 Prices in the third quarter of 2022 were 17% higher than a year previously, compared to a rise of 11% seen a year ago. There's been a 90% increase in new bills in the county, with 74 new homes being built in the past year. A one-bedroom apartment costs on average €80,000, an increase of 29.1%, while a two-bed terrace house costs around €99,000, a rise of 22.7%. The cost of a three-bed semi-detached house increased by 18% to €136,000, while a four-bed bungalow will cost around €243,000, an increase of 7.7%. The price of a five-bed detached house is now costing around €246,000, up 10.5% on last year. Two other now dry with some sunny spells for most of today, though there will be isolated light showers, cool and breezy with highs of 12 to 14 degrees. That's all for now, we'll be back with an update again at 10 o'clock, but until then, good morning. Very good morning to you. It's the National News Show on Highland Radio. It's Donald Kavanaugh with you on the program until 12 noon today. 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We begin with our look at the papers, and as it's a Monday, we begin with the Monday edition of the Donegal News, the main headline, grief-stricken, father and daughter laid to rest, the devastated family of a father and daughter who died within hours of each other, paid a heartfelt tribute to them at their joint funeral on Saturday. Eugenie Cunningham came to a standstill for the funeral of Patrick Deveney and his daughter Margaret Sullivan, and as you may well know, Brendan Deveney, Patrick's son, Margaret's brother, is the presenter of the deal debate here on Highland Radio, would normally have been on the program on a Monday, obviously Brendan won't be here today, and the thoughts of ourselves on the program and the need all of us on Highland Radio are with Brendan and the wider Deveney and Sullivan families. Also on the front of the Donegal News this morning, huge Donegal numbers at cost of living protests in Dublin. Michael Homaners from Donegal were among the thousands who took part in the cost of living protests in the capital at the weekend, and you may well have heard Deputy Thomas Pringle on the news earlier on with Emma giving his view of that particular protest. He sees it as having been a major success. Derry News this morning, Derry has the highest percentage of residents identifying as Irish only. There is a call for the Irish government to convene a citizens assembly on Irish unity. Catherine McGinty and Liam Tony reporting their recorded call for the Irish government to convene a citizens assembly on Irish unity appears to have been strengthened by the publication of census 2021 figures for the North, most notably perhaps the data from the Derry City and Straban district. It found 53.8 one identifying as Irish only in the district, 17.46 British only. Now if I recall reading the figures correctly when I saw them last week, I think right across Northern Ireland the Irish only figure was in and around about the 39% while the British only figure was about 42%. So right across Northern Ireland it's not as clear cut perhaps as the article might suggest. And it's one of those issues that's going to go on and on. Interesting article by initial Hanlon on the Sunday independence yesterday about it where she asked the question, is this going to make a difference to various figures that came out of that census and her view appeared to be not really Irish independent this morning as we move to the nationals free books, smaller classes on way for primary schools, funding to put thousands of extra pupils on buses also expected in historic budget move. All primary pupils will get free school books every year from next September in a historic move to eliminate this annual cost for parents. Now it's interesting that whereas a lot of the discussion is about families who are under particular pressure, what we seem to be seeing in fact is a situation where the measures being announced are right across the board. So maybe there'll be questions asked about that. I don't know but it does seem that whereas what seems to be called for by many people is targeted initiatives and targeted strategies. What we're seeing is a across the board blunt instruments where everyone gets the particular payment or gets the particular benefit. Also a rival of two new pensions giants to shake up the market. The pensions market here is set for a major shake up after two big international providers said they plan to launch retirement products in this country. The first new products for years they're going to put existing players particularly Irish life under pressure. So says that article on the front of today's independent. Now looking at the Irish times this morning, budget boost for parents of young children again the free school books at primary level and 20% cut to childcare fees on the cards that say according to the paper there and also Goodman Group uses Dutch company to cut tax bill. Arthur Beasley writes that Larry Goodman's beef empire has used tax adjustments in a little known Dutch company to reduce its overall tax bill by passing loans for hundreds of millions of euro between different arms of his business in Ireland and the Netherlands. So the Irish Times has learned and also we have on the front of the Times this morning. Skydiver in freefall a really good picture actually of skydiver John Dodd from Hampshire free falling from a hot air balloon and the picture at Burrin County awfully the picture is taken from the balloon looking down and it's a really really interesting picture and it's taken what looks like Burr Castle underneath it and I actually spent a bit of time in Burr Castle last year on a COVID holiday within the country and it was an absolutely fascinating spot actually really really liked it. Irish Daily Mail this morning school books to be free and budget boost that's a headline that's common across all of the papers I think this morning in terms of the nationals. Irish Daily Star stolen car rampage driver charged a man is to appear in court today after going on a rampage through a town in a stolen car. The suspect rams into other cars and injured a bystander as he cleared through Firmoy in County Cork in front of shocked onlookers and also on the side of the star a story on budget bailout for hard pressed families. Again Irish Daily Mirror it's that same story from Firmoy car ram terror man due in court bystander who tried to intervene hurt as shocked kids looked on and the front of the Irish Sun. McGregor KO'd by not weed Connor McGregor's plan to erect a block of built rent flats might be nipped in the bud by giant weeds UFC stars 19 million euro Dublin site is riddled with pesky Japanese not weed Dublin City Council want him to tame the invasive plant before work continues. Now we know that there's quite a bit of work actually going on in Inishon to get natural remedies to Japanese not weed perhaps perhaps we might be able to get a bit of a match going and get Connor McGregor in touch with the people in Inishon who are working on this and perhaps we can bring some cheer. That's the way that the papers are looking on this bright and breezy Monday morning I say bright and breezy it is nice and bright and it's just it is a bit breezy but it was quite breezy earlier on actually out walking at the streets at and on earth the hour but that's the way things are looking on the papers this morning we're going to take a short break back in just a moment. 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year-old prizes first prize a Hyundai Kona car plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at St. Union's GA draw.com or any club member this is the international on Highland radio you may have heard in the news on Friday and over the weekend that new government initiative will see the introduction of paid leave for victims of domestic violence once a new bill which has been published is voted into law those who are suffering from or at risk of domestic violence will be entitled to five days of paid leave per year now we're joined on zoom by Dr. Marie Hainsworth who's the manager of Donnie Gull domestic violence Dr. Marie good morning morning Donald how you doing very well indeed thank you um in terms of this legislation what's your take does this answer a pressing need that's out there does it go far enough it's the start definitely um i know it's something that women's aid have been calling for for quite a long time i think it is in the uk possibly coming into northern ireland as well um the difference with it with is that the moment people are having to use ordinary leave you know um often if a domestic violence incident happens you know a family have to uproot they have to move they have to go to court um so there's quite a bit of a time requirement by victims that isn't always able to be facilitated by the workplace at the moment you know because people are having to use sick leave or they're having to use annual leave and the difference with this this particular type of leave is that it's immediate so you don't have to wait two weeks so you don't have to you know apply for the leave and then it's dependent on whether somebody else is off or whether shifts can be covered you know it's kind of like it's an immediate need and it can be met which often is what's required so yes definitely for for clients that we work with um and certainly those that are having to look for accommodation or look for legal support this kind of leave could make a big difference there are going to be sensitivities in how this is notified and how this is managed because i can well imagine somebody might be reticent about falling their employer and saying i am in this situation it's something that many people would be reticent about talking about they don't want to talk about it and that's going to add i i won't use the word complication because it's the wrong word but that's going to add an extra sensitivity to applying for this leave i would have thought yeah i think you can add to the stress if it's not handled right um alongside the legislation um what what there should be is is the option then for employers to be able to provide training or to be provided with training so often in a workplace domestic violence policy you would have a dedicated person who is the the link the go-to person if you like and they've had training they have that sensitivity there might be somebody that the the employee has trust and can talk to and then it's just up to them to pass on to management yeah this uh this leave is being accessed and they'll be back on whatever date you know so what we're hoping to do is or what we would hope that the government will be supporting to happen is it not just to introduce the legislation but also to introduce the training the backup and the support that goes alongside it otherwise like you said people are going to be very reluctant it's going to be a lot easier just to phone in sick um or maybe not do the things that need to be done not go to court not actually look to leave the situation um and drag it out for longer hoping that things will resolve so yeah it has to be a package that's what we're looking for now to see whether that's being offered as well in terms of the responsive employers um the the noises that are coming from people like asmy people like ibeck those who who will be employers uh they appear to be positive enough at the beginning of the process at least i think so yeah i mean i know it yes it's another leave that employers are paying but as i said most employers are kind of paying it anyway but through all the channels um and oftentimes if you're an employer and you don't actually know why your employee is taking time off it's harder to manage you know where at least this way you're getting a bit full of our picture you know it's a an immediate need you know when the person's coming back you know the situation that's going on i mean in the same legislation they're also introducing leave for carers and for parents to take time off with children who are sick so all of these tend to be things that are taken fundamentally as part of a sick leave and it doesn't mean to give an employer any idea of what's going on it doesn't give them much scope to kind of plan for things um and there are different types of leave so i think it's important a that the government gets a picture of where people are taking time off from what it's for but also that employers know what's happening with their employees and can plan better um you know a generic sick leave is not really telling an employer very much a really important element of this whole process is going to be confidentiality because going back to one of the earlier questions i mean if a conversation takes place between a woman who finds herself in in that situation and an employer the last thing they're obviously going to want to do is for that to become a topic of conversation in the workplace and you know there's going to be natural conversations in a staff room or where such and such um you know and it's going to have to be very carefully managed by the employer uh how those conversations go because people will will want confidentiality and will feel very threatened if they don't have it absolutely and it's the same way you know if an employee is sick or you know whatever the reasons are for taking time off um you know it has to be done respectfully and that's where i think the training comes in in terms of your hr management within the organization and why it might be better to just allocate somebody with those particular skills to be able to work with the person um so all of that kind of has to be thought through by employers it's not just a case of yeah yeah you can take that leave off your go um but not think about the consequences because consequences can also be dangerous if you're informing people um and also informing people that they're not in the workplace because often abusers will track victims as soon as the situation's happened and if they realize that they're not in the workplace they might be asking around to find out why that person is so you know there's a whole safety element as well that goes alongside this that employers need to be aware of obviously we're at the beginning of the process legislation has been published now there can be many a slip, twist, cup and lip when it comes to actually getting legislation through the DAWL committee stage the Shannon back to the DAWL and ultimately signed into law by the president and then implemented and it's going to take some time for this to go through the system important in the meantime that we have conversations about those issues like training that we have conversations to make sure that when this law comes in it comes in properly phrased properly framed and ready to be implemented successfully absolutely it's a bit like the remote working policy you know like it needs to have time to be worked through organizations need time to think about how it will actually work for them and can companies combine together you know with skills and resources or do training together um there's all of those aspects and obviously services like ourselves should be brought in to be able to do training and give that support but all of that needs time so yeah start thinking about it now it is coming down the line it's very much a european kind of led initiative in the sense that a lot of other countries are doing it at this stage so you know it is a direction we will be going in but it's how do we manage it and how do we make sure that it works effectively and obviously in terms of committee stage various organizations will be invited in to give evidence at committee stage and make contributions to this particular legislation would you like to be there yourself to to give your top and swath to those who are framing the law oh i always like to be invited to things like that but usually it's the bigger organizations up in Dublin but i think they should be listening in particular to rural areas because i think the needs of rural employees is probably different and i think particularly in small communities the issues