 Don't you don't either never like those two right there. Don't remember neither Mikaela said it's before her time Mmm. I what was it? I would say it never gotten to top 10 anyway. It did 2003 right? Okay. Yeah All right. Thanks for the blast from the past that no one remembers. Yeah, you're very welcome Try I don't know right good luck. All right. That's Rory Farrell. They're of course back with you tomorrow morning 6 30 It's 9 o'clock. It's the 9 till noon show. In fact, it's a little past 9. It's time for our first news update Good morning to Catherine Gaffney Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A man who suffered head injuries and an assault in Sligo has died the man who was aged in his late 30s Was attacked on Rockwood parade in the town on Tuesday evening He was initially treated at Sligo Hospital But was then transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin where he was later pronounced dead Gardner they are treating his death as suspicious and a postmortem will be carried out later today The PRO of the Micah action group says the possibility of the Micah redress scheme being extended to other parts of the country is not Surprising Donnie Gaul has been deemed the epicenter of the crisis However, the Irish Times quotes an unpublished report from the expert group Investigating Micah that states engineers are reporting similar issues in other counties PRO Michael Doherty says there is an onus on TDs nationwide to rally behind the issue to get the best possible Scheme over the line other TDs in other counties that thought they were immune from all this need to wake up Smell the coffee need to get the shoulder to the wheel and get the best possible scheme We can over the line because it's not just a scheme for Donnie Gaul This is a scheme for every affected county and by the time we're finished We just don't know where that ends So now is the time to make their presence felt and not just ignore Donnie Gaul who have done all the heavy lifting so far made up, but this time they put the shoulder to the wheel The minister overseeing the housing of Ukrainian refugees says the use of more large group Accommodation is likely 70 people fleeing the Russian invasion arrived at the Mill Street arena in Cork last night Where they will share living and eating facilities But will be provided with private sleeping spaces for families more than half of the Accommodation pledged by Irish people through the Red Cross hasn't materialized and it's anticipated There will be a shortage by the end of next week Minister Rodrigo Garmin says four thousand extra beds will become available on third-level campuses from the end of May But it still won't meet demand. I think this kind of larger scale group Accommodation is more likely going forward. I know in Poland I know in Romania large stadia from from very early on in this crisis We're taking over and camp beds put in them look I don't think anyone feels that that that approach is is the optimum. It's not in the perfect world It's not what we'd like to be providing for people, but we're not in the perfect world. We're in a major European war Donnie Gaul ETB and Udrasna Giltikte have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding It's set to build on a history of collaboration and an established partnership between the two organizations Michaela Clark has more details Themes of the partnership are consistent with the strategic plans and strategic statements of both organizations These include working together to provide opportunities for training and education through the GTEC network and the network of Donnie Gaul ETB FET centered promoting and supporting economic development and job creation It also includes working collaboratively on projects of mutual interest Which will benefit the community in Donnie Gaul promoting and facilitating opportunities for community education at local level Encouraging and empowering communities and individuals and providing them with the knowledge and skills to benefit from the county's natural resources And working with the guilt on companies to ensure that the workforce has the necessary skills to sustain and grow And working together to provide the guilt on community with apprenticeships A strategic planning group will be established and we'll meet quarterly to discuss the operation and strategic development of the partnership over the next five years Whether now today will be mostly dry with hazy sunny spells developing highest temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees That's it for now. We're back with more 10 o'clock until then. Good morning That anti-gravity slide is unbelievable Marian You know what else is unbelievable fake tan No, that 90 percent of money spent on the national lottery goes back into the community Yeah, right It does most of it goes into prizes, of course Good causes get a big chunk and there's all the shopkeepers too 90 percent that is unbelievable, but true the national lottery support responsibly 90 percent based on most recent audited accounts the nine till noon show is brought to you in association with florid letter Kenny celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value visit florid dot ie And now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 90 noon show with greg hughes on Hello, a very good morning to you. It is six minutes past nine on this thursday the 21st of april I do hope you are well And hopefully we have the pleasure of your company for the next three hours on this program and throughout the day here On your number one highland radio The lines are open for you right now if you want to get in contact with the show 08 660 25 000 That's your whatsapp that is your text number or 07 491 25 000 lots coming up. We're going to be talking history with joe later That's always very popular and keep right across all the big news stories and Topics and features as you would expect if there's a concern you have an issue on a raise or Not a raise with all of the some issues we'd like to raise But one you'd like to raise then get in contact with us as well If you want to relate a positive story to feel free to get in touch on those numbers, right? Let's crack on with the papers as is thursday. It's busy John McAteer story in the front of the draconian tribute in this morning as concerns emerge over the future of the cardiology service for Angiograms at letter candy university hospital It's understood that after june the weekly visit of the mobile cath lab will cease The future service for donagall patients is expected to be provided from sligo university hospital That's according to sources To the same time a fixed cardiac radiology unit that was donated by the friends of luhe to the hsc in 2018 has never been commissioned This unit can also be used in angioplasty surgery and four years ago It was regarded as a major step forward for the hospital. We do not want to see services going do we A spokesperson for the friends of luhe has confirmed that they provided the funding of 750 000 euro And as far as they are concerned the state of the art facility is still lying idle after four years Certainly worthy of a deep redive there get it the newspaper if you want to read more there the donagall news With some 7 000 households in donagall depending on turf for heat minister of agriculture charlotte mcconnellog this week said turf is an essential source of heat for many householders here In a statement to the donagall news yesterday, the minister said turf is a part of life for many households in donagall And added that the government will not be preventing the basic rights of people to use their own turf Well, we know that anyway What the problem is is that it's been speculated that you won't be allowed to cut turf salad or gifted That's what the who has about we're well assured that people can cut their own turf and use it His response to a question from the newspaper came was uncertainty reigned Over minister aamon ryan's proposal to ban turf cutting and sales from september while minister ryan has suggested Turberry rights that is the right to cut your own turf and use it as charlotte mcconnellog said should be protected Or easement to dig cut and carry away turf on a bug located on another person's land to use his fuel for one's house Would continue we described his proposed ban on large-scale turf extraction as Justifiable excuse me. I haven't spoken for three days. Well, I have but As a justifiable response. That's what he said a justifiable response. So he's doubling down On his proposals to ban it from september first The donagall democrat what has been described as a perfect storm of factors has led to more than 20 pubs and restaurants in donagall Being made available for sale or lease now I've spoken to people over the years and this is another way being dispassionate by the way who Have suggested that maybe we had too many pubs and restaurants certainly in certain towns to sustain To be sustained But anyway, it's not that opinion that's causing these closures. It's other factors Four pubs are for sale in donagall tan alone and premises are also on the market in balaba fae dookery broccolis fanatical carbala shannon bun bag and dairy bag a number of premises Offering accommodation are also on the market increased running costs due to higher prices of electricity oil and insurance combined with staff shortages And the ending of the coveted 19 business support of some of the factors that have been blamed for business owners looking to leave The hospitality sector. I wonder to you know, like all of us as well Not all of us. Sorry many of us through the two years I wonder if people may be made the decision as well to say that maybe this lifestyle is not for me Or maybe there's something else I can do I wonder is that also a factor as well as you know them being driven out of business The dairy news an Ulster History circle blue plaque honouring legendary dairy musician james mccaffity will be unveiled at his lifelong home On 25 frances street in the city This weekend more on that story on the front of an inside that paper The farmer's journal tells us that the cost of building materials for farm sheds continues to soar And shows no sign of abating raw steel as increased from 1,000 to 2,000 Per tonne cladding prices are up 100 percent on february last year and timber prices are up 50 percent I've been rising for some time The price rises will likely see farm building work stall One shed builder said that by the time a farmer is done paying for fertilizer and meal The sheds are on the back foot another added that the farm building work is back by almost 50 percent On last year irish farmer journal analysis shows that the cost of building a typical three-base slatted shed has soared by 52 percent compared with 2018 Just a reference in the irish times to the story you heard from Catherine there in our nine o'clock news A scheme to provide grants to homeowners affected by mica could be extended nationwide Under new plans after the latest expert report said it appears inevitable that other counties would be affected Minister for Housing Dara O'Brien is working on legislation to give homeowners in donagola mayo access to enhanced grants to repair defects in their homes Caused by the mineral which has caused building blocks to crumble However an unpublished report from the expert group on the enhanced effective concrete block grant scheme states that engineers are reporting similar issues in other counties and through the course of this of course we all would have been those that um Have an understanding of it would have been notified from other areas that it's not just Donagol and mayo That would have been stated at the the march in in Dublin last year and in other venues, of course Well, the government last year agreed to finance a 2.2 billion scheme to rebuild and remediate an estimated seven and a half thousand homes Which have been structurally damaged by mica the cabinet agreed to a scheme where a hundred percent redress will be available to affected homes up to a ceiling of 420 000 per home But it seems that it's going to be extended out or will have to be extended out to claire sligo limber contemporary And sources said it could be widened even further okay onto the Irish independent now and Employees will be able to take legal cases against their employer if it refuses a request for reduced or more flexible working hours Under proposed work life balance laws I do wonder sometimes when we talk about these, you know New working practices how many of us it's actually relevant to you know the type of jobs that we Often have in this part of the world. It seems that it maybe it's a maybe a particular industries or a particular way of working I just feel sometimes when i'm reading this employment law stuff It just doesn't feel relevant to many of us But the work life balance bill from the children's minister rodrick o gorman will give the employees the right to Future in future to go to the workplace relations commission to challenge the decision of their employer to Project the request for reduced or for flexible hours to take care of children or look after I'll look to look after other relatives it says This is another element of this It's an intriguing story and no doubt will be the the feature of a A documentary on some streaming service or other into the future and this is in the Irish Daily Mail While Gardie are examining Sean Quinn's diary phone and a stash of documents After searching his home for several hours yesterday businessman mr Quinn His wife patricia and several of their grandchildren were in the home in cavern When a large group of Gardie arrived with a search warrant at around 10 30 a.m Several of the grandchildren were understandably upset given that Gardie turned up en masse without advanced notice Mr Quinn's solicitor chris mcgettican told the Irish Daily Mail Gardie released a statement saying that the search was part of an investigation into alleged criminal Criminality along the border region mr Quinn wants Ireland's richest man, but whose form of business empire is now under new ownership Um has spoken of his difficult relationship with the Quinn industrial holdings board yesterday Mr Quinn said he was told by Gardie that the search was in relation to coercion deception harassment stuff like that so it's another Sub chapter or chapter in a fascinating story another story, which is I've been reading an awful lot about have been for for years, but more so in the last while and that is obviously Well, it's not obvious at all. It's The action taken by the the the Irish and the Americans and others To daniel kinnon and his family and now the inevitable happened yesterday mtk Boxing promotion outfit that was very very generous apparently to its boxers Which was started by daniel kinnon. He's alleged to have stepped away A few years back, but still boxers associated with that promotion Were saying that he was involved in making their fights. Well mtk is folding the boxing company co-founded By daniel kinnon has thrown in the towel after a hugely damaging damaging week for the mob boss mtk global Which was co-founded by kinnon and boxer matthew macklin in marbella spain in 2012 stated in a bombshell announcement Yesterday that it was ceasing its operations following what it called unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny That being said They themselves in 2020 said he was still involved But anyway the international boxing management company which boxing insiders believe continued to work with kinnon despite claiming It parted ways with him in 2017 yesterday tried to claim that unfounded allegations have led to its downfall And there's another boxing promotion company called problem I think that's how it's pronounced a lot of their boxes are going to head over to problem but What has problem been linked to in the past and where did it buy its name from mtk So there's more to run on that story But I understand from reading that a lot of the the tv companies likes a euro sport for example refused or didn't want to work with mtk going forward there are gyms associated with that brand Around the country one maybe not too far away from here are unaffected by that because they're independently run and aren't connected to the Directly to mtk global I want to read this story because this happens up here all of the time and you know You hear people come on when a life boy for example is stolen that there's a it's big news It's it's an important issue that we raise and others raise as well Of course and I've had people say sure Why would you be talking about a life boy going missing because when it's needed and it's not there It could cost life and and sadly that seems to what's happened to what has happened down the country So just a reminder to the importance of even though maybe people do for fun and no malice Uh necessarily if you know what I mean that life boys really should not be touched because it is a matter of life and death And a life boy was missing from its stand When rescuers tried to help a man who fell into river liffey while on the way home from a night out last year An inquest has heard a sitting of dublin district coroner's court was told that daniel cullen died after falling In at sir john rogerson's key shortly before midnight on june 8th while he and two other friends were urinating Mr. Cullen 34 a former civil servant from to ron had been commuting to dublin on a regular basis to pursue an acting career before his death brian davidson who had been socializing with daniel said that Said they and another friend called jake And stopped near the diving bell on the keys Mr. Davidson said he only met daniel for the first time earlier that evening as a friend of a friend and it goes on and on But the important element of that story is the fact that as they tried to rescue That young man the life boy was not there And finally as many of us or do or have done Password sharing for the likes of netflix. Um, it goes on but netflix have had enough of it now Not only have they bumped up their prices and you may have got a notification from them recently to say that the price of the streaming service Was going up Well, they're going to knock the head on people sharing outside of households netflix passwords So if you in letter kenny are sharing your sister's password in boncran or even england or wherever it is, they're going to be cracking down on that now netflix plans to crack down on shared accounts as it loses customers and revenue growth Wains the streaming service reckons 100 million households break its rules by sharing their logins The practice helped netflix to grow but the firm said it's harming business under competition from rivals amazon apple and disney Boss read hastings said when we were growing fast It wasn't a high priority to work on now We're working super hard on it the firm lost a net 200,000 subscribers in the past three months And the warning it could lose 2 million more by july that's despite spending 510 million on marketing shares slumped 26 on the news But con content is king and you know during our conversations on a friday You know where we talk entertainment and stuff You know what's been said before that you do sometimes get a sense that you've run out of things to watch on netflix so You can't put the price up if you're not providing extra content. 