 Imagine all the good songs that have been ruined Aki breaky pump. That's all right. Oh, isn't it Aki breaky pump? Aki breaky pump I left my pump in San Francisco. Do you ever get mixed up between Billy Ray Cyrus and Garth Brooks? No, do you? Yep, why because they're just kind of the same Sorry, yeah, I thought you were gonna you're not you're going to get I am gonna go to Garth Brooks Yeah, but I just always get them mixed up I can't believe as much now as I used to when both of them were sort of charting I can't believe that you're going to a Garth Brooks concert and you can't tell the difference between Billy Ray Cyrus and Garth Brooks I thought my name Cyrus was a Garth Brooks daughter. You see Rice doesn't need the name doesn't give it away. No Are you in tomorrow? Not that I know of back Saturday morning Saturday morning 10 a.m. Saturday rewind. All right. See you then Roy All right, it's nine o'clock time for news update and it is Michaela Clark Thanks, great. Good morning. A large scale illegal dump has been uncovered in the Fulcara area 28 tonne of household construction Demolition and agricultural waste was recently removed from the site the cleanup cost Dunnegal County Council 12,000 euro cancer Michael McClaffrey last to hear luck off the Glentys Municipal District says the money could have been better spent on Other much-needed resources. He has hid out at those responsible for the dumping I would ask people to stop dumping because it's destroying the country site. It's destroying the area at the moment there's Fulcara initially got this complete engineer of tourists actually highlighted this and it's just And it's huge cleanup and it's huge amount of money to taxpayer That's on call for have everybody done their own way back at home take responsibility do their own back The country's main churches have come together to call for government action to tackle the cost of living crisis on the island of Arnand The church leaders group Arnand says it's deeply concerned about the response in both jurisdictions and meeting immediate needs and in relation to longer-term Strategies the group believes more practical support is needed through direct government initiatives as well as grassroots charity and community partnerships Autumn projections point to a worsening situation with too many people already struggling to afford essentials like food and fuel and in real danger of losing their Homes health or lives Bishop Andrew Forster president of the Irish Council of Churches says people need more money and help to get through this difficult time I think people actually need money. They need help to pay for heating costs They need help Putting food on the table Donegal County Council has today published a compulsory purchase order to acquire lands in Southwest Donegal as part of the Fintra Bridge and Road Alignment Project The long-awaited development will include a new bridge across the Fintra River, road re-alignment works and the new pedestrian and cycle ridge The CPO being initiated by Donegal County Council will see many landowners in Fintra and Kili Beggs affected as well as the car park and public roads associated with Kili Beggs GAA club St Columbus Diocesan Trust and Council owned lands Six public rights away are to be permanently closed to facilitate the development also And for whether or not I am a mostly dry start to the day with spells of sunshine and some isolated showers Clyde will develop through the day with outbreaks of rain and highest temperatures of 16 to 18 degrees That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning Dad! Yeah? Did you remember my boots? Yep And the glasses you said this ref needs? Did I say that? You did, yeah Oh What about extra batteries? Batteries? For the car, because you're always worried about it running out Ah, don't worry buddy, if our battery runs out the man from Aviva will come and help us Cool Aviva car insurance comes with breakdown rescue as standard, so if your battery runs out, we'll charge your car at the roadside Tell you to the nearest charging point or bring you home, whichever is closer For worry-free electric vehicle cover, it takes Aviva Acceptance criteria, T's and C's apply, minimum premium of 310 euro Car insurance is underwritten by Aviva Insurance Ireland Act Aviva Direct Ireland Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland It's the Northwest Truck Fest at Milford Mart this Saturday and Sunday With trucks from all over Ireland Also, Bricka Brack and home baking stalls, plus live music Proceeds to Ellyswish to Walk and MS Ireland, Donegal Branch This ad is sponsored by Donegal Oil And now, it's time for the talk of the North West The Nine to Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio And a very good morning to you, it's Thursday the 25th of August 2022 Four minutes past nine, you're very welcome along to the Nine to Noon Show here on Highland Radio Hope you're with us for the next three hours on your number one talk show in the county, of course And you're here with us for the rest of the day on Highland Radio The lines are open for you right now, 07491 25000 Caroline taking your calls, Emma there too Or give us a WhatsApp and text to 08668 25000 E-mails come in to us at comments at HighlandRadio.com And if you want to watch the program, get to YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland Or across our Facebook pages, or indeed just go straight to our website HighlandRadio.com, you can watch in your browser there Right, lots of newspapers to have a look at this morning Let's start with the draconal Tribune And a story from John McAteer As more refugees continue to arrive in Donegal There is alarm and disbelief this week that a significant development of social housing in Milford Has been withdrawn and a group of Ukrainians will take up residence there in the coming weeks That's according to those hoping to be housed at the location It's understood that a turnkey development had been in the process of being completed By a private developer for Donegal County Council But that appears to be no longer the case The paper sought a response from Lyford on the issue After they received complaints that families promised consideration for a social house Discovered at the last minute that there has been a change of plan The paper asked the council to confirm the status of the named project And to what extent is Donegal County Council engaged in housing provision on the named estate Declan Meehan Milford IRD said This situation that has developed in Milford is regrettable And serious questions must be asked when social housing is allocated elsewhere And exactly what is the council's policy at the current time And that is and this story is at odds To the comments from a spokesperson on A minister on this programme I can't remember his name off the top of my head a couple of weeks ago we said Housing refugees and addressing the housing crises in Ireland Are two different situations with two different funding streams But what's happening is unfortunately it seems That the government is in competition for these houses And they're paying very very handsomely for a lot of these rental properties Not speaking directly to this Milford situation And people, private citizens, I presume private developers They're looking at what money is available to them And all the money is in housing refugees So it's you know I mean people can make business commercial decisions But it is the government that's incentivising people To convert or to make available rental property to refugees And that for me is the elephant in the room And that and that type of story is what is going to cause serious division And problems in this country And it is not the doing of regular citizens Or it's not the doing of refugees or to some extent it's not the doing of house owners And it is the policy and it's not joined up It doesn't make sense and it's going to cause really really big problems If you're affected by that by the way 08 660 25000 The Chicano Tribune is focused on that story in Milford But there are other examples of it right across the county And I'm sure across the country The Donegal news this morning A Ukrainian woman living in letter Kenny Has told of how she still fears for her family back home as the war continues Svetlana Perch was one of a few hundred people who took part in a solidarity rally In Market Square yesterday evening Ukrainian flags flew proudly as refugee children and their parents stood shoulder to shoulder With local people in support of Ukrainian Independence Day A number of other parades also took place around the county and nationally Independence Day traditionally marks the breakaway from the Soviet Union But yesterday's protest had further poignancy And it also coincided with the six months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine And the start of that war And there's a picture on the front of the paper of that gathering The Donegal Democrat tells us that moves have begun to bring a major 40 Sorry, a major seven million infrastructural project to Southwest Donegal To the next stage of development Donegal County councillors today published a formal notice to proceed with a CPO To acquire land and close six public rights of way Associated with the Finchra bridge and road realignment outside Kili Begs The CPO will affect at least 44 landowners including the Kili Begs GEA club St. Columbus diocese, diocese and trust and the council itself The proposed road development will include a new bridge to cross the Finchra river The realignment of around 1.4 kilometers of road infrastructure And cross-sectional improvements And a new 1.9 kilometer pedestrian and cycle route Between the Kili Begs industrial road and access to Finchra bridge The DERI news tells us that DERI's Eurovision Song Contest winner Dana is at a loss As to why she has not been invited to take part in an RTE production Celebrating Ireland's success in the competition I'd have to join her in that I mean obviously she was involved in politics and has spoken out on a number of issues But in terms of Eurovision's success She's up there with the best of them from an Irish perspective Well Dana was an 18 year old Thornhill College pupil When she shot to worldwide fame by winning the event in 1970 With all kinds of everything in Amsterdam Before an estimated viewing audience of 200 million The RTE Concert Orchestra's Eurovision Night on October 13 In the National Concert Hall in Dublin Will be hosted by Marty Whelan Who also anchors RTE's annual TV coverage of the contest But the show has been described as a celebration of the Eurovision As well as our winning singers and composers But why is Dana not at it? I think she should be there What do you think? I'll wait 60, 25 thousand I think it's a no brainer Why is she being snobbed? Well, Robert Troy has stepped down as Minister of State He blames everyone but himself He blames, well not everyone He blames the media He blames the opposition He dramatically resigned as Minister of State But struck a tone of defiance As he insisted he would not apologise for being a landlord Following ten days of controversy over his property interests In an extraordinary statement Mr Troy accepted he had made mistakes But also attacked the media and the opposition Saying the narrative that landlords are villains is simply wrong I don't think that's really what people were upset about And this is the problem with politics in this country You see, in my opinion and this is on in my opinion Is this just a complete and utter detachment Robert Troy has not understood why in the midst of a highs and crises And general sort of, you know, upset with the cost of living And maybe politics as a whole He thinks it's the opposition and the media that has cost him his job But it's not, it's people, it's the public And I said this on the programme a couple of days ago That they don't understand It's the public that drive the agenda in this country Not the media and not the opposition And it's the public, general people of all political backgrounds That didn't like this story, that thought it stank That they weren't happy with the explanations given That it just didn't feel right in the midst of a housing crisis That someone could forget how many houses they have It was nothing to do with the media The media carried the story, but sure Who's buying papers nowadays anyway This was about the public giving out on social media And on other platforms and in the papers as well They were upset by this And that's also to what I couldn't understand about Say, for instance, the like of Micheal Martin Or Leo Varadkar backing Robert Troy Because they obviously didn't understand why this upsets people That's the problem, they don't understand why it upsets people And he continued this line in his statement He didn't reference the public or the public outcry But anyway, that's the detachment there is Unfortunately, seemingly, between elected representatives At a national level, certainly, or certainly some of them And the general population Well, the FINA fall TD insisted that the failure to declare Several property interests and payments from state housing schemes Was genuine errors and human errors and were not intentional Mr. Troy's resignation was not sought by the T-shock Who accepted it with regret But the landlord West Meath, sorry, the Longford Freudian slip there But the Longford West Meath TDs departure was described as appropriate By the Green Party, just hours after its leader, Eamon Ryan Called for two inquiries including an unprecedented dull committee It had emerged that Mr. Troy sought tax breaks For landlords who rent properties to local authorities And used parliamentary time to repeatedly ask questions About the operation of a HAP scheme which pays him for five tenancies So you can't be elected to politics and make representations That benefit you, that would benefit you And forty other landlords in the dull And then sort of say, well, I was talking about domestic violence as well And I was talking about this other issue as well That's not a defence, that's what people were angry about And that's why he's lost his job as a junior minister Still a TD, still elected TD, very popular in his own area as well By the way, and I'm sure he will bounce back Because that's what happens here The Irish times now, people struggling to pay their utility bills this winter Will be given more time to pay them Under new plans being considered by the energy regulator It comes as the government this week announced a review of supply of electricity As Ireland faces extreme high energy prices Minister for the environment, Eamon Ryan Confirmed the move by the commission for the regulation of utilities In response to a parliamentary question last month The cost of electricity, gas and oil have all increased by significant margins In the last twelve months, Mr Ryan said the CRU was working very closely With suppliers to enhance existing protection By introducing additional measures to ensure more manageable payment Debt repayment plans by extending the time for repayment So that would be kicking the can down the road It doesn't reduce the cost, it just gives us more time to pay But also, in the paper today, Eamon Ryan insists we will keep the lights on this winter This is in the Irish Daily Mail, amid blackout fears But say steps will need to be taken to protect the public and business From a price shock in their energy bills So he's in that paper also stating that he does not believe that we will see blackouts On to the farmer's journal now Western farmers set to benefit most from acres Farmers along the western seaboard are set to benefit most from the new Agri Climate Rural Environmental Scheme compared to those in the east This is down to the measures being most suited to more marginal land And the presence of landscape features such as stone walls Highly stocked enterprises farm and good quality land Excuse me, we'll face challenges in developing plans That generate a worthwhile payment from the scheme On to the Irish Daily Mail now And a new report claims one in five sex workers have been sexually exploited By ungodly shiokana or members of it The shock report is based on interviews with a sample of 25 street sex workers Based in Limerick and Dublin And found that one in five Now, by the way, when they say one in five Two out of the ten in Limerick And three out of the fifteen in Dublin Said they had been exploited by Gardie So this is a very low amount of people But still significant nonetheless A report based on interviews with a sample of 25 street sex workers Based in Limerick and Dublin Found that one in five street sex workers Interviewed had experiences of being sexually exploited by the Gardie Participants said they had a deep mistrust of ungodly shiokana And said they felt discouraged to report crimes to Gardie Including rape and violence for a range of reasons Those included trauma from previous aggressive Garda tactics And the experience of some officers sexually exploiting street workers And abusing their powers Okay, on to the Irish Sun now And employees are asking older people to come out of retirement To help plug the gaps required to keep Irish businesses running And Irish Sun investigations found There are almost 130,000 posts that need