around confidentiality that you've mentioned are going to be hugely different so yeah in terms of the consultations i think they should be looking to organizations that have links into rural areas as well as just focusing on the urban issues in terms of this actually becoming law being implemented and becoming a reality but we're talking probably a time frame of minimum one year and possibly longer what sense are you getting with regards to how long it's going to take this to go through the system to be honest i have no idea at the moment with everything that's going on and the focus on budgets and everything else you know it could be one of those things that gets slipped through because most of it is kind of in place or it could be something that just puts on on the back burner it depends as well on the lobby groups and the pressure that's put on to government so i think anybody involved that's affected by this legislation and that does include carers parents you know families generally anybody working in any of those sectors needs to put pressure on the government to make sure that it doesn't drop off now you know they've made the announcement everybody assumes the legislation's there they can kind of then stall for quite a while and i think local politicians should be you know linking in the services and making it a priority for our area in particular. Dr Maria Hensworth thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning we will watch this one with interest and track it as it goes through the various stages in Enster House but for the moment at least thanks for much indeed thank you very much thank you that's Dr Maria Hensworth there speaking to us on zoom and as we said that legislation was published last week and it is now about to go through the whole system and we'll see how that pans out over the coming weeks and months as Dr Maria said there hopefully we'll get to a situation where it can go through the doll relatively speedily now let's change tack one of the big issues of discussion over the past number of months has been the use of turf and turf cutting in general and a perception in rural areas that the tradition of turf cutting is very much under siege mainly from minister Aiman Ryan and others in government now we are joined on zoom by councillor John Hemish O'Farre who is a member of Donegal County Council and he has a motion indeed for consideration at today's meeting of Donegal County Council that gets underway in a just over an hour and a half's time councillor John Hemish Majin what Majin why don't and how are you in very well indeed thank you John Hemish in terms of your motion today you're going to be delivering a very clear message to Donegal County Council you want the council to look minister Aiman Ryan in the eye and say hands off our turf exactly that is what I'm bringing this motion to the council to and it's calling on the minister to abandon his criminalization and the policy under turf cutter population over the last number of weeks and there was a ban I think since the first of September a number of people have contacted me elderly people in relation to this and they can't seem to people that were providing turf last year in previous years for them that they're frightened to contact these people and they're informed that they can't sell any turf them and again this might be the only source of warm in their homes which is turf and it's a cheap fossil fuel as well compared to when you see the oil prices and gas prices escalating and the coal prices which has escalated over the last year huge prices and people just can't afford it and again there seems to be no nothing coming from the government to replace such things as warming their houses for old people or solar panning and all this schemes that they have but out there it's going to be a severe winter for older people and people that were depending on the turf and again criminalizing the turf cutters that are providing these that they're can't sell or distribute turf to these people that depend on it and the reality of it is that I mean we're not talking about big huge companies who are raking in tens of thousands of euro a week we're in the main uh predictorily in western egod in your own area we're in the main talking about someone who has a bit of land on the bog cuts the turf and perhaps sells a bit of turf to a 15 or 20 neighbors and people who live in the vicinity yes well probably neighbors don't own turf have turbidity rights or don't cut bog probably they don't own it like I said but how are these meant to warm their homes now again I said as I emphasized that the prices of fuel has escalated through the roof over the last year and if you see tomorrow there's a budget coming up so it'll be interesting to see what the government implements in that budget in relation to this but a tradition that's been west donnie gall I'm sure all over the county in donnie gall or hundreds of years uh warming their homes with with turf has now been criminalized I'm sure you're anticipating you'll get unanimous support from donnie gall county council today I'd be very surprised if that wasn't the case is this emotion you believe that's going to make any difference though because what now happens is donnie gall county council passes the motion and the sentiment is expressed within donnie gall up to minister amen ryan the reality of it appears to be that amen ryan hasn't engaged with others on this up to now do you think donnie gall county council's input at this point can make a difference I think it will though this is the way forward to taking my motion to the council today uh there has been no negotiations with the torque cutters at all in relation to this and it's just been implemented which will have huge consequences on on the ordinary people that donnie gall not alone the west of donnie gall but all over donnie gall as previously mentioned again minister ryan I don't think this is the proper way to go to criminalize the the torque cutters here in west donnie gall and all over donnie gall but again like my motion I hope it'll highlight to minister ryan that this is not the way to progress that more thinking needs to go into this and in relation to the people that's depending on the torque that they would be given a few years I know we're on about climate change and this is that and fossil fuels but again we have targets set and all over europe and again Ireland seems to be just implementing all everything that's coming from europe I am totally far green energy but in relation to the torque issue and i'm 100 percent behind the torque cutters on on this and the torque producers which is which will be a huge issue this winter as I said because again I get a number of phone calls on a daily basis from people that can't avail of the torque because of the ban whether there's comments coming in to us obviously and typical of those comments is this one I'm a widow I depend on turf for heating my brother cuts it and he gives me a couple of bags to keep me going over the winter I don't know what's going to happen if he is stopped from cutting turf and I'm sure that's a sort of a sentiment in comment that reflects what you're getting daily as well yes exactly and this is going to be criminalized as well um it's absolutely ludicrous that this policy is implemented within any discussion whatsoever in terms of the way council business goes very often with a motion like this the councillor moving the motion asks that that motion then be distributed to other councils and it's sent on to other councils for their consideration as well is that something you'd like to see happen in this instance assuming it's passed oh yes definitely it's just not loaned any gold that's going to be affected with this all over the country car all the people that spend in rural areas and not not alone in western engal but in the kidney and I'm aware of a number of people that buy their turf and born turf for year round and like I said hopefully now other councillors if the motion is passed which I'm pretty confident that will that it will be forwarded to other councillors and municipal districts throughout the county and the country council johnny and Michelle farry thank you very much indeed and we wait with interest to see what happens with that motion when it's uh considered later on today at the plenary council meeting at the aura leisure center in letter kenny for the moment councillor johnny and mish thank you thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much that's uh councillor johnny and Michelle farry they're speaking to us from western engal and that uh issue up for discussion as we said at today's meeting it's the plenary uh monthly meeting of donny gold county council taking place in the aura leisure center in letter kenny this is highland radio it's tonight till noon show it's half past nine going to take a short break back after these would you like to win a Hyundai kona car well that's the first prize in the st unans ga club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine till noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at st unions ga draw dot com or any club member at hickey clark and langan insurance brokers they compare quotes from all the leading insurers so you get a great 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around letter kenny town for drivers entering the town via the kiln mcrelan road an unnecessary hazard is placed in their way in the form of two short lanes leading into the town with the two lanes ending abruptly at the george ball roundabout traffic that had been on the fast lane must endeavor to maneuver onto the single lane all of this leads to the annoyance of drivers who had used a slow lane having one lane inwards and one lane outwards would be much better than what's there now even better would be two lanes leading away from the town although similar with the situation know as things stand with the constant flow of traffic inwards on the fast lane it's quite riskily trying to overtake a slow moving vehicle on that single lane outwards with the situation as it is getting into town can be very frustrating a little bit of better planning could make a big difference now i had an interesting conversation with someone quite recently actually because um the george ball roundabout that henry our letter writing correspondent refers to there is i would say 300 not even 300 yards from where i'm sitting we are just the other side of that particular roundabout and we see a line of traffic from that roundabout and the calheim roundabout at the george ball roundabout as it's now called at calheim going right into letter kenny and there is just from about 10 past five past 10 past eight in the morning there is a line of traffic that appears to be almost immobile i was reminiscing with someone uh several years ago let's go back to the mid to late 1990s my wife and i had one car she's working as a nurse in letter kenny university hospital i'm working up here at the mountaintop in letter kenny we had two very young children and both uh at shall we say play school crush age and we had one car if i were working an early shift and she were working a later shift i would drive to hide and radio i would do the morning shift i would read the news at half past eight i would get into the car i would drive down to our home and lend car and letter kenny she and the two children would get into the car they would drive me back up to work and then she would take the car and she would have the car then for the day and we were able to do that and i would be back at work comfortably to start again at nine o'clock to read a news bulletin now i reckon if you got into a car here at highland radio now at 25 to nine and try to head down that road into letter kenny town if you made it as far as from america i suspect you'd be doing very well indeed it is crazy what's happened over the past while with the traffic in letter kenny and we know there is a study being undertaken of all the traffic in in letter kenny and that that's coming up very shortly i will see what comes out of that but yes traffic in letter kenny is one of those perennial issues and topics of discussion that's going to keep on i think being discussed let's go to line one we're going to talk to catlin and catlin good morning you and congratulations on achieving a college place but there's a big huge sting in the tail here good morning good morning hello thank you for having me it's our pleasure um sorry can i is it would you pronounce catlin or katlin katlin katlin i i i i i do apologize i was just looking at the name of the early sheet so we go katlin but katlin you have um you've got a place in manuth but you've um actually found yourself in a situation where you're going to have to defer yes um so i got my results uh this month um and i was very happy with it i was then um just given an offer my round one offer for my first choice on ceo which is entrepreneurship manuth and manuth is around five hours away by public transport so me my parents have been looking for accommodation for since february um and it just got to the point where we couldn't find any just affordable accommodation that was kind of appropriate um to the distance of campus um like at all um so we had to make a decision to kind of uh allow me to defer for the next year and i did get deferral place in manuth and and you've been quoted figures of 325 euro a week for accommodation yes that's just one of the figures that um it was a private student village accommodation it was more comfortable um it was more closer to campus uh there was more supports for students there like a gym membership and a laundry mat on at the accommodation but it was still just crazy expensive um and we couldn't afford it others options that i had were like digs um that were still 40 minutes away from campus so i still have to transport i like use transport to get there but it was a thousand euro per month and that just left my parents in shock for digs and and when you say digs what what you effectively mean is you are getting a room in what can either be a family home or a shared house and you then share a kitchen you share a bathroom and you share every other facilities all you get privately to yourself is a room a bed and if you're lucky a desk in a chair yeah that's correct and that was a thousand euro a month yeah that is crazy it's really i mean i think what you're saying to us here and it's interesting to have this conversation because we read so much and and we we see so much but i think when you actually hear someone give those figures themselves uh that really really brings it home um katelyn you're you're deferring to next year and i do find i have to ask the question what do you hope will change between 2022 and 2023 because it could well be that we get to September 2023 and the prices are even higher or do you believe something's going to happen in the meantime to actually address this situation well the new themes of Ireland have gotten many just a lot of protests going on right now um including they are looking for introduction to legislation to protect students in dates um with their contracts um and also there is a on-campus walkout for all college students on October 13th there has recently been a protest on the rise of cost of living so there's a lot of actions um or i would say just efforts uh trying to combat or just trying to give awareness about this crisis um and i would hope to to see more student purpose built student accommodation built um for students i think that's that's the way forward if anything just more affordable um and more supply of accommodation available there for students no minister simon harris did indeed say that recently uh who is the minister with responsibility for a third level education he did say that yeah he was pushing digs big time and he was pushing to people you know if you have a spare room in your house come forward um if i thought i could get a thousand euro i'd be coming forward too um but i would put that frivolity aside but but simon harris was saying at the root of his belief is we'll try and do something