 Donegal Deputy Joe McHugh has said he will have to reconsider his position within Finnegale if a micro redress scheme that is not fair and accessible to all homeowners doesn't get over the line. Details on an enhanced redress scheme following months of discussions were due yesterday but it's been delayed and I expect it to be revealed within the coming weeks. Deputy McHugh has said while it would be a difficult decision to make, he cannot back a scheme that is half-baked. The Chief Clinical Officer with the HSE says it's frustrating that some businesses aren't checking COVID vaccine certs. 44,000 cases of the virus have been reported over the past 14 days. Only 11% of the cases are over the age of 65 but 50% of the hospitalisations are in the same age group. Dr Colm Henry from the HSE admits it's annoying that some people aren't complying with the rules. It's frustrating of course and we can do better and I think what we showed last year is when people rally together, not just to protect themselves and their family but this sense of solidarity. People want to do the right thing, I want to be enabled to do the right thing so we can do better. Donegal County Council has confirmed its roads team is investigating possible causes of flooding in the old town and Charlie Dealey terrace areas of latter Kenny. The council has also submitted an application to the Department of Transport for Climate Adoption Funding to carry out assessments of areas of latter Kenny town where there are repeated issues with flooding. The issue was raised by the Kehirlock of the latter Kenny Milford Municipal District councillor Jimmy Kavanaugh and councillor Jerry McMonigal. Councillor McMonigal says the council is right to act. It's very pressing there as we've had a number of occasions where there has been flooding and the houses and businesses in the area are under threat of further flooding so I welcome the fact that they have made this application and that they have given an undertaking that they will carry out an investigation very very soon. Whether or not I missed and fog will slowly clear this morning whilst there will be a lot of dry weather with sunny spells some well scattered showers will occur also highest temperatures today of 10 to 12 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Celebrate Disney Plus Day with an unmissable new lineup and an unbeatable price offer for this week only from Friday stream Marvel Studios Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings in Kent's Outrun. Blockbuster action with Jungle Cruise. Here we go. And exclusives like the critically acclaimed new series Dope Sick. 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Our native Karina Malloy, who now lives in Donegall town, says that the issues extend far beyond this and that apologies, investigations and acknowledgments must now be matched with real change for both women and men within the fours. So she's been talking to Michael McHugh. You can read more in that paper today. The Finn Valley voice, a giant of a man, Martin Griffin, RIP is the headline. Chris McNulty writes that the Finn Valley lost one of the most iconic people at the weekend. Martin Griffin was a giant of a man in more ways than one. A GEA stalwart. He played 109 times for the Donegall senior football team, described as a tough fall back standing and imposing six foot four Griffin won Ulster senior championships with Donegall in 74 and in 83 and he added a further later on. The Innist Times, their headline calls for criminal investigation into purchase of Micah Holmes. You can read more in that story in the front of and inside that paper today. On to the nationals now and we'll start with the Irish Independent and an interesting one. It's not that side is it. I'll come back to that because there is an interesting story and that would have opened on the wrong page. We'll start with the Irish Times first, I think then. So the government and the EU are urgently seeking to dissuade the UK from triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol with officials in Dublin and Brussels. They fear it could result in a tetefor tat retaliation between the sides. There have been face to face contacts this week between senior figures from the Irish and British governments as the UK makes its case for triggering the mechanism. But Dublin remains fiercely opposed to such a move. Tarnished Lee of Radcar yesterday said planning for a potential no deal Brexit would now recommence. There's been a growing expectation in Brussels and Dublin that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's administration is moving towards using the clause to unilaterally suspend aspects of the protocol, which was designed to avoid a hard border on the island after the UK left the EU Article 16 is an emergency clause in the protocol which can be activated unilaterally if the government leads to if the agreement leads to serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist or to to a diversion of trade unilaterally in that regard means, you know, one side can do it without a consultation to the other right back to the independent because obviously a lot of interest, a lot of text messages as it relates to this Aiman Ryan story. Now, you know, Aiman Ryan, he received a positive COVID test. Apparently, it was inconclusive and he was called back from a sec for a second test. The second test was negative and off he went to COP 26 and a lot of people feeling that it seemed to be one rule for them, one rule for us. And as I said on the program yesterday, I think this one instant has single-handedly done more to sort of undermine the faith in the testing system than anything that went before it. But how rare is it that a test is conducted? There is some sort of a concern. And a second test is concluded or sorry is conducted. Well, I can tell you it's incredibly, incredibly rare. So the odds on it happening to Mr. Ryan now are becoming unless he was given special treatment, the odds on it happening to him are very, very small. I'll read on here. Environment Minister Aiman Ryan's among a small minority of people every month who test positive for COVID-19 and get a repeat test through the HSE. The HSE said January the average number of test results that need to be revised monthly is between 25 and 30. Now, not 25 and 30,000, 25 and 30. Although there may be other instances, the test and trace system is not aware of. The HSE is now inundated with demand. 168,800 laboratory tests for COVID-19 are being carried out in a week, while in the past fortnight, 44,000 people have tested positive for the virus. So 167 multiplied by four, you know, a big number there, almost if not 700,000, 25 to 30 of those tests are flagged as needing a retest. And one of those just happened to be the Environment Minister Aiman Ryan and that retest come back negative and the way to Glasgow, he went on to the Irish Daily Mail now and Sean Fitzpatrick, the former chief executive and chairman of Anglo-Irish Bank has died. A spokesperson for his family said the 73-year-old died on Monday after short illness. The former bank boss became a well-known and controversial figure following a transformational rise and collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank. After 30 years, he built Anglo into one of the biggest lending institutions in Ireland. Anglo went bust during the financial crash and cost the Irish state 29 billion. Mr. Fitzpatrick stepped down as Anglo chief in December to await when it emerged that he had loans worth 87 million with the institution. He was declared bankrupt in July 2010. He went on trial accused of failed insider training scams. However, the case collapsed in 2015 after it emerged documents held by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement have been shredded by one of its officials. Now a lot of people would have him down as one of the key people involved in the economic crash and much of the conversation on social media has not really been about people grieving his passing or those critical of his his his role in the banking crisis has been whether or not people can talk about it, you know, a half of people saying, you know, have a bit of respect. We can talk about this at a later date. Others go, no, we're going in both feet first. Sad passing here of the late now Austin Corey, the family of Austin Corey, a founding member of the STLP and key figure at the beginning of Northern Ireland's civil rights movement are heartbroken as it's death. Mr Corey died in his sleep at his home in County Kildare on Tuesday, he'd recently celebrated his 82nd birthday. A family statement said the Corey family is heartbroken to announce the death of Austin Corey. Austin was married to Anita for 53 years, and they were a formidable team whose love for each other and other families saw them through some of the worst times in Northern Ireland's recent history. He founded the STLP with John Hume and Jerry Fit in 89. He won a seat in Dublin West for Finnigan and was a TD and minister until he retired in 2002. He was originally from County Tyrone. That's where he was born and was the eldest of 11 children. And lastly, it's the Irish daily mirror. This is one of these stories that's unimaginable. Really, it's hard to it's hard to know how you might feel. I mean, can you imagine if you had a baby? Okay, and you nurse the baby in the hospital, you breastfed that baby, you cared for that baby and you took it home. And then after a couple of months, you had to give it up for it to be replaced with another baby. And this is precisely what's not precisely this is around about what happened to two women. A mum was told of the horror of finding she and another woman had given birth to each other's babies after an IVF error. Daphne Cardinale and husband Alexander are suing a fraternity clinic that allegedly mixed up the embryos. They and another couple spent months raising the wrong babies before a DNA test revealed the mistake. And they swapped children, a US lawsuit states Daphne said her family are heartbroken and confusion can't be understated. She said, our memories of childbirth will be tainted by the sick reality that our biological child was given to someone else. And the baby that I fought to bring into this world was not mine to keep Alexander had suspicions in the delivery room when the baby arrived, looking nothing like them. Now, I think how would I cope with that? I probably would say, in the long haul, I'll come to terms that you know that. Yes, I had the wrong baby for two or three months, but I have my baby now and it's happy and healthy. And we've alive hopefully ahead of us together. And I would sort of try and or try and cope with it that way. What would you do? Oh, wait, six, 60, 25,000. Your comments on that and any of other stories. Oh, wait, six, 60, 25,000. That's your WhatsApps and your texts. If you're listening or watching us outside the Republic, that really long code and you think we'd have cracked this not by now, wouldn't you? But we haven't. If you're in Derry on a on a British carrier, this is the number you have to dial to text your local radio station, 0035386625,000. 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We're already dreaming about the festive season so why not make a start park for free and enjoy your Christmas shopping this year letter Kenny shopping center bringing you the time at it's nine sixteen on the program now we're joined by Geraldine McElroy Geraldine thanks for taking the call today. How are you? How are you getting on and how's Thomas getting on? At the moment Thomas is he's quite he's quite upset still he's quite nervous and he's he's quite dissatisfied he doesn't want to leave home. I think the emotional recovery might take longer than the physical recovery on this one Geraldine. Absolutely that that's our greatest worry Thomas recovering from this emotionally yes. Right tell us what happened at the weekend. So what happened was um Thomas I get like an hour fourteen year old typical fourteen year old um he likes to play playstation he likes to hang out with his his best friend um the two boys spend the majority of their time between the two homes um playing their playstations they'll pick a walk the shop get a bag of bag of foodies back to the house and play the playstation so Thomas was up and um his friend James's house um it was Friday evening it's Friday night they were given a bit of extra time as usual end of the week um around midnight um my sister Noreen um sent James's mom and I said to him after they sent Thomas down it's the people men at walk from house to house on the main road in the Valley Court Ministry um Thomas's dad Noreen had said to Thomas his dad take that Thomas was on his way down to go out and wait for him so his dad was outside waiting um Thomas left James's house um I think maybe after five or so minutes you know his dad Thomas thought he should be down by now um he went on to the house to get his phone to phone Thomas and when he got out to start walking up the street um to meet Thomas Thomas was coming running down the street on a very distressed state um they got him under the house Thomas couldn't speak he couldn't he couldn't sit he just was pacing up and down the kitchen floor really really distressed he had been badly beaten up um what happened was Thomas was walking down the hill and this random person um Commit of the alleyway he was rambling he was as Thomas would say he was acting weird um and he just he just set upon Thomas and this unprovoked attack just he just given a really bad beating now this is uh it's awful but then it could be much worse and I'm sure those are the thoughts that are running through the family that you know what if this person uh didn't stop when he stopped what if it was a one-point situation and Thomas had struck his head in a curve it's all of these what ifs that these running through your head doesn't it that's that you know we we can only be grateful that you know while this is a terrible terrible thing that has happened to Thomas we can only be grateful that that you know that it hasn't worse um it could have been much worse but it was bad let's not I don't want to either I don't want to either sort of try and say look let's not talk about it you know it could be much worse I hope you you understand that's not what I'm saying it's just that that would be a very human thing to say well anything could have happened uh does I mean obviously a lot of it's going to be a blur just Thomas has Thomas ever seen this person around before no Thomas was not familiar with this person whatsoever um didn't recognize him doesn't didn't know him um as I said he was just walking down the hill home and this person just came out of the valley he was rambling um to Thomas um he was you know just he was making no sense so he wasn't and he just sat upon him and and unfortunately for Thomas you know it was you know we we think it could have been anybody but unfortunately for for us and for Thomas it was him you know um just a completely unprovoked attack yeah and uh the person who's responsible for this um is described as being quite distinctive I would imagine he's five foot in height uh had a beard and was wearing a dark hoodie now it's someone encountered this person either before or after this it's just a case of whether they come forward and tell the authorities who it actually was yes that's it um we are appealing for for people in the community that no matter how insignificant they they feel that you know something might be just to come forward that that person would absolutely have encountered people you know in the valley coming before and after um you know whether just be walking past them or you know did did you see anybody you know did one of your family members come home in distress you know it's deep you know we'd we wouldn't none of us would want this day to happen to any of our own families and I suppose something that that we're really aware of is that this person is still walking with in our community um there's there's nothing to say that this person isn't going to do something that's again um you know something worse you know that this person is clearly you know for someone to do something