 the boys and stuff. It says that I'm going to load time now to have fun with the boys. Load the car up. There's igloo snow in places. Is there? Yeah. I want to survive. I don't want to claim any mountains, Greg. All right. Take care of yourself, Lee. Nine o'clock time for your news update until we're to Emma Ryan. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Senior HSE officials in the region are to meet with Northwest Aractus members and Regional Health Forum members on Friday to discuss the future of Naudoc. Confirmation of the meeting comes as Donegal County Council prepares to write to the HSE seeking clarification on the future of the service. Councillor Donal Coyle said it's important that clarification is given on the status of the letter Kenny base and also the satellite units and current on it, Derry Begg and Mount Charlis. He says the Naudoc service is taking a lot of pressure off letter Kenny University Hospital and any diminution of this service could have a serious knock on effect on the hospital. Without Naudoc I don't know what would be happening letter Kenny now because the service that they provide and I know like I've been restricted in there at the meeting that there's a lot of tweaking to be done in the service but I do believe that it's a fantastic service and it is certainly relieving the pressure on the hospital. Met Erin has issued a new status yellow advisory warning for Donegal until Friday. The forecaster says it will stay cold until Friday with sharp to severe frost and icy stretches on roads and footpaths. Some showers of hail, sleet and snow are also expected. Motorists are urged to exercise extreme caution while out on the roads during the cold spell. Meanwhile there needs to be a major increase in the resources allocated to the letter Kenny municipal district during inclement wintery weather particularly in terms of states and footpaths. Councillor Jerry McMonegal says yesterday letter Kenny's town centre was extremely quiet because people were not leaving their homes as a result of treacherous footpaths and difficulty leaving their estates. He's particularly anxious to see more salt bins distributed and salt and grit provided. What it has is that we have luck and plan this for the future and we put more resources into clearing the snow and allowing people to get to the work and also to get to businesses and be able to buy and spend money in the retail shops but more in particular to protect those most vulnerable in our communities and in particular to ensure that carers can get in to look after their patients. A Donegal councillor says the updated regulations for the defective block scheme is taking far too long. Campaigners were previously promised clarification on the regulations prior to Christmas but the information has not yet been released. Councillor Martin McDermott says the regulations are an essential part of getting the scheme up and running. He is lobbying the government to speed up the legislation. Families are in dire straits and we need more priority by the department and by the housing agency and we need that expedited because we've worked long enough and I think we cannot keep going on the way we're going on where things are just being kicked down the road with no answers as to what has happened. It's vitally important that we get these regulations ASAP and I will be calling on the the department and the housing agency to immediately release the regulations so that we can both see them and give comment and try and get the new scheme up and running ASAP. A look at the weather today will be cold with sunny spells and scattered charge of rain, sleight and snow, highest temperatures of just two to five degrees. That's all for now our next update will be at 10 o'clock. With the same local trustworthy service of your credit union. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, a very good morning to you. It is four minutes past nine on this Wednesday the 18th of January 2023. How are you keeping? I do hope you're very well on another cold morning. In a way, I think the roads are a little bit more dangerous this morning. Not wishing to scare anyone. I know people have appointments and stuff and we'll try and give you some specific information as we go along but I mean just myself and my route, it just felt a little bit less safe this morning than they did yesterday. If there's any information you need just to share out there any questions you need us to answer get in touch with us. WhatsApp, so text to 08 660 25000, 08 660 25000. Give us a call on 07 491 25000. Your comments come into us via email on comments at HighlandRadio.com and if you want to watch the program on your TV, your laptop, whatever it is, go into YouTube, type Highland Radio Ireland. You can watch the show on your big screen. You can use Facebook watch on your smart TV or Firestick or on your tablet or mobile device as well, of course, and watch us there throughout the next three hours. See most of our guests as we talk to them or go on to our website HighlandRadio.com and click watch live. So no excuses. Chat to us, engage with us no matter where you are, whatever you're doing. Let's look at the newspapers this morning. We'll start with the Finn Valley Voice. We need Guardi, we need them fast, Harris told. We need our Guardi to respond quickly. We need them to have the very best equipment, the very best vehicles, the very best communication systems to put them on the road quickly when a crime is committed. And especially in areas like the Finn Valley, we need our Guardi to be on the case before the culprits escape across the border, among the dozens of issues raised by the Donegal Joint Police and Committee to Guardi Commissioner Drew Harris at last Monday's meeting, speed of response was paramount on to the Enish Times, our focus on the NowDoc story there. NowDoc face to face appointments in Enish on over Christmas and the new year more than doubled compared to the same period last year. The out of virus doctor service, which has been under severe pressure due to flu and the emergence of COVID-19 saw the number of calls it received increase from 916 to 964 while doctor telephone advice calls increased from 73 to 107, face to face appointments between doctors and patients increased to 581 from 243 while nurse telephone advice calls dropped from 213 to 117. Those are figures from the HSC. What was the situation with COVID last year though? I'm not sure how much of that is sicker this year or out and about more or what have you, but interesting stats nonetheless. The Guardi commissioners visit to Donegal, the focus of the Donegal post Guardi commissioner Drew Harris received a grilling from several members of the Donegal Joint Police and Committee when he met them at Donegal County Council HQ in Lyford on Monday afternoon. He was challenged over resources, poor response times to crime, particularly along the border, pay resources, the closure of stations in rural areas and the new plan to regionalize the service. On to the nationals now and Aiman Ryan obviously he likes to cycle around the place but the reality is is he's going to be getting protection or he has protection anyway and sometimes this protection is going to be cycling but and I kid you not on occasions Aiman Ryan's going to be cycling around with a protection officer driving around behind him. Green party leader Aiman Ryan is to get a peddling protection officer at times when he's cycling around Dublin on ministerial duties. Mr Ryan confirmed the move to the Irish Independent. His protective officer will be on a bike because Mr Ryan does not use a ministerial car unlike other members of the cabinet. However his protection detail will occasionally and they say occasionally be in a car, a guard car depending on operational requirements. It's understood that expressions of interest to fill the role have been sought in recent days from guard members so on occasion Aiman Ryan because of his environmental views will be cycling around Dublin on a bike undertaking his ministerial duties while at the same time a person will be driving around behind him in a guard car. This decision or that decision was made by Ngarashi Okana that we will now as ministers and cabinet have protective officers Mr Ryan said that's their call in terms of security. I suppose they'll have to be flexible in my case because I will still be cycling but that's something I have to work on with Ngarashi Okana to make sure it works for them as well as for me. Mr Ryan had a meeting on the matter with Goddard commissioner Drew Harris but if the government as a whole was committed to the environment as we're told surely it'd be more than just one. Why does it just happen to be the one green minister that cycles around the place? It's not very reflective of the wider cabinet is it but maybe you know that's his choice but as I say just this notion of a petrol or diesel car driving around behind him on his bike with the protection officer just seems a wee bit strange what do you think maybe it's a great thing 08 660 25000. The Irish Times confirms the story we've been carrying for the last couple of days the government is preparing to sign off on a scheme costing up to 2.5 billion to address defects and up to 100,000 Celtic Tiger era apartments but will face further pressure to deliver for thousands of homeowners who've already paid remediate to remediate such issues so in other words unlike what's happening here in Donegal if someone's already spent the money fixing up the property as it relates to health and safety well they are likely and you know if they're printing it the way they are they're going to be looked after. Minister for Housing Dara O'Brien's expected to get cabinet approval this morning to draft laws enacting the landmark scheme to repair fire safety and other issues in the homes. Campaigners welcome the news but warned that the detail of how the scheme estimated to cost 1.5 to 2.5 billion will operate would be crucial. The construction defects alliance said last night that the fact that the government is about to make decisions on addressing apartment defects marked a major step forward but the elephant in the room of course is the complete not a lack of progress as it seems and as it relates to the defective concrete block scheme which is only getting bigger and bigger because you might have heard over the last 24-48 hours how more homes more counties more homes in the south of the country are being found to be damaged by defective concrete products. A quick one also on the front of the times call for a tougher stance on so-called illegal immigration into the state has been heard at a meeting of finnegale politicians with the issue moving to the centre of the political agenda as the door resumes today following the Christmas break. The meeting held yesterday evening heard a range of views and concerns about migration becoming divisive topic a number of demonstrations have been held outside centres housing refugees and asylum seekers in recent weeks as the system has become stretched following a rise in arrivals some finnegale members told the meeting they wanted to see aspects of irish immigration policy hardened up with carlo kill kenny td john paul felon saying people who arrive and are suspected of having destroyed their papers en route should be deported immediately. I think most people might agree with that you know you have to have really quite specific documentation to get it on an aeroplane or a ferry and then once you are at arrivals your documentation has disappeared I don't think anyone thinks that's a good idea that that should be allowed happen do they oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand or crawl 07491 twenty five thousand maybe some good news for our hospitals the flu wave seems to have peaked but cases still remain high for weeks tds and senators were told yesterday it comes as hsc interim CEO Stephen Mulvaney admitted he cannot guarantee people have not died due to overcrowding and trolley numbers in hospitals I really see pointless and we saw it a lot over the last couple of years where people in certain positions are asked to guarantee one thing or other you simply cannot guarantee anything in this life but joined by other senior hsc officials he told the iraqtas health committee influenza is kind of giving indications that it's peaked it'll spend a number of weeks high before it starts going down fully it'll still be high for a number of weeks that will take us to the end of January and into February but the sooner pressure is eased the better a lot of hospital workers working above and beyond really what they're contracted to do and will be needing a break at some point because they're going to be completely burnt out otherwise you know this don't you you're out shopping you've seen the price of things go up be it a loaf of bread carton of milk a tin of beans well Ireland's inflation soared last year and higher prices are set to come soon new stats from the CSO yesterday showed that the consumer price index rose by 8.2% between December 21 and December 22 now it probably would have rose three or four in ordinary circumstances so 8.2 is somewhat higher energy costs continue to rise and there were steep hikes in food and drink the cost of a loaf of bread was up 26 cent by the year end and the price of two litres of full fat milk rose by 57 cent Irish cheddar up 151 per kilogram and a pound of butter jumped by 71 cents spaghetti increased by 25 cent per 500 grams and you know you add that up in the basket and you get to the checkout you can see how it's hitting us harder in the pocket meanwhile the cost of a pint of studs was five twenty up 26 cent while a pint of lager was five seventy three up 42 cent less relevant to me now than ever has ever been but anyway uh and i'm all about the price of drink there you have it that was the star and lastly um we watched a match the day last night there was uh some strange noises as Gary Linnaker was introducing the Liverpool game coverage the BBC's FA Cup coverage was hit by x-rated noises played loudly on air last night people with a mobile phone and with certain people around them would be familiar with the noises because a lot of people have been caught out by this in the past but match of the day host Gary Linnaker was trying to bring in Alan Shearer for pre-match analysis of the Wolves vs Liverpool game when the morning began he told viewers i don't know who's making that noise but Alan Shearer's on the commentary gantry i'm not sure if someone is sending something on somebody's phone Linnaker 62 later joked at halftime Harvey Elliott's goal was a screamer which is not the only one we've had tonight the course was later revealed to be a mobile phone which was taped to the back of a seat or to the back of the set the BBC apologised and said it was investigating i don't buy that i know my way around the mobile phone unless it was the ringtone actually maybe you know what i've just cracked the case okay if it was set as the ringtone then it could have been triggered externally i was going to say normally those things happen via a message or a whatsapp or something but no i suppose if they'd set the ringtone to that noise then that would that would explain that right a quarter past nine on the nine till noon show 08 660 25 000 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now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com all right you're very welcome back to the program now if you travel through the twin towns you will see or you will have seen that new high-visibility high visibility crossings have been installed at four existing courtesy pedestrian crossings on the n-15 in the balabafay anstrone water towns these new road markings have been introduced in an urban setting to help improve driver awareness of pedestrians crossing movements now a recent amendment to the road traffic regulations makes provision for the use of these new crossings zebra crossings without beacons consisting of road markings only now i don't understand why that happened but anyway we're going to try and tease that out now i'm going to welcome patrick mcgowan on to the show first counselor patrick mcgowan good morning to you patrick how are you keeping good morning Greg keeping the best right now um the council says uh that they have polled the public um and sorry since the installation of the crossings donagall kind of council has carried out a post-installation review survey from the feedback received the crossings appear to be well received by the community i have yet to engage with anyone from the community that not only has received them well but thinks they're a good idea at all so do you know who the council was speaking to no i do know uh at least on one occasion uh had someone that didn't walk balabafay anstrone order and um they didn't ask down members of the public and apparently as you say the feedback we got was that uh they got a very high positive written on that and that was sometime last year i was actually speaking to someone that that was interviewed about them and and that was the comment today now since that and uh no more than yourself uh uh we'll be getting the calls maybe twice a week from members of public uh about these i raised them at last september's meeting there we got a response there i think in october there we saw that the md meeting about these and all the other countries and the public now this this came out of the blue uh yesterday it was actually contact behind and radio uh to say that uh about this press release a statement that came out i wasn't aware of it i don't think any of the countries were aware of it and the first thing i had done that was actually in balabafay in the background town to look for for what changes had happened their signage because it does say it's it's uh some high visibility classes have been