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Hello, a very good morning to you, five minutes past nine on this Tuesday the 16th of November and you are tuned to another edition, another edition of The Nine Till Noon Show here in Highland Radio. Right, the lines are open for you right now, if you're on a WhatsApp or text us, you know it, 086 6025,000, 086 6025,000 or if you prefer to give us a call 0749125,000 your emails to comments at highlandradio.com, comments at highlandradio.com or good morning to you if you're joining us across our social media, feel free to leave your comments there, have the conversation there as well. Right, let's look at the newspapers this morning apparently there's an alarm going off in the background so you're just going to have to excuse that noise for the time being. We'll start with the Donegal People's Press, Ireland's first alcohol hangover research seminar will take place in Etter Kenney Institute of Technology later this week, the event on Friday will bring together a panel of international experts to explore their behavioural physiological and psychological effects arising from an alcohol-related hangover. Among the speakers will be Dr Joris Vester who is the founder of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group. His work is regularly covered by international media and he is a scientific advisor for many industry and government organisations. Sounds like an interesting one. Now on to the Dairy Journal, a dairy doctor says the community COVID infection rates must be urgently brought under control and have been to take the pressure off and already on the edge healthcare system across Northern Ireland. Dr Tom Black who we hope to speak to later is chairperson of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland and he spoke after a number of hospitals spoke of extreme pressure on their wards. In one case ambulances were diverted away from Craig Avenue area hospital on Sunday evening except in cases of immediate life-threatening situations. Tom Black says the situation is very concerning and again apologies, you can probably hear a fire alarm running in the background there, we're getting on top of that. Finally the Irish, not finally, but next the Irish Independent. COVID-19 patients could take up more than half of the country's scarce intensive care beds in just a fortnight which could have serious implications for others in medical need. The HSE's winter plan is forecasting a big rise in COVID-19 patients who may need critical care at the end of this month occupying up to 164 of the 301 permanent ICU beds. It comes as the HSE's under pressure to ramp up the vaccine booster programme to limit the spread of the fourth wave of the virus. There's some criticism of the HSE that it's quite slow in that process. Well at last night's cabinet committee on COVID-19 meeting Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney offered HSE boss Paul Reed the help of the Defence Forces to speed up the administration of the booster jabs. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said he expects the use of boosters to be extended significantly and is waiting new advice for the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, NIAC. It's expected to recommend boosters for all adults aged over 50. The government are going to want to be seen to be doing something today. There is a cabinet meeting. I think we heard Stephen Donnelly's comments there in the news. In fact let's have a listen back to what he said going into that meeting in the last half hour. The modelling is very stark and it would show that if we did nothing, if we were to continue as is we could be looking at somewhere between 200 and maybe up to 500 people in ICU. Obviously that's not something we can count on. We'd be looking at over a thousand to over 2,000 in hospital and a very high number of cases. So what are they going to do? They have to be seen to be doing something as I said. There's talk of vaccine passports being used in the likes of hairdressers or in the likes of gyms. But I mean are you a gym goer? Are you a hairdresser? I don't know if the statistics back up that this is where the cases are spreading. People might talk to major sporting events or what's happening in nightclubs and say well look if you want to look at where the problems are maybe that's it you've got lots of strangers mixing together in a confined space. That's going to be a tough nut to crack because of course they don't want to go back in any significant reopenings but as I say you could go out the hairdressers, you could go at the gyms, extend the booster vaccine program, you could be seen to be doing something but will it have any effect? So really what they say to me off air is close the schools that's what's go that's where things are happening they're concerned about nightclubs and pubs but anyway we shall wait and see what they come up with but they don't want a historic egg on their faces if the worst case scenario as is being outlined by some comes to pass the government will not because they're very conscious of their reputation as well would not want to be seen to have been sitting on their hands. Irish Motor, did your insurance come down? We're being told that insurance has come down 15% over the last two years on average when people contact us and you could argue that people don't contact necessarily radio stations with good news but we want good news bring us the good news and the good news stories but we're being told that insurance has gone down about 15% over the last two years I think eight this year, seven percent last year. Are you seeing that? Is that reflected in your policies? Well Irish Motor insurers last year enjoyed their highest level of profitability since at least 209 as the level of road accidents or road traffic collisions and claims declined during COVID-19 restrictions according to a central bank of Ireland report the 163 million of operating profits generated by the industry amounted to 12% of total income in 2020 even as the average earned premiums declined by seven percent last year according to the third annual private motor insurance report these profits swelter 307 million when 144 million of profits ceded to reinsurers mostly related companies owned by the overseas partners are included the highest the higher figure means the industry generated a profit equating to 22% of total income which is a decent return isn't it as I say did your premiums go down I'm not so sure so sure they did right what's going up though is the cost of groceries grocery prices have reached their highest level since March of this year and the cost of everyday goods is expected to continue to increase the Irish Daily Mail tells us new figures from data company Cantar showed grocery inflation stands at 0.9% for the 12-week period ending October 31 despite the rise Irish shoppers spent 86.1 million less on groceries on October compared with the equivalent period last year so we were eating less or we're eating out more last month saw the further lifting of covert restrictions including a return to office-based working the ongoing growth of online grocery shopping which accelerated when shoppers were locked down at home shows no sign of slowing down as sales grew by 2.2% last month and there you can see an example perhaps of the knock on effect of if the government say today which they will that people where possible should work from home people not working from home they spent 86.1 million euro less on groceries so that's going into your calves that's going into your your delis and all that type of stuff not all of it but it gives a really good indication of the economic consequence for Irish business if people are advised to work from home but me home Martin so far has said that he's not thinking of introducing a lockdown on people who are unvaccinated or non-vaccinated a measure the Austrian government has introduced this week this is in the sun now we're going to be speaking to someone in Austria to see what the reaction is over there because you can imagine people would be an opera you know people talk here of you know discrimination and two-tier society will in Austria and it's probably going to be seen elsewhere as well it's very much the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated as it relates to COVID speaking yesterday the t-shock yesterday the t-shock said I will look with interest on how Austria implement that I don't anticipate us going down that route we have 93 or 94 vaccinated they are in a different situation I think they're at 64 or 65 vaccinated now remember people on this contact this program and said the rules about vaccine search an absolute disgrace I went up to Belfast and there's no masks you can do what you like and it's fantastic and and the Republic of Ireland is it's draconian tyrannical laws and I said that's fine yes I that's that might be what you feel but it's coming it's coming to northern Ireland and it'll be coming to to Britain as well and it seems that's what's actually happening because Stormant Health Minister Robin Swan has called for the phased introduction of mandatory vaccine passports in northern Ireland Mr Swan said he would be seeking support for the proposal tomorrow adding I think now is the time for the phased introduction of COVID certification in northern Ireland I think that's the conversation that we'll be having at the executive in regards to the timing of the introduction of those regulations but also the phasing in of what settings we would now consider as well our view as the Department of Health is that we should be using all the tools that are in our options to use so that is a fater complete you can be sure it will be in restaurants nightclubs you know cinemas that type of thing you would think wouldn't you that Westlife are loaded raking in the cash you know I'd have heard Nikki on Nikki Byrne on radio and go we must love radio because he must have made so much money from Westlife that he'd never needs to work again but probably not the case according to the Irish Daily Mirror because Westlife secured global fame in the 1990s but despite a lucrative four million euro record contract the band claimed they failed to cash in on their success Mark Feeley, Nikki Byrne, Shane Filan and Keenegan said they netted 20,000 pounds each that's 23,600 euro each from five album releases after costs were deducted from producing them. Nikki told Smooth Radio we had to pay management commission then drive the rest by five divide the rest by five and then you've got taxes so you're coming out with at least 200,000 euro what we didn't know was the four million euro we spent on five albums we got 20,000 pounds although they've gone on to earn more Nikki previously told the Irish independence none of them are absolutely minted but I suppose by what metric lovely big houses anyway down in Sligo and finally what do you think of Mettern and the service they provide I thought they're weather forecasts although I'm not reliant on them like I'm not a sailor I'm not a farmer or a fisherman or so I'm not sure that those industries necessarily always get their advice from Mettern but some people aren't happy one irate member of the public who complained to Mettern about the quality of their weather forecasts urged the forecaster to stack the staff sorry sack the staff and buy a few robots among the complaints to Mettern this year was the email which was unhappy with its weather forecasting over the summer months under the subject rainfall the emailer on July 27 last stated what a lot of nonsense you shower of buffoons predicting for the east coast for years you lot are getting away with nonsense talk sack the staff and buy a few robots BBC weather for me it's a beautiful late night snap out of it clans in another complaint a former sorry a farmer told Mettern that deforecasting is absolutely rubbish in the email dated June 14 last the farmer said hello just have to voice my anger at yesterday's forecast we were trying to make our hay in canty awfully which was forecast very warm and dry but the farmer said we had no sun at all and it was cool also it lashed rain here deforecasting is absolutely rubbish all farmers had to wrap the hay with plastic yesterday evening what df is wrong with the weather forecast slightly completely wrong again mettern which is adding serious expense and stress to us all i'm trying very hard not to use very bad language here he said and another complainant living in the northwest of the country up here on July 12 emailed mettern to state i often check your website to see what the weather is not going to be like i regularly sit here by the window looking out at the opposite of what you forecast is telling me it would be doing on the screen in front of me as i'm right now farmers here laugh when i tell them what site i get my weather information from several saying that you only really concerned yourselves with the weather in the Dublin in the east or with Dublin on the east so that's what a few people opined to mettern all right what do you think oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's up syntax oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand right we'll be back with more after this quick break the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny today's nine tone in show is brought to you in 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keeping well if i said it was i'm great that would be i'm understood but all of that hanging in all right then tell us the story four weeks ago you were diagnosed with breast cancer a big shock to the system of course and the treatment process was due to start carmel pick up the story wherever you want to well i was diagnosed uh three weeks ago tomorrow i went up to go we got the diagnosis and uh my surgery was scheduled for yes early morning so breast check had been fantastic all university hospital was running uh they organized that i would go for my covid test at letter kenny university hospital on saturday morning which i had done after nine am i asked both nurses that were there what happens now they said unless that you get a contact from us you're clear go right ahead to go away and the nurse that was doing the paperwork actually checked my phone number she took it down and checked what she had i had to get somebody to drive me to go that had to take two days off work off i went to go away presented yesterday morning at half seven am and i was taken into a side room and asked me why was it there knocked me down anyway cut along story sharks they told me i was cold and positive well i almost passed out because i'm an ex nurse and doubly vaccinated and i had my booster shot two weeks past and right right so you've had three you've had all three yes and as all this minute right now i have yet to get a call or a text message from university hospital letter kenny to tell me that i'm positive i am so i know i did them right but we'll talk more about that in a second but i mean i presume calm will or maybe with your medical background you might think things slightly differently but it takes you build yourself up don't you for that trip to go away and and everything that is to