 Prices with that money. Decorate sound. I know, I know. You trust him. He says, if you want me to do it and I say no, you've got to keep the continuity on. It's not fair. Just because I'm not on. Can he hold his wish though? This is it. Can he be trusted? You know better than me. Yeah, I can. Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Can he? Maybe. Besides a bit of some sort of content or demand on context so that people can get on man to man being個人ized. Take care of yourselves. Yeah, good show. Bye-bye Lee. See you Monday. Have a lovely longer weekend. Minute past nine, let's get the News Update before we get to the show started. yesterday afternoon. Her body has been removed to Sligo University Hospital, where a post-mortem is expected to take place. Ifa Kearns is at the scene. Jessica McLaughlin was killed in the incident near Ballasadere, Kenty Sligo, at around four o'clock yesterday. It's understood she was walking on the tracks with a woman who's believed to be her niece at the time. The second woman who's in her twenties was also struck by the train and is being treated in hospital for serious injuries. Jessica McLaughlin's body was removed from the scene late last night following a forensic examination. Three investigations will be carried out, one by Gardie, one by Irish Rail, as well as the Rail Accident Investigation Unit. Services resumed this morning and the track has since reopened. Ifa Kearns in Ballasadere, Kenty Sligo. Food prices are unlikely to fall to where they were before high inflation took hold. It's because of the pressure of legislation, regulation and innovation on Irish farmland. A report carried out by KPMG for the Farmers Journal has found farm production here is at an all-time low, with falling numbers of both farmers and farms. The report found that while Donnie Gull accounts for the most sheep farming in Ireland, the county holds the lowest percentage of farmland nationally at 39%. Irish Farmers Journal agri-business editor Lorcan Roche Kelly says the outlook for food prices is that they will remain high. It is unlikely, I think, because the global demand of all people in the world is going up, global demand for food is going up, Ireland will be producing less food, but the competitiveness of the international markets is going to be high, Ireland will be able to over-produce in order to meet the demand at home and internationally, so something's going to have to give. It's unlikely that prices will be falling rapidly because the demand is going to be global, it's going to support prices. The British Prime Ministers avoided questions this morning about the report into Boris Johnson's statements after the UK Parliament over Partygate. It's out shortly and is expected to conclude that the former PM did deliberately mislead the House of Commons when he denied lockdown rules were broken in No. 10. He's accused the UK Privileges Committee of conducting a witch hunt. However, Rishi Sunak says he was not saying too much on the issue this morning. You're talking about a report that I haven't seen, no one has seen yet, it wouldn't be right to comment on it before that's happened and these are matters for the House of Commons and Parliament will deal with them in the normal way that it does. And finally today marks Clean Air Day. The slogan for this year's campaign is clean up our air to look after your mind. Dairy City and Sturban District Council's environmental health team are aiming to raise awareness about the importance of good air quality and the impact it has on the public health. Mayor Councillor Patricia Loge is urging people to use the day to learn more about how their actions can have an impact on air pollution levels. She says air pollution impacts every organ in the body and is the biggest environmental threat to health and well-being. To weather for today it will be very warm with sunny spells hazy at times, highest temperatures of 23 to 26 degrees and a light to moderate south to southeast wind. That's all for now. I'll be back again at 10 o'clock with an next news update. Until then, good morning. Good morning to you. Five minutes past nine Thursday the 15th of June. You're very welcome along to the Ninetal Noon Show here on Highland Radio and we've got so much lined up for you. We're going to be previewing the rally with Oshin Kelly. Interesting to see a few stages down the south of the county as well. Some brilliant roots down there. We've got some live music for you. We're going to give you away a 100 euro quiz. We've made some tweaks to it for Thursday. One of you is going to win a 100 euro one for all virtue. And then we're going to keep you across all the main stories of the day. So it is a true magazine show. There's something for everyone out there. So get involved to have your say, pass on your stories, your positive experiences, whatever you want to talk about really. 086, 6025,000. 086, 6025,000. The WhatsApp and text number is now open. Give us a call on 07491 25,000. Caroline taking your calls, Neve on the shows. Well, of course. And if you want to email its comments at highlandradio.com, right? Okay, we've a lot to get through as I mentioned. So let's get through or let's have a look at the front and inside some of the newspapers today. Anything as we go through this is something that you want to comment on. Feel free to just take your phone out and drop that text. The Donegal news rally fans arriving in the county ahead of this weekend's Donegal international rally are being warned to expect a zero tolerance approach from Guardi, who'll be out in force over the three days. The guard operation will be boosted by the presidents of the guard air support helicopter. While it's been confirmed that letter can a district court will sit this weekend and have required three sittings they have available to them. We were told on the guard information item on Tuesday and with thousands of visitors gathering for the eagerly anticipated event, local hostilities and hotels have long been booked out with accommodation at a premium. Donegal County Council's newly appointed road safety officer Chris Harley has appealed to rally fans to stay safe. We appeal to all rally fans to be cautious, use the road responsibly and be courteous to all road users. On to the Donegal Democrat this morning and sexual crime and domestic incidents in Donegal are on the rise on Godashiyakana's divisional protective service unit in Donegal currently has 177 open investigations. That's about one in every thousand people, which is really quite remarkable isn't it? It's a rate of one in a thousand not far off it. So far in 2023 there have been 54 instances of sexual crime reported in Donegal. There have also been 411 domestic instances raised this year. They're getting up to two to three cases per one thousand people there again. Just when you look at it like that it's the numbers are high aren't they? The specialized DPSU investigates sexual crime domestic abuse child sexual exploitation instance of child neglect and human trafficking. The unit was established in 2020 and is based out of Letterkinny Garda station under the direction of Detective Inspector Siobhan Mullahan. Let's get on to the Trikhanel Tribune now and you may have seen videos of young people fighting in Milford. They were circulating as these things tend to do across social media, WhatsApp and other platforms. It's covered in the front of the Trikhanel Tribune today. Garda sources have confirmed they are investigating an alleged assault in the Convent Road area of Milford last Thursday. Garda sources were responding to a query from the Tribune seeking clarification on much more serious flash fights elsewhere in the town some hours earlier involving numbers of teenaged girls. The matter was raised with the paper by local residents who said what happened was dangerous and disgraceful and could have had much more serious consequences. In all three instances were filmed on mobile phones, teenagers caught on camera trading punches, legs and knees flailing and kicking hair and fists flying as they attempted to overcome one another in what were described as violent scenes of assault in public places and there were some that worked teenagers as well. It needs to be put to an end awfully distressing that for the young people whether you're perhaps even arguably the aggressor but particularly if you're the victim heading into next school term with that hanging over you wondering if it's going to happen again. It's a horrible way to go to school. Everyone has to work together to stamp that out to get rid of it. It's very disruptive to the young people and to the local community. The Dairy News now, a decision to arrest a dairy woman on the suspicion of organised crime has been condemned. Earlier this week, a 27 year old was arrested by officers from the PSNI's paramilitary crime task force. The PSNI said the woman had been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a class B controlled drug as part of a proactive investigation linked to the INLA. The woman's list are Kieran Shields of Madden and Fnuchin condemned the operation which is kind of almost unique to this part of the world. You just don't see that in another city in Ireland. Do you where you'd have a solicitor releasing press releases off the back of arrest? I'm not saying it's right or wrong. It's just kind of not something you generally see too often elsewhere but it is something you do see with some regularity here in the Northwest. Interesting story in the Irish Independent this morning, explosive claims of guard a collusion in the distribution of drugs have been made in the High Court. Judge has heard allegations that a number of guardies supervised the importation of drugs and controlled the flow of shipments to dealers. A detective sergeant who later rose to a senior rank and is now retired was identified in an affidavit as being centrally involved. The affidavit was sworn by a person claiming to have worked in the drugs trade under the supervision and instruction of unguarded sheikana who controlled what drugs got to what dealers. Details of the allegations which relate to the period between 1997 and 2014 were outlined in a ruling in which a judge allowed an affidavit to be admitted in a civil action against the guarder commissioner by Jack Doyle, a former guarder stationed in Blarney County Cork who claims he was forced to retire after raising his concerns. Shocking story there. Not great news in the latest opinions polls for either Sinn Fein or Fina Gale. Though Sinn Fein are in a position I think more to have a fluctuation than perhaps Fina Gale are. Support for Fina Gale and for Sinn Fein is slumped while Fina Fall and the Social Democrats both see a boost in the latest Irish Times Ipsos opinion poll. T. Shockley of Radker also ceases personal rating full sharply in a poll that's unlikely to ease nerves in Fina Gale. Now at the weekend there was a coordinated effort from within Fina Gale to get three negative stories on the front pages of three Sunday papers and of course the media duly obliged. There was a parliamentary party meeting last night which I would say was pretty tense. But anyway it all is a little bit convenient isn't it that you have these hit pieces from within Fina Gale on the front of the papers and now just a couple of short days later you have this opinion poll which shows a fallen support for Fina Gale. I am quite sure that they would have had an indication perhaps as far back as last Sunday we'll see where this poll was going. So the nines are certainly out for Leo Varadkar. Why do you think that he personally has lost six points in terms of satisfaction with him? He's still relatively high he's not far behind me or Martin well ahead of Ayman Ryan but anyway what do you think is going on there? Well the findings come against the background of calls for tax cuts in the next budget to senior Fina Gale figures including the T. Shock and amid continuing pressure in housing health and the cost of living. Sinn Fein maintains a substantial lead over its rivals and remains the most popular party by some distance however party support has fallen to its lowest level in two years. So let's run through the figures here. Sinn Fein 31%, Fina Gale 18, Fina Fall 21, the Green Party 4%. So again just to be absolutely clear where we're at here if you add the current government parties together you get 43% support which is ahead of Sinn Fein's 31% though of course they