installed like i i thought that they had actually just with the last few years had erected new uh warning lights or signs on the background and see that nothing had changed but then we read the statement and obviously it says that sometime last year last september there was a new law passed and the department that now gives these zebra markings on the ground without the beacon lights gives them the same status so there are zebra crossings the problem is they forgot to tell everybody about it the public the pedestrians don't know and the drivers don't know why introduce i mean obviously zebra crossings were established uh with beacons and well lit up for safety reasons okay so why for balabafay and strunaller is it okay to have crossings that function as zebra crossings with no beacons or no lights what why what is the advantage of them not being in any way marked or illuminated in advance as well as the first thing here that this has come back that these have been rolled out apparently in a couple of towns across the country as pilot skates last year these are the very busy towns that have a problem now that the have a number of sets of lights uh and the three sets of traffic lights are now based on order and as you Greg and everybody else knows the serious problems with tailbacks and and that so they this yeah okay that's frozen there that'll re uh we'll get Patrick back i want to bring shivan line uh shivan good morning to you good morning Greg how are you uh i'm good uh i think you you share your particular concern as as i do and only as a motorist and i'm not using this platform to push an agenda it's just i generally have my concerns or genuine you have my concerns the crossing at the bank is seems particularly uh dangerous to me as a motorist i don't know what your views are well i have actually i'm reading your views what are what's your what's your opinion yeah it is it's uh it's absolutely a ridiculous position for a cross and it's very dangerous it's just right there on a junction with two yellow boxes an alleyway on one side and if there's cars parked or or vans or lorries parked you cannot see clearly if somebody steps out from say the aib side of the road if you're coming up the town you know so if you're coming in from that road you're glancing up to the right because the traffic's flying down in from the donagall road you're glancing for a break in the road to pull left yeah and that mode yeah if yeah if you're coming out of glenn fenn street it's particularly dangerous because as you say you are you are focusing on the traffic coming down trying to get out into the line of traffic and you pull out to go down the street and you're literally you don't even pull out properly and they're buying somebody's coming from the bank around in the cross the street in front of you you know it is it needs to be just removed completely that particular crossing yeah and i presume there's quite a bit of traffic on it too because people might be in the car using the car park across the road and then using that crosses to crossing to go to the bank or other businesses absolutely yeah absolutely now it is a bit of um i suppose on both sides both drivers and pedestrians there would be um a lot of non-local traffic coming up and down there and they they wouldn't know that that crossing was there until you're upon it plus there is a lot of people that just and i know pedestrians do have right away but there's a lot of people that don't even luck they just walk straight out because it's a crossing you know and if there is a car coming pretty close to them that may not know that the crossing there it's really just an accident and let's not forget yellow boxes and yellow boxes yeah and they're not being used properly at the best time they never have been whatever hope we've got a people using the zebra crossing correctly i think we can give up on the yellow boxes at this stage yeah but it just throws another it throws another problem into the into the mix that's that at that corner that junction it does it's just whoever decided to put it in that position i don't know what we're thinking it's it's just ridiculous it's an accident waiting to happen you've seen it almost happen yes twice actually twice seen it almost happen you know one week later she was just so close to being knocked down i don't know that's worrying all right shavon listen thank you for taking the call i really appreciate it uh brian good morning to you good morning pike accident waiting to happen seems to be the buzzword for at least the bank crossing there whatever about the rest do you have worries about the rest of them brian i would have worried there's there's two issues here first of all that in general um that the zebra sort of markings were put on the road but no signs no beacons and but the one of the bank of ireland is particularly bad because you have two yellow boxes you have a junction and i have just seen so many near misses there i was traveling along there myself and somebody was coming along glennon street a pedestrian and they just walked straight across so the pedestrian thinks they have the right away the motorist is has to react is watching for different things they're looking for the yellow boxes they're looking for movement of traffic and um people you've just and you'll see from the response to your post yesterday people are not happy people are seeing it as a danger um like after they went in i had to travel down the country and went through limerick different towns and there was zebra crossing and pedestrian crossings and they were nearly there was lights and more signs that there was it was a completely different ballgame um so like it's okay for us locals now we're getting used to it we're going to catch you but people traveling in from outside the county are they're going to be caught out and there will be an accident and brian on the front you see this and we use the word accident and i understand why you used it but there's things contribute to things that make them not accidents there's a cause and effect i think the first time i drew drove through the twintains when they were installed someone was in dark clothing and as i was approaching the crossing they happened to be on the black part um and they believed they had right away they were invisible uh brian it was only as they stepped onto the white that i was able to see them you know yourself it was a dark wet evening windscreen wipers on cars coming at you with their you know the new leds and what have you you couldn't i simply could not see the person and just got glimpsed them as they stepped onto the white part of the zebra crossing yeah this brings together a lot of safety issues um there's the safety of pedestrians walking and dark clothing there's the safety issue of the you know motorists being observant and then there's the safety issue of what has been laid here has it been properly safely studied has it is it following proper road design um like the council put a post up yesterday and some extract from legislation but you know we we should stick to what is a standard zebra crossing because who is right who is wrong it'll be it'll be a session in court before it's actually realized what what is right and you'll see pedestrians are complaining that people aren't stopping so who everyone's going to be in the wrong until it's proven in courts that's you know what was what led to the so-called accident listen i think across um a public generally speaking in terms of motorists and pedestrians i would say five percent could accurately across the country could accurately tell you uh how these are supposed to work in terms of who's got right away and what have you i don't personally honestly i don't think balaba fae answer an order and their local residents should be a testing ground for this until that knowledge is increased greatly it just it seems very worrying to me and you put a very simple question rather than us talking about how they feel unsafe you want an engineer to explain how they're safe well exactly it's like if there is a change in road design well then this needs to go across the whole country in terms of the rsa and like it should be part of the test like we're all used to what is the legislation what is a safe pedestrian crossing who has the right away etc etc in balba fae it's the main route from golly to dairy it's a it's a national primary roads and of course it's in the town but it's it's it's not safe the people are saying it's not safe the local councillors can are being complained to you know the roads engineers are being complained to so here you are in highland video have them to highlight it and you know let's just sort it out let's do take do them away with them or just put up a simple sign you know at the location pedestrian crossing and it has to be lit so that people it has to be and i don't understand why some notification for pedestrians isn't a sign that these crossings for pedestrians i don't understand why you would not try and empower people at least with information brian thank you very much for taking the call it's greatly appreciated councillor McGowan so we're hearing a sample of it here um and and also too you mentioned just before the line started a little bit about how there's frustration in the twin towns and there's tailbacks and what have you that is a strong argument for these being even more dangerous in my view because by the time you get past macklehenny's right the crossing at macklehenny's and you're heading out the donagall road you go right that's behind me people put the foot down whether they should or not they put the foot down and they hit that bank corner i just worry patrick it's the only reason i'm talking about it because i worry about it yeah look and and i have just an email and all the councillors got one last week we have resins and the donagall state the problem in balba fae is when you have a traffic jam the traffic's slowing down people are meandering on the train but you see when it gets quiet there in the evening especially when it gets dark the cars usually are flying on donagall street the residents in donagall street are just fell up there that they cannot get out of their own houses now what they did learn since this thing is to say this was raised in september and october and our md this is a national initiative and the councils responding to it now what they did learn was it's within the act and the law that signs can be raised so that that is but even i was just wondering other towns patrick where they're being introduced are there proper street lights the street lights in balba fae are very very yeah that's and that's on the game we've said it's badly that there was an independent survey carried out about two years ago they said they're okay but in my opinion that they are okay they're very minimum they're not for the amount of traffic in the national primary road they're substandard but since that is well we have spoken to the county manager the ceo yesterday john lachlan and brent yann who's on your show yesterday morning and they have both agreed now they are going to ask for a for a public consultation in the town to bring in the to do with not just with these ever crossings to be with a whole public access in the town i just hope and i respect that and we can talk about that patrick i'm just worried that something's going to happen between now and then when you start grouping this in with a wider conversation and it's very much needed don't get me wrong stay where you are patrick alan sorry sorry for old yann and i want your views on this as well please good morning morning greg how are you i'm all right were you asked were you asked by the council what you thought of these uh no um i i asked well that was that was that's one of the things that i mentioned actually under your own post there uh recently was you know this feedback that the council seemingly have to say that oh it's been well received and i i haven't met anybody as a resident of the town i haven't met anybody who says that they're a good idea i think the principle around it um is is fine in terms of yes people want to see uh pedestrian crossings they do want safe crossing places and all the rest that's okay and well taken i don't think this is a motorist versus a pedestrian issue what i do think is this was put in as a pilot whenever it was announced as a pilot there was people on social media giving out about us i didn't hear any positive feedback at that time i still haven't heard any positive feedback and i will be very very interested to hear where this feedback came from uh and if the council have that could they maybe publish that because again this is something that was kind of foisted on people very quickly um i'm not sure what thought was put into it just because there was a drop curb uh at a footpath doesn't necessarily mean it's a good place so are we separating ads are we separating ads the bank of ireland crossing from the rest of them in terms of well because again you know the one of the bank of ireland corner is the most problematic one because of the the yellow boxes because it's it's in a very busy junction i you know i'm on that every day my parents live out the glen fun road um people will know that whenever you come in there you're looking up the up the street to see what's coming down if you can get out you'll go uh and you know it's right at the corner now i've seen pedestrian costumes at corners and different towns around ireland and it doesn't seem to be an issue the problem is there uh or with that one is there's no signage there's no barriers to stop pedestrians they just walk on out and it's in your own hands be it then after that now there is one snorler there's a couple in snorler as well the one at the supermarket is fine and it's a good spot the difficulty is again when you're traveling from balaba fae over over snorler you can't see any way to come on from the left hand side cars are parked cars are blocking the line inside so so you need something to indicate to slow down or to stop or some awareness not only for the drivers and do those crossings not normally encroach out into the road uh so in other words when you're stepping off the footpath you're stepping off the footpath beyond the parked car that makes sense and the reason they intrude out into the road and like that is so motorists can see the pedestrian stepping onto the zebra crossing so why is it okay to roll the dice in snorler and not have that feature but it's not in letter kenny or it's not in bali shannon or it's not in siligo i don't know i don't see why it's okay i don't think it is okay you know i think the motorist needs to get some awareness that there's a cross in there to begin with if there is a parked van there and i've had to break hard a couple of times not only the glad fun street one at the bank of iron but also the one snorler and again that's a busy one snorler going to a busy a busy shop over there you know uh so you do need something not only just for the drivers but also for pedestrians because again pedestrians have this you know this opinion i'm sure i can walk on out and you have to stop no matter how hard you're going you know now you just have to ride away i mean that that's yeah i'm not disputing that what i'm saying is again though that there needs to be a cautious approach taken here and to press the pause button the road safety officer was on this morning uh on the new on the news bulletin and basically you know again i'm really interested to see this feedback because i'm on that every single day and i've seen so many near muscles you know now i normally would have stopped and i've seen a pedestrian an older pedestrian or somebody with a and i would love to get a chat to brian and i've the height of respect for brian but he is the road safety officer i would i would i would i hope he's actually stood and looked at the the crossings do you know what i mean because it you know to get an endorsement from a road safety officer to a project is very very significant and i would i hope brian's been out there himself and stood at that corner and said okay right do you know what as the road safety officer i believe this is safe or go down to the ones we're talking about by the supermarket and say as the road safety officer i've looked at this and i believe it's safe rather than maybe taking engineers words for it i'm not saying he is by the way as i say it's nothing but respect for brian but in that position i hope he's done his own sort of visual assessment at the very least patrick do you know if that's what happens well sorry yeah go ahead alan go on well basically i mean i mean this is if this was rolled out as a pilot project right there obviously has to be some evaluation done of a pilot before it's enacted fully you know so what i'm interested in is to see well if they've done that and this is a pilot and they've done an evaluation and they have the feedback fine publish that all right thanks alan i appreciate you taking the call good morning to you patrick yeah that's what i'm saying i don't know what that what that role entails but presumably upwards yeah look i my understanding is that yes they carried out someone walked the street from snorted about the thing because i actually spoke with ma'am uh and they just interviewed people along the street and they asked them were they aware of them and how did they find them the report that came back that said that uh i know i can be corrected in this but i think they said it was 90 percent positive but look i i don't know the word not long enough of the time but it's certainly and i asked the the ceo and uh yesterday was that satisfactory and they they said no they do believe there should be a bigger campaign around it and it is possible correct signs the one that at the bank of ireland is obviously at the wrong place and needs to