 Conversion programme. Call 9186206 or email donald.hanigan.atu.ie Thanks for your company this morning, this Thursday. Oh, Gregory used it back. He's back, boy. Yeah, I was expecting you. Two-day week. I know. And I got slagging yesterday from Caroline. She says, I, so, cos I came back yesterday, right, and took off Tuesday, cos you said you were taking off Tuesday as well. I did, I, yeah. So I said, that's a good idea, isn't it? Enjoy the good weather. And then Caroline says, I was a part-timer, coming back on a Wednesday. Well, what does that make me? You're a timer. I'm not even part of it. Listen, don't, two days off, two days and you will leave, lots of time off. You've got a collar. Don't hate the game. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Well, out, foot and turf, out, kayaking. Were you up in the bog? Yep. Was up in the bog out. Were you fitting? Don't tell Ayman Ryan that. By the way, should I have said that on it? Is that legal? I don't know. Who cares? See, you would, see, you says, foot and, we would, I would say, fitting. No, I said fitting. You says foot and I said fitting. It's like quads and quads. What is it? Well, pronounce and pronounce. I know, you're getting too posh for me now. But so, how long did you do the fitting or the fitting? Oh, full day. What's a full day for you? Three hours. Yeah, that's what I say. All right, good luck to you. All right, Lee, see you tomorrow morning. It is nine o'clock. Time for a news. It's much longer than three hours though. People take the ad breaks out and they say it's actually really two and a half hours. All right, it is time for news update. It's over to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The government is set to make a financial contribution of 1.5 million euro to the European Union. It's because the state can't afford to provide accommodation to an additional 350 asylum seekers. With more, here's Sean O'Regan. Ministers at a cabinet meeting later this morning are set to approve this contribution. The joint memo is from Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Integration Minister, Roderick O'Gorman. It follows on from the state failing to meet its commitments under an EU voluntary solidarity mechanism. Part of that mechanism was an agreement that an additional 350 international protection applicants could relocate here. The scheme requires member states to accommodate refugees or pay a financial contribution if they can't. So because of pressures on accommodation from the over 80,000 refugees and asylum seekers already here, the government is going to offer to pay 1.5 million euro instead. A national fodder survey has been ordered by Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnelog as drought conditions begin to bite on farms. Metairing has confirmed such widespread and prolonged drought conditions haven't been recorded since 2018 when farming suffered a severe drought and fodder crisis. The Irish Farmers Journal is reporting this morning the grass growth has plummeted, particularly in the south and east, with concerns growing about second-cut silage crops. The Farmers Journal editor is Katrina Morrissey. The Metairing has said to us that 25 of 25 of its main weather stations have now recorded between 15 and 26 dry days. 15 is the bar to reach for drought in an area and all of Metairing stations, the main stations have now recorded drought conditions with 15 to 26 dry days. What has happened is that grass has not grown. The HSE is encouraging people who are eligible to get their COVID-19 spring boosters in the coming days. The programme winds down next week. People aged 70 or older and those aged 12 or older with immune systems that are weak are urged to act now. The vaccination centre in Latter-Kinney opens today and tomorrow and also on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. A pop-up clinic operates tomorrow in Stranonur. Full details on our website. And there are 22 clean-ups registered in County Donegal on today World Oceans Day. 340 volunteers will take part across the county. It comes as the World Meteorological Organisation warns oceans are facing serious consequences from global warming, with global mean sea-level reaching a new record high in 2021. The international coordinator of Coastwatch, Karen Dubbsky, says education is key. Loads of little things can be done. The other thing is that a lot of families are now going to the beach to discover and look at things. Teach small children how sensitive and fragile things are to learn more, go softly on the ocean. A bright start with some good spells of sunshine. Turning hazy this afternoon with cloud continuing to build. Staying dry and mild though with highest temperatures, 18 to 21 degrees Celsius today. And that's Highland Radio News. We're back with news in full at 10 o'clock. Supervalu makes saving money as easy as one, two, three. One, we match Aldi and the products you love. Two, great special offers like get two large Supervalu signature-taste pizzas. Plus one Supervalu garlic baguette two-pack and one selected Supervalu coleslaw all for 8 euro and three. Money off vouchers every week on the app. So, follow the one, two, three and save money at Supervalu. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of The Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning. You're very welcome along to The Nine Till Noon Show. For this Thursday, the 8th of June 2023, how are you doing? Thank you very much to Donald Kavana, who sat in for me Wednesday and Tuesday. It feels like a lifetime since I've been at work. And what brilliant weather we had. And I'm lucky enough to have the health to get out and enjoy it. And I hope you all did too. Let us know what you're up to, what you're doing and have your say on the topics of the day. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Those lines are now open. You can give us a call too on 07, 491, 25,000 if you so wish. And also, you can email comments at highlandradio.com. All right, it is a Thursday, which means there's a plethora of papers. So let's run through and pick out some news stories from the front and inside of them. The Chicano Tribune. Over 92,000 euro has been raised as a result of the 2023 Relay for Life Donagall. But with money still to come in from the various teams who took part, the final figures expected to rise further, which is a cracking figure. While the funding is on the upchair person, Robert O'Connor has confirmed his intention to step down from a position he's held since the first Relay in Donagall back in 2012. And he let me know this when he was in for a chat last week and hopefully Robert will come in when he has a better time and sit down and have a talk about his life and his involvement in Relay. So he committed to do that. So we'll have him in the studio in the not too distant future. Well, at the Sunday's closing ceremony, 92,411 raised through the efforts of the 29 teams who took part in this year's event and still counting as he indicated. It would be great to see more teams involved. I think they had over 70 when it first started. And it is one of those diseases, cancer, in that it will affect half of us, but it will affect all of us directly and indirectly. And I hope that that money, of course, that that money, I don't hope. We're going to go to a great cause and we were there for a bit on Saturday as well. It was lovely. It was really, really nice. I think it was Saturday. Well, Saturday, yeah. The Donagall Democrat. What do you think about this? Some 1,750 Ukrainian refugees could be housed on a cruise ship in Kili Begs. It's following a proposal by a local businessman. The plan would see refugees temporarily housed on a cruise ship docked in the fishing port. The document was submitted last September to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth by the group, which includes the former Kili Begs harbour master, Captain Jay Kelly. Now, the proposal aims to ease current accommodation problems by housing refugees on the ship, on the north side of the pier, which they claim would not obstruct fishing boats or interfere with local businesses. Now, this was a proposal that was some time ago. And there are incredible pressures, I suspect. I wonder maybe it's contained in the rest of the article here. Those proposals have been rejected this stage. As a group of Donagall businessmen, I read on here with extensive marine industry and managerial experience, we propose to manage the following solution on behalf of the government to provide accommodation for up to 1,750 Ukrainian refugees, a spokesperson for the group, Philip Mulville, told Donagall Live. So it seems they're still active proposals. You can read more in the paper there. What do you think 1,750 Ukrainian refugees would be in a cruise ship on the pier at Kilibegs? I mean, obviously, it wouldn't be an issue in terms of housing or a room for that matter, but that's not often what the issues are, is it? It's about the services that are available, not just only to support that amount of people, 1,750, but also the population that already exists in terms of local GP services and so on and so forth. Anyway, we'll see what they come up with with that one, just as I say, want your views coming into us as well. The Donagall News tells us that a survey attendance at masses in the Raffaul Diocese has shown that congregations are continuing to decline. Figures released by the diocese have revealed how in one church in Donagall, an average of only five people attended weekday mass, Bishop Alemagokian has called on clergy and the faithful to use the result and plan for the future, and it's simply a matter of managing decline. The survey of the diocese, 33 parishes, undertaken between February and March, Harold did change, is certainly coming, the Bishop said. So why did you, if you are a Catholic and not everyone listening is, why did you stop going to mass more recently? Is it that you don't have the time in the day that you don't see any benefit from it? Are you one of these people? And maybe this is a private question, but we're not asking anyone to state anything publicly. We'll continue to be religious, but you just don't see a benefit personally in going to mass. And if you don't go to mass then, is it fair to roll up for your Holy Communion or your confirmation or your wedding or for that matter your funeral? Because the people's relationship with church is changing. There's just no doubt about that. But why did you stop going? If it was more recently, you know, I think if you go back a certain period of time, and I would have known some of them that didn't like what was going on and just disengaged with the attendance part of it, but there's a new generation of people or children that aren't being taken to mass, and why not? Is it something that the church needs to change or is it just a change within you? 08, 6, 60, 25,000, and maybe you continue to be very religious, but you just don't see that as a necessity or maybe you just have chosen to stay watching mass remotely where that option is available to you. As I say, just be interested to have a conversation as to why we are seeing those declines. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The Dairy News tells us this morning that young people on dirt bikes are going to end up killing a child according to a concerned parent from the Gallia area of the city. Speaking to the paper, the parent said there was a near miss between a dirt bike and a child playing on the green area between Gallia Park and Fur Green last week. They are going to end up killing somebody, said the parent. There are a couple of alleyways in the area and there are lots of young wanes playing there and if they fly down on their bikes and scooters, they're going to end up killing a wane. Now if you want to get involved in that conversation too from outside the Republic, 0, 0, 3, 5, 3, 8, 7, 60, 25,000, perhaps some good news in terms of your weekly shop because we're anticipating a price war. Now Tesco has this morning announced that it is going to reduce 700-part products by an average of 10%. So they're not your staples per se as in your flour, your bread, your milk, butter and things like that there. It's across the range. So if Tesco do it and of course then they can bring out their adverts saying we're cutting the cost of your weekly shop, you would hope then that others might follow and they might even go a little lower. Who is to say? But if you could save 10% per week on your big shop, wouldn't that be really good news? Households are to get some relief we read from soaring grocery prices as the supermarket price war moves up a gear. Tesco will cut the cost of hundreds of products and other retailers say they are reviewing their prices. Tesco is reducing prices by an average of 10% across more than 700 products. The moves expected to force a response from rivals Lidl, Lidl, Don, Supervalue and Aldi. The reduction represents a stepping up on recent cuts to the price of own-brand bread, butter and milk announced by the main chains the decision to reduce prices across a range of goods, comms as grocery price inflation has reached record levels. Research from Kantar said prices rose by 16.5% in the 12 weeks to May 14 compared with the same period last year. Now we'd love to see them return because it's costing us an average 1,200 euro extra a year and now maybe we can mitigate some of that by choosing different brands or maybe trying to reduce our food waste which is astronomical. I think it was discussed on the programme yesterday but anything that sees 10% going off your weekly shop I think has to be welcomed. Right the Irish Times this morning state to pay EU 1.5 million and now it's 350 asylum seekers the state will pay 1.5 million to a European relocation system because the Republic does not have the space to accommodate an additional 350 international protection applicants now if they're safe elsewhere 1.5 million seems like a a relatively low fee given the millions that are being spent every week on accommodation. Well Minister for Justice Helen Mackinty and Minister for Integration Roderick O'Gorman will receive capital approval today for the 1.5 million financial contribution which will be made to meet the state's commitment under an asylum seeker relocation system known as the voluntary solidarity mechanism the state previously agreed to accept an extra 350 international protection applicants as part of the as part of the solitary agreement imagine they've missed out words on the front of a national newspaper that's crazy which sees international protection applicants relocated in various EU member states right let's go on to the mail I believe it is, yes indeed just in case you were wondering Tarnas de Mijol Martin has confirmed and he said it on this show but his mind hasn't changed he has confirmed he intends to lead Fina fall into the next election while public expenditure Minister Pascal Donahou has pledged to stand again. Mr Martin was asked to confirm his intentions as worries emerge that the party leader who has been at the helm for over a decade could leave for a nice wee post in Europe I'll be leading Fina fall into the next general election and that is my objective he said yesterday now I'm not sure that necessarily means he actually is because if he said yesterday that I'm giving it strong consideration well that would automatically de facto trigger a leadership campaign wouldn't it so I wouldn't say that it is a lock on you know I think he has options I think politically he's achieved everything in politics that he wants to I think we're in a thankless period of being a politician at this time so perhaps if you could get a nice cozy post in Europe now's the time to go so even though he has committed to leading Fina fall into the next general election I would have my doubts on that but then he goes on to say I think we should go full term with this government I intend to lead the party full term and into the next general election the Tonister admitted he has been asked about different positions as rumours swirled that he might be eyeing up a role as an EU commissioner but he reaffirmed that he will be leading Fina fall so if you're a Fina fall supporter do you welcome that news or would you like to see someone else have a crack at it and if so who 08 660 25000 the farmers journal this morning concerns are growing that farm payments under acres could be at risk if the required scheme work is not completed on time agricultural advisors have told the Department of Agriculture they're under severe workload pressure due to the range of new cap schemes coupled with 46000 farmers being accepted into acres their most immediate concern is the walking and scoring of 600000 hectare of land in the scheme and the submission of grassland and habitat school cards how are your young ones if they're doing the leaving cert fairing it's covered in the front sorry inside the Irish Daily Star today leaving cert students experienced a well pitched and broadly appealing paper for both the higher an ordinary level English paper one examine expert said Lorraine Toffey who's also an English teacher at Jesus and Mary secondary school in Sligo said students sitting junior cycle higher had a bizarre and ill-fitting challenge she added that those sitting the ordinary level paper had a challenging but comfortable manageable exam now when you see them going into their leaving certs you don't envy them do you tell us your leaving cert stories do you have a story from you I don't because I didn't do mine I left before that but do you did you do your leaving cert what was it like any horror