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Our lines are open for you right now to get involved on what is an interesting and busy show. We hope you'll agree. Caroline is taking your calls right now, 07491-25000, 07491-25000. If you want to text or WhatsApp, it's 08 660-25000, 08 660-25000. If you want to watch the program and engage with us on our social media, go to HighlandRadio.com, the website there. You'll see the links where you can click through and watch on your browser or go straight to our Facebook pages, News and Sport, Highland Hub, or on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland. Okay, as I say, plenty to keep you entertained and informed, but let's start with a look at the newspapers. The Donegal People's Press this morning, Rossinala Beach Chase. I think most people on social media would have caught sight of this incident on Ravel or Unfold. A number of motorcyclists led Guardi in a chase across part of Rossinala's renowned Blue Flag Beach on Sunday. Walkers and Sunseekers watched in horror as the bikers drove at speed as they attempted to avoid being caught. Guardi were alerted to the incident at around 3.15. A number of motorcycles were observed, driving dangerously along the beach at the time, and had failed to stop when requested to by Guardi. The Dairy Journal this morning, a Ukrainian woman living in Bonkranah has spoken of her heartbreak at what is happening in her native land and the plight of those unable to flee. Natasha Babirova also spoke of her own personal fears of how each day she wakes up she does not know if her family in her homeland are alive. The local woman was among a number of Ukrainian people who joined over 100 others in Bonkranah's Market Square on Thursday evening for Candlelit Vigil. The Ukrainian situation dominating the front of the nationals as well, of course, under the banner War in Europe, the Irish Independent tells us that the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened yesterday as Russian forces intensified their shelling. Food, water, fuel and medicine grew increasingly scarce in what the country condemned at the Hague as a medieval style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission. A third round of talks between the two sides ended with a top Ukrainian official saying there had been minor unspecified progress towards establishing safe corridors that would allow civilians to escape the fighting. So that's the focus of their negotiations, Putin's very clear in what he wants. He wants the eastern parts, Donetsk, etc., to be recognized as independent states. He wants Crimea to be recognized as Russian and he wants assurances that Ukraine will remain neutral. Those are his red lines and if he doesn't achieve that, he says he will not stop. Well, Russia's chief negotiator said he expects those corridors to start opening from today. However, that remained to be seen and these corridors lead to Belarus and to Russia for the most part and not to the west. So I suppose they could argue that they are meeting the agreement but not in a way that was to be expected. The state will pay 100,000 euro to the families of healthcare workers who died from COVID-19 during the pandemic under plans going to cabinet today. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly will seek approval for a scheme that will cover a small number of workers to qualify people who will have to have contracted the virus in the workplace. It is thought that families or states of more than 20 workers will benefit from the tax-free payment which will be paid on a flat rate and on an ex-Gratia basis unrelated to the salary of the person who died. According to Lake Estette, latest figures compiled by the Health Protections of the Valence Centre there were 21 deaths related to the disease amongst healthcare workers in the state. They include HSC staff, locum agency and contract workers, those in private nursing homes and cleaning staff. On to the Irish Daily Mail now and of course we're all feeling the pinch as it relates to the petrol pumps, the diesel pumps, home heating oil and also now in the shops because the Mail tells us that shoppers are ditching the favourite brands for supermarkets own labels as they fight off spiralling prices, a report revealed yesterday. Irish take-home grocery sales fell by 4.5% over the 12 weeks to February 20th, the latest figures from analysis Kantar show. Grocery prices went up 2.4% over the past 12 weeks, the equivalent of a steep rise of 10% a year. The number of products on promotion fell by more than 10% year on year as supermarkets sought to manage spiralling supply costs, Kantar retail and Alice Emer Healy said prices are rising across the board and that's being felt at the grocery till. So in terms of house stores compared, Don stores got a 23% market share, a change in spend since 2020 up 8.7%, Supervalue up 14.2%, Tesco 13.2%, Lidl up 17.9% and Aldi up 11.4%. Right on to now the Irish Daily Star and Miho Martin has been speaking as it relates to the Ukrainians arriving into this country and he has confirmed that all Ukrainian refugees who fled Ireland will be given PPS numbers and social welfare payments for at least six months. The Department of Social Protection confirmed that all Ukrainian refugees are deemed to satisfy the habitual residency conditions and qualify for social welfare payments and this of course at their arrival here was one of the drivers, if not the principal driver for Stephen Donnelly announcing that you no longer needed to have a test coming into this country. The Department of Social Protection confirmed that all Ukrainian refugees as I mentioned are deemed to satisfy those conditions. Applications for PPS numbers will be fast tracked and Ukrainian refugees will be able to avail of supplementary welfare allowance until their application for other social welfare payments are processed around 1,800 refugees have arrived in Ireland from Ukraine to date according to the T-Shock Miho Martin who has said the figure is increasing day by day. About two thirds of those are living with family members who are already here. Around 600 of them are being put up in temporary hotel accommodation, a website which was established in association with the Red Cross so Irish people could offer either homes or places within their homes for Ukrainians crashed last evening, there's been a big uptake. Have you, did you sign up? Do you want to tell us why? I'll wait 60, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps or text or give us a call on 07491 25,000 now there are still a number of Irish people in the Ukraine who are trying to get out and the way they get out is passing through checkpoints you know it could be a Russian checkpoint it could be a Ukrainian checkpoint and actions like the one we saw yesterday and I don't think I'm being dramatic you would just hope it wouldn't you hope it wouldn't compromise that the route out of Ukraine for these Irish citizens because a man who drove a lorry through the gates of the Russian embassy here has told the Kremlin go truck yourself you see it's been seen as something that's very light hearted but we've seen how the Ukrainian ambassador to Ireland not the Ukrainian ambassador the Russian ambassador to Ireland how he is speaking on Russian media and he will probably end up highlighting this and I just fear if that message gets through it could not work in not work well for some Irish citizens but anyway video captured Desmond wisely behind the wheel to the south Dublin venue which has been picketed since Russian since Russia waged raged war on Ukraine the businessman from Balanmour County drove the lorry through the closed gates at around 1.30 p.m. yesterday which is quite serious he was clever in reversing it because you'd fear what might have happened if he drove in head first I was wisely emerged sorry emerged to distribute filled photos of Russian atrocities in Ukraine saying I just done this to create a safe corridor for the Russian ambassador to leave Ireland I done it for this lady and her kids who were killed in urban it really affected me last night and I'm doing it for them but as I say I just hope and it's unlikely it will but I just hope it doesn't end up being damaging or counterintuitive and a quick word on COVID there's not much talk of it nowadays of course but Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has warned the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 is still high with almost 20,000 positive tests recently recorded he said they're continuing high rates of infection we're having a knock on effect on hospitals and of course we're feeling it more so than anywhere here in Donegal over the past three days almost 20,000 COVID positive cases have been recorded by Nefit and yesterday 808 infected patients were in hospital 47 of those in ICU right 08 660 25,000 what's apps and text that number give us a call too if you want 07 491 at 25,000 we'll be back with more on the 9 till noon show after we take this short break the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly centra mountain top letter Kenny the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly credit union email mortgage at letterkennycu.ie Highland radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime plus five grand spending money get your ticket now at highlandradio.com answer the question and start packing. 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hearing clinic okay so you heard as we were looking through the newspapers and you would have if you're on social media i'm sure stumbled across some of the footage emanating out of rosenala beach uh well michael daley's the founder of daley's dunagall he joins us on the program now good morning to you michael morning Greg good to speak to you right so tell us what has been going on at rosenala beach then over the last while well let's let's just stick to the weekend because i kind of have my facts right so to speak on that but basically as you know the weather when it was cold it was beautiful and a remarkable number of people considering the time of year on the beach with families on saturday and sunday my information is that the gary very quickly uh were alerted to the fact that there were a number of people um speeding and driving dangerously on the beach on saturday and sunday and i was told basically the gary took a zero tolerance approach to that and i suppose it's probably i don't mean to get into the minutiae of this but possibly one of the reasons why it was a bigger problem than usual i was told was because the tide was so far out and there was a very large area of sand as you know you know the beach very well yourself and he would cut to the chase no pun intended basically my information is that on saturday there were two drivers stopped and arrested for dangers driving by gary who were being very diligent on what was a remarkably busy beach for the time of year and uh sorry and on sunday and the incident which you alluded to at the top of your intro accord sometime in the afternoon and there are as far as i can make out at least and you mentioned this at least four different certainly three different videos uh by people are on the beach of two um motorcycles making their way from those of you who may not be familiar with the beach let's say the sandhouse hotel is on the center you go down the ramp and you turn left and they're heading for the old exit which is up close to the friary and and they can be seen traveling at very high speed and the nature of the bikes as well the the noise was the thing that struck me even on the video and they're pursued by gary and the gary are coming out of this with a lot of credit can you describe how they managed to apprehend these people as best you can from from the video footage i will uh basically what you can see is these two bikes um they look to mine um i suppose i'm not quite sure of this but they almost have the shape of do you know a trail bike which is kind of is higher set than say a racing motorbike that's what they look like but i don't know if they're here or there and the guys two people on these bikes fully clad in leathers and helmets moving swiftly across the beach um it's a three and a half mile along beach that section up it's about i would say it's very close to a thousand yards so anyway they're moving across the beach and you can hear the distance behind them uh the siren of it turns out to be a guard jeep and what i thought was interesting while the two bikes were moving very very quickly the guard jeep was moving gingerly enough it certainly wasn't moving at speed and again you learn a lot when you kind of ask about these things but that was to be careful and because there were small children on the beach and everything else and the guards couldn't do what we might call a hot pursuit uh because they didn't want a situation that wasn't good to turn into something that was a lot worse anyway the two bikes head up what i would call the old ramp heading for the fryer direction and then you become aware that there is another guard a jeep at the top block in the road the bikes stop one of the motorcyclists manages to turn his bike and comes back down very very swiftly and in fact one of the people's video on uh on the beach one of the videos which went by errors i that that motorcyclist went very close to him and went past him and we don't see that motorcyclist after that but the second chap on a bike uh he tries to turn his bike and he falls off us a guard who's approaching from the fryer side one of the number uh goes to him and if you look very carefully it it seems to me that there's some sort of contact between them and the the motorcyclist who is now on a fully clouded mill that there's no helmet runs down the slipway again and onto the beach uh again i'm estimating here he covers maybe 150 yards three the one guard is in pursuit and two guardy get out of the guard a jeep which have been following not going that fast and run towards this man but the guard who chased him from the slipway let's say and that's a fair dissonant he's fully clouded as well obviously and all the guard gear he does very well in a very short space of time to make up to this guy and he brings him down by catching his arm and the the motorcyclist then falls to the ground and the guard basically doesn't arrest the other two guardy come in to the video picture nothing wrong with this cardio anyway take it nothing wrong with that guard as cardio fitness oh super face yeah and i suppose there's a few ways to look at this michael obviously people would go you know this is what they want you videoing them blah blah blah but i think this uh this uh demonstrates very clearly in in in a way words possibly couldn't that the guardian going to accept this type of behavior on that beach yeah and and you have covered it this in the past because i've been listening to you like there's a big issue with traffic on that beach and initially when i saw this video in the various other videos um you could see from the reactions of people initially was well done but then it was interesting maybe after about 90 minutes the bigger question started to arise from people making comments on that you know in relation to access to the beach for traffic now the thought that occurred to me was you can have all the restrictions you want on the beach but if two people and motorbikes want to come down onto the beach at the moment anyway they'll get to it so that's the way the question and the one thing some people i'm not saying and and i supposed to an extent myself it was it was um and i'm sort of showing my age you know it was very almost like starsky and hutch type stuff you know and i sort of in an irish local context i've never seen a car to chase like that i've seen i've seen a car to cars following people but i've never seen the whole thing sort of almost played out in brackets on television and there's almost people going wow isn't that amazing but there is a very serious element to this and what i want the prejudice in anything there are arrests made there certainly is a rest made in relation to this and that person i understand standing will appear in court uh on friday i i i'm not sure how many charges uh it's a male he will he will face so i suppose that's your question you know it does raise bigger issues michael listen thank you so much for that for for painting that picture with your words for us so well i appreciate it greatly thank you michael daily there founder of daly's uh donnie gall that is a situation where the guards were on scene and uh nipped in the bud uh there's other situations where the reaction isn't quite so quick margaret joins us now hi margaret hello greg how are you i'm fine thank you and good morning to you right so you were out at straggle in bunkranna were you so yeah yes yes yeah we're going to beg your pardon sorry i know it's uh free access you know and there are very few people below but as far as i can see they're not a lot of northerners well they have a freight to go to the beaches but they're a caravan park up in the you know farther up the road on the other side of the t-junction and uh probably is there were guys down there acting the maggot playing over and back doing bombies circling around the beach and i thought for my god i should say my partner i should choose i think that