temporary for this year and then over the course of the next 12 months we'll build build build the question is i mean knowing how long it can take to get building done and get everything through the process i mean what realistic chance is there that there'll be a comprehensive uh new um block of student accommodation built near every college in the country by this time next year um i would contest it it's not going to happen that fast yeah um i believe um i'm also the president of the irrespective level student union um and what we see from students on the ground is that those who are in six years the moment are not only going into their year full of stress and anxiety for the exams ahead which is normal but they're also with the added pressure of the accommodation crisis and they are asking the the question those is it worth it to move out of my county for my dream course or just stay in in my county where there's a course available and i won't have to pay for accommodation other students are looking for unicast which is europe or ucast in uk because they do have accommodation there and it's available for them but it's just crazy high just tuition um in the uk and so they're just looking for other options outside of arland which is yeah which is just unfair and as you say certainly if someone wants to study something like computer science or something like that absolutely we have the dunigal atu campus which offers absolutely fantastic courses there but if you're looking to do something very specialized as is the case of the entrepreneurship course that that you wanted to do in manuth obviously that's not going to be available locally so you don't have the option to stay local um and and that puts you in a position where you have to move out of town it also raises the question of those who perhaps are on susie grants um whatever chance you might have had of grants from susie um the student grant meeting those accommodation costs five 10 15 years ago uh it would seem if costs like that are being quoted susie is not going to come anywhere near meeting the sort of accommodation costs being sought in some instances now katelyn sorry have i lost you hello sorry oh that's great sorry i couldn't get you're lost oh no i was just saying and from from the point of view of students were dependent on student grants from susie uh it would seem that accommodation costs like that are going to be well out of the reach of those grants oh yeah absolutely and like i had the i i'm i was in a i'm a lucky a lucky position where i don't have susie grants and i wasn't um i'm not eligible for a susie grant but in my position if you had to defer your susie grant doesn't transfer to the next year so it's just it's put me kind of our other students in a difficult situation there uh what do you intend to do for the year that that you're going to be out of would you try and get some work or try and do some travel or or get some experience or will you just continue with your work as that you are as you say president of the second level students uh in in in ireland will you will you continue that campaigning over the course of the next year yes um so i um yeah as i said i'm the utron or the president of the irish second level cd union um so i think it's so relining to all this is that i'll be able to dedicate my my whole kind of capacity and more time to this role in advocating for students in second level education i currently represent over 300 000 second level students in ireland with over 580 580 sorry we just gotten another one there last week so 580 member schools in ireland and so i'll be able to dedicate my whole time to fighting for their rights um uh on a national level um i also kind of with the year ahead i'll be able to kind of help my parents save up um for for accommodation for next year so better fit both me my parents and look for actual accommodation that is affordable and close enough to campus um kaitlyn feymenti thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning uh we wish you well in in the year ahead and i've no doubt you'll be a highly articulate and eloquent campaigner for those second level students and we hope that you do get to take the course next year and all goes well in the future but kaitlyn for now thank you very much indeed thank you for having me thank you our it was absolutely our pleasure um that was kaitlyn there called her says sadly in ireland we've regressed to a point where only the wealthy will be able to get third level education it's just disgraceful and we're going back to a period that it would have been claimed we were at decades ago where university was the privilege and the um the purview of the rich and others basically had to go elsewhere um that it appeared had changed and it would be an absolute shame if we were to return to a situation like that where we didn't have um genuinely universal third level education available uh another caller says what's to be done for third level students and parents struggling to pay for them at college and i suspect that's a throwback to the stories we're getting 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radio and reading the papers uh that ulster bank are closing and people are being urged to take steps to open accounts elsewhere dirger is one of those affected by that dirger good morning good morning donal um dirger tell us your story because this this is a very interesting one where ulster bank seems to want to be having its cake and eating it tell us the story yeah um in july i tried to close my account online and i took out i took out my money and i wasn't able to actually close the account i had difficulty closing it completely so i went down to the ulster bank uh two months ago or that was two months ago i went down to the ulster bank last week and i i told the girls that um i was charged fees then and it was 11 euro at that stage because they charged me the five euro three euro for each month that i hadn't closed it and then they charged me a penalty and the penalty they charged you was because the account was empty yes exactly donal no i i take it you have opened an account elsewhere at this point i did i don't want to count with another bank yeah and and so you you've taken all your money out and you've you've put your money into did you do a digital transfer to the new account did you actually physically take money out and then physically bring it to the new bank no i did it online you did it online so which is exactly what it seems to me ulster bank are crying out to people to do they're crying out to people close your account move your money elsewhere please do this and do it now and they're exhorting people to do it you've done it and they've charged you a penalty for it yes but the problem is it's very difficult to close the account online and when i went down to the bank she told me that that a lot of people have a problem physically closing the account and uh so when i tried she said i can't close the account now because i have to pay the fees that they've charged me and if i don't pay the fees she said i would get a bad credit rating so i was just wondering if that would be true like if i don't pay the 11 euros will i get a bad credit rating this this is a strange situation i mean i i can absolutely understand where banks would would want under the normal circumstances to protect their business and make this difficult as possible for people to close accounts but this is a bank which literally has advertising on air every day of the week urging people please close your account please close your account please please pretty please close your account because they're going to find themselves next month with loads of accounts on their hands when they want to get out of the market and they can't because they have loads of active accounts and the fact that they haven't made it easy to close an account online sort of beggars belief as far as i can see yeah yeah yeah yeah so do so do do i pay the the fees of 11 euros or or what what would my position be you know what i mean what yeah i mean what do i do now i mean i if you're asking what i would do personally i would be honest for peace of mind in a quiet life i would pay it and i would say right close the account right now in my presence make sure it's closed and i would walk out of that bank and shake the dust off my heels and walk away that that's what i think i personally would do but i mean and i know it's absolutely a point of principle and i can absolutely understand why it is a point of principle and we'll put the call out to people yeah when i was in the bank that day i hadn't got any cash with me but i had another i made bank accounts but i had to pay they wouldn't take the card that's why i walked out right they wouldn't they wouldn't they wouldn't then accept take the card from your your new bank yeah no no i had the cash i i don't know i mean it seems on the one hand i mean and everyone is saying we're we're trying to make this as easy as possible we're trying to make this as easy as possible we're trying to make this as easy as possible and and the uh the voiceover artists they're using on the ulster bank ads are the most reasonable sounding voiceover artists ever they you know and now and okay and in fairness i think we will also have to say that the person you dealt with face to face in the bank it's not her it's not her fault she's saying what she's been told to say by her superiors and i'm always conscious that i mean people like that can be in a very invidious position because they're sort of the public face and they can be sometimes the ones who take the the irritation of people so it's not her fault um it seems to me that you know you've got one one part of ulster bank is trying to do this properly and another part of ulster bank is saying oh well there's money owed there's money owed um yep we would certainly put it out there i'm sure there's other people yeah i'm sure there are people out there because as you know yourself when you go in and try and to these banks you know when you're trying to close an account in the bank they're very difficult that's all kind of small the but it's not easy to close completely so that's why i went in then you know it's difficult especially as you get older it's not easy yeah and especially when we're told that the online banking thing now is making it all much much easier and it should be a lot more straightforward now because we have online banking um and in some instances it is and in some instances online banking has just complicated things even more and there are some things where you would just go into the bank and get something sorted now online it's going to take an age to try and get it sorted um Deirdre thanks thanks for the call we'll certainly put it out there i just want to highlight it yeah it's a very and especially the fact that you're actually being charged money for for not having money in the account um a zero balance yes a zero balance incurs a penalty on an account you're being urged to close but they won't leave you closed yeah this does sound crazy Deirdre keep in touch let us know what happens and in the meantime if anyone can offer any any perspective on on this i mean certainly in terms of the credit rating a lot of these things are computerized and they're automatically done and yeah you probably don't want that on on on your record but listen we will certainly put the call out i don't i don't think it'll matter at my age don't know i would always you you never know you might see a car you want or a holiday you want and think to yourself you know what it's time as far as i'm concerned if you're still breathing it's not too late i don't think i could pay no i would never think that deirdre and i would never figure you if you're still breathing there is time you you you see something you like and bing yeah but i still don't think i could pay i don't think i could pay them don't i really don't right you look look after yourself and then we'll put the call out there in all series because this is a serious situation deirdre thank you very much indeed that's a deirdre there and that that's the situation deirdre find yourself in that you know ulster bank are telling us to and i've no doubt before this program is over we'll have an ad calling on people to close their accounts in ulster bank deirdre tried to do the right thing she tried to do everything that she's been urged to do by ulster bank and they're now charging her money for it and threatening her with a bad credit rating if she doesn't pay them crazy earlier we spoke to councillor johnny hemish yofari um caller says morning turf cutting is doing no harm we've been cutting turf for 40 years we don't burn coal it's too dirty dirty turf does no harm my great granny burned turf she lived to a hundred the government doesn't want turf cut because they can't get any tax off the turf this government is too greedy um so says a caller now caller asks us to mention that there is a free webinar taking place at three o'clock this afternoon with a clinical and 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on our website at Highland radio dot com the manager of Donegal domestic violence center believes the introduction of a paid leave for victims of domestic violence will make a big difference the bill will see the introduction of paid leave for victims of domestic violence and once enacted those who are suffering will be entitled to five days of paid leave per year Dr Maureen Hemsworth manager of Donegal domestic violence center told the 9 till noon show this leave will be immediate and will be extremely useful and beneficial to victims the moment people are having to use ordinary leave you know um often if a domestic violence incident happens you know a family have to operate they have to move they have to go to court um so there's quite a bit of a time requirement by victims that isn't always able to be facilitated by the workplace that you know because people are having to use sick leave or they're having to use annual leave and the difference with this this particular type of leave is that it's immediate yes definitely for for clients that we work with um and certainly those that are having to look for accommodation or look for legal support this kind of leave could make a big difference for the first time ever parents will no longer have to pay for school books from next september all primary school children will get textbooks for free under measures set to be announced in tomorrow's budget renters will be able to avail of a tax credit payment of at least 200 euro political reporter of the irish times jack horgan jones says details around childcare were being finalized late into last night when it comes to the other big ticket items that we were expecting there was some clarity emerging at least about the proposals that were going across to the leaders last night if not the final political decision childcare the proposal i went across we understand it's very 20 to 25 percent cut in the average cost of childcare per child starting from we think january next year so that again will be a meaningful and quite expensive policy intervention house prices in donny gall have increased by 17 since last year the average price of a home is now 200 000 euro 24 below its caltech tiger peak with more here's ifa cairns prices in the third quarter of 2022 were 17 percent higher than a year previously compared to a rise of 11 percent seen a year ago there's been a 90 percent increase in new bills in the county with 74 new homes being built in the past year a one bedroom apartment costs on average 80 000 euro an increase of 29.1 percent while a two-bed terrace house costs around 99 000 euro a rise of 22.7 percent the cost of a three-bed semi-detached has increased by 18 percent to 136 000 euro while a four-bed bungalow will cost around 243 000 euro an increase of 7.7 percent the price of a five-bed detached house is now costing around 246 000 euro up 10.5 percent on last year and finally a doctor who was involved in the development of the Moderna vaccine says seeing the vaccine being put to use was an unbelievable