be moved and it is possible these signs but what they have said to me is in order to do it right and even though it's it's gone past now and it should have gone already most of county managers and they will ask for a proper order to be carried out and to bring road design people down and see a system just back up to the one up in sternola there where there is a crossing at the supermarket there uh you approach that now the the the legislation would have the pedestrian to make sure there isn't a car coming or the car slowing and for a car driver or lorry driver whatever it is to ensure that they're checking that no one's crossing or if someone's crossing the lines of sites the lines of sites are blocked what's what how is that acceptable patrick in your view as you as you don't say area and that was correct within them locations their footpaths was widened out and the road was narrowed to them they they're at ambience in order and it's further down in jack anderson belvey that there's no parking there the footpaths moved out and then the column as i say last year put these down but now they're just nobody is aware of them pedestrians are not aware and actually people are still crossing them between them anyway so uh they obviously need a more a major campaign and they also need to be signed and within this act of the sign last year that allows for signage they'll simply need to put up proper uh either globes or round circle signs i mean like you know the one that the the ridiculous situation of the one at the bank is if you're crossing if you're a pedestrian crossing from the bank what do you say to the sign look left look right look behind you look in front you like i'm not being facetious but you know in donagol town they've got the courtesy crossings they're not they don't have the same uh the the pedestrians are not right away but it's like look left look right at that crossing from the bank it's look everywhere you look over your shoulder you look up the road look across the road look in the middle of the two yellow boxes right i i know i know what our first uh md meeting that after they were put up they were that was raised amazingly with all the councillors and asked them to be moved and now it's going on seven eight nine months and we're still there and we were surprised as anybody else yesterday to hear this announcement and i can assure you can speak for all the councillors we don't accept it and we have got the insurers now from senior management whatever the department in Dublin says we want this reviewed and changed and signs put up but first we want public consultation and we want these people to come down and tell us what they're at yeah and maybe walk the streets themselves on a cold wet wintery night and see if they want to roll those dice uh just before break jonathan good morning to you thanks for taking the call your views on this as well i mean good morning craig i'm more than happy to speak to anyone in favour of the myfiat to identify that soul but so we'll go with what we've got at the moment your soul jonathan go ahead good morning craig and belated happy new year to your family and to patrick they're online as well um the bottom line is these pedestrian crossings as they're so called are not fit for purpose i'll mention the ones to order fine it's not fine number one if you're approaching as somebody mentioned last night on your page and craig if you're approaching from the mill bray exit and you stop at the junction somebody at the pedestrian crossings think you're stopping to let them across they proceed on across you turn around and you're nearly on top of pedestrian you mentioned yourself craig and when you took off from echelonies at the only official pedestrian crossing in the tlomb towns you put down you're giving them the second or third year and within a few yards we've seemed to forget about this pedestrian crossing at the guard of erics um so you've slowed down once again and the one at the bank corner who who and their right mind puts um a pedestrian crossing between two yellow boxes the patrick says um this is all going to be sorted this is going to be new surveys etc etc well now he's calling for it i don't think you've committed to that patrick have you i mean you know that's for it oh i'll always come up i'll thank you manager go on ahead jonathan yeah this takes time and i just spoke to a member of the chamber of commerce before coming on to speak to yourself and they said that this will be sorted overnight well i says a fatality can occur overnight as well the i mean you approach from the dunagall road most days greg and if you see as you approach just at the second petrol station there's the traffic cabin measures with the yellow signs and the flowers something as simple as that as you approach those pedestrian crossings would alert you to the fact that you're actually nearing pedestrian crossing and that's something's you know that you need to slow down basically yeah but they don't serve the purpose of the public that were consulted and this must have been shoppers outside a certain shop involved if they are there for the day or certainly certainly i mean that's a fine cyber crossing and as i say there's a couple of things i would like to know i would like to know if there was an assessment by road safety officer of these crossings and also uh the the nature of the survey how many people were asked uh patrick you seem to you mentioned yeah go ahead at night time sorry for dropping me you mentioned the night coming through when it's dark it's it's it's almost impossible to see anybody except with the one with the barracks because they've extra lights the lighting itself in the town town since it is grace that along with sun and no one's side tracking slightly great but would you believe it um maybe you wouldn't but i'm sure patrick's fully aware that stern order as a town has not one disabled parking spot and the website tracking but uh it's food for thought there's nine premises and not one of them has a disabled parking spot outside of it that's not your issue of the day and they are we could do another show on uh there's two in donig old town yes uh in in in the on the actual diamond of the town two i believe there was one which you're concerned with at the minute are the so-called pedestrian crossings well the one they're not the purpose yeah there there is going to be somebody knocked down then they'll be changed overnight and in the meantime it's it's just a complete accident with them the design of them and who designed them and put them where they are bigger there are cases recently whereby um a person can step out in front of a vehicle or a vehicle can uh as as you know the words what the point i'm trying to say is there doesn't have to be an awful lot of speed involved for a pedestrian to come off uh very badly against the lorry a tractor and trailer trying to come down donig old roads to slow down it's anyway uh jonathan thanks for uh coming on stay with me patrick if you don't mind i have to take a quick break the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 at holland and barrett this new year you can buy one get one free on hundreds of your wellness favorites mix and match across 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night at the clan re hotel letter kenny sounds like a good night cahill good morning to you your views on this please not nathan carterine by the way your views on the the crossings in telepathy well i use them regularly and i think they're a good thing the other thing i was wondering is everybody has been on this morning are they drivers or pedestrians very good question people yes because we all this now about shared space and shared spaces because that one at the bank of ireland that's a very busy spot for both pedestrians and drivers and there's banks there there's chemists there there's other shops there and could consider giving out about it is there a spot in that area that they would consider safer and the other question is can't sure me going there surely that was discussed at meetings they didn't just somebody just didn't say oh yeah we'll put that there surely i'm not really i think the way the the local government works is that's precisely probably what happened uh cahill i'm not sure how how much our counselors are consulted in advance but i think you raise a very good point are we are we today talking about pedestrians or are we talking to motorists the only thing i would say cahill and and we can have aspirations of respecting each other and the shared space but unfortunately the reality is cahill that we can't trust us to do that and that's why we need flashing lights and bells and whistles and beacons and stuff cahill do you know what i mean i think that's the problem yeah but yeah but my fear is that now there's all this talk about uh we have to have discussion we have to have discussion we have to discussion those things disappear i'm i'm of an age now where it takes a bit longer to get across the road and i feel that there is a lot of there's a lot of ground given to i am a car driver to car to car drivers so i think as from from the outset of them and put down i notice now that drivers are more aware of them and it'll take time for them because it has to get into their mindset and people are saying people come from here they are in everywhere they have to go through the town it soon gets known that these things are in the town and people will start okay whatever but the lights that would make it even better but it wouldn't make them to disappear in the meantime yes i get it because it makes it very very easy uh have you any have you any close shaves cahill or if they always work perfectly safe for you they've always worked perfectly close because i'm observant i realize that you have to give the driver a little bit of time like the ad on the tv shows yes for the driver to see you uh so like no i would i would hate that they would disappear and right okay i'll get you cahill so let's not throw the baby out with the bath water okay cahill listen thank you very much for your time i really appreciate it and i really and i really appreciate your your time this morning as well cancel him again a very good question who was asked are we talking to pedestrians or are we talking to motorists i suspect we're talking to a combination of both but i think cahill's made some very very fine points there and he in the big ferrora if we were to take a knee jerk reaction to this kind of a conversation would hate to see them gone uh so i think i i can ask answer that question cahill asked they people do you have to be on this morning i've known them all very well they're all local people and they're both they see them walking every day in the town shopper doing the and they also driver so they are genuine and and all the i would say 99 all of the comments that you're getting on on the facebook as well like they are genuine that i'm getting the exact same ones as is the other right now they are in the other countries we are getting as i say that it's very very important that people cross are able to cross well because there has been quite a few people knocked down on the town at different times and but we need to get it right this is not been done right it seemed to be a total lack of communication from the department for the council we consulted in advance actually it's another question cahill asked surely this came up at a meeting and you local local reps were able to have their say yeah no i'll tell you how that happened and you pointed out earlier yourself you see within the roads um the road has been narrowed and you have these outshots on the footpath with unbound fence so they were on about five or six years ago we were told they've been put there the concern at the time was they were outside businesses business which removed some parking spots and the where but we felt they were good enough and they were brought from we're told they're going ahead yeah this is the national roads authority they can do they have the t i i yeah and the same with these we were told that they're bringing in some kind of pedestrian zebra crossings and lo and behold it turned up we asked the next day where it's the lights then we're told afterwards there ain't no lights this is a new pilot scheme and we're sitting now seven eight nine months and we're asking for the lights we're asked we have all asked immediately for the lights to be moved okay so we're the same concerns as the public and we were asking that not just to get rid of them but they're going to have to provide proper advance warning signs and something that's safe for everyone give everyone a fair crack at the whip and keeping everybody safe take care of yourself councillor Patrick McGowan there okay listen thanks to all of you for getting involved in that conversation broadcasting throughout the northwest and across the world online this is Highland radio your voice your station Highland radio the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 the world awaits you make that dream your next adventure cruise the 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tuesday of last week and 43 the tuesday before that speaking ahead of today's cabinet meeting minister donnelly says the reduction will hopefully ease pressure on the hospital system in the weeks ahead the indications for now are that that we probably are past the peak we know rsv has been a declining steadily for for several weeks now covet has been coming down the number of patients in hospital with covet has been coming down steadily but the early indications are hopefully that we have passed the peak and the question now is how quickly will it come down senior hse officials in the region are to meet with northwest iraq this members and regional health forum members on friday to discuss the future of now dock confirmation of the meeting comes as donnie goll county council prepares to write to the hse seeking a clarification on the services future councillor donnell coyle told a meeting of letter kenny municipal district this week it's important the clarification is given on the status of the letter kenny base and also the satellite units in carntona deri beg and mount charles he says a lot of employees of the hse who work with now dock also need confirmation as to their future status councillor coyle says the network services taking a lot of pressure off letter kenny university hospital and any diminution of its services could have a serious knock on effect on the hospital itself without now dock and you know what would be happening letter kenny now because the service that they provide and i know it's like i've been restricted in there at the meeting that there's a lot of tweaking to be done in the server but i do believe that it's a fantastic service and it is certainly relieving the pressure on the hospital a helicopter has crashed near a nursery school in ukraine killing 18 people including the country's interior minister and three children police say the aircraft came down in a kiv suburb 15 children are among 29 others who were injured it's not clear what caused the crash officials made no reference to any russian attack in the area at the time the garther commissioner is urging people who may be the subject of intimidation for so called drug debts in dunigol to contact gar thee speaking during a visit to the county on monday true harris said he's concerned over the number of incidents of intimidation of people and their families dunigol's chief superintendent adrian blacken adan blacken excuse me speaking at the recent meeting of the dunigol jpc confirmed an operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the county in recent months in letter kenny and bunkrana resulted in a significant number of arrests garther commissioner true harris warned of the dangers that drugs it is a priority enforcement takes us so far but there's certainly a piece about people are going to ask for their own health and being educated as to the risks they're taking there's no quality control on cocaine there's no such thing as fair trade cocaine you are buying something which has which has been produced through slave labour on the and through violence and intimidation and murder in other parts of the world which then happens here as well there are concerns the new pensions auto enrolment scheme could widen the pension gender pay gap irish life and the pensions authority will appear before the joint rock this social protection committee today the plan due to come into effect in 2024 will see workers automatically signed up to a scheme where for every three euro they save their employer will match their contribution and the state will contribute one euro the pensions authority will urge the government to introduce pension auto enrolment as soon as possible irish life will tell the committee the plan will put women in a worse position than those within existing workplace pension schemes the committee's chair denise nocton says tds and senators have worries over who will run the scheme many members of the committee feel that they should be run and controlled by the national treasury management agency or a similar agency within government that is managing substantial funds for the state rather than going out to the private sector cast and today will be cold with sunny spells and scattered showers of rain sleet and snow top temperatures today two to five degrees celsius in a moderate to fresh west to northwest wind and just to remind you again that the met air and have issued a new status yellow advisory for dunny god it lasts until friday warning of further hail sleet and snow showers up to friday motorists again being urged to exercise extreme caution while on the roads freezing fog also set to be a factor we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning obituary notices for wednesday