like that they're you know there's the fact that it happened you know at 12 30 and I think in a in a built-up local area it was it's not unreasonable to expect a 14 15 year old big lad to be able to walk between two houses a short walk with dad at home uh checking up the road until he comes into sight you should be able to do that safely and I don't think the time is relevant to this one because this person sounds like he would have done this at one o'clock in the afternoon or five o'clock on the in the evening if you're capable of doing this the time on the clock makes an old difference whatsoever absolutely absolutely you know and on that route that that Thomas was walking you know house you know has has grandparents left you know it doesn't happen far from our parents house he's got an uncle who lives there you know we've left in the belly coming for 40 years you know and there's never has been a time when we've been scared to walk our streets and never nobody would have thought that this could have happened you know to any any of our family or anybody from the community that you know a child would just be walking home from his friends you know at night time and on the main road you know he had no alleys to go up they had no you know no dark corners to be walking through you know he was on the main road and for something so so terrible to happen you know on a main road I you know that that could have happened to anybody you know at any time it could have been a woman god knows what might have happened in that scenario who's to say it's anybody and I don't think we can presume that the person that's responsible for this is only ever going to do something like this once in their life it's very important I think if if someone's capable of doing this it's very important that they're spoken to so again just to describe the person responsible five foot four inches in height we believe he's in his 20s he has a beard and on the night in question was wearing a dog hoodie yes has there been any progress in the investigation so far Geraldine nothing nothing that nothing that can be anything inclusive okay any yes no I got that that's it we're just appealing to anybody no matter how small you know their information basically their information might be please just just contact the authorities on 101 you know quote in reference number 75 and help us find this person who who done this and bring them to justice because we don't know that they're never going to do this again and this is someone who's walking with an odd community who could could could do the same again or worse yeah and maybe someone has one of those doorbells that's triggered by movement has some footage or maybe someone driving through the area with the dash cam whatever it might be anything that helps in a situation I think would be greatly welcomed okay listen pass on our best wishes to Thomas and his his family of which you're a member of course Geraldine and as I say hopefully the emotional side of this heals as quickly as as the physical side of it might as well okay we're going to stand about them we're hoping I better yeah recovery they're they're strong our young ones and they bounce back quick from from an awful lot of things he's a good boy he's a good boy that's okay take care of yourself thanks very much indeed Geraldine McElroy her son Thomas just 14 randomly attacked on saturday night got an awful beat and I saw the pictures incredibly unpleasant he was walking between two houses in the ballet Coleman area his own house a few doors up a short walk and no idea who this man is why it was happened completely unprovoked a guy thought to be in his 20s 5 4 with a beard wearing a black hoodie on the night in question and as you can imagine I think it's important that that person is spoken to right now we're joined on the program by Mary fairy good morning to you Mary thank you for taking the time to speak to us today morning Greg how are you Mary and I'm not too bad Greg and I've gotten pericarditis which was just a side effect from the vaccine I got in July you got the Pfizer vaccine is that correct I did yeah yeah and this condition um it's recorded thankfully it is incredibly rare but it is a is it liquid around the heart what has it been described to you as it's um so far what they're saying like it's it's pericarditis I have um there's been no investigations done further to see if it's it's affected them the myocardium which is the next layer the muscular layer but the pericarditis is the outer lining of the heart it's a little sack and it's um inflammation and fluid a build-up of fluid around the heart so it affects your breathing and um you know I've got inflammation on the ribs breathlessness dizziness it's uh just not pumping you know the way working the way it should be and had when did you realize something was I presume you've no history of issues with your heart Mary so this came out of the blue yeah no there's no heart conditions in the family or no history no it was just um after the first vaccine in July within hours of probably about two or three hours just afterwards I had no smell or taste and of course that's um you know a symptom of COVID so I got tested the following day for COVID because I felt fine at lunchtime but then no stellar taste in the evening and that lasted my test was negative but might that last for over a month of no smelling taste but one day after getting that the first vaccine I had a sharp pain and the upper left rib you know behind the heart and that was that was uncomfortable that was hard to you know sleep and uh it just was ongoing and then I got that treated with an osteopath homeopath and um it eased a bit but didn't fully kind of recover and then after the second uh vaccine um it was lower ribs left side again and that was excruciating that was I had to just um that I couldn't work how soon after uh the second vaccine did you say this it was about you know it was about five six days afterwards I feel like the medication from the uh the first one kind of wore off and then it then once it wore off it was the lower ribs the left rib but it was much much worse than the the first the first um vaccine and um at that point then you went to your GP what were they saying to you at that point after the no I yeah I did I got anti-inflammatories and pain relief and um really they just thought it was inflammation of the ribs or um that I damaged them but I hadn't done anything so I knew I didn't know where it came from but it eased the pain so the anti-inflammatories the painkillers took it all away it eased it all I went back to work and everything was going fine for about five or six days and then it's I went into my chest and the my chest started tightening and I felt breathless and dizzy and uh you know just a lot of those um symptoms would would overlap with panic attacks and I think that was uh in the early stages you were being told that that's probably what was happening to you that was it yeah when I went to hospital the A&E that's that they did thorough checks they they checked for they're actually checking for pericarditis and they did blood tests they did chest x-rays they you know they did they did really good checks but nothing showed up they just says it was a panic attack and then I went home and two days later and I got worse and worse and that's when I lost the feeling in my left arm and I went back into hospital again there's just panic attacks but in the meantime I got referred to Dublin and that's where I got an echoed scan of the heart to see what was happening and it was there it was like a diagnosed pericarditis and a build-up of fluid around the heart I mean to some to some extent there I mean it's it's shocking news to get there must be a bit of relief there because you know you're being sent home uh you knew something was up you were being told it was effectively in your head um so I suppose at least then you had a diagnosis something to work with what's the the treatment um for this condition at the minute well I'm on anti-inflammatories um colcocene it's a specific to treat pericarditis I'm on that for three months I have to go back in December to get another echo scan to see if the fluid is decreased and I'm on pain relief and steroids because the ribs are still like I still have the breathlessness the rib pain and I'm hoping I'm hoping that it's not as bad as it was the tightness of the chest it's going all that but I'm still not working it's I can't work because I'm not able to at the minute you know and is that because of energy levels or you wake up Greg you wake up and you feel good you say okay I'm gonna be okay today and then within a couple of hours you're and it's just head shoot it's like you're fatigued and dizzy and breathless again so it's it's hard to it's hard to know you know how you're going to be yeah and do you know anyone else personally that this has happened to or um just with the consultant in Dublin said he's been treating pericarditis since March 2020 for people who've had COVID have got it from COVID and people who have developed it from the side effect of the vaccine so both that he's he's got a lot of it he actually said he's yeah quite common both pericarditis and myocarditis yeah and has he spoken out publicly about this if he's saying he's seeing a lot of it would it not be in his interest to speak publicly on it Mary? I don't know if he has Greg you know but that was my first question to him is have you seen much of it and yeah you know he said since March 2020 he has seen quite a bit of it you know for me I just want to let people know that if you have any of these symptoms you'll get it checked out don't don't ignore it don't don't just I did kind of for long enough not think of any connection to the to the Pfizer but it was a bit of a coincidence why it all happened immediately after the Pfizer vaccine you know yeah and your consultant attributed your condition to the vaccine he said that to you oh yeah yeah once he asked where it started and which is quite common he said it can start in the ribs and then you know that because you're intercostal muscle between the ribs it's all part of your breathing and every time I take a breath it is so painful to breathe and I'll bone around the chest the chest pain's got worse and worse so it's all it's all inflamed I feel there's a lot of inflammation still there and I've got inflammation in both lungs as well yeah okay we're also joined on the program by chair of the GP committee of the IMO Dr Dennis McCauley Dr Dennis this is according to the official statistics relatively rare it's more common in people with COVID I think than with the vaccine but it's certainly something people need to be aware of and keep an eye out for I think so Greg and and good morning Mary morning yeah it is I think it is I think that my arthritis which is an inflammation of the muscle and then the the the surface of the heart is a very rare event and it but it can be associated both with the vaccine and with the with the with the with COVID itself I think the important thing to remember is that when you when you take a vaccine there's there are risks associated with any vaccine and then you have to look at the benefit associated with it I think the important fact is that if you if you don't get if you don't get vaccinated the chance you're getting COVID between now and Christmas is almost a hundred percent and and if you get that really that high Dennis with all two I think yeah I think actually basing that on I mean I'm pretty cool modeling no no the actual model if you don't know if you don't get if you if you haven't been vaccinated the modeling is that because of the Delta variant that there's a very high chance well it will let you see 95 percent I get the modeling the the the modeling by now I could say that if you don't get vaccinated the chances of you getting COVID is essentially you are going to get COVID through tonight and and and Christmas now it when you get COVID there's a one of the side effects is that you can get a mile a mile car car caritis now Mary has is a is atypical to a certain extent generally when you get a myocarditis associated with COVID it can last six six to seven months now when you get the vaccine there is a there is a small risk that you can get a mile carditis as well but it's generally in younger males actually but it can happen at any age in Ireland it's happened over a broad a broad range it generally is a milder form as well so what I would sort of say is that if you if you get the the vaccine there's a very small risk it's maybe one in a hundred thousand that you could get a mile a mile carditis that it is generally short-lived but if you don't get the vaccine the risk of getting a myocarditis is at least 20 times greater than that and it generally is of a much greater type and it will last longer so it is like any vaccine there's all you have to look at the benefits and the risks and when you look at it from a myocarditis point of view if you don't get the vaccine your chances of getting myocarditis is at least 20 times greater and it's probably going to last longer so from a risk benefit you have to sort of say well that's only one of the one of the looking at looking at the demographics I obviously want to go back to Mary but people listening to this might be in line for a booster vaccine and they might listen to what Mary has to say and say well that might triple my chances of this happening to me what are the incidence rates of this condition post-vaccination in the vulnerable and older age groups it's very rare really to be honest it's very rare anyway but it generally it has affected young and adult young adults mainly males so I think we have had no I've had no I've not I haven't encountered any and all that now you're breaking up there Dennis I'll just give your line a chance to talk quite a lot when we were rolling it out sorry I just want to go back to that you say you have not encountered any what sorry I haven't encountered any myocarditis and pericarditis in the older group remember that when we were introducing this for the 12 to 16 year old group that's when we started to talk more about the risk of myocarditis we did try to bring it into the public forum at that time because the risk is more with that under under 20 age group generally and actually they're always going to be exceptions so when we were talking about the 12 to 16 year old group with regards to the to the to the mRNA vaccines where there was discussion and I just say that there is a very small risk of myocarditis with with the 12 to 16 year old group particularly but that generally it's of a mild form and generally they it it does hopefully when Mary gets her second her second echo that it will have resolved but generally speaking it is of a much milder form than if you got COVID itself and you got myocarditis if you've got myocarditis 20 times more likely to happen and it's definitely going to last longer if you've got pericarditis from a jab does that mean you were likely to get it from COVID or is there something in spike proteins or whatever it might be with the vaccine that leaves you more likely to it no I think it is I don't think it's anything to do with COVID is to do with the the immunological response that your body has has has developed the mRNA vaccine is the only one that causes a pericarditis for instance the AstraZeneca didn't cause that so it's the vaccine rather than the the actual disease but as I say the if you don't get the vaccine your risk associated of getting it is 20 times greater and it's going to be and it's going to be much harder but from your perspective Mary the risk to have gotten it was 100% and it's something that you're having to to live with now and and it's I mean obviously the physical side of it but you're in a line of work that you know you particularly everyone's passionate about the work but you know it's it's very hands-on it's very personal it must be a big hit to you not being able to carry out your day-to-day activities yeah it is Greg I mean that's I'm into my seventh week and I'm hoping maybe to bring in you know one or two clients a day and trying to get back but I tried that last week