say it's not a cultural thing so much anymore it's more an economic thing that is forcing a lot of women to spend maybe a couple of years at home with the children on Friday last a multi-agency day of action took place in the Inneshawn area Gardie from Bunkrana Roads Policing Unit said enforcement officers and custom officers in conducting checkpoints a number of fixed charge penalty notices were issued in respect of life saver offenses and one driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving Irish people are to get more power over how their financial data is used and shared Irish MEP Francis Fitzgerald is taking on a new role as negotiator for a new Europe wide law to protect customers financial data it will ensure there are effective safeguards and controls so companies don't use personal data against their will Francis Fitzgerald said the legislation will see the right rules in place for services like pensions and insurance within two years we will have a framework for data access and we'll have proper regulation in this area we already have it in relation to banking we now need to have it in relation to all of the other services that citizens that individuals buy from companies and we they need to be sure what's happening to their data the reg tech conference will take place in ATU Donegal this Wednesday the conference navigating the future of regulation is part of a north west reg tech initiative being developed by Donegal County Council, Dairy City and Straband District Council to establish an all island national institute Lissy Peoples has more the purpose of the sector is to apply these 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welcome back to the 9 till noon show good morning if you have just joined us the head of Seattle Tony canavan is going to be back on the show we had a chat with him a brief chat last week and he wanted to come back on for a longer chat so we're going to facilitate that so if you've an interest in the hospital services you'll be interested in that 08 660 25000 is the whatsapp and text number call us 07491 25000 I've got a note in that says dear highland radio just writing a short note we work for a well known nursing home in Donagall we just came across an ad that our boss had placed on the internet looking for staff it stated that wages started at 13 euro 75 an hour plus overtime we were very upset as staff because we were not getting what they put on the advert staff that have been there for years we're just getting 12 euro an hour and that is just in the past year before that it was 11 euro an hour if we say anything we are just cut down we would love if you would read this out and see how everyone feels out there as health care and working in private nursing home we feel there are there's no one to stand up for us thank you so they're on 13 sorry they're currently on 12 euro an hour but there's an ad going looking for staff at 1375 per hour plus overtime they feel they can't speak out within the organisation that they work in but they just want to know if what you guys out there think so said I would read it right okay coming up a little later on in the programme as I mentioned Brendan Daveney will be joining us just after 11 well we will be discussing the weekend sporting action as he looks forward to the podcast this evening so any questions to that please get in touch or that you want or discussion points that you want for Brendan where is my mind is a podcast about how we can better take on the beauty and the beast that is the human mind in the head melty chaos of the modern world hosted by Niall Bressie Bressen one of Ireland's most formidable and inspiring 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Good, thank you. Good, thanks Greg Good to have you on board We just heard there in the last few moments that Donegal Minister Charlie McConaug has been told by the Minister for Health that the HSE has been asked to deploy a specialist emergency department team on this news that you're welcome It is of course to be honest with you, it's news for me as well but that's okay there is a team working within the HSE they've visited a number of the emergency departments and a number of the hospitals across the country over the last couple of years indeed actually, we've been working with them at Mayo University Hospital and indeed Galway University Hospital at different stages over the last couple of years so by all means any expertise or insights or help or otherwise that can be brought in we'd be more than happy with that And what do they do? Do they sort of assess the workings of it make suggestions maybe make recommendations if extra resources are needed? What is the scope of that team and I'm sorry to thrust this upon you if it's the same team that we're both talking of Tony and I appreciate that you're only here in this news yourself now Yeah, no, no, it's okay I asked and I would expect it to be the same in Dutter County is that they do have they have a team who are experienced that have gone around to a number of hospital sites so they have the benefit of seeing what has worked and what hasn't worked in other locations they come on site for a brief initial period meet with the clinicians meet with the management team meet with ourselves probably as well from the sales group and gain an understanding of how the hospital works and what the various issues are and then maybe some recommendations or arrive at some recommendations usually with the team on the ground as to what would work well and what might work better sometimes that is around additional resources more often than not it's around using existing resources more effectively Just as it relates to the commentary from consultants and the GPs and some of the issues I raised with you in the last interview last week Tony do you expect that there's a particular problem not just in the ED but across many services at Dutter County University Hospital so I just want to establish where our starting point is do you accept that there are significant problems at LUH that need particular attention Yes to answer the question briefly and to think I would say yes and I would say that the problems that we see at Dutter County are largely associated with access so when we look in the emergency department on any given day when there were patients lying on trolleys awaiting admission that's an access issue getting them into the bed into the most appropriate location as quickly as possible that's an access issue and the other key access area that we also have problems at Dutter County is around people awaiting elective procedures and so they wait for periods of time on awaiting this before they can access the service in that way and both of those are issues in Dutter County Now I think to be fair and to be balanced in my comment Greg I would say that that is also true if I was talking to you about five hospitals in our group I would be saying something similar and indeed we could probably have a similar conversation around lots of hospitals around the country so Dutter County isn't different in some respects but I think where it is definitely different is because of the population and it serves and where it is located that's what makes Dutter County different Okay now much has been made about the funding of Dutter County University Hospital you know the statistics yourself 6th business hospital 14th in terms of funding and I know you don't like to compare one hospital to another but we're just shy of half of the funding of Sligo University Hospital which for people in south Donegal that's their hospital and if you just go a little bit further north then Dutter County is your hospital so invariably particularly for someone like me who lives right between the two of them I can't help but compare them so can you give us an explanation as to why the funding level is struck at what the 6,722 odd per patient compared to other hospitals So and again this is one of the areas that I disagreed with you on last week and I'm going to disagree with you again this week Greg and so I look very closely obviously at the spend of all of our hospitals including Dutter County including Sligo and all of them so I look at them every single month and I understand exactly what's going on and what's going out and what I can see is that essentially that the spend in Dutter County is approximately very close to the spend in Sligo if we're making that comparison right now and so that's this differential in funding that's described doesn't exist the spend in both is very similar, very comparable Can you explain as to how a document can be produced that shows the funding per hospital divisible by the amount of patients that hospital sees and then coming up with a figure per patient where is the balance made up that's not shown on that sheet I think again I think how that's best explained then is if you go back to what I was saying about the population served by Leicester County so the population of County Donegal in excess of 160,000 people probably look to Leicester County as their protocol when they need health services and a smaller population looks towards Sligo County Sligo, County Litrum combined parts of Mayo possibly and parts of South South America and they all look to Sligo University Hospital for care and that's a smaller population so when you divide it on that basis certainly you could come up with a figure of that nature but at the end of the day I look at the bottom line each month what's spent on each hospital and I can tell you that the two amounts are very comparable Yes of course but if you have two restaurants of the same size and you have a budget to feed 100 covers in one restaurant and 200 other I think it would be fair to break down the quality of food each person might get in each restaurant I'm sorry to be convoluted in my example but I mean it's not relevant how many people pass through one hospital compared to another surely No and you're absolutely right in that Greg when we look across like the key measures you know the numbers of people that turn up at the emergency department the number of patients that are discharged from the hospital, the number of babies that are born in the hospital for example is higher on each of those measures than Sligo and indeed Mayo and other hospitals as well Latter-Canary is an extremely busy model 3 hospital we describe hospitals at various models and it's an extremely busy model 3 hospital But it's more than a model 3 hospital is it not really it's like more it's closer to a model 4 you have rectal cancer surgeries breast cancer surgeries metabolic surgeries I mean is it really not worthy of a higher designation and therefore higher funding than model 3 it's it does a lot of the work a model 4 hospital does So I would certainly say that Latter-Canary should be funded for the level of work that it does but I'd be slow to jump to saying that it should be a model 4 hospital because that talks to the quality of the care that's provided and it's not possible to provide that level of high-end care in too many sites you know so having one model 4 hospital within the group is probably what the population can sustain and what's needed to provide for the needs of the population that's in Galway currently but what we do need to make sure is that there is sufficient funding in Latter-Canary for the services that it provides So given the services that it does provide in addition to what another model 3 hospital may not provide do you still maintain that Latter-Canary University