boy's blog you know for if one round and round and round now suddenly just stopped and we do a golf was it like in a buggy he was on like a quad or motorbike no no no no no no no you know the golf both like in golf we small york right yes i got you yeah and uh the other boy had a car like a borough i might not be in a borough but you know the ship of a borough he was slain over and back and there were girls were a big she was a canal station dog and you know we're like pity in the middle we were old dogs and one side and she was on the other side and we're flying over and back so i put my hand in my pocket pointed to me and said to them i must have said now by your nab now i'm going to pull me out yeah and when i put my hand in my pocket to take out my phone the two guys cleared off now we left shortly after us and the there was a person there with a horse a couple of one already with horses and they would not give us no stand aside till our off pass and we had to follow them way up the road till they went back up to the t-junction this is kind of like a separate issue though isn't it this is a another annoyance of yours yeah okay it's not fair you know they get on a bit hard dogs and every other people people are asking but they don't give out about horses they don't give about out of the ages staying recklessly on the beach and there has to be a rule for everybody yeah and why didn't you call the guards well my partner says i'll leave it till like they're northerners and you know you don't know what they'll do to your van you know well now come here that you can't we can't make sweeping statements that is about well if it happens again i won't call a church right okay more likely but the weather doesn't say it's going to be good this evening so i doubt we'll very much if we'll get to the beach today right okay well there's plenty of people living in donogal drive in northern reds vehicles too so uh listen margaret you're saying something should be done about it we appreciate you sharing the story from strigill beach thank you very much indeed 08 660 25000 whatsapps and text now do you remember last week last week we were talking about the um railway crane that was attached to a pier in fawn and i think it was generally accepted that the pier um was falling into disrepair the crane had to be removed and i think that it would have been expected perhaps that because this is of uh historical significance that the um railway crane would be located if not in fawn at least in in the initial area but lo and behold it turned up in donogaltown and nothing wrong with that of course donogaltown part of the county beautiful part of the world as well but you know this is a piece of history associated primarily with fawn and to the wider initial area so i committed at that time we did mean caroline we're a team here to contact donogaltown to cancel and we did so to find out what the story was and they issued this response it reads as follows the crane was removed from the wooden pier at fawn on concerns that it could at one point or any point fall from the dilapidated structure and taken to the piers and harbors depot when burton port donogaltown's committee subsequently wrote to donogaltown to cancel and asked if they could restore the crane and put it on display at the town pier and identified similar restoration projects they had completed in the area in recent years donogaltown to cancel considered the request in regard to the suitability of the proposed location for public safety prior to granting approval so it wasn't the council seemingly that come up with this idea donogaltown's their committee said can we have that railway crane will do it up and locate it on the pier and that's what they did now that's good and fair play because maybe presumed the donogaltown tally towns committee might have feared that this could have gone into disrepute and be lost to the you know a scrap yard or something like that there um but i wonder 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the latest news and sport as it happens it's all on highland's new look website at highlandradio.com hear it on highland see it on highland every day and you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show and we're going to stay really with us suppose the actions of others the behaviors of others in motor propelled for vehicles and the issues it's having um counsellor michael mcclaffrey joins us hire counsellor come on great how are you i'm fine good to have you on the show right okay speeding through creesa what's going on here yeah great uh over the last while um it's been become more noticeable that's vehicles vehicles are supposed to be fair more people are known to creasler are going through creasler town creasler village very fast we had an incident there last week where arresting was was almost knocked down um obviously as you're aware there creasler town itself to be fair is a small village it's an old-style village such as there are many about but it's one of the ones locally here anyway and it's it's very congested it's due to the style of it and plus towards the top of the town if you like the other Kenny side of the town is more narrower than the run Fanny side of the town but it kind of does lend itself to speed speed is yes you know it kind of has the you know yeah i mean obviously other than when it's busy but there's nothing really there to sort of uh you're relying solely on the driver to say okay this is a built up area i need to slow down there's nothing there naturally i think that sort of slows the driver no there's not an algorithm and to be fair like speed is the issue speed is the issue is the problem here um it's just we're appealing to people who aren't aware of the town the layout of the town to please slow down coming into it or accident because as the problem is ongoing i say this last while it's getting worse and there's a genuine fear there that something's going to happen and none of us want that to be the case because you have two schools slap bang in the middle of town you have various other establishments there businesses so on uh charts there as well to note as well which is obviously quite frequented on a daily basis as well at different times and another situation that we need to we need to get addressed here before things escalate and the worse than what they are now in fairness to the council um they have secured money at the minute now for to get a plans done of a survey for part of the town and around the the to see what can be done around the shanty of the town at least anyway that may be a help but saying that itself that's going to be some time off there's a good point before that actually do you think do you think they need to look at um traffic calming measures now it's quite difficult because the traffic through there for example there'd be a lot of towed caravans and and what have you as well so um in terms of speed ramps and all that type of stuff i don't know how that would play out but is there a a want in the town that you can determine for you know the likes of at ramps or something to slow the traffic down if they're not going to listen to appeals yeah i've been asked for ramps several times have been asked for a pedestrian crossing as well a few times there um or something similar a pelican crossing either but this type of thing has been asked for as even as a slit as a slit yesterday morning last Friday there over the weekend prior to that as bradding times as well both in person face to face messy so on it's all happening there the problem is as i experienced from before from other towns like for example dunfanny would be another town of lancneur would be as well um as a colleague of mine brings up regular there as well uh possibly for charity but this more crossing points doesn't seem to be as bad but the situation is the ta are very reluctant to give ramps and on the n 56 it all falls down on the n 56 greg the main drag is and rightly so you put it four parts before the reason to say it uh main main drag of vehicles and so on and they're very reluctant to do that so we'll see now what comes out of this new plan yeah i don't think speed ramps i mean depends where they are but people drive around them i know you know there's people try to do anything they can to get to oh and people actually speed between the ramps as well too which i think some of us would be guilty of so ramps aren't the silver bullet to this uh they're not the silver i just don't understand why we don't have major signage you know those signs um that tell you your speed you know like a large sign in the middle of creed slur that whatever the speed limit is if it starts flashing telling you to slow down that type of stuff i think is the most effective and it's it's not intrusive at all but we don't seem to do it an awful lot they run off solar power you put them in once and it flashes telling people would you please bloody slow down yeah we don't even do that that's that's just basic stuff you know we've jumped straight into talking about ramps and all that kind of stuff not you because i brought the ramps up i'm aware of that but let's just put in these signs that tell motorists what speed they're doing and tell them to slow down yeah it's a good point it's a valid point um as i say like going forward something we'll have to be looked at and the media's future as best as possible with what the council the center of every town that is that has issues with speeding traffic through yeah should tell them to slow down even if the speed limit's 50 flashing and say what speed you're doing you know recommend 30 i don't know how that would work but there has to be a way that that actually addresses the problem it will change some driver behavior get the guards in there now and again with one of their guns i'm sure they can spare the time here or there you know a little bit of enforcement and the signs at least we're being seen to be doing something and it's going to have an effect yeah that's very true um and it's all made through all these options i'm sure the council will do all these options on board and even at present they are looking at different options or considering different options that may be available um but i think the key is there what you touched on there as a basically in every town not just any other town come to it it's down to driver behavior and that's where we all need to focus on but you have to before you change behavior you have to make sure that people know what the story is and that's what i'm saying that's why you know in your face signage might be able to do that i don't know but i just i feel like i feel like i'll be coming to work in a hover car you know running off hydro power before we actually do anything about this we're talking about it and we're talking about it we're talking about that if i'm still alive and i just think it's action that's required now well i i agree totally which i feel the same as you but this is supposed this is gives people's uh frustration top as well we go around the circles talking about it and they don't see enough action in the ground or action at all and this gives people annoyed and gives people frustrated and mad and i fully appreciate that but a lot of the time Greg is you're well aware just sort of out of hand as the powers to be that need to come in here and just say okay guys give whatever money required to doing all county council put in flashing lights put in whatever other infrastructure possibly needed that's going to help start with that sometimes that's easier than said to get to get as you know and this is where unfortunately we're in the sticking point at the moment but i hope going forward the fact that somebody at least has been granted to start a survey and possible works through time that that may alleviate things about i just feel that it's like whack-a-mole where we we're identifying little problems in different areas we try and fix it then we move to the next one why can't we have a uh you know take a proactive approach and say right there's clearly a problem in a number of towns people listening all over the region here will say that's the same in our place that's the same in our place rather than waiting for a councillor to raise it why can't we be a bit more proactive a caller says what's your views on the double yellow lines in Dunfana he being ignored before the summer and full traffic hits the town can we do something or get something done about it are you familiar with the issue of illegal parking what that caller seems to describe in Dunfana he Greg i'm familiar with the issue but look it's the same issue in every town uh you know you can't have the idea about the place parking just to have uh someone go in there and and traffic warden no Greg again if we got a traffic warden the more in morning you're lying to be hopping in because it's traffic warden in our family well you know you'd be surprised you know i'll tell you you'd be surprised um the majority of people even if we had one traffic warden that could be in any one of these towns at any given time i think the vast majority of people um if the if the road is laid out correctly have no issue with enforcement of illegal parking i don't think so i don't think maybe sometimes there's issues with the attitudes of traffic wardens i don't know but the basic premise of preventing legal parking at all i think there's a massive problem with that is there it's not a massive problem because people may jump on a double yellow line for 10 minutes or someone or the s-run the shop run the mess to whatever business etc it's it's again it's very very very hard to police it very hard to police it and then the other problem is to even if for example of the people that are concerned what's to take a photo of whatever illegal parked yacht will they go to the bottom then go to the garden station and report and make an official complaint this is where things fall down as well possibly they won't so like everybody needs to play the part traffic warden that i don't know problem what look as a as a valve enough suggestion as a valve suggestion even to possibly have a mobile traffic warden floating between several towns that's it i mean and you don't know when they're going to be there i mean obviously you'll have your facebook page is letting people know when they are but it just it just sends out a message that it's not a free for all it's not a free for all in a particular town okay listen thank you very much for that keep us updated if there's any progress okay that was councillor mike on mclafferty there concerned about speeding through creaselap but as i was expecting um people saying look it's not just there it's everywhere the town so all over donagola the same say says call it kill mcrennan is the exact same it's an accident wait to happen heavy vehicles and speeding cars race through the town and again it's it's another type of a town that there's no natural you're relying on on on drivers to be responsible because there's nothing naturally there to slow the traffic down as such hi can you ask greg is there anything being done about the traffic passing our ban in moff coming from medicaniside and out of moff town it's only a matter of time before someone is killed the cars and vans and lorries are flying there children walking on the footpath and the traffic is flying past them no speed limit okay well um that's the the first i've heard of this for a while do you share concerns as it relates to traffic passing our ban and moff 08 660 25 000 get involved in the conversations right hi greg our government pledged 20 million euro to ukraine on friday night on the late late show and yet our home services hospital nurses are on their knees i fully support ukraine but how can they come up with 20 million so quickly thank you well it's just there um you know if nothing will ever be done if we're waiting for every problem in this country to be fixed and there are lots and lots of problems we would never help anyone else or never have any role in the wider picture of things to to offer assistance to help i presume there is a budget that is available a humanitarian budget that they allocate our money to each year and it's used for these services would that 20 million if you switched into the problem that you highlighted would it address the problem into the long term probably not good morning is it just me or are people finding it impossible to get through to other businesses spent between 35 minutes trying to reach air and AIB with no avail kept getting useful message all our operators are busy are people still working remotely it would drive you do lally i don't know but if you ring any of those businesses say for instance and you want to take out a contract with them the phone's answered straight away i'm not referencing those two businesses directly but if the call is in the advantage of 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thursday the 10th from 2 to 5 p.m. mindfulness on wednesday evenings and painting to improve your well-being on monday evenings tivok called derg valley care castle derg this march we reflect how covered has changed death and bereavement in ireland together we grieve ireish hospice foundation bereavement support line is open for all of us who are grieving free phone 1800 80 70 77 to talk to someone in confidence and