 You know what's and this is the truth it's embarrassing I was going to and I couldn't I was too lazy to get up They couldn't be bothered. Did you even open the curtains like I thought sure I'll get them the next time Yes, but you're wondering when how often did they come around? Do you know what about this about once every 10 years About four or five percent of the time well, what's one or two percent of the time you see the there is some great photographs Isn't there even the the the national papers and the tablets picked up and you know, they're highlighting Maybe too many photos is that possible? Oh, no, but it's nice. I should promote in the county. So it's great I'm just a miserable old man. I don't get over that. Bye Lee. Good luck. See you tomorrow. Hey, all right It's the night. It's the night to a moon show time for a news update at nine. Let's go over to Michaela Clark Thanks, Greg. Good morning A man has been arrested in letter Kenny after entering a house armed with a hammer and assaulting the occupants At around five to eight last night the man broke into a house in the Glenard Park area A woman in her 40s and man in his 20s were injured during the incident The man was arrested by Gardie and taken to letter Kenny Garda station He's been charged and is due to appear before bunkrana district court this morning The tonnage just says it's the will of the public of northern Ireland to get its political institutions back up and running That's been echoed by border communities against brexit He hopes politicians can work to restore the assembly while working through the fine details of a new agreement reach Between the uk and the eu on the northern Ireland protocol, which has been called the Windsor framework UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will visit northern Ireland later Where he will try to convince politicians to back the deal Tanishami hall martin says it's up to the dup to decide its stance But believes the agreement has set the ground to enable the return of the storm and assembly I do believe that the people of northern Ireland want the government and people of northern Ireland Want the the the decision that they made in the last election validated In the form of the convening of the assembly the election of an executive force minister and deputy force minister That can deal with the issues that affect people in northern Ireland in their daily lives A tonnage company has been placed on the environmental protection agency's national priority sites list The agency carried out 1,434 inspections at EPA licensed sites in 2022 A total of 13 facilities were placed on the body's national priority sites list last year Over non-compliance with site license requirements Concerns over emissions to air have been highlighted at Euroflex Chorinda in Donegal Darah Page from the EPA says they are trying to drive improvements We will go and visit these sites that are on the priority sites They receive more attention from us. 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They are Independent on this story The newly agreed deal between the eu and the uk on the controversial northern island protocol has started a waiting game to see How the du p will respond and where the power sharing can be restored in the north already though to du pmp's Most notably perhaps the impasley jr. Has come out and said that this doesn't go far enough but anyway The leadership of the party if yet to put their cards on the table Tisha cleof radcar joined uk prime minister rishi sunak on hailing the windsor framework agreement as a turning point for northern island However du p leader jeffrey donelson said his party will not be rushed or pushed into a hasty decision As it takes legal advice on the deals text. He acknowledged progress has been made but added There are still issues of concern While mr sunak will now attempt to face down brexit tears Within his own conservative party in west minster and convince the du p to back the name the new framework The du p's unlikely to agree to an early lifting of its boycott of power sharing at stormant And with the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement rapidly approaching There are fears the political instability in the north will continue and maybe the du p With talk of a biden visit and what have you feel they are being pushed into something without being able to give it full Consideration though listening to simon coveney this morning. He said the du p need to be given time to State to decide then and state their position on the face of it It seems like a good deal for northern ireland. Their exports are already through the roof by some reports they'll have full access to Britain of course full access to the eu sounds like a win-win, but of course there are specific concerns that some have And those those are the concerns that might delay progress. Okay, the Irish times this morning The government intends to establish an inquiry into the state's handling of the covid 19 crisis by the middle of the year senior government sources said that key decisions about the format of the inquiry Including whether it would hold sessions in public had not yet been made. However, consideration is being Even current is given currently to who would chair the inquiry and what its terms of reference would be how much and really the way That would have to work is that someone have to come out for come in from outside the country, wouldn't it? Also, the government's framing it as a review The paper stating it as an inquiry Reading on here. There are concerns at senior levels that a public facing element could invite huge media retention Which could interfere with the functioning of the inquiry or lead those Involved in the response to lawyer op. However, there's still a preference for some form of public facing element Government sources said the inquiry would not be designed to find fault with or praise Individuals or bodies but focus on the establishing Of facts to inform future responses to public health emergencies So as I say the government's framing this as not as an inquiry as to You know what went wrong and whose head should roll They're effectively saying we did what we did at that time And we need to see what worked what didn't work in case there's a future pandemic Which will not go far enough for some no doubt T Shockley of Radkar said the doll this month In it that the inquiry was being scoped out And he said we hope to have it established by the Arctis mid-year. However, he said He cannot possibly put a time on how long it will run for the government has yet to publish a report drawn up by a Group headed by Hugh Brady president of imperial college London The report of the public health reform expert advisory group was submitted to the department of health in September and I think some of the key concerns are And you know we asked the same questions I remember asking questions of the the health minister on this program as to The logic of some of what they were introducing a Obvious one Canceling all we're not cancelling what maybe it was cancelling cancelling all other types of medical health care mental health care Um rest bike care all of that went by the wayside, you know why who made that decision? And what kind of you know Consideration was given to that education as to say taking children out of school What was the logic of that? And of course then this is the the more obvious ones that people had issues with How people were moved from hospitals into nursing homes right at the very start again something on this program That we questioned very strongly at the time didn't Make a great deal of sense and on it goes But anyway, they say it's reviewing what worked what didn't work rather than sort of Going down a blame game route Good to see the education minister has done a u-turn rolled back However, if you want to phrase it on changes to the leaving cert everyone concedes I think that change is required But the proposals that were made didn't make any sense put students under a great deal of pressure I think kind of maybe would have interfered with transition year for some which I think is a really important Year not everyone agrees, but I that's what I feel And this well, I'll read on and we'll get to the crux of the story Norma Foley has lost a battle with teachers unions over the proposed reform To the leaving cert cycle with plans to have the first paper for both English and Irish papers at the end of fifth year now paused Last March the education minister announced a raft of changes and reforms To the leaving cert cycle chief amongst them were plans for students to sit the first paper of both the English and Irish Subjects at the end of fifth year now there were A think tank or a group of individuals or however you might want to describe it made a series of proposals That was not amongst them And I think the consensus is it seems that you know for these exams firstly This has to be a level of maturity. Doesn't they it doesn't there in terms of writing? Okay Also, if you were doing the transition year or not You could be advantaged or disadvantaged There is the the general sense that boys develop later than girls So they would be disadvantaged and also that it requires a two-year cycle For these two exams and only one would have been afforded So good to see I think that this decision has been referred The move though was opposed by teachers unions organizations representing English language teachers and Irish language organizations The plans were due to come into place for those students entering the leaving cert cycle this September However, miss foley will now bring proposals to cabinet to defer those plans following objections from a range of stakeholders Which is um Effectively a different way of saying she scrapped the plans She that that's not returning unless there's a more reform elsewhere Right, if you were reading the papers yesterday listening to the news listening to this program I'm sure you would have heard what seemed like good news for some Uh electricity prices for businesses coming down 10% gas prices coming down 15% but why not us? What about the hard-pressed regular folk out there paying through the nose for power Well, electric Ireland has been accused of shafting ordinary domestic customers in favour of business customers after the announced tariff reductions For commercial accounts only now before I read on personally for me. I don't know the tone of this article in the Irish daily star But businesses need obviously to be paying less for their electricity and their gas. So I welcome They're make standing these cuts to those areas But as I say questions need to be asked as to why you can cut it for a certain group of customers and not others Labour's finance spokesperson and TD fill out the Jed Nash Said the news would stick in the craw for ordinary households struggling to pay the bills The energy firms will be reducing We'll see sorry the energy firm will be reducing electricity prices by 10% for small and medium enterprises And gas prices by 15% the bigger players already have deals with a lot of the electricity suppliers By the way, that's why they're excluded. Mr Nash said the electric island buys energy for the same price So he wants an explanation why there are two different pricing structures. He told the star We know that electric Ireland has given a 50 euro credit to customers and this is welcome But this decision will really stick in the craw of hard-pressed domestic bill payers And you have even leading members of government who perhaps should be Like I was listening to Simon Coveney this morning I was listening to Simon Coveney this morning saying, you know, we need an explanation as to why Once energy prices go up. Sorry once, you know on the wholesale prices go up very quickly bills go up But then when on the wholesale markets when electricity and gas prices come down The companies are very slow to bring those Prices down now. I am welcome the fact that Simon Coveney enough nothing against him by the way, of course I'm glad that he recognizes that that's an issue because that's what we're all saying But for an incredibly senior member of government probably in the top five members of the this current government I just found it strange him posing that question rather than suggesting an answer or a solution Do you know like we don't elect politicians to sort of parrot what we're saying You know, it's great that they get it But I would have thought that he and his team and the rest of government would be working tirelessly in the background And know the answer to those questions And if they don't like the answers, you know to hold those that make those decisions to account But he's just with us asking the same question and that to me. I would just like to see I would just like to see maybe answers rather than Questions the sun this morning Councils have seen a surge in requests to turn old pubs into homes Some 260 applications to turn commercial premises into housing were filed last year with 53 of those for x boozers It comes after housing minister Daryl brown waived the need to apply for planning permission to make them a gaffe He said these figures show that government regulations to allow a former vacant pubs be converted into homes without needing planning permission Is helping to tackle the problem of vacancy. Well, listen, let's not run away with ourselves But I know I suppose if you're looking to do that and you have to face less red less red tape all the better Now keep an eye out for this moms and dads and caregivers because three children who ate cannabis infused jellies Which are up to 10 times stronger than inhaling the drug Thought they were normal sweets and there's absolutely no reason why they wouldn't think they are normal sweets They're packaged like sweets. They look like sweets. They probably smell like sweets Uh, but anyway, uh, keep an eye out for these the youngest The youngsters described by guardia's pre-teens came across the product Which is marketed as a bounce on sunday. So we'll all have to keep an eye out for that Right, we're going on to the telephone lines now to uh d up mp. Gregory Campbell. Good morning, Gregory Thanks for taking the call today. I understand. Uh, you'll be very busy with press inquiries. So we welcome Yes, uh, your time, right. Okay um, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and president of the european commission Ursula Vondelaine have announced this new deal aimed at fixing post-Brexit problems in Northern Ireland So on the face of it, I think we can agree is there the progress has been made but from your perspective, Gregory Do you think enough progress has been made? Well, I think the first part of what you said there is right there. There's no doubt progress has been made And nobody should be churlish and say it hasn't it's just inconceivable that anyone could say no progress has been made What was a bit annoying yesterday more than a bit annoying was for me to sit in the chamber in Westminster and listen to dozens of mps and the prime minister replied to their queries And you know, you would have thought the the protocol which they were all lauding and they all voted for You would have thought suddenly if it sprouted Two horns on the tail because it was terrible. It was diverting trade. It was doing all the things that we said it would do at the time And now they had to have this new deal because of the awfulness of the old one that they had voted on So set that to one side progress has been made particularly on the trading front That that is good and we should bank that there are other problems in terms of the constitutional political issues So let's see if we can resolve them and move on We are hearing from your your colleagues the likes of avian paisley Giving a very cool response to this very early on Are you holding holding back till you get into the deep a little deeper into the legal text of this before you? Sort of let us know what you're thinking in terms of whether this will Get power sharing back up and running again Yes, and I think any sensible person should do that, you know You don't accept something at face value. You look at it. You examine it. You try to establish what the legal text Puts into statute and then what it will mean in practice So those are things that we have to do now. We will take our time to do it. There's no point in rushing it You know, it says names rishi not rushy So let's not rush this deal. Let's get it right. It's not right at the minute So let's let's pause Examinate closely look at the detail and see where progress can be made on so from your perspective Do you see this as a starting point in other words? Do you imagine that your party might go back? To the likes of rishi sunak and say, okay, you've made some progress here, but we also need this Well, we'll put it like this two years ago. The protocol was implemented and we said look, they're going to be serious problems with this initially the government Demured from that and said no, no, this is the best deal that can be got Thankfully that now moved the reason there has been movement on the eu side as well as on our own government side Is because of two principal things one was in the northern protocol bill that they tabled in westminster Which puts severe pressure on the eu to move and the other was the unified position of the unionist community towards the old protocol now In our opinion, the government has made a mistake rishi sunak has made a big mistake in taking the protocol