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You haven't just Came in at the last minute and secured this nice position. You've been working plugging away, haven't you? Yes, absolutely Craig. I mean as you said Craig, I am actually representing district 2 which encompasses the north of Ireland and yes and we have a very very strong membership in the north We have over 75,000 members and so we're very very honoured now to actually have a vice president now actually for the whole of Ireland. Yes, I have been involved in the INTO for a very very long time both at branch officership from branch secretary in Surban right up to the education committee working on paid fair deal campaigns and fair pay in the north and it's now an absolute honour now to be actually working as vice president now for the incoming year. Right okay now some of the key issues, the all key issues obviously I imagine will be those that were raised during the recent INTO conference, the likes of class sizes and salaries. Well in terms of salaries that's negotiated within a broader agreement isn't it? I mean what can you achieve on that do you think? Well you see the thing is because now I'm actually a vice president for both north and south and I'm going to be working within the two different jurisdictions, pay absolutely was a big big big issue at the Congress and for the last couple of days we heard delegates on the floor come up about the issue of how it's at the cost of living is fighting and we all know that right across the board it is fighting, it is soaring and that teacher pay is is failing to keep pace with inflation. I mean Greg you do know that actually we showed flexibility rights through this ongoing change in the pandemic and we know that inflation is now at stripping our modest pay increases that we got through our building momentum and that there's the the risery and the insulting pay offer that we were giving in the north in 2019-20 and all we want Greg is fair pay we're actually having a fair pay campaign now in the north where we're actually robbing our politicians, we have an elections coming up in the two weeks and all we want Greg is fair pay for teachers. In relation to that, is it an advantage or a challenge you know for you in that there's going to be different issues in different in the north versus the south you know I mean does that leave you in a stronger position maybe there's a lot of teachers in in the north maybe I'll be honest with you I wasn't I did not know the INTO represented teachers in Northern Ireland for example now I don't know everything I'm just wondering you know is there a bit of work to be done in that regard do members of the INTO in the north feel they've a bit of catching up to do in terms of representation from your union? Absolutely we're actually doing our very very best I mean in terms of representation Greg it's important to mention that we are actually an organisation that represents teachers in nursery primary post primary special schools and right across sport and we are working in both jurisdictions yes the north of Ireland is actually behind in terms of pay to our colleagues in the south but we are actually working very very very very very hard in lobbying our politicians we're working with the NITC and the other units in the north to try and actually get a fair deal and a fair pay for our teachers in the north in the south we're actually we're working through the building momentum that we have but we're actually looking for that increase just that we need to have last week it was announced that the unions were actually going to they actually called that there would be engagement through the building momentum engagement and we want some more engagement to address these unexpected increase in living costs and yes it would be our hope that the north would actually try and come up with the south someday but you must realise Greg that we are working in different jurisdictions but I and Teo always always always do their best in terms of class salaries it's not unrelated to the likes of salaries as well because even if you know provision is made to employ extra teachers it's about retaining the teachers that are qualifying and you know working in our school environment in the other sectors you mentioned being an attractive proposition so in at least some ways these issues are interlinked absolutely and that's the other issue that we talked about at congress for the last couple of days is adequate funding in our schools I mean with Covid we actually did receive more resources and we want those more resources maintained for example we got an increase in our supply panels we got student teachers being able to you know address the sub crisis and now that the pandemic is actually levelling off hopefully we want actually to maintain those resources in order to move forward I mean we have the engaged program in this in in the north of Ireland that actually give extra teachers to our schools much needed extra teachers and if we want to actually provide a very very good educational system we need to be able to actually we retain these resources yeah but you know the the signals aren't great are they because of course we have I think it's in the Republic 2000 young Ukrainian people enrolled in schools I think that's the correct figure I think it's over 3000 in total I think it's 2000 in in national school effectively and then also reading that you know schools haven't necessarily had an awful lot of contact from the Department of Education you know what I mean that schools have been to some extent left to their own devices now I've been out of the news loop for a couple of days I'm not sure if that's improved much since but you know it doesn't bode well does it going forward in terms of what you're hoping to achieve when we struggle with communication as it relates to accommodating our young Ukrainian students and you'll have been consistently lobbying the the government there are 16 different agencies now throughout the island where all the different agencies are coming together and addressing what it is that would be needed for the Ukrainian children coming into our schools but if we are allowed to hold on to some of the funding or all of the funding that we got for Covid this will actually be very very very helpful in dealing with the issues that we are actually going to be facing in our schools we'll be welcoming the Ukrainian children into our schools we always roll up our sleeves we take what where we get but we need to have support from our government that can't be exploited either you see that then we hear often this the same thing as it plays to say nurses just because teachers will roll up their sleeves and they will do everything they can that can't that can't be taken advantage of because there's a history there in that the good will of teachers is exploited by the Department of Education for example because they know teachers will do precisely what they say but what you need is the the Department of Education to be truly working hand in hand with teachers and not do we be exploiting their good will and you can be sure that I and Tio Craig will be working hand in hand with the officials and the department officials to actually to actually make sure that the teachers are well resourced and well resourced for any eventualities that's coming their way and that's what we'll be coming to do we have a body of work to be doing that's what we were given at congress and be assured that I and Tio will be doing their utmost support members and all teachers throughout this island in the in the in the coming weeks and months in relation to this last but not least the issue of mental health supports was was raised during the week as well like what does nothing typical about any of what we're talking about but what kind of support what what situations are presenting themselves do you think that means that we need to focus on mental health supports yeah mental health supports is actually something that's ongoing craig and this is not something new I mean we have had a reductions in nepsychologists in the south of Ireland we've had a reductions of of psychologists in the north of Ireland I mean over and over again I and Tio have been asking and have been lobbying because in order to to address the needs of the children we need to have more and more neps support we need to have more psychologists and that's something that the I and Tio will continue to lobby on in the in the next year and because it's important because if we're actually supposed to be able to teach and to actually deliver the curriculum to the children that we have in front of us we need to have the adequate supports and neps is one of the ones that we will be actually lobbying for as well as the educational psychologists in the north craig okay thanks for your time how long's your term Dorothy um it starts um it started yesterday it will continue up until next Easter and then hopefully I will be um becoming president of the organization okay lovely stuff listen thank you for joining us this morning and congratulations again all right that was Dorothy McGinley the new I to your vice president and future president from an agree currently a teacher in sign mills in county to roam 08 660 25,000 is the number you get in a song Greg how will tariff selling embargo be policed it would be practically impossible and I'm sure the politicians behind it know this it's another smoke screen we're not talking about the huge all-round price increases but about one of the city stalls proposed in our country for a long time and that's come in and I kind of say the same thing over and over again and I'm sorry to repeat myself you see firstly there is a large chunk of the population that because something is banned they will stop doing it because they don't want to get into trouble okay that that is a fact and then you don't have to police it all the time you just have people turn up on one or two occasions and the the the word goes out amongst the community in another trance of people might stop doing it and then eventually it piters out a new generation comes through they don't do it and they achieve their goal and sadly perhaps that is just how it goes and there's plenty of examples over the years as to how something that seems impossible to enforce the enforcement of it even if it's not heavy enforcement is effective in its elimination why is the minister of housing not regulating quarries and block manufacturing otherwise the micro scandal will never end whose interests is he guarding well there are inspections and what have you going on in quarries around the country as was revealed to you hear like Jack Murray you might remember when he was on with us he was waiting on a number of questions to be answered that was amongst them I might read the details of that to you later it might not be going far enough but I certainly remember it being referenced very shocked to see the further possible erosion of services at Latter-Canary Hospital with the headline from the Chicano Tribune last night reporting LUH faces the loss of the angiogram service exact we cannot be losing services that would be my feeling and maybe some of you can help on this one as we head into the break a lot of parents have been in this position and it can be terrifying and very worrying and you can feel very lonely in it this person's daughter is suffering from anxiety and I'm wondering if there are any natural ways of treating this condition is there any therapies or alternative remedies that people could recommend enough had success with so what has worked for your younger people you know taking the mind off things 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searching his home for several hours yesterday i'm delighted to welcome on to the program kieran flaherty is a senior reporter with the impartial reporter he joins us on the program now kieran thanks so much for taking the call this morning it's greatly appreciated no problem thanks very much right um did you see this coming this this this search or what do you think as much as we can say triggered it um it was kind of quite out of the blue i suppose um there was no real indication that there were they were heading towards shone quinn's house um obviously in the past there's been a lot of speculation about things that went on in that area um but uh that's all it was at that phase speculation there was no hard evidence as you said so um no it was it wasn't seem common anyway on this side anyway so as far as you know what what happened uh what was taken away and and what next um well guards from the the calvin modern guard of the vision they landed at the house outside balikano um yesterday morning i think it just around 10 o'clock and as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into alleged criminal activity in calvin and the wider border region and they were there for about four hours the the search concluded shortly after two o'clock and there was no arrest made but uh mr quinn when he was speaking to the bbc yesterday he said that his phone his diary and a big box of stuff was taken from the house um but for what reason he said he doesn't know he said he was none the wiser as the way they were there and he called the whole thing a fish and expedition and what is the history of this in terms of uh shone quinn uh his involvement with the company and his relationship with it now i mean obviously there's a massive history kieran but just a brief overview yeah well i suppose that sort of area for man and calvin was a shone quinn um stronghold with with the with the whole quinn plants down there and with the recession and stuff like that he he lost everything and the the company was taken from him and is now in the hands of it's called manak um is run by former um employees of shone quinn and former right-hand men but um shone quinn and it have no relationship now and he did come back as an advisor at one stage but that didn't last too long and um he is just he is absolutely no say in what happens in that company at the minute down there or anything happens down there really yeah now i mean i don't know if it's a quirk of the locality or the history but you know people leave companies on a regular basis but it never creates the kind of uh you know division and drama and and obviously if we remember what happened to mr lonnie uh the the the the terrible consequences for people uh it's it's almost unique in that regard is it on this island anyway yeah there's there's a lot of loyalty for shone quinn he um he totally he rejuvenated that area it was a place of of probably deflation before he started up um his whole operation down there so he brought a lot of of a lot of success and a lot of money and a lot of jobs to the area and and kept people in the area that maybe would have left it all the way so there is a huge degree of loyalty for him um around that calving from on a border area and it still remains even though he is he is no longer um so you're not there yeah and i'm not saying suggestion for a moment that it's connected but obviously after the convictions following the uh kidnap and torture of of kevin lonnie i seem to recall that uh you know police and gardy were still keen to find out who might be calling the shots who would be pulling the strings on such activities yes very much so i think that is still an ongoing um investigation and they are still looking to find out who was who was telling the people to do what they actually done um but as of yet there has been been nothing um concrete on that all right listen kiran thanks very much for your time this morning i appreciate it greatly clear