feeling Dr Susan Worszki is a pioneer in the areas of vaccines and serves as an advisor to the clinical translation research and innovation centre at Altney Galvin hospital with an emphasis on scholarships from medical students in the northwest Dr Worszki who has roots in Chrysler was awarded an award at the top Union diaspora awards for 2022 on Friday night in Bonkrana speaking afterwards she says working on Moderna was challenging but to see the vaccine put into practice was amazing the fact that a worldwide pandemic came and a technology that I was you know a part of a very large team that did amazing work to meet the challenge of that I my work in the early days of Moderna was actually helping prove proof of concept that the messenger RNA technology could lead to vaccines and therapeutics so to see that in practice and applied after many many years of hard work by so many talented scientists is really an unbelievable feeling to weather now dry with some sunny spells for most today though there will be isolated light showers cool and breezy with highs of 12 to 14 degrees that's all for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning obituary notices for Monday morning September 26th the death has taken place of Bridget Gallagher ards Chrysler reposing at her late residence funeral mass in St Michael's church Chrysler on Wednesday at 11 a.m with burial afterwards in Doe cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia.tv family time please from 11 p.m to 10 a.m and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only please donations if desired to the Chrysler Day Centre care of any family member or James Harkin funeral director the death has taken place of Isabel Hanlon knee mckinley core craig and Don Fana hey her remains are opposing at her late residence house private at the request of the deceased funeral service in holy trinity church horn head road Don Fana hey 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number call us on 0807 491 25,000 with both carline and Dona Marie taking your calls we were speaking earlier to Caitlyn who has deferred her college place in Maneuth because she just could not get affordable accommodation a thousand euro a month she was quoted for digs caller says that's just shocking our son has a lovely apartment on campus sharing with four boys in northern Ireland for 90 pounds sterling a week that includes wi-fi heat electricity his own sink in the bedroom a desk and chair Susie doesn't even cover his accommodation all he gets his maintenance from them not the tuition fees poor girl that's a terrible situation another caller says I had a similar situation an experience my daughter started college in Galway it was impossible to find anything we ended up paying 150 euro a month plus a share of the oil bill we had to pay a deposit and a month in advance and a 200 euro deposit on breakages she has a bedroom and she shares the rest of the house with the family one of the houses we looked at was 800 a month plus bills she wasn't permitted to use the kitchen between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. because they cook at four and it was too expensive to be cooking between these times she was also not allowed shower between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. these people renting rooms want someone to pay their mortgage but not actually use the house I wonder how many of these families are registered with revenue for renting a room other caller says our colleges should have a campus run by the college for its students it would keep prices regulated and stop price gouging now some colleges do but in most part what you're actually finding is student accommodation will be private accommodation which is built by private developers using their own money as a business venture and they will then charge what I presume they believe the market will take and it's an issue at this point in time of market economics and that's that's the answer you you get from the companies the companies will offer a service and they'll offer it at what they believe the market price to be with the regards to Ulster bank we spoke to Deirdre just before the break and Deirdre found herself closed an Ulster bank account online or so she thought it then transferred the account hadn't actually closed and what happened was then she was charged both a monthly fee of five euro and she or six euro and then she was also charged five euro in a penalty because there was a zero balance on the account so she thought she was closing her account as per the bank's advice it transpired that the account didn't close and they then charged her money to because the balance was zero and when she tried to get it sorted in the bank she couldn't and she's not in a situation where she's being not to put a final point on it threatened with them you know going on a list of bad debtors because she hasn't paid this money none of her other quarters have come through to was saying um quarter had an Ulster bank that was for closure she went into the branch to finalize the closure and was told she owed 47 euro for a direct debit payment which she paid in cash following this she got a check in the post from the bank for the 47 euro back when she tried to lodge that check it went unpaid and she was charged a five euro unpaid fee this is terrible especially for old age pensioners who aren't used to this sort of thing another caller says ptsb stopped taking sterling ages ago when i asked why they said they weren't making any money on dealing with foreign currency will this continue and if so customers should be made aware of this before they transfer from Ulster bank um and now it's so done um another caller says if that lady doesn't pay the 11 euro it goes up every month caller says exactly the same thing happened to me with Ulster bank i called them they credited the fees back to me and they closed the account the following day and the caller says well all the people don't realize is they can charge a company an administration charge in the same way they charge the customer do it in writing lay out your administration charge once you inform them and they still haven't closed the account you can then build them your administration charge if they fail to respond followed through with the small claims court online it takes time and effort but can be well worth it now i i suspect most people at this point in time just want to get this darned thing resolved and get shot of it i suspect is the situation uh another caller says with regards to the turf this climate change nonsense is going too far people should be allowed to cut their own turf it's many older people they're only source of heat and it's essential aim and ryan needs to cool off a bit and one final comment before we go to a break caller says i was at the protest in dublin at the weekend i thought the reporting on it has been sidelined known in this country is being held to account the cost of living is going higher and higher 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unveiling of a bronze statue in remelton to honor nobel laureate professor bill cambell will take place on this coming saturday it'll be unveiled by his daughter spetsy and jennifer at gambles square at half past one professor cambell is ireland's only winner of a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine he won it with a number of others in 2015 now mickeyver is a member of the bill cambell legacy committee and he joins us on zoom mic good morning mic this is a very important event for remelton a town that has a history of honoring its famous sons it is indeed and we have a year we do have a history of looking after our own yeah and bill cambell is very much a remelton man in his own words he always says i'm always a remelton boy and he's very conscious and remembers his roots and despite his world leading success and fame you know he's a he's a remelton man at heart yeah sadly um he wasn't able to travel over for this particular unveiling but uh his daughters i'm sure will will do him proud and and represent him there yes indeed yeah unfortunately now he's he's uh he's not getting any younger like all of us and uh he couldn't travel this time but i was speaking to him the other day and he's in great form and he's certainly nothing wrong with his mind his mind is as sharp as his wit and he's looking forward to being with us kind of virtually we've organized to set up a zoom call with him and we have a big screen on gambles square so that we'll be able to see him and he'll be able to see us hopefully and so we'll be with us um in a way speak to us about the legacy of bill cambell because he was born and raised in remelton he moved away and he forged a really important career for himself in in that whole field of medicine and science he did it's an extraordinary career you know it really is and it's kind of perhaps no surprise that it culminated in a Nobel Prize you know as he said he was born here in remelton in 1930 in um in the house which is now risky's shop in on the mall in remelton and his father had a had a shop there uh he got a scholarship to go to to cambell college and bell cast post primary he went to trinity college after that graduated from there in 1952 the first class honors degree in zoology and from there then he got another scholarship a fulbright scholarship to do his phd in the university of wisconsin wisconsin in 1957 and worked with the merc institute for therapeutic research then from 57 to 1990 and that's where he did the work that eventually earned him this Nobel prize where he worked on parasitic diseases and the treatment of them and drugs to treat those and developed a drug called ivermectin which then um morphed into a drug called mectosan which could be kind of taken orally so it was easy to to distribute and to take and he made the this was all for treatment of of these kind of diseases and animals but he had the genius to make the leap that maybe this treatment could be applied to human diseases and in particular the disease called river blindness which is which is caused by a pathogen worm mostly found in the tropics i think now i'm out of my depth here but uh and he convinced merc that the second part of his his genius and his effort was to convince merc who he worked for at the time to donate this drug for free in in massive quantities to countries in you know where this disease was was prevalent and in particular in sub-saharan countries and in latin-american countries and they trialed it in 1981 in senegal and france and it was very successful and then they subsequently distributed that to and to a lot of to 33 countries actually at the moment and up to 25 million treatments for this per year are now delivered free of charge to the extent that this disease has now been eradicated it was declared eradicated in 2010 so you know that's a huge achievement by by any stretch for or a mountain boy or for for any boy and and and what what a legacy to have but as you said you know we we see people who are great orators and great persuaders and we see people who are great scientists and great medical people and great researchers what you don't always see is the two combined and as as you've already alluded to that appears to have been bill cambels you know very very special talent that's what marks him out that he had the the medicinal knowledge he had the research he had the scientific background but also had that persuasiveness that allowed him push it forward and actually get that wonderful legacy of 25 million treatments a year absolutely yes you know he he he had it all as you say he was able to do the technical scientific stuff you know to to world world-class level and then he was able to communicate that effectively you know to the people who had they had the decision-making ability to make it available you know so it's one thing to create a solution to a problem but it's quite another than to be able to deliver that worldwide and make a huge difference in and that's what Bill could do it's quite clear that remelton and donnie gall are honoring bill Campbell and have been very conscious of and aware of bill Campbell through the years nationally across the country do we have that same level of recognition and could there be more done in Dublin could there be more done in Belfast to recognize the importance of this man and what he's done well well perhaps and you know it's difficult to gauge that I guess but certainly you know Trinity College his old alma mater in Dublin has honored him you know and he was he was in he was here all of this was of course supposed to happen back in 2020 and then like so many other things we were we were put on hold with COVID and so on but at that time he came here he visited Ireland and the University or Trinity College Dublin did honor him and they hosted him and he certainly has recognition from them and then you mentioned the Campbell College in Belfast as well well there are quite a few of them are coming to the event on Saturday you know so they certainly hold Bill in the highest esteem and he's certainly honored there wider than that you know and I suppose people maybe aren't concerned with things that don't very directly connect to their to their lives in a way and maybe sometimes Nobel Prize winners for literature or something or more or visible in some ways but you know it's it's difficult to underestimate the the effect and the you know the contribution that Professor Campbell has made and so hopefully in time and maybe as part of our little legacy project here in Remalton maybe that'll give some more exposure and the idea of having a statue is that it very much kind of fixes in in bronze a lasting tribute and legacy to him that's visible for anyone to see that comes to Remalton you know and the fact is that literally millions of people can see because of the work that man did well that's that's the bottom line exactly yes millions tens of millions of people at at low cost of them and you know have been rescued from blindness simply by Bill's work yes and and and it is it's one of those things and we're told so often in even advertisements for organizations like Golden Concern and so on that a lot of the diseases in these areas of as you said sub-Saharan Africa and the tropics and so on a lot of these diseases are eminently treatable they're eminently identifiable and it's just a matter of getting the right drug and the right treatment to the right people and getting it fast enough and you know that's something that Bill Campbell was able to expedite and and to get that done free gratis by the company and let's face it drug companies are not known for their philanthropy by and large and you know we we don't usually associate drug companies like Merck and and their contemporaries with with philanthropy perhaps unfairly at times but you know it's not the first thing comes to mind you're quite right yeah like all of these big corporations you know their their profits their bottom line is their top concern you know and and I seem to remember talking to Bill about this at some stage and it was the WHO and Merck together actually who did this and at the time the World Health Organization but I seem to remember him saying that they basically went into a meeting with all of these top executives who had the you know the power to make these decisions and they said we're just going to ask you know so he had the the guts and the and the confidence and he had the confidence of his own work his own scientific work behind him to be able to you know to suggest this solution as being a really good one and and it worked he he persuaded them and it worked and it's changed changed the world literally it'll be a very important celebration on this coming Saturday in Remelton the unveiling of that statue to honor Bill Campbell professor Nobel laureate and a man who as we've just said has given sight to millions of people what a wonderful legacy Mick Gever a member of the Bill Campbell Legacy Committee and one of the key organizers of that event thanks very much indeed for speaking to us today thank you very much Donald thank you thank you