stories for us 08 6 60 25000 they're all in school now anyway they won't know what we're talking about let us know not good news if you're a variable mortgage holder on a tracker mortgage the son tells us that hard-hit mortgage holders are facing two more interest rate hikes in the coming months the Irish central bank governor has warned Gabrielle mcclough expects the European central bank to keep on increasing rates and indeed they committed to that themselves and they say they will keep rates as higher for as long as it takes to suppress inflation but hard-hit homeowners already reeling from a series of rates have sent their mortgage repayments soaring have been told to brace for more pain central bank governor expects rates to remain elevated for longer than markets anticipated and there are some people in just dire situations anyone with a variable mortgage I mean there's a lot of people have the capacity to absorb some increases so we'll accept that won't we but there are those particularly with vulture funds and I would love to see the government do something about enabling people to switch from a vulture fund to a pillar bank a mechanism that will allow that to happen would give people an awful lot of more hope but there are people stuck on really high interest rates and as they go up they go up further and it's often not always but it's often people that have a defective concrete house or have the least resources the least at the end of the month that end up paying the highest which happens an awful lot across society doesn't it which is really really unfortunate so hopefully I'd love to see some action in regards to that issue and the Irish Daily Mirror today tells us that more animals are being abandoned abused or neglected since the pandemic ended the Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals launched an urgent emergency appeal yesterday called stop the pain following a sharp rise in cruelty cases across Ireland they said the surge which began following Covid-19 pandemic is placing significant financial burden and demand on the organisation ISPCA Chief Cyril Sullivan said the number of cruelty cases and neglected animals was expected to be double the number of this year this year compared to again there's more spelling mistakes in the newspapers I can't understand with all the editors that they have extra words and some words missing but anyway ISPCA Chief Cyril Sullivan said the number of cruelty cases and neglected animals was expected to double this year compared to 2022 and I think their accommodation the central accommodation is packed at this stage what's going on there I wonder is it that people is it the cost of living and they can't afford to feed their pets is it that they got a pet during lockdown which seems a lifetime ago but their life has changed and there are responsible ways to to move an animal on isn't there I don't know anyway we're going to be speaking to the ISPCA about that a little later on just to get a real sense of what's going on and the dire need that they have and if you are willing to how you might be able to help okay that was a run through the papers this morning I want to wish a good morning to Elaine Charlie Paul Dolores Marie Audrey who are watching our live stream broadcast 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news it's historic too it sure is it's you know it's absolutely fantastic one day and tomorrow we will be turning the sod and work had commenced at the school so it's just it's great news and it really is a historic day you know we've had a long day and it's been a it's been a rollercoaster hasn't it and the big dip not in a positive way was when it was amongst that group of 60 plus schools that were sort of shelved and you know we had that concern that we could lose the contractor and what have you and and thankfully it was a very anxious time but now those fears have been elated yeah exactly you know we were so close to getting back then and just for to be called from under our feet we were really upset that you know we were devastated I suppose as much but to have managed to overturn that you know it's just it's brilliant but you know we have such support from everybody from yourself from all the local radio stations and papers and even national papers so I suppose for only for the support that we got we wouldn't be where we are today so we have to thank everybody for that yeah but ultimately I think the credit goes down to the people that organised and got out on the picket line so to speak and done up the placards because that made it you know more easy to sort of get behind it if you know what I mean so fair play to those of you that's where the credit goes as far as I'm concerned I think there's a duty in the media and they have a duty to back the people but it was you guys that sort of gave the media something to back yeah you know that was never our plan we never wanted to be out protesting but unfortunately we had no choice and just thankfully it did work for us and you know you go to the school today the diggers are there and the work has commenced and we will we'll have a new school in come September 24 and does that make the official sod turning do you think with what everything with everything that's been gone through even more significant and even more of a cause for celebration and for you know current and past people and parents to come out for this event yes it definitely has now we have we've decided to make this day you know a joyous day and for all the kids that are there for the past pupils present pupils parents and all the girls school community as a whole so we've invited everybody one o'clock tomorrow to celebrate it and just to have a great day for the kids brilliant stuff and where is the school being built as it relates to the current prefab steers is it behind them in front of them on top of them I don't know um no so we're very lucky we have quite a big site right so the school has been built in in three phases so the first phase is the actual school building itself and that will be completed in September that will be completed in the summer of 24 and ready to walk into in September 24 so that's been built at the entrance to the school in the ground that we never used because there's quite a large site so for all of next year the school will continue and prefab there'll be there'll be no having to move them or nothing the school will continue as normal and then once the first phase is opened the second phase will be removing the prefabs and building the s and a unit and then final phase will be just the ground work yeah it's all very exciting okay brilliant it's gonna be great day it's tomorrow one isn't it or today tomorrow tomorrow at one o'clock excellent okay and as you say it is a time for celebration there's no point raking over the past we are where we are now so it'll be a brilliant thing for the kids it really is a time for celebration they'll be able to see the progress as it goes on too which will be really exciting for them yes exactly yeah it really is it's a great news story you know but just we really have to thank everybody that helped us to get where we are today you know we've a lot of the local community we've had quite a few politicians we've had Joe McHugh has been by her side all the way and he really needs to be recognized for it we've had Thomas Pringle Peer Storty they fought for it at all when we needed this and as I said yourself just we're just all brilliant and only for you we wouldn't be here today well I think it's down to you guys but anyway Deirdre we could we could battle that one out all day I'll let you get back to it thanks Deirdre take care of yourself alright goodbye that's Deirdre Ogara there who is of the Parrots Association of Girls School and the Cajun Maestro the diggers are on site isn't that great and also the sod is being turned officially tomorrow one o'clock and they are inviting past parents pupils teachers in the wider girls school community to share that special day of celebration with them and as I say in Donagol town there it's sort of on the old Lahi road and but you sat in half it if you're going if you don't know where it is already and that all kicks off tomorrow afternoon at 1pm a caller says hi if Ironmore island's population is dwindling could we not get some Ukrainians to move there another we need something we need to do something about our transport at night time especially at festival time seeing people out for all hours dependent on friends and parents to leave them home they should be able to sleep at home no taxis or bosses it is a shame yeah indeed I agree this caller says this country is a disgrace why were these suggestions for housing citizens never put forward before but I don't think any like like the problem with homelessness is country-wide it's particularly focused in Dublin their rate is significantly higher than here in the north west they the people a lot of people that are homeless require more than just a cabin on a cruise ship do you know they require lots more support than that I don't think putting a cruise ship in Dublin harbour and all of a sudden saying to the homeless people who are homeless or rough sleepers want to get on the cruise ship that's all that's not how it works I believe anyway and I could be open to correction here hotel rooms cruise ships temporary accommodation for people fleeing a war yes but in terms of the the homeless in this country we need to build proper adequate housing if there are other supports that are required in terms of whatever it might be in terms of financial supports or maybe there could be issues with addiction I don't know what it is then that's a different thing all together and we should be able to do both because we are incredibly well resourced in this country we're told all the time so you know I think that the homelessness issue the 12,000 plus people now that are homeless and there are many more that don't really have certainty about their accommodation surely a cruise ship or a hotel is not a solution to that problem is it but I'll read this person's text in fall here of course this country is a disgrace why were these suggestions for housing citizens never put forward before it's all down to the huge money landlords are being paid the quicker the rate to house the Ukrainian community falls to the same as other citizens the quicker we might see more equality in availability and another one on the issue no mention of the sewage from a cruise ship or doubling the population of killi bags it's not right pushing refugees on small villages and towns in Ireland with no consultation or discussion of the cultural or social implications if there was war in Ireland would Ukraine put us up on a cruise ship on the black sea and pay us money and feed us hardly why don't they put the cruise ship on the swilly to house Michael plagued families again I'm not really sure a cruise ship on the swilly is a solution to the people affected by Michael they require modular homes affordable homes they require payment breaks on mortgages whatever it might be I don't think housing them on a and I could be wrong if anyone's affected by that and they'd welcome a cruise ship in the swilly let me know we'll wait 60 25,000 right okay we are going to be talking about a new well-being program to combat loneliness so stay tuned for that that's coming up just after this break watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com and we listen if you want to talk we all want a world where everyone feels welcome and included but where do we even start how about right here at your local super value Supervalues Pride rainbow laces are just two euro and are available to buy in store now. 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music and children's amusements that's the Kerry keel vintage rally at the church grounds this Saturday from 12 noon this ad is sponsored by Wurski's euros bar and ice cream parlour remelton now Ireland has the highest levels of loneliness in all of Europe in a survey carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Ireland is the only country across the block with more than one in five people saying they feel lonely the EU's average is only at 13% the lowest levels of loneliness were found in the Netherlands Croatia and Austria we are joined on the program now by our next guest who is Maureen Kavanaugh CEO of active retirement Ireland hi Maureen good morning to you good morning it's good to have you on the program right now I suppose you're going to focus on maybe older people but I presume this loneliness captioned captions captures people across all generations also people who might feel lonely even if they're not alone but talk to me about active Ireland's initiative they're a new programme thanks very much Greg active retirement Ireland is a national network of older people we have 450 local active retirement associations all over Ireland and we have over 20,000 members within that and obviously during COVID all our activities started from the stocked from the 20th of March onwards all our local groups closed down all our regional national activity same as the whole country and what we found is that because older people and a lot of older people didn't have access to the internet didn't have access to digital skills found themselves without their vital social networks that had been so important to them so as the group started to come back we were looking at what was the impact of COVID on the mental health of older people because we'd been involved in a survey with an alliance of organisations called telling it like it is and that survey showed that older people were impacted hugely by the restrictions and it did impact them on them it made them feel old for the first time in their lives it made them feel more vulnerable and for some people the two years of lockdown was was too much and they couldn't come back what it also did is I think from talking to people it made them feel the problem it made them feel the burden you know because young people you can't do this because of granny or grandad or whatever you know and I think a lot of the language too if you were in that if you were part of that cohort you would go right well am I the problem here because but also what I would hope to because we do move on really quite quickly and for a lot of people no one wants to remember lockdown but I think we should remember elements of it because I think a lot of us got an insight into loneliness into isolation you know what I mean and we shouldn't forget that and maybe that can help us sympathise and understand more what it must be like for the older people affected like what we're talking about we should give we should be able to empathise with them more yeah absolutely and it wasn't just older people Greg it was anybody that was vulnerable and it was done you know it was done in an emergency it was done for the health of the country and you know and now that we're moving out and we have to look you're right we have to look at the lessons learned so what we decided to do in active retirement Ireland was to look at what have older people done themselves to bring themselves back out of lockdown and out of that came this well-being toolkit so we started with a grant for mental health Ireland and we did consultations with older people who had come back out and what we found is that people were able to use their social networks and their local active retirement groups to talk about their experiences and that really really was like a salve and a great support for people and they were able to share experiences and there was a there was a joint coming together of a similar experience because once you were over 70 it didn't matter whether you were in the perfect health or not you were actually restricted and they were able to voice their their anger at that as well and we and assist we assisted them to put that into the words of that it was ageism that it wasn't about you being a vulnerable older person it was just they're 70 there you go you're on lockdown and but it's about moving on then and what do we need to do next so this well-being toolkit was developed from that and the members themselves said look we don't like the word toolkit because that feels a bit like fixie so what we want to do is we just want to call it a well-being program and the second name of it is called laugh more stress less live better and they're the very words of older people themselves and this toolkit is based on what people did to bring back normal nor something normal back into their lives and within their groups and it opens conversations on what matters to older people it creates spaces for people to share their experiences and to share their things that they did and also to draw on the experience and wisdom that we have within active retirement Ireland and our 20 000 members yeah and I suppose it's there's there's so many different people affected in different ways like I've spoke to people older people who come out of lockdown singing and dancing effectively and got straight back into everything I speak to people who are still cautious they still believe that the adverts that are running you know if you're over 70 get this and it'll help you protect that and I understand why that has to be done but that feeds into their natural nervousness you know when they still feel that right it's still out there I can't really go out and enjoy my life as it did previously and then there are those who felt isolated before COVID and nothing has changed I've spoken to people who don't speak to a person from one end of the week