follow in that procedure i can only imagine what it must have felt like when they say what are you doing here what i tell you Greg i was very positive about this whole handland because everything was rolled on there was no time being wasted i was upwards talk about today and devastated i'm totally broken i'm deflated but i'm so i i'm now i have been told well yesterday i had to get the test done again go with because i read the point that i couldn't be positive to be told yes i am positive so two tests have told you that you're positive calm yeah well yeah yeah so it's going to be another four to six weeks waiting for surgery how are you feeling generally in terms of the covid positivity great do you feel sick absolutely nothing i haven't a pain or a neck i have a cough but that's a chronic cost and i'm actually waiting for two years to see a respiratory consultant in letter county general hospital because of covid it was held up and would you believe it i have an appointment for them this week which of women have to cancel on my word that's unbelievable calm well do you believe that you have covid or have you been thinking about on whether or not it's flagging because of the the three vaccines or do you have a theory in that regard well i know my immunities through the risk because of all the vaccines that i've had yeah and i mean two lab tests you can't argue that that i do have covid symptoms i possibly can pass it on but i don't have any i don't i'm not experiencing any symptoms myself right if you had been this would have been a very difficult situation in any case but if you had have been called that number of yours was checked if you'd have been called before leaving for gallway when you'd got yourself all built up for this it might not be quite as bad as you're feeling right now maybe well i guess as regards to cancer thank you to god i'm feeling pretty good okay i'm not an extreme pain or anything like that so from a physical health point of view i was pretty fit to make the journey from a psychological point of view i worked a good place in my own head and i wasn't worried about getting there i had all that planned out devastating for me what about some poor old person that wouldn't be in the same position with myself i think it's bloody well disgraceful the carry on it's gone on up in that hospital their mission statement tells you that they're delivering care based on excellence in clinical practice teaching and research grounded in kindness compassion and respect well you know what i was talking to manager up there i would tell him he would need to rewrite that today now certainly not but i'm experiencing another thing too obviously um you know the way we line these things up in our mind calm while you probably said right we'll get down to gallway we'll get this out of the way uh i'll recoup myself hopefully we'll recoup and then you know we'll be in fine form for christmas hopefully you know what i mean and and be able to enjoy christmas 2021 by the sounds of things this pushes all this back very close to christmas does that bother you they had a plan of care in place for me which they gave me they told me they're going in they were doing the operation i didn't need a mastectomy at this time they were hopeful that i wasn't going to need chemotherapy but i definitely was going to need radiation which was going to be administered in alpine galvan and dairy which was very happy about so i was good to go now i have to wait another four to six weeks i don't know how that is going to physically affect me how it's going to affect me and me one head i don't know that right now i'm in a great place no and how could you be can you explain to me what's making you so angry about or is it everything caramel or what has that sort of anger in you is it how is it not the contact is it how you treat yes i'd be i'd be sensitive myself go down that manual he's talking about his bloody covid right fair enough fair juicy that's fine covid covid covid it's even on this morning there before i came an era about covid and what have you leather candy general hospital has a positive patient who's going to go away whom i i can transmit to somebody else yet no they can't notify me that i'm positive i'm angry at that i have to go around all my contacts and let them know which aren't very many because since i found out it was happening surgery it was self-isolating at home so that's why i was gobsmacked that it was positive and also the person the person you were in the car with and well yeah he has a test book for this morning and he's off work till he gets the results of it yeah again my own family it's and it's not just you that's affected by this obviously carman it is the whole family it's everyone because everyone's building up to to to caramel head and to go away and the start of that process and it's uh everything's not back we're all individuals but we don't stand alone we we have family around us and i mean they're all devastated as well my son's devastated it's just you know the lack of a phone call i know i'm a pcm number up in leather candy general hospital they obviously don't get too down about notifying me about whether i'm positive negative or anything else the ripple effect from that lack of a phone call it's unbelievable and you know what i wonder how many other people have been being positive up there that haven't been told either when you say you were told to unless you get a phone call head on to go away was that in letter candy you were told that or time from from go away i was told that's when the young lady took my covid test from Saturday morning i said to her i've never been on there that's done before so i asked her what is the procedure what happens now the other lady checked my number checked all mean we did a person all the rest of it and she said unless you hear from us you head on to go away and i'm still waiting unless it's Tuesday morning unbelievable all right call you know the test that i got done yesterday i'm going a text message came through to me at seven o'clock this morning to tell me that that was a positive test 20 hours later so letter candy takes four days i'm still waiting that's unbelievable all right i would like to know where i would like to know where is the accountability for this who's going to be held accountable i would hope to think that somebody else is going to suffer the same nonsense that i'm suffering there seems to be no accountability up there at the disgrace unless you said even with everything you're going through your concern is how would it affect someone else who didn't quite have the same mindset of you as you how big of a a setback or or a shock or a devastation would it be for them someone who was older or had less of a family structure around them you seem to have a solid structure around you but not everyone enjoys that karma no i know and it's somebody old frail maybe and worse physical condition than myself it's no joke driving up there for four hours driving back down then i was devastated yesterday coming down that road i couldn't speak not gonna imagine okay well listen we'll put put an inquiry in and see what the story is if you get that text message or contact you might let us know karma because people will be i wouldn't hold me breath wait a month after four days Greg and i'll tell you that yeah and it is four days actually saturday morning saturday sunday monday tuesday yeah okay so when's when you're hoping to get down for the surgery now um how long did you say it will be two or three weeks well i was talking to breast check yesterday before i came up the road yeah so they have like a conference every week again but all their clients and what have you so because then go with positive i have to wait exactly four weeks but they may not be able to schedule me for the four weeks so they said anywhere between four and six weeks yeah okay um the best luck karma stay in touch with us uh we'll make our inquiries obviously and and i mean you're a full nurse you know the story you know the ins and outs you know the the code of practice there's not nothing i can tell you in that regard um but i just wish you the very best going forward karma and i'm sorry for talking about covid so much i really am we really have paired it back an awful awful lot but in in just with the environment and the decisions that that that's they're going to make it's just unavoidable i would i am not letting you at all i'm not letting you third you see it no i know i know i'm saying it's just that everybody is so cold and conscious it's so out in your face and they think that this this is allowed to happen you know yeah can we um stay strong and stay in touch with us if there anything we can do for you i can't imagine what it could be but um it it's lovely speaking to you and i just hope things get sorted as soon as is possible carmel thank you very much all right god bless you take care bye bye thanks carmel and best wishes to the family councillor michael mclaffordy good morning to you good morning greg um what say you listen to carmel there what's your uh view well first of all all all um i just want to watch carmel all of us on our um journey add whatever details i hope it all comes to a successful ending for everyone things get sorted out but setting that aside greg it's listening to her there this morning pouring in her heart her story there for the rest of us listening on it's total disaster there is something there's clearly something wrong here with the testing regime clearly as carmel's prime example there today waiting four days later still no words from what she mentioned there she goes she went to go all the lake she was tested two tests and the both showed positive we have one of her leaders them um had in the scotland then one day he's he's positive the next day he's okay to get in a plane like what's that all about there what are you implying there are you implying that well carmel did get two tests unfortunately both come back positive what's the connection to the aim and round are you saying that you don't think his second test was actually negative or what well i can only go with what we're told in the media we can only go by what we're told like i mean it's it's a highlight the fact can we trust the testing system at all greg and bring across the board regardless who's getting tested well in fairness carmel is a carmel's a former nurse and she trusts it uh michael now i'm not being i'm not trying to knock heads with you but that's fair enough great i think what her problem is is the and this is it does talk to your point about maybe failures in the testing system she wasn't told she was positive she loaded up the car she got herself as best as you can emotionally prefer prepared for the start of that treatment journey and then was sent home from down there so certainly there is problems with the testing system i think we can agree on that there is problems because i mean i was a clearly when when she got tested at points out obviously it must have well i presume it showed it clearly when she was let go but the point is still no well she doesn't know either way because i haven't come back but i'm i would imagine i've responded to her wave the flags to the way and hold on there's a problem here yeah that is the problem and that is the problem she was positive that test was positive it just was not communicated to her she wasn't called or text and she had it to go away because that's what she was told to do and gallway knew she was positive but she left letter kenny presuming if i haven't been contacted i'm not positive you know and therein lies the problem but i take your point as it it's another situation uh tack it in with the aim and ryan situation it's it it it's people's faith in that testing system will be further eroded isn't that what you're saying in a nutshell really well it is like well for a well certain general situation i say at the moment hopefully i'll be resolved quite swastly for her but going back to the aim and ryan thing i know down early when that happened uh great that's weekend the start of the following week people are totally open arms about it oh it did more it did more to damage that and i said it on this program it did more to damage faith in the testing system than anything that went before it because he what it felt like i'm not saying it's what happened it felt like we've a politician the green politician in government he wants to go over to cop and make his statements and meet the press he got a negative he got a positive test and lo and behold the the hsc flag about 20 tests a month out of hundreds of thousands and his just happened to be one that was flagged for being inconclusive he gets another test it's negative and off he's off he uh off he trots to to glasgo and it doesn't even matter if everything is above board and let's presume it is it's how it looks and it looks terrible it's how it looks and unless and the veal and ryan's heart was really with the people whatever the inconclusive waters go on he could have gladly said that look it's not right but just for the sake of the people and my heart for the people i'm going to stay at home he did not need to get in that plane and go and cause all the the as you say lots of heart the people have lost now in the faith and the testing system and we was really really showing real leadership and we really understood he got to stay at home because he lived right and what not but on the Scott of the very second he's one thing or other he is that would have put his point across and the escape and what not he didn't need to go himself from Pearson because it's just wrecked people's face and the and the system as far as it goes that way um to be honest all right councillor McCaffery thank you very much indeed some of your comments on facebook see leah says absolutely disgraceful i feel so sorry for that late that lady and doesn't have very kind words then to say about letter candy university hospital um caroline also watching us on facebook um i'll bet you you'll not get anyone to come on and explain this absolutely disgraceful uh she says and nobody will be held accountable and the conversation is continuing there if i had text heartbreaking that poor woman is the simple message from one person and from your family carmel and you'll know who the other your cousins they say we are here for you stay strong cousin we love you um which is a lovely message for carmel okay we are going to be back talking about a situation in in a show and after these today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires winter ready drop in to ulster tires in letter candy and ballet buffet today buy a ticket in highland radios mega draw to win a car get your ticket by november 30th and automatically enter an extra draw before the big draw big draw one lucky winner will walk away with two thousand euro imagine that's christmas all wrapped up christmas the draw will take place on wednesday december first on the nine till noon show nine till 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market square treats from businesses along main street the big switch on and then the arrival of santa on his sleigh it's a great evening