bill off the table Because that releases the pressure from the eu But the one thing he will not do is remove the other bit of pressure Which is the unified approach of the unionist people We have got to get a deal that suits unionism and suits nationalism This is not about excluding anyone and all the rest of the people that all the rest of the people that live in northern ireland as well Uh, not not just two that's the two groups you talk of. Um, do you believe this removes The west east east west border on your initial reading of it? It improves it It improves it significantly but remember and I don't want to appear churnish But remember it it takes us some way back to where we should have been two years ago You know the prime minister trumpets the removal of of uh blocking for example any reduction in vat So for example about 18 months ago in the middle of the cost of living crisis He as chancellor was going to introduce a reduction of vat on uh home heating on which would have been a very welcome move But he couldn't do it because of the eu regulations as contained in the protocol We pointed that out. He's now saying that that that now means that they can do that But he always should have been able to do it, you know, so you don't trump it something. It's like someone Uh, you know, it's it's like a wife better being praised for stop beating his wife You know, if there were a whole series of problems and now some of them have been removed That's good, but we never should have had the problems in the first place We've we've got them removed. That's good. We buy that now. That's complete the deal. Let's get it done right Not rushed get it right. Do you think the sticking point might end up being down to the storm and break? Uh, and how effective that actually is uh in terms of that will be an yep That that will be an important part of it. Let's examine that see what that means See how it would work in practice and you know, as I say, let let let's let's get a deal that everyone can live with There will be some people who will not Uh approve of anything that's on the table There will be other people who would approve everything no matter what was on the table We don't fall into either of those two camps. It's a means good We'll eat of it if it's not we'll decline And do you feel that the dup might come under further pressure? Probably it won't allow itself to be but you get the sense that The bonding is going up and the red carpet's already being rolled out for for for the likes of a president biden visit with That very important day on the horizon Well, I've heard uh two surnames beginning with be lauding the deal and that was joe biden and steve baker Long after steve baker and joe biden have departed the political scene both in america and in gb We the people of northern and will have to live with this agreement as it is either presented or changed or modified So let's forget about steve baker and joe biden. Let's get this right for this generation and future generation and very finely What is the situation because i'm going to have to go. Well, do you know what it's not important question So I shall let you go gregory. I do appreciate your time. Okay, uh, so i'll let you i'll let you go Thank you very much indeed for that. All right. Take care. Uh, as I say, there's no point delaying him for a question That's not terribly important senator Nile blain is with us as well. He is spokesperson on northern island and a member of the good friday agreement committee um Your reaction to this uh deal, uh, nile Yeah, I think it's a good to be here after 20 years greg. Um, there was many points we thought we'd never get this far that's bad um You have to listen able uh like radio cable that still aren't um filled out of confidence in the deal, uh, and I suppose that's why richie and ike is coming to government today The tease out those those issues that still exist, but we're we're a long way down the road To to I think maybe satisfying, um, most or all, uh, those around the table Uh, and I do hope that that the concerns raised are hammered out in this Small solutions that are Standing um can be resolved It's interesting to listen to greg re Campbell there and I put it to him, you know that some uh, the likes of uh Ian pacy junior had already kind of said on first reading and not quite literally saying that But that this doesn't go far enough and he said that uh, and I don't want to misquote him That it would be foolish to jump to that level of confusion I'm not implying or suggesting there's any splits within the dup But that does seem to be really quite some senior figures within that party that aren't precisely on the same page Yeah, I've no doubt that jeff a dalsons on the pressure from within his own party circles and That's pretty of parties. Um That's the way those um the different Views across the board um But but in the round, and you know There has been a reasonable welcome from the dup and they have asked for for that space to to hammer out the detail and I think today, um They will like as a private average money And hopefully they can cut any outstanding issues to there Yeah, this is very much though being launched and announced and and even you know the helicopters up in the sky tracking cars Moving around london and the language that's being used This has been very much frame to me as well. This is the deal. This is we have this is what fixes everything I'm not sure if they see it, uh, I mean, obviously it is incredibly significant But is that do you think in some way to put? pressure on those Who might have issues with it to seem to appear to be stubborn or or outliner Because this was not launched yesterday as a starting point, senator This the way I saw it was the the final solution Did you You're seeing People at the helm here who have been at the height of negotiations the last number of weeks of the stuff down with all parties realize the difficulties and Their firm belief is that all those issues that are raised with them are actually addressed in the document They all be that The likes of dup maybe aren't as old-fashioned with the document and as was she shinnick or Miss van der leyen But they're you know At the end of the day If you're selling the league is you know, you have to sell it with compounds Um And no doubt when they go to storm today, they'll settle the confidence But they also have to take on board any outstanding issues and of these issues are new That's one thing But if there were issues that were that were flagged already and you mentioned there in relation to the break Already there seems to be issues arising out of the break the understanding of how that will operate As opposed to a similar Model used in relation to the new decade new approach in in 2020 In relation to getting the stormed up and running It had a mechanism whereby They would have to have to be an agreement on on all sides or on both sides of the debate but Yeah, but the problem the problem. I think we're going to have here though. Nile is that regard at what point do we at what point can we the general public make a call as to whether The dup will or will not back this deal Let's just say not back this deal because they don't like the deal Or they will blame the deal because they don't like playing second fiddle to Sinn Fein I mean there's going to come a point and I don't know when that might be where we're going to have to You know separate the well the the wood from the trees That may be that may be the case great, but um, you know, anything in relation to Northern Ireland is never easy Uh, and for me that part man is to keep talking and keep finding solutions Um, sometimes deadlines, I guess for a lot of times they're not Uh, I think the majority of the work is done here. Uh, a lot of us are standing could be Uh, misunderstanding. Um But there's for them for me. There's for their engagement to go here Um a few days a few more days is now ahead of there for me. Um The welcome of points. Yeah, right. So the welcome of points for the dup will have to say, you know, we're We're worthless or not. Um, but there's a reality to They've been they've been an awful lot playing here. Um, and having the protocol renegotiated There's not a lot of ones in this for them Um, it'd have been a shame for them just to throw that away and I'll agree with the stage I think those outstanding issues can be resolved Like like the protocol, uh There was the vast majority of the issues in the protocol have been resolved And I think those outstanding issues can be resolved as well. Sometimes you have to just bite your tongue And roll with it and keep negotiating and find solutions Okay, listen, thanks for your time this morning and your initial reaction to that. That's senator now Blaney there 08 660 25 000 What's your reviews? Uh, give us a call and 07 491 25 000 particularly if you're listening to us in Most likely dairy and tarot. 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fundomania event 3rd to 19th march for details see fundomania.co.uk okay so as i mentioned before the break tom morris spokesperson for border communities against brexit he's with us now tom how are you getting on thanks for joining us morning greg how are you good thank you thanks for your time okay um your i presume and the group you represent i presume is welcoming this because it seems like a win-win for us and border counties in terms of you know our movement but for for businesses too in in the north and obviously us as well yeah we welcome it i think if we go back to when brexit first happened and we were formed the day after the first brexit vote in britain our only concern was that there would be no negative impact on the good friday agreement the peace process or any element of a border back on the island of island so we're satisfied that we're still in that situation and permanently there's a resolution which removes the risk of a border on the island of island that was always been threatened it was always been questioned about when changes may be made to how checks will be made or e-u regulation between differentiate in the north and the south that matter has been resolved everybody in all parties has accepted there'll be no border on the island of island i think what's great about this is it allows us to carry on in life the way we have done for the last 25 years we're about to celebrate 25 years the good friday agreement we've seen massive improvements in the economy in the social infrastructure and the connectivity across the island the all island economy shared health care initiatives and just the ease of which 40 million vehicles cross the border on an annual basis whether that's children going to school families meeting up going to gea games or day to day business being ran that is guaranteed to continue without any interruption without any checks without any stops and i think that's fundamentally the most important thing for us you know when you you see how the the headlines of this deal and what will be able to happen if it's accepted versus what it was post-Brexit now like we were we found ourselves in this situation the people of northern island did they didn't want Brexit right so we had to deal with what we were dealt with it seems to answer an awful lot of the concerns that were there maybe not specific six or seven point plans but in terms of you know the a great deal of freedom the majority of the time west it seems to satisfy those concerns yeah i think the work concerns rightly from the unionist perspective and some of them felt a bit disenfranchised by this this deal has been very very carefully worked out it's allows free trade east west it allows free trade north south and into the single market from uh business in the north of Ireland they have exposure to 500 million people in europe and 65 million people in britain it's absolutely a win-win for them there's no border in the Irish sea there's no border in the on the island of Ireland there's minimalistic checks through these green and red pathways and actually the market and commerce will dictate which pathway people choose if i was in the business in the north of Ireland and i had the potential to sell to 500 million people well i'd be looking to make the declarations that allowed me to do so but that's a matter for the business people and the communities in the north i mean should we be thanking the dup because it's possible that you know this was all part of the EU discouraging members from leaving making it purposely difficult for britain for being you know awkward in other words an awful lot of this you can imagine could have been resolved in the first round of negotiations well i think the EU has shown flexibility at every single stage and the EU have been honest brokers of every single stage i don't know that we necessarily to thank the dup certainly you could argue that things have improved but maybe if the british government had gone to the negotiating table honestly and fairly from the first stage it's quite clear that uh boris johnson wasn't as open and honest as he could have been it's quite clear that at times um list trust wasn't for example and so i think i would thank the EU and the EU negotiators for every single time being solution based and looking for that and at this stage i think we need to thank all parties the british government the Irish government and the EU for getting a resolution well it's not over the line yet tom but you know you're not going to reverse brexit at this stage so it's time to go up with a new name is it yes well it's not over the line um i suppose to some extent that we're happy that there's no border in Ireland um i think i think realistically politically it will be over the line i think yes certain parties are going to take time i spent most of last night read an article 62 to 67 which is all about the storm on break um and i'm still not 100% clear on exactly i'm gonna have to i'm gonna get your netflix subscription this is just unacceptable and neither is anybody that i've spoken to including a constitutional lawyer in a university in the north last night um so there are people are going to take time but i think we all know politically this solves the will of the majority of people of north of Ireland certainly the majority of people of the republic of Ireland that we get on with normal peaceful living on the island of Ireland and and and exactly and that's it and and maintaining that and we've had very sharp reminders as of late what it used to be like and we really really don't want to go back there from a commerce perspective um it seems now you know we're seeing record exports out of northern Ireland and and you know you're speaking and have an insight of course into business communities in the six counties of northern Ireland um this there's an awful lot of opportunity already being exploited but certainly even further down the line i mean it's a very unique position northern Ireland finds itself in on an international sort of stage yeah i think the day that the protocol bill was signed i was sitting in Brussels and i didn't interview with you and we called north of Ireland the Hong Kong of Yorla and i think it's cemented in that position again now if you look at the way economies have fallen in the last year because of the war in Ukraine and other international pressures the north of Ireland fell significantly less than the the the British economy and that is entirely because of its position within the EU and within the internal market for Britain and the single market within the EU so the north of Ireland has already seen the advantages of this being in place and the opportunities to expand that and to grow further are huge and we all know that one of the foundations of a peace process is economic and social development and nobody can question that there's been huge economic social development in the north over the last 25 years and it is now at a rate which will increase beyond that within Britain possibly beyond that within the republic of Ireland but its ties to two different economies is a huge advantage for the north of Ireland yeah and it's proven as what you say the studies on it that you know the more successful north of Ireland is the greater peace has a chance tom as always thanks very much for your time we do appreciate it we don't want to lose you talking about this stuff so if you do have to come up with a different name we can adapt i'm sure we will all right take care yourself right tom bye bye tom marie spokesperson for border communities against brexit now of course then we're talking about the headline stuff aren't we east west borders north south borders making sure not there the freedom of people to move around land-based businesses doing well of course in terms of you know exports and what have you but there were other consequences of brexit our fishers our fishermen and women very much affected by this leon more brian is a fisherman so joins us from time to time on the show leon is there anything in this that addresses the situation as it relates to uh you know the problems facing the fishing industry at the moment because we've been highlighting them for years here in terms of where you can land fish where you can't land fish and all the red tape where you can and can't fish leon do you think this addresses any of that or maybe it's not even on the radar good morning greg i don't know maybe it's like everything else for the fishing industry at the moment especially the shore fishing industry it'll be uh it'll be swept onto the