 Right, there's there's we have to leave it on the are you okay there? You have everything's following on that's the nine. Oh sure. Look, it's hadn't time for a song I hadn't time for a song anyway and Ended on a high as to say right there's we have to leave it on the program today I have yourself a great weekend have yourself a great Friday as well. Whatever you get up to you Not gonna accept your technical issues here. Well, I Didn't have the impossible formula story. You should have checked it I've left that I've come right here now this last two or three minutes, right? So it's not Okay, have yourself a great weekend and a good Friday as well I'll talk to you again real soon and I'm handing you over to Greg use. Thanks very much Kevin. Well done to you You started me in chaos, but you know what? We'll be all right. It's nine o'clock on Friday panel is assembling But first let's get a news update. It's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg Good morning. The Health Minister is to visit latter Kenny University Hospital next week Minister Stephen Donnelly is expected to meet with GP representatives hospital staff representatives and hospital management on Friday It's on the back of concerns raised by Donegal GP's and hospital consultants over patient safety in the emergency department a previous meeting with Minister Donnelly was deferred by the doctors who had written to him as they requested an on-site visit by the minister to see First time the issues at the hospital. Dr. Porg McGinnis while having not yet been officially invited welcomes the visit as GP's were delighted to see that the pressure We've been put on has worked and that the minister is going to come to Donegal to speak to us and to speak to the consultants It's important that he sees firsthand some of the issues that we're trying to articulate to him We haven't received a formal invitation for a meeting yet But we're expecting that in the next few days and we look forward to sitting down with the minister and Expressing some of our patient safety concerns and deciding how we can work together to make Luh a better place to be a patient and a better place to work Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnog meanwhile says Minister Donnelly is keen that the concerns of GP's and consultants are responded to I've seen a very significant increase in terms of number of patients presenting at the emergency department It's up from about 40,000 to almost 50,000 and that's put significant pressure on the hospital So that's something that the minister wants to work with the staff with management and also consult with the GP's in relation to Donegal County Council's Hysing SPC has been told that the authority is open to the use of modular homes Particularly ones with a long-term guarantee Members were also told the council has met with two providers who are interested in providing modular homes One of whom is considering establishing a manufacturing business in Ineshaun Officials said they are interested in pursuing any option to secure the speedy delivery of hyzing and any contracts will be as flexible as possible Councillor Johnny McGuinness is chair of the strategic policy committee He said the discussions are very positive, but there's a long way to go Obviously if we can get a manufacturing plant to locate within the county to turn out some sort of modular homes It would be a win-win for everybody involved to create employment for the county And it would obviously speed up the delivery of the remediation process for anyone that's fixing the home or even actually To meet the housing demand that's evident here in the county at present Cervical cancer in Ireland will be eliminated by 2040 with sustained efforts from all stakeholders The Minister for Health has made the declaration to mark cervical cancer elimination day of action a global initiative aimed at eradicating Cervical cancer Stephen Donnelly says the goal will be achieved by increasing HPV vaccination rates maintaining cervical screening coverage at or above 73% and maintaining the number of women receiving treatment within the first year of diagnosis at or above 97% Finally for weather dry today apart from isolated showers some bright or sunny spells this morning with highest temperatures of 7 or 8 degrees That's all from Highland Radio news for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then. Good morning The County's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest The 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio Hello, very good morning to you're very welcome along to Friday's 9 till noon show. It's Friday the 17th of November 2023 It's just approaching or just gone actually Four minutes past nine We are going to be discussing some of the big stories of the day and week Over the next hour with our panel who will introduce in a moment But first I want to invite you to get involved in the conversation WhatsApps and texts to 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or you can give us a call and 07 491 25 000 Your comments via email come to as you might expect comments at Highland radio Dot com and if you want to watch the show go on to our youtube channel Highland radio Ireland You can watch any smart tv your forest taking across your mobile devices and we're also on Facebook and X okay, let's say good morning to our guests Firstly a very good morning to paddy rooney pr old friends of letter kennie university hospital. Good morning paddy. How are you keeping? Yes, good morning. Great. Have you very good indeed Senator Lisa chambers is leader of the shanad and spokesperson on european and foreign affairs with finafall, of course. Good morning senator Great to have you back on Morning, Greg. Hi everyone. And last but not least mary t mcbride defective blocks campaigner human rights and global development consultant Hi, mary t. Good to speak to you again Yeah, good morning, Greg. Thanks for having me on again. No, no, it's our pleasure Thanks so much for accepting the invite right opposition motions calling for the withdrawal of the diplomatic status of the Israeli ambassador in ireland and for the government to refer the Israeli attacks in Gaza to the international Criminal court for investigation have been defeated in the doll this week Countermotions put forward by the government passed comfortably and included strongly condemning the attack by hamas on the people of israel on October 7th and deploys the escalation of violence in israel and the occupied palestinian territory since then They also expressed deep concern at the catastrophic humanitarian situation in gaza I'll start with you, mary t. If that's okay. Do you think this is the correct outcome? Did ardent perhaps as some might see it miss an opportunity to send a strong message That people of this country deplore the acts of israel in the loss of civilian life not withstanding Deploring the awful events of october 7th Yeah, I mean, Greg, I suppose to um this morning. I was looking at atia Excuse me. So, you know united nations humanitarian affairs Flash update on gaza. Um, I use that a lot in my own work. Um So, I guess one thing that really kind of is quite unique to what's happening There is in the updates, you know, you're used to seeing statistics on the humanitarian kind of needs Of these areas, but it's a litany of work lines in their flash updates, which is, you know Something that I felt this week the government really missed an opportunity to show That, you know, we're we're playing our role as a member of the international community and upholding international law And I think that It was a bit disingenuous of government parties when they saw quite a negative backlash from the public And, you know in voting down the Sinn Féin and socked em's motions To try and present this as some sort of false dichotomy that the vote was between You know maintaining diplomacy and then non-diplomacy if you will But I think what's really important to to kind of remember is that sanctions are a form of Diplomacy granted they're only used out of necessity To try and pressure A state to comply with its legal obligations when those have been broken and You know, no one can argue that the atrocities that are being committed at the moment in Gaza Are breaking, you know international humanitarian law And we've heard it from the united nations Special rapporteurs as as recently as last night. They've now escalated it from collective punishment to what they say Is a genocide and the start of it And so I I think that there's a big disconnect between the government and the public on this And what about the argument maritime stop to start interrupting your flow that History has shown and history has shown us that you need to keep diplomatic channels open that you can impose other sanctions and condemn activities But it's better to have that route to israel through the ambassador based in dublin whereby you can articulate Your concerns or or whatever it might be or your proposals that as I say history has shown us that you need to keep those diplomatic lines open I think you're right for us to look at history And I suppose one case study that would be, you know, you could draw quite a few parallels With israel is the apartheid regime in south africa And at that time, you know, ireland was quite an outlier Internationally, you know, we had developed Relations diplomatic relations with the a and c long before Other, you know members of the international community got there And we, you know, imposed sanctions Boycotting famously, you know, and the case of the done stores worker and starting starting that and so I think For me, I I don't see and, you know Repeatedly sort of Condemning or raising deep concern about what's happening in gaza I mean, we're only five weeks into the conflict and we have is it between 11 and 12,000 civilians killed mainly children and women And the un aid workers and staff. I mean, it's it's the largest death they've had in a conflict ever And I I just don't see that I just don't see that working and on the sixth one last night Paul cunning him succinctly Summed up the tannish to his visit to israel when he said that his efforts were rebuffed Okay, I'll come back to you lisa chambers if I could come to you if that's all right for essential lisa chambers Do you think it was the correct outcome? You're muted lisa. Thank you pardon. Sorry just so we can hear you. Yeah. Yeah, my apologies Yeah, I'll go through a couple of the issues raised by mary. I think You know, we're all in agreement that what is happening in israel And gaza and the conflict there and what israel are doing to the people of palestine Is her parent? It is it is revenge. It is collective punishment It is wrong and it needs to stop and that is the message from all of us I think across all parties nobody for one second is condoning what has happened and of course We condemn the hamas attack and the taking of hostages One of those hostages is an irish citizen a nature old little girl emily hands So there's nobody I think there's a there's an element of For some strange reason there seems to be an element of competitiveness in this in this debate as to who cares more Or who condemns more the killing when really we all agree that it needs to stop We need a ceasefire. We need peace and we need a two-state solution and what's happening is just wrong in every respect The two motions that went before the doll this week The so that this the shin fame motion was focusing on the international criminal courts and ourland and asking ourland in the irish state To refer the conflict in gaza to the icc The reason the government didn't agree to that motion and put down a counter motion Is because the conflict has already been referred to the icc and there is an ongoing investigation So it would have made no legal and no practical difference whatsoever. It is already being investigated There is a live investigation active since march 2021 and it will investigate the october 7 attack and everything up to the present day So it's already happening. So it was really I mean It was just completely ineffective and it would have what it would have looked like and the irish government position because when you're in government You have to think about these things It could have been seen as putting political pressure On the international court and politicizing that that what is an independent process? So that was the reasoning that the government gave but that sometimes doesn't get publicized Or spread to the same extent and it makes it look as though we don't want israel to go before the icc We absolutely want israel to face sanctions and to go before the icc and be investigated For what we can see as war crimes. We want that to happen and I do believe that that will happen Now the social democrats motion was then focusing on expelling the israeli ambassador quite frankly I think that's an idiotic suggestion. It is just a beggar's belief. We had the thawness to me hall martin in in kairu on wednesday We're 23 citizens managed to get across the raffa crossing We only managed to do that because we have an irish ambassador to israel And we have maintained diplomatic channels with all actors in the middle east The only way we can get the remaining irish citizens out because there are still more people there Is to keep links open if we expel the israeli ambassador They will expel our ambassador and there are people in the defense community That would have grave concerns for our our soldiers in lebanon and how israel could retaliate in that regard So the reason we didn't take that action is because not only would it have made No difference to achieving peace or saving lives It could actually have put in danger At the safety and the welfare of irish citizens in the region that we are literally actively right now trying to get out of there And that's why that's why that that's why that didn't happen again maintaining diplomatic ties Doesn't mean you agree with the country. It doesn't mean that you don't condemn them and the thi shuk In the doll this week used extremely strong language where he said this is not This is not self-defense. It is disproportionate disproportionate and it is collective punishment and it's wrong And that is our head of state saying that on the record. So we all agree on this But politicizing this and creating divisions in ireland. I don't know why we're doing that because it's just Right, okay. I'll come back to you marity. I presume there's something that you might want to reply to But first I want to bring pad I want to bring paddy paddy runy and just to get his overview of what we've been talking about so far in the events during the week Paddy, what do you think? I hope you can hear me right because my my my performance isn't working. You sound great. I'm not gonna lie You look a bit purple, but we'll get through that. There is a guy listening to your program This morning a guy called james and carry garton. He told me one of the days there that every time he hears me on the radio I come across as very right wing Well, I'm not right wing, but I'm about to express a right wing comment again and that is that I I'm with Lisa on this. I don't think it's the right thing to do to expel the Israeli ambassador and there's a lot of reasons for doing that One of the reasons being is that we share a lot of values That's we know is the area state with the Israeli state in the fact that you know, there are a Democratic country they change their system of government by national plebiscite They have a system governments quite similar to our own our upper lower house in a presidency Um, they have a lot of rights that we take for granted in this country. They have them in israel And The countries around them circulating them all the way from Lebanon in a circle around to egypt Don't actually have any of those rights or systems or values That is not to say now though that we give israel a blank check here that they have a right to do What they do, but I was actually Came to my mind there when I was listening to about two previous speakers saying A comment by musha daya and the famous israeli general back in the in the 1973 war When the israel was attacked by syria and he said that israel will only ever lose one war because there will not be around To fight a second one and but as I say That does not give Ireland is not giving israel a blank check to do whatever they do However, party go brown the journalist with the channel for had a feature on a few nights ago and He was making the point. Why are we so exercised in this country about what's taking place in the middle east at the moment? And not too far away from the middle east. There's a civil war take place in in taking place in yemen And there's been something like in excess of a quarter of millions civilians have been killed in that war Um, how come we weren't exercised about what happened in syria when there was a three-way civil war between the Assad government Anti-government forces and ISIS and there was something in excess of a half a million people who were killed Why is it that the people in the middle east are? That there seems to be more value to their lives than there is in others and god knows what's going on in afghanistan at the moment See, we're not able to keep up with it No, but people the people can own other people Yeah, but the people can only react to