that's that's a wonderful I mean I think you know I I don't think you can overstate the importance of what Bill Campbell has done and I think it is right that it's recognized I think it's right that it's honored and it's wonderful to know that Remelton once again is as we've said looking after and honoring one of its own I'm going to take a short break back in a moment with a piece of music tune in this Tuesday to the community garden information slot on air after 10 a.m. on the 9 till noon show in association with Sheridan security systems call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro Sheridan security 91 26025 from the smallest shrub to the largest tree in an awkward place donnelly tree services provide a complete range of tree surgery services whether you need to remove a dangerous tree or some 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at sunday so originally from monahan actually i think is our ryan and he played a great great set in fact that whole weekend was a great weekend of music absolutely fantastic what a wonderful wonderful way to end the summer uh just one or two comments um godler says i got a whatsapp message it said uh it was from my daughter he just said hi ma'am lost my phone and credit card needs someone need to make a payment so i authorized a payment from res revolute the scammer is then asked to buy something else i realized too late it wasn't my daughter asked to send a photo of herself nor reply never thought anything about it as my daughter has a business and is always losing cards please make people aware and we hear this one so often where people say look you know they get a message saying oh i've lost my phone and ask yourself and what it'll do is they'll claim to be a son or a daughter or relative they've lost their phone so they're texting on a friend's phone which is why you won't recognize the number and it's one of those things which you know some people fall for and some don't and even if from the scammers point of view if one in ten falls for it that's easy money for a scammer and please please always be careful interesting email came through to us there a few days back we recently got a wet room put in on a council grant i know lots of these are done for older people we had to demand different tiles as we were given choice of out of date styles there are so many or 11 and or 12 non-slip tiles out there i was wondering if any older people got this done but weren't happy with the silent choices they were given we had no choice about a rail for shower curtains being fitted in a wet room so besides it being unnecessary it's just ugly looking but also puts unnecessary holes in our new tiles i know it's not a major issue but older people deserve as nice nice a wet room as anyone else who is paying for it themselves let's put that out there for discussion and consideration now let's go to line one and i'm joined by michael michael good morning good morning donal hara yeah i'm very well indeed now we're a lot of talk obviously michael about refugees and in particular ukrainian refugees are coming over and uh you you have a perspective on this i i do yes i have a very big perspective on it to be quite honest um first of all i would just like to say that um we seem to be open on the doors to ukrainian refugees and i just want to know is the worst fall of refugees such as the situation in russia there's more people leaving russia to avoid to flee the situation of being in war or being picked up to go to war so that actually flee in their own country to avoid this their refugees you also have the situation in pakistan where percentage of their country was flooded and thousands lost their lives and there's still thousands with the meaning that these people had nothing before the flood but they're left with nothing nothing now and we seem to have the doors open for ukrainians and i just want to know is what's the difference between a refugee and a refugee even a church in mass on sunday the priest even prayed for the refugees of ukraine but the words follow refugees and i think it's got to the stage very unfair um there's even more irish people leaving our country today seeking better employment seeking a life because our own government's not looking after our own people so these poor people our poor young people are having to seek other countries for employment for jobs i mean we're living in a society where i think we're very we're very mediocre news pushed the one way we're not hearing the whole story of the whole situation of the war and in terms of russia in terms of the situation but there are a lot of them people fleeing their homes to flee in their country fleeing fleeing a situation of war as well but surely someone if yeah i mean if if people are fleeing their homes in russia they are entitled to go to another country and claim asylum on the basis of a claim claim political asylum just as everybody else is is entitled to to do so it's not just a matter of um you know concentrating on one obviously there is a lot of focus on ukrainian refugees at this point in time because um there has been a concentrated war in the in ukraine and homes have been bombed towns have been bombed and shells and people have been left without physical homes uh if there are people who are seeking political asylum out of russia because of the way they're being treated by their government they too are absolutely entitled to come here and claim asylum yes yes see that that's that's exactly my point don't know i just think i mean there are people out there going to be saying oh we've enough for refugees in this country and the refugees are getting everything and so on and so forth we do have to cast our mind back to um the famine and so on like me we were for refugees or self and as i just stated a minute ago there is a lot of our own people leaving our country today to seek better employment seek better lives and and i know yes they're not forced out of the home due to a war but there's no support from their own government here we have no support the working class people of ireland are being punished so badly that they're having to leave this country to seek a better lifestyle and that's so unfair that is for me it's diabolical that a working class person gets punished for trying to do everything by the book do everything right they lose their medical card if they're a couple of pound over if one of them is working one's not working our situation in this country as far as i'm concerned is diabolical when it comes to situations like this so all i'm now defending is all refugees if we're going to open the door up to any of them let's open the door to all of them and i'm talking about what about the country for example you don't even hear them mention now after america and britain and beta which was afghanistan look at the state of the country they left that in and and it never changed and it's no mention of them we were never open to them they were refugees we seem to be i hate using the word but i think we're a very racist when it comes to our refugees and who we loud in and what colors allowed in and i think it's very unfair well i know we did get some afghan refugees here but that there are also issues of proximity issues of culture that i mean the reality and i i'm just going to put this out here for discussion but the reality of it is ukraine is closer to ireland ukraine is probably culturally closer to ireland as well as geographically closer to ireland in terms of if you were to take in a large amount of people from afghanistan if people in afghanistan have a claim to make for asylum then ireland under its obligations under the un that it signed up to under various conventions ireland has an obligation to accept refugees from whatever country and not to discriminate between one refugee or another on the basis of where they happen to be from but as opposed logistics and proximity means we are more likely to get refugees from ukraine than we are to get from afghanistan and pakistan but that by no means negates the possibility of people from afghanistan or pakistan seeking refugee yeah i do think though it's more it's more uh more of your nato sort of based why we're taking in the refugees to be honest and again in my opinion this is a this is an issue that seems to be very powered by america america's only choking for wire in my opinion because they've got billions of ships billions of pounds spent on wire and weaponry and so on and so forth that if this world keeps going and keeps falling into peace agreements and peace there'll be no need for these people so they're i'm i know it sounds really bad but it's almost like they're adamantly looking for a war so they can put these things into use and it's so sad because at the end of the day where there's war there's money and that is the part that's very sad but you then are equating nato and the un because obviously ireland is a neutral country now i know there's a huge debate about that and people will question to what extent that is the case but at this point in time ireland is not a member of nato nato has no say in irish policy nor does ireland have any obligation to listen to nato where our obligations lie and where our um focus is is on the nations but during the afghanistan situation apparently they were allowing shannon airport to refuel the jets flying from america to refuel that's not a country so nato or neutral to me um i think ireland it's very sad we've been forced into a situation where we're in being part of the eu we're not really getting our own choices and we're not getting our own decisions of how this is supposed to be going i thank you for going to be neutral and we should be staying neutral and as i said we should be there for each and everybody ireland used to be as i grew up on it very christian very peaceful we were we we pressed and obviously always always had your troubles with the northern iran situation and that even on its own with the whole situation of the six counties and a united ireland and all this situation as well we have enough to worry about ourselves without taking sort of sites from anybody in my opinion yep michael it's it's a valid point and thank you indeed for for raising it yeah thank you very much so this is what thank you don't thank you you have a good day that's michael there and that that's michael's perspective on the issue now a couple of comments that have been coming in actually just one or two comments have just come in a caller says with regards to michael uh saying you know we should be opening doors to refugees from all areas one caller says that would be a disaster why aren't we vetting anyone coming in surely that would make sense it would be good to know who you have around the place now the caller says i see a lot of ukrainians driving their own cars from their own country how does that work insurance license etc why are customs and the guards not lifting theirs but they lift norther in cars or are we not allowed to ask the question you're allowed to ask the question absolutely i would imagine if someone is bringing their own car in uh under a refugee agreement there are protocols in place to look after that eventuality i don't know what those protocols are but i'm sure those protocols are there and we will certainly make inquiries to see what we can learn for you it's a quarter to eleven we're gonna take a short break back after these would you like to win a Hyundai corner well that's the first prize in the st unans g a club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine till noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at st unions g a draw dot com or any club member there's only one thing as good as a two-way holiday and that's 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money matters and that is a john lowe from the money doctors john good morning good morning donal how are you very well indeed thank you very much indeed john i'm sure as a financial manager you're watching what's happening sterling with interest at the moment now this was flagged over the past number of days but did you expect the fall in sterling today to be as stark as it was no i didn't in fact but it's it's really a backlash donal of that quasi-quartings mini-budget i mean known was it going to expect you know that 45 tax rate to be dropped all together and then they give you know a kind of a sample one percent of the the bottom rate of tax and that's cost billions and you know that has reflected badly in the sterling drop plus the there's other economy worries as well you know and i i think also coupled with the u.s strength of the dollar that's also all these have into interplayed then interest rate rising inflation is raging and i don't think there's that much confidence in the british prime minister i have to say i mean the sort of knee-jerk reaction to everything that happens in the british economy for the past number of years has been brexit every everything just automatically gets brexit and it's become sort of the overarching thing you blame everything on is brexit a factor in this or does it go deeper than that i actually think it is there was a wonderful speech made by tony blair um on why britain would ever want to to leave brexit why do they ever want to leave europe and it made such compelling evidence and compelling reasons why they shouldn't ever it's like being on the top table though and where you're now one of the big four in the world because that's where europe is you know with with the economies of say america um china uh japan and and and europe but you when brexit happened in britain when they're now on the third tier you know they can't even get up to the table and so therefore they can't they've they've no standing whatsoever in world kind of situations in world economy so i mean it's their own doing it does go back to brexit i have to say um and whether you know this is going to continue the way it's going i i i don't think that that mini budget was any help to um to the brexit to the people who are saying we should never have left are we at the point where effectively what's happened is that successive chancellors and indeed successive prime ministers have you know been exhorting the virtues of the british pound and and the pound this and the pound that and so much trust and and and so much faith has been put in the history and tradition of the pound that they're effectively hoist on their own petard and they've given the pound a lot more salinity in their exhortations than it in fact deserves i couldn't agree more i mean you went when you used to see the old our english five pound no donal uh he actually stated we promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of five pounds that was actually backed by gold bullion in the bank of england for balls that went years ago and there's absolutely nothing behind that five pound note sadly now which which basically means they can print whatever they like mean in fairness america and all the countries of the world are now doing that uh you know america has uh you know i i don't know why the american dollar is so strong i can't understand when they have a a net federal debt of 30 trillion now if you put that into perspective um the next kind of in most indebted nation is japan at 14 trillion and then you go right back down to the next indebted nation they're like a three trillion which includes the uk by the way and like three trillion is in orals in ireland we are at 270 billion which is still outrageous and on a per capita basis pretty much the same as in the uk as in some other country but the united states is way out there in terms of indebtedness and there's nobody by the way paying the back that's the problem that's money that was being borrowed from other countries including ireland by that so when when they get a uh uh offer us a kind of a bond with an attractive coupon which is the you know the positive interest you're looking at maybe two percent maybe two and a half percent and say oh that's great so we give them the money we get the two and a half percent every year or whatever it's paid paid and um we will never get that money