carpet it'll be it'll be a speck of dust it's just that with this going on here like the fishermen are coupled where they can go in the weather and one thing or another talk to us about that talk about that because we shouldn't presume we all remember or all know in the first place post brexit how did the life for uh a fisher change well when it comes January of the last year and able to enter in Northern Ireland boats entering the ports from the south they had to notify the SFPA the fisheries in the south they they put up a time limit specifically we thought there was a border it was uh you couldn't land before two o'clock in the afternoon you couldn't land after eight o'clock in the evening and then at friday evening we'll do the last landing over the weekend within the south and now that's the Northern Ireland boats i especially saw the Northern Ireland boat and be working out of Côte d'Oune and Côte d'Oquille and if i was fishing out in Dundalk Bay along with the Northern Ireland boats all joined together fishing out there i would have to notify the UK government that i was going into Northern Ireland to land me to land me product but i didn't seem to have the same time embargo as the Northern Ireland fishing boats as me a Southern Ireland fishing boat so really if i'm reading this if i'm reading this correctly a lot of the problems that you and others face could be resolved uh administratively if you know what i mean we don't need to renegade i mean in other words you could be accommodated more freely uh by the Irish authorities for example or the British authorities or the Northern Irish authorities whatever you like we don't really need a negotiated change to anything at this point it would be welcomed but we just need people working longer hours and to be more accommodating that would resolve some of this at least Liam and what is that i don't think it would need to like because you have the the law cases they can work north and south of the border they they share their waters but then the Irish boats share their waters with them off oil uh it doesn't even issue the rest issues with Northern Ireland boats landing along that quickest point would have been an old traditional place of landing they would have been close to the close theme to the area in that but there was never an issue i don't think it's a big issue to reflect or relax the laws uh it's uh basically we're talking about non-coated species there was coated species crab lobster uh oyster are not coated species now there's a safety element to this too Liam isn't there obviously no there is a big safety element to it because at this time of year and way back during the winter uh the weather and where the boats are fishing a lot of these boats out of Cape Dealer are out of uh Green Castle is fishing out in Northern Ireland waters anyway they're running i'd be fishing in southern waters and they're coming on to a calcine and i was told i was in the last summer they told me that the that the Northern Ireland government had dropped the ante for the pressure and i do believe and i say that i right the Irish government was the ones that uh put this into place and uh they they were sort of latching back on it but we seem to be the subjects that the latched back on it the fishing and like we're going to do a very a very delicate point now in our fisheries and end and off by in the Kilkeelmans did the same and vice versa up here in the north coast with us offshore one we don't know if we're going to be there and five years three years we don't know we don't know where our fishing grounds are going to be that's it because it's a lot of uncertainty or one yeah and a lot of that uncertainty if you say it's not related to to brexit we've talked about Liam uh that the past and we will into the future as well there is no young men coming on to us they want young men there as in the boats there and you try to encourage them on we see our culture as a small farmer he needs a second job he needs more now and he needs the farming and this is not this is not an industry that can skip a generation either i can't i can't like there's nobody going into the college in greencastle the most of us going to other doing other other courses other than fishing and it's a sad a sad set of affairs where we're we're we're going here with us all right and it's the same i'm going to see him in northern Ireland too all right so now it's a more effective with the coast all right listen before i let you go yeah before i let you go something completely different maybe of an insight because you're out in the water a few listeners getting on to us talking about lots of dead squid being washed up on beaches uh kuldaf in particular lots of dolphins getting washed up as well any insight from a man on the scene to what might be causing that i've seen something up on facebook i'm originally from kuldaf like but i don't know it could be shoal to fish put them on shore i don't i didn't see someone who was saying about it it could be shoal to fish okay it could be herring along the coast that left left the locks there now that could be uh i still see a lot of boarding cavity on photographs there of our kuldaf there and that there just i don't think it's the thing but i don't know if there's any i've never heard of dolphins now i've been up and i know they have a white problem over over in the thing they're blaming lobster men over and over in new south wales or something for a lot of whales coming up on the shore but it wasn't it loves the men of all our pots and that it wasn't it they don't know what's going on there all right okay so you'll say it could be nature uh it's it's just could be nature like the one was out to the north east out out north there coming on there all week last week there and east of the one it's just i don't know now what's happening all right then i don't know i'm about here after five hello but uh no i don't know i don't i couldn't tell you but last year was a week crab that was the crab that will be a molting that will be now the crab will come down to molt now to two girls because they have to shed the shell that would be a phenomenon last year therefore we had that incidental crab that was out as a child when i was a child that was always i thought i'm along the tidelines in the river you see dead crab that's the molting the maybe it won't recover from the molt right what happens today that's that's what happens that's that's what what the call in england is a peeler crab is that when it's crab uh basically uh it sheds a shell allow for the expansion of the body to grow and then it puts back on that shell it'll lie in a or could be the place onto it would harden the shell and come out and it's just the elements and that there's a lot of it some of them died all right the same thing really appreciate that and come here it that i appreciate you talking to us a little bit about that stuff it doesn't take away from the very strong points you made as it relates to the pressures on the industry but you know while i had to be on i thought i'd really we don't want to master we don't want to master molt this time on it either because we just can't have enough pressures as it does no we'll ask uh listen i'll ask questions uh to see if we can get some 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wednesday the first pink of february where the people present there were asked to vote on it so that it could be adopted now it was voted in that night but the 80 people present there hadn't been given any time to consult or hold talks with their their clubs their county boards their players their coaches so this is just something that the lgfa said they went into extensive consultations with but yet we have no idea who they consulted with because they definitely didn't speak to anybody at grassroots level about the implementation of this policy right so as it stands what what what level of inclusion is there of transgender women at what grade of the sport or what are the qualifying criteria or what's the story now as we speak well it's from over 12 upwards so now anybody under 18 of course has to get parental content and different things like that there but the general basis of it is if they get a letter from their gp stating that they are transitioning or have fully transitioned from male to female and you know the gp signs that also they have to show that their testosterone levels in the last 12 months have been under 10 nanomoles per liter and from what i can tell that's the only real stipulations if they can prove that then they may get approved to play there is a section on then where it talks about if the committee deems that there is an unacceptable risk then that they can refuse the application but yet there's no specification as to what they deem an unacceptable risk or or or anything like that but daniel do we know at this point if anyone has gone through that process because i don't think we're ever going to be talking about you know three or four players in in every team in the country i mean we're talking about a very small number of people i would presume like it's the level of concern and cause for this to be rescinded justified considering us to say it's not a problem at the moment is it well um there may not be like it says that the brand new application for them so there's nobody who has been approved at the moment but there have been incidents in particular i think last year a lot of people may have heard about the transgender woman who played in a um junior final in dublin and if you've seen the pictures from that you'll see why it is an issue but that is only one gentleman that is a transgender woman sorry that has been publicly shown i'm sure there are more that may want to play our sport but i just think the lgfa are borrowing to the minority rather than speaking to their members and the concerns are you've outlined you've outlined your concerns as to why you believe that this policy is a is a danger to to uh danger to women playing the sport so run through that for us would you yeah well if uh if a boy goes through male puberty let's say he's he's going to automatically become um stronger faster he'll have better muscle mass less body fat he's a better capacity for aerobic activity you know they are generally fitter than us and can recover better than us um so when you put that then on a pitch against the girl who is already fighting you know for a spot they're against her own female participants but i just think it brings on a a bigger danger an injury it's an injury concern you look at a there was a match on sunday against uh to her own and with me there was a clash between two female players that girl took 20 minutes before she was put on an ambulance to take off the pitch now if you put that female up against the biological male on that pitch what could you be looking at there and i see the image that you're talking of there and we don't want to offend anyone or or or upset anyone but i think uh people see images from that game that you talk of uh there's a clear physical difference in in size there and a collision like the one you've described would have a very potentially a very different outcome and it's a difficult one down Daniel isn't it to have this conversation but you have to i suppose stand up for uh the women playing the sport and their rights there are there are competing rights here there are yes you know we talk a lot about retention of players and you know if this does come to fruition and there is more and more um transgender woman and our team well scares are going to be losing our spots possibly to these players they're going to feel uncount uncomfortable if we have to change use shared changing rooms and share facilities well i think also to what a lot what will happen is maybe some parents would not allow their girls to field for fear of injury or something and we've seen it here you know when when you know when there is a collision or something so i i think yeah okay and what is the decision making process from here uh Daniel because i think maybe there is a sense that i wonder was this a rushed decision we've seen other sports now sort of going back the way a little bit have you got a sense of what might come from the lgfa's representations on this from the likes of yourself i know we haven't received much communication now it seems that just the policy isn't it sorry excuse me um but i just want every player every club every county board to make their concerns known to the lgfa and and you know speak to them congress is coming up now on friday have it brought up there that we need to have further discussions on this but it's not something that can be just and put into place and everybody needs to just get on and accepted we need proper guidance on on higher top place and what we're supposed to do coming forward from here but yeah things need to be a lot more open and a lot more communication and hopefully we'll get some sort of resolution take within the next while right thank you very much for your time i really appreciate it that's uh daniel lochery there do you agree that the lgfa's transgender policy should be rescinded get involved in the conversation 0 8 6 60 25 000 0 8 6 60 25 000 or call 0 7 4 9 1 25 000 that's 0 7 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morning to you thank you very much for joining us how's your week going my week is going good my first day of my week really only you were off yesterday that was yeah indeed okay uh let's get into uh the appeals here um road traffic collision on february the 21st so a week ago today in strunaller yes so we could go today greg a collision occurred involving a pedestrian and a van at minstreet strunaller not far from the bottom of thrombo avenue at approximately 7 p.m last tuesday 21st the pedestrian was taken to letter kenny university hospital where he received treatment for non-life triton injuries and again we appeal for anybody who may have witnessed the collision to come forward to the garrity letter kenny the vehicle involved was a green Volkswagen van so last tuesday 7 p.m and again anybody who may have had dash cam in the area at the time to make it available to garrity letter kenny 0749167100 and appealed to now for information in relation to a collision in the refoe area yes this is an accident occurred in the townland of bali holy refoe on the main manor conningham to lyford road uh two days ago sunday 26 at approximately 11 10 a.m where a cyclist was knocked off his bicycle by a car at the location and we believe the car in question may have been a silver pusho 308 partial ridge 221 so that's a silver pusho 308 partial ridge 221 uh the passenger wing mirror of the car was knocked off as a result of collision and as a result we believed that the driver knew that the collision had occurred and unfortunately left the scene uh the cyclist and the motorists were both traveling in the lyford direction from the what we call the manor roundabout at the time of the collision and again the cyclist had minor injuries and fortunately not life threatening so we'll appeal to anybody who traveled on that stretch of road between the manor roundabout and lyford last sunday morning between 11 a.m and 12 20 a.m and who has dashcam footage to make it available to garrady and again if anybody has any information in relation to the accident who'd contact the garrady at letter kenny 074916700 or again the confidential line 1800 treble six treble one all right now information being sought as it relates to criminal damage um in kiln mcrennan yes this happened last sunday the 26th between 7 50 p.m greg and 10 30 p.m in the town of kiln mcrennan a lady had parked her car on the roadside uh not far from the health centre there in kiln mcrennan and she attended the event in the local hall unfortunately when she returned to her car she discovered that both sides of the car had been keyed and again substantial damage caused to the car so we're appealing for anybody who's in the area who may have seen anybody suspicious any cars or people's acting suspiciously in the area or again anybody who can assist in the investigation to contact the garrady at milford 07491 53060 that's a real sickner i was actually at that event in question and the the notion of coming out and seeing that damage down here it's very nasty indeed and they must have been on it for a little while anyway because they did both sides hopefully someone saw it because the town was relatively busy really busy and maybe somebody passed and saw somebody acting suspiciously maybe you know to come forward please hopefully um criminal damage now at dr mcginnell yes this is a similar type instant greg unfortunately this occurred last between 11 30 p.m last wednesday the 22nd and 10 30 p.m on torres the 23rd so sometime on the night of wednesday the 22nd car was parked overnight at the location of dr mcginnell's road and the following morning the owner returned to discover again unfortunately this car had been keyed along the passenger side to the front and to the rear and again we're appealing for anybody who may have been in the area at the time and saw any suspicious contact the garrady at litterkenny 0749167 100 or again the confidential line 1800 treble 6 treble 1 all right much more severe damage in the next appeal in mannequin yes this is a again a very nasty crime that occurred last friday morning 24th of february at approximately 12 17 a.m so sometime on torres the night the car was parked at the river house and in the townland of white hill