 I need you to ask Rita, does she tune out at nine, or does she stay listed? I'm going to ask Rita that, tell her I said hello. I'm wearing dodgy clothes today, because no one's there's a radio. You're on front of camera and stuff. So should you be. Anyway, that's conversation for another day. No, could you let me, that's your day, I want to see you read that style. I don't think you could get into it. I don't... Yeah, it could be a bit tight for me. Could be a bit tight. Anyway, say hello to Rita for us. I will do. All right, okay, that should be nice. Well done to you, Leigh, all right, take care. It is nine o'clock, time for news update. Let's get over to the newsroom and say good morning now to Donna Marie Daugherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Two teenage girls aged 16 and 17 have died after a road crash in County Monaghan, which happened while they were on their way to a school prom. An 18-year-old girl and a man in his 60s who was driving the car are fighting for life in hospital, while an 18-year-old boy is being treated for less serious injuries. The single vehicle collision happened on the N54 in Vagna Kelly on the Clonest Smithboro Road just before 7 o'clock last night. The event was cancelled after the news of the tragedy emerged and the local youth club in Clonest remained open until late last night to offer support to other students. The EPA's latest report shows the quality of drinking water is extremely high, but almost half a million people are still being served by at-risk supplies. These include 3,518 in the Glente's Ardra area, 2,266 in Letter Mac Award and 2,560 in Milford. Meanwhile, nationally, 182,000 people were affected by boil water notices last year. In Donegal, Ross's had an eight-day boil water notice for failure at the water treatment plant, while the people of Letter Mac Award had a notice in effect for two months of last year. A boil water notice was issued again for the area yesterday. The development of a Peace Plus Local Community Action Plan for Donegal is a step closer after Donegal County Council confirmed this week. It's now moving on to stage three of the process. It will involve further public consultation before the final plan is finalised and submitted by December. Donald Kavanaugh has more. Donegal County Council says the plan informed by a local community engagement process will enable and empower communities to assist in the development of priority projects and programmes that the council will submit under the Peace Plus programme. This, the council says, will result in shared and inclusive local services, facilities and spaces and make a significant and lasting contribution to peace and reconciliation. Stages one and two of the consultation process are now complete, an indicative report has been published. The council is now embarking on a final series of public consultation events before an application is submitted to the special EU programme's body by the 14th of December. A number of Zoom meetings will take place over the next fortnight, along with face-to-face sessions in Donegal Town, Donegal Low, Lettercanny, Carandana and Strunorder. More details and links on our website, highlandradio.com. Explains how. Moving to whether it's largely dry and bright to start with few lingering showers, highest temperatures of 17 to 19 degrees with a light to moderate westerly breeze gradually backing south-easterly. That's all for now. I'll be back with the next news update at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Hello, good morning. Just approaching four minutes past nine on Tuesday, the first of August 2023. We're into another month. Some would say we're into autumn. I'm not having any of it though. We still have our summer to come. I'm absolutely sure of it, just like I was sure. There would be a high score in game yesterday between Ireland and Nigeria. As it turns out, Oshin was spot on. Well, not far off it anyway. A goalless draw. Anyway, coming up on the program today, we don't want you to go anywhere. Of course, just after 10, we've got community guard information while you're here first. The latest news and appeals from our guard is Yukana, here in Donegal. And then after 11, we continue the tradition of welcoming the contestants for the Mary from Donegal Low competition into studio. 13, I believe it is this year, taking part. And all 13, all being well, will be joining us later on in the show for quick chats. So make sure you're watching, make sure you're listening, and make sure you're involved in the conversation. 086625,000. That's your WhatsApps and texts. 086625,000. If you want to give us a call, it's 0749125,000. And for both numbers, if you're outside the Republic, drop the first 000353. And away you go then. Emails from wherever you are, comments at highlandradio.com. The fronts of the papers today, inside some of them, too, of course, the Donegal Democrat. The HSC has responded to a recently published HIKWA report, which raised a number of safety issues in relation to Donegal Community Hospital. The facility in Donegal Tan was the subject of an unannounced inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority on March 29th. A report published on July 25th outlined non-compliance in a number of areas, including fire safety, infection control, and residents' rights. The statement was subsequently issued by the HSC's Community Health, Care, Cabinet, Donegal, Literature, and Monetary and Sligo Division. You can read it inside the paper today. On to the Irish Independent. A six-figure sum of cash was found hidden when Gardie searched the home of a man who had committed two gruesome murders in the space of two days last year. The Irish Independent reveals today. Yesterday at the Central Criminal Court, Yosef Palini, 23, of Markovic Heights in Sligo, pleaded guilty to the murder of Aidan Moffat at Cartron Heights in Sligo on April 10th, 2022. He also pleaded guilty to the murder of Michael Snee at City View, Carton Road, Sligo, two days later. Palini further pleaded guilty to causing serious harm to Anthony Burke in Sligo also on April 9th, 2022. The large amount of cash seized by Gardie during the search of Palini's home is the subject of an ongoing criminal assets bureau investigation, but sources said it's not suspected to have originated from criminality. The origin of that money has not yet been fully determined, a source said last night, and that was a trial that was due to begin in a month or two. He was taken to court to plead. He changed his counsel, I believe, and will be sentenced in October if I'm not mistaken. On to the Irish Times. I'm not sure if you've been following the story and the developments as it relates to the National Party. They are right-leaning, sort of far-right party. That's not what they say of themselves, though. And they haven't had anyone elected yet, either a councillor or a TD, but they did have, in the reserves, a €400,000 worth of gold. Now, I don't know who owns that gold. Is it the party's gold? Is it the party's leader? I don't know. They don't know either, but it's the subject of a Gardie investigation, I'm sure. But anyway, on from that then, there's been a bit of a coup in the party in that a couple of others in the party have said that it's former leader or current leader, depending who you listen to. Mr Barrett has been ousted. He says he's not been ousted at all. It's his party. But anyway, the Standards in Public Office Commission has pledged to investigate concerns raised about some €400,000 gold bar stored in the vaults belonging to the National Party. The latest development comes after the party's president, Justin Barrett, was ousted from his position. Only for him to later deny this had happened. The right-wing party said in a statement that Mr Barrett was removed from his post in mid-July before claims emerged that the gold bars had been removed from a party vault due to an overwhelming lack of confidence from active party members in his continued ability to lead the party. Mr Barrett denied that he'd been removed and said that it was not possible to do so under party rules. Meanwhile, Finagale Councillor Emma Blaine has written to CIPPO asking them to investigate the source of the funding, urging the watchdog to appoint a public auditor, giving that the National Party's never submitted a cancer to CIPPO. And then, of course, is the gold the parties? Does some of the gold belong to Mr Barrett? Has that all divvied up and separated? It remains to be seen. It's going to be an interesting one. That's probably going to end up in the courts and be quite the trial that will gather an awful lot of attention. The tragic news that we all learned of last evening and will come back to this morning is covered in the Irish Daily Mail today. Tragedy is engulfed a small town after two teenage girls died in a horrific road traffic collision yesterday as a group were on the way to a secondary school's Debs Ball. Three others in the vehicle, a boy and a girl both aged 18 and the driver, a man aged 60, were taken to hospital. The girl and the driver were said to be in a critical condition last night. The girls who died in the crash were aged 16 and 17. It is understood that all five people were travelling in the same vehicle. Sinn Fein TD for Kevin Monaghan, Matt Carthy said last night, horrendous heart-wrenching news coming from Clonus this evening and it is just beyond words, isn't it? Young people on a night out or heading on a night out at the end of their schooling, isn't it? And for this to happen and just what the parents and wider family must be going through, it is absolutely horrendous. So what can you say beyond that? Nothing else really. There's just simply no words. In other news in the papers today, Donald Trump, you may not hear of him as much as he once did but he hasn't gone away and he's certainly still remaining incredibly popular amongst certain Republicans, at least in America. Donald Trump is trancing his Republican rivals and new poll shows. He's the clear favourite to get to the get. I don't know if some of the people don't read this before they publish it though, I can be guilty of that myself. He's the clear favourite to get the party's nomination to run for US President. It means the 2024 poll is likely to be a rerun of the last election with ex-President Trump 77 taking on current President Joe Biden who is 80. There's an awful amount of people involved in the very high levels of politics that are late 70s and into their 80s and I'm not being ageist and saying there's anything wrong with that but it is notable. Donald leads nearest challenger Ron DeSantis by 37 points. The New York Times Sienna College poll revealed yesterday and back in the day you would have thought, right he needs a controversy here, something needs to come out about Donald Trump for DeSantis to close this gap. It's the only way and some dirt would be dug up and maybe then there would be a shock at the polls but it doesn't work like that anymore because the more that comes out about Donald Trump or the more that accusations leveled at him or the more he's questioned or charged or whatever it might be, the more popular he gets. So he cannot be unseated by scandal. It only makes him more powerful and more strong it seems. So that'll be interesting. Well, the Irish Daily Mirror this morning, young adults who have suffered sexual violence are more likely to tell a friend than a relative figure showed yesterday which doesn't really surprise me. Two-thirds of people aged 18 to 24 who were attacked confided in a pal first compared with 13% who told a family member this CSO revealed and 36% of women who did not disclose any experience of sexual violence as an adult kept it secret because they felt ashamed or embarrassed and that is something really as a society going to have to work on that people are bottling this stuff up for fear of what others might think of them. More than twice the rate for men, 15%. The CSO's sexual violence survey also found that most people who suffered sex abuse as a child or adult do not disclose it to the authorities. We're going to be speaking about those findings a little later on in the program as well because they are food for thought. The Mirror, the star sorry now, an anxiety-ridden gangster, as is described, who had risen to be one of the top drugs bosses in the country has been jailed for 11 years. Now we talk about how drugs are all over the place now. It's easy to get a pizza and all that type of stuff. Well, the reason that is the case is because we have people who are bringing them into the region. They have distribution models and what have you. Well, this guy seemingly was quite prolific in drugs in terms of the West and Northwest. Barry Young, 38, received his sentence yesterday at the special criminal court after he pleaded guilty to directing a crime gang between October 4th, 2019 and January 15th, 2022. Mr. Justice Tony Hunt said that the thugs' activities in which he oversaw a 20-strong mob had been a significant scourge of the people of Sligo. The judge made the point that Young's drugs mob was smaller in scope, size and geography than others he'd seen before the courts in recent years. He said that the violence used by them did not reach the levels of others either and it was Young's group that was answerable to others and they would get when needed enforcers to travel up from the capital to organizations they were involved in down there. But anyway, it's been locked up now for 11 years. OK, let us take a quick break back with our first guest shortly. Complete any room with our elegant and exquisite range of curtains designed to elevate your windows with sheer beauty. Whether you prefer classic patterns or contemporary designs, our curtain collection offers endless possibilities to complement your interior decor. Let our expert staff assist you in creating the living space you've always dreamed of. Call in and get a free interior design consultation this month at Foy & Company Letter Kenny. Imagine a dream wedding on a lake, all day casual dining by a magical shore. 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At 9.15, all political parties are being called on to make a public commitment not to misuse AI, that's artificial intelligence in the general election campaigns. It comes as government is establishing an independent advisory council to provide expert advice to government on AI policy. Fina Falls Senator Malcolm Byrne claims the technology is one of the biggest challenges of our democracy. And he joins me on the program now. Good morning, Senator, thanks for your time today. Good morning, Greg, and good morning to you listeners. Okay, so how do you see this as one of the biggest challenges to our democracy or of our democracy? Well, artificial intelligence and indeed its convergence with other emerging technologies is impacting and will impact on virtually every area of our lives. And a lot of it will be in a very positive way. So AI is being used in healthcare at the moment as a faster and more effective way, for instance, to identify tumors and other probable possible problems, including cancer. So in those sort of areas, AI can definitely be used for goods. And in terms of how you process large volumes of data, AI can be helpful. But AI can also be misused. And one of the concerns that I was have is in our democracy how it may be misused to spread misinformation and disinformation. We know that technology has had the impact on referendum elections already in a negative way. There's a well documented story about how data used by Cambridge Analytica influenced the Brexit referendum in the UK. We've seen, for instance, how U.S. elections, that there are efforts by outside parties, notably from Russia, to try to influence them. And the difference that artificial intelligence can make is it can turbocharge some of that misinformation and disinformation. But can I say, for an example, just using, and I get exactly where you're coming from, but just say using the Brexit campaign as an example, the biggest threats to sort of misinformation or in terms of spreading misinformation weren't artificial intelligence or robots. It was Boris Johnson with his big red boss and it was Nigel Farage who was planning the sun and the moon and the stars. So the main threat in terms of misinformation seems to come from real people. Just to use your examples for an example. Yeah, it does. But where we're going with this, and one of the concerns that I have this very significant fear about is around what are called deep fakes. And what deep fakes are, these are false but realistic images of videos or people or events that are designed by artificial intelligence. So what you could see during the course of an election campaign is one of our political leaders, a deep fake would be created using their image, their voice, for them to say something that in which they wouldn't believe. And the difficulty then is that citizens will look at this, they will believe it because they're seeing it. They'll share it widely on social media. And by the time the political leader gets the opportunity to correct that, the damage could be done. And some people think this is very futuristic, but AI technology has developed to such an extent, Greg, that it could now listen to your voice for just a matter of seconds. It would pick up the tone and timbre of your voice. And it would be able to generate sounds that people would believe. And if the truth be told, if the truth be told, Malcolm, many people listening to this program have already been exposed that may not realize it. There's a couple circulating, particularly on Facebook, there's one including a Sky News presenter and a very famous YouTuber, MrBeast, where it is trying to get people to invest in a certain game or what have you. And his name escapes me now, the consumer advice guy, Martin, something or other in Britain. Already he has been cloned using AI to try and get people involved in scams. So people listening, and this is why perhaps it's worrying technology, a lot of people listening have already actually been exposed to deep fake scams without even realizing it. Just to underline your point that this is already here and it's really quite easily done because it's a computer that does it. It doesn't require a great deal of human intervention. No, and I mean, there have been examples in the US and Canada of bank fraud being committed using voice activation technology. So your listeners will think about during the course of an election campaign, they're looking at something on social media. A video comes up of a political leader and he or she is saying something and they're kind of going, oh, that sounds pretty outrageous or that's not something I agree with. Without even thinking, a lot of people will just decide to share that. And very quickly, right across social media, you will have a deep fake that will be widely shared even though it's completely misrepresented. And the original false claim or false statement will be seen a million times and the clarification might be seen 50,000 times and they'll realize the rub. But how do you deal with this? I've tried to think. I've even thought about maybe whereby pre-approved messages or something along those lines, but still that could be duplicated or replicated. So you've recognized the problem. It is going to happen. But how do you counteract it? It's important because everyone's putting up stuff, right? So it's going to be very difficult to see the woods for the trees. So there's a number of things I think that we need to do. I think first of all, for all of us, myself included, but for all your listeners, in a sense we need to become more digitally and media literate. So before you go to post or repost something on social media, ask yourself, where is this coming from? Who's posted this in the first place? Why are they posting it? What's the rationale behind it? So we've got to be a lot more questioning of what we see on social media and the rationale behind it. I think there are technological solutions, although they're not ideal, which include things like watermarks and so on, and where if something is AI-generated content, that that has to be declared on the content that the viewer is seeing. There are, unfortunately, still some ways around that, but I think the technology is catching up to allow that. There's a very important role for the new electoral commission. The governments have set up, this is the first time with a completely independent electoral commission that's overseeing our elections. It will have a role, yes, on the administration side, but it has to protect the integrity of the democratic