back that's the reality but the dollar is also strong against the euro which begs the question and it's a fair question you're asking in terms of how come the dollar is so strong but given the you know euro versus pound euro versus sterling dynamic at the moment i mean it does make the question how come the euro is so low against the dollar what would have expected the euro to be strong as well surely okay i think actually it's down to competence don't know everything is actually down to confidence and one of the reasons why the euro is is kind of half sinking is the ukraine war there's there's so many imponderables out there you know between inflation um energy costs that ukraine war doesn't seem i mean there's one i mean a couple weeks ago i got a text message from a french friend of mine who said that erdogan over in turkey had forecast there's going to be peace in very very shortly when a couple of weeks how wrong it was i mean it's gone the other way and so all these things are are mitigating the the whole thing about the euro and the kind of getting back to any kind of of a decent rate but we just have to plow on let's unpack what this collapse of sterling means in terms of ireland and let's be procured the northwest in particular because obviously we have an extra dynamic here that perhaps wouldn't be there in dublin in that we literally have border towns 20 minutes away from where i'm sitting so for people in dunny gall it's no bother to travel across the border to do some shopping and to import into and out of northern ireland presumably we're at the situation where anyone who wants to buy in northern ireland is going to be quite happy in the short term at least but anyone who is importing from northern ireland uh anyone exporting to northern ireland i i should say could suddenly find a very different situation absolutely anybody who's who's got a property in in britain and they're about to sell it um they're going to get less money than they were planning to get less money than they they hope to have got um yeah you're going to have that same situation it's a bit like going back to the 70s and 80s zone when jonesborough was was the famous place where you get butter whatever and then oil it you know much much cheaper uh there will be a certain element of that until this calms down a bit will it will it calm down that's the question and as you said confidence issues and the laws be confidence there'll always be ups and downs and ups and downs in the market but as you said one of the imponderance imponderables particularly from the point of view of the euro is the fact that you do have that ongoing conflict in ukraine and as long as that's ongoing when would have thought it'll be difficult to see how stability is going to be achieved uh in in the longer term at least yeah i couldn't agree more unfortunately it is destabilizing the entire um not just the region but but the economy of europe uh the economy of the world and um i mean it's affecting energy food costs you name it and people i mean we have our budget now tomorrow and there's supposed to be some kind of a huge social welfare package going to be introduced and it still probably won't be enough to own but we still people who will be complained that they haven't the counter for to live you know it's it's amazing how at one stage there a couple of weeks ago they were talking about this inheritance tax reduction and the reality is that uh there's far more pressing things that need addressing more than the reduction of an inheritance threshold well really obviously we're waiting to see what's going to happen with with the budget tomorrow but we didn't see last week's mini budget as we said from aquasaquating the uh uk um chancellor um not the most auspicious of starts then from his point of view nor indeed from the point of view of lis trust the new uh prime minister i think lis trust is is not playing a good game at the moment and um even for her to allow quasi quartane to to abolish that 45 percent rate what do you think is doing is that doing to say the the labor candidates the the social people in in the uk who see that the rich are getting richer and the poorer getting poorer that's essentially the message that they're putting out on that uh situation on that many many budgets perhaps what they're doing is playing to the people they believe to be their voters in at the end of the day maybe they're looking wondering is there an election coming a lot sooner than we might have expected well there a long way from uh is it um gloria meloni from italy yeah who's on the far right i can't i can't see um really the i mean it's a kind of a 50 50 wide in britain absolutely i won't see that happening and then again when um when treason may call the snap election expecting to come back with a big huge majority in a big wave of support we sort of we saw how that went um john low pleasure is always talking to you thanks indeed for for helping put some some some flesh on the bones of that story and and we will watch how the markets go with interest john thank you thank you good morning good morning to you that's uh john low there of the money doctors it's uh approaching 11 o'clock time for headlines very shortly before we do anything else that we're going to take a short break have you a job vacancy that needs urgently filled have you tried various ways to find new staff but didn't succeed let highland radio help you source and fill your current vacancies in the most cost effective way sign up for a job spot and we will tell our 70 000 daily 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are non-life threatening efforts are ongoing to locate a teenager missing from the quick least point area of donnie gall 17-year-old nicole mcginley was last seen on thursday last she's described as being approximately five foot two in height with the medium build short light brown hair and blue eyes the north and west of the country have been downgraded to a lagging region by the european commission the area which includes the counties of donnie gall gallway ross common leitrim sligo monheon amayo has been downgraded as has been noted as being significantly per relative to the to the european average over recent years the commission says the region faced a range of challenges including lower productivity and educational attainment as well as having weaker skills base free skill books and a 22 25 percent cut in child care costs are among the measures to be included in the budget details were being finalized by cabinet until the early hours of this morning and will be announced in full tomorrow other measures include a doubling of child benefit in november and a 200-year-old tax credit payment for renters the manager of the donnie gall domestic violence center believes the introduction of a paid leave for victims of domestic violence will make a big difference the bill once enacted means those who are suffering or at risk of domestic violence will be entitled to five days paid leave per year and a donnie gall kindy cancer is calling for the government to abandon plans to criminalize turf cancer john hamish ofari says he has been contacted by a number of people who are concerned about the fast approaching winter and the impact of the ban those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon hi i need to talk to you about your pension and i know this might be boring to some people so every so often i'm gonna raise my voice like this to keep your attention your irish life pension could help you do right by your money by investing less in companies 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time at the moment and brendan and his family are very much in our thoughts as we look to ahead to tonight's dl debate show which is very much all about championship club championship football don't push that up neve connell once again sixth club championship final in a row it's a remarkable journey for them six finals in a row don't know they haven't won all six but it's a remarkable record to just show how you have been sitting at the top table of club championship football and dunny gall and they've connell are now there for a sixth year in a row and i'm just reading here in the dunny gall news in front of me there's a handful of players the likes of antony thompson brendan mcdayer leo mclun and marty boyle who are now set to compete in a in a club championship final for an 11th time in their career they were there back in 2005 which is remarkable marty boyle came on as a sub yesterday for neve connell and he played for a club championship game for the 101st time donal so he played very well too he wasn't showing any signs of his age or how long he's been around the block for so but yesterday listen neve connell do what neve connell do and they came through against guidore and there was patches in the in the match where it looked like guidore had them on the rack but neve connell never ever panic tenacious to the end tenacious to the end and there's there was two periods of the game one was the closing 10 minutes of the first half and the other was from 10 minutes under the second half to the end of the game where they they showed how they can work so well as a group we said it yesterday in our commentary there's nobody that's that's kicking out the lights here that's scoring six seven eight points a game collectively they're very good they have players that are in control of the situation players chipping in with three points to go into already there was a number of players had two points a piece but the way they work as a unit as as um it's very very impressive donal and again through to a sixth final our own say on the sports news was an eight different player scored eight different players scored and they had what was it 13 points in the board yeah i i put again it makes the point it is very much a team it's also interesting because i mean you know if i'm right in at least two or three of those previous finals i mean with the world would have beaten if connell in those finals so i mean it isn't as though you've got one team which is way ahead of everybody else you've got three or four really evenly matched teams in the club championship at donnie golland this could go anyway at the start of the championship we always talk about the the big four and and donnie goll who are st connell kylkyar and and guidore and as the championship materialized those were the four teams that that filtered through and into the to the semi-finals of the competition now guidore are they at the same level they were in 2018 when they won the championship and they went on of course to one the ulster club title as well since then bar last year it was all about new connell they were going for three for three in a row but it's usually every year you see the top four filter through and come through to the knockout stage and when you get to that stage it's anybody's game now guidore were very much in that tie yesterday and in periods and if neve connell didn't step up to the level that they needed it could be different today because guidore do have a very very talented team but neve connell again we're just able to to grind it out and know when to put the foot down and the hammer down and they're able to see it out though and it's either unions or kylkyar they play next saturday that game was was postponed last weekend um due to the the funerals taking place in newton connell and both patrick and margot of course were uh associated with the sin unions club they put the back to saturday night seven thirty is the throw in time and sin unions are the defending champions so there's a big x in their backs so there is as they head to to this clash against kylkyar and maybe off the two that was the tie that everybody was was looking forward to will have live commentary from it but sin unions will need a big performance in their defense so they're dr maguire this coming weekend donal and and we can't forget about the other championship encounters that that took place over the weekend uh caron donan letter kinny gales both progressing through uh to the to the final and just under two weeks time uh they will meet in the in the decider in that competition and this coming weekend as well there's the intermediate final with the low our the lower ticking on neve columbia from glenn column kill on that final which is taking place this saturday so we'll be talking all that championship on the deal debate donal coming up after the seven news senior wise will be joined by two men that know a thing or two about one in the dr maguire john gilday off uh neve connell and will also be joined by gary mcdade of glenn swill and ryan farry if the donnie gall news will be talking junior intermediate championship football as well it's gonna it's gonna be a busy program yeah osheen thanks for watching indeed that's the deal debate which as osheen said is taking place tonight uh after the seven o'clock news here on island radio now let's turn down osheen's mic and uh read a couple of your comments uh caller says electric ireland bill has just arrived and it is crazy uh 163 euro 99 dated for tomorrow it becomes 223 99 when i print out my bill that's 62 euro in charges how do they get away with this increase in the charges that's from a caller there with regards to the ulster bank story we were speaking earlier to dirger who found herself facing fees after closing her account leaving a zebra she tried to close her account took all the money out and transferred it to a new account and is now being charged five euro uh in a penalty because her account is empty and another caller says yep exactly the same thing has happened to me uh we spoke earlier uh to michael about the refugee situation and michael was speaking to us about uh his belief that all refugees should be given equal treatment no matter where they're from caller says yep it's good that somebody is brave enough to speak about that uh another caller is saying with regards to sterling thank god the sterling is still weak it'll give northern ireland a break from the cost of living crisis as everyone will be shopping in the north it'll help northern ireland's economy because we're putting money into it it'll also help us save on our shopping in the republic as well now we're going to move tack and we are going to go to zoom where we are joined by column marquis who's a from the gale mep you may well have been listening to the news earlier and emma was telling us on news bulletins this morning that the north and west of ireland have been downgraded to a lagging region by the european commission after becoming significantly poorer relative to the european average over recent years and we're joined on the line by um mep column marquis uh column good morning good morning donal uh pleasure to speak to you as always column um you're looking now at this finding by the commission and i suppose first and foremost it has to be said it's not going to come as a huge surprise no i suppose it's not we've always recognized that the northwest region if you like was the one that was lagging most in the country and i suppose we need to address we continue to need to address that situation i think the fact that the atlantic technical university had been set up is a great opportunity to get greater investment into the west like one of the things that was identified was that lower educational attainment and weaker skills base so those are two things that perhaps through the technological university we can we can try to prioritize but i do think there needs to be some level of a if you like a positive discrimination of northwest region to allow us to redress that balance if you like i think we'll have to look at what can be done in that regard but it should be said at the same time that over the last two years i think that the counties with the greatest growth and employment have been done in our leach from slago monitoring in cavern so it's not all bad news i think these figures go back to about 2019 really is where it would go was was when 2019 and up to 2019 and in one case of 2021 but i think the reality is uh we still we we know it's a region