 What are you laughing at? Who sings that one again? Uh, Hey Soul sister, but you're a king of content. No, but who sings that song again? Hey Soul sister, you're a king of content. Hey Soul sister's name is Song, who sings that? All right, uh, Train. Ah. Choose your Train. Choose your Christmas Train. Christmas Train. All the days are coming. So is that a train? Is it? No, I don't know. Oh, no, it's a lorry, isn't it? Oh. Oh, no, it's a big truck. It's a big truck. Yeah, but there was a train as well at one point. But no, it's not. Ah, the train's nice. It's nice and Christmas. All the days are coming. Don't mention trains up here, son. Greg Hughes has come in. King of content. The king of content, you know, Greg, we don't have much time to crack, right? He says, Greg says to me. He says, you know what they call me, and I says, This is, can I just say, can I just say, this is- Go on ahead. It's completely untrue. What are you saying? I know what you're saying, right? But I never said that. He's just telling the conversations that we have off the microphone. But I do that accurately. No, I, so I says, y'all sat there on the headphones and they're leveled. I think I can do for you. This is what I said to you, wasn't it? Yeah. And he says, no, I'm all good. And he says, you're sitting back all ready for you. He says, you do know what they call me. No. And I had, no, you said that to me. You know, don't tell me. What I said to you is, I, you said, right, you're all set that now. And I says, yes. But what we have to focus on now is good content. Look, look, look. And you said- No, no, listen, Karen's giving me a thumbs up. And you said to me, that's why they call you the king of content. That's exactly the conversation. Well, you're probably half-corrected. But see, we're only as good as the people behind us, as you know. And there's Caroline in there. I called her the wise owl yesterday. I know. She was not happy about that. I wasn't happy with the data. And, you know, but then I said she was good. But you do have an issue with your mouth being slightly out of your brain. And that's why we love you. Don't get me wrong. But you tend to speak before you think, Lou. Yes. Sorry, king of content. All right, a lot. That's not it, yeah. What did you call Caroline yesterday? See, it was just on the roof. But what did you call her? It was on the roof. I hope we had about 60 seconds to do this. And then I said, here's Mikaela, the good-looking one. And then I came across Caroline then. I said, here's the wise owl owl. I think, God, that's not right. So I said, good-looking one in there too. But then when I looked back, I said, it wasn't nice. Then you nearly destroyed Shannon's phone. It was not a great morning for you, was it? No, but I feel sorry. More sorry for the phone. The phone, yeah. But I had it out with Shannon. She's all right now. Thank you. She's grand. All right, then that's it. Have a good morning. Now, king of content. Take care of you. Take care of you. Hey, we've a merch section on the outlet now. Are you sound teacher? Yes. I love the king of content. Good luck. You're an agent. Okay, it is a minute past nine now. Let's get the news updated. It's over to Mikaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The tarnished Jahazagian raised the killing of Dunigal man Michael Leonard with the Northern Ireland's Secretary of State. The 24-year-old was shot dead in 1973 by the ORUC near the Dunigal-Fermanah border. In response to a parliamentary question from Dunigal Deputy Pierce Doherty, it was confirmed that Meehol Martin has raised the case in a number of occasions and highlighted also that the Leonard's family's efforts to secure a fresh inquest into his death would be thwarted by the UK Legacy Act. Deputy Doherty says after over 50 years, the family deserve answers. There is new information in relation to the person who shot Michael Leonard and it looks as if it was very deliberate. Therefore, there are demands from the family in terms of the new inquest, in terms of criminal prosecution, and also for the Irish government to continue to crest this with the British government. And I think it's crucially important that this family, like so many other families, have trust on justice and that the Irish government continue to push through this. The Justice Minister says a vote of no confidence in her is a distraction. The doll is set to debate the motion later following the riots in Dublin. Sinn Féin has tabled the motion, but the government is set to comfortably defeat it. Speaking on her way into cabinet, Minister Helen Macinty says it's a waste of time. I'm confident I have the support of colleagues. I really think that this is a distraction from the huge amount of work that needs to be done. And as you'll see from cabinet today, I'm getting on with my work and there's a huge amount to be done, yeah. Dunningall County Council is looking at implementing a 30 kilometer per hour speed limit outside all schools in the county with a number of exceptions. This issue has been raised by Councillor Barry Sweeney at a plenary meeting of the council and also at the Dunningall Joint Policing Committee. Officials said a national review finished in September with a similar recommendation. It's expected to be implemented within two years. Councillor Sweeney says Wicklow County Council have already acted and he believes Dunningall should follow suit. I want to see this reduction of speed limits to 30 kilometers per hour outside all Dunningall schools. There are some schools where this may not be possible. If you take examples like Largy Brack School where it's 100 kilometer speed limit outside the school at the moment to reduce that to 30 kilometers would probably have additional consequences, maybe safety consequences that would be unintended. In those circumstances, the way the national steering group are looking at it would be reduced to about 50 kilometers per hour rather than the 30. Weather and I isolated pockets of fog and freezing fog, grantedly clearing to leave a mainly dry bright day with spells of sunshine called with highest temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Betty Morgan talks about her son. Aiman was one of life's givers when he had a sudden brain hemorrhage and sadly died. His organ donation helped two people transform their lives. It's consoled us so often. Aiman was a giver in life until now he's a giver of life. Organ donors save lives. Make today the day you decide to be an organ donor and let your family know your wishes. For more, visit hse.ie forward slash organ donation. From the HSE. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a good morning to you. It is 5 past 9 on this Tuesday, the 5th of December, 2023. How are you all keeping? Thank you very much for choosing The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio this cold morning. But enjoy the calm, I suppose, because it's going to get windy and rainy and all different types of weather coming out for the rest of this weekend and into the weekend. So we'll enjoy this cold spell for now, will we? Although, although, it'll be glad maybe not to have to use the heat in quite as much if it does warm up a little bit. But anyway, we'll worry about the show for the next three hours. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The WhatsApp and text lines are open for you now. Just to remind you if you want to, maybe it might suit you better to send a voice message. You can WhatsApp that to 08, 6, 60, 25,000. And the phone lines are open for you as well. Caroline, of course, and Shannon on the lines 07, 4, 9, 1, 25,000. And feel free to comment across our social media. Good morning to you, Dolores. Good morning to you, Marie. They're watching the show on Facebook, Highland Hub, Highland Radio News and Sport. And you can watch on YouTube too on your big screen through Smart TV, Highland Radio Ireland, or on your Fire Stick as well, where that YouTube app lives. Or the Chromecasts were built in Google TV, which is my preference, to be honest. It's better than the Fire Stick, I think. But anyway, on to the Donegal Democrat this morning. We're looking at the front of the papers and inside some of them as well. A county councillor has called for more speed vans to be located on the Bundor and Balochan and Bypass. Bundor and Beys, Chinfain councillor Michael McMahon, raised the issue at a meeting of the Donegal Joint Police and Committee on Friday in Lifford. I often wonder why speed vans are not out in the middle of the night, councillor McMahon said. They're not out at times where speeding is really going on. Is there any way that we could get the speed vans on the Bypass? This is cause for concern, councillor McMahon. Also highlighted issues with cars speeding in car parks in Bundor in turn. On to the nationals this morning. As you heard in the news there, there is confidence, a confidence motion in Helen McIntee today, which is set to be easily passed. Justice Minister Helen McIntee will comfortably survive in a dull confidence vote today after independence weighed in against pre-Christmas instability. The government will have a majority of at least a dozen votes in today's showdown. A motion of no confidence has been switched for a coalition motion expressing confidence in her, which is what happens. Chief Whip Hildegard Notten said she was confident the government would win after independence brought the argument that now was not the time for political upheaval after the Dublin riots. The backers include former government party member Mark McSharry, Peter Fitzpatrick, Dennis Nocten, Joe McHugh, along with ex-Vinnie Gale minister Michael Larry. So both local in inverted commas TDs, Mark McSharry and Joe McHugh will be backing Helen McIntee. Cahill Barry, Noel Grealish, and Sean Canney are also prepared to vote confidence, which could take government support to 88 votes after Green Party Leader Aiman Ryan, who's in Dubai, was earlier paired with Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore in a voting arrangement which put to bed the notion that you couldn't pair on a confidence motion. But anyway, a lot of you, I presume, watched the RT show last night, Primetime Show about planning, and it didn't really come as a surprise to me as such. I mean, the contents of it did, but I used to have quite not an obsession but an interest in planning applications, and I would go through the websites on a weekly basis, and I was always surprised at the amount of people from outside an area that took an interest in planning applications in Donagall. And I'm not on about roads or major pieces of infrastructure or wind farms. I'm on about like houses and things like that there. You'd see people objecting from all over the country, like five or six objections from far-flung counties, and they didn't seem to have any particular connection with the area in question. So it doesn't really surprise me that this is a system that is open to use and abuse. But two brothers filing environmental planning appeals against housing developments have been withdrawing them for financial gain. An RTE investigates program has claimed the report focusing on the activities of Meehole and John Callahan has brought attention to a planning process in which such appeals are possible but delay construction and housing delivery. It outlined several cases in which they filed objections, but during secretly filmed meetings with the developers sought proposals that might encourage them to change course. The Callahan's filed appeals under the name of an environmental group in one documented case called Unlocked in FNAFE, I believe. No, it's not. I can't actually read that word. I definitely need to start wearing my glasses or getting glasses to read these papers. But anyway, the two have, according to the program, which aired last night, objected to residential and commercial developments countrywide, there are no claims or suggestions of illegality