mannor cunningham and the car was satellite and completely burned out a result of the damage so we have some information and we are particularly interested in hearing about any sightings of a man in the area around the time who was wearing a navy jacket beige bottoms a beanie hat with a face covering so it's possible that somebody in the area might have seen this person at the time and again anybody who may have dashcam to make it available to garrady litterkenny at 0749167 100 so that's last torres the night friday morning in the mannor cunningham area an interest in him again a male person wearing a navy jacket beige bottoms a beanie hat with a face covering yeah and i think that beanie hat beige bottoms combination would stand out so hopefully someone has good information that can help bring the investigation forward right okay community information meeting taking place tonight in colgan hall car and donna just to remind people yeah this is one of the last few community divisions that are occurring throughout the county and it's in the colgan hall tonight uh tuesday at 7 p.m where the views of the public will will be obtained in relation to how the area should be policed the police and plan for 2020 to be discussed and again the views of the public may be expressed and again advice and information will be provided in relation to a number of matters cybercrime internet safety home security and fraud and i know the presentation and fraud and internet crime is going down very well throughout the county and everybody's welcome to come along all right um national slowdown day kicked off this morning at seven o'clock one notable detection already uh in on the end 15 113 kilometers per hour in a 100 kilometer zone now the guards are just picking out in terms of folding it onto us bits and bobs it doesn't take a full reflection of what's going on but thankfully um when we see the end results of these uh days uh unit an awful lot of cars checked and vehicles checked uh relatively speaking you know well what i'm trying to get out here it is a small number of drivers it seems that persist with the speeding yes because it's not like 60 percent have found off the limit it's a much smaller figure than that no when the figures are given out in relation to the detections again it's relatively small in relation to the number of people that would pass through the speeding uh detection zones at the time and as somebody asked me yesterday why are you doing this slowdown day when you're trying to catch people you're letting them know that's not really the purpose of a greg again the aim of the slowdown day is to remain drivers on our roads off the dangers of speeding again to increase compliance with speed limits and again to act as a turn to driving at excessive and appropriate speed and again the objective is to reduce the number of speed related collisions save lice and reduce injuries on a road and it's important to remember that you drive at a speed that's appropriate to conditions and your experience and remind people that a speed limit is not a target if the speed limit is in 100 kilometers and it's pouring rain and it's stark and wet do you know a slower speed would be appropriate and again last year serious injury and fatal road traffic collisions increased and unfortunately 156 people lost their lives on our roads that's the largest death toll since 2016 and again in fact january had the highest number of road fatalities in 10 years with 20 people killed on our roads and again it's been estimated that 30% of all fatal collisions are result of speeding or inappropriate speed and again as part of the national slowdown road we guards in our division be out on the roads conducting speed checks and we encourage all drivers to reduce their speed not just today greg but every day yeah and it's not just uh the ghost safe fans that are out there as well it's the uh as you say you at the rank and files out there as well all right okay um right theft of alcohol some advice for retailers here and presumably it's off the back of um you know crime yes i see there is an organized crime an operation further down the country we're targeting targeting large off license stores so generally um what happens is the target one area and after being successful they'll move on to other counties and no doubt will plan on coming to dunny gall as well so a crime prevention officer sergeant paul was mollus has asked me to issue advice to the management owners of large shop stores who sell alcohol alcohol is the target for this organized crime group the common groups of three or four quite often enter the shop as a group and maintain contact with each other with also monitoring staff and cctv cameras very well practiced and have managed to steal large quantities of alcohol at various locations in a very professional manner so sergeant mollus as advises that a review of the security measures at such stores should be contact conducted so any large retail premises stores who sell alcohol would advise them to carry out a review of the security measures and against sergeant mollus is available at letty kennigar station if anybody required to visit from him to review their current security measures or if they require any security advice yeah so clearly these uh they're well rehearsed in how they do very professional on the move you might need to uh you might need to review what you're doing currently all right okay and if you say they're very mobile and uh they could well be a matter of time before they are in our region okay garter sergeant union walsh as always thank you very much indeed thank you great have a nice week you too that was the community 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they just they don't have a ticket well they cannot go and anyway i feel that the people most impacted by this no cash policy are older people and people like myself who are not up to speed on booking things online and things like that and you know the very people now who are being excluded from um what they have enjoyed all their life are the very people who trumped the highways and biways of the county and of the country selling tickets and fundraising to provide the fantastic facilities that every gAA club has now and you know that's great and it's great to see our young people benefiting from the exodus but as i said the people who worked hard to provide the money and the funding and the tickets etc are being excluded i mean i i know an older gentleman who um i spoke to him there the other evening he was very disappointed he arrived at that big match and he couldn't get him just because he didn't have was he turned away margaret um yeah i mean that's unacceptable isn't it like i i would like an explanation a proper explanation as to why uh this is the case and also to margaret from people i chat to um you know say for instance people choose not to engage with with technology you know i mean there are people maybe it's of an older generation that don't want to carry a card around with them or don't want to order things online because they don't want to and that's they're right and also what they don't want to do is ask someone else in the house to do something for them because you know you're given it feels like you're giving away your independence that you're asking someone to help you just so you can go and support a football team or watch a game i mean that's shouldn't we shouldn't be putting people in that position margaret no no no i mean there's there's no one there's no one point and just having a ticket only and i see like i i've just contributed to a fundraiser recently and i paid in cash so if it can take cash for things like that i don't see why they just cannot have a cash get to allow people and and i've spoken to some young people and you know they're not very happy about the no cash situation either now this is young teenagers and young ones who would frequent matches all the time and what they say about it is not for something i would repeat on radio i almost want you to but don't and you know then i hear from others uh and and i know uh the gea is not one big homogenous group and there's different elements within it but then i heard from others complaining that when they go fundraising at night time in pubs or what have you that no one has cash that everyone has card and they're not taking in as much as they did in the past for the bingo one at what have you but you can't have it both ways oh well that'd be well be but i think that you should have the choice to be able to use okay um and i mean at the end of the day too you know you could argue sometimes the product isn't fantastic you don't want to do anything that discourages people from going along and supporting their team i know but that's a case of two maybe the grassroots not being consulted or not having enough voice that other lady said there there are decisions taken and the people on the ground may not agree with it but it seems to be here if you make a decision they'll say oh well people have complained for a week but they'll soon forget about it and things will just carry on we have our way you see i thought this was something that was introduced during you know the pandemic or something that this was a short term safety measure you know not handling cash because germs could transfer and cash do you remember all that stuff that's what i kind of thought that's what i kind of thought was the the the kernel of this this is where it began and yet now here we are that it seems to be becoming the norm i'm not sure what it's like in other counties are we outliers here is it the same across the country i don't know we were speaking to a gentleman uh last year um and we managed to get a ticket for him uh thankfully uh but you know he just wanted to roll up and watch a game he didn't support a particular team he's from outside the county but he couldn't because he he wasn't booking a ticket online and he just couldn't go along and support his team you know he just liked watching football right okay margaret listen we're on to the to to the gea to give us an actual explanation because i think that's what we require at this stage don't we we want them to explain and justify the decision yes well i don't think it can be just i get you no i understand i agree but you know what i'm saying all right okay listen thank you very much for that margaret we appreciate it we'll see what the rest of us think all right oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand uh you're out there listening to the show do you agree uh with what margaret has to say do you think cash at the turnstiles should be an option oh wait six sixty twenty five 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it's not as rare as it sounds i think the definition of rare disease is actually if it's less than one in two people have it so my rare disease is hht hereditary hemorrhagic telangentata and it's one in one in five thousand people so there's probably about 1200 people in the country that have it probably 42 when dunny gall um so the days is just there it's organized by your by your orders which is a non-government organization and it's made up of about 65 different patient networks and it's just to create awareness of the fact that that there are so many rare diseases um it's 300 million people in the world so it's a lot of people um a lot of people don't talk about disease in fact even in our own group a lot of people prefer to call it a disorder um but you know the the proper clinical definition is disease so there's lots of them so you you would be more familiar with spina bifida or hemophilia or cystic fibrosis um and that's mainly because people do talk about it more or maybe it's more recognizable so i don't know how much you know about rare disease yourself because you obviously meet a lot of people so i'm sure you know quite a few people who have got diseases that are uncommon yeah but i presume part of uh an awareness day like this too though is is people feeling comfortable to speak about it or to have the conversation or you know uh because as you say there are things that are more common uh and it might be easier to to having a conversation so could you educate us a little bit about hht and uh it affect it's a blood disease isn't it a blood condition how does it affect your life michael yeah it's it's a vascular disorder funny it was my sister who set up hst ireland um after my nephew died um in 2012 it's you know the veins bring the blood one direction the arteries bring the blood in another direction and in between it's a bit like changing on a motorway so if you're going from one motorway to the other you take a a roadway that's built for it um and it's these are capillaries and we don't have these capillaries in a lot of places so what happens is the blood speeds up and speeds up and then it tries to go from one motorway to the other and it shunts so it just basically bursts so um i know the listeners won't see this but i have what i would refer to as like pink um freckles on these frank pink freckles bleed so basically i can have a bleed at any given time mainly it's the nose Greg that's a good symptom is when you see somebody bleeding from the nose because it's the mucous membrane is probably the the the bit of tissue that's easiest to to bleed through it's fragile yeah yeah so look losing blood friend of ours has just come back from hospital in belfast where she was in getting blood blood donations are critically important for people like us because before my dad my dad died at 68 and the last couple years he was in the care of letter county hospital but he was going to daycare every week for maybe two units on a monday or tuesday and be back in again on a thursday or friday so that's a lot of blood um and it's critically important for us especially with what happened during covid people weren't able to give blood as much as they would have been able to do so it's hugely important from in terms of my life um you know what Greg everybody's got something so um you know we're all going to end up getting knocked on by a bus or we're going to have cancer we're going to have something so i have i mean it is it i understand uh i understand where you're coming from but it's it's quite a reality check on life it's true you're perfectly correct in saying that do people have different grades of hht uh michael so might you have someone that might just get the occasional nosebleed that's not a massive inconvenience uh maybe not require any transfusion and then you have more extreme cases like you know is it uh it does it affect people differently generally speaking yeah it absolutely does and when you're younger it affects you less so basically the older you get things get worse so my gi tract has whatever thousands of these spots and any one of them could rupture at any given time but there's no guarantee so my granny was in her early 80s before she died she did die of hht she bled to death but um in those days they didn't know what it was my dad died of it but at that stage he died in 2004 but he worked out that he had it in 2000 um when the young lady in corks who was nine years of age grace no one died and her father featured in the late late show for a few minutes and talked about this disease that killed one child and he has five other children and himself and he lived a very normal life his kids were having a challenge so in his case it was almost the opposite the kids were having the challenges and he was able to live with it but there's no reason why you can't live a long life with it yeah it might slow things down a bit for you but uh but like say though i mean is it can it complicate things for example say for instance you had a condition that would you'd be prescribed blood thinners for i don't know do you know what i mean is that something that could exacerbate the hht do you know what i mean so it's not the hht that might be the problem but it might be uh how you might cure a different issue well that's a really good question i have you not considered that before well i didn't to be honest none of us will take blood thinners it's the last thing that we want because that's what i'm thinking yeah but i had a stroke in october uh related to my hht and the first thing they did when they got me into hospital was to put me on blood thinners and i objected i objected to having blood thinners and explained why and i was very lucky that dr parahar in the hospital um he basically said to me he came up to the bed beside me and he said look if you present in this hospital with uh profuse bleeding and you probably will but if you do we know what we can do if you come back here having had a more severe stroke there's probably not a lot we can do for you so which way are you gonna have it i guess you're so warm my blood thinner it's the rest of my life also too with rare diseases um you know and you mentioned your your sister darah setting up hht arland you know we we hear about uh thankfully advances in how we treat a lot of conditions you know like cancer and and heart disease and and other things and we're making advances in that regard does sometimes when you suffer from a rare disease can you feel a little bit left behind that you know your life might be uh you know it's as equal to anybody's okay but because there aren't an awful lot of you with this maybe you know there aren't people looking for advances to to make your life better or maybe your children's or their children's lives if it happened to be passed down is that