would call us with another party to get into government at least one other party. So the Green Party were at 4% they just sit there don't they? They just sit there one point above the margin of error they've always been there five I think six is the highest I've ever seen they would just sit there at 4% and our influential in government which is proportional representation for you. Labour at 4% again they just sit there stagnant the social democrats 5% they're up three and they had a leadership change so maybe that's reflected in this poll though it wasn't reflected in the last one independent and others have 17% which is kind of low when you think about it not we don't really analyse that too much you know there's not a great deal of support for non-party politics really is there when independence and others which is aimed to and which are a party of course and a few others they just sit around about 17% okay so we have a more positive page in the Irish Daily Mail for Lee of Radcock as he says I can turn Finnegale around the Irish Daily Mail. The T-Shark laid down the gauntlet to any potential Finnegale leadership challenger last night telling them to talk to his face and not to the media at a private meeting with Finnegale TDs and Senators Lee of Radcock said he was always available to address any discontent within the party directly it comes after three Sunday newspapers reported that there was dissatisfaction within the party over Mr for Radcock's stewardship which it was claimed is no longer secure the coordinated articles were described by one TD at the meeting as treachery Finnegale sources described the contribution from the T-Shark as defiant he made the point that he had seen what was in the papers on Sunday and if anyone had things to say about the party's performance they could say it directly to him said one source at the meeting but they don't want him to turn things around they don't want him to improve things whoever is behind these hit pieces they want him out so they chop him down chop chop chop to the point whereby he has to come out and protest that he will lead the party going forward and then there's another stage then when the knives really start to come out the irish farmers journal this morning minister for agriculture charlie mcconnelloke a good friend of this show has been given the green light to roll out a new 28 million euro beef wealth welfare scheme aimed at suckler farmers the department of public expenditure and reform cleared the 28 million funding required to replace the beep s scheme on monday the irish farmers journal understands an ibr herd testing program and meal feeding pre and post weaning will be among the requirements of the scheme right let us go to that sad story that's coming out of sly go and i think it's worth pointing out if you don't mind if i do that sometimes it's best to wait till you know the facts of a story before running it and it was the so-called mainstream media that is supposed to be the reliable source of information that rushed out the news that it was two young people that were involved in this tragedy which was incorrect information and as i say it's better not to be first but to be accurate and somewhere likes of ocean fm in fairness to them they held off until they had the information whilst national journalists were tweeting the fact that it was two young people in terms of teenagers both are young but this is the sad story in all the papers this morning a woman died after she and her young niece was struck by a train in a horror collision in sly go jessica mcgloughlin who has been named locally was in her 40s and passed away after she was struck by an irish rail train at balasaday yesterday afternoon her niece rebecca who's in her 20s was also knocked down and was brought to hospital where her condition was last night described as very serious it's understood that both jessica and rebecca who are from sly go town were out walking on the tracks when they suddenly saw the train coming and attempted to jump clear in time however tragically the pair were both hit by the oncoming service which was bound for connelly station in doblin and the driver did try to make them aware reports this morning and a horrific incident not for the people involved obviously their families but the train driver the rest of the staff on the train and the responders the first responders they're an awful tragedy the son tells us that pope francis is due to be released from hospital in the next few days after a three-hour operation the pontiff who's 86 had surgery to repair an abdominal abdominal hernia medic said it went well and are waiting for a mesh prosthetic to settle and attach properly the pope did not say his public noon prayer from the hospital balcony last sunday to avoid having to stand for too long his public and private audiences have been cancelled until this sunday a vatican spokesperson said the holy father rested well the medical team reports the recovery is proceeding without complications and are planning to discharge him in the next few days the pope who traditionally takes all of july off is due to visit portugal in early august and then mongolia so the timing of the operation is good i suppose it gives him more chance to recover and now lots of you are interested in the hate speech laws there was some discussion in the door yesterday new hate speech laws will not we're told prevent people from expressing views opinions or facts in artistic or political or cultural ways that's according to helen macinty the justice minister insisted yesterday the government is working to protect people from discrimination she added we're not preventing people from expressing views expressing opinions expressing facts doing so for various different reasons be it an artistic or political or cultural way this is about the most extreme forms of where that language then turns into a hate crime but who determines what's a fact and we've seen over the last three or four years that that can be really quite confusing we had information that was factual being suppressed en masse by say social media for an example so who is the truth police so if they insist that you will be able to express truth by whose definition is it the truth do you know what i mean where's the narrative where's the leaning this is about the most extreme forms of where that language then turns into a hate crime she said i don't believe this will have a chilling effect i think those cultural culture wars will continue no matter what you do okay so that's just one side of there from helen macinty just thought interesting but others still are not convinced with what she has to say right here back with our first guest in the moment the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny the 2022 seastore national off license of the year the night all new show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today 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are taking action to ensure a phone free learning environment at least 52nd every schools are expected to be locking up students devices in bespoke pouches after the summer each morning students will be asked to put their devices into their personal pouch which locks automatically when closed okay shivan foster is principal of delisile college in church town and joins us on the program now good morning shivan good morning gregg how are you i'm good what's the policy at your school currently or going forward yeah well we have we want our schools to be a phone free learning environment so basically currently the students in the community school they're meant to turn the phone off before they come into the school yard and then it stays off for the duration of the day so that's basically the expectation it's one of the school rules and that's just what we've been trying to implement over the last few years and prior to i suppose the pandemic and the lockdown and the shift to online learning there was very high compliance with us and then the pandemic happened and all of a sudden then the shift was that we asked all the students to put on their phones put on their their you know mobile devices or to go online and to be taught you know remotely using their phones or whatever laptops they had at home and that was fine and it worked really really well and as you know mobile phones you know they have have huge they serve many many positive purposes but what happened then was they came back into school and we were saying right time now turn off those phones you're not going to be using them again you know during the school so what we noticed the first thing we noticed was the teachers reported to us just an increase in you know breaching of that rule that there was more incidents occurring and that was you know roding teacher tuition time and was also affecting the real positive relationships that students and teachers have developed over time you know there's nothing worse than having to tell a child in the middle of the class turn it off it's interrupting the class you know you know that they're distracted it's affecting their concentration so we you know certainly was reported to me at staff meetings and you'd even see it as well during during break times you'd have to approach students and say listen you can't have your phone out it needs to be turned off you're breaking school rules yeah so that's what we certainly noticed the difference between prior to the pandemic when they actually you know they they knew they had to turn it off and all the rationale was given to them but they got so used to it I think over those two years during the lockdown and during the pandemic that they you know was much much more difficult to them to adapt back not having it out or at least not having quick access to it you know yeah and of course even if it was in the bag and on silent a lot of young people now have the watch on so they'd be getting the notifications in any case too and it's distracting this level's the playing field it's a bit of a reset and the difference here then and are you going to employ these pouches which effectively the student has the phone on their possession but it renders it useless effectively until it's unlocked at the end of the school day yeah I mean look we want I suppose what we did was we wanted to look at a probably a more student believe it or believe it not a more student friendly way of addressing this issue you know because I was we had a number of assemblies with all of the school with all of the each year in the school and we were basically saying to the students look at you know we give them the rationale you know you know what by being distracted by your mobile phones is affecting you academically we saw how it affects them socially you know they're not you know they don't communicate or chat as much with each other when they're on their phones you know they don't engage in the extra critical activities that are offered to them at lunchtime or break times because they want to try and find a place in the field or whatever to catch up on what's happening on social media and you know we also are very aware that it affects their mental health you know it is addictive but also the they're constantly influenced by what's happening in social media and then there's also the inappropriate activity that can happen you know whether it's you know sending inappropriate messages or bully you know whatever it is and we sort of highlighted those and made those very clear to them it said we have to look at ways to stop this at least for the six hours that you're with us in schools so we said right at the moment you know that we were given them the responsibility to turn it off but as you rightly said there Greg they can put it on silent so in effect we don't know but they can hear it buzzing and the phones are alerting them and they're just itching them to try and find what who's contacting me you know all the rest and that is a distraction so I think it really gives them a break though you know it gives them a break from that what is that noise who is that what and has there been any resistance even I'm thinking maybe from parents or guardians you know maybe helicopter parents as you might call them you know that yeah like to check in on the young ones at break time or lunchtime or even during classes there's been any pushback I mean I would expect you to get some from students you know yeah and you want them to have that you want them to have that sort of