hospital is adequately funded should it not have equivalent funding to a hospital at least that provides some of the services I suggested that I said that it does Yeah, my perspective is slightly different and it does go back to what you were saying at the outset that I don't really like making comparisons between hospitals because there are so many differences but if you were to ask me do I think that we have sufficient resource sufficient staff or sufficient beds or you know to describe that resource to meet all of the needs of the population of Stony Gall we don't and I'm not satisfied that we have sufficient resource currently and we do need additional beds for sure and we need additional staff at Latter-Canary in order to provide all of the range of care that people of Stony Gall can reasonably expect So what's it going to take to deliver those because you know we I recognise there is an issue not that it matters but I think you do clearly GPs do and the public certainly so what does it take to get it to a point that you can look at it and go right okay well we have the quality of staff there that we need we have the quantity of beds do you know what I mean we always feel to be lagging behind like it's good that you recognise the issues but you're also in a position of authority to sort of suggest when these issues will actually be addressed Yeah, so again not everybody would agree with this approach but this is my approach and I think it's an approach that actually that does work so I think the very first thing that all of us need to do whether I'm talking about Latter-Canary hospital today or whether I'm talking about the whole sale the group the very first thing that we have to do is we have to make the best possible use of the resources that we have at our disposal and I would again be very honest in lots respects in Latter-Canary hospital we are doing that but in some we're not there's room for improvement can I make one suggestion in that sorry to cut across you because you say there and it's quite an interesting point that we have to best use our resources we are part of a hospital group let's take bowel cancer for an example we have no radiologists so treatments and another work can't go ahead as planned because we have no radiologist we are part of the Seattle hospital group what is there 29 radiologists in Galway you know could one of the could a few of their hours not be allocated to Latter-Canary that's an effective use of resources isn't it we have none there's 29 there we're part of a hospital group why can a radiologist not come to Latter-Canary for a few hours at a time and facilitate some of this life-saving better outcomes work that could be done locally sure so so we do have radiologists in Latter-Canary to start off with there are two permanent consultant radiologists working in Latter-Canary right now but what's has happened this is sorry some of this work has not been able to to proceed because neither were available so sorry I beg your pardon I should have phrased that somewhat better and you're right in the general point that you're making while we have two permanent consultant radiologists in Latter-Canary that's an issue you know we do need we have five posts that we could fill on a permanent basis but we haven't been successful in filling it so you know so that is an issue we only we only have two permanent consultant radiologists there are practical issues of course and moving people around the place and you know so if we take somebody who's based in Galway and ask them to work in Latter-Canary and assuming that they're willing we would lose you know we would lose four hours travel time up and four hours travel time back in which you know those in that day of course there's an awful lot of eight there's an awful lot of eight hours that are lost going in the other direction by regular people Tony with respect to you we're talking about one individual here there's thousands of us have to lose those eight hours overnight stays with no bosses to let her to go away do you know what I mean I'm not I'm not absolutely really challenging but I perhaps wouldn't lose a ton of sleep I know those are eight hours that are lost in helping people I get that don't get me wrong but is that really a reason not to have this type of this type of a an arrangement within the one hospital group of course we do a visiting consultants that travel you know all across the region and providing services in and out of various hospitals and there are consultants for example that travel between Sligo and Latter-Canary as well to provide services there but you're absolutely right you know that there is a very significant number of patients that travel from County Donegal down to the right this the southern end of the group in order to avail of services now while that's not ideal I think it is the only practical service can really only be provided on one site to the quality that we want to provide the matter and we can't we can't sacrifice that quality in order to provide that service somewhere else. Now there are limitations and I think you've recognized this in areas such as cardiology radiology and of course the beds which we've talked about this is leading to frustration amongst consultants and the oncology ward generally they don't feel that they can give the right decision at the right time and the right cancer treatments when people need them that's a and you know yourself Tony that is life altering potentially life life-ending now when you've got the medical professionals locally feeling that ham strong is that not an area that you could give particular focus on because as I say in all of these conversations we're talking about Donegal people who've been told they've got cancer or they'll wait and find out if they've got cancer or other conditions and they're not getting the same treatment as someone might in a different hospital even in this region. So yes is the short answer again to your question could we and should we put more emphasis and focus on cancer services in there can yes we should and particularly on oncology service that's chemotherapy treatments for patients that are living locally and can avail of them now we already provide a very comprehensive service there but you're right it's a very pressurized service and and at times you know doctors are having to make very difficult decisions about who starts and who's ready to start and who's not ready to start and so on and now we do as much as possible we do share the burden of that around the region but that puts a burden of travel then on some patients and really what we need to do is make sure that we have sufficient capacity to deliver chemotherapy where it's appropriate in letter can you to people from Donegal and similarly at the breast cancer service that's provided from letter can you that is linked closely with the service in Galway and having the two of them linked up in that way is good from the point of view of the quality of care that's provided with respect Tony with respect only 40% of cancer patients received their chemo in line with the NCCP's own guidelines I think it's probably higher than that over the course of the year but it certainly dips as low as that and it has dipped as low as that at times but over the you know on average over the course of the year we're doing a lot better than that in terms of accessing within the you're aware of delays to chemotherapy because there's no beds literally no beds no staff limited access to the pharmacy so we've got and we can dispute the figures 40% of cancer patients receiving their chemo in line with NCCP guidelines this is another dot it feels like a Donegal health tax don't get me wrong and also I hope you're acutely aware of the delays in chemotherapy and you know what that must feel like to someone who has that diagnosis they want to get on with the treatment which they know is going to be really difficult in them and then they're told sorry you know we don't have a bed or sorry we don't have the staff or sorry you know we can't get proper access to the pharmacy yeah so I agree with you that there is a system that is under pressure constantly I think our figures would normally be higher than that would certainly be higher than 40% but you're absolutely right for an individual patient to be told first of all that they have a diagnosis of cancer then to be told that there is a treatment path that needs to be followed and that time is important and then if there's any delay in that or any even suggestion of a delay that is of course a significant concern for patients can I ask you about radiology and oh you don't want to compare hospitals but I can't help but do so in that the radiology department at the Kennedy University Hospital we used to have six full-time radiologists now we used to have two and three locoms Sligo I know you don't want to compare they have eight, Galway 29 how is that in any way fair to Don and Gal patients who all pay the same tax who all have I think a reasonable expectation of an equal level of health care how is that allowed to happen under your watch Tony yeah so first of all I would agree with you that probably seven approved of post for later getting is not enough and we certainly need to look at that and see if we can increase the number of radiologists in the hospital but I think there's another important point that we need to bear in mind that even if we got approved for additional posts today and we haven't successfully filled some of those posts despite having tried to recruit to them on a number of occasions in the past so the reason that we have two permanent consultants and five other posts that are as yet unfilled on a permanent basis is because we failed to recruit and that's something that we really need to look at very closely and I agree we also would like to get to the position of having nine radiologists or something like that for Leshkin University. You'd be familiar with and in fairness to the likes of the GPs and the consultants yes they've spoken out publicly in the last couple of weeks but they've been making representations far long before that privately some of the concerns focus around what's been described as a non-functioning urology service long delays in treatments as I say I believe strong representations have been made from the hospital in that regard yet it's not there we don't have an emergency urology service why? So we have two consultant urologists currently and that isn't sufficient as opposed to run a full-on call service but again it's one of these services that most be delivered not just on an individual hospital but across the region it can't it's not sustainable to provide service of the appropriate quality in all of our various hospitals it must be that urology in Sligo, Urology in Lether County, Urology in Galway that they're linked up and that they're operating together. I mentioned to you in passing not in passing but we had a brief amount of time Tony about surgeries and elective surgeries being cancelled and surgeons looking to catch up on those lists offering to work weekends indeed but weren't supported in doing so it must be incredibly demoralising and frustrating when they want to get people in, want to get them better as much as possible but not being supported by the very organisation that they work for to do so. Have you any explanation for that? I haven't done actually I'm a little bit baffled because in all respects and throughout pretty much since April of this year we've been engaging