morning january 18th the death has taken place of josey diver tierna league carandona removal from the eternal light chapel of res mountaintop letter kenny today at 5 30 p.m going to her sister margaret's home at tierna league carandona funeral leaving there on friday at 10 15 a.m to the church of the sacred heart carandona for regret mass at 11 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house private tonight family flowers only donations in lieu of flowers to icu and letter kenny university hospital care of any family member the death has taken place of edward mcmonigal golyn mulford and later of terman funeral mass in st bridgitt's church golyn at 11 a.m on friday followed by interment in mulford cemetery the house is strictly private please the death has occurred of ann kelly knee mcquee three st vincent's close balba fe and formerly of meme glass remains reposing at her late residence this evening from 5 p.m funeral leaving from there on friday at 10 30 a.m for regret mass in st mary's church sesha o nil at 11 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard the regret mass will be streamed by the parish facebook page donations in lieu of flowers to the donningall hospice care of any family member family time from 9 p.m to 11 a.m the death has occurred of patrick carlin formerly of leetrim bogey newtown conningham and clenna mahon intellectual and disability service county slago patrick will be reposing at his sister ursula carlin's residence 20 green hill manor conningham from 3 p.m this afternoon and tomorrow from 11 a.m funeral leaving his sister's residence on friday morning at 10 20 a.m going to st basins church st johnson for 11 o'clock regret mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of sheamus mccaig one ashlon letterkinny formerly tor head county antrim reposing at the eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letterkinny from 3 30 p.m to 4 30 p.m this afternoon concluding with removal to the church of the irish marchers ballerina letterkinny for reception prayers at 5 p.m reposing overnight for 11 a.m regret mass tomorrow which can be viewed online at the church of the irish marchers youtube channel followed by interment in the family plot in conwall cemetery family flowers only please donations if wished to the friends of letterkinny university hospital care of pascal black funeral director the death has taken place of patty mcsheen 5 ballie colman estate straban and formerly of burn denett remains reposing at his son joe mcsheen's home 114 berry hill road arty garvin straban funeral leaving his son's home tomorrow morning at 10 20 a.m for regret mass in st mary's church clock core at 11 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the death has taken place of eddie mcgloughlin 45 carry golyn road straban and formerly of legford drum remains are posing at his home funeral leaving his home tomorrow afternoon at 12 15 p.m for regret mass in the church of the immaculate conception straban at 1 p.m interment afterwards in straban cemetery donations in lieu of flowers please to the foil hospice care of quickly funeral directors family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the regret mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam the death has occurred of mary mcdevitt knee mccall 99 ard patrick glinty's formally narenport new marriage remains or pose at her residence today from 11 a.m until 4 p.m and from 6 p.m to 10 p.m removal to st connell's church glinty's tomorrow morning for regret mass at 11 a.m with interment afterwards in the local cemetery house private on the morning of the funeral funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv the death has taken place of john carter willow grove bon crana formally of ballina hone fawn his remains are opposing at his brother and sister in law tony and phyllis carter's residence 46 crana view funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 15 a.m going to st murris church fawn for 11 o'clock regret mass of burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 10 p.m until 10 a.m the death has taken place of fellow mena mcinty garva barnsmore dunigall town proposing at her home in garva with rosary tonight at 9 p.m funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m to st agathis church clar for 11 o'clock regret mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations in louis to the on college unit at letter kenney university hospital or cancer research family time on the morning of the funeral please the death has taken place of bridget morrow letter brick clochen funeral from her home in letter brick this afternoon for 1 p.m regret mass in the church of warlady of perpetual succor glenn finne fall by burial in the family plot in kilte vogue cemetery family flowers only with donations in louis if desired to the alzheimer society of ireland or clochan health center the death has occurred of annie patten castle bane strunorder her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral leaving her late residence tomorrow afternoon at 12 15 p.m for regret mass in sim patrick's church crossroads killie gordon at 1 p.m. interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard the regret mass will be streamed live on sim patrick's church crossroads killie gordon youtube channel family time from 9 p.m until 12 noon each day and on the morning of the funeral and the death has occurred of samuel derrick phlemon gortley letter kinny derrick service of thanksgiving will take place in trinity presbyterian church main street letter kinny this afternoon at 1 30 p.m fall by burial in the family plot at gortley cemetery the service can be viewed on trinity presbyterian church facebook page family flowers only police donations if wished to the dunagall hospice care of pascal black funeral director for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highlandradio.com taking time out to visit a health care professional isn't always convenient that's why at irish life health we visit you with my clinic our members get virtual access to back and neck 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the break we're joined in studio by collin kill patrick now collin a very good morning get to you thank you so much for calling in morning great it's good to have you with us now trucking for creasler will take place on saturday february fourth meeting at bernard long and son's transporter yard in baller buffet at 1 p.m sharp and we'll talk more about that and how you can register your lorry and everything else that's coming up as well this is the new bank holiday you told me just before we came on so it's a nice long weekend for people right collin i mean you know obviously lots of people want as much as they can to do events or what have you to support creasler the people of creasler following the awful awful tragedy but this is something that's particularly close to you collin isn't it very very close to my heart yet so you were um one of the first on the scene on that um that that day of the tragedy it was yeah yeah i mean how clear is it in your mind or what do you remember of um that's that's the area you can i can see everything like it's it's still very clear it's very raw you were delivering in the area at the time with the explosion so you witnessed the explosion i did i was just across the road there in the homeland so it's not that far away and obviously it became clear very quickly that this was a very serious instant uh yeah first first of all i thought it was a tire or you know something on the lorry but just looked up and seen what happened yeah and we're not going to focus too much on that but i also want people to recognize that you know you didn't hop in the lorry and go on about your business you um went straight into action to try and save people to rescue people yeah well i ran up to see you know to see what was happening and i just had never ended from there i was there right through to the end so you help people as much as you could escape the rubble and then um you took on a roller driving then as well what that's right um the the the guys at mucky sent up lorries they took a weatherable and i would know that family that'd be the only family i would have known increasingly and uh they just it just happened i jumped on the one lorries took it around the back and we were asked then by the the firemen you know could we stay on they needed they needed help like and that ended up through the night i drove that lorry then and that was a i mean that was just a solid 24 hours for you it was when i got back into me lorry it was 23 hours and 56 minutes i can you know i can remember that on the time so 24 hours and it so quickly became clear that this was a horrific tragedy oh yeah straight away um you were taking a step by step and doing as much as you can i suppose maybe half an hour an hour on it you realized how severe it was and because it was of our local community you know we sometimes see these things on you know on on tv or or you read about them in a newspaper or what have you but you know this was our local community it was local people affected for the most part and you know the the people waiting on news in the local area it was just it was just um i mean it was an amazing response from the likes of yourselves and others in the emergency services but it was also just unbelievably raw and real seeing people going through that that awful process of waiting on news or finding out news or yeah like there was people there as i say i'm not from there but you realized a few years on that that was actually the families and you know that that was tough to know that the families were there and they were waiting that would have been the hardest part like you know yeah so with everything um that you've witnessed the for everything that you did and i'm sure the people of creasla and all those affected not just from creasla impacted by this are so grateful to you and and all the others because early on colin you know it wasn't clear how safe what you were doing was either um we should never forget that of course because this was a a petrol station so there was an element of risk in you trying to help getting people out of there that was the fear like you know it was in my mind about the petrol and only then later you realize how safe under the ground the petrol tanks are but at that time i had no idea that was a fear like do you ever ask you like what was it in it what was in you i don't know if you've ever had to respond to anything even remotely like this in the past but do you know what sort of kicked in in you that sort of made you you know run to the scene rather than run from it that that gave you the energy to to work as you did for the next 24 hours well maybe when you're on the road you see accidents and things like that then you would be you would see different things but i would say maybe it's been a failure it would have been the thing that made me rush on to it you know just imagine if it was one of yours well this is it like you know and you would you know that if it was the other way about it would be the same you would get you know if it was your child in there that somebody would help as well like now when did you decide that you wanted to do the truck the trucking for creasel event soon after the man i work for bernard we spoke about it and because we're highly involved in lorries you know lorries a run was again an idea that came up first and we said we'll let it sit there after christmas you know for it was as early like too soon but it wasn't long after the whole thing that we did speak about it and he's behind me 100% he's helping that's bernard long and sung transporters bernard long and sung transport yeah right okay so then you start to put these things together and i'm not did you realize there was going to be as much work and organization in it as as often the turns out do we i wonder i didn't think too much about it the work and the efforts not a problem i'm just overwhelmed by the support we're holding an auction you see and there's there's some great stuff donated straight away without a question like the lorry man you ring a lorry man you tell him the story bernard would ring and tell him in the story why we're doing it and whatever you want you'll get i mean there's over 70 lorries all registered already registered there would be there would be 100 now at the moment really okay that's huge so anyone out there with a lorry it's 30 euro to register per lorry um and the uh the procession takes off um from the bernard long and sons transporter yard in balaba faiths at 1 p.m sharp on february um the fourth isn't it uh how do people register their lorries before we talk about what else is happening well you can you can just land on the day there will be somebody there to take the money off you so you can ring me if you want you can let me know just so we have an idea what's coming as well any any business that has a lorry it doesn't have to be you know by gloria and arctic glory it could be a small lorry um you know we're we're getting them as well so just just land on the like people from letter can i surround areas can go to the apple green instead of going to balba fe because we are making the run decrease to to get crecel involved and we didn't want to ask everybody to come as far as so you can pick people up on the way to save them doubling back on themselves exactly and apple green you know they're more than helpful and whatever we want we'll get you know and they're they're going to be there on the day to to x the staff and the parking and and apple green will be there as well like so there's no there's no problem come on the letter kenne if you want as well right so for those who want to join um in balba fe it's at um on february saturday february the fourth it's meeting at the bernard long and sun's transporter yard in balba fe at 1 p.m at shop you can register on the uh day uh following registration colin who's with us here it will lead the parade of trucks to crecel before they make their way back to the silver tassie hotel for an auction followed by a dance we'll talk about the dance in a second what kind of stuff has been donated for the auction uh a lot of great stuff we have rally experiences we have uh what else we have tools uh compressors model lorries coal oil we've got sheep i've got a lamb i've got a Texas they have a lamb here for you um hay straw you know there's something for everybody there there's a lot of stuff new tires things for lorry men there's stuff for farmers there's going to be like weekends away for the you know you don't have to be a lorry driver or a farmer as well the the weekends away can suit anybody there be some there will be something for everybody were you surprised at the generosity of people overwhelmed unreal just like an ordinary man that tries lorry give me a hey bob you know and that's that's a that's a that's worth a lot of money like that's yours brilliant okay um now that auction is uh as we mentioned there in the silver tassie then there is a dance um and uh tickets are 15 euro doors open at 7 p.m uh tony morning's doing the auctioneering on the night by the way i should have mentioned uh you've mentioned some of the stuff that's there that's going to be all done and dusted and then there's a great night's uh of entertainment the david david craig band hugely popular uh no doubt about that and uh he's some operator actually dj tubsy he'll be providing the entertainment uh alongside some other special guests as well so there's more surprises to be added on the night well we're the there's rona mcginney he's balboff a local fella very good country singer he'll probably be kicking it off first um chelsea evans will be there myra mcginley these are all great singers and salsha myra's daughter as well so great all great singers and local people and it's great to have them involved as well like the question really is collin how are you going to pack all this into saturday the fourth well it's a lot from one o'clock to hopefully two o'clock in the morning it'll be all go yeah this has been good for you this process as well colin i'd imagine um because you know you've been through it and i know i can i can get the sense off of you the type that you're not gonna in any way say this is about you uh that this is about those who lost loved ones those were that were injured by but it is the likes of you and dozens of others uh that have a very important part in this whole tragedy yeah well we anybody that was there we would all have a special bond you know even i'm in contact with some of the families you have a bond um this is a big help for me as well surely it's not about me it's about the families but it is helping me it's something to look forward to and it's keeping everything going you know okay right um so do want people to contact you and register in advance or the point now is saying turn up on the day i think if people are joining in the likes of as you mentioned along the route you know maybe letter kenny based drivers or drum keen or wherever it might be um that will want to pick up on the tail of this as it makes its way to creasler um do you want them to contact you in advance colin well it would be better um we're getting great support by the yards we're going to be you know they're going to be there and they're going to do the traffic and it will have to be sharp so we need to be on time so if they could contact me and we get a number the auction as well it's a public auction so anybody that wants to come you know it'll be good fun there'll be good stuff there to buy you know and the dance everything's public like it's not just for the truckers exactly and that's it i mean obviously this is this has a this is as a a trucker agricultural field to it because you know that's your that's your background that's where you're pulling in the assistance but