and I had to cancel them I couldn't I couldn't go back and I you know I don't believe I'll take a booster vaccine I couldn't possibly because it's affected me this way you know with the I can't imagine your your GP would recommend that because that's what we have at GPs for it would be surprising well maybe you would Dennis correct me if I'm wrong but I mean it would be unlikely wouldn't it that a it would be on on like the same as someone who's any clotting instances you speak to your GP and they would advise you against that those people make up also a portion of that sort of eight percent of adults who aren't fully vaccinated presumably I would imagine even if the GP if GP advises I think Mary would be very very reluctant to get it anyway but no I don't think the GP I think if you've had a if you've had an immune response to this vaccine I wouldn't recommend that you get a booster but we hopefully because you're young and your immune system is obviously very competent because you've had immune immune response to it that the coverage of the booster for COVID infection should be quite high now so hopefully that and that and that will persist for for for some time much greater than you would expect in an 80 year old for instance okay Mary last word to you and just a listen out there to the public if anybody gets symptoms don't delay and get the same tip because I felt I left it too long I should you know looked into it so okay listen thank you very much for that Mary before I let you go Dennis McCauley obviously we're having conversations like this there a whistle blower who had been working with Pfizer questioning you know how trials were conducted there now this person was two weeks on a site in the United States that was in there to audit the the testing situation and this one site in America was responsible for about 4% of of Pfizer testing as I understand so it's not across the board but obviously when you hear stories like Mary's other stories circulating as it relates to two vaccines and maybe how they were researched and what have you and then the conversation about well sure you know you're as likely to pass it on with the vaccine as not I'm not saying all that's correct I'm just saying this is in the melting pot out there yeah you know how do you think it bodes for where we're going going forward I think it's boring well I think generally despite I think in Ireland particularly people have looked through this sort of the the fog and seen the facts I think that the when you look at the up the uptake in the in the in all the age groups even the the groups that would look at social media a lot the up the uptake has been frighteningly high in in Ireland and I think that's because people listen to these they are logical sensible people they look at the facts and I think even looking at the facts where a simple a simple example of that is look at the incidence in over 80s was beginning to creep up because their immunity was beginning to wane there we started the booster campaign in the over 80s and surprise surprise the incidence rate is actually dropping it's remarkable the drop in the the slow increase in the over 75s and the drop in the over 85s it I mean it's been somewhat or completely it's up to whoever is speaking attributed to that booster shop but it is remarkable to see our most vulnerable but I think I think I know I think there's no problem speaking about the relative when you take any you take any medicine whether it's a vaccine or whether there's a tablet there's always you always look at the risk of that and you look at the actual benefit vast the vast majority of people have looked at this I've sort of said despite the what I've read and so forth when I've looked at the facts and have listened to people and outlets that I trust these are the this is the the situation and most people are beginning are voting with their feet and saying listen that you know regardless of there is there is a there is a small risk that being said though Dennis is very high this is not like we didn't have this conversation because when the talk was about giving the vaccine to younger people there was the risk versus you know the risk of the vaccine versus the risk of covid and for a long time it was teetering and then eventually a decision was made but if a young male a young healthy person you know 22 23 years of age who would be at greater risk of pericarditis seemingly than than than covid you know these conversations will perhaps deter someone that age cohort from getting the vaccine I think I would I would go back a step because you sort of said the vaccine doesn't prevent the spread you know if you if you're saying that's the conversations out there you know yourself but I think I think there's there there's a half truth in that in that the if you get the vaccine you're less likely to get covid but if you get covid you can still spread it there is no doubt about that I think if you look at the focus groups for the younger pop population they were looking at their risk and the risk of the general pop population including those that they loved and they were making a very valid adult choice to say listen this vaccine has very small risk I have a small risk if I get covid but if I get if I get the vaccine it'll help me it'll help everybody in my class it'll help my mom and dad it'll help my granny and it'll help the general pop the population too so we have to commend the young people who have gone forward to get to get the vaccine they've made a very adult decision a lot of the 12 to 16 year olds who are coming for vaccines it is because they want the vaccine and they've asked their parents to bring them for it because they have they have decided that they want to get in get in to the national movement to try and get as many people vaccinated as possible to protect people yeah okay and the majority have made that decision of 18 pluses you know it's over 92 percent that is the majority of people listening to this program in the country they have made that the decision themselves and I suppose to some extent whilst you know talking about the other side of things we have to respect that that's an awful awful lot of people right okay thank you very much for that this morning I appreciated Dr Dennis McCauley and also Mary Ferry who her consultant said had that adverse reaction after the second fight well she had a reaction after the first got the second and has had that pericarditis issue which is rare but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen she's under the care now of the Black Rock Clinic she has a second echo in December and we join with with Dr McCauley there in hoping that clears up as soon as is possible and she's back doing what she does best and that's uh looking after people caring for people all right it is the 9 till noon show back with more after these get your tires ready for winter call in to old sir tires and letter Kenny and Bali buffet today are you a self-assessed income taxpayer use Ross revenues online service to pay and file online by 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reason they have then become ward of course and that's where their compensation will be looked after by a state body and that it can be drawn down as of when they need it if you have there was a person on a tour the car accident who then acquired a brain injury and then his his compensation well took whatever then he was made ward of court then as well and that's where you actually belong to the state to put it in a simpler term now I'm not an expert on it it's only whenever my son was born who has Down syndrome we obviously were looking into everything and we were told at that point in time when we were going to school age and then we were we were looking into sports in school and then as we had to fight them for sports take legal action we were also informed of this lunacy act and at the time there was nothing else we were informed that when he became a team that he would become ward of course if we registered him as such because legally at 18 because he had Down syndrome and intellectual disability that he was he lacked the capacity to make decisions for himself so therefore we couldn't leave him anything in our world if we had farm or a land we wouldn't be allowed to leave it to him because he lacked capacity he wasn't allowed to marry and only in February this year that law changed so what would trigger just use your son as an example because it's easy to have the conversation what would trigger him becoming a ward of court at 18 it's not by default is it you took you mentioned just as it relates to to school and what have you so what would trigger someone becoming a ward of court at 18 even younger they were left a huge compensation from I guess I'm a ward of court is somebody that they they deem as lacking capacity to make their own decisions and having a comprehensive view of the decisions they're making and the reasonable outcomes of such so at 18 whenever a person becomes an adult in Irish law what I was told then was that it's not acted upon but legally I had no right to make medical decisions to make because he becomes an adult I have now no longer the stand in over him that I would have had before before 18 now become a ward of court you do need the doctors you need two medical certificates to state that this person either has an intellectual disability or lacks a capacity to make a decision but if that person lacks a capacity to make a decision a parent or guardian who were capable of helping or making those decisions under 18 are no longer classed as suitable to do so over 18 is that when they turn 18 no you are no longer legally responsible for any of your children so then if you have a child with an intellectual disability you therefore are still not now it I was told at the time remember because I remember been down in different different areas and I was told that acted upon but there was a legal defense coming on board then and there was people um fighting it at that time now this is my son's only 13 but anyway the the fight had on so then so this people who could become ward of court if without even them knowing yeah and what it can mean is is that they're presumed then not to be able to make their own considerations they're not seen as capable to vote or may not be to have their own bank account to travel wherever they want to everything everything your basic rights has taken off you and you have to apply because you're not allowed to vote you're not allowed to leave the country medical um any medical procedures have to go through uh a slister or or the court and can that be challenged Gina and if so would the challenge be taken seriously because if you are believing that someone by default is not capable of of that list of things I mentioned before then you you know if they if they can test that it would that be treated with the respect it deserves before 2015 there was nothing and you could have contested it but it's a very very difficult battle and you can't come out of it again but again it is a huge battle and when you become ward of court if you'd be left um any wealth or if you have an inheritance or if you've been given compensation that goes to um stakeholders who look after your your financial affairs you have no say of what they do with it you have no say of where they go with it and some people that showed in the program last night had lost every penny that that they they were given in compensation to look after them through their lifetime and they they no longer have any finances left and in the fund because of bad investments and so so what does the the future hold is is there any positives from the if it's acted upon the assisted decision making capacity act 2015 uh would that cover what we're talking of or is it is this going to be the norm until such time as uh as people see that it needs to be changed people that's what i was saying that there has been an ongoing battle but unfortunately the governmental powers that be is very slow in movement it is in law but it's not acted upon because of provision to make it legislation isn't there the decision making bill the decision making bill will make it more individualized it's still not perfect there's still a huge amount wrong but it's it's a good step forward and the likes of myself who has two children one who will never have the capacity to make a decision no one you know he won't he just is non-verbal he won't have the capacity to know what decision he's making where christopher will have have the capacity to make a decision so therefore in their case is the money talking personally francis will have an executive somebody who will be able to make decisions for his best interest we could nominate somebody in the family we could nominate somebody that knows him best and that person will be the person who will assist and and be francis's representative so it won't go to the state as such christopher will have an assistant he will have a decision-making assistant who will help him understand the comprehensions around the um effects on the decision he makes so they'll be right or wrong they're not there to judge his decision they're just there to make him aware that he understands the decision he's making and that that will make a huge difference and that gives him the capacity to have choices that gives him the capacity to actually live a full life and respect him it means the state might respect him but so right now in the state anybody with an intellectual disability cannot have a same-sex relationship and cannot act upon it and cannot have an adult relationship or a sexual relationship before marriage by law you know it was only in February this year that it was given now that there that those with an intellectual disability can get married you know that we're outdated is is just a statement of what right Gina i think i would love to return to this topic with you and with more time because it is a very important one and i want to get a full grasp of it myself as well 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400 now mist and fall guy clearing this morning there'll be a lot of dry weather with sunny spells some well scattered showers will occur to temperatures in the seasonal range of 10 to 12 degrees in light variable breezes back with more after the news and a bituary notices lie on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's ten o'clock donal cavena at the news desk donigol wjomacue says he will have to reconsider his position within finnegoel if a micro address scheme that is not fair and accessible to all homeowners doesn't get over the line details on an enhanced redress scheme following months of discussions word you yesterday it's now been delayed and is expected to be revealed within the coming two weeks wmq has said while it would be a difficult decision to make he cannot back a scheme that's half baked i won't be standing over a scheme that proved in the past to be a scheme that was half baked and the the nitpicking that went on with the last scheme not making it a hundred percent taking out the storage costs taking out the rental costs and taking out all those and salary costs that were covered by pirate if we don't get that right i certainly won't be supporting that scheme and obviously that has has gone to consequences for me a teenage boy has been left terrified to leave home after being badly beaten during an unprovoked attack in strip ban last weekend 14 year old thomas left his friends home at around half past 12 on saturday morning to make the short walk to his home in the balicomyn area he was set upon by a man who pleases describing us being in his late 20s with a beard and around five feet four inches in height who's believed to have been wearing a dark hoodie at the time of the attack on the days nine till noon sure thomas's aunt jordan macaroy appeals to anyone with information to contact police we are appealing for people in the community that no matter how insignificant they feel that something might be just to come forward this person would absolutely have encountered people in the balicomyn before and after whether just be walking past them or did you see anybody did one of your family