kiran flaherty senior reporter with the impartial reporter just giving us a little bit more detail on that story which as i say feels like a a tv documentary uh unfolding um sort of in real time if that makes sense good morning greg i use netflix and fans that once you've watched the few things you wanted to watch there's not much else to choose from so i'm giving up my subscription these new rules are a sign that they are not doing too well but will you give up your subscription you see i wonder because i think a lot of people have been going on this this latest price increase is just the last row i'm going to cancel it but do people do it as far as i can see a lot of it stuff is you can get in the bbci player itv hub or on on the channel for player and then there's a few high profile stuff things um that uh are on it of course but i think most people are interested in that stuff has watched it already and then the films are you know the exactly uh recent blockbusters from our perspective netflix 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typical practice with this zoom is this musion if i get through one show without having to ask i would be very disappointed so it's you today um can we talk to me about these these calls for a merger between in a show and tourism and uh falcha uh sorry falcha island donagall tourism and in a show and tourism what's being proposed here okay but it's very interesting to see the reports in the local newspaper here recently calls made for in a show and donagall tourism to merge and everything so what we're doing basically is i'm chair of explore in a show and we're looking at the whole tourism thing around in a show and in a show was absolutely fantastic beautiful sitting here today looking out the window and how stunning it actually is now just to give people a wee bit of background to explore in a show and clg is a company that started a couple of years ago in order to receive funding for the promotion of the in a show and peninsula but we also have another organization which is linked to donagall county council with which is donagall tourism clg as well so they're two completely separate entities okay and funded in very very different ways now explore in a show and are made up from trade members that actually live in a show work in a show and have their in a show businesses here and we're tasked with the promotion of in a show but we don't really have a lot of means to be able to do that we don't really have an incredible amount of funding to be able to do that and we kind of limp along and limp along so i can see where this call for a marriage you know is probably an idea emanating from somewhere and i am on the board um of exploring a show and it kind of took me by surprise to see this in the newspaper um but i'm really glad to see that the county councils are paying a little bit of attention to tourism in in a show i don't want to stoke anything but you were not consulted or this was not discussed at all the first you heard about this was you know with the board of directors of exploring a show but we're very open to any suggestions that might be made um for any support that we can actually receive from county councils or from donningall county council or from donningall tourism now we do your best to work in partnership with donningall tourism with belchia ireland and we are delighted to see that there is a focus on in a show yeah but what was the why was exploring a show and formed in the first place i mean my my presumption would be that it was felt that in a show maybe wasn't getting a fair crack of the whip and needed a standalone organization to try and drive tourism on the peninsula that would be what i would have guessed to be the reason is that the case well historically speaking in a show um would have previously received funding from publ a different organization that was to do with tourism they received um funding from publ and that organization was actually disbanded now that money was potentially there for the peninsula so the history of that is in a show and development partnership um worked very very hard both andrew ward and shone clenham to bring together people in the trade to reestablish a new organization called in a show and explore in a show and c lg in order to keep that 100 roughly i think 100 grand a year coming into the peninsula to promote promote the peninsula so that's where we came from um to to kind of ensure that that tranche of funding still came into the peninsula to promote the peninsula and we're happy to say that we have a brand new brochure the team have worked incredibly hard there are over 80 different tourism providers that have bought into this brochure and we have a fantastic um building which is about to be renovated we received a grant to renovate that building and those works are imminent so we're slowly and i suppose stealthily working away in the background around the promotion of in a show and then that that building will the the works are about to start there eminently um so it'll be a newly refurbished building as well that we're operating out um canceler uh jan and mcginnis will be joining us shortly he's quoted as saying i think in a shown tourism needs to be taken over in total and that includes the funding in the backing fighting for crumbs that is all has be it has been it seems in a shown tourism has never had the funding i've had many years experience of this scraping and scraping and trying to uh sick projects together and the yearly conflict of what could be funded do you think that's a fair assessment i think johnny might be referring to um the time that he was involved in tourism uh and he was actually the chair of the previous organization so he understands the struggles that were there about that organization that organization was then um i suppose disbanded it was a complex organization and its shareholders and there were lots of controversy over that organization we're absolutely brand new we are receiving similar funding to what they received previously however there are different business proposals that we are examining at the minute that could indeed become quite sustainable for exploring a show this crossing in the newspaper i actually mentioned the parking of motorhomes um at the back and why we aren't actually receiving revenue from from that and basically it's not ours we are a community entity where it's not our care park the council owns a care park but we have as a board discussed a business sustainability for exploring a show which includes motorhome traded income now very interesting when niggas crossin called for this we met as a delegation donnie gall campers association met as a delegation many many years ago salmon vault and caravan and camping and suggested that fees be taken from this motorhome parking we predicted what was going to come along so we see a niche there we see um value traded income for exploring a show and i put together a full business sustainability because here's the thing we have to get everything right it's a fantastic revenue stream for us i've worked out the figures if we were to charge 20 euro a night we would have 16 and a half thousand and that's at a 20 percent so before we so is it possible here as i'm not trying to stir anything is it possible here especially considering that i see referenced an awful lot the former company not exploring shown is there maybe a slight lack of understanding by some counsellors as to precisely what exploring shown isn't what it does now i think there is the possibility that they need to meet with us and then you just okay well let's bring in counsellor uh johnny mcginnis good morning counsellor good morning greg how are you i'm great now obviously you know um you've raised the issue christina is happy for this conversation to be happening but why did you not speak to explore any shown before effectively calling for it to be uh disbanded and overhauled at the council meeting well i didn't say disbanded greg have to sorry amalgamated then amalgamated amalgamated yeah well i was sitting at the dunning all tourism clg of which i'm a member of and i sat on it previously back in 2015 through to actually 2010 to 2015 and i saw an application coming in for a food festival on behalf explorer in the shown and they didn't get the funding actually the funding application went into the development fund initiative which is a small bursary of funding that the counsellors have to to give out to small charities that are based in the shown here and i just thought to myself you know this isn't the appropriate place for explorer in the shown to be looking for funding to put on a very important festival that they were trying to organize and it just it just came to me again and it dawned on me that that nothing has really changed here that the the new entity in which i congratulate christina and the idp for putting together and i wish them all the best and luck in the future but i just feel that they haven't got the appropriate funding that they need and when they're applying to something like the development fund initiative or the members fund initiative for important projects like the one that they had it's not the appropriate place you know seek funding and they shouldn't have to seek funding from that body as far as i'm concerned they should get the equal funding like every other part of the county gets through dunning all tourism and if that means that there needs to be an amalgamation then in my opinion that's what should happen and i hope that it's not taken up wrong i wish the best for initial and tourism i speak to many providers on a weekly basis and there's just a frustration there that the funding isn't there and the support isn't there okay let's just very important thing let's just make sure hasn't been taken up wrong christina do you take the councillors point there great i do take the councillors point and i'm going to put this up to all the councillors and then i show them what are you doing to support explore and show them and to support tourism in this particular peninsula you are part of the council online councillors and then i show them what are you doing there's no good and common and common in the paper as to we need this and we need that what are you actually doing in a practical manner i mean if we have failed in our applications to receive funding for something like a food festival then what are the proposals that the councillors are going to put that why johnny why do you not assist and and and help and and put down motions and saying this isn't good enough they should be able to access that and the other why not go down that route rather than going into a meeting and and saying you know effectively let's get shot of of in a shown tourism whereas it's called now um explore explore in a shown and amalgamated with donagall tourism is that not sort of jumping about five steps ahead and not given the current people involved the fair support and cracker that they probably deserve um when i say the amalgamate i'm talking from a funding perspective and when you become a subsidiary of donagall tourism it doesn't mean the people that are there giving up all their time to organize everything i'm not sure if this is a direct quote but you say i think in a shown tourism needs to be taken over in total it needs to be funded in total okay you're taking that you've came to that context my wishes are that the current guys the current visit in a shown or explore in a shown that it's currently treating us they need the full support of the full budget that goes towards tourism within the peninsula and within the county as a as a whole and until such time as they're playing on an equal playing field with the rest of the county and the rest of the country and it's going to be very hard for them to promote the area to the best of their ability okay let's bring christina back in there yep i would be everything on my power to assist christina i'm very happy to assist and it just seems strange to me that you're saying it now i would have thought have a meeting beforehand get their reviews find out what needs to be done and say i'm here working alongside explore in a shown this is what we have met and this is what we think and bring that to the council that i would have thought that would have been the uh but anyway it's not for me to say christina what do you what did you want to come back there with the staff of explore in a shown have been beaver and away and doing their absolute best and they've had two years of covid lockdown we have minimal funding etc we have an unbelievable peninsula there's an incredible investment coming into the peninsula with dunray and their recent announcements of their development plans etc there's a focus on the shown at the minute by falcha ireland which we never had a focus like it before we're here we're exploring a show and we're made up of the trade we're promoting the trade of those things we want the counselors on board with this as well and we want to know what you're going to do in order to represent us as the trade and the organization and explore and in a show that's promoting in a show okay last 30 seconds do you cancel them again us i'm happy to meet and put a plan forward and to support you in any which way i can and i'm sure the other eight countries and then the show peninsula will put their shoulder behind the wheel as well but we certainly do need dunagill tourism and central government to fund everything tourism related and in a shown we can't be left wanting for the funding necessary to put our best foot forward and we have the most fantastic area in the country to promote with the most fantastic providers of insurance of services in the tourism industry with the most fantastic accommodation and it's just we've got so much to offer that you couldn't list them all at this moment in time we need the financial backing of the central government dunagill tourism falcha ireland all the stakeholders promoting us in the best foot forward you agree with that christina tonight is that we are looking at a very exciting time over the next five years and in a show and we need all shoulders to the way that we need all counselors supporting whatever projects we but do you think chris do you think finally just very fun explore in a show and it's a stand alone but body has an important role to play in that christina absolutely incredibly important role to play in that however it is supported do you get me okay it's not how you support it it has a job to do it's doing its job well okay and counselling again it seems to see see a future for that as well didn't you johnny you said that without a shadow without right okay what i'm saying is christina and our team needs the financial backing that the rest of the country enjoys and however we we we achieve that goal i'm 100 behind okay and i'm ready to call for a meeting with all the counselors and we'll see what plans come up in the development and we'll report back to you in a few months thank you very much indeed both of you i really appreciate that oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand back after the news at ten delayed by a minute my apologies live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news thanks Greg good morning president putin has given orders to blockade the last remaining ukrainian held area of marieupol deciding not to storm it russia's defense minister says there are around 2000 ukrainian troops at a steel plant which has become the last stand for kiv's forces in the area earlier a top ally of latimer putin claimed masco's military would seize the city in the southeast of ukraine today uri sak the spokesperson for ukrain's ministry of defense says the russian offensive is becoming more vicious by the day right they're using cluster ammunition they're using prohibited bombs they're throwing them at not just at our military but also a residential area so from this perspective we understand that since russians apparently are desperate to get some military success before the may nine which will be their so-called victory day a man who suffered had injuries in an assault in sligo has died the man who was edged in his late 30s was attacked on rockwood parade area of the town on tuesday evening he was initially treated at sligo hospital but was then transferred to bowmont and dublin where he was later pronounced dead gar thee are treating his death as suspicious and a post mortem will be carried out later today the pro of the mica action group says the possibility of the mica redress scheme being extended to other parts of the country is not surprising donnie gall has been deemed the epicenter of the crisis however the irish times quotes an unpublished report from the expert group investigating mica that states engineers are reporting similar issues in other counties p.r.o michael doherty says there's an onus on td's nationwide to rally behind the issue to get the best possible scheme over the line other td's in other counties that thought they were immune from all this need to wake up and smell the coffee need to get the shoulder to the wheel and get the best possible scheme we can over the line because it's not just a scheme for donnie gall this is a scheme for every affected county and by the time we're finished we just don't know where that ends so now's the time to make their presence felt and not just ignore uh donnie gall who have done all the heavy lifting so far i might add but this time they put the shoulder to the wheel gar thee took sean