process. We're very fortunate to live in a democracy, but that can be challenged and threatened. And what we are going to see is, we're going to see efforts to influence our elections and represent it from outside the state. It's going to have to try to protect against that. And also, we've got to try to ensure that, and this commission has got to try to ensure that the rules put in place around content that can be posted on social media. I think also, and this is something, I think it's important for all of our political parties, is that we sign a pledge not to misuse artificial information, but what political parties won't do is use deep fakes of their opponents. So whatever about dealing with the issues and debating the issues, not to be spreading misinformation and disinformation, creating deep fakes set out to damage something on the economy. But just back to my point about real politicians. It's really important, though, that the public can have faith in what our politicians and the civil service are saying to be true as well, isn't it? Because we can talk about the spreading of mis and disinformation and using tools like artificial intelligence and what have you. But there are recent examples that affect us here in Donegal where something is said in public by a human person that is demonstrably untrue, or at least misinformation or misleading. So do you think politicians have to be more careful, and those who speak on the behalf as to what they say? Because I think it just opens the gates for people to say, well, if you say whatever you like, well, what's the big deal in us making deep fakes saying whatever we like? Well, the difference there is if you like, if a politician says something that is untrue, they are actually saying it. And journalists like yourself can hold them to account, voters can hold them to account. The difference with the deep fake is that somebody is, if you like putting words into somebody else's mouth, it's getting them to say something that they've never actually said. And that's completely distorting the truth. If somebody says something that is blatantly false, at least you have a way of holding them to account. And also just finally Malcolm, it's part of this as well, the world we are in at the moment. And to some extent, there are certain ideologies, certain political views that are taking hold now that we are seeing growing in popularity because it resonates with the public. Are you also somewhat concerned as to what impact AI might have in amplifying those voices and the threat it might have to the establishment? Because some might say, well, you're probably, or maybe you're afraid that people with a different political view to yours might be able to use all the tools available to them and gain traction? Well, I don't. I mean, I think that the importance of a democracy is that we allow a variety of political views to be expressed and it allows us people to choose who it is that represent us. But democracy is very fragile. And we have seen and we're seeing it right across Europe, again, the rise of the extremes on the far left and on the far right. They do, we know from history, that they do pose challenges to democracy. There is no problem with somebody who puts forward those views in a very democratic way. But when they don't then accept the democratic processes, that certainly causes a problem. And we've seen certainly through the use of social media, that has led to an increased polarization of politics. I mean, for me, compromise is not a dirty word. Politics is about being able to work with people to be able to gain solutions. Unfortunately, social media has now driven an increased polarization, but people are going to the extremes, they're not willing to compromise. Do you think they're welcome, finally, though? But do you think, like, I just feel that, as long as we don't end up with a race to the bottom, and not withstanding everything you've said and I accept everything you say about AI, but just general public discourse in that, you know, you don't hear debates anymore on radio or media because politicians won't make themselves available. You know, it's very rare that you might get the health minister debating with an opposition health minister. We have a situation now where, by even the leader of the country, Micheal Martin, is creating his own podcast. You know, he's not necessarily, I can't have access to him to have a conversation and a debate about serious issues, but he's producing his own content now that's not held to account. There's no fact-checking. I'm not saying for a second, by the way, that he's saying anything that's untrue, but it's just publishing stuff. Do you know what I mean? Why are people afraid to engage in debate and conversation any longer? I'm really quite worried the way things are going and the fact that the establishment seems to be sort of easing into that area itself. Do you share any of my concerns? Do you understand what I'm saying? I wonder if I'll make myself clear. I do. Yeah, I do. I suppose it speaks to a broader question about the changing media landscape, Greg, that if you like, historically, you know, people would have always got their news just from, you know, RT or from national news channels or from local radio or from national or local newspapers, but in the new digital environments, I mean, there are a whole variety of ways in which people can get news and information. I mean, if you look at and all the surveys are showing this, for a lot of people under the age of 40, they don't buy traditional newspapers or their national or local newspapers. And that's why a lot of newspapers, you know, have been moving online and increasing their digital offering because that's where increasingly young people get their news. So in terms of how information, you know, is disseminated, it's across... Yeah, but that means that young people are getting party political broadcasts. They're not getting debate and conversation and issues being teased out. And, you know, maybe you might win on one topic and lose on another. If that's the case, if that's how we're going to reach the under 40s by just publishing stuff and that's what the main political parties are doing, I don't see how that's helpful. I would disagree. I mean, I think debate is healthy. I, you know, I can only speak obviously for myself. I'm always happy to come on and debate an issue. I think it's important. So long as it's evidence-based, I mean, one of the problems that we have with elements of social media now is that, you know, you can debate where we agree. You and I may disagree on an issue, but we agree on a common set of facts and our solutions can be different. One of the difficulties is if you're, you know, with the extremes of social media now is people don't even accept the basic facts. I think there is still a very valid place for debates in our society. And I'm glad to see them in the new format, for instance, for the McGill Summer School coming up in Danygall. You still see, you know, there is still debate that happens on TV and radio. I certainly believe, you know, that politicians should engage in respectful and healthy debate. But if you listen, I'm assuming, you listen to Morning Ireland, I presume, Senator, to stay across what's happening, aren't you? Do you not find it a little bit strange that, and I don't know, there's a minister available every morning, but there is not really robust questioning of the minister. And then if you're a listener, you're thinking, well, is that what the price of access to a minister every morning is, is that you don't challenge them? I don't necessarily, I mean, I, you know... And when the shoes on the other foot, by the way, when the shoes on the other foot, Senator, do you know what I mean? It's not about feeling full and feeling good. Let's just say next time it's Sinn Fein and whatever, say the same, what appears to be arrangement is in place. That's not healthy. That's not positive. Yeah, well, I mean, I can't, I've certainly heard, you know, in Morning Ireland, I've heard on local radio, I've heard on national radio, you know, tough debates happening. I mean, that's obviously up to, you know, the journalist's concerns. I think you can be tough and respectful at the same time. And I think there's certainly some interviewers on local and national radio who are maybe better at it than others. I mean, one of the things I actually find frustrating, Greg, now that we're talking about this is you listen to some people on, particularly on national radio, and they don't let the person that they're questioning answer. The person has started to answer the question and they interrupt the whole time. I actually think it's much better put the tough question, let the person answer, and then come back with another. Senator, you are, your experience to know though that part of media training is if you don't like the question is to keep talking without actually answering the question. But listen, I don't want to speak over and we could back and forward this all day. But you did, but you also know the situation as well. All right. Listen, I know we started with AI. Appreciate your comments on the rest of it. Senator Malcolm Burna Finafore. Have a lovely day. Thanks for your time. You too. Thanks, Greg. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at HighlandRadio.com. 1,000,000 euros. Play responsibly in-store in-app or at Lottery.ie. The National Lottery. It could be you. Click on BMC Sports.ie and get your free delivery. Hi, it's Claire here from Claire Clothing. Our summer sale has started. I have loads of discounts of dresses, tops, trousers, all of the summer stock. So we'll see you at our summer sale in Claire Clothing, Main Street, Letter Kenny. The Bank of Ireland and Letter Kenny currently have a vacancy for a welcome advisor. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work closely with personal and business customers and build a career with the bank. Submit your CV to Yvonne Boll in Bank of Ireland, Letter Kenny, or email yvonne.boll at boi.com. We're joined on the program now by Mark Murphy, who's advocacy manager with the Irish Hot Foundation. Good morning to you, Mark. Morning. Thanks for having me. Thanks so much for joining us. Now, some research has been carried out which shows the majority, two-thirds of the Irish public, want the government to ban the sale of disposable vapes. And this is obviously, we've also heard recently, disposable vapes being included in the ALBAI iBAL survey. I mean, so there's a health impact. There's also a litter impact. They're calling for their sale to be banned as well. So what was the context of this research, Mark? And what questions were asked? Yeah. Well, first of all, thanks for having me. Effectively, at the moment, the government are running a public consultation on whether to ban disposable vapes or not. And as part of that, we've been campaigning to ban disposable vapes, both for the youth health side of it, but also the environment health side of it. So we commissioned Ipsos MRBI to go out with a very simple question to just over 1,000 adults, age 15 and older, across Ireland. National representatives, a simple question of, are you in favour of buying disposable vapes? Yes, no, we're unsure. And 64%, so nearly two-thirds of the Irish public wanted to ban these single-use vapes. And if we look across every single age group, whether it was young people, elderly people, every age group wanted to ban disposable vapes, even amongst the 15 to 24-year-olds, where our concern would be as young people vaping 57%. So nearly six in 10 young people want to ban disposable vapes. So that's where we've been campaigning for banned disposable vapes, because we know it is a huge environmental health impact with them. But there's also a huge youth health impact as well, because teenagers and adolescents should not be vaping at all, but just these disposable vapes are hugely popular with them and are really appealing to them. So that's why we've been campaigning for them. Yeah, they are. And do teens know what's in them, the nicotine content? I mean, I've heard stories, numerous stories, like this is not one or two, but over the years, people ended up with an addiction that's costing 50, 60, 70 euro a week, such as the hold that these products have and are particularly our young people. We'll focus on them for a moment. Yeah, absolutely, because most of these, most e-cigarettes would contain nicotine and they'd have a regulated amount of nicotine, but recently there's been reports of some disposable vapes on the market breaching the nicotine level. So, and we know with young people, nicotine already is a huge addictive substance, but the younger you use nicotine, the younger you smoke, the younger you vape, the more addictive it can be. And nicotine can have a hugely harmful effect on the development of adolescent brain. So, there is a huge youth health impact there as well. So, that's why we seem to deter young people from using nicotine, from smoking, from vaping as long as possible, because the longer you delay ever smoking or vaping or using nicotine, the less likely you are to become addicted and you're just less likely to get past that age of peer pressure where you're a teenager in college. So, but disposable vapes, they are marketed towards young people. The market is a trendy lifestyle products. They come in prices of 78 euros, so very affordable for young people. They come in all its fruity flavours. And if you look online, all the influencers are using disposable vapes as an attractive lifestyle product. So, it's a huge appeal to young people and they have no place in Irish society. I mean, we can have the conversation and this is where the sort of electronic cigarettes came in initially was as, you know, people long term smokers have tried everything, couldn't get off them. And it's the, you know, the better of two evils along those lines or whatever. And then, as you say, these disposable fruity flavoured vapes marketed specifically at young people. And as you say, it is horrendous really to see on TikTok, YouTube, these influencers who are gods to these young people pushing these vapes on them. And I think it's a failure of government not to have blocked that or to legislate it in some regard. Because we have a situation where people that have never smoked are addicted to nicotine. It's crazy, isn't it? And the only thing the vape does is satisfy their nicotine need once they become addicted to it. It serves no other purpose except to damage their health. Do we have any evidence? I mean, you've talked about how nicotine can and may hinder brain development and what have you. Is anything emerging us to the impact on, you know, long health, long term, heart health, particularly as opposed from your perspective, Mark. Are we seeing anything in that regard yet? Yeah, absolutely. Well, the Irish Health Research Board, so it's Irish research, it shows that e-cigarette use can have, can cause lung injury, can cause burn, can cause poisons. But there's been research carried out by the European Heart Journal on that show that the e-cigarettes can damage arteries, your heart and your lungs as well. But and obviously there's, so I'll see as you're saying that e-cigarettes are much safer than smoking and we do see that e-cigarettes can play a role for long-term adult smokers seeking to quit. But they're not harm-free and there's no place for young people for teenagers who have never smoked to ever have used e-cigarettes. And I don't think any former smokers are using disposable fruity vapes. That market is the young teen never smoked before market. For the most part, I would say probably 80-85% of the guess. Because you would know people out and about and someone who is serious about stopping smoking and vaping as an alternative. And I'm not promoting out, by the way, just to say in effect, they're not going around with little cute looking things that taste like or smell like bubblegum. They're not. They're simply not. They're going into a vape shop and they're getting a bit of equipment. Like the two hugely popular disposable vapes at the moment are the Elf Bar and the Lost Mary. And like you said, it's not these long-term adult smokers who are using these disposable vapes that are made in China or produced by the tobacco companies to in fruity flavors in Benafi pie or energy flavor. They're using their reusable tank because they've gotten advice and for them, they feel that e-cigarettes are the best way to quit. And we see that there is a role to play but we see a healthier equilibrium because at the moment it's way out of kilter and it's all pushed on young people. You see, I actually think this goes back to the... I mean, we saw how it was approached in England. I just think that there's been foot-dragging about vaping here for years in that never really taking a stance on it as an official alternative to smoking or a stop smoking measure. I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be but it's never been established. It's murky waters, you know what I mean? And we're pulling from the Royal College of Surgeons or UK policy to try and frame this and put it into context. And I just think right from the beginning they should have said, right, it's okay for this but only this and we're going to legislate or whatever needs to be done to make sure that's the case. We're still dragging our feet. Banning the sale of these... Not banning the sale of it but banning the sale onto 18s doesn't go far enough, does it? Because there's a whole generation of people. What? In 2019, 20% of teens addicted to vapes. There's a whole new generation of people that will find a way to get them because they'll put the pressure on the parents of guardians. Get me one because I'm going to tear this house up if you don't, not literally. But you know what I mean? So it needs more than simply just banning them the sale of them to under 18s. Absolutely. Like we're one of the last countries in the EU to introduce a ban on under 18s. So the horse is bolted. We're right behind our EU counterparts. We like the banning disposal of vapes will be a huge way forward. Bringing the European ban on under 18. But we need far more at the Archer Foundation we've been campaigning for Ireland to follow the likes of the USA and increase smoking and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21. So to tear that age even further. But also we need to look at the packaging of e-cigarettes. They come in is a bright colorful packaging almost like a pack of starbursts. They come in a huge amount of flavours. We need much more regulation on flavours and we just need to do much more on the regulation of advertising. Because as he said, there's all these influence online who the young people and teenagers look up to. That needs to be regulated and banned completely because there's no place for that at all. Like I mean if I was a parent of a child that was now addicted to a 50, 60, 70 euro per week habit I'd be really quite angry that this has been allowed to happen that legislators were asleep at the wheel. That they didn't see this happening. That no one... I mean this... I was doing interviews about this years and years ago. Do you remember the... What is it? The juper? The U-vapes in America? That must be four, five, six years ago. We were doing those... Yeah, Jule. Yeah, Jule. That's exactly what it is. I mean we were... At that time we were saying these disposable vapes are for young... And in that time the amount of young people using them has gone way, way through the roof. So we were talking about it like programs like this. We were speaking to experts like you. We were hearing from concerned parents. This is five, six, seven years ago and yet here we are making the same calls now but instead of that we've got a generation of 15 to 24 with many, many multiples of the original number now addicted to vaping and inhaling whatever is in the liquid and nicotine. Exactly. Yeah, like the government, I suppose, they were less under the laurels. They were patting themselves in the back for some of the smoking policies that we chose years ago and we left e-cigarettes sit there and we allowed the tobacco companies to kind of make hay with it as well. So we need much more action. Unlike that, the most recent evidence we have is from 2019 and since then the dispose of vapes have become hugely more popular. So who knows, there will be research carried out this year on the amount of the rate of e-vaping but we're expecting that rate to have exploded compared to what it was like. So we need much more regulation and much more action. 