for all the family this friday at the letter kenny christmas light switch on see the shop lk socials for details and you're very welcome back to the program we are joined on it now by cancer reena donahe thanks for joining us reena good to have you on the program thank you great good morning right now we were speaking to a grandmother yesterday who was angry and upset her grandson used to avail of the services of cash in the core and i don't know if you heard any of the conversation but just to remind listeners he's upset newly upset every single day because there's a routine involved there and it's all very very upsetting and also this young lad is well he's not he's in his 20s is according to his grandmother's regressing now because he's not getting access to these services what is going on at cash in the core we've spoken to you before about this what any news for us yeah i have a i have a bit of good news but obviously there's an awful lot of work more and more work to be done greg as you know cash in the core uh is a center and the planet and it's used to provide daycare services for people with disabilities and we have a few other day services uh offered throughout any zone as well so the delivery of day service was severely curtailed uh during the initial six months of covet the covet pandemic when the senate and then when the center did reopen then people were obviously um and understandably a bit afraid to send their caries to it in case they would get covet but they're all they're all vaccinated and that now and they would be in their own bubbles but there was covet positives in another center and then it showed and because it was a residential center the staff were deployed from cash in the core to work in the other center because some of the staff had covet as well so three centers had been closed down cash in the core and two others at the time i asked what if that would happen again and unfortunately two weeks later the same thing happened again a covert outbreak staff all taken from cash in the core and the other two centers to keep the residential center open and we all understand that obviously the residential center it's very important that that's kept open as as well but i can't understand why staff would be taken from centers that have no covet uh positives or outbreaks you know completely healthy and cash in the core houses 42 people so that's a big number of families affected throughout the whole of the initial peninsula and the recruitment seems to be the problem yes but i mean do we need to investigate more the management decision in that and you know these people are uh it's not the staff i'm sure but the management decision to take staff away from one center to another like are we doing a benefit analysis in other words that the the terrible impact this is going to have on the 42 families that you mentioned a cash in the core versus the benefit of you know moving these staff as you say uh moving staff around centers maybe that's why it's close for such a long period of time when covid is present in one of them i think you've concerns with that but in other words like are we getting enough of an explanation about this you know what i mean can that can staff not come from somewhere else to maintain services at all of these premises yeah that's that's how it should be and and that's how it used to be and it's ridiculous what's happened it's absolutely ridiculous and the good news is the good news is that the center will be opening from next week cash in the core and the other centers will be opening from next week albeit only four two days a week not four five days and a lot of these carries are highly challenged and need to be in the center five days per week yes two days as a start you know but it needs to be open five days to five days and we are talking about priority ones and priority ones some of the priority ones are and at the minute but in my opinion anybody that needs to attend these day centers are all priority one they're there for a reason they're there because they can't be looked after at home and anyway they're only away from home from uh maybe half nine in the morning until four you know it's a short day for the carers at home the break they have them then from four half four onwards for the rest of the day you know so and i know that in the recruitment process people are being taken from the same part as sna's and most people prefer a 94 job rather than work in the residential centers well why is there such a short staff a ridiculous it's not like i know the island's call that the government had at the start of all this was maybe to do with acute care and what have you like are we satisfied can we be satisfied i think the answer to this has to be no that every effort had been made to have enough staff in reserve to have enough people on call to maintain a level of service you know like is this happening anywhere else or is it just in the shown for example do you know is this another example of you know in a shown getting unfair treatment compared to other parts of the county or country yeah well incidentally i had a phone called the day before yesterday from a person i'll not say the area because i don't want to identify them but they they had been in a school in bokrana until they were 18 they're very special needs as well and then they went to another center in an issue now they have been asked just recently would they move to letter kenny so obviously they have spaces in letter kenny unlike an issue the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous it's ridiculous and i said to the girl don't move to letter kenny why should you move to letter kenny when we have plenty of spaces in any shown that are just not fully staffed yeah watch some people listen to that we'll think uh uh you know is that sort of the the beginning of centralization we'd certainly hope that's not the case it's important that these uh services are available in the community and available consistently in this area is meant much as any because we talked yesterday to the grandmom who who talked of and lots of people understand this the routine you know the familiarity that can be very important at times as well um but you're telling us from next week it's reopening for two days a week yes it's reopening and thank god for that at least it is opening next week for for two days okay well listen um and any indication as to what it will take to open the service full time again no that's the question i'm asking consistently and i will be i will certainly not let this go the center needs to be open this this is an excellent center and all of the users will tell you that it is an excellent center and there's no reason why this should not be open on a five-day week basis yeah okay listen thank you very much indeed counselor reena 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yesterday and it means that people who haven't got the 3g rule which is the infeket tested guineas or vaccinated tested unrecovered they have certain restrictions they're only allowed to leave their homes if they need to buy essentials like food or if they're going to school or university if they're going to work and or if they go to a doctor or chemist if they have to care for people they're allowed to go for walks or to get physical exercise they're allowed to go to the bank or the the employment office for example they're allowed to go to church or mosque whatever and they're allowed to go to the to the graveyard and of course if they have a if their life is in danger they have to leave they can leave their house but socially really in terms of cinemas, cafs, bars, supermarkets just strolling around a shopping centre that's a no-no exactly and in terms of sorry in terms of enforcement and what have you how because obviously you know you can't check everyone so presumably it'll be spot checks what's the procedure there? There will be spot checks and these are carried out by the police we have to have a green passport and the fine is the first fine is 500 euros if a person it has gone shopping for example and doesn't have or well you know shopping is allowed actually but I know what you mean if they're going out outside the rules and if they refuse to sort of you know maybe they might quote common law or refuse to engage with police or whatever it might be we see a bit of that here that's also fineable 500 euro fine they've already thought about 500 euros but if they refuse to come to work with the police then it can go up to 1450 euros or more. Now a lot of people over there are not vaccinated they will not be happy about this has there been any demonstrations or anything being planned and what's the authorities attitude to that? Yeah well there's a demonstration planned in Vienna on the 20th of November and yes a lot of people they do protest and they want to protest they have protested already in Vienna and again next Saturday and I must say that the leader of the Freedom Party Herbert Kickel tested positive yesterday for COVID-19 and some members of his family he has to go into quarantine for two weeks and he's disappointed they cannot join the demonstration in Vienna against the corona stipulations. But if an irony in there somewhere I'd imagine he'll adhere to those rules but not the others that leaves him in a bit of a situation does it? Yes. Okay how do what is there is this driving anyone to the vaccination center? So Patricia because that's what it's about you know let's let's call it as it is. Yes in the areas for example in upper Austria where the incidence of COVID-19 is very high there was a surge yesterday to get vaccinated and would probably be the case everywhere. And do you have a view personally on this do you think it's the right thing to do or like I'm just wondering what the general population think? Yeah well I think a person has a I mean I have been vaccinated twice but I haven't got the COVID-19 but I think that people should have a personal choice and if they just if for example if they live alone then let them live on their live alone keep away from other people but with two million people and especially with people who have children for example it's going to be difficult to stick to all these rules and not get the disease. And what is the what is the ceiling you know what's the vaccination ceiling before they review this once you get on this road it's very hard to turn back from a government's point of view. Patricia thank you very much for your time I really appreciate it. Till the 24th of November these rules might we'll see. 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live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock i'm catherine gaffney the t-shock says the covid situation will get worse before it gets better nephrin is warning up to 500 people with the virus could be an icu by next month in a worst case scenario and over 200 in the best case ministers have also been given new advice to offer booster vaccines to over 50s and people with underlying conditions speaking on his way into cabinet he shocked me how martin says quick action is needed to ease the pressure on hospitals case numbers are very high and the the numbers then inevitably will end up in hospital increases with that so you know we've got to be we've got to make decisions today but also i think collectively as a society we've got to look out for each other and just be very aware that the situation is getting worse and we get worse before it gets better a woman who was due to have a cancerous lump removed in gallway today has hit out at letter kenny university hospital over an alleged miscommunication in her positive covid test carmel was diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks ago and has received both covid 19 vaccines and a booster jab carmel traveled to gallway on sunday night but when she arrived to the hospital she was told by staff there she was covered positive and to return home immediately an emotional carmel told today's 9 till noon show that letter canny university hospital did not inform her personally of her positive results i was very positive about this whole handling because everything was rolling on there was no time being wasted i was upwards talking about today i'm devastated i'm totally broken i'm deflated so i i know i have been told well yesterday i had to get the test done again go with because i read the point that i couldn't be positive to be told yes i am positive details will be revealed later on a long awaited compensation scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes the children's minister is bringing the package to cabinet this morning for approval before it's published it's understood the scheme is worth 800 million euro and will include access to an enhanced medical card an action plan will also be announced on access to birth records profits made by insurance companies on their motor business increased last year according to the central bank a new central bank report shows there was a 26 drop in the number of claims made by drivers while the amount paid out in claims to customers dropped by 20 percent director of economic and statistics at the central bank marcassidy says the average operating profit across the industry was around 12 percent and that largely reflects the impact of covid so the most obvious impact of covid was a very significant reduction in the number of injury and damage claims then by 26 percent whereas the pass through to premiums meant that average treatments were down by around seven percent so taking those together meant a very good profitability situation overall for insurance and two demonstrations are taking place along the dunnegal border this weekend to oppose the threat by the british government to trigger article 16 border communities against brags have believed that recent statements from the uk government pose a direct threat to the peace process and are raising the prospect of a hard border in ireland the protests are getting underway on saturday at 3 p.m at lyford bridge and a bridge end and in other areas along the border dunnegal spokesperson tom murray has been outlining some of their concerns there's over 40 million border crossings every year the 30 000 people every single day cross that border for work so the integration of the economy society and communities um from north south is fundamental to this island and has had nothing but benefits for both our social economic growth and it's very disingenuous and wrong of the tories through masking problems in britain and the british economy by playing with the protocol in this island whether now cloddy with rain and drizzle becoming persistent throughout the morning highest temperatures of 11 or 12 degrees i've said for now we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for tuesday morning the 16th of november the death has occurred of john keeney fintra road killi begs county dunnegal his remains are opposing and has led residents with removal tomorrow morning at half past 10 to st mary of the visitation church killi begs for 11 o'clock funeral mass burial afterwards in glendy cemetery the mass will be streamed live on mcn media dot tv family flowers only please donations and lou