for a shoulder to lean on now uh paul mckinney is operations manager with the ireish blood transfusion board he joins us now hi paul good morning to you morning gret how are you fantastic thank you before we talk about this appeal for people to donate and i think they're always really good up in this part of the uh in this part of the country as they are everywhere and what are supplies like at the moment it's always really you know i presume you're always up to some extent operating on the edge but what is the overall picture nationally yeah well you're you're right we are actually always seem to be operating on the edge uh we try to hold seven days uh blood across all the blood groups that's our target uh as of this morning we're sitting on four point two days overall which is much lower than we would like uh and it's low across all the groups for example positive which is the most common blood group in in ireland there's only three point eight days oh negative which is the universal blood group is only two point eight days so it is it's tight and that's that's why we're we're making this appeal on the on this patient so talk to me about how this blood is used because sometimes maybe we don't not you now me and other presenters don't focus enough on this that we just talk about give blood and i think if you've received it or if you give it you know all about it but there's a a big trans just society out there i think that probably don't really maybe we don't make the connection so how does it work and what in terms of of who it helps how it helps can you explain that side of things for us briefly yeah it's it's it's a very good point because actually only three percent of those eligible to give blood in the country actually do donate so it's actually a very small percentage of people who can donate who do and when you consider that you know blood transfusions are used for newborn babies uh obstetric emergencies for cancer patients it's obviously a lot of people think road traffic actions but actually road traffic actions is only a very small part of it and heart operations hip operations every time there's an operation goes on in a hospital there has to be blood at the very least available just in case so it you know we like to think of blood as being the the oil for the hospital engines and without the oil very topical these days unfortunately without the the oil hospitals will struggle doing the amount of operations etc procedures that they that they need to at the moment okay if you're one of those 97 listening talk to me about what happens if you roll up to to Jackson's hotel you have never donated for the first time and you're eligible to do so what happens on the visit talk to me about the needles and stuff things that might put people off well um first of all the we do ask you to um make an appointment since the pandemic we've introduced an appointment system for for all these reasons in the past we used to have walk-in clinics but with the social distancing rules which which are which are much relaxed now but we do ask people to make an appointment and you can do that by ringing our 1800 731 137 number what we would ask is that you before you do go onto our website giveblood.ai we have a little eligibility quiz very short quiz it takes you through it and you will know whether or not you're actually able to donate uh this time or not if you're a new donor you can also register your interest and there's a process that we go through in terms of getting touched with with a new donor explaining to them what the what the procedure is the actual process if you're a new donor you have to go through an extended interview it's slightly longer process but once you get through all of that it takes about one to two hours to go through the whole process we ask you to attend fill in health and lifestyle questionnaire we measure your hemoglobin and if all of that is good we take you through and the donation process yes there are needles yes people are are a little bit worried about needles but trust me um trust me but our our our full bottomists are very skilled and you hardly notice it so the donation takes place it takes about 15 minutes we take in old money a pint of your precious blood or 510 mills um process is finished uh we bring you to our tea station give you a cup of tea bag of crisps or a or a biscuit whatever you want and uh we we keep an eye on you for a few minutes make sure you're fine and then that's it and then you know your blood is taken back to the National Blood Centre in Dublin it's processed it's tested and when it's issued to a hospital we send a text to the donor telling them your donation has been donated to a particular hospital at a particular time particular date thank you very much for saving life so you see you see the importance of that 15 minutes obviously once you've gone through the other stuff particularly for the first time right so if that's something that you would like to to get involved in and and you know i think sometimes um we we want to make a difference and we want to help others but maybe we don't have the resources to do so or we don't know how to do it i mean if you want to make a difference to another person what a way to do it uh you can do you can do it this way yeah absolutely okay and as i say and it can scratch that itch that you might have about helping people right okay so uh the um blood transfusion boards are seeking donations in baller buffet all this week tuesday today wednesday and thursday they're in jackson's hotel between three and five p.m and seven and nine thirty p.m and it's important i suppose uh because you're always on the edge to some extent you'll be looking forward to the likes of the double bank holiday everyone's delighted about that but for you and for your team you're right okay that's going to be we're gonna have to try and accommodate for that you're absolutely right Greg i hate bank holidays i hate double bank holidays because we're actually losing a full day's collections uh on thursday uh the first thursday of the bank holidays it's a real stress test for us um and that's why we're making it and you absolutely made a very important part right at the start of the interview people in dunagore are incredible they are very loyal donors and because we're there for the week it's really important that our appointments are full i would ask you again please ring the number 1800 731 137 do the eligibility test give blood.ie before you do it and please support us because it's so important and as you said quite correctly really important for next week or two all right listen take care of yourself thanks paul i appreciate it paul kinney operations manager with the Irish Blood transfusion board shanaid um you heard a passing comment from an earlier caller talking about uh horses on the road from Stragill beach not happy for being caught up behind them what do you think of her comments morning Greg um yeah i just think that they're a bit inconsiderate possibly quite ignorant um considering that you know most drivers don't really have an awareness of what it takes to sit on a horse on a horse's back with little to no protection and you've got all these big vehicles revving and speeding past you um so yeah um yeah i just send in a comment to to say that to challenge that and what i would like to do is um you know that woman who's complaining about horses holding her back slightly you know does the same comment apply to to the big tractors i'll bet you it doesn't um but i mean like i'm driving out of a beach okay i've had a beautiful relaxing time there hopefully filled my lungs with fresh air i should feel so happy and relaxed i should get into my car and i'm pulling out of Stragill beach saying look that was beautiful if i start getting stressed out now because i'm a couple of minutes behind a horse it's kind of i don't think i've got the the real benefits of it i mean it's a we all have to share this space exactly you know and we just need to just tighten that loosen that grip slightly on the steering wheel and just relax exactly i mean if you're coming from the beach surely you should be in the mine frame and yes i guess that there was an incident on the beach but the common denominator here is people in cars you know so the people in cars were doing the harm on the beach or the potential harm on the beach it's people in cars who can be doing the potential harm to the horse riders and the horses as well so you know for to complain about on one side there are cars going too fast and then to go put them up the road and say oh but the horses are too slow the person in the cars is going very fast you know what you mean the cars are too fast and the horses are too slow that's i know it's a serious issue shanaid but when you think about it when you when you think rider safety is really really serious it's like Goldilocks and the three bears you want the bars just right cars and horses going up the speed to suit the person but also to like as someone you ride horses shanaid yeah i do right so you would come across people's attitude to someone on a horse and someone on their back it wouldn't just be cars i mean do you come across different do you have different sort of interactions with people where there are i think you use the phrase act in the maggot yeah well i mean i use the phrase act in the maggot because that's the phrase that the woman herself used about act in the maggot on the beach but yeah you do get people act in the maggot you know they're coming up behind horses they're revving because they want to see and now thankfully it is getting less um but you know they're revving up behind horses because they want to see the horse dance on the road and what they don't realize is that horse is just about you're doing your very best you're working really hard to keep that horse in control because if that horse gets out of control horses are like animals so they're gonna you know if they spook that's what they're trying to do they're getting trying to get the horse to spook the danger is that if it look essentially you know you're on a you're on a tarmac road with very low protection yeah and there's always a quite an important relationship between the horse and its rider in terms of control and that can be lost really quite quickly very quickly very very quickly um you know things can happen in a split section whatever your horse riding but you know especially on roads people doing that you know behaving that kind of way as i said it is getting less but it does still happen unfortunately people driving too close and all of that but what i would say is the next person who wants to complain about horses on the road what i would like them to do is contact me and spend an hour on the road on a horse and i bet you any money they will change their mind very very quickly jenade lovely to speak to you keep enjoying your riding thanks so very much indeed it is the 90 noon show here in highland radio we'll be back with more after the news and obituary notices stay tuned the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie choosing the perfect stove is a big decision here at charles bowler and sons ballet buffet we are one of ireland's leading dealers and stoves and ranges in a variety of styles and sizes at exceptional prices and with our professional advice we're sure we'll find the perfect one 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mtmfireplaces.com or on facebook live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm akila clark with the news at 10 o'clock the tannish just says the ukrainian crisis means things here will be tough for a while households are already facing spiralling fuel bills while there are concerns about possible food shortages and the state will have to provide financial support for ukrainian refugees who come here the iraq says no one was expecting a war in europe we didn't think so quickly after the pandemic that we'd face into another crisis where we are we're seeing now a war in europe and that is going to have an impact in terms of refugees coming here it's going to have an economic impact as well but when i think about what Ireland's got through and has had to get through in the last 10 years you know we had a global financial crisis we'd the troika we'd the bail we then had brexit we then had a pandemic now we've another crisis we'll deal with it you know things will be okay in the end but it's going to be tough for a while meanwhile over 4 000 people in arland have so far offered a spare room or vacant property for ukrainian refugees the figure stood at 180 last friday where the 1.7 million people have fled ukraine in the past two weeks since russia's invasion irish red cross is encouraging people to pledge offers of accommodation with arland expected to take in around 100 000 refugees secretary general of the irish red cross leo mode wire says those who pledge accommodation will receive a follow-up a phone call generally a property via chaired or standalone is given to the refugee for six months to a year and normally that's to give the refugee time to settle into the country and to make their own move then for their own accommodation longer term gardi have been praised for their actions following a dramatic chase on ross neyla beach on sunday video footage of an incident involving two motorcyclists speeding across the busy beach has been circulated widely on social media one of the motorcyclists was eventually apprehended by a gardi who gave chase on foot after the motorcyclist fell off his bike one of the motorcyclists has been arrested and is due to appear in court michael daly of daly stunning gall on the nine to nin show outlined what unfolded on sunday afternoon motorcycles making their way from the sandhouse hotel is on the center you go down the ramp and you turn left and they're heading for the old exit which is up close to the friary and and they can be seen traveling at very high speed and the nature of the bikes as well the the noise was the thing that struck me even on the video and they're pursued by gardi and the gardi are coming out of this with a lot of credit tds on senators will today hear about the future of arlands railway network and what must be done to improve it the iraq just transport committee will hear submissions to the all island real review letter including proposals for a western railway corridor people across the island expressed interest and enthusiasm in a recent public consultation about an all island real review one of the proposals to be considered would be the restoration of a real network within kainty dunny gall linking it to the rest of arlands real network peter finney from lobby grip west on track box the idea of extending rail across the country we need it now we needed to connect gallway to its hinterland to the north gall is the regional capital it's it's it's the go-to place for people in the west for education for health for employment we need this um and we need it now and the latter can email for municipal district will be told today that a comprehensive race surfacing program is needed along the length of latter kainty's high road from the traffic lights at the junction with main straight right up to the hospital roundabout this year's being raised by kahir like jimmy kavner who says there are a number of roads in the urban area which are in need of repairs whenever he says the high road needs to be prioritized there's a lot of holes on it it's very uneven and uh i think it needs a definitely needs a attention again it's a problem i think in general with the roads around the town they need attention and and they need more funding it's been discussed many many times before but i think that you know the town roads have suffered since the town council was disbanded and that's that's another example but i think a bad it's badly needs attention it's leading up to hospitals a very very busy road and there's so much traffic on it and a lot of people are complaining about it whether nigh a band of rain will move in this morning and afternoon with some heavy falls leading to localised flooding windy today with strong to near gale force and gusty south easterly winds highest temperatures of seven to ten degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notice says for this Tuesday morning March the 7th the death has taken place of John Allison Tolley-Naven Red Castle. John's remains are reposing at the home of his brother Hayslip and sister-in-law Lita Woodbrook High's Carrick McQuigley Red Castle family and close friends welcome funeral service there to more afternoon at half past one followed by burial in the family plot in Clair burial grind Red Castle family flowers only donations if desired to the current Donna community hospital patients comfort fund care of any family member the death has taken place of Huey Hannigan for Chestnut Grove Remelton remains will arrive at St Mary's Church Remelton today at five o'clock for rosary and to repose overnight recurring mass to more morning at 11 o'clock burial afterwards in Killy Donald Cemetery Remelton funeral mass and rosary can be viewed on churchservices.tv The death has taken place of Paddy Holmes 10 Trinity Court muting Cunningham and formerly of Drum N'Ho Letter Kenny Paddy's remains will repose at the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest mountaintop