part of sort of living with a rare disease that maybe you feel a little less important left behind perhaps yeah there there are there are rare diseases that are better known you know that popular is not the right word i but i understand exactly what you're saying yeah so getting getting the getting the ability to do this to talk to you hopefully one person in dunagol so we reckon 42 people in dunagol have it um i know 20 of them so if somebody listening to the show today here's what we're talking about they have a nosebleed or they have bleeding and then they can go to the doctor and say look there's this thing called HHT which is a rare disease and doctors they learn it all about these disease but there's six thousand of them so they're not going to remember everyone one person presents to his GP and ends up getting treated that one person then it runs through their whole family so that one person has it their kids will have it their grandchildren will have it the technology is there with gene intervention IVF if you want to do it if people are happy to do it and believe me when you're in an HHT family you'd be quite happy to do it but there's no reason why HHT should go from my children's generation to the next generation yeah technology is there to eradicate it if you are walking from from where you're standing now into another part of the office and you happen to sort of graze your hip uh on the corner of a desk are you more likely to and and your skin is to break uh are you more likely to to bleed more profusely or will it be where a capillary break a capillary uh you know is it random or or exactly it's where those pink spots are so if i if i was to rupture a telangiotasia then yes it would bleed i have to admit it's never it's never happened other than on my nose so yeah again just your your nose is that that that very skinny skin whatever um so when that bleeds or my my lips they are very hard to stop but no bumping into things where i'm okay it's um i don't even think that that bruising is particularly worse because of HHT again unless you you hit a telangiotasia and most of the telangiotases are in your GI tract so i have some on my fingers uh but they're very they're very very they're very very small very very few so they're not really a problem what about flying flying they recommend that we don't do long distance flying but i've got a son in in boston it's a five hour flight six hour flight i go i i do bleed at some point but it's not the pressure is not that huge on that you know that that transatlantic hole i haven't been to new zealand or australia and i don't intend to go and that yeah that would put a better pressure on all right we've been talked about external bleeding can this happen internally oh god yeah absolutely yeah so is that more of a danger more of a risk absolutely my my nephew was 22 and his bleed was we have points on our lungs AVM so they they gained these little pink spots yeah he bled so he basically drowned so by the time the ambulance got um he had passed away so an internal bleed is definitely worse but it depends on where it is so you can have them on your brain and a bleed on your brain is going to be bad but then they don't generally bleed on the brain but they can do so i've had my brain scanned i don't have it i don't have one there gratefully and i don't think they're going to grow i think at this point in my life the the brain i can forget about the lungs different story they're monitored and i get CT scanned in letter kenny and then it's reviewed so dr morel here's the hematologist she does the she organized the scan for me it's done up in the hospital and then it's reviewed by an intervention radiologist in cork city so it's incredible the technology again we used to have to go to cork to get these scans now we go to letter kenny it's done very quickly and it's reviewed in cork so the technology is definitely making things better and it is something that we can get rid of in the next generation so if we go by the average and say there's what did you say around 4045 people with hht in donagol how many of those do you believe at this point would be living their life because with all due respect to gps they're amazing but they are general practitioners and you know they know quite a bit about a lot but they're not experts in any but they could be experts in any particular field but perhaps not hht so how could you guesstimate how many people are in this canty that are walking around with this attributed to something else or maybe completely unaware if it's not very externally noticeable or do you have a ballpark figure in your head michael as to how many that might be yeah i think it's about between 32 and 42 that's it's maximum 42 i mean on average per country is it likely that more people in donagol have hht than any other country on the one hand no so we're an average country but on the other hand yes because our family have it and the family is the donagol family and my nephew lived in dubbing but his mother's from from letter kenny so i think between 32 and 42 and i reckon that i know 21 or 22 of them and i think most of them are family no i'm not sure if you're aware or not but minister for health steven donnelly it has marked rare disease day by announcing that his department is developing a new national rare disease plan he's pledging support to people living with rare diseases the minister confirmed that work is due to commence on the new national rare disease plan in line with the commitment in the program for government improving and expanding the care and treatment of patients with rare disease is a priority for government the work will be spearheaded by the hsc national clinical program for rare diseases so it doesn't really say what they're going to be doing as such but presumably access to medicines and stuff will form part of that in 2023 the government's committed 2.7 million to support the implementation of this strategy so what what could that do that's advantageous would it be access to certain medicines might not be a problem for you might about you'd be aware of others with rare diseases and there's this effectively a financial block on them getting life prolonging or life-saving treatment like what do you think needs to come from a national rare disease plan to be honest Greg probably what we're doing here today the moment is creating awareness because as you said gps are wonderful my gps i don't see my gp very often if i go into hospital i end up going straight to hospital this is the way things work out but they can't be aware of 6000 rare diseases they just can't it doesn't matter how bright they were when they went to college or you know how hard they work out they cannot be aware so the message really is that people who have a disease once they know they have it need to be aware of what medications they can take and be in part so that when they do present in hospital or to their gp that they have the information that they need to know which medication they can take or can take i go to madrid to have sclerotherapy so i can't have it done in this country so there are procedures that should be available in the country that aren't and sclerotherapy is one of them so basically if i a lot of points my nose would be bleeding i go to madrid and i can have the points injected so it's an invasive procedure it's not very nice but it works and it stops those points from bleeding yeah so there are things like that and i guess every patient group is looking to government for their specific little thing so in our case sclerotherapy it's an easy thing to do it could be done and day patients but every every group will have its own wishlist 2.7 million doesn't sound like a lot but i think it's just there to get to kick off the campaign so it's a start it's a start yeah you've obviously got a very positive outlook or pragmatic i'm not sure which it is it's somewhere in between or perhaps both there are others in your family with it too that live very active sporty lives as well do you know what i mean so this is something you do live with and we we clearly have made some advances i hope we've made some advances and certainly that awful loss of your 22 year old nephew has put would have been circulated widely amongst the hht community i imagine if they weren't already aware and you know what i mean that lessons not lessons have been learned that's an awful way of putting it but we can learn from that awful loss and you say finally in some words about yourself apart from the bloody inconvenience life is pretty bloody good so we don't normally condone foul language uh michael but in this case we shall um someone wants to know and i don't want to put you on the spot do you know what the difference is between hht and von willie brand's disease are they in the same space have you ever heard of it i i don't but um i'm sure that the rare and family support network would and rare disease ireland rare disease day dot org is a website where you can go and have a look um and i don't i'm not i'm not a medic so i don't know very much that's why the the the words you were using there were not uh medical terms as such but um no i'm afraid i can't answer that question but okay well we'll let you back uh to work michael we really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help us uh rare uh raise awareness of of hht because if actually if our conversation just reaches one person that this affects wouldn't that be fantastic a single person that that uh michael wow okay that's that's me because whilst we've been talking about it being hereditary you never know where it might pop up you know especially with things this is where things like adoption and when we talk about it become you know it's things like this where people might not know the medical history and and what have you in times gone by uh it's just i'm trying to give listeners an example of what we talk about the importance of knowing your your medical history and this is a fine example of that uh michael best wishes to you and all the family and thank you so much as a safe for your time genuinely appreciated right thank you for your time and hopefully we'll hear from one person just one person exactly thank you for your time i'd love to have contributed to that thank you uh take care that is michael McGinty their sufferers uh or has i'm not sure he's a sufferer he doesn't sound to me like a person that might like that phrase if you know what i mean uh but he has uh hht and we will speak to him on uh world rare disease uh day all right thanks very much for that michael oh wait 60 25 000 what's apps and texts to that number i haven't got to any of your calls and comments yet because it's been so busy as we've been moving through but i have a bit of space now so i shall uh get some of your comments here uh hi i'd ask greg did he see the program on version media one last night about the homeless in ireland i think it was so sad that we can't even look after our own indeed historically we have failed uh many many people in this country i didn't watch the program i don't watch an awful lot of scheduled tv anymore to be honest with you but i imagine um that we're all very familiar with what was contained within that program as i say we have a long long history of uh not looking after our own uh call us as i don't agree with trans women in women's sport uh just not right they say another there is no point in having ladies only teams if uh people born male uh and then our transgender women are playing on ladies teams if that's what the gea wants then let there be mixed teams of men and women across the board i think when they introduce this they probably did it just to you know to be seen to be doing the right thing uh and maybe they need to fully consider all of the ramifications to make sure that they are doing the right thing what's to stop people sending all through the green lane to northern ireland and then the receiver packing it into a van down south well there'll be infrequent checks um route that we uh checks from from time to time the produce it'd be probably be quite uh obvious whether it's for northern ireland or for the republic and that's smuggling and smuggling is happening anyway so um i can't widespread abuse of the green lane would be discovered really quite quickly but there'll always be an element of smuggling so you know i mean is that what we do every day if you go and buy something in the north and bring it over the border i don't know um brosles only cares about control of the masses and little else the northern island protocol was to impose massive bureaucratic control and show that by punishing britain other countries will think twice about wanting to leave the very flawed eu the single market stuff is pure marketing pr to cover up bureaucratic control by the foreigners in brosles i think there was a little bit of gameplay by the eu in that whole process personally i might agree with that caller there and some elements of that a caller says the dup can't have everything that they want they say they want a deal that everyone can live with but they want everything their own way the british p.m should put his foot down with the dup and tell them that if they reject this deal then stormant will start up again and continue without them but there are other measures in place to ensure that doesn't happen too good morning greg if jeffrey doesn't want to join into the government you should stand down holding people to ransom while still getting full pay shame on him the problem with an inquiry into covet says this caller was there was only one side of the story ever being told it ended up not being about health care but about money uh many prominent scientists were ignored yet now it appears they may have been right well listen the bottom line this is there's two stories to everything three stories and the truth is somewhere uh somewhere in uh the middle i think the fundamentals of what you're referring to as it relates to what scientists were saying are still uh the debate is still on were masks useful or not the debate is still ongoing there was there any point in certain things happening but in terms of our reaction i.e and this is what i see is the big issue here personally i'm not saying it's the only issue or the only big issue but stopping children going to school was that properly thought through we had this conversation many times on this program of course um also you know effectively all other health care ceasing you know why did that happen i think who made that decision and what was the clinical basis of that decision these are very very uh important uh questions you know nine euro meal to get into a pub i don't know how big a deal that is in in terms of the wider scale obviously you know what i mean at that time uh as i say many quarters to this program were saying it made so no sense it was not logical uh whether or not masks work or not you know that's still as i say you could have half the people would still agree that they do half that wouldn't uh but in terms of the big decisions that were made um and i'm not saying they weren't big decisions but in terms of the impact on the general health care system the impact on children's education the impact on people's mental health lessons have to be learned there's not going to be any heads rolling or heads on a stick if anyone's waiting for that to happen it's certainly not going to happen but i think you know a review inquiry look back whatever's required needs to happen there are some decisions that certainly you would want to know who made them uh right okay how can the d up control the british government the Irish government e you and hold up storming from sitting as well does not sound too democratic to me a male will sorry to jump between different issues but they've come in at different times a male will always be a male in a body no matter no amount of drugs can change that fact ge is a physical game this proposal should be challenged it's not a proposal it's actually in they're proposing to actually uh redacted uh or to take it out sorry but i'll read on uh this proposal should be challenged by grassroots members and parents concern transgenderism it's not a sexual orientation um and should be rescinded okay i don't think anyone's referred to it as a sexual orientation but thank you for that good morning greg men and women are different yet these people voted yes and how they felt when they vote do we change sport for the less than one these people are well there's some of the accusations that if that's in that text i simply couldn't read out the unionists in northern Ireland jumping up and down about the protocol are those who don't want to share power with people of a different political view Ireland was partitioned with one community in mind and the six counties was to remain in essence a sectarian state we all saw what happened next remember those who were anti good friday agreement and now anti protocol doesn't uh doesn't that tell you something in my opinion thank you for your opinion by the way of course uh on all of you texting in uh keep girls sports for girls no one uh with a penis should be in a girl's changing room says a listener there sorry for the stark language but that's the point that they wanted to make uh wait till they start digging up the seabed to anchor industrial wind turbines fishing boats will be excluded from those areas well listen we've had uh people from the fishing industry expressing uh that view and indeed i put that question to