members come home in distress you know it's deep something that that we are really aware of is that this person are still walking within our community adonigal typically has clashed in the doll with t-shirt me hall martin after the environment minister appointed two close colleagues as members of the climate change advisory council last month a min ryan appointed professor morgan d bazillion who was previously an advisor to him and dr carla agustinberg who ran unsuccessfully for the greens in the 2014 local elections speaking in the doll typically podrick mclaughlin said no formal public appointment process was followed he asked the t-shirt when and if minister ryan will outline the process that was used now we've been through the whole caffern sapone affair uh we had uh basically the eruptus scandalized by all of that when is minister ryan going to come before the eruptus before the stall and make a statement outlining outlining the process that led to those two appointments we need to know is it going to come in at the earliest opportunity are you going to ask them to come in responding the t-shirt said he was enthused by w mclaughlin's concern i'm really enthused by your concern for close colleagues being appointed to positions of authority you might look within your own party and you've many close colleagues appointed to many positions uh and all other bodies across now learned but i would say this i think it's wrong though to impugn to two individuals concerned and i think uh you know they're people of considerable expertise in the field the garner commissioner says the force is in contact with american authorities about international crime gangs such as to kinahans the gang is thought to be one of the largest in europe with an empire estimate to be worth one billion euro commissioner drew harris says he bet with senior crime officials in the u.s last week very productive meetings uh with various law enforcement agencies um federal law enforcement agencies in washington at the very highest level and they've assured me of their cooperation and indeed i've assured them of ours as well we are a significant player when a term when it comes to organized crime and we want to play our full part not just here in ireland but internationally and bringing those organized crime grips down with a forecast ann met air and tell us mist and fog will slowly clear during this morning there'll be a lot of dry weather with sunny spells today some wells got our charms will occur with highest temperatures hitting 10 to 12 degrees celsius in light variable breezes most areas staying dry tonight under broken cloud but some mist and fog will develop with light variable breezes chili with lost overnight temperatures one to four degrees celsius coldest where clear skies 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10 so i've lots of nieces and nephews i'm not taking the vaccine because i feel it was created too quick and not enough time was given to research it and that is your free will that's misinformation from dr mccawley dr peter mccullough one of america's most respective cardiologists who was a find for spreading misinformation they'll have to say as well said their studies found the exact opposite of what the doctor was claiming what research is the doctor quoting and it seems you can just find out whatever information you like some people might think that the sun moon and stars comes out of dr mccullough whilst others were the legal profession he was taken to uh he was fined for spreading misinformation on covid too um or not fined he was sanctioned for it i'm listening to this and it certainly sounds familiar to me my friend at underlying health conditions was taken to hospital twice and the consultant told us she never should have been given the vaccine she never recovered she did what was asked of her and paid a price for it many people also listening that would be able to tell similar stories of those that didn't take the vaccine hi greg since getting the second dose of Pfizer have severe right leg problems which i've never read about before i was in hospital a week no answer to it every test done nothing showed up and left with uh now unable to work with severe numbness and buckling in my leg uh i'm definitely not taking the boost of the unexplained i have is the Pfizer but can't get any medical person to actually speak out yes this is vaccine related and as i say i've done a lot of reading on this i've never heard of a one limb becoming numb as a result of of an injury uh but this caller wants to know has anyone else got mobility problems since Pfizer they say they were fit and healthy beforehand walked every day and now they're on illness benefit uh hi greg i've always suffered from anxiety panic attacks on and off but since getting the vaccine they've got much worse another of course is going to poo poo it he's just wants everyone to get the vaccine and isn't talking about the side effects like what happened to mary we're literally talking to mary about side effects by the way we can't sort of at the same time say we're not talking about something when we've literally just done the interview on it as well but mary thank you very much for your point of view and and whether you agree or disagree with dr mccawley it is the consensus amongst seemingly the majority of medical professionals in the world who are active and working and have practices and patients and what have you my husband has similar symptoms been to the emergency department two currently waiting on further tests with the cardiologist we wish him every good wish going forward and other doctors are afraid to speak as they are being threatened about losing their license amikoski and marcus debruna perfect uh examples um amikoski was a temp gp of course and her views have been 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mackleheny and associates solicitors done all now how can we help in contentious business and solicitors may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement celebrate disney plus day with an unmissable new lineup and an unbeatable price offer for this week only from friday stream marvel studio shang chi and the legend of the ten rings in kent's outrun for you read your blockbuster action with jungle crews here we go and exclusives like the critically acclaimed new series dope sick this is the biggest dragon in the world don't miss this incredible lineup for just $199 for your first month of disney plus subscription required offer about 8 to 14 november for 18 plus consumers without an active disney plus subscription auto renews at $8.99 per month now you're very welcome back to the program we're joined on it now by dr patrick sullivan who's deputy chief executive for the national council for curriculum and assessment good morning to your doctor thanks for joining us today ah good morning greg and it's wonderful to have time with you and your listeners this morning thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you this morning right now where are we in the process the consultation process on the draft primary curriculum framework well i suppose maybe why are we changing things might be a better initial question yeah it's a great question greg and for many of our listeners here today they'll be thinking about their own children in primary school and they be thinking about the wonderful experiences they have day in day out across our primary schools in ireland but we do have to recognize that our primary school curriculum that is being used is actually 22 years old at this stage so while it was a cutting-edge curriculum when it was introduced in 1999 by the then minister of education me hall martin it was informed by the research of the day by our societal attitudes of the day by the educational thinking of the day and it wasn't very much a cutting-edge curriculum when it was introduced but 22 years on gosh we have to think about whether it is still can be described as a cutting-edge curriculum particularly if we think about what 99 was like and you know i think mobile phones are just being introduced to our homes y2k and the millennium bug was was on everybody's minds and the euro hadn't been introduced we're still using pounds and punts back in 1999 and if we think about today's children born in 2021 moving into school by 2026 and you know working your way through school and entering the workforce in the 2040s retiring by the 2080s and 2090s we really do have to look at the world they're about to inhabit and the types of learning that they need the knowledge the skills the attitudes and beliefs that they need to be able to negotiate that world and that's really what this is about this is a looking at your primary curriculum yeah is it about then you know i mean obviously there's a there's preschool primary school then on to secondary you know we we maybe have a better understanding of things like i don't know the importance of physical exercise and and and diet how we teach subjects maybe we can reflect on what's happening around the world and what works best at what age is like are we talking for are we talking a significant then overhaul we are Greg and you mentioned straight from the off there that you know primary or pre-primary education early childhood education is now a feature of of children's experiences and that wasn't the case back in 1999 so over 97% of children now avail or at least one year preschool before coming to primary and so they have that foundation of knowledge that that experience of early childhood education through the aster framework which has been used to support learning experiences for early childhood and we've also had changes in post primary with the junior cycle framework in terms of how students experience junior cycle the types of learning experiences they have and the ways in which they are assessed and so both ends of primary have changed and yet we haven't yet looked in its totality at the at the primary curriculum and this is that opportunity it is also you know once in a generational opportunity if we look back at you know the 100 years over 100 years 120 100 years since our 100 years since our the foundation of our state we've had three overhauls of the curriculum back in 1926 1971 and the 1999 curriculum this is now the fourth so this is a very important time it's important that people in communities and families and people have an opportunity to have their say on this consultation which will run until the end of February this year next year right so who is feeding into this at the moment is it schools is it parents and guardians or all it's for everybody Greg but we did release this back we released the document itself back in February 2020 right on the cusp of the pandemic not knowing what was about to ensue and so you know once COVID-19 hit and school closures we really had to pull back from engagement with school leaders and teachers and parents and families given the stress and the circumstances that everybody was under and we at that time we worked with nationalist stakeholder bodies organizations fed in so we worked with over 50 of those and we collected their views on the draft framework but what we really want to do now is that we want to reopen it and that's what we have done for the last month back in October we've reopened this consultation for teachers school leaders parents members of the general public and very importantly children we have a consultation ongoing with children throughout the in the coming months on their primary school experiences and what they would like to see it in the primary school so it is it is a it is a huge opportunity for everybody to have their say in this consultation at the moment. I mean obviously things have changed significantly you know in terms of our exposure maybe to languages other than English and Irish in national schools obviously since 1999 technology is a very big part of our life and as I said earlier on we are more conscious of the importance of of diet and exercise but I presume a lot I don't presume I shouldn't presume are some schools if not many schools already adapting you know with the current curriculum and maybe others are not do you know what I mean what I'm saying is is not every school stuck in 1999 I presume so why is there this need for sort of this this change when maybe it's happening organically already. Yeah and we're learning lots from schools Greg in terms of how they have adapted the 99 curriculum to the needs of their communities there's no doubt as you mentioned there are schools have adapted they've worked with the communities that they serve to serve their needs and in working with schools we work with a network of 60 schools currently actually two from North Donegal I better give a shout out to or I'll get in trouble Cresslow National School and Trentman National School up there in North Donegal and they've been working with us over the last few years on these proposals and they've told us of what you've just described the ways in which they've adapted the 99 curriculum and we've reflected that in the draft framework but it's very important to have that in in in curriculum policy then right because it gives teachers and school leaders a backstop to which they need to be able to continue that really good learning and also gives you gives teachers and school leaders the structure in within which they can enhance that learning that they do that they are providing and that direction as well but there are also new areas that you mentioned their well-being physical activity technology modern foreign languages are being proposed from third sixth class all of those are included in the proposals there is also education around sustainable development for instance that is being that is being introduced into the curriculum or or enhanced in the curriculum and also around expanded arts education in the curriculum so introducing things like film and digital media studies into an expanded art experience for children at primary school as well so lots of really interesting proposals for people to think about and what this requires a significant buy-in from teachers to of course some principles yes it does require buy-in but it also requires great support for them and so in the years ahead as we're working with this curriculum document and developing the specifications for each curriculum area which will follow in the years ahead we will be working very closely with the Department of Education and the support services to ensure that the cpd is provided the resourcing is provided and the right conditions within the system for this to be introduced it will be a challenge change always involves challenge loss of funding and a renewal and a learning of something else so that will take time to is this only within the four walls of the school because I mean I think I would guess that most parents guardians listening to this conversation today would like homework to be looked at the blend between the teaching in the school and what send home in the evenings you know because it's difficult it's difficult with the in a new modern world everyone's very very busy a lot of the stuff parents aren't familiar with you know all of those problems and then you know individual children will work better or differently is probably a better way of describing on their own at the kitchen table like is that something people can input on in here like you know looking at the problems homework causes versus the benefits it is that has to the student it is great and we're really eager to hear from parents in relation to their experience of homework we've actually commissioned a piece of research a number of years ago looking at the use of homework and we actually found some really innovative practices going on in schools where it's not as many of us think about just you know a lot of worksheets coming home in the in the folder for for children to work on during the school week but actually practical activities like my own child my own daughter and junior infants this year is coming home and she's being asked to pair her own socks which is matching I could get on board with that a bit of housework never goes this as well as actually sorting out the cutlery