Letter Kenny this evening from half past five until seven o'clock followed by removal to St Columbus Church Dremel to repose overnight recurring mass there to more morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard family flowers only please donations and leave flowers if desired to Trinity Court independent living care of any family member the death has taken place of Anne Annie Kerr 16 Dr McKinley Road Letter Kenny remains reposing at her late residence removal from her late residence to more afternoon at half past one going to Trinity Presbyterian Church for funeral service at two o'clock followed by burial in New Lex Cemetery family flowers only donations and leave desired to St Vincent de Paul care of any family member or Jim McGlynn funeral director the death has taken place of John Victor Kilpatrick maharanapan convoy whose remains will repose at his late residence from today house private at the request of the deceased funeral from there at quarter past one on Thursday afternoon for two o'clock funeral service in St Ninian's church convoy followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only please donations if desired to Cree Hart and stroke Charlie Galway and St Ninian's parish church funds care of any family member or turns McClintock funeral director the death has taken place of Peter Ward late of nine Castle Murray Straban his remains are reposing at his daughter Eileen Mullins home you know from there to more morning at 25 past nine for recreation mass in St Mary's church Melmont at 10 o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery donations and leave flowers please to Melmont manna residence comfort fund care of quickly funeral directors the recreation mass can be viewed live at melmont parish dot com the death has occurred of Bridget Doherty formerly Rose mind Kilma Crennan reposing at her daughter Geraldine Flood's home Karna Sol termine letter Kenny rosary both nights at nine o'clock funeral from there at half past 10 on Thursday morning for 11 o'clock recreation mass in St Columbus church Kilma Crennan followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only please donations if desired to RSE Donald nursing home patients comfort fund Kyrton Levy funeral directors the death has taken place of Kay Daveney douche muting conning him high strictly private at the request of the deceased funeral tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in all St's parish church muting conning him with burial afterwards in the family plot donations if desired to the Donegal hospice care of any family member the death has occurred of Michael Doddy Madava letter mac award his remains are reposing at his home funeral mass tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in St Bridget's church letter mac award with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery highs private from 11 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow the death has taken place of Vincent McLaughlin at Drummaville lecomie Vincent's remains are reposing at his home highs private to family and close friends please Vincent's funeral mass will take place at two more morning at 11 o'clock in St Mary's church at Boken Kildawth followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard funeral mass can be viewed live on Kildawth parish dot com the death has taken place of Isabel Murr, Naye Beattie 14 arch column kill letter Kenny her remains are reposing at her late residence highs private today pleased to family close friends and neighbours between 12 noon and 10 o'clock funeral service in the family home tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock followed by interment in Gortley cemetery letter Kenny family flowers only please donations in lay of flowers if desired to come while parish church care of any family member the death has taken place of Willie Doherty Bali bow convoy County Donegal and formerly of Glen McQuinn Willie's remains are reposing at his son Liam's residence and Bali bow convoy funeral from there to more morning at half past 10 going to St Mary's church convoy for 11 o'clock recreation mass interment afterwards to the new cemetery convoy family flowers only please donations in lay of flowers if desired to the Donegal Alzheimer's Association care of any family member the death has occurred of Bree Bradley Naye McGee 25 Glebe Hollowstone Order and formerly mean Lara Gortahawk remains are posing at her late residence Fiona leaving her late residence this afternoon at two o'clock for recreation mass at half past two in St Patrick's Church Crossroads Killy Gordon interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard the recreation mass will be streamed live on St Patrick's Church Crossroads Killy Gordon Facebook page the heist is private to family and close friends only please the death has taken place of Rachel Brennan Naila for the 15 Dublin road Sturban and formerly of Ballondrait her remains are reposing at her home Fiona leaving her home this evening at half past six going to St Patrick's Church Murlock Lifford recreation mass to more morning at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the heist is private to family and friends only please the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of Mary McNamee drum and a letter Kenny Mary's remains are reposing at her niece Kathleen and Joe Crawford's residence at Cognomana Killy Gordon heist private to family only please recreation mass this morning at St June's Cathedral letter Kenny at 11 o'clock recreation mass can be viewed live on churchservices.tv interment afterwards in Commonwealth Cemetery letter Kenny family flowers only please donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the Donegal Alzheimer's Association care of any family member the death has taken place of Joseph Campbell drum Lee glennie Lee whose remains are reposing at his sister Mary McCarron's residence at drum Lee glennie Lee. Fiona leaving there this morning at quarter past 10 for recreation mass at St Mary's Church of Bokeh and Caldough at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of Anne de Venny Ard crone key road Dunlowe her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral mass today at 12 noon in St Cronus Church Dunlowe with interment afterwards in Mahary Cemetery heist private to family close friends and neighbors only please family flowers only donations in lieu to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member or Sean McGlynn funeral director and the death has occurred in Glasgow of Charlie McGeever formerly of Bali Bose Fulcara his remains are reposing at his late residence in Glasgow removal from there going to the Church of Christ the King Carmonic Road this evening at half past seven to repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in Lynn Cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on ctkg.org for more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to hinderedio.com I'm Lorraine Keane and I hate feeling tired and hormonal yet that's exactly how I felt when my perimenopause started in my late 30s for nutritional support I chose iris supplement clean marine menemen why because menemen contains omega-3 vitamin D and also vitamin b6 which contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and helps reduce tiredness all in just two capsules a day ask for menemen at health stores and pharmacies or learn more at cleanmarine.ie I'm glad I did with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's Greg Hughes on the 9 to noon show on Highland Radio okay community guard information on the way for you very shortly stay tuned for that if you want to watch that item hop on to our social media actually you know first protocol go to our website highlandradio.com you'll see a link for watch the 9 till noon show and you can watch it in the rest of the program hi Greg was driving to Port Salon on sunday I was behind a group of 30 cyclists for 15 minutes from Kerry Keele until Port Salon no chance of passing their group was twice the length of two articulated lorries they complained about drivers showing no concern for them it should be a law no more than a group of four bicyclists on public roads another hi Greg what is the story with the cameras in the main street in Carragans and what about people's privacy and how is watching them would be great if you could find out thanks I'm not sure about the situation there in terms of privacy look the cctv everywhere I'm not sure you're in a public space and if these cameras are pointing to a public space I'm not sure of any privacy situation there is to say you know if there's security cameras or cctv I don't know what they they are to give blood you can't weigh over 19 stone some heavy people are healthy I wasn't aware of that the first part of that to be honest I didn't realize you had to be under 19 stone I'd have to look into that it seemed how do you strike that I mean someone seven foot tall at 19 stone there's many people that weight if you know to me but if it's 19 stone is it there's no other determining factors I don't know Greg does anyone else know about this I went to the local post office and had euros and wanted to buy sterling from now on to do this transaction you have to give your name and address it's not like I was getting thousands it was just 70 sterling it really put me off is this for real when I ask he just said it was new rules well I presume it's maybe to do with laundering of some description or other I wasn't aware of it I think you're lucky because a lot of these post offices now I don't want to get into trouble for saying this but you know rural post offices that are in different premises don't necessarily offer all the same services but in any case I presume it's to do with money laundering of some description 70 euro seems a small enough amount for that but anyway that would be my best guess I'm putting out there because I know someone out there is going to know better than we and you do would any of you listeners know what the cameras are for as you come into burn from dairy one on each side pointing in both directions uh anyone out there know another call is this I used to donate blood but had a hard issue and then an ablation three years ago when I went back to donate they told me I wasn't allowed to donate because of the ablation is there a time limit on this or can I go back to donate again we'll try and find out for you hi I got a blood transfusion 20 years ago and still cannot donate blood will this ever change I'm not sure what the situation is there either that has come up before my phone broadband contract with skies up shortly I ran to renew and negotiate a similar deal to what I currently have I kept being told that due to covid they were experiencing a large volume of calls and the waiting time was 30 minutes I hung up run a crowd called pure telecom and got a fantastic deal saving 25 000 euro per month okay that's the way to do it's less of this brand loyalty folks and I'm speaking to myself here there are two very expensive signs at trimmer on the dual carriageway near letter candy which used to light up with the speed indications but they haven't been working for years well you know if you put them up you have to put them up and make sure they're maintained it's like these temporary traffic lights at speed restrictions outside schools they have to be on when they're supposed to be on and they have to be off when the schools are closed or else people just ignore them Greg 20 cars have crashed since last year at church corner and st johnson nothing done about it one near fatality for a woman on the footpath what's going on there why is there 20 cars it's almost worth going to have a look at that if i if i don't drive through it to see what's going on there a traffic warden are you for real should there's 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so at approximately 2 30 p.m uh wednesday afternoon two vehicles collided on guest house and road in rufo as a result of this collision one vehicle lost control and collided with a pedestrian as female pedestrian who was age in her 50s she was seriously injured and taken to let the kennedy university hospital she was later transferred to talla university hospital where she passed away in the morning of monday the 7th of march so we're appealing to any person who may have witnessed this collision any person who was on the guest house en road on the afternoon of wednesday the second of march around 2 30 p.m please contact investigate and guardi similarly any road users who are traveling the area who may have dashcam footage is asked to make this available and look if you have any information relating to this please contact at a kennedy guarda station on 9167100 or the confidential line on 1800 travel 6 travel 1 okay um appeals for burglaries continue as the burglaries continue themselves that's right uh this occurred uh in a house at our glass long lane in let a kennedy on saturday the 5th of march at approximately 8 20 p.m rear patio door with properties broken and entries believed to be gained but nothing was taken from the house uh we appealed the residents in the area as they observed and it's suspicious uh any activity around that time also appealed to anybody who's traveling and long lane or glass between 8 p.m and 9 p.m who dashcam footage please contact let a kennedy another burglary on the pierce road yeah uh this was on town on saturday the 5th of march between 4 30 a.m and 4 45 a.m this business situated in the car park beside the station around about a man dressed in a black coat with the hood up wearing a mask dark bottoms black trainers with white soles he smashed a glass front door and entered the shop some of cash was stolen a black iphone 11 a black iphone ss max various ghd hair selling tools which included three hairdryers three curlers and 10 hair straighteners and two sets of hot tool curlers were all stolen so appealed to anybody who's in the area observed this man or captured him dashcam particularly the tax rank is situated close to the shop we urge the tax drivers to check their dashcam footage from that date and also should anybody come across similar type of items or sale and special circumstances please alert gary and the confidential lane again is 1800 travel 6 travel 1 yeah and that's not just that a kennedy these items can can travel quite quickly throughout the region too so keep your ears and eyes pierced it might look like a bargain but could be your stuff that's stolen the next time right criminal damage in st johnson yeah this occurred on Tuesday the 1st of March at 5 p.m. um sorry between the Tuesday 1st of March 5 p.m. and Wednesday the 2nd of March at 8 a.m. so the driver had to leave the car which is a blue mouser parked along the roadside overnight because of a flat tire when they returned to carry the following morning discovered the front one screen front passenger side window and rear passenger side window being smashed appealed to anybody who may have information the major system is investigation please contact daddy kenny on 9167 100 all right criminal damage out now in balaba fae yeah uh this is on friday the 4th of march uh at the nveni street car park in balba fae so gary alerted the fact that cars and fire this was reported shortly before 2 30 a.m. fire brigade attended uh extinguished the fire however substantial damage was caused to the car and it's believed to have started deliberately so we're appealing to anybody's in that area from the veni street car park and surrounding streets who may have observed any activity uh that may be ventral sauce gave us a call uh any information that might assist in investigation gain contact letter kenny on 9167 100 all right you have an object for us now as it relates to a previous incident yeah we should appeal for information on the 22nd of february in relation to burglary occurred between the 21st and 22nd at a garage on the middle road bali rain letter kenny a number of vehicles instead of car keys and be stolen from property so to date one man has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident and brought before the courts the investigation was ongoing in relation to the other individuals involved but we would like to thank the public for the assistance given their um as a result for our appeal yeah it's really important too that when we get a chance to because obviously it's complicated when people are arrested and stuff to highlight the fact that you know um work is being uh progress is being made in relation to uh these appeals okay uh now an update on the dunagol gary youth awards yeah uh these awards celebrate outstanding young people between the ages of 13 and 21 throughout the county so the nomination process is open and garda sheena and dunagol are now inviting the public to nominate the young person they know who's committed to making a difference in the community during 2021 the link to download the forms the further information is available on the garda sheena dunagol facebook page the forms are also available on the garda website local authority website and from any garda station completed nomination forms can be emailed to dunagol garda youth awards at garda.ie are posted to letter kenny garda station new lane road letter kenny garda dunagol mark for the attention of gran garda gran your daughter so again nominations must be received