2019, 18% of teens in Ireland vaped. Now you can go to the UK with more recent figures. 2021, 69%. So we're quite similar. I would imagine that that figure's tracked maybe not quite as high but somewhere close to that. We're probably following the similar patterns as the UK. So we're hugely concerned that there has been an explosion since the last time there was a study held. So we need much more regulation as we said by the government because we can't let this last because this is having a huge impact on youth health and environmental health. So we need much more action to be taken now and take a leadership role because Ireland was once seen as a leader in the world in tobacco policy but we need to take another... We need to be brave again with you both and recommit to be one of their world leaders in tobacco and e-cigarette regulation policy. Okay, Mark Murphy, Advocacy Manager with the Irish Heart Foundation. Thank you very much for your time. Thanks very much for having me. Have a lovely day. Take care of yourself. On Lawsira is far real. Ain't I like a one? Shaskano made on Malia. Cade occurred there, Gordini all year. Kere khecht fui annum na graun. Trocano made Don Ficknick Highlake. Shocked slownownish get in shape there. Shea fleshed filig. Kud de goira criul. Ain lo do kred to a won. Ogric on Lawsira is far a vega guth riev. Egg discoverer Ireland punk IE. Agus went hand of us Sira in Ain lo a won. A kerfol ek fol to Ireland. 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I think collectively, the country's hearts are broken at the news that two teenage girls have died, three others, three other people injured in a fatal road crash in County Monaghan yesterday evening. Guardi attended the scene of the crash that happened at 6.45 p.m. yesterday evening on the N54 Road at Legna Kelly. As I've got a statement shortly after 20 past 11, one vehicle remained at the scene. The two girls aged 16 and 17 were passengers in the car and were fatally injured. A female who's 18 also is in a critical condition. A male who's 18 is receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. The male driver of the car aged 60 is in a critical condition at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Senator Robbie Galleher joins us on the programme now. Senator, this is just impossible to put into words this awful tragedy for these people, their families, their friends, the County, but the country, I think. Absolutely, Greg. And there's a very dark cloud hanging over the Clonus area of County Monaghan and indeed County Monaghan and indeed the entire country as you outlined in your presentation. Their families have been broken this morning and my heart goes out to them and I'd like to extend my deepest sympathy to the families of the two young girls. As you said, age 16 and 17 who tragically lost their lives in this accident and as opposed to holding their breath in relation to the others that were involved. One 18-year-old girl who is in critical condition in Cabin Hospital and an 18-year-old boy who is lad who was also in Cabin Hospital. Thank you to people with non-life-threatening injuries and the driver of the car, a 60-year-old male who is currently in the Royal Victoria in Belfast with also critical injuries. So I sincerely hope as regards fatalities, Greg, that this is the last of this we'll go on to hear about but for now as opposed to holding our breath and hope that this is the end of fatalities. But it's very hard to comprehend and people in Donegal, unfortunately, are well aware of tragic accidents that happened down through the years and if you can imagine the scene, I'm sure many families can imagine the scene here, Joe or Greg yesterday evening where you had young people all excited about going to their devs and we can all relate to family members having travelled that road and the fun and the excitement and the joy that goes with that. And then for that fun and excitement to turn to a nightmare or this accident to show you how fragile life is and how life can be grasped from you with a blink of an eye. Yeah. And they were on the way to the devs. That event was understandably cancelled and obviously we're thinking on those that lost their lives and their families and their friends which they were going to go and meet and have a wonderful night with sort of a rite of passage for them. This is the ripples of this are going to impact many, many people not least all of those that would have learned and can only imagine how that must have felt of the passing of their school friends, their friends. Absolutely. It's a horrific event for all the young people and the whole community involved. And your listeners too or Greg would be very familiar with this patch of roadway where this accident occurred. It's a single vehicle accident I understand and all five people were traveling in the one car. This is a stretch of road that many Donegal people would have travelled on the way to Clonus for a big JAA matches just roughly about two and a half mile on the Monin side of Clonus town. And I'm going to say people traveling there to what should have been a night of enjoyment and then that turns to a nightmare for all involved. And we think our hearts go out to the parents of the two young girls and the extended families and to the rest who were holding their breath in relation to those that are injured. It just doesn't affect those families but it also affects the entire community and all the young people who were so excited about going to their devs they all attended the local Largy secondary school in Clonus and they were on their way to the devs which had been held in Monin town and that event naturally was cancelled. The secondary school was opened up last night to allow young people to gather and to offer support to them and indeed to their families that were going through this nightmare. So as most of the families concerned, their lives have changed forever and these people will have to carry this cross for the rest of their lives. This is a life-changing event for the families involved and indeed for the whole community and as you say our heart goes out for them and all we can do is offer them our support and our prayer at this terrible difficult time for them. That's it and we'll join you in that Senator. Thank you for your time this morning. I wish we were speaking about anything else but we appreciate you coming on. Senator Robbie Gallagher, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Okay, let's just say sadness beyond words. Right, okay. Let's say good morning now to Noreen. Noreen, thanks very much for joining us. How are you keeping now? You're welcome. Well, I'm sitting in a casualty for the second day in a row and everyone's very pleasant, everyone's very nice and we're all going nowhere. When did you arrive into casualty, Noreen and what was your experience? Well, I arrived in yesterday morning early. I sat all day long and I was said twice very nicely. The staff were pleasant and I went absolutely nowhere except from one chair to another out of boredom and the same seemed to be happening again this morning. You're 25 hours there now. You went in at 10 to 9, it's now 10 to 10 so you've been there a full 24 hours in the ED. No, I left last night at 2 o'clock. I couldn't take it any longer and I'm in now this morning and they're going through the whole procedure again as is the Black Stranger although I've still got my little band, my plastic band with my name address, telephone number and the name of my dog and they're not interested in that. We're going through the whole procedure again. So yesterday, and I should point out so I know you don't mind, you're a lady in your 80s. Is it for yourself that you went in, Noreen, it's you that feel you need treatment, yes? Yeah, I've felt that I've been having pains in my head and I got worried about it and I thought I'd go and see about myself, yeah. OK. So I came involuntarily into a council. Noreen, you were right too with pains in your head. Now, you did get soup and sandwiches at 11.30 yesterday at 3pm again. You were finally seen for the first time at 3pm so I presume you thought, right, the wheels are turning now. You've been there since 9, you've been triaged at 3, but still by 11pm you were still sitting there no further on. Absolutely, yeah. Except I have a lovely little plastic band telling everyone who I am, my age and not my weight. Yeah. OK, well, at least you can keep that a secret. You're not the only older person there, either, Noreen, I think you observed. The average age is over as you would imagine and I think most of them look more decrepit than I do for just seeing something. Well, you would get- Unfortunately. You got up to give other seats, didn't you? No, I'm laughing, but it's not, it's sad that we're spending so much money, we're wasting so much money. Obviously, the money is going to salaries of managers that are obviously not doing their work. Now, that's my observation because the staff on the ground that we've met, I think three at this stage, two nurses and some sort of a doctor have been gentle, kind and interested. I can't and won't fault them, but there's something seriously wrong with Ireland if we're allowing this in 2023. Millions of pounds been wasted, I would imagine, and nobody getting better. And nobody seems to realise that the population is aging and that that's what we have to do, look after the older people better than we are. Well, we knew, Norring, that this was coming for quite some time. It's a positive thing that our population is aging, but we don't seem to be putting anything in place to facilitate that. So you eventually had to leave early this morning after being there for, well, 15, 16 hours, you just had to go home. You weren't able to get any sleep for anything. My daughter's taking time off work, yeah. Because they care for me and they want the best for me. And I have private insurance, doesn't make any difference, it seems that doesn't help me out. And I kind of object to using it as well and so far as that we've done it otherwise in taxes and so on, you know. But there's no, to me, there's no solution until there's a complete shake-up of the health board. It has to be looked at seriously by government. It should be a priority with an aging population. But what worries me too, Norring, is I would know of people, or we'd all have spoken to people, that actually won't go back to the hospital again after the experience you've had, that they say simply outside the time. Well, I'm very nervous, I'm very nervous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd rather be at home. And then that puts the burden on daughters that, you know, have other lives, you know. But we don't need, hopefully now, it's a quick scan and everything's okay with you, but we can't have you leaving. Why not, still? Because we have to make sure that you're okay. But I do know people are saying, whatever happens, I'm not going back to the hospital. And that's a terrible, terrible situation. We find ourselves in Norring. It's a fierce entanglement of the whole country in us as a nation. It really is. Yeah, yeah. It's not quite as busy this morning, is it? But thank you very much for talking. Norring, it's not quite as busy this morning. No, not quite as busy. Okay, let's- No, not quite as busy this morning. I hope you get seen soon. And as I say, I hope it's just precautionary and you get home to your comfy space as soon as it's possible. Norring. And for a minute, I get time for full-on. Okay, that's Norring in her 80s reporting for us live there, effectively, from the emergency department at Letterkenny University Hospital. Why not ban cigarettes? Aren't they an awful lot worse? Well, see the problem with that, that is a significant problem. We can ban the vapes. I stopped smoking and used a vape to help. Being honest, I was more addicted to the vape than I was cigarettes. And I got to the point where I didn't want to leave it out of my hand. I wouldn't leave the house without an extra battery and juice, just in case. Thankfully, I eventually was able to quit the vape. I found my gums were bleeding a lot while vaping. Okay. There's a water outage in many areas. If Kili begs this morning, I'm told. This listener called Ishka Aron. And just to let others in the community know, they said it won't be back until seven this evening. So if you're listening to us in beautiful Kili begs and the water's out, hopefully it returns quicker than that. I was out shopping yesterday. My bill came to over 70 euro. And the girl at the till asked if I had any vouchers, which I didn't. A lady behind me stepped forward and gave the shop assistant a 10 euro voucher off. And I got my shopping, 10 euro cheaper. I was delighted and just wanted to say how grateful I am. It was so kind and kindness is alive and well in the world. 10 euro saved. Thank you. That was in Don. So if you were in Don's behind that lady, or it might have been a gentleman, but it certainly was a lady that offered the voucher. It's very much appreciated. A very lovely lady is celebrating her 90th birthday today. Myra Toy from The Grainge and Letter Kenny wishing you a great day. Mom, lots of love from all your family. And a birthday shout out to Darren Worsky from all the two band crew. The Dheans in Burnfoot and from Arshani all the way in Oz wishing you a happy 40th birthday. So happy birthday. And don't forget if you have any requests or dedications, we're more than happy to share them if you get in contact with us. And last comment before we take a break for the news and obituary notices. I recently spent a few days on holidays around Ireland. A pint in Galway cost me five euro. In Dublin the same price, 8.95. And in Donegal the same pipe was five euro, 10 cent. In Belfast it was six euro, sorry, six pounds sterling. With the exception of Belfast, how are these prices justified? Well Dublin, I don't know. I wouldn't go near the place at this stage with the gouge and that's going on left, right and centre. They will say though the rates are higher the cost to do business is higher, but I don't know. I saw higher than that over nine euro for a pint in Temple Bar. You have to be having a laugh back after these. Get Ireland's best broadband with virgin media and enjoy speeds of up to two gig and 99.9% reliability. Hear that John? Gaming has never been better. I know, should I'm in the middle of a battle or I am? I see that. Go you. Yeah, nice one. Whatever way you play, switch today at virginmedia.ie. Virgin Media, it's playtime. 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The single vehicle collision happened on the N54 in Legnick, Heli on the Clonus to Smithborough Road just before 7 p.m. The driver of the car, a man in his 60s is in critical condition in hospital in Belfast while an 18-year-old girl is in serious condition in hospital in Cavern. A boy who is also 18 is being traded for less serious injuries. Monaghan Senator Robbie Gallagher spoke to Gregg Hughes on this morning's Dental Nun show. He says it's a dark day for Clonus. There's a very dark cloud hanging over the Clonus area of County Monaghan and indeed County Monaghan and indeed the entire country as you outlined in your presentation there. Families have been broken this morning and my heart goes out to them and I'd like to extend my deepest sympathy to the families of the two young girls. As you said, each 16 and 17 who tragically lost their lives in this accident and as opposed to holding their breath in relation to the others that were involved. Efforts to remove lead from Ireland's drinking water supply network are far too slow according to the EPA. Three of Donegal's water systems remain on the remedial action list meaning they are among Ireland's at-risk supplies. With more here's Tara Duggan. The EPA's latest report shows the quality of drinking water is extremely high but almost half a million people are still being served by at-risk supplies. These include 3,518 in the Glen Tees Ardara area and 2,266 in Lettermack Award and 2,560 in Milford. Meanwhile nationally, 182,000 people were affected by boil water notices last year. In Donegal, Ross's had an eight-day boil water notice for failure at the water treatment plant while the people of Lettermack Award had a notice in effect for two months of last year. A boil water notice was issued for the area again yesterday. The Crown Nalihi Mean Ria area experienced a tri-hal omethane failure while Milford met compliance in the area in line with the direction given within a three-month deadline. Meanwhile, residents and businesses are warned of repair works that may cause water supply disruptions. Works are to take place until 3pm this afternoon impacting Port Nabla, Woodhill, Seshia, Sand Hill and surrounding areas. Meanwhile, in South Donegal, a burst water main may cause outages in Kelly bags, brookles and surrounding areas. Those works are taking place until 7pm this evening. It is advised that it may take up to three hours after the estimated time for supplies to fully return. The development of a Peace Plus Local Community Action Plan for Donegal is a step closer after Donegal County Council confirmed this week. It's now moving on to Stage 3 of the process. This will involve further public consultation before the final plan is submitted by December. Donegal Cabinet has more. Donegal County Council says the plan informed by a local community engagement process will enable and empower communities to assist in the development of priority projects and programmes that the Council will submit under the Peace Plus programme. This, the Council says, will result in shared and inclusive local services, facilities and spaces and make a significant and lasting contribution to peace and reconciliation. Stages 1 and 2 of the consultation process are now complete and indicative report has been published. The Council is now embarking on a final series of public consultation events before an application is submitted to the special EU programmes body by the 14th of December. A number of Zoom meetings will take place over the next fortnight, along with face-to-face sessions in Donegal Town, Donegal Low, Letterkenny, Carandana and Strunorder. More details and links on our website highlandradio.com. Raising the minimum wage would see household expenses go up too. The Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association is warning the proposed increase of 12.4% the minimum wage is unsustainable. It says it will lead to a 2.5% rise in the price of groceries. CEO of ISME Neil McDonald explains how. Depending on store size, the cost of the labour input to your grocery bill is somewhere between 8% and the large discounters. Up to 20% for very small convenience are corner stores. You factor that into a 12.4% increase in the national minimum wage. Looking now to weather, largely dry and bright with just a few lingering showers, the highest temperature of 17 to 19 degrees, light to moderate, westerly breezes gradually backing south-easterly. That's all for now. We'll be back with the next news update at 11 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The obituary notice is for this Tuesday morning, August the 1st. The death has occurred of Hazel Mahan, Ney Doherty, Curran Morn, Bali Buffay and formerly Raku Balintraa. Remains repousing at the home of her daughter and son-in-law Paul and Alison Sturde, Larg Nalor, Bali Buffay from three o'clock this afternoon. Fiona leaving from there on Thursday afternoon at quarter past one for service of Thanksgiving, instrumental parish church at two o'clock and hermit afterwards in the adjoining church yard. Funeral service of Thanksgiving will be streamed live via the parish Facebook page. Donations in lieu of so-desired to the Donegal Hospice and Sturnawler Parish Church Fund care of any family member. Family time from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral. The death has occurred of Anne McGeehan, Ney Loverty, Craigyn, Bali Buffay, formerly of Ard McHul Sturnawler. Remains reposing at her late residence with rosary to night at nine o'clock. Fiona leaving from there two more morning at 20 past nine for requiem mass at 10 o'clock in the church of Mary and Magdalen Sturnawler followed by interment in Drumbo Cemetery. The requiem mass will be streamed live on churchservices.tv. Family time from after the rosary until 12 o'clock and before the funeral tomorrow. The death has taken place of Patrick Doherty, Paul, 34, Klaus Podrig, Karandana. His remains are reposing at his brother Neely's residence at Bali-Loskey, Karandana. Family time, please, from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. Fiona from there two more morning at half past 10 going to the