when you're emptying your dishwasher again sorting these are all very mathematical activities that help with concept building as well so we're eager to progress that as well in terms of NCCA's work we're not directly involved with homework see okay that will be expressed in this consultation we can certainly share all right before the line before the line fails on us you might talk to let people know how they can get involved in this to to look at what's going on maybe have their say their input absolutely so all of our proposals are on our website on ncca.ie primary and you can find videos there you can find presentations you can find a document itself outlining all of the presentations if you follow us on social media on ncca underscore IE on twitter and instagram you can keep up to date with all of the consultation events taking place the consultation has been open for the last month and will continue until the end of February but Greg I know how busy your listeners are this will fall off people's to do lists so if you do have things to say about the primary curriculum please go on today tomorrow whenever you get a chance and fill in a questionnaire there there's also written submission forms and templates if people want to put together a larger written submission it takes about five minutes to fill in our questionnaire so please take the time to do so there all right listen thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it greatly that was Dr Patrick Sullivan deputy chief executive of the national council for curriculum and assessment it's there for you if you wish to get involved hi Greg definitely two hearted in documentaries and rte one last night regarding ward of court and missing children but I don't know if you saw missing children ITV UTV as it was across the whole ITV network on sunday night I was checking the ITV site for info as I couldn't find info on rte I am no help to you there I'm afraid same issues as the last listener difficult walking problems with leg and neck they say and although the school my child goes to huge outbreak of COVID more than half of the children at home so many positive cases in all classes if these schools don't close when cases are so high it definitely increases cases in the community and vulnerable at home but the reality is is possibly if you look at the amount of cases identified in schools they're so low those cases will probably be counted as household cases and not school cases and other callers says is Charlie Mcunlough going to show his support for Michael families and make it clear where his loyalties lie with the people of the government he is a minister of course and it would be pretty much unprecedented open to correction if he were going if it doesn't go my way you know I'm quitting government or quitting the party I'm not sure he has the same latitude as a Joe McHugh might have but last time he was on with us he said he's 100% committed to 100% redress so maybe we can read between the lines caller got the Pfizer vaccine Pfizer vaccine in February has suffered vertigo since has been in hospital and also GP doctors are saying that it could be an unknown side effect from the vaccine suffers from these symptoms still as I say there are quite a bit of information there as it relates to vaccine injuries as they're more generally required that's one haven't come across callers say she spent three hours trying to call a GP's office in letter Kenny eventually to drive down to the surgery in order to make the appointment the lady at reception didn't want to see them in person said they need to make an appointment so how come you can get it into a nightclub but you can't get in to see your own doctor my husband had COVID at Christmas got over it fine got the vaccine a few weeks ago and ended up in hospital with what Mary's explaining could someone please tell me what's going on with doctors a phone seven times yesterday had two phone twice this morning still have to wait on a callback time HSE did something about it GPs are up it's up to themselves have they operate their practices I believe right um hi Greg I can't believe the conditions the staff in the COVID uh I can't believe the conditions the staff in the COVID test centre at St Connells are working in standing on cement in such a drafty place they are working in can't believe that health and safety would allow this and had insult injury drove out of the test centre and straight into a large pot hole feel sorry for the staff thanks Greg love the show I think I know that pot hole you talk of I suppose if you're dealing with people that are you know 15% positive with COVID it's going to be drafty isn't it in terms of the flooring I don't know what the story is there uh morning Greg after six weeks we got confirmation that our homeless mica last week our house insurance was up normally we pay 513 euro every year which seems incredibly high our quote for insurance now 1500 euro for the same cover but after but after sorry but have to submit our 185 page mica report 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selected stores offer in 16th november see boots.ie for details applications are now open for the dunny gall enterprise awards hosted by local enterprise office dunny gall the awards celebrate the diversity and strength of the small business community in dunny gall and the role they play in our local economy a price fund of 12 000 euro will be awarded across seven different categories this is an excellent opportunity to promote and showcase your businesses all finalists will be profiled and attend the award ceremony in december apply before the 15th of november at local enterprise.ie forward slash dunny gall email info at leo.dunnygallcoco.ie for more information or call the local enterprise office on 911 60735 all right matthew thanks for holding good morning to you hello right now you are an e-scooter user now um my understanding is is at this stage uh what we're in the process of changing the laws as it relates to e-scooters and their use but you use yours uh what's your experience on the roads terrible why is that i commute down that there three mornings a week at around nine o'clock and and that's it's really dangerous and scary for me and i think there's going to be a serious bang someday and anyone listening to this who might have been doing that overtaking i think you're mad in the head and do you think you're treated with less respect on the roads compared to cyclists or do you think they encounter the same problems yeah i'm getting a lot of aggressive hand hand gestures and movements and middle fingers and and people rolling down the windows and f me off and the works and the e-scooter laws have actually changed in the country just not yet matthew i just want to make sure we don't put up wrong information there they're they're due to change but they just have not changed as of yet uh just that's my bad yeah but that's that's be that as it may you're out in the road people are abusive towards you saying i mean there's no is there there's no excuse for being abusive to another person is there i don't think so no right okay um do you have lights on your scooter do you wear a helmet right okay i do have all the equipment so there's a bit of work to be done on both parties you're saying going forward particularly when you know we're going to see more when legislation changes we're going to see more scooters on the road uh we are going to have to get used to sharing the space i think matthew actually pulled them along the top of the devil era met cars pass on yeah you know before i actually went down yeah but you're saying it's not been a very pleasurable experience okay listen matthew thank you very much for that it's just a a fellow road user keep an ear and eye out for each other politely i suppose Greg if you don't have COVID and don't have symptoms then you won't spread it i'm not vaccinated for several reasons i have had COVID and have recovery sir but i don't agree within forced segregation and discrimination we saw how certain guidelines and restrictions can be changed to suit important individuals indeed and it is listen you know i mean i i think we we can accept those that are unhappy with uh the way things are are more motivated to contact programs like this i have seen on on one particular website uh it being mentioned that we're talking about this and to to get in contact um so obviously those very opposed to this are more uh maybe more likely um uh to to have their say if you're happy with the way things are to have your say 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 freddy good morning good morning greg hurry here um okay just what about yourself i'm struggling thanks pretty god right well both of us are middling by the sounds of it all right what do you hear this greg before we start come on if you go back on to say that uh you're nobody available that's going on now since five past nine this morning so you are on hold live speaking to me who are you trying to get through to the driving uh the letter they yesterday basically back from the license authority now my license was up last year and i had applied uh to get them now this is the first word i had back from urgent attention required so i tried um fill in all the bits and pieces through the email address which is given and i got most of it maybe about five different codes to put into the thing eventually anyway eventually i said i couldn't get it uh they couldn't get the thing finished what i did then this morning was i got up this morning i tried ringing them couldn't get through and that was nine o'clock i said then try later so you're trying to renew your license yeah this is for the last 12 months okay now there was a bit of a stay on renewal of license was that enough that that's right enough all of that i didn't mind all of that but i'm only trying to get through to letter kenny office and the bottom of that it says it keeps going on now you have to make an appointment to make this appointment you have to ring this number 0818919090 and that's the number you're on since nine o'clock this morning ten past nine to be exact i decided to just keep a record just to see how long would it take me to get through now my mobile's on that number now since 10 minutes past nine uh what i did do then as i went and i found the same number well a different number now uh on the same line i must have got through to deli or somewhere and uh he was apologizing for the waiting all the rest of it now i'm still waiting so what are you looking to do what are you looking to speak to them about like when you chat to them what are you going to say to them freddy very simple all i want is my driver's license that's that's i have to go to let the kennedy get it renewed that's it um all i'm looking for is a date that says that you must make an appointment now the appointment so you're you're on this phone call trying to get an appointment in letter kenny to just go in and renew your license and that's what all this delay is about this is basically all it's about uh are you here knocking here yeah they're flat out that's all i'm listening to and that's uh i'm going to wait until 10 past 11 just to see and then i can give it the two hours um uh now that's my mobile so i'll say that that's the battery i'll be doing in this but if that's how they're conducting themselves now if i'm stuck with the guarantee the guarantee is going to look up their files and they're going to say well this man's without a license now i had to put in the application paid for everything last year and as you say there was a delay in everything this is now they're saying uh because that delay is over and done well i must contact this number or fill in the application via the email try it all of that everything bounce back to me so i said the only other option would be to phone this number phone this number this is what i'm getting in the last two years so if i was stopped now it was taking the court the point is i'd be found guilty illegally speaking i had no driver's license until this actually that's this what they're saying there that no that's what the word but let me hear what she's saying on the phone there right you just you just want to speak to a human freddy nope she's the music's forget freddy that's that no the music will come on right uh that's what i'm listening to have you tried pressing one to see what happens or i tried pressing the whole other and i even tried a different number yeah i wasn't living 36 to speak to an advisor and the advisor i spoke to must have been around undie or somewhere well they could be from any way they've just been living here but i'll take your point freddy no no no this was i actually asked was it all right it was an external call center okay um right so you're going to give it till 10 past 11 then what then i'm going to go to let the kennel i would say the guards are going to arrest me or something no i think all i'm trying to do is find out what the issue is you're not allowed down you want to book an appointment to go in and get a new license that's simple you're not nothing or nothing less have you got all the forms needed i've got everything i've even got the doctor's report wow okay you know i've got everything because i'm at that age now where they where the need is he checked everything on your your grand uh no i've got everything everything you've got the nct now you just need the license you got the nct from the doctor yeah okay and the only thing this other thing only lasts for a month and that'll cost me another 50 euro yeah i got you right um because everything's paid for okay so tell us the number you dialed there um just in case someone has a different number for your freddy what number did you dial there just bear with me i'll say a 0 8 1 8 yeah 9 1 9 yes 0 9 0 i hope it's a free phone number it is is it it isn't i don't think so no i'm worried okay it'll cost me a fortune but i could have you on next week talking about you i was going to say we could have you on next week talking about your phone bill hopefully that's not he's you're worse than me i don't worry about everything freddy i'm worried about you now oh i don't want to worry about me this is just my nature just to provoke the system well you're not doing a great job you just listen to them provoke you no no there's no they're the earlier on now but it doesn't bother me now because i know they're not going to answer it that's that's basically after two hours you know i can't see why because if you go to the office i'm going to say you have to ring us then they're going to say you have to fill in this that actually says urgent attention requires now if you think be after said this that they would really answer the phone to you at least yeah it's just that the public needs you know and i would say there's enough and the very the serious side to this though is is that you you're trying to comply with the law here you've got all your documentation you want to be in compliance with the law so you have your license and i think you know say for instance freddy you to pick someone up from the airport in belfast tomorrow morning you know you don't want to be you don't want to be driving of course without a license but uh right let's see if unan can beat your uh you're currently one hour and 40 minutes on the phone unan good morning to you good morning right he's one hour 40 can you top that actually three hours three hours did you get in touch with the end i was an hour and a half of the mobile and an hour and a half of the house the house one right i'm ringing and ringing and ringing and uh i went down to the half of seven and that are jenny to the lady uh the deals with the driver license and that are jenny you know the applications and so that shouldn't be happening i says i know it shouldn't but it is yeah i says now i've just spent three hours between the house phone and the mobile i says i mean i long be wet like you know to get through to a number as obviously this number is not working it's just uh it's uh recording and it just keeps going on and on and on it's mean there there's no way it could be that busy like you know that it's going to be three hours but anyway