quinn's phone diary and boxes of items from his home in county cavern yesterday officers carried out a search of the former billionaire's property in bali connell it was part of an investigation into alleged criminal activity in the border region but no arrests were made karen flaherty from the impartial reporter and kaidi firmana says the precise details are unclear sean quinn himself has came out and said that he wasn't sure what the search was about and he wasn't given any really straight answers when he spoke to the bbc yesterday afternoon and he called it a fishing expedition and so there is no real further information from him on what happened but we do know that they took away his phone some books and a lot of of other things from the house as part of that search the cabinet has approved plans for stalking to become a standalone criminal offence with a prison sentence of up to 10 years the legislation is expected to pass the doll and shan't by the end of the year justice minister helen mackinty brought a memo to cabinet yesterday which was backed by other ministers been a false senator lisa chambers says the crime will be severely punished currently if you are stalked in this country you can only get justice through the current harassment laws so it will make stalking a standalone offence punishment will be up to 10 years in prison which is a significant sentence and what we have seen from other jurisdictions so england wales and scotland have legislated for stalking more than a decade ago there was a very real and direct impact from that legislation there was a trebling of reporting of stalking offenses and the donnie golly tb and uther osnagill ticked have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding it's set to build on a history of collaboration and an established partnership between the two organizations mackayla clark has more themes of the partnership are consistent with the strategic plans and strategic statements of both organizations these include working together to provide opportunities for training and education through the g-tech network and the network of dunningall etb f et centers promoting and supporting economic development and job creation it also includes working collaboratively on projects of mutual interest which will benefit the community in dunningall promoting and facilitating opportunities for community education at local level encouraging and empowering communities and individuals and providing them with the knowledge and skills to benefit from the county's natural resources and working with the guild talk companies to ensure that the workforce has the necessary skills to sustain and grow and working together to provide the guild talk community with apprenticeships a strategic planning group will be established and will meet quarterly to discuss the operation and strategic development of the partnership over the next five years whether now today will be mostly dry with hazy sunny spells developing and temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees we're back with the headlines at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for thursday morning the 21st of april the death has taken place of francis mcginnis late of tara green castle road movill funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has occurred of william james jim johnson number three rymahe heights manner conning him jim will be reposing at his late residence number three rymahe heights manner conning him from 11 o'clock this morning the wake is private pleas to family and close friends and private on the morning of the funeral funeral service at his late residence tomorrow afternoon at half past one with burial afterwards in gortley cemetery letter kenny family flowers only please donations in lou if desired to the donnie gall hospice letter kenny care of any family member or kelly's funeral directors oakfield refoe the death has taken place of james mcnulty mean more done low and formerly of rusky creasley his remains are reposing at the community grip home in mean more removal this evening at five o'clock going to st michael's church creasley for six o'clock where he will repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with internment afterwards in the local cemetery the death has taken place of tessie mcdade knee hegerty plong lash bon crana and formerly kenny go bali mcgan her remains are opposing at her late residence funeral from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 going to st mary's church cock hill for 11 o'clock requery and mass burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard family neighbors and friends welcome family flowers only please donations if desired to the irish cancer society and sight savers care of any family member the death has taken place of anna annie treese mcgrana hin knee morris 20 calvin a core view bali mcgory stirban reposing at her home funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at 20 past nine for requery and mass in the sacred heart church dairy road at 10 o'clock internment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations and louis flowers please to mary currie care of quigley funeral directors the requery and mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has occurred of junior armor 34 castle park bon crana his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral leaving there at quarter past 10 this morning 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your comments on our history talk with red hue old donnell get in touch with us on that as well and anything else you'd like to speak to us about a caller says there's no reason why a small group from any show and can't get funding for projects from central government there's no need for it to be forced to be taken over by a larger group to seek funding this could be a power grab i could be corrected lorry broken down on my gory's brain the main road from balabha faded on the goal it's sitting on the hill in a dangerous position and warning to drivers to be cautious and i would say you know particularly if you're listening to us coming from the donnell gole town direction you know people can come across the top of that hill at quite a rate of knots so just be cautious there you're talking effectively single lane or one and a half lanes just on a really dangerous stretch of road there both coming up it and going down it so if you're on the road please take note jared says is working in tourism and shown he leases one of the remaining thatch cottages there is no communication from counselors he's heard this news in the media there's no communication this is something that should have been discussed with people directly perhaps before raising it rather than sort of committing to support and meet after the fact but anyway look as long as they get there in the end and it's whatever is best for any show isn't that all that matters rather than maybe the personality side of it right okay good luck if you are playing the bingo today it is jackpot day i would love one of you to collect the nice pocket of cash heading into the weekend here are the numbers it's time for NCBI bingo on highland radio it's thursday the 21st of april jackpot day you're playing on a pink colored sheet the reference number is s19 it's game number 16 today's jackpot number is 31 today's jackpot is 6200 euro today's numbers are 16 89 74 24 57 32 39 30 33 and the number three phone your claim to 91048 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bishop uh john leslie who is the former bishop of the isles and uh the king uh granted him uh under the plantation of austere um the lands of the diocese of refo so he became the bishop of the church of ardent diocese of refo and um he had been a militiaman himself before he became a clergyman so he had been uh on the continent and saw many castles so he decided that he would like to have a grand fortified house like that himself so for that reason he um he set about uh with local um people obviously building it uh to replicate um a grand fortified dwelling for himself um now that's not to say he just wanted a big posh house he did need a defensive um base for for himself because as you can imagine you know there was always that threat uh you know from from the the various um anti um i suppose that the catholics and the protestants uh kings had great um war going on at that time so um you know that's that's basically the the the background when it was built it was didn't take very long to build it um and then it had a you know somewhat a a checkered history from from then onwards because um it had been attacked many times but it was attacked by the cromwellians it was attacked by the jackabites it was attacked by the confederates uh and then eventually attacked by the united irish men over its 200 years um then it burned down uh sometime in the 1800s by just an accidental fire and a turf salt fell out onto the wooden floor and burned the place down so after that it was never restored so it's been something there more or less crumbling and time of course time will will will take its toll it's it can't i mean it's one of there's not many castles uh in this country so it's it's it's very important uh for that reason and for the others that you've been outlining it's not going to be restored i presume so is this too slow uh you know the impacts of time to retain what is there for future generations is that the plan yeah well the plan uh this is the first time that um the department of heritage has issued grant aid for 100 but it has to come from the community so they're for community initiatives and community monuments now that's not to say the community own the monument um like doing fort that many castles many monuments are are on private property so the um the the funding at this stage is for a conservation management plan and that means uh a company from Dublin um Haley Hayes and Cooney who are experts in conservation planning they will come and do an assessment of what is needed um and how best to um savor the four walls because one of the few castles in Ireland that does still have its four walls down thing that is not a complete ruin and with just a you know some some of the elements of it left so that will be a reasonably big undertaking but not be invasive so there won't be any structural work carried out it will basically be you know telescopic cameras um there will be an archaeologist to assess if there's any archaeological evidence of other things there which you know there are suggestions that there was a round tower there so this may be the chance to determine whether that is the case or not that that was there before the castle nobody knows whether that's true or not um and then there'll be an environmentalist with them as well so there's you know let us know if there's you know rare plants because there was a walled garden attached to the castle we don't know what you know what evidence there is for things like that and and also you know the wildlife that might be there as well I mean it's kind of on cover even in this process before any work is really done sort of you know in terms of physical work it's going to further uncover uncover the history is it's going to be a lot learned through this process one would hope yes the world because they'll be able to look at the various layers of of building that went on because um while I I said John Leslie who actually went on then to to build castle Leslie uh so it's the same same uh bishop and um his building was not what you see today it has been added to by various other bishops who came to live there um and some of them put you know the the machinations at the top and the gun loops so you know it is various layers of building so it will tell us you know it's what it'll tell us a lot about the the building style and the the how experts they were which they were obviously because it's sitting there for 200 years with no cement and what do you think the future holds I'm not sure is there is there any safe public access at the moment it sounds like not but could that be a feature of the future I wonder well that would be the aspiration um the castle is not safe first of all um so anyone go near it um first of all they're on private land so that there is no access to the castle through private land that's not to say you know people do sneak in and if something falls on top of them then you know that that's um you know that's going to be a serious issue so what what we would like to see um down the road is that once the building which will be an enormous amount of money to do um once it is made safe and restored to a point at which it can be appreciated then we look at um how that can how that can evolve into um something like maybe mallow castle in county cork or carringford castle in county loaves which um you know have um access you know at points that's a conversation for another day obviously because this it would require the cooperation of of others so Mary just finally or in case you can add anything you wish to as well um there would come a point though whereby sort of a cost benefit analysis would have to be done I mean we can't say it's guaranteed can we that the money will be forthcoming to you know retain what is there to sure it up to make it safe either I mean it sounds like it could be very very expensive or does this allocation of funding mean that we we can sort of maybe optimistically hope for that to happen optimistically hope for that to happen um you know it's a case of you can't pay lip service to heritage and not you know put money on the table as far as the government is concerned so what we would like to see and and there are a lot of stakeholders um in this you know there there would be the you know the the community there will be the various heritage bodies there will be the you know the tourism bodies um and you know the archaeologists um around Ireland who who would be looking at the various castles this is a great opportunity and it would be a shame if it were not to move forward to secure the building which is which is basically the the hope that this that's what will happen that it will be protected that it will be made safe and that you know that the the government and others obviously the government may not put up the hundred percent which is highly unlikely so you know we will start looking to see then where and how we can find funding from other quarters to do that um it's just going to add to you know the whole um east Donnie Gaul um you know the the tourism element of east Donnie Gaul and since social media has uh been invented there's an awful lot of people doing drone shots of the castle and then that has prompted people saying oh why do we not get into this castle and it opens a whole new argument which to be honest you know um there's lots and lots of wonderful monuments in Ireland and they're not all um you know open to the public so what we would like that there is a point at which people can appreciate this and then it would be saved for future generations you know that's the importance it's not an important landmark um in east Donnie Gaul but also in Donnie Gaul itself okay listen Mary lovely chat to you thanks for that I appreciate it all right have a lovely one thank you take care okay bye bye that's Mary hot chair of the raffle community in action organization okay here is a reminder of the brilliant competition we have running on the 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give us a brief overview of when he roamed the land and a wee bit about him joe to get going well look i mean donnie golly's connected with donnie golly and we have football clubs you know e rua bali shannon then we have the other e rua club and then we have statue so he's quite well known as a name but who is he and what did he do i think with with the passing of years and times a lot of that has been lost unfortunately and and maybe you're particularly with our younger children growing up maybe the folklore and the stories haven't captured their mind as much because maybe it's not been told but it goes back to 1572 when he was born and he had a short life he only lived to be 29 a very interesting life his story if you were to make a film and there has been a a film made of a very poorly mind you kind of a what doesn't need a fighting prince of chair connell but again it had captured the minds of hollywood in america but there's heroism in it there's valor in it there's struggle in it there's you know fighting the enemy all that is in it and yet heroism and all that he embodied so so much as a young man and what he set out to achieve at a time um when when we were being beginning to be absolutely controlled by by british colonialism um and that basically it was a rua you could say was the last man standing that really was able to battle queen elizabeth um and then after that so we know what's happened with her own history with uh the plantation of olster and subsequently so he was very very significant as an individual um and a very inspiring man might i add okay so as we move forward with the conversation then joe how much are you going to be telling us that is factual in other words that it's documented that we can trust and how much will be conversation that's been passed down through the the generations would you say oh well we're very very fortunate that there was a life he ruled on was written shortly after his death sometime around 1616 by luke o'clarie who would have known him and he subsequently got about 960 acres and kill mcrennan