church of the Sacred Heart, Karandana for 11 o'clock requiem mass. Cremation to follow at Lakelands at Crematorium Cavern. Family fliers only, donations if desired, to Karandana Hospice Ward, care of any family member. Fiona mass can be viewed live on churchmedia.tv. The death has occurred of John Ney Loverty, Drumflo Cresla. His remains are reposing at his home. Funeral mass in St Michael's Church Cresla two more morning at 11 o'clock. Mass can be viewed live on mcmedia.tv. Burial afterwards in Dose Cemetery. Family time, please, from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral. Family fliers only, please, donations in lieu to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member or James Harkin funeral director. The death has taken place of Danny McGeogan, Tully Ard, Bali Lonmaville and Kool Cross Climane. His remains will arrive at St Mary's Church Climane this afternoon at approximately four o'clock, travelling via Kool Cross Climane to repose overnight. Funeral mass two more morning at 11 o'clock with interment immediately afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family fliers only, please, donations if desired to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member or McFeely funeral directors. Danny's funeral mass can be viewed live on ChurchServices.tv. The death has taken place of Nora Connors, Ney Freel, Tamine Fanad. Remains reposing at the home of her brother Jim and Mary Freel, Bali Michael Fanad. Funeral will take place this morning in St Mary's Church, Fanavolti Fanad at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in lieu of fliers to Community Hospital Remelton care of any family member or Iman Scott funeral directors. The death has occurred of Mary Ferry, Ney Diver, Morden, Edinburgh and formerly Derry Hariff, Cree Slot County, Donegal. Remains reposing at the family home at 35 Morden Park Street, Edinburgh on Thursday with Rosary at half past six. Funeral mass will be held in St John, Vyanese or Seed Church, Edinburgh at 10 o'clock on Friday morning with burial at Morton Hall cemetery at quarter past 11. The death has occurred of Mary McLaughlin, formerly Balnamore, Fintine. Remains reposing at McKill's Chapel of Rest Balibuffet this evening from six o'clock until Rosary at nine o'clock. Funeral leaving from there tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock for recreation mass in St Cullen Hills Church Fintine at two o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. The recreation mass will be streamed live via the Facebook page. The death has occurred of Liam McManaman, Eglethe Bean, Castle Finn, reposing at his late home. Funeral from the family home this afternoon at quarter past one for recreation mass at two o'clock in St Mary's Church Castle Finn. Cremation afterwards in Lakeland's Crematorium County Cavern. Family home in Eglethe Bean is private to family and close friends. The death has occurred of Fonsie McManaman, 40 locked Foggy Road Castle Derg, reposing at the family home. Funeral from the family home this morning at quarter past 10 for recreation mass at 11 o'clock in St Patrick's Church Ahiarne interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. The mass can be viewed via the parish webcam. And the death has occurred of Philly Rogers Lock and Ure. Philly's remains are reposing at his home. Funeral mass this morning at 11 o'clock in the star of the Seed Church Annegri with interment afterwards in the new cemetery. Family flowers only, donations and live desire to Dunlop Community Hospital care of any family member or Sean McGlynn funeral directors. For more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to honentradio.com Are you suffering from dodgy internet connection? Symptoms include endless loading, embarrassing freeze face. Luckily there's a cure. Three home broadband in Ireland's fastest and most consistent 5G network. Get it free for the first three months and for only 39 euro per month after that. Plus no setup costs. You don't want to miss this. Visit in store or 3.ie 24 month minimum term subject to location and availability speeds may vary based on analysis by Utlov speed test intelligence data Q3 to Q4 2022. OK, you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show a very good morning if you've just joined us coming up shortly we're going to have Sergeant Anderson in studio with us giving us the latest appeals and information from unguarded Shia Khanna we've a missing persons appeal as well we'll be displaying his image as part of that appeal so if you want to log on to our Facebook or YouTube account and watch that segment you'll be able to see that image to and maybe you might be able to help YouTube Highland Radio Ireland you can watch on your phone tablet laptop your smart TV which normally has the YouTube app pre-installed on it so just search Highland Radio on it or on your Firestick as well which definitely has the YouTube app for you there and on our Facebook pages Highland Hub or Highland Radio News and Sport a listener says the accident and emergency the strong articulate voice of Noreen doesn't sound like an emergency don't get me wrong I have every empathy for patients but I think Noreen's GP should be a first port of call well Noreen may well have called to our first GP I'd question the empathy levels there with respect because obviously Noreen is an incredibly strong woman has taken the decision to advocate on behalf of not only herself but others that are in the ED Noreen spent an awful long time in there with acute pain in her head which I didn't go into but it was in the notes she did tell us about that and of course she's going to be extremely concerned about that when it's a pain that doesn't abate so that's the place for if she was my mum that's exactly where she would be to get that checked out but she was in there from 10 to 9 yesterday she eventually had to go home in the early hours of this morning 2am she said because she couldn't take it any longer she had suit and sandwiches at half 11 and 3 the staff were lovely to her empathetic showed empathy were friendly and caring and concerned but charged at 3 nothing for the rest of the day and had to leave from the early hours of the morning right back in this morning and the whole process starts again a caller says it's no surprise that lady is treated poorly in 2023 most people shunned the right to life for children just five years ago actually voted it away not sure the connection there but thanks for the point Greg me my 82 year old sister sat in ED for 29 hours before she got a bed 82 years of age on those seats down in the ED for 29 hours hopefully at some point she was moved to a more comfortable chair but that's keep them coming into us tell us your stories in that regard again I just think it's important that we when we get someone like Norrin that comes on that we hear those stories what was your experience in the ED particularly with an older person because you know it's all right for me I probably could get down there and tolerate the sit I've done it before I've done 10, 11, 12 hours with people before for minor things as it turns out but still nonetheless did I haven't personally done it with an older person but we heard it as I say incredibly articulately from Norrin but that doesn't tell the full story of how she's feeling Greg I was in my doctor's yesterday I paid 65 euro to see my GP but it was too busy and I only saw the nurse a man came and was asked for 15 euro he said he was an asylum seeker he didn't have any money she said yes but you have a medical card and hence why you are only being asked for 15 euro how is this fair I worked all my life in this country and paid taxes and I get nothing for nothing it's no wonder this country is rising well there's many people whether they're asylum seekers or not that have medical cards but I take your point Greg my heart is breaking for the families and friends of that horrific tragedy in Cantecaven God comforting and soul them all that's coming in from Mary there just last one before take a break as we get community guard information underway Greg I was out for a drive yesterday and was very surprised at the amount of people who blow their car horns at other people yesterday an older man pulled out in front of a car granted it could have caused an accident but hands up who hasn't done it at least once in their life to blow his horn at him was one thing but this person continued to follow him up the road blow in the car horn but 10 out of 10 to the older driver just slowed right up about five kilometers an hour and kept the driver behind him most likely making a bad day worse for him then a mom and child was crossing the road on a crossing expecting the car to stop foolish her she walked out and another driver blew the horn and shouted abuse despite being the one in the wrong this morning a car a few cars in front of me stopped to let a car out and the driver behind it didn't take kindly to it blowing his car horn why are drivers in this county so aggressive is there really any need for it are we aggressive drivers in this county that's one listener with three experiences over the course of two days is that the type of driving behavior you witness out there and if so why it's not just I mean relax breathe breathe the person has to cross the road why are you tooting your horn is everything that urgent 086625000 get involved in that conversation as well oh wait so maybe you've been elsewhere and you thought the driving behavior was worse let us know we're very interested the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland radio it's Tuesday the 1st of august your plane on the brown sheet the reference number is s12 it's game number 31 the numbers are 19 58 24 54 72 14 30 46 27 and finally 16 phone your claim to 9104833 before it's night leave your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your NCBI bingo information at Highland radio dot com new this week at home store and more all 100 percent cotton children's 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are joined in studio again this week by guarder Sergeant Charlene Anderson from the Bonkraner guarder station thanks so much for joining Charlene how are you keeping good morning Greg how are you very good thank you okay we'll get straight into it and we'll start with a missing person's appeal that's correct Greg so we're appealing for information from the public this morning in relation to tracing the whereabouts of a 74 year old male Mr Daniel McLaughlin who is missing from his home in Quigley's point in Donegal now Daniel was last seen at his home in Quigley's point in around the 7th of July Daniel is described as being six foot in height and of a slim build he is gray hair and we believe his eye color is blue but he wears glasses now he's known to regularly visit Quigley's point Dairy City and Cairndonna and Gardie and Daniel's family are extremely concerned for his welfare so if anyone has any information in relation to Daniel's whereabouts we'd ask them to contact Gardie and Bonkraner on 0749320540 or as always they can contact the guard the confidential line on 1800 666111 or indeed they can contact any guard the station and we're aware that you're going to post Daniel's picture on the Highland Radio Facebook page so if anyone wants to log in and they'll see a picture of Daniel on your page and also Daniel's family just wants to thank the public for their assistance to date in relation to this Yeah indeed and we've been just whilst you were giving that a peer appeal viewing a picture of Daniel so if you're watching have a good look at that picture and see if it triggers any memories or any sightings from you and also as Charlene said it's available on our social media as well so hopefully Daniel is found really soon Right now an appeal as it relates to an assault Main Street in Ardra That's correct so guard the investigation a serious assault and this occurred at Main Street Ardra on Saturday Saturday night the 29th of July at approximately 10pm now a male aged in his 20s was removed from the scene to letter Kenny University Hospital and he's been treated for non-life threatening injuries so we're appealing for any witnesses to the assault to come forward or as always any road users that may have dashcam footage that perhaps was in the area at the time or indeed any pedestrians or anyone that simply has any information in relation to the assault Greg we'd ask them to contact guard the in Bali Shannon and the number there is 0719858530 Okay now colleagues in letter Kenny investigating a case of criminal damage That's correct so criminal damage incident occurred in the Glencar Irish area of letter Kenny on Thursday the 27th of July at approximately 1045pm and this particular incident the glass a glass pane of a door in school was smashed as a result of a a rock being thrown through it so we're just appealing for anyone who may have been in the area we're also appealing for anyone who may have observed a group of youths in the area hanging around the school around that particular time we'll say even from 10 to 11pm and once again if anybody drove through the area and dashcam footage if they have it to make it available to us and that's to the guard the in letter Kenny on 9167100 yep and just to remind listeners that in terms of the dashcam you hand over your cam or the card and the guard do you look after all that business for you you're not expected to download it yourself isolate the time and all that type of stuff it's made if they just contact us Greg and you know make us aware that they have it we can facilitate them then with the download process right okay now the is a theft incident in Bridgend next that's correct so Guard the in Bunkran at this time are appealing for information in relation to the theft and this theft occurred at Bonham main bridge end between 10 p.m. on Saturday the 29th of July and 4 p.m. on Sunday the 30th of July now a chip fan was parked at the location it was targeted between those times the lock was forced open an entry was gained the cash register which contained to some money was stolen from the van so if anyone has any relevant information in relation to this investigation which may assist us we'd ask them to contact Guard the in Bunkrana on 9320540 now to the south of the county and a burglary in Bundorn so Guard the in Ballychan and are seeking the assistance of the public rights morning in relation to a burglary that occurred in the Marina Lane area of Bundorn on Saturday the 29th of July at approximately 3.30 p.m. now a resident of the property there was asleep when they realized that someone else had entered the property as they could hear voices a man and a woman had entered the property without permission now they left immediately when the residents shouted out to them nothing was taken from the property but we just appealed to anyone who may have observed a woman and a man in that area they may have been checking doors they may have attempted to enter another property that maybe perhaps we're not aware of but just if they like to contact Guard the in Ballychan on 9858530 in relation to this particular incident right okay now your colleagues in Milford dealing with a burglary investigation that's correct so once again Guard the in Milford are appealing for information in relation to the burglary then this one occurred at the parish hall belonging to St. Mary's Chapel and that's at the tank in Remelton and it occurred sometime between Saturday the 29th of July at 6pm and Monday the 31st of July at 10am now the lock was broken on an exterior and interior door in order to gain access to the premises now nothing was taken from the hall but again if anyone observed anything suspicious in the area to contact Guard the in Milford 9153060 yeah now a lot of our features as it relates to as it relates to raising awareness is about sort of remote fraud or what have you know bogus telephone calls bogus emails and what have you in text but we still have an issue and have to be aware of the threat or concerns surrounding cold callers bogus callers calling in person to properties there's been a few issues of concern lately that's correct right well we have received a number of reports in relation to perhaps bogus callers calling to houses and you know in around the letter Kenny area now one particular incident relates to a male who was calling to houses selling ornaments and jigsaws apparently he told a number of different stories at different houses that he visited one resident in the area was very concerned for an elderly neighbour because she had left the man in question unattended at her front door while she went to get her purse to purchase an item from him now thankfully in this case the man didn't enter the property but it was just really to provide advice to any of the listeners this morning that if they encounter a situation like this you know what to do it's better to be safe than sorry so I suppose look bogus callers may offer services such as power washing painting selling goods and they prefer to target the more vulnerable people perhaps you know living alone so the advice once again as always would be do not open your door to anyone before you're confident that you know who they are and the genuine reason for calling to your home use a chain lock for added security and don't let anyone leave anyone unattended perhaps at your front door whilst you go and fetch money or that and don't allow anyone access to your home for any reason that you don't know and perhaps if you have maybe large quantities of money maybe leaving in the post office or the bank or the credit union don't keep it at your house bogus callers look they can be intimidating and often refuse to take no for an answer in those circumstances I would recommend contact are they immediately and just for people to be vigilant Greg when when they're out and about and report any suspicious people or vehicles to guards and look if you do and encounter a situation like this and if you can get as much information as possible even without going outside your house like if they're driving a vehicle the color the red partial red maybe a description of the person the direction of travel when they left your property all that you know if they could pass that on to the guards when they are reporting it that's great information for us because then we can take it from there and we just ask the listeners to please advise other people perhaps they know elderly or vulnerable persons of bogus callers and what to do if they encounter them yeah and I mean everyone's financial situation is different the chain is a fantastic piece of equipment because you get people don't want to be ignorant to not open the door also these and they're really quite affordable now in terms of security and not saying you or I are plugging or promoting them but the video doorbells because instantly you have a record of the interaction which is really helpful and these people may well be aware that it's there as well and it might change their tone and demeanour and behaviour okay as I say we're not promoting them or you certainly aren't but it just would be a nice bit of security I think if my dad was still with me it's the kind of thing I'd get him and then I'd feel a bit more comfortable at the whole situation right okay what we've been talking about you know big open spaces the guards are hosting these property marking situations you can bring your tractor your trailer whatever it is and get it marked and then someone asks very good question what happens then when you get your trailer marked and if you want to go and set it on later because it's got your information or your error code on it so what happens next suppose a lot of the time people do put their error codes on it and then they wonder if they sell the trailer on and exactly this is what this question is all about the purpose of the mark is to identify the goods in the event of a theft now if the goods are stolen from their new owner and subsequently recovered we'll guard that you will simply trace the item back to you and then obviously be able to provide the details well hopefully be able to find the details of the person you sold it to but if someone wishes to have we'll say their error code removed from a trailer that they wish to sell on they can do that now it's not totally removed but it can be stamped over and basically what that is it's just resulting in a black rectangle of dots and then somebody else could come and have something else stamped onto it so look it can be done you'd have to take it back to the guard the station or take it to a property marking event now I know there was one