a representative from um wind farms in arland not so long ago right lots of people agree with margaret by the way uh and as i said in on this particular issue i'm going to suspend what i try and be and that's impartial and everything and say that particularly uh if it is particularly older people that want to buy a ticket for a match and a turnstile with cash my word let them do that they have that right uh i just 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hit and run in bali in the bali holy area of refoe on sunday a cyclist was knocked off his bike at around 10 past 11 gardi say they believe a silver color pujo 308 with a possible registration of 221 was involved meanwhile investigations are continuing into a crash in strunorder last week in which a pedestrian was injured the collision involving a green volkswagen van occurred at around 7 o'clock on cheese the evening last at lower main street gardi are on the hunt for a man seen in the manor cunning him area prior to van being set on fire shortly after midnight on friday last the vehicle parked at the rear of a house at white hill was set on fire and completely destroyed gardi are particularly keen to speak to anyone who has any information on sightings of a man in the area seen wearing a navy jacket beige bottoms a beanie hat and a face covering the british prime minister is in the north today trying to convince political parties there to accept a new trade arrangement with the eu rishi sunak believes the windsor framework is a turning point and resolves issues with the irish sea trade and vat the dup meanwhile says they will not be rushing to agree to the new northern arland protocol d dup mp gregarry campbell says it is clear the progress to reach an agreement has been made however he says his party will take its time to ensure the right deal is done for the will of everyone a warning has been issued to retailers in dunigol about an organized crime gang in operation targeting large off-license stores the gang has been targeting businesses in other parts of the country but guardian dunigol anticipate that they will travel to the county wilson's hospital school in kindy west maith has been asked to update the high court on whether enok berg has been complying with an order to stay away from the school mr berg's case was mentioned in his absence this morning after the former teacher feel to show up on time and the dunigol fire service were tasked last night to hillfire in kandana they were alerted to the blaze at around half past 11 in the glen tohar area two appliances attended the scene and brought the fire under control at around half past 12 those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much for that like to eat well all week at amazing al d prices i like the sound of that feed your family for five euro with a delicious chicken casserole and from february second enjoy super six fresh meat offers like specially selected irish angus steak mince five percent fat now only 399 and try our al d savers offers like mummy a mini size two nappy 60 pack save 32 percent now only 179 i don't like it i love it al d every day amazing okay we're joined in studio now by uh dr ripu singh and dr mohammed elbrair both of you thank you very much for joining us thank you very much we appreciate your time uh and calling in to see us we're speaking ahead of the opening of a new medical center a medical private clinic dr ripu tell us a little bit about yourself well yeah i was working in emergencies for the last 15 years with multiple many countries and here in later kidney working for last eight years in the emergency department as a senior doctor and out of our services so we come up like uh when we see the patients it's overcrowded everywhere every service is over so we have to bring some kind of alternative so that's how were you frustrated in your role at another kind of university hospital not at all i enjoyed that job i was loving it dr mohammed what's your background um original from sudan and partially from england um my background started when i graduated back home in sudan and started with doctor organization for peace and development uh which will give me the opportunity to travel most of country over the world and see different approach to different kind of patients um since i came to island here i work with the emergency department i started kindly they gave me the offer to join the team uh really i enjoyed working with them and i moved out of our doctors and most of the private and uh hgc practice gb practice um which i've been exposed to whole community like the emergency out of our and the gb practice uh for the past nearly two years now here okay and talk to me what services dr ripu will be provided at this you firstly where will you be located and and how will the public have access to the server yeah this uh we are in on port road in the center of the litakini port road and the access is very simple it's a not a big town plus uh online we have a website litakini medics dot ie and we have a phone number on a website anyone can contact us anytime with three four phone numbers there people can book the appointment direct on the website booking is direct by anyone we are open from 10 to 10 10 a.m to 10 p.m and the appointment is like whatever time suits you so it's seven days a week or five days seven days a week seven days a week from uh 10 a.m to 10 p.m yes so i mean obviously at the moment people have uh some from some frustrations in access to gps for example uh or indeed they might find themselves at the emergency department and they may not need to be there do you know what i mean so what will you be able to what what calls will you be able to deal with what kind of diagnostics do you have yes so we can as per if you see some side of urgent care we can deal with the minor injuries foreign body to the eyes ears all these kind of things that like you said that people think that they don't need to be in emergency but they need somewhere urgent after gps close catheterization yeah any kind of arrogant and and like stop bleeding suturing um such kind of uh uh in emergency or immediate need which is not emergency which is so is it perhaps more likely uh i don't want to compare you to another service but perhaps more likely calls that you might make to now dock outside gp hours uh but also the gp word is that is that kind of the calls we're talking of so in other words a child's got a temperature the gps closed right uh and you're it's it hit in 39 40 and you're worried in that moment save it's during the day and you want to get seen during the day that all i'm trying to cover everything but not exclude things that's the type of of course our office at port road which we're starting with uh it's it's welcome to hold public to attend at any time for emergency you don't need to go to the website you don't need is walking you can come in uh with this kind of high temperature nebulization struggle to breathe something we can see immediately we don't need to go and wait and to react by other um professions this it will be seen by a doctor immediately and it will be in to react by a doctor immediately and will be act immediately by us we will come children elderly uh any kind of uh we can immediate that's what the idea come from because to see me at any kind of practice or now dock you need a couple of good hours to come and see me however i will see you immediately and uh i will we will act immediately to to respond um would you become someone's gp effectively uh we're gonna have to talk about cost but you know there are people who are dissatisfied with their gp uh or they can't get uh seen or what have you this is not a criticism of gps or to pitch you against gps we know they're doing fantastic work for the most part in very difficult circumstances but i'm trying to figure out the relationship between definitely no doubt they are very busy yeah and we can see like they're overcrowded like all the gps here but like we are a private service patient can stay with the gp register with the gp but we can see that same patient we're not replacing the gp we're not replacing they can continue with the gp if they want to see us they can see us anytime it's not like a competition or we are gp or now dock or emergency you know we are providing service for the public and we welcome everyone and our relationship i am a gp i am a emergency doctor we we we enjoy our work with all parties and we're still working with with these premises and this kind of alternate pathway we are just bringing yeah and we saw this kind of thing is going on in a big cities it almost feels a little bit like the fast lane yeah that's what we want okay so you're in the same airport yeah and respect the other lanes but there is a potentially a fast lane can we talk about cost how much is a a visit or the cost is not far from the from the national cost but we are getting mainly private and non-private sector but for people like you and like me working from nine to five we have no place to go other than our office we open till 10 o'clock that mean you are welcome to our service which is very affordable as well yes our price is different from the the national prices or the local prices but this is not for the for we want to sell high or want to know because of the the the equipment we use the the the time you we use and everything around us is we provide at least 30 minutes per and presumably this has to this is a long term plan because you said presumed there's a considerable investment from you and and those supporting you so this has to work long term like we are providing everything right so it's you know minus hours it's your very much in your interest for this to be very successful into the long term i don't imagine we have a big team working with us all national base irish based companies and irish based organization we have a plan to go up to nearly a hospital admission system a port road is just a start we have the capacity of huge number of doctor will join us include consultants and non-consultants to join as a team but port road is only uh been approached or planned for only six months still port road will be working but we will go for the next step and plus next step it's been funded by me at the beginning but of course we need why did you decide to do this now and here like we saw in a big cities in irland this kind of services running very well for last one to two years and we like for eight years i'm here in letekini dr. mama joined here together so we like this place like eight years now like my family they feel that this is their home i'm from india but they feel that this is their home i don't want to move out from the letekini i brought my family from the uk to donicle here and i never thought to build on a practice for myself in sudan or even in england which we felt that the community very welcoming to us here and and and and and very kind and very very very attract to to to know us more and to give us the appreciation which i've been appreciated by many many many patients which is give me and ribu the power to go there for this step so if you have private health insurance um and a lot of people don't take it up here because they don't think they can there's a value in that really it does private health insurance pay for a visit to you guys well you know so far we don't have any direct contact with any insurance it hasn't been established yet as such not yet but we can give the receipt and anyone can claim back from their insurance company plus our system that we are providing we have a computer system in our clinic we have access to all the hospitals of island we can any insurance company we can refer the patient according to the insurance to that hospital private hospital or anything about do you need to we talked about the difference between this being a gp service or what have you do do people need to register with you or is that advantageous to register with you this is very good question because the public most of just confuse about what is portrayed the private clinic going on and as i mentioned before we are not replacing gp still you will be registered with your gp practice is still you will attend your gp practice however we have our unique registration form which you can join our private clinic as the same you will join your you will be with your gp no attraction and no any any kind of like we say oh we need to transfer your file we will build your file with us as a private you can attend whenever you attend you have the right to go to see your gp to go to a million's apartment to go to naudok all these parties will come and we will come all the i presume people will use the service for second opinions people always like second opinions i imagine that is very simple it's on our website anyone wants to register our book this is our letter give him a i know you are very keen to work you know to that this supplements the hospital and supplements existing gps and the gps are maxed out anyway so i'm not sure what you would be taking from them but do you get the feeling that gps and the hospital are pleased with this development well let's see because we will announce actually we will invite all the gps and all the consultants in the hospital for to pronounce our our service um from what we can see we have a friend of mine's gps which we know in the in the in the in the area they're visiting visiting us and they're communicating with us very well we're communicating with them very well we are not compete with anyone we we just make the life easy for for for the part and again listen this is the nature of this program i have to ask questions as you expand and the hospital as you would know is already struggling to recruit consultants for various reasons yes um you will be competing for those same people um as i say you know i know you you don't want to get controversial but i have to ask these types of questions i mean some people might have that concern that this could make recruitment at all retention for that matter at letter kenny university hospital more difficult no so far that plan is very far like it's still we are not concentrating on that thing so we cannot talk about that at this stage but it's in the pipeline okay it's in the pipeline we have um we don't know the situation after three to five years what's going to happen we have a support from from from different country as well we have a good relationship national wise uh our our x-ray in in in place now ready to be established our lab is ready to be established um the the doctors available but it's just we need to wait for the next step and also we can't have a competition with letter kenny university hospital that's a big hospital and it's not a competition no i know that but i want to ask you yeah i wanted to ask a question that might be texted after you leave and if i ask it now it means that you have an opportunity uh to answer so akhola wants to know uh at this point will you be doing procedures or it's just diagnostics really as such no minor surgeries like uh sister removals such skin tags that skin tags system well nail toners removals this kind of minus i'm introducing something new in the county here even i think about for 40 50 60 mile or more from donicle here like wet management we established the wet management here and plus of the cardiac screening we have um we have a bucking for the cardiac screening is preventable medicine more than that readable uh clinic guess we want to prevent the worst to happen it's finished you'd say that because even today there is a campaign launched talking about the gaps in our cardiac care and uh a huge proportion of lives lost it's the biggest killer yes definitely are actually preventable preventable that we receive many many points in respect to yeah main aim our main aim is a preventive medicine okay for the treatment everyone is here university hospital is here gps are here not okay but we want to do some diagnostics like preventive kind of things all right okay um it's it's it's something new uh people will probably texting and say do you think in in some time in the future you might have a satellite in an eschewing or west on a goal or i mean or does the business model work based in the population center no depend how we go because till now we get a good response from the community uh since we start our website and our facebook page we are getting a good response so most probably we can have a satellite like surrounding tonical it's new it's new to tonical that's why am i and we are encouraging other doctors as well to to do this step it's quite scary to start such an approach to the public however we we we very confident to provide our surface i'm very confident for our surface however we encouraging other doctors to just do the same step to just uh to remove the demand in the account no but like three to four months we can have some satellites satellites in toncranaside or tonical townside right that's what our aim is well it's it's the reason we brought you in because it's it's it's it's it potentially is altering not changing but altering the medical landscape it's not insignificant this is something it's just a commercial enterprise of course we understand that but um you know this is it's it's going to be interesting see how this plays out and where it goes from here more so you know we are not a business people or we are not a company we are doctors and end of the day we are doctors so for us the money always comes second if we have a patient in front of us we'll concentrate