filling across the construction Hospitality, tourism and retail But with many people seeking work from home rules Companies are finding it impossible to fill their vacancies And some are relying on school children to get them through The summer, an expert has warned that even if the government scraps The mandatory retirement age and eases restrictions on foreign workers Ireland is still at the mercy of the housing crisis And finally in the Irish Daily Mirror today Finland's Prime Minister has apologised after the publication Of a photo that showed women kissing and posing topless At the leader's official summer residence The picture comes after a video that showed Anna Marin dancing and singing with friends Prompting a debate about the 36-year-old head of government's social life Do you think there's any justification to this? I mean she is a young woman, she's not doing anything wrong But she is being handed by the press, no doubt about that Miss Marin confirmed the photo was taken in the bathroom Of an official residence following a music festival in early July Now the woman's chests are covered I don't know if people are that sensitive anymore But anyway, I think there's bigger things to worry about So as we mentioned there in the paper, Fina Folti, the Robert Troy has resigned from his role As a minister of state at the Department of Trade and Employment He blames the opposition and he blames journalists for this decision The Sinn Féin party whip is Deputy Patrick McLaughlin And he joins us on the programme now I think there's a couple of things going on here I'm not sure if Robert Troy resigned Necessarily about what's happened over the last while I have a suspicion that maybe the government didn't fancy Awarding Sinn Féin an open goal when you come back Off the summer recess and maybe they didn't want to kick off The new term with this controversy around there Now what's your take on it Deputy Patrick McLaughlin? Greg, I think that what's particularly in the last week Has emerged as real anger amongst the generation Of younger people and families who are struggling to pay rent Including in Donegal and who can't afford to buy their own home So they can get a job but they can't afford to put a roof over their head And it is a breaking of the social contract that has always been there And it is a scandal And I think all of that then you ask the question How does that happen? How do you get to that? We didn't build any public housing or council housing for ten years We pushed families who are on the housing list Into the private rental sector We enriched institutional investors So we've handed over housing policy to the private sector for profit And that is a national scandal And when people then see a minister with the revelations that emerged I think they joined up the dots and could see why they're in the situation they're in Do you know how many of your party members are landlords? I'm not saying they're not declaring it or there's anything But there's 40 odd landlords in the doll at the moment Do you know how many of your party members are ballpark or landlords that are elected to the doll? Yeah, according to the Irish Times reports Jonny Girk is RTD and Meeve West has a number of properties And what I would say is in this county and all over Ireland There are people who are landlords who are very fair, very good land We need private landlords We need good people who charge a fair rent to look after their tenants Look after their properties That's not the issue The issue is what do you do when you're in government? So when you look at the number of Finafall and Finnegale TDs who are landlords And look at their voting records That's the thing I look at How do you vote on issues that come forward on rent freezes On not evicting people during the COVID crisis You know, on building more public housing, affordable housing I think that's the litmus test And this is why this register is so important Because it allows us to cross-reference maybe elected politicians Interests with their assets And with their responsibilities outside the doll And that is why for me This register is so important that it is completely accurate Fully up to date and fully representative of a TD's interests Yeah, I mean, you're looking at trying to put it You know, whether you're a TD or councillor Or somebody who is in public office That you can clearly see what your interests are And if there's a conflict of interest in a decision that you're making So that's why those laws are in place all around the world And any democracy And that's why they're important I mean, obviously at the moment The housing situation, it's ongoing But at the moment there's particular challenges I'm not sure if you've seen the Treconal Tribune this morning But it would appear according to the paper That a significant development of social housing in Milford has been withdrawn And is now being offered to refugees All around this county and elsewhere There are rental properties that are having And I'm not saying this is the case in Milford That are being stuffed with bunk beds People are making 35 to 39 euro per night Per head in the... And I don't mean that in any way Disparaging to the heads, it's just the way you would describe it So, you know, the problem is going to get worse In terms of any available housing If you would comment on that Does your party support this move by government Are you fully across with how much money People are making off the back of refugees at the moment Yeah, I am And I know it's causing huge anger and done a goal Because we should be doing both We should be looking after families Who are on the housing list for years We should be making sure that There is nobody who faces homelessness And I can tell you Greg One of the two busiest issues in my office Are housing and health services And it is a massive volume of people that we work with So housing is a huge issue and it is causing anger And no less than Peter McVerry said this month ago The great father of Peter McVerry You know, who talked about He was really concerned that you would pit One set of people against another And the government is making huge mistakes I mean, if you look at vacant properties Genuinely vacant properties There are plenty of them in this county That could have been used for this purpose So yeah, I am concerned We should be doing both Looking after our own people on the housing list And of course every country has to help out the refugees Yeah, but what about the money That's being given out though to people Companies are being set up to Get as much of this money as is possible at this time And it is taking, you know Private rental property away Everyone talks about Airbnb, Airbnb Yes, that's an issue but right now I don't know what the situation is In Milford, I'm not talking of that But rental properties are People are being evicted from their homes Okay, because there's so much In other words, the government is competing With the public, with the people Because landlords are seeing that the cash cow That's there, they're evicting residents Because they can make so much money In such a short period of time With no regulation it seems In terms of health and safety and what have you In housing refugees Yeah, I mean, I would be very concerned If you have a situation where people Who are on the housing list Who rely on housing or students Who rely on housing would be displaced There's no need to do this I'm also concerned that you have people Who are coming from a war-torn country As refugees for a period of time Who are pitted against those You know, who need housing Who have real needs, students, families So to me that's a massive mistake And yes, there are people who are profiting From this, I don't think that's good I think it's on savoury Yes, we would be concerned about that But again, I emphasise that We can do both and we should do both There are countries all across Europe Who are faced with this challenge Including Ireland And I am concerned That you have pitted one set of people Against another Yeah, I know your time is short I just want to get one question here From Jimmy, it's not directed at you But I'd be interested to get your insight into it Jimmy, what's your point as it relates to TD's interests and sort of voting patterns? I believe that only TD's got Proper ones or owns property that got there Shouldn't we like to vote for anything such as Effectives or shouldn't we like to vote for rent phrases In some sense that got there Rent phrases, I should say Because there's a conflict of unfairness Yeah, but these votes will pop up all the time And what about that, Deputy McLaughlin? I mean, I think if I think if there's a business interest there Is there an argument for a TD You know, abstaining, as Jimmy is suggesting Yeah, I think it is something that's Is going to have to be looked at There's obviously a significant number of TD's and senators who are landlords And I want to emphasize again Because listening in today will be People who are very good landlords And I would say most landlords are And fair to their tenants They charge a fair rent But we need people to be good Decent landlords out there So I don't want to malign those But unfortunately there are a section Of people who are making huge profits Who aren't good landlords There's greed there And that's facilitated by government policy So yeah, I think Jimmy's point Is going to have to be looked at We're getting to the point now where there's a very large But then you see the problem is Then you start talking about votes on farming Jimmy or then you start talking about Votes on minimum prices for alcohol Or what have you There's so many elected reps, Jimmy That have vested interests in business Where would you draw the line? Where there's a conflict of interest There's nothing Where a conflict is where it lies You have to I mean it's kind of That's a cast of turkeys To vote for Christmas, isn't it? Can I ask you Jimmy What did you think of the Robert Troy controversy Did it bother you? Do you think he should have gone? Well It doesn't matter what I think It doesn't matter what we think They do whatever they want They don't want to get involved to it I just do it Thank you to a dentist When you ask people of both person There's going to be a cut in their money A cut in their profits They're not going to get it I don't mind them I don't mind them putting a point Across from the conflict of vote They shouldn't let them vote I don't think because I mean It's crazy They're not going to vote against They're not going to vote against Ramp raises Ramp raises are They're not going to vote for a free So if they get money out of this All right, Jimmy It's a complex contest Thanks for that And finally Definitely, my rocker And that is the problem And earlier on I was trying to make the point It doesn't matter to Jimmy Because I think there's A lot of people have I'm not saying this is what Jimmy feels They just don't trust politics anymore You know what I mean And we heard Robert Troy He blames the media He blames you guys Doesn't reference the anger Amongst the general population This detachment I don't know how it's repaired But would you accept it's there And what do you think needs to be done Yeah, I do I think that's Unfortunately, due to people's experience And I think they look at What's happened in their own life They look at the housing system They look at health They look at the cost of living And the lack of support And they join up the dots That the political system Isn't working for them There is a lack of confidence Understandably, I think And what we have to do Is try to work to change it I mean, I get up every morning Hoping I can make the country better And our job is At Sinn Fein anyway Is to try and rebuild conference That politics can deliver Positive change for people All right, listen Thank you very much For your time this morning I appreciate it That was Deputy Potter McLachlan there Who is the Sinn Fein party With Donegal Rep of as well Of course, okay Back with more after a break The Nine Till Noon Show In association with The Northwest Truck Fest This Saturday and Sunday At Milford Mart With live music, family fun At Truck Convoy and much more You'll get a comfy Irish made mattress A pollstered base and headboard From an amazing 229 euro Check out the full range At dfibeds.ie Delivery free and guaranteed To you within seven working days DFI beds Sleep well, live well Want unbeatable value from Sky? 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A caller has them Get in touch with us We'll pass on the details Hi Greg it's a joke that this government Is still on holidays And the mess of this country Only in Ireland they say Another if one of the many issues In Ireland is not driven by the media It'll be ignored just like Micah And various other scandals Like traveller suicides and parental alienation Otherwise it's generally ignored by politicians Say for instance with the Micah situation I don't agree with you Sorry I do agree with you But the media got involved with the Micah Because they were embarrassed Into getting involved in the Micah situation That's generally how it works It's the public that drive it And then the media can't ignore it Because they can't be so far behind What's happening in the country That is my belief I could be wrong but anyway Okay now this is an important little story here And Cahill Donnelly is going to help us Cahill Donnelly, Kayaker and Fisherman Good morning to you Cahill Morning Greg Right I think we're speaking in the context Aren't we of at the weekend A kayak was found without its owner And of course and it makes sense When the likes of the Milan head coast guard Are an ally and others noted this They can't be sure whether or not It's someone's fallen out of it Or what have you So the kayak being found floating Or on the shore raised alarm bells And you can see why Cahill Yeah of course Who's not like I explained this could be Could be a number of things Could have just flew it away I'm somebody who's frankly That's what happened Or somebody could have fell out of the sea And unfortunately a big check was Was on their way to looking Looking for somebody to cause Identification on the kayak you know Yeah so this red horizon kayak Was found off lean and head on Tuesday afternoon Initially obviously the responders Put a call out does anyone know who owns this When that information wasn't forthcoming They had to presume that maybe someone Had fallen out of it and a search was launched Eventually the owner of the kayak Came forward All of this could have been avoided Cahill Yes very simply I remember I think that my post I had a re-picture of an identification Thing which I got a few years ago Off there in LA So I put that inside the hull of my kayak Inside the hatch and it has my name And phone number and emergency contact People for my wife as well you know So if the kayak just floated away It's fine then ring me And I don't have to launch light poles And helicopters and it's not now or even But if I don't answer And maybe they ring my wife's number It'll be more serious then you know So it's a very simple thing to do And could save a hell of a lot of hassle you know Yeah and in both cases it's an excellent notion Because if it had just floated away You very quickly could have confirmed that But if God forbid you had fallen out of it You know and were advised to let people know When we're going to sea from where And when we're due back Your wife in that awful situation Would be able to pass that information on Which we would hope would be able to Quickly sort of focus a search in a particular area So in both instances it's really valuable It's really a valuable exercise Yeah and it's quite simple Like as I say the wee one I got I got it off there in LA usually But even a laminated piece of paper With your details on it Stuck inside the kayak hatch You know would be ideal you know I'm a member of the Area's kayak anglin club Which is the designation way Like we go all around the country you know We're very very big and safely you know One of the things that we all do And did you get out much this summer Cahill I'll get out I'll get out Nearly every chance I can get Nearly every chance I can get We go all around the country with them you know Any whoppers Well I think you have I think you have one of our One of our club members on the On the line earlier in the year Graeme Ah yes Graeme that's right Yeah Graeme's a He's a shark hugger Graeme brings the sharks on board and gives them a hug You know he's one of our cannibals And sends them on their merry way Happy as Larry with a special hug I think it's simple I think you know anyone out there who owns a kayak It's a simple enough exercise Put your contact details in but also An emergency contact like your other half or something And then that means if your kayak If it floats off accidentally They know straight away because they can Contact its owner but if someone Went out and sadly fell out Then you can sort of very quickly maybe Focus a search because hopefully You'll have told someone where you launched from And where you were going and then they can sort of Cross reference that with where the kayak Just into the sand and tides So it makes a great deal of sense i think Carol That's right Chris There a few other such things that we would Use as well I always go to sea with Three forms of compact One is my mobile phone and a waterproof case And two is my A BHS radio that I can call the Coast Guard It's in difficulty And third is a PLB location beacon. And that will bring the worst comes the worst. I press a button on that and that will bring the rescue services with a few meters of my position, you know, so it's all a bit safety on the water. It's a little bit of expense. But I mean, it is the difference between life and death because you know that whatever might happen to you, someone's going to know it's happened to you. Yeah. Well, like the likes of the PLB, the PLB, they are quite expensive. They're between 200 and 300 euros. But there's a seven year battery life with them. So I've been just used to get six times a year. It works out a bit of five, that's all. You know, over the seven years. And is that part of your life jacket or separate cahole? No, it's separate. It's actually attached to my life jacket. So I just press a button on it and I've seen the signal by a satellite to the emergency services. It gives you a good bit of reassurance as well. I mean, you've done everything you can do in that situation to save your life, but also to make the job of our rescue services. And I think water users like you can have an extra respect for the work of the likes of the R&L, because you know what they do. You know how tough it is. And you know, they launch when most people maybe are trying to tie their boats up. That's right. They have a tough enough job without, I suppose, false alarms. You know, it's a tough enough job to have without having to do that, you know. And any wee bit of help that can help out the rescue services do it, I think, you know. Okay, no. Cahole, listen, well done. Thanks very much. Would you fish throughout the winter now or is there a season? Or what way does it work? Yes, fish all year. I'll, once the sea fishing eases up, I'll move on to the lakes. And another thing we use will be a dry set. We have a dry set and just get the thermal clothes on underneath the dry set and away we go. Happy days. Lake never sees me at the weekend. Well, I'd say she's the happiest woman in Donegal. You and your mates are hugging sharks and she's relaxed. You're right. God bless you, Cahole. Well done. Thanks very much. Cahole Donnelly there, 0860, 205,000 WhatsApps and texts. So that, that number, right, let's talk, take a quick break, catch up on some of your comments after these. 