what they're exposed to and from the get-go Where there was blanket coverage across all media of this situation You know what I mean? It's very hard to get exercised about something that you're not being given any information on so what I don't know what y is bbc sky cnn Why aren't they interested in what's happening in yemen and how that that that situation is being funded? Yeah, no, that's true. Greg. This must be the first war that we're watching live on on tv because that's what it is is a war but no, I I think it's it's It's populist and it's absolutely silly that we would actually But but you see it's not it's people are so Notwithstanding the fact that other atrocities may well be happening in the world The the public it's very very hard To even sleep at night when you learn that five six thousand Children have been wiped off the face of this earth that three or four thousand women Who aren't members of Hamas have just been destroyed that hospitals? They've got no power fuel is being withheld from them these Babies 16 babies yesterday born prematurely no chance of survival babies being wrapped in tin foil There's no healthcare. It's you know, what can you do? The general public the ICC But what you could do is send a message and say It's not permanent But say, you know, maybe even be a little unselfish as it relates to to to the irish that are in Gaza I don't know. Maybe that's controversial. I'm not saying this should be a case and say that, you know Enough is enough. We need to send a strong message But what instead we see we see the Israeli ambassador at the fina forladesh We don't see the Palestinian ambassador. I'm not sure if they're invited or not We see me hold martin in the same week as we declined to take this action In israel, you know observing damage to the ceiling of a house in israel So it's it's the optics and how that makes the irish people feel. It's not technical. It's human I'm making the point My adult life Greg as you know in hospitals either this Contrary or the NHS in england and I'm very familiar with the footage Of the hospitals the two hospitals that are featured in in gaza when they go around with all the equipment and so on and so forth I don't condone adult. I think it's absolutely abysmal and atrocious that that's taking place However, and what I'm saying is that it's I I don't think it's the right thing to do for us to expel the And that's the only point I was making. I know you don't condone anything It was only to the point that we don't the might the scenario was outlining was all leading to the only possibly one thing We could do so. I know I know your history in healthcare is very very strong No, no, I agree with all that and I support The and being this country cannot give israel a blank check to do whatever they like because there is a line somewhere Okay, and this is probably crossed at the moment where this has gone now from defense To retaliation and revenge is an accept factor israel should be taken to book and and taken to account for this Absolutely. Okay. Lisa come back in there, please Yeah, just you you met a couple of points around the fina fall or that and the tarnishes visit to israel It's been a longstanding tradition for our party conference Which is not this isn't a big get together or a party. It's a policy conference We invite every member of the diplomatic corps and always have done and yes, the palestinian ambassador was there So we weren't going to thank you not the incident and snub the israeli ambassador But importantly she sat there and she listened to the tarnishes deliver a very strong message that we do not condone What israel is doing and we wanted to stop and that's what diplomacy is is delivering your message to those You don't disagree with or that you don't agree with in terms of his visit to israel When he was in chiral to get those 23 people across the raffle crossing Instead of posing for photo shoots, which lots of politicians might have done He was straight into a car and he drove for more meetings in israel and as was reported They were extremely tense But he didn't flinch and he held his own and he represented our country And then he was heading to the west bank straight afterwards to meet the palestinian authority So as I said, he was meeting and talking to everyone because we are still trying to get people out and you talked about optics, greg I think the tarnisher has shown himself as a politician to be less concerned with optics and more concerned with getting stuff done And actually doing his job Where I think some politicians tend to look at the optics and try to create certain optics that are not real And are not true as to what's actually happening. Okay, mary. Do you want to come back there now? I know you've been waiting Yeah, I just want to come back on two things. We suppose um The the first thing is, you know, patty I would respectfully disagree um with Your point that we share a lot in common with Israel In terms of It's it's practices at the moment. Um, I think as an illegal occupying force um, irish people You know Do feel an affinity in this in this conflict But it would be with the palestinians on the whole and you can see that With every weekend for the last five weeks Um across all from from our major cities to our small towns across ireland People are showing up in their hundreds or thousands in cities To display that solidarity and I just want to say I don't think that's going away anytime soon nor should it Um, and also, you know, a system which has been described as apartheid by the united nations special procedures um That would be another reason. I don't feel that the the there are similarities between our um Political system and israels. They're quite different is israel in that sense is not a normal democratic state Um, and then I suppose the point around the icc and you know, lisa would be well aware of this the history of the open investigation And on the situation in in palestine Uh, al-hak, which is a very well respected human rights organization and has been funded by irish aid for many years very well respected and Issued a joint statement with several other palestinian human rights organizations About the shin fane and social democrat motions pleading with the government to support them Particularly on the the referral to the icc and the reason for that and I urge everybody to read it It's on their website And is they they provided a whole history of how? Difficult it has been to get that investigation opened Palestine referred the case to the icc in 2015. That's eight years ago Um after five years of a preliminary examination the examination, which is quite unique I have to add that it take five years They then referred it for another two years for a jurisdictional Consideration the uk and the us have made very active efforts To circumvent the jurisdiction of the international criminal court with regards to the situation in palestine And al-hak had just has described the situation as fragile and that a referral Whether the investigation given or despite the investigation being open would add further necessary protection and botrassing to that investigation And so I think you know, it's really really important. You know lisa said let's not politicize it It is politicizing. Okay. Can I put it to you though? Uh, the the strong argument that lisa made that If if we were to expel the israeli ambassador, they would return the favor And this could frustrate hinder or even stop efforts to um to return Irish citizens or to have them get an opportunity for them to leave gas and also put our forces Uh in danger in south lebanon Just do you want to address that directly? The thing I do to be quite honest craig and I put this least this question back to lisa then I haven't really understood that argument and you know, I kind of feel that we're unwilling to You know uphold international law out of fear rather than principle. Is it the case that Israel are holding our irish citizens hostage? Then is that what we're saying and is that why you were not willing to impose sanctions? for You know clear war crimes. Okay, that's a very interesting counterpoint Lisa do you want to come back to that and then I'll bring patty back in just before we take a break Yeah, Israel holds is is is israel holding us hostage No, but I mean it's well known that israel Have a significant influence in terms of the wrath of crossing egypt will tell us that the egyptian ambassador Has told us that here in ireland So we absolutely so they're not holding our people hostage But they are a major actor and they are part of the discussion to get people through the wrath of crossing And it's the only place It's the only place it's sorry Why can't we get them through the wrath of crossing? Well, we well lots of countries mary with respect are having these negotiations. This is not just ireland We're not the only country with citizens there or Sorry, I can't hear you mirrors. Why do we have to negotiate? Are they being held hostage, you know in effect? No, but mary sorry the reality of the situation is that egypt will tell you even though it's egypt's border Egypt will tell you that they kind of liaise with israel in terms of the wrath of crossing The wrath of crossing has been bombed on four occasions So to suggest that we don't need to engage with israel is just not the reality of the situation I'm not saying it's right. I'm just telling you that that's what's happening there So we have to have an ambassador in israel to be able to have those conversations And in terms of unwilling to uphold international law any suggestion that ireland is not upholding international law is not correct Of course we are we have also said from the very outset straight after october 7th That we expect israel to act within international law and we have condemned them for not doing that And also in terms of the icc the reason I make the point and I take what you're saying mary in terms of the politicization of it But that's you know, you're talking about the u.s. And the uk politicizing that process We don't want to politicize that process and we have to act in the interests of our own state It's just a fact that that investigation is I appreciate it took a long time to open But it was opened in march 2021 and it's active now and will investigate these matters But the suggestion from the motion was that israel hadn't been referred to the icc or sorry The conflict hadn't been referred and there was an element of I think attempting to blur the situation And somehow suggest that we didn't want israel's actions to be investigated by the icc And I just wanted to put on the record that it is being investigated and we wanted to investigate All right paddy rooney last word before the break, please See the the sad thing about all of this greg I suppose is that the this war did not start on the 7th of october This year it's been going on for a very very long time and The solution at the time is supposed after the second world war because there was so many displaced jews particularly in in europe that the state of israel was set up and that The seeds of destruction I suppose and rancor was sown at the time because there were so many people Something I think around the tune of 350,000 people were displaced against their will to allow that state to go on and Mary teres makes the point very well indeed that well I said about we share a lot of values Well, let's say then that there are nearer To the israeli state than there are a lot of the states around them But this isn't going to be the end of it. There's going to be a lot of more people Uh killed here because israel seems to have very strong friends throughout the world um america seems to be one of them the european union seems to be the other and those allies seem to be deaf and blind what's taking place in the um In in palestine at the moment And this this is going to run to some form of a conclusion But it's not going to be the end of it because what israel is doing is that they're radicalizing um the people in palestine and I suspect all of the muslim countries around them Uh near and afar as well And I think there's probably much more trouble coming down the track here next year Just 10 years 50 years and potentially I would say not just uh not just in in in the middle east either. Um No, absolutely not and the problem you see is that there's a lot of uh, you know Muslims and people of the islamic faith in the middle east that have been displaced mostly to europe or whatever and they may be bringing a lot of um Anger and angst with women if they want to strike back at israel it may well not be on israeli soil that they're going to do it So, you know the quicker that people try and calm this and get this under control Uh, I think the better for the not alone the people in gaza, but also the people Throughout the wet world aspect. All right. Thanks so much for that. 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Because they obviously want us invested Us invested and focused first ukraine now gaza. I'm not in favour of any war It's always the innocent who suffer as we see every day But I have to ask why the world media showing this war not yemen syria, etc You have to ask what's happening in the background when they have the world so focused on this I do fear we are on the brink of world war three. It's quite worrying troublesome Notwithstanding everything we've been talking about isn't it? Lisa just the state of the the world at the moment, you know, we do i'm not saying we're on the brink Of of a of a world war you would hope we're not and some would argue that it is to some extent happening In different parts of the world by proxy, but it would be nice to see a bit of stability in the world, wouldn't it? It would I think people are really anxious and concerned about what's happening. I mean between climate change and conflict And there's a lot of there's a lot of bad things happening in the world I did take some solace yesterday though when I saw the un resolution that And this is only a small little glimmer of hope and most people will say it doesn't go far enough But there was a un resolution that was passed yesterday Calling for a humanitarian pause and we've heard lots of conversations The wording pauses and and and ceasefire But interestingly the us the uk and russia abstained and that might seem like a small thing But that was them sending a message and we just have to hope that You know, it is going to come down to the us and the uk and bigger actors and the eu as a whole To try and bring stability to the middle east and to try and get a ceasefire and get this conflict under control in some way and We can just see slight movements that will give you some hope that we might get there soon A tiktok video which documented the discovery of a large number of patient files thousands and thousands in an abandoned or In st. Connell's hospital, which is an abandoned hospital prompted a security view by the hse The video posted on social media platform tiktok shows many boxes of historical confidential patient files in a building At that old hospital which is in letter candy the creator of the video jamie Is seen going through the files which contain medical notes confidential information x-rays and information on uh treaties Treatment to beg your pardon. There are a number of follow-up questions, which we had for the hse Like why were the files ever stored there? Who made that decision? What's the hospital's policy on file storage? What's the time frame and file storage? Is this is there any? Archive of them if if they ever had to be referred to what security if any was in place The jamie says he walked through an open door. Whether he did or not he's going to have to take that up within goddess yukana um But those questions now go unanswered because the hse responses We're not going to talk about this anymore because the matter has been referred to the garrity I'll start with you paddy if that's all right. Is that a satisfactory response from The hse do patients or particularly maybe if it's our parents or grandparents Are we not entitled to know what was going on there and what's going to be done with these files going into the future? Just break when i thought it was safe to come back on the radio That we were going to be talking about something else other than a health issue or an luh issue But anyway, here we go. But you would you know it's a coincidence of timing paddy. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's fair enough. Um I yeah, that's it's One I know that I was listening to your interview was councillor karen rogan on tuesday was it um about this and One of the the things that's going around was that some of the charts that had been uh damaged in the flood in july 2013 that this was then well I can categorically say that anyway that there was something like about 20 000 Medical files that were damaged in that flood but because it was contaminated water There was a licensed Approved company came in externally took all those charts away And dried them and digitized them and then they were destroyed Right and the hospital In in conjunction with the national policy on the retention and destruction of of medical files or whatever Those charts were all destroyed. So they are not they they are not Charts associated with flood. I can say that the second thing is that if I don't I'm not on tiktok So I haven't seen that video. The only thing I've seen is the three stills photographs of it I'm actually gobsmacked if that's the word that that guy that was on your program was able to walk in there because That building not alone is the is the the windows all around that building brick are boarded up But they're actually blocked up you need a jackhammer to get into it and from what I remember of that building There's a big heavy door and the boat it's easier to get into a prison than it is to And there's a cage around that door as well I'm gobsmacked that because there's only a very small number of people who Have access to that building and the fact that they would walk away This guy that was on your program said that he walked into it Well, the only way you could have walked into it is that staff that were there walked away without locking it up Okay, but let's just so let's just put put to that the one side because that is I believe the ps and I've spoken to him And that's that is he's going to have to face the consequences there. He's not protected by any whistleblower Or or but that being said what did happen for right or wrong and it wasn't lost the published it It's it's gone viral Boxes of boxes room after room of these files What is the policy in terms of of the retention of this data? Well, there is a national policy. It's not the hospital It's not a policy just relevant in a lukh there is a policy in relation to the retention and the destruction of Of medical records medical records are not I don't have to be kept forever. There is a policy in place Around, you know, so many years after I think it's about seven years after somebody Is deceased the organization as a holder of that record, but in relation to cervical the cervical check scandal and other things There's 30 30 years that some of them I was just about to go on to that. There is Exceptions to that rule with Sifference pregnant women who received anti-d Medication during pregnancy people have organ transplant people who have HIV and all of that. There's a whole load of exceptions to I don't know There was no records stored in that building in my time. I don't know how they got there And because there is a medical records depot right bang in the middle of the hospital And there's something like a half a million files active files stored there And very few people within the hospital have direct access to that It's only approved to people and the doors aren't even locked. It's an electronic access to it Um, I don't know what these files are or The wee bit that I've seen anyway is that the x-ray films now the hospital hasn't been used in x-ray films At least the last 20 years because it was one of the first hospitals in the country to have but I did just just In terms of because the hsc described these as historic I did see one of the documents which you didn't which has the name of a consultant on it who actually moved to this country relatively recently Uh, not when I say relatively recently not in the 1930s or the 40s And he's now he's now currently operating in slaggle university hospitals. I'll suggest these as 1920s 30s 40s I'm not saying they're not there but there are there are contemporary files in there I'm I'll just like to tell you the truth that the It's it is an except what you say here that the files or is that uh, Erasent that there would be in that particular building I don't know why they're there or because they're seeing the photograph and they don't seem to be stored in a very orderly manner Or respectful So do you believe the hsc should should not be hide behind? Let me put it like that this being a matter for the guardie and answer the concerns of the public out there As to what's the future of these files whose files are in there? Why are they in there? Uh, as any as any what what's the situation with gdpr? Yeah, I'm I'm uh, I'm just a Private member of the general public No, and I I know I I don't think that's good enough. I mean I can't understand why Questions can't be answers if there's something, uh, that's been hidden here. Um, I mean Best place to always start Greg is at the truth, right? Yeah, and to see what is stored here and what happened Um, because it's it just beggars belief now that Current charts that you say if well, I've never said they were current and I've said they were current but I There's evidence to show them If you come across the name of a consultant that's now working in slagwood that's current as far as I'm concerned and I'm afraid You know, I would like to be a bit more of an expert I have to say I would like a bit more of an explanation around there's not enough to say that the guards are involved Because leaving the role of the it's right by the way that the guard that you're involved because somebody broke into that building and You know had didn't have uh, authorized access to that particular building and that's just a separate matter I think that the hospital itself should be able to explain about what is there and why it is there And how come that the place hadn't been secured? Mary Teresa Yeah, no, I'd agree with patty there. Um, I think um, as you say, you know, maybe it's unintentional But it does seem and that they're trying to use the police investigation to hide behind it. Um, and You know, my understanding is that the scope of the police investigation is specifically looking at the event of entry into You know the the building and that and into the room. Um So I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't I suppose understand the logic then for for not answering, you know questions publicly I mean, I'm I'm from johnny gall, you know Patty is too it could be, you know, our records and our family members records And or that that would that you know could be affected there And I can't think of any more sensitive or personal data than your medical records And I think You know that the hospital definitely if it wants to sort of address The confidence of the public Um, you know, even even just from that sort of standpoint, um, they should definitely, you know be open to um answering questions and and and and communicating quite quickly. I think Um eggs something about the incident and what and what and what's happening in terms of an investigation or that Yeah, the most significant piece of information that has come to Our attention since this happened is the information from from paddy rooney from his experience in the hospital That the flood damaged files were digitalized and then destroyed because the presumption Was that they must be those because they're in such a poor condition water damaged They look to have been dumped in there. So that's very interesting and and briefly Lisa chambers I know you're somewhat removed from this and it's kind of done a go specific to stomach stand But would you have any concerns that the hsc are refusing to answer the legitimate questions the public might have You know, even Rather than saying well, we can't talk about this now because there's a break in being investigated Yeah, there's probably a better balance that could be struck and I'm only going at the information I have I respect that highland radios websites. I'm only going on what's reported, but I I understand an element of if there's a live investigation and somebody is being investigated for a Potentially a criminal action that there's a limit to what can be shared in terms of information However, I'm certain that they can probably share a bit more than what they're sharing and the hospital have a job of work to do now not just to You know make sure that the the actions of that individual are investigated properly But they're going to have to restore trust with the public in dunning all now And patients and families that go to that hospital and that needs to be I would say their priority actually And to do that They should be a bit more forthcoming with any information that they can give that wouldn't jeopardize the investigation And that's probably all I can say that might be of use. Yep. 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He told uh the joint committee on assisted dying last month I believe it was that legalizing assisted suicide risks a shift away from the funding development and delivery of new and existing palliative care services and potentially reducing research now yesterday We hear heard from clancy and people like him who was on the program. He's got ms. He's currently happy But intends to end his life when he loses his independence He's got the backing of his four daughters in relation to that So he says he's going to travel to do it should irish citizens have to travel abroad To fulfill their wishes in this regard Mary T Yeah, it's a it's a really really difficult topic and because you know at the At the center of it are people who are suffering from terminal illness and you know a lot of You know very painful conditions and that and Thank I mean, I suppose I haven't given a lot of thought to it personally because I've in the privileged position Thankfully touch wood that I don't have a direct family member in that situation However, I suppose the only thing I would say is in principle, I I don't have anything against the idea of having medical assistance in dying at the end of life And and as I understand it it would be highly regulated and limited to very specific circumstances And one thing I would say is that I'd be quite concerned if the debate kind of Moves away from a very medical and scientific kind of approach and to you know As we've seen with you know, um, you know reproductive rights of women in this country that that can very easily happen and Yeah, I I I suppose. Yeah, I I do think that The option needs to be made available in this country And for for for people, you know who Who who want, you know, it's an interesting one because I sat listening to him And I didn't really have anything to say in order to feel I had a right to say anything because it's it's his life and and his experience Paddy Rooney of you of you on this Well, I'm not a big fan Greg of an authoritarian state Telling people what to do But I do accept the role that the state have a role in trying to regulate society and so on and so forth Now I used to work as a nurse in two disciplines in two jurisdictions And the whole principle about assisted dying would be completely anthem to nursing because The conversation then sort of creeps into things like euthanasia and eugenics and all that very negative horrible stuff however If you could you imagine Exercises that you're taken for granted there is your sit on your seat. The fact that you're able to breathe unassisted greg That you're able to cough that you could imagine sputum in your in your trachea and you couldn't cough it Or you can slide in your mouth and you can't swallow That you have a simple pain like an itch in your arm and you can't scratch it And that you're in pain, right now those there are Many people living in this unfortunate nightmare and that they're um, you know, it's all going to have a very negative outcome I think that I in principle would be in favor of but would very very strict Criteria and I suppose the big thing is that it would be the patient's choice Only not a doctor not the state not the family or whatever and not anybody who wasn't in a position How do we prevent how do we prevent people? Going oh, I don't want to be burdened on my family or society. You already hear that already and and and then this being Have you considered this? Do you know what I mean? No, we had we make sure that doesn't happen. You see what what The the strict criteria for instance would be something around the fact that you would have to have some kind of a triple lock system in place One for instance would be an examination by a consultant physician to verify that a person it meets the criteria or whatever that is Secondly that there would be a review done I would say let's say in principle by something like somebody like a consultant psychiatrist to be able to say that a person is In a position to make a rational decision here And secondly and thoroughly then that there would be something like a solicitor would have a look at it Something similar will say for instance that we have in the state at the moment where People who are detained against their will in approved mental health units And then that they have a right to have a tribunal and a solicitor advocates Something like that. I mean I would set the bar very very high for it I mean it's it's a bit here we go again about we have a long history in this country about Women going outside the jurisdiction of the state to have termination of pregnancies and we didn't have that whether it's Not getting into the argument of whether it's right or wrong So it's okay then it's okay, but people then have to go to Switzerland Or they have to go to Holland to avail of this service Uh, I mean I'm open to it in principle Okay, then what would huge the bar sets very very high in relation to access of it and and at least a chamber So just a minute to you on this one if that's okay Yeah, and I think I would have grave concerns around um elder abuse and they were to use their great burden because doing constituency work I can see the challenges and just older people tend to want to look after those coming after them But just to say in the context of this France is also deep in a debate on this. They're having their version of the citizens assembly Portugal have had the president veto it twice where the parliament are kind of saying they wanted to criminalize it And we have five countries currently in europe belgium the netherlands luxembourg germany and spain that do allow it An austria finland and norway that are kind of passive to it and allow you to refuse hydration and artificial feeding So it's a it's an ongoing debate across the way, but I As somebody this will be considered fairly liberal I think in terms of the current politics in Ireland I would be I just don't know how you put the safeguards in place that we would need to see in place I just don't know if you can do that Notwithstanding the really difficult cases that we'd like to be able to look after as well Okay, lisa chambers. Thanks so much for your time this morning. I really do appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend Thanks, greg. Bye. Bye. Take care of yourself patty rooney. As always a pleasure to have you on the show Hopefully next time maybe there won't be a big medical story in the week that you're scheduled to be on Take care of yourself patty. We do appreciate your insight actually and last but certainly not in the east Mary Teresa McBride. Thank you so much for joining us. Have a lovely weekend We really enjoyed your input today. Thank you so much. 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I'm a killer clerk with the news at 10 o'clock A guard investigation is continuing into allegations of corruption within donnie gall county council Cancer frank mcbrashley made allegations of corruption by the council in relation to the purchase of properties in bonkrana Sheila nocton has more five houses some of which were found to be affected by defective concrete blocks Were purchased by donnie gall county council in krana estate bonkrana in march 2021 Allegations of corruption relating to the purchase of these properties were later made by councillor frank mcbrashley In a statement the council says having fully investigated the matter it found no evidence to support the allegations An extensive inquiry and report carried out by the independent auditors bdo last year found there to be no evidence of corruption In donnie gall county council's purchase of the homes In a statement the local authority confirmed that gar thee are now investigating the corruption complaints and they are cooperating fully with gar thee The council expects to be vindicated in due course as spokesperson says no further statement will be made on the matter So as not to interfere with the garda investigation The health minister is to visit letter kenny university hospital next week Minister steve and donnie is expected to meet with the gp representatives hospital staff representatives and hospital management on friday It's on the back of concerns raised by donnie gall gps and hospital consultants over patient safety in the hospital's emergency department A previous meeting with minister donnie was deferred by the doctors who had written to him as they requested an On-site visit by the minister to see firsthand the issues at the hospital Dr. Porg McGinnis while having not yet been officially invited welcomes the visit And a better place to work Meanwhile, beliefs that patient files found in st connell's hospital letter kenny were ones that had been transferred to the abandoned building In the aftermath of the flooding of letter kenny university hospital in 2013 have been refuted A video was circulated on social media this week by a man who had gained access to st connell's hospital And revealed thousands of patient files have been dumped in the building the pro of the friends of letter kenny university hospital Paddy runny on this morning's line to nin show says that all patient files damaged in the hospital flood were destroyed I can categorically say that anyway that there was something like about 20,000 Medical files that were damaged in that flood but because it was contaminated water There was a