to the next can all of those people benefit from this toolkit do you think yes it did and that's what we would hope we would hope that it would be there that people will be able to pick and choose elements out of it and even if it gets somebody who has been isolated and lonely pre-COVID and they're listening and they're saying well I always knew there was groups out there but I don't know how to join them then what we're saying to them is have a look around what's in your area is there something nearby is there something that you can do is there a neighbour or friend that you know that might go to one of those groups would you go along with them and what we're saying to people who go to groups and be those active retirement groups or whatever they are is there somebody that you think you could extend that at hand of friendship and say would you like to come along with me to the next group and because we do know an international research has shown that social connections are vitally important for reducing loneliness for improving health and for just getting people out there and talking yeah and I mean obviously there's going to be I think an urban rule divide here because you know there are options for people in more urban areas in terms of boss connections or maybe something being closer to them sometimes you can live you know one kilometre up a lane in parts of the northwest and there is no way you could attend something in the nearby village I suppose that's where someone could offer a lift or what have you or maybe even you know the the rural link can play some sort of a role in this as well you know what I mean but we have to give people if they're mad to get out and do something we have to be able to enable them to do it too absolutely Greg and I agree and I'm from a very rural area in County Waterford and I have to say the local link has been the best thing that has come in to the area because it comes through the village now a couple of times a day but equally I do know people that would live two miles away from where the local link can stop and they just don't see that as an option but there are options like for people to look around is there a GA club in your area is the GA club doing a walking group is the local active retirement group in the area and who's the who are the members of that could I go along get a lift with somebody to that group so it really is about getting information out to people and for people to be able to if they're going along to mass on a Saturday evening or on a Sunday is there a little newsletter nearby that you could look at to see what are your options and if not pick up the phone and ask citizens advice is there anything in the area so if you're yet going to the post office to pick up your pension try and talk to somebody to see is there any group in your area what are the notices up on the notice board so it's about I suppose there's a bit about yourself having to say I don't want to live my life like this but also so what do I need to do but there's also a bit about communities all over Ireland stepping into the shoes of somebody who doesn't have access to the internet who doesn't have a great social network might know about things how do we get information out to them like local radio is absolutely fantastic it is the best way of reaching people across Ireland yeah and I think older people are not just older people who haven't really gone back out since COVID we miss them you know we want to see them again and chat to them and have the crack you know what I mean like we miss them if they're listening now and they don't go out as much as they used to I want them to know that we miss them and we want them to sort of you know get back out there again because these are the people communities on whose shoulders are built and also just our people that we miss when we don't get to engage with them now if you laugh more and stress less you live better you will live better you don't want to be you don't want to be sort of running down the clock you know you get out there and and as I say stress less laugh more engage and that's what the that's what the whole ethos of active retirement Ireland is about it's about creating a social network for people to get together to have fun to learn something new to do something to keep active keep well local active retirement groups bring in speakers on various different issues and it is run by members it's run by volunteers like this is all run by volunteers right across the whole country and it is a truly participative an active organization at grassroots and local level and it's a great organization I have to say I think this text is probably typical because it can be difficult for families too who've an older person that they love and care about and they can see the change in them do you know what I mean and they're not out as much as they used to be so maybe you can offer some advice people have to want to make the move themselves but maybe you can help and it reads as follows my aunt is one of these people but she's very quiet in nature and we cannot get her to take the first step to join anything how do you think we can best support her to make the first call or the first move so they don't want to force her into anything and she perhaps wouldn't allow them to either but they think that she would benefit greatly from joining up with something or getting involved in a group or a club or something and I suppose what I'm thinking here is that if that was my aunt the first thing I'd be doing is asking well what are her likes what does she like to do does she have access then to information about those likes does she know or is it just the general I'm really concerned about my aunt and I know she would benefit from getting out but sometimes that can be very daunting for somebody to take the first steps into what am I going out to so it really is about understanding what is it that would get your aunt out the door would that be going to a coffee shop and having a bun would it be joining going up to the the local library or whatever that would be I don't know but it is about understanding and having that just have that conversation and that's what this toolkit is about it's about have the conversation what is it a choir going to be how much of dramatic is anything it could be nitty woodwork whatever it might be it's finding what she's interested in and showing her a pathway to it and Greg I would also say to to that aunt if she's listening is that what are what is it that you really really want to do or is there something that you always want to do and never did and you might be able to do that in a group of people that are around the same age as you that all hold the same fears of stepping out the door and trying something new yeah because it can be chicken and egg too mooring because we don't know how people are feeling it could be anxiety it could be it could be a form of depression you know what I mean we don't necessarily think you could I think maybe sometimes we're looking go well is it because Jesus just don't really want to go out like you know that we can put little barriers up for ourselves and maybe talk about talk to her about how does she feel about going outside how does she feel about interacting with other people how does she feel in herself does she is she worried is she anxious these are all emotions that might stop her taking that first step as well so maybe talk to her about those things and maybe you can find out a little bit more about her in the process absolutely and just for some people out there the social group is not the way that they want to go either but it might be something there might be something out there for them and it might be just a visit to a library it might be a visit to an art gallery down again and that and some people are very happy to sit at home and listen to their radio and watch their television knowing that someone will call and say hello to them because I think that's what it is some people just like to go out into the garden and want to get back in doors in time for the chase and if that's what makes them happy too that could be it how do people access the well-being program at the moment we're rolling it out through the local act of retirement groups so if there is a local act of retirement group in your area that is where you get to know about it but we're at the moment we're training up older people to be facilitators themselves to deliver the program in the local act of retirement groups and then after that we will expand it out hopefully so we kind of have to get people engaged with the local act of retirement groups to get access at the moment absolutely it's a little bit of a roll block that isn't it it's it's not really because this is a brand new program and we do need to test it and we do need to pilot it but there are elements of us that people can look at and go do you know what that little bit there that says about having good conversations that's something that I could do yeah okay listen to lovely speaking to you thank you very much indeed Maureen have a lovely day thank you Greg all right take care of yourself bye bye that's Maureen Kavana there who is Maureen is CEO of Active Retirement Ireland so if you have something going on in your local community particularly for older people and maybe you would like to see numbers boosted or what have you please get in touch with us and we can promote it for you as well and it would just be really nice if one person listening was connected to one thing in their area so wherever you are across the northwest if you have something going on for older people because sometimes you can be right next door to something and not really realize it's happening I'm more than happy to read it out here so text it into us or call Caroline 08 660 25000 if you want to jot down a text or give us a call at 07491 25000 and you know letter Kenny but outside letter Kenny right across the region if there's something going on 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estimated uh rachel morrow is director of advocacy and external affairs with the arish cancer society and joins us now so rachel good morning to your first and foremost good morning gregg how are you i am good right i suppose when when you were sort of gathering this data uh would one in 12 have been where you thought we'd be at or less or more than you might have expected i wonder so we know gregg that there was a shortfall in the numbers of cancers diagnosed in 2020 and that number was arranged 2600 and then yesterday we learned that in 2021 that 1700 cancers weren't diagnosed so it's really concerning for us in the arish cancer society because that indicates that around one in 12 like you said gregg were undiagnosed in 2020 and 2021 and what we're worried about is that this means that people may have been diagnosed at a later stage although we're not able to tell that yet but everything that we were hearing during those years 2020 2021 was that people were putting off trying getting advice around and signs and symptoms and they were finding it more difficult to access health services and because as you know there were there were longer waiting times and the health services had to be spread between covid care and cancer care and other diseases so that was more challenging and of course the kind of the demographic that cancer hits is also the same demographic that were most vulnerable to covid and those tend to be older people so actually some of the numbers that underline um these findings yesterday it may be that people actually passed away before they would normally have been diagnosed of cancer in a normal year yeah and with our particular cancers less likely to be diagnosed the word that we saw shortfall um in a number of cancers um they were different in 2020 compared to 2021 in 2020 um because the screening services um they were paused for a period of time as you know gregg that those um cancers that we screened for so cervical breast um and and bowel cancer we saw a drop in the number of cancers that were diagnosed during 2020 in 2021 and those screening services they they thankfully recovered and we saw banks back in in those cancers but over both years um we saw shortfall for liver pancreatic and kidney cancers and these are cancers that are generally they generally diagnosed later stage so we do have a concern um that that maybe these were these were um diagnosed at a much later stage and that would have an impact on somebody's survival and ultimate quality of life as well. Rachel do we know what measures have been put in place to ensure this never happens again uh that lessons have been learned because we never know uh when something similar might happen again it might not even be a COVID it could be anything but to ensure that we don't end up creating a problem a significant problem uh which we actually can't put figures on you know in terms of deaths and what have you and and worse uh worsening outcomes are you satisfied the Department of Health can are making sure that this never happens again? Look I think Greg that without exception everyone was focused on trying to mitigate the impact of COVID on cancer care and the Irish Cancer Society you know we were making representations on behalf of cancer care and cancer patients and decision makers they were very mindful of trying to continue to deliver non-COVID care during the pandemic and actually urgent cancer care it was prioritized the government put a lot of money into cancer services but despite this I suppose the health system couldn't operate as normal and I think that that's an effect. Yeah but retail could Rachel do you know what I mean we have to I understand exactly where you're coming from and what you're saying and why you have to say it okay but we were able to maintain services in other areas we have to make sure that if something like this ever happens again that we are able to continue care in critical areas such as cancer diagnosis there's no I don't think there's any way around that we have to make sure we don't make the same mistakes again. I think that like one of the lessons that I'd point to is that like the health system had only been resourced to meet the immediate requirements of the most urgent patient and in my mind you know that isn't health care that's sick care and that was very much the model um onto which the pandemic was layered so our health system was beleaguered going into the pandemic um you know it hadn't been resourced adequately it lacked the resilience it needed when it was faced with this crisis so while COVID you know it revealed the true fragility of our health services but it wasn't the cause of the systemic vulnerabilities and I think that the lesson to learn there is that the health system and our health care workers they need to be constantly nurtured constantly invested in developed expanded and valued because if we do that right then maybe the pressure on the acute and primary care systems during future pandemics may be left. There's lots of questions like what were people that working cancer diagnosis doing during during COVID I mean do you know the answer to that were they working elsewhere in the health service or were they at home or were they in the building not actually accepting patients? Absolutely they were doing their very very best in very difficult circumstances and we know that the the toll of the pandemic that it had on our health care workers they had to do more with less and I think that you know it's actually down to the cancer workforce and other people working in the health service that the the impact of the pandemic on cancer care was what it was. Okay Rachel thank you so much for your time this morning have a lovely day. Thank you too Greg. Okay bye bye Rachel Morrow director of advocacy and external affairs with the Irish Cancer Society news on the way. 