if desired to the dunnegal hospice care of any family member or mcberty funeral directors the house is strictly private please the death has occurred of martin holmes sandi roe castle fin his remains are opposing at his late residents funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to st mary's church castle fin for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only donations if desired to the friends of letter kenny hospital care of any family member or kennedy's funeral directors family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the death has occurred of margaret coil 30 white house park dairy and formerly of county for mana her remains are opposing at her home requiem mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in st murray's church fawn followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery margaret's requiem mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the wake is private to family and friends only please family flowers only please donations and lou if desired to the foil hospice care of any family member or murphy funeral directors the death has occurred of patsy brezlin aya ardra his remains are opposing at his late residents funeral from there this morning at half past 11 going to the church of the holy family ardra for 12 o'clock funeral mass interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations if desired to coronary care letter kennedy university hospital care of derrick mckabe funeral director ardra or any family member the death has occurred of tommy porter mon jargon ardra his remains are opposing at mckabe's funeral premises in ardra removal from there this afternoon at two o'clock going to the Methodist church ardra for funeral service at half past two interment afterwards in st connell's churchyard ardra removal is private to family only please donations if desired to church funds care of derrick mckabe funeral director ardra or any family member the death has taken place of cathleen mcgloughlin new roan of breida glenn mobile funeral from her home this morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st mary's church belly brach followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the funeral mass can be viewed live on see it online dot i a the house is private on the morning of the funeral please the death 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that cash in the core was shut down is unfair believes this texture if this uh is this not the same old scenario i'm sure they're away up and in a shown we'll just leave them hanging like the mica people we need to hear our politicians voices in a shown getting raised higher it shouldn't be it shouldn't be okay it's never going to be okay that they're short staffed or whatever it might be and that one place has a covert outbreak staff aren't unavailable and another place closes and moves the staff to that place now there are the they're different they offer you know it's different services and all that but there has to be a better way doesn't there to maintain services you would hope cash in the core center was bought and funded by the community all through fundraising for years and years it belongs to the people and should not be moving young adults to letter kenny's centers um greg a friend of mine in front operation in doblin had two tests negative landed in doblin test positive and sent home wow another it seems the connection between lu h and go away is broken my mother has been up and down to go away numerous times over the last year and each morning after landing in go away she had to wait for hours uh passed her appointment time so that go away contact lu h for those results four times this has happened surely by now someone in either hospital could take some control and put a better process in place the caller believes it to be a disgrace another it's difficult to believe that people who are discriminated against are then discriminated against again by their own service creating a priority list this is absolutely inhumane another tell that lady to stay strong this is calm i feel very sorry for her having to wait another four to six weeks that can feel like a lifetime when you're a cancer patient people should remember that their failure to follow up on a test whatever kind can have devastating effects on a brighter side everyone that listened to highland today is thinking about you carmel and maybe saying a simple prayer god bless you indeed uh we are thinking on her good morning greg oh my god that poor woman suffering so much three jabs of a vaccine disaster don't know what to think thanks greg well uh carmel is great it's by the sands with great faith in the vaccine she's not worried about that because she feels perfect she's not sick at all she has cancer she has covered and she doesn't have the symptoms of covered she says her immune system is through the roof that part of it uh carmel seems okay with the problem is is she got a test she wasn't informed of the result packed her bags headed to go away and was told down there that she'd tested positive uh the treatment of carmel is a disgrace i really think the next time you have uh mr murphy on your show that you ask him for an explanation for this shocking treatment of a patient let me tell you we're not waiting until such time as we have access we're following this up with emails and correspondence with both the hospital and the hsc to get answers uh for carmel uh to find out what's going on to try and help uh to make sure it doesn't happen again so we're not just going to sit on this and wait until next time we're speaking to people on air we do an awful well i don't caroline does an awful lot of work uh off air it's where most of the work actually happens in chasing things up for people and following things up that's ongoing so rest assured in relation to that but the call goes on to say uh management should not be able to spin about how the standards are very high and this shouldn't have happened you should ask why it happened uh mr murphy's a pr expert and never expresses me with answers impresses me with answers to your questions get the gloves off gloves are rarely on really when we're talking about things like that but i take your point and um as i say leave it with us okay good luck if you're playing the bingo today thank you to all of you texting in 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you need thank you for shopping with us this christmas letter kenny shopping center bringing you the time at the time is just turning 22 minutes past 10 and you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show here on highland radio it is uh tuesday which means it's time uh to uh go to the community garter slot and we welcome into the studio uh this morning garter shawn sweeney shawn always a pleasure to have you in thanks for calling in morning great thanks for having me uh right now let's get straight down to the appeals because gardy is seeking the public's uh assistance as it relates to a burglary in letter kenny that's right this occurred at the tennis club on the high road on saturday november 13th approximately three a.m so windows side entrance door was smashed and entry was gained damages caused the internal doors but nothing was stolen so two youths were captured in cctv entering the building at approximately three a.m and they spent approximately 10 minutes inside they had their face covered so additional cctv examined in surrounding areas but we're appealing to anyone particularly taxi drivers uh who may be in the port road high road between 2 45 a.m and 3 15 a.m who may have captured the use on dashcam footage to contact letter kenny on six seven one hundred or anybody who's any information to contact the confidence line on 1800 triple six triple one all right okay um now also a burglary another burglary in letter kenny this is in the glen rua area yeah this occurred on saturday the 13th november shortly after nine p.m so the call was there was a burglary in progress in uh anglian rua in letter kenny so when gardy arrived there was nobody present but it was evident an attempt had been made to gain entry so damage may cause the window frame of the house an internal glass window had been shattered entry was knocked into the house at this time so we'd ask anybody who may have seen or heard anything suspicious uh was in the area contact letter kenny on nine one six seven one hundred also again we're appealing for dashcam footage anybody has it yeah and of course another opportunity to remind people to to stay in touch with the gardy if they see anything uh suspicious so what have you yeah exactly great look we'd like to stress importance if you see any suspicious or observe anything uh to give us a call so burglary rates are on the rise again with the longer darker evenings it's important to be alert for own sake and others in the community particularly the more vulnerable so the police won't be afraid to call it's better be safe than sorry so we really need to get back not that we ever lost it but to re-emphasize that sort of community watch to keep an eye out for each other if you see something don't necessarily leave it up to someone else to make that call don't feel that you're wasting guard of time for example absolutely like no cause to waste time for us yeah right let's go to in a show now and an investigation from bunkrana gardy yeah this has raised your criminal damage which happened at premises on main street in moff between Friday the 12th november at 9 45 p.m and saturday the 13th november at 8 30 a.m so front window of premises and smashed overnight so if anybody what does anything uh how has any information related to this please contact bunkrana on 9 3 2 0 5 4 0 and uh more criminal damage this time letter kenny gardy investigating yeah this was at garton avenue on wednesday the 10th november at approximately 9 10 p.m out of pain of a front window of a house to smash with a brick around that time so if anybody what does the incident uh was in the area or saw anything that would help us in our investigation please contact uh letter kenny 9 1 6 7 100 again we'd appeal for to ask him footage and an incident on main street in bunkrana next isn't oh yeah great uh sorry just two seconds there no problem yeah so we're appealing for information the public in relation to a theft occurred on main street on sunday the 14th november between 5 p.m and 7 p.m so when adapted customized bike had been chained to pole at that location between those times so when the owner returned the bike discovered the seat had been stolen so we're asking for anybody who may have witnessed innocent or have any information to contact from crana on 9 3 2 0 5 4 0 pretty pointless that isn't it seems and uh i'm presuming that person wants that back and you just want to find whoever is responsible right now a theft at palli mccool uh woods yeah uh this occurred uh was reported that an oil burner be stolen their property between tuesday the night november 10 p.m and wednesday the 10th november at 3 p.m so the oil burner was taken from the outside boiler casing so if anybody's disturbed any suspicious activity between those times or if any information please contact letter kenny on 9167 100 we're also looking to uh make sure it's important that every make sure that you're properly secure this time of the year so please visit uh www.garda.ie for any advice and tips in relation to security measures can be taken i mean these are valuable enough items aren't they shown and they're often contained in a we shared us up on that side not often locked and they're valuable as sure as it gone far as bullets we were going to see the theft of these items along with home heating on especially this time of year and it's not something you think of okay now it's a vehicle theft or an unauthorized taking as the guard he would call it that's what you call it yeah it's it's in relation to a red land road jeep registration is 0 4 w 4 2 1 this was stolen from a business premises on the new tail blaring road on letter kenny on friday the 12th november shortly before 3 40 a.m so the jeep was parked the secure yard was believed to travel in the direction of patty heart's road it was discovered uh on the same date at 7 10 p.m at fernhillon letter kenny it had been set in fire it was completely destroyed so we're appealing to anybody with information to contact letter kenny on 6 7 100 uh predictor anybody who's in the deed need to be in a road patty heart road on 12th november at 3 40 a.m it may observe the jeep being driven uh who may have dash cam footage uh or if they believe deserved the occupants and captured dash cam footage at some stage between 3 40 a.m and 7 10 p.m on the 12th november we'll ask them to contact with us we're asking them to observe the occupants flee from the jeep in the area fernhill on the 12th november please contact letter kenny or the confidential line 1800 6 6 1 all right okay a lot of information in there um now before we wrap things up sunday the 21st of november um it's world day of remembrance for road traffic victims that's right yeah uh commemorations to remember the victims of road traffic crashes and their families that you took place around the country there's a new focus on the world day of remembrance this year and this is on the victims of serious injuries and their families so the oracy uh are going to hold a special event for family members who were killed uh at the museum of modern literature in dublin uh this week and the event will be available to view on the oracy facebook page from 2 p.m on sunday the 21st november so a special remembrance mask will also be broadcast live in rta 1 this sunday at 11 a.m throughout numerous other events taking place nationwide and these details are available on the oracy website right and it is um good to focus on the serious injuries element of it and the impact it has and i know the local road shows um use that as a as an important message as well because obviously you know fatal road traffic collisions are the most serious and we hear an awful lot about those but you don't always hear about the many many more people that have uh you know very serious injuries life changing industry injuries so it's it's good to focus on that to remind us that it's not always about the worst case scenario that people have very uh very difficult lives after road traffic collisions in some cases except it is the life changing and it does affect them for the rest of their lives listen shawn as always thank you very much i appreciate it uh i think you'll always get more to read than anyone else that's a great faith in the great faith in you and rightly so thanks shawn i appreciate it all right that's got a shawn sweeney that was the community garden slot and it's back with you uh after 10 o'clock next tuesday and we'll be back with you on this program after we take this short break today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires winter ready drop in to ulster tires in letter kenny and bali buffet today letter kenny shopping center is where real christmas begins get everything you need for the festive season with a wide range of gifts food and services park for free have a browse grab