licensed approved company came in externally took all those charts away And dried them and digitized them and then they were destroyed and the hospital in conjunction was the national policy on the retention and destruction of Of medical files or whatever those charts were all destroyed. So they are not they they are not charts associated with flood I can say that denigal kindy councils housing spc has been told that the authority is open to the use of modular homes Particularly ones with a long-term guarantee members were also told the council has met with two providers Who are interested in providing modular homes one of whom is considering establishing a manufacturing business in in a show Officials said they are interested in pursuing any option to secure the speedy delivery of housing And any contracts will be as flexible as possible Cancer johnny mcginnis is chair of the strategic policy committee He says the discussions are very positive, but there's a long way to go We welcome anything that will improve efficiencies and help the the turnaround times Obviously if we can get we can get a manufacturing plant to locate within the county to turn out some sort of modular homes It would be a win-win for everybody involved with create employment for the county And that would obviously speed up the delivery of the remediation process for anyone that's fixing the home Or or even actually to meet the housing demand that's that's evident here in the county at present Joseph Pushkin's sentencing hearing is due to get underway this morning The 33 year old slovakian native will be handed a mandatory life sentence After he was convicted of the murder of ashling murphy in tolamore on january the 12th 2022 Mr. Pushkin of lanale grove mokla kindy awfully denied the school teacher's murder But was unanimously convicted by a jury last week This morning sentencing hearing will give the murphy family a chance to provide a victim impact statement if they wish But they're not obliged to do so Whether nori dry today apart from isolated showers some bright or sunny spells this morning with highest temperatures of Seven or eight degrees. That's all from highland radio news for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning The obituary notices for this friday morning november the 17th The death took place in melbourne australia of james mclenahan formerly bali mcarthur green castle You're welcome to pay your respects to the family home today from five o'clock until nine o'clock And tomorrow from 11 o'clock to 10 o'clock at the home of james and lisa and bali mcarthur Funeral mass will take place on sunday afternoon at two o'clock in st. 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your voice heard some of your comments off the back of our friday panel again thanks to lisa mary t and patty as patty why the removal of files was outsourced in the first place should they not have been stored by hsc staff typical hsc someone outside the organization making a few pans well i presume because there was toxic the water was seen as toxic that would be something that you would you would you know they have to be digitized and then disposed of responsibly so i can understand why that would be outsourced gregg i think everyone will agree that the things that israel is doing as bad or maybe even worse than what russia is doing russia was more or less ostracized from the world when they attacked ukraine they were banned from all sport and competition whereas israel is still going on as normal and on wednesday evening they were playing switzerland in a euro 24 qualifier the worst case scenario for uefa would be if israel actually qualified for the tournament next summer it does seem to be that there are double standards here when a country that could actually be committing war crimes is allowed to continue as normal just because the big and the powerful are on their side and it is as simple as that it would be very hard to to argue otherwise to that point of view russia invades ukraine sanctions within a week israel invades gaza with 100 times the violent force and the EU supports it along with the us hypocrisy it's alive and well and ireland should call for a ban on israel competing in sporting competitions and the european song contest senator chambers referred to forad car has been the head of the state perhaps someone could point out to her that the president is the head of the state another caller says the hsc don't seem to want to accept responsibility for files being left in the wrong place it's down to management not the staff of nurses or doctors when a person passes away why are medical files not given back to next if kin why keep hundreds of thousands of files where they shouldn't be greg why have on your show right wing people that seem to think like our government that our economy is more important than 4,000 children plus the same amount with the loss of limbs well it's a conversation and it's important i believe that we do have a conversation and you know right wing left wing does it really matter it's all about an exchange of views and finding some common ground climate change and war pandemics digital passport cashless society all seems like the world population is living through some big changes and just keep living in fear i'm not afraid is anyone are you afraid i'm like i'm not afraid of a conversation about the use of cash or not or the climate i'd be fearful for for my grandchildren if i'm lucky to have them a question for the fiena false senators the attendance of the israeli ambassador at the fina full ardex was strange amidst all the killings in palestine best described as genocide thanks lisa chambers responded to that in saying um i don't think it was an rg s our dash but it was a conference that uh all uh ambassadors were invited including the palestinian ambassador who was there she says how come politicians in the press watered down the murder of innocent people in gaza by calling it collective punishment shame on politicians they should know better with the history of oppression we have in ireland over the years why did the british stick uh with the jews in the middle of a why did they stick the jews in the middle of muslims after the war common censured surely have told them it would never work i'm very pleased to hear paddy and mary speaking out about what's happening with israel i'm really annoyed at president biden rishisunak and ursula vandalin for supporting this terror there is a world war they're a disgrace it's an atrocity innocent children are dying another caller says expel the israeli ambassador now sanctions are not being imposed um and although the egyptians are reluctant not to open the arafat border crossing as they do not want an influx of refugees nor hamas fighters into egypt as they have enough problems uh on the sanai peninsula with isis al qaeda that's uh is the main uh root palestinians that's the main reason why palestinians can't leave gas are they saying hi greg uh one of your speakers uh i did actually read that one yes okay the irish army have had a number of personal personnel killed in uh the lebanon by the cresty melissa backed by israel two were actually taken and murdered says a listener could we get more opinions from some palestinians who were living about how they feel about hamas we don't know enough about it are hamas the government are they abandonment we need to be careful maybe our land is getting involved in too many conflicts and it was kind of interesting because we had and the the gentleman name the gentleman's name escapes me but my understanding was and this was published data that hamas has about 60 percent uh passive or uh strong this was pre-war strong support amongst palestinians uh but i was corrected he says no they're they're reluctant they have a hundred percent support of palestinians uh that was in the early days after that atrocity so i i don't know um there are uh palestinian people that listen to this program uh what what are your views in relation to that uh could you put some questions to minister donnelly about the hospital and why we have to go to gallway or dublin it's not fair for the people of donnie galt have to travel distances well we are of course i mean i presume you would know he is due to visit later this month we are going to seek an interview with him and we shall be teasing all that out with him if he's good enough to accept that interview and he did tell us that he would make himself available during an outside broadcast i was in macklehenny's in balaba fe we had him on the phone um we didn't have an awful long time with him because it was a friday in the nature 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and the safety concerns can you give us a brief overview please i suppose yes the context of our school is that we're a small rural school and we're between uh liverton castle fin on the main n15 road and currently we're having issues the safety the speed and traffic and of course the sense that access a barrier between the main road and our school recently we were involved in a safety at the gate school day whereby um the kashka green school uh to guard the shea conna visited the school and the children and made posters and did a demonstration on the day and i suppose what we were doing on that day was highlighting the speeding of traffic uh on the road uh that fence uh it provides a barrier between the road and the drop off point it doesn't provide any security that would barely keep a cow in uh it is not there to prevent any injury clearly absolutely um i suppose we've had an ongoing issues going back suppose date in 2010 with the actual fence uh previously we had just what i was calling an ordinary domestic fence that was active as a barrier and then about six years the road works just outside the school the castle um i was at another fence uh that just enter your line is absolutely terrible there um can i come back to maybe you could well maybe you could just step towards a window or take up a different position because it's such an important issue i want to be able to make sure i can hear you uh so you talked about okay yeah that's perfect i think you talked about the uh fence being in inverted commas upgraded it was about six years ago the council and because there've been several accidents and there were roadworks that were being carried out outside the school they decided to upgrade the fence and so at present that fence then was made up materials that were in my view not acceptable it's made from wire but the bigger problem is that when you're exiting the drop-off area from the school the vision lines are obstructed because of the height of the view so when you're traveling by car exiting the drop-off or you're a pedestrian you actually have to step out onto the carriageway um so that you can you know to see if there's any traffic coming and so that is a huge problem at the moment now it is a very seemed like seems like well-serviced straight stretch of road so i imagine there's quite a lot of speed on it your school was one of the schools identified if my memory serves me correctly for variable speed limits were they ever installed not that that's what we're talking about just for just to find out if they ever went in to sit you well but at the moment uh there are flashing lights um on the approach both from left foot and from castle then which indicates traffic that's the speed limit there is 60 kilometers per hour but our experience is that very rarely there had year two and there has been a review by the Donegal county council recently whereby they are looking to uh decrease the speed limit along that road to a recommended 80 or 60 and i've been told that's not going to come in until early 2024. Right Aidan McIntyre is chair of the board of management at ballet last national school in Castle Finn i mean obviously Aidan this is born of genuine concern for students and parents and guardians and and and those in buses dropping students off and on or else you wouldn't be going to the length that you are to try and bring attention to this Aidan good morning to you. Good morning Greg yeah absolutely yeah we've been involved with this now since around about 2010 uh lobbying politicians you know council NRA and our whole goal in this is to improve the safety you know we're not we're not looking for a new car park to be built or anything like that it's just it's a safety issue you know with when you arrive on there on a sunday morning and you see the devastation that has been caused to the offense by cars traveling at speed over the weekend and luckily over the weekend when there was no students uh around you see the need that something needs to be done because if this happened during school hours though somebody would very very least severely injured if not killed uh and this road has been developed beside the school is such isn't it it's not like we built this school on the side of a a road that has the level of traffic now that has the sort of you know the speed limit on it now do you know what i mean often schools and i can think of a handful of them off the top of my head as roads were being designed they should have says you know there's a school here we need to make special provision to keep the students the staff and the parents safe but we don't tend to do that for some strange reason absolutely yeah the school was there long before the road uh was was widened to its current extent and that's going to be even wider now with with the greenway project but yes you know somebody needs to step up and say yes there is a school there we need to do something to protect you know the students the staff and everyone you know the greenway project now that is a fantastic project that has been built between lifford and casselfin is is using the area that we call the the exit from an off spot that's where the the crossing is going to be there and it's going to be exactly the same for the people using the greenway to cross that road you physically have to step out into the road to see if there's any traffic coming from lifford and they come at such a speed there that once you step out it's almost too late yeah you know the car is on top of you i mean obviously then this is going to be well the council can't do because it's ti i and the ti i says well we've got certain criteria before we implement this that and on and we have to do surveys and that has to be we don't want to get caught up in all of that stuff and in the meantime have a severe accident we wouldn't be an accident obviously because road conditions can contribute to it so a severe collision with the potential loss of life yes i said we've been dealing with this for 14 years we've been trying to get something sorted with this the greenway project has basically brought it to a head now because it's going to make things much much worse uh Jacinta i mean have you had any contact from and we're not going to politicize this i'm not trying to do that because you'll take any help you can get but is this being raised a political level on your behalf Jacinta let me put it to you like that yes it has and we've been very lucky we've had the support of numerous local councillors throughout the years and indeed we've had uh support yeah but you just sent your your lines are failing on us there again but i'll put the same question to you aiden i mean you know is there a political will to see this resolved is it are we knocking our heads against the ti i at this point then well no to be to be fair to all the local politicians and government representatives that we've been in contact with they've all been very very good and they've tried their best to to help but as you say we're between you know the dunningall county council saying well it's a national road so it's really the nra and then the nra come back and say well it's a national road you can't do this on a national road you can't do that on a national road and we're between a rock and a hard place basically at the end of the day despite everyone's great intentions nothing is being done what's the solution with defence is it one that would protect those in the school from from a car hitting it is it does it need to be lower uh you're not i mean we're not engineers don't get me wrong aiden but i'm sure there's been plenty of conversation of what you believe might be the best thing to do and of course at then in conjunction with looking at speed limits but what what do you think the solution is the improving the vision lines is to lower the fence that's already there and remove the netting wire that's attached to the fence it's a thing that when you're looking along the fence towards leford that is blocking your vision lines if the netting wire was removed it won't affect the integrity of the fence one little bit or you know get some proof it's security because it's not secure but it will it will help lowering the fence it was a bizarre addition that um like feet sheep fencing wire wasn't it it's a peculiar addition well it's sorry it's not it's not really fencing wire it's it's plasticky uh it would be more like the kind of stuff that you would put on a on a garden fence to stop things growing through it all right is it see through or there's a color on it it's perforated but it's it is see through when you're standing looking directly at it but when you're looking along a hundred yards of it and stood you know if