critical sort of you know interaction but has there been anything from from parents well like that we first of all we give them a very we send parents that just a very very simple you know sort of survey just you know yes no do you want you know do you support a school a mobile mobile free learning environment and overwhelmingly over 85 percent and I can't remember the exact percentage but overwhelmingly they all said yes now there was a small number but when we asked them what was the reason the reason was that they just got their children needed that phone in terms of communicating with them to get home safely and we could understand that so what we then did was to explain to the students and to the parents what exactly this meant this is different than enough taking the phone from them what it is is it's giving the students the responsibility they put the phones into the pouch they hold on to those pouches throughout the whole day they have that responsibility and at the end of the day then we have these devices that all the exits in the school and they basically just tap it and it releases the pouches opens the pouches and they have their phones for going home so once parents had no it's not about us taking the phones from them now if there's breaches of the rule and consistently breaches of the rule and we're in the process of working in and refining our policy at the moment around that of course we have to look at you know confiscating the phones if there's you know repeated amorphensis but that will be done and because there's a mass of everyone's the same that becomes less likely do you know what I mean because yeah I would imagine um so and what about lunchtime if they're heading down um if certain students are allowed out at lunchtime they can tap on the way out uh presumably so they have access to they can't we we don't we don't allow the students out at lunchtime we've we've required a short lunchtime break because we're sort of bang in the middle of the city so we've 40 minutes for lunchtime and it's it's just we don't want them late for class all of those reasons but let's take it to a rural environment it takes a rural environment where it might be the moment it's just like I think that in terms of bullying and stuff and I think you reference this yourself yeah where where fights might take place where people are videoed in compromising positions and I've seen that in toilets you're not seen it but you know I've heard heard of the reports out of schools uh or that type of activity where people are compromised or videoed with or without their consent it takes that out of it as well which I think is really a good space it protects the young people till they're back in the care of their parents as well you know I mean it's dependent on the child but I like that element of it yeah and one of the things that we did because you know of course students and teenagers I'm sure of you any parents out there as a teenager the most difficult thing to do at the minute is to get this you know your your child to turn off that mobile phone and worst if you ask for a teenager to hand up their mobile phone it's like cutting off their hands so that's the worst thing you can do so what we try to do to to say to them look this is you're taking responsibility for this this is giving you a break it's breaking down addictions give me that six hours of freedom where you will be a better student you and what we do now in lunchtime like we're hoping that there will be more students now that will get involved in the debate clubs into chess clubs you know table tennis outside playing rather than running off to try and because they won't be able to go off to a quiet place in the field to put on the phone because they won't be able to access it you know and also please it's not just the teenagers give them to their moms and dads at the cinema in the theater at a meeting at mass at a funeral at a wedding where they're asked to switch the phones off and or on an airplane and you know they don't uh because they're as addicted as they're as their teenagers are so maybe we can see more and what about the cost of this finally shivan i'll let you go now shortly very shortly because i'd imagine listen it is it is a simple enough technology but it's patented and the company want to make their money out of it is it very expensive it is it look at the works at approximately 18 euros per patch you know so we're going to try that this year and see how it goes but i think it's a small price to pay like this is a very low tech solution to a high tech problem and you know 18 euros is over the course of a whole year is is is very little i think to to invest you know in in this so we you know come back to me come back to me in a year's time and and check in with me see how did it go because we're only about to start this for real i suppose in september we tried it for the three days and you know when surprisingly well we did survey the students they were how did you how did you feel about that 40% said they felt positive 10% said they felt neither positive nor negative you know they were nonchalant about it and about 50% said that they were negative about yeah well that's what you want but that was really exactly exactly because we it's a it's a baseline for us and of course they're going to be resilient if you do that in six months and that 50 drops to 30 that actually really indicates we're on to something that goes beyond beyond so it could be an interesting experiment yeah right shivan and i think it's good for parents because i think yeah if we could because you know if parenting is very very tough uh and if we could know right they're going to get six hours of a break from that yeah bloody thing it's you know it's good all right shivan thanks for all your time this morning really appreciate it no bother no bother thank you shivan foster principal at delisile college in church tan in dodden what do you think is that something that you want to see in every secondary school and if the truth be told uh perhaps even national schools i know there might be policies out there and it varies from it varies from um school to school but i also know that they have access to their phones at times when they shouldn't be texting people who are at work but anyway there you go what do you think i'll wait six sixty twenty five 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four lanes or maybe to avoid going through letter kenny itself if they're heading out i don't know the glenities road or what have you is that the type of traffic you see on that road well maybe then maybe the four lanes repair maybe that might be contributing to it but it's always been bad it's now it's a lot worse they may the traffic are coming on the speed we can hardly get out the gate days and some of my family can't even if they're coming from work down this way they can't even stop and come in i'm so busy really so we have been looking for ramps for approximately two to three years and there were all sorts of excuses made there was emergency services couldn't use it and things like that so i don't know yeah now just as it relates to your property your husband had a lucky escape recently didn't he he did indeed he did indeed if he had to be out on the road i thought it'd been good bye maliki it was somebody can speed and they had the corn at the there's yellow line and they had the corn at the yellow line and he was in the good luck he was on the garden from on the hedge and somebody can fly enough sent the corn flying three different parts scattered on the road so i mean it's near missus all the time here great yeah i know what you're saying don't call don't call and fairness came and he sat in our street one day and he knows what it's like now also too you know i mean i would say cathleen few and other residents on the area it's not a case of uh if something happens it when it's when it happens or when will it happen and that's why you're sort of saying look at be warned we're telling you something's going to happen seriously here if something is not done that's the the desperation you're at now that's that's that is true great and that's what i told the engineer i says too late when something happens get something done now but we're still waiting there were engineers out here yesterday but we didn't see them i didn't see them so i'm not just sure what they were they were measuring for i don't know could you go out for a walk on the road do you feel safe could i yes i used to walk on the road but now i have to wait to maybe seven or eight or twelve but until it you know gets a bit quieter you couldn't walk down the road now at all during the day because they're coming speeding and when you go down a bit we have a footpath right and off but between my house and the footpath it's narrow well it's very narrow you know and the the common speed and often they wouldn't even slow down meet and you have to step on the hedge and my friend down the road she'll not visit me no because she's too narrow for some of the traffic and you see if the truth be told it's probably more likely to be impatient drivers that are using that road because they're trying to avoid any delays and if they're inclined to be impatient they're not going to worry about poor Kathleen out for a walk are they they're just going to keep the foot down that's right you're all right who's molly pardon who's molly molly is molly is my um mascot at the gate here just to see what the slow down maybe the one might slow down somebody told me one day they stopped it's later across the road but and the realization it wasn't going to move so it went on I don't know we've I don't know if that driver should be driving if they stopped to let molly cross the road but it serves two purposes doesn't it it highlights the campaign but also as you say molly's a mannequin there wearing a high-vid vest and a cap and if someone thinks it's a guard maybe they'll think twice and take the foot off the accelerator that's right well you'd hope yeah so as soon as say there's an announcement of a bank holiday weekend the closing one lane and the four lanes or coming up to the rally weekend a lot of people are going oh it's going to be a nightmare getting around you're thinking it's going to be a nightmare because we're going to see even more traffic passing the front gates yeah that's right there'll be more traffic on this road I don't manage traffic at the at the jeer in the rally that's you know you can expect that but when the rally goes again it's as bad as ever it's just a handy way into the town and out yeah you know and a lot a lot of people use it as a shortcut and then there's speed signs up here they put them up maybe last year but nobody looks at them yeah nobody looks at and it's 60 isn't it supposedly pardon it's supposed to be 60 it's supposed to be 60 yes well there were so many cars were not there last weekend I was told that 90 something wow and that wouldn't be that wouldn't be unusual that road's not built for that no it's not certainly not no right okay so you're calling for action here um it speed ramps is because even if even if there was speed checks look that's going to be hit and miss the gardeners resources are stretched as is you believe that speed ramps are what's required here speed ramps are what are what is required at our gates and up the road at my son and daughter they need something up there too yeah but definitely speed ramps are the talk to becoming and putting up flashing lights and I just I told the engineers as it's a waste of money no I think I think molly would be as effective as flashing lights if the truth be told I think so yes I think so right okay um I just hope nothing happens because the warning's out there and I mean obviously you're speaking to us now but you've been in the papers and you've been you know contacting local counselors and you know you've done everything you can anyway I think Kathleen at this point we've done everything we can now and we're just waiting now to see what the car I see now we're a German door they uh came out and done a story on molly and the traffic and I see we're in the front page that I don't read it yet there is the dairy people yeah that's the don't go on news well the don't go on news yeah well there's the dairy people in my day get a drink but I mean I think you're really you've been really realistic here you understand that it's going to be busier during the rally you don't