by 5 p.m on monday the 28th march brilliant stuff as always shawnt thank you very much indeed i appreciate that okay that was the community uh garda information item here on highland radio uh with garda shawnt sweeney today it'll be back with you after the 10 o'clock news next uh tuesday okay we'll be back with more on today's edition of the 90 noon show after the break the community garda information is brought to you in association 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weeks time what would you do would you roll those dice or would you get in your car or get into someone else's car and get down to ed and be seen in you know maybe 12 hours but at least you'd be seen it is not a bit wonder if the ed is jammered read the blood donor site it says over 25 stone on their questionnaire not 19 as you call a mentioned okay uh right we're getting into a space there where you can maybe see the logic to it could you please tell greg read the dangerous driving at the top of nakali yesterday i was horrified to see many many donuts on the road so close to a cliff drop of almost 1200 feet indeed hi greg i live in a state in convoy and there are cars and vans speeding in and out of the estate all the time loads of children playing in the area it is a accident waiting to happen but you know accidents mean that no one's really at fault it wouldn't be an accident would it these people would be responsible through their driving for what happens uh finally so embarrassed by father ted like attacks on russian embassy first a priest launches a paint bomb then a lorry with religious gob is reversed through the gate darland is certainly living up to its international stereotype all we need now is a few barrels of Guinness thrown through the embassy windows yeah indeed may listen sometimes it's publicity stunts and i mean you can google the man's name who drove reversed uh into the uh russian embassy uh he's ran for election i believe um in litrum i think he finished last actually uh but anyway notwithstanding that i don't think these things serve any benefit really i think there's other ways to legitimately protest and to get the point across without it being able to be used in some sort of a propaganda situation okay it is the ninth of noon show time for a break from music actually before i do um if you want to go on to our facebook page now it's great to see all the night time shows uh back uh including monday night sessions last night they stream the 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today and lots of love from peggy patrick and uh family jared roughty's club development officer at na go help me out here namaira namayep kamogi club hurling and kamogi hurling and kamogi good morning to you how are you keeping good morning good morning all good it's good to have you on the program right okay so talk to us about your club it's got a rich history it's a big history so hurling was it and is a massive sport obviously it's one of the fastest field sports in the world it's probably the oldest irish sport and at an incredible pedigree once upon a time in dairy city in fact there were nine hurling clubs in dairy city and probably the spillover in the development in burt and kelly garden probably came from dairy city um some of the biggest allster games were played at the turn of the century the early 1900s in dairy city um and those nine clubs really prospered well for a long time but unfortunately there's only one club left in the town now namayep and we've got this development draw to try and develop things there all right tell us about it because it's a draw with a difference it's a draw of a difference so we've a fantastic field a beautiful two acres green field arable field down in durran and naspal in du hurry on the loch barrow road so on two sides of the field is the oan bui river it's a fantastic river for salmon and trout and right next door is the glenvey national park so your immediate neighbour is 20 000 acres of the national park but what's fascinating about the history is the name of the townland so it's durran and naspal so everybody knows durran column kill dairy city after saying column kill durran and naspal is the townland of the apostles it's the only townland in irland called after apostles so history has it in 1595 the english destroyed some column kills monastery in torey and all the left on the island was the bell tower the monks came back to dunygol and the best place for refuge at that stage was actually that glen that wooded glen of durran and naspal so that's the reason it's called that durran and naspal and then there's the wee pound field inside it and there's great history of the pound field as well because whenever john george adair affected all the people at a glenvey he started at that end of the what was his estate at that stage and then he brought in scottish blackface to replace the people scottish blackface sheep and they roamed over the open mountain immediately above the wee field and he built that dry stone wall pound in the field to house the sheep when he was gathering them for clipping so how did this become to be raffled how it became to be raffled is we are an impecuniously challenged club we don't have much money we're in a very disadvantaged part of dairy we're in shantalla gallia caron hills and the census figures always show that consistently the most disadvantaged part of britain and northern ireland is shantalla so we don't have a lot of money we couldn't go out and buy a house we couldn't go out and buy a car so what we did was we said well buy a wee field down there and we'll offer people who want it the option of either taking 20 000 euro or that wee field now we have been absolutely bowled over by the enthusiasm and the interest from the states um canada totally throughout the world i think people have kind of identified the idea of owning a wee bit of ireland yeah i mean it is it is truly unique is it a case of like you have full ownership of it full ownership so what will happen is you and we're going to have all the tickets we convert the online tickets to physical tickets we put them in a big barrel we're going to roll them up and down the field for a while in st patrick's day the youngest member of the club will reach in pull out a ticket that person then will get their name and address and their details we'll transfer full ownership of that field there's no burdens there are no hereditary ones on it enter their own and they will become the owner of that field or they can take the they can take the 20 000 euro instead and what could be done with it is it a case of having well you could do absolutely anything with it if you get it's it's a it's an arable field so it's a you could you could plant oats in it you could plow it you could graze cattle on it you could put a pod in it you could put a tent you could put a caravan you could build a house but we'd be cognizant of donnie goll county council planning so what we're saying that's as all sites are advertised it's subject to plan and permission but if you built the house in it it would probably the most brilliant site in irland because you're looking down the whole way down to the dairy vea mountains on the one side and then you're here in the stream and the other and what you don't appreciate is up above you as the waterfall coming down from the common edge yeah because we often talk about sites with sea views or sites close to the ocean a lot of people like the inland field to it i mean you're not going to get a much nicer inland site now when i say site i don't mean site for building i'm on about just property in terms of property i mean it is beautiful it's truly irish and it's drenched in history it's and drenched in history so to buy online go on to namaya na ma gha and you can buy your tickets online and what we do then as i said we convert those tickets onto online purchases to physical tickets and you're going to be helping a really really good cause because as i said the challenge that we have is we're not a wealthy club we're not one of these clubs that's operating in places like you know south county dublin where cooler or black rock or you know we're a club that has coming from a disadvantaged area a very deprived area so we need whatever fundraising we can get and the sad thing about dairy city is 42 soccer pitches council in there maintain everything for every other code and the only place that you can hurl is war or one single pitch because obviously anybody knows anything but hurling knows that you need slitter catchers you've got to catch the wee hurley ball after it goes up over the posts and we have tried going in through the town playing elsewhere and then we break slates and we break windows and we get chased and we get hunted so again we need we need a slightly dramatic but i think you paint a paint a vivid picture yeah that's done listen literally we have we have been at bishops field and kregan and broke slates and broke windows and had to leave we've been broke park we've had to do the same because of the lack of slitter catcher can ask you about this field it's so unique it could go two ways it's so bizarre like well what what why would I enter a raffle for a field or someone might go i've never seen anything like this i'm buying 10 tickets do you know what i mean what what's the big reaction is it's so unique that it's worked for you we have the the reaction has been incredible because the historical connection and again there's loads of people who are saying like i've no interest in the field and then we say to them well would you like to win 20 000 euro and they go yeah so you'll be given that option when you win the field you can either take the field or you can take your 20 000 euro i think it's great and i love the history that the historical element of it as well now you're you you're really the last club in we are the last surviving hurling club in the city which is incredibly sad because if you look at the history of the gea the strongest place for hurling in the nine counties of allster with their dairy city allster games were played in the penny burning dairy um we had nine clubs and hurling was really thriving in dairy city and burt became effectively a dairy club as well and they used to play in the dairy championship so way before gea became strong on south dairy or jvga became strong west unigull dairy city was to the forefront yeah but unfortunately some of the catholic bishops in dairy took a real sabbatarian approach and argued that you shouldn't play sports on a sunday now if somebody went to you know we're fasting from the night before and they went to first mass in st jujans cathedral in the sunday morning planned to play a game of soccer well nobody would know they're slipping off to play a game of soccer but if you landed in with your hurl with you and went up to the altar rails well very obviously you're going to get a bit of a whack back from the bishop so they really pushed hard to practically eradicate hurling as a sport in the city and isn't amazing how how hard is to undo that it's all listen and facilities is the big one because you can just imagine they get repurposed aren't they yeah those nine clubs at that stage hard hurling and listen you know look at the you know the social aspect and the benefit of getting kids out there getting them playing and in terms of you know skills development everybody that's hurl will say that anybody can hurl can can do any field sport a hundred percent yes once you have that element of skill it's transferable okay so people want to buy people want to buy to go online type in na nna m a g h a namaia m a n a m a g h a and you'll get everything it's off from that from the or indeed just put in one of these at this stage it'll come up because i think we're fairly well covered on it's beautiful on the online just show people who might be watching here on social media just they'll see um they'll just see how beautiful the setting that is okay listen it's been brilliant and it's um it's it's inventive and we just hope you do build a field by raffling this field it's been great having you in for the historical element of it as well but also just to to talk about this and we appreciate your time jared a really do thank you very much thank you brilliant all right that is jared rorty club development officer of my uh of namaia kamoki club we'll be back with more uh after the break in 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of her purchase agreement from volkswagen financial services are into trading a seat financial services subject to lending criteria terms and conditions apply visit seat dot eight slash two two one for further information all right boxing fans are going to be looking forward to a new documentary it's called lift your heels but it's going to be one of those documentaries i think particularly for for us here in this part of the world or in this country like that are going to take an interest in it because it will it will transcend its its its subject matter because it's it's so interesting now we have on the program the subject of that documentary jason quickly good morning jason great to see you again how are you keeping i'm all good great thanks for having me on how's the farm the form is good look we'll talk about this this documentary in a moment but what's the story in terms of where you're going next jason if you any any plans in place or anything coming up that your fans might want to hear about yeah well um we're still just in a little bit of recovery now at the minute and i obviously had surgery and had two plates put into my mouth the bone now is fully healed up everything is 100 healed but i had to get surgery about three weeks ago as well just to get those plates removed so i'm just in a bit of recovery now from that there and once i get the green light then from the surgeon that i'm able to get back faltering and everything we will sit down have a talk with the team and see what's next then yeah when do you hope to get back into full contact sort of sparring sessions and what have you we're we're probably locking maybe in about two months time um but we're going to have to gradually ease into that we can't just kind of go straight back and then get hit by anni jar short taste inferior and it always lends so i think it'll be uh i think we'll try and avoid that avoid that if you had a full plutanium uh or whatever it is a titanium jaw uh yeah indeed um i really want to focus on the documentary but just in terms of of the path is it still your intention really to say look i've just come out of a fight at the very highest level you know my stock has gone up you want to be sort of going back in at that maybe an elimination type bout or even maybe if another another championship opportunity come along is that where you see your your next couple of fights jason or do you want to maybe a gentle warm-up fight and then on to that yeah that's something that's going to have to be uh going to have to be really uh sat down and talked about it's uh something that you know i'm coming to that stage now my career it's going to be probably the last chapter now you know it's uh at that stage now and we need to make sure that we make the right moves and you know i'm very lucky that i have a great team around me to do that but um without a doubt you know it's uh it's something that you know i really want to have a talk with the the love ones around me not only the boxing team but have a talk with the people that mean the most to me as well and uh make a decision then and make a plan what's uh what's the next move and very finally middleweight is that your is that where you're at would you could you squeeze down to a lower weight or not right no i'm not sitting but um yeah no middleweight speaking of Anthony joshua fight that is just me getting a stand like and uh opening that path up yeah well can i look and do it why not you but go on middleweight uh middleweight is my weight um but i'd be able to campaign at middleweight or super middleweight i don't think you know going below would be it would be an option not possible okay listen right so lift your heels this is chronically there's such a huge part of your life the highs and and the lows uh tell us about this documentary because anyone that will have seen the previous work that uh disone of put together no haven't done too much of it actually really you know in terms of this type of a documentary so you're riding at the start of what they're doing but they're doing at a fantastic level so tell us the story of lift your heels well it's really um you know a look into the build up to my fight against Demetrius andrid uh you know camp how camp went uh the accommodation eating everything that kind of goes on all the behind the scenes kind of stuff and to uh a training camp and then there was you know a little bit more uncomfortable stuff for me um as a person because usually it's just you know how's your training going what's your weight like are you excited for the fight all these stuff is just natural to me and I've been doing it for years but you know there's been a lot of stuff then that is uh how do we look into my personal life um a few things have come up about relationships everything that goes on in my personal life so this was something that was very different for me and uh it was very interesting