on the patient how many staff will you launch with we have a good base baseline of of of doctor we have uh uh is starting the portrait only by me by myself muhammad dr muhammad and dr ripu because we need to put our our practice in in the quality we need we're looking for 30 minutes to one our consultation we will not go below our quality that mean we we have recruiting and we will go for the same practice because it's how the medicine should be the consultation it should be 10 minutes to listen to your patient 10 minutes to examine and 10 minutes to prescribe what's happening after covid here it's only allow you 10 minutes to see your patient even i cannot see my computer in front of me to to practice my medicine no we we we will provide the 30 minutes we will ensure the 30 minutes to be always there unlike the wet management we provide an hour to just have a time to speak to the patient to collect the blood to do all this stuff we still we can collect blood we'll do the screening but it's all it's all around the quality of the business if we find the doctor quality and provide the quality we'll recruit them now right away right okay well the public can make up their own minds up and i'm sure they will letter kenny medics dot ie and there's a phone number here as well 0749202955 and doors open march 1st tomorrow tomorrow i wish you the very best of luck thank you thank you thank you it's something new and significant i think because we'll see how it all plays out dr ripu sing dr mohammed albert thank you very much for your time thank you take care of yourselves thank you the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio foy's biggest ever furniture sale is 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said in my text everyone would have heard saved by the bell but in my case i was saved by a watch that my children bought me for christmas i always would have been a very active person i'm an retired fisherman but i never had any any issues was breathlessness or chest pains or anything but a week ago two weeks ago today the watch that i was given for christmas started alarming maybe every 15 20 minutes my heart rate was below 40 that actually the average on the tuesday was 36 beats per minute and i'm certainly no athlete you know so um the next morning my daughter-in-law is a doctor and my daughter is a nurse and they between them agree that i needed to go and get checked out so now you you were not before we get to that like you said historically you had no issues thankfully but even as your heart was beating really slow did you have any breathlessness lightheadedness uh any pains at all so it was only the watch notifying you if the low bpms that was the the flag really i had absolutely no symptoms wow and um my daughter took me into the health center and mobile to get an ecg but before i go on because i had a bad cough i had to be tested for covid which i tested positive for so then we went to letter kenny and uh two o'clock in the morning i was taken into the ed and the doctor asked me have you had any pain i said no no pain no pressure in my chest no headaches and it had another ecg and had more blood tests and he came back and he says have you got much pain now i says none no not so ever well what are you doing here and i says i'm here because a christmas present brought me here i says my heart rate is telling me is is very low and he says your heart rate is very low and they kept monitoring during the night at six o'clock in the morning a doctor abdul come in and he says i've heard the story of the watch now i want to hear it from you he says um right now you're fine but during the night you were far from fine you had a total heart block wow and i was admitted into the ward then on the thursday morning and on the sunday night again i had a total heart block on tuesday i had um landugram and then dr david who performs the procedure he said to me you're going to be fitted with a permanent pacemaker but i have three narawens and different parts of arteries in the heart but he said they're narrow arteries so to put stents in would narrow it further so they were going to treat it with medication and they had sent all my details to st. james's in dublin so i came home on thursday evening last was a pacemaker and i'm on medication now cholesterol tablets and an aspirin for tickets of blood right so and i mean i don't know had it not been for the watch i wouldn't have had a clue that that problem yeah that's what i was going to say uh michael it sounds to me like and i don't want to be dramatic this was a ticking time bomb i could have literally gone to sleep and for wake up from the other side whatever there's a waiting on the other side um i had no no symptoms absolutely no symptoms and i said to the doctor the first doctor that was with me didn't quite catch his name after he had done a couple of tests and they came back and asked me had a good pain now i said to him you look confused he says well your heart's going very slow but you know thankfully i got a great gift for christmas and had it not been for it i wouldn't have wouldn't have known and i didn't know alerted actually with a slow heart rate that's a pretty amazing and michael um now with the pacemaker in and uh the the drugs uh you're not a candidate for stints if you outlined has your heart rate rate increased oh it has yeah okay you like most it's up there where it should be but it had been fluctuating quite a bit yeah you know and dropping way down but you know uh i am not allowed to drive for a couple of weeks now and i'm not supposed to work for two months but i think that's in the barriers about time and community did your daughter-in-law did she was she behind the purchase of the watchers this all just a bit of a happy coincidence in terms of someone else and the family got the watch like did they buy you that watch for convenience or as a health monitor i wonder well it was my youngest daughter who is a nurse uh wanted to get it for me our brother thought it's a waste of time and wasted money you'll never use it but you know this is why no one ever says to fellas only actually the week before that i i programmed in the health part of it and i found it interesting earlier on you were talking about elderly people not wanting to use modern technology which i'm no perfect example a long time since i get my back teeth you know but we see what i said michael is is that some do not want to like i know lots of people my father wants them and older than you he's on the tablet he was on the phone everything like that there but there are those and it's not even technology they just prefer to use to use cash but listen technology is the reason why you and i are speaking michael remarkable and i think you had the doctors baffled as to how you weren't suffering any pain or anything but amazingly this watch flight is so hot right they couldn't understand that i didn't have pain and i never had pain none whatsoever no pressure no headaches i just i would have literally gone to sleep but it would be great for me but it wouldn't have been so nice for for my family thank god for for modern technology and when i have the opportunity now i would really like to thank dr david for for his skills and for the staff and for the way i was treated in letter candy and the cardiac care unit you know it was first class really really really nice people you know lovely to be able to see all those who have been our local pp and another man that's able to the mansion and there's a priest there father john and father paul doden and my very good friend father john gilduffie all of them saying masses and friends and neighbors praying you know another listener says uh sorry i don't want to talk over that because that was an important statement you do believe prayers move mountains i think is what you're saying this listener says me too i got to watch three years ago i got a low heart rate low sp0 to diagnosed brady card yeah i'm not sure if if that's a typo if that's what it's called they're now on thinners for the rest of the life it's shocking and you can get watches now the samsung three and four have ecg monitors in them blood pressure monitors in them it's amazing what can be on your wrist but in your case as you said right from the get go normally it's saved by the bell this time it was saved by a watch a remarkable remarkable story michael and i'm so pleased that you are i think your concerns of your health now have switched to frustration at maybe being limited for the next month or two if i'm reading the situation you're mad to get going again once once i get a few weeks over me i'll be doing a half hour 20 minutes you know i'll be back back to normal please god michael listen i'm delighted to hear this thanks so much for sharing this news and i'll tell you um you know you don't it's not like the old days where you have to charge these watches every half day or something the battery lasts a good long time and from a health perspective you know this is this is definitely been a lifesaver i think because you weren't displaying the regular signs you were grand so delighted with this news michael and thanks so much for sharing it with us and continued good health to you now please go ahead thanks rick bye bye michael thank you local enterprise week is back and 2023 is all about finding that spark to inspire you to start grow or scale your business running from monday the 6th to friday the 10th of march local enterprise week is organized by local enterprise office dunny gall this year's events will stimulate creative thought motivate action and encourage you to be brave in business booking is 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beautiful place to have your radio station certainly is oh in parades but we spoke to you some time ago and i think actually it was quite soon before you lost your mother my condolences to you thank you greg in that because when i heard that news i was speaking to you as i said i think it was about a week beforehand obviously you were so full of happiness and stuff and it's just Christmas coming it's just how things can change so quickly very very quickly unfortunately and heart heartbreaking and very sad and it is i mean i i found last year a little bit difficult you kind of you know yourself from doing what you're doing with the red light goes on you kind of try and perform but it's waves isn't it it is okay at a moment and then the next year in the depth yeah i thought i have to admit not that we're talking about i mean i found november december a little bit hard because my dad died in 2004 on the 19th of december and we as a family we always love christmas like i think but when you lose both your parents at christmas time it's it's and the jingle jangle and of course and everybody's you think everybody else is having a great time but there's a day like i love i still love christmas and i found it a little bit hard but it's funny i got a bit of i got a bit of strength after christmas and i seem to be in a better place now anyway you know so that's a good thing about loss and and bereavement it affects us all differently and affects 100 differently and we just have to work our all the way through it don't we yeah and i mean if what i find now is like my my home place is on the wild atlantic way i mean if we're going from lehension west clare down to kick here down to kerry you'd pass my house you know we're right on the side of the road so um um i remember when my mother was alive she kept saying so many cars and nobody calling because all you hear is zoom zoom zoom are they all going down to the car ferry for a climber tariff so um i would love for i suppose i think it's a complaint that i think a lot of people have we we need to call into each other a lot more and visit and and turn off the tv i know i work in the bloody business but it's you know you sometimes you just switch it off i i think there's a time and a place and it's all the time and everywhere either yeah pubs for example yeah absolutely eight screens if i go into it for a drink you know i mean obviously there can be a sport and event or what have you but sometimes you want to switch off from it yeah and and it's great to talk like we are here you know so uh uh but anyway look i and we have great conversations the irish it's just a case of making sure we don't lose that isn't it but i reference that that conversation the last time i spoke to you for another reason and i think at that stage you were this was in the planning stages because i think we were talking about uh the the bit of a uh fun they have with you on callan's kicks yes i think you were talking that something may be coming from that and now here we are yeah well here this was kind of uh kind of i suppose like a little seed that was growing in my head for quite some time i mean i never thought about doing it uh but like when you have uh i remember being where we opened up a field in my parish about a couple of years ago i suppose 2017 or thereabouts i'd say and um uh we wrote we were fairness now great and we wrote until three in the morning and uh we're having a great session in the bar but when i came it has no signal we're talking about phones and everything else i had no signal so when i came out i got about 200 texts saying oh looking well on the late late show and i'm here in a small pub in the middle of nowhere in west clare and i said what and i kept going through all these texts and saying oh you're looking sharp you look different but you look fine uh and it was mario rosenstock basically take the piss out of me uh on the late late show we're running nobody and and then oliver callan was outside crook park with his pink shirt and white teeth and hair all over the place and instead instead of saying martin marci ortee news at crook park it was hi i'm marty and i like to party so then dancing with the stars came and uh anagiri decided to because we did rockane and we had j carter and bernard or shea and all that gang rob heffernan and it was great fun but when we got together she put up a whatsapp group called the marty party and the the tabloids the newspapers loved it so it kind of and everywhere i went whether it be to a match in dunigal in belly buffet or to a hurling match in kirkhenny they wouldn't want to talk about hurling a football they want to talk about hey marty do a couple of steps how did that make you feel though because you know i mean you love uh the sport right it's you probably your first love yes it would be yeah right but then is there a line to walk to retain your credibility or your authenticity in that but at the same time embrace the sort of that other part of you as well yeah i mean that would be and i think maybe because of your popularity and because you've been uh in the public eye for so long maybe it's slightly easier for you to know that it might be for someone five years into their career yeah i think so and i think i mean i probably wouldn't have done this 10 years ago but um i think you know i mean sport or the ga primarily is my is my first love and first passion uh but at the same time i've also learned and you mentioned mom uh but i think covid as well um you also got to embrace life you know and i don't like the idea of being just boxed off in one area and said well that's him as you would be i'm sure greg being boxed off in your box so um i've always tried to expand always and do different things so it's kind of do you know what i'm kind of embracing and saying life is short you never know what's coming around tomorrow so we go first when i heard about the marty party what i imagined and it would have been good and you've probably done it in the past and might in the future whereby it would be sports centric you'd maybe have a few characters on do you know what to mean yes on a stage yes and then there might be something but you've got this that which has to say that in itself would have been fine this is full party at least for done the goal anyway but this is actually a uh a marty party there's not going to be any uh trace description in encroachments here no not at all we're giving it the full pack because i believe in it and it's also an opportunity for artists um to get back in and get you know get get get get it back on the stage because they can sing and they can dance we've had um i did two shows last summer to test the water because there's been a concept that's in my head and the only way i can describe it is it's a variety show an old-fashioned variety show with a 21st century twist so um you know we did it in draw then we did it in Wexford in between the two venues we've got 1100 people and i it was kind of i got a great kick out of it because people hadn't a clue what they were going to and nor do we have a clue what we were doing so you put the two together and you've a lethal cocktail so in Killarney now in the i i see there a couple of weeks ago um we got close to 700 and in the royal theatre Caspar we'd 550 so that's so there is an appetite i think for something a little bit different and this is different i don't think there's anything like this in Ireland at the moment has any what has there been any talk about this being televised a show no not no because i'm looking at it here and and with all due respect right okay some of the shows that are on rte currently at the moment it does feel like you know it's rte interviewing itself you does seem a replication of guests and and then we're out in the regions here right and this is where the point i'm getting