mind that but this is every day traffic now that's right every day traffic you don't mind during the rally you can excuse that but let's say every day traffic to be four and after that okay well you're on page three uh you're uh going back a while that was something different too wasn't it uh so you've made you've you've made page three Kathleen um and I don't make page three almost I wasn't the staff in the sun well listen Kathleen you're obviously a lovely woman from a lovely family and it's a really and I'm glad we can have a little laugh but it is a serious issue and I do hope I do I do hope you're you're uh because you're on about safety here and you want something done before something serious happens and and I appreciate that and best wishes to is Malik does Malik you have anything he wants to add just before we wrap it up no he's not here is he not okay all right okay no problem all right okay thanks for that Kathleen best wishes to you and all okay take care Kathleen crossing their residence on the lec road in letter Kenny and as you can see or as you can hear there um I'll show you the picture if for those of you who are watching the show and don't forget you can watch the program every day on uh you can watch the show every day on our youtube channel Highland Radio Ireland and for those of you are watching there is um the family in the paper this morning and there's Molly there there she is all right so eight six six six twenty five thousand if you live on that road and want to join that conversation I think the more of you that speak out uh the stronger the argument from Kathleen becomes so 08 660 25 000 or call us an 07 491 25 000 the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter Kenny credit union call us on 074 910 2126 or apply online via our app or in office today 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great to have you back on the show joe right we're going to talk about the exams that are running at the moment we'll start with the leaving search and there was a big hoohar about uh a recent uh maths paper a lot of students saying that they couldn't work it out because they hadn't revised for it what happened joe yeah well i'm not a maths teacher but i'd be aware of what has happened and i'm i have colleagues that are teachers and in that subject and i would have listened to them but clearly what happened was in the paper they set a lot of questions at the end of each question that were would true to the students it was like a curve ball and it meant that they had to think differently about how they approach the answer and there was a terrible lot of fractions from what i understand which is okay if somebody is good at fractions but fractions should only be a section of the paper like everything else um so there seem to be a lot of fractions throughout the paper and the issue really isn't isn't so much that the issue is the upset that it caused and because a lot of students i think this was on the 9th of june right at the beginning of the leaving cert the feast i've called him killer our own county man and it set them to the point that many i wouldn't imagine anybody from who i've listened to has had left that paper feeding confident that they had done well so their confidence then was hit and this had an impact as far as i'm concerned and to all the further subjects that were to follow so much so that maybe they focused very heavily then on paper two in maths to the exclusion of irish which would have been on the same time um so i think it asks it's a serious question to be asked about what was going on with the state's examination commission in setting a paper like this and to consider that this was the covet year this is a year that didn't do the junior cert this is a year that has missed a lot of class-based time and to do something like that i think it was totally insensitive and calls into question what really is going on at a wider level to in our education system think of this Greg they have a system now in place in our department of education advice they want 400 hours of well-being in junior cert now i'm not a fan of the phrase well-being i prefer the word being well and it means a totally for for me personally a totally different thing how do we make our students be well as of being well-being has become really a buzzword and everything's well-being but how do you be well and we're human beings you know we're not human doings and for the 400 hours that these students would have done of well-being this is how they're treated at the end of that it merely seems to me to be a social exercise and taking the boxes we're doing the well-being but you know what we'll throw you a curveball at the end of all your well-being and do you know what concerns me is the lack of understanding in that it was mitigated by saying well we have this curve bell curve and it will take into consideration and blah but the stress the damage has been done the stress has been done and my understanding too that's providing answers were all questions and attempt was made at an answer that they might benefit from this this this marking system so the fact that that was thrown out as if to say don't worry about that a couple of days later that it doesn't really it doesn't talk to what you're talking about the stress and the impact has on subsequent exams and also it really hasn't been discussed that you really need to have made a decent stab at all of the questions which a lot of students didn't know this in advance and would have looked at this paper and went i don't know what i'm doing here yeah and then they may have not tried to answer the question because their confidence have been shot again this is like we're dealing with young men and young women that we're trying to form to be the future leaders and parents of our society the future problem solvers and i don't know if we approached with with this kind of exam paper we approach this properly and it calls it far as far as i'm concerned it calls and i've been seeing this before great it calls into the whole philosophy of education what is education about what are we doing for the benefit of our children and again i think parents maybe this time realize that it impacts on them and their little boy and little girl that are grown man or woman at this time that it's not you know you drop your kids off at the school schools do their best but schools are only part of a very big body of people like there's the state examination commission there's the national council for curriculum assessment ncca then there's the inspectorate then there's a department of education then there's the minister then there's the politicians then you have teachers unions i mean there's so many various bodies involved in in in a school situation and like our philosophy of education and imagine it's in every school is to try to encourage the students to be as alive and to like open like a flower in the sun and the lovely weather we're having and we should try to facilitate that in every way so but education is also a very serious matter yes of course we only have another couple of minutes and i want to talk to you about the junior circles you've concerns about the new junior sir don't you and we could be talking in two to three years time or four years time about the impact this new junior sir might be having on leaving cert students as well so as to say sorry to be to be moving this along but what is the problem that you have with the the jct i think we've dumbed down our whole education system and and it's it's it's becoming i mean i would encourage parents go look at the junior cert history paper and again about well-being they had 20 roughly 25 pages to write in two hours it's no longer ordinary and higher it's now a common paper any human adult human being would struggle to do that in that amount of time and i'll just give an example of some of the stuff that's about there was two pictures camogie game from 1915 and 2019 so one coloured one black and white and one was dated to 1915 the other was dated 2019 and one of the questions was how many years between the two pictures i mean this is the kind of stuff that's coming up explain three differences between the two pictures so for example the modern one they would have been wearing jerseys helmets as were the old one it was maybe long skirts and no helmets and things like that this is nothing to do with history but this is what we're putting mats in the way are they doing it's why it's for a reason well i don't know there was another question question seven on the troubles in northern Ireland and they had two tables and they asked one how many civilians were killed in the troubles in northern Ireland and there's different graphs and the answer was 181840 and then the other one was how many civilians were killed by the loyalist and republican parliamentaries and you just had to add the two numbers does that not make you understand the history by doing an equation is there not a logic there may well be but like you don't need an equation to know those numbers and those things have been taught in class you don't need to be doing mats but there's a reason there's a reason why it's happening is it because is it to be more accommodating to people who might not have done for a national school here or well i mean in that case and continue with the honors and the ordinary well could it be i don't know i'm i'm why i don't know that the answer behind it myself my my own belief is i think that they're trying actually to dumb down the Irish people so that they don't think for themselves a lot of our education and it's not about the schools the schools are living bodies that are trying their best management teachers etc but there's a curriculum and there's agendas being used by by unelected people that are deciding what goes into our curriculum and how it's been formed and i just wonder how much is actually coming from the people themselves and i would be concerned if that's the level our history is going to and other subjects are the same where are we leading our our students with education are we giving them the critical skills to evaluate and be problem solvers one of the great scholars of of of education would be carnal henry newman he was a convert and he was he was also into a liberal education where he didn't want council culture he didn't want an agenda culture he talked about where um you had an open view on everything and a challenge to think and i wonder has our education system been drained but you always drop it you always drop it bombshell justice we're ending but i don't think anyone agrees that spot the difference competitions and basic subs subtraction are what history is all about and i'll tell you what we'll do joe we'll revisit this conversation in a longer format and get our listeners more involved because i'll tell you a lot of parents and guardians out there are learning this type of information for the first time because how else do they know it it's no longer acceptable i think for parents and they have to maybe put on their thinking hearts and it's not the schools or the teachers that you drop your kids at the front door of the school and and believe then that they're going to be educated when they come back out you need to be more informed as to why are they being educated what are they being educated what and this is not about teachers in school as big uh we're doing our best okay well listen come here we're gonna we're gonna come back to it thanks joe as always thank you so very much indeed dr joe kelly food for thought oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's absent text to have yours say on that as i say i think that's an education for a lot of us hearing that kind of information for the first time today the nine 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breach in confidence labour mp chris brine describes mr johnson as a disgraced former british prime minister when he started behaving like a child throwing his toys at the pram last friday he committed another contempt of parliament by just storming off because he refused to face the music in parliament and he refused to face the music in his constituency investigations are underway in slaggle following the death of a woman who was hit by a train yesterday afternoon her body has been removed to slaggle university hospital where a post mortem is expected to take place ifa cairns is at the scene jessica mcgloughlin was killed in the instant near