in a one line statement to the program. John Callahan said, please be aware that neither of the parties referred to in your letters has done anything unlawful, which is perhaps the case, but it certainly is exposed. The program has exposed complications in the planning system, especially when you see the measures that are adopted that lead to these type of objections being withdrawn or fading away or falling away, however you wish to term it. On to the Irish Daily Mail now, and the Tonaster has said he's very concerned for the welfare of asylum seekers who will have to sleep in tents and sleeping bags in freezing conditions. After the state's accommodation supply has simply dried up, the Department of Integration, which has responsibility for accommodating refugees and asylum seekers, confirmed yesterday that despite intensive efforts, they can no longer provide accommodation to all asylum seekers arriving here due to a severe shortage in housing options. Women and children have been prioritized for state accommodation, but those who are arriving here seeking asylum will now be directed to drop in homeless day services, where they will be given tents and sleeping bags. The Irish Daily Mail also understands that arrivals will not be advised about areas where it's safe for them to erect their tents, and they will also receive a welfare rate of €75 for asylum seekers who were not housed in state accommodation. Asylum seekers currently receive €33.80, sorry, €38.80 per adult, €29.80 per child, weekly along with medical cards. So on top of the €38.80, they'll get the medical card and the €75 but no house. It's understood there are no contingency plans to house rough sleeping asylum seekers, but at what point do we have a moral responsibility to very clearly advise people who perhaps have alternatives to other places that possibly could go to say that if you come here, you get a tent and a sleeping bag. This is almost operating outside the broader conversation about immigration. Is it morally correct to just have them land here? I mean, surely they should be warned on the other side or deterred on the other side to say, look, we only have a tent and a sleeping bag here. Maybe there are other countries that might be able to provide better services. Would that be a more humane thing to do? The Irish Daily Star today, Guardia set to quiz the chief suspect for the Dublin-Kresschknife attack after he walked from a coma. The star confirmed the suspect has now been moved out of intensive care unit of a Dublin hospital almost two weeks after the attack, that shocked the nation. The paper established that the 49-year-old Algerian-born Irish citizen is now in the hospital's high-dependency unit, one level down in severity from ICU. Sources told the paper that the suspect is awake and breathing by himself, but it's not yet medically fit to be questioned by detectives from Mount Joy Garda Station, probing the horror knife attack on the Kresschknife at Gelsgull class Jamura on Dublin's Parnell Square East on Dublin 23, on November 23, beg your pardon. But they indicated Guardia hoped to be able to arrest and question the suspect by as early as the end of this week. It's a major boost for the investigation as there had been fears that the suspect's injuries sustained after he was pulled to the ground by shock bystanders as he attacked three children and a Kresschworker, Leanne Flynn-Kyo was so serious that he might never be fit to be questioned. The suspect was placed in an induced coma shortly after he was rushed to the hospital but his condition has now improved dramatically and Guardia will soon be able to quiz him, which counters what some people were saying that it was part of a big cover-up and he would never wake up to be questioned or charged. And also too, unfortunately, the parents of the gravely ill young girl have been forced to make a statement to say that she is gravely ill but she is still with us and that the hope and pray that she will overcome what she's going through at the moment, which again, that's directly from the family itself contradicts a lot of videos that seem to go up over the weekend which must have hurt the family which stated that the girl was clinically dead and was being kept alive by the government and the Guardia and all this type of stuff and it forced the family to come out and say that no, the girl is still with us and still receiving treatment though they don't know how that's going to go because her injuries are so severe but that is the world we live in now that people speculate about the well-being of a tiny wee five-year-old fighting for her life. Anyway, the Irish Daily Mirror this morning, more than a million children of nowhere to go amid the Israeli onslaught on Gaza as the Israeli Defence Forces stepped up its attack, saved the children, blasted its order for Palestinians to move again from an area in southern Gaza that what the Israelis are doing at the moment is they issued a grid effectively and a QR code that would that's supposedly Palestinian people, the regular citizens, they can access this information and move to where the bombs are going to drop but there's no mobile coverage there at all, there's no way of accessing it and no way of moving either. They've been corralled into the south of Gaza at the moment so they aren't really effectively sitting docks but it comes with the IDF presented what it claims is new evidence of Hamas plans for the October 7th rampage. It claims gunmen were urged to perform atrocities according to the IDF. One Hamas commander's written orders found on a fighter said, this enemy of yours is an illness that has no cure except for beheading and removal of the hearts and livers which was an awful, awful situation as well, horrendous. It's terrible what those children are going through over there. On to the Irish Sun now and this is the other side of it, families are to get an early Christmas present today with a double child benefit bonus being paid into accounts which shows how different people live in different parts of the world. The extra cash for social welfare recipients was allocated in the budget to help with the cost of living. It means those who qualify will get 280 euro per child into their accounts this morning. Heather Humphries, Minister for Social Protection announced the pay date yesterday and said, I'm very conscious of the pressure families are under particularly in the run-up to Christmas. 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Find out more at gov.ie forward slash pension. A government of Ireland initiative brought to you by the Department of Social Protection. Highland Radio time checks with Expressway travel route 32 from Leta Kennedy Dublin when you book online and travel for less. Expressway bringing you the time ask. It's just turning 9 20. John McLaughlin is a lorry driver and a director of JML Transport and is with us now. Hi John. Hi Greg, how are you? Good to have you on the show. Now we're speaking to you after yesterday. We heard from road safety organisations across Europe expressing concern at a major reform of driving licence being proposed by the European Commission that would allow teenagers to drive heavy goods vehicles. The European Transport Safety Council called for the recommended age for a lorry driving licence in the EU to remain at 21 and the minimum age to drive buses or coaches at 24 and then they went on to cite evidence from Germany and a couple of other European countries where 18 to 21 year olds can drive HDVs to say that they are disproportionately responsible for collisions. But what say you John? You're a professional lorry driver. You know the score. Do you think the age for driving a HDV should be dropped? Yeah, I have met quite a few young drivers. I've had quite a few young drivers and to be honest with you I didn't have a problem with them. 95% of the people that I had employed would have been ex-farmers and farm ladies. And let me tell you I have met quite a few of them and they're very responsible drivers and everything else. But I was just listening to the show yesterday if I was at Helen or Helen. Yeah, Helen. I didn't get her name. I think it was Helen. You're right there, it's Helen. Yep. Yeah, she called it out at 20,600 EU accidents and one in five of young drivers. But like I'll fire a figure out you know. But how can she prove that? Or what kind of accidents were there? How did the accidents happen? And what was the contents of the accident? I don't believe that figure to be honest with you. Well, I'll give you the code. Sorry, it was Helen. You were correct the first time. She said research in Germany showed that HGV drivers aged 18 to 20 caused a much higher number of collisions resulting in personal injury compared to all other age groups among lorry drivers. And she said similar data from Finland and Poland showed that teenage truck and bus drivers were proportionately involved in more collisions than drivers of similar vehicles in older age groups. So that's, I don't actually have the facts but that is her interpretation of those figures. Right. Well, okay. Well then let's just have it in the on the head. But I would say less than one eighth of them accidents would have happened in Ireland. And again, we're taking responsibility which we always do. The Irish always be the first at the post to do things. But Germany, there's a real shortage of drivers in Germany at present. And they're probably taking anybody and everybody off the street to put them into lorries. But as Ireland, as an island, and everything that comes into Ireland and then goes out of Ireland goes on a truck and people forget about this. But again, in Ireland, I can guarantee you I would find it very, very, very hard to believe that there's actually a quarter of a percent of young drivers caught in accidents whenever you look through the actual. You say your experience, what you've heard, what you've seen indicates that older drivers maybe are more likely to be. Yes. Yes. Like you gave some examples of seeing people drinking beer while driving a driving on a motorway. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. Back and forward. Yeah. Back and forward in England. I actually passed a lorry and there were no driver in the seat. It was a word of the past to say, get McKenna beer. I know that's hard to believe, Greg, but believe it or not, come down the M6 motorway. You see it a lot. And people will know this, what I'm saying. You'll see tracks on the road where the most of the traffic will be on those tracks. And you can literally, and I've done this myself and I've just held my hand near enough on the steering wheel, and I went for nearly 10 kilometers without touching the steering wheel. It'll track the tracks. The truck went, the tracks kept the truck straight. And I passed, now, whenever you're passing vehicles in England or whatever, you're only passing them at one mile an hour or so. For the police at the moment has, I think they have 17 trucks in England at the moment and they use them for to catch people on the phone and legs up on the dash. And I've passed hundreds of people, hundreds and I would say there's a good 80 to 90% of them wouldn't mean foreign drivers, something with their legs up on the dash, lying back on cruise control and a can of beer in your hand or on the phone or something like that. I mean, yeah, I totally agree with the police and totally agree with everybody else. Yeah, the hook needs to be cracked with them, people. Absolutely crazy. Is there an argument, though, that really the way to, one of the ways to address the lorry driver shortage is not necessarily to widen the age ban down, but to pay people better wages. It's a tough old job like, you know, and I know margins are tight, but you do hear lorry drivers say that, you know, they do tough work, anti-social hours, and they don't make an fortune out of it. No, well, just to give you an instance, the last three to