a coffee and actually enjoy your christmas shopping this year 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feeney and his band on saturday night we have adrian ryan and robert visell and his band tickets for boat nights are available from my website derrick ryan music dot com looking forward to seeing everybody this weekend at the clonrey okay i call us as some years ago um the late chancellor sean mckinif complained to materian about them constantly forecasting rain in dunigawal he said it was affecting the tourism trade in the county he voiced his anger on highland radio to sean daugherty have noticed that this complaint is valid uh there's always a black cloud over dunigawal and materian map even the most of the country might be rain free i remember i was working for northwest radio at the time in the dunigawal town office and we did the interview with uh sean and really what the thrust of what i was saying was and i'm not contradicting you because it's the same point really he was saying that the weather was always uh relating to the northwest in other words rain spreading in from the northwest it wasn't always that they were stating that the rain was sitting over dunigawal but the impression was being given because three times a day on tv radio whatever it was rain spreading in for the northwest winds coming in from the northwest now obviously uh given the direction of weather pride predominantly and uh the type of weather we get that left dunigawal being talked about with bad weather quite regularly and i think there's even suggestions of maybe a potential court case i'm not sure whatever came to that if that ever came to pass right time for break stay with us if you're watching us online you'll be muted for about three minutes for licensing reasons but we'll be back with you on air enjoy this it's from ultravox okay that is uh ultravox there and vienna now did you know that it's 20 years uh since filipino nurses came to arland and the celebrating the event with a reunion a reunion in the villa rose hotel stenolar on saturday the 20th of november and we're joined in studio now by two guests firstly we're going to say good morning to mary grace uh ale garmy good morning to you thank you so much for joining us good morning greg and you're very calm you're not nervous at all this is a breeze to you well i hope so and uh no i'm only joking and we're also joined uh in studio by uh greg victorino good morning to you greg good morning greg it's great to have you with us and thank you so much for joining us as well right we'll start with you uh if that's okay um so what brought filipino nurses to to arland 20 years ago um yeah yeah okay um in 2001 um there was a massive hiring of nurses from it was the north the northwest and help for that time and then it was a new thing for the philippines that the uh the europe countries are coming to the philippines to hire nurses mostly it's the middle east or the um america is hiring so um so i got applied i applied for the interview and at that time i think i remember there's 530 applicants and they're only looking for 120 nurses to be employed for the northwest and help board so um we just got lucky then so i remember i have the panel for my interview was mr kevin little and breed fury uh he i remember kevin little mentioned to me that most of the applicants are overqualified because some of the nurses came from saudi when they heard that there's a hiring from europe you know for nurses so for competition it's more competitive you know for applicants to be hired so um i'm only qualified two years at time i only just you know had a baby at the time and then so uh kevin little said like you know most of the are all qualified so he just want to see how you sell yourself how you can contribute you know for our island for the nursing service that they have so and at that time were you was it a life change in other words you were coming over long term did it mean moving your family over was it that type of an offer you were given at that time or was it just for you for a shorter period of time no it was only a two years contract yeah once we qualified our um two months adaptation once we got our registration we only offered two years contract and then it's up to our you know for the north the health system that time to be to assess if we can get a permanent post so yeah and um was it a tough decision for you to make or did you it was yeah because i had a baby that time she's only three at that time so when i got employed i got you know when you pass the interview you submit your passport you sign the contract and that's it you have to wait to be called in once once you're working visa so it was a big decision and were you able to take your family with you no i waited for three years i waited until i got my permanent post because i wasn't sure of course when i got my permit post i wasn't saying she was at that time and then i got my permit post and let a candy hospital and that's the time i decided to bring my family which is tough for you too a long way from home yeah yeah greg you came over at the same time didn't you yeah i arrived in Dublin as far as i remember it was october you're like me you're terrible on dates october 13th oh right you're very good on dates october 13th uh 2001 and it was really cold and were you able to sort of find that much about on before you arrived here not really you know uh we have actually i heard i heard this country right i know it's a geography geography geographically speaking it's besides or you can find it in besides london or england so that's what i knew about ireland right it's uh i know it's small country small population so that's what my knowledge about ireland and when you arrived here how did it match your expectations or did it well actually i was i was delighted to be here yeah because i love nature i saw the green areas you know and the weather i think yeah that's one of the culture shocks is the weather yeah and before we talk more about that something that often crosses my mind and ether if you can answer this you know we would go to your um birth country okay and we would seek to bring your nurses over here to bring you over here and i often wonder do we but in doing that leave shortages in the likes of the philippines do you know what i mean or other countries well greg for me there we have loads of universities okay the philippines the you know loads of graduates nurses there are still more students taking nursing course so i think there will be the shortage will not be happening but also too greg you were coming to a country okay where lots of people and particularly around from this area they themselves do that they travel to work in london or america or canada or the uae more recently so you know you were moving to a country that that has this this tradition to have people moving elsewhere to work for a time um tell us about um your first couple of years here greg what was it like well as i've told you i arrived here on 2001 uh and the it was the north well north western health board who was uh engaged with or assigned to you know this um health system here uh my first two years i work in the general hospital here in letter candy mostly uh first few months well i was in medical one medical two and my mega three but i really uh i stayed most of my work my my years in medical rehab under dr mull peter i stayed there i worked there for a year and six months and then it was during that time it was michael shannon who was the director of nursing in the general so unfortunately we i think he refused or he he didn't he didn't uh renewed our contract because well as as far as i as i know he is expecting more nursing graduates from the college but i think it didn't happen so from live i heard from livered hospital that you know former director guen muni rang me and offered me a job as well as paul yung who was the former direct nursing director in st joseph but i rather choose i chose uh to work in livered hospital but you're in st joseph's now though yes 20 hey then you found your way there one way or other isn't it well so that that that's my first uh two years you know and did you come here at the same time with your brother uh greg emil no uh i was uh one year one year i oh sorry one month ahead okay yeah actually were four here four family really okay my sister uh went first with my sister my sister-in-law they came on july on 2001 and then i came on a clover i have a brother who's a church musician he worked here as well as the director a choir director in manor hamilton okay in leecher encounter later yeah he started in germany he came over here to be with us and another sister but she's now in australia nursing nursing australia so she came here to nurse and then moved to australia and how did you find and we'll go back to uh we'll go back to mary gray shortly as well but how did you find i suppose in this most simplest terms fitting in you know because obviously you're working and you're working long hours but you get time off and you get weekends off and i just can imagine you know if i were to move to the philippines or any country for that matter it takes a while to sort of get settled in was that good for you was it was it difficult for you or a challenge that you enjoyed it's quite challenging the shift you know the hours of work because in the philippines we don't do long days yeah that that's the stuff 12 hour shift so since we adopted the you know the the way how how nurses work here in ireland yeah and then here we are yeah working working long shifts in the rain and cold and this is the life you choose and we are delighted we delighted that you did mary grace what about your first couple of years here very difficult separated from your family but presumably you're saying you know it's if it's for a greater good and it's for a long term thing but tough for you i'm sure it was tough because i'm the eldest of five and then i got married so young so i was hoping like working abroad would help my own family and my extended family to get them a quality of life so when um i heard about the you're in the offer wages that they have to us it was really great but then it was quite nervous because i haven't like you wrote in the philipines so far away it took us like 18 hours 20 hours altogether when i was flying here i was crying it's like i hope i'll see my daughter soon you know but you know there's things you're going to miss you're going to miss a birthday or other important days in the calendar for you maybe if someone were to become ill god forbid you know you you can't be far away which makes it more difficult for you sometimes it's easier for family in that situation that are there witnessing things than it is for someone who's so far removed from it yeah it does it does i remember when my i was ringing my daughter is just asking where am i and she's complaining of a toothache and you're crying because you look after other people's interests but you cannot look after your own family but it's just a matter of sacrifice but you get through that and you remind yourself of why you're doing this isn't it i was just lucky after my adaptation led a kenny for two months i was transferred to st joseph for two years and st joseph is like my second family right they welcome me very warmly and you know you make us at home they know that you're a far away from family and then when you talk to older people they said that that's what they used irish people do they went to england in america to work and leave their family behind so you don't feel bad at the same time well were your greatest challenges then obviously we talked about you know the big move and the separation from your your your daughter and wider family but in terms of like what was it was it making friends was it the language barrier i know you would have had very good english when you come here but uh but what what was difficult at the beginning we were lucky we were six in the in the one house of the philippines but we were assigned in different area and the beginning when i was in gynyward the six the two months that i was in adaptation it was it was quite hard because some of the patient will not they really tend to talk to you because they think that they're not able to understand you so that kind of thing it's like a language barrier really but it will take time you just have to that's why the adaptation is just they see how you get on into absorb into adopt the irish way of nursing care yeah and do we know how many you talked of the initial amount they were talking but over the 20 years do we know how many philippino nurses have moved to to arland or this region to to um to care for people we i remember we were 80 at the beginning yes and then now that we're having a reunion we were 30 now left some retired some moved to different places like america england and australia and um actually there's actually two from slago but they would they still think they're part of donny gull so they're coming over on saturday for the they're not going to miss that it's nice to see after 20 years that we are well and we're still here yeah like we have some colleagues already also pass away because of the disease like that so it's quite emotional the same thing because we usually have philippino gathering sometimes but because of the pandemic it that forbid us just and those connections are lost so with this one i said 20 years we have to make it and hopefully after 10 years we're still together okay greg how often were you able to if at all get back to the philippines well i remember that uh my last holiday we went back there on 2019 on me that's the last time pre-pandemic really i suppose yeah i we sponsored a wedding of our friend you know and since that we're stuck here and where do you see your future now is this home for you or do you plan well like my colleagues they're they're they're they're asked they keep asking me what's your future plan well since i got permanent post here paying my pension and all well i consider that that i should be retiring here you know yeah i love it here well in fairness i adopted everything here you know weather people so lifestyle yeah i'm happy and content and and for you too mary grace what do you see your future here or what's your plans well midori was only almost seven the time when she came no she's a qualified nurse she followed you into nurse okay right lovely she's actually working as a staff nurse in the royal victoria hospital so and then i have yes and i have two children born here second year in a very good way yes in a very good way but i'm quite happy i'm really quite happy the the the irish community is more filipino attitude like you know more question and you know we we we adopt like we we have our own filipino choir and snorler things we adopt in the way yeah the living here and you keep a little bit of home here and here's home and you get that combination in terms of when you look at at at how things are at home um have things improved there do you you know our nurses treated any better now greg in the in the in the philippines yeah what i heard recently the salary there's some improvements yes uh since i've started nursing there you