ballasadere kenty slaggle at around four o'clock yesterday it understood she was walking on the tracks with the woman who's believed to be her niece at the time the second woman who's in her 20s was also struck by the train and is being treated in hospital for serious injuries jessica mcgloughlin's body was removed from the scene late last night following a forensic examination three investigations will be carried out one like rd one by our trail as well as the rail accident investigation unit services resumed this morning and the track has since reopened ifa cairns in ballasadere kenty slaggle food prices are unlikely to fall to where they were before high inflation took hold it's because of the pressure of legislation regulation and innovation on irish farmland a report carried out by kpmg for the farmers journal found farm production here is at an all-time low with falling numbers of both farmers and farms the report found that while donnie gall accounts for the most sheep farming in ireland the county holds the lowest percentage of farmland nationally at 39 percent irish farmers journal agribusiness editor lorkin rosh kelly says the outlook is food prices will remain high it is unlikely i think because like the global demand of people in the world is going up global demand for food is going up ireland will be producing less food but the competitiveness of the international markets is going to be high ireland will be able to overproduce in order to meet the demand at home internationally so something's going to have to give it's unlikely that prices will be falling rapidly because the demand is going to be global it's going to support prices a kelly gordon councillor is welcoming word of roadworks to be progressed and macrory's bray that's located on the n15 between ballet buffet and donnie galled hound the works to take place will see the implementation of a hard shoulder which will benefit vulnerable road users such as cyclists it comes following a member of the finwheeler cycling group being involved in a collision a number of years ago in which they almost lost their life councillor patrick mcguine says drivers of all types of vehicles struggle on the road this is a very steep howl it has effects on vehicles lorry drivers are also complaining how difficult it is to get up and down that howl particularly in when it's bad weather and another big issue was from cyclists particularly the local club here the fun wheelers they had brought attention to this and we drove through banners gap can see who the big signs are particularly there after one of their members a way back over a year and a half ago could knock down there and it's just it is a troublesome part today marks clean air day the slogan for this year's campaign is clean up our air to look after your mind dairy city and stirban district council's environmental health team are aiming to raise awareness about the importance of good air quality and the impact it has on the public's health mayor councillor patricia rogue is urging people to use the day to learn more about how their actions can have an impact on pollution levels moving now to whether today will be warm with sunny spells hazy at times highest temperatures of 23 to 26 degrees in a light to moderate south to southeast wind that's all for now we'll be back again with news headlines at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices this thursday morning june 15th the death has occurred of elizabeth lizzie anderson we're posing at her late residence this evening from six o'clock funeral leaving from there on saturday at 11 30 a.m. berwick wea math in saint mary's church session ill at 12 noon interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard rosary each night at nine o'clock family time from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral the rake wea mass will be streamed live via the parish youtube channel family flowers only please donations in lieu if so desired to the alzheimer society of ireland and the dunigal hospice care of the cool funeral directors or any family member the death has taken place of howard stewart drunk harbert malin howards remains are opposing at his home house private to family close friends and neighbors howards remains will leave his home tomorrow at 3 p.m. for funeral service in the malin 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perhaps let us know oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand right uh it's jackpot day today uh on bingo so stay tuned that's coming up very shortly for you but i want to get to some comments here now rally cars and support vehicles blocked the r254 yesterday as they carried out time trials it's a regional road in the national park tourists hadn't a clue what was going on why is this tolerated by uh greg could you find out to the sense that it was decided to do roadworks on the mountaintop roundabout at rally weekend i know exactly where you're talking about i presume you're on about the the work that's ongoing at that roundabout and just that's just outside here and all the way down uh past the petrol station there and out towards kill mcrennan i don't know that road works along over june is there ever a good time to start it the lads down there and the ladies seem to be uh cracking through it at the moment i do understand exactly where you're going from presumably maybe it'll be two lanes of traffic um for the weekend because it is most evenings and uh over the weekend when they're not working but i suppose as they say just playing devil's advocate here is there ever a good time there's always something on isn't there hi greg good luck and keep safe to ender mcbride in the rally this weekend from all in his cafe good morning greg i know it's not related to schools but last year i was at a bob dillon gig and the phone pouch system was used uh it made sure that the gig was completely phone-free which i think benefited everyone the system was very quick and easy yeah you just put it into the pouch seal it and then you unlock it as you get now and sometimes even us as adults perhaps need to be compelled into action i mean how many people you know spend a fortune and build up all the excitement to go to a concert or a football match if it's across the channel or wherever it might be and uh end up watching it through the screen of a phone and does anyone ever really look at that footage again you know i've done at the louis capaldi concert i think and i made a couple of videos but i haven't opened them since now it wasn't much i mostly watched the concert but you know there were people had the phone out all the time do people really look back at that it sounds awful because it's so loud the phone speakers completely distorted or maybe people want to archive it themselves and they do look back at it i don't know good morning greg the idea of phones being locked up during school hours in my opinion is a great move as much as a lot of young people their lives are being so taken up and missing out on so much they are losing the art of conversation and communications and skills are also being involved in sport and other activities then of course there is the dreaded bullying that is so common with the phone so i really hope all schools get involved yes they're losing the art of certain things are we losing the art of parenting it's us that puts the phone into their hands and when i say us i include myself at younger ages and it's us that send them off to school with the phone and don't really probably say now don't take your phone out during school do we do that so the schools are going right mom and dad and what have you aren't doing this so we're going to have to bring in these particular pouches i need to take a back road in the morning rather than getting stuck at the mountaintop for 30 minutes in and around 8 30 a.m there should be two full lanes from the mountaintop roundabout down to the optum roundabout but then where would the traffic go that gets you to optum but then of course you all that traffic converges further down the line doesn't it hi greg for those that are feeling lonely or want to get involved i've something new aards walled garden community project at aards friary every saturdays from two to four meet great friends since joining learned new skills and i'm out in the fresh air they're having an open day on saturday the 7th of june two to four everyone welcome music refreshments in a plant sale so that's the one who started recently attending and has found it they've met people they're out in the fresh air learn new skills which is lovely open day on saturday between two and four out at aards walled garden hi greg there should be a way for people who like the rally but can't go be able to watch the rally live as it happens like televised yeah it's huge it would be a huge operation in fact even doing a highlights package is prohibitively complicated and expensive i would say listen i know you want to watch it but if you want to find out what's happening and get a sense of what's happening and get the results as they happen please make sure to tune into highland radio over the weekend osheen kelly and his team will be out and about and as i say it doesn't really address your point directly but you will feel right across all the action and now with social media too the teams will be out taking videos as well and sticking them upon our social media so if you're on facebook or if you're not maybe set up a camp it's more interactive now and more immersive you know because we will have videos for you as well as you know the usual priority which is our radio coverage but in this day and age you want to offer other services well osheen kelly will be coming on a little later on to outline exactly what you can look forward to in relation to that talk about exams says this emailer i remember doing my leaving junior cert history exam many years ago and there were very easy questions like the one uh joe kelly was talking about but these were usually the first questions in the section and were purposely easy to relax you into the rest of the questions and were not scored high they just settled you into the paper and i would say obviously joe picked out a couple of examples but he's a teacher and he knows an easy paper versus a more complicated one and he says the history is just uh it's been dumbed down and it's not just history um sure most of the back roads are 80 kilometers is that not the case yeah they are really when they're they're that's the default lowest isn't it but this road at like is 60 kilometers hi greg the four lane road into letter kenny did you notice it has three lanes marked on the road at the pole star roundabout going into town crash waiting to happen because people in the left lane and middle go in the same way while the left lane should be for only going left need a sign to say get in lane i haven't been on that road since it was lined um i don't recall there being three lanes but if there are left lane left turn centre lane onto the it or the atu right lane out towards um out towards the manta erigle um so get in lane there will be signs on the road saying get in lane so if there are three i presume that is it left lane that way middle lane straight ahead right lane right way good morning greg the road uh she goes uh the the road goes past my house has a speed limit of 50 kilometers the counselor done a speed check with the box and the average was 78 kilometers the high speed recorded was 109 the counselor supposed to be organizing ramps but not sure when uh where's that road is it the same is it the left road probably not because that speed limits different the poor old town bridge was not created for the amount of traffic using it at the minute indeed it's not and uh there are some concerns about its structure uh the old town bridge is uh incredibly historic um both in a positive and really negative way it's uh an incredibly important i would have thought an incredibly important bridge in fact it should be uh i think marketed uh much more for uh the history uh that it has and that that went on around it uh i think we're uh want to say we i'm not from latter county but i think the people at latter county are missing a trick in not um capitalizing on that more because when you go to an area you know the shops that 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rally and we have our competition where one of you will win a one for all voucher now the lines are open if you want