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Good morning it's 10 o'clock Donald Kavanaugh at the news desk the finance minister says in your report into potential government spending highlights the need to be careful about how to spend windfall tax receipts the fiscal advisory council has been warning against any giveaways on budget day saying the money should be used for environmental concerns and the aging population IFAC has regularly raised concerns about the pension age and the capability of the state to keep up with costs finance minister Michael McGrath says changes will need to be made over time but that doesn't necessarily include increasing the pension age. Changes to the system of PRSI over time and I know minister Humphries and minister of social protection is working on a PRSI reform roadmap so there will be increases in PRSI over the coming years to ensure that we can keep the pension age unchanged. The government is set to make a financial contribution of 1.5 million euro to the European Union it's because the state can provide accommodation to an additional 350 asylum seekers with more. Here's Sean O'Regan. Ministers at a cabinet meeting later this morning are set to approve this contribution the joint memo is from Justice Minister Helen McInty and Integration Minister Roderick O'Gorman it follows on from the state failing to meet its commitments under an EU voluntary solidarity mechanism part of that mechanism was an agreement that an additional 350 international protection applicants could relocate here the scheme requires member states to accommodate refugees or pay a financial contribution if they can't so because of pressures on accommodation from the over 80 000 refugees and asylum seekers already here the government is going to offer to pay 1.5 million euro instead. A national fodder study has been ordered by Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnelog as drought conditions begin to bite on farms mid-airing has confirmed such widespread and prolonged dry conditions have not been recorded since 2018 when farming suffered a severe drought and fodder crisis the Irish farmers journalist reporting this morning the grass growth has plummeted particularly in the south and east with concerns growing about second cut silage crops its editor is Katrina Morrissey. What mid-airing has said to us is that 25 of 25 of its main weather stations have now recorded between 15 and 26 dry days 15 is the bar to reach for for drought in an area and all of mid-airing stations the main stations have now recorded drought conditions with 15 to 26 dry days what has happened is that grass has not grown. The first sod will be turned tomorrow in Donegal town at the site of the new girl school Nagaramashtri the school's been based in prefabs since it opened and the new school building was to have started some months ago it was delayed at the 11th hour as part of a public expenditure review that sparked a major campaign which culminated in a protest during a visit to the county by minister Norma Foley with work now getting underway parents association member Deirdre Ogara told Greg on today's 9 till noon show it marks the culmination of a long and hard campaign but now they're looking to the future. The school has been built in three phases so the first phase is the actual school building itself and that will be completed in the summer of 24 and ready to walk into in September 24 so that's been built at the entrance to the school for all of next year the school will continue in prefabs there'll be there'll be no having to move them or nothing the school will continue as normal and then once the first phase is opened the second phase will be removing the prefabs and building the S&A unit final phase will be just the the ground work and you can hear that full interview on our website highlandradio.com the HSC is encouraging people who are eligible to get their COVID-19 spring boosters in the coming days as the program is set to wind down at the end of next week people aged 70 year older and those aged 12 or older with a weak immune system are being urged to act now the letter Kenny COVID-19 vaccination center will be open today and tomorrow and also on Wednesday Thursday and Friday 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your aircode but you know what i mean what area in and what are you interested in and i'll announce that and hopefully we can connect you with a group that's what we want to do here that's part of what we do here and other people are coming in with suggestions so if you have something going on in your area maybe you want more female participation more male participation you're a voluntary group particularly focused on the elderly but not exclusively uh and you want more members uh get in touch with us and we'll announce it for you and hopefully we can connect two or three people with something for them to do and make them happy and i would be going home happy if that were the case uh so 56 that you're very young uh to feel like that and there's loads to do we just have to connect you with something that you want to do i mean even myself there uh i i'm trying to do more uh i wasn't doing much i was coming to work and going home and loving that don't get me wrong but you know other stuff as well and um we went uh to port salon there the last day or two ago and we uh got in kayaks i got a kayak and we uh hu from eco atlantic adventures and i can't recommend hu highly enough by the way if you're interested in trying kayaking uh and there's loads of others out there as well i just happened to be with hu uh from eco atlantic adventures um look them up on facebook we went up from port salon up to the seven arches and back and it was wonderful and doesn't take a ton of energy either you know i'm not incredibly fit i don't think uh but it was very manageable and you get to see all the caves and things like that as well so you know there's lots of things to do out there if you connect with the right people um and we had a great time and it was a remarkable experience and we were commenting as we were uh doing it that those people fly it was like something you know when you go up the coast there from from from port salon it you almost you transported into somewhere like tailand or something you know what i mean it's uh how you imagine it might be there people flying across the other side of the world for experiences like that and there they are right on our doorstep paddling through sea arches and into caves that you can only just squeeze in and then you turn at the back of the cave and come out again i mean it's just uh stuff you would not not forget and it's great if you have a guide as well because then you have the confidence to know that you're not doing anything um that could harm you uh animal always suffers animal will always suffer we live in such cruel world if i could save all animals i would it breaks my heart how they suffer yeah indeed i know how you're i know how you're feeling um right okay traffic heading into twin towns bad this morning we're told indeed hopefully that improves soon right and there's a couple of other things here that i just want to go through uh and then i'll announce i'll announce um as the morning wears on but i do have 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deputy editor deputy news editor with the irish farmers journal and joins us on the program now hi amy good morning so i mean we can officially categorize drought an absolute drought can't we yes we can indeed so as you said there's a majority of the country's in an absolute drought with the low average rainfall forecast as well for the next two weeks met here and has told us basically what is an absolute drought and now an absolute drought is where an area experience of 15 or more consecutive days with less than 0.2 mil of rain per day so anyone that has been looking out a window over the last number of days and weeks will know that we've got barely any rain at all in the in the last week are 10 to 15 days and the majority of the country is in drought at the minute and matthew martin of met here and i said it looks like it's a gradually breakdown from the weekend on and that's the high pressure that's been blocking any any nasty rain showers that a lot of us don't want um we'll retreat to the north at the weekend and this will allow showers on friday night and saturday um in one way this will be this will be you know music to farmers ears um who have obviously been very busy cutting silage and hay over the last number of days and weeks um they're kind of facing an issue in terms of regrowth so for a second course of silage and for to have grass ahead of cattle and sheep essentially um now obviously in certain parts of the country in the west and northwest um this is ideal summer weather that we would expect and we'd like to have most years um the drought is really starting to bite the other end of the country all right now we'll talk about the consequences in a moment if that's all right amy but i suppose too there's a couple things we have to consider and you do in the irish farmers journal i mean it doesn't matter if we had the wettest march in history uh the drought grounds dry now and also too uh some of the forecasters predicting that the showers could be fleeting and patchy and on hard ground they can wash off really quite quickly so farmers would be looking for the right type of rain to fall in the right sort of volumes too i suppose to alleviate the problems they have right now yeah they will be but it doesn't look like that's going to come so my area said that the forecast is going to bring around 10 millimeters of rain which will technically break the drought but soil moisture deficits uh will still be high across the country and as you said if the ground is rock solid in parts of the country um only 10 million rain isn't going to do a lot um you know to really change things there they'd need to be more more consistent rain um they're currently also compiling compiling this monthly forecast and below average rainfall is forecast right out to the 20th of june so it doesn't look like the good weather or the dry weather is gone anywhere anytime soon really yeah and as you were you were talking to Amy you may be in a little bit more detail now the problems now will be felt down the line won't they being terms of the lack of regrowth um you know the when they might get a second cut down the line this all leads to potential fodder shortages in in the months ahead and is there anything really farmers can be doing to offset that yeah so just on fodder shortages it'll be for next winter that the concern is um anyone that remembers 2018 knows it was a terrible weather year in terms we had storms and we also had a drought so 2018 we had a very long winter long spring um with farmers unable to you know to make those reserves the silage um for the the the length of the spring essentially and then we had droughts so growth rates were way back and we needed to import fodder that's not the case this year so we've we've the last couple of weeks we've seen it around the country balers and moors around the country moving to make hay and silage the concern would be for next winter and a fodder survey is underway but you mentioned there about you know avoiding feed deficits or you know avoiding stress and crops in this kind of weather we've we've advised for the foreman sectors for beef tillage sheep and and dairy in the farmers journal this week um and it really is you know depends on where you are in the country what you what you need to be thinking about um we need to try and keep grass ahead of cattle so wouldn't be topping um paddocks that might be longer than usual we'll be leaving that there um hay is a good option to slow the rotation if we want to keep meal cost down on beef farms um and there's really water obviously is very important during a dry spell so plenty of water make sure all troughs are working and up to date yeah and there's an awful lot of advice as you mentioned right across the different sectors so people can dig into that and I mean we don't want anyone wasting resources either something as simple as you know applying fertilizer when there's no moisture to assist you don't want to be throwing good money after bad either so it's well worth farmers um to to go through this advice and see what might work for them so they can mitigate it as best as is possible yeah that's it and that's the key advice um like what can you do at this minute and time won't obviously to ensure um see the welfare of your animals and and to ensure that your crops if you are a tillage farmer farmer or a grain grower to ensure that your crops are you know are are still motoring on as they should be um no one wants to be based as you said waste the money um and the same goes for slurry um there's no point to spreading slurry out in if it's scorching weather either um you'll end up burning the ground and slurry is a valuable asset as well like um so hold off on on the fertilizer and the slurry uh obviously dependent on on the weather and where you were um and as I said this is full detail on that in this newspaper yeah and very finally what's the significance do you see of because they don't come around too often a national fodder survey yeah so obviously depends on the years you said they don't come around to survey the the minister has ordered one for the whole country um it's probably important it's probably something that maybe should be done every year to to um see what fodder stocks are like in the country um so that the the national fodder and food security committee this was the committee set up um after the war uh began in Ukraine uh following the Russian invasion by the minister for agriculture to ensure food and feed security it has it has still been meeting not as often as it was last year um but they've been asked to compile a comprehensive fodder inventory for the country um and the fodder survey as I said it's underway in every county that'll get an idea of what's on the ground and the and the fodder that's in train um so we'll be interested to see how things are fixed on that front when the results of that are published Amy thanks for your time this morning all the details in today's Irish farmers journal Amy for deputy news editor thank you very much indeed for that Raymond McBride uh is of the men's shed in Kilmachranon come on into your Raymond good morning Greg how are you good to have you with us all right talk to us about the facility you have in in Kilmachranon and what you've got up to well Kilmachranon men's shed was set up in Kilmachranon here 10 years ago by you guys that decided that they saw the concept in other places that originated in Australia but they saw it and they saw that there was like-minded men like themselves that were maybe of an age where they weren't going out they weren't going to social events etc and they were just maybe partly lonely and also that there were skills out there that could be shared with others and they set up the men's shed it's a worldwide organization but it has really taken off in Ireland and we were very fortunate we secured a a cottage that we the man renovated prior to nighttime and we have a wood woodworking workshop there we do but a walking we walk in groups times we were involved there for the last month and a walking group with our local young at heart group and the LDC and the Ukrainian community in Kilmachranon that we met every Monday and walked we had a health and exercise walk and then we the LDC were very good they looked after us for lunch then after it and it was a great way to meet some of the Ukrainians that are living in Kilmachranon and since that we've had a few of them coming down on a Tuesday night unfortunately they can't do anything at the workshop but they come down and just really meet and socialize with us. The thing is too Raymond it's all inclusive isn't it you don't have to be an older person you don't have to be retired you don't have to be a master craftsman in wood turning. You're inviting people to come along and just if they can make it on a Tuesday evening at 7 30 p.m. just to come along and mix. Just the biggest and most important part of our whole evening on a Tuesday and any other day if members so wish to undertake a project such as making a garden bench or making a mud kitchen or making a washing well whatever for a garden or anything like that you can come any day provided two men who are members of the shed are together for health and safety obviously with tools and machinery. And I've seen some of the bigger projects big boats not necessarily from the Kilmachranon men's shed but I saw a beautiful wooden trailer in a St. Patrick's Day parade which was either restored or built. We made a float there person to every year we talked about doing a float person Patrick's Day and every year to say yeah we must get it done and then. Typical man in the Forrester March come the Forrester March it was it was talked about but never done and this year we set a couple of us set to and we got everything from A to Z out of recycles including the paint which we were very fortunate to be allowed to take from the recycling centre as it was for a community project. Bracens were very good to us. The wood we used was completely recyclable. We made a lighthouse on wheels a model not not a replica but a model of the Thaned lighthouse. No I saw that it's beautiful. And we took it to unfortunately we couldn't take it to Little Kenny because the parade seemed a bit long for some of us to to walk the whole way but we brought it to Kerry Garton in the morning and then we brought it to Kerry Keele in the afternoon for there for both the parades and Jimmy Stafford thankfully of Highland Radio gave us a few great plugs in that we we didn't disclose to anybody outside the shed until the day of the parade what it actually was. So Jimmy bulked up a bit of excitement in the morning on St Patrick's Day morning. We sent him a photo of it leaving but he agreed not to post the photograph until we had shown it in public but you know it was a great idea for the men to get them involved and you know just for their own a lot of boys on St Patrick's Day it's a family day and some of them maybe having family that they won't yeah exactly you know so and do you know what I like about it? It's a nice opportunity I think men sheds as well to socialise where it doesn't have to be in a bar or a pub because there's some people don't drink or used to drink or whatever and sometimes you know who do you talk to about the football or whatever it may be I don't want to be sexist on it but you know yourself no no no no and it's an opportunity. Who do you talk to about the about the hurling the golf the cricket. Yeah give out to you well you know we'll not go there and I'm only joking but the most important part of any meeting we have is a cup of tea in the chat. Right good stuff. There has to be you know we try and encourage talk through the cup of tea in the chat. But it's not done informally isn't it Raymond? It's nice and relaxed. Oh not at all no no no I mean every Tuesday evening 7.30pm and I think you said that if other times suit maybe something can be arranged as well. Yeah you know that there was a guy on the phone there recently and he said oh Tuesday evening I wouldn't really say. I said you