four years, my wages were doubled. Okay. From what they were 45 years ago. You know, my wages for lorry drivers, the minimum would be around five, 50, 600 maximum, 1200. So, you know, that's not the wages. How long does it take to get an HPV license? You could have that. That's what it does. I can tell you people, it's getting 1700 pound a week. Okay. For five days. Right. That's all right. Stay with me, John. I want to tease it out a bit more with you, but I want to bring Brian in as well. He disagrees. He's concerned at the proposals that would see 18 to 20 year olds also driving these heavy goods vehicles. Brian, why would you be opposed to this? Simply by just going by statistics of young male drivers, especially in Dunninggall, the amount of accidents, the amount of people that have been killed as a result of young male drivers, I certainly wouldn't like to see them behind a heavy goods vehicle. That's just one, just to make a short comment, but not on to criticise young people. But if you go by statistics, especially in Dunninggall, I don't think I would like to see them behind a 30 or a 40 tonne truck. That's very not. I wouldn't like to meet none, to be honest. Right. Can I answer that? Yes, John. Go ahead. Yeah, Brian, I don't know Brian. I don't know your second name or what. That's fine. It doesn't matter. Where you're coming. Yeah. Yeah. But what it does, Brian, is I have a good inclination of what's happening, but I haven't got the road now, Brian, and now me, the young boy, coming on the tractor, which is 16 years of age, with a provisional license and a three-axle slurry-type chiller on, which was, which was a 45-foot tractor on the back of a Nardik with a drawbar on it. And that's on behind a tractor driven by a 16-year-old. But, John, you say that's a good thing, though. No, I don't say that's a good thing. This is, this is where I would cross the line. This is where I would, I would draw the line across the, that's not right, but that's what's happened. But Brian's saying there that he wouldn't like 17, 18-year-olds on the road driving the HTV. There is 18, 19-year-olds on the road driving HTVs, and they never had the days bother. But the context of the accidents, this is what I keep, this is what I keep preferring to is the context of the accidents. But I think what Brian's saying, though, I think what they're talking about, I think what Brian's saying, though, is, and just to be sensitive to anyone who's lost anyone in any of these collisions, what Brian is saying is, well, capable to speak for himself, that if you look at, if you look at maybe the profile of the awful loss of life we've seen on our roads, younger people are overrepresented in that, John. We're losing too many young people, and he's pointing to that and saying, would that end up being transferred to the population of heavy goods, vehicle drivers? Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, okay. Well, yeah, I know what he's saying, but I still feel that young drivers, 95% of them is coming from a farm and background that's driving lorries and women. I met a girl there last week there in another county, and the driving school lorry preparing for a test. And I actually followed her, I didn't actually go follow her, but I happened to be on the same road behind her. Yeah, and actually, I thought she was very good actually, no, not just because she's a woman, but she was very good and very confident on the road and all the rest. And there's a couple of mistakes while this corner was coming up and I was just like, okay, that's okay, you know, but I know her better. No bother, all right. Brian, is there anything you want to add there, Brian? Yeah, unfortunately, most young farmers that I meet on track are sure all on the phone and I don't need to criticize them. It just seems to be a habit they've gone into. And I just would be a bit concerned, but probably what's the proper training they would be okay. The one thing you can't buy in life is experience. And they would need a lot, a lot of experience before they would take to the roads. A lot of training before they would take to the roads because when you meet those lorries, I mean, my goodness, the speed that someone was driving at, I wouldn't make a very young person behind the wheel. Oh, Brian, it's a very fair and balanced point. Very well made, Brian. Thank you very much for joining us. And John, I suppose you get that. I don't think really, obviously there's a testing system that an 18 or 18, 19, 20 year old would have to pass the same as a 21, 22, 23 year old. But I thought what was interesting in Ellen's comments is that they are citing the fact that young people are undergoing significant biological and social changes. Brain development is ongoing through that period and not completed well into the 20s. When we get into that argument, I'm not so sure about that because we're all different and you could have a 20 year old much better switched on than a 30 year old. I don't know if that's, you know, that's just interpretation. You made a very good interpretation yesterday of like 17 year old can go to the army a 17 year old can, well, 18 now for drinking as far as I know. 17 year old can get their car license. They can get married. They can have children. So, but yet they can't drive a lorry until he's 21. So who needs education here? You know, and they're making a decision this week out in Dubai about lorry and I didn't even know nothing about it. And we never know nothing about it because they make decisions on our behalf. And I think that's wrong. And the same thing too, whenever I brought it up before but you know, when we cross the border we have to pay so much a month. We're paying 75 sterling a month. They're now on average for an Arctic when we cross the border. And yet they're looking for money to develop the A5. They're looking for money this and that and yet the Northern Ireland British Foreigners, they're becoming Ireland and they're becoming free. But this is our government making decisions that we're not entitled to have a say about, which I think is totally wrong. Yeah. What age do you think you have to be to be able to fly an aeroplane? Just it's a good place. Not going to answer that one because I've just played with myself on my own one. Oh, you did? Now, I've rassed the wrong words. I did die. Of all the bloody people for waiting to try and catch on. I went to a show in Birmingham and I ended up buying a brand new one. So, yeah. Come on, between your buying planes and the waiting to plane, John. I need to come in on a partnership. You're doing all right, son. Oh, I have another toy there too. You'll be amazed at it. I'll send you a photograph of it there later on. What is it? If it's a train? I know, I said, you can't, I can't put a bot there. I went to England and bought it. It's the only one in Europe. Is it a big one? Yeah. Does the sides pop out and all? I don't. Ah, right. Okay, good luck. Happy Christmas. I do great. All right, bye-bye. John McLaughlin there. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at HighlandRadio.com. From kids toys, designer jewelry to luxury candles, big gifts, small prices. Instore this Christmas at TK Maxx. From the luxurious to the sustainable, beautiful Irish made products that stand the test of time, find something you'll love forever at MadeLocal.ie. Made local, made to last. Supported by Design and Crafts Council Ireland and me, Lyra. Japanese-themed garden, rejuvenated in massages, revitalizing facials, luxurious spa baths, pampering body treatments, not forgetting the outdoor hot-up and sauna and their secret garden. Visit on a luxury spa day, pop in for some me time, or buy the perfect present with a gift voucher. 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Visit our website to view and purchase our gift fighter offers and experiences including our winter getaway offer from only 125 euro per couple. For more information, save at castlehoteldonegal.com. Now we're joined on the program by Karen. Good morning, Karen. Hello. Hello. Hi, Karen. Sorry, I had the wrong fader up. Good morning to you. And I'm delighted to be speaking to you this morning because you had an awful experience recently. How are you and the family keeping? We're still in total shock. I know my house is gone, but in the back of my head, I'm thinking I still have a home. What day did the fire happen? Sunday night. Right, Sunday night. So tell us how it unfolded and how you and your husband became aware that there was a fire in the house. We were in the sitting room watching TV and the neighbour across the road, which I want to take the opportunity to think. Rang me to see if I was in the house. And I said, yeah, after what was wrong, and you know, was she all right? I said, there's no wrong with her. And she says your house is on fire. And we come out and just seen the blazes at the side of the house. Could you believe it that you were sitting there in the front room whilst this was going on in another part of the house? It must have been an awful shock. Oh, unreal, unreal. I can't even explain. I don't know what part of me kicked in, but I phoned the fire services straight away. And I just seemed like forever for them to come. And I mean, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to contact me to come on and speak here because it's more for the services and the services provided for an event like this that I want to stress more than anything. I'm not here for us. I'm here for everyone in Letter County. And because the fire station is not being manned, it just seems forever for them to get this. And then when they did eventually arrive, I'm like, no, thank God, it might get to me before it gets any worse. And by talking to people yesterday, we discovered that the fire, the water part that they needed, which was just directly at my gate was full of mud and they couldn't get into it. So this is just so people know these are the, you'll see them located across roads. These are where they can plug the hoses in and get access to high pressure water. That was blocked effectively the one outside your house, which obviously the brilliant work that they were doing, they had to go, well, what are we going to do now? So were they able to find an alternative source, Karen? Yeah, yeah, they eventually found something else. I mean, I wasn't aware of this was going on at the time and I just could see the fire spreading to the back of my house and watching my roof go in flames. It was just... Were you shocked with the speed with which the fire spread? Oh my God, unreal, unreal. Totally unreal. How long have you spent in the house, Karen? I'm there 19 years, part of October. So it's not, it's the physical house, but it's the memories and it's everything else that goes along with that. And then you've got this mix of emotions. I'd imagine in that, you know, your house is gone and you come into terms with that, but thankfully your neighbours had an eye on you and were able to call you and is able to escape with your health. It's an awful bag of emotions for you to be dealing with at the moment, Karen. Yeah, just the thought of, if it had happened in the middle of the night, it would have been a totally different outcome. You know, and just when you're saying losing things and memories in the house and all, it's so funny, but it's important when you're standing there watching your whole life going up and flying, you know, it's just funny what you want out. You know, and the main thing I wanted out was me redogs out. You want? And just someone else. I'm redogs out. Right, it's okay. You know, it's just funny the things you think of and my mother's porcelain cat, which I think God survived both of them. Okay, right. Yeah, that's it. Also, too, we'll talk a little bit more about the reaction and the message you want to get across, because as you say, that's why you've accepted the invite to come on, but there is a little chink of light in this