that needs greater investment and i think the idea of establishing the technical university like the northwest region was had a significant deficit in let's say third level provision and i think if you look at inward investment foreign direct investment into the country one thing they do identify is to have let's say colleges that they can work alongside for research and development and skill and development skills basis so i think that as a as a step is very important but on the bigger picture i do think there has to be strong hard luck to see what else can be done for the region as a whole the the key figure that we've been given is that the gdp in the region now the region we're talking is basically donnie goll may or golly ross common leach from slago and monahan but the gdp in the region it was 82 percent of the european average between 2015 and 2017 it's now 71 percent now it's gone below that sort of 75 the 80 75 20 percent threshold and i mean their their figures and and they're similar to figures we would have been seeing quite a long time ago when you had the whole debate about objective one status as it used to be called back in the day and it it does seem that this region to a certain extent is is is slipping backwards now it is and i think they were like the idea i suppose of having these that the like of that status should direct more investment more funding into the region so i think it's important that we we have a plan in place of how we would use funding that will come in one thing i've said i'm speaking with region authority there a couple of weeks come and i think every county council needs to develop a new funding officer to try and attract some of that funding into the region but i think the other thing that we mustn't lose sight of like there is enormous potential in that region in relation to let's say the like of offshore wind or renewables in general in particular and the whole rate graph to follow a renewables on to a big biomass or a the various other wind energy or various other options but but they have to be certainly focused on alongside the like of looking at let's say retrofitting our buildings and all things that we're doing everywhere else but i think we need to particularly strategically in in this region and ensure that there's additional investment and if you like positive discrimination to redress the balance like that's ultimately what this status is meant to do it's meant to put a priority into the region and i think one of the things that was identified in these times is the capacity of let's say the institutions and the the structural bill of state and and let's say semi-state of public bodies to actually make use of funding that's made available i think there was there was an effort those essentially there's 210 million of ERDF funding coming into region in in the next in the next period both i think that that potentially could have been higher both for the fact the suggestion was that that some of the the structures at at government and i suppose public body level weren't as strong as it could be to take advantage of that i think that's where the like of Atlantic Technological University in particular i think could be a massive player in time trying to have a progress this and address this situation is it a matter of channeling money through the county councils at local level channeling it through regional authority level or channeling it through national level because it's one thing to get the money in and to get the money allocated which at times isn't necessarily the problem the problem appears to be the way in which it spends and even more so the way in which it's distributed and who it's distributed through i think that's where you need a strategic plan in terms of identifying quite a quite a priority and quite a money would be best spent my experience of working with some of the colleges around the country is that through the colleges you can get a lot of research and development that does open the door to to new innovation innovative industries and also to develop those skills bases that would attract those employers in so i think certainly they're identifying where the money is spent i think if it goes in at national level it can have certain benefits but certainly a i think the more localized the funding goes in the more ensuring perhaps the local community is with how that could be spent if you look at a more broader principle level like across europe with the most centralized form of government it's well recognized around that's most centralized form of government and maybe that isn't happening situation i think there is a need to bring more power at a local level to be a true like a local government but also through the structures like the universities like that they don't the various big leader companies are the various funding agencies local enterprise officers and i think a lot of these a structures are more focused more localized and more aware of really opportunities there as well from the point of view of education and you've spoken again and again about the atlantic technology university and indeed we have atu campuses in letter kenny and in kealy begs as well it that does have the opportunity to be a game changer now we already have things like the co-lab in letter kenny which was set up by letter kenny it as it was before atu status um so it's going to be a matter very much in building on those things like those incubator units because it does appear in more recent years the growth in employment the growth in development is coming not from multinationals it's coming from local startups from local businesses who are very much growing at a local level i think the thing is in the country as a whole we've a lot of background from from multinationals coming into the country in the lack of it so there's a there's a skills base in the various i c i t and primary sectors and if we can create the incubator centers to allow those skill bases develop a their own industries at the end of the day if you have a local business it has a much bigger multiplier in their local economy than the lack of a multinational coming in and and it is probably that little bit harder to attract multinationals in the in the northwest region but by by the prefer nature of it i think that that is one of our challenges but i do think a if you look at the way the renewable energy drive renewable energy wave and i know both sligo and somebody that ever came as well have had a focus on this i think it has them a massive potential to rebalance the economic drivers like as we currently stand doubling is like an economic magnet everything points towards them and the potential of the lack of offshore wind or renewables in the regions and the potential to remove work can change all that fundamental i think that the change landscape of potential for people to work remotely while it may have slipped a little bit post-covid i think in the longer term with broadband and with the and it's something we need to push forward with the the role as a national broadband plan needs to happen as quickly as possible but with with that with with the potential of let's say renewables particularly potential of offshore wind off west coast and the change in work dynamic means with every reason why the opportunities can be in the northwest and as you rightly say i think the focus on on small estimate and local startups will have a bigger impact in the local economy than than perhaps a trying to attract in a multinationals and you have anticipated my next question there because it was very much to do with that national broadband plan rollout because it seems to me if you were to look at the areas yet to be covered by the national broadband plan i suspect those areas would be Dany Gull, Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Lytrum, Sligo, Monaghan the exact same areas that are now finding themselves being downgraded as a lagging region and i think it would appear that deficiencies in infrastructure and particularly in the it and broadband infrastructure are going to be playing into that we haven't seen as much focus in the past couple years on the road network and the need for better road links and and railing and so on largely i suspect because of the growth in remote working that's taking some of the emphasis away from that whole infrastructure uh discussion but it's by no means off the table but i think that the broadband issue is is an important one and uh you know i i would i would be very very surprised if there wasn't a close correlation between the regions affected by this downgrading and the regions least served by the NDP at the moment certainly i think the priority has to be to look at these regions with and i suppose you have to understand that the the national broadband plan is an enormous body of work to deliver it's 2.5 billion and it's predicted i think there are six to the way through at this stage which is given the the scale of what these are as people liken it to the equivalent of electrification of rural Ireland and it is going to take a certain amount of time perhaps treats for four or five years but a like it is progressing i think ahead of schedule at the moment so so that that's a positive but one in six houses connected but definitely we need to prioritize that region but also like the infrastructure of the future is broadband the infrastructure of the future also is uh electricity electrical grid so the like of those infrastructures are just as important or nearly more important than transport at this stage like if you look at transport at european level there's a there's a 10t policy both now there's about a 10e policy which is it the the the the equivalent for electricity network i think our energy network i think we need to focus on that because that could be a key one but as you say if we want to deliver those jobs in local small communities where people left and traditionally went to Dublin or went abroad to get those jobs them jobs can be can be delivered at home there and the multiplier of those people living in the local economy is so important but the critical point to making that happen is the is broadband and i supposed to be first in national broadband plan it was a big strategic investment it's going to take a number of years but i think when you look at the 2.5 billion at the time it seemed a lot of money but when you see what inflationary pressures are there at the minute it's probably and you see the benefit of it in the context of covid it probably was a very true and the appropriate action to take on the thing is we have to roll it as quickly as quickly as possible and should it be the case you spoke earlier about the need for positive discrimination should be the case now that those in charge of administering and implementing that plan sit down and look and say okay well these are the areas that are lagging behind these are the areas we need to prioritize and if necessary rejig our plan schedules to make sure that we deliver that infrastructure where it's needed and we deliver it there as quickly as possible i think it's true one of the number of areas that could be looked at for positive discrimination because at the end of the day the region has established a region so that it can be if you like broad or or lift it up to deliver to us and that that sort of notion of a positive discrimination broadband is a classic example where you can make a meaningful difference in that i do think the energy network is important as well but certainly i for one would think it would be a game changer to think that that region like if you're if you're within commuting belt distance of dubbing your opportunity for job is not necessarily impacted by you haven't commute if you're in letter candy or slide or or kelly bags or wherever it might be a you you can't commute to a job and don't need for broadband in the regions is more than the need is for a process to develop a column market for the girl me p thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning and we'll we'll keep an eye on this one with interest thank you thank you very much for the girl me p column market they're a member of the epp group in the european parliament and that's on foot of that news that the north and west of ireland have been downgraded to that of lagging region by the european commission after becoming significantly poorer relative to the european average that's a report that appeared in yesterday's sunday business post the gdp per head of population falling from 82 percent of the eu average between 2050 and 2017 to an estimated 71 percent now and just repeat the counties that are covered in that lagging are donnie gall mail gallway ross common litrum sligo and monahan very much the west and northwest closest to the border region probably your comments that have come in a refugee is supposed to seek asylum in the first safe country they arrive in there is no direct route from ukraine to ireland by car ferry therefore people who have cars with them are not refugees just economic migrants there is nothing wrong with seeking a better life for yourself but correct visas and procedures should be followed and they're not being implemented at all at the moment so says the caller caller says fascinating stories above on the modest man william campbell i only hope they detail his activities like they did with another famous person from there remelton was also home to dav galler her the original old black captain who immigrated to the new zealand at four also home to tv chef and restaurateur gary ohanlon uh it's believed he learned his trade in steve's cafe not bad for one small town so says kevin and indeed when i was interviewing mcgever there earlier on zoom about the forthcoming unveiling of that statue of bill campbell we did both reflect the fact that remelton does have a history of acknowledging its own sons and daughters um we were immigrants yes but we never got social welfare or housing can't compare so stop if we have ukrainian vehicles here how many safe countries did they drive through to get the best handouts so asks the caller uh so now we can expect 60 000 russian asylum seekers here who are fleeing conscription so says the caller that's on foot of a comment from the caller earlier who was suggesting that we should be equally offering uh asylum to those who are fleeing russia because they don't want to be conscripted into an army uh another caller says i closed an olsterbank account a couple of months ago on the app in the section that says request account closure took my money out i literally left a few euro because i had watched corner pope on the six o'clock news say to leave some in for the charges that would be incurred to close the account admin fees etc the request went through but i hadn't left enough i was 274 short but the bank texted to say account closure accepted never looked for what i was short so i'm assuming my credit rating isn't affected and we're getting quite a lot of communication actually from people who have been trying to close accounts with the olsterbank and uh these uh you know interesting perspectives coming through from it uh if you're in the process of doing that at the moment we wish you well let's take a very short break and be with you after this 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competition is going to have to come with something special to to match this because this is a very nice looking book yeah no it is a very nice nice look it's our charge you're doing it now just to tell you so you missed the last two years though but anyway not to worry um i'm not ideal about it it's a book it's a seven days when you open the pages on the left hand side of some diddly eye stuff like the guys were thinking before our arrest we are at home or something and then on the right hand side you have seven days looking at you so on monday morning you can look at the book in your diary and see that's the dentist on tuesday the doctor on wednesday irish dancing on terry's day and pick up the kids on friday or whatever so it's a very handy thing to keep on the kitchen table and on the hall