know what I said if it's such a we'll get a couple of guys together and like there's sheds it doesn't have to become a Kremlin. There are men sheds all over Donegal. They even now have we're very fortunate with DLDC. They have a coordinator based down there below us and the DLDC offices below the mountaintop where they have a guy Brian Kerr and I'm sure Brian will be delighted to hear and mention that he is our coordinator. They have coordinators for down the West. They have coordinators for the Gilt at Sheds who will let people in those areas know what's going on or where their shed is. Okay brilliant. You know the new one now starting and ours. That's right we did an interview on that a couple of months ago so good to hear that for a person. Yeah good to hear that for a person. I mean that's getting that's open now and welcoming members. Okay like all sheds there's no criteria. You don't have to be from the area. You don't have to be 70. You don't have to be a builder, a carpenter, a plumber. You can the biggest part of it is that you're willing to come along and sit and have a cup of tea. Okay brilliant stuff and I saw as I say I saw that lighthouse in the Carragart Parade. I got a wild touch there. I got a wild touch from Noel McBride at the parade but anyway it was great fun and it was it was a brilliant thing that you did. Raymond lovely to chat to you. No problem at all. Thanks for having us on and anybody wants to get in touch just contact the Kilmer Krennan men shed on our page there and just get it all out. You don't have to stay. You can just walk out and have a look around and walk out again. Thank you so much for the great bunch of lads and your enthusiasm and how welcoming ER2 is infectious Raymond. Thank you so much. That's Raymond McBride there. I call it says I'm doing a yoga retreat class in Ards and Chrysler in June and again in August. This is suitable for the older community if they're interested get in touch and it's also a beautiful place to walk of course. We'll be happy to pass on your number if anyone's interested in that. We did a great interview with a group of I think it was mostly women about curling K U R L I N G and they were mad for more members and they seemed like a great bunch of people really their enthusiasm was really infectious and the sense of competition though which is not really supposed to exist. I don't know but anyway it was really there. So if you want to get involved in curling and that's for people of all abilities and ages loads of teams in Donegal it's mostly made up of females and they're finding it more difficult to get males to join so if you're out there and there's curling all across Donegal so if you're an older gentleman you have a group of women there involved in curling that are very keen for you to get involved. You heard from Raymond they want you to get involved so if there's a way you can make it happen please do. Right we'll do more of that as the show wears on as I say if we can connect one or two three people even with activities and get them out of the house and back loving and living life again my job will be complete for the week. Okay let us talk now about an issue you may have heard on the news. This is the fact that there will not be a nurse on Tory Island for some time. Marjorie Carroll will say good morning to First News Manager of Tory Island Co-op and I think from the get go here Marjorie we understand people are entitled to and deserve time off or whatever it might be. This is not about any individuals this is about I suppose contingency and organisation to cover any gaps that are in the services Marjorie. Oh definitely that's 100% correct everyone's entitled to their annual leave and if someone's sick they'll have to take a sick leave as well you know so we're not disputing that fact at all and I suppose so for anyone who doesn't understand how the system works here it's worked on a two week on two week off rota so basically we have a nurse who's finishing up today and there was another nurse to replace to replace her and unfortunately that nurse has called in sick and we're left now in position for the next couple of weeks that we won't have any nurses cover now the nurse that's leaving was due to leave today has kindly said that they'll stay on for an extra day and we'll probably have to come back a day early to cry and help with the issues on the island but like almost two weeks is an awful long time to be left without a nurse on the island and unfortunately today as well there was a serious mess up with a doctor coming to Tory Island we're going to be left now with no doctor for it'll be a month before we'll get the doctor back here again now so sorry it'll be two weeks so we'll be left for a month without any doctor on the island which isn't isn't great at all for the island there's quite a lot of people sick here at the moment and it's just quite shocking yeah it is and you know it's it's also not necessarily that the amount of people that might actually need the nurse or doctor in any given it's also about a bit of health security as well i'm sure it spikes anxiety marjorie for people not knowing sorry knowing that they don't have access to a nurse for a couple of weeks no exactly yeah and i suppose i suppose it's um if we had a known yesterday say that there was no the helicopter service cancelled they made the HSE aware of it unfortunately that message wasn't passed on to the doctor or to the nurse on the island or to ourselves and unfortunately the the doctor was standing at the helipad and for carry this morning and there was no helicopter turned off if we had known in advance we could have got that doctor on to Tory via the boat and unfortunately now what's what's happened is we're gonna have to try and get the medications and on the boat and then distribute them to the islanders i suppose it's communication i think is is the key here and unfortunately um there's there's something going to mess somewhere and someone needs to take responsibility for Tory island because i feel myself as a parent of three young children you're kind of left on your own here at the minute and like 30 years ago the service was better here we have a fabulous building but it's just it's not useless at all like yeah and we hear conversations and and look anything that's progress is good about you know encouraging people to the islands or repopulate them or investing money listen when when someone is thinking of moving to an island or staying on an island we're not talking specifically about Tory in this instance you know access to a reasonable level of health care would be one of the first things that you look at whether you're a healthy middle-aged person an older person or have have young children you know we need to get the basics right yeah no 100 and the yesterday minister home priest was an iron moor and they launched the national islands policy the 10-year plan and as part of that and it's supposed to enhance health and well-being services on the islands like all we're looking for we're just looking for the basics here you know so we don't even have that so i kind of think to myself well actually maybe let's go back and start again because we on Tory we don't even have the basic services on the island here and it's in 2023 it's absolutely disgraceful that we're left today we have no doctor and if we had known in advance we could have got the doctor and on the boat we would have there's a full clinic there's a full there's quite a lot of people as i said earlier quite a lot of people sick so what those people are going to have to do now is they're going to have to take their sick child or their sick parents or whatever on the boat on the ferry out to the mainland queue up take them back in it's terrible like it really really is shocking and it is down to organisation i don't know how many nurses would be required for cover i mean listen say for instance there were three nurses like two rotated on and off and one for cover and and all of them come down with something people would understand that right but marjorie this is a this is about someone saying how important is it to have nurse cover on tori island and someone has decided well we can't move a to b and c to d and so on and so forth this is an organisation issue here what is the do we know what the rotor is and the cover for that rotor because that's what needs to be looked at here i think clearly yeah no definitely like two years ago we had a meeting there was hsc staff demand and it was discussed and i remember thinking at the time oh god do we really need that they were talking about having three nurses covering tori but that was two years ago now it was probably that is what we need but there's been no talk of that then um we thought two weeks ago that we we got someone on tori who was a native tori ender who moved back that they were covering now they obviously have to have their time off as well that can't be here 24 7 you know seven days a week so um we thought well this is an hour problem to resolve but actually they're not because we still don't have any cover if people are off sick or if they have bereavements in the family people are entitled to be off even take leave but that means that we're still left with no cover so but hsc are telling us this morning as we have sent out emails known we can't get anyone to come to tori to cover for years unfortunately and um that's basically what we left so basically anyone who's from tori who's listening out there today we are on our own here basically and that's just unfortunate the way it is but um you know if you if you feel that anyone's sick at all the best place to head is to the mainland because at the minute we have no cover on tori island and it's disgraceful and a stainage yeah and and there's also uh presumably people going out to visit the island as well uh you know it's not just the the population that lives there all the time the population i presume grows somewhat in june july and august um right marjorie i'm not sure what we can do except make inquiries and hopefully put the pressure on i know you are and some politicians are as well uh to try and get this situation sorted this is people's health and well-being and there's no point paying lip service to the islands and not getting the basics right i think really is would be my view on it marjorie yeah and i mean we're not looking for for monthly all we're looking for is the basic services the basic services that we would have had years ago um there's talk of you know e-health there's talk about enhancing well-being all of that look all we're looking for this morning it's a basic service on the island um for the islanders and as you said we could have 150 here during the one two months um this time of the year going right up june july and august that could go up to 400s per day you know so you know it is increasing um you know every weekend now you see it's an increasing people coming to the island so um yes definitely it's a major issue unfortunately and not to mention i'm sure that the doctor that was due out there today had had uh has better things to do with their time than sit waiting on transport that doesn't arrive okay marjorie listen thank you for helping us understand i appreciate it thank you bye bye take care okay we'll be back with more after these in fact i think we'll go with a listener's dilemma about them expecting their child expecting them to babysit their children foc watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com get ready for an 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dunning all town right so we got a letter from a listener that reads as follows my daughter is a single parent i love her and i fairly admire all she does she is some woman but god forgive me she's taking a hand now i said i would help her because honestly what single parent can afford child care at the minute i look after my two grandchildren aged two and five what was agreed to be three times a week from seven a.m until five thirty p.m now this is turned into five days a week and she won't come to collect them until nine p.m or worse she starts hyping up a sleepover at granny's to the wee ones knowing i'll find it hard to say no to their faces i am just shattered to be honest with you i'm 60 years of age i rared my children greg if i mention this to my daughter she goes mad telling me nobody supports her or comes out with the stuff that i mustn't like this like the wee ones i'm doing this free of charge i feel disrespected but don't want to fall out with my daughter what on earth should i do with her so what do you do in the situation now granny was very good i think seven a.m to five thirty p.m it's a long shift three days a week now the hand's been taken it's five days a week sometimes it's till nine p.m all the times it's and you know yourself uh would you like a sleepover at granny's and the wee ones look up with the little faces and can granny say no what do you do in the situation how does this mother deal with her daughter uh obviously i think she's doing amazing as is but can't go on she's got her children rare that's what she said so what do you think she should do oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand share your thoughts and and ideally maybe if you were in this situation yourself previously and you come up with a solution maybe you do need to fall out with your daughter for a while do you know like i i don't know what i would do but you have to look after yourself as well and how can you look after other people if you don't look after yourself that would be the way i would uh say you know you have to look after your well being we posted this on our socials as well to see what people out there thought this is what john said help her out to an extent yes but she has to learn she can't just bring kids into the world and dump them on someone else what happens if god forbid the mother died tomorrow who picks up after the daughter then now it's possible though people's circumstances change there could be a relationship breakup i don't know but i understand what you're saying i don't think anyone intentionally has children with a view to dumping them on someone else really respectively what i'm saying pat says send her packing she's using you you love you for your daughter is not reciprocated conditional love is not really love wow pat i mean that's quite insightful and you're on to something there if the love was coming back the same way in reverse this wouldn't be happening would it send her packing they say but you don't want to leave your children even if they're adult struggling like do you uh cathleen says start looking for money i don't think that's the thing for this listener uh you know because they began this uh service to assist their daughter so what do you do 08 660 25 000 it is a tough one i'll give you that so thought out solutions 07 491 25 000 how much was the country fined for not housing their own people people should remember this in the next election uh right okay uh let us see another one here i'm listening to the show at the moment i want to say a lot of older people would like to avail of their bus pass to get to the services entertainment available but are unable to do as they cannot step up to get into the bus as the steps are too high on most buses as well older people cannot access tickets for travel on buses through their phones please read this out as it's affecting a lot of lonely older people thank you um so even if there is a bus closed you is access to the bus or prohibitor if you're in a city they're very low you literally step off the curve and you're on the bus or the curb uh and also uh the issue with booking your tickets online was that not resolved though where you could turn up i don't know i don't want to don't want to um give anyone some wrong advice okay we have to take a very quick break before we're joined by our next guest who is the deputy mayor of dairy city instra band any shown vintage weekend this saturday in the marquis currick field movill its dj rudders followed by the keldig night stores open at apm with a late bar this ad is sponsored by the corner bar movill newly refurbished en suite accommodation and live music every weekend ron hill rally an association with the letter kenny community child care facility rebuilding fund presents a pre dunningall international rally event on sunday the 11th of june at the st unit g a club in letter kenny rally cars will be on display from five p.m with free ice cream and face painting for the kids 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retail from stirban especially after the closure of three other retail uh outlets uh within the last year uh when their sites were tumbled to make way for the new little store that is now underway so as not not great for the town now great at all yeah before we talk about this most recent announcement jason you know to lose two or three four big stores uh it's a big hole isn't it in stirban like in terms of its attractiveness and you know obviously big stores then people might go into smaller stores or other stores you know the footfall uh you don't want to see a reduction in that uh if you're in business locally definitely not uh especially with it been a border town great especially you say the footfall we lost in the football massively and now i know with uh little uh boulder news store they're going to build three retail units uh directly behind the new little store um which will hopefully attract uh further business in the town but with the last now crown structure four with under one year that's why this morning that i've