around that area and he wrote a life um and dated it and it basically detailed the nine years war detailed everything he did his military military strategy his successes um a very very interesting life and in fact the life really lay unknown for almost up until the 1890s and then it was published it's lying in the royal age academy the manuscript it was put into the i did act it and put into the royal the annals of the four masters took information out of it but it was not until deniz morphe the reverend deniz morphe in 1895 did an english version of it that it became um more widely known and then again and later on um a father paul walsh uh i think as he was a priest as well he wrote baha he wrote and again these are available from the royal age academy paid a body of 15 euro for a person unbelievable and you know i'd love i would love it was it was abbreviated in some way and given to our national school children to read it is full of stories of stuff that would inspire our young people to be the the hero that he was in many ways and great virtues and values that he had and it just goes to show the importance of people you know uh exploring history writing about history in the first instance but exploring it and having an interest and bringing it to the masses as much as it's done so and there's people doing that right now and you're among them i'm sure uh dr kelly do you know what i mean it's not maybe the importance of certain work it's not doesn't seem as important right now uh but look what we're about to discuss it's based off the back of one person discovering something and and feeling that it was of public interest well you know marthe neuter says we don't make history we are defined by history marthe neuter king and like you're just previous uh interview there and was about the castle and castle leslie and so forth like we live in history and history shapes us um but look that maybe is for for another day um but certainly huo donal is someone that that donnie gall people can be very proud of and you know when the national anthem has been decided and maybe it will be we decided in the united ireland uh the o'donnell boo i think the the marching sound is is absolutely fabulous and you know when donnie gall go out onto the football field you'll see it with the sunday game uh it brings back that whole passion that whole fight that that whole spirit and and like these men are going out on the field to to battle for football but really it brings back the whole history maybe of the nine years war in 1593 to uh 1603 actually was 10 years but it was called the nine years war okay that's a sticker for a sticker for detail right so uh talk to us about red huey's family what he was born into his early life well hey look he was born into royalty um his father uh was huo donal and then his mother was ening do we talked before about her and she was one of the mcdonald's she was known as the theona mcdonald but ening do she was a very wise swoon woman and really she was the woman that that made him who he was and we maybe talk about that in a while but he was brought born into that but the father um had a symptom for fosterage and that was the system they had the time to create alliances that they would send their son to another lord to be reared and then over time then those families would be joined in in military strength and and loyal to each other and it was as part of that he was with the mcsweeney's up around your part of the world uh Greg um uh kelly begs up in that direction the sweeney's were up there and there was a number of sweeney clans but one of the things that they did they would have gone to pilgrimage to the carmelite monastery in rath mullen and dedicated to the blessed virgin marie and this would have been maybe an annual thing and so he was in fosterage and so he went with them and the gallehers of bali shannon was a kind of a big family clan gathering so while they were there a spanish ship and people would know that supposedly came with wine and it wasn't a spanish ship at all it was an igneous ship uh they took in some wine on shore and said look if you want more come out down to the boat and basically that was the way they captured iruha uh he once they knew they had him on board what age would he've been at that point would 15 so he was being he was uh he was kidnapped uh as leveraged then presumably oh yes but it wasn't even that they were so so afraid you see there was prophecies and everything about this young man that was coming uh iruha you know and they were so so afraid of him and at the time dunny gall had not the english had not captured dunny galleh had tried to control every other county but dunny galleh you wonder then why we vote no to referendum we were we were kind of still connected to our history so sorry it's fascinating so the the capture of red hue old donnell was pre-emptive really uh to to get in there before what before what they thought he would come become yeah yeah and the the fear was that he would unite with the o'neils who they were trying to placate as well and matthew would have been uh you o'neils son was sent to be raired in england would have learned the igneous system was raired by elizabeth he was to go back and he'd be a good lawyer uh british subject but uh when when hue old donnell as we know he went to doubling castley was held captive there he tried to escape and in fairness hue o'neil tried to use bribes and other ways of having him released he even sent 30 of the spanish we talked about the spanish or mad at 30 of the spanish sailors to doubling castley and hoped that this would be a trade-off but no and he tried to just before we get to that because you did we did talk about this uh this is around the same time so presumably the spanish sailors who were seeking refuge in donnell goll who made the way to sure after the sinking of their ships or if they're able to sell them in they were they weren't hostiles they were brought in uh they would have been brought in would they have uh and fed and watered um and as we know we talked about how some of them maybe you know stayed around the place was that were they turned on like they were then taken to doubling against their will to be used or potentially to be used as a bargaining chip for red hue old donnell's release generally donny goll as in the the donny goll owned areas each chiron as tyrone uh any zone and some of o donnell's land would have and o'neil's land wouldn't be as we know as the county today of donny goll and um o'neill had handed them over now in relation to the goll most of the spanish sailors that arrived in donny goll were safe um most of the sailors that arrived in slago were slaughtered so the english didn't know what these were they going to regroup the spanish armada was there going to be another attack um and at the time o'neil was in in good standing with the british and wanted to stay on the right side to be attacked you got to remember that the population of also would have been very small the population donny goll and and tyrone would have been small and the available manhood would have been small and so when english did events he sent about 20 000 men like donny goll and tyrone didn't have that overrun yeah yeah um so they were playing politics uh yes unfortunately some of the spanish they were centered up in calisthen they were all beheaded or hung they were all executed um but but red hue made an attempt to escape he failed the first time and then in the same year of 1591 and the christmas of that year he did escape and he went out into the wester mountains but unfortunately some of the men that were with him they didn't fare out too well um art um o'neil i think he died and another man that was with him survived but red hue lost both his his big toes and because of frostbite he nearly died himself they were poorly clad and hadn't the proper attire for the frost that that came those nights when they were in the forest but look what he was resting this added to his reputation at the time did it that you know this person incarcerated manages to escape not everyone made it battling frost but still managed to manage to uh yep yeah you can just see how it's that you can just see how the the the legend grows aye and and there isn't there's no doubt about that and even they call him killer and prophesies the arrival of this man and that there'd be nine years and that he would ruin all the kingdoms around us and england and and the british so the british were aware of this and now he escapes and even with all this hardship of his youth he was really a young man 17 and very very young uh he'd survived he'd survived the frost and he comes back to dunigal and his mother in indian this is what we talked about in the beginning kind of set it up that he would now become the chieftain uh his father had become senile and it was during that time that the english had run havoc in ireland or in dunigal they had controlled dunigal they had gone in and pillaged the place from time to time and there was no really big defense put up because Hugh's father wasn't meant as compass he wasn't in fit mind so she arranged that he would be inaugurated and and doing well in may 1592 and he was made the chieftain of the odonals how would that have been received though because he would have been out of the scene for some while a young person missed out maybe on a lot of the the formative years for this type of a role did people buy it or were they were they going well this is not the right man for the right job at this time well three things maybe number one was the prophecies and they were there that would that were waited uh which would have played on people's minds the second thing was that he had endured so much and had come through it um and his mother had so to speak made sure that she was setting the stage for him if he were to return and then finally himself he seemed to have been a smart capable young man even in his very young years he had gone into war with his father and had proved himself to be a very um tactically smart individual very interesting his when he was inaugurated suffering has hardened my heart and illuminated my mind this is what he said the snows of chair cullen this is what you'd said when he was in in weklo may have damaged my feet but not damaged my understanding um and he said there is light in my mind and there's fire in my blood he spoke very heroic and patriotic well uh vibrant language and he talked about the true god and that he knew who his enemies were um and that he was really he was a true gale so he there was a fighting spirit within him and almost immediately when he took control uh he went to round ross now and he told the english basically i'm coming back tomorrow with my army be gone don't take anything that you didn't bring into the county away was if you do i'm going to pursue you and when he came back the next day they were gone and how big would his army likely have been and how would they travel for example as well to and from where by foot he would have gathered probably the manhood that was available to available to him around dunny gall as in dunny gall town that area but again uh there would have been and we'll see this maybe later that there were the gallow glasses like milford is known as bala and the gallow gall is foreigner and ogla ogla means young person the town of the young foreigners the idea that scottish mercenaries who were connected with the oneles and the old donals would have come across to help them to fight um because as i said earlier the manhood of of dunny gall and tarone wouldn't have been sufficient and these were always available and when they needed them to fight they would come and then they would go away again and then they would come back again so this was the way and even do having that connection with scotland and obviously was was an excellent arsenal for him to be able to use in times of of crisis and when he needed more men um but look he started out and and he basically had the idea of expansion and to root the english and he started out from dunny gall and he moved right down into clear on in the space so when he cleared ross now as uh were were were people rehoused in the properties that left behind them and and did they did anyone ever come back to to try and sort of reclaim what was left behind i think that it was more that the british were trying to control or i shouldn't say the british the english were trying to control with an army in a base it wasn't so much that they were trying to control the people or take their hands it was a location a military location yeah i went back to slago and that put pressure then on saying on his skilling and and the areas then further down because the the anglies then had become more concentrated in their efforts further out of dunny gall and and so for that reason then he o'donnell was quite willing to aid other lords in the area and and and connect and say look i'm here for you and i'm going to help me and he tried to unite them um and like he began an expansionary move in 1595 and he made raids on english castles and ross common in longford he captured 13 british castles or strongholds and connect i mean this is log beginning in his baha and his life and maybe it's hard to quantify but like we talk about michael collins and he was a he was only in 28 or so he was a very very young man as well he really was 19 but his success considering the limited resources he had the limited army he had are comparable to what michael collins achieved you know and and he is of that of that labor or that level and that mindset his his shrewdness his well that's what i'm saying there's clear tactical issues i mean he wouldn't be making these decisions on his own either presumably he would have had council uh and i'm not in any way trying to to take away from from from what we've seen is his achievements but it would be it wouldn't be like a solar run presumably i'm sure he had the support and the help of others and probably the advice but tactically i think a lot of them would have been down to himself like he was smart he used to kind of he would send in some horsemen into the british army to entice them and then he would retreat by the way and they would follow in the retreat and then he would ambush them from behind and ambush them on the front and they were caught both ways he would he would surround castles send in two or three men just for a chase yes and they would send men out and then he would go back in and capture the castle he had all these little tactics and like there's no question about some of the battles that he said he won you know the battle of the curly past that big statue or have you ever seen him go into boil of Eru on top of the horse like that was one of the you know tactically smartest the um battles ever the way he he succeeded in drawing the English thinking that they they were safe and then they weren't and he also had other battles as well where the yellow four probably in 1598 was probably the greatest victory and it was probably the the victory that the English suffered most in and all their times in Irish history but the battle of the yellow four he was outnumbered and yet he knew how to use the mountains and the landscape and he knew how to attack and withdraw and retreat and regroup and it was amazing uh his his it's unbelievable what he was able able to achieve at such a young age and I would say probably long after that there were there were those that looked at the tactics he employed and probably employed them in a modern context truly fascinating stuff this is all happening too while he's still in his 20s and unfortunately he didn't make his 30s was he a success throughout the rest the remainder of his life then obviously seen as such or was there any downfall of his and if so what was it unfortunately like like many true heroes of our history we they never got to live in in old age you know I think of Michael Collins we mentioned Patrick Pierce think of any of the great heroes they never get to live to their old age and and maybe that's the curse of of being such an endowed person with so many gifts he he'd hoped for Spanish help and they had been in touch with Spain Philip II who was the king who had sent the armada and he'd constantly been in touch and in fairness to Philip II he had sent a bishop to Erua and to who O'Neill as well to tell them to hold out and that he would send an army in the meantime they were letting on to the the English that they were going to negotiate and have peace and they were trying to drag this out but the English soon realized that look this was a tactic for time and and the Spanish he sent a number of of of messengers and but Philip died in 1598 and then it was Philip III his son that succeeded and they did send an army we all know in 1601 the battle of Kinsale and he O'Neill at this day or he would also at this stage had had been done and conduct he O'Neill went down through Ulster down into the Midlands and down to to Kinsale but unfortunately the British knew that they were coming and were waiting for them at sent their army and in the meantime Doura had a the British general had arrived in Derry with 4000 army and true to true to Irish history Neil Garev O'Donnell who was a cousin of Erua Erua O'Donnell's betrayed him and joined the British and while Hugh was out of the county Neil Garev who actually was married to Hugh's sister she said she left him after this he then so to speak came from from Derry, Lifford right into Donegal and through Barnas