uh what i done at the end of course i went down to the driver license lady again and i went in and i told her what she says you know now after two uh three spots here the day is three o'clock and a half board is in there that's tricky i said that'll be fine which is we've come what time should you have to see a clock she's having to do the day block and we sort of took her photograph and form and everything and uh i've got my license on my partner well okay that's the local service for you if you can if you can get at them all right brilliant stuff uh unan fair play to you yeah all right so thank you unan uh if you had that second slot thread you'd have been flying but hopefully now if you if you call down they'll be able to put manually give you an appointment because it's not fair what people are having to go through um uh spending so long it's like you've got this image of an empty office you know at the back of a warehouse and this solitary phone sitting on a desk uh ringing uh you know that's what it must feel like for you you know because is anyone actually answering the phones freddy listen um let us know how you get on i will indeed and thanks very much gregg that other gentleman knows give me at least enough to dig it out and find out about it yeah well you're gonna get down anyway weren't you so i appreciate you taking the call now i've learned you've been off a lot of frustrated people and of course i mean you're pretty relaxed i feel bad leaving you listening to that message on your own i feel like i should stay past 11 no take it from me i expect this whenever something to do with the government yeah but it's just shows you whenever they send you at these letters because everything's paid for last year my driver's license everything it's just an edit this other form and we tried yesterday to send it to them and that can't be sent to them via the email so you have to have it to them in purpose you know as an individual and that them started it from there yeah even if they had a report even if they had a bit of a bit of deckland or any playing or something they might go out just here at the that's what they're just to do that's all you get i wonder could you make up a tune out of it design to i don't think you want to hear any more of it let us know how you get on freddy all right i will indeed and thanks very much great fair play okay thank you no problem freddy so that's freddy trying to get through as he heard from you in there uh when he was speaking to people actually in the office in nature can either we're really helpful towards him but people are ringing this over eight one eight telephone number and not getting through he's on it since 10 past nine it's seven minutes to 11 i renewed my father's license last year online 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culture committee and said that it was an extraordinary disproportionate decision jan crombie is local leader with the let's league in donnie gall and joins us on the program thank you for joining us and good morning to you jan uh are you good morning greg are you in favor of this so or do you understand what is the reason behind these proposals yes i mean i am baffled by the response from the the people you mentioned because all it's talking about is banning the advertising sales will still continue mothers will be able to buy the formula that they have always bought or that they plan to buy so i'm not sure why the gentleman got us banning the advertising of it though jan well most advertising for baby formula is not scientifically based and often it's it's appealing to a a sentiment rather than to the actual scientific value of the formula so there was one well known one a few years ago where the beginning of the adverts black and white line drawing of a mother breastfeeding her baby and then it's when you choose to move on and it's multicolor and there are birds singing and butterflies and you know the thing is oh well if you're breastfeeding it's going to be grim but once you're using formula everything in the garden is literally lovely might i get the feeling though that like you know i feel bad and i figure if it may be formula if it's you know if it's a product that we don't really want to be advertising you know a lot of people might be having that emotion here well what did we do something terribly wrong no i don't think anybody needs to feed bad people make their own decisions there are a small percentage of mothers who can't breastfeed physically can't breastfeed there's another small percentage who may have to take medication which may mean they can't breastfeed and there's a percentage of mothers who choose to breastfeed and that is their choice and they should be absolutely supported in that choice but there's a difference between supporting women in their choice to breastfeed and encouraging them by information which is not correct or which comes from studies which are done inside your own lab so if i say jan crummy's formula is the best because it shows this this this that but jan crummy has done all the research then that's not exactly unbiased right so would it not be then given the fact that it is widely used at jan would it not be better that we have more scrutiny of it more scrutiny of its testing you know independent studies and evaluations uh because yes you know i would be more comfortable with that than just simply not seeing adverts because i'm still going to see the wonderful packaging on the aisles well the packaging would be plain packaging probably with just the name on it i mean there are other countries who have done this it's confusing because that's how we treat cigarettes you don't expect me to say that formulas like tobacco no i know i know of course i don't know for a second i'm on about my genuine normal human emotion i'm not trying to ask a probing journalistic question but plain packaging the last time we talked about that was about cigarettes and we know how harmful and deadly we are this is all brand new to me i'm trying to process this as we talk that it seems a huge leap to go to banning advertising of something which is so widely used and and selling it in plain packaging do you get me currently it is not permitted to advertise formula under the age of six months it's sold in its normal packaging but it's not advertised so the formula companies then brought out follow-on milks which they can advertise so it's getting around and the formula milk cartons are very similar so stage one might be the what they call the first six months the next stage stage two looks very very similar to stage one and of course it's permitted to advertise the next stage and the follow-on milks and so on and so on and they want brand loyalty but they not only want brand loyalty they want other mothers who are currently breastfeeding to move to formula so it's undermining breastfeeding what there needs to be is parity of esteem so maybe what we should be doing is advertising breastfeeding more but hey there's no money to be made out of advertising breastfeeding that okay it's interesting there's money to be saved Greg because babies who are breastfed tend to have less of the common problems like diarrhea and some of the chest infections ear infections and so on it's not a magic bullet it doesn't prevent them entirely but there are less risks but there's no money to be made from it whereas there is a great deal of money to be made out of persuading mothers to buy formula brand A versus formula brand B versus formula band C and finally just before the news which will be a little bit late my apologies it's not then beyond the realms of possibility that we have baby milk formula companies lobbying our TDs on these proposals then because you know they don't want the golden goose to be shot of course they are and I mean I read what one of the I think it was the senator said about or maybe it was the TD about attacking the dairy industry formula will still be made this will make no difference to the dairy industry absolutely no difference the milk will be made into milk powder it will be sold in Ireland or it will be sold to China which I noticed was one of the countries he mentioned and that's not going to change whether we ban advertising or reduce advertising or have stricter control so much Jackie Cahill TD said on what grounds in the name of Jerusalem was this decision made it's proven beyond any doubt that milk formula is an entirely appropriate part of a balanced diet there's huge international demand that was his scientific review of these proposals I'm not sure of Jackie Cahill's scientific background and in fairness I do not have a scientific background my background is as a breastfeeding supporter and my role is to support mothers who choose to breastfeed and indeed to help them when they decide to move on to formula to talk them through how to drop breastfeeds and you know introduce formula feeds I don't have a role in persuading mothers who want to formula feed that they must breastfeed I do not do that all right thanks for your time John thank you thank you very much indeed okay that was John Cromby their local leader with the lecture league has to say sorry if I'm ignorant and I shouldn't know all of these things but that came out of the blue to me and a steep learning curve thanks to John for that it's a three minutes past 11 it's time for a news update and it is good morning to Michaela Clark good morning Michaela thanks Greg good morning Dunningold deputy Joe McHugh has said he will have to reconsider his position within Finnegeale if a micro redress scheme that is not fair and accessible to all homeowners doesn't get over the line details on an enhanced redress scheme following months of discussions were due yesterday but it's been delayed and I expected to be revealed within the coming weeks deputy McHugh has said while it would be a difficult decision to make he cannot back a scheme that is half-baked a teenage boy has been left terrified to leave his home after being badly beaten during an unprovoked attack in Sturban last weekend 14-year-old Thomas left his friends home at around half past 12 in the early hours of Saturday morning to make the short walk to his home in the Bali Komen area when he was set upon by a man who police are describing as being in his late 20s with the beard and about five foot four inches in height he is believed to have been wearing a dark hoodie at the time of the attack on the 9-ton in show earlier today Thomas's aunt Jerylene McElroy appealed to anyone with information to contact a police there are 551 COVID patients in hospitals today the highest figure since the end of February 73 people with the virus have been admitted since yesterday with 38 discharges last night at 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conversation for you now I'm joined on the program by Mary Toland who is a carer of husband Dermot who has dementia good morning to you Mary thank you very much for joining us today good morning Greg and how are you keeping and how's Dermot we're both we're keeping well we're sort of getting getting there as they say we're both very early on this journey because Dermot's diagnosis was just a year ago so can you tell us about maybe the the early indications Mary that you and Dermot began to spot yeah I well for Dermot the early indications were language glitches in his language you would forget words or in conversation he would sort of lose the tread now it's um it was very easily confused with the symptoms of depression so we were on that route of you know depression anxiety but Dermot felt there was more to it than that and he would have been much more aware of what was happening than I was at the time he would have been more noticing and would have been doing a bit of research getting that diagnosis was a bit of a journey we actually had to do a lot of research because this all coincided with COVID so you know we were I was looking we didn't know what it was he wasn't presenting as having typical Alzheimer's he has frontal temporal Alzheimer's which has slightly it presents differently so it was confusing for you know GPs and that to sort of call what it was and then they can't diagnose and in doing a lot of research on the internet I discovered that a lot of stuff was coming up was like the whole Doney Gaul area was coming up as a blank for help or for services in your area and I was just reaching out everywhere and we went to Dublin to the memory clinic in James's but did you feel at that point before we start that that you had no alternative as you you say you know when you paint a vivid image there of what seemed at the time this this vacuum of services this where do you go who do you speak to you know it must have felt very lonely it did yeah well we were referred to letter Kenny and Dermot had an MRI scan but apparently this particular type of Alzheimer's doesn't get picked up he obviously hadn't got vascular dementia and just at that time Mary were you told that that scan was inconclusive or were you told it wasn't dementia because obviously it wasn't dementia and to look at depression and anxiety because a lot of the symptoms were similar and of course there was depression of course there was anxiety but both of us knew there was something underlying that right okay that's that's a right gunk though to sort of been told that it's not something you fear but eventually down the road you're going to find out that it was right take us then to Dublin what was this all stuff that you had to pursue yourself by the way to say right we believe there's something going on here we're going to have to go to Dublin to pursue it further yeah yeah I did a lot of research online and again there's a lot of stuff that you come across there's a whole choir of stuff that you think oh there's this there's that there's that and then when you read to the bottom you discover that the services aren't really there to support diagnosing and follow-up and James's seemed to be the only memory clinic with a full suite of services that go with it so we went privately to James's and was diagnosed very quickly it was all very quickly spotted he had a PET scan there and that's what you know clarified it and again the diagnosis came via blue eye on screen you know but in one way it was devastating and in another way Dermot actually said it was relief to know because without a diagnosis and with vague sometimes nobody can do anything and you can't look for help and say I think he has dementia you know you can't unless you have an actual diagnosis and anyone who's worried I would say that would be your first port of calls to try and get an actual diagnosis because then you can start working from there right so how quickly is this progressing with Dermot it's progressing noticeably you know it stops and starts and the language that's he was going to join me in this but I think the he would be embarrassed because he might start to say something and then stop midway I understand that but it wouldn't need to be but I understand that but it's a very it's a very basic the communication skill we take so much for granted these things we do every day and so that was now we did get fantastic advice from the consultant in James's and again it's basically his job was done in the diagnosing but to contact the Alzheimer's Society and they have been lifeline they just have kept us afloat they immediately sent us out of pack with all sorts of information of how to deal with it how to you know what to pursue practical tips and that helped us and everything was in bite-sized pieces that we could take on board as we went through it so it was presented very well found that very very helpful and then they did offer a course a carers course and I did a six-week carer course because because of course we're talking about Dermot Mary but you're with that diagnosis in advance but with that blue screen diagnosis you refer to your life changed at that moment you you also know that things are different for you now going forward yes it has put both of us on a different track and that takes a bit of processing doesn't it it does it does take a lot of processing there's a lot of things I've had to put to one side because like