in that you and your husband have a cat and you saw the cat and passed away, didn't you? We didn't know where she was. We couldn't find her. And yesterday, at about four o'clock, when we were allowed back into our house, the only room that hasn't really been damaged by fire is, or something funny enough. It's very much water damaged. And you know, the water's coming through the roof and things like that there, but we could hear my meow and under the sofa, there she was. I'd say you needed that wee lift at that time. Oh God, I was so, so delighted to get her back and I think she was so delighted to feel because she just did my arms and did not, didn't move. We don't, it'll take her a wee while to recover along with you as well. Unfortunately, your mum's porcelain cat survived. Unfortunately, though, your dog's ashes weren't able to be recovered, which is sad. No, no, no, we got them as well. Oh did you? They were in the sitting room. Okay, great. So thank God. And I mean, as I said, it's funny, the silly, no, I know they're not relating to me, but people might think, you know, they might be silly, but they were important, you know. So we got those. Exactly. So you, as you say, wanted to thank the fire service and talk about how the fact is supposed, when the call goes in, their pagers go off, they have to rush to the station, they have to get in the fire truck, then they have to get to your house, then they have to try and get a connection to water, which was complicated by the fact that that access seemed to have been blocked, but they found an alternative and you're full of praise for them, but you're saying, you know, why don't we have an on-site fire service and why don't we make sure we're cleaning these water access points, I would say, Karen? Yeah, yeah. They're the points I want to stress more at this point. I mean, definitely. I mean, as I said, I don't want to see some smaller families standing at their front door, watching firemen trying to get somewhere for them to do their job, you know, and they were fantastic. I mean, there was four different fire fighters there, different stations, and they were amazing. They were amazing. I can't thank them enough. It's just unfortunate that they had obstacles in their way to carry out their job. Yeah, and of course, too, your community rallied around you too and had the rise on you and supported you since. Oh, my God, my heart goes out to each and every one of them that's contacted me. I'm so grateful, so grateful to everyone that has set me good wishes and sent their love. And, you know, it's amazing. It just shows you that in a world where you think there's no community, how much of a community we actually have. Yeah, when we need them there, that's the thing, Karen. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I mean, I'm so grateful to them and even my family, you know, for the support I'm getting from them. And I just want to, I just want to go ahead and get this opportunity to thank each and every one of them. You know. And your neighbors and your family too are more than happy that you've got out. Because as you say, maybe we shouldn't allow ourselves to think, but thankfully it happened when it happened and not in the middle of the night. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. That's exactly it. Have you any idea what started the fire at this point, Karen, or? We haven't a clue. We don't know. Forensics ran yesterday. We had to wait for them to come, so we just have no word back yet, so we don't know. Okay. We don't know what started. Well, it's an awful time of the year for this to happen, but I've spoken to people in your position before and a few months later, they feel much better about it. So it's going to be really tough at this stage, Karen, but hopefully you and himself, with the love of your family and your neighbors, will start to feel better really, really soon. Because it's very, very, very, very stressful and distressing. So I think you're doing amazing, even to be able to speak to us now, but we'll only be onwards and onwards from here. Yeah, well, as I said, I don't think my head's actually there yet. I mean, I've had about five hours sleeping the last two nights, and somewhere in the back of my head, I think I still have a house to get into. You know what I mean? I don't think it's actually had us properly yet. You know, we're going through the motions, but I don't think it's actually had us properly. Well, listen, with all things considered, and in that space, you've done amazing in congratulating the fire service on their work, supporting them in being able to do their work and thanking the community and your family. So Karen, you've done fantastic, and I wish you nothing but getting back to where you want to be as soon as possible. Yeah, thank you so much for that opportunity to get that message out. And I can't stress enough that maybe we should be rallying around to try and do more for the firefighters and the latter Kenny area and any other area. You know that maybe we should be putting positions into councils or something to get something moving here. But no one else will stick with through them. All right, Karen. Thank you so much. Best wishes to you. Okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much indeed. That's Karen there, the victim of a house fire on the long lane in Letcher Kenny. I just wanted to stress the importance of the fire service and to thank people. And you know, sometimes when we talk about, you know, fire has been lit, cars being set on fire, you know, or Gauss fires in the summer. We say at those times, we say, you know, these are using up the fire service resources for when they're really, really needed, you know. And that's a perfect example that they were there and they were able to get there, but they could have been off somewhere else dealing with some, you know, vandalism or something. So it's really important. What we can do is obviously back Karen and what she thinks needs to happen in terms of resourcing the fire service, cleaning those accesses. That's really important. You know, I wonder what's going on there is the program of works and who's responsible to make sure that those access points where they are available, that they are available and they're open, openable and clear of Muck and Debra and things like that there. Cause I think it's a really important one to ensure that they are. But anyway, best wishes to Karen and her husband and the cats and all the family. And I hope, as I say, hopefully emotionally things improve for her and just as soon as possible. Nine Till Noon Show, sponsored by Evolve Coaling, two floors of men's winter fashions. This Christmas, it has to be Evolve. Letter Kenny Retail Park or online at EvolveCothing.com Open seven days. Are you ready for unmissable magic? Are you ready for winter in Dublin? 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As I say, the draw will take place on this program I think on the 22nd of December 2023. Get in early because there is likely to be other elements to this draw. And if you're in early, you're in with a chance to be in the draw for whatever may be drawn. Okay. So if you want to take part in that, go on to our website, HighlandRadio.com. It's really simple. Now if you, for some reason, don't want to use the internet or you can't, that's perfectly fine too. You can give us a call in 0749125,000 and we will process your tickets over the telephone. And even then, if you want to call in, we'll do it for you as well because you might just want to use cash and that's perfectly fine too. That's your progative. We'll accommodate you whichever way you want. So you could win that 30,000 euro plus beautiful car for a tenner or as little as eight euro too, really, if you want to look at it like that. Right. We are joined on the program now by Anthony Dugan. He's the treasurer of St Eugene's Hall Committee in Moville. He's with us right now. Hopefully, you can hear me okay. Good morning to you, Eugene. Are you, Anthony, about your pardon? Good morning. I can't, oh, Daryse, I can't hear you. So don't have the fader up. Thanks so much for joining us. Right. Okay, 130th year celebrations of St Eugene's Hall in Moville. What a fantastic milestone to reach. Talk to us a little bit about the history of the hall. Well, the hall was built as a temperance hall back in early late 1800s, about 1885 to 1890. So we're effectively 130 years old. And last, it's been a temperance hall, but it's also been a snooker club. There's the Montgomery's donated two snooker tables to the hall. There's a big open area on the upper floor. It's a two story. There's a kitchen available and there's an office available. So it's been a venue for lots of school musicals, lots of dramas, lots of plays are put on there over the years. And post COVID, there was a danger that we were going to close. So naturally it closed over COVID. And there was a danger then that the hall would simply remain closed. So last year, we got a committee together and we decided that we'd make an effort to try and open it up again for the community. And we're celebrating one year of this new committee being successful and reopening it. And it's 130 years old as well. Yeah, so this is the latest chapter really in its life. And it came into community usage more fully in 2002, since then fully refurbished. And as you mentioned, it sounds like it's a fantastic asset to the community for doing all the things you've been outlining. Yeah, 20 years ago, we're so a community group got some money from peace and in the international front for Ireland and did a major renovation. And then it was finished off with some leader money. So there was a huge investment in it 20 years ago. And that thankfully is standing good to us today and allowing us to with relatively little effort open the hall and get things up and running quite quickly. And it's already at the moment in providing a space for the bingo, of course, Zoom, yoga, yoga, beg your pardon, the plays you've mentioned, bazaars and also Ukrainian support group. Even with all that usage though, is it being used as much as it was pre-COVID or is there still a bit of work? I supposed to get it back into full use and full sustainability as well. Yeah, there's still there's still many more opportunities, particularly during the daytime where we can use it. Obviously next week, we have the Kings of the Kilburn High Road been put on by the local drama group. We'll have the pantomime next January, but there's still a lot of time and a lot of opportunity. And we want to refurbish it and make ourselves a better service for the community through upgrading and drawing down more grants and upgrading things. But we're also fundraising ourselves. So how can people help to support this facility? Because it's not just for Moffat, it's Moffat and surrounding areas as well. No, it's for all the different community. Any community group that wants to use our hall and if we have the right facility for them, we're available for them. They go on Facebook, look up St Eugene's Hall, Moville, and they can make contact with us and rent the hall. We are also being proactive in terms of putting on a bazaar on December the 10th. We're putting on a community concert, local variety concert on the 15th. And they can come along and support those events so that we can reinvest all the money we make into the hall facilities at that stage. Yeah, and Tita, that's what it's all about, isn't it? It's about being able to maintain it, pay the bills. And as you say, being in a good position to draw down any lines of funding that might be there. Yeah, historically, we've had the issue of, you know, the light still had to be paid for, the water still had to be paid for over COVID. We're a community group. We started off with little or no money. And as the bills from different groups came in, we'd discovered we were in debt. So we decided we'd run the bazaar again. That was