this um not you say anyone with it with a truck can get involved regardless of size or body size but in terms of the auction itself in the silver tassie uh and the dance um and the music on that night that's open to anyone who wants to have a good night's crack uh and also support the um the uh creasler fund yeah the like the families it's for the families the families like are more than welcome to come to it's for them um plus that's another thing i meant to say just if the routes were going on if people want to stand out and watch it oh that's that's gonna happen and support it yeah that's that's what we want and if somebody feels like they can't go to the dance it was just too early if they want to stand out and watch it we're bringing it to creasler to get creasler involved you know there's families and don't family letter can we can't just go everywhere but we're trying to get where it happened and because I was there and just trying to get the creasler part of it involved and like there never would have been a truck run through creasler and i think it's going to be very special you know to see it going through i think there's going to be something else and you know yourself uh collin um truck runs tractor runs they bring out the big crowd so this is uh i think you're going to have the the streets lined from uh bar the shat and balabafi uh to creasler because it's a nice thing to be part of uh and the money raised you mentioned um anyone supporting this what what are you doing with the money uh conan well that's for the families i'm going to try and give it directly to the families and the creasler community fund so i'm not going to rush it you know when we we have to gather it first and it'll be there and we'll just get it sent to the right people who needs it brilliant okay well listen uh you've a great head start already huge numbers registering there's going to be great walk up crowd as well and just to emphasize that uh that uh collin is saying for the for the um for the auction in the silver tassie on february 4th and the dance that follows afterwards in the entertainment uh that's open to absolutely everyone to turn up and bid um and also uh to go and have a dance and enjoy yourselves and support this great cause collin anything else you want to add uh no that's what uh you might call me yourself i might is that an invite well can you get me your room we need we need another singer well listen come here why would i ruin such a positive positive positive event collin it sounds like it's going to be great fun i would love to be able to to get along to we have lorries like from from waterford i've been contacted from waterford claire slago belfast nearly every corner of ireland has contacted me and there's a lot of people out there you see that kind of want to do something but feel helpless like well what can you do and you're giving them a different group of people an opportunity to say right i've this this affected me even though i'm in waterford you know people with children or or not or whatever it is this is giving those people an opportunity to say right i can get involved in something here that's right part of that's what they are saying like that's what they are saying it's just at home you know at home with people and i suppose the trucking community is a community in its own and they're seeing it and this is their way to get involved brilliant stuff okay um who how do people contact you in advance collin do you want us to hold on to your mobile number uh you can do yeah and we'll pass it out rather than read it out it's on it's on facebook uh it's on an event on facebook trucking for chrisley my number is there bernard longansson in contact him i've helped there from the drivers as well dean and i've i've helped from a lot of people like you know jared higgardy reamon of any they're all going to help they're going to be in the apple green letter candy of men there so the word the word on the trucking side of it everybody kind of knows it's just the public exactly it's the public because and this thing is growing this thing has become something maybe beyond what you organized well it is already it is already like the the donations hasn't you know for auction i'm overwhelmed with what i've got already so i'd like if it keeps coming in that we'll be happy right and if anyone else wants sort of wants to contribute logistically i suppose in terms of you know um items for auction or whatever you will give them your mobile number as well i assume you'll appreciate everything uh the people have all right so put this date in your diary one more time for you folks saturday february the fourth if you're a truck lorry driver out there you want to get involved in the trucking for chrisley in actually making your way from the yard to chrisley or picking up with the procession on its way um you're open to do that you're invited to do that and we have collins number for you maybe you want to donate something for something significant for the for the auction we have collins number for you here as well and also if you want to go and have a great night's crack at the silver tassi it's a wonderful venue there the auction's taking place there and the dance tickets are 15 euro doors open at 7 p.m. tony morning is doing the auctioneering and david craig band dj tubs you know a whole host of other brilliant artists are um performing uh we'd like to thank collin for all he has done he is honest and a genuine person who risked his own safety in life we will never forget him and people like him um collin it's just a sample of the the messages that are coming through i think you know what you you did and it's importance to people oh yeah yeah yeah like i've a lot of people have reached out to me and it's it's lovely to hear you know and this this here will be part of it as well you know yeah well lots of people said we had to get young and we always intended to the city we're a lovely fellow collin so you do whatever you do that's good news whatever you do keep doing it all right come here 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back on to the program brian cannon director of roads and transportation with dunny gold county council brian good morning to you morning greg right so what's the the picture out there um overnight this morning and i suppose up to the current time on the roads brian um well again our crews were out um last night and from uh from early this morning as well greg across our 21 routes um in general on our gridded routes conditions are passable some areas um uh at slightly higher elevation the lahe pedico road um this morning was a was a wee bit more troublesome um but in general the gridded routes are passable again off the gridded routes um road conditions are still um um i see and i think in a way they're slightly a little bit worse because yesterday morning from what i saw or anyway and what i was being told it was honest snow sort of a thing now there's been bits of rain overnight a little bit of thawing then a little bit of freezing so i think in in some ways in some cases the back roads were a little bit worse this morning maybe than they might have been yesterday morning now the weather advisory is in place until friday for us here so we can um i'm not sure in terms of snowfall or what have you brian but in terms of traveling and the roads and what your crews are going to have to do it's going to remain a bit a busy rest of the week absolutely greg and in particular uh in the fun valley i would suggest that there is an element of thaw this morning but there's uh low temperatures again predicted this evening and overnight um which will lead to to quite icy stretches in many places um both um you know in particular off the the gridded routes but in on the gridded routes where you have a bit of thaw and you've run in water it can wash the salt off the road so we can't predict or can't presume any uh road is ice free and then that pattern is likely continued through tomorrow and into friday morning um with that freeze thaw um where you're going to have the the water particularly um freezing in different locations across the road network yeah so i think us as motorists have to exercise this stream caution even on treated routes because you know it could be treated at eight we could be on the road at ten or whatever so you just have to uh presume you know that that that that no road is ice free absolutely yeah and and again if you can choose uh a gridded route even if it's slightly longer for your for your route um if you have to travel then do that definitely you've a wee bee in your bonnet about us trying to take shortcuts that you aren't treating haven't you tell the truth well yeah and we can't treat every road and as i said it's 1100 kilometers there there are options there and go the long way around you're saying there were people taking shortcuts um where maybe there was other options available and getting stuck in mountain rest you coming out so if you can choose and listen there are loads of people that can't um in particular uh choose a gridded route but obviously then they just have to exercise and it's a human condition i think we've all done it at some stage you say well stuff it'll save 10 minutes the next thing you stock and you're taking up the resources uh of the emergency services or something so it's a it's a valid point i do take uh that uh but as i say you know use can only do so much we have to do our bit and just presume that no road is uh ice free and and brian's explained there how even a road that's just been treated that can be you know running water or something that can wash the the aggregate or the salt off and and then um you could have that thaw freeze uh situation uh all right well we'll listen obviously we're going to be we've been keeping everyone up to date throughout the day uh on the programs and and through um the council social media and all that type of stuff but this is the weather uh maybe not snow lying everywhere but it's going to be cold until friday that's what we're being told right first hour of the show happened upon these crossings zebra crossings in balaba fe and strunaller and i think it kind of breaks into two parts here brian i think we can probably learn to live with the majority of them but there's particularly a particular concern about the zebra crossing at the bank and i get that too you've got a crossing between two yellow boxes you've got traffic coming from behind for a pedestrian flying down from the right whether it should or not coming up from the left and people x-ting and entering a car park opposite i mean is this the norm now or are we still in a pilot situation or what's your view on these crossings yeah we're in a pilot a pilot phase greg here there's a number of locations have been selected around the country by tii to to run this pilot program um that pilot program has recently been supported by a change legislation in relation to not requiring a sign or flashing beacons at at at um at zebra crossing before you move on can you understand the logic of that because we have zebra crossings right which are pretty much established across the globe pedestrians understand them motorists understand them why would we why would we pass legislation to have something that's kind of like a zebra crossing operates like a zebra crossing but doesn't look like a zebra crossing and then 50 yards up the road there is a proper zebra crossing do you know why would we why would we be tinkering with that particularly in sort of urban areas why why why reinvent the wheel yeah as you said greg there's there are zebra crossings um right throughout the country but also right across the the the world we've we've travelled they do come in different forms um actually um in in other countries the the belisha beacon type crossings are not common um in many cases it is the it is without the belisha beacon and these these crossings that are being trialed in in the twin towns as part of the the pilot are to uh be an alternative to the belisha beacon type crossing um i suppose if we look at the twin towns uh in general there's about 1.2 kilometers from glenn finn street junction all the way over to mcclay's corner and that uh over that period there's actually three controlled crossings there's there's one of mingle hynnies there's one outside the the old finn valley college and there's a set uh at mcclay's corner um at that location now as we know um pedestrians um and we talked about taking shortcuts in relation to snow pedestrians there's desire lines will will cross in multiple locations throughout the town and in some and in some cases people are are um coming out onto the road between parked cars to train crossroads um uh maybe taking diagonal routes across actually crossing crossing longer etc but they do that at zebra crossing still but anyway i take i know the what you get absolutely and and this this pilot i suppose is to try and maybe highlight where crossing will take place to perhaps maybe concentrate crossing in certain areas and to increase the visibility now in relation to the rules of the road the rules of the road booklet that we all get when we we do our driving test and and maybe perhaps we should all reread it every so often as well um even uh belisha beacon type crossings drivers must stop to let you across as they approach the crossing they should slow down and prepare be prepared to stop um but when it comes to pedestrians pedestrians also have responsibilities when it comes to crossing the road you know you don't have the right of way over traffic until you actually step on to the crossing so you can't just run from the footpath and run across um never step out onto the crossing if uh this would cause a driver to break or to have to swerve suddenly okay well let's take the bank then let's take the crossing at the bank you're expecting a pedestrian and and quite rightly so to monitor four lanes there they they have to make sure traffic is stopped behind them if they're stepping from the bank they have to make sure traffic has stopped coming down from from donagall road they have to make sure traffic has stopped coming up from macklehenny's and they have to make have to make sure no one's deciding to pull out of the car park entrance exit opposite them i don't think the rules of the road were were written to expect a pedestrian or a motorist to try and contend with spaghetti junction well i wouldn't i wouldn't necessarily call it a spaghetti junction greg but the the the issue there is there is a desire line for pedestrians and if if that pedestrian that high visibility crossing as they're being referred to was um 50 meters down down down the road uh we would be removing um parking outside premises where where you know you have the bank link you've other shops there etc i would guarantee you're still going to get people crossing big poles with junction two big poles with orange flashing lights on the top of them yeah then everyone knows what it is yeah yeah look and that's that's part you know this this is a useful um exercise greg and you know reissue in the press release it's basically the same press release that went out last June inviting submissions inviting further submissions now six months six months later getting the feedback um there's been quite a bit of feedback online um uh the uh the there'll be feedback there is feedback sought in the press release that went out info at tai.ie in relation to submissions and all of that will be will be um assessed um and you know uh if there's improvements required as part of that um feedback who makes the shout on that is it the council of the tii uh it's uh did you say yeah who you know who considers the submissions and and maybe makes changes or otherwise dependent on what those solutions might be yes the the the email addresses info at tai.ie that goes directly to the tii however the tii are are progressing this project in partnership with ourselves but also with the courtesy economy um the the traffic section and there's been there's been um uh discussion on this in a form called the collision prevention program where tii ourselves um the courtesy economy etc discuss the whole matter of road safety issues and um you know the the the council um will be part of the assessment process will the the the submissions will be shared and we will be able to put our views on that now the council has published in that press release uh they did a survey of people and overwhelmingly people local people presumably whoever was on the street at the time uh thought it was a good idea do you know how many people were were surveyed were they motorists were they pedestrians no i don't have the figures the the actual numbers but it was um a a staff member um was in the twin towns uh basically just um just up to people as after across so what in a form yeah okay okay what's the status of the crossing sintonic old town the what are they like you you know you've outlined precisely how is ever crossing works in terms of pedestrians and motorists what's the story of the ones in donning old town they they would be would be deemed uncontrolled crossings or courtesy crossings whereby again the the pedestrian um makes contact with the the driver from the kerb um and then when there's a supposed agreement between them that the driver has stopped and and they proceed it's it's a matter of courtesy and there's no obligations for the motorists to stop in that's in for those crossings yes yeah and and look in reality um uh our our um uh towns and villages are car dominated and the you know we are moving towards um being more friendly for a variety of road users that includes pedestrians but also includes cyclists includes um vulnerable road users um wheelchair users etc um and also you know there are um other people that just need a bit of extra time at at crossings as well so it's it's it's