basically I'm I'd say I'm a full-time carer and a lot of things that I would have planned in my life or things I thought I would be doing I've just have to have to shelf and in terms of helping Dermot to process this and helping you as well our supports there for that you know does that form part of the support from the Alzheimer's Society is that something that we need to work on because you know if you grew up with this say you grew up with it you know it would be you could learn to live with it and it'd be your normal and all this sort of stuff but you know Dermot's lived 70 years and then this has changed you know you're a mature as well this is like a a change in direction almost immediately is there help for you and for him you know to support you through that mentally I wonder most of the help has been online help because of COVID that has been a massive complication but there had been a lack of anything on the ground in Donegal and like I would have been in despair looking at some of the HSE sites and sort of looking for services in my area and things would come up with no results and it was like we're this blank but on the map and that's part of the reason that I'd agreed to do this interview too is to just bring it out there and say there are people in need and we need services and to have to go to Dublin for a diagnosis is a bit you know it's a bit much when you're already in a kind of crisis situation just that journey the parking the get into it the where do we go the unfamiliarity the stranger I know it on the widest scale of things it might seem much but it's a it's a journey you would dread you would be you know you'd be scarred by it almost you know it's an added stress when you're already stressed you talked of of Dermot's difficulties with his speech but he has another language and that's the language of music and that's a great benefit that has been the sort of the social outlet and the support like his brother and his sister are both very involved in music and Dermot always played with his brother and that ability to accompany his brother playing is just it's still there so during COVID we managed to keep a bubble with Dermot's brother and his wife and we live in West Donegal and we could travel over to East Donegal and we both sort of kept that bubble for each other and kept the music going and that was that's fantastic in terms of deciding you know what Dermot can and can't do like Dermot can still drive and and you say you still space the music and then you talk about his speech in turn like are you helped in terms of how to test for all of that what's the right thing to do what's not the right thing to do do you get where I'm coming from like it it sounds like it's a minefield there it was a minefield we did get advice too like from the consultant in Dublin as well the first thing was basically get your affairs in order and that's a bit of a shock as well but it was actually excellent advice because you do have to deal with these things you know probably you'd prefer to be ready for it but you do have to deal with it and we managed to deal with that the driving was a bit more complicated because even negotiating that where do you where do you look we weren't getting a lot of feedback because you were phoning the licensing and DSL yeah yeah and you were in all these various sort of avenues and there you know they were just phone lines and due to COVID and you know you weren't you were on these loops and eventually we discovered that the Wilshire Society in letter Kenny they have a a driver who will do disability driving test and he'd have dermit out on the road for 45 minutes around letter Kenny and he's actually a safe driver that just seems to have stayed yeah now that is something that'll be reviewed yearly understand what just the relief of knowing because you don't want to be taking things away from people everything you lose is just something else that's gone Mary do you feel a lot of pressure to be happy and healthy you know like do you find yourself worrying you know you're worried about derma but you must be worried about yourself that you can be the thankfully happy and healthy that you are now that you can be that person does it worry you or scare you or do you allow yourself to think I think that's how I might feel like what happens to me you know what happens to derma if something happens to me does that worry you or well that would be a concern because I realize I'm the linchpin here holding everything together and I've just recently been diagnosed with arrhythmia which I've never had and it's purely stress related so I'm now on medication for that which I'm a healthy person and it's just purely I'm like collateral damage and you know but I'm aware and I would go my gps very good you know and I would sort of discuss things and I would be I would be careful of minding my own health for both but the stress and the pressure it's taken it's tall yeah okay well we wish you all the best obviously with that so in terms of obviously full of praise for the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland and what they do just talk to me again because you say it was the motivation for you taking part in this talk to me about the gaps where are the gaps and everyone's probably going to have a different experience but from your experience where where are the gaps that we need to plug Mary I suppose local care centers I mean everything does end up with like our public health nurses end up with everything you know they're basically fix everything people and you know they're overloaded there really should be maybe courses that nurses can do that will maybe specialize in dementia care and dementia treatment and maybe give them an increment or a sort of an incentive to be involved in that but I suppose too COVID is complicated too there were social clubs where you could go and chat to people and now but that has gone online again and again we take part in this Alzheimer's social club which was set up by Patricia McMonigal and again it's it's it's a link you're meeting other people in similar circumstances some of them will sing some of them will play an instrument some of them tell a joke they're good fun and everybody's comfortable because they're in company with people in a similar situation and that makes such a difference and there's that true understanding because people around you with the best will in the world and I'm sure they're amazing if they're not living it they just perhaps maybe can't empathize yeah on the same level of as someone who's got that actual live shared experience yeah with the best will in the world yeah you have that instant empathy when you're talking to someone else in the same situation I just worry sometimes with things like this when we have people like you Mary and now a full-time carer when people like you do such a dedicated and brilliant job you know does that mean that we don't focus on supporting you and training and rewarding people to maybe give you a break or to support you you know what I mean do we say to ourselves well we can spend that money or arguably maybe waste that money elsewhere because strong Mary Toland there in the west of Donegal's doing all the heavy lifting for us you know well there would be an element of that but like nobody wants to be on this journey unless they have to you know and we have been in the lucky position of having very strong family support and extended family support so that's what we've been relying on and I know the health services should they're swamped with everything you know there's so much going on and everything's just the funding's not there to spread you know I'm like having a dementia advisor now in Donegal as a major thing that's a major step forward so I think a couple of things that's important here Mary and you correct me as I go along is persist you know trust yourself trust your partner if you believe that it's not what you're being told it is proceed because that's what you did and that's what you found out engage with the the agencies that the groups that are there because clearly that can be very very helpful and engage with the likes of the social clubs and stuff because for some people that's a bit of a lump you know they might say now this is a problem we'll keep inside our own four walls I wonder if that's how my mom and dad would have dealt with it you know if they would have says no this is a secret it's private you know lock it in do you know what I'm on about and what would the outcome have been there whereas you know engage with other people like mind or like people in similar situations and stuff and anything else you want to add Mary yeah that generational thing too like the previous generation I suppose our parents generation and that the association with any kind of perceived mental illness was seen as a kind of a it was a stigma it was something you weren't going to be public about this put it on the carpet yeah even things like epilepsy was seen as something like you just don't talk about it you know and things now that are out in the open but I think there's much more awareness now of dementia and there are many more younger people being diagnosed and people are becoming more aware of the fact that there are different types of dementia and they present differently so there's no one thing fits fits all there's like Dermott's presentation was not obviously Alzheimer's and yet was this particular form of Alzheimer's well the very best wishes to Dermott and yourself Mary he's obviously in very loving and caring and capable hands I really appreciate it's been lovely speaking to you thank you you give off some sort of an air I don't know what it is but you you seem and I'm sure you are a lovely person and I appreciate your time today thank you Greg all right take care of yourself okay thank you goodbye that is Mary Toland there now we're going to be speaking to Dawn Thompson Alzheimer's Society of Island dementia advisor it's a new role it's a new service and hopefully it's going to change things significantly we'll hear from Dawn after this break get your tires winter ready drop into ulcer tires and letter Kenny and body buffet today it's November madness at Crawford tiles and more Castlefin for one week only there's 20 off all tiles in stock 10% off all bathware and 5% off carpentine vinyls footers and delivery service available that's Crawford's mod giveaway sale for one week only ends 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At Letter Kenny shopping center we're already dreaming about the festive season so why not make a start park for free and enjoy your Christmas shopping this year Letter Kenny shopping center bringing you the time at it is 11 29 okay next on the program we are joined by Dawn Thompson Alzheimer's Society of Ireland dementia advisor for Donegal Dawn good morning to you and thank you for joining me good morning Greg right now tell us about this new service okay Greg well this is a brand new service for County Donegal it is a free and confidential service for people who live with dementia and their families and what we do we provide information support advice signposting to other services both maybe dementia specific and others in the community people of any age with a diagnosis of dementia can link in with us and we will interact with anybody regardless of the type of dementia they have and another important point Greg would be to add that even if a person doesn't have a diagnosis and they have concerns you know about their memory maybe not sure what's going on we also welcome referrals from from people who don't have a formal diagnosis and is this to I suppose you know there is a lot of services out there a lot of people out there it's about connecting them is it too absolutely Greg yeah and I think you know as you say and rightly so there's a lot of great work going on out there but sometimes for the person with the diagnosis or their their primary caregiver be it a family member or friend or whoever it can be difficult to join up the doc and I suppose linking into the dementia advisor service is you know it's a good way of of sort of tying everything together and and sort of getting that coordinated approach yeah and I think it reaches people too that not feel embarrassed about engaging with services but say is that for me is it what we need how will that benefit me well here's the information to say yes it is for you and this is how we can help and benefit you this is the the directions we can point you in this is the support we can offer absolutely and you know it can take the form you know not everybody is comfortable maybe approaching services you know so it is as formal or as informal as people want it to be you know people can be referred into the service via a healthcare professional like their GP public health nurse members of the mental health service for older people but likewise we welcome referrals as well from you know from direct family members or people with dementia themselves and they can just that's a simple phone call they can email me maybe if they prefer that you know rather than just it can be difficult just to take that first step or they can text me and I can always get back to them but we really do want to stress we are here for people you know don't be alone in your diagnosis don't be alone in your caring role and you know we will talk to you and we will work out a plan going forward and some people may just have one question they need answered other people may not be sure how to progress yes and and just want that advice you know as to what is available to them and yeah so so really whatever the issue you know we will talk to anyone and don't try and filter it out yourself as an individual engage and find out what's there what help can be it's a completely judge-free zone and you and and your team are there to help that's your your primary role yeah that's the message we really want to get out there that we are here to help and you know we want to reduce the stigma that's very easy to say you know but you know we want people to be comfortable coming to us and in relation to that stigma dawn people may be people may be aware or have realized that there's a push on here to discuss dementia to understand it right and it's important we do so don't we and because and understand who it affects because we might have this thing in our head what dementia is and maybe even an age demographic that it might affect we need to open our minds and have a better understanding of it don't we it we do we really need to stand back from it you know and and look at it as it actually exists at the moment i mean you mentioned there about an age demographic you know for example many people may not be aware that we have around 4 000 people in Ireland under the age of 65 living with a diagnosis of dementia you know so that's just just a fact that maybe not everybody is aware of and yeah so so we really need to look at you know the lived experience for people um you know not just from an academic or from a from a medical perspective but you know people's actual experiences you know and evidence does show that the earlier people interact with services you know the earlier into their their journey with dementia the better the outcomes now that can be difficult but you know for whatever reason maybe people don't come forward for testing they might be a little bit apprehensive or even engaging with services is finally accepting something that they already know it can be for any reason and you talk about the importance of sort of engaging early but it's never too late is it it's never too late and i really would like to stress that as well Greg you know we will speak to people at any stage you know of their journey with dementia and that's very important as well even for family carers so much falls on to family carers as we know whatever the condition but even if a loved one has progressed into long-term care for example and hopefully their needs are being met you know in a different way we're still here for the family carers you know and that i can't sort of overemphasize the the impact of having emotional support at the end of the phone as well and while we're not a