know it's really the salary is just just sufficient for your daily it's a living wage almost where yeah okay but there's some improvement now you know okay that's good i hope the the government continues doing that you know increase the salary yeah you would share that view wouldn't you marry grace oh yes yeah okay so what's happening then on um in the villa rose hotel in strunaller what's going to be a few loads of exciting things planned marry grace i'm sure the villa rose it's like a lunch date yeah so where i get together together and then uh there was like i would like to come to thank mr martin harley i contacted him like you know we're celebrating this and he actually gave us a certificate okay it was signed by um the executive uh john mcloughlin so he he recognized our our service here and contribution yes a contribution yes and the irish nurses our organization also give us a certificate uh also to org you know to to highlight our 20 years this is greg orio's yeah that's a good great certificate yeah i know but it's got greg orio written on it greg come on let's not fall out at this stage yeah it's a beautiful name yeah and then the filipino irish which our group here yes so we just like that and um mr td pringle is also um promising that he will come personally to give us wishes too it was nice just to catch up and get together see how you are reflect on your memories and all that type of stuff and where are we now with our families growing so yeah okay and um obviously your daughter's in belfast so you've got lots of talk about she's a nurse you're a nurse she calls and visits and yeah uh it's it's it's lovely so what do you um any reflections on where we're at now to the future i don't know you know obviously the staff shortage is here at the moment um should we be looking to the filipines to to to try and you know hire people or have you any conversation or reflection on mary grace there's still a lot of filipinos are trying to work abroad but because of the pandemic they're trying to control the nurses there because they need it there of course this is what i was saying a little earlier on i know things get better they probably will but hopefully no it's quite tight at the moment because there's a lot of requirement that you have to pass the English exam things like it's quite difficult now compared to our time yeah so about the shortage there's now i'm quite happy i'm now in an oncology ward oncology hematology ward i'm really really happy and i'm great well i'm in the 18th of our ward at the moment i think they're listening at the moment the 18th yeah the 18th like the tv program yes they're listening at the moment i'm quite happy and i'm i've been there for for 50 years since it's open so i'm grateful i'm still hoping that i can still serve and continue um giving our nursing care here for more more more years yeah and and greg right across the board through the pandemic you know all nurses regardless of where they're working whether they're working here or working in the philippines or ritly or whatever it's been a very difficult time for the health service right across the world hasn't it greg yes that's true you know because and many of your colleagues have passed away as well um you know particularly the early part of it as well it's in dublin i think yeah quite yeah nurses philippine or nurses yeah yeah it's very difficult okay and hopefully now um things aren't looking fantastic at the moment but hopefully uh we get through this winter and things improved gratefully so this is by invite only i can't just turn up for this gray sign can't i but will i get free lunch oh we will yeah just a problem yeah no i'm only joking it's lovely isn't it to be able to get together as you mentioned and celebrate 20 20 years and many more to come it's been an absolute pleasure meeting both of you if unless there's anything you want to add greg or uh mary grace can uh can i greet someone take your time go ahead yes first and foremost first and foremost i would like to say hi to my wife evangelin just just in later at the moment and also my work colleagues in st joseph especially in fin view art and also my my friends in larry canny and slaggo okay and you can tell them this is on this has been streamed on facebook they can watch you back later on it's been really lovely meeting two of you it genuinely has thanks greg and thanks mary grace and and thanks for for helping us coming over and helping us when we obviously needed at that time and still do it's been lovely meeting you two lovely people we'll be back with more after the break we'll go to the news today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires are your tires ready for winter call 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worst case scenario and over 200 in the best case ministers have also been given you advice to offer booster vaccines to over 50s and people with underlying conditions a jeep has been stolen and set a light in letter kenny it had been parked in a secure yard when the theft occurred the incident happened in the early hours of friday morning last with investigations ongoing issues with respite services in north in a show and have yet to be resolved three centers on the peninsula had been closed for long periods of time with a covid outbreak to blame for one of the closures this resulted in staff being redistributed and now getting the necessary personnel for the resumption of full services is said to be a major issue two youths are wanted in connection with a burglary in letter kenny the incident happened at the tennis club on the high road at three a.m on saturday morning a window to the side of the entrance door was smashed and entry was gained a woman who was due to have a cancerous lump removed in gallway today as head out at letter kenny university hospital over an alleged miscommunication in her positive covid test carmel was diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks ago and has received both covid 19 vaccines and a booster jab she traveled to gallway on sunday night but when she arrived to the hospital she was told by staff there she was covid positive and to return home immediately a tip off from a witness to a burglary may have deterred those responsible from carrying out the crime in full gar thee received a call on saturday shortly after nine p.m in relation to the incident that was in progress at a house in glenn ruah in letter kenny letter kenny university hospital is the second most overcrowded in ireland today as of this morning there were 56 people awaiting admission 18 of the montrallis in its emergency department and details will be revealed later on a long awaited compensation scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes the children's minister is bringing the package to cabinet this morning for approval before it is published that's it for now we're back with an update for you at 12 noon and you welcome back to the program as i mentioned earlier i was thinking there was an open day at i molters it is it's actually the 19th 20th and 21st november and uh john breson and i think david james uh well certainly john breson is anyway john breson is actually broadcasting live from there i'm sure there'll be more details as this week wears on now we contacted us relates to carmel's case the hsc and sometimes our contact isn't about necessarily getting a resolution because carmel is is on top of that as well it's to flag it okay and to try and ensure something like this doesn't happen again and uh you know with media inquiries maybe procedures get looked at and uh improved uh but anyway the hsc they say they can't comment on individual cases for all the reasons we know and they quote an actual data protection act to us but what they do say is that we regret that any patient should experience a negative incident at our hospitals if patients or families have concerns or questions in relation to the care they can contact the hospital to directly discuss the matter further and then it says that the hsc is a feedback comments and complete process in place at all hospitals as part of our your service you're saying so it goes on uh but hopefully it's been noted now and carmel's chased up great show a great song uh some tough listening respect to all uh thanks very much for your comments there it's a disgrace that the clients from cash in the core are offered places in letter kenny they deserve to stay in their hometown wean in the shown fundraised for that facility for the local people now just in relation to being offered places that was one particular case that councillor donahoe was familiar with i'm not sure it's a sort of being offered broadly uh this caller says there's no transparency on how a person meets the criteria and who decides the list of people who a priority one is it an arbitrary decision it is difficult to believe that in this day and age discrimination is rife even among those who are already discriminated against uh to become a priority one uh my heart goes out to carmel having had a similar but not the same experience re letter kenny hospital over 22 years ago and having to go to gallway several trips prior to eventual surgery i could write a book on them um several times since that details much too long for here listen thanks for your uh communication via email there um it's a disgrace that the clients from cash in the core offered places i've just read that one i beg your pardon what date is highland radio taking place thank you it's taking place on the 23rd of november i don't really use notes i read texts and stuff but in terms of for interviews and stuff i don't use notes so i probably should but i'd prefer not to uh and then sometimes i struggle to remember dates which uh but anyway 23rd of december i know it's in my head now i feel sorry for that poor woman we put our trust in the health service but yet people like carmel are let down and uh it's an incredibly strong woman carmel clearly uh but obviously there was a period during that interview where you could see uh you could hear the toll it took on her um two of the most kind people i've ever met in my life were two filipino nurses uh carmel and uvi uh who i came to know when my mother was in remelton nursing units uh hi to mary grace who was just a guest before 11 the most wonderful generous and caring neighbor we could have ever asked for and our children have grown up together and become great friends that's coming in mary grace from your friends at chiffon and johnny and both uh greg and mary grace you can see in their faces and their smile that they are very lovely and caring people hi please say a big hello to mary grace wishing her all the best wishes from her friends mags and brona mags 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right now the government has uh was urged to go to war against dog nappers over the weekend after as many dogs were stolen in the first five months of this year than all of 2020 we're joined on the program now by independent go away east ed shone canny who claims the current penalties against the pet snatchers are a joke so let's tease out more uh deputy shone uh canny good morning to you good morning good morning to all your listeners and highland radio right so has this been across your radar for some time or why are you uh vocal on it now shone well i suppose uh when you look at the figures first of all and you see uh the uh growth in this elicit business and you see what's happening and i have come across in my own constituency where people who have whose dogs have been taken from them it's uh they're their pets they're they're something that's actually that they have been uh a part of their family and it has been a huge um distraught uh situation for the people who are who are um actually at the loss and also a relationship with the with the with the with the dog and the um and the family uh you know it's a fairly serious bond and for somebody just to to steal a dog uh and i think that it is being done in um an orchestration way it's been planned and i think it's important that we provide the resources to tackle this head on and to make sure that we get uh uh to the root of it um i also do you think the law sort of views it as well sure it's just a pet it's just a dog do you know what i mean and doesn't take into account that emotional bond that you talk of that the the the the devastating impact it can have on people do you think that it can and and even during lockdown for older people are people living on their own their dog was probably their companion uh and it was also something that that that we we forget about that um you know people who live in isolation uh they have a dog it's a pet and it's it's it's somebody they talk to and and will will will effectively communicate pack with them whether it's the bark or whether it's the wag of the tail or whatever it's all part of of our of our living so i think it's important that at this stage we look at this and say what's this all about why are people doing this and then when people steal dogs is there a market for them to resell them and i think this is uh very important as well that we do not have an outlet if people uh have an outlet for some for the sale of dogs that are stolen well then we have got to cut that off as well i do believe what would you see as a as and i'm sure you've thought about it but it would be something would have to be teased out through through debate and conversation but what do you think if someone steals someone's dog what do you think an appropriate punishment would should be well i would say that uh a first time round that that person should be uh get a severe fine and a warning that if they re-offend they would be a custodial sentence i think we have to bring it that fair so and i also want people locked up if they're found to have stolen dogs twice yeah well i would think it's important that we we knit this in the boat i think we need to have a deterrent we also need to finance the local authorities properly so that their dog wardens can be uh their numbers can be increased so that they can have a bigger presence in the communities so that people who are thinking about stealing a dog and and it's not just somebody thinking about stealing a dog i believe it is more organized than that and i think that we need to get to the root cause of it and also i think we we need to understand it like are the authorities exploring whether or not these dogs are being stolen and exported moved across the border you know because it would be very easiest for us to presume that a dog is stolen in Galway and sold in core you know what i mean do we have a full understanding of this this uh criminal behavior how much money's involved who's pulling the strings you know if we had a better understanding of it perhaps maybe we could we could get a better handle on it well i think this is it but i think if the dog wardens are reinforced with additional resources or them on the streets you really think that would make a difference you know these people are going around back roads they're marking people's houses they're waiting for an opportune time and putting these dogs into a back of a car or a van or whatever and and