um it's trying to improve our response to cahill earlier on who who would hate to see this ferreroa if you could call it that it's probably not it's probably storming to keep tickle for them all of a sudden then to be removed i don't think anyone wants that but i think the consensus that we are receiving and maybe people who don't like them are more motivated to contact us and maybe it's not fully representative i accept that possibly could be the case though i suspect it's not um i think what pedestrians and motorists want is a fair crack of the whip that if you have a certain type of zebra crossing very close by that they saw the zebra crossing would at least mirror that or mimic it although we don't have to think so much you know how uh we we don't want people on the mobile phones when they're driving because that's split second a distraction can cause a problem so it's just to give us the pedestrians and the motorists the one more motorist than a pedestrian i'll be honest to just to give us fair fair warning that's i think that's an a wee bit of common sense brian do you think there should be signs and lights on those crossings brian brian yeah well let's say this is part of the pilot and it was a human person take off your cancel hat throw it in the fire you're a citizen of this county and your view is as important as anyone else is in my book brian do you think that these zebra crossings are a good idea as they are right now well greg these look i'm on here to represent the dunagal county council fair enough but dunagal county council is is made up of individuals people that live and breathe people that cross the road brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles yeah of course exactly our citizens our cousins etc that that we all live in dunagal we're all here to do a job to improve our county and believe me uh our uh myself and our colleagues are very much invested in trying to make improvements and and you know we do uh not expect a pat in the back for everything that we do um and we do want to receive feedback both uh positive and negative in in a constructive manner and you know we're we're we're seeing that throughout this uh throughout this process and we'd encourage people to to make their submissions to info at ta dot e in reference in the the balabafay pilot project because you know we do want to make this to improve i don't believe that in the twin towns we want uh five or six or seven or eight controlled crossings with traffic lights stopping the traffic no i don't know i agree with you you know so i think it's about finding a balance here we also think it's them being lit i think it's them being that i think it's i've had people step that that appeared on them uh or stepped out and it's just because you know it's dark the lights aren't great in those in those towns there's cars coming on you know there's cars coming in the other direction there's windscreen wipers growing you know the situation it's a reality we have a terrible climate here at times and it's just though if they were lit you could get all right that's that person because they're not going to be necessarily in fluorescent clothes that you would expect on a byroad they're going to be wearing a dark suit or a long black jacket because they're only fleeting between shops and it just doesn't make sense to me that we don't make sure that those people are safe and that a motorist doesn't have an awful tragedy on their conscience um that's it brine but listen as you say it's a process it's ongoing um one quick one here back to roads if you don't mind i don't like to do specifics with you because it's it's impossible to expect you to have knowledge of absolutely everything it would be completely unfair but someone says can the catcats will not grit the drive from just st joseph's hospital that houses the emergency ambulance base please i want to put that one too because that seems a bit logical um do you are you familiar with that do you know if it is or why it's not gritted yeah it's it's not currently on our grit and route the um the 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07491 twenty five thousand we're in the company of dr dyra reynolds partner at erigal dental good morning to you how are you getting on good to see you again getting well getting all well how are you uh good last time i was speaking to you we were kind of in the throes of the pandemic and you were having to adapt and adjust and all that type of stuff things operating close to normal now yeah pretty much Greg thanks um yeah the pandemic was a difficult time for sort of medical practitioners dental practitioners um you know lots of whatever was true of social distancing in with the general public it was sort of more so when you went into a sort of a clinical environment but happily all of that stuff is is more or less behind well i mean we still have you know operate the same precautions we wear our PPE and wear our masks but we don't have to be uh you know patients can can enter the the waiting areas more or less as per normal so yeah look i'm happy to be able to report things there things are good okay uh listen we'll have more general chit chat but questions coming in already uh believe it or not i didn't flag this in advance but it's great to see uh i have bumpy teeth can i get them shaved or is that really bad for them i'm not no idea what they're talking about there i guess it depends on the the degree of the bumpiness some people will have irregularities in there in the outer layer of your teeth is the is the enamel um some people particularly younger people when their their adult teeth come through sometimes they have these little lumps and bumps called mamalons um if they're quite pronounced yeah they can be they can be smooth polished off a little bit and typically it won't have any detrimental effect on the enamel but again it depends on the degree if the more enamel you remove the the theoretically the weaker the tooth becomes at that point so there's a a degree with which you you you would be concerned but i mean agendas if they had a look at that if you asked the question they'd be able to tell you very quickly whether it'll be a problem or not um in terms of uh babies toddlers using a pacifier or a bottle does that actually get that actually affect their their teeth shape as they mature or is that a myth or what's the story uh no because my own daughter and she'll kill me for saying this she we were a bit slow getting rid of her soother and it it it can can content to stop the teeth coming together at the front in particular um and normally once the kid stops wearing that the the problem the human body sort of responds amazingly well and and that'll rectify itself uh but it's all it's like anything if you can try and have the kid not having the soother too long certainly you wouldn't want a child still with a sort of pacifier you know when their when their adult teeth are starting to come through because that can certainly have a a much longer term knock on effect i mean you know anything can be solved with orthodontics but prevention is better than cure so certainly better to try and get rid of a pacifier i'd recommend you know at the very latest by by age four five and i mean that might sound very late but i suppose there are some children out there that would have a tendency to suck their tongues and or have pacifiers even quite late so yeah you know the you can get rid the better yeah all right uh my son never wore his retainer will it harm his teeth to get braces again first set when he was 14 he's 21 now and wanted to straighten his teeth again so presumably he got them straightened before but didn't wear the retainer and that work has been undone is that familiar is that common it's it's it's a really familiar story um you know it's it's so regular that that that people uh children adolescents teenagers get get the orthodontics don't get a beautiful result uh but but wearing the retainer is so important and um it's it's uh you know but that's so common you wouldn't believe it um as regards having their braces redone again that there's no problem there uh adult orthodontics is very very common now uh certainly in places you know in europe and in the states in canada places like that but but increasingly so in in ireland where you get a lot of other people into their into their 40s 50s and 60s even if there are issues that they don't like about the shape of their teeth there's no reason you you just have to sit on that and you know you there's lots you can do about that so to answer that particular listeners question no no issue have an orthodontics redone if they so wish and there'll be no tutting no tutting no it happens all the time youth is wasted on the young like kids they get or get beautifully straight teeth but then they don't realize you know how important it is and their parents will spend the fortune on their braces so it's really important that they wear those retainers uh i i want to read this one slowly because this is i think this is quite an important one and i i don't know if this is the same situation this person was in but it took me three or four years to work up the courage to return to an optician because an optician said something to me as i was leaving the opticians right i don't want to go into it it's my own mind right but i understood it took me three or four years i had this fear of returning to an opticians so i have a feeling this person might have a fear of going to the dentists maybe but not in the traditional sense because of needles and stuff um so we'll treat that question in that way if that's okay they suffered with mental health issues that have caused them to neglect their teeth they're very very wary about going into a dentist what can i say to them i don't want to get told off this is a big deal for me and my recovery so they want to go into the dentist but and i think this will be important as part of the recovery but they're for one reason or another they maybe don't want to get scolded for neglecting their teeth or maybe there's a bit of anxiety in going into into the dentist so what's your message to them i would say it's important for them to to i would say maybe take it's not exactly a leap of faith but but what i would say is look first of all when you're making an appointment in most dental surgeries and you know i think ours is typical of most of your first point of contact is going to be the reception staff and typically those guys are so well trained they're so used to dealing with the public and if you just if this individual just says look you know opens their heart opens and look this is the situation i'd love to meet the dentist for a consultation these are my issues and and like the the the reception staff will typically make that note on the patients on their patients record so and and even let and let the dentist know look this is the situation this person is is uneasy about coming back to the dental environment you know we would like to you know a nice simple gentle consultation for visit one you know to talk about the issues and just so that the dentist then forewarned his forearms nose and i'd be very surprised like most dentists like we're not all school anymore don't tend to get told off uh or god at least i hope not um when they go to the dental surgery that you know if and if somebody says you know as i said earlier opens their hearts just look to the dentist you know these are these are the problems i have you know and i i want to try and fix this um you know what can we do because uh like doctor and patient dentists and patient it's it's a partnership and you're both working towards the same ends you're both working to for the dental health of that individual and also you're hoping to get an end result that the patient likes that they look when they look in the mirror they like what they see you know so to that listener uh you will get a sympathetic and understanding welcome from your dentist just tell the staff in advance they've heard it all before probably and they know how to deal with things there a few notes could be left on your file for the dentist and you can go in and continue that part of your journey which seems sort of from my reading of the texts sort of linked to the whole thing so hopefully that's helped is there any way i can get my filling subsidized can't claim it back on tax and i have a lot of work to get done there are some people depending on means testing would have medical cards medical card fillings are um are heavily subsidized in in any given calendar year the first two fillings you have done uh are free or or well rather they're not maybe they're not entirely free anymore but they are they're very very heavily subsidized uh that's for people on who have a medical card and not everybody does and then for people who don't have a medical card there isn't any particular government scheme or or or there are some dental insurance products on the on the market and i'm no i'm no expert now when it comes to are we still in that situation where we can get our take some people can get their teeth pulled for free but can't get their teeth cared for for free yeah unfortunately it's one of the shortcomings that you're referring there Greg to the to the medical cards scheme yeah it really is it's basically an emergency scheme it's it's to cover pain it very much just covers the basics it covers extractions um it covers a couple of fillings in any given year uh but you know dentures things like that it it doesn't cover an awful lot it's quite limited uh and outside of that that really you know dental care in in the country is is effectively is private there there's very little government put into it you know the government doesn't provide much towards it it's worth bearing in mind though um the vast bulk of the population anybody who's making or almost everyone who makes pure aside contributions uh isn't it can can gain or is entitled to a dental examination every year a couple of victories every year and a cleaning that's heavily subsidized it there's it only costs you know 10 or 15 euros to have the teeth clean once a year so so that does cover some preventative stuff and that's that's actually a much bigger portion of the population that people realize it's like a lot of people when they go to say to the opticians um you know are surprised to learn that they have a a free eye exam well dental care is the same anyone who can get get a free eye exam can can most likely get a free dental exam as well all right my child is three and a half she still doesn't have her upper lateral incisors they just never came down and she's got two gaps where they should be does she need to be seen by a dentist and sorry did the child was whole uh three and a half three and a half sometimes a lateral incisor it's what's called congenital eabs and it's just it just never formed uh when the baby was very very young and if that's the case it can often repeat itself when the adult teeth come through that would be my suspicion um in the three and a half year old because normally a three and a half year old will have all of their baby teeth normally all the baby teeth are through by about two ish by two two and a half so certainly by three and a half it expect them to be there if it isn't there i'm my guess is that they're probably just not there and if they're not there it's it's it's not a question of rushing off to the dentist because there's there's nothing to be done if you know what i mean uh if they're not there the you know you certainly don't make any adjustments or changes to a baby's teeth uh if the uh if the adult teeth are missing then it's a question in the future you know you might there might if there is resulting if there's some spacing at the front yeah you're thinking in terms of braces orthodontics to close those spaces perhaps all right my teeth and gums bleed at night can the dentist give any advice on a product called pro dentine and these are probably the words that fill you with fear i saw it advertised on the internet um pro dentine i'm not aware of that product there are a lot of products that people will be quite familiar with you know just normal you know tv or social media advertising things like corsetal is a brand and another brand called akin have a range of products which are you know pretty effective they all have an active ingredient in them called chlorhexidine which effectively is it's an antibacterial and it kills off a lot of the bugs that that cause inflammation of the gums and bleed and therefore bleeding in the gums that's it's a good it's a good starting point and then what the person might want to do is go and see their dentist or go and see their dental hygienists for a really a good effect of cleaning because if you've lots of plaque lots of bacteria in the mouth you know you you could be brushing till the cows come home you won't get it shifted properly yourself if and once you get rid of that you'd be surprised you'd be amazed a lot of that inflammation in the gums will effectively sort itself out but it's amazing how i can't i got something stuck in my gum a bit of food or something i didn't realize i had but in a matter of days there was swelling there was issues with you know it's astonishing how quickly uh i suppose it's dirty dirty teeth how quickly they can it can manifest itself into something yeah well that's something very actually you know things like um like uh like popcorn little popcorn or stuff stuff that can get stuck between the teeth stuck in your gums because our gums actually produce a fluid of their own and if the gum is blocked that fluid can't come out it's like it's like part of it's a con it's part of your saliva sweaty gums yeah yeah and if your gums cannot sweat they they do get blocked and therefore yeah quite suddenly you can get swelling and which is the beginning of an