2,500 euro every Friday and on the fourth Friday, someone also wins 10,000 cash money. Go to HighlandRadio.com and get your 10 euro ticket. It's a whole new meaning to cash flow. Highland Rating. Paterson's The Hall Lifford, one of Ireland's largest kitchen and interior showroom. Open Monday to Saturday 9am to 5.30pm. Kitchens, beds, mattresses, furniture and garden furniture all under one roof. 50% off our ex-display kitchens. Everything you need to make your house a home. At Paterson's kitchens and interiors, The Hall Lifford. Western Farmers to Benefit Most from Acres. 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But maybe you're right. Good morning, Greg. A week question. I love listening to your repeat show. Why does it not start straight after the live show? There's an hour gap. It kicks off at one. It always kind of has, I think traditionally. But I will ask unfortunately that's above my pay scale and I'll see what the story is. Another caller says I can't help but think the art of handwriting is dying out with so much typing and technology. I noticed a deterioration in my own handwriting recently. I'm blaming the lack of use for this. When you think about it, everything is typed on your phone, tablets, etc. So the amount of handwriting used daily is decreasing. I wonder is it to be a thing of the past completely? I can't remember the last time. Well, a birthday card or something. And I didn't have confidence in writing it. So I hear what you're saying. You know, I was like, Well, how do you do that? So yeah, but is that progress though? Is that just the way it's going to be? I wonder. You know, our young are one and two year olds now really going to write as adults. I don't know. I have an ease who's living in a three bedroomed house in Manor Cunningham. However, she's been looking for a two bedroomed council house in an estate in Manor and it's lying empty. The house she's in at the moment is a three bedroomed house. And if she was moved, the bigger house would be freed up for a bigger family. She's been fighting for the two bedroomed house for over a year now, joined up thinking that might not be there. Is there a code of ethics for landlords or TDs? We need some way of balancing conflict of interest in the door to indeed. And that's why I don't understand why Mr. Troy's not understanding the public outcry at what went on. The people of Bali Hill and Mallonhead internet problems. One family is six children of school age who cannot do their schoolwork because of the service. Businesses in Bali Hill and Mallonhead can't do their business because of the internet. Bali Hill is the townland, the second biggest visitor attraction in Donegal Go Figure. Is there broadband up there or do you rely on mobile internet? I know we recently did a programme in fact last Monday from Mallonhead. And we don't require a great deal of bandwidth to send a show back to base. But we had to park in a very specific position just to get a signal. So yeah, definitely. And another thing, I mean obviously primarily businesses and residents, they are the most important thing because they're they're all year round. But also this is one of those spots where people take pictures and a good internet connection is good for business, isn't it? Because people are at Mallon, the upload a picture or do a live stream, and that's spread around the world and attracts more visitors. But obviously our primary interest here is in the residents and businesses at Bali Hill and what is going on with the internet there. Tell me a little bit more. Is it is it landline? Is it a lack of fibre? Is there plans for fibre? Or is it the mobile coverage there? And is it one particular network or others? And it's something maybe we can follow up on a little bit and see if we can get any further answers for you. Robert Troy resigned. Does that mean he retires on a full government pension? No, he's fine. I don't know what happens to his junior ministerial pension. But no, he's a TD, don't worry. He continues as a TD. He might lose out on whatever bump you get as a junior minister. But he is his pensions intact and his employment is intact. So don't be worrying. Greg, me or Martin and Leo for Adcar do know what upsets people. The problem is they don't care what upsets people. I don't know. Maybe, maybe with certain comments, particularly, you wonder, is it like almost gaslight in the public? You might remember the mansions references and that kind of stuff. Greg, if you arrive at what X wins to Troy did, you can be very sure we would not get off as lightly as he did. What a sick joke this really is. Hi, Greg, just because Troy resigned, he still broke the law and he should still be investigated the way Joe soap would be. I think that the question mark as it relates to the law, I'm not sure what's broken in inverted commons, but certainly in terms of registering properties, which you're supposed to do yourself and he expected others to do or thought others were doing. That is something that probably needs looked at. Right, okay. You might remember the missing wallaby, Winnie, wasn't it? Glenn Parker State owner Richard Beattie joins us. Hi, Richard. Hello, how are you going on? Is Winnie back? One of the last nights was fine last night, just for Monday, last night, and we've got a, we've got actually returned back in again. We had a friend did a bit of work maintenance and a new friend from a ho ho. He's the one of the who he's actually a deer. He's actually a deer. He's always looking for deers. And he actually came down with his night camera last night and went through the local area. And we found one in one of the real deep, deep dense undergrowth down at the bottom of where she wouldn't have been 800 yards from where Winnie went missing from. And deep, deep dense foliage and heat picked her up, but they were the credit job to get her caught. And do you think Winnie stuck around or did she return to where she went missing? I think Winnie stuck to where, where Winnie was, where Winnie was, she was in so deep, deep, deep down thing that she felt safe when she was asking. She was completely, you could walk past her, move on three last nights, try to flush her out last night. You could not, you could walk nearly that you could be two yards from her. She just sat down so tight to the ground. And just the last second, she moved the last night. I wish I'd have told you. And what kind of form is she in? Well, it's the best. And she's healthy. She's kind of put back in along with Jeffrey or back in along with Jeffrey again. And they're happy. We put them in to a smaller enclosure with a higher fence on them this morning here. And we re-nated the term together. So we're just keeping the term together to keep the companionship, to get pulled up them again, to get them sat on them again to the area again. And Winnie would have been able to get moisture for a sort of hydration and food where she was, I presume? Yes, she was in water and all, lots of it. Winnie is healthy. She's healthy. She's healthy. She's healthy. But she's just some complete dense overgrowth, completely undergoes. You could walk past her. You wouldn't not have seen her. You wouldn't not have seen her. One of these fellows had the night vision goggles that you can pick up the heat and through the grass. That's just on the whole, starting on the sweet ground. There's four hours are here, doing the sweet ground, just come around and come on her. Okay, well, all's well that ends well. Thank you much. All right, well done. Good stuff. I thank everybody who's rung and gave a thing and helped us a series of people that search party for us is absolutely a brand new C1A back again. All right, Glen Parker State owner Richard Beattie. Thank you very much indeed. So Winnie is back and she was found very close within 800 meters of where she went missing. So just a wee update for you because it will be a wee bit of interest in that. All right, back with war in a moment. The Nine Till Noon Show in association with the Northwest Truck Fest this Saturday and Sunday at Milford Mart with live music, family fun, a truck convoy and much more. 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Live on Air Online and on the Highland Radio app, this is Highland Radio News. I'm Akilah Clark with the news at 10 o'clock. A large-scale illegal dump has been uncovered in the Fulcara area. 28 tonne of household construction, demolition and agricultural waste was recently removed from the site. The clean-up cost Donnie Galt County Council 12,000 euro. Thanks to Michael McLaughley, Lasky-Hirloch of the Glendies Municipal District, says the money could have been spent better on other much-needed resources. He has hit out at those responsible for the flight tipping. It's stopped dumping because it's destroying the country site. It's destroying the area. Initially, this comes to the tension there of tourists actually hiding. It's just a huge clean-up and a huge amount of money to the taxpayer. That's on call for if everybody done their own wee bit at home, take responsibility, do their own. The tonnes-jet and the T-shox judgement on Robert Troy has been appalling. That's the view of a member of the Eroktas Oversight Committee, Deputy Podrick McLaughlin. Junior Minister Robert Troy stepped down last night in the wake of the controversy surrounding his failure to fully declare his property interest in the Dall Register. Deputy McLaughlin says there are serious questions for the T-shox and tonnes-jet on how they handled the situation. Their judgement has been appalling and I think the big picture is this. The reason why there's so much anger out there is that we have a profound housing crisis. People can't afford to pay rent. People can't afford to pay rent over the head because of the policies of Fiend and Fall and Finnegale over a sustained period because they've refused to build public housing because they've handed over housing to the private sector. There are serious questions for the T-shox and tonnes-jet about how they handled this affair. It's emerged that more than 50% of funding allocated to Donegal last year for walking and cycling infrastructure was not spent. The Green Party Donegal Chair says half million euro has been allocated to Donegal for active travel infrastructure this year. However, Michael White says just a fraction of that funding has been drawn down to date. There's another five million allocated this year and so far this year, it's not an indication of what will be done over the total year but so far I think around about 100,000 has been drawn down so far out of the budget of five million this year. So the reason I'm raising this is to really encourage people to get on to their councillors and press for projects. That your children can walk safely to schools or that you can cycle with your kids. The country's main churches have come together to call for government action to tackle the cost of living crisis on the island of Ireland. The church leaders group Ireland says it's deeply concerned about the response in both jurisdictions in meeting immediate needs and in relation to longer term strategy. The group believes more practical support is needed through direct government initiatives as well as grassroots charity and community partnerships. Autumn projections point to a worsening situation with too many people already struggling to afford essentials such as food and fuel and in real danger of losing their homes, health or lives. Bishop Andrew Forster, president of the Irish Council of Churches says people need more money and help to get through this difficult time. I think people actually need money. They need help to pay for heating costs. They need help in putting food on the table. Donegal County Council has today published a compulsory purchase order to acquire lands in southwest Donegal as part of the Fincher Bridge and Road Alignment Project. The long-awaited development will include a new bridge across the Fincher River, road re-alignment works and a new pedestrian and cycle route. The CPO being initiated by Donegal County Council will see many landowners in Fincher and Killy Beggs affected as well as the Carr Park and Public Roads associated with Killy Beggs GAA Club, St Columbus Diocesan Trust and Council-owned lands. Six public rights of way are to be permanently closed to facilitate the development also. And finally a wallaby that was missing in Toronto since Monday has been fined. The animal escaped from the Glen Park estate near Oma. Winnie the Wallaby was located last night at close to where she went missing. Richard Beattie of Glen Park estate says it was quite the task catching her. She felt safe when she was asked to move from 3 to 2 yards from her. She just sat down so tight the ground just the last second she moved the last minute. Whether or not a mostly dry morning with spells of sunshine and some isolated shards Clyde will develop through the day without breaks of rain and highest temperatures of 16 to 18 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The obituary notice says for this thirsty morning August the 25th. The death has occurred of Anne McFarland Carrick-Namart Manor Cunningham. Her remains will be reposed at her daughter Jenny and partner Jason's home at Cornegillia convoy from 12 o'clock today. Family and friends welcome. Removal from there on Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock for 2 o'clock funeral service at Ray Mocky Parrish Church Manor Cunningham followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard. Family time please from 10pm to 10am and in the morning of the funeral. Family flowers only donations in need of desire to the ICU unit, Leisure-Kennie University Hospital and Ray Mocky Parrish Church to care for any family member or Terence McClintock funeral director. The death has occurred of Anne Coyle, 12th Hillview Park Church Castle Derrick and formerly of Polly Arnan and remains are reposing at her late home. Funer from her late home to more morning at half past 11 for recreation mass at 12 noon in St Patrick's Church Castle Derrick with interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. The death has occurred of Anne McFarland, Ney Freel, the Mall, Bali Shannon, County Donegall and formerly from Bali Michael Fanage. Reposing at her late residence today from two until nine o'clock. House private at all other times. Remeval on Saturday morning going to St Patrick's Church Bali Shannon for 11 o'clock funeral mass with burial afterwards in the Abbey Cemetery. House private on the morning of the funeral please. And funeral mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv The death has taken place of Margaret Margo Matthews, 128 Melmint Road, Si Mills. Family and friends welcome at her late home. Funer mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in St Patrick's Church Murlock-Lifford while by interment in Bad Doney graveyard droid Newton's shirt at approximately half past 12. Family flowers only please donations in life so desired to the Alzheimer's Society, care of hood and coat undertakers. The death has taken place of Shamistini 14 Ballanat Fulcara. Reposing at his late residence. The funeral mass can be viewed live on MCM Media.tv. The death has taken place of Sheila Freel, Ney Sweeney of Glasgow and Rani Hall-Kinkashla. Her remains will be reposed at Rorty's funeral home in St Patrick's Church Murlock-Lifford. The death has taken place of Sheila Freel, Ney Sweeney of Glasgow and Rani Hall-Kinkashla. Her remains will be reposed at Rorty's funeral home Derrybeg, today from 2 until 7 o'clock with Rosary at 7 o'clock. Removal afterwards to the family home in Rani Hall to repose overnight. Highest private to family only please. Funeral mass in St Mary Starve the Seat Church, Anagree to more morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the new graveyard. The funeral mass can be viewed live on the Anagree parish webcam and on Facebook page. The death has occurred of Marjorie McGee, Moira Fulcara remains reposing at her late residence. Funeral mass this morning at 11 o'clock in St Finan's Church Fulcara with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral mass can be viewed on mcmmediate.tv or Sweeney Funeral Directors Facebook page. Donations in lay of desire to Alzheimer's Society in care of Arske Dore or Sweeney Funeral Directors. And the death has taken place of Patrick Kelly, Golland Ballybuffa County Donegal. Patrick's remains are reposing at the home of his daughter Gwendolyn and Paul Walsh, Sally Wood, Killy Gordon with removal to more morning at half past 10 for recreation mass in St Mary's Church Sheshaw Neil at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. The recreation mass can be viewed live on the parish of flowers to St Joseph's Hospital Comfort Fund, care of any family member or Marley Funeral Directors. For more details, including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals, please go to highlandradio.com. If you are aged 50 to 64, it's time to boost your protection from COVID-19. Your protection from previous vaccines or from COVID-19 infection decreases over time. Your next vaccine will help protect you from serious COVID. Book an appointment at a HSE Vaccination Centre on hse.ie. Call our team in HSE Live on 1800-700-700 or contact a participating GP or pharmacy from the HSE for us all. With all the stories that matter across the Northwest, it's Greg Hughes on the 9 to noon show on Highland Radio. And you welcome back to the second hour of the program or good morning if you are just joining us at the 25th of August. OK, our lines are open for you right now, by the way. If you have an issue that you wish to raise, is there something happening in your area or in your life that you think we can assist you with? We do it all the time. Not everything makes it on air because we resolve a lot of things before it comes to air, but we're more than happy to speak to you if you want to raise something with us. In complete confidence, by the way, 07491 25,000, give us a call. We're here for you. I don't mean that genuinely. We don't say that you want to raise anything but for us. We are talking to you about what's up 08 660, 25,000. We aren't the type of program that tries to take credit for stuff or says, Look what we've done. Look what we've achieved, but we are very proud of the fact that we can help people and we do help people. And if we can help you, we'll try to let us know. Hi, Greg. If I go on social welfare and forget to tell them I'm working, how does that work? Would it be OK if I second time this week, there's some of the townlands of no meaning. Someone mentioned Balabafe. To my knowledge, Balabafe means townland of foes cows. Thank you, Greg. But how does I think really what it what what people are trying to say is that the English version of our Irish town names mean nothing. As such. Now, I don't know if Balabafe is based on the original name, the Irish name, and then that means townland of foes cows. But the English version of these names mean mean nothing as such. Whereas if you go to the Irish versions of their names, you get some understanding of the history of the area. And that's something we're going to be talking about shortly, by the way. And, you know, but not next week. Yeah, sorry. Well, shortly weeks, weeks of flying in now. So next week, what we're going to be doing is getting behind some of the names of our towns and villages in Ireland. Our historian Joe Kelly will join us. And, you know, we'll talk about the history of the names, what they mean, how they're connected to that area. And it's through that that we get a better understanding of it, you know, and I think that's constructive. I think that's the way we can go. So I'll remind you closer to the time. But if you've got an Irish town name or village name, and you want to know its background or understand its meaning, feel free to contact us now. We'll keep a note of that. And that we'll go through them next week. But it's going to be anytime Joe joins us. It's interesting. That's going to be a particularly interesting conversation. And we'll start to celebrate and understand the Irish town and town and villages, their names. So I call it says signs in English, especially in the Galtaught were in Irish for many years. English is only a recent thing. If you go anywhere in Europe, the signs are in their country's language before going around these countries, you need to do your homework. We've money to fix signs. But they would pay for a few few school buses. Indeed. What's the story with school buses at the moment? By the way, I know in some parts of the country, parents and guardians are still waiting on confirmation of school bus places. Is that a problem in Donegal at the moment? Let us know. Another caller says, What about people like myself that can't speak Irish? What do we do? Do we stay at home? I think an awful lot of them, you can make it out. Might know the general area. I don't know. Maybe see it's part of the adventure. You know, there's lots of people that can't read signs and they get about the place. So I don't mean that in any way, rejecting your point of view, but we can manage, I would say. When we go abroad to Spain and Portugal and the likes, they have the signs in their own language, no one complains about that. And you wouldn't dare complain about that. You'd have a couple of armed police up to you telling you exactly what's what read the signposts. I think it's sort of a protest against what's happening in Ireland, diluting our Constitution and want to do away with our Irish. Nobody has a voice at the minute. Well, I think there's a lot of people feel Irishness is under threat. You know, a lot of people that feel like that, then, you know, start to learn the language. If you don't have it, use the language a bit more. What is it to be Irish? It's not simply the color of your skin. Is it a way you were actually born? Irishness is much more rich than that. Hi, Greg England set up the National Schools in 1831 in order to wipe out the Irish language. Since then, everything has been done to pursue the policy of linguistic genocide. That includes the road signs with Irish being trivialized to second class language status. Everyone in authority in Dublin has a tinier when it comes to Anguilga. One must understand the frustration. Well, we do because there's no other radio station or platform talking about this in the way we are, I hope. Hi, Greg, on signage, Trusk Lough is used by many as a place to walk, bring the children or just relax. And for years, there was signage in place showing directions from Balabafé. No signs at all now and the road leading to it. If the verges have broken away and a lot of cars have went into a deep drain, a mention from you might help. Thank you. Right, I don't know. This is a lack of signage and some problems with the road infrastructure at Trusk Lough. Do you share that listener's concerns? Get in touch, show eight, six, 60, 25,000. There are councillors who are bleeding the system, so there are more Robert Troy's around than one. Listen, the problem with his poor Robert Troy, he was the held up as the example. Of course it's going on left, right and centre. Another caller believes the government are trying to recoup 34 million euro from over payments on the COVID payment, which was a total disaster, which I doubt they will be successful. Do they ever learn from their mistakes? Another politicians complain on a constant basis about poor pay. Now we see this is in fact not true and many are there to feather their own nests. Another councillors are doing the same thing as the Minister of State Robert Troy. Will we see any sanctions taken against them? Hotels are doing the same thing with renting out rooms. This crisis is down, shown the true extent of greed in this country. Well, you see, the problem with Mr Troy was it's nothing wrong with having a house and renting it out or a hotel choosing a private hotel choosing to do what it does with its rooms. It's just that we as the public expect, because there is a register there, to know our politicians interests, because that also obviously can be quite interesting when it comes to their speaking time in the door or votes. And there are procedures that we have to follow in everyday life, like say, for instance, that letter you get from the about your children's allowance and you have to fill the letter out to state that you still entitled the children's allowance. You know, that's the type of stuff that's expected from us. We're expected to prove again to make a declaration, a legal declaration that we have children and we're entitled to the children's allowance. The same as there is a register in which the likes of that Minister, former Minister are expected to declare their interests. 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I've been talking about this on this program for quite some time now. How close are we to taking a similar step which in the wider scale of things you know it's not going to cost us as fortune. It's not going to cost us fortune and this has been a call of my own as it has been yours Greg for for a number of years. It is unsustainable that women have to keep underwriting the cost of period products and particularly with the cost of living crisis. I suppose my call is the urgency to deliver on what has been promised. This is a feature in the program for government, a commitment by the three government parties to alleviate period poverty and to do so by local authorities and colleges and secondary schools providing period products. So it's really really important that there is action on that. We've seen it in higher education institutes. We've seen it in the local authorities. The one that I was led to do myself in 2019 in South Dublin County Council was one of the pioneering local authorities where you can go in and there were period products always available there. But we need to have all of that on a statutory footing as opposed to a voluntary footing and the matter was brought forward in the Shannon January of 2021 and there was a commitment. We've seen this since it rolled out in higher education institutes and in direct provision centres but it isn't on a statutory footing and this isn't a matter of budget. You know you or I walk into a normal toilets. We don't expect not to find toilet paper there. We should we should also find period products because that's what I was going to say. It's not about the cost it's the availability as well isn't it and it's still a topic that affects at least half the population at one time or other and it's still a topic that some people are going to be uncomfortable that we're discussing it right now but maybe people need to put themselves in the position of say for instance a young woman who's on a night out or something like that or out and about and I use the phrase court short or whatever that requires this type of product. Shops are closed what do you do? You know what I mean even if it's not down to even if it's not down to affordability it's availability as well so you need to imagine what you would feel like in that situation. Imagine if you were in a pub and you had a nose bleed and no one was giving you a tissue or there was no tissues available you know that's the as I say I'm not I hope I'm not being offensive to anyone but you have to put yourself in those positions to imagine what it might be like and as to why this topic still comes up for discussion. And I think that's that's fantastic actually Greg because what we need to do is remove the stigma of discussion of menstruation it's a very natural process of life and very necessary process of our lives and the renewing of the next generations and generations but I suppose this comes home to plan international brought out a report in the in the last number of years and they reiterate their call that over 61 percent of women miss either a day of school or days of school or or work due to period poverty due to not being able to foot the cost of menstruation and dealing with their menstruation or else dealing with it all hygienically and poorly with tissues or with whatever we there are products out there having availability of those products to women and where they need them and and to be supplied in my view it should be supplied to all women this should be just a feature in the same way as we have toilet paper but and but in the interim until we get to such a place and an advanced place we need to follow both New Zealand and Scotland and make sure that all places that are governed by local authorities all education institutes whether that's secondary school or or third level and indeed the upper levels of primary school I mean girls get their periods from as young as 10 years of age so from then on there needs to be availability and we also need to consider transgender appropriateness of choices and availability as well so so they need to be without stigma available to anyone who needs them at the point that they need them yeah and we need the politicians to work as quick sometimes as our young people do I think it might have been the Ross's community school I think one of their transition to your projects we had the transition your students in here is a mixture of boys and girls speaking freely about this issue talking about having these products available in local businesses or in the local schools the local bars or what have you you know they recognize it they're young people they're okay talking about it the fellas as well you know it's not seen as a taboo or that panic when the advert comes on during coronation street and everyone starts talking nonsense you know we need to move past that because this affects so many people you can still maintain your privacy and your privacy but addressing a need you know that shouldn't encroach on that yeah and and the provision of projects where and when they're needed would would also ensure that there is that there's no stigma that our young we follow the lead of our young people as you say to ensuring that it's just a normal natural part of and and to be dealt with as positively as possible and and also to be mindful and maybe my my renewed call is the fact that Scotland have had the law there for the last few years but it's only commenced in the last week properly but to renew that call also mindful of the cost of living I mean we're looking at a cost to women of somewhere upwards of 156 euros per annum and and maybe that doesn't sound like a lot of but when you divide that down into 13 you know periods and cycles a year that's a lot and it can be at times a box of any product can be up to six euros and and that was when I last took the the price of them which was only two months ago and so we're within that since then I did a quick survey online and and they're reasonably stable but there have been increases of last year and it's about when it's about yeah and it's about when they're needed and accessibility as well which you've already touched on um so so talk to us about I think period poverty was was good at the start because it it it it got us talking about it and get to people and stuff but now it's kind of just become something that rolls off the tongue not for you or me but you know whereby people don't really get what that actually means you know so as we go shopping as things get tighter okay and people are trying to um get all their shopping out of a budget it could be 35 euro 40 euro that's what people they're going into shops and they are count they're buying stuff but their amount the available spend is coming down as they go through the aisles it will happen it is happening and it will happen more so now where a woman primarily will reach for a product and that 35 euros run out and it could be nappies on the next aisle that they will get them instead that that is the choice that that's facing people has faced people is facing people and will so that's how some people have to live their lives i want to say some i mean many people that's what period poverty is as well isn't it is having to make a choice