last Saturday at the merry from Delo and there's more property marking events next week in for the claw money festival so if anyone wants to attend and have a trailer have even a mobile phone you know anything like that marked absolutely it's no problem yes and there was a property marking event due to take place at Dramal football pitch claw and community centre that was supposed to happen the day before yesterday no I don't know 31 20 30 29 four days ago who knows but anyway it's past now it doesn't matter it didn't happen because of the poor weather we'll it's been rescheduled for later in the year September we think and when that's happening we'll give people plenty of notice okay it's really welcome actually to get an update on this because people were getting somewhat worried about a spate of car thefts and certain cars being targeted but now there's been arrests we probably won't get into that in too much detail but so far as to give people an update on the progress in that investigation Charlene that's correct we actually have two updates this morning but just in relation to the spate of car thefts we can confirm that there was five people arrested that are now before the courts in relation to those particular investigations and we just like to thank everybody who assisted and indeed the appeals that we make on the radio people do come forward they do provide us with information and we just like to thank them as always and further to this on the 11th of July we made an appeal on the radio show for information in relation to an incident in Bunkrana between a motorcyclist and a motorist now I can confirm that a person has been arrested in relation to that particular incident as well and once again to thank the public for coming forward and providing information to assist us with our investigations God of Sergeant Charlene Anderson thank you so much thank you for your time it's been lovely having you in I know you look forward to this particularly with all the other things that you do you'll see you popping up all over the place but I know this is your favourite gig of all absolutely great gig all right look thank you that was community God information it'll be back with you next Tuesday and we'll be back on 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Donogaltown firstly thank you for listening secondly Sarah unfortunately you're as far away as going to the cinema in Donogaltown as you ever were because those plans were progressing really quite nicely but unfortunately the land ended up being sold to the supermarket or the discount store adjacent to it so that's out the window now that land no longer available for the cinema so you're going to have to keep going to Bundoren or letter Kenny great cinemas there but I understand you don't want to necessarily travel as far as you might right world breastfeeding week 2023 is from today until Monday the 7th of August the theme set by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action WABA for this year is enabling breastfeeding making a difference for working parents right okay we're joined by a couple of guests here now Susie she's a mother of Luke who's 11 months old good morning to you Susie how are you getting on? Bad thank you good to have you with us and also Jan Cromby Lelesh isn't it league leader in Strawler and letter Kenny good morning to you that's right good morning Greg how are you getting on? good thank you how important is it well I mean I suppose there's a awareness week is kind of funny in a way I can understand where it's an awareness week about a particular illness or you know something that we need to get checked out or you know what I mean they're really really useful but it's kind of this such a natural thing for some people in feeding a baby that we have to have an awareness week to sort of discuss various issues surrounding it Jan there's still a lot of barriers there between one thing and another isn't there for moms who make that choice to be able to feel they can follow through with it yeah I think it's still not something that automatically comes to mind for moms it's definitely changing since I had my babies many many years ago there are more mothers considering breastfeeding and there are certainly more mothers initiating breastfeeding it doesn't always go to plan it can obviously be affected by the type of birth the mother has and particularly the type of support she has afterwards and that goes right up to when mothers thinking of returning to work and thinking oh gosh am I going to have to wean my baby entirely from the breast or how am I going to make this work for me and my baby for lots of moms they do want to continue with some breastfeeding a lot of moms at this stage do introduce complementary foods solid foods but also perhaps formula as well still keeping some breastfeeding going particularly for the immune factors that are there we know that babies are born with immature immune systems and it takes about a year for those systems to mature in the baby so the mother breastfeeding is giving the the baby her own immunity but also if the baby itself gets sick when the baby is feeding at the breast because of the way the baby feeds it's like it's a vacuum like pressure and the baby's saliva is sucked back into the mother's nipple along with some breast milk and then the body the mother's body will make immune factors leukocytes to whatever isn't wrong with the baby so it's like having a little mini pharmacy there in the breast and it's fabulous so it is it is when you describe it I'm going wow at least one breastweed going nature is amazing isn't it we'll get to some of the issues or some of the things as we move on but you talked about generational thing and that's part of the problem isn't it you know maybe your generation and generations that follow you there was a gap here and maybe there isn't the aunts and the mothers and the people around to support someone and when you get your baby home and you're feeling sore and someone described it to me as their hormones were up in the air and you've got the tub of powdered milk there and then you've got this other thing that you're trying to sort of get your head around or whatever sometimes you could just say stuff but you know what I'm just going to get on the formula I think there's from people I've spoken to this if they got maybe a little bit more support once they get out of the hospital it might help them in the process is that a factor do you think John yeah I think I think that's definitely a factor I think there is more support available now all our public health nurses have had extra training and breastfeeding and some of them are lactation consultants themselves and there is now a lactation consultant in the community her name is Mary McFeely and she is available to support obviously other public health nurses but also to see mothers individually if they need it once they're home from hospital with their babies there's also support in the community from sorry no no I'll tell you I'll come back to you on that because I want to bring Susie in here and we'll pick up on that Susie as I say some other of Luke who's 11 months old now you breastfed him until he was 10 months old was that something throughout the course of the pregnancy and after he was born Susie that you really wanted to do and how difficult did you find it? I think I always wanted to breastfeed but I had a lot of friends who had breastfed before it came to my turn which was really quite helpful but I did find I was anxious about maybe pressure being put on me to breastfeed if I didn't want to I found that there's a lot of pro breastfeeding information right up until you have the baby and then sometimes there can be there's not as much perceived for some people after the baby comes along and I suppose I was very lucky when Luke came along I was I managed to breastfeed and I came across Jan and Leleche fairly quickly but I can honestly say if it wasn't for the support that I got through Leleche I don't know what I've been able to breastfeed for so long it's a beautiful natural way to feed your baby and there's so many health benefits to it but it is quite onerous on the mother when they take it on certain things that you maybe you don't realise how painful it can be sometimes it's not supposed to be painful but there can be elements of breastfeeding that are painful like people get infections or babies can be tongue tied also you're exhausted giving birth is exhausting and the babies don't come out and sleep for eight hours so especially their tummies are so small when they're first born so they're like the size of a marble so that needs to be constantly filled so when you're exhausted your pain threshold is reduced and I suppose having people around to help you through those difficult times that you maybe didn't anticipate yourself is really very important and I suppose that's in the early stages but then as the baby starts to mature and you start to say right these four walls now are really starting to annoy me somewhat you know are there further challenges then in terms of you know if you want to go visiting if you want to go out to the shop if you want to start going back out into the world for some people that comes at different times of course but then is it a different set of I don't want to be discouraging in terms of complications but maybe challenges might be a better way of describing it but it is a challenge and you know every baby and every mother is different so everybody's breastfeeding journey will be slightly different even the same mom and two different babies they don't have a different journey but I suppose it depends on the person and how well the baby feeding is established sometimes the baby can be quite thrashy and you might find that a little bit intimidating when you first go out in public to try and latch a baby on if you're in a cafe and there's a lot going on and you're quickly trying to cover up but you know it is becoming more and more you know you don't want to say socially acceptable but it's becoming more socially normal and I think for me you know I could go out for dinner by myself I could go to the cinema by myself I don't really mind too much about you know what other people would think but I know for some people it might be really daunting but um do you know what should be socially unacceptable regardless of what people's views are yeah saying something to someone that you don't know or a dirty look like have nobody has nobody's ever said but it does it does happen and we've spoken to people in the past where people can't you know that that you know they walk past with their husband and look back as if to say he nearly saw the top of your breast or something do you know if people feel like that that's okay you can feel like that but don't make other people feel uncomfortable that's what should be socially unacceptable I also and Jan I'll go back to you on this one I think you know seriously was talking about coming into contact with your services I just hope that as many people as possible understand that because as I say I've spoken to people in the past or I know people in the past that maybe didn't even know you existed do you know what I mean that maybe wanted to give it a go but they did get home and then it was like oh stuff it on my own here do you know like are we doing enough at the right times because things can be really quite up in the air in a maternity ward to say right by the way just to remind you you know we do we can give you the details of people that can support you are we getting are we doing that well enough do you think yeah I mean I think mothers get a pack when they're on the postnatal ward and it includes the lists of breastfeeding supports and not just the late late groups but could you the other breastfeeding organization and public health nurse support groups that are on and I'm on the ward myself on Wednesday and Friday mornings in a voluntary capacity I chat to any moms who are breastfeeding and sometimes a mum will say no I've already decided to stop and that's fine I can have a chat and just you know talk to her about her baby but it's not my role to change anybody's mind in terms of support sometimes it's easier if you've met somebody on the ward and you've seen the colour of their eyes you know it's easier to ring that person a week later and say oh you know you met me on the ward but x y has happened and I'm just wondering often it's as simple as is this normal is it normal that the baby's feeding every hour and a half yes it is in the first couple of weeks it's not going to stay like that but it's normal as Susie said the baby's tummy capacity is tiny the day they're born five mils which is a teaspoon full in first 24 hours so although there isn't a huge volume of breast milk there in the first 24 hours the baby doesn't need that huge volume but I think too the volume increases yeah but mother's beef so the more the baby feeds the more milk the mother's body makes and on and on it goes like that but early on mothers can be concerned that maybe they're not producing enough milk because it's in the bottle you can see right it's an ant it's two ants exactly so you look at a bottle and it's got 60 mils of whatever and you think oh my goodness my breasts aren't making anything near that but your baby doesn't need that amount in the first day by the end of the first week your breasts are producing about 60 mils per feed for a baby if the baby has been feeding frequently at lid if you like at the breast yeah and for all mothers it's supporting them in their choices it is a choice to breastfeed and as Susie said it's not always easy sometimes it can be very difficult and as Susie said it can vary from baby to baby but the important thing is that you make your choice with information so you get the information about breastfeeding and then you think oh I don't think that's for me that's fine that's your choice but if it is for you then looking for the support looking through those lists asking your public health nurse who else can I contact public health nurses are a wonderful support for mothers they come they're usually there the day after the mom comes home from hospital but that nurse has an enormous workload and it's not just babies and postpartum mothers it's everything from the cradle to the grave so she can't be there all the time no matter how much she might want to and that's where the voluntary organizations come into play we're available at the end of a phone or a whatsapp message day and night literally and also then in support group meetings so for myself in the Hatter team room on a Thursday morning in Stronauer I'm there every Thursday between 10 30 and midday and anybody is welcome to come along even if it's because they're weaning their baby and they want to stop breastfeeding you're still welcome to come along I get whatever information is needed and whatever support I can and I suppose too Susan you know this is not about putting pressure on anyone it's about supporting people in their decision because the pressure if the truth be told actually comes from the formula manufacturers you know in terms of you know saying this is good for your baby and the small writing at the bottom saying breast is best or whatever it might say and also you know for newborn baby formulas putting bigger babies on the front of the the tobs and what have you do you know what I mean so there if there is any pressure coming it's probably from the formula people but this is about giving people support and options if it's what they want to do and if it suits them and their lives Susan yeah I think I think the important thing is that you know you have an honest and open conversation about what breastfeeding entails and knowing like what difficulties may come down the tracks and how you can navigate them I suppose the most important thing is is the support for all the what ifs and you know there's an abundance of information on the internet and social media and it can be very overwhelming but you know I had some support in the hospital and like Jan was saying that the staff in the hospital they are busy that you know they do what they can but you know if like when I was when I was struggling maybe leaving the house I went down and I met the Leleche group on a Thursday and there's no pressure you arrive and you are welcomed with such you know open arms people will introduce themselves and their babies you're under no pressure to remember anybody's baby's name or your name and it's just about these open conversations and the pressure has gone and and it is just a lovely open conversation about is this normal what can I you know what what do I do and Jan is an absolute wealth of knowledge and so anytime I have you know it's it's all been you know dramatic in my head the next thing I come down and to the Hatter for a cup of tea and I leave and and I know what I'm doing again so it's great are you going to miss those Thursday mornings are you just going to keep going uh because it was yeah I'm I am well I yeah he's just starting college but I thought I'd call in for a quick coffee in a pot I had another question I I I stopped breastfeeding not not fully by choice but and and even at that stage Jan was so helpful when I went down and we discussed things like relaxation and you know it's just great and when you know hopefully we'll have another baby it's on stage and it's just I'm so delighted now that I know that that support is so easily accessible and and you know it can be quite daunting to go down to you know 20 mothers in a tearoom and be like what if nobody talks to me but that's that's just not going to happen and Jan I mean I get the theme of world breastfeeding week this be this year being about enabling breastfeeding making a difference for working parents but are we kind of so far behind the curve that we just really need to encourage and support people who wish to breastfeed I'm just wondering if we're really at the point where we have to stop worrying about how friendly work environments are of course we need to get there but we're we're seemingly starting from a low base in in supporting and encouraging women if it suits them to breastfeed yeah we are starting from a low base but I think we need to support those mothers who have initiated breastfeeding it's not good enough to say oh you must breastfeed oh it's best for you it's best for the baby all of those things are true but then there was a piece of research that came out last week which said that most mothers felt once they had had the baby there just wasn't anything like the support that they needed from health professionals and they felt kind of cut off and the drift so supporting the mothers who choose to breastfeed giving mothers information when they're pregnant they get that at the moment but presenting it in a way that mother can take it in when you're pregnant there's so much in your mind so much has to be done particularly with the first baby it's all new it's overwhelming and it's over stimulating in some ways but I think we need to go back further than that and maybe if breastfeeding was portrayed in primary schools in the early secondary school stage so that girls and boys who are the moms and dads of the future are thinking oh yeah breastfeeding that's what you do with babies I mean I see that with my own little granddaughter who's watched her baby cousin being breastfed and so she gives her baby's milkies now her stuffies and her dollies and all and her older brother has seen his baby cousin being breastfed so he sees that as quite normal yeah exactly he doesn't remember his baby his sister being breastfed but he's seeing it now as a five-year-old and she's nearly four and for them I think that will make a difference yeah and it's the information is so powerful too because it's just early Rome when we were talking about the amount of milk a mother might express very early on and I recall we were talking about this some time ago and a mother was discouraged because she was trying to express it into a bottle I think and was producing quite little milk and sort of thought there was something wrong and gave up or something along those lines I seem to recall but as you've said there you know in the first week that's to be expected and because of the way the body works that milk then will increase you know a number of days a week thereafter so if that person had that information then the most effective and efficient way of getting breast milk out of the breast is a baby of course is a piece of equipment but people check take your body a little bit of time to get used to that and it's just not as effective