with consultants across the hospital group to work weekends and to do additional lists in order to be able to tackle our waiting lists and we've made good progress both on our outpatient and inpatient waiting lists across the group and in Lether County. So I'm a little bit baffled if consultants are saying that they're available to work weekends but the hospital can't support them so we'll look at that very closely and if there's something that people are interested in doing that's something we'll look at. We'll stay in the ED well I'll come back to the emergency department in a second because that's going to be the subject of this external review but diabetes you know is a big, big issue if I'm not mistaken there's one or two I think it's actually one endocrinologist which again sorry to compare to other hospitals that's the lowest ratio in the entire country how is that acceptable what can be done to address that? And it's absolutely not acceptable and again if you look at a service like endocrinology of course some of that has to be delivered through the hospital but also a very significant part should be delivered through the community and we need consultants that are based both in the hospital and community in order to be able to do that effectively. Donegal is a really good example of a county that needs that type of service and needs it to be embedded and needs to have a really strongly embedded endocrinology service so what we've been doing over the last while is working with community to develop a number of chronic disease management programs in the community, endocrinology is one of those it does include consultant posts and we would be hopeful that by structuring posts in that way and by putting other staff around those posts that it becomes attractive for people to apply for the consultant posts and then it becomes sustainable in the longer term and ideally what we would like to see then providing the majority or the appropriate level of care for people with diabetes in the community as opposed to what we're trying to do currently which is providing too much of that care in hospital. You talked last week about the region or let a county university hospital having the highest nurses retention rate in the country and I've got a correspondence from a couple of well I won't say but anyway I know they can't speak out but from a couple of people that are nurses there and they said that 12 nurses have left in the last 18 months 16 in the ICU 10 in orthopedic and 12 in surgical 2. A huge volume of senior nurses have left so when you say that it has one of the highest retention rates were you factoring all that in? So yeah and of course what I said was highest retention rates within the group I'm not familiar with the retention rates around the whole country but I can certainly speak to what's happening across 6 hospitals in our group so nursing retention rates are higher than any other other hospitals and they have been actually for some time and it reflects what people actually know and that's you know when people make a lifestyle choice to move to Donegal and to work at let a county university hospital that tends to be a long term decision whereas we find a different profile in Galway for example where people are more transitory Do we saw the I think it's the Gardie of solid interviewing people as they leave do we do that? We do we do exit interviews not with all staff and not maybe as systematically as we should but we certainly do exit interviews and we do exit interviews at let a county as well and the only point that I was going to add is overall our retention level our retention levels in terms of nursing is good in let a county and reflects well in the hospital that doesn't mean that we don't have difficulties in specific areas particularly specialist areas like you mentioned there ICU where you know it's not easy or it's not easy to get trained ICU nurses you know so we do have difficulties there of course and an orthopedic specialty as well will be one of the other areas so the general point is still true but we do have difficulties in some areas. Someone messaged in texting saying you know we were talking about radiologists and you were outlining the travel four hours up four hours down they asked could a radiologist not work remotely I'm not sure if that's possible but that's a question they asked and it's a very good question actually and the answer is yes but not entirely is the short answer so for example some of the radiology service at Hattrick and University hospitals is delivered remotely for example some of the on-call services is delivered remotely and that means that the image the x3 image is taken within the hospital or possibly even in one of the new facilities out in the community and then it is read and reported by radiologists who's not even in Donegal so that is taking place currently and some of that is possible but you still need to have a core radiological expertise on-site. You said there was two urologists at Lerner Kenney University Hospital. Elissa says did one of them not stand down? And that's correct and it's continuing to provide a limited outpatients. So it's one then it's not two it's one. Correct yeah that's correct. Right okay so we I mean obviously just maybe in terms of some of my wording and the question approaches Tony you know you would phrase things a little bit differently but everything I've raised with you through the course of this interview and the last interview you haven't disputed you've accepted which talks to me to a hospital in a real problematic situation. We haven't really even dug into the ED today which has been the focus of much of the commentary over the last couple of weeks so what can you do what commitment can you give us that all of these things will be gone through you know what measures are in place what is the action plan what support do you need for the management locally is there any extra funding available you know so we've established an awful lot of issues here in in real important areas of health care what commitment as the head of CELTA can you give the people of Donegal today that not only do you notice and recognize and understand the problems but you are actually going to do something about it yeah so we haven't touched on ED in any great way there's two patients awaiting admission and holidays in the emergency department and I think that's it's not the lowest across our group and if I missed a couple of days last week it was single digit figures as well so it's not doesn't happen to be this morning but go ahead Tony and the reason I mention that is because we have actually seen a period of stability in the emergency department in terms of the numbers of patients awaiting admission and the holidays it has been busy with the tendencies but not huge numbers of people awaiting admission and holidays so that's a good thing I suppose what I would say first of all is that and this goes back to the letter that we talked about last week from the GPs and it triggers something as was for me that what the sales group is about is working with letter Kenny University hospital and working with everybody else that's a stakeholder in that and the GPs would be key to that of course working to try and make things better and there's absolutely no doubt that it's a hospital that's under significant pressure and we can see that the numbers of patients attending the emergency department is growing that the activity in the hospital is growing but we must first of all as healthcare providers work together to make sure that we're using our existing resources in the hospital and in the community as best we possibly can and we must advocate then together on the back of that for the additional resources that we all acknowledge are required and I'm absolutely committed to looking and advocating for letter Kenny just as I do for every other hospital in the group but I would say that the very the best way for us to do that together is by first of all making sure that we're making the best use of what we have yeah okay but that doesn't, I don't feel any hope in there Tony sorry I don't what I would say is that you're on the same page as all of us but I was kind of looking to you for solutions if that makes sense maybe not so much on the same page as all of you in the sense that what I'm saying is that there is scope for improvement in what all of us are doing today to make things better with what we have of course we should look for the additional resources that's required and we will do that and I've said that we need additional beds in letter Kenny we need additional staff in letter Kenny and we'll chase that but the best way to make that argument is by demonstration that we're making the best possible use of every resource that we have currently and where are the gaps that we aren't doing that in at the moment because it's quite a pointed it's a kind of a pointed comment so what do you mean by that do you mean the hospital is not making as perhaps as effective use of the funding it's receiving from the HSC what are you saying there yeah so I'm saying that all of us including the hospital if you want to put it that way the CEO could be more effective and I'm also saying that all of the services in the community as well could be more effective in what we do and that's really important so for example if I say that there are 90 additional beds required in letter Kenny University hospital the question then that I would ask is are we making the best use of the existing bed complement that we have and I would say that we aren't because we currently have patients in beds at university hospital that are fit for discharge to go home or to go to some further care we are currently providing care to patients in hospital that we know would receive better care if the services were available in the community and if we restructured the way we deliver care in the community that in accordance with launch care that that would also be more efficient and those are the types of changes that we need to start implementing the kind of things that are within our own control to make things better for people so can I ask other than what's already being done Tony and other than the ongoing work that happens you know within a hospital group the size of Seattle specific to letter Kenny what is going to happen if anything differently going forward to address some of the issues that we've been talking about today and the issues in the ED for an example because I can tell you right now our population is going to increase dramatically it has by 10 to 12 thousand already over the last couple of years we are getting older more of us are getting older and we have kind of a high presentation with breathing issues and what have you so we're going to see more people that are going to present for the hospital like that so things are actually just going to go and get better but in the short to medium more busy but in the short to medium term off the back of what the GPs have said off the back of what the consultants said and off the back of conversations like me and you are having now what is going to be done if anything in the short to medium term to try and balance the playing field for patients of letter Kenny University hospital here in Donegal if anything so going back again to what I was saying we do need to engage with GPs on how we are using our existing emergency department and our existing facility in the hospital so I think that's one of the first things that I'd like to do is