to there's amazing talent all over this country you're tapping into it here and you're putting on a proper variety show here i'm not trying to get you to criticize the late late don't get me wrong and then i watch that if if if this was televised yes but you were also taking talent from Galway and you know all the different parts yeah like i just feel sometimes it can be hard like you're you're this um this uh on or isn't it on all right i mean they're going to be absolutely massive they are right yeah and you're kind of getting them first because you're out and about and you're seeing and you're team do you know i'd love to see that yeah i'd love to see more of these people backed on the national stage as well not just in particular one-offs here and there do you get where at the point i'm sorry no no no you are being very constructive and i hear what you're saying i mean i'm i am from this stock this culture i just happen to be down the road 100 miles and and i know i and i kind of have my finger on the pulse i hope in the sense that i'm out there and i'm kind of i like going to to country western i like the jiving but i also like dancing a set no i might be very good at it as you saw on tv a couple years ago but that was a different type of dance but it is um this to me is is the the heartbeat of island because what we have is we've dancing we've music we've a few laughs you put the whole and that is in my opinion island so what i'm trying to do is bring a little bit of um of the talent that is there nationally but i also want to highlight the local talent and this nostalgia there as well this model 100 percent uh but there's nostalgia there you have um on or as we mentioned i heard about one or from a friend of mine lately and i therefore lads and don't go and this was part of what i did in kerry and a male i want to highlight one or two acts from the region and um to give them a platform and on or i can tell you are going to be joining me on my own radio show on st patrick's day because i i saw them i google them i did a lot of research i googled them and i saw the parting glass and i said god that resonates big time and i think on or are going to be huge to be honest with you so you're going to be for an or what day funding was for you too is that well i don't know about that but anyway i'm a fan already and i'm so and they're coming to limrick and they're coming to gallway and then we'll we'll end up in letter kenny uh on the 31st bernardo shea's bernish my old friend from dancing and i i i used to enjoy him on the radio with keith walsh was that's right and jennifer yeah that jennifer is well of course uh so he's uh there with you as well um we also have raymond sweeney's we have raymond sweeney's realtor dance i don't have rather is you have it there um and i again i believed they're outstanding and i'm looking forward to having them with us the eurovision winners um i love rock and roll kids it is and and you know over the years i got to know paul howington and charlie we get again and uh so they're going to join us um there's a group of young boys young young men i should say and during covet they rented a house in dulan they're on my way uh in the burn and they they're brilliant dancers and they started doing all these steps and and their their videos went viral they ended up on good morning america and dancing from the cliffs of moha and they ended up in the white house as well with president joe biden so they're coming with me huge on tiktok they're huge and tiktok yes you know your stuff kreg um some kind of called david james have you ever heard of him no no i hear he's overrated i i heard that too but i'm going to give him a chance to kind of see how long he caroline's given out to he's young right he's got a hair good looking and he works here what what do you expect me to say yeah yeah he's not performing at all we're counselling him the two lads in studio counselling poor david james no and he said he was on the tg car show there and hit and he's act one so it's great to see great stuff his career going from strength to strength but also for you to recognize that these are the kind of guys you want to get behind correct exactly so it's it's a combination of all this i have kill who are nathan carter's apologies group to perform the rosa trilly they're doing it as well and the gold retainers are a group of three lads who have been with me they've we've done various gigs and they just bring the house down but you're also going to win a chance to win uh flights to europe from shannon airport that's the local thing so i'm afraid don't go people have to go to shannon to fly out don't think they'll mind um they'll give me the tickets i'll make to shannon there'll be holidays that we have holiday vouchers ashford castle have come along and give me a week in the way so we'll have we'll have little prizes and we'll have a bit of fun so where's the marty and all of this then dead smack in the middle of it all acting the fool um and having the crime giving up the price of myself and bernard uh to double act sorry um and we kind of i introduce everything we have it's kind of you can bounce off each other bounce off each other but i mean he does a bit but it's mainly i like to kind of meet the audience and meet the people and have the crack and we have a mystery guest by the way to win the prize the flights from from shannon to any european destination we'll have a mystery guest we just start his or her voice and um during the day or the week before and then we show it on the night and we'll give out cards and then the mystery guest will appear on the stage and he or she will pick out the winner and you win your two flights from shannon right this is uh the show in donningall for the first time uh ever it's in the clannery hotel letter kenny the 31st of march how many of these shows are you doing like do you see this being uh almost like painting a massive bridge by the time we get to one and uh it's time to start painting the other end in other words do you think you'll keep this on the road for the foreseeable i i think i think so to be honest greg i mean it depends on the reaction we got we got a very good reaction and kerry and mail we're doing i'm only doing five the next one is friday weekend in university concert hall in limberick then under 25th of march i'm in gallway with leisureland and sharon shannon is going to join me there and then the last show is the clannery hotel uh here in lisa kenny uh so the rehearsals will be done yes before we correct you'll notice you'll notice i knew where i was going and where the climax would be and after that i'm i'm being honest there's no plans although i'm amazed at the reaction that we're getting to be honest with it i'm amazed the people who i don't know with various venues around the country are ringing me or emailing me saying could you bring your show to this do we have a have we have variety show on irish tv i don't like you know in the purest sense in the purest sense no i don't think so we don't feel we have to cut in the the issue of the day or you know we don't have to have you know long protracted meaningful interviews i'm on about where people just get up on the stage bang out a bit of entertainment off you go yeah throw in a prize you know like when you think of like you're backing these people and i think we're in the same space here i just love to see the people getting backed uh i would just love to see this as an entertainment show like it's not the x-factor or it's not britain got talent no these are established but yeah but these are established acts and they're absolutely outstanding but where do they go to go further so what i saw as a concept was to mix the ones who are like the eurovision winners let's just say paul and charlie and then you've a great young star like david james everyone knows here with you uh and you've the rail to dancers and you've now on or um and why not provide the platform it's only one night a hundred percent and it hopefully get a great crowd it'll get a bit of traction i hope for them as much as for us uh and win win uh would be my like we picked we i want to we picked up where i found a choir the heroes for hospice choir in castelbar i don't know if they're going to come to letter kenny but i have to tell you they're outstanding uh and they never get apart from musical theatre so there's a bit of musical theatre there's a bit of a country west and shawna mcstravak is coming from to ron and to join us so you there's a bit you know when you go to age shearing and i love age shearing and you get a three hours of age shearing but in this show you'll get 10 minutes of everybody or 15 minutes whatever it is and then they're gone and i think i think that is the way in this for the moment i think that's something that could develop and expand and if other way or not we do anymore after this we'll just have to get the reaction of all the various people including the people that don't even go on well i can't see how it can't be a success on you unless you've got stage and completely balled it up greg that is really a possibility to be honest with you how could it not be anything other than the success with you and charlie will you come will you come i would love to it's definitely it's definitely in caroline paul and charlie are going to perform together i wonder how often that actually happens because we have charlie up here now and again uh obviously because he's he's northwest uh if you know what i mean yes an amazing uh he's amazing yeah here's the way he converses and the way he can bring music and he can tell the story it's just and be so open about his own situation and everything else but to hear him and paul i would go just for that yeah well do you know it's funny if that makes sense no no a hundred percent with you and i are on the same page i know we've only just ed sheeran as well otherwise well i love ed sheeran but i know just in case we're no no no no no i love ed sheeran but anyway it's funny i have a little clip of they winning the Eurovision in 1994 and when the audience hear it and they go into the chorus there's only vt on the screen they start singing rock and roll kids and what i love what they've done in caroline what they're doing customer is paul and charlie sing first two verses whatever and then they stop and it's just it's magic to hear the voices of the people in the audience just sing a song that won an international competition for ireland and that is 29 years ago and yet it still resonates and in terms of pop songs there's not many no that you should hand over to the audience no irish-generated pop songs that is the old standards of course you know what i mean but there's not many pop songs no no no and i mean it's just a credit where it's magic it's the only vt i think that i've ever used in any show you know doing anything where the audience the audience starts singing which i do it myself i they start singing to the vt but when you have the two guys who won the Eurovision with you yeah they're getting a great reaction and they're enjoying it all right this is there's no doubt about it this is a variety show with a 21st century twist and i'm genuinely of the opinion that variety shows some of the most popular shows in britain now are variety shows to all intents and purposes that it's something that um it's not a thing in the past because the audience didn't want it it's because someone decided that society had moved on but we haven't actually no we haven't no and that's a young generation coming through that would also enjoy something like this because it's something for everyone it's a buffet of pure talent and i think uh greg and thank you for you you've you've got it you've got the idea which is not rocket science but you've got it because you understand it because of what you do but there is this is kind of a an event for anybody from 12 13 14 to to 80 and they will enjoy it and i would like i suppose my own little ambition is is that they come out of the clannery hotel on the 31st of march um smiling and having having enjoyed a couple of hours with us and made it a special nice letter kenny all right listen i can't imagine tickets are going to hang around for too long to be honest with you it's the clannery hotel letter kenny 31st of march tickets available directly from the hotel clanneryhotel.com and uh get them now soon because it's a month away yeah um right okay marty thanks so much for calling on i'm going to see everything's going well for you as well thank you because i think with the stuff you've won through because you saw well known it resonates with lots of people so if you feel good uh people will feel good well you never you know when you lose somebody like your mama your mama your your mama's your mama's your mama and we were very close because we were we were three only children so we know i've no brothers sisters aunts or uncles so um we were we were great pals and a huge loss but i i think she's with me i i know she would want me to do the marty pair because we discussed that she just drive you mad go into music events around the place she just loved dancing despite being in her 90s so um yeah i hope she's with us and i mentioned it absolutely no that's about it okay marty maracy thank you so much indeed and thank you so much look with what you're doing thank you and thank you for thank you for having me on your program i love it thank you shone on a work call realized that his battery is on one percent and makes a dash up the stairs sara frantically looking for her keys approaches the top of the stairs in a hurry as shone rushes around the blind turn at the top of the stairs they realize it's too late this crash resulted in one broken phone two broken banisters and two very sore heads if shone and sarah were drivers the result could be infinitely worse support national slow down day tomorrow seven a.m to seven a.m brought to you by on guard a shakana and 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intervals though it will stay generally dry throughout the day highest temperatures of seven to nine degrees in light northeasterly breezes and as i say that's probably gone to persist that type of weather for the rest of the week ask margie can you pay at the door with cash well i can't imagine there'll be a ticket available at that point i understand what you're saying because it ties into a previous conversation bod as i say tickets will sell out well in advance of anything being available on the door i'd imagine but we'll keep you updated if that situation changes greg can you please mention that the table quiz this month in on green and hotel this thursday the second of march is at nine p.m it is in aid of parish funds it's the first one for the parish so let's make it a good one many thanks from kathleen in burit so quiz thursday nine p.m and green and hotel um re-renewal of driving licenses i've phoned a couple of numbers here as directed but cannot get an appointment can you help thank you um 0818919090 not getting through in those numbers anyone else having problems with those numbers let us know i'll come back to that in the morning by the way because i don't want to just mention it at the end and not help resolve it with you uh good morning greg every country had a pandemic preparedness plan lockdown wasn't on them people need to go to jail for this one in 11 die from obesity yet they were allowed into pubs and restaurants while healthy people with no id weren't allowed okay i get i do understand where you're coming from and i do understand that people were coerced into uh having an injection and i understand the the anger in that i'm not uh i consume all different types of media on all different types of issues so i do understand where you're coming from um we support paying cash at the gate at gea games thank you yes indeed another really the opening of this private clinic are these practices leading to the privatization of a health service something like the states i don't think so uh but at the end of the day you've got a couple of medical professionals who see there are issues and they can make a living out of it um i don't i don't think it's part of any grand plan i'm not really genuinely sure what the hsc's or local gp's attitude towards it is i don't know the answer to that question we can only invite the guests in and ask them questions but anything presumably that helps to alleviate pressure on gps or the health service more generally is that not a positive thing obviously though it comes down to that if you have money you've got better access to health treatment i'm not a fan of that to be honest i think we should all be treated equally i don't think a mom with a sick child who's got a few quid and can go in and get medicine straight away i'm not 100 comfortable with another mom with a sick child who can't go and get that medicine because they don't have money that's i don't know what that makes me i'm not 100 happy with it but i mean you have the service is there for people who have so you know what i mean i don't think the service shouldn't be there because everyone can't access it to get where i'm coming from not explaining myself great but i just wish we're all equal in my view we're all equal uh and we should all have equal access but if people want to create something privately and offer a service for those who can avail of it well who's who's it certainly not for me to say there's anything wrong with that all right that's why we have to leave it on the program