infection but then again on the flip side it's it's once you get that shifted it's easy to get rid of and it'll sort itself but yes just with that example you gave you will struggle uh with a toothbrush uh on cleaning a caller asks uh i don't know what the motivation for the question is uh is there a different is is there a different degrees to cleaning teeth in dentists like do you get what you pay for um i suppose it it's time uh if you go for a standard what's called a scale and polish and that's the type of thing that's covered under your annual pure side contributions you'll typically you'll have used what's called a profy paste which is in effect a gritty toothpaste it's a slightly abrasive toothpaste it gets rid of a lot of the stains and plaque and stuff that your own home brand toothpaste won't get rid of and on top of that you should receive um a cleaning with what's called an ultrasonic scaler now what that's actually for that's a finer instrument it gets into the areas that your toothbrush doesn't it gets into those nooks and crannies between the back teeth underneath your gums shifts a lot of what's called calculus that's the harder chalky deposit um and that's what's covered under a basic scale and polish now depending on some people it has been quite a while since they're at the dentist or some people develop huge amounts of plaque and tartar they need to be brought back for secondary or maybe even the tertiary cleaning whereby they just need a really deep cleaning done and that takes longer sometimes it even requires local anesthetic if they've got loads of uh deposits it's sort of under gum level so to answer the patient's question yeah so a dentist may well say uh because of the the situation in your mouth i'm gonna have to clean your teeth over a couple of consultations okay i'll get you uh i have an ongoing fight with my daughter who is whitening her teeth far too much how often is safe now we don't know what she's using to whiten them because there's no end the product's been advertised on tiktok and then there's the dental the dentist's um system as well so we don't know what she's using but can you overdo it uh if the product is safe well i was put it this way even if the product is safe you can probably overdo it yeah a little so long as they're using something that has a c mark is reputable like it's it's typically it's a carbamide peroxide or a hydrogen peroxide um normally any whitening product to do it for about a fortnight to start with and thereafter i would only say to my patients uh thereafter do it for you know a couple of nights per month that's really all you need to keep the result fresh i mean it's not something you should even be doing for a couple of nights per week and and these products they they they own they're they're very very safe but if you're using them constantly constantly i you i would be worried about the repercussions in the long run all right listen we're gonna have to try and squeeze in a couple more uh what age can you have issues with your wisdom teeth my husband's 40 4-0 uh and claims his wisdom tooth is killing him could it actually be a gum issue he's afraid of dentists and trying to get him to make an appointment is impossible can i say before you say one thing before you say uh your thing he's going to end up in a dentist that is a fact right well whether he goes now by choice or ends up having to go uh be dragged there kicking in screaming he's eventually going to have to go to a dentist i understand i can empathize with him but this guy's going to have to go anyway but but uh is it possible his wisdom tooth is playing him up at 40 a wonder dara it's possible great yeah um i wasn't typically no sign of them until uh 16 17 at the very earliest but more often we can be in our in our early 20s before they really start to make have an impact um on occasion if you say lose some other back teeth and that creates some space back there the wisdom teeth can come through much later on so it could be that that the wisdom tooth is starting to push through but typically when wisdom teeth cause trouble it it it is actually strictly speaking a gum issue because it's the gum that typically becomes infected around them uh but again course of antibiotics a good cleaning around that area was sorted out but if the wisdom tooth is trapped it could become a recurring issue and he may be well advised to have that wisdom tooth removed you know and in that case you'd most likely he would be referred to a specialist oral surgeon to have that but i think he needs advice from dr dara and not dr google yeah because i suspect his internet search history would be rich with i have a pain at the back of my mouth or i've discomfort um staying with gums i have gum disease and i'm going for a laser deep clean it's a hundred euro for the top and a hundred euro for the bottom would you recommend it um yeah well if it's a deep clean tone and it's uh normally yeah it's i'd have i'd have no issue with that um i'm not familiar with with with laser cleaning of the teeth per se uh normally we use as i said ultrasonic scalers but i would imagine the process is you know not dissimilar um but if if they've been to a reputable dentist or you know a hygienist and it's told they need a deep cleaning and you know if it's required then it's yeah go for it um math ulcers should i be going to the gp or to the dentist i think most oral issues your your your dentist is more much more familiar with them than your typical gp i mean there's no no harm going to your gp gps are you know very well trained very knowledgeable but usually intro oral oral issues your first protocol no harm going to your dentist because they're they're familiar with it what's going on in there my daughter's nine slow developing her adult teeth at what age should i be concerned they are there but are slow coming down um i think you're okay for time just yes uh if you get towards 11 or 12 and the some of those pre molars and molars still haven't come in you know it'll be no harm to to see well i would hope that they're seeing their dent as any of i mean if they if their child is getting you know an annual checkup you know their dentists again will be able to tell them if there's progress a lot of the time like teeth typically almost always come in with their own uh accord it's very rare that they don't uh and it's very rare that teeth are congenitally absent but it does happen but yeah okay is it true you can only get false teeth on the bottom row if you have front teeth missing is it true you can only get false teeth on the bottom row if you've got front teeth missing so you can get teeth in anywhere you can get teeth in anywhere i i think i know what they're saying um if their bottom front teeth are missing and they still have teeth further back yes the the short answer is yes it makes their life a little easier because their lower denture will sit and fit better whereas the more particularly in the lower jaw the more teeth you're missing the trickier it is to wear a lower denture um that should be good to go couple of callers saying they're having difficulty registering with dentists uh because they have because they're like accepting medical card holders is that something that we're seeing uh or is it just this individual's experience oh no i'd say they're not wrong um that is something that's even nationwide there are fewer and fewer dentists there there are fewer dentists opting into the into the medical car system i sort of this is a historical point and this has been happening gradually for years so i'd say it's just within the last couple of years so the patients are starting to notice that it's it's that bit trickier to find a dental practice that that uh that accepts new medical card patients an awful lot of dentists will have built up a large number of medical card patients over time and may may find that their their books are full and just can't accept any more perhaps it is probably some obligation to the private businesses i presume i'm not i'm not saying it's right or wrong but just so i have a clear understanding i mean these this a dentist practice is a private business they open it up and they choose uh if they want to do one or other or a mix i presume yeah most dentists to do exactly do a mix i know here in our practice we've got with four dentists and we've a mix so there's a most of the dentists see medical card patients one or two don't um and it's really a question of their their book how busy they are and how many you know is because they can only i suppose people list like you're going to your gp your gp can only absorb so many patients like this is a problem we've seen say in the uk for years where you people are even here familiar with the nhs where a lot of people in england uh uk scotland would have difficulty accessing an nhs dentist or doctor that's becoming the case sort of something similar here particularly in dentistry it's getting hard to get to a medical card dentist right look we could have done the hour easily with the amount of interest are but we really do appreciate your time we've got things to do and i know you've got things to do as well so thanks for taking your time out of your busy morning uh to answer those questions really appreciate it that's all Greg all's good to speak to you take care of yourself that is dr darry reynolds partner at erigal dental and that was wellness wednesday focusing on your dental health that item will be back with you uh wellness wednesday next wednesday of course but we'll get back to teeth uh in a not too distant future the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 i think he enjoys the visits and calls at the start he was a bit quiet but i soon got him going so now we talk about all sorts and he knows i'll help him out with a bit of advice when he needs it i often say to him isn't it lucky you started 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do the ta i not stick to one standard because this does not help the pedestrians or the motorists i concurb hi greg just listening here in relation to the pedestrian crossing in balabafay the crossing at the bank is awful there's so much going on with all the junctions and the crossings but if you're speaking from the council doesn't even think it's a spaghetti crossing then sure we're talking to a brick wall and nothing will change i think my reference to spaghetti is spaghetti junction which is a junction in birmingham and if you ever see if you see it from above it looks like a bowl of spaghetti and i think what he was saying is it's it's not quite that bad uh in fairness oh come on don't go ahead to cancel these pedestrian crossings we'll put in place practically overnight without consulting the local drivers or pedestrians like everything else we have to put up or shut up are betters no best dancing at the bonnigieg club in letter kenny is cancelled for tonight by the way in case you weren't aware uh we have a zebra crossing in manner and one of the lights have been out for about nine months have called the council and several counsellors and yet here i am nine months later with it still off right so a zebra crossing in manner one of the lights isn't working that sounds like it needs its bulb changed i'll get a step ladder and go and do it myself uh hopefully though the council will can't believe that all the schools are closed today again and probably tomorrow the snow is actually thawing and has been since last night what's the big problem just be careful when out there it should be no big problem unless you own your own lane or road is untreated is slipping we see uh i don't want to sound in any way patronizing a large proportion of the school and its staff by the way it's not just the students don't live on main roads they live on back roads i had incredible difficulty getting from my house on to the main road once on the main road no problem but incredible difficulty some of the roads are simply not possible a lot of students get to school via bosses the bus companies themselves have to decide whether or not they can drive on many occasions on back roads safely picking up their precious cargo to get them to school safely so a school presumably has to consider is it fair to ask its staff to try and get in on these dangerous back roads yes the main roads are gritted we get that and secondly bosses bosses boss companies can't run so many many many of the students can't get into school so i think it's understandable why schools are closed i get it but i fully respect your view but as i say there's a lot of people staff as well that couldn't get into school whatever happened to the bypass that was happening in balaba fe well it's uh it's it's one side of balaba fe then it's on the other side of balaba fe it's tied into the 10 t's isn't it um and it's on the long finger but um the consultation over its route is ongoing i believe uh i believe some um land and properties that would have to make way for it that that work is ongoing if i'm not mistaken i was in balaba fe friday last i tried to cross the road had to wait at least 15 minutes to get across balaba fe street i'd be very careful um if not i'd be run over i was at more than one of these so-called safe crossings trying and thankfully a lady and a young person finally showed the respect and stopped to let me safely across thanks to those drivers happy 2023 greg and all at highland radio a daily listener great to have you on board thank you i too greg was aghast at the balaba fe crossings the last time i drove through simply adding to the chaos of that road it's only a matter of time now before uh we have a fatality well let's please pray that that doesn't happen um they should take a wee look at stroban crossings lit up correctly donagore cat a counselor joke if it wasn't so serious it's the ti by the way it's not the council it is the council on some stuff on this occasion it's transport infrastructure arland because this is the main road if the council take any responsibility for the unfinished zebra crossings in the event of personal injury claims against drivers by pedestrians again i think it might be under the uh might be under the ti but if they've passed legislation presumably within that legislation there's a a bit of protection for them uh hi uh home help people should get free snow tires that would get them around to see their patience in some cases yeah i get you wow there's even more on these crossings this is unbelievable i'd say we have got more texts on this today and messages on social media then you might get actually in a public consultation process bank crossing is a disaster four words that's it they leave it at that hi greg be interested to see who voted in the poll because no one i know knew of a poll these crossings just appeared overnight there was no poll um i think maybe you're on about the consultation donagall drivers are ignorant of pedestrian crossings now in most con countries before pedestrians cross they put their hand up to to say they want to cross coming in from jackson's where the bank crossing is located leaves pedestrians in the blind spot for lorry so dangerous yeah indeed i uh i i can see where you're coming from only in arland that this can happen where incompetent people and people in jobs that they are fit to do every country i well apparently non pelican zebra crossings are common in other countries nine till noon show we need a round about at the finger post on the round from baller buffet to convoy where you take the left to letter kenny on your way from baller buffet tail backs at the finger posts across kill ross every morning and evening is totally unacceptable thanks for raising the issue i believe funding i have to do an awful lot of this off memory the older the get the older i get the less reliable that that seems to become i i i think funding has been allocated for um and someone will correct me if i'm wrong i believe funding has been allocated for what do you call it um a pre-plan uh to for the provision of a round about at kill ross i believe now i could be confusing that with the lahi junction but i think kill ross as well either there's calls for funding for a preliminary report whatever you might call it at kill ross it really really needs one you know it would it would make life so much easier for so many people uh but also i think there's some funding allocated for a round about that lahi was the stuff for i think kill ross as well if not we'll uh chase it up jared save me from my memory jared good morning to you good morning greg how are you i'm doing good right uh speed really is a problem you're speed is my issue i i love running the town about playing here in donald's street yeah last week two days ago i was nearly knocked down twice by carers driving up and down the street like the hammered blue hill it's unbelievable it was going on in this town and then the approach in the pedestrian crossings in and they're going too hard and someone i spoke around the garden last week about it i've also written to all the councillors as well too this is before this was highlighted today so where are you are you between are you between the bank and the lidler i'll do there or you further and i'm no no i'm i'm i'm i'm in between they're just yeah and okay um so that's where i'm at i mean i've born around in the town here and the changes in the fabric here is unbelievable what has happened now since the resurface the road is from the bottom of glories way down and to the town and the carers are traveling at high speed in it half seven in the morning they would drive over the top here half eight in the morning going to work going to school both ways headed on the gall town heading the letter kenny as someone is going to happen shortly like there's going to be somebody killed and i want this every day in this town day and night the pedestrian crosses an absolute disaster