into Donegal and basically disinherited or undead all E's work while he was down in Connaught and at this stage the battle happened he realised he couldn't won the battle and and he he'd nowhere to go back to so he decided to go to Spain in the hope of getting an army so this was a spurt he had that he would get from there. And just in the last two minutes how did he die? Some say that there was a plague involved in poisoning but research would show recent research would show that it was in testing and infection he had a fever and he died from that at a very very young age 20 29 and he got given a full royal burial in Furnace and where he was buried was the capital of Spain at the time and the King Philip gave him all the proper dignified burial and he was buried in a Franciscan convent there where they believe actually Christopher Columbus was built that's by Duhlid it's just north of Madrid today and the listener says they saw a bridge in Madrid heading for the airport called O'Donnell Bridge. Yeah a coincidence or likely to be connected? Oh probably true yeah yeah again we you know we talk about tourism there there's so much we could do particularly with the Spanish or Madra the O'Donnell that whole connection and they were excavating a bank Santander there in Spain when they found the old monastery and they found some of the bodies and they're looking for actually yeah because you know they say that you saw it still you see this is the problem we could go for hours you say something so interesting just as we have to wrap it up but that's fascinating. So he's easy enough to identify and that excavation has been ongoing and again the Spanish are excited about it and so should we. We really really should okay listen we can never dedicate enough time to talk about such a where is he in your top five he's in your top five where is he as a historical figure? I think he's up there with the best of them I think he's the Michael Collins of his time you're asking a difficult question because there's so many O'Donnells in Donegal out of John O'Donnell or Councillor O'Donnell or someone giving that to you if not putting them as number one but look from a historical teaching point of view and as a parent I think he has so much to offer our children and wouldn't be lovely and Donegal County Council do a lot of good work and maybe someone out there with the company are sponsoring something like republishing a child's version abbreviated version of the life of feud on to inspire young people because he had all the good values and virtues that we should be trying to foster in her children to be strong to be committed you know to love your country and your language and your people and to do what's right I think he was a very honorable upright man and so when you ask me where is he he's up there with the best of them and one could be so proud to be claim him as one of our own. Dr Joe Kelly as always thank you so very much indeed that was history recall there all right there's never enough time you could just talk and talk and talk and be learning all the time all right it's just a little after 11 o'clock it's time for a news update and we say good morning once again to Catherine Gaffney. Thanks Greg good morning President Putin has given orders to blockade the last remaining Ukrainian held area of Mariupol deciding not to storm it. Russia's Defence Minister says there are around 2,000 Ukrainian troops at a steel plant which has become the last stand for Kiev's forces in the area. A man who suffered head injuries in an assault and Sligo has died. The man who was aged in his late 30s was attacked in Rockwood Parade area of the town on Tuesday evening. A 22 year old man charged with murdering two men in Sligo will appear in court again today. Yusuf Polanyi is also accused of assaulting a third man. The cabinet has approved plans for stalking to become a standalone criminal offence with a prison sentence of up to 10 years. The legislation is expected to pass the thaw and shanage by the end of the year. Donegal E.T.B and Uther Osnagil-Tukta have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding. It's set to build on a history of collaboration and an established partnership between the two organizations. Unionists will continue their campaign against the Northern Ireland Protocol this evening with a protest in Castle Durg. It comes two weeks before the storm and elections on the 5th of May and it's hoped that new funding for Rafoe Castle will help promote East Donegal tourism further. Almost 30,000 euro was awarded to the Rafoe community in Action Grip for a conservation report on the Bishops Palace this week. That's it for now we're back with more at 12 noon. 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stolen and are used for these scams are our victims too amongst them uh james blake james thank you very much for joining us and good morning to you hi gregg good morning how are you i am doing good i'm good doing good so what are you from pelfast of course and uh run a digital marketing company so we appreciate you taking your time and if you busy day to speak to us so when did you realize something was up yeah so it probably all started about a year ago um and it it kind of started with maybe one or two different fake profiles that were stealing content of my social media and at the time it was kind of a bit of a laugh and a bit of a joke amongst my friends and in the office and things um but then sort of overnight it just blew up and all of a sudden i was getting people sending me maybe five or six fake profiles a day um using my photos my name and even pictures of my family pictures of my staff all that kind of stuff so presumably they had really gone through all of your stuff to uh you know do the scam wherever they can say you know this is me here this is me there i'm at work so they need you in all different situations to be able to keep the the scam going so the person they're interacting with thinks they're interacting with a real person absolutely and they actually basically set up a whole online life um using all of my photos my name they they set up dating profiles they set up instagrams facebook's whatsapp's they they they effectively just created a whole online life um using all of my imagery and and all the info about me even mentioned in my business but saying that it was a cryptocurrency company rather than a digital marketing company so people were getting confused between the two and trusting them as proper business people and things so it was a bit crazy yeah and of course you know as you mentioned in the beginning uh it's a bit of a laugh but it must there must have come a time though where you thought that hold on your second this is a real violation of me and then you know start wondering well these images and this life is being used to ruin other people's life you know very quickly they imagine it sort of turns into something completely different James absolutely and you know it did get to the point where I was receiving messages every day from different women all around the world Spain America as far as even like Argentina and things like this where women thought they were chatting to me and then they came across my actual profile um and then sent me these horrible messages screenshots of um these fake accounts basically um trying to build up rapport with them some of them had shattered to the fake accounts for months and then all of a sudden the question came across off well you know for example how do you how do you afford to have a Lamborghini and then the fake profiles saying well I do bitcoin have you ever heard of it um and then all of a sudden they start asking them for money and they'll help them make more money and things like that so it was a massive scam and it it definitely came to head at one point when somebody sent me a screenshot when they had challenged one of the fake profiles and the fake profile replied with a passport photograph to try and prove their identity and they had actually physically created a fake passport with my picture in my name and date of birth and stuff so at that point it got really scary and that's whenever I contacted the police and things like that but unfortunately there's nothing they can do yeah and of course too if they're you know it's very clear to me and you having this conversation that you've got your digital marketing company marketing company does its work and and it's got a great reputation and all of that but there's also then you know even though it might be clear that you're not a cryptocurrency company that next thing you know your company name gets involved in a toxic article or something and that has to be a concern so it's very hard to to shift that even though it's blatantly obvious that you're being victimized yeah absolutely and that's that was a massive concern of mine as well as obviously I'm only 20 years old and I've been I've had this business for over six years now and I've been in business since I was 16 so it worked very very hard to build up a bit of a brand and to build up a bit of a reputation and things and it is scary to think that that can be affected by people all over you know these guys can be anywhere in the world and it's not just happened you know even once or 20 times or 50 times like there's hundreds of these profiles and they have scammed tens of thousands that one woman in Florida they nearly got a hundred thousand dollars offer and you know I even had somebody messaging me before asking for a receipt it's like a receipt for what and then there were like the the five thousand that I just give you for crypto and I was just like I'm so so sorry but you've been scammed and there's a bit of frustration there from the people that get scammed because they nearly think that I can do something about it and I have tried everything possible including talking to the platforms talking to the police but there'll be people also too James that'll go oh well there's a lot of money involved in here and how did they get access to all of his stuff and where did they get his passport you know even though it's again as I say it's blatantly obvious you have no involvement in this but if someone is out of their life savings they'll look for someone to blame and that's a human thing and and and they'll look towards you and the problem we have here too though is I mean you can't dedicate your life trying to get these accounts shut down as soon as what they've got this archive of your information your photos and what have you you know they're not going to just dump that in the bin they can just make another profile change the names around a bit and on it goes you know this is a this is a bit of a chain around your neck like no you're 100 right and you know at one point there was actually a point where I got very anxious about it all and I actually woke up and I was actually very upset because I woke up to multiple screenshots from different people from America and obviously their time zones different so it was all happening during the night I'm waking up and seeing all these messages first thing in the morning and I actually remember getting upset and thinking to myself I can't continue like this like this can't keep going on this is really starting to affect me and the problem then was obviously for for me I've got a good following online and I've worked hard to build that and it helps our business and all of that stuff part of me was like I just want to get off the internet and you know myself personally but then if I was to do that that then leaves a massive opportunity for one of these impersonators to just take my space and it's like what do you do you know it's pretty crazy yeah exactly um what's the solution to this though because I mean these social media companies are hard to deal with so one getting shut down might feel like a success but two could pop up in the same day for all you know I mean it's about how accounts are created here you know I mean that's what it comes down to the you know that someone has to prove their identity perhaps before establishing a dating account or or a social media account that's the only ways things like this can be they'll probably still get around it James but other than that it's it's it's it's they can do whatever they like from wherever they like behind a VPN or whatever yeah you're right um you know I've reported hundreds of profiles at this point I've also had my staff do it have had friends do it have had followers do it and even random people have done it that I don't know and they still are active and Instagram replies with they don't go against community guidelines which is pretty insane considering how could they not but it's an AI I think checking it I don't think it's actually someone physically checking it um and I think that's where the problem lies that I think these companies just they're so big that they nearly forget that they're human being users on these platforms and it's important to cater for these these people so I think that there's a big flaw there in their system and you know I've spoke to them and and hopefully by doing things like this as well it can raise a bit of awareness that will maybe prompt them to take a bit of action on it yeah exactly because someone has to take responsibility at some point it's the same as scam calls you know companies can create accounts in Dublin and use those to to scam calls and of course they can clone numbers they don't have to do that as much now as they used to in the past but but telephone companies make money off this they're likes a Facebook Tinder and all the others TikTok and wherever it might be I mean there's any end of places that your image and what could have you could end up but someone the only way this gets resolved if is someone's responsible that it's not the victim either the person that's had their identity stolen or it's not the victim who gets exploited someone has to be responsible at some point you're totally right there ha there has to be someone that's held accountable for what's going on and the you know I have to say that platforms have been different Tinder for example any profiles I've been sent I've reported them straight to Tinder and Tinder have removed them so Tinder have been fantastic and really responsive but it seems to be the big players like Facebook called meta that owns Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp they just do not seem to be responsive in the slightest and it's very frustrating you know especially as somebody who's in this space and you know we we work with Facebook on a daily basis we work with all of these platforms and still nothing is done so if somebody who is in this space and in this space daily can't get it done you know how is a normal person going to do that it doesn't have access to the same resources but the problem James is it's proved there's a will there's a way I think Tinder you know I'm not saying they're not they wouldn't do it anyway but because there is an element of hookup or meetup as well perhaps with Tinder that they may be there exactly and they think right if something happened to someone in person what would the blowback be in our company do you know what I mean and I think that I agree yeah so it just goes show if you're concerned enough these companies can these companies can find a way so what what what next for you obviously you're getting out there to try and I suppose to warn people maybe to embarrass these companies into action I mean there's not an awful lot you can do at this point really there's not I mean the the only thing that I have been doing as a fleet is we would do a lot of PR around our business and stuff anyway and I have been purposefully included in that you know like this is my official Instagram this is this anything else is a fake and thankfully that's that's worked you know we've been in some big publishers and magazines and newspapers and stuff and people have came to us and said thank god I read that because I had just spent two months talking to somebody who I thought was you um which is mad but we're in a cycle here and once this cycle closes what happens then afterwards because you know I'm just a quick word on Facebook as well like I'm constant the adverts on my Facebook from verified accounts are Ryan Tauberti uh talking about cryptocurrency uh uh Elon Musk do you know what I'm on about like yeah yeah they should be able to and these are from verified accounts as well they should be able to have some controls over it and if they could control that kind of stuff they could probably do more to control the situation you find yourself in no you're completely right you're completely right and just as of recently we had a one of the the scammers had created the vindicta investment agency we're vindicta digital marketing agency and they actually were running ads from the investment agency for crypto which is insane because they're using our logo our brand everything and Facebook allowed this to happen so we're currently talking with Facebook about this so there's just so many elements there and somebody does have that at some point as you say Greg go listen this is our fault we need to be accountable for this and we're going to take action and this is what we're going to do but so far there hasn't been any of that and it's just been a constant battle and it is one that makes everybody weary on every side you know because there's there's people losing money when they can't afford to lose money um and there's there's just like some