as well did it help did you you know especially when you talk about you know the the stuff like use top level athletes stuff with the same stuff others do you know you have times where you feel anxious you've times where you might not be in the in the best place mentally and all that type of stuff discussing personal things did was that difficult for you or was it helpful for you or what I think you know at this stage in my life now um I'm at a great place you know um mentally emotionally I'm in a I'm in a really great place in my life right now and I'm well able to deal with all these things now I'm well able to deal with trauma from the past hard times that I have gone through in the past and one of my main objects you know from this documentary as well is you know I really want people to take something away from this and hopefully that it can help someone understand that just because somebody's fighting for a world title or just because somebody is living a very good lifestyle on paper that's not always the way in their head or that's not always the way behind closed doors and you know everything isn't always you know uh open cloud nine there is definitely difficult times and everybody you know I think the majority of people in this world um at some stage of their life has gone through anxiety bits of depression of course some at a higher and lower levels but it doesn't matter how high or how low the levels of of it is it still affects your life it still affects your day to day and uh that was something that was very difficult to talk about but um as I say I'm in a great place now and I can deal with this and I can talk about this openly because I really want to do this to help other people as well. Yeah indeed and I think that's amazing but also what we'll see is um what it takes you know what commitment it takes what determination it takes uh the the athleticism boxes possess anyone who wants to know how tough boxing is go and watch like one of those white collar boxing matches or I wouldn't encourage anyone to watch uh an abomination of a show at the weekend it was YouTube American youtubers versus I don't know if you saw that versus uh that was only part of it right but anyway I don't think that's good for the sport but anyway that's what happens when you put in a year's training or you put in three months training you're gassing after a minute what you guys do you know is is absolutely unbelievable we'll get an insight into that the sacrifices and the life that you have to leave and the determination it takes to step in through those ropes at the best you can actually be. Yeah you know there's there's a lot of sacrifices and don't get me wrong to be successful or to to reach goals and limits and heights that you said yourself you're gonna have to make sacrifices in life you know everybody can we can just you know live a nice happy steady life and never really go outside our comfort zone but you will never really experience or achieve anything out of the ordinary with that and that's something that you know in boxing that I never really thought of I suppose because your whole life is just going 100 miles an hour and you're looking at the next fight you're looking at the next training camp you're injured when am I going to recover when am I next out when can I get back in the ring everything is just happening so quick and so fast and you never really get time to look back at what you have been through and where you have came from and doing this documentary actually brought up some questions that made me look back and made me look where I came from and made me look at everything that I have gone through in my life and in my sport and you know it was it was strange it was difficult because I'm just usually always looking forward all this every single time and you know what's next how do I become the champion you know just working everything out and just trying to get to the top of the tree all the time and yes you know looking back there has been so much that you sacrificed there's so much that you go through but not only you it's the people that's around you and I think it's only then that you actually relays and appreciate what people do for you in terms of your family and friends like what they go through just as much as you do whenever whenever you're away train whenever you're away in camp and whenever you're in the ring as well you topped the bill um on a massive show uh took on you know one of the best fighters out there in Demetrius Andrade he is uh something else is that the pinnacle career or is the pinnacle yet to come do you think very good question it's something that's you know I haven't really probably sat down and thought about because my main object over the last while has just been making sure that I get this jaw healed up and that that I'm that I'm back to 100 but yeah like you know if you had a says to me before I turned professional that that would happen then I would have just took the two arms off you and said you're angry now you want more yeah of course you know you feel that and you see that and you you see like the support leading up to that fight was unbelievable the balls the atmosphere everything was just like it was an unbelievable week the the whole fight week from from when I touched down on Boston like it was it was absolutely brilliant um I really enjoyed it I got excited but controlled excitement I was very focused very relaxed I think I had everything kind of taken care of and you know I felt probably the best I've ever felt going into that fight and unboxing these things happen it's just very unfortunate and you know the better man on the night just landed that shot and took things away from me and that's probably one of the most frustrating things that the fight was that I didn't even get a chance to grab that fight I didn't get it get to get stuck into that fight because in that fight I was yes I was put down and my jaw was broke but I was never hurt in a way that I couldn't continue you know I was we never get to see we never got of course and that was clear you didn't even really look that buzzed at all we never got to see what you and Andy Lee and others had put in place we never got a chance to see what would happen when you frustrate him when you take him to that did he prepare for you did he look past you all those questions we we haven't had answers to because of that one punch that just did what it did yeah and like that's that's what I mean that's probably the most second and hurtful thing and the hardest thing to try and get over is like I trained my whole life for that for that fight like everything was you know that's that's what you want soon as you start boxing you know you want to be a world champion and I got to that point where I was fighting for that world championship and you know I didn't get the opportunity if if I was hurt and if I was buzzed and my legs were unsteady then at least I could have just says right I need to try and knock them out here like this is just got to go for broke Hail Mary here now and I didn't do that because I was still mentally all away I was still just trying to stay out of distance trying to stay out of danger because I knew I just had to get over that flurry of punches that that burst of excitement from them and I didn't get the chance to referee stopped it you're still in plan a mode yet you didn't even have to look at a plan but you were still in plan a mode that's the the brain space you were you were still in like every time that whenever I got up off the canvas I knew I was like right just stay focused try not get caught again like everything was working the brain was working the legs were good and he just he just caught me with that shot and you know obviously I got asked the question there recently dude did I agree with what the referee's decision and it's a funny one because I don't agree with the referee's decision to stop the fight because I was able to continue he didn't know my jaw was broken I knew something was badly wrong on my mouth but we did not obviously know what the time and your adrenaline is rushing you just want to keep going so looking back on the fight I'm happy now obviously that the referee had stopped it because you know going another 10 rounds with a broken jaw could have been some serious damage he stopped it at the right time but for the wrong reasons exactly that's 100% spot on all right okay well listen hopefully there's a at least one more night night for us to look forward to lift your heels this is a an access all areas look at this we'll get an insight like we've never before the park and one was brilliant I'm sure this one's going to be great too when is it released because I've been looking out for it I couldn't see a I couldn't see a promo for when it was to be released so when is it actually out it's going to actually be out now on Thursday night on virgin media too at 10 30 p.m. and you know the team did a great you know great team work to get all this together with the likes of lad brooks and swish films who put it together as well it was unbelievable so it was everyone worked so well together because obviously I was going into a world title fight and they didn't want to cause any problems so they were very respectful and it was a good team effort to get it done then they got the access and it's great that everyone can watch it so it's on virgin media one at media to virgin media to sorry jason virgin media to okay we look forward to it's called lift your heels it gives us a full an access all areas kind of look to the biggest night so far in jason's quickly jason quickly's boxing career we can't wait to see as I say you know previous documentaries that have been released this year with the same kind of a field would have been excellent so I'm sure this one will be excellent too there's some brilliant people working on this stuff thanks jason all right take care of yourself thanks very much indeed okay I've lost track of time a little bit it is a little bit late sorry five past eleven it is time for a news update and it's over to mikaela clark thanks great good morning gardier continuing to appeal for information after one died following a crash at last week in rafau at approximately half past two and wednesday afternoon two vehicles collided on gastheis end road it's believed one of the vehicles lost control and collided with a pedestrian the woman aged in her fifties was seriously injured and taken to letter kenny university hospital she was later transferred to talla university hospital where she passed away yesterday morning the tannish just says the ukrainian crisis means things here will be tough for a while households are already facing spiraling fuel bills while there are concerns about possible food shortages and the state will have to provide financial support for ukrainian refugees who come here money and numerous high-value items have been stolen from a business premises in letter kenny the property situated at the car park area behind the station roundabout on the pier street was targeted between half past four and quarter to five on saturday morning a man dressed in a black coat with his hood up wearing a mask at dark bottoms and black trainers with white soles is believed to smash the glass in the front door and entered the shop gardi have been praised for their actions following a dramatic chase on ross neuler beach on sunday video footage of an incident involving two motorcyclists beating across the busy beach has been circulated widely on social media one motorcyclist was eventually apprehended by gardi who gave chase on foot after the motorcyclist fell off his bike gardi believe a car fire in bali buffet on friday night to be deliberate it was reported to gardi at around half past two that a car was set on fire at the navani street car park substantial damage has been caused to the vehicle tds and senators will today hear about the future of arnan's railway network and what must be done to improve it the iraqta's transport committee will hear submissions to the all island real review letter and very strong angosti southeast to south winds are expected in donnie gall today stanicella wind warning came into effect this morning and will remain in place until three o'clock this afternoon those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at twelve noon okay mikaela thank you and apologies once again for coming to a little bit late back after the break the nightly noon show is brought to you by 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behind horses that they don't pull in on a narrow road exiting a beach and said it's not the thing to do right uh diane joins us diane how are you getting on not so bad great yourself i'm all right so i love seeing horses out on the roads to be honest the whole part of rural living to me that's the part of the attraction to it but for some people as we heard earlier it peas them off what's your opinion i don't see the big issue and slowing down um either stopping or coming to a crawl and passing them what's two minutes of your life people need to slow down a bit are we losing our tolerance for each other i wonder you know what we're getting to i think we are like as you say it's a part of rural living you know horses and stuff and the drivers need to consider too they're big animals they're beautiful animals but if that horse is spooked not only is that a danger to the rider that horse could you know it could run in front of your car could do serious damage to your car and the people in the car so as i say for two minutes of your life slow down let the horse and the rider will pass relax and enjoy the view exactly right diane thanks very much for that uh hina joins us too good morning to you hello uh my hina hina but yes shina yeah okay lovely to speak to your shina right okay you want to talk about the horses yeah um i live in bunkrana and um i've had horses all my life you know i'm a very keen uh horse person you know i'm very passionate about them and i've been out actually horse riding the last couple of days and um i had an incident on sunday and i had incidents before with cyclists um coming up behind horses and coming towards them they don't even go into single file they come at you and they come behind you and about horses take off in me because they don't like the sound and they get afraid and it's not that i'm on here now to give cyclists a hard time at all everybody's entitled to their their hobby you know but um on sunday now i had a particular incident where my horse went right out in front of the cyclists and they were all swerving to get past me you know and i suppose my my my point there is why can't they stop when they see an animal come and i mean to allow me to get into um a nearby or allow me to get to a side road where we'll all be safe but they can stay past me and get on with their journey and i can get on with my journey it's interesting i wonder all right i'm not jumping to the defense of cyclists but i don't i do wonder maybe cyclists could be listening to this for the first time and realizing that you know they that they need to uh understand that they and horses are not sort of the same that horses can get a startle from a bike as they might a car yeah and it could cause a serious accident for both myself the horse and the cyclist you know but but i mean i had a very real experience in sunday with us you know where this happened and the horse actually came out in front of them and i was trying to turn the horse to face them to ask them to stop and they were just going in and out past me you know but any of that that's the way it is but i'm talking about cars on the roads now i have to say this now i find a lot of people very very courteous you know i find a lot of people very courteous i find the brakes in particular are fantastic they even stop their lorries and switch off their engines and people in cars will do that too but it's for the people that don't understand that come past you with noisy engine coming up close to you um passing you i actually wear a visor which drives slow and please keep your distance yeah and just one other point now because they want to keep you no no it's all right it's an interesting it's an interesting conversation go ahead yeah there's facilities for cyclists there are facilities for hill walkers there's facilities for swimming but there's no facilities for people who ride horses the roads have become a danger to us um the beaches aren't available to us all the time because i would be very aware on a nice day that the beach isn't a place to go because there's too many people you know so you're you're waiting for a wet windy day if you want the beach with your horse ironically you're looking you're looking for different weather than the rest of us and also i presume it also depends on the personality of the horse this is not like bicycles a bicycle's a bicycle obviously the rider can can can be different but you know you can have a horse that's very good around traffic or one that's slightly more easier startled or one that particularly rears up when they see cyclists so it you know it's not a one size fits all with horses yeah well in most cases horses are very unpredictable no matter how good your horse is if your horse gets a freaky and then i have to say my horses are quite good in the road but at the same