a tradition in Moville at this time of year. And we just want to recognize the 51 sponsors for the 51 prizes. And we'd also like, we also running a two and a half thousand draw on that night as a big prize draw. And tickets are available locally in advance for that. Also, there's a little 10 different people or individuals or groups that are performing at our community concert on the 15th. We're about three quarters of the tickets are already sold. So there's about 50 tickets left. They're available locally in Yellen's or Timber and Duffy's or the post office. Brilliant. Okay. So supported. It's there. It's a fantastic community facility. Obviously, a brilliant committee has been put in place post COVID because you have to kickstart everything you gain, don't you? It's almost like starting from scratch. So you should do fantastic work. And I hope you get all the support you deserve, Anthony. Thank you very much, Greg. And a big shout out to the committee. You're absolutely right on that one. All right. Take care of yourself. Thank you so very much indeed. Okay. Delighted to be able to platform that amazing facility there and the work that's ongoing to support and fund it and keep it going as the amazing community facility that it is. 08, 660, 25,000. WhatsApps and texts to that number. Some of you using it already. Of course, I'm a female lorry driver. We're not getting paid enough as female drivers. There aren't many. I work over night. I was in Ennis Grown in Sligo. I'm only back and I'm still awake. We get no break. I haven't slept yet. Night shifters. We're all tired. It's hard going. I'll put my child to school there. I'll get a quick sleep, collect the child, a bit of dinner, and then off on the road again. I'm not on the 600 euro wage. Only three women drivers and the men are treated better. It's interesting because the issue of pay disparity and gender pay gaps is raging at the moment, as it always is. And there we have a situation where a female lorry driver says she is not paid or none of the women that she knows are paid the same as the men drivers. Any insight into that, it's worthwhile talking about. I think 086625000. We'll be back with you after the news and obituary notices. Get your voucher from Genesis Aesthetics and Skincare Clinic adore. Your loved one can choose from a range of transformative treatments, including PTOs, Red Lifts and Skin Boosters, designed to improve facial contours by lifting and tightening the skin. Also offering fat dissolving treatments, dermal fillers and laser treatments for all skin concerns. 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The 24 year old was shot dead in 1973 by the RUC near the Donny Gollman border in response to a parliamentary question from Deputy Pierce Doherty. It was confirmed that Micheal Martin has raised the case on a number of occasions and highlighted that Leonard family's efforts to secure a fresh inquest into his death would be thwarted by the new UK Legacy Act. Deputy Doherty says after 50 years the family deserve answers. There is new information in relation to the personnel who shot Michael Leonard and it looks as if it was very deliberate. Therefore there are demands from the family in terms of a new inquest in terms of criminal prosecution and also for the Irish Government to continue to crest this with the British Government and I think it's crucially important that this family like so many other families have trust and justice and that the Irish Government continue to pursue this. Donny Goll County Council is looking at implementing a 30 kilometer per hour speed limit outside all schools in the county with a number of exceptions. The issue has been raised by Councillor Barry Sweeney both at a plenary meeting of council and also at the Donny Goll Joint Policing Committee. Officials said a national review finished in September with a similar recommendation expected to be implemented within two years. Councillor Sweeney says Waco County Council have already acted and he believes that Donny Goll should immediately follow suit. I want to see this reduction of speed limits to 30 kilometers per hour outside all Donny Goll schools. There are some schools where this may not be possible. If you take examples like Largy Brack School where it's 100 kilometer speed limit outside the school at the moment to reduce that to 30 kilometers would probably have additional consequences maybe safety consequences that would be unintended. In those circumstances the way the national steering group are looking at it would be reduced to about 50 kilometers per hour rather than the 30. Aman was tasered during an aggravated burglary in Derry yesterday afternoon at around 3 o'clock a number of men forced their way into an apartment in the Marianas Park area. The occupant was assaulted with the taser several times and struck in the neck with a sharp object causing a gash his phone and wallet were stolen. The man managed to make his way out of the property and signalled to a passing police car which stopped and provided assistance police urging anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity in the area at the time to make contact. This Friday December 8th is the closing date for public consultation on Donegal County Council's draft climate action plan. People are being invited to have their say on the plan and also to comment on two environmental reports which have been published alongside it. With more here's Aidan Delaney. The draft Donegal County Council climate action plan sets out how the local authority will promote a range of mitigation, adaption and other climate action measures. The council says it wants to play its role in helping to achieve the government's overall national climate objective which seeks to achieve an environmentally sustainable and climate neutral economy by 2050. Submissions or observations on the draft plan or the accompanying environmental reports will be taken into consideration before the making of the final plan. Submissions on the draft plan must be made by this coming Friday evening while submissions on the environmental reports must be made by December 21st that's a Thursday. Copies of the draft plan are available online at County House in Lifford or any of the council's public services centers. Full details on how to make a submission can be found on our website highlandradio.com. The majority of younger people who are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland survive. The latest data from the National Cancer Registry shows how survival rates among 15 to 44 year olds is 86 percent. The registry says those over 75 are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer and also have lower survival rates. The director of the National Cancer Registry, Professor Deirdre Murray says although survival rates are good there is room for improvement. Our overall life expectancy is extremely high in fact we're at the top of the range in Europe in 2021 and then maybe the Spanish took us over in 2022 so we're we're up there we really jumped in terms of overall life expectancy. Our survival is good we have come up the ranks from where we were but we have a good way to go you know the Danes would have jumped much further than we have and of course the Swedes and the Norwegians they have very long established programs of prevention and screening. With the forecast now some ice little patches of fog and freezing fog gradually clearing leaving a mainly dry day with spells of sunshine staying very cold. Top temperatures today no higher than three to six degrees celsius at present temperatures are struggling to go above zero in places and that's how in radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock don't forget by the way you can check up on all of the latest news on our website hideandradio.com but for now from the news team have a very good morning. The obituary notice is for this Tuesday morning December the 5th. The death has occurred of James Woods the bridge Ballymonaster Balandreit Lifford. James's remains will be reposing from five o'clock this evening at his brother Gerrit Hight Dreaming Stronorler. Funeral from there on Thursday morning at quarter past 10 going to St Patrick's Church Murlock for funeral mass at 11 o'clock and burial immediately afterwards in the family plot. The death has occurred of Patrick Brennan 12 Brackenley Letter Kenney. Remains will repose at his late residence from four o'clock this afternoon. Requiem mass at 12 o'clock tomorrow in St Mary's Church Fana Volte fan it with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The death has taken place of Patrick John McLaughlin Manny Trenna Tuber Caldaf. Patrick Johns remains are opposing at his home where you're welcome to pay your respects today and tomorrow from 11 o'clock to 10 o'clock. Funeral mass for Patrick John will take place on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock in St Patrick's Church Acha Clay Mallon followed by burial in St Mary's Graveyard Boken Caldaf. Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Alzheimer Society Karendonna branch care of any family member. The death has taken place of Patricia Pat Logue Ney Devine of Black Bray's Campsy County Dairy and killed Dunfanahe County Dunnegall. Her remains will be reposing at her late residence in Dunfanahe from one o'clock this afternoon. Funeral mass in Holy Cross Church Dunfanahe on Thursday at 12 o'clock burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard. Mass can be viewed live on mcmedia.tv. Family time please from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock and on the morning of the funeral. Family flowers only please donations if desired to the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association care of any family member or James Harkin Funeral Director. The death has taken place of Marie Denise Barr, Rathgar Dublin and formerly St Ornes Road Bunkranahe County Dunnegall. Removal from Fannigan's Funeral Home Dundrom on Thursday morning going to the Church of the Good Shepherd Church Town arriving for funeral mass at half past 11. Mass and burial on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at St Mary's Chapel Cockhill Bunkranah. The death has occurred of Sally Galleher Main Street, Mindcharlis. Her remains will repose at Galleher's Funeral Home Station Road, Mindcharlis today from four o'clock until eight o'clock. Removal from there to more morning going to the Church of the Sacred Heart, Mindcharlis for 11 o'clock funeral mass with interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. Family flowers only please. The death took place on October the 13th of Ida McDevitt, 29 Hayward's Road, Hayward's Heath, West Sussex and previously of Letchermore Drum Keane. A service for Ida will take place in St Patrick's Church Drum Keane on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. The death has taken place of Marie Maureen Sweeney, Ney Freel, Ladin, Kendrum and Kettering Northamptonshire, England. Recreation mass at St Mary's Church Fanavolti Faned at 11 o'clock this morning with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral can be viewed live on Scott Funeral Director's Facebook page. The death has taken place of Sean Neil Ferry, Knock Fuller Ghidor, remains are reposing at his late residence. Funeral mass this morning in Chapp Popple Column Kill Knock Fuller at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on Kearn Rorty Funeral Director's Facebook page. The death has occurred of Paul McGuigan, Karuna Marie Burt. Paul's remains are opposing at his home. Removal this morning at half past 10 to Lakelands Crematorium Cavern for 2 o'clock. Family flowers only please. Donations in Louis if desired to the Foyle Hospice care of any family member or Murphy Funeral Director's. And the death has occurred of Willie Call, Hillhead, St Johnston, County Donegal. Funeral leaving his late residence this morning at 20 past 11, going to St Bethans Church St Johnston for 12 noon recreation mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only please. 