I had a woman message me saying that she had a thousand dollars in her bank account and the scammer took eight hundred dollars leaving her with two hundred dollars to feed three of her kids for a full month and pay her rent which is not possible and to hear heartbreak and things like that really had someone makes you think wow like this is impacting people in a big way it's not just a silly big profile or something like that there's there's victims out there that the all right this is james congratulations on your your success by the way and all you've achieved at uh relatively young age 28 is not too young so don't be too cocky you know you're pushing 30 now yeah don't remind me don't remind me but listen and thanks for for joining us to try and help get that word out there because it's not just you uh it's other a lot of them are sort of relationship scams and and as well so it's it's it's people can keep an eye out for them exploiting you in trying to exploit others but a lot of people are victims of in terms of having all their photos and their life stolen from them so I think it's your uh help and be on just yourself so thank you very much for that I hope so I hope so all right take care of yourself continue to success james god bless all right james blake there oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and uh texts all right back with more on the nine till noon show after these the nine till noon show is brought to you in association with florid letter kenny celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value visit florid.ie COVID-19 can still cause serious illness especially in people at higher risk we need to keep protecting each other so stay home if you have symptoms wear a mask in healthcare settings public transport and busy places let fresh air in if you're meeting indoors keep hands clean and get a COVID-19 vaccine and booster let's keep looking out for each other from the hsc for us all clear mobile has 99 4g population coverage so where are people going out west with four bars and all doubling outside of 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in newspapers i heard them on the radio as a way to raise awareness of bowel cancer as april is bowel cancer awareness month and almost 2700 people in arnaud diagnosed with bowel cancer each year and the irish cancer societies urging people to be aware of the signs and the symptoms and test screen is going to help us to raise awareness for the test thank you very much for joining us thank you greg for having me it's good to have you on the program right okay so you were recently diagnosed with the bowel cancer test i'm obviously very sorry to hear that thank you did it come as a surprise i mean obviously there were symptoms but you're looking at other things i think particularly given your age i think a lot of the focus and adverts can be over a certain age and you're well under that test as much as you're comfortable in discussing it tell us your story yeah so i'd actually moved to dairy in the summertime and i'm starting a new job in september as a probation officer there my training is social work and so i had just started that in september and my daughter had also moved to college so there was a lot going on and i was in my final year as well of a psychotherapy degree so you know i suppose the fatigue would have kicked in first of all but i was able to write that off with all that was going on in my life at that time and i'd also just changed contraception so they had advised me that i would get cramps so when i was experiencing pain i was kind of going okay then and that's to do with the contraception and so i was taking neurofen and panadol to help with that now i wouldn't ever have tablets like that in my house and so when i started becoming constipated i was kind of putting it down then to having taken these painkillers so each one i was able to explain away you know and kind of building on it it was the perfect storm wasn't it the way the daisy changed to be the daisy changed to be anything but bowel cancer that's exactly it and i am celiac as well so you know i would have had irregularities there anyway so it wouldn't be any surprise to me to feel either constipation or diarrhea as well you know so again i was just one of those things and then because of so i had always wanted to be a probation officer and i'm so excited about my new job and loving it as well that i really didn't want to be anything other than just a wee blip but i do think too that being able to buy over-the-counter medication for the likes of constipation we minimise it in our heads but there's also a bit of a taboo there as well you know going to the doctors just because of constipation but actually it's the first sign of something not being okay and i think and it was COVID too and doctors are so under pressure there was that wee niggle bit of me that was thinking oh this is too simple to be going to get it seen to and and so then in early december i kind of the pain was just getting worse and worse and then i kind of progressed so on the 20th of december i went to the A&E department and that kind of just they started off with an x-ray and then they did an ultrasound and then we did a CT scan and at this point i kind of was thinking god what is happening why are they digging in so deep yeah yeah um and then they did a colonoscopy and it was strange because when i went in for the colonoscopy even though i couldn't see anybody i was actually able to read the room and i knew that they had still something that wasn't wasn't uh wasn't good um so i was taken up to the ward at that point this was by this was Tuesday evening at this stage and i was taken up to a ward and dr oboe um called me in and the team the his team were all there and the nurses and that and the stoma nurses and they were such support as well um but he just said and he was such a gentleman about it as well craig you know he was so clear and yet so calm and um and i felt in safe hands from from the very beginning and you know that's funny um that's you you know we often talk about the diagnosis as in i was told uh and then you know dealing with uh the the disease or illness or whatever it might be afterwards but i mean those moments like you know of knowing what was going on in the room the anxiety and all of that stuff i mean that's that's hard to deal with that's that that sticks with you that does because that's your life changes at that moment at that moment and the way he managed that was he would give me a snippet of the information that he had and he would he would stop and let that kind of settle and then we would move on to the next bit and i think at that point the only thing that was really making me cry was that i wasn't going to get home for for for christmas and my daughter um she was 18 at the time she just turned 19 there and although she's older we still have all those traditions and we have you know you just want to be with your family and the excitement and new job you want to be sticky you want to be going at that 100 the rug's pulled right from from underneath you absolutely so then uh like what does stage four bow bow cancer mean in terms of i mean i presume the stage one two three four i'm not sure if it goes beyond that yeah yeah what does that mean and so stage four that really kind of came to head but on january 18th when i got chatting to the oncologist because don't get me wrong google's great greg but when you actually go and start using it it's not great yeah google is far from great yeah it makes you panic you know there's information there but it makes you panic and it makes it it makes it simplified as well and that's not the case so i had actually put myself into a stage three category so when the oncologist said well actually no you are in stage four it hit me like a train and you know it really really did and so i had to i had to explain to him you know what stage four means to the layman person you know because that that is terminal to many people and he did say at that time that we have some hope um but then proceeded to talk about to kind of extend the life expectancy and you know things like that you must have been like we're not having this conversation here we're not talking about how long i have the whole time the whole time i was in hospital the whole time i was up on the a and a not once did cancer across my mind because especially bowel cancer it's bowel cancer to me was such an older person's cancer um and it just really shows and then as well like i'm i'm actually a vegan and i would eat plant based and there's a lot of that to craig out there where it's almost your own responsibility you know it's not that you bring it on yourself but you know your diet and your your health and your exercise and all that and and nobody like i would eat a very healthy diet and i was always exercising and yet this this has happened me and so that's why it never really entered my head when i was in the hospital that this could possibly be anything so it really came as a huge shock to me and then to hear it was stage four i was you know and the fact i had asked dr obai as well how long had this been going on you know inside my body or that's a great question yeah yeah and he placed it at six or seven months for a cancer to have started up to blocked to have blocked off the bowel as much as it had and to have spread to more than two thirds of the lymph nodes and to the peritoneum it was huge damage that are done in a very short space of time unbelievable and you had a major operation in january and you're going through your treatment at the moment still the operation was actually the following day because he wanted to operate that day that night because i it was so severe and the bowel had been so badly damaged they prepared me for a stoma bag but he decided that both of us needed a rest and neither of us had really slept that day and whatever so it was seven o'clock in the morning it was 11 our um operation on december 22nd um and but he managed to stitch me back up the the bowel back up without having the stoma bag now that took its own complications in january i had gastro colitis and i had a lot of pain i was actually hospitalized a couple of times a couple of times during that period but come february then i started to build myself up and on 14th of february started um quite a severe type of chemo so it's um one day in the in the oncology day services and it's um a type of chemo there and then i'm sent home for another two days with the chemo bottle so it's three days of chemo every two weeks that i'm receiving at the moment right and that will go on for at least 12 and then we'll review it and we'll see where we're at with that and if it's dependent on where it's all at that we'll go to 18 maybe if needs be right well hopefully everything goes the way it should yeah i mean and listening to your story test and it's it's uh fantastic for you to to speak out um and though that we all have to say don't put it down to something else or don't ignore it but listen to your story it doesn't sound like there's an awful lot more like there's nothing else there's not an awful lot you could have done if you know what i mean because you were told the change in the contraception was going to cause cramps it was it was quite quick as to how you know it went from an upset stomach or constipation to pain yeah you know i mean i don't know if you there's nothing it doesn't sound to me like there's an awful lot you could have done now there's awful lot we can do to keep an eye on it but this just it just went straight through you went for you sorry went for you didn't it yeah it really was just like wildfire actually um and i think that i have an instagram page as well greg that i'm just kind of showing the journey of it and that was one of the things that you know you can be dismissive but actually sometimes you need to sit down and maybe put it all together and we're not we're not medically trained most of us are not medically trained and that's when we need to say okay that's a few things that are happening all together and i need to go and get that get that seen to you know because like coming up to the last bit i couldn't have got any more prunes or stewed apples in me but you know if you talked about the the the medicine you might get and in the tiniest right in the back it will say probably something along the lines of you know if symptoms last longer than two or three days or whatever it might be c u g p but it is really seen as a self-medication issue isn't it it's not seen as something that it could be a potential flag no absolutely and i think too the fact that i am i was 38 when i was diagnosed i think that that needs to be really written home for for us all that this does not know your age it does not it does not discriminate because of a healthy diet or an unhealthy diet it is there it's it's it's possible to happen um and i think one of the things that i did say on my page as well was that you know get to know your own body and be in tune with that and be confident in that when you go into the gp that actually no i'm not happy was just taken over the you know medication or this doesn't feel right in my own body and i think that's really important that we learn to trust our own bodies again rather than google or rather than leaving it up to medics you know and there's a lot of there's a lot of uh particularly a lot of the symptoms of bowel cancer overlap overlap with a lot of other things as well yes right and you can quite easily if you're in the frame of mind say well it's not that it it's probably this this is one of those cancers whereby you can put it down to a ton of things yeah and we don't we we need not to be doing that we need to actually be saying hold on you second there's one or two or three red flags here it could be and we've you know the sooner you can get it looked at the better clearly yeah yeah now you didn't really get that opportunity but i mean for for for most others uh yes absolutely like no definitely and it's that being in tune but it's also kind of like the stigma around bowels and poo and all that you know you kind of like it's either seen as something that's funny or it's seen as something that's maybe dirty and and so you're people think it's embarrassing it's it's and you know what it's put into us probably from the age of one that's it that's exactly and then there's whose dirty it has to be hidden it's don't talk about it we'll hide and change a nappy and then we get a bag and we'll tide in a nice smelling bag and yeah you know it's in we were conditioned so early like that's right and like when my daughter was young i used to have we used to have a wee poo dance and i'm saying to my friend we need to bring back the poo dance you know bring that back but there are cultures around the world that will actually that actually have a small prayer that they say every time they go to the loo and it's because it's so important it's because there's it's a real sign that your body's functioning that you're okay um and and so yeah and and i think one of my main symptoms as well greg was that i was quite weepy and i was and i was feeling a wee bit down and um like i had studied nutrition years ago and back then we're talking about the link between the brain and the gut whereas now we have more and more research to say that the microbiome and the brain is just so linked that we really don't realize it and that was a clear sign that something was not okay in my gut and when i on my head was actually not not okay either so we we can we can do what we can do best and that's as you say learn your body trust your body understand the signs follow the signs i think it's important too isn't it that we are assured that medics gps and what have you are first points of contacts don't go well well you're under 50 or you're under 65 or you know uh because that's been a big focus of the the ads and i've listened to the ads and i did honestly kind of think right well this must be something that primarily affects older people but not exclusively not exclusively so the medical the medicals have to take note as well of what we're talking about and it's really great that the Irish Cancer Society have taken that on board because i've noticed a few people that's on their web pages and that it's young people Greg you know and it's getting that getting that idea of this being you know 60 70s 80s type of cancer out of out of our mindset and actually into the public domain that this can happen at any time you know yeah just to underline the symptoms side of things we were talking about the Irish Cancer Society did the survey of a thousand people now presumably of all age groups and ask them questions presumably about how they're feeling their bowel habits and what have you and they found that one in four of the people they spoke to have a potential symptom of bowel cancer but did not yet seek medical opinion 13 percent of people are very concerned about a bowel cancer diagnosis 40 so 13 percent so in other words it's not on our radar as something that's likely to happen i think that's what that means and 47 have some level of concern overall only one in four have ever spoke to the doctoral pharmacist about bowel health which is a figure that surprises me because there is there's quite a lot of intestinal bowel issues around i would have thought that figure would have been higher to be honest with you yeah it's really interesting because when i actually um first started getting really