time um that's something of somebody coming up behind you or somebody doing something like that um it's it's a bit scary you know most of them well some might say then given the fact that they are they're not just animals they're big animals some of these you know very big powerful animals if all animals uh sorry if all horses you know could be startled or have a reaction should they be on the road at all now i'm not saying that i'm i'm just saying some people listening might go well if it's that you know if it could happen at any point maybe then the same thing is not to have horses on the road at all but where do you go that's the problem you know if there was trails and facilities for horses that would be different matter we probably wouldn't have to take to the road you know um i also find a lot of people when they see common horse they love to see them i stop i let children pet them i'm very courteous to people if somebody passes me slow i will lift my hand away from if their windows open i will thank them um i think it's just a future respect here you know it is remarkable though finally because i'll let you go it's remarkable isn't it that we have this massive country relative to its population in terms of how heavily populated it is so many green fields you know so much space and yet you know if you own a horse there's no real facilities for your very few options for you it's remarkable isn't it and in the type of country that we have yeah so it's open to look at i think you know okay so thank you continued happy and safe riding thank you thank you very much take care yourself and thanks for shedding some light on that interesting that uh she is helena i think her name was it's not written too clearly for me that um praising big lorry drivers car drivers mostly courteous but the problems she encounters when out on the road with her horse uh cyclists 086625 thousand what's up sir text i suspect though i really feel that maybe cyclists weren't fully aware uh here's a caller that says greg this is really beginning to frustrate me the department of education is conducting a nationwide audit of schools across the country to examine the availability of places for ukrainian children i live in one area but both my husband and i work in another town so we uh chose for that that for our children to attend school firstly we had to wait ages for a place saying we didn't fit the criteria then we get no free school boss because it's not our closest school how is this fair well it's fair it's fair because these children are fleeing a war zone and their houses and their workplaces are being flattened their their income ability like you and your husband working and working hard by the way and deserve everything you get uh you you have that ability these are people that are are being bombed out of their country regardless of of the ins and outs of it you know the the the victims of war are these people whether it's ukrainian what they have done in the past whether it's west interference whatever it might be you know at the end of the day these are the victims of war and do we not have a responsibility even if we've stuff that we need to fix here to say that you know our door's open to you too and we can help you and we can give you some hope if not the adults at least the little children um so as i say we're never going to fix everything here enough that we can say right everything's perfect now we can do our bit for the world but surely we'd have to be seen to be i mean if anyone understands what this is like what's happening in ukraine what it's like it should be us to some extent at least okay without going in the ins and outs of it we should have an understanding of what this can do to a community what this can do to a family what this can do to lives i fully understand that historically a lack of investment and some crazy rules particularly as it relates to schools bosses have left you know people in the difficult situation but is that enough for us to say right we can't offer help do we want to be the same as the british where they're pretty much not only the 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we're seeing petrol and diesel at the same price in some places and we're seeing it up over two litres it's over two euro a litre down the country it's on its way up here it's already here in some places but that's the new reality you put 50 euro into your tank if you're lucky enough to do so and you are going to be struggling very soon thereafter because you're going to get half the distance bar the shouting oh you know 60 70 percent of the distance that you used to be able to get that's the reality also too obviously home heating oil there are some curtailments and how much you can order the price of it going through the roof the ongoing hua sorry this is not the war i'm talking about the background stuff is about you know we'll stop taking russian oil the russians will say i say well if you do that we'll switch off the gas so we're going to have to bed into this it's going to take months and months and months for this to be resolved and i think that's in an optimistic scenario so we can't rely on the markets to adjust the price of these essentials particularly for us here in rural dunagol the fact is though 50 percent is taken by the government at least in terms of petrol and diesel it's like 53 percent on one and 47 percent on the other so we i think the general consensus is something needs to be done in fairness to minister charlton mccunlough he said yesterday they're looking at it can't give any specifics doesn't want to predetermine the outcome um kehir lock of dunagol can't cancel cancer jack moray joins us on the program now i mean there is a an energy crisis in this country i mean obviously it's not like the crisis that's facing the ukrainians but something needs to be done we don't have alternatives here we we have to rely we have to have access to our cars and we have to heat our houses with either often coal or oil i mean this is the only saving grace is this is in march heading in towards the summer rather than towards the end of the summer heading into the winter but it's a dire situation jack it is and and see vertically that's uh exactly the point that of how how bad it is and like we have families now that genuinely can't afford to heat their homes there's people can't afford to put diesel in their cars and dunagol we know we rely here more than anywhere else on personal uh car use we don't have the luxury of choosing to have an alias our train and railway lines were dismantled about half a century ago so we have to get in the car if we want to go to work we have to get in the car and people are going to get hit very very hard and when they go to petrification today and the point of making is that although oil is increasing the price of oil is increasing globally and that's that's beyond our control there's a horrific war going on in ukraine and that's that's causing that spike but the government does have it within their gift to reduce the level of tax that we pay on our on our fuel and worse still and they have still not given a commitment not to increase the carbon tax again in may so i do think this is an emergency um when it's combined with the cost of living crisis i do think emergency measures need to be taken to not not only be committed to not decreasing the carbon tax but to to reduce the level of tax that we're paying at this moment of time because i mean but your party's putting this out in a in a uniformed where i'm not sure if all of the members are posting the same uh posting the same information but it but you know it's obviously something you to do in this morning at least in this county what's the plan though because in my mind and i'm not a i'm not a very good at maths but you know if we aren't taking in money um there's going to be a shortfall in the coffers you know and of course there's all the other issues that need money spent on them how do we square that circle yeah of course there was no coordination this morning this is just sorry i just saw you in pottery we got to post the exact same thing i'll presume okay no well i actually i went to film the card today it was 199.9 and i was very annoyed about what happened so that's why no no i get that i get that yeah but um i suppose the likes of the carbon tax that's studio increase in may was to bring in an extra 36 million euro went to the exchequer and i well it sounds like a lot of money when you're talking about the national exchequer that's that's fairly small so i do think at the very least that should be easily overcome but like we've seen during the likes of the pandemic when an emergency happens emergency measures can't can't be implemented so what do you say captain say say cap it at 160 per liter and then the government has to take the hit to whatever it is until such time as as the situation is resolved is that logical i think we've seen that in other european countries i think that's logical i think it's achievable if we can set that and i think i'll be welcomed across the board and maybe a similar price cap or a somewhat affordable price cap on on heating i i think that that has to be looked at because like we're going to sit in the elderly people that are putting a a pole into one room in the house and just sit there for the entire day because they can't leave 10 other room because they can't put oil to get the radiators going like this this is extremely serious this is emergency measures like this while it's great nuisance maybe there are a lot of people it's it's very very serious to the people that we know i just wonder if the conversation things move so quickly like we're having a conversation now myself and yourself and the whole country about you know let's cap the price or whatever it is of of this this but if it weren't for shell uh going buying um you know a big batch of oil from russia in the last couple of days we'd actually be talking about rationing uh the and there's rationing already taking place let's let's let's call it as it is that's already happening you know i just wonder if we're talking now about the price of a commodity i just wonder in two or three weeks time are we actually going to be talking about whether or not we can actually get our hands on it yeah and that's a serious problem itself but i suppose that's beyond the control of anyone in ireland as to the the level of supply we get what's what the what the irish can control what the irish government control is about the xis and tax that we do put on the fuel that we do have and i think when you're talking that well over 50 percent of your your your bill for your diesel and your your petrol is on tax like that can that can be uh changed and reduced fairly pretty quickly so i think that's what the government the government needs to act upon what the control and i think that's where they can make a real difference we're seeing an almost unprecedented movement of people like we've not seen um we have at the moment uh we've taken into our country 1500 ukranians that's increasing all the time there's been a not an amazing outpouring of generosity people offering homes or what have you crashed the website last night such was the interest but at the same time the and it feels very much like the conversation we had at the time when we were talking about syrian refugees at the same time now there's conversations having like about i can't see my gp i got a three week appointment to see my gp i can't get a school boss place for my child the hospitals are already overrun you know you're going to be dealing with an awful lot of those queries but at the same time we're going to be increasing our population quite dramatically in some parts of the country what do you say to people who raise those concerns to to to you that they would say to you look you know we are already struggling in all the areas i've just mentioned and here we are taking even more put people in um what would you say to those people i can understand the frustrations people have with the lack of services the lack of access to housing and that needs to be addressed and that's something that we will always need to work on but like yesterday i was watching the news and i saw an 11 year old child was was sent away from home with a phone number written on their on their hand with no belongings because the that child's mother had to stay and look after an elderly relative who was a mother extreme danger of being bombed out of their homes and that 11 year old child i welcome to the border in poland like these people are facing difficulty that we can never ever comprehend and as a while i'm not going to say that we're doing enough for we can't for our own Irish people the minute that needs to be addressed but like these people are suffering in an unbearable way yeah we have to do our bit to help out this is a humanitarian crisis looking we can't have it on our national conscience that we don't do enough for these people because we we just absolutely have to but it's it's it's it's embarrassing though when you compare it to our reaction to other humanitarian crises what is different why is it why why is our approach different because these people are from Ukraine yeah well that's a little bit we should be acting we should always be acting and like there shouldn't be i suppose preferential preferential treatment i suppose because this is the most recent war that's this broken out that's it's it's all across our our media our our like our global media it is one that we're seeing more of and people maybe because of that feel a stronger kind of level of sympathy for the Ukrainians but like i do i do agree that we should be doing more for for the people of Yemen Sudan Palestine or we should be doing more perhaps when Iraq and Afghanistan too we're getting bombarded but one shouldn't rule out the other and if it's right and one country's right and the other and the Ukrainians are getting a horror of an invasion inflicted upon them and we should be doing doing our bit i suppose too that many of these Ukrainians are now pouring into EU countries which makes it easier for them now to reach Ireland and as a member of the EU i think we should do in our bit to help those people in any way we can be through accommodation through aid and just in any way we have to step up from our care we cannot as i say on our national conscience we cannot leave these people to suffer alone all right uh just as it relates to the government action if they take action as it relates to diesel petrol home heating on this is something that people can't wait on that the struggle is real right now for an awful lot of people on all different incomes by the way you know that's a this is affecting you know i would say maybe the the richest are insulated but downwards from them this is hitting everyone now it needs to be acted upon as soon as is possible it doesn't like i'm aware to even a school bus supplier they say the margins now within the profit margins are just completely gone like so they think now that they won't be able to provide school bus services like so it's not it's not just and those on low incomes a low people on low incomes are hit severely hard there's there's businesses hollers and they just won't be able to survive that we put it in business as this continues so we do need like we've seen what can happen in the pandemic when the pandemic unemployment payment was introduced so quickly we can see that these measures can be taken in an emergency so i do think the government needs to act and act very quickly now to get to get this the tax on our fuel reduced asap all right thanks very much indeed for that Liam molligan is here like i've aimed to hear in donna golliam good morning to you good morning greg and what do you have to say in all of this well and i think this the issue is the big cost shouldn't all fall on the government cost has to fall on the oil companies the oil companies have a strategy indeed western governments have had a strategy of going for the cheapest source for everything and never thinking about security of supply it applies to food as well which is an issue is going to be important for donna golliam no talking about the need for the farmers to grow crops in the next year in order to make up for the loss of wheat from the ukraine and russia so the oil companies need to be brought into this and this is a government action in the market the market is not sacrosanct even adam smith the fellow who's regarded by the free market here extremists as their prophet said that the market only sometimes happens for the betterment of all only that's much less than always it's definitely not and it's not even usually if we have that level of influence over oil companies on a global scale i mean let's look at the reality is that you know these oil prices were already going up they adjust these prices by turning a tap effectively they were already going up before this happened okay yet at the same time the main oil companies were pros posting record profits so yep so if that is allowed to happen that it seems to be generally accepted by governments okay what i don't know what the relationship or who pulls the strings or where the influence this is but why now would they stand up and start saying right it's time for you guys to start absorbing some of this well