you're it's not see through right okay so uh i that's not i don't know who might be responsible but i don't think the end uh the ti i hope are they responsible for the fence i i'm not sure who's responsible for the fence i think it was donnie gol county council that put it in when they did the road improvements yeah but i couldn't say for sure that jisinter might know that better than i do jisinter do you know who's actually responsible for the the fence design i'm again that fence was uh erected and put in by the donnie gol county right okay well we can make inquiries in that regard yeah no problem we'll make inquiries in that regard so that's the first instance i don't think it's a big ask uh to protect children uh and i don't think it's going to be hugely expensive either and in terms of then the wider safety measures jisinter uh there is a review of uh there is a review speed limits uh ongoing at the moment and and we'll be ongoing if we sort of start talking about they're gonna say well that'll be included as part of that review uh do you think there's any other measures that need to be introduced to improve safety um i suppose no maybe um some extra signage on new coaches from either castle fin or left back i suppose anything that just highlights to the users of that road that there is a school there that it is being used by parents by teachers by ancillary staff by the whole community and i suppose the awareness that the school is actually there and that there's a great need to adjust speed the way that i see that is that you erect both signage or that there is um i suppose you know the flashing lights are maybe extra to what they are at present because even though they are there they're not being heated and that's the bottom line gregg yep and even maybe and what i don't understand is the odd morning a patrol car with uh speed you don't need a you don't just a guard of presence so you know that maybe possibly you might get done and i don't understand why we don't send send the occasional squad car out to these schools where we have these temporary speed limits i was driving up logibrate yesterday i reduced to 60 and two drivers passed me flashing the lights and bibbing their horns i felt bad for stopping at heating the speed limit i'm no angel don't get me wrong but i would try and be as respectful as i can pass schools all right just sent to aid and i don't think what is a calling for can be beyond the powers that be you know sometimes we discuss issues like this and and you can see that where the problems may lie but it's very common sense it's very practical and and hopefully the right ears are listening and we're going to make our inquiries and we're just trying to keep children staff and parents safe thanks so much for sharing the story with us aden did you want to say something else no no i'm just saying correctly that's all we want yeah okay brilliant stuff all right aiden mack entire chair of board of management of balilas national school and castle finn just sent to walsh uh big hello to all the students of course and teachers thanks so much for joining us absolutely a big hello to everybody in balilas this morning all right take care of yourselves thank you very much indeed back with more shortly watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter kenny cu.ie country sunday's at the clanry hotel letter kenny sunday 19th of november claudia buckley and her band sunday 3rd of december there's robert 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place but that is now in place which is terrific it it um it's modern enforcement and it should go a long way towards improving the big problem we have with uninsured driving uninsured driving way too high in ireland and this is one of the reasons now it won't solve the problem completely and but but it will definitely help so it's a good news story it's been a bad year for road safety we know that yeah but also we know this advance is good i beg your pardon also we know really that there was general knowledge that you could get away with it because the had to have been or else we wouldn't have the level of uninsured drivers that we do yeah that's definitely true and um you know when you consider it up to now the only way a guard ahead of checking that a car was actually insured if the if the disc looked fine in a guard as torch light there wasn't much else he could do unless you had another reason to check the details of the driver and which means if you do drive uninsured you know you nearly need to be unlucky or have a crash for you to be caught and in a landscape like that unsurprisingly we had as many as eight percent of irish drivers at any one time not properly insured for the vehicle they were driving and it's an invisible crime in a sense because we all pick up the tab for us and the motor insurance bureau of ireland is the fund that comes out of all of our insurance policies and and it goes to pay for uninsured drivers so it adds about 40 or 50 euro per annum to it to every motor insurance policy in the country crazy that it's been allowed to be so bad for so long and just to give people an idea of the scale 188 000 vehicles and i suppose really what the general population want to see now is that you know if that number is reduced and other measures that have been introduced in relation to uh you know false claims or or payments what have you people need to see in the pocket as well now and and then they'll go right okay that's a good move that worked well do you know what i mean i think that has to come along sometimes with these measures for the public really to to get behind it yeah only when you have to prove that what you're trying to achieve is working and and you know one of the we've talked many times over the years greg about high insurance prices it has been a scourge and you know a lot of good work has been done there and it's not finished and but motor insurance prices are in a better place than they were and now you know it won't help if our accident record gets worse if that feeds into it too so it's kind of all part of that mix and but it would be unfair to say that we haven't made any progress because we have and but you know at the same time on road debts that headline figure that all important headline figure 2023 is a disastrous year and you know the not enough guardie out and about and various other factors contributing to road debts going up and lots and lots and lots to do on that front and but but at least we can celebrate the good when it happens and as i say the arrival of the proper insurance database and it should be welcomed and and is a decent step forward to tidying up that part of the of the problem if you wish yep and the information will be updated every evening as well so if you are driving an ensure uninsured or if you're driving someone else's car that is insured but you're not insured they have access to name drivers and everything i mean it really is a it's really going to make it very difficult now for people in the numbers that they are now to drive uninsured and not get caught that being said i know as we speak Connor someone's texting in saying i haven't seen the guard a checkpoint in five or six years but anyway that's it's part of the same problem but you know yourself that's what people are going to say i can't remember the last time i was stopped yeah exactly i mean you could drive your whole career in ireland and not be stopped almost literally and and you know that goes to the heart of the issue whatever else you're trying to achieve in road safety but on insurance i tell you what is definitely good it's a proper real-time database as you were saying the motor insurance bureau of our bureau of ireland that i spoke about they provide the database it comes in from all the insurance companies it's uploaded or it's updated every 24 hours so it's a real-life database and what that means is when the garter is out and about in his car the car does have the clever camera the anpr camera in it so the garter car reads the registration number immediately checks the live database and if that car is uninsured or there's any problem it goes ping and and the garter can stop the car and as i say they've uploaded five million driver records and three million vehicle records so you know the guard will know instantly and not only if that car is insured but who's insured to drive it and the driver license number of who's insured to drive it and so as i say there's a lot of people who are uninsured for casual reasons it's not like they're being villains or anything like that but i'll give you a classic example is it you know the mother's car is insured and she insures it properly and that's absolutely fine and it's constantly used by the 19 year old son and he's not on the policy at all and that sort of behavior and the guard that you will now immediately be able to pick up which is horrific but it won't solve everything i mean they've had this in the uk for the last few years they were faster doing it than us which is you know shame on us we could have got to act together earlier and but they've had this system in the uk for a few years and it works well for them but they still have an uninsured driver rate of about four percent now that's a lot better than ours at eight percent but it's not as if they fix the problem so you know water will find the leaks greg if you know what i mean and there's no perfect system and there still will be all sorts of imperfections from kind of scalduggery at one end to people innocently getting it wrong at the other and but you know it won't make it perfect but at least it'll close what was a pretty big hole in the system and that's got to be good. 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Highland radio weather updates brought you by Grant from condensing oil and HVO biofuel boilers to heat pumps and underfloor heating you can trust Grant to heat your home visit grant.ie dry today apart from isolated showers some brighter sunny spells this morning but it will become increasingly cloudy this afternoon rain will spread northeastwards this evening temperatures of seven or eight degrees now we learned this morning that the health minister is now to visit letter Kenny University Hospital next Friday. While they have not been officially invited as of yet, GPs say they do welcome the visit. Now Dr. Kira Steele is one of the signatories of a letter sent some time ago now actually it was the start of October to various recipients the hospital management Sialta and the Minister for Health. Dr. Kira Steele is one of the Dunneganon GPs as I mentioned and a GP on Bunkrana as well. Good morning to you Dr. Steele thanks for your time. Good morning Greg I hope you can hear me. No loud and clear I want to start with in your words and from your perspective why you came to put your name and help draft this letter in the first place Kira. Well really I was from the patient's perspective and what we were here in sort of on a daily basis of and the intolerable conditions that they were suffering under in that a Kenny waiting area and onwards then in the in the clinical area in and the emergency department not due to the clinical staff but just due to the conditions the overcrowding the long waits and even you know sort of precipitous discharges you know just because of the lack of funding the lack of budgeting the lack of the under staffing in the emergency department so three from the patient's perspective that all of us not just you know not just one particular general practice but all of the general practices were hearing the same story and I suppose health systems are funny Greg from the from the point of view that they can plod along you know with your sleeves rolled up for quite some time and then you reach a point of critical and you know deficit where the system can actually no longer and be maintained on you know the the goodwill of the staff in the service so from the patient's perspective is where we were coming from I think it's unprecedented you know that we'd have such a large group of GPs coming together and speaking out but we really felt like we had no choice and then of course the consultants sort of echoed our concerns because you know we know you know we're very close you know colleagues and you know and you know family members are some of our consultants you know we know what they're going through on a daily basis you know working the extra mile working the extra hours and working you know in conditions where they can't deliver the best care to the patients and we were seeing patient risk and that's what led us to speak out the problems are quite complex though there's been a a a cautious welcome to some of the measures you know looking at what's going on what can be improved the establishment of certain facilities but for many within the hospital that I would speak to consultants for an example it doesn't go far enough the bottom line is is more staff and more funding is needed on top of all of that so really what we need the health minister to say is right okay I wasn't really fully aware of the situation here this is a model 3.5 hospital and we really need to look at this as a special case do you know what I mean rather than sort of recapping that we've increased funding by such and such we need a more nuanced response I think this time don't we yeah yeah well I'll I'll take two of your points there the the impression that the health service isn't aware like we the consultants have um written the letter today and they've reframed the numbers but all these numbers are hsc numbers they're sale to numbers their letter kenny numbers you know the health service is aware of all this but it takes us to speak out and reframe and say this is at a crisis point at the moment and you know and we're very welcome to student donnelly calling to letter kenny and it's been some time coming now since we asked him to come and and we always wanted him to come to letter kenny rather than meet him in any other location because the patients deserve it you know the patients deserve for our boss essentially and the minister of health whom we're reporting to to see the circumstances and the issues in johnny goal we always looked at the emergency department as a proxy for system and dysfunction so you know the system dysfunction is underpinned by being under budgeted and understaffed and you know the consultants have reframed you know they have looked at the data and they've looked at the resources allocated and in the sale to group but also between the model three hospitals nationally we're underfunded you know the only hospital that model three hospital that's busier than us is strada and and we're we are seriously underfunded you know as regards to our lady of lords which did get extra funding in the last couple of years because of the difficulties there but um the number of inpatients in go away for example in 2022 with 35 000 letter kenny 25 000 in sligo 15 000 and the funding is 452 000 for go away 179 000 for letter kenny and 176 000 for sligo and just on that point does it make any sense no it doesn't but we but we and and this is why i'm when i have an opportunity to interview it i'm trying to be a little bit more forensic in it because in my conversation with tony canavan he said well this funding for letter kenny university hospital is more than that for sligo university hospital so i'm satisfied with the level of funding for the hospital i'm paraphrasing paraphrasing it there but then put it to him yes but what about the patient numbers because you have to divide the patient numbers into the overall funding so if you've got the head of a regional uh uh health group say looking at it and saying the top level figures with the same what's going on here now tony canavan did accept much of the issues that were raised that's a concern that's a mindset that needs to change that you don't just look at those top figures i think the funding system is historical you know the funding doesn't follow the patient and if you look at the patient funding letter kenny has a deficit of 1300 per patient as compared to other model three hospitals and you know our ed numbers are between 150 and 200 every day sale to itself issued you know warnings not to present to letter kenny hospital on a number of occasions this year because of the overcrowding in the department you know so sale is aware of the situation i think it's just ingenious to not you know to to to look at it deeper and in fairness tony canavan he did have a meeting with us you know two weeks ago in order to and to to look at the structures and hopefully something will come of that and they did have an undertaking to have amu up and running in december and and to look at urgent opd structures but that needs to be immediate you know we we agree with the consultants that there's um you know like that it needs to be dug down into the detail of what is happening and that is why we called for an external review because you know from the gp perspective we can only tell you that from our patient perspective there's risk there's morbidity there's mortality happening because of budget underfunding because of long waiting times because of you know even overcrowding you know overcrowding in an emergency department you know in the bmj is a risk independent of long waiting times and you know we know that there's an exponential risk if the hospital