to come on air and answer a simple question we've tweaked the format a little bit uh get in touch with us right now 086 60 25 000 you name and where you're from and the number you want us to contact you on if you want to come on and be with a chance to win a 100 euro voucher get in touch with us right now we're drawing up the shortlist as we speak now colin brice author of little donnie gall the irish in the gobbles and govind hill joins us on the program now great to have you on the show thank you very much indeed and congratulations on uh getting your book together getting it published it's a great achievement i think column thanks very much great all right so talk to me about how this uh this book um came about what was the idea that uh that you followed up on it came out of a couple of things um i moved with my partner julie uh to govind hill julie grew up there we moved there during the pandemic in 2020 and we always had a big sense that there was always an idea that my grandmother had been born in the gobbles and you know around the turn of the century but it was very fragmentary you know people didn't really know the details of it and it was all sort of danger of being lost completely so we started to do a bit of research about that um and you know drew you in the family and drew you on cousins and my father's memories and all that sort of stuff and we get gradually began to piece together the story of of of my family and their connection to the gobbles and then how they came back they then moved back to guidore um but her father tragically died in the middle of all that her mother sold the land and had a bit of money came to derry was we think she was thinking of going to america but she saw a bar was for sale in waterloo street called amish own bar and she decided to buy it and renamed it the guidore bar and uh and that was where like all the bars in waterloo street and dairy you know the rosses that fell below the guidore it was where people walked in from the from west donningall borrowed the money for the scotch boat and went across and paid it back whenever they came back in the you know after the after the harvest had been done and stuff like that so that was our connection so it was sure but that was part of the story but it was also in starting to do that you had to sort of try and i had to try and get my head around a lot of the history of what was happening in in donningall itself why were people forced to move away to places like glasgow and further afield of course um and what drew and what drew them to glasgow and it was and it was a kind of a bit about sort of understanding the hostility and the antagonism that the catholic irish in particular faced whenever they arrived in scotland um and still do to a certain extent but you know much much less than those times but understanding the hostility and how that same that same hostility is directed towards more recent migrants you know govern hill is one of the most multicultural diverse you know areas of scotland is where all the new arrivals arrive from eastern europe from african eye and middle east and so on and also facing those same myths and that same hostility but you see and people will say yeah exactly well too sad but just that analogy that you made of of what we see now because often what the argument will be is that if you say well listen you know we left uh for a better life and what have you and then people come back to you and say oh yeah uh but we went to work we went over there we paid our way we paid our taxes it paints this picture that you know it was like all right here comes the hard-working irish all our problems are fixed our arms are open but no it wasn't like that at all the same sort of the same sort of uh to some extent to organized uh anti-immigrant sentiment that's ongoing at the moment the irish felt that even if they went over well intention to work they felt that as they set foot on the nearby land of scotland oh absolutely that that very very true i mean i'm a bit shocked and when you go back to to read the things that were directed towards the irish i mean and all of it contradictory of course greg as you know you know in one hand they're accused of being lazy in the other hand they're accused of sort of stealing work from and working for a pittance you know sort of from you know sort of from the native scottish but it was a very it was a very calculated i think a very calculated and directed thing towards the irish it was it was that thing it's the nature of racism was described to a whole section of people you know a certain set of characteristics you know you're all lazy or you're all here you know you're all god-ridden priests you know written you know sort of and you're going to undermine our you know our our ethos and all that sort of stuff and very similar things that that happen that happen today and you know the wonderful thing about govern hill i first did the talk that led to this book at the govern hill international festival and that grew out of a great sort of network of anti-racist sort of organizing in govern hill govern hill is the place where a couple of years ago in 2021 we stopped the home office deportation van who came to arrest two of our neighbors and people who'd lived in in the area for 10 years and six o'clock one morning they tried to try to arrest them with thousands of people turned out blocked the streets and forced the home office and the police to to to release them and it's that spirit that informs the govern hill international festival and we wanted to do something that celebrated the contribution that the irish people have made to i like every other you know sort of community have made to to the area and that's what the book is really trying to do and encourage people to tell their stories of that you know i mean there are still massive connections between the northwest particularly and scotland and particular areas of of scotland do we trace that back and we'll talk a bit more about why people had to and all that do we trace it back to the period where we were seeing large numbers of irish going to scotland or does it predate that well it's i mean the relationship between the north the north of iran and scotland goes way way back to like you know it's a pre-history do you know what i mean and also you know the dalrea tribe you know sort of from the north east around balacastle who settled it the west of scotland they were the scotty that the romans described as as sort of being hostile to to them you know sort of and give their name to scotland so that that interaction has been going on for a long time that really became very pronounced in 1800s i think the one you could see it developing very very rapidly as agriculture developed it drew in the need of you know sort of agricultural laborers a lot of seasonal laborers traveling to scotland for the harvest and then returning for the for for the winter that that was going on for a lot in the near 800 1800s in particular that was going on a lot it then really increased when trade began to really pick up between dairy like when the short trade started in dairy its biggest initial market was in glasgow and that's why you had the development of a glasgow boat that started going back and forth we were bringing uh bringing cattle as well as as things like manufactured goods and and also people and that that was the that was the connection it was why you know there was a particular that was the route that people from the west of donny gall took to get the glasgow it was the easiest the cheapest way in order to travel and get and and get work and that is why there was such a high concentration of people that gaelic native gaelic speakers and so on you know sort of in places like the gorbils and gov and hill and why they were so tightly uh tightly organized together and um sort of painting the picture of someone's life in in west donny gall what was the status and why were they in that position and uh you know what did going to to glasgow offer them well you see it's sort of to trace it back do you know what that one of one of something i quote is a guy called sivan andan who um who was uh an academic and an anti-racist campaigner in the 50s and 60s in britain and and as against the hostility that recent migrants from former british colonies were facing in britain um he said he coined the phrase he said we are here because you were there and tracing back the history of why people were in such a poor condition in the west of donny gall you can't separate that from you know from the influence of british colonialism the plantation the forcing of the native irish on to the worst and most barren and least productive lands and so on in the in the west of the county um forced them then to go and try to look for work it's just impossible to to to sustain a family to sustain life in places like guidore where more my people were from and therefore you had things like the hiring fairs which hired people out to work in the lagon valley the much better land you know so it was cheap labor um you had you had the movement of people in trying to find work in dairy as dairy began to take off and its industry started to take off and it was that same thing that was pushing people to go and look for work in and seasonal work initially in in in scotland but then also your manufacturing work when they could get it uh and so on those were the things so the two things are bound up you know there's a reason why people were pushed uh you know sort of to to go and move away and also things that were pulling them to places like like glasgow and it's the same today do you know i mean you look at the lives and you know sort of my neighbors you know who are from afghanistan and so on and uh you know i'm from sudan you know you get into a conversation with them and you know there's there's there's the reasons why they felt they had to leave and why they felt that they could maybe make it make it a get a start to get an opportunity they made them known somebody in glasgow that they could that that they could go and sort of get a start with and that was the same pattern with the irish what period does this uh book cover well it's kind of sketch you know it's it's done by any any means claimed to be the comprehensive history of the world yeah and i think that's that's laid out there isn't it's not a definitive history but but it's try but it's trying to sketch you know sort of the the whole history we're actually working on an update now of the second edition where we're kind of filling in more the detail of the 20th century do you know what i mean um but it includes it sort of includes a sort of overview of the history of the irish in scotland a bit about my family but it also includes some accounts oral history accounts from the the the local irish history group that has been getting begun to to collect interviews with people just fleshing out what what was actually like growing up uh growing up being irish and cutting the gorges and coming the hill and that's that's an ongoing thing and it's something that's really that's really sort of come alive since we started working on the book since we published the book you know sort of so many people are coming forward to offer there or you know saying or interviewing their grandparents and you know capturing those stories and that's so important it really is because i mean obviously i'm talking about more recent history but i would have spoken to people in the past often on air who did go back who did work in scotland and the reasons for why and you know there was tough upbringings for them what have you but sadly some of them have passed away now and did they write it down is the recordings of of the it's really important that especially in this day and age i think where it suits people sometimes to rewrite history um or weaponized history or whatever it might be i think it really is important that we have an accurate view of it um so i think books like this are really important for people sometimes people aren't you know people aren't encouraged to you know to talk about their own history or you know to value it i think well and the irish are the irish are ashamed of i think also for fear of upsetting someone or whatever it might be yeah i think there's also a stoicism as well about people you know they don't want to draw attention to the difficulties that went they went through in the past or their family went through you know they prefer