maybe between yourself and your children yes and and i suppose that that's that's a very important the alliteration of period poverty uh sometimes it becomes a byword or something that everyone gets so used to but this is an absolute reality for very many women and very many young girls and particularly i suppose i'm thinking of that 12 to 19 age group who don't have an income don't have the supports don't that they need to be able to access uh products and if you have parents having to make a choice between perhaps nappies which again have also surged in prices and so when we look at all of those making sure that that girls have that opportunity to have a period product free of charge because the cost may mean that they feign sickness that they don't go to school that they're missing out on their education they're missing out on on engagement in sport engagement in physical activity that there are many things like that and and whatever can be done on a government basis on a government level to ensure that every girl doesn't it isn't faced with that reality of perhaps having no hygienic protection during their period and making sure that they do that they must have that they've somewhere to go to they've be at council offices be it ideally every toilets but wherever wherever they need to go to that they have access to free products particularly now yeah and and fellas need to row in behind women in this one because you know try and think of an example where men are affected like this and try and imagine and i'm saying this and i believe this it's not to talk to rattle anyone's cages or any gender wars or anything but i don't believe if if men had periods i don't think we'd be having this conversation i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i genuinely honestly believe that's the case because over the years particularly when the doll was very heavily male dominated this would have been resolved an awful long time ago look at the efforts and with the ease that viagra has become available at every corner in any every village right across the country right okay so again i find myself interviewing government party members about things the government have control about i've definitely interviewed you on this senator previously and i know i've interviewed one of your colleagues you know why we're still talking about this what's going on what is what has to happen next because it's crazy this we should not still be talking about this i i i think that there was a move and that the heavy emphasis was we probably didn't need legislation we just needed a policy provision and to ensure that all of the schools and colleges rode in and provided and in a lot of cases to be fair that happens my my advocacy on it is it is a commitment in the program for government and it does take people like me senators and backbenchers to keep the pressure on because to be fair there it's a movable feast of of everything that's going on there are an awful lot there is an awful lot going on but keeping the pressure and keeping this high on the political agenda is is the job of people like me to say it at parliamentary party meetings to keep it up and to say we need to deliver on this it needs to be on a statutory footing so that it has a portion of budget and that while the budget isn't huge but that there is a 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and I've even had one individual contact me who you actually seen people in his back garden trying to try and distill his oil who cleared once he was spotted you know but I do think given the increase of wholesale oil and fuel prices over the last number of months I think that this is an issue of concern and I do urge people to be extra vigilant that's something that's common to our offices on a regular basis yeah indeed and also it's liquid gold these thieves are very well organized and unfortunately there is a black market for their product as well they don't do this randomly they know when oil has been filled up you mean you see the oil you all you have to do is sit outside an oil company you follow the vehicles you see where they go and you know there's a full tank of oil there I'm sure they even know how long the oil tank is there whether it's 200 or 500 or a thousand litres they just sit then wait until such time as the oil lorry's gone see what the story is and go up and empty it that's how it well I'm not giving any one ideas but that's the level of organization that's what's happening it's not random they're not going to go up to my tank and risk it being empty they know when the tanks are full they know when they can maximize the yield for their illegal activity Steven? Yep I think that's the case and I did speak to some senior police officers in the North yesterday and they recognize that as a risk and that they know that there's criminal activity there and that these criminals are tagged in oil tanks but I did speak to the crime prevention officer as well there's ways to try and prevent this and the police are willing to give out a number of oil tank alarms so if the tank is tampered with that will alert the occupier of the house so I think there are steps out there that you can take to prevent this and I know I think it's a big issue on the border as a whole and I know in the North the police are willing to do that I imagine there'll be summer schemes in the South and around Donegal as well Greg but I do just to reiterate there's people to be extra vigilant given like the cost of fuel I think there's a common oil but they're looking to take advantage yeah for sure and the thing with oil heating as well it's expensive I mean we know that it's expensive but it's not the type of thing you can pay for twice in a week most of us can't in any case if you get 500 litres you know you're probably talking seven or eight hundred euro and the starting equivalent that is not an expense people can do a couple of times and often the tank is drilled as well and they'll drain it that way so you could be looking at the replacement of a tank so you know this is even if you have to spend a little in advance with with an alarm I know you talk of the police issuing them I don't know how many they have a what type of alarm but you can get monitors which is also very handy to say if you're running out of oil and damaging your burner I'll get some information for people interested in that but if your oil level starts dropping quickly it will send an alert to your phone I think it's around about 150 euro the last time I checked that's the type of investment even if we don't have the money we need to be making because as I say to try and refill and replace the tank it's beyond most people it definitely is an idea of concern especially with some vulnerable you know families older residents families who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis the last thing that they need is to be forking a lot of money if their oil has been stolen out of the tank and I do think there is an onus on public bodies to look I know in the north again I've contacted the PCSP asking have they any funding for these sorts of alarms and to sort of target those vulnerable individuals or those who are struggling just to make sure that there's not any added debt I suppose over the cost of living crisis that would really just increase their debts increase stress and anxiety that's the last thing they want at this current time How worried are your constituents for the winter generally speaking Stephen you talked about the cost of living crisis I mean this is just one element of it I suppose if you have your oil taken from you but just people trying to you know meet the rising cost of living in many cases their income not increasing I think it's a massive worry especially for the working pair you know there's no support for them there's no grants for them I think it's an absolute disgrace where we currently are and as you've said salaries are not increasing so in general I suppose looking into the winter I think a lot of people are going to be driven into debt which is very very unfortunate and again it's up to public bodies it's up to our governments on both sides the border to take action on that Okay yeah I think most people would agree and the churches of command saying something very similar today thanks very much for your time Stephen Okay thank you Bye bye Chancellor Stephen Edwards there of the STLP so we got a text earlier on between nine and ten and it read as follows if I rent a room to a Ukrainian I will get keeping my benefits if I take in a student I will lose some benefits I will lose 20 euro a week on my living alone allowance I will lose my fuel allowance 33 euro a week free electricity units will be lost as will my free TV license so wanted to check this out so we got onto citizens information because that was at odds with what I had been told and I want to make don't want to discourage anyone or worry anyone with the wrong information so this is the correct information here the rent a room relief lets you earn up to 14,000 euro per year tax-free if you rent out a room or rooms in your home to private tenants a self-contained unit such as a basement flat or a converted garage attached to your home can qualify for this relief now on the social welfare aspect we made a change or change has been made this year if you're on social welfare you don't lose your social welfare so if you're perhaps a person living alone and you get the living alone allowance you can take in a student get some income from that and not be affected by it so it has been changed and those are the new rules and as I say just trying to make sure the right information is out there and thank you by the way for your text earlier which gave me the opportunity just to check into that and clarify it for listeners generally speaking very much appreciated from that no way sissy ah yeah but he didn't make a song and dance about it although sissy one thing worth making noise about is that anything baked is better with Brennan's today's bread today at coonies home interiors we pride ourselves on offering you the very best in choice quality and value on all home furnishings treat your home with a visit to coonies today and choose from our large range of suites tables beds not to mention our large selection of home accessories our motto is if you see it you can buy it and we will deliver it to your door coonies home interiors letterkenny retail park style and perfection at incredible value looking for a course to study in september discover calfery the college of agriculture food and rural enterprise northern arlands 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Right. Okay. Tell us the situation. You were talking about student accommodation. What's the story? You're moving to Carlo, are you? Well, please God, yeah, hopefully I get the CAO offered a good amount of study law down in Carlo. You're about to die. You'll be all right. Hopefully be okay. No, I was looking into student accommodation, you know, and what is a common occurrence now, Greg, is this idea of a five day rent, which is basically the landlord is advertising the room from Monday to Friday or Sunday evening to Friday afternoon. And you know, I just think that's an incredibly immoral thing to do. I think it's what a college student's going to do at the weekend. Is the idea that they want the few Bob, but they want their house to themselves at the weekend? They're not renting it. That's exactly it. The landlords are doing this, have some sort of an ocean that college kids are going to be able to find a hotel for the weekend or go back to Donegal for the weekend. You know, and it's hard enough getting to Donegal as it is, and you're paying X amount in rent as well as your college fees. And then you're looking at a cost of traveling home every weekend from Cork back to Leraki and here in the show. I mean, it's totally unfeasible. It's unsustainable. It's ridiculous, you know, and the question is asked, people do ask, sorry. How widespread is that where it's like a Monday to Friday rental? Well, it seems to me very much widespread because I mean, I moved to Dublin about this time last year. Greg, it was very much a common occurrence then as well, you know. Gwynne, you were going to say come or something else there? Yeah, I was just saying, like, people have this argument that they make, you know, people have the right to rent whatever they want. Well, what I would say to that is, first of all, don't rent a house at all. You know what I mean? You're renting a house for somebody to move in, not just to stay there for a couple of days at your convenience. You know, when you sign up to rent a house, you should be signing up to be able to let someone, you know, from them as they stay there all week. I mean, this really is basic. It's ridiculous that this kind of thing is allowed to slide, but we in Donegal is Donegal. People know better than anybody about how very little care this government or previous governments have given to regulating housing at all. There's a simple solution to this because it's obviously a flawed scheme. If you're able to earn 14,000 euro up to 14,000 euro per year tax-free housing student, it should be on the basis that it is available to the student all the time during the term. I mean, obviously then in the summer or whatever might be different, I don't know, but you should only be able to access that tax-free income if your accommodation is available for seven days. It's simple. Legislate for it. Well, this is it. And I don't know if I've ever met a person who doesn't agree with my position on this or perhaps your position as well. You know, if you're being offered 14 grand a year tax-free for the rent-a-room scheme to say then, all right, okay, I'll have you for five days. I might take a key off you on Friday afternoon and just come and knock on the door again on Sunday afternoon. I might give it back to you. This is absolutely ridiculous. And as you say, it can be legislated for, but it won't be legislated for because the government literally hand the keys to the landlords to do whatever it seems that they want. And it doesn't look like this. Colonel, this is the problem here, right? Because now we're getting into the big bad landlord territory, okay? And what, because of the system set up wrong, this is, I can understand exactly where you're coming from. You can imagine that in the circle of landlords, they say, you know what we do? We rent our room Monday to Friday and it means we've got the house to ourselves and we still get the 14k. And then someone else goes, all right, it's not a bad system actually. That makes sense. And no one's landing in locked at four o'clock on a Sunday morning. I'm not saying that happens, Colonel, but you know what I'm on about. And then sort of this culture, this culture develops, right? And then the anger is between the student and the landlord. But that whole scenario has been allowed to fester, because logically, right, logically, the scheme should be such that you get this tax break, and it's decent, but you're still given over some of your house, but you get this tax break. But the idea is that the student has seven day access to it. So do you get where I'm coming from? Like all the landlord is doing is operating within the guidelines, okay? It might be wrong. You can see how bad policy allows situations like this to fester. And we don't want to discourage anyone from giving up a room to a student either at the same time, Colonel. I fully agree with you that this has been allowed to fester. And that landlords are playing within the sort of the rules, if you like, of a scheme to earn that money tax free. But that doesn't mean it's right. It doesn't mean it's small, right? And I know money does make the world go round, but a bit of morality and a bit of decency makes the world a bit of an easier place for everybody to live in. And that might sound naive or whatever. But the point is, unless this is legislated for those restrictions on five day rentals, seven day rentals, it's not going to be brought into place. And as we've seen in the last few weeks, you've had the government having to force Ukrainian refugees out of student accommodation because there is no long term plan to house refugees. You've seen a minister or a former minister who clearly has some very, very serious questions to answer over his over his business in relation to how you move along. There's nothing to see. Move along. Leave me. Leave me. Stop asking questions. Chasing people out of jobs. Move along, Connell. Go on. What were you saying? And then you're now seeing, you know, student accommodation is always a crisis. It's always a problem every single year. But we're seeing inflation in Ireland now. There hasn't been this way since the 1980s. Okay, we're seeing massive inflation, massive cost of living. That exacerbates stress for students and their families in office. It is in terms of paying for college, paying for rent, paying for travel in these instances every week. You know, it is ridiculous. Fundamentally, it is a mile and it is wrong to say, I'm going to take my five, six hundred euros up a month, but you're only allowed to stay five days a week and then go off and suit yourself and for the rest of the week, you know, that is wrong. How