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But as you know yesterday on the programme, we had a representative on from the Farmer's Alliance and they called for the immediate resignation of the Agriculture Minister, Charlie McConaughey. They were not happy with what they claimed was his representations on the nitrates issue and what have you. And obviously, as we do all the time we invited the minister on to the programme, but he declined and issued this statement instead. If you're covering this issue, I'd appreciate in the interests of balance that this message is broadcast too. Thanks. As you know, I refuse to participate in interviews with Greg in order to make it clear to the public that I object to the way the morning show has become completely dominated by his views on the issues that the show covers. You also know that it's always been my approach to communicate and discuss issues with the public as evidenced by my frequent interviews with the show in the past and the regular public meetings I held in parishes across the county. Now, that's fine and I respect the minister's views in relation to that. It's not a view shared by the rest of the cabinet though, who I've enjoyed very good interviews with Stephen Donnelly and and Rabbit and Simon Harris and pretty much every councillor in the county as well. So unfortunately, thankfully, sorry, they obviously don't see the same way. But anyway, I respect the minister's views and that's fine. With regard to the farmers alliance comments, I look forward to putting my record against them at the next election. Should they decide to contest an election? I note that no existing rural TD or councillor anywhere in the country has seen anything in them that would cause them to join up. I've worked hard to deliver for farmers in Donegal and continue to do so. Some of the key issues delivered to support agriculture in Donegal includes a new common agricultural policy plan that ensured farmers in Donegal and the northwest were treated fairly. A new beef scheme that pays 150 euro per cow for the first 23 cows, compared to a payment of 90 euro on the first 10 cows in the scheme that it replaced. A new environmental scheme that saw funding increase by 50% and over 5,000 farmers taking part in Donegal, which is one-ninth of all participants nationally, with average payments per farm expected to be five and a half grand. A doubling of the payment per yoke from 10 euro to 20 euro. 430 investment items now available for capital investment grant aid under the TAM scheme compared to 300 items previously. Thanks, Charlie. Okay, there you go. More than happy to put that out there. We were talking earlier on to John McLaughlin about lorry drivers and the fact that he believes under 21 should be allowed to drive HDVs. Ask him how many hours you need to work to get 1,200 euros a week. Yeah, I'd be interested in that myself. Another being involved in a collision first doesn't mean you were responsible for that collision. I was involved in a few. Thankfully, none were my fault. Another if boss operators and haulage companies paid a proper wage, you wouldn't need teenagers driving HDVs. Another here, any young person, be it male or female, who's grown up on a farm is well capable of driving tractors or lorries. I myself have been driving since I was eight years old, common sense prevails. Another, it's not right targeting young male and females that are driving tractors or lorries. There are more accidents to do with cars than larger vehicles. It's people driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol is the problem. Okay, thank you very much indeed for that. Greg, at what point do we, the native Irish, wake up and realise that our country is now full up despite what our government will say, we can't take in non-vetted adult men forever, time to close our doors, they believe. It depends when I suppose that you're talking about full in terms of the amount of people you can fit into the country obviously, whereas still miles behind pre-fam and population or you're talking about services and what have you and is it exclusive to men or you're on about all people coming here to whatever they're fleeing. Greg, I'm trying over 18 months to get planning on my own land close to the family and cannot get it. Northerners with plenty of money building all around the same area, no issue with planning and selling houses as soon as it's built. Planning in Donegal is a joke and they believe it's, well I can't say what they believe is the cause of that. It's terrible that people can't get planning close to their home. Did you bring out one of the, sort of for a pre-planning meeting? Did they say why? Is it because there are other properties available to purchase in the local area? Is it because of the design of the property? I wonder what the reason for giving you are. Who is paying for the costs involved in taking in migrants? Us, the taxpayer. Europe, if Europe is it. And European taxpayers, which we are. Please read out these comments. Okay, I've read it out. There you go. How do I get the phone number a fast way in letter? Kenny, I got an email saying a parcel was delivered to my home and signed for, but it wasn't. There's no phone number on the website and they haven't answered any emails. Am I the only one with this problem? Well, not really because I'm not exclusive to that company, but we see regularly on social media it will pop up saying, do you know the number for the local delivery driver of a particular company? Right, okay. Listen, thanks for all of your comments coming in. Lots of you getting involved in the conversation about lowering the age potentially for HGV licenses, but we are going to take a break and what we will do is come back with Community Guard information. Guard of Charlene is going to be in with us with the latest information and appeals where you can hear them first on Highland Radio here in the Ninety-Ninth Show every Tuesday. It's time for NCBI Bingo on Highland Radio. It's Tuesday the 5th of December, you're playing on the brown sheet. The reference number is S2, it's game number 49. The numbers are 23, 28, 37, 39, 3, 27, 60, 44, 74 and finally, 6. Phone your claim tonight, 104883 before 8 tonight, leaving your name, contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day. Get all your NCBI Bingo information at HighlandRidio.com Offer available at Michael Hennies until December 10th while stocks last. 10kg by 10 bags, get one free. Kill and ride softwood logs by 2 bags for 14 euro. Nationwide delivery available, shop in store or online at homeland.ie. The Tumbling Patties this Saturday night at Pulse Venue Letter Kenny. Doors open at 9.30. Tickets now on sale at Eventbrite with support from DJ Togsy. That's the Tumbling Patties this Saturday night at Pulse Venue Letter Kenny. The Community Guarda information slot is brought to you by Sheridan Security Systems, protecting what you value most. Call today and get your zero-wire alarm system from 299 euro, Sheridan Security, 911 26025. Okay, it is time for Community Guarda information. We're joined in studio this week by Guarda Sergeant Charlene Anderson. Charlene, thank you so much for your time today as always. Good morning, right? We appreciate it. Now, we're going to have to just come behind that slight note, perfect. I know you love the microphone, stay where you are. Right, okay. We've got some advice for you coming up and some word on an upcoming event as well. But we'll start with the appeals as we normally do and criminal damage in Kili bags, Charlene. That's correct, Greg. So this morning go the in Kili bags. I'm not getting you at all on that microphone. I beg your pardon. Yeah, you're going to have to move back. Can you hear me now? Yes. All right. Okay, thank you so much. Try again. Take two. So this morning go the in Kili bags are investigating the circumstances surrounding a house fire that occurred on the Donegal road Kili bags and that was near the grave. Can I stop you just a moment because it's just if you can slightly rotate that towards you just the numbers are facing you. That's if you rotate the whole mic. Not the other way. Now, should we start again? I'm going to start again because we have to cut this out and put it on social media. Okay, right. It is Tuesday, December 5th and it's time for Community Guarda information and we're joined in studio by Guarda Sergeant Charlene Anderson from the Bunkrana Guarda Station. Charlene, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. Thank you so much. Okay. As I said a little earlier on, we do have some information, some advice for you and some upcoming events, but we will start with the appeals when we can hear Charlene and we'll start with that one. The criminal damaging Kili bags. That's correct, Greg. So Guardi in Kili bags are investigating the circumstances surrounding a house fire that occurred on the Donegal road in Kili bags and that was near the graveyard on Friday the 1st of December. So Guardi were alerted to the fact that a vacant house was on fire shortly after 10pm on that date. Now the fire service attended the scene and extinguished the flames but the house was destroyed as a result of the fire. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. So the possibility that the fire may have been started deliberately has not been ruled out and this morning we're appealing to anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity on the Donegal road in Kili bags last Friday between 8pm and 10pm to make contact with Guardi in Bali Shanan on 07198 58530 or alternatively they can contact the Guardi the confidential line on 1800 666 111. Okay. We'll stay with criminal damage and go to Letter Kenny now Charlene. So Guardi in Letter Kenny are investigating an incident of criminal damage which occurred at Beechwood road Letter Kenny on Sunday the 3rd of December and this was shortly after 6pm. Now we understand that three youths were seen throwing stones at a house and one of the stones hit the glass in the door of the house causing it to smash. So we just appeal to anyone who may have seen the youths, anyone who may have been in the area with any information in relation to this particular incident to contact Guardi in Letter Kenny on 9167 100. Now unfortunately we've appealed as it relates to a number of burglaries. You might give us some advice that might be useful for us going forward but first we'll start with the incident in Letter Kenny if that's okay in Knocknamona Rope Park. That's correct. So Guardi in Letter Kenny are investigating a burglary that occurred at Knocknamona Park on Tuesday the 28th of November at approximately 5.15pm. Now resident of the property was upstairs in their home when they were disturbed when they were disturbed by an intruder. The intruder ran down the stairs and jumped out of the window and left the scene. Now we understand that nothing was stolen and no property was damaged but the man in question was described as being approximately five foot ten in height, skinny with short dark hair and was wearing a black top and black colour jeans. So we appeal to anyone who may have observed a man of this description in the area to make contact with us and we'd also appeal to anyone who may have travelled in the area and perhaps it's dashcam footage that would make that available to Guardi in Letter Kenny if possible. Now to Convoy now, Sharlene. That's correct. So this is another appeal in relation to a burglary and so we're just appealing for information in relation to the burglary that is believed to have occurred in the area of Carrick Brack Convoy on Wednesday the 29th of November between 3pm and 5pm. Now we understand that entry was gained to an unlocked shed at a house in that area between those times. Nothing was stolen from the shed but we'd appeal to anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity in the Carrick Brack area or indeed the surrounding areas during those times and that was between 3 and 5pm to contact Guardi in Letter Kenny on 9167100. And to Moff now. To Moff. So Guardi in Bunkrana are investigating a burglary which happened at No Head Road Moff between 9pm on Friday the 1st and 9am on Saturday the 2nd of December. Now entry was gained to a shed by forcing the locks and it would appear again that nothing was stolen in relation to this particular burglary but we'd appeal to anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity in the area to contact Guardi in Bunkrana on 9320540. And another incident in Moff if I'm correct? That's correct. So another incident, another burglary that occurred at Lenamore Moff on Saturday the 2nd of December between 7am and 7.30am. Now entry was gained to a farm shed after the locks were forced. A number of power tools were stolen from the shed and they were a black and green Hiltai SDS Max Tango Drill, a black and green Hitachi Impact Drill, a black and green Hitachi Impact Gun and a black and green Hiltai Cordless Grinder. So a significant number of power tools taken in this burglary Greg. So again this morning we just appeal to anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity or any suspicious maybe vehicles in the area to contact Guardi in Bunkrana 9320540 and once again anyone that might have travelled in the area between Lenamore and Moff between 7 and 8am they may have dashcam footage. It could be very relevant to this particular investigation or indeed any of the ones that I've spoken about to contact Guardi in Bunkrana. Yeah and don't curate the information yourself anything at all even if it seems insignificant pass it on to Guardi it could be a vital part of that investigation and there is a mix in the burglary is there unoccupied occupied outbuildings sheds and there's you know quite a few that you've highlighted there so obviously those in the criminal community very active at the moment and we have to best protect ourselves Charlene that's correct and you can see from the appeals they're happening at all different times of the day it's not just nighttime you know and I think sometimes we do think that it's just nighttime that these incidents occurs early in the morning during the day houses that are unoccupied I suppose look in the light in light of the increase in thefts and burglaries around this time of year we just encourage homeowners to review their security regularly you know light up lock up it's so important and with your at home and when you're leaving the house make sure that there's a light on lock your doors and windows it is we do forget you know even your car if it's parked on your street or it's parked outside sometimes we come home get out of the car and go into the house but it's just important that we're just being cognizant because even in that one that happened between three and five in the afternoon it could have been heading off to pick the kids up from school and grab a few bits and home in the middle of the day why would you lock the door some might feel but clearly you know I'm not saying that's the case in this case I don't know the background to that but I'm trying to give a real word example of stuff we we quite easily might do and that's it and look a lot of these incidents are opportunistic crimes and someone just sees an opportunity and it doesn't really matter what time of the day or night um you know they're just going to I suppose take advantage of that so it's really look if you have an alarm put your alarm on if you're leaving the house some of these alarms can actually be you can turn them on when you're inside the house too um but it and then you knock off the different sensors for you I suppose look if you have keys don't leave them on your hall table maybe store them away um keep large amounts of cash and jewellery um you know and maybe if you have a safe or somewhere secure in the house um ensure that your exterior um you know your lights and your sheds ensure the lights are on if you have sheds or outbuildings maybe ensure that they're locked um and I think what's clear too from from some of the appeals that you know obviously sometimes the shed might be closed all those it might be locked they are prepared to break the lock open uh and a lot of people perhaps have stuff that's even more valuable in the shed than might be in the house so we have to start looking at our outbuildings you know as if they are houses in terms of lighting and you know sensors or whatever it might be clearly because uh the criminals are targeting them absolutely and a lot of times people would get a house alarm and ensure that everything's secure in the house and then they have as you rightly said they're a lot of their valuables there we we spoke about drills being taken this morning um and you know there could be in a shed and perhaps there is no lock on the shed um so it's just look it's really just to be mindful I suppose we're all guilty of it at times um whether it is driving our car into the drive jumping out going into the house not locking the car and then I suppose overnight you might forget about it and someone sees an opportunity so you know and also too we kind of perhaps feel secure in the knowledge that everyone associated or everyone we're friends with or who can access our social media uh are actually our friends and people that might care about us but clearly not there are people who harvest and pass on this information I know that myself as a fact we really have to be careful don't we with how we use social media because the modern criminal will use that information absolutely and particularly um you know when people are going on holidays as well they're posting about it before they go um and then when they're away they're posting about it and I suppose people see opportunities there so even in that regard if someone would want to contact or notify Guardi that they're going to be away for a period whether that's a couple of weeks um we can ensure that proactive patrols are conducted in the area um it's just little things but I suppose collectively you know it can help somebody yeah for sure and I just wonder sometimes are we as a population as much the eyes and ears of the community you know to pass on important information to the Guardi or you know to keep an eye out on our neighbours or you know we don't want to be accused of curt and twitching if you know what I mean but I think it really is important that we keep an eye on our communities and pass on any information that we we think is even if we think it's a little bit suspicious it's up to the Guardi then to decide what to do with that information absolutely and I would encourage people to contact us if they do you know if they see something suspicious or they think something's not right or perhaps even the at this time year they might not seen someone for a couple of days um you know people are suffering isolation loneliness there's all that in the mix as well if it means the Guardi do no well for a call to see if somebody's all right or indeed if it's a car that's up and down the road and someone says that car is it's not familiar it shouldn't be around here ring it in it's no harm getting these things checked out that's our job that's what we do and look we're here and we're happy to help now sure as a gone far as bullets over the Christmas period someone will be going into a shop they'll pick up a five or six hundred euro electrical item they'll put it in the boot they'll move to the next shop or whatever someone may well be watching them they know that items in there it might be very clear what it is i'm thinking a game so console or something like that i think we talk about that every year we have to be really careful and it's horrible because people don't want to sometimes feel that things are the way they are but they've always been this way we have to be really careful with how we shop as well we did mention this a couple of weeks ago but i think it's a really a good reminder as people really ramp up the Christmas shopping yeah well first of all it would just ensure that your vehicle is locked yeah i think that's the big thing or that the windows are up you know you can hop out the vehicle and maybe the back window was down or or something it transpires later it valuables try and you know put them in the boot if you can at all keep them out of sight out of mind and again back to this opportunistic thing someone's passing by they see an opportunity and they see something and they just want to break the window and they take it so out of sight out of mind lock it in the boot any expensive gifting or if possible try and leave it to last to the end of your shopping that you're not will say shopping you're out shopping the whole day you're going back to your car and putting things in and the next thing you back at the end of the day and half of it is gone so look just to try and park somewhere where there's lights park try and park somewhere where it's secure as best as possible or that there's cameras CCTV ensure your windows and doors are locked if you have valuable items put them perhaps in the boot as i said out of sight out of mind all those little things Greg are so important and of course absolutely report any tests or suspicious activities and car parks to the guards and we'll investigate that it has to be done okay i wouldn't mind a quick chat with you about the ask for angela campaigns i know this is something that you're very passionate about as many of your colleagues are as well we've spoke about it in the past and especially coming into the party stroke Christmas season it might be even particularly more relevant so could you give us a bit of a background to it and how it works and who's involved in it please charlie yes so last year we launched the ask for angela campaign in dunigol um it's a collaboration with ourselves and guide the shea corner the vintners the hoteliers federation and the joints police and committee um the ask for angela campaign Greg it's a safety initiative it's coordinated to keep people safe across dunigol so again this year we're just it's just a renewed focus i suppose look we're coming into the Christmas in the year period we have a lot of people going out socializing again there's Christmas parties and people are out and about so it's just really to as i said put a renewed focus on the campaign as we seek to just to ensure people that when they are right that there is help if they find themselves in an unsafe or vulnerable situation um the initiative encourages individuals to approach a member of staff in any licensed premises um that supports the ask for angela campaign um the licensed premises will have posters or stickers um and it will say ask for angela i suppose the the increase in online dating as well people might be speaking online for a while and then they go and they the meet up for the first time and perhaps they feel unsafe or there's something just not right and they want to get out of that situation and it's at that point that they could go to the buyer and ask for angela and staff will know what to do whether that's to remove them from the situation allow them to make a phone call perhaps contact somebody for them um or if it got to the stage dependent on the severity of it they might have to remove somebody from the premises or indeed contact ourselves but look there is help out there that's the most important thing and it's just to add that reassurance to people um that when they are writing about that if they do find themselves in an unsafe or vulnerable situation um go to the buyer in any of these premises that supports the ask for angela campaign and as i said the vigners association um are involved with it the hoteliers federation the joint police and committee and indeed ourselves um and ask for angela yeah and i'm sure they are as well but i mean there might be seasonal staff