to engage with the GPs on the back of their invitation and their expression of interest and being involved in this process they're at the gateway of meeting each patient usually before they turn up at the emergency department or at the hospital itself and so we're really interested in working with them on how we might make things better I think within the hospital itself we are changing how we move patients through the hospital through the emergency department into wards into beds and back out into community again and we're trying to make that as efficient as we can that is changing and that is helping as well and then in the more medium term we're also working in the community and with our colleagues in the community to develop those services so that less people have to receive care in the hospital and more can receive care out in the community in community-based hubs and in primary care centres rather than having to present or be admitted into a hospital bed lots of people are turning up at the hospital with twisted ankles that require stitches that really aren't necessarily emergency cases that could probably be dealt with in a different environment did you reference this last week I can't remember off the top of my head Tony you know a place that takes those people out of the ED Yes so I think that's a minor injuries unit or something like that a minor injury so we have one in Roscommon which works very very well and it's extremely busy it's probably the best way to describe it and the number of people attending has grown for the last three years could something like that work in Donegal I wouldn't rule it out because that's what we want well what I would say is that we've already introduced a change in how we manage those types of patients in the emergency department and there's a particular pathway that helps to move those patients through more quickly if it's clear that Tony Canavan doesn't require if we admit it but does require some sort of medical attention and then discharge we have a pathway and we have skills advanced nurse practitioners and consultants and doctors available to deal with those patients that's working well there is a review taking place of minor injuries units around the country you know they're working really well I just don't understand why we can't have one up here I mean I've seen where they're all dotted and it's that old Dublin Galway line bother shouting why can't we just have one up here yeah and again I suppose one of the complications that arises with them is having good clinical governance in place so that if you take our minor injuries unit in Roscommon that's supported by the ED in Galway and to have that kind of outreach that's an important part finally Tony and I won't delay and I appreciate your time I'm just going to be completely honest with you when I speak to Sean Murphy as the general manager at the Kennedy University Hospital he recognizes the issues and I get the feeling and I hope I'm not attributing the false emotions to him that to some extent he's hands are tied even though he can't say that I'm talking to you now Tony and I know if you had a magic wand I get the impression there's quite a bit of stuff you'd want to do I'm feeling that your hands are tied is that the case I mean why are the HSC centrally clearly not listening to the representations that you're making about healthcare on the west coast can you speak to that I mean are you within your role if it's how you feel now I'm trying my darndest here to try and get decent healthcare for the west and northwest but they won't bloody listen to me in Dublin so what would I say to that what I would say is that first of all in a sense all of our hands are tied in the sense that there's always a limit on the amount of money or the amount of resources that anybody can allocate whether it's Bernard Glaster as the CEO of the HSC or whether it's the minister for health there is a limit to the amount of money that he can allocate and I see my job and Sean's job is to advocate for Latter-Canary University Hospital to get as much of that additional resource as we can because we know that the need is there but the other part of our job and I've said it earlier on which I think is equally as important and probably more important is to make absolutely certain that we're putting what we have to the best possible use we can and I think as managers and I would be it may be easier for me to come on the radio and talk to you Greg and say if the Lads in Dublin would only give us more money I think people in Donegal can expect from me and from Sean and from the other people that are working at Latter-Canary University Hospital that we're doing our damage to manage as best we can. So since this emerged and it's not new but since this, have you made specific representations on our behalf Tony to the head of the HSC or the health minister? Since when? Since the first GP letter two weeks ago. You know if you say how long yet now in my area here and specifically in this area I need more from you are you going to give it to us? Yeah and the way that we do that is we have a process through which we put forward based on what's called the estimates process and then that carries forward in the discussions between the department of health and the department of finance around the time of the budget and then becomes part of our service plan for the year ahead. So our expectation is that the budget having just been announced at the beginning of October our service plan will be developed and that all asks for letter Kenny insofar as they can be met will be dealt with in that term. But there is stuff you could do internally you could look further at remote working of radiology you could engage with the hospital at facilitating surgeons to work weekends if they so wish I mean there is quite a bit of stuff in here that we should be able to do internally. And I agree with that I think there are things that we can do internally within sales app absolutely that there are things that can be done internally within that kind of university hospital and I absolutely I would agree that part of my job has to be about trying to get the most out of those. OK Tony thanks for your time. Thanks indeed Greg. Take care Tony Canavan CEO of the Seattle to hospital group. I know a lot of you out there have a great interest in health service and maybe not all the answers that you wanted there but it's important to get all this stuff on the record and I think I hope we touched on I hope we touched on an awful lot of what you wanted but the problem I have here just before I take the break the problem I have here is that and I appreciate Tony speaking to us I understand that there's only so much within his gift that he can comment on or can adjust whilst all this is being looked at we have people who are as we heard from consultants maybe dying before they should poor outcomes losing organs the stress and anxiety and fear amongst the population the older population of their families everyone someone going in there with a kid you know what I mean and that all still remains and it's not going to go away I wish I could influence things in such a way or whoever could that things would change but what we really need is to see change to see better outcomes to better experiences because all of us I think there's and is there anyone listening that's not had someone in the hospital recently and has a story that's not good enough isn't we can't accept that so we'll see what's next from the GPs they're threatening they've threatened if they don't see action to take it out into the streets there's a lot there from Tony Canavan was there enough in there to sort of say right okay maybe we don't need to take people out into the streets there's enough in there for consultants junior doctors nurses to say oh actually you know what I might look forward to coming in to work tomorrow because things are going to improve probably not shrink your bill with double savers at Dunn stores save on the aisle and treat yourself with selected flavours of Pringles and Cadbury snack bar six packs only two euro each mix and match three for five euro and selected soft drinks and treats like Coke zero two litre and Fredo bar five packs then save again at the till with a five of twenty five grocery voucher double savers from Dunn stores always better value terms and conditions apply voucher confused on next install grocery shop you're no more the Folger Island employer excellence program is now open to tourism businesses of every size from the smallest attraction to the largest hotel join hundreds of others already attracting top talent with the employer excellence program the mark that will help you hire registered folgerarland.ie forward slash employer excellence prime recording sports and leisure your football specialist added us football boots in many ranges like crazy fast copa pure and predator accuracy puma king ultimate king top king future match for kids and adults available in a mixture of soft and firm ground added us socks and shorts gum shields that can be remolded to improve fit match up your boots with added us or O'Neill set of socks and shorts Brian McCormick sports your football specialist click on BMC sports.ie or call in Main Street Larry Kenny enhance your skills with sift tech part funded training programs at sift tech we provide courses including first aid road works people moving and handling confined spaces electro fusion and machinery training for Ireland and UK sites also online programs such as water hygiene construction supervisors safety reps and much more if you have a group for training sift tech will go to you contact sift tech today at sift tech.ie and take the first step towards upskilling and safety compliance high on dies big offers continue at high on die dealerships nationwide test drive the 2024 high on die range including the all new Kona Ireland's best selling car the Tucson and winners of world car of the year the ionic five and the ionic six avail of the big selection of offers when you book your high on die two four one model high on die a class apart your local dealer is diverse high on die canal road letter Kenny call nine one twenty two six hundred country comes to Cranford this Tuesday with dancing to Kieran Rosney at loaves of Cranford that's big band country night this Tuesday with Kieran Rosney at loaves of Cranford where you will also find music in the wee bar and all time dancing on Sundays make your Christmas party unforgettable that sister Sarah's this December book now for the best Christmas party in town see Facebook for menu and dance sister serens are proud sponsors of today show. 