table and some nice uh bond walls and bits of advice and bits of perspective and uh bits of irish culture as well sort of uh talking about the importance of animals and the importance of plants and vegetation and the importance of uh days like some bridgett's day and so on so looking hooking oh yeah tradition and hooking into you know you've got a nice little mix there of the traditions of ardent plus then the little practical advice as well now might be good time to start spring cleaning and hear something you might do to get that nasty stay enough but it's a pointer for you you know and like say on the fifth of november or the 15th of november whatever i tell you it's time to make a plum hooding because people kind of say oh i've lost time on so when they see it written down then kind of focuses their mind and they're kind of thinking yeah we must get to that so in that sense it's not just like a diary for the doctors and plants and planting it's a diary to keep you on the street narrow as well yeah um as you say it is the third year of the publication it's always been a popular one and as opposed to the name francis brennan um always has carried some cash when it comes to to home making and home keeping and dare i say it when it comes to having a little bit of style a little bit of a land a little bit of dash in your home no better person than yourself to go to yeah well i yeah well i don't know what i don't know where that comes from but and people and i don't even know i have it but it seems that people think i have it anyway so that's grand we move along with that but i always like to dress properly and i always like to have nice things and i like flowers and things for that so i suppose in one sense that's just me and that and i just portray myself but but the important thing francis from your point of view is you're so able to communicate that to other people and and it's coming through in this diary just just as it does through other media as well oh yeah well sure and you know people somebody said to me a long time ago you always make people happy well i don't know i i don't know where that's all about i'm just me i'm sure if i'm me and i make you happy it's not even brilliant that's even better still and i thought i did take an industry where i do make you do make people happy hotels or any patients or people come for weddings or christening or whatever it might be so it's always just exciting to touch them and to contribute to that to make people happy it's not brilliant now there is a serious element to this as well because you did sit back and you did make an assessment of your own impact on the planet and ask yourself what you can do personally to ease the pressure on the planet and to reduce your own carbon footprint and so on and so forth and uh what what you learned from that assessment very much comes through in this book as well yeah well i moved house now as well this year like um in january i moved and talked to you now from ken marie in the i have a two bedroom apartment here in we have apartments at the hotel grounds and i moved in here in january and it was a big assessment then as to what you do or don't after living in a house of five bedrooms for 32 years and you're moving to a two bedroom apartment doesn't change to me so i had a great friend of mine came down up and pranked darling and he took no punches absolutely none it was like you want it yes or no out you want it yet for no out so we ended up with a pile to keep a pile out and a pile for the charity shop or whatever and we ended up we managed well i am a little over now um donal on the um wardrobe side i am in the spare bedroom now which is just the clothes and the wardrobe which is the bold i suppose but anyway um we might get that during this year when get everything else i only have shelves but that's the last thing i have to do here i have some shelves to go up and then i'll be able to sort of say i'm in 100% and then i might look at the spare wardrobe and see will i move it along or not and when it comes to those uh bibs and bobs to get the house or get the apartment or whatever it is to your taste the diary is full of little handy tips things like you know how to clean a smelly dishwasher how to patch up a piece of a broken plaster or whatever stuff that the rest of us might not really know what to do and we might be sort of taking vague tries at pouring something into it to see what happens you you have some very focused tips here i yeah they're very simple like i had i had those i did do a house housekeeping book earlier in my career as a villager and i had all of those tips about baking soda bicarbonate soda vinegar and lemon i mean to clean your dishwasher you know you don't need the chemical anything all right all you need to do is once a month take half a lemon put it into the dishwasher turn on your dishwasher with just the lemon and all of a sudden it cleans everything inside likewise your microwave if you put a half a lemon into a little bowl drop of water stick it in the microwave for two minutes and then the microwave all contents and all you have to do is to dry it out with a kitchen towel or some tissue and then it's all it's all it just keeps it and if you do it regularly it just keeps the whole thing ahead of itself and it keeps the substance you don't need a pile of chemicals which is what the world doesn't need today to be doing things in the kitchen you can use natural products it's easy enough and vinegar of course it's brilliant you clean the windows it's the top of fairy liquid and vinegar and the shiniest windows you'll ever have and the great thing of course of of having this in a diary is that you can sort of spread out these tips so people will be going through the diary and say oh yeah i must do that today i must do that today i must do that today so well it isn't as though it's just big one huge pile of tips on one page it's nicely paced it's a prouder it's a prouder it comes back in june it comes back to you know and so on that says and then at the beginning of the book we have a couple of pages there where we talk about um weight and measures and liquids and liters and all that because you know oftentimes nowadays especially with the internet you can pick up a recipe that has an american wording and you don't know what two cups of flour are so we show you the equipment of two cups of flour and things that so it's very handy things to have in the kitchen if you're baking and if you can refer to this yes weight the measures of our style rather than american yeah i mean it's a diary and it has everything you would expect a diary to have and and so much more besides uh i'm sure it'll be a best seller again uh francis brendan thanks indeed for speaking to us today all right don't thank you very much don't worry everybody in north west and hello to you thank you very much indeed that's from francis brendan there the author of the homekeepers diary 2023 and a very nice looking uh presentation it is too available as they say in all good bookshops let's look at your your comments before we go for a break the east and west is the second 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accounts and so on now you may have just heard in the ad that was on during that ad break that it's the 8th of october is the date after which uh ulster bank accounts will the longer function um now what impact that has on the branch or on atms i do not have that clarifying in front of me but certainly as i said that's the date they're looking at it's the 8th of october which uh unless i'm very much mistaken is next saturday week is the 8th of october so after that accounts will effectively become inoperative so if you still have an outstanding account or you still have work to do to move your account from ulster bank to elsewhere really it's time to start looking at that um let's talk about a very important sponsored walk that's about to take place uh the st luke's walkers will spend three days walking on the remote and rugged initial peninsula in october they're they're set to raise 1500 euro to take part all inclusive four nets accommodation in malinhead punkrana and beautiful beaches on the wild atlantic way and that's that's coming up next week i'm joined on the line by one of those who is coming up and that's jerdyn stafford of the friends of st luke's jerdyn good morning hey good morning donors nice to speak to you and good to speak to you too so the um the 1500 and all all that's been done a group of people coming up to in a show and to walk for three days to friends of st luke's and you're inviting local people to join you for some or all of that walk yes if they would like to come along they're more than welcome and donnie gall people have been very very um good to the friends of st luke's over the years supporting us here in st luke's with everything we do here in the hospital and our three units so and as i said everyone is welcome and indeed many many people have gone through st luke's from donnie gall one of them is a former councillor in the initial area uh mickey doherty mickey good morning good morning donal hi hi good morning jerdyn hi mc how are you i'm grand i'm grand thank you that's good to know mickey uh you had uh occasion as many have indeed to use st luke's you spent seven weeks there and uh no one knows better than yourself how important st luke's is to donnie gall well st luke's is very very important to donnie gall and especially probably to my own family because prior to me being there my two elder brothers were there denis and alton also and and we all had the same treatment only i think mine was actually better because we thought it was like a holiday for me it was fantastic because i was i was on the council at the time and i had my laptop with me and i was still able to do my work there and i was treated like a lord i'm not joking it that was fantastic and i couldn't be thankful enough to each and every member of staff at st luke's in the way we were treated and and uh probably the success of us being there was was actually more important again now a lady there who i hope is coming up what the jerdyn is uh bernie who was the manager of the the lodge which um too many people from in its own are very familiar with the lodge now the lodge was the accommodation which was supported big time by the friends of st luke's and made it possible for the patients to stay there and and sometimes if there was room even friends somebody supporting a patient that have even stayed along them it was it was just out of this world and the the transport that was laid on from let it get a hospital to st luke's which was out of this world and was supplied by garner coaches from let it get a fantastic team fantastic drivers excellent comfort and i was just a joy to be there you've made the point mickey that during your seven weeks in st luke's you encountered 13 other people from the asian peninsula 13 yes and and the canteen alone that that was only what was staying on the and the uh and the get on the lodge and then i mean there was there was others there was others also uh full-time patients and the hospital also like you know and and sadly to this day quite a few of those that i had known had had passed away but they still love them about thanks to the treatment and and helped the god from st luke's and and and and jordan sorry i just want to go back to jordan because jordan is clear from what mickey is saying that st luke's and what it offers in terms of and let's be honest the comfort's important because when you have someone who is undergoing treatment for a cancer you need them to be in as positive a situation as possible both in terms of their physical health and their mental health and and there is no doubt about it that from what mickey is saying the facilities and the services provided at st luke's itself and also through the lodge and through the accommodation ensure that patients are best placed to fully take and fully benefit from the treatment that's on offer there absolutely uh donors and you know we can provide this purely just from all the funds that have been raised uh from former patients or from people all around the country i mean our lodge is fantastic at the moment we have 52 rooms in it and they're all ensuite bedrooms and it means that uh the patient can come up to the lodge have their treatment from monday to friday and go home at weekends and that room is kept available for them for the seven weeks and um as i said yuka mickey will be happy to know that bernie is coming up on the walk to donnie gall she was managing the lodge and it really is a fantastic facility and used constantly so um as i said all our fundraising goes into projects like this within the hospital within st luke's and if people wish to to join you up here you're just asking them to come along and and and make a donation no need for people to get sponsorship forms or anything like that just come along make a donation and join you forms yet no sponsorship forms needed whatsoever we'd love to meet people and we'd love them to come along and walk with us and you know kind of it would make it would make our walk you know very special as i said this is the first walk we've had in ireland and the reason being that we're going to donnie gall is really because of mickey uh he's just a fantastic person and and as i said we i've been people ask me people that came away with me every year they asked me would i do something in ireland well the first place i thought about was donnie gall and it uh we're really looking forward to it can you very briefly just give us an indication of where and when you're walking because you've got malin hedge you've got don re you've got wonderful cliff walks beaches all the way around the initial yeah and we're walking around bun clan as well and and then on our third day walking we're walking from the hotel and we're going to along the beach and we're going to end up at the famine village so and as i said there you know kind of they'll be special walks and very very nice and if people wish to take part they can you're asking them to pay a 10 euro they can contact me or we're seeing we're seeing in the belly lifting sorry donal we're seeing in the belly living strand hotel so if somebody wants to come yeah come along and meet us there they're more than welcome and this is all starting on october 3rd which is yeah we're traveling next sunday isn't it or so monday monday this this day week yeah we're traveling yeah we're traveling from st loupe here uh by many of us up to uh belly living and then we walk and choose to wednesday and thursday and we'll return on the friday jordan we wish you all the best with the venture and uh mickey thank you very much indeed for speaking to us as well no yep donal really appreciate it we say yep donal have a good juice uh uh stress the point that i would like to see a good turnout of people to come to well welcome these people for all the goods i've done for dunig all and for any shown particular absolutely and as we can dig on on on the path which is the thursday night no sorry the sixth thursday night uh the week and i go and film and i'd love people to come along and show their appreciation there's no tired to get in there'll be a bucket of the door if anybody wants to give but anybody's welcome and and uh aiman and leon cutliffe two brothers and a lot of people will be familiar with them are playing along with two accomplices from america plus uh john migelgun and albert uh punningham so it'll be a good week night it will indeed and i'll know better people and no no better people than the people who live in the show and to organize the shin big mickey jardine thank you both very much indeed we look forward to that event with great interest thank you both indeed that's jardine and uh mickey doherty their former counselor of course here in dunig all uh that's where the show comes to an final comment i got my esp bill two weeks ago for two months six hundred and twenty eight euro and nearly fell off the chair i'll be paying that off until the next one comes 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