capacity is over 85 percent bed capacity so we know all these figures sale to knows all these figures minister for health knows all these figures we just need them to do something about it you talked of that letter which i thought is quite interesting that it be sent to the minister and others while this review is ongoing and if you look through the problems and propose solutions in fairness it goes far beyond you know what people might perceive as just an issue with the ed it runs far deeper than that and i'm hoping to speak on on this issue again at start of next week with some of those involved but you know as i say i'll just find it interesting that we've got this level of detail coming from consultants again as this review is ongoing yeah and i have to say it's not the consultant's job to do that there are full time people in the hsc to to have you know governance over these issues you know so you know it really is a cry for help and that has to be heated and because it is affecting health and safety you know i mean the the Hickor report of november 23 said that and the emergency department was that you know a health care risk to the patients in the department and you know we need to understand the internal structures put in place to you know mitigate that now and to mitigate all the other things you know in the external review you know we'll justify the consultant's concerns and you know if you look at the patient the inpatient data and the emergency department presentations with a patient deficit of 1300 per patient that's an investment of 45 million that needs to go into national hospital you know and that's what we're calling for that's what we're asking for you know we think that letter kenny is you know operating above a model three capacity you know we broach this with tony canavan we said it needs to be funded as a model 3.5 or you know model sub for four minus hospital because of the fact that the interlinks are not there there's no other opportunities for people to avail of health care in the county there's no private hospitals you know we know that go away hospital is 203 kilometers away it's not okay for patients to do a 10 hour round trip for a 10 minute appointment you know all of these things are unacceptable and need to change and it's all of these things adding up year by year and that are you know leading to patient you know patients not being able to accept it anymore they can't cope with it and there is a certain amount of activity in the community which i'd like to bring up but there's only a certain limited amount of capacity that can be absorbed by the community you know there are certain things that need to be dealt with in the hospital and the consultant proposals for having an elective unit that's a very good proposal for a surgical assessment unit you know alongside medical assessment unit we want that you know they we are working and with peds to have a separate peds ed and a separate peds triage pathway so even though we have a separate peds ed we don't have a triage pathway separate to the adult triage pathway in ed so all of those things need to be changed yeah for sure and 11 consultants i think signed the original letter i think it's close on closer to 30 medical professionals from within the hospital are now signatories of a really significant document which as i say we'll hopefully talk about a little bit more uh next week um Dr Kira Steele thank you so much for did you want to say one more thing sorry yeah no so like you know just we we do have solutions but you know it the it has to be underpinned by budget and staffing like that can't be ignored it can't be you know sort of and said we'll do this little project here and this little project here and that's going to you know put a plaster on this on the situation really that budget to provide concrete solutions yeah and we're at a point now whereas there's a direction of traffic a momentum that can't be lost and i don't think anyone's going to buy the sticky plaster approach at this point and certainly the consultants and gps aren't dr kira steele thank you thank you so much for joining us i really appreciate it take care of yourself that's another one of the gps who signed that letter would have more coverage of the minister's visit that letter from consultants all of their uh the the issues that they've highlighted the proposed solutions the concerns 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department dr pork mcginnis one of the 79 gps that had written to minister donnelly says he looks forward to discussing plans to improve services at the hospital meanwhile claims patient files found in st connell's hospital letter kenny were once an abandoned building in the aftermath of the flooding of letter kenny university hospital have been refuted a video was circulated on social media this week by a man who had gained access to st connell's hospital and revealed thousands of patient files and scans had been dumped in the building almost four million euro an additional funding is being provided for domestic sexual and gender based violence services minister for justice helen mcginnis announced 3.8 million euro for 2024 the money will be made available through a targeted call to established dsg bv organizations dunigol county council's housing spc has been told that the authority is open to the use of modular homes particularly ones with a long-term guarantee members were also told the council has met with two providers who are interested in providing modular homes one of whom is interested in exploring the possibility of establishing a manufacturing business in innis shown and bali last national school in castle fin is continuing its campaign to improve road safety outside the school concerns have repeatedly been raised over the speed at which motorists are traveling on the road between lyford and castle fin the school has been campaigning to have a fence at its drop-off area repaired in a bid to protect students those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 nine thank you very much mikaela we'll be back with that entertainment after the break this christmas at supervalue we have great offers to help you share the magic like selected cabaret roses and heroes celebrations and nestling quality street tubs any two for eight euro exclusive to real reward members only plus get money off vouchers every week on the real reward top two share the magic this christmas with supervalue apply with you for another hour to finish off the week as we park all the trials and tribulations of life and open up a new can of worms uh as we talk about all things uh entertainment art stage music whatever it might be uh michael 007 leddie writer and blogger joins us as usual good morning to you michael good morning to you i'm getting on the very best it's good to see you again yeah you look really smart last friday well you took cedar it was great we were all in our tuxedos and it was great fun it was great fun it was a proper it was a rare night out for me where i had to behave like an adult and i think i more or less pulled it off after and i was in good very good company it was a breeze really privileged to be out there so good kind of a little manager of the baller theater in baller buffet as well with us good morning connor great how are you keeping i'm keeping good keeping good good stuff uh right okay lots to get through here a lot of star wars to get through here as well it would seem but let's start with uh st columbus school musical actually it's a little bit different if that's okay yeah um it's doing really well yeah it's flying um it's uh every year now for god knows how many years we've kind of cooperated with st columbus the local school they do a fantastic school musical so it's start at last tuesday runs for five nights finish of saturday back to the 80s is the the musical that they're doing so full of 80s hits and um yeah flies all out nights absolutely fantastic reaction from the crowd absolutely fantastic performance from the uh from the students on the stage um it always uh just blows me away do you be surprised that the you know that i think the music teacher's taking or have to take an awful lot of credit as well but that these schools put on such professional shows you know so rounded so well performed you know between you've never seen one you might think it's on is the kids now it's not like that at all it's not at all and i mean you know you nail on the head you have to have to give great credit to nicola roach who's the music teacher in st columbus uh you hear some of the the talent and the musical talent and also our own caroline bell caroline directs the directs the show and uh nicola is the the musical director and the two of those they just have such a fantastic way of working with the kids you know they nurture and encourage as well and it really really when you just see the the talent that is around in our young people and when you allow them to express it what what what they can do with it absolutely fantastic and you know we bring them into the baller so they have the they have the professional sound and lighting and and we do a lot of the help with the sets along with the woodwork department and stuff up in the up in the school it raises it a level with it does respect to it just it brings it up to a professional level because it they're sharing a stage with some of the biggest shows and performers yeah that are out there and in fairness to them it brings the the technical production up to what their talent deserves because their talent matches the the the technical levels and it really is you know as you said forget about the fact that it's a school music or these kids you just leave going that was a great show all credit to them and everybody was great tunes as well and you know they're not I think I found a notice from a years of DJing and I saw someone else commenting on it as well that does teenage discos which I obviously don't do anymore don't do any of it anymore and our own Kevin and others there that would do the discos for the younger ones the songs that get them out are actually still the 80s and 90s like ABBA you know and and as I say a lot of the 90s dance classics if you know what I mean so I don't I think a lot of them have been reared with this music it's not like oh I've never heard girls just want to have fun or I've never heard whatever it might be exactly yeah exactly they're not they don't have to learn anything in that regard it's all sold out now so really we're just patting them on the back there's no more tickets or shows there's no more tickets there's no more shows we don't have room for any more shows they finish on a Saturday night we pull down that set put up the panto sir yeah we'll talk about the panto a bit because I think Michael has that done for a chat as well uh let's go to the cinema now the marvels the marvels what is this this is the newest of the marvel superhero films I think you may remember I'm somewhat of a fan of those I've been to the cinema twice this week to see the marvels and I shall be returning at some stage maybe over the weekend to see it a third time um so I liked it it's safe to say uh this one uh brings brie larson back as captain marvel for her second go round as a lead although she has appeared in in in Avengers and various things but it has in the support capacity and it's a rare film in that I often say about the marvel movies they're very you know no matter how whatever the number is at the end of the credit I always say to you Greg you know pretty much a standalone film and anybody can go along to see it in this case however this is very much a continuation of captain marvel and it's also a continuation of the tv series miss marvel and a continuation of the one division tv series because it brings together three different characters and sets them together for the first time on a grand adventure uh it's great fun shorter than your typical blockbuster it was so great after complaining week after week going along to see marines criss-asie's epic and complaining about how long it was and so many other films to actually be shocked and almost dismayed because I was enjoying the film so much and to see oh my gosh I've been here less than two hours that was good that was a good thing um it's got the usual marvel get that thing about film being too long if it's good enough yeah well the idea is that if a movie is good you won't see the passage of time like you know but if you're at that stage where you think oh god there's another hour to go that's not a good sign of how invested you are in the characters and that happens sometimes to me in recent times it didn't happen here this was great fun it's fun for all the family it's very much um female centric in terms of the main characters the villains something marvel has been doing more and more with their tv shows miss marvel wasn't the best of their tv shows but it was a very adorable show with a teenage superhero who I find adorable everybody I think most people find her adorable as well so you get to see her on the big screen as she gets to meet her idol she spent the six episodes of miss marvel talking about captain marvel and now in this movie she gets to meet her beyond that it's very much so do you have to watch the series yeah that's what i'm saying yeah you kind of will it's kind of a follow-on it's like season two of the tv series so unlike most of every marvel for them where you can almost go in and just watch it fresh I think you'd be better off having seen the tv shows or the movies that lead into it but that doesn't mean they don't explain who everybody is but I think you'll get more out of it if you've seen these characters before I thought it was great fun I'll be going back I enjoyed it more the second time Franula came along with me yesterday she's not available today but she enjoyed it as well I don't think she enjoyed it as much as me but I don't think anybody enjoys the marvel films quite as much as me but she did enjoy it she came along yesterday with me do you think it's off-putting to new people to go oh have all this homework to do it's really off-putting to me but yeah that's why I asked about do you have to watch as I said before but I don't know is that how you presented is it my sauce it could just be Michael Eddie yeah it could just be him as I say before and not the whole movement most of them like up until this they've been standing alone you don't need to have seen the other ant-man movies to go and see ant-man you don't need to have seen previous Dr. Strange on this one I think this one is a rare exception in that you're probably better off it's just it's like if you advice us to you have you seen break and brad it's fantastic but you're gonna have to watch five series of the short shirt not the short shack redemption the thin blue line and you know what I mean and you go right okay sounds good but I'm never going to start all of that so I'll never see breaking bad as I sit here saying to you you don't need to do that what do you actually hear me saying no I don't really hear I heard you say you need to watch Miss Marvel you need to in this instance in this instance yeah as I said but if you do the payoff is worth I think the payoff is worth it yeah I mean if you're happy it's short or you wish it was longer uh well the thing is it's a good thing to be able to say about a film like oh my god you know I wanted another half hour if when I came out of the scars it is easily to fill them and I said and finula said and everyone I've spoken to said my god that's an hour or two long that's not a good thing that's not so much the length is it that's so you feel like just potting in this that's our attention span do you know maybe being conditioned do you know what I mean that right I want to do you know like because what you'd have no problem at home because you would say right I'm going to split this into three hours you know what I mean and and you would conclude it and you go actually you know what that was quite a good film and you broke it up oh yeah being conditioned now that you go to the cinema it's no longer than two hours our attention span I think you could do that with killers because I'm speaking of that I'm gonna have to take an ad very shortly um right so yeah what very good what did you think of it then oh nine out of ten I thought it was great fun uh any diehard marvel fans will enjoy it and anyone who's looking for a fun family friendly movie uh will definitely enjoy this as well it's got comedy it's got action and it's got pussy cats and they're durable kittens and they're flying around and they're I won't spoil anything but they're they're the cats in these movies are not cats the radiance it's great fun right we're going to give you a chance now to win a 50 year old fuel voucher thanks to our friends at Kelly's Centre at the mountaintop and electric Kenny we ask are you getting ready for Santa season and a celebrating our community this Christmas uh they are we will be working with little angels and raising funds over the festive season we will have a number of giveaways in store and on social media there'll be golden tickets in store with discounts and a grand prize and you may see the crew at Kelly's out and about with a very special 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32 from letek entity doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time