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Thanks very much for all your calls and comments coming in so far this morning. I really do appreciate it. Caller works in the hospital and says it's not just the patients that are suffering but the staff too, being short staffed as it is. But if there is a member of staff off sick they're not replaced and they're left at a further deficit. Another caller says the chairs in the ED need to be changed. People with medical issues cannot sit on metal chairs for 12 hours at a time and those are things and kind of got a commitment in that regard. Those are the things you would hope sort of can be, you know, addressed to try and improve people's experience. Well done to Greg for a great interview with Tony Canavan. Thanks very much. I do appreciate it. Hi, Greg. When did it change to put them wards? I live in a show and go to letter Kenny to the ED, to X-ray and then I sit all day. Greg, that was a great interview. Bet he didn't think you would have all the figures and able to quote them to him. We can only hope he does something and not all talk no action. Cancer and mental health patients should never have to go through ED. Can I also say women suffering suspected miscarriages shouldn't have to go through ED either and others. People sitting in beds waiting for investigation. Some of these people could be at home. However, they're told to stay in to get the investigation quicker. That comes up from time to time. Another listener says so patients die as processes go on and that's something I tried to reference before the break. Hi, Greg. This man needs to know his figures for nursing staff at LK. Not doing exit interviews is crazy. Peeds has not been mentioned. Parents need to know as do people attending ED. My apologies if I didn't get to all areas. I just tried to get in as much as I possibly could and also in areas where you would hope that some action could be taken in the short to medium term for staff and for patients. Independent assessment of the hospital is necessary, believes a caller. Donegal has been wrote off by government. Very simple. We've seen as a Sinn Fein area, even the two Phinegale, Phine 4-1 has resigned and given up. The other one won't even chat to his local radio station. Well, he will touch on the newsroom. He just won't speak to me on this program. He'll speak to Donal of Donalzin, but just not me. I would hope that my questions... I'm not anti-HSE, but I have to ask Tony those questions. It doesn't mean I'm anti him or anti the HSE, but those are... What else am I to do here if it's not to, when people want me to, to advocate on their behalf and ask questions that are relevant to their lives? All right, loads more on the way. 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The CSO's labour force survey for the second three months of this year shows 61% of working age women are in employment compared to just over 70% of men, according to the Irish Times. Those are the latest headlines. The next news updates at 12 o'clock. In the meantime, keep up to date with all the latest local news on our website, islandradio.com. For myself and the news team, good morning. All right, Donna Marie, thank you very much indeed. Waiting over three years to see a neurologist says no lean. That's way too long, isn't it? Listening to this interview, Mr. Canavan either doesn't care about Latter Kenny or is, well, they say either way, don't go all screwed. I can't cast those dispersions, but I appreciate your time. What a load of waffle. Mr. Canavan, trying to justify blatant discrimination in the Seattle group in favour of Sligo and Galway, I would blame Seattle more than the government. And other nurses for diabetes have been taken out of GP practices and everyone has to go to the hospital. Another one, that gentleman would seem to be agreeing with you on all the issues, but I don't hear that he's very anxious to get these issues sorted any time soon. Also, could you mention ENT services in Latter Kenny, poor to say the least? And just because of someone's phone demeanour, it doesn't mean they don't care by the way in fairness. I believe Mr. Canavan gets all the problems and I'm sure he wants to do something about addressing them as it's been outlined. But I think what we need now, what we need now, what we deserve, and the tipping point that we're on at the moment is we need things to change. We don't need to talk about the problems. We need someone to step in and change them. And yes, it's great that there's an external review of the ED, but I think it needs to go far beyond that. The ED is the face of the problem, but right all behind that. The ED is the tip of the iceberg and all the problems right across the departments are the ice that you cannot see beneath the water. So I don't think if we focus on ED and say, yeah, great, two people on trolleys today, that doesn't tell the full story. Of course, we know that at this point now, don't we? We know the story. Can you ask that man, how long should a toilet in a ward for six men be out of order prior to getting maintenance or a plumber in to repair surgical ward? Six men joined up with six in the next ward for at least nine days in a hospital. 12 people using the one toilet. Is that true? I don't doubt that listeners want to say it's true. I hope you know I'm not doubting you. It's rhetorical really. I don't think there's an endocrinologist. I think he left and the replacement locum left. I could be wrong. There's also no diabetes, dietitian in Latter-Kinney Hospital. Another Latter-Kinney Hospital is not fit for purpose for the population in Donegal. A private hospital in Northern Ireland can do over a thousand procedures per month properly planned and scheduled. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians, simple. The people of Donegal are suffering on a daily basis. The process is broken. Cancer patients getting a bus to Galway are doubling absolute joke. Someone needs to be a proper leader. If this was doubling, it would not happen. The hospital needs to be the total focus, not just ED is a comment there indeed. I think I just made that point and a lot of people would agree. Okay, keep them coming in. I do appreciate it. Yeah, there's some questions coming in that I did ask. Has he made representations to the minister or the head of the HSC? The answer there was no... Okay, that's it. More comments on the way. We're going to switch our attentions to sport shortly. We want your views on yesterday's action, the weekend's action. I'll wait 60, 60, 25,000, but in the end of any of the deal debate is going to be joining us shortly. 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They've got so many elements to their game and I think for Guido this year, they probably didn't expect they'd be in a county final, of course, missing a few of their key players as well due to immigration and things they get. So, they didn't probably have a full complement as well. Going up against Neve Connell, even with the full complement, it would have been very difficult, but it was completely one-sided. They've seen a very ruthless, well-drilled Neve Connell team yesterday and even though they ended up 1-8, it could have been a lot more than that, you know. Like, I mean this with no disrespect to Guido, but you also get the impression Neve Connell will be kicking themselves to conceded 1-8. Yeah, that's how good they are, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, listen, I interviewed the guys after the game, they made reference to that, you know, eating the Donald Manley match and, you know, Alton Doherty and the manager, Martin Regan, and you're always going to get spells in the game, Reg, when you're so far ahead, you automatically kind of fall back a small bit, but the fitness and everything about Neve Connell, you know, they are just the serious outfitting at that stage. It was a tough day for Guido, they lost a reserve final as well, very narrowly today, Rua before it was Kevin Castley's last day for the club as well, the legend that he is. He almost got a goal at the end, could have swung the game and hit the post while we flick on. So yeah, it was a tough day for Guido, they create support up there, but listen, two brilliant days for Rua, and of course, Neve Connell, March on, they play Gaunan, 12th of November in Ulster, they're back-to-back champions in Ulster as well, so they're away from home in that one. How does Neve Connell set up travel? Oh, how will it travel this year? Well, they're a perfect team to go on the Ulster, you see, as the weller gets power, we were blessed yesterday with the day and the pitch was in it, but as the weller gets power, when you have a team that's set up and they're a counter-attack team, that's what they're bringing that down, don't get me wrong, they pushed up on Guido, yesterday, but after the kick-outs really hammered them, won the majority of the goal, kick-outs in the first half and won all of their own, and when you're doing things like, Greg, you're looking at the different elements, they weren't just going to sit and play, how he played his units, you know, it was a very different Neve Connell performance yesterday, so that's the different elements to them, so they have that in the locker-game and the Ulster, they're very confident in what they do, so I think it's going to take a very good team to beat them, where they go, as we know, Ulsters, you know, there's only two Donegal teams of every one, Ulster, so, you know, it is a very difficult proposition, but they'll think themselves they have as good a chance as anybody can do. For sure, right, so Jim McGinnis is now preparing his team for a game against Mickey Hart's Derry. If Jim McGinnis was sitting watching yesterday's final and watching the semis as well, how excited will he be about the pool that he has to draw on, to go up against that Derry team? Yeah, this, and I think he'd be very excited, it's been a good championship. I think from the way in fairness to the two lads that stabilised Donegal last year or Rook and Patti Bradley, we've seen kind of the green shoots of this new team coming through, and we've spoken about many times, Greg, about, you know, the likes of, of course, of Michael, retiring and the whole that was going to lead, and everything happened last year, so the fact that that group of players was able to stabilise, and particularly when you got a look to the Monaghan performance where we went up to Oma and Big Monaghan, who were very close to being in all out in the final, so you add in Jim now and everything he's going to bring, plus there's going to be an extra six or seven players back playing, and then you have, as they say, a good club championship behind us, so, you know, we've got a representative of Donegal now, you know, and I think they're by far the best team currently in the county, so, you know, everything I think in terms of Donegal this year, I mean, of course, Heart and McGinnis is, I suppose, personal battles over the years where, you know, Jim has come out on top the majority of times, makes that such an interesting with everything, the back story of Heart and Derry and all that as well, so the All-Star Championship, absolutely fascinating. I mean, should Donegal get over them, you know, they're going to face either Monaghan Cabin or Taroon straight after it, and in many ways, you know, All-Star is going to be unbelievable this year, but again, is that going to hamper them going into the group stage, you know, because so much is on the line already, and you just don't have that in other provinces, but listen, I think that the many All-Iran series that we have in the All-Star Championship is going to be fascinating, but I think Donegal will be in a great place going into that game. All right, okay. We were talking last week, and you set it up beautifully, the Moville story and the Narossa story, Narossa, of course, beating Moville in the Junior A Football Championship, but they're trying to get that genie back into the bottle now, because Moville have lodged an objection to the outcome of that final. What's your take on that? And what's the, what chance does it have a success? Or what's your view even on a club? Protesting or objecting to a result? It always makes you feel uncomfortable, you know, you look at everything that's going on the whole year in terms of, like, Narossa, what they've