driving on would more dog wardens really make any difference i i i think that the presence of dog wardens would but i also believe that there is an onus on the stage to make sure that we investigate these crimes fully and what i mean by that is if if if a dog is stolen how do you actually investigate it how do you go about it and i think it's important that we have more resources within the garden as well to look at that the the idea that this has been done on an isolated basis is not right i think that there are it is organized and i do believe that it is time for the for the garden to put resources towards this on a national scale to actually get inside and see what actually is happening the dogs could be going any place that could be going to northern ireland and then over to to the uk or whatever and not saying that that's the way they go and i blame in northern ireland but i'm saying is that there have to be more checks we also need to have all of our dogs chipped we need to make sure that they are chipped so that we can we can trace them up well that's why i'm sort of talking about you know if we had a better understanding of how many of these stolen dogs are taking out of the country because if they're being chipped perhaps it you know that's not really going to address this issue i mean like there there is no doubt that we treat the welfare of dogs very very seriously custodial sentence heavy fines people being banned from keeping animals if they mistreat dogs yet you know it's it's it's very cruel towards dogs and their owners if they're stolen why are we so soft touch in that regard really i suppose that's the part of that's the question with my you know but i've put on that that other the comparison so we we take the welfare of our animals seriously we just need to push it on a bit better we do and i think we also need to ban the sale of dogs online which is another issue where dogs can be sold online and you're buying the dog you might have to make an arrangement to meet somebody at a film station to pick up the dog you don't go to see where the dog was was kept before you bought the dog so we need to ban the sale of dogs online i think it's it's important i think that's when somebody's buying a dog they need to understand that they need to go to the premises where they're buying the dog they need to make sure that the premises is a proper legitimate premises that the paperwork is right and that the dog is chipped i think there is no going to go that far then if we're going to go that far and we're talking then about you know what seems like a significant review of dog ownership should prospective owners of dogs have to pass a test a theory test for dog ownership or prove that they have the facilities the resources and the wherewithal to look after pets you know if we're going to go beyond your your your initial calls let's go the whole way because i know there are some you know there are some agencies certainly here in in donny gall who end up picking up the pieces of of abandoned dogs that they think you know people should be tested before to see if they are capable of looking after a dog well i think the the most important thing and i suppose at this time of year when people might be thinking about buying a pet for christmas for their children i think it's important that they realize that it's not a pet for a day it's a pet for life and the need to actually parents and adults need to examine to see is there somebody going to be there to look after the dog during the day is there a place to house the dog is there a place that the dog can be put at night which is safe and the feeding of the dog and all of the care that needs to go in to make sure a dog is maintained properly there's veterinary costs and all that kind of thing and sometimes people buy a dog on the basis or this is a lovely romantic idea to buy a dog for a child for christmas but it can be a nightmare if it isn't thought out well in advance particularly actually can can you actually are you a suitable candidate to have a dog in your home or attached to your home and sometimes it's better to do that i think it's often important that that's done all right because oftentimes people buy a dog and they don't realize well hold on a minute this is an animal that needs caring and you just kind of just it's not just a Saturday morning javi bring them from the walk or for a walk a lot more than that for sure debbie shawn can you thanks very much for your time this morning i appreciate it thank you very much okay enjoy the rest of your day thank you now just let you know by the way that the today we're going to be coming live from letter candy credit union is their second car draw of the year someone is going to be getting some good news today it's the 14th year of the letter candy credit union members draw would you believe and they've given away 54 cars over that time two cars are up for grabs today two lucky letter candy credit union members will each win a brand new Ford fiesta st line now osheen will be letting you know what's going on at half past one you can listen on air or it'll be streamed live on our social media as well across our facebook youtube and twitter at 10 to 2 osheen's going to be chatting to some of the people involved in the credit union and then at quarter past two we get the draw live so tune in for that if you want to watch it as i say hop onto the social media and if you want to if you want to listen of course you'll 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patient who was told uh two years ago that her breast implant would need to come out and be replaced at the time she was told that this would need to happen sooner rather than later still no word another why is there no need for vaccine search in hotels if you stay the night you can use the bar in restaurant with no restrictions and that contradiction you you might call it was flagged a long time ago um way way back um and you i've read that one okay thanks for that all right i want to speak now to um dr michelle may her program manager will see her elected she's been a guest on the show before delighted to have her back on good morning to you doctor thanks for joining us morning greg how are you i am good 2024 it's not that far away now um and that's when the next local elections are taking place obviously you guys are working flat out to to help and support people who wish to run for election and we are now seeing the launch of a new guidebook for women running in the election so i mean do we go through the reasons why such is required or is it obvious at this stage michelle uh well i think you you've had me on talking about this before but i've also been doing an awful lot of listening and we've run our our political education she school classes and it was a really privilege to be listening to women talking about politics and to see them coming together around this shared interest in how politics works but i was listening so when women were saying you know if you're not from a political family where do you start or if you've never been in a political party how do you go about choosing one um and if you're new to the country you know how do you find out all the stuff you need to know about running for election so three of us put our heads together and decided to do something about it uh so my colleague maredo shea from ross common and katina mara from tipper area former councillor and senator and the result of that was to see her elected guide to running in the 2024 local elections and what we put together greg is common sense yeah there's no padding in this it's not a big textbook it's all the information you need and you start presumably with the basics because you know that is the basics where do you begin you start well you can tell us but i mean you need uh you need to think of the financial implications uh who's going to help you that kind of stuff talk us through it it actually the guidebook itself and just to say that it's free it's on our website see her elected dot ie i'd encourage everybody to to have a look at it i'm very very proud of it uh the guidebook start it actually starts a step back from where you're saying there greg it actually starts with why not you yeah that's something i would say directly to every woman that's listening to me now to just stop and think about it why shouldn't it be you in the county council or why shouldn't it be you managing a campaign for a woman or managing the finances or or canvassing you'd you'd be brilliant at it so what the guidebook does it that's where it starts and then it moves on to you know listing out everything you need to know about the area you'd be running in and how to find it out it talks about the selection conventions you know how to go about getting your name on the ballot paper and how to negotiate the selection conventions and when they happen and what you need to have in place it moves on then to budgets financing a lot of time spent in the guidebook about how to put your strategies together your campaign putting together your team how to canvas and it takes your right the way through to how do you get tickets for the count the all-party tally teams how they work and when you as a candidate or as a campaign manager should be at the count now just in relation to that obviously you're an organization focused on assisting and promoting women in politics and getting into politics but would this book be useful to people I've spoken to on many occasions new Irish people people that have moved here that have been here for an awful long time from a different country who perhaps don't have you know as as big a bigger network as others might that also say look we feel or I feel underrepresented would they benefit from this book as well even though we know when your remit is supporting women getting elected and there will be a crossover there of course would other people find this useful too do you think it'll be useful to anybody with political ambition and that's why we decided to make it free we want to get it into as many women's hands as possible but we know that you know within that group there'll be people with disabilities who never really thought about themselves as county councillors or people who are new to the country people from the traveler community so just to put everything together in one very accessible format and to make it free for everybody so we think that this as well as bringing more women into local government it can only improve the diversity of the councillors that we we have in there and we're not just kind of sending out the guidebook and off you go now because we actually have designed a whole series of workshops to go with it the link and all the information again is on our website seeherelected.ie and I mean who should think about coming to the the workshops they start next week and we're trying to fit in you know I really don't like when I'm signing up for something and I have to kind of fit in with somebody else's schedule what we're trying to do and see her elected is fit in with as many women's lives as we can so we're running the workshops on four different times and days the week so you know we have a specific week each month so on in that week Monday nights at eight o'clock eight to nine maybe Tuesday's such a better if it is we're running them Tuesday at 10 o'clock in the morning Wednesday's really interesting the amount of people are going for this one because it's at seven o'clock in the morning so an awful lot of early birds out there so between seven and eight women seeing that as an attractive time to carve out an hour for themselves and then we on Thursdays we have lunchtime one to two and we're especially looking for women in in Donegal come along and join in on these workshops and they're not just for women who are thinking of being a candidate and maybe don't know where to start I want to know a little bit more about it we're just as interested in the women who would never see themselves as a candidate but would love to get involved in helping a woman get elected I really hope to see you and I'm sorry that we often find ourselves touched on the same issues but maybe they're not changing we are you know a couple of years out from these elections with the best will in the world we don't want a situation where we've got a group of people vying for two or three independent seats or whatever like is it a case that we are starting to see the system try and change political parties trying to look at the situation you know what I mean to there is a role there isn't there to increase representation on the council and they need to sort of start meeting the candidates uh so some way as well are we seeing anything positive in that regard Michelle? Uh we are one of the things that we've done is um one of the questions that was being asked over and over again is like explain the difference to me between Finafall and Finnegal or how do you decide? Sorry that's not an opinion that's a little a little bit a little bit of satire so you know and and how do I how do I choose a party so I sat down I thought right where do I start and I thought well why don't I start by asking the parties themselves and they went for it we contacted every political party and we said could you put together a video two three minutes that we would put on our website and and and you tell the women in Donegal or wherever why they should join your party so we're putting one up a week so I think Finafall is up there Shinfelna is up there the Green Party the Social Democrats and I think Finnegal and people before profit are on their way so uh so so that's so the political parties engaged with us on that so to me they're beginning to to see um I mean they're smart people they know that there's a quota in the job and it's 30% at the moment and it'll be going up to 40% so where are they going to find the the people for the where they're going to find the candidates at the national level they'll find them in the county council so just in relation to uh say a party any any party doesn't matter 12 candidates sorry currently have 12 councillors on on a council now I am making this up so if it it's pure coincidence if it aligns with the party and they have 10 men right and two women uh we we can never really expect can we that they will say right well watch you what we're going to do is we're going to let some of our elected councillors down here we're going to try and get this eight four or uh even you know six six we're going to have to wait aren't we locally until people retire uh or until you know I would like to think that the political party would pick the best people for the job so women who are engaging now would see her elected who read this guidebook who come to the workshops what we're doing with them is we're saying now in 2021 make yourself a very viable option for a political party when they're looking for candidates you're there what's your issue what's your what is it why why shouldn't it be you in the council um or helping a woman get there and we're going to help women be able to articulate very clearly and very powerfully what their motivation is what they'll do as a councillor and make it very hard for the