asked just turned 18 11 11 18 former rt presenter ryan tobert is announced his movement to virgin radio uk in london he'll helm the mid-morning show on virgin radio from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. monday to friday from early january uh they've a listenership of about 1.9 million i thought it was bigger than that but that's their average listenership on weekends he'll present a dedicated irish weekend show across wireless arland stations doblin q102 court 96 f m live 95 in limberick and l m f m that's an interesting move as a as i'm a radio consumer here a listener that uh we are going down the route in this arland of networking shows because i when i was working at northwest radio there was one show a lot of the shows actually were jewel shows that went out midwest and northwest radio and my recollection at the time was the bi weren't too in favour of that because each region deserved their own output if you know what i mean yeah but now what we're going to see is one show across those five stations which of course is going to displace people from jobs it's going to be broadcasting it from from britain i suppose it's great for him he can give rt a two-fingered salute but it does change the landscape of irish radio and local and regional radio i think to have one show across five stations along to you but what do you think uh michael yeah i agree and i do think yeah that's one of the absolute aces in the whole that local radio has around the country or in any country but it's that it has that local thing and it's that specific thing when you start working against that and you start networking things then surely you're just doing the same as what's available it's meant to be an alternative and you know the number of times you would turn on this show and hear something that's important to us locally that you would never ever hear in a national platform then when you start working against that it does seem to defeat the purpose of exist if the existence so i agree completely and i never even thought of that thing about obviously shows and well people are already doing it and talent you know this type of talent that maybe might get their break on a saturday across five stations that that potentially uh won't and those five new talents will probably actually end up being cheaper than one round talk oh where is being more relevant to their listenership listen i i wish him nothing nothing but success um because i would wish that of anyone but i just thought it it does change for anyone with an interest in radian media it does change the landscape and i don't see how it can do it for better because you're going to have one person one voice across a whole host of stations as i say i'm surprised the bei signed off on that if the truth be told right are you in a star wars uh rabbit hole or something god's name is going on i disappeared massively down a star wars rabbit hole i tell you what happened was uh i saw the trailer as far as new series asoka that was coming out and it's well out now at this stage and but then i was told well if you really want that's a bit like what i'm saying about the marvel movies you really should watch the clone wars and rebels which are two cartoon series animated series and uh but it kind of suited because i'm working a lot of nights and these these they're the only kind of bite-sized 20 minute episodes so you can come in you can watch it stay with them you know you're not making that huge commitment right this is an hour you can go i can bail out after 20 minutes and then i got really really into them and god help me i still haven't got around to wasoka i'm after watching seven series of the clone wars and i just and i just finished all four series of rebels wow this is over about three months it's got to the stage my kids come in and they go are you watching cartoons again you know it's a total role reverse but they're really good yeah all right and uh you're a big fan of them too i know star wars isn't my thing at all star trek yeah i mean it's just star trek to the cartoons as well they do all right okay that's where i go yeah you're right you see and here's the thing because i was i was thinking about this right and see star trek was a tv series right whereas with star wars traditionally you had buying a movie yeah and of course what you can always do in a tv series that time and latitude to develop characters and they do this in the animated series and in actual way it's it's it's funny the real life characters in the real life movies are actually more cartoonish than the characters in the cartoon series wow because you have three hours he's a goodie he's a baddie yeah where there's loads and new ones there's character developments there's character arcs and they delve into some really kind of interesting concepts but why would go down the route of doing it uh through animation and then not live action because i assume the audience would be broader for live action i presume it would have presumed to be people that would be just turned off by animation you see them it's for kids i also assume that you know you'd be talking about what probably that's 70 80 hours across the two series which is going to be very very expensive to produce but you're you're dealing into like there's just questions like you know in a war between good and evil is pacifism a choice which is kind of a deep philosophical question yep they also kind of look into you know the whole idea of the military industrial complex that there's these people that just want more to keep going and don't want any side to win because there's money in it so it's delving into a lot of you know it's not just star trade or look i am your father they're delving into these quite really interesting deeper quite mature concepts should be should be if they're target audiences 13 14 15 year old kids and they get they start raising these questions and get them thinking like this i think that's a great thing i remember when michael was talking about the star uh star trek animated series that it sort of gave it a bit of latitude to go where it would be difficult to go with live action uh yeah do um is it the same with star wars it is i mean you can kill off a kind of beloved character in cold blood easier in animation it doesn't have the impact you know uh and there are a few things that have happened and you go oh you wouldn't see that in star wars film so again you know with the with the characterization with the teams that are brought up and also what you can show paradoxically the the cartoons are less cartoonish than the films if you get them yeah and i suppose the longer you watch them then you step out of that i'm watching a cartoon don't you oh absolutely absolutely the thing with star wars a lot of that kind of the CGI animation is you know in the space battles and the outdoor scenes it's not a power what you're saying in the cinema anyway yeah so you very quickly adjust to the fact that they're not you know real human faces they still do a fantastic job of even subtly conveying emotions and a look here and a look there you know so i would say you know when you get past the first 20 minute episode you're actually past the fact that it's animated interesting i can sometimes find that with with um with subtitles as well completely different but kind of the same all right more from michael eddie and column alone in a second but i want to introduce to the program now uh filmmaker ken uh war drop good morning to you ken hopefully you can hear me okay no he's actually frozen right we'll get back to ken in a second because we want to be talking about his new show or his new documentary very shortly i'll try and bring it back in here so we get on the wonders of technology everything was working grand and then that's you know we were doing so well all day right ken's going to be joining us very shortly just a reminder that you can win a 50 euro voucher for fuel at circle gay by answering the following question what's the name of the robot in kelly's diner at the mountain top in ledger kenny's a orio or b marchine text to whatsapp 086 60 25 000 or give us a call on 07491 uh 25 000 right okay um let's see what i want to go to next with you pick one out for me there's a lot of stuff here and yours going from apple to netflix we'll go to the stage again in a moment just to take something from the streaming services let's talk about an irish film uh lake lands which is on apple i had a chance to see this up at the disappear film festival a couple of months ago and it's an irish movie it's a movie that stayed with me it's an irish movie that i heartily recommend it's always great when you find something that's just it's as good as any now this is not like last year the best movie of the year for me was on colleen q which i thought was just i thought nothing came close to that so this isn't in that level but that doesn't mean it's still not a great film it's a very simple story of a young lad he's a g a a up and coming g a a star and uh on a night out uh he gets into a little scuffle it seems quite minor he's shoved he's fall nothing major but it actually ends up being an injury that impacts on his ability to play anymore he can no longer be part of the g a a team and the story of the film is just the story of how he doesn't really cope very well with that and it's that very human thing that i think we've all done at different times is pass it off and not let on to people how badly injured you might be and carry on despite the fact that the consequences of his injury will get more severe if he doesn't cop himself on and stop playing there's nothing else to that story and yet it's as engrossing as any big summer blockbuster for me it's so well acted uh in a hard week and daniel galligan who people will probably know best now from being uh the best friend on obituary which is arty's uh highly praised weekly series which finished there before halloween this is a very human story it's not a true story from what i can gather but it feels like the sort of thing where you think you i think we've all known a ladder we knew of a lad who was in a similar sort of position and it's just this ordinary guy working on the farm and over the first half hour second half hour third you really care about him you become very much invested and even though the stakes seem quite low by the time you get into that final act of the movie you really care you're wondering is this guy going to cope with this is he going to pull through what's going to happen to him um i thought it was a brilliant film is there a review system on apple uh plus it'd be interesting to see what the what the response to it is yeah i don't know i'll stop me i don't know how many people have apple plus here is it kind of buried a wee bit and even on rotten tomatoes um the critics have raved about this but there's not very many critical reviews but there's no audience score because it's not you know it's not it's not sufficiently big deal to get on that platform oh yeah yeah we'll have to wait and see but i do point people towards lakelands i thought it was a wonderful and again go in there with your expectations music to the fact that it's a very simple basic story uh there's no fireworks it's not the major but i swear as soon as the story gets up around you become very invested in this guy and uh you just really care about what happens to him and it's it's very realistic all right now just to let you know the dunagol's annual fully inclusive purple tai gala ball takes place at harvey's point uh lochesk on friday the 22nd of december there's a drinks reception dinner a live band disco and raffle and the master of ceremonies is mr null cunningham who's a very special night this weekend uh marking his 70th birthday and uh his retirement from harvey's point but he'll be back there before he's actually officially left so to speak uh to be master of ceremonies uh for this event uh we're joined on the program by uh wendy Fitzgerald mccarrie chief executive of the blue stack special needs foundation and it's always a it's always a big night wendy and it's going to be proved to be another great night again and it's right in the mouth of christmas as well yes it is how are you greg good nice to talk to you again so tickets are still available tell us about the night i mean i've run through the headline stuff there but it's a great night out isn't it it is a fantastic night and i supposed to tell you where it all came out of my own daughter as you know um has additional needs and she was she's coming up to her 18th birthday and you know it just kind of dawned on all of us that um the chances of her being ever invited to a ball are pretty slim the chances of her ever going you know um and having an opportunity to go and dress up and you know get the makeup in the hair done and are pretty slim and we were very lucky in that uh tony from the mill park hotel had approached us last year and wanted to do something for us um as a fundraiser and we had a good chat about it and what we could do and we thought well wouldn't it be great if we did have a fully inclusive gala ball you know and it last year was our first year running it um it was a fantastic night um and this year harry's point have very graciously um agreed to host it with us and given us very favorable terms um and uh you know along with all the rest of the support that they do first down in harry's point and as you probably know know is the patron of the organisation and is a huge supporter for us as well but yeah it is a fantastic night you know and that favorable uh rate you talk of has allowed ticket prices to be set at 60 euro uh for all of what we mentioned but also there's a rate of 25 euro for young adults with additional needs 16 plus as well so it that that that also talked to the inclusivity of this event 100 you know i mean i think it's really important that we make it as accessible as possible um it is a fantastic value for money night out it's a brilliant night in terms of you know local companies who support us having their staff parties having their staff nights out you know nobody enjoys themselves like our young adults when they get out and they the fun they have there's a lack of inhibition and you know it just makes us all really have a good night and i know last year was a fantastic night and i'm hoping that this year will be equally fantastic you know and uh the tickets are still available there's not a whole lot of them still available um but you know it is a very inclusive night and it is you know last year you know for my own daughter it was really lovely her brothers were with her so it was lovely for them to be going somewhere that for her you know rather than her always tagging along with them and everybody really enjoyed it it was a fantastic night absolutely brilliant suggestion to harby's no problem just to remind people it's donnie gall's annual fully inclusive purple tie gala ball it's in the beautiful setting of harvey's point it's from 6 p.m on friday the 22nd of december so you can set it as your christmas night as well or whatever you want to do with it there's a drinks reception dinner live band disco and raffle and master of ceremonies the one and only uh mr noel cunningham the tickets are 60 euro or 25 euro for young adults with additional needs 16 plus now if you want more information or to purchase tickets you can call 9740828 or go to bluestackfoundation.com and as you mentioned there tickets there are a few available people really need to get on as soon as they can wendy i think if they want to go yeah like i say if you can actually book the tickets online by going to the website bluestackfoundation.com all right a night to remember no doubt about that okay wendy listen thank you 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great and well done the documentary so this is christmas released throughout arland today including locally the sentry cinema in letter kenny um what's great feeling oh of course it is it's always great to get an opportunity to get your film out into the world and we've had a wonderful reaction to it we had our premiere at the cork film festival there on friday night and we've done some preview screenings and it's getting a lot of buzz which is really wonderful because it is obviously a documentary and encouraging audiences into documentaries this is kind of complicated and uh but uh i think this is particularly important film it has a message there that i think will all relate to as well and uh yeah it's super exciting and thank you so much for your support no no it's a pleasure and i'm really interested for you to describe rather than me trying interpret because i haven't seen it uh i want you to describe while it's about uh and how you made it yeah sure well the film is about five characters and their struggles i guess and the lead up to christmas last year and the premise really came from the fact that i lost my grandmother on christmas day when i was 12 years of age she passed away she was staying with us at the time and that left a darkness and a cloud over christmas thereafter for quite some years because she was very close to my mom and to all of us but it really impacted and meant christmas was something different for our family and it i suppose it stayed with me and christmas it can be a very complicated time of year for