put in there to get across the line in the final, and you think, is it going to be challenged in the boardroom? But then again, you have to think were Moville unjustly treated in that final? Were the rules broken? The objections in that the player was on the pitch, and funny myself and Ryan Ferry were doing a commentary for Highland, and, you know, we made reference to it. I was saying, you feel it, it's funny, you watch football so much, Craig, you're like, hold on a second, there's a spare jersey here. Now, whether the player was injured or not, or how long he was on the pitch for, is it enough to affect the outcome of it? Was the rules broken there? How does the county board deal with that? If you look at the huge one last year with Glen and Kilmick Ireland final, the objection came in, there was all for raw about this. In the end, a replay was granted, but then Glen withdrew the objection. So, you know, we had the scenario a few years ago where Kilcarn, Lee Connell, the penalty shoot-out and the player that shouldn't have been, the county board just issued a fine there. A lot of people thought that could have been taken, a replay, a fine was handed out. So, listen, it's with the CCCC now, sorry, three Cs, there's four Cs in that national one. So, Craig, what they take out of this or what they think, is there enough in this? They weren't a replay. This is the question. And, you know, I'm sure there's a few worried people around about the RAC at the minute. Of course, there's an also club championship game to be coming up soon, if anything is to be done. Yep. So, I'll have to sort that out quick. You mentioned Ryan Ferry, a cool comment takes on that game. He's on the show with you tonight, along with Jungle Day and Stephen Cassidy. And also, Mo O'Donnell, she was at the Termin Erichle Kearing game. Yes, indeed. It was a tough day at the office now. A few Simbans, three Simbans for Termin didn't help them. And there was a certain cannibin in there, you know, they hit 311. She scored three, you know, three, it's great. Absolutely phenomenal. So, I text my mate at the end of the beginning, I says, right, what's part of the bloodline cannibin in the sea? And she said, he was like, that's Peter Cannibin's niece, current Erichle Kearing captain Tommy's sister. So, I was like, there you go. I says the cannibins are out of the game. You went through full seasons, not scoring 3-8. Yes, yeah, possibly. Yeah, yeah. I've no one here to back that up. So, we'll park that great 3-8. And I can say, because I have no evidence to suggest it's the case, I just thought it might be amusing, that's all. Listen, we'll say, we'll say no, but listen, you got it, you've got to handle it. Anybody rags up something to get there, it's phenomenal. So, listen, Erichle Kearing, March on. So, listen, tough and tough and terminities, and that's their season over for now. So, we've intermediates, as I say, we're lining up against the cabin team. So, we have our junior intermediates and senior champions in the main side now, all rolling on the off-store. We want to wish them all the best as that competition kicks off. It's going to be a cracking show, as always. John Goulday, Stephen Cassidy, Ryan Ferry, and of course, Brendan Daveney, and Mo O'Donnell going through all the action, reflecting on that Canty final. And also, oh, that crowd's thinned out quite early in that game, didn't it? Or was that my imagination, or did they all decide to stand on the camera side? The crowd's thinned out. From the get go, there was a real feeling in the pit of your stomach. Fast five minutes. Five or six up before Gidore registered, you know, there was a real level of one team on another level, and the other team struggled to keep up. So, it's a tough watch, Greg, for a new drill, I guess, you know. My wee man, I was leaving him the other day, his name really, out in one of the years. He was still flying the Gidore flag. Of course, my wife's Gidore out to Wanda. I was laughing to myself this morning when the cars were looking for me thinking, who's this? He's proud of the lads. All right, so the DL debates live just after seven o'clock tonight, and a full hour of conversation on all things GAA. One of the great nights I've had out in recent years was at your first charity ball, Brendan, and just it was formal and it was informal. There was plenty of chat about sport, but it was done in a really accessible way. I'd equate it to sort of when you watch, someone might watch the Beckham documentary, but isn't a big football fan. You don't necessarily have to be to enjoy the chat and the crack. And it's back again, and it's only just around the corner. That's it, 24th of November in the Mount Arigal Hotel, surely. Up we carry there, looking after us as ever. So I'm really looking forward to it, Greg. We have comedians coming and we have musical numbers on the night and just looking to entertain. I think it's the way to do things now, Greg. If you're going to ask people for donations and to help out in charities now, it's always nice to attach it to something like a ball. And of course, we have a group on me as well. And you know, if you're sure it's to be charity balls, well, people have been very kind if they can't make it. They've been putting donations on as well to obviously plan. I earned I was in Togo earlier in the year. We're going to launch a few videos on that, but as the Donald was outlawing, I sent Carol Wickham from plan. I mean, we're going to meet some of the kids that we sponsored. So we sponsored 21 kids on that night the last time, Greg. And we keep that sponsorship on going. Yeah, but just I just want to recap that if you if you don't mind for those that attended it last year. So they know the difference they're making 24,000 euros was raised on the night for three charities, plan international Ireland, Cancer Care West and Focus Ireland. And the funding from those donations for plan international sponsored 21 children throughout the whole year. So in that one night where people had great crack and they were generous, don't get me wrong, the ripples from that night still continue. Now you've got 21 young children supported through that. And that's really remarkable. I just want to go back on that because sometimes we say things and it doesn't land, but that's really, really significant. And you were able to go over for yourself first hand to see the impact that those donations on that night in the hotel in Etter Kenney, they're being felt over there by young people and given them the best possible route to a positive life for themselves. And you're going at it again, plan international again is going to be one of the beneficiaries. The Donegal Hospice of course and Epilepsy Ireland and all three really close to your heart, Brendan. So you're hoping for a sellout, which it will be half the tables already gone, but supporting three amazing charities there. Yeah, that's exactly it. And there's a plan that will just help the kids obviously, but first of all nutrition, but education is huge. If you want to, you know, pull up the rest of companies in the world and progress them. Education is the key to that and keeping the wee kids in their village and making them happy and helping, you know, with the likes of Stop It Erry, Childhood My Eyes and the horrors of FGM and things like that. So they want to protect the whole community, not just individual child. So it was great to see them. And I sponsored kids myself as well. It was great to go out and meet them. The welcome we got in the community here was absolutely mind blowing. I mean, looking back at the video, I still can't believe some of it's how it happened and that it happened. You know, so it was fantastic to see. And I suppose it just strengthens in. In many ways, obviously dad's last days was in the hospice, you know, Epilepsy then was something that's affected her family greatly. And now you can suppose in the memory of Margaret and dad as well, I can attach, you know, it's hard for me to even look and think that that happened last year. But if I can put my energy into this and in their memory, it's the only way I can kind of actually confront the grief of what happened, you know, was to is to kind of do but helps help somebody else in their in their honor. Otherwise, I just park it, just push it away. Life's busy and all that. So it's nice that on a night, I guess, I think I can truly kind of look back at Yeah, and you can honor those two really important people in your lives as well, which is incredibly special and they'll not be far from anyone's thoughts there when people gather at next month, Brendan. And a lot of people understand exactly what you're saying because unfortunately, we all have to encounter awful challenges through our life. Okay, so I'll tell you, it's not a bad night out for 75 euro table of 10 750 you can get your tickets for us here at Highland Radio the Arch complex in letter Kenny sister series in letter Kenny and the Mount Erickle Hotel in letter Kenny. So it's a fantastic night. Great food. The place is always beautifully laid out. There'll be a music you're not going to sing. Are you or are you I don't know what that would make the buy a ticket or not. Brendan might sing. Well, we had was doing cash. Yeah, he sang two years ago. He's fantastic. He's on where he gets his confidence from. I have a couple of singers coming tonight. I like the things that get spoiled music and we've been a we've been a drama mix done. It's a great night out tickets also available in sister Sarah's the Mount Erickle Hotel in letter Kenny. So if you're a business out there, 750 euro and go along yourself and bring nine of your stuff and we got Brendan guarantees you'll have a good night, but no refunds are available. Listen, Brendan, good luck with the show tonight and hopefully now those tickets, I'm sure they'll fly out the door because even the mere mention of it I know that you sold a ton of them because everyone knows it's a fantastic night out. So we'll chat again next week, Brent. 