called on business uh council officers with fundaries of the instra band to for an urgent meeting with all elected reps um to invite invest in i to see exactly what we can do to attract uh investment and retail outlets back into the town yeah for sure and get to the bottom of as to why you know they feel they have to depart and as it relates to to staff um they are being offered uh the option of redeployment to either dairy or ulma but i'd imagine uh jason for for the majority though i can't say with any certainty that's not going to be an option is it that level of a commute uh you know the increased cost and the impact that really has on your take home without a doubt we're taking your 100 percent right you know the asked staff to redeploy as about gas especially during the times of run of the month um so it's not going to suit every single member of staff you know i know there's four two members of staff there and not every single one of them staff drive so that's going to have an impact on their job and surely that means that they'll probably have to leave their post and seek employment elsewhere um so it's just about now getting their heads all together getting invested and i don't invest that i really need to get down and have this conversation and see what uh retail outlets that we can bring to the town they bring thoughtful back in there once again yeah because i mean you could you could say uh jason because of a lack of investment from Dublin and Belfast in the northwest you know we are perhaps more reliant than other areas on the likes of retail and hospitality so when we start shedding those jobs it really is problematic these are bills from staff that are going to they're going to struggle to pay mortgages and all that type of stuff i mean this has a huge impact on people's lives and then that ripples out through a community big time without a doubt especially during this cost living crisis no people need need work and uh stability now more than ever so for an all announcement on all retail uh outlets and stirbans they say that no they're closing their doors without having them unpacked now i do believe that this impact has come especially in that area from the demolition of the three that had to close is to do i'm sure that the lack of football in that area has now resulted in pound straighter having to close their doors there as obviously their their income under that business isn't as much as it was before but hopefully now as i say when we have this meeting and we try our best to attract further businesses back in to this area of the town that hopefully this will attract uh bigger and a lot more um word renowned maybe retail outlets and the town what's the attract that fall from both sides of the border back in the town once again yeah that's it because we don't want a house of cards effect here do we whereby you know the sooner this little gets open with those uh you know presumably it's an anchor tenant then with three other retail outlets the sooner that gets open the better now they have their own timelines and then they usually throw those stores up quite quickly but still uh you know the sooner all that happens the better well we've added out the sooner it happens the better and i know that when the little store comes down itself there is 19 um employees within the little store at the moment this is a banster ban and then when this new little store opens it's going to employ 10 more so that'll be 29 alone employed within the little store and then hopefully what for your retail units and hopefully then for another retail outlet to come under a pound stretcher is leaving hopefully i can get up then or maybe 50 or 60 plus jobs yeah for sure because with with all to respect a little the fantastic but there's little stores everywhere so people aren't traveling into strip and for that you need different type of stores to sort of maintain that thoughtful and not just local traffic too okay we'll watch on with interest jason and hopefully that meeting is convened and there's a positive outcome as soon as possible thanks for your time today no problem thanks all right councillor jason bone deputy mayor of dairy city and strip and district council as well if you're affected by that i have a say oh wait six uh 60 25 there's a couple of requests should we do that now uh please wish roi mooney from burt a very happy 90th birthday today he's some man for one man that's for sure and he's loved very much by all his family looking forward to the big celebrations ahead love from his children robin derrick edel and their families roi mooney and burt happy birthday to you i hope you have a wonderful day and you enjoy your celebrations mage callahans in grove hall in remelton and at marge is 86 today have a great day mage from your loving husband michael hopefully you've already had tea and toast and more to follow mage happy birthday to you listening to us 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latest news headlines thank you great good morning it's emerged tori island did not receive a doctor today because of a mix-up over transport which left the doctor waiting for helicopter which had been cancelled without it seems the hsc being informed it comes as the island is set to be without a nurse for two weeks because a nurse due on the island from today is ill and no replacement is available hickwell has published a number of inspection reports on designated centres for people with disabilities the list includes the cvi respite service at mont charles which has capacity for four residents and had two in place at the time of the inspection in march no non-compliances were recorded management have really outlined how they will address a number of minor issues which were identified you can read that full report on our website the first thought will be turned tomorrow in dunigold town at the site of the new girls school in the garu mashtri the school's been based in prefabs since it opened the new school building was to have started some months ago but that was delayed at the 11th hour as part of a public expenditure review that sparked a campaign which culminated in a major protest during a visit to the county by minister norma fuller recently the hsc is encouraging people who are eligible to get their coven 19 spring boosters in the coming days the program winds down next week the letter kenny coven 19 vaccination centre will open today and tomorrow and on tuesday wednesday thursday next week a pop-up clinic will operate tomorrow in stern order public health consultant dr anthony brazilans says covet is still a threat and those who are compromised need to ensure they stay protected and more than 236 000 children are experiencing poverty in ireland today the children's rights alliance is launching a new child poverty monitor report which highlights the children are going to bed hungry and sleeping in coats during the winter months it's the second in a series of reports that will analyse the complexity of child poverty across the country they're the headlines news headlines again at 12 noon okay donal thank you very much for that is your home or motor insurance up for renewal now is the time to check if your policy still offers you the right cover and the right fit at the right price to be sure you're getting the best deal take this opportunity to shop around it's easier than you think simply contact your insurer or broker today remember don't just renew review for more information visit understanding insurance dot ie brought to you by insurance island now as we mentioned earlier the irish society for prevention of cruelty to animals has launched an urgent urgent appeal named stop the pain in response to a sharp increase in the number of animal cruelty cases no no when we read that headline many of you upset to hear it uh so we have to face these issues to find solutions don't we dr siril sullivan is ceo of the ispca and joins us on the program now siril thank you very much for your time i appreciate it greatly so can you give us siril an idea if that's great i'd like to talk to you and thanks for the opportunity yeah i beg your pardon a slight delay which i'll work on my side can you give us an idea so i was just gonna ask you sorry so basically i can hear you one moment pause for a second siril i'll ask a question and then shut up okay so siril can you give us an extent of the problem we're seeing country right wide the um i suppose ispca believes we're in the midst of the national crisis here with animal welfare a number of animal shelters across the country are faced so many um animals come in their way that they've decided that they're a full they don't have resources and have to shut up shop in ispca's situation the number of animals particularly dogs we took in last year for the whole year for the full 12 months we're facing that number as of today so we're not even half us through the year and we're already achieving that number so as far as ispca's concerned we're in the midst of a national crisis we're in the midst of um you know national crisis animal welfare and hence we've had no choice but to uh launch a national appeal and just in terms of some background to that uh we within the ispca decided well our objective is to save animals from cruelty we received between 10 and 15,000 paul's a year into our helpline and in in langford and about 3,000 dogs end up in inspections when the number started to grow the board a very passionate group of animal welfare folk the senior management team of the team we're all very passionate about what we do right through to the department of agriculture the minister of agriculture would expect us to keep our doors open we are not going to leave any animal behind so we've um you know we have i don't know if you can still hear me yep go ahead yes listening we're all good yep yep yep so yep so it's just that what's happened then is that we decide to keep our doors open but our kennels are full um we have just north on the remelton road just north of the letter kenny we have one of our animal welfare centres run by Denise McCoslands and she is our national head of animal welfare it's full um and our other three centres in langford malo and in victoria full as well Greg so we've had to resort to uh hiring private kenneling now that under normal circumstances could be a small bill that we would be happy to put up with in terms of just a normal you know overflow when a temporary overflow what's happened is that it really has had to be structured into our whole operation for the year to the point where if it continues as i said we've uh we're doubling in terms of numbers for this year we're way over capacity we're paying for this every night and we're looking at about a half a million of a deficit which even though we're the largest animal welfare organisation in ireland we couldn't sustain and we couldn't absorb anything like that so we've been left with no alternative but to to launch this national appeal to be able to address the situation get through 2023 and it's to 24 so what has led to uh this increase then in animals being surrendered or instances of animal cruelty uh because i mean this is a huge spike do we know what's causing it yeah the it's really related to covid and post pandemic is what we we're witnessing uh everybody would remember that during pandemic people were at home the families were at home it was a great time to take an animal if you're thinking of taking a pet animal then it was the time to do it and actually a dog so there was a significant growth in terms of breeders be them legal or illegal during that time and people were able to uh you know anecdotal evidence of prices tripling and quadrupling and you know so it was a case there was a very significant growth in the demand and the supply of dogs during that time the minute pandemic was over in fact the overnight that market disappeared so what we're seeing in the ispca is a very significant increase in property farms that are not able to cope and so they're left with a situation where animals uh are being are being neglected and a small example we're fold we're doubling our numbers we have extensive extensive private rental but uh by two weeks ago we got a call into our call centre in lungford where a person in the a neighbour effectively complained about the noises of dogs uh could be harmless it could just be you know you know barking dogs which really wouldn't be a cruelty situation but our inspector inspected and found in a small garage 116 dogs sitting in crates with no food no light no you know it was the most horrendous sight now we're full as I said but we're determined not to leave any animal behind so a national operation headed by Denise and Donnie Gull uh worked our way into um bringing all the animals from that location which was further down the country uh back out to our centres and back into private cannelling and back to safety so that's the extent of the problem and as I said it's breeders on top of that there's a second problem and it is an issue in sense that uh people have now gone back to work and the uh a significant part of our work is to rescue and to rehabilitate and to rehome and the rehoming piece is a key key part of the outcome because that's the terrific success for us we we bring an animal back to what we'll have and their loving home a forever home is ultimately compared has to go that and those numbers of people who are prepared to take dogs in because they go back to the office has gone down significantly so we we have this uh increase in terms of the cruelty case is coming through and we also have a reduction in terms of people bringing them in and don't and Cyril I get you but I mean listen we're at full employment um so there's less people at home of course uh and there's more animals coming into the ISP ISPCA's care than can be rehomed but I mean obviously hopefully stop the pain is very successful and you have more money but that is to house these dogs you can't do that presumably in perpetuity so what are you what is the medium to long term if the situation persists what happens to these uh pets because you can't run an over capacity forever more either so what happens Cyril what's next so excellent point regular you know our plan as I said to get through this is a simple one but we're hoping would be an effective one uh as I said temporary kenneling you know we're going to take every animal into safety obviously our veterinary costs uh our veterinary services have to increase to meet that demand and that's the significant cost as well during the year we also are going to build kennels in our centres so that we can expand capacity to take animals out of private care but the final piece as you just asked there is to you know really as part of this appeal is to ask for people to step forward and to take an animal in if they're not sure you know if they're saying well I'm not sure you know I will I be able to take care of it I'm now working or whatever uh they can foster and even an animal getting three or four weeks or maybe two months in a home in a fostered home it's a significant benefit to that animal for us in terms of its rehab so if people are not sure we'd be delighted to hear from them they can call us on 043 3 3 2 5 0 3 5 national animal centre line into langford or they can go on our website and register interest in fostering or adopting which would be terrific but you're right we have to ask Irish public to you know temporarily ispca.ie 4 slash donate you know to help us get through this immediate spike an immediate problem in 2023 and then for people who are animal lovers who are considering it we will work really hard with them to make it a success and to get animals back into homes. The ispca would not move animals abroad or put animals to sleep dogs that's not part of the policy. Well we haven't sent animals abroad as of yet but there are a number of very good options that we will have you know consider and you know it's a case that we want animals to have a full and happy life and that's what we're targeting but no animals do not are not put obviously if there's a a medical issue or some other matter that requires it that they are veterinary professionals tell us that's it but under no circumstances we are going to save every animal we're not leaving any animal behind and we want to focus on the gall and the northwest and all of Ireland really to step forward and help us through this. And very finally you know so just very finally Cyril I don't want to take up too much of your time but the question has actually completely escaped me at the moment so I think I've concluded with your time but no actually no it's Cyril sorry it's common to me locally we've had calls in the past for dog ownership to be more heavily regulated you know that our attitude towards it it's almost like fast fashion you get it and then ah it doesn't suit me you can give it is there anything that the ispca would like done in that area to regulate or license in some way dog ownership. Well the 1986 control of dogs act the legislation is there so responsible ownership is the law you know it's not just a nice thing to do to take a dog in or take an animal in and have a pet on the other side no I'm not really going to do it also the 2013 animal health and welfare act even the simple thing of taking a dog in as they look I will go away for the weekend and leave food out in the garden you're breaking the law you know you have to make sure that you you know you provide adequate facilities and adequate food for the animal so the law is is definitely there and it's a case that you know we are as