as the baby feeding at the breast and the relationship between the mother and the baby breastfeeding is not just nutrition it's a relationship it's a bonding experience and that does not mean that you can't bond if you're not breastfeeding of course you can it makes it easier but it also makes a postpartum mother who's just delivered her baby a week or two weeks ago sit down and feed her baby whereas often there are people coming to visit and you hand over the baby somebody else gives the baby a bottle you go off make tea for all your visitors instead of sitting there recovering and letting everybody looking after you so for that alone it's worth doing for the first few weeks anyway but of course I would say it's much more worthwhile than that and as long as you want to stop when mom is ready to stop don't let anybody force you to keep going and don't let anybody make you stop before you're ready yeah and I and I'm a text in susie and we get this a lot when we talk about breastfeeding where I think maybe people who are currently breastfeeding not breastfeeding sorry who are bottle feeding and made that decision or those who have children and never breastfed I think sometimes when these conversations it feels personal to them like Amy messaged in here and says leave mothers alone they know themselves what's best for their babies so do you get that like every time we have this conversation I do know mom sort of for whatever reason there's a bit of a pushback on it as if we're kind of trying out or not me but you know we're trying to encourage people to do what they don't want to do or make them feel guilty for having not done it it's a tough line to walk definitely and it's a very it's something that's very personal to you know a mother or baby but the whole family like I'm not breastfeeding anymore it didn't it didn't suit our family after a certain point and you know we had to make the decision to formally feed Luke for a while and you know it is just about considering everybody's you know personal options and what's available sometimes it can be you know it can be a physical thing it can be an emotional thing but it really is it depends a mother will know it's baby no mother is going to do something that's you know not right for them and their family and it is beyond you know what you know breast milk is is an excellent source of nutrition formula feeding if that's what's right for your family too is a good source of nutrition too but you know if it's if continuing to breastfeed is at the complete detriment of you and your family how are you going to look after your baby if you're not looking after yourself but and that I think is why the support is so important if you want to breastfeed and you feel like you need the support to continue doing it then it's there but equally sometimes it's just not the right thing for you and your family and that's perfectly okay too well potter thank you so much indeed best wishes to to luke and all take care of yourself thank you so much Susie there so just remind us then again Jan how people get these supports or what supports are available to them maybe there's someone expectant at the moment or or have a newborn okay so when a mother delivers in letter Kenny hospital they get a pack of information that they need in the first couple of days and there will be a list of breastfeeding support groups and breastfeeding counselors literally and could you counselors across the county that are available by phone and certainly literally case in meetings support meetings in-person meetings I have a Facebook page literally extraordinary and letter Kenny and I post there usually once a week about the coffee morning on Thursday mornings that's open to anyone past present or future breastfeeding mom so if a mom is just pregnant and she's off on a Thursday come along Susie said it might be intimidating if there's 20 moms there thankfully there aren't ever 20 months I think we got up to a dozen ones but it's usually three four five six months and they all have been where the new mom coming in the door has been they've been feeding a tiny baby I'm wondering oh my goodness is everybody looking at me you know thinking about thoughts whereas actually if it's somebody like me I'm looking at the mom thinking oh my goodness I remember what it was like when my baby was like that and of course my baby is long grown and gone but it's it's the support of mothers doing things together and I must ask I'm just having a chat and a coffee and I must ask you know yourself a lot of people in South Donegal listen to the show have their babies in Sligo are you aware of what the situation is is there because I don't want to feel anyone I don't want anyone feeling left out if you know what I mean yeah no there are public health nurse breastfeeding support groups in Sligo and there I would imagine the same information goes out in the packs there's also friends of breastfeeding support group I think it's in leachum but if if a mother asks her public health nurse her public health nurse will be able to tell her what's available what's available in that area lovely stuff okay Jan thank you so much for your time I really appreciate it not at all thank you take care of yourself bye bye that's Jan Cromby there leach a league leader in Stronola and letter Kenny will also heard from Susie mother of Luke 11 months old now okay uh call us as Jan is a wonderful help to so many breastfeeding mothers in Donegal I work in healthcare and I've had 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that matter across the northwest it's Greg Hughes on the 90 noon show on Highland radio now we're going to be joined by 13 Marys and others after we get the news headlines now and we say good morning to Donna Marie Doherty thanks Greg good morning Gardie and the family of a missing Donnie Gaulman are extremely concerned for his welfare 74 year old Daniel McLaughlin was last seen in his home in Quigley's Point in or around July 7th he is described as being six foot in height with a slim build grey hair blue eyes and wears glasses two teenage girls who were killed in County Monaghan last night were on their way to Largy College's School Prom the single vehicle collision happened on the N54 in Legna Kelly on the Clonus to Smithboro Road just before 7pm two other passengers remain in critical condition and a boy who's aged 18 is being treated for less serious injuries Gardie are making a further appeal following a serious assault on a man in our draw on Saturday night last it happened on Main Street around 10 o'clock the victim a man in his 20s was taken to letter Kenny University Hospital for treatment for non-life threatening injuries the development of the Peace Plus local community action plan for Donnie Gaul is a step closer after Donnie Gaul County Council confirmed this week it's now moving on to stage three of the process this will involve a further public consultation before the final plan is submitted by December and finally investigations are ongoing following an act of criminal damage at a school in the Glencar Irish area of letter Kenny on Thursday night last at around 11.45pm the glass and a door at the premises was smashed by a rock Gardie are repeating to anyone who witnessed the group of youths in the area or anyone who is driving around the area and may have dashcam footage to get in touch those are the latest headlines the next news update is at 12 o'clock until then good morning ah she could be in Spain feels like 40 degrees most likely 18 I know 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and a shout out for your colour coordination thank you very much full marks it has to be said your colours today exactly purple and green how has your year been absolutely amazing I've had so many opportunities and met so many people that I just never ever thought I would meet the opportunities I've been granted are just out of this world there are no words incredible amazing fantastic it's really all I can say yeah and you are a very busy person as well yeah so you've been fleeting here and there the crown the sash has been out but all of the while you know happened to get on with the day to day stuff as well so tell people who don't know what you've been involved in or what you're are involved in and what you're elected to yeah so in February no notes by the way I'm doing this without notes okay this is all in my head impressive or what in February last year I was elected a student life president of St Mary's University Twickenham a lot of people in Ireland know it as Strawberry Hill I was the first female ever to get that position and I'm really glad to say that I've been re-elected so up until the first of July next year I will still be the student life president the union have raised over 10,000 pounds per charity this year I introduced rag week which is raising give week and we've raised we raised 4,528 pounds in that week for ordinary to extraordinary which is an amazing charity fantastic so I mean obviously the entire experience is amazing is it possible for you to pick out the highlight from the last year for yourself somebody else asked me this week and I said it's not one big thing it's all the tiny little things that people do I think it's one thing people asking for a picture with you people asking you can just stand in front of their camera so that they have their own picture of you is a whole other experience seeing my face on the side of the road going into Dunlop was just incredible because people may not be aware that you've been around the merry from Dunlop you've been involved with it do you know what I mean you were familiar face to the organisers and what have you and you won this on merit of course but it kind of completed a story to some extent yeah yeah it was a real full circle moment I think and some of the merry organisers have known me since I was 16 now so yeah it's just it's lovely to go from taking the pictures as Daniel said then out of the crowning cabaret taking the pictures to taking the crown is just amazing yeah and you've been in part in your advice presumably on this year's entrance as well and there you're seeing that aren't you the that their experience growing the same experience you had because it's more than just the cab rates a whole week of events and the bonding and what have you but they're the most amazing bunch of girls they're also so good to each other all looking out for each other and I think the video that went up yesterday of us at Bangladesh pass saying we're all in this together from high school musical just summed it up perfectly we're all helping each other wondering what was behind that wall though that slightly worried me for I presume health and safety was all followed of course it was I'm only joking we also have Lena O'Donnell in with us hi Lena how are you getting on great how are you it's great to have you in how are you enjoying your experience tell us what's written on your sash little Miss Mary yeah okay I can just see over this monitor how has your week been so far very good it's been very fun hanging out with all the Mary's yeah and what's been your favorite part so far just getting to know people and yeah getting to know people and we went to sleeve league yesterday it was very fun yeah brilliant pictures and when were you crowned little Miss Mary is it recently is this is this week isn't it no it was Saturday the the day before me so you're ending your yeah oh of course right so you have to hand over your sash and everything how's that feel how's the year been for you very fun and and what did all your friends think of you being Little Miss Mary I think it's wonderful and I think a couple of them are going to enter it this year oh wow okay and would you like to be like uh Caitlyn and maybe be the full is it the full Mary I don't know how you describe it the grown up Mary you've been called like that the grown up Mary okay that's what you'd like to do yeah okay excellent and are you gonna be sad to not be Little Miss you'll always be Little Miss Mary but are you gonna be sad not to be the official current one yeah all right okay someone told me to had to ask you about a video you made what's that about I made a video kind of just about my year and how it's been and then some of my hobbies okay and where can people see that Facebook I think it's on on the Mary from Dunlop Facebook is it yeah okay lovely brilliant stuff okay well it's come to the end of the year you're much bigger now than you were last year I didn't even recognize you it's amazing how it goes okay Lena and we hope your successor does as good a job as you have done also in studio with us is the legend that is Mary Ward coordinator Mary from Dunlop International Arts Festival Mary back for another year another crop of amazing people how's it been so far absolutely amazing there as Caitlin said there are a wonderful bunch of young women and they look out for each other but they're also great fun we had a great time yesterday Mary Rogers of course whipped up her usual bend and we sang and danced and they nearly all play an instrument so we had a wonderful time and are going to have an even better time as the week goes on yes of course because the crowning cabaret is on on a Sunday compared by Daniel O'Donnell he is an international superstar and no one does it better than Daniel I don't think he's just got a certain way with him for that stage hasn't he absolutely and we had the most wonderful day in Dunlop last Sunday because it rained and we were lucky enough to be able to go indoors this year because a lot of the businesses in Dunlop have marquees on their premises and have music all week so if it rains again which we won't even use the word during the week all events will go into the marquees in the town brilliant and Daniel was absolutely and all his guests on Sunday and the marries went up and sang with him and they had a wonderful time yeah it is an amazing experience isn't it by the way the crowning will be streamed live on the TG Cajar player on the night too which is fantastic exposure because worldwide yeah you know so it's wonderful excellent there'll be big viewers viewership figures for that no doubt good to see TG Cajar coming on board and supporting something like this yes it is it's great to have you know community because in Dunlop we consider TG Cajar art of course it is yeah and a community so it's wonderful to have them on board yeah and we have so many wonderful things going on during the week tonight well of course we'll have the very popular co-op fashion show on the Waterfront Hotel and we have an amazing event on later tonight I hope all the mammy and daddies that allow their children to stay up we will listen to your conversation earlier and we're going to have as nine o'clock from nine to ten we're going to have an illuminated sculpture trail oh wow and the Tiana director which is the river walk in Dunlop and all kinds of fairies and illuminated sculptures are going to come alive to the backdrop of the full moon tonight sounds beautiful yeah there's a great mix of different things a great mix of different things and I think the team of our festival this year as always is children to have a children and family orientated and tomorrow of course we'll have our Children's Fund Day sponsored by Supervalue in the GA grounds in Dunlop and the entrance will be from the Dun from the Supervalue car park the entrance into the fund will be and then my big night is tomorrow night I'm going to see Ronan Collins it's going to be a cracker that one oh that's going to be an absolute cracker and I would advise I'm going out with my girlfriends and we're going to dine first and I would advise anybody in Dunlop that's thinking of dining before the show to make reservations because it's very busy especially I need someone as practical as you in my life I just think I just think you have well maybe you have it's just I need someone to make bookings for me you know you're right but that's going to be brilliant it's uh I wonder are there any tickets left because it's it's celebrating the show band era Ronan Collins is singing all the big songs Sandy Kelly is going to be there and Brangent Shine is going to be there and all Ronan's other the conquerors the conquerors which are hugely popular bands still of course all right listen brilliant stuff Mary you got all the plugs in except for the night until noon shall be in broadcast live on friday and David James been broadcast live on wednesday yeah that's from three is a two to five on i don't know i don't like once once it comes 12 o'clock i don't care when anyone else does now at least it's two thirty to five on wednesday two thirty to five and i'm there from nine till twelve some so nine on friday on friday yeah and good buzz around Dunlop as always katelyn yes absolutely um the girls and I walked up the main street on saturday when they first arrived and just calling into all the local businesses they were so appreciative of seeing all the Mary's and everyone everyone who saw the Mary's talking about the fact they saw the Mary's I think it's it's unusual there's nothing like it either I think this you know there's just something exactly something about it okay yeah listen uh it's been lovely seeing you again katelyn thank you um congratulations on your uh year Lena how are you still over there do you want to say hello to anyone or say anything to the not ask a question you think I should have asked I did all right did all right well done Lena and enjoy your last couple of days thank you um and whoever uh follows you has a tough act to follow because you've done a fantastic job and uh Mary Ward of course not the last time we've spoken to you over the course of the week but thank you very much for calling and we do appreciate it and we will begin chatting to some of the contestants are the contestants entrance entrance entrance of this year's Mary from Dunlop international arts festival after we take this break the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio get great menswear at greatly reduced prices in the big summer sale now on at Watson menswear letter Kenny brands like super dry penguin six cents Andre and Casimota all with 20% off choose from a selection of shirts polos and t-shirts with up to 50% off suits also up to 50% off and many more great savings throughout in the big summer sale now on at Watson menswear main street letter Kenny and at 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dad is from County Mayo he came to the United States when he was 21 about 36 years ago and ever since I grew up very immersed in my Irish heritage my family and I would come to Ireland every summer or holiday we can this is actually my 15th time in Ireland this summer that's okay so yeah I have a very deep connection to and what are you studying at the moment I just graduated from college I graduated from a small school called the College of New Jersey and I have a degree in communications with a double minor in music and speech and language therapy all right what do you want to do with that Shannon? right now I'm going to be substitute teaching at a school come September because I love to work with kids and I just want to see what my options are and see if maybe teaching or speech therapy is my route or anything that helps kids in some form yeah well you have that luxury don't you because the course allows you to choose your path as you oh yeah yeah it's great but you get great deal of satisfaction working with young people I take it yeah I worked I was a swim coach and a swim instructor for a long time and just the joy of seeing kids impress and like evolve with their skills over a period of time it's just so rewarding to see you make that impact on their lives all right okay and it's great to have you here Belfast Mary, Roshin, Costello your interest in law and politics that's what you're studying at the moment yeah so I recently just graduated from law and politics actually so I spent three years up at Queen's University Belfast and I graduated there but I've accepted an unconditional offer for international commercial and business law at Queen's obviously again in September to do my master's and you are also cheerleader as well are you yeah so I how do you combine those two so it's just really random actually so see my first year in halls I was put beside a girl who I'm my best friend so we were the same course roommate of ours and she told me about cheerleading but I was too late to apply the first year so I was gutted because I love the film bring it on like I watched it and I was like this is my dream I need to do this because like I'd like juvenile osteoporosis