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It's time for Monday Focus where we put to one side a bit of information to talk in greater detail about an issue. Our guest today is Connor McGinty, who is just recovering from an operation to treat gynecomastia, which is the enlargement of the male breasts usually due to a hormone imbalance and or genetics. Good morning, Connor. How are you feeling, by the way? All right, I'm late up and down, but ground, ground so far. Talk to me about this condition and how it affects people at what age does it start affecting them and what impact might it have on someone? Well, just start with the condition itself first, if that's okay. So, gynecomastia is something that we really find out about 10 years ago, but I've had it from like 16 years ago from the age of 12 or 13. So essentially, what it does is obviously all males, all females have breast tissue. A male is supposed to have a very limited amount of breast tissue. And unfortunately for some males when they go through puberty, they'll gain extra, gain extra breast tissue around the chest area and then it progresses, it goes away once puberty is punished. But for some, it stays. And if it stays, it means that that certain hormone, the estrogen hormone that women have can be a wee bit more provident or it can fight against the testosterone in men. And then the condition is progressively and gradually it's worse. So there's a difference between, you know, a man that maybe is overweight and has fat tissue and then someone with gynecomastia is a man that has essentially female breast tissue, glands, and then glandular breast tissue in their breasts. So it's not something that a man particularly wants to have. And obviously, the visual impact of it is the growth of breasts. But obviously it's caused then by a bit of genetics and a hormone imbalance. So obviously your hormones are out of skew. Does it affect you in any other way other than the sort of physical presentation of it, Connor? Well, this is not the question that there's a big question work over, you know, in my mind, obviously, I'm not a doctor, so I can say this, but I think it's caused a lot of, you know, anxiety and depression and things that got over the years are made me more susceptible maybe to it. But I presume the medical professionals will then say to you, well, that's the distress of the growth of breasts and it's not a chemical reaction as such. It's a psychological reaction. But you would dispute that. I would probably dispute it. But at the same time, you know, there's I have no evidence obviously, it's just my own thoughts. But all all all boys and puberty have hormone imbalances, aren't they? This is what I've been told by the doctors. And it's just when you're leveling out or whatever, you know, 13, 14, 15, it all fixes itself and corrects itself. And then everything's fine. And unfortunately, for those that have came across, it doesn't correct itself. But then once the breast tissue is formed, and it gets worse, the hormone imbalances then actually does correct itself anyway, but it's too late. You know what I mean? So my hormones now have all been checked. And, you know, I've had them checked for years, maybe 10 years and then everything's fine. Everything's perfect. I've got as golden as how many blood tests over the years and everything's fine and healthy and everything's great. It's just this physical something was on left. And you can imagine a million scenarios where this would have been very difficult for a teenager and a young man stuff that we might take for granted being on holidays, sports, I don't know, we're dependent on whether you're a sport, you're not, but loads of different reasons as to why you know, this would have a big impact, particularly on the younger mind Connor. You know, 100% that was, I think my family and the people closest to me have only really discovered the full extent of it this last two years. And I decided that surgery was a lot of a sudden, but it really, it really sort of wrecked my teenage years and my childhood, I'd say from the age of 12, 13, right through the, you know, right through the week. I was having, you know, bad, you know, bad sort of day-to-day issues up there. We Google before the surgery with it like so it's, I think it started really the first time I was really aware of it. It was a PE X group and the bullying that I would have got a PE and then realizing there's different to everybody else and seeing Paula fellers in class, you know, athletic fellas and I was athletic. I was a cross-country runner, play a wee bit of football because I wasn't over with, that was skinny. Yeah, but the more lean you get, the more lean you get, the more pronounced this breast growth gets because it's not so to speak. Exactly. And I had been to a few personal trainers over the years as well, who obviously were giving me their own advice because they didn't know what it was. They were saying, oh, it's fat, lose weight and get fat. So I was, I remember doing these crazy like six and 10 week transformations and everybody saying to me, oh, you're looking fantastic. And then when I was taking my top off, I was going, what the hell's wrong here? Like this obviously caused the glandular tissue. You can't burn it. It's not like normal fat. You can't burn it away. Yeah. And did you feel that everyone was always looking at you that no matter what you tried to do, everyone knew. And most of your life, if you were to go outdoors, was spent trying to conceal this, even perhaps when people weren't aware, was it always the thing right at the front of your mind that it's all about this? Yeah, yeah, every every second understandable and very training on your mental health. That's also very understandable. Every every second of every day, it was a thought in my head and it's funny like I popped that post up the other day on Facebook, they raised a wee bit of awareness about it obviously and hopefully that maybe, you know, if there's a young boy out there that was in my position, that sees it and sees that there's a wee bit of hope, you know, because I didn't really have any hope when I was at that age. And I also wonder how many how many people Connor aren't diagnosed, or I don't know, trying to conceal it with weight gain or do you know what I mean? And it depends how it depends how pronounced it is, how large the breast growth is, obviously, I presume it's like with a woman, some some are going to be smaller than others and less pronounced than others. So someone might you might not obviously know it's what they have, but they themselves know what they have because they started looking at themselves in the mirror. So you just wonder, you know, how much of this is out there troubling people undiagnosed? I'd say there's a lot of, to be honest, the amount of messages that I've got over the last day or two. Some of them quite serious, actually, which is a wee bit concerning. But one get in particular, if you want me to, I'll talk with a few of us, I'm not giving any names, but one get in particular, had sent me a message and I said, you know, I feel you're paying Connor, I says in 2015, I was told that I had the same condition, I'm not, they worry about it. That it would not, it would never be anything serious. In 2019, it was right, nipple inverted after tests and biopsies and they concluded that he had a thing called invasive ductal carcinoma to breast cancer. And then in 2022, he had, it was confirmed he had the brachyte and we'd be treated team. And they had, he was told in 2023, a couple of months ago, actually, that the cancer had spread the lungs and he was stage four. So I've been, I've been chatting about guy, he said that he was going to the NHS same as me with this condition and they return and look, it's nothing to worry about, it's cosmetic. That's what they say. That's what they say. They say it's cosmetic and nothing to worry about. And this is the situation that he's on right now. But I would really, really disagree with that. Was that part of your motivation to have the surgery to reduce the risk of you developing breast cancer? One would have to imagine, you're not a doctor or I'm not, but you're the chances, I mean, men get breast cancer, but you must have felt that is this make, does this make me more prone to it? Yeah, well, my, my granny, my granny had breast cancer. Obviously, it was always a thought in my head. I think that maybe it was more for me, it was how it looked and how I felt in playing football and going out to gigging and wearing shirts and pulling at them and talking at them and just spent so one happy with me on body. I just never felt like my body was mine. You know, this, and my wife always said to me, oh Connor, it doesn't really bother me. And, you know, that, but, you know, now that I've had the operation and people have actually seen it before and after, like even my wife goes to me now, he's never realized actually how pronounced it was. Yeah. But also to Connor, I mean, you've a bit of work to do now because obviously, you had the operation last week and that's fine. But there's, you know, you've been conditioned a little bit with having it for so long. So, you know, you have to watch yourself now for the next wee while because it's, you know, everything you hoped might not be delivered just by the operation. And you have to make sure look after yourself now over the next while as you, as you get used to it both physically and mentally, emotionally, Connor. Yeah. I think that's the scariest part too, you know, because this last 16 years, as you say, I've built up a lot of deep rooted habits. I'd say, you know, my posture's terrible. I was always leaning forward. I was always covering myself, things that other people were picking up on, but obviously didn't realize what it was for. Yeah. And then the biggest thing of them all was this whole condition left me, as I talked about on the, the Facebook post I put up, like, you know, suicide, in my mind, a lot of time over the last 16 years because of it. And then mental health counseling and things that I got. And I ended up with diagnosis is one in particular, which was a body dysmorphia. And then health in the area as well, which is just one of the few. So really, really understandable. I mean, you'd have to be completely bulletproof to not feel those things body dysmorphia, a health anxiety, do you know what I mean, particularly, especially to when you become when people start messaging you, oh, I understand that and go through their experience. It's an awful lot for anyone to take on Connor. So you've looked after yourself physically now, and you can rebuild your life and address a lot of the issues and just make sure that you look after yourself now. You know, mentally over the next wee one, I'm sure you're going to have a lovely, long and happy life now that hopefully this is behind you, Connor. Yeah, and as I say, like things look things. It's mad. I think that, you know, I'm saying that nearly 30 years of age, the word looks like a bigger place. It really does look, you know, it looks and you obviously have a clearly very loving and understanding partner as well. Oh, 100% that sounds brilliant. And, you know, she was even saying to me today, she was sort of saying, you know, look at over the last maybe 10 years, I've done a good deal with some music and stuff. That was on MTV and X Factor and the start now I released a few albums, gigging, all that stuff. She's like, oh, you did this, why do you need to deal with that so much. That's what you can do that career wise. Now you're going to next 10 years, like, even if they worry about it. So even at the gym, you're going to kick its ass now. All right, well, listen, stay positive, stay strong. And hopefully you're, I'm sure you already know that your words and you, you publicly speaking in and of itself is a huge achievement. So you have amazing strengths and capacity, Connor, and look after yourself and I wish you nothing but happiness going forward. Thanks, well, and Greg, much appreciated. Take care of yourself, Connor. And thanks for that. 