that's the question of crisis you know and this has to be done at a joint level by all european governments coming together in a cooperation to to raise it with the oil companies i mean why was oil more expensive than pre-covid before the war started the probability is that there was a decision not to start off refinery capacity which had been shut down probably not the original sources of the oil the oil well it's somewhere else along the line but i suppose it didn't most recent wars actually as a result of you know they're caused by gas and oil whether it's their availability they're mining whatever it might be so these are so important that they actually cause an awful lot of this heartache and this devastation and this loss of life i just can't see all of a sudden some sort of a moral conscience being grown whereby they'll say all right we'll take the hit on this well i mean the Saudis aren't going to take the hit on yeah they're going to screw us for what they can and all the rest of the oil suppliers are going to play that as well but it's what do we have control of and remember they said before the war started oil was already more expensive heating oil and petrol and diesel were already more expensive than they were pre-covid no increase in demand yeah but Liam you know you know yourself though this was flagged for a long time putin had been making his demands for a very very long time you know the western powers knew what was coming maybe they didn't know the extent of it but that was what was to some extent as well influencing influencing the markets because the writing was on the wall that this was going to happen well putin was calculating that this wasn't going to happen that he would get away with it that he would get pretty standard sanctions and i'd say the oil companies in the western governments and in the german government certainly wasn't they still had Nord Stream going the german government was not calculating on this right up to the last minute so and they were very reluctant to move on it you know so it wasn't obvious before there were other influences happening as well i mean there's other other stuff going on like the the the germans had been trying to trying to create and and harbour a stronger relationship with russia than maybe other countries within the the EU all that being said at the end of the day the bottom line is is the biggest take here effectively is from the government you know if you're paying two euro a liter at the pump it's actually really one euro a liter uh in terms of you know some might say to get that out of the ground to uh to process it as you might to transport it to get it into a pump to get it into your car for one euro per liter is not bad the big problem here is that is that is the the the government's taxes on it do you not think that but but why is it now it's not that it's one euro a liter it's that it's one euro 20 one euro 30 a liter now when it should be 80 cents a liter and where is the control that we can take a certain amount of it we have to take a certain amount of increases the government will have to take a certain amount of it but it has to be shared with the people that are responsible for this as well i'm not one of these who says the state must take control of all markets the state makes it tends to come in too late and stay too long in any action that it takes but it does have to take action at times these are emergencies the state can't subsidize everything forever someone else has to come in and contribute people do things in emergencies but consider the uk it had two great emergencies in the 20th century the first world war and the second world war it was bankrupt after both so everybody else has to take a hit on it and especially the most influential the people that are making the math the most profits that we can deal with we need to control we give them a good profit on it but maybe a better than normal profit on it but not these ridiculous profits that are coming out of this if you look at the actual profits that the oil companies are going to be making on this this is just out of this world and we have to control them when we talk about we talk about Saudi oil we talk about Russian oil we talk about American oil you know we don't talk about companies we're talking about countries there's country elements and there's company on there's markets in the world that we're not going to be able to deal with but there are elements of the process of the chain from but it's like it's not it's not gas companies that we can control yeah but it's not gas companies that are going to switch off the gas supply from russia to to to europe and beyond it's it's going to be put in government to do that we know that and how do you negotiate with us how do you negotiate with that no you're not going to go this we have the silliness of someone like ferrata and johnson both say interestingly enough saying the same thing that our new k only depend for three percent of the gas on russia we're in the same network european network is germany therefore we depend nearly as much as germany on russian gas and if they show it off we are all in a major mess we had plenty of warning though of where this was going whether it's for environmental motivations or whether it was for whatever it might be you know we should have been as much as we can particularly given the size of our nation we should have been making ourselves as self-sufficient as is possible we do use all the gas that we produce by the way so i'm more we use a lot we import yeah but i think a lot of people think that we have oil and gas off our coast no and that we we sell that and then we don't we don't have oil we have gas but we consume all of that gas as far as i'm aware we consume all of that gas but in terms of diversity in terms of wind hydro power energy creation wind energy you know this is the stuff we should have been doing since 2014 when when when kramir was annexed i was at a conference in 2007 during the boom when factories were running a problem that they couldn't buy electricity ahead for the future they couldn't guarantee that they would get electricity in the next year we were so far behind the building power station now the crash cured that problem but a person from the department got up and said we need three characteristics of our electricity supply we need sustainability we need security and we need the economy and the person stood up and said there was no contradiction in these requirements but they all pull in different directions and we have neglected security and amon ryan's statement about the lng terminal in uh kerry whatever its total benefits or not was ridiculous he was effectively saying we don't we are not willing to pay for security of supply we need to pay for security of supply and unfortunately these things are going to cost but in the particular immediate emergency everyone along the chain that we can control that our governments can influence need to be influenced the government needs to come up with excite duty cuts but we also need to control the level of profits of the oil companies you don't see it happening because you have a european union based on patch right principles which is the free market of safety yeah of course but obviously i mean the way you could get to what you're talking about is you would have probably have to uh you probably have to uh compulsory in a compulsory way acquire these companies i mean you compulsory control uh their output has been done before it has can be done we can control what they do we can control what they charge we can know their inputs we can know that their input cost we can know their process cost and we can know their reasonable okay but i mean if we refuse we're not taking oil from russia okay yeah that leaves us short of of of the product and then you're saying now we actually have to control how you how you uh how you uh cost it anyway that's the same with the gas supply if you take it is it fair that we cut off all poland loses all its gas even if it's in a network of pipes linked to the same network of pipes is that is it fair that poland loses all its gas and we only lose three percent of our gas is that fair and that's the sort of thing that has to be controlled and it has to be controlled on oil as well all right okay leon thank you very much for that 08 660 25 000 by the way that was uh leon molligan who is uh the carelock i've been through in this county the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your 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would think of collecting a free card from your post office and sending it to the russian ambassador and who's based in dublum now my thinking there is that and he's a diplomat and i actually sent one myself to him yesterday and asking him to try and liaise with all his russian at the other ambassadors around the world and bring to pewton the groundswell that's here for peace and i think you know this is who we are uh you know if we in an organized way sent these cards uh requesting peace this is who we are i don't think we are reversing lorries into the gates of an ambassador's residence or or or whatever it might be you know this is how we deal with things we are allegedly neutral you see how we all handles covid we didn't think we'd come through but we all acted collectively and we got through a nightmare now i think we've a small window to stop this chaos and it has to be done in an immediate time frame it's a simple idea the the core and the original came from a lovely pure innocent child and it's the language isn't anti or pro it's non-judgmental and it's really about even if we buy the stamp you get the cards free you buy the stamp and some of the money from the stamp goes to local Irish charity so you're supporting charities and you're supporting peace and you send your plea for peace to ambassador urie filatov embassy of russia 186 all well rolled rathgard doblin 14x 6r3 perfect and and i suppose it's a way that we can do from our homes greg you don't have to be putting a lot of energy it's a once off because coming up soon enough and and you know if we just try and all have peace in our heart and think outside the box you know sometimes the obvious doesn't work what we need is a de-escalating of this violence and it starts with each individual we have a responsibility all right listen thanks for that it's a nice suggestion i appreciate you sharing it with us okay deputy pauline tolly is shin fane spokesperson on disability and carers tell us about the motion you're bringing forward this week and good morning to your deputy good morning greg and thank you for having me on yeah i'm bringing the motion this evening it's during the shin fane um private motion time and it's on waiting times for interventions and disability uh sorry interventions and assessment of need for children with disability and basically my office and indeed the office of all my colleagues are inundated with families contacting us about these waiting lists um the the whole process was reorganized under what's called progress and disability model where they saw the establishment of 91 children's disability network teams throughout the state but it turns out like while the teams are established or officially they're established they're all understaffed for the vast majority of them are and it's leading to huge problems for the for the children and their families um so what's happening is that children are being told that they might be waiting two years for speech and language or occupational therapy or physiotherapy whatever they might need and indeed there's quite a number of children waiting for assessments to see even what supports they they are entitled to and should be receiving um and it's then they've also kind of watered down the assessment of need process because under the disability act of 2005 you're entitled to an assessment of need which would be a multidisciplinary um assessment which identifies a disability and then your needs and supports health and educational support um they've introduced the HIV have introduced um a new standing operation procedure and they've brought in what's called a preliminary team assessment which is just a very basic assessment of children and they're kind of trying to assaid I think their obligation under the disability act and they're passing this off as a proper assessment of need to apply being taken like some sort of a pre-assessment that may uh on the books look like a full assessment is that what we're talking about and definitely how would your motion address these issues because you would know programs like this where we we receive lots of correspondence from very upset families you've already outlined that but but I think what they would want to hear is you know what is the what's the fix here because you know we've got government talk and we've got opposition talking but their situation remains the same and I mean I ask this question with all due respect but in reality how would this motion fix this problem right what the motion is hoping to do is to bring attention on this because sometimes it's just ignored um it's also calling the government to address it immediately it's not there's no quick fix and we're not pretending that there is so I don't want to give families hope that it's an overnight solution but the biggest issue here is staff there are insufficient staff and we are seeing this across the health system where there are insufficient staff and there's no proper development plan to address the shortages are you satisfied that for instance that there are the staff there and the people interested in this work that you know if if things done correctly they can be recruited or is there a shortage generally in this in this area and if that is the case we are talking a real medium to long-term plan there's two things here um before the government introduced this new um preliminary team assessment they were contacted by the organizations that represent psychologists for example occupational therapists and physiotherapists and so on and they told them that they were totally uncomfortable with this new assessment that they was the a delusion of the professional standards and they indicated them after undertaking service that up to 40 percent of staff indicated we're going to leave the system if this was if they progress with this they went ahead anyway and what we've seen is a mass excess of experienced clinicians from these teams so that's one of the problems that they need to address and what they're telling me as well that they hate to see are refusing to sit down and talk to them about that issue but also about the recruitment and how to get more time involved and the tension another issue around the tension is the lack of career progression within the services and then what you see are people hopping from one service to another so they're going from disability services to primary care or to cams because of the way it's structured and they need to address that as well because it's not fair on the children that are accessing these different services that the personnel are changing on a constant basis and so they need a proper worker care plan or a workforce plan put in place but they also need to be actively maybe come around to our secondary schools and ensure that we've enough people entering these professions and then they need to look at some sort of a guarantee that they will have work in these services after they graduate that will take some time but I understand listen we'll watch with interest to see what happens deputy tolly thanks for joining us thank you very much deputy pauline tolly shin fame spokesperson on disability and cares and i appreciate her endeavors but i think like as we heard yesterday on the program people want answers and want resolutions people that live on their own with a single income and also people who are of different needs are not being looked after says this caller it's one thing for people who are working and earning and where there are two incomes who are suffering but there is not enough support for those who are really suffering that comes in from councillor ian macarvie a caller says russia has a right to protect itself if the cold cold war is solved why do we still need nato well i think you know it would be foolhardy for um uh individual countries not to be aligned would it not when we have a large country with incredible power enough to wipe this planet over at a few times uh there is a deterrent element to it i presume to try and uh limit the types of situations we're seeing right now just a reminder last june the 16th the day after the mica march every single shin fame td voted to implement the climate action plan including increased carbon taxes yet here they are claiming to be opposed to government i think they're calling for a deferral but i take your point uh last one for now early hours of the morning there has often been horses going up the dairy road in a large pack from one area to another all by themselves a horse got spooked and took the whole side of a car off car owner never reported it as he knew it'd just be trouble for him the poor horse must have been injured okay listen thanks for all your calls and comments and interactions with us today i'll get to some of them tomorrow all of them tomorrow hopefully but that's