political parties to look past them um uh we'll also you know they and the first series they'll be I suppose that the first seven said they start in November and there's one workshop a month between now and May so that that's set of seven is kind of setting the scene and getting people as far as next summer so by the end of the by next May anyone that comes along once a month to us uh then they'll be able to articulate their motivation for being a councillor and they'll know the job and they'll know their electoral area like the back of their hand can I just imagine the enthusiasm building through that you know so in other words what seems like an impossible mountain to climb you can find yourself actually you know seeing the summit over the course of those months I can imagine that happening well I would like to think so and although the workshops are once a month uh myself at see her elected is there between those workshops to meet informally and help people because there'll be a small assignment if you like or a piece of homework or something to get ready for the next workshop because we're now we're done talking we're now at the practical nitty gritty roll your sleeves up and let's get some more women into the county councils up there right how do people get more information see the schedule of events and that type of stuff yeah they um I said the guidebook itself is free to download from our website see her elected dot ie uh the registration link for the workshops is also on our website see her elected dot ie anyone who registers for the workshop uh my first job will be to head out to the post office and put a hard copy of the guidebook in the post to them uh they need to pick what time and day suits them to come along and and let's let's get together a woman and join me go on and let's do it wouldn't it be amazing if people listening to this program now a seed was planted um and in sometime in 2024 we were interviewing them down at the oral leisure center having been elected it would be a wonderful story here's here's the case all right listen fantastic as always uh Michelle we really appreciate you very much and thanks for your support Greg bye bye always no problem Dr Michelle may her there program manager with see her elected uh and if you so wait six sixty twenty five thousand are you a person that would like to get involved in politics and have the conversation here as well if you like why would you like to get involved what do you see is the barriers um you know what needs to be changed um because you want any elected body to be truly representative of its people wouldn't you today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster 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um as i say we try and get answers to your questions and we've been uh trying to get an answer to this one and i think we have um they say this email is said to us Greg can you get some clarification is it wide it is widely reported in the media local and national that you can now recycle soft plastics this is something that i was delighted with is i think that it makes sense last weekend when i visited the recycling center in car and donna i was advised by the man who helps you there that soft plastics weren't being recycled there and that in fact they were only being recycled by one recycling company based in dublin he then um said as he sorted the soft plastics out of my green bags i also had a bag of broken toys all plastics some soft bits and some hard bits i was advised that this is not recycling it was rubbish i was asked to take it home and put it into my black bin right okay two bits there so we got on to the council and they say the following in relation to the soft plastics the reintroduction is for the household recycling bin provided by local waste collectors currently the recycling centers are examining opportunities for accepting soft plastics going forward but for now they accept rigid plastic the rigid plastics accepted at recycling centers of specific outlets and are reprocessed into specific products such as piping it's planned that in the future a service for soft plastics will be available at the recycling centers now i would have thought that the uh your local authorities not being too specific here would be ahead of that wouldn't they and they say right okay there's a change a common make let's make sure we're out in front of it i don't imagine you need much more than a a couple of black bins uh to sort of support the public in their effort to recycle these soft plastics but no only in your bin right ken good morning to you good morning right we were talking earlier on about dog thefts and penalties for it and what happens to these uh these pets ken you tell us what you've to say i was watching i think on the BBC northern island about a month ago and they had an investigation into all this now the problem being as it does not matter how tight the republic are the dogs have been taken out through northern ireland what what the program showed was the dogs have been brought to the border that's dognapping and puppy farm they've been brought to the border and there'd be microchips but the microchips are not being registered even if the microchips check i don't shoot one number but it'll not be registered so it's not going to a database it'll read a number but it won't link to a central system yeah and then what's happening then is they're taking the animals through belfast and larn and the problem there the minister himself was on and says they do not have the personality patrol list so they're just taking the dogs straight over to scottland and england and then they followed one of the vans as it comes from our map they showed you the vans they showed you the faces of the people that were doing it and i think they maybe named a couple of them but it's a lot more organized than anybody realized and that makes sense ken because this is what i was talking about chipping we're a small island nation here and if someone's lifting if these gangs lift in hundreds of dogs i'm not sure there is actually and i could be naive here the market for them or you know a big enough market that it wouldn't be very clear what they're doing it makes a lot of sense to me what do you do you load them up you drive them into a different jurisdiction and it makes moving them on far more easy there's basically practically no checks and any checks that are made they see or they see a microchip and they get a number but they don't check if it's registered then they just take the dogs and say they followed one of the vans there was a doghouse border and he was stopping in different places normally they'll park around behind a building or they'll go into one of these lorry parks and they'll park behind a lorry where they can't be seen then they change the dogs over and the cars are all advanced and then they go to the next stop so let me say it's a very very highly organized but if lord an island doesn't do something about it it doesn't matter what the third in the republic are doing they're not going to stop it they need to get the the portion of an island neatly i'll be a less tricker than they are yeah that makes sense yeah indeed because all you have to do is worry about getting across the border and there's nothing on it and and you're home free ken listen thanks for your insight into that i appreciate it greatly it makes sense okay okay good stuff now it makes sense 100 it shouldn't be the case but it is um but that's what i was thinking you know because i say if you think about it i know you could we're a big country but we're small enough too and and to be active dog stealing dog selling doing a lot of it online you'd think eventually you would get rumbled but if you're exporting the dogs uh shifting them out of the country uh it makes it makes it an awful lot easier i would imagine uh the parasites that steal dog says this text there should be locked up not given fines as they're stealing family members as the dogs are a member of a family and the punishment should fit the crime a fine for this crime is not acceptable and the the deputy actually in his comments elsewhere did actually say that it should be treated uh like uh sorry it feels like a family member has been kidnapped and treated as such carmel was back on to us because you remember we contacted the hsc and they said make a complaint well carmel got back in touch with us and said on my way home yesterday i phoned the hospital and asked for the complaint service i got an answering machine and to this minute no one has called me back the response from the hsc is disgraceful carmel is it does it feel like insults to injury there because you know the hsc come back and say hell on you we can't talk about carmel's case because of gdpr and the act of 2040 whatever it is um there we have a complaint system there in place carmel should contact that well carmel did contact that right and probably added to her frustration she left a message no call back and then finds herself having to ring her local radio station uh to uh get the get the um to pursue the matter um i totally agree with the comments about the rte weather it's rubbish i watch barra best on the evening news on bbc northern alland he's always right now he's very popular on social media as well is barra best i haven't i don't watch much tv news but there you go uh yes i must say gregg i've got a surprise with my insurance this year it was down 90 euro so i'm a happy cookie what are you going to do with that money all right nice one my insurance on a car 25 000 euro that's the car price fully comprehensive with uh break down a windscreen cover is 356 euro down from 650 that's with liberty wow that's a nice saving isn't it that's 300 euro in your back pocket much more than the 15 percent morning greg my insurance was 470 last year it was 420 this year now you can shop around and save a fortune now i the person's listing she knows who she is i won't embarrass her in a name her but she's a terrier with these insurance companies and saves a fortune because it doesn't accept it rings them up saying oh i've got this quote here what can you do back and forwards it takes a bit of time but uh the insurance is around 300 quid for something it's crazy low uh from an initial quote closer to a thousand right okay we are going to be speaking uh to our next guest in just a minute today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires winter is coming get your tires winter ready call into ulster tires in letter candy and balibuffa today buy a ticket buy a ticket in highland radios mega draw to win a car win a car get your 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to do this that and other and then you see paul reed at a function um and you wonder well is could would i have done that or you see you know me hall martin in in in a function with the president and you wonder what is that exactly what we're being told to do because i would have thought you can't really do that and uh then we're being told nightclubs were open everywhere is open but don't go out you know um cut down your contacts uh well it's all very confusing i think linda ball's co-owner of fusion uh trick and bistro uh truck and bistro beg your pardon um and is in business do you find it confusing uh linda uh it's one nightmare after another there's no clear cut information out there at all you're told that you can basically open operate as normal with your social dust and some whatever in place and then your customers are told well actually don't go out don't socialize don't max don't go indoors and like i don't know where how are we meant to love what that's or how like from a business point of view how are you meant to survive because the they're the same people that are saying look there's a set of rules but then what they're saying is we've set that rules but here's another set of rules that we would like you really to follow not that else actual set of rules that we announced yeah and that sounds a confusing way of putting it that's a very simple way of putting a very confusing situation linda yeah basically you know there's no the narrative been pushed at the moment and i'm not downplaying coven and i'm not downplaying we are i know it's a serious situation but the fear been pushed out there and the anxiety and people is just unreal and nobody knows everybody the majority of people up to now have done what has been right and have done their best we've all majority have got vaccinated majority have stayed at home and they need to stay at home you know where where does it end where do we actually start living with this and a realistic plan so what you're saying linda from a business perspective too it might not be a lockdown that could close the business it would be the sort of uh other information don't go to that business even that it's open that could end up seeing a business going under that's actually more of a risk at the minute because when do you there's only so many loans there's only so many things that you can because there is no subsidies there is we're not getting paid anything at the minute there's nothing in place to help us this was just clear that up before anybody says we've all got such and such and such there is nothing there so overheads have actually increased because your price of buying everything and has increased you have your PUP payments have to pay back your restart grants have to be paid back so it's actually it's coming to the stage now very very quickly where you look and say right we know what do we continue with this and end up financially crippled or do you just now draw a line and say right we'll walk away and we'll cut our losses and we'll pay back whatever we have to pay back right then to listen it's a very important subject I wish I had more time to speak to you about it because I think it's a really important because what we're seeing too in other areas of businesses events that were scheduled are being cancelled now there's no public health official public health grants to cancel them but people and businesses are thinking they're doing the right thing because that's the sort of advice that's coming from maybe it's uh you know they're not saying right go ahead with them but try and see if people might do an antigen test before attending or something like that there and people are making their own decisions within the guidelines because they're confused as to what the guidelines are we're going to have to come back to this end because it's a really important issue and I appreciate your short time this morning and hopefully we'll speak again soon thank you yeah I'll free anytime good stuff all right because we'll have to come back to that one it's a really important point Linda Boyle co-owner of the fusion trick uh truck and bistro right so to mention you understand together it's a campaign we are backing uh it's about really uh inspiring people from all sections of our society to stand with and together the half a million people in this country who've been affected by dementia here's some information that might be of help 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 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