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Excuse me, now you would know that the traffic lights at the Polestar roundabout in Letter Kenney, it's a very important route into and through Letter Kenney and out of Letter Kenney as well. They were switched on this a couple of weeks of tweaking with them and trying to get them synchronised correctly for the free movement of traffic, but we're one week odd in and Emmett Rush is the owner of Rush Fitness and he joins us on the programme now. Emmett, your reaction so far I suppose as a motorist but as a business owner? Yeah, they're not really doing their job, Greg, too well for our side of the town anyway. I think the main traffic in Letter Kenney, from what we see from our members and from the people in the business parks up around this side of town, it seems to be coming down the Remelton Road, sort of Pasarita 7 and then down from the business park road from Mountaintop down, it all converges at that small roundabout at Thomas Keith and then the next roundabout after that is the Valle Reyn roundabout and that would be the main blockade into town. So the traffic lights, their main purpose was meant to be approved congestion, but the left lane leading out of town when you're passing the Mount Errigal, to me I thought that it looked like they were creating a slip lane which would let the traffic free flown to allow that blockade that always happens in that side of town to leave town, to leave it that the lights would control people going through town or back into town, but it hasn't happened and I came in yesterday, which isn't the busy day in a zombie and the traffic was backed up again Pasarita 7 up there in Melton Road at one o'clock on a zombie, which never happens unless it's a bank holiday weekend. And also too, particularly with your type of business Emmett and correct me if I'm wrong at all here, but you know, if you're looking to book a membership of a gym or something that you're going to visit on a regular basis, you do factory and accessibility and what have you. And you know, it's a competitive area, I am sure you don't want anything that's going to discuss anyone from signing up. But no business wants that. I mean, last week when the lights got turned on, we had members messaging that took 40 minutes to travel one kilometer to try and get down to the business park where there was been booked in for a 10-past fire station and they made it in 10-past sec. And that was then coming from the mountain top down to us, which is a kilometer. And it took 40 minutes and they would sat for 10 minutes before they came in the door. That only ever happens on bank holiday weekends and letter Kenny whenever the northern traffic's coming back through and that's our state of town always gets that sort of traffic. But for it to be happening now nearly daily from the lights turn on, it's not to bring the congestion and never Kenny has a serious issue with congestion and the lights were meant to improve that. And for I don't know what it's like another state of town from the business and knowledge center town, but for our state of town anyway, it has not to improve congestion at all. In fact, you would argue it's creating congestion on certain routes, slowing traffic down. Well, when you come in on a Sunday on a non-busy day and traffic is backed up up their mountain roads, they're not doing their job. Sunday's traffic should be pretty free flown whenever that's not really busy, but it wasn't on this side of town. And again, this side of town seems to get it more than I'm not sure if it gets a more knowledge side of towns on the main busy things because we only come from this side. But the aftermelt and road traffic and the traffic coming down from all the busses parks and some people that are leaving work around the same time that congregate on these roads. So that left lane out of town past the Mount Arigales should be a free flown man. Because any traffic coming around from any other side of town can merge into the right lane. So they're not interfering with the left lane to allow it to get away from town to free up the town from traffic. I mean, there's, there has to be joined up thinking what's what they're doing. The issue with the other Kenny has always been that we need a relief road out of town. But when they were doing that work from the fully and it was meant to we were promised it wouldn't bring congestion. And we're coming on to another Christmas time. And it's that I mean, my business is my business, but I mean, there's a lot of businesses around the time they're probably looking at that traffic and guessing though, and we're going to get that again, where people are going to decide it's too much hassle to go to every clinic. Well, that's the risk indeed. Okay. Listen, thanks for your insight. I really do appreciate it. Emmett Rush, their owner of Rush Fitness. You a business person with a similar view. And just as we were listening to Emmett, they're watching a video edited and produced by Peruncius a car on on YouTube, which gives a real indication from above how traffic is moving there. But it tells us how traffic's moving on the roundabout is very useful. But it doesn't really talk to the issues further up the line that Emmett there was referencing. Well, Don Greg, a good interview with Tony Canavan. Hope they'll take it on board all the issues you mentioned. Mr. Canavan set up an inquiry clinic, guess where his own county, Roscommon. What a surprise. It would have been encouraging to hear a slightly firmer commitment on a minor injuries clinic for Donegal we needed. It would be a huge difference. Well, it would be a significant difference for a lot of Kenny University Hospital, particularly the ED there and elsewhere. But it was like, we'll see, there's a review of what's going on at the moment elsewhere. But we know they're working really well. 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What's the rest of the day? Got in store for us. The rain will move off to the north later this afternoon, followed by scattered showers, highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees in an easterly breeze. Dr. Mary McCreary is a dietitian nutritionist and joins us on the program now. Good morning, Mary. Thanks for the time today. Good morning to you too. It's good to have you on the show. Right, we're discussing gut health. And is it particularly important at winter time and what is gut health, I suppose? Two questions for you. Okay, right. Well, this is the campaign that's been run by Yakult to try and advise the general public basically on two things. Number one, what is your gut health and then your winter gut health? Now, there's so many myths and misinformation there is about how to keep healthy, what you should be eating, what you shouldn't be eating, that some of it is actually down to just very basic information is how we can actually keep healthy. So let's look at, first of all, about your gut health. A lot of people are under the impression that your immune cells are in your nose and in your throat, whereas an actual back 70% of our immune cells reside in your gut. So it's really, really important to actually make sure that you have very, very good health. Now, basically, what is that? We're talking about your gut microflora and we've got good bacteria and they're really the good bacteria, really the gatekeepers to your immune system and they try and ward off any type of bad bacteria that could come in viruses. So getting a really, really good diet is very important and keeping during the winter months, keeping up the consumption of your fruits and your vegetables and your high fiber foods. So where, you know, frozen vegetables are as nutritious as fresh vegetables, whereas people tend to think that they're somehow not as good and using frozen fruit to make into your smoothies and making sure that you have high fiber foods as well. So the two things that people think that we should be doing is number one, that we should be taking a vitamin C supplement during the winter months, but that actually is not correct information. What we should be doing is taking a vitamin D supplement. We live in the Northern Hemisphere, so our exposure to sunlight is very limited during the winter months from about October to April. So it is recommended that everybody takes a vitamin D supplement during those winter months. So are we better trying to keep our vitamin C levels up through our diet, but because of course vitamin D is harder to draw from your diet, go down the route of a supplement for vitamin D. Yes, exactly. I mean, you can get your vitamin C, your full daily requirement of vitamin C in one small glass of orange juice. So, you know, to have that the vitamin C naturally in your diet, you don't need the vitamin C supplement, but we definitely do need the vitamin D supplement. And as you say, we don't get it from a lot of foods. We can get it from oily fish, things like salmon, liver, red meat, and eggs. And we have vitamin D added to what's called fortified food. So that would be the likes of breakfast cereal and yak or a balance. But it's so important that we actually take that vitamin D supplement as well. And even though you might be sitting inside on a sunny day, you can't absorb the vitamin D through the glass. In terms of liquids, you have different conversations with people about they count various things towards their liquid intake, which is generally I thought referred to water. What is the to maintain good, good health? You know, how much should we be drinking? And should it be at least a minimum water? And it doesn't have to be water. It has to be fluid. And at least six to eight glasses a day of fluids. Now that can be milk, it can be water, it can be tea, it can be your fruit juice, it can be any type of fluid. But what fluid is really, really important. So when you eat your food, fluid is really, really important to aid in the absorption of the nutrients and to move the food through your digestive, your digestive system. And it's one of the main causes of why people suffer from constipation is because they don't drink enough fluid. But it can be any fluid. Now alcohol doesn't count in that, but any other fluid, it does count as fluid. So, you know, as the nation of tea drinkers, just keep on drinking your cups of tea. It doesn't have to be water. It doesn't have to. And just finally, Dr, because we're quite short on time, maybe how important then to our gut health is, you know, being as stressed for you as possible and getting a good night's sleep? Well, there's a lot of information that shows that by being stressed actually can really affect not only your mental health, but your physical well being as well because of this hormone cortisol, which is your stress hormone. So, it's obviously to try and remove as much stress out of your life, easier said than done, but keeping up your good diet, a little bit of exercise, keeping up your fluid intakes, the basic things that we all should be doing to keep ourselves healthy. But for anybody that is particularly interested, Yakkel have a whole area on Yakkel.ie on the Winter Gut Health Guide. So that's actually very informative and very well worth watching. Lovely stuff, Dr. Thank you so much for your time. Have a lovely day. That was Dr. Mary McCreary, a dietitian nutritionalist talking about the importance of your gut health over winter and its relationship with your immune system. Right, very close to the end of the program. Just a couple of comments here. I had two relatives in LUH recently were in VHI, kept in over the weekend, discharged first thing Monday morning. Why not discharge Friday evening? The VHI are paying they say. Thank you, Greg. You were great. Time has passed. The local doctors treated chest infections and did stitches. No one, no one has to travel to letter Kenny for these. And last, we need a bigger hospital for all the extra people in Donegal now. The government don't look at services needed when agree to taking people from abroad and whereas all the money they're getting being spent, those in the council need to get into the real world. Listen, thanks so much for a really positive reaction to the show today. And we're going to do it all again tomorrow morning from 9am. From me, Greg Hughes and Research and Producer Caroline, all have a lovely day. And don't go anywhere because John Bresnan is going to keep you informed and entertained around the Northwest next.