to sort of tell the funny story about about the past rather than rather than dwell on things like that and i think that's the whole lot of those things that i think are very admirable traits in people and i think but i do think that there's a really i think there's a really noticeable thing that i find from going around and talking and being stopped by people you know now all the time in glasgo who want to tell their stories is that i think that there's a a real deep pride in in irish people now you know that that that sense of that having to keep your head down and being ashamed i think has largely disappeared and i think especially in a younger generation and you know we're talking to school kids we're hoping to do a project in the local catholic school where lots of the kids there and the local history teachers and lots of the kids there are the sons and grandchildren sons and daughters and grandchildren of the irish immigrants and who are really fascinated about their their history and want to record it and want to go out and interview them and capture those things before before it's lost and that that's a very it's a very privileged thing to be a part of you know it's it's it's wonderful to see it coming together you know yeah and it's interesting hearing you know talking about the experience of irish uh heading to glasgo i mean it's only it's less than probably well maybe about 20 years ago maybe a little bit more that i went to work in london and the hate against the irish uh and and the is it racial xenophobic i don't know but the abuse was horrible uh you know i worked in pubs and what have you and it was tough you know what i mean i wouldn't like anyone to experience in that all the usual stereotypes the words f off back home what are you doing here you're a terrorist potato you know all the usual stuff and you know i think maybe then when i do interviews about some of the now about some of the the language that's being used against you know people coming in the other direction maybe that's why i'm a little bit more but quite sympathetic to the reply because on a poxy little scale i experienced that and it was horrendous so horrendous it made me sick like it it literally made me ill to the point i had to come home yeah yeah i remember that myself you know i remember going to london and i'm feeling the same thing myself and lots of friends sort of grew up through it that that era so it's it's interesting they sometimes say it wasn't until the until bands like the pokes came along that you could ever say that you were proud to be irish you know what i mean the atmosphere generally was very very hostile you know and especially during the troubles you know that was all mixed up on that as well do you know what i mean and you know those those are those are difficult times but as i say i i do think that the generation has come through all that you know still has a quiet pride and um that's very assured of itself i think very very there's very little sense of a deference to to englishness now do you know what i mean i think but people i think irish people in ireland and you know sort of when they're living in when they're living in places like Glasgow you know have no sense that you know sort of they're inferior to the the Nigel Farage's of the world and those are you know backward looking narrow you know inward looking people you know i think there's a much more generous outward looking sort of a sense that sense of the world that irish people have now yeah it's just it's just it's history repeating itself as they're saying i'm not all woke and and all this don't get me wrong i'm only talking from absolute reality no but i'm just i'm saying i'm not i'm not coming from uh it's just that the the the way people would instill fear about the the irish in london or whatever is to sort of say well they're all terrorists or they're hiding guns or they're you know they're part of a cell or whatever and that would tarnish an entire population but it would be a few different people that wanted you out that would be saying that stuff now i'm not saying that was said directly about me and then what we see is is that now the way you sort of try and turn a whole nation against another group of individuals is to suggest that they're all rapists or you know what i mean and it just i hear that and i i kind of was a victim not a victim but you know what i mean now just just just finally um you point out this is not trying to be and isn't a definitive history but you talk of it trying to sort of stimulate families to look at their histories to capture the riches of irish life and talk to me a little bit about that in the south side what what what do you hope to come from this beyond the work that you've done well we've got we're we're currently compiling an archive you know it's it's online the the organization that has that has published this book is the governhold bats community trust that that are that are rules of an occupation of the bath they tried we were trying to close local bats uh and you know which was a community it was a community center it was a laundry it was all those sorts of things and in the govern hill there was an occupation of it and it's now turned into a wonderful um community center and so the govern hill bats community trust is putting together an archive of of people and interviewing people wherever we can and and and rolling out projects where we're going to go as i say go into schools and places like that and and record these and record these stories and i think it's just about it's about preserving them and it's about sort of seeing things from that from from that from that other from from that point of view of what it was actually of what it was that i actually like it was a very rich life i mean it's wonderful to sit with people and hear the stories about how people gathered the importance of social life uh in in Glasgow they would have things called the wrecks where they're all gathering each other's houses and on a Friday and Saturday night and play music and have a drink and all that sort of stuff and the kids were all around it was it you know that was that that sense of you know sort of a very what people wanting to be uh sociable and you know sort of that was the way that was the way that they they got through things so it's a bit celebrating all all of that and uh all its complexity and it's all all its richness and saying every migrant community it does the same thing yeah and just very finally have you noticed though any change in Govan Hill you know it is uh stated to be um you know multicultural strong south asian communities and what have you and and that presumably at a time and hope maybe it's still the case is is held up as a as a beacon of what can be achieved but obviously things are changing now people are becoming more nationalist there's different influences elsewhere has that is that harmony being disrupted oh I don't I don't think so I mean the occasionally the far right try to make inroads into into Govan Hill this is where you know sort of this sort of you know the festival and everything grew grew out of you know so the the resistance to to that um they've never been successful and um it's it's a real tribute to to the community and uh you know sort of there's there's you know festival celebrations of it over all the time which makes the community very cohesive in spite of the fact that you know sort of there are so many different people from different backgrounds uh the backgrounds there and I don't get the sense you know sort of nick musterjan is the local is the local MSP do you know what I mean she and she's very she's wonderful she launches them up at the anti-racist carnival every year I'm very very proud of the fact of the diversity of the area and I don't get the sense that that nationalism that the Scottish nationalism certainly has has a manifest in place like Govan Hill in the Gorbils is a narrow nationalism I think it's it's actually imbued with with with that sort of you know outward looking thing I think even you know even though I'm not the biggest fan of the SNP I'd be more a socialist myself but at the same time they they very much state that they're against this hostile environment that the Tories are trying to whip up against against refugees they're saying we need immigration and we know that we need immigration and we're going to welcome and we're going to welcome people coming to the country and I think fair play to them for doing it and and I think that's the that's that's the atmosphere that they that you feel in Govan Hill these days then all right column uh author of Little Donegal the Irish in the Gorbils and Govan Hill where can people get your book uh you can get the book either through the Govan Hill Baths website um which is just if you just put in Govan Hill Baths Little Donegal you'll you'll find that um and it's also available in Little Acorns bookshop in uh in Derry and we're hoping to get it into bookshops uh further fielded in Derry and Donegal over the next couple of weeks as well thank you very much for your time have a lovely day take care of yourself uh that is uh column Bryce there 08 660 25 000 if you want to have 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okay excellent right and i think for the first uh in the first instance to recognize that elder abuse comes in many forms uh doesn't it it does and and and unfortunately it can it can come in the forms of financial emotional physical sexual verbal discrimination and i suppose there's also the abuse of omission or neglect you know where people can just be abuse conform by just not doing anything or engaging with somebody and in instead of us making advances your charity is highlighting what it describes as a distressing trend of increased safeguarding concerns that have been witnessed over the past year talk to me a little bit about that yeah we've seen an increase in the amount of cases that we've come across and that's it's due to us reaching out to more people but also it's it's due to the the instances and the reasons behind abuse and we think there's there's three main pillars it's the loneliness it's it's the um increased incidence of mental health in older people which was compounded by the covid pandemic and the housing situation and where you know the lack of suitable housing options for older people the unfortunate need for younger families to stay in a house with older parents longer and can sometimes unfortunately lead to levels of abuse and but yeah and and we need a stronger the other area is a stronger community which you know we also what happened during the pandemic that you know communities got infrastructure got broken up and it's about repairing that and having places to go for people because the more contacts you make the easier it is to make and report abuse yeah I mean and there's an awful lot needs to be done because it is in so many different areas and it's going to be across so many different different departments different agencies we really need a a singular if we don't already have one frank we need a singular task force or or ministerial department to something that will bring all of this stuff together because when you look through what needs to be done and the way that the system turns so slowly operates so slowly in in this country you just wonder is there you know you know where can we start making positive inroads yeah no absolutely and and luckily look the hse have structures in place um with with safeguarding and protection teams but with regards legislation there is an adult safeguarding bill that's that sort of stalled in the shannot and this is this was to establish a national safeguarding a national adult safeguarding authority which would require certain people to make reports and um would really underpin the whole area of safeguarding now there is another bill that's coming to it's on the summer legislative program but that just deals with safeguarding around the confines of the department of health and the hse which is some comfort and it's to be welcomed but it is as you correctly say it's a broader issue and it needs a broader piece of legislation to underpin it and the safeguarding is is a is a broad church isn't it i mean you maybe it might be useful for us to sort of break down what we mean when we say safeguarding yeah no absolutely it can have implications for older people for disabled people for anyone who's anyone in our society who's