growing upside to give up support and what is that sorry if you don't mind because it's a good opportunity to get a bit of awareness out there at the same time yeah so Steve and I was about like was it like between 9-11 basically I wasn't really doing anything to like have a break and then like I was just getting injured and then like I had a weevil and I'd break two bones and I was like what's up with this so then we went to like the hospital and all this and like it did a lot of tests and all that and then they turned out I had idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis so they couldn't actually tell me why I had it because like a lot of my aunties would have it but they're in their 60s whereas I was like 10 yeah so it's a big difference big shot for a 10 year old too and heading into your yeah so I love sports like I did sports like five days a week I was in Russia CEO's in New Wara like is there anything I could do I would have done it so I like didn't do sports so I started back at cheerleading because I was like this is like a dream like I need to do it so then I joined Knights October 2021 and I signed up with a cast on my foot because I also broke something before that and I was like here I know I'll have a cast but like could I do it and I was like oh my god I know of course you'll sign up and I was like oh my god this is class so then I started cheerleading and I pure love it so you determined or stubborn or both I've had a both like you know it depends like my grip is like a great grip like we always had our stones like we just keep going till we get it like I may have been in cost half cost of chondridas I'll have other injuries but I haven't broken a bone because I cheer yet good stuff yeah and you're enjoying this week so far oh I'm loving it like it's so good like do you want to experience it before at all yeah so I am originally from Meenalek so I went like I grew up in the Rosses like I'm just going to Ross in New York so you know all about it I know all about it like my cousin was the 2014 New York Mary so then I was talking to her about it like every year I would go to the festival like you look up to the marriage you want to be a Mary so in fact I'm a Mary now and I get to experience it it's a real like it actually is amazing like just can't get over it it's way better than you could have ever expected wow I'm delighted to hear that Katie Houston's 22 and is the Birmingham Mary as well Katie how are you getting on thanks so much for calling in you're enjoying the week so far it's whirlwind isn't it it's busy I know speaking to people in the past it's tiring and you have to keep going and there's that expectation and it's tough isn't it yeah it's nice to often in a good way tough in a good way you are already in working in the construction industry and just looking through some of your notes I mean obviously you know being a woman in the construction industry there are trailblazers it's not as uncommon as it used to be but it still is not necessarily the norm do you find that yeah um it's I think it's different now but you're still like a lot of your leadership teams are all male but you'll get the odd one or two which is good they're great role models but there's still a long way to go in the construction industry I believe yeah and I think you have a really important role as a STEM ambassador and I presume you're promoting gender diversity showing people the pathway you know if you can see you can be it that type of stuff is that important to you yeah because I started my job so I was an apprentice to start off with so I didn't do the typical university route so I think being a STEM ambassador to promote apprenticeships is so important just because I probably wouldn't be where I am without my apprenticeship and all the experience that I've got from it so it's just quite important to me and trying to get a bit more diversity into the industry and learn because having more diversity into the industry will help us overcome problems that maybe the older generation may not be able to like overcome and just thinking of new ways to think new set of eyes, a new approach I mean it has to be and I really think that thankfully this country is waking up to alternative ways of achieving what you want to achieve and there's a much greater focus now here in Ireland on apprenticeships and what have you so that's great, it's great to see so what is your connection with this area, the festival how did you get roped into it so my mom is Ruscom and my dad is Johnny Gull but my granddad was from Buttonport and my granny's from Armore so like there was that connection to Dunlop you couldn't get much closer connection to Dunlop my granddad was a massive fan of the festival he passed away in 2020 but he would try and get to the festival every year from Birmingham and just like seeing him there and he always enjoyed it so kind of trying just once to get involved yeah I think you probably is a wee eye and you're very proud at the moment would you say I hope so all right okay listen we wish you every uh well I've got to say success but it's in the whole experience it's what's really truly important isn't it Katie Houston thank you so much indeed Rashin Costlow and Shana Neary all three of you thank you so much for calling in all right brilliant we are going to be joined now very shortly by our next three merries we'll take a very quick break and then we'll do that watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com when you want to get the job done you need screwfix need something fast easy with screwfix you can click and collect in as little as one minute need it early or late we hear you with 7 a.m to 8 p.m opening weekdays and early opening and weekends we don't clock off till you do simply shop online at screwfix.ie or in over 35 stores screwfix the choice of champions the highland video outside broadcast team are on the road once again tune in this wednesday at 2 30 for the jive time show with David James and friday morning for greg hughes and the 9 till noon show with both shows live from the heart of the 56th mary from dunlow international festival to celebrate their fun filled program of events check out the full lineup on maryfromdunlow.ie brought to you in association with cavernous supervalued dunlow okay we are back with our next batch of entrance into the mary from dunlow and we'll start with the geltalked mary rihanna niggila mcbryde no mcgillabryde one second i'm not finished my guesses all right i'm not finished my guesses come here rihanna it's lovely to have you in thank you so much chef for joining us the geltalked mary obviously a great interest in irish obviously yes i've grown up in the geltalked and i've been speaking it my whole life i've actually learned irish before i had english really so you schooled in irish and you so your first language are you kind of translating as you're speaking to me now no i'm used to the two languages now i went primary school it was all irish secondary school it was all irish and then when i went to college it was all in english so it was a big change for me and it kind of took me a while to get used to doing science in english which was a bit difficult but yeah and you hope to go on and focus on disease treatment and prevention so in what area or how do you sort of what would be a job that would fulfill that ambition of yours well i have quite an interest in Alzheimer's disease and certain types of cancer as well so i'd love to go down one of those routes and maybe do a bit of research and treatment preventatives all that kind of thing yeah which you'd have taken a great interest in the recent advances in in terms of potential Alzheimer's treatments and what have you and we have a great history here in donagall too in terms of cancer research as well let a kind of university hospital doing great stuff there sporty into your music what's your favorite thing to do outside of your study and what have you one of my favorite things to do is to play gaelic football with my local club Gidore CLG Gidore we have a great bunch of girls down there the senior ladies football team it's like a wee family down there it's lovely it's a nice break from the real world yeah and now it comes at you quick doesn't it the real world it's a nightmare all right dog Glasgow Mary's Caitlin Edelston good morning to you thank you so much for calling in thank you for having me uh why did you decide to get involved in this festival so i've been growing up coming back over to Ireland for the last like well since i was born and i've been this is my 20th year and done low for the festival just every year my granny's from Burtonport and my other granny was from Gidore so just growing up going to the two places and always being around the festival and then i got asked if i'd be interested and of course it was an honour so i'm just buzzing to be a part of it and you continue the tradition of being you know world-class Irish dancer as well there's so many Mary's over the years i don't know about world-class what it says here well you're a world world metal holder yeah it's world-class okay well that's just a fish there's a metal just to prove it okay and also an interesting music traditional music would you describe it as yeah i played with frank mccardle at st rock fantastic um and glas go for a good few years um travel to london and Preston for all britain splat and things like that so i loved it fantastic now everyone says when the and the no one advance that these bonds that form and it's a wonderful experience and you make new friends and genuinely people make friends for life as that surprised you as to how that kind of forms and the bonds that you make and how much you enjoy this experience with with the other entrance well honestly going into it i was a wee bit nervous because you know what can be like all female environments but i think we're all so lucky like the girls are absolutely amazing everyone is just on the same level and we all just get along so well it's great all right okay brilliant the wild mare i mean the was atlantic Mary is is even no d is that correct avian you're an entrepreneur i suppose so yeah well why will no one back up what they are who knows you are i told us about your entrepreneurship and so yeah i started a bakery business in quidore and so myself and realer actually both from quidore and but both situated on the wild atlantic way as well and but i started a bakery business unofficially when i was about 13 years old as a bit of a passion project a way to earn some pocket money and from that i suppose the business that i now have today uh group and i supply coffee shops all over the county here and um i'm also doing a bunch of occasional cakes for the likes of weddings and other celebrations so yeah i suppose it was just uh i had a bit of a backbone in my house with support from my family my dad runs his own businesses and he was like a 24 seven mentor to me i suppose and you have a big interest in social media marketing do you as well yeah how important has that been in terms of growing the business and sort of maybe you being able to achieve what you want to achieve get your products that get there getting the messaging out there absolutely and i think it's a huge part of anybody who's starting or running a business and to be trying to get your brand out there and speak to your audience and stuff and i've had the experience of doing that with my own business even when i'm traveling from place to place trying to learn about other cultures other foods it's lovely to connect with your audience and make sure that they know what you're learning and what you're doing all the time and also then my dad's businesses as well i've had the opportunity to kind of come on board on his social marketing team as well yeah and exploring other parts of the world or the cultures is important to you absolutely and i think there's something to learn everywhere and and i'd have a huge interest in going traveling to different parts of the world and learning about their cultures and foods as well next and stuff the philadelphia maria maria philadelphia mary is anmarie kafry mantay mantay mantay and where's that sir name from uh germany okay me and tai yes okay and uh tell us a little bit about yourself uh anmarie i'm 22 years old i am representing philadelphia and i just graduated university i attended villanova university right outside of philadelphia and i studied irish studies while i was there and how's your experience been so far it's been fabulous i've had the best few days ever and i'm really excited to continue on the week and keep seeing all of lovely donnie gall and if you've already sold it you don't look like the spice girls you had sporty spice you know and all this kind of stuff have you worked out who the spice is like angry spice singing spice moody spice i know but don't forget the word spice but have you sort of figured all that who's who's everyone's personality traits uh no i think we're all still learning each other a little bit but we're all um family um family and friends and travel are important to you aren't they absolutely yes i have such a wonderful support system and i'm very lucky my mother was able to join me here and donnie gall with me my oh that's lovely so it's an experience for her as well yes yes i'm not sure who's having more fun her me normally the mom the mom major yes yes she's my mom major for sure right and what is your irish connections if any or maybe you're just part of the irish community over in philly or maybe you're not i don't know tell us um my grandfather's family is from ireland so his mother is from county mayo and then his father was adopted so we're not quite sure exactly where in ireland he's from but we know that it's the gail tucked in this region so it's special to be here all right fantastic stuff and you's are all looking forward to sunday um i presume you are reanna as well i mean that's the big night isn't that is the big night yeah i really looking forward to that yeah i didn't ask anyone about party pieces or anything so maybe it's not fair but anyone got anything interesting here um well they're all interesting i'm gonna stand on their head um well i think with all the marys you're gonna have to bake are you gonna bake they're always hilarious i think i saw one with to do with eggs and i don't know there's a lot of eggs get a bit messy daniel seems to love that but anyway um well throughout all the marys anyway there's a whole bunch of different i suppose talents amongst us of course um we had a lovely day yesterday we were down in tealand and we were visiting you know sheev league we were spending some time we were in cotton kill and we had a lovely afternoon then in the rusty mackerel where we all kind of had a bit of a sing song and we have a few singers a few musicians amongst us a few dancers and it's just so nice to see all the girls coming together and you can see the confidence coming out during the week and people are stepping up and singing and playing their instruments and it's just so nice yeah it's a real growth spur to life isn't it because you're just completely talents together as well yeah so it comes together as like well if i'm not mistaken i think last year i don't know if it was on the friday of the sunday there was sort of like a collaboration between all the marys um i don't know if that's set a set of tone if you have to come up with something or not i don't know but anyway either way katelyn uh avin and uh anmarie it's been great avenues uh in and we look forward to seeing you over the course of the week thank you very much indeed all right okay we are bringing in our next entrance now if you want to say hello or pass on the comments or say anything you know the numbers 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 all right now our next guests are taking their seats and obviously carolines banged all the cameras again but anyway sure look at all fix that kavin mary katey galligan good morning to you how are you getting on good to have you in where are you over there okay that's the second time i've got that all wrong how are you keeping i'm doing all right okay your primary school teacher already yeah i've just qualified for marino there in may so i've got a job in port leash in the girls go to port leash now for august right okay and it's all about getting your position full term or whatever yeah so i got a fixed time post so um it's great i don't have to worry about i mean it's not a maturity contract i'll have to worry about getting a job in january i'm there for the year fantastic you trailed a blazed a bit of a trail didn't you in becoming a first at the marino institute yeah it was the first year of the course yeah so those only 35 of us i think that actually did it and so it's great to have the teaching degree through the medial virus now yeah and you're another musician with a musical background as well yeah some parties with you lot i'll tell you that it's the mary band that's more than ourselves and you're a member of a choir as well so very musical yeah exactly uh and why did you decide to get involved in this um well to be honest i'll be completely honest i actually never heard of the competition that's good i think it's good we like it i need more of it yeah there's a lovely friend of ours at home and mave shard and actually has a house up in minacross and gavin asked her will we get a calvin mary and she just said yeah kitty galligan will do it so i must have volunteered script across my forehead or something she just knew i was right for the job so she bought me in for it and yeah now we're here and no regrets no regrets absolutely we've been having an absolute ball it's amazing and it's so nice all the girls in the house we're having such a crack and everybody's so lovely it's just so so lovely to be here our don goal mary is christina gallagher it's great to have you in shooter with us as well christina how are you keeping i'm good thanks rake how are you i'm doing all right um i just wonder christina at this point are you just enjoying it or would you be nervous about sunday because that's when you have to get up on stage it's being broadcast around the world i'm not trying to make you nervous but it is what it is uh or you're just living in the moment as it's because the week must be flying yeah it's going really fast i would say it was more nervous unlike friday and saturday before i'd met the rest of the girls and kind of knew what we were doing and stuff every day but since i've met the girls and spent more time with them i think everyone's more relaxed and as the other girls were saying like the confidence is going like growing a wee bit more so i think we're all just excited for sunday now like it'll be better speak because you're on each other's sports network support network isn't that the way it's so nice to have everyone so i'd say i'm less nervous now definitely and you have a really important job in that you're a full-time speech and language therapist with a in a specialist area tell us a little bit about that yeah so um i actually work in the letter kenny primary care centre just with kids probably from the age of like two to eighteen so i see them every day monday to friday i'm i love it in there yeah it's great just great seeing the kids coming in and making the progress and you've been with the term in ga club since the age of six yeah and do you still yeah i do yeah i took a few years off whenever i was in college when i came back to it now and it's so nice to be back with like all the girls that kind of went away to college at the same time and we're all back now and like just playing with your neighbours and going for cups of tea in their house after it's just it's such a good network of friends to have a bit of an opportunity to switch up because like a lot of people's employment and and their studies at the moment it's quite intense isn't it so you need those outlets just definitely yeah you do right okay uh our Dubai Mary is Adele Morgan um how you getting on Adele great to have you on the program as well hi there i'm good how are you i'm doing fantastic are you obviously living and working in deba at the moment originally from where uh Adele originally from Glasgow so i moved out to Dubai last year to teach so i'm now teaching out in Dubai how are you enjoying it well i love it it's a different world it's a totally different experience and vitamin but it's so worthwhile so it really is different isn't it you're racking up the debt no i don't have anyone i've spoke to over there they come home like late late with tons of debt because they're if you do it right if