widespread is it Connell? Because this hasn't come across, I haven't come across this before. You're the first person. Well, it has been seen all over the country. It has been seen all over the country. And as I say, I moved down to Dublin. I left when I got last year and it was something that was prevalent last year. And now I'm moving down to Carroll. I might have thought that this was just an issue isolated to Dublin or maybe Cork or the big cities, but this is a widespread issue. And as you say, landlords are able to play within this scope that's been left there for them. But as we see with this government fundamentally, there is no interest in renaming them. There is no interest in saying this is wrong. This is right. And you'd be looking at, say, for instance, to use your example, I'm not sure if you have to switch at Dublin or if there's a direct, direct, direct connection, but a boss, it's over, it'd be four and a half, five hours on a boss. I'd imagine with stops from Carlo, you're just trying to get further away from Donegal all the time. So you'd be leaving college, getting home, you know, 10 or 11 if you were lucky enough on a Friday and then heading off, heading off then again, you know, midday Sunday spend most of Sunday traveling. It's not realistic for someone like you and many people like you to travel to and from college every weekend. It may see some people if there's better connections and it's closer, but it's not, it's, you're not going to go up and down every weekend from Carlo. Well, that's it. I mean, who has, first of all, the time to do that and who has the money to do that? Now, another thing that I was thinking there the other day is that when you were renting a house realistically, you're not renting. It's very rarely advertised for those who are living close to the area because, say, for example, of a house in Letterkenny that's being rented for students, if you're living in Newton or if you're living in Moffrey, I'm from or even if you're living in Derry, why would you spend that money when you could just stay at home? And, you know, you could stay in your own house and you could travel feasibly in and out every day because it's not that far. So these houses are not being advertised for people living in the vicinity of Letterkenny or UCD or Carlo or any university. These properties are being, for the most part, advertised to people who have to come from further afield. And for landlords, again, to just say, oh, I can throw you out whenever I want to go back to mum and dad. So as you say, if I am going to Carol or somebody's going to car or to go away or to Dublin, that's ours and ours on end. You don't have the time, you don't have the money. Well, you know, and it takes away from your ability to actually do the work that you have come to college to do. But you also want a student life as well. I mean, that's part of it, you know. Yeah, it's not the big bad wolf, we can say that. You're a student, you want to go down and have that student experience, you want to eat spaghetti bolognese seven days a week. This caller says, my son was in the same situation in Galway. He could only get, all he could get was five days and regardless of whether he had to travel home or not, the landlord was live in and was clearly only renting for the money, which is fine, that part of it. My son spent his first year trying to move, but it is impossible. So that parent, it was like an olympic. The only thing available was the five-day rental and he spent a full year looking for an alternative unable to find it. So it's perhaps more widespread than I, well, it certainly, I didn't know, happened, but it's probably quite widespread. And this is why regulation is the key to that. As that caller was saying, if you can't get anything either, like it or your olympic, a natural shouldn't be the case. You know, fundamentally, it's wrong. Fundamentally, it is wrong. And, you know, the fundamental gain that landlords make from renting is to make that income back and to make money. But you should have it in such a way that, you know, if you have a seven-day rent, right, I might finish my tenancy, but I'll go and tell the next person moving and that this person has treated me well. Because that's, you know, that bit. But there's so much demand. There's so much demand. You don't really have to work off reputation, do you? A caller says, the concession for taking in students is not new. It is a tax break for anyone who wants to rent a room to someone else. Yes, we know that. But what we've been trying to do over the last couple of weeks is to raise awareness of it. Because I've been contacted by a lot of people on Facebook and have directed them to the local students union who weren't aware of the fact that they could make an income without it being taxed. And even today, we had a call from someone who said they'd lose social welfare benefits. That has changed. You won't. So whilst it's not new, I think we have a role here to try and ease the student's accommodation crisis in this area to make sure that everyone knows that there is a tax break. And also, the way I was approaching it, and it was important to me, was that there could be someone who was wondering, how am I going to afford such and such through winter that didn't know about it? And now, maybe they've got a bit of security. And that's the only interest I have in it at this time, is to try and maybe fix a problem for a student or fix a problem for someone who can be a landlord for the winter and have someone in a room down at the end of the house. So that's the only reason. We know it's not new, but that's why we're talking about it now. All right, Connell, what is the situation with someone like yourself, knowing if you get your place in Carlo and also getting the accommodation? What is your window there? If you get where I'm coming from, how soon would you find out if you have a spot? And then how soon after that do you need the accommodation? Well, I did my leave in certain 2021, which is last year, and the leave in set results this year coming out in the second of September, as far as I'm aware, and the CAO offers the first start coming out in the eighth of September. And then the college is very, I think my first day would be the 16th, Friday, or the Monday. I think it's the 16th. So that's a very short turnover, you know? And if you're, say, your first choice in Dublin, your second choice in Carlo, your third choice in Galway, your fourth choice in Cork. Are you laying down for the power? It leaves me with very little bargaining power, because you're going to be desperate, really, if I can say that. Doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, so the... It does, yeah. And you will be losing out, you know? Yeah, okay. Listen, best of luck with whatever you want to get. I hope you do get it. And leave the government alone. They're trying their best, Connell, you know, really seriously now. All right, okay. I'll lay off for a while. Take and take care of yourself. All right, thank you. Bye-bye. Now, a listener, by the way, has a double room for a student accommodation in the Ballamacool area. I have a contact number for them. So a double room for student accommodation available in the Ballamacool area. If you get in contact with us, I'll pass on that information for you. 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And Centra Fresh Arch, whole chicken, 1.8 kilo, only 569. Smart choices, choose Centra. Live every day. Okay, it is 11 o'clock. Let's get a news update and we welcome back on to the program. Now Makayla Clark. Thanks Greg. Good morning. The Tonneshire and the T-Sharks judgment on Robert Troy has been appalling. That's a view of a member of the Eroctor's Oversight Committee, Donegal Deputy Patrick McLaughlin. Junior Minister Robert Troy stepped down last night in the wake of the controversy surrounding his failure to fully declare his property interest in the Dull Register. A large-scale illegal dump has been uncovered in the Fulcara area. 28 tonne of household construction, demolition and agricultural waste was recently removed from the site. The cleanup cost Donegal County Council 12,000 euro. It's emerged that more than 50% of funding allocated to Donegal last year for walking and cycling infrastructure was not spent. The Green Party Donegal Chair says we need to do better and need to start seeing faster progress. Over five and a half million euro has been allocated to Donegal for active travel infrastructure this year. However, Michael White says just a fraction of that funding has been drawn down to date. Balibufe continues to have the highest commercial vacancy rate in the country, up 30%. As a whole, the county has the third highest commercial vacancy rate nationally, following an increase to 17%. Serious safety concerns have been raised over anti-social behaviour at the Ambulance Station in Castle Derrick. Incidents in buildings adjacent to the site are said to have escalated in recent weeks. The delivery of the life-saving service is now being impacted with the decision taken not to deploy solo responders. And a wallaby that was missing in Toronto since Monday has been fined. The animal escaped from the Glen Park estate near Oma when the wallaby was located last night after being detected on a night vision camera close to where she went missing. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. All right now. Next, not Saturday but the Saturday afterwards. We're going to be doing a two hour show from the London Irish Vintage Club. It's a charity day they run. It's been off for a couple of years. We were at it a couple of years ago. We're going to be chatting to people in London, obviously, about London and Irish people over in London. And it should be good fun. If you're over in London on Sunday, so it's the Sunday we're doing it, right? If you're over in London on Sunday the 4th, London, 10, come down to the London Irish Vintage Club and have, it looks like it's going to be a great day. In fact, you know you could do worse than if you had the resources to go over. It's after a two year absence due to COVID. The London Irish Vintage Club is celebrating its delayed 10th anniversary charity day. It's on Sunday the 4th of September at Chirconal Gales Grounds in Berkeley Avenue in Greenford. It's a fundraiser. They're raising money for the Peace Hospice, dementia concern, Sothec Helping Hands and Wyrmwood Scrubs Pony Centre. And it really is a remarkable event in that it's across the grounds of this GA club and there's so much going on. There's live music as well. Nathan Carter is going to be there. David James is there and Tiny Vaughan sent out a press release and you have to scroll almost to the bottom, Brendan, and you'll see that Highland Radio is there. I don't even get a mention. Nathan Carter, David James, I don't even get a mention. But we will be broadcasting live from Greenford between noon and 2pm. We've got loads of interesting people to talk to and just get a sense of what's happening over there and also to talk about the event. So it's going to be good. I'm looking forward to that. Right, okay. Now, when we talk about illegal dumping on this show in our most beautiful county, and it truly is, and I'm not just saying that we have the most beautiful county, I think, and the most beautiful natural views and habitats and everything, but we're normally talking about maybe some stuff left at the recycling centre or, you know, someone's emptied out of trailer. Not normally 28 tonnes of rubbish. And that's what someone and some people have been responsible for in the Falkara area, which in and of itself is a very, very, very beautiful part of this county. We are joined on the programme now by Mary Boyle of Falkara Tidy Tans. Mary, thanks for your time this morning. Thank you, Greg. Right, so when was this dump discovered? Like, can you give us an idea of how remote it was? Was it hidden in plain sight? Because 28 tonnes of rubbish, be it household construction, demolition, agricultural waste. Like, this must have been known as some sort of a dumping hotspot, or else one person was a prolific dumper there. Well, we're not sure, Greg, how many, but it's certainly, yeah, there's a lot, as you say, 28 tonnes is a lot of waste. It's outside Falkara on the road to Mukesh. It wouldn't have been visible from the road when you're driving there, but certainly the machinery working there this week, people would have noticed a digger in there. So it wouldn't be very far from Mukesh Mountain, actually, from where the rubble was taken. Mukesh is just in the distance, and you can also, we have the old railway walk, which wouldn't be very far from the side either. So it's not sort of, it wouldn't have been visible to everybody, I say, when you're driving. But also I presume, Mary, locals may not have known what was going on, you know, because there's activity often in our areas. Maybe people didn't really know what the vehicles going in there were going in there to do. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. So it's obviously there for some time, because I've seen the pictures. And so it's sort of in bogland, you know, just it would be a short distance from, as I said, the railway walk. So yes. So I'd say people wouldn't very openly be going in there with their rubbish. But do you see from the pictures, there was a lot of household waste, plastic bags full of stuff, construction and demolition waste. There were pictures of flits and bricks, and also other materials like farm yard waste. On our Facebook page, now we've posted there's sort of old hay, plastic wrapping from round bales and stuff. Yeah, round bales and that sort of thing. Yeah, so a lot of that stuff. So now, how long it's there, I'm not exactly sure. But it was reported to the environmental section of the Donegal County Council. And we are so thankful to have the section in the council that they do so much waste. And I'm sure what it cost over 12,000 euro to remove this. So you can just imagine how much was there. Were they burying it? Because from the pictures, I don't know what stage of the discovery these pictures are from. But was there attempts to bury it or what? Well, it appears not. It seems to have been just paid there. And I suppose whoever was doing it, maybe it's a thought out of sight, out of mind. So it doesn't appear to have been buried in any way. It was very, yeah. Such a beautiful area too, when you look at what's in the background and the foreground, it's stunning. And there's a little stream running not far from it too, so which would be a contributory of the Rye River. So you can just imagine the pollution, how it would pollute the water. See the roof tiles, there's tires in there, bags of rubbish. I just wonder if people thought that someone was taking stuff away from their site or wherever legally, and they were just, it's been dumped here. So do you think this has been ongoing, is this historic dumping, or do you think it's been ongoing more recently, Mary? I know we're kind of guessing at this point, but what's your feeling? Well, I don't know. I would say that it would have been taken there over time. Now, as I said, I can't verify that, but I don't think it was just all paying there very recently. I'd say that it's piling up over time. Yeah, I've shared it on my Facebook page as well, though your post was... Yeah, and that's my own reading of the pictures. No, I get you. You see, the thing is a lot of this stuff is recyclable. They didn't, you know, I mean, there's no justification for dumping stuff that isn't recyclable, but a lot of this stuff could have been disposed of for free. Absolutely. And even like, when you see the pictures of the old slates and that, I mean, there are things that could be used. Hay and that will decompose naturally anyway. And like, there are places, there are places provided by the county council to take this sort of stuff. So, yeah, we are very thankful to the environmental section of the council, and also Sharky Waste and Kearney Plants. I mean, there are two companies that serve this area well, and I mean, they put in a lot of work, I know, in removing this. Yes. And then under that, I'm looking through the work that you do, beautiful planting around the town, some sort of wildflowers and more traditional flowers and stuff. You guys do great work in making your area look beautiful. I mean, obviously, you've got a beautiful blank canvas to work with, which makes it all the more disgusting when others see your beautiful area as a dumping ground. And it's an illegal activity as well. This isn't a nuisance. Someone's breaking the law here. As you mentioned, there's potentially environmental consequences as well with that stream that runs nearby. This is a crime, and presumably it will be investigated. And, you know, whoever's responsible needs to be found to discourage this kind of activity. Absolutely. And I'm sure, you know, people know who did this. I mean, you know, I wouldn't say that that was done unknown to someone. I don't know who did it. So I'm not, by any means, blaming anyone. But there are people out there who know who dumps this stuff illegally. All right, Mary, keep up the good work. There's a lot of positive work done through the tidy tans, but we appreciate you helping us explain the situation as it relates to this nasty side of our community where people dump within it. Not saying it's people from the area. I'm on about dumping within the Falkara area is what I'm talking of. A huge cost to everyone listening is forking up for this, by the way, 12,000 euro. So that is coming out of the coffers. So this affects everyone in the canteen from Bundor and to Malinhead and from east to west as well. 