personal advocacy or counseling service you know we do recognize maybe when there's a need for those services and we can sign books then accordingly yeah i might talk about the services a little bit more but in a way that first phone call is a is a form of counseling for a lot of people but we'll talk about some of the services that are out there in a moment but also there's plenty of information there as well about actually before i get to that because you mentioned an important point here you mentioned something that put something in my mind when someone gets a diagnosis it is not just often an individual is it it is the people around them it is the the whole family or a partner yeah that's right and you know we often hear you know people quote things like for every person with a diagnosis you know with a diagnosis of dementia there might be at least three other people affected in some way shape or form you know and i suppose that's what the dementia advisor service is all about you know providing support to the person with a dementia but also to to the family care or whoever the primary caregiver might be okay so give us some examples then of what services are out there presumably it can be you know very very medical or counseling or us it could be some simple supports in terms of how someone can have as full a life as is possible that's right well we have you know we can give people we have a wealth of information which is updated regularly and reviewed on a regular basis you know in in the form of fact sheets and publications which we can have sent out to people from our national office we also would signpost people you know maybe to the the mental health service for older people or psychiatry for old age teams if they haven't already been seen some people may just need signposting to their local public health nurse for whatever reason they may not have engaged you know so it can take the form of anything also important at the stage to stress as well Greg that there are so many community supports out there now at the moment you know family resource centers the social prescribing team for example the cast are great yeah they're a great initiative too these are all extra supports you know who welcome everyone and it's you know that particularly maybe for family caregivers you know so there's there's a lot of different supports and then the dementia specific supports and you know it could take the form of home care or or day services which are remain closed at the moment but at local level here and I know the team worked very hard to put in what they called daycare at home and that would have been for people who here to four would have attended a day service and due to COVID maybe that service closed down so they just turned that around and the carers then would have visited people in their own homes and you know provided stimulating activities and and companionship and that so that's kind of at local level we also would have had our Alzheimer's cafes and social clubs which unfortunately remain closed now they will open on a face-to-face basis again we're just not sure yet when that will happen those services have actually gone online and so we have our online cafe happening once a month on the last Monday of the month and we have our online social club here in Donegal happening every second Tuesday and people can either contact me or the office in Dotshall town if they want to link in with any of those online services it's not for everyone Greg but you know people maybe should give it a go and see you know they might benefit or they might pick up something from it and I think that's Dawn a lot of what we're talking about here it's someone doesn't have to contact you and go into everything a hundred percent it can be whatever they're comfortable with yes and Dawn just more broadly do you think we have to as a society especially with a with an aging population though we talked about Alzheimer's affecting people of a younger age as well do we have to change our language our understanding how we converse about this do you think is there a bit of work to be done there maybe that's what we're doing right now I think that yeah there is a bit of work and you know it is great probably for the first time ever you know dementia is really coming under the spotlight and very much so at local level as well there's a great appetite there for people to work together you know we have for example the integrated care program happening here in Donegal and that is made up of health care professionals being led by Sharon Richardson and you know we're looking at establishing services in an integrated manner you know supporting people to live well at home signposting people to the right service at the right time so now there's that's a work in development and maybe we'll come back at a later date when you know more development has taken place and speak about that but I think it's very heartening that you know there is that appetite there to shine the light on dementia at local level here in Donegal you know in roads are being made in roads are definitely being made is there work to be done of course there is you know things are not perfect but you know there is that sort of integrated approach now which is really very important and and the support you use offer as well and you may have touched on this but I think it's important to emphasize you know it's not just clinical it's emotional there's an understanding by those working within the services that this is you know there's practical elements to it though but there's also sometimes the untangible or isn't there the how people feel how they are coping yes yes exactly and you know like that as I say when somebody links in with my service for example you know they may just want very practical information in the first instance but it's great to be able to reassure people that they can link in with me at any time it's an ongoing service we don't discharge so you know people can link in just as much or as little as they want and then I have an understanding that I also would do follow-up calls you know with clients you know on a regular basis as well if that is what they want and just maybe as well Greg to highlight here we also have the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland's helpline and that's another free and confidential service which people can contact and it's 1-800-341-341 and that helpline operates from 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and from 10 to 4 on a Saturday now just in terms of access in local services you know what is the best way for people to have listened to this they think yes I think there's that you know there's something in that for me how do they engage you talked about referral but just in the last couple of moments talked to me about hey people sort of got I liked what Dawn has to say I want some of that but what do I do next yeah well people can actually contact me directly Greg and as much as I get a lot of referrals from our counterparts in the HSE I also do get a lot of direct family and self-referrals so I don't know if you want me to give my number at this date yes and we'll retain it here and we can pass it on yeah so it is 087-380-2957 and if I don't pick up immediately if people just leave a message and I'll get back to them as soon as I can likewise they can just send me a text and I'll contact them you know or people can email me and it's dawn okay Dawn listen a lot of information in there and hopefully it's it's it's reaching the right people we'll speak again of course Dawn in the future but for now thank you very much for joining us on the program thank you Greg okay that's Dawn Thompson there I'll sign my Society of Ireland dementia advisor for Donegal now we've been having this conversation as part of a project dementia understand together and there are many things we can do as individuals and communities to support people and families who are living with dementia including see the person not the dementia talk about it ask how you can help stay in touch support the person to keep up hobbies and interests make sure your service or space is easy to use and here's vanilla with some more from the HSE we all understand the importance of social interaction being with each other connecting and sharing experiences now more than ever but did you know social interaction plays a key role in helping people who are living with dementia it's healthy like exercise for the brain and it supports well-being which has positive benefits for the person staying socially engaged with friends and family has also been shown to boost self-esteem a dementia inclusive community enables people who are living with dementia to do just that to live whether that's staying connected to or joining a club taking up a hobby or visiting their local shop being with each other to talk and share experiences nurtures the soul and gives a sense of belonging you can be that connection for more information and support free phone 1-800-341-341 or visit understandtogether.ie from the HSE in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland and Age Friendly Ireland get your tires ready for winter calling to Ulster Tires 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are joined by its presenter Kieran old Donald Hyke Kieran good morning Greg a little later than usual but the other subject run over a little bit right let's start with some news learning launch session yes the next launch learning session being organized by the Donegal business network on wednesday november the 17th will be delivered by business coach and founder of smacked public omelia public has helped hundreds of businesses owners survive and thrive at least through at least the last two economic recessions and during the 45 minute event business owners will learn where the game of business has changed and the four areas where they can begin to up their game with immediate impact at almost no financial cost so the event as usual will be delivered online via zoom and registration is through event bread another multimillion-euro takeover of a Donegal based company Kieran yes Kelly Gordon based nomadic dairy is to be acquired by the specialist food investment group by a vest and partnership with the development capital and a deal worth up to 29 million euro so Greg six million euro of the total will be paid as a deferred consideration contingent on financial performance next year so part of the Donegal investment group nomadic dairy is a premium branded yogurt manufacturer which employs 80 people it was founded 1988 it supplies multiple products across the UK and Ireland and the UK is now accounting for 80 percent of the company's revenue it's a big big amount of money there right now not the news we want to hear really i suppose now has in crisis a falling new has completions not the news but probably no surprise Greg there's been a 14 reduction in the number of new dwelling completions in Donegal in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year so between July and September 111 dwellings were completed in Donegal that's 19 fewer than the third quarter in 2020 so overall a total of 317 new homes have been completed in Donegal so far this year and that's compared to 349 during the same period last year all right so oh i see never out of the news now between good positive news huge developments and open days what's the latest there's always something happening there Greg for sure the open day at Lyric and AT will take place both on campus and online on thursday november 18th between 9 30 a.m and 2 30 p.m so the message from the college is whether you're a leave and share student a graduate or considering a return to education there's plenty of choice at lyat yep go along and say you might be surprised right now are you willing to work after retirement this was especially for you over half of the time already working past retirement over half of the people over half of people want to keep working and some capacity when they reach retirement age which is what 66 well it's 67 soon 68 70 whatever it's going to be that's according to a new report from standard life so 10% said they would like to continue working full-time while 42% said they would prefer part-time work so as part of the research those approaching retirement age were asked what their top reasons for wanting to continue work so 60% feared they would get bored at the start working 55% said they enjoy the mental challenge of work while 53% said they enjoy the social interaction and it's across different sectors people have different views the thing is is that we need to come up with a system that maximizes people's ability to do with what they want their life but also to accommodate those that want to continue working yeah and it's just the little things that brings up the focus you know there's so much talk about the age as you mentioned earlier you've been increased from 65 to 60 to 67 or 68 but you know if there's a wall in us there among a lot of the population to work on maybe maybe as big a deal as people are making out for sure but then in different industries yeah maybe outdoor work building you know you might be glad of the rest at 65 right what's coming up on this week's podcast here in Greg on this week's podcast I'm joined by Barry Harper Barry is the founder and CEO of the Lily Kenney based software company Envolve Group so having lived in the UK, Germany and Australia Barry set up Envolve in 2005 and his company also has offices in the UK the US and India so the local firm is in the process of doubling its workforce from 20 to 40 with its latest recruits taking up their positions last week I asked Barry about his decision to set up his company at the co-lab in Lily Kenney I'm from Castle Derrick so a good proud throne man especially in thrones playing Donegal but like sort of when we looked at the locations that were around it looked at Oma and Sturban and hey up around like sort of there wasn't much obviously in Castle Derrick from a business perspective to support what I wanted to do for a software business so I met Patsy here in the in the co-lab and I was immediately impressed with the with the set up here and like sort of the facilities and everything was here that just made it nice and easy and nice and handy but the link with the college it just it had something do you know it was like sort of it was there was a obviously the branding of the company is important like when we're talking to the likes of Coca Cola or Moai Park or Iceland or Cadbury to know it's like sort of to have a location which is part of a college which is now soon to be a university obviously so it helps our brand when we're talking to these to these potential customers about where our head office actually is you know so hey the facilities and everything here is fantastic and I think obviously recruiting people then Lily Kenney has got a has got a larger cohort of local people but what we found actually through the initial phases of our recruitment like some of our people are distributed and in remote locations because you're looking for experience people to join the team and if we can't find them locally then then sort of we have to go further field and obviously with the pandemic people are getting used to the concept of working from home and that works really well and it opened up the talent pool for us that we could potentially hire people that don't necessarily need to live within 30 40 mile of letter Kenny here to get to work all right you can hear much more of Barry Harper there another interesting company and an uninteresting person behind it and their story keeps delivering your podcast in that regard Kieran the full interview is available now on our website highlandradio.com on Spotify and iTunes and Business Matters broadcast Sunday evening after the six o'clock news you didn't mind the delay last Sunday Kieran too much certainly not all right anyone looking to get in touch with the show how did they do it yeah drop me an email please Greg Business Matters at highlandradio.com all right Kieran thank you very much indeed we'll be back with a look at the weather forecast after this 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