that's there you know and do you think pete will put the foot down once they cross those boxes as they head out the donnelly gall road or they fly in once they come around at the bank corner heading up the leg also is here a shoe to the board they don't lift on the same coming down and then there's a junction then up just above me here at lidler takes you down then to the cross road there what happens there's there's cars there but then there's cars coming down the inside driving at speed and is unbelievable as i say i just feel so passionate about this as if there's somebody going to be killed in this town and the sooner someone has to be sorted out earlier on general in them and touch on a bit the lightning the town the lightning is atrocious it's terrible and it's not all the drivers fault for them crosses as the blessers it works both ways but i'll say the speed is a major major issue in this town to us and someone has to be done about it yeah and you know we're not talking about just inconvenience and stuff well what this whole conversation is about is about making sure no one gets hurt or injured exactly i you know that's all we're talking about we're not we don't want you know everywhere pedestrianised and cars off the road this is just about trying to share this space but it to be safe and you need the backup of enforcement by the sounds of things george oh i've asked the councillors to get savings there's as you as you enter the village with a school in there there's a warning saying there i'll tell you exactly what speed you're doing and makes people aware on me and they slow down those signs are amazing yeah they're amazing because even if people have other things on their mind they flash there like if you had one as you sort of pass the turn off to the liddle there and it was flashing saying slow down and it was showing your speed say you were doing 55 or 45 it's overnight you would see traffic slowing down approaching that george yes it was yeah and then the whole thing comes in that's they're coming down then and to the at the pedestrian crossing at the bank you see they're coming in there at speed and to that you know and as they listen as that's actually waiting to happen and please god it not happened but someone needs to be done urgently about it and as they regarding the council i don't know what they were talking about yeah well i'll tell you there's very few we get a lot of reaction on this show jared but i'll tell you between social media and people texting and calling in there's not much we'll top this this year in terms of people having a say in overwhelmingly they don't want the baby thrown out with the bath water but they they need these things need further investigation or uh and the lights the lights need to be improved in ball of a feint strunner as well they're absolutely it functions to there see it at night there and you can turn there in front of all the rows along the main city so dark it is dark yeah i don't know if there's any and all that okay and all that needs needs to be at the rest and and the safer place isn't really for a high night dollars as well too but someone has to be done so we're all right listen well listen it's a beautiful part of the world beautiful people and uh very important to us here jared as you are so stay safe jared all right get back on to us you know what i mean don't don't oh no i will be i'm very very passionate i feel now is the time someone has to be done about we have to keep the pressure on for someone you don't know but don't asking signs i think are brilliant there's one coming into capri there as well um i think that's this maybe that's the same one you're on about uh you it's probably a bit further up from capri but you know i'm an outsider but though those are very effective because it just reminds a driver you you have to actively defy that you have to actively defy this the sign and most of us aren't conditioned to do that you see and that's why the word that's right yep all right all right thanks for a great job thank you very much thank you all right all right bye bye nice to have you on board by the way listening uh david morning to you morning greg how's things i'm good what's your view in it all david well greg i just heard the man speaking before me i think his name was jared about it's an accident wait to happen in 2020 my uncle was involved in a hit and run at that pedestrian crossing beside the bank um what happened what happened in the evening time that the the the parish involvement still was never found in terms of who committed to hit and run but i think that just exemplifies you know the kind of dangerous nature off that pedestrian crossing there at at the at the bank you know an accident has happened in 2020 which is three years ago now and it seems to be no remediation done in terms of improving the safety there at that pedestrian crossing you know so and they're coming in at awful speed and i do agree in terms of you know the the the hyper vigilance of drivers when they don't see flashing lights or they don't see something the cars are attention sometimes we're looking at drivers in a bit of a day and you're saying from litter kenny to donnie got time we'll say which is what's the long enough commute you know to keep that hyper vigilance throughout your full journey to look at every sign is very very difficult you know so i do think safety measures need to be improved there greg great you also want to raise the issue of pot holes david as well and listen thanks for your insight into that but you also have a concern about potholes as well whilst we're on the roads david yeah well it seems to be great we moved into convoy about a year and a half ago now and that the rural situation coming in and around convoy is absolutely unbelievable you wouldn't believe it once you leave convoy so the other can be rolled towards gamut plin that the potholes are probably the length of your arm into the road and that's no exaggeration and you've drivers swerving out of the way to miss the potholes trying to try and to increase damage to their cars they're pedestrian then walking on them roads then give another car that's approaching the car the swerving and at what miss since christmas i must have witnessed about nearly 10 missed accidents and then just shortly after christmas greg um across from the local uh community playgroup and convoy there was a pothole of enormous size there was an elderly man walking his dog there was a car in front of me it went down to the pothole the water went up over the elderly man soaked him from head to toe and he was in shock after i had to pull over the car and my friend was on the passenger with me and then we put we put a cone into the pothole now i contacted the lufford county council office and spoke to the receptionist who said she would pass the message on the potholes still remain today and it's the pure reason that you're right these are these are very dangerous potholes by the sounds of things uh in convoy village and on the letter kenny rode into convoy i don't think anyone in the council would purposely want them to be there so uh hopefully someone's listening and they can get out there and sort that out because put that poor gentleman out having a walk to it's a bit humiliating and inconvenient but you see we also used to word accident david and this is not correcting you but you know drivers are very quickly blamed for speeding and if you're speeding it's not an accident okay because there's a cause uh if your car's not worthy it's not really an accident because if your car was worthy maybe it could have been avoided but the roads and the road infrastructure if they're poor they're contributing to collision so it's not an accident because there's a cause and effect with things isn't there david and i think we're nct we're having to jump through every bloody hoop going we i think we can expect the roads to be at least middling yeah and and other other part of it greg as you said that we pay tax you pay insurance you pay nct i went away last year bought a hybrid car to do my bit for the environment that we're being pushed to do you know that's the economy's changing in terms of sustainable development and then you're driving the rail to do new care which you pay a lot of money for and through this infrastructure now the argument can be made that you go to the main road from convoy to balustrade to the kinney which is an extra 20 minutes on to your journey you know what i mean and which is chalk up up with traffic we know that at that junction called another kinney into balustrade that team junction from convoy to balustrade is is is chalk up up with traffic but i just also want to make the point where i heard someone on earlier like the consultation process between the council on that and then pedestrian crossing i really urge and really would urge the council to really rethink their consultation methods in terms of how they engage with the public you know to to to interview or to ask people that's using the pedestrian crossing it's not the majority ontarian view of what's going on in the community you know that's not really that's a random staple very enough okay and listen come here and you talked about your new car as well listen we we did as much as we can talk to experts and determine there's a high very very high pass rate in most of the nct centers in donagall and the only thing that's different here to other places is the condition of the roads maybe we have a slightly different attitude and we sort of get the test done and then fix what fails but the roads are a big part david lovely to chat to you happy motoring any buyers remorse with your hybrids any buyers remorse with your hybrids no it's all extremely well you know so a bit of a change but i think like you know when you want to rely on balustrade you're looking for and i think what's being pushed that way as well i think that's another conversation in terms of how we're getting on but yeah we're not we're not that kind of words with this close to 12 okay but definitely worth a chat again in the future happy motoring david great to start you bye bye thanks very much indeed business matters on the way business matters in association with the faculty of business at atu donagall looking for a career in financial services consider the level nine ma and governance and it in financial services take the next step in your career and contact the exec ed coordinator on nine one eight six two oh six email exec ed ex ec ed at atu.ie today all right uh kiran old donnell imagine why how are you kiran good morning great how are you what's the story that's that's wiped out there a slip eight is i saw you walking up out there did i you didn't risk the car your old back wheel drive no i'll get proud of that on your store to get on here i'm usually around the back i'm surprised you got up to the top of it let the drive away come here i was at a recent event in lochesk it was amazing the amount of money that's invested in there and i talked a little bit about maybe sometimes in we focus on it and and tech jobs and tech investment and it's loaded and it's fantastic but there's amazing investment going on in terms of hospitality and in terms of retail as well perfect example what's happening down at the lochesk castle hotel here yeah very well summed up greg lochesk castle hotel in donnelly gall town is to receive an investment of five million euro from hardcore developments and this will see the construction of a two-story development comprising 24 switch and four bedrooms so when this new extension is complete greg uh the team at lochesk is expected to increase to 235 so that emphasizes a infinity sauna or something as well they mentioned uh i'm not sure if it's part of this development or other developments because they've just done all the rooms as well right okay um that's great news uh bank of ireland's one million donation to cure no donnelly am i reading that correctly yeah i'll have it with you bank of ireland said to donate one million euro to organizations supporting those most at risk from the cost of living pressures the bank is making 500 000 available immediately to 12 organizations working with funnel the groups across the island of ireland and the second 500 000 will be divided among 50 smaller non-profit organizations in marge all right business information session taking place yeah donnelly gall local enterprise office will hold its next business information and grant aid workshop on friday january the 27th the two-hour session which runs from 10 a.m to 12 noon will be delivered via zoom so the donnelly gall local enterprise office greg is the first point of contact for those setting up business and donnelly gall and these multi sessions give an overview of the support and services available to smaller businesses and the county so well worth going along and making touch there there's contacting uh the office on you can get them on 07491 60735 or email info at leo.donnellygall.ie that's a very fancy shirt you've got on there are you going to the pulse if it's open you come along have you gone in the car and you do not have to ask me twice come here you can sort out a babysitter end of a banking year i mean to be honest it's been a it's like i've been a death by a thousand cuts for austral bank customers because certain services were being you know stripped back over the the course of the last couple of months but the familiar enough frontage is uh is bye bye yeah the doors of austral banks of montcran a balba fade donnelly gall town and kelly begs closed for the last time on friday now literally kenneth branch is remaining open to help customers to change providers and the plan is for all these branches to reopen as permanent tsb branches just come back to the the frontage greg is supposed to literally kenneth for a rolling sample here locally uh it was always a very sort of uh iconic part of the town and the mark of square there so if there's no more that's quite true indeed um north west in the city well donnelly gall town is different obviously because where the austral bank used to be there's now a pub here yeah wave it along and uh now um austral bank was moved further up the street and it's closing all right north west in the city event kiran what's this all about yeah as part of donnelly gall county councils focus on attracting talent back to donnelly gall and the northwest as economic development unit is partnering with national agencies local authorities and stakeholders for the northwest and the city event and it's taking place in dubbans westbury hotel on thursday february the ninth more than 20 global multinational and leading companies are expected to attend and these will include optom tcs and fin true that are based locally here all right we're gonna preview 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million compared to the figure for 2021 i remember when uh way back in 2014 we reached 800 000 and we thought oh they'll never it'll go over a million but they'll never really do much more than that because you start thinking about the the population of letter kenny and the amount of businesses but it just just went on and um we we we work hard at it and we we put the brand out there a lot um but this million this year we definitely we had assumed in the office here that we might go up by maybe 10 15 percent um and then the government very helpfully announced that there was the incentive that businesses can can can get from the scheme was increasing from 500 to 1000 so that we thought oh yeah we'll go up a little bit more but definitely we didn't think a million i wonder what one of those features look like from your employer anyway cary what's i'm interested to hear more of that interview with tony as i am with kathryn so what are you talking to tell us a bit about kathryn yeah and 2021 greg local journalist kathryn divine decided to quit her role with the donagall news to invest all of her working time and her company pumpskins so pumpskins makes silicon gel covers for diabetes equipment such as insulin pumps and gluteus glucose monitoring systems kathryn has lived with type one diabetes since 2013 and has considerable insight into what people with the condition need pumpskins has distribution partnerships in 16 countries from south america across europe and the middle east and this week the donagall company will launch a new american platform so during our conversation greg i asked kathryn about her decision to leave her full-time position with the donagall news three years ago to concentrate full-time on her business wow what an amazing story it was a huge decision karen because i think there is safety in traditional employment there's safety in knowing that you're going into an office and that someone's going to be paying your wages at the end of the month but then you've got to balance that with the other side of you know trying to just look after your family um look after things at home my husband sure is a farmer i'm helping him on the farm so there was so much going on and at one point even though i knew that i wanted to work for myself i thought there's absolutely no way that i can leave this job because it would be completely irresponsible of me to take this leap of faith but i got support from shawn i've got support from people around me and i knew that this was something i could do another story of people taking a considered you know leap of faith and uh again i'm envious can't wait to hear more of kathryn diviner that's actually really a fascinating story as they generally all are full interviews with tourney forester and kathryn diviner available now on highlandradio.com or refer you get wherever you get your podcasts business matters on air kiran yeah usual time Greg uh just after six o'clock news on sunday evening and if 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