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Is that something that really should be notified to the council, even on the QT? Because maybe it still needs to be removed. Maybe that is still seeping into the local waterways. Greg, I know there's a lack of school bus drivers at the minute, but this attitude that our army is sitting around doing nothing and should be hauled in to drive them is insulting. First, they wanted them to act as security at Dublin Airport. Now it's drive school buses. A little more respect for our army, please. I was waiting for it. Tell me did it happen? Is someone saying get the army in to drive school buses? My word. Listen, I'm sure there's plenty of school bus drivers out there with bosses and drivers. If they could sort out how they give out the contracts and do it in a timely way and doing it in a fairer way, I'm sure the problem would be fixed. The army aren't there to fix all the problems, of course not. A few years ago, my son was in Dublin College and he was actually looking for the five day rent. It was 550 euros for one room and a shared bathroom in Dublin because of the cost many students actively seek out the five day rents. If he needed, say, seven days, then he paid extra, but you see that is the problem. You're coming at it from a different angle, but it's the exact same problem we were talking about. It's the fact that they charge a five day in a seven day rate. That's what Connell was saying should be done away with. So your son really should not have had to contend with paying extra for seven days. The whole purpose of the point was is that it should be a seven day rent, not a choice between five and seven or not at the discretion of the landlord. That's the point. Every rental, if you're renting it, it should be seven days. Right. Okay. Now, good morning. Will you please pay a birthday request for a friend? Jenny McOsker in Lifford. Jenny, I'm not going to say the age they've written down here because you might give out to me. So you can blame Tony. Tony gave me your age out of respect because I don't know whether you want your age broadcast or not. I'm not saying it. It's not a big age. But Jenny McOsker in Lifford, happy birthday to you. Tony sent in the request. Tony, well done. Thanks very much for that. Congratulations to Holy Cross student, Shaw Monaghan, who passed his GCSEs. He got one star six A's and one B from granny, Josie and uncle Jason clearly very, very proud. Okay. Let's take a musical break. Don't go anywhere though. Still loads to talk about between now and midday. Okay. I call a sense the dumping of rubbish is disgusting, but 12,000 euro to shift it seems excessive. Well, don't forget that it has to be dumped. And there is what was it, 28 tons. And you pay per ton to dump it. You have to get diggers in. You have to get lorries in. Has to be sorted. So I can see where the 12,000 euro went. We saved up hard to buy a new bed mattress 700 euro and it cost 25 euro to dispose of it at a recycle center. There are once or twice a year, by the way, opportunities for you to dump your mattress for free at the civic community centers. So if you have a place to store, it's worth holding out for that. Okay. Now, Matt McGrannahan is spokesperson for the Music and Entertainment Association. Matt, great to see you again. Great to speak to you. How are you keeping? Good, Greg. Good morning. Thanks very much for having us on again. Yeah, gigging flat out? Not really, no. Why not? Unfortunately. Is it quite still or? Yeah, it has quite. I mean, this time before COVID couple of years ago, I was out, you know, four or five nights a week at this time of the year. What's changed to think about? I mean, obviously, your skill set still there. Is it that pubs and clubs have moved to a different form of entertainment? They're trying to save money or? I suppose there's not a lot of different factors and we're actually currently doing a survey, just finishing the survey and able to give some results of that. We're hearing this across the board as well for a lot of people that, you know, nearly just over half, sorry, just less than half of people are experiencing less than three quarters of the work. Almost a fifth of them are experiencing less than half of the amount of work at the moment. So we're hearing this across. There's just an uncertainty there and even, you know, a couple of months ago, well, there was when the restrictions ended at the end of January, there was a huge amount of activity for the first few months. And then really from around June onwards, we were hearing from a lot of people, a lot of different people in the business side of workers or promoters, agents and so on, that cancellations were starting to flood in from like, let's say the end of August, September. So there's a lot of concern. And it's what was driving us the moment is the cost of living crisis. Yeah. And it's the cost of doing business crisis that we have. And sometimes, depending on the venue, of course, because we're talking multiple venues, but I just wonder sometimes if pubs are looking at their bills and going, right, well, I can have live music twice a week, or I can get BT sports in. Sure. There's a lot of that going on. You know, people are just having to be really mind the pennies and the pounds at the moment. And then of course, you know, we talked to some people, some musicians and they're saying they've never been busier. Absolutely. But that's kind of the exception other than the norm for most people that we're talking. It's a wee bit worrying coming out of, I was going to say the recession, that's what we're probably heading into, but coming out of the lockdown, if people aren't booked out at the moment, you know, not a spare date, you'd worry, wouldn't you Matt? Because, you know, I think a lot of it's about sentiment too, as you say. It's worrying. It's worrying as to what 2023 might have in store, because these partners change, you know, you take big events and then people change the way they do business or what have you. And sometimes it changes forever. And sometimes it takes years to bounce back as to where it was. It will take a bit of time to bounce back. But I think it will, because at the end of the day, you know, we are kind of social animals, humans, we do enjoy coming together, we do enjoy that element of fun. And the only concern I would have, and there's no logic to this as well, is I think because there was a bit of pent-up demand there that maybe the pubs are very busy anyway without the extra expensive music, and it might take the businesses a while to realise that it is often the good acts, the great acts that we have, that are getting people in through the door. Well, there is an element of that. I think the biggest thing affecting people here at the moment is the cost of actually going out and socialising. And if we look at actually where people are gathering together, festivals and outdoor festivals, and large concerts, huge, that has been massive over the summer. So people are really down to return back to that. Then that just has a knock-on effect of what are they going to afford to go out in their locality, maybe at the weekend or different things. So we're seeing that from the likes of MCD and Egg and the International acts coming to Ireland are doing huge. Then we're seeing a kind of getting feedback across the board from a lot of theatres where you'd have mostly the funded sector and local theatres. The likes of England, I'm not quoting them because I don't know what their numbers are, but we're hearing that there's a kind of a trend there of about 50% to 60% capacity across the board. So is it like then maybe people are tightly in the belt through August because they're going down to see Garth Brooks at the start of September sort of a thing? There may be a bit of that. It's something that needs, I know you're saying a survey is out there, something needs studying, isn't it? Because we need to know what the reasons, what the cause and effect is. This was being talked about in the dialogue a couple of months ago, where people could buy tickets to see an act in Dublin, but then by the time they put in the car to the hotel for the night, they could go to London for two nights cheaper. So that was having a huge effect on, we spoke to Aslan about it and they were saying they were getting a lot of calls from people who would be buying tickets, but we're selling them on them because they just couldn't afford to stay up for the night in Dublin and they were going to wait for Aslan to come on tour to their part of the country and stuff. The system is different from what we knew a couple of years ago. I suppose we have to try and find ways and entertainment industry has to try and find ways to make it work for itself as well. Yeah, for sure. The state has to do its bit as well. People would have heard of the announcement much lauded of the basic income for artists. It was a new scheme. Tell us what the idea behind the scheme was, Matt. The scheme was to acknowledge, I suppose they often, as they said, unpaid and unseen work that goes on behind the scenes, you know. People always say, the musicians are very well paid and indeed, you know, we kind of are. People think it's only that you turn up and you do a couple of hours work. They don't see the work, the preparation, the rehearsals during the week and stuff that got going on and all the work that goes on to it. So the basic income for art was going to be in fairness, one of the most sort of interesting schemes in the world. One of the first schemes on such a scale of 2,000 artists, getting a basic time of 325 year a week for the next three years, is going to feed into a massive research project for arts worldwide, but also for the idea of a universal basic income right across society. It was, you know, it had been talked about since October 2020. It was going to be the panacea, the solution for getting struggling musicians and entertainers and artists through COVID. Strangely enough, the scheme didn't open until the restrictions had all lifted. This was supposed to be open in quarter one this year. The minister was expecting to see first payments in April. The scheme didn't open until April. It's been posh back and posh back and still no one knows who's eligible or not yet. They're walking through 9,000 candidates trying to figure it out. And at this rate, it could be October, November, is anyone's guess? As best as you can understand, because as you say, they're trying to perhaps work out who's entitled to it. It was a weekly payment of 325 euro for three years through 22, 24 and 25 for artists and creative workers. Who, as best as you can determine who's, from your understanding, who would qualify for it? Well, there's a certain amount of, there's two streams in it. So stream A and stream B, stream A is for professionals. So if you can show that you're professional, so I mean, you know, the revenue certificate will do that, your registration with revenue is one of the most probably the only way we have identified that in this country. So that's one thing. And then the other stream is for 200 people. And it's for, I suppose, those artists who may be doing it part-time, those ones who have other jobs and who are just looking to try and get that next step and be able to focus their time and energy on writing, more creative, more painting, more doing whatever. So there's 210% of the overall allocation is for those people. But as I say, the 90% allocation is for professionals already within the industry. So really it's kind of just given a small percentage of people really in reality. It's recouping money, maybe they lost through COVID, but using it in a constructive way for the next three years to sort of support and enhance the arts. Is that kind of it in layman's terms? Yeah, I suppose that's really it. I mean, they have an amazing, fantastic scheme in France, which personally I'd be more in favour of something like that. Because I think it's very easy to criticise the scheme and say, I was just artist, getting money for doing nothing. And so whereas in France, they have a scheme where people in the arts pay a higher percentage of tax than other sectors. But what that entitles them to is once they hit a certain amount of targets, they will then get a percentage of their weekly income, whatever their earnings are or their turnover is, to help them in those weeks or periods whenever they have little work. Because that's a huge factor of walking in arts and entertainment is the precariousness of the walk. Yeah, okay. And I mean, will this be backdated at least to the start of April? No, no, it won't. So I mean, effectively, what we have here is because of the delay in this, is that the industry has seen, you know, has been deprived of 60 million euros. Do you think they're wobbling on it, Matt? Or is it just a drag? No, no, there's a firm commitment here. It's the fact that they're just not putting, well, I'm not sure what the story is, that they're not really estimate the amount of interest that's going to be in us. You see, one of the problems, Greg, we don't know how many people actually walk in this industry. We've estimated everywhere from 700 to 55,000. There were kind of expecting 20,000 people to apply, 9,000 applied. And now we're running six months late. 20,000 people that applied would be, I don't know what crisis would be here next. It'd be interesting to see how many staff are working on this. Do you think we've moved past the point now, whereby, or to the point where there's a recognition that the importance the arts music has to this country in terms of even just the obvious one, in terms of our tourism product, to what people expect when they come here, and that it's not just people who love doing something, I know musicians do love doing it, but it's like a passion, and they should be grateful for the odd gig here and there. Have we, do you think we've moved past it where it's recognized as being an important industry? You're shaking your head already. Go on, tell me where I'm wrong. No, no, we haven't. I would love it if we had Greg, and I think maybe people have, I think the general public, do understand that. But I don't think we do, from the point of view where you mentioned tourism there. For example, I did have a meeting with representative of Faulty Ireland last year who said it's not even in the top 10, and that they wouldn't, but then the same individual went on to tell us that they're more interested in huge international festivals that attract people, and they named the Rory Gallagher International Festival, the Galway Arts Festival, Flak Hull and the Heron and the Wexford Opera Festival, and I said, do you not see the connection? I said, they're all named after artists or to do with music or entertainment. So they just failed to see this. Yeah, what I'd love to have seen more through the summer was local artists getting a platform. I'd have been far more inclined to see that. I mean, I don't want to speak about specific stuff, right? But there was, I was at a couple of things where there were hours and then where no one was up on the stage, where young artists could have got up and performed to a crowd, where national artists were paid multiples of tens of thousands of euro for an hour and a half gig, for example, not to mention sand and stage, whereas local bands could have got up there and been supported by the local community. I think a lot of the attention is focused on a small cohort of people and there's so many. And when I say young, by the way, I mean young in age, I mean young in career, that we could have given them a platform. I think people aren't prepared to take a risk. They're afraid of failure. I just think, you know, whether it's a small festival or one off events that we should be really supporting and spotlighting and highlighting the amazing talent that we have here, where people just play it safe, they go for the same five or six big names or seven or eight big names or whatever it might be. And I just wonder, are we losing our bottle a little bit in terms of, you know, as I say, platforming, supporting young artists, young in their careers is what I mean. Yeah, look, I agree with you not to take away from those people who have, you know, walked very hard to get where they are, to be at that position, to command, you know, high fees and things like that. I mean, there are a lot of those people have huge overheads, they're keeping people in employment and different things like that. But they started at a local gig somewhere. On that point, if you interview them, they say, well, I wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for such and such doing this, doing that and doing the other, right, all of them without, almost without exception, I just don't see that happening now that I just are the new, where are the new artists getting the