vulnerable and and and are not getting the service or getting the protections that they need okay um so more information where do people get in touch with alone um or what what what do you want to part with frank yeah look we'd really we have a national support and referral line for any older person out there or anybody who works with older people or knows them we want to get in touch and we can cover off service areas we support over 3 000 people in the in the greater highland area ch01 it as it's known and and the way to get in touch with the loan is quite easy it's 0818 222 024 a national support and referral line it's open seven days a week 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or check us out at alone.ie yeah and we as a public and as a society have a huge role to play in all of this as well thank you so much for your time i really do appreciate it 08 660 25 000 is the whatsapp and text number or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 you are tuned to the 19 noon show and we've an awful lot uh to pack in in the last hour so make sure you don't miss that okay our next guest joins us on the program now you don't need the the headphones brian just in case they're in any way um distracting for you brian mattelheny spokesperson for the finn wheelers cycling club good morning to you good morning great thank you for the invite and no it's great to have you in let me just move that a little bit right okay we were chatting to you last year uh looking for a hard shoulder to be added uh it's about three quarts of a kilometer it's known as magrory spraying ball of buffet as you come out of ball of buffet most of you will know that steep incline and it was a well organized plan uh you know it had the visuals it had the getting it out into the media and perhaps a little bit of success in that regard yeah well there's positive news coming our way and regard to that in some um preparation works have actually started so back in february there was money um allocated for it to the ti of a million so while that was great and all the rest you know we always like to see action so finally we're seeing action and we're seeing a plan that works are due to commence in october or sort of in the autumn that will actually see the hard shoulder works begin on site yeah so that's coming as far as your role work is obviously you know is it up the hill or down the hill it's both sides thankfully so it's just equal risk either way so like our our sort of demand as there's been called has been but both ways because when you're coming from the donagall town direction you're having to leave the hard shoulder to go out into the the main carriageway so there's a risk every time you're going from one to the other so yep that's it'll haven't seen the plans um they're going to do both sides now just in terms of say for instance heading in the donagall town direction how do we make sure that that hard shoulder doesn't become a de facto de facto climbing lane well that's the thing they like there's the rules of the road apply for everybody so you know um it's not going to be a climbing lane obviously that would be in a much bigger job so what's been done now is a job that's sort of low cost easy to provide and and it's a hard shoulder for now um i know that the the haulage industry are looking for a climbing lane as well so maybe that's something that will come eventually but but this is a big victory for for this campaign and and it's a common sense victory as well because an awful lot of money was spent on the stretch of road from the donagall road to the bottom of Mcgrory's bray and then you have two hard shoulders that just stop and we go to a two lane uh with you know no off not offer no nothing up to the top of the hill and then you know we get hard shoulders again so this just really is a continuation of hard shoulders the fact that you had to campaign for this at all really is quite remarkable well it's a pity pity we had to do that but the works carried out in 2016 should have included the hard shoulder right to the top it's high risk um but thankfully they're they're closing that gap now and uh now we welcome it it's a positive news story and and suppose we celebrate that and we look forward to the actual works carried out you'll have to shift that old bite now stuck to the tree well i think the guys that are cutting the the trees may have already done that but our our signs will stay there until the real works begin um because you know announcements have been made for so many projects over the years and uh it but this is an easy one because the space is there on either side of the road so uh that's good news all right so hopefully work in arna starts in october hopefully yeah and hopefully like for the the main goal here is cyclists safety and safety for for all road users but like our we're looking at from the point of view cyclists i just think that will make it a little bit safer for all road yes of course yeah yeah now it's it's a positive yet so we'll celebrate it yes and we're supposed to thank everybody involved be it the tii but also our local councillors paging me going and martin harley who have who were there at our launch and have kept plugging away at making sure it it moves forward brilliant stuff well done okay well what's with interest because as you say we have to stay on top of these things to ensure i only have two minutes because we're flat out today i want your views though on whether or not we should follow italy's example stick number plates on uh bicycles would that be something you'd like to see no why not um oh well let's first of all wind resistance well that's it your aerodynamics will be like how big of a number plate would you require so it's visible it's a crazy idea and uh when caroline brought it to my attention i looked at it it's already been backtracked on um it's impractical it's been tried in other countries like canada and switzerland would have had number license plates on bicycles in the past but that's been abandoned and rejected it's impractical it's logistics um i just wonder when we see more scooters and what have you on the road because legislation's going through in that regard and they will need to be identifiable and will be subject to the rules of the road and they'll be sharing a space i'd imagine to a great extent with bicycles i just wonder if that might kick things on a little bit whether one likes it or not because yeah no i think the what was mentioned in italy is more towards scooters like there has been a sort of big jump in the the number of scooters on the road one on the scooter on the m50 i've seen all sorts of crazy stuff you know but um you know i know the intentions are for you know safety but it's just sticking a number plate like it's hard enough to get one on a motorbike so how do you stick one in a narrow bicycle so it's salt been backtracked it was a crazy idea and thankfully it's going no further ready okay okay we'll finish with a rear cap of the good news and say fair play to the finwheelers cycling club it looks like hard shoulders on either side of the road will be put in place this autumn uh up the three quarters kilometer stretch of uh the uh the n what is it the n what is that i don't know anyway i'll take it now and i know it's in my head it's in your in your notes it's not in my notes it's in my head it's the n15 yeah it's a number ahead in my head but didn't want to put it out there sorry to don't make all time you don't even know the roads oh we could go in there but it ain't slow to the stage no but anyway that McGrory's bra is most of us know it off so that's great news okay listen brilliant stuff thanks for calling in with the update Brian thanks Greg we really 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and institutional leaders the goal is to drive a stronger regional collaboration on some of the major challenges facing the country minister for education simon harris welcomed a series ahead of today's meeting for the northwest and western region food prices are unlikely to fall where they were before high inflation took hold it's because of the pressure of legislation regulation and innovation on irish farmland a report carried out by kpmg for the farmers journal has found farm production here is at an all-time low with falling numbers of both farmers and farms the report found while donnie gall accounts for the most cheap farming in ireland the county holds the lowest percentage of farmland nationally at 39 percent shane mcrudden has been appointed as the officer in charge of the kelly begs coast guard station rona mcfadden will fulfill the road of deputy officer in charge of the station both men joined the station nearly 13 years ago on the same day tributes on social media have been made to the pair wishing them luck in their new roles and praising their work to date and finally a status yellow thunderstorm warning is taking place in donnie gall and other parts of the west and midlands the warning is due to commence at three p.m. met erin says there will be heavy downpours thunderstorms and the chance of hail that's all for now i'll be back again with the news headlines at 12 o'clock until then good morning thanks don and re done we're taking selfies of yourself what are you laughing at nothing i mean who takes selfies of themselves we're reading the news um me i guess well not really she's videoing it for social media i presume it's gonna be exciting can't wait to see what you're doing with that and it was word perfect as well don and re thanks so perhaps maybe you could video all of them that's what i was thinking i wanted content then okay thanks don and re i'll let you get back to it thank you very much indeed all right let's take our wee short break and we'll be right back at irish life we've been helping people make smart investments for over 80 years for actual trusted advice for your money search irish life or contact your financial broker advisor at better life with irish life irish life assurance plc is regulated by the central bank of ireland irish life financial services limited is regulated by the central bank of ireland irish life financial services is tied to irish life assurance for life in pension products my apologies i missed time that i was away in the newsroom and then the new the noise stopped and here i am back now right we're going to get in the garden yes bring that to me dunham re that's what i went in for thank you so very much indeed right okay where is paul the gardener i'm ready for him bring paul in come on paul right okay as i say osheen live music so much more besides coming up in the program but now it's time for us to chat to paul mcgloughlin gardener at balak their garden centre would you say something so i can get my breath back paul oh hey i was i was setting up there reading newspapers i know anything good is anything anything well at least someone is uh can we watch the crack uh crack is what i got uh weather seems to be the hot topic at the moment hot being the operative word wow you're getting worse at the cliches or better i don't know right okay what is the weather telling us i'm not an awful lot of yellow about pretty much the big thing at the minute is obviously very hot and keep it up in the water but over the weekend now there's supposed to be sort of heavy showers forecast and stuff like that so it's very much good in dead time now for potato blight that's sort of real warm muggy weather is very real prime time for blight so it's if you have potatoes soda that's good good idea to keep a wee eye on them yeah because the the whilst we might see the rainfall it's falling on very hard dry ground that's why we're seeing quite a bit of flash flooding whenever the skies do open because uh you know the ground is not really prepared to absorb it as much as it normally might absolutely the soil now is really contracted and this will become very sort of hard and compacted so it's very hard to rehydrate it i suppose would be the word well keep talking i'm not at the microphone so what um what should we be doing in terms of gardens and flowers uh as we head into the weekend with the weather weather changing then i wonder yeah i'll pretty much just keep an eye on it um actually there's a massive share there during the weekend actually damaged one of my pots because my gutters at the house actually one of them had a leak right the the heavy rain came out over the top of the gutter and actually really