you do it right you don't need to yeah you can find the events that aren't as expensive yeah and uh we're not getting into the the the bigings and that's a bit but people in the teaching pro profession are treated very different though there's a great deal of thanks and respect and little gestures that uh you don't see in britain or anand if the truth be told yeah uh it's a totally different experience teaching in Dubai the children are great they're so enthusiastic to learn and the parents are so appreciative the amount of thanks you get over there it's just it's you're heard on the pedestal aren't you yeah you are you really are treated really well even in the community you're respected and you are we're putting a position of trust and authority which is lovely it's really nice it's very rewarding i would say really rewarding to have um and how long do you think you'll stay there for in other way the contracts are rewarded it's this you can't say 10 years as such but you would you you could see your future out there at least in the short to medium yeah you can have a rolling contract my contract is nice for two years i'll definitely be there next year i'll definitely be for two years however i think after the two years i think i'll go home have you managed to sign anyone up for the jubilee life yet i have i've been trying how many to everyone to come up over definitely all the girls are welcome for a holiday they'll stay with me anytime they like that's recorded now that is as we say in media circles on the record that's a that's a variable contract and um just briefly to then you've developed an interest in sign language what's that about or how did that develop or what happened or what did you see that made yeah so i was actually born with um right side unilateral microcha which is uh it's a deformation of my ear so i was born with lesser hearing so with hearing impairment so i don't need sign language personally however as i've grown older um i've realised that i don't have a disability but i have an ability to help educate people and just promote the importance of inclusion and helping to encourage other people i've been developing macaton in school i've been helping to promote that in my classroom and macaton isn't just for children who are deaf or hearing impaired it's for children who don't have ability to speak as well so i think it's really important to promote that inclusion not just for children who maybe have hearing loss but also just for all children to help build that additional language yeah it's a language that you don't need speech to have so anyone can develop the skill yeah for sure normalizes it as well okay brilliant stuff thanks very much Adele it's been lovely having you in studio with us as it has you uh christina gala her katie uh galligan any of you got any things you're going to do in sunday that can be revealed no no you still have to come and see yeah you have to get your tickets i'm going to go i'm going to go and i'm going to see uh i hope other tickets still available i wonder we must check that actually oh i think that might have been i think it might be sold out anyway i don't want to i think it was really quite quickly wasn't it okay uh but it's available just to remind you to stream on the tg kaha player uh kavin mary katey galligan donnell goll mary christina gala her and adel morgan the dubai mary thank you very much indeed of course we really appreciate it we'll speak to three more entrants after these hi the mayor can't take no ballie show nice to put these good joe shachta no shunt in the higher up the air for the tg in the randarola day and it's in figure lunacy till our heritage week punk hii cloridh with the core of iraq to let talk you don't lean right if you got iraq to and it's in green tea here to read the shot tool as iraq what a world bundle or in his back and it's open every 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mom and family isn't that nice katelyn and the timing was perfect as well just as you took your seat the pressures on local katelyn or maybe the pressures off who's to say do you know what like it's been so nice just being able to show the girls around done though and done it because yeah because your role ends up being a little bit different because it's a journey of discovery for everybody else but for you obviously it's all familiar territory yeah so like yesterday you know we're off at sleeve league and a lot of the girls hadn't been there before and obviously it's such an amazing place yeah and it was just you know it's so nice to like show them all the different places because we're so proud of where we live and we live in such a beautiful place and how did you get involved in an interesting crocheting um do you know what i pick wee things up on youtube like um i sometimes i'm just bored in my room like that's where i learned to play the guitar as well just on youtube like i just pick up random things but i actually do love crocheting now but your love is salty you didn't pick out on youtube that came from the family no that came definitely from my dad and my brothers like my dad since he was young he's actually he was born in glasgo so he has always been very very very passionate about Celtics so it was unavoidable no it was unavoidable and you know you talked about your love of the area and your pride and the beauty of it and you do efforts to keep it that way as well don't you you can be quite active out and about and cleanups and what have you yeah is that here or where you live here so i'm from latcher originally so we do have a development committee in latcher so it is it's nice and when i'm home from college to join in the cleanups and we've also recently been trying to get our health centre reopened as well so i was on the committee for that as well and we've actually gotten a commitment now to get it reopened by the agency which is just brilliant and your wish is to become an occupational therapist yeah so i've started studying in goa to be an OT so i just started last year and so i suppose i got into it and because i want to work with people who have mental health difficulties that's where i'd like to specialise and i was able to do my placement in scaly place and that are brilliant so i already really enjoyed it yeah fantastic stuff our double mary is danielle varley uh danielle thank you very much for joining us how are you keeping me good very good stuff all right um you uh we've been talking an awful lot about going on to third level what people are doing you had to make a different decision or you chose to make a different decision in your life after you're leaving sir didn't yeah so i didn't go to college i went straight in to work in restaurants and i stayed same here in restaurants and we just in and everything yeah and um i then became a manager and then of a restaurant and in covid then everything shut so i changed altogether and now i'm working in logistics in frayford and right and what does that people say logistics is that problem solving fixing things what what it's getting something from a to b so shipments and like organize and transport and everything like that and clearing and declaring the stuff coming out to the country and danielle how did you end up getting involved in this um festival um oh my family is big into the country music anyway so they would have like known about it i wouldn't have really known about it but they would have been big into the country so my mom my nanny put me forward and told me i was going to be double mary so yeah i have to give a big show to me nanny because she's obsessed with danielle as well so yeah well you entered the right festival if you've been obsessed with danielle didn't really i couldn't let her go down so yeah this one's for you nanny all right okay but you're enjoying it of course yeah now it's brilliant the girls are lovely and we've had a great experience it's brilliant like for everything just to get out and see like a family from uh letter kenny and john's britain urie so i've never kind of been down this side of it so it's it's amazing to see yeah now you've got itchy feet haven't you you're hoping to do a bit of that means you're going to go traveling you're looking at me as you talk about my feet it's an old saying sorry you know you've actually feet to go traveling you've got good plans for that in the future want to go and just see the world and everything anywhere in particular not really just a bit of everywhere kind of thing just yeah yeah i get you uh kiara oh connor is the new york mary how did i do kiara hello there it's a american take on your name kiara yes lovely you must spend most of your life telling people that they'll do yes i do and honestly i usually don't correct people i usually they call me kiara my mom's name is carianne so i get called on craig everything so we're all in the same boat i i've failed your pain um come here how long have you been over when did you travel over to take part in the festival so i flew out of jfk in new york city on thursday night with my mom and we arrived friday morning my nana's from leatrum so on the way up to dunlow we stopped in manor hamilton and got to see all of our cousins oh wow enjoy the nice Irish food and really spend time together and catch up and it was honestly so nice your future hopes in teaching as well i'm in teaching okay excellent tell us what kind of work you doing yep so i'm a second grade so in america second grade the children would be about seven or eight so i teach special education so i teach in the Bronx in Woodlawn where i'm from and you're another person who loves to travel as well yeah i've actually studied in Galway for a semester and i was actually involved in best buddies which really carried on my interest of teaching students with disabilities it's a program at nyg that works with students with disabilities and people in the community that um have disability so that was awesome and it really reassured me that i was going down the right path and um i've traveled to Ireland i've traveled to spain italy and i have future plans for traveling in the next year brilliant and you're also a big sporting person as well yep so i grew up playing Irish football and i'm currently involved in our um same prejudice club i'm the vice chair person and in new york we have gaelic for girls which serves about 600 players with the different clubs in new york and i'm the secretary for gaelic for girls excellent brilliant stuff and our last marry to speak to today's the london mary erin uh doohan erin thank you so much for joining us how are you getting on great it's great to have you with us you are a year two teacher at st agustin's that's my second name believe it or not agustin uh i don't really often admit it but now seems like a good time uh currently a year two teacher at st agustin's catholic primary school in hammersmith in landon yeah what's life like there for you yeah absolutely love london i was actually born in london back in 1998 but then moved back home to chrisley um when it was under the year but then two years ago i decided to move to london just to pursue my teaching career yeah and how do you find it's a big change in life isn't it i mean that's uh is that a sort of a city school that you're in isn't it um what's on the suburbs it is in west london so hammersmith is quite central but my school is quite a small school it's a one-form entry which means there's one class for every like year and they all really quietly spoken so can you move forward a little bit um yeah so it's a one form entry skill and that means that there's one class for every year grip um it has a big catholic like irish community as well so a lot of the staff are from dairy and temporary yeah big wait list to get into the school i'd imagine to not as much as it used to be right okay because of brexit a lot of i suppose catholic nationalities like italians and french people they seem to have moved back to their home countries now okay interesting yeah right okay what do you do over there as well as that i mean you're into your sports do you like traditional music do you play traditional music or going to the gym is really i suppose i call that a sport yeah i'm really into like my health and my fitness so i like to go to the gym and spending time with friends mostly like teaching over there is quite a busy career these days are a lot longer and compared to here maybe in donnie gall um so just have you spoken to the debaim area have you yeah yeah no she's really recommending to buy to me so it has put the idea in my head i think so all right yeah the way she's talking about it okay but anyway whichever way it's all about growth isn't it your experience in life here london and who's to say what's in front of you and why did you decide to to get involved to who roped you in it's normally one or other uh in the festival um well i'm from creaseless so done loads only really over the road anyway to be honest so every year i'd went over with my family and my cousins and all that so katelyn finne she actually reached out to me and said would you be interested in entering and i said yeah sure i may as well like it's a bit of crack excellent stuff all right well listen enjoyed i'm sure you would all enjoy it's been great so far by everyone's tell me what he's doing after after this uh kiara do you know yep so we're heading to letter kennie shopping center to pick up a few bits yeah i'll have to check in another carry on but we are going to letter kennie shopping center to thank the sponsors and you'll be well looked after down there don't you know excellent stuff all right and um katelyn highlight for you so far the highlight for me was actually last night we went back to the bridge in and dania was singing and we just got to you know dance and jive with a lot of the locals and it was actually just so lovely to you know i i love dania and i i must say yeah he has that way with him doesn't he if you're not a fan you just meet him and then that's it's all done i know he's quite charming so as well as for someone who is it's quite literally an international superstar you know playing all over the world and yet he's just there in his own neck of the woods supporting something that's important to him i think it's lovely okay erin kiara uh dania katelyn best of luck to all of you thank you so much along with all of the others who called in it's been wonderful having you in here with us and uh enjoy the rest of it and enjoy the weekend and it's going to be fantastic okay back with more shortly at heki clark and langan insurance brokers they compare quotes from all the leading insurers so you get a great price home motor and van farm quality home travel and liability insurance they quote them all so if the worst happens you're covered for a competitive 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scheme has been affected um it's the letter mcoward group water scheme so basically we've been uh told again uh second hand information i became aware of it yesterday afternoon when a facebook page or post popped up from a local community center to tell us that it was affecting our water supply um now i was aware that there was a discoloration in the water over the previous week or so um and um had checked what irish water yesterday and they had said that there was nothing there was no issues and then disappeared um now what seems to be the case is they're saying operational issues at the treatment um plant again which was what was said last year which is very big um and basically you know last year we were given no information similar um you have to go looking for it which is really disappointing in this day and age um you know the irish water have taken over um looking after of our water service and to say it's disappointing would be um an understatement um we never find out any information word last to know and then i'm sitting here with a family of four a young baby um where i'm reliant on water for making um formula bottles and whatnot and you know if i wasn't um paying attention to social media or to um possible i think someone said to me yesterday evening that they may have put it on the radio i didn't hear it but if i wasn't paying attention i'd be feeding my new baby if we go baby with this water it's scary and i think when i when i talk about social media too i think it's twitter uh and it's not really that clear you know you'd have to constantly be checking it you know it's not like facebook where it sort of pops into your timeline or whatever maybe they are on facebook as well i haven't seen them but it really is a worry especially even if you had a vulnerable adult at home who was just recovering from something in hospital you know whereby picking up something or some sort of a bug or whatever it might be uh really could have quite serious implications as bad as the the boil notices the communication is something i think that really needs looking at cathleen is that really what you're saying absolutely absolutely the communication is huge and like last year we were told you know it would be a short term situation i spoke to you mid september last year um which is quite worrying for me to think six weeks out from now that i could be coming back to you talking to you again and what you know is a time where you know it's a basic necessity in life with water um you know and as you said the communication is very very poor um we never had this problem when donnie gall county council were looking after the water and as you say operational difficulties that was another that seems to be a phrase that's coming into regular use now by irish water operational difficulties what does what what does that mean i think the public deserves to know absolutely if you ask me it's just a basic you know trademark reply in terms of you know a covers all areas so that we don't actually have to tell the people what the problem is um it's summertime you know the kids are off on holidays more water is being used um i'm nearly like a garden relation to kids when they're to tap in my house and make sure that they're not drinking anything cathleen this these boil water notices were bad enough but the price of all in the kettle now i'm sorry it you know to uh to service everybody's drinking water needs it's not cheap but you know what i mean like it's it's it's it's a factor now boiling kettles like that's just the real yeah it is a factor and even last night when i was boiling the kettles for my baby's bottle i'm not happy with the color of the water after boiling yeah now i would be honest with you i get you i know exactly what i'm having to buy the water on top of um the actual price of boiling it because you have to boil the bottle the water as well greg yeah of course um and they actually give that um guidance on the issuing of the notice that they put out Irish water that even if you buy bottled water you have to boil it as well so it's a double whammy in terms of price yeah how old's the baby cathleen she's eight weeks old oh my word right okay as if you had enough to be worried about without having to worry about brand franking you and then i've been landed with us but sure you know what um you get on with it um but it's just it's disappointing in this day and age that we are being subjected to the cycle carry on that you have to go public on it that you have to be an advocate for you and the community and it's the second time in less than a year greg that i've had to go public which is the worrying part right we we kind of got a general um we've got a kind of got a general response from ish air and it adds nothing to it uh unfortunately we're going to stay on top of it and see if we can get some sort of a timeline for that water returning as you say even with boiling if it's discolored you've got you're not going to you're not going to use the water you're not going to be using it right absolutely not kathleen we're going to pursue that thanks so much indeed best wishes to you and the family the notice is arising out of according to irish water operational difficulties at the lecher mackawad water treatment plans it's been put in place to protect the health of customers in the lecher mackawad port new rossbeg uh clean gore dukeri mean a cross dewy glentes road mahery initiative free upper island and far more areas um and as i say you know kathleen if it was on the radio she didn't hear it and also um as i say you can sign up and it's worth signing up to uh ishka erin for the direct messaging i did it comes through an emails but it's not going to catch everyone either because not everyone uses systems like that okay that's where we have to leave it on the program today