inspectors or inspectors ispca inspectors who go out and inspect this we are very successful in terms of our court cases and our sanctions but obviously the ones that we bring to court is by 26 to 30 year are serious cruelty cases they're very serious cruelty cases there is a departmental group which the government formed recently which is looking at the control of dogs particularly after the very serious attack on a young teenager in Wexford and the impact that has had so from an ispca point of view we believe that it's the responsible ownership it's the piece the the animal is not the issue you know it's the case that if you are responsible owner an animal will never attack immediately you'll make sure you have a complying with the law in terms of the length of the lead or a muzzle or whatever so those things are very important but can I just say one final thing Greg I know you're you want to move on but just finally our strength and our support have come from us our supporters across the years you know where people have donated to help us save animals and have saved a significant number of animals this is a national appeal this is you know we haven't done this before this is an exceptional situation we're in so we're looking for that support from our existing supporters from animal lovers and and the Irish public generally to get us through 2023 into 2024 just 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statistics uh Fiona that we're seeing more uh children with mental health issues than ever before more instances of of of self harm and it frustrates me a little bit that we seem to recognize the issues but we don't really talk about the cause or no one's prepared to nail their flag to the mast on that or what we actually can do to improve things so what's your views on all of that well i think you're spot on craig and what you're saying we have seen a massive increase and we have a mental health crisis now on the ground at the moment so what i would often say is that mental health amongst our children has reached never before seen levels so we've never seen anything like this um anxiety and depression as widespread and worrying and self-harmon and um suicide as rising at alarming rates so i suppose what that tells us is our children are struggling and um you know the race the recent studies would um indicate that so we have a study that was undertaken of secondary school age pupils um down south and the republic here in the republic of ireland and what um that concluded with 78 percent of pupils reported having experienced a mental health condition and what we also know from a recent report from action for children is that one in five children now from the age of five to 16 are likely two percent with a mental health condition that's 50 percent rise in the last three years and our children who are age 17 to 19 there has that has gone up from one in 61 and four so they're very clearly telling us themselves that they are struggling and we are seeing that very clearly yeah but we've never been in a situation before where we've talked more about uh young person's mental health you go into a school you'll see all the signs on the walls as opportunities speak and all that there so whatever we're doing now is not working or in fact it might actually be uh nurturing the mental health issues i i would like us to have that conversation because i find that it sort of gets dragged into other areas when you try and have that conversation and we're all in the business of looking after children but i think we need to have a grown-up conversation about you know the the space uh that we provide for children and how we support them yeah and i again i think you're spot on um there's a lot of paper and over the cracks um you know um in terms of the statistics and i like to be very open and honest so that people know what is actually i just feel that when i was younger if i went to my parents right and i said this is how i'm feeling that i would or school that i would get something constructive or some guidance everything seems so hands off now with young people it's like well what do you feel what why do you feel like that what do you think might be better for you do you know what i mean i just think we're losing the art of uh caring yeah and i suppose um why is the statistics um why are we seeing these on the grind could you just bear with me for one second fiona ashine i think there's a setting on that microphone could you fix it for me listen we could put all the airs and graces and i think it's it's switched to the wrong setting and i'm struggling a little to hear fiona there is it ash no is it oh everything's okay should we swing mic three over okay because oh it's an important message fiona and you can shift over a little bit because i want to make sure that we can hear you that mic's just a little bit quiet right sorry continue there oh loud and clear so yeah so i think a good way of um understanding why the children are struggling as they tell them they tell us themselves and as i mentioned in those reports what a lot of young people are indicating is that they're struggling with school they're struggling with their exams friendships um there has been an increase in children's struggling with the cost of living crisis worrying about you know the family's financial situation and how that's going to impact on social media has a big impact on children as well too and covet when we look at a 50 rise over the um past three years then covet has played a huge role in that it's played a huge role in the mental health of the population as a whole but particularly our children as well too so let me explain craig when you kind of ask me there what um how has that played out during covet okay so during um covet children became very disconnected they were no longer going to school they weren't in contact with their friends they weren't in contact with their um extended family and whatever during the time of crisis children looked at us their big people to see how are we coping and they imitate that okay so through no fault of parents own when covet kicked them we were all scared panicky we never dealt with a situation like that so that we were scared anxious panicky fearful so we've dysregulated parents and we've dysregulated children what i often say is our children are our murs they're a reflection of our inner state of being so when children are dysregulated they are in fight or flight mode they are in stress response what do they need at that time they need emotional human relational contact connection with their big people but if their parents during that time were also dysregulated then they're disconnected from their children they're not able to provide them with that kind of safety to help do knock that alarm off and give them some emotional rest okay so what we've seen was a lot of children loving and fear during that time and fear doesn't grow a healthy brain okay what also kind of happened is when children are dysregulated when they're in fight or flight mode they cannot come to us and say this is how i'm feeling this is why i'm feeling like that this is the impact it's having on me why can they not do that because they've underdeveloped brains what age craig do children's brains grow at all their age till the 21 out of four girls it's 25 for boys it's 27 so what does that mean that means that they haven't mastered the skill of emotional regulation they're not able to cope with their big emotions remain calm and adapt and respond appropriately to it yeah so it's us the big people that are doing that yeah but i get you i i i get exactly what you're saying and you're right and you're the professional as it relates to uh the impact say cove we would have but i want like but broadening that out for y'all now right you you will see out there now that parents money cuddle the children do you know what i mean we protect them from absolutely everything you've got 18 19 20 year olds living under the rules being treated as like they're 14 we've got students heading off to to college that don't know a handle of a saucepan from a sieve do you know what i mean like it's rather than just the the major things that i think that have amplified it like covid as you mentioned are we just not raising our children a little bit different now that is not preparing them for the tough realities of life that come at you very quick what um what we know for now um craig from the science of child development it is gifted as the answer as to how we raise emotionally intelligent children children or emotionally intelligent children or children who know what they're feeling yeah why they're feeling that how it impacts them and what they can do about it to help themselves feel better these are the children who thrive in life and go on the adulthood and thrive okay so they have gifted us the answer how do we do that that all comes down to how we grow them a brain okay and it means growing them how do we grow them a brain that allows them to do that has been they trust them trust in us to be able to invite us in to help them to feel safe in that provision of our care okay so we have not we um have not been taught within our society we've all gone out to school we've all learned aq but we've been not been taught aq we've not been taught how to manage your emotions in healthy ways okay so when we're not taught how to manage not only were we not taught how to manage our emotions in healthy ways with emotions in our society we're also seen as bad and appropriate we don't want to see them we don't want to hear them so when we see emotions in our children outside of what we deem to be good we shut them down we dismiss them we do as you say rescue and fix jump and molly-colly them try and make them better or we punish them okay so what that leads to is the stuff and down of emotions rower than the release of emotions i get you if i can just finish it because this is really important yeah that leads to the stuff and down of emotions rower than the release of emotions then what happens is that we know those emotions just don't go away they stay buried alive and they come out in two ways through anger and aggression or they turn onwards through the manifestation of anxiety depression self-harm and suicide and addiction hence why we've got a pandemic on the ground at the minute in relation to our adult population around violence crime mental health and addiction and all of that so if we now want to raise emotionally intelligent children children who are able to cope with their big emotions reduce the likelihood of mental health and all of that kind of stuff then in order to do that then we have to learn to become emotionally intelligent ourselves that's exactly where i was going to go you see because i know as a parent okay sometimes you feel that if you're too tough and i don't mean tough in any physical sense but if you're too emotionally tough on your child we've been conditioned to think right if they go off to the room and disappear for two hours are they contemplating self-harm or if they storm out of the house have they gone to kill themselves right i'm going to use the frank language because that's it we now are so fearful we as adults many of us lack the emotional intelligence to hand that down and it's i think this started some time back and people that were weren't emotionally intelligent and now the parents so you know what how do we then make sure we mature emotionally ourselves that's where we use now the scientific updated research which teaches us that in order to raise emotionally intelligent children the work starts with us we have a tendency when children are presented with big emotions and behavior we send them out to counseling it's the work begins with us the big people we need to learn how to manage children learn in three ways so we're developing you know when i says to you about their brain growing every day well what's it growing emotional regulation impulse control empathy critical and logical thinking the ability to make decisions that's what we're wiring up every single day and that takes decades to do that but if we weren't taught how to do that then we need to go back and learn that we need to learn to cope with our big emotions and we need to learn to respond to their big emotions and behaviors using emotional intelligence not fear not being harsh and critical because if we're harsh and critical to our children then when they're struggling they do want to lean in and rest yeah and the provision of an explosive bomb if we're a jellyfish parent if we're wobbly wobbly fearful panicky are they going to do this are they going to do that them and our children are struggling they're not going to want to lean now because they fall flat in their face so what we want is to raise children now who feel safe being able to lean in and rest and that provision of our care and we do that by growing ourselves so we can grow them in the best possible way we are teaching them every single day to master those skills in terms of growing their brain the same way as we say in the mighty school we wouldn't expect them to do a GCSE at the age of seven why because they have a mastery skills so why do we expect them to be able to cope with their big emotions when they're nine ten and thirteen when they fully don't develop until they're in their middle yeah but we are saying but I think there's an expectation of young people to maturing earlier as well to do you know what I mean and and that's a societal thing we're rushing them along in terms of their development 100 and they are not developmentally able to do that but they're being exposed to all the horrors of real life say through social media for example when they're literally should be you know playing outside yeah but how then do we because the reality of life then is is that we're all in a cost living crisis particularly here in the northwest you know lowest wages lowest possible income thousands upon thousands of us living in homes that you can't pretend the cracks aren't there stuff like that how do we deal with all of that sort ourselves out and then start working on on on the emotional intelligence of our children it's overwhelming sometimes yeah and I suppose when I look back in my early years of parenting I was 19 when I have my first daughter who's now 26 I didn't really have a clue when I reflect back on it I had an underdeveloper in myself I couldn't cope with my emotions and I came to the table with my own story and my own stuff as well too which we more on to your children then as well okay so I suppose it's really important that I have a wee middle daughter who is 17 she's significantly disabled with a life limited condition so when I went down to have her Craig she was my second wee daughter my other wee child was coming in between years at that stage in their development what we also know is that during adolescence not only is their brain underdeveloped they're also going through a period of construction so 40 percent of their neural connections is being primed while the brain reorganizes itself what does that mean a lot of times they feel very out of control with themselves so they need us they need that relationship to help them to feel safe well when I brought my wee daughter back home that was significantly disabled I was very much in fight-or-flight dysregulated myself the same as some parents who are dealing with lots of all their challenges and the home as well too and when we're disconnected from ourselves and we're in stress response then we can't give our children what it is that they need so when those needs are not met in the relationship with us they get those met outside of the home and that's what that looked like for my daughter her needs then she dropped out of grammar school and created a lot of problems for her then in teenage years okay so how now do we move forward with that well shit's always going to come to us we are always going to be dealing with challenges and stresses and all that kind of stuff but it's really down to us now my wee daughter that's significantly disabled her condition has a magically got better if anything it's got worse but it's over the years I've learned to manage my emotions I've learned to self-regulate and I have learned now to deal with my teenage daughter and respond to her behaviors using emotional intelligence and they pick that up too as well yeah I am not parent and no more out of fear so this all comes down to us educating ourselves and using this knowledge and information we have got Andy away within our society of seeing children's behavior through the lenses of morality what's right and what's wrong and not through the lenses of child development so when we are making children wrong for engaging in what they should be doing children are supposed to be chaotic message challenging all over the place they're supposed to make mistakes and get things wrong but if we are constantly coming at them criticizing judging them shaming them doing all the fair based traditional behavioral approaches that we were talking to use then we are growing their brain every day that the message that we communicate to them every day that you're bad you've done something wrong you're not good enough that message over time becomes a belief that becomes cemented and there's days when they fly over 20 odd years that then becomes their blueprint we're sending them out the door them where they don't feel good enough for them themselves and when they don't feel good enough for them themselves they're always going to look to the outside to help themselves to feel better okay right um there