opportunity or the step up or that bit of a profile that triggered this, this long career. I just think there's a gap there at the moment. That's kind of what I'm trying to reference, because they all say, if it wasn't for such and such, I wouldn't be here today. But I just don't see that passing of the baton as much anymore. No, I understand what you're saying, but what I would just go back to when we're talking about sort of government funding on this is that there never has been a time when there has been so much government funding for independent sector of music and entertainment. We're the only group actually campaigning and lobbying the department for that funding this year, because there is no more, the funding that was delivered through COVID, there is no more of that for the independent sector. We're campaigning to have that, and we're campaigning to have it pushed into schemes through the local authorities, who can identify exactly what you're talking about, Greg, to get artists at different stages of their career. But we have to focus on getting new artists and paying them for that opportunity. But not just trying to country either. No, no, no, God, no, I'm saying that. I'm saying that. There's more. There's so much. We have an incredible talent in this country. The young people of this country and young musicians and entertainers and actors or whatever, that we have unbelievable talent. We punch way above our weight on the world stage. We have a history behind us of an incredible culture that's recognized worldwide. And it is, it can fill us with so much pride as an identity, but more than that, it's huge for our economy, absolutely huge for our economy. And the little investment that we need the government to push into this now will yield back tenfold or more. What it'll do for this country, just for the for an economical point of view, but it'll do way more than that. So and we need the next crop of talent to come through as people step away from the industry, they have different interests or the retire or whatever. We need a new wave of talent coming through. And Greg, musicians don't retire. Can I just say retire was the word I replaced another word in my head with. But you're right, we do need, we absolutely need more ways of encouraging people to come into this business and also be rewarded for the work that they do so that they're not just given an opportunity to get on a stage for exposure, that there is some reward and a financial reward because, you know, they have to be recognized for the work that they're put them in. But yeah, we do need that. And, you know, it shows like the Monday night show with Jimmy Stafford on Highland and that are huge for doing the like of that. And I just see it's 20, 22 years since Brandon Maxwell passed away. He was, you know, one of the greatest guys in the Northwest for promoting new local young talent. I think I was nine or 10 when I first appeared in Highland Radio play in a fiddle, but he did that for everyone that he could, you know, and so that's really important. There's a huge ecosystem we need to protect and build up again. 100% because I can think of, and I'm not big into music, not like yourself and Jimmy and Paul, you know, but I can think of 10 acts who produce music like that's chartable music, for instance, but you can see them banging the top of their head off a glass ceiling consistently. And I don't mean that in any way negatively. It's just how do you, how do you break through? I mean, we've got in Donegal, I'm not going to mention any names, we've got international quality artists that just whatever it is to get that break, they just haven't got it, whatever it's the ecosystem, it's radio stations have a big role to play in it. I hope that we do as much as we can. But you know, when you look at what we send out, say for something stupid is the Eurovision, you know, now the Dairy Girl did well for us, Brock did well for us, don't get me wrong, but prior to that, or in terms of like, a national station having a bank holiday Monday is the let's play Irish music all day on one specific day. Do you know what I mean? There's a, you know, there's an awful lot needs to be tweaked at to get to where we need to be that playing Irish music is not a novelty act or a novelty attraction. No, it's not a charity case. It's not something that we need to do. It's more than that. We are currently walking along with the IBA and the broadcast authority of Ireland, Emeril and Rap. We've had meetings a few different occasions this year to actually work together and find ways of how we can bring the music industry and the radio industry together. But the problem is you see the radio industry panics and then what you have is they say, all right, we've got to play some Irish music and they start playing, which is fine drill, you know, or, or hip hop. And that is fine. And we have some fantastic Irish artists, but you can see there's almost a panic. All right, what do we do? We have to get something new and fresh. You know, no, just all different types of music on its merit. Just play it. You don't panic and feel you have to start playing drill. You know what I'm on about? Just play quality Irish music that's out there. H station, I think, has to meet the demands of their own demographic and their own listeners because, you know, it's not, nobody can force any particular business, whether that's radio or music or whatever, to be doing something that isn't going to be fruitful for their own business. At the bottom line, as we are in a music business, radio industry is an industry as well. But there are ways we can do this to work together, which will, you know, the rising tide will lift all boats type of ideas. So, I mean, we have a proposal that we're going working on next year with Broadcast Authority and those other partners to try and do a pilot scheme. I know that the IBI and I'm wrong that the radio stations will be doing Irish Music Month later this year, which again, great platform, great to get local artists out there. The Department of Arts and Culture this year have done a scheme. See, I think, I get that right, the Irish Music Month, but that is the problem I was trying to refer. Why would you have an Irish Music Month? Why would you have to focus Irish Music into a particular month? That talks to the problem and how bad things are, because you should be, well, we're playing all the time. Why would it have to be a month? Do you know what I mean? Now, I know it's a step in the right direction, and it's where we need to go, but the fact that it has to be, it's like celebrating, it's like celebrating a representative of a minority group being elevated to a high position. It should be the norm. It should not be celebrated. Do you know what I mean? It shouldn't have to be, because this society, it should be normalized. So, it's just another person being elevated to another position. And the same with the likes of music. And I hope it's not a crude analogy, but we shouldn't have to have a specific month to be playing Irish Music. It should be the norm. So, we should have other groups go, well, sure, Irish Police is played all the time. Why do you have a specific month? That's the way it should be, almost. But the fact is that if you didn't have Irish Music Month makes you realise that argument. And it gives way to that. And it's the first step. And so anything that we're trying to do as well with a pilot project is to just show and give, I suppose, comfort to the business out there. This can be done in a way that is actually going to increase profits, increase business, and it's not going to have people switching off, you know? Yeah, we've had like three or four young bands, and this time it was young in age in on this show over the last wee while. And they're just amazing, the sound that they're producing. Generally, they are right in their own music, brilliant, meaningful stuff, you know, struggling for a platform. And you just, what happens is I think they can lose interest then and just go off into other areas of life. But we need to do everything we can to encourage and support it. Matt, listen, thanks for your time. Sorry, I took up so much of your time. I know you had to talk about this scheme, but I think it all is, it's all interlinked. The whole thing is all interlinked. It's not one issue separate to the next. No, there's a huge amount. There's a huge system of issues here that all work. But look, the conversation that you had, Greg, I think it's really important. We kind of veered off. But what I would say to any young people that are listening, or anyone at the early age of their career, is that you do need to persevere and have great determination in this industry to keep moving forward. And just, you know, don't give up hope, just keep the faith and keep pushing ahead with it. And what I'll say too to radio, okay, which is in some cases struggling for survival, is what is going to happen here if they're not careful. And it's already happening. They will be bypassed. You know, obviously, you've got the streaming platforms and what have you, but young artists are reaching their audience now via TikTok and other platforms. And actually, this is very much in radio's interest to get on this bandwagon because they will be sidelined in this. And I hope the people that you meet in the BAI and IMRO and all of those people and radio station representatives understand that because it's their future that they're fighting for as well. And they can do it with the fantastic, crap I was going to say, crop of young artists coming through, or they can be left behind. And that's what I think radio needs to wake up and realise. They do great because if young artists are now getting found on TikTok, they don't owe the radio industry anything. So you won't get that interview with them because they don't owe you anything. Whereas, you know, if radio stations are all helping try and find that next big act, you know, those people on the way up will remember that and they will help. All right, that was proved for years with the likes of Larry Gogan and so on, you know. Yeah. I do great. Thanks. All right, take care of yourself. Lovely chat. Thanks very much indeed. 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I've noticed people out walking or jogging seem to do so right along the broken yellow line, where there's a perfectly good hard shoulder. It would be a lot safer than having traffic go to come to a near stop to go around them, plus most are wearing earphones, which makes them oblivious to what's going on around them. It's an accident waiting to happen. Unfortunately, Paul, it's an accident that actually regularly does happen and the word accident would imply that it is an accident, often there is cause and effect. I just read that and now we're going to speak to Brian O'Donnell, who's the road safety officer with Donegal County Council. Good morning to Brian, Magine Why, how are you keeping? Morning Greg, good, I get along good. Just before we start this conversation again, Brian, it's an important one. There's always an element of them and us on our roads. Okay, and I think it's come to the point and we're far past it that agricultural vehicle users, users, lorry drivers, car drivers, electric bike riders, push bike riders, motorbike riders, caravan pullers, walkers, joggers, we all have a responsibility on the roads. It's a shared space, Brian. Almost certainly it's a shared space and I can't, we have to find it away from just them and us. Everybody has a responsibility for their own safety when they're using the road. It's as a question as a cyclist or any other road user, you have to look after yourself. And then on the other hand, a motorist has to be aware that other people are using the road and there is a responsibility on both sides to look after everyone. But in relation to walkers and joggers, some of them do jog along the yellow line. We also know that we've spent millions of euro providing cycle lanes up alongside some of the new road routes, but some cyclists prefer to cycle on on the main road even when there is a lane available to them. So you can see how motorists then can start getting wound up a little bit, but at the same time where there's no alternative, cars and lorries overtake people and they're right up next to them and you can see why pedestrians and cyclists might start getting annoyed. That's right. And double-edged road here because everybody thinks that they have the responsibility, they have the right of way, but the paramount point here is the safety of everyone and we have to have patience. We have to look out for everyone that actually uses the road. I know motorists will get frustrated because people, cyclists, even pedestrians, even runners, think that they have a right of way in the road, but it can't get down to that. We have to be. We're coming on to a time of year now. Obviously the schools have gone back to, everybody's gone back to school after a fine summer. We're going to have extra traffic on the road. We're going to have kids using the road for the first time. We're going to have buses back in the road. Frustration is going to be permanent. We have a lot of road works out there. We're trying to promote the awareness of safety on the roads for all road users and it's becoming more and more difficult because people do get frustrated and they think, going back to what I said, they think they have the right, but they don't. They have everybody has a responsibility to look out for themselves. That includes safety gear and it can be hard to get people to wear safety gear. Some of them perceive it as being uncool or whatever, but the likes of your helmets when you're cycling, most not professional cycles, but most active cyclists I think do wear helmets, but it can be tough to get young ones to wear a helmet and the fluorescent throws as well because I think what we get caught out, Brian, as the evenings draw in, people start going out for their evening walk, not wearing their safety gear and then on the return leg of their journey, it's dusky time. They're harder to see. That's something we have to be very aware of, I suppose, as we head in towards, dare I say, autumn and winter. Well, very much so. Wearing reflective gear, high valve vests and so on. You said it there earlier, it looks to be uncool, but it keeps people safe. It keeps people visible on the roads and as you say, you're going out when it's not dark, you're coming back and you're returned early, it's getting dark and we need to be seen and this material will let you be seen by motors. Now, if you look at the facts this year, we nearly have as many vulnerable road users killed on a road this year as drivers and that's motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians. They're nearly on a par. Far too many people are still losing their lives on a road and we're moving, we thought that we're moving in the right direction, we're stepping back again. We're going back, a regressive stage again because too many people are losing their lives on a road and that's not acceptable. And also too, I think there is this feeling that it's not going to happen to you, be it you being involved, the person that struck someone or the person who was struck and I think both people, obviously the person who struck could lose their life, but I think it has a great impact on the person, anyone involved in it. But it's one of those things that I think a lot of people would think because driving, whether people who admit it or not, a certain development of driving is done by routine, it's almost like muscle memory brain, do you know what I mean? And I think sometimes people don't think something like this can happen to them until it does happen. It's very true, you step in the car in the morning, you're driving a machine that'll actually kill. That's the reality of it and you have to be responsible and you have to be if away from this muscle reaction, you have to be alert, you have to focus where you're driving, you're on traffic, you don't know what's going to step out in front of you. And the people that are actually using the road, again, go back to what you said, they think it's not going to happen to them, but unfortunately it does and all too often. Okay, maybe that has encouraged someone to change their behaviors and maybe we've saved life. 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A caller says there's enough for the army to be doing and there's plenty of school bus drivers or to organize the parents to do a car pool. I think a lot of this get the army to do. It comes from Dublin. To be honest with you, I don't think anyone in Donegal thinks we should fix problems with the army. I think that's a city thing. I don't know where it comes from. But thanks for that comment. All right, listen, that's where we have to leave it. We're out of time. We're back with you tomorrow for our Friday show. Our Friday panel lined up ready to go and the rest of what you might expect on a Friday. So please rejoin us tomorrow at nine, but don't go anywhere because John Breslin is coming up around the Northwest after the news at 12. For me, Greg Hughes and the production and research and online team of Caroline Orr and Emma Ryan have a lovely Thursday. See you tomorrow morning at nine.