people it can be almost the perfect star storm if you have problems and then you're subjected to all the kind of you know the commercialization and the frivolous and the joy and you know what it's meant to be and the expectations and i just thought it would be interesting to throw a light on that and see what real lives are like as opposed to the insurmountable ones that we see and i suppose you have to strike a balance in that because especially as it being released into christmas you don't want to say how dare you enjoy christmas because it's not like that for other people do you know what i mean that's not what you want to do you want maybe people to think and reflect and enjoy christmas even more or maybe even think about things a little more oh absolutely i mean it's only i've thrown out something for us all to think about it is full this film has lots of humor lots of joy but most importantly even though there are a lot there's a lot of tears and darkness in this there is so much to hope because these people are so resilient and i think that was something that came out of the to be honest the first working title for the film was i hate christmas so it was going to be a more irreverent approach to it all and then i suddenly started to meet all these wonderful people and they changed my perspective on it so i'd like to take some of the credit but i'm afraid i can't take all of it because it was through their stories and what they taught me about life and the meaning behind christmas really um and it has come out to be quite a a special film like that and it's it's it's not a downer by any means and it's not out there to ruin people's christmas because i like christmas as much as anybody else but the thing that i hang on to the memories that i have um and this will be poignant for myself to explain but some of the memories that i have about christmas are like my mum having the the fire in the good room i think we'll all know that there's the good room that only gets used once or twice a year sometimes and we this good and it was coming down and that fire being lit and lying down on on the carpet and playing with the toys and that's why i do remember the toys but i remembered the feeling i had and i think that's what i wanted to create with this film and this year and it's kind of ironic and terrible at the same time but i lost my mum this year um earlier in the summer and christmas for me now this year is going to be you know a difficult time of year and although i have my own other worries apart from grief it's just the addition now of grief and the memories and all that i'll have around the kitchen table and just seeing her empty seats will be uh make it very different to say the least and i think the irish mommy makes christmas they are heart and soul of it all i was especially in our eyes so i think uh anyway as i said it is full of joy and it's full of uh love yeah uh very sorry for your loss can it's clear that both your mother and your granny meant so much to you and we all deal with things in different ways but as we do get older christmas does change uh and i think even if you have a sadness in your life that's not or loss in your life that's not around christmas you do feel it even more so at christmas and for some they can they can celebrate that and for others they can't celebrate at all and that's what makes us all different isn't it how we deal with these things but i hope you have lots of very loving people around you nonetheless can for christmas uh do we know uh when or do you know when it'll get a release outside of the cinema and all these these wheels can turn quite slowly or maybe you've got something in place we want to encourage people to get along to the century cinema and watch it of course on the the big screen as you intended when you were making it but but when do you think we might is there any other platform secured at this point again well of course there will be down the line but essentially we've got us window of opportunity to get it out in the cinemas and you're right people have to see this in the cinema because even though it's a documentary it's not a flying the wall thing it's not like we were running around with a camera we actually were shooting on 35 millimeter i had nine crew it looks absolutely spectacular and it has um it is the music has been scored by emir noon who was the first lady ever to uh conduct the oscars orchestra so it has that big uh feel to it so i don't want to even talk about the future and i just go to the cinema yeah okay it's all about the cinema and you know what it is it is a shared experience and having had the responses to this movie and coming out and hearing audience talking about you can sense that people want to talk about this and they want to share and they're holding hands during the experience and so forth because these people um that feature in the film are so familiar to us all they could be our neighbors our cousins our friends you know and i think so i'm not going to go there basically i hear you ken look after yourself congratulations and i hope it gets the audiences it certainly deserves by the way you've described and the audience reactions so far thanks for your thanks for your time thank you all right it's been great having you on the program take care that is ken wardham a filmmaker there more from our two guests in studio michael and connor after these but before i go it's going to be the last shout here i just want to remind you what kelly's are doing uh they're getting ready for the santa season and they're celebrating their community this christmas they're going to be working with little angels and raising funds over the festive season and they have a number of giveaways in store and on social media and there'll be golden tickets in stores with discounts and a grand prize and you may see the team out and about with a very special guest and as a december 25th approaches i wonder is it you know who but anyway today one lucky listener will win a 50 euro fuel voucher to fuel up at circle k the question is what is the name of the robot now working in kelly's diner in the mountaintop is it a orio or is it be marching text or whatsapp oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand caroline you check that question did you it's not my fault if anyone gets upset all right but text in your answer your name away you're from it's fun like 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evening highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees with light south to south east wind strength think it's funny the weather forecast they'll always talk about rain spreading from the northwest uh but it still actually only spreads into us it never emanates from the sunny southeast or the sunny southwest does it but anyway uh right john bresnan's going to be broadcasting around the northwest live from boyce's centre on main street falcara from 12 30 celebrating the revamp of the store there so if you're it's good crack you know where there's an old b uh to a premises so call down and say hello bring the kids down if they are with you or off school or whatever it might be or even maybe not at school as i say it's a nice little buzz and there's normally nice little things to enjoy for free when you get there as well and to see the the great investment the boyce's have made uh in centre on the main street there in falcara high highland radio station does any uh does anyone of your listeners know when the movie in the land of saints and sinners on netflix or when it's going to be in the cinema now this is the Liam Neeson film that was shot an awful lot down the south of the canty i was checking wikipedia and all the sources i thought it was coming up a few checks in no no no you don't know wait i'm like oh so i presume it's going to be a limited cinema release in netflix but there's no indication as of yet when it's going to be shown or i haven't got it maybe listeners out there have the inside line uh two things i watched this week and would highly recommend convicted on netflix uh someone reinvestigates their cases it's great another the billionaire the butler and the boyfriend can't say too much without giving it away but definitely worth a watch the billionaire the butler and the boyfriend sounds like quite the triangle there uh hi greg and the tv treats that's used to i'm assuming you saw the toy show ad last night i'm reminded that i remember gaybo enjoying it better than pat um i did see it on socials i thought they've done really well there although there was a memorable moment when a caller brazenly only wanted the 10k and pat tore up two toy show tickets after being rebuffed as far as i know that carried on in the media for days can you tell head of social media katie that she can catch more festive films on christmas 24 and a premiere most saturdays from the us as i've taped these but you can't with channel five dirty dozen on five tonight for michael but i'm sure they've done a christmas special and tell michael brie larson sequel it was okay funny but not marvellous okay and i've heard of snakes on a plane but cats on a rocket funnily enough samuel l jackson was in both that is always kevin puts a bit of thought into his uh into his um uh contributions thanks kev right uh christmas panto foundered uh it's in the baller and you've got it down on your list as well michael so i'll go with you for his connor oh i touch myself i know you're really all that yeah that's a kind of fleet footed presentation i won't win it i won't win it let me mention we're just over a week away now from opening it opens on saturday january 25th so it is essentially it's frozen but we've done equalised the name to foundered which is brilliant i laughed when i read the thing like i laughed so much we're getting a great reaction off people for it and so instead of letting it go it's like cup yourself on cup yourself on well do you know i was i was going to say that because we were trying to rack our brains and go what could you put in what would be a done a goallessized version of let it go um try your eyes no you know did you have to come up with something so that do you done a goallize the songs as well i don't know i'm not involved in that end right okay excited right so kind of we had this kind of this this was when when they came up with the idea it's it's the butt ram circles plant us so when they come up there we're doing flows and we're going to call it founders and we had that conversation but i don't know if it ever got anywhere they might have progressed in a rehearsal since but anyone has a last minute suggestion there for a done equalised version of let it go you'll be grand you'll be grand you'll be grand yeah copy your head copy copy well copy so far now let it go it's more like let it go it's more zen like yeah let it go let it go anyway yes that's not really this is like where we've just decided to make a yeah no it's actually made it's rehearsed it's ready to go folks um and it's next it starts next saturday the 25th people love the panto for some people it's the toy show for some people it's the panto that starts it off uh michael because by the 25th of november even your scrooges are gonna have to concede we're in the christian in the christian period you're at that yeah it's running from the 25th to uh the 9th of december on different days you've got the saturday sunday wednesday thursday friday then the saturday sunday then the tuesday wednesday thursday friday and then it finishes up on the saturday uh at the ninth um i mean they're going to be packed houses pantos it's a huge family thing uh across the region obviously and people are going to be excited about it and i i say i read this last night and i was chuckling away i was like ah i love it foundered and it's yeah it is frozen but it's um i should warn people the 7 of the 12 shows are sold out already um the saturdays and sundays are the matinees they're four o'clock oh right yeah the the weekday the weekday shows are eight o'clock but essentially i think uh all the yeah all the the matinees are sold out and the fruities so you're left with the you don't really have to market that much do you for that to happen that's not to do the marketing team any disservice but i mean that's a huge response really isn't it it is it is and you know i think it might be it's it's pretty similar every year and it just is the fact that it's the institution of the panto and it's always on it's the last week in november it starts and as you say for a lot of people you know especially in the twin towns area you know the start of the panto is right it's officially christmas season the panto is on now and you know so you have it you have the christmas lights going on in the town you have the panto starting macklehenny's window macklehenny's window and just uh it has just become an institution essentially i'll still take the credit for it but essentially it sells itself i think it sells itself connor you do well for the rest of the year you get enough for it now but i'm it was more just that the it's it's reputational you see you know people know they're going to get something yeah and that's because people don't go back to something unless they know what to expect yeah and there's yeah if you're a hundred percent yeah and in fairness to the to to you know the bud drama circle they put on they do have an on the greats whoever you are and they also they keep the prices really really reasonable yeah i mean so it's well well euro for an adult to founder the founder the christmas panto it starts saturday the 25th november uh on runs till saturday the 9th of december is effectively actually you know one of the biggest debates was that we spell it f o u n d e r e d or do we use an apostrophe founder yeah founder apostrophe d you think i don't know i think so what do you think i can see it working i can see it working with the i like to be i love the discussions like that happened i think the plan works come across a bit with the playing words comes across a bit more if it's more casually yeah yeah you know uh right okay founder the christmas panto check the website yes but matinees are sold out okay so people search in for that all right okay you're looking at your Tuesday Wednesday Thursday all right okay anything festive for you in the last two minutes here uh it's not festive but i'm ridiculously excited that the dirty doesn't is on tonight that was a great message that came in i want to see that again it's like it's another one of us like i've been revisiting obviously the clint eastwood movies and stuff like that with the the man with no name trilogy and stuff like that but the dirty doesn't is right in my wheels and i looked to see what was coming up because i like to throw on something to terrestrial on this on the on the thing but i didn't see that so i'm delighted that's and that's on tonight he said so excellent excellent all right okay it's not very festive but i'm gladdened my heart i still have time to speak to you but i'll just want to make sure that i announce the winner ariel of course is the name of the super robot at kelly's centre and i saw it in action yesterday it's quite cool um that comes in from the winning answer comes in from Declan mccrossan in ron in letter kenny declan you have a 50 euro fuel voucher to use at circle k and keep an eye out for all the team at kelly uh who uh kelly's as i say who are uh celebrating the community this christmas working with little angels loads of stuff in store and they may well be at the bout declan mccrossan your 50 euro in your pocket there which is significant you know uh right so connor are you christmasy no really no i didn't think you were gonna be too cool why not because i started because you know i just can't see you in the family in matching christmas pajamas on instagram no no that's all uh yeah i'm kind of uh mellowing i'm being reintroduced through the eyes of the children yeah of course yeah yeah but now they're kind of 16 or 14 so they're going through it as well so it's it's gone back down the trough but no i do kind of just enjoy the days of doing nothing and yeah exactly and that's what the whole idea is you take from it what you will don't you i mean whatever you feel most comfortable with what about you um i'm not very christmasy i mean we don't there's three lads sharing the house we don't put up a christmas tree no we don't do it we don't bow no if i put up a christmas tree or suggested to the other two they would immediately wonder what the heck was wrong with me we don't bother with that we mark it in our own way and i do my own things i like to save up christmas episodes of sitcoms like a christmas cheers or you know a cheers episode or something but and i sometimes uh you know reflect on the past and families and all that but um that we all do that but yeah i'm not i'm not going to pretend that i'm uh at wearing a christmas jump right okay well i'll do it for all of you can do it Connor thank you so very much it's really always great to have you up i do appreciate it a continued success at the baller thank you michael ellie as always you know yourself i love having you up uh that's it for the weekend we'll be back with you on monday morning at nine stay tuned john breslin's live in falcara uh coming from boyce's centre there stay tuned or get along if 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