is an online masterclass coming up on the 14th of June where you're going to give people tips to manage uh and I suppose to we're going to be spending more time with each other over the summer aren't we okay so maybe it's a great opportunity to work on things yeah not a challenge I mean it could be challenging but it's an opportunity to immerse yourself in in this process so how do people get involved in this masterclass to I suppose fix themselves and fix their young people suppose the masterclass is really only a snippet of teaching you how to deal with your children's mouth downs um and um a way where we use relationship and connection um I suppose the bigger kind of picture is I run a program called parent in my love and limits without losing it so that's a really more in-depth program which teaches parents to be able to self-regulate and it teaches them then to be able to co-regulate their children using emotional intelligence so if any parent wants to avail of my training then they can follow me on social media Fiona Condren Emotion Matters I have got in the process of getting a website developed now that should be up and running next week so that'll be available there as well too but I suppose you know what I would always encourage parents Craig is that it's really best to get this information and knowledge and from a preventative point just just finally yeah right in terms of say for instance we were all parenting perfectly which is impossible what is what is the what is the one thing do you think in a sort of school going children's needs to change you know societal wise do you know what I mean so rather than us constantly trying to keep the lid on the part or playing whack-a-mole do you see one thing of significance that's triggering a lot of the problems in younger people I suppose um as I say we're now raising children in such a fast-paced technological world as well too and that brings with it an awful lot of challenges you know so with children growing and developing you know they're growing up are we bombarded with too much information say for instance a big topic at the moment and we're not going to get into it and I don't want to debate in it or to put you in it but there's a big conversation at the moment about gender and identity and what have you are are are the children too young to cope with that in your mind as well as everything else the other challenges of the world like do would you ever can not as I say I don't want to paint you into a pro this or that that's not my motivation but it's just a topical conversation the moment you have concerns that that's too much to take children are being exposed to an awful lot of outside the gender thing with with technology at their fingertips they're being exposed to an awful lot of information at a very young age information overload you know um when they've got an underdeveloped brain and they're not able to um have the capacity to be able to kind of manage that as well and we're as I say we're seeing that um on social media with bullying people can be very negative there can be a lot of judgment a lot of body image um issues and all that kind of stuff as well too so there is but I suppose the bottom line as Craig is that our children are struggling at the minute when they're struggling they need their big people they need to be able to come to them when they're struggling and if we're harsh and critical they're not going to come to us and when we're parent and out of fear they're not going to come to us so the key here is really um aquapon parents to be able to be the type of big person that they want their children to be but what I can also say as well too is that children spend a lot of times in school and it's important at the minute there's a lot of children struggling within school as well with emotions behaviors and mental health and it's how do we support you know education schools and educational professionals to be able to achieve best outcomes and the must of this kind of crisis as well too and the approaches that I would teach support behavioral regulation and children by using moments of high emotional distress to be able to teach and coach and guide them to be able to calm down south south and self-regulate so it's really important to provide this train and not just parents but also teachers but should this not be happening in schools as well you know I think and we can't medicate and bury our heads in the sand and think oh this is going away because it's not we have to meet the big people have to meet your head on uh Fiona Condren you can search Fiona Condren 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this sunday the 11th of june pay at the door dancing from nine till 11 p.m okay you're very welcome back to the line till noon show of my left shoulder it's a proud parent you can see him there he doesn't think it's on camera but he is but we have a primary there's no point leaving now you've already you've already made the shot stay where you are we have in studio with us a full piece irish indy rock band they are the afaids good morning great to have you back on the show thank you and we're speaking i just introduce you actually we've got 15 and 16 year olds kahr and grace and there's two graces the great smurfie and a grace newgents and carl warner all of you very welcome back on to the ninth lino show thank you so much right so talk to us about this new single i mean it came out how many weeks ago well 19th yeah so it's been like i'd say two weeks ish kind of two three and do you guys feel you've found your spot now you know because you're a young band but you've been together for for a bit do you think you found your voice now do you do you like where you're at yeah we feel like we've definitely improved like greatly from where we started like even writing songs you kind of just find your way a little bit more like in actually what you want to play live and what you want to kind of sound like so it's always changing like but it's uh it's nice like you don't remember kind of getting into a groove a little bit more yeah and yes they're building up your audience as well organically too isn't it it's about getting the music into people's ears and then getting them to the shows when you perform live yeah that's exactly it like we just want it to reach as many people as possible like well that's it yeah we we believe in the music so we're thinking now just when we're releasing the song we want that as many people to hear it as possible and then if they like it they like it yeah now if gigs upcoming in Dublin and Belfast what's that like is that nerve wracking is it exciting are you outside your comfort zone or is this what you're all been waiting to do or what i mean it's all just like new experiences for us and that's just what we're kind of welcoming like would you enjoy it because you see here's a little bit of advice when you're old like me uh what are you laughing at sorry when you're old this is where someone jumps in when you're old like me and you haven't done much you know you can't go back so now's the time to do it all like it's great just being like a like a local band like we love the latter candy scene and it's it's been great for us but you know the natural progression is to play to a bigger audience isn't it yeah and there's different types of people that you know you could blow up in in Dublin or Belfast you know I mean you just never know that's the exciting thing what about the traction online the the ability to get your stuff online i say this quite a lot to bands well i think it's such an important part of growing nowadays isn't it i mean to be able to get your own stuff on Spotify yeah no so we actually were recorded and done everything for the song ourselves yeah i have a bit of a recording studio up in the house and uh done a few days recording and then i mix it all myself but i just get a breakdown of where people are listening to aren't you where your tracks have been streamed so you're getting streams from all over the world as well aren't you yeah i mean what was our stats like um yeah well we're doing fairly well on Spotify now like you know getting it out there was it was a bit of a challenge but we got it and yeah it's cool seeing streams in germany yeah that's what i was saying i would love that so there's someone in germany listening to this track it's brilliant isn't it like it's kind of even hard to believe well the world's shrinking for you so you know and there's a funny thing i think particularly from the northwest our music seems to travel really well to germany and particularly the netherlands you know there's a lot of acts around here that go and do gigs over the summers over there whatever it is anyway okay right so we're gonna hear only char does it yeah right it's that now which means it's available to stream did you do a video for this or you're focusing just on the audio streaming of it what's the story so the video still works brilliant excellent okay and should we talk about gigs what's coming up we talked about the gigs come up in Dublin Belfast uh how's the summer looking for you's what are you where he's playing and uh party in the park party in the park for everyone yeah we're doing that again a bit further up the building yeah we're going i think we're branching out to dairy now as well great stuff and what i would love to see because i i would be at a few different events around the county yeah not many but not as many as i'd like and sometimes you have periods where there is a crowd right there's no band on stage and they're playing out music out of the speakers and people are wondering when's the live music going to start i would love to see organizers and promoters get bands like yourselves or others if you should be up for that get yourself on stage before that the main show starts because the audience are there they're mad for music and it gives you an opportunity to play to another audience you know and make if you could at the same time you know i think i do really think that we do do amazing stuff but i think sometimes we're missing a trick there you know what i mean that there's brilliant stage time to get used up there in front of a crowd and others uh so we'd love to see more of that in the summer right okay only child who wrote it whose fault is it and how many joking i kind of came with the cards and a few of the lyrics and brought the band and then this whole sort of bridge thing then came out whenever we were playing it together and it really made the song cool so it's a collaborative effort right yeah everything all right okay well should listen whenever you's already give us a lash this is only child from the brilliant aphades you've been calling to me when you say you can't sleep i don't see purpose of my presence in your future weeks and i know and that's the aphades and only child and uh what you's always managed to do and i don't know if it's how you record how you play live but you really do a great job of recreating the recorded version yeah we've never we've never done that song acoustically really yeah sounds good right that's the aphades where uh so when are you playing locally again you talked about the what's it called the party in the farm come on sevens july sevens the dry okay so hopefully uh plenty of gigs between now and then um and we wish you continued success do you have any influences musically we're speaking about this in the car um and we all for our instruments we all take very different influences which i think makes a pretty unique sound that's pretty cool for the band i think is there a wet leg is there a wet leg vibe there now maybe yeah i read some of us love white love yeah i there's a just a vibe like a year old people but i just there's a there's a sort of the lyrics and might just be the two boys two girls is it two boys two girls is it two i've never seen the boys yeah okay actually i did you're right okay listen come here hopefully it's uh letter kenny this year uh glass and brunette's year why not uh but let's just love to see these guys you know get the the stage that you deserve more than you are especially locally uh but you'll go down a storm and Dublin and Belfast you can check out the aphades on Spotify and also um on their social medias of course and a video for that coming up as well too so you get a second you get a second band see if you get to pull that off all right thanks very much the two graces uh kaha and uh kyle and uh the parent managers as well we appreciate you's calling in and thank you so very much indeed all 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see disney's the lion king in dublin well what a great job we have to be able to um firstly listen live to great young talent like the aphids and talents of all ages um but also to give them a wee platform as well fantastic stuff uh right okay now let's see can we help pauline hi pauline hi greg nice to speak to you right okay um missing passport is that it what's happened yeah well it's my 21 year old son and we're all members in green cattle i live in green cattle um uh went out to play golf it's open week down there and he had just arrived back from university and he had the passport in his coat pocket and he took the coat off to go out and play um at five o'clock yesterday evening and when he came back in the coat's gone right now he's had his passport in the pocket i think somebody has because the locker rooms have just reopened the day before and he had left so people are coming in with their golf bags for the first time and i'm thinking somebody has gathered it up and just stuffed it into the golf bag or somebody has you know while they're getting changed lifted it by mistake which happens yeah happens all the time i'm sure i'm sure it's been lifted by mistakes so if you found a blackface north jacket if you took it by accident there's a passport in it but also and i think pauline you make a great point maybe you just stuffed it into the big pocket in the bag if you're listening please double check the uh pocket of your bag to make sure that the black for north face jacket but most importantly the passport isn't in it because your young 20 year old one year old fellow is heading away very shortly and needs that passport yeah he's he's he's flying out he's supposed to he's flying to england on tuesday and then to turkey on wednesday it's a trip that he's planned with his girlfriend and her family from last october and he's absolutely he couldn't speak on the phone he's up to hide over he's up to hide over this is uh this is really and listen we know it's been lifted by mistake from from green castle golf club we just appealed to anyone and what day was that golfing again sorry pauline it was just yesterday yesterday okay so it's five o'clock right so if you were in there so we know the timeline so in green castle golf club after five five o'clock yesterday please double check your bag or your car for a black because they're very popular especially in the golfing fraternity so someone's lifted it thinking it's theirs or they've lifted it thinking their mate's left it behind it's got a passport and it's out there we just need to make sure the right ears have heard this i'll stick it up on my social media as well pauline and we'll put it up on the highland stuff and we have to make this trip happen for for for this because we've tried to get an emergency appointment we can't get anything down in Dublin yeah um so we're we're really really hoping that somebody comes across it in their golf bag or in the the bit of the car where they've just gathered everything and thrown it on all right okay so collectively appeal to everybody and we want collectively people out there st anthony you know yourself uh we need this young fella to get his passport but as i say if you were at yesterday evening a real specific timeline a green castle golf club please double check you didn't accidentally lift a north face jacket within it a passport uh and it's a it sounds like it's going to be a great holiday for him listen fingers crossed pauline fingers crossed thank you but we'll get it up on the socials as well and hopefully get people to share and let us know if there's any success will you please but i will indeed i will indeed that's fantastic right okay take care of yourself for him bye bye thank you very much indeed take care all right you too all right some comments to take us up to the top of the hour here um excellent band and sound from the afaids singer's voice is fabulous yes she's got and it's effortless you know when someone sings and they have to sort of or they appear that they're uh banging it out uh it's effortless uh for her uh love the talent on our doorstep hope they go far what they need is just the the the the right break the right support and i've heard them a few times and i've no doubt that they can make it because as well as that being um fantastic musicians and artists is they are four lovely young people as well uh hu in creasel assays the afaids are just fantastic here here hu i agree uh another person agreeing with me hi greg i agree i'm in my mid 60s and was treated as an adult from i was 16 working in a full-time job young adults are not allowed now to grow up and we do it i think some of us do it in the name of love uh to protect but sometimes i wonder do we have to make sure that we're not wrapping them up in cotton wool and holding them back rather than uh helping them progress any comments on that 08 6 60 25 000 we'll pick them up for the morning or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 but that's where we have to leave it on the show today