constipated and i was like what this has gone on so long i spoke to one of the girls at work about it and like i said i'd only work in there four months at the time and it was because i had taken it to her and i kind of like um concerned manner she met me straight away with a concerned manner and and explained to me that she too had had problems the year before so we all i mean we all we all do it so i mean why aren't we talking about it yeah she might have involved in that all herself yeah and it just showed me that we're all we all have that issue about it we can we can have experience issues but we're not talking about it until somebody comes to us and maybe gives their story as well so how important is it that somebody starts that ball rolling on a decent conversation about it yeah because you know who you you a space was opened up by you where she felt comfortable to to divulge something that she might not even be able to tell her partner or feel comfortable to tell my partner now i don't i'm not saying that's the case but you know what i mean just you opened the door and she was like wow okay i'm in a safe space not a safe space but you know what i mean i'm in a comfortable space now where i can actually say well this is you know yeah all right listen um i wish all the success uh with with with your treatment i'm sure it'll it'll work very well for you it's tough for you with it particularly with the young family and you know what i mean because you're balancing your emotions and i'm sure making sure everyone else is okay too yes you know you take it it does it rips it rips right through the family credit and we've been very fortunate that you know we we hadn't had really that much of an experience of it um especially in young cancer but it does affect it's the ripple effect that it has but all i i just hold on to that there is hope and i will make that the bigger part of the story for me um you know right to the end all right uh listen thank you so much for asking me no thank you it's it's it's been very interesting speaking to you and i think you've helped people and i think that's why you're doing this today yes and so in that regard you've done fantastic and i really appreciate it test thank you thank you all right take care that is uh Tess Green there from Dunlow um wonderful lady of course let's just say i've said it before um it's amazing when people speak out in their own personal crises to help others uh some of the symptoms of bowel cancer include a lasting change in your bowel habit given more often loose emotions or constipation so in um in Tess's instance it was constipation but more often uh going to the toilet more often and loose emotions uh can also be a sign blood in your poo or bleeding from your back passage pain or discomfort in your tummy area or back passage trapped wind or fullness in your tummy a lump in your tummy area or rectum feeling you've not emptied your bowel fully even after going to the toilet uh unexplained weight loss or feeling tired and breathless due to anemia which is a fever red bloods fewer red blood cells now all of those won't necessarily be present but someone for them could um and uh don't want to worry people but you know we can't not talk about these things uh either um thank you Tess for sharing your story what a lady great message to deliver be confident about knowing your own body stay well coming in from breeder in uh 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real starting to grow and it's real cheerful sound have you seen the likes of the cherry trees about the countryside all coming into fall bloom you know it's a good sign don't you um right okay so maybe people were cautious or leave it to late or maybe looking at if they are lucky to have a garden i'm thinking right i need to start doing stuff now what do they need to be getting out yeah pretty much if you haven't already done it now is a perfect time to do a bit of a tidy up and by doing a tidy up it's even spent a couple of hours at it it's actually amazing how much of a difference you can make and by actually getting in contact with it and doing wee jobs and you can see what sort of areas need attention for the coming year and it'll help you plan what you're going to do for the year yeah in terms of maintenance obviously if you've got grass cut in the grass uh bedding plants uh your your your flower beds now is the time to be what add a bit of fertilizer in there or yeah perfect any sort of general purpose fertilizer uh most of most of the shops are just gross kick and ass but this be a job for your world famous chicken poo yep that'll be it perfect that's it's a good it's a good organic fertilizer and it's very hard to overdose with it pretty much chemical fertilizers can do more harm than good sometimes and all jokes aside i mean i presume i mean we know the farming communities experiencing huge price rises in the fertilizer they acquire is it the same sort of with the more domestic used fertilizer yeah pretty much any chemical based stuff really is the same sort of the same increase most of them's like a hundred percent sort of increase whereas the likes of organic stuff the seaweed and the chicken poo as it hasn't seen the same sort of thing the bill maybe 10 to 20 percent yeah but it's not near the same huge increase so do you anticipate maybe this year above all other years maybe a more of a transition to the organic i think so i think more people are sort of getting in tune with it and they're actually seeing that the sort of more traditional things like the manure and the seaweed and stuff actually work just as well yeah and that's your view and you're in the business yes uh is that stuff readily available though pretty much the chemical fertilizers once again we would usually buy it say 30 40 bags at a time our suppliers are just giving us 10 at a time now because they can't get the stock so they're kind of spreading it among everybody to keep them happy yeah basically so it's not as readily available whereas once again the more organic stuff is the sort of the sea the chickens still do the same business so okay right okay in terms of sort of your outdoor planting then we talked about beds pots what can you be doing now that won't be wasted yeah pretty much there are if you have an occasion coming up like a wedding or something there are sort of spring flowers available for bed and plants that sort of stuff but really the summer stuff that is too early yet if you put them out now they may not particularly die but they'll kind of huff on you and they'll just sit there and they won't actually get very far so generally at the middle of sort of middle of May towards the end of May is perfect if you put in the summer stuff and by sacrifice in the week at this end of the year you'll probably make a month at the far end of the year all right um bedding plants though when we talk about bedding so what is bedding bedding is generally sort of most traditionally the stuff that was put into sort of the decorative beds like you've seen about the major big fancy houses now people generally go for pots window boxes yeah so that's bedding plants okay you're generally annuals so the last one season and then that's them and the temptation is as soon as it's sort of the mid teens and I think even maybe we had good weather about two weeks ago didn't we I think a lot of people and I can understand it want to get the bedding plants in because they want to make what they have look nice and it's just a wee bit too early is that what you're saying pretty much like a day today looks perfect it's sunny and it's actually quite warm outside and everything but like tonight could be down zero or below which is just that's going to take the growth out of them basically all right so haul off till May we're not far away now exactly in just a couple weeks to it because we talk about good and bad summers and all that kind of stuff but in terms of the basics of whether it is this relatively predictable yeah absolutely yeah generally mid-may around here you should be rid of the worst of the frost yeah I would hope so I don't like the word should in there okay right we're gonna get around to some more general advice but let's ask some questions coming in leather jackets in flower beds there's still a lot of plants still in flower yeah um leather jackets want to get a huge problem this year because there's been not a huge amount of hard frost usually does away with the sort of larvae that's in the ground so there are more chemical um alternatives coming back in the market that had been banned for a few years but they're going back but they're going to be very heavily regulated so it would be a job for a contractor describe to me what leather jacket is leather jackets are immature daddy long legs right it's like they fly about the for the summer they lay their eggs about august which hatch out of it say February or so and sort of pupa I think you call them they eat the roots of the grass basically so is their cycle being delayed now I mean are we seeing them later no that's pretty much now it's not a prime time to start doing their damage about mid-February and you don't actually realize it until the damage is done almost so now's the time when we start seeing it so really the only solution to them buggers is you can actually if you can get away of attracting them to the surface some people use black plastic or carpet then go ahead and down and remove it that'll actually they'll be all based on the surface and then starlings and stuff will come along and eat them off so that's your organic thing but it wouldn't be as full full proof show as I know and you're going to get them all and okay is there any way of preventing cows from eating the apples on my apple tree which is pretty random I'm not sure there's a thousand people out there with this problem pretty much the only sort of field proof way would be fencing like there's nothing that's going to deter a cow basically once the cow gets in so fencing off the area like this is not like snails or something where you can put out some garlic or whatever it might be there we would have if you had anything we'd have electric fence around us for a while yeah once again if you break the habit hopefully the cow would go somewhere else to find its dinner okay an apple a day keeps the butcher away why did the rhubarb stay green instead of turning red this year for this caller rhubarb sort of turn red that has to do with sunlight and that sort of stuff so possibly it was a bit in the shade yeah but um generally as we get more sunshine more daylight hopefully it should turn red and let us know by the way if your rhubarb was in shade because it's always good to find out if we fixed a problem there so that was you texted let us know Paul says it really needs some direct sunlight presumably and if yours didn't that's why is there any way of roping that after the factor is that that then rhubarb not sure of the likes um the ice and tomato stuff like that there's very easy to ripen yeah just put them in a drawer with a banana and the ethanol comes off the banana will ripen stuff so you can possibly try the same rhubarb so putting your bananas in the same fruit bowl as your apples is not a good idea is it no generally it does is actually there's a chemical that comes off the banana speeds up the speeds up the riping stroke rotting yes pretty much um i'm looking to plant a low level box type hedging now something we want to keep to a maximum of three foot high any suggestions yeah um well traditionally the actual box hedging itself would be quite good um it's had its own problems the last few years was actually box blight but it's for that traditional sort of low hedge that would be quite good another couple of things would be would be you get hebe's there would do the job or you can actually get berberus which would do the job as well sort of farm on a nice wee low hedge okay i've got a laurel garden hedge about 25 yards long for months hundreds of wasps have been feeding off the leaves i haven't bothered them but are they harming the hedge um once again they're probably not doing a huge amount of harm a laurel hedge always you tend to see the edges of the leaves in the boat a lot so you would and a strong healthy laurel will fight that off it could cause problems if the hedge was weak so rather than sort of disturbing the water running out there what i would do is feed the hedge and build up the hedges immunity resistance basically and then that should solve the whole problem i've grown some grislinia from slips uh what would be the best food or fertilizer to help them grow stronger uh once again probably back to our good old fashioned chicken poo the chicken poo we need to get a sponsor sponsored by chicken poo so it's just generally so it's the best food for the job yeah okay uh fruit trees some general advice on fruit trees what is the story now is a good time to plant prune what should we be doing with them generally you would have had them pruned at this stage already if you know i mean it's probably not too late but if you do too much late pruning over the flowers on them you probably end up losing apples but now's the perfect time to plant them they'll actually be well established by the time the fruit and season comes yeah roses used to be i this is only anecdotal we used to get tons and tons and tons of questions on roses and then a few years ago they sort of started to fade out are roses out of vogue a wee bit at the moment a wee bit or a garden is actually a thing that's hugely fashionable sort of things come in and go i ask yeah it's actually funny lavender was another product like say five years ago everyone at lavender last three four years nobody wanted and this year everybody's gone lavender mad again but roses seem to the last couple years seem to be sort of on the way in slightly because as opposed to other shrubs that take a lot of maintenance such as your roses if you want to keep them in top-top conditions you have to be spraying them every two weeks it used to be hard to get now but even around valentine's day every i think it's because of the discount stores and what i've been coming in they're just like ten of penny i just wonder if they've lost their specialness yes does that make sense quite possibly but unfortunately this year with the price increases a lot of them are actually going to going to become exclusive again right okay uh listen we're running out of time i want to get to questions fruit bushes what should i do my plum trees are in bloom what should i do with them now other than stand back and look at them enjoy yeah pretty much um plum trees once again should should be fairly good at looking after itself you actually get a product called sulphate of potash which is a type of fertilizer you get at most garden centers it doesn't actually feed the tree but it feeds the fruit on the tree so scatter away but around it now would be perfect um flatworms have exploded in my garden what can i do to get rid of them without killing everything else yes um flatworms have been a problem they're actually sort of classes in invasive species now but unfortunately there's not much you can do there's not much you can do with them that's going to kill them exclusively um the only thing is if you have even cover a bit of the garden like we said with the leather jack isn't attracted with a certain you don't have a ton of faith in that one paul no try try and manually remove them basically but there's nothing you can put on let's go to kill them and not kill everything else in the vicinity yeah it's just part of nature it's pretty much especially when it comes to the invasive stuff share right veg garden what is it time what should we do now with the vegetables yeah now now's prime time for planting stuff even in the garden center so you can transplant to your cabbages cauliflower broccoli all that sort of stuff and even if you're starting easy stuff with kids onions even herbs stuff they got there now is a perfect time for that kind of carry on all right polytunnels needed or not polytunnels yes very hugely since lockdowns came out and people started working at home people the interesting polytunnels has exploded so it has because people are at home now and they've been around the middle of the day without nothing to do so they're actually heading out to their tunnel it's keeping them away from the fridge basically yeah my hedge is facing west leaves are burning is anyone else having this problem in other words from your perspective have you heard anyone else having this problem funny it was actually done low yesterday and a lot of the conifers there in coastal areas it was generally that had been weakened through the winter with that storm Franklin seems to have done a huge amount of damage a lot of bigger trees to get there they're sort of the new leaves emerging good burnt so hopefully they will snap out of it as time goes on and um planted a thorn hedge a few months ago do i need to fertilize it at this stage and if so what is best yeah i think you can probably guess the answer and the thorns if they're sort of tall and leggy cut them off with six or seven inches down and that'll help them bush out Paul McLaughlin gardener at Balagdur garden center of course you can visit the center and chat to Paul and his colleagues too for for more information thank you so much for joining us today all right i really appreciate it Paul thank you very much indeed all right that's where we have to leave it