that weren't around this time last year just for managers bar managers hotel managers whatever it is just to remind staff about the initiative because the last thing we'd ever want and i'm sure it wouldn't happen is that someone did ask and uh you know the message didn't get across did you get any sort of have you had any anecdotal evidence of the of the use of this uh locally or no individual cases to be to be honest because it won't always come to the attention of gardy of course well that's exactly i suppose just in general conversation it's received very positively um which is a good thing and just as you were saying we might have new staff this year in different premises or seasonal staff um last week i sent out packs to all the licensed premises and that are aligned with the vigners the and the hoteliers federations across dunagol the packs have gone out the posters the information for staff um you know there's they're laminated for staff as you can see there and the posters will be displayed so it's again it's just a renewed focus um on the ask for angela campaign it's just about keeping people safe across dunagol yeah and it is it's really important okay uh finally the rath mullen polar plunge is back it takes place on the south i'm shivering just thinking about it myself um talk to me it's actually i was at it and it's fantastic fun and a great spirit that would warm the cockles of your heart uh not one shells but but it would warm your heart but anyway talk to us about what's coming up on december 9th so there's a number of gardy members from the dunagol division and they'll once again get chilly in the swilly um at the rath mullen polar plunge i love it at the rath mullen polar plunge on saturday the 9th of december and it's all in aid of special olympics ireland now the plunge will kick off at 2 p.m and we hope that a big crowd will come along and support all those who are taking part in the the polar plunge and i suppose look the special olympics athletes show courage and bravery and determination in their sports on a daily basis greg and we're delighted to be able in some small way um to support these inspirational people so a full day of festivities has been planned from 12 to 5 with something to suit everyone from christmas fairs to arts and crafts music entertainment and of course santa and mrs claus will be there as well so look we encourage everyone to wrap up by suppose and come along and enjoy the fun and the wrap up and then strip off it is actually it is fantastic fun and a lot of businesses get involved into it and sort of people that you might recognize and uh as i say it's a fantastic thing for a fantastic cause have you ever done it no i haven't but i've been down to support them and that's important as well of course with three jackets on and a hat and a scarf you're never sure to support i'm saying have you done it no i haven't have you any intention of doing it not even this year but in years to come i'll have to the jury's out i support it definitely okay exactly rafmall and polar plunge it's on december ninth it's a fantastic day it's on from 12 to 5 so get down at some point over those five hours because it's edging closer to christmas and there's a great christmas buzz about it too and it's really good fun to see people in really uncomfortable situations all right we'll be back with more shortly just to remind you that community garden information is back with you after the 10 o'clock news next tuesday garden sergeant charlie nannison thank you very 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but you know over eight in ten people having negative experiences it really did surprise me lane yes and it's it's very frustrating and distressing for for blind vision part people getting out and about with a guide dog as mobility aid for families that have an autistic child and they're using an assistance dog as a safety aid for their child so that they're able to get out and about independently as a family unit it's very distressing to them and very frustrating that there seems to be well there the survey shows that there is a significant lack of awareness among staff working in all types of businesses the incidents they report cover transport companies such as taxis and hospitality industries such as hotels and bmbs some medical centers and shops and pubs and so on and really across the board employers need to check in with all their staff their new staff and their existing staff and say are you aware that guide dogs and assistance dogs when assisting their owner are entitled to be on their place of business yeah and it's not just private businesses as well there's one story quoted to try and get the message out there where someone was denied entry to a hospital yes in that instance it was a young a young person who has a guide dog as the mobility aid they're in in the hospital center with their mother the mother needs care and they were approached by the staff and what was particularly frustrating to that that guide a goner was that the staff kept speaking to the mother they weren't even addressing her personally and and asking her about her her right so that was very frustrating at the time but the guide us are allowed into all the public areas in a hospital like anywhere other people can go in a hospital someone with a guide dog or an assistance dog can go as well so that was very distressing for her when she's there supporting her mother and the mother needed medical attention yeah and it happens so frequently too it must bet it must be tiresome it must feel humid humiliating it must feel degrading tiresome to have to keep making the argument try and convince someone of your rights that really at this point you would hope that education and training has been put been put in place a lot of this most of this all of this is completely avoidable it is really it's like a key a key aspect that we're finding in the survey is that a third of the access instruments reported were resolved at the time when the the guide a goner assistance dog goner asked to speak at the manager and then the manager was able to speak with the staff at the time and say no look our policy is guided there are allowed in place and of course the policy it should it should be there catering for all people and making that making it aware that it is pure discrimination to stop someone coming into their establishment with a guide or an assistant dog and a quarter of the incident reported though could not be resolved on the spot so even senior manager didn't seem to be aware of the rights of someone with a guide dog and assistance dog but essentially they deserve the same level of customer care as any other person there are no restrictions on the guide or an assistance dog they're permitted on to all public spaces and we really are using this this campaign as an opportunity to open up our our avenues in terms of like encouraging businesses to go to our website guidex.ie go direct to the advocacy page there's a number of access guides up there geared towards different sectors of businesses such as transport including information for taxis and so on such as hospitality the hotels bnb and so on such as food businesses restaurants shops you know across all the board so the information is there the access guides are there and what's great about the access guides is that they go more than explaining the rights that someone with a guide dog has it also gives really good information on the extra positive stuff that a business can take to make their businesses and their services more accessible to people with a guide dog or an assistance dog another another key message that we would like people and businesses to take on board is if you need more information do get in touch email access at guidex.ie and we will pick up that their access regulation requirements and their query and work with them to ensure that they have the right policy yeah but i mean i know it doesn't there's a lot of what i'm going to mention or some of the what i'm going to mention doesn't necessarily apply to to all the people that you would speak on behalf of but when you just run through your head in terms of you know people parking in spaces or spaces not available for people with disability uh hedges hanging out over footpaths people parking on footpaths street furniture sandwich boards how tables and chairs are arranged at the entrance of a business and on and on and on it goes you know you it is no surprise that people contact the likes of this program to say i just don't leave the house anymore because it's too much of a hassle that's how isolating and and discriminating the world can seem to people Greg you are raising a very important point there and our own service users do experience those issues as well and people who are blind and vision impaired also do have a disability parking pass obviously the person driving the car uses it and they have the right to use accessible parking as well and they encounter those issues in terms of overhanging hedges that is a huge frustration for people who are blind and vision impaired and also cars parking on the footpath as well people need to be more aware number one cup pack hedges on on your garden if they're like infringing on the on the public footpath do not park on the pavement really pink before you park to give you some examples and some some of our our service users guided owners and assistant stock owners are often forced to turn around and go back home when their their their pathway their travel of path is blocked by people not considering the needs of everyone in their community so there does seem to be a lack of consideration for all people in the community and that the the issues that impact on people with disabilities when we work on them and when we work together at the community and what's the local authority and with all the with everyone that has the kind influence to improve community access and also access to businesses you're not only helping people with a disability such as a vision impairment or mobility impairment in your area you will find that this is just everyone like think of parents that have a buggy and they have a family and they're trying to get to informed schools their pathway is also blocked and dog filing as well as a big issue and also recent we had to to to platform a lady campaigning for crossings in letter candy the biggest town in arland to that the worst was an audio assistance that that people would know when the lights were were were green to go to cross the road stuff it's just amazing that in 2023 the challenges that people are facing that really it shouldn't be an issue if we were as caring societies we like to make out we are sometimes and finally you talked about information being available but a lot of the issues that we seem to be talking about here are based off sort of ignorance or a lack of legislation or a lack of what you should be doing knowing what you should be doing do we need to be more proactive i know you're doing so through programs like this but i don't know if there's an agency of the government or maybe the likes of ibeck for businesses or the retail association for shops i don't know for them to get on board with this and to start contacting their their members so that ignorance can't be a defense there are a number of avenues like for instance the the food safety authority and the environmental health officers regulations and they could ensure review their practices and make sure are we making businesses where all business aware the guide dogs and assistance dogs are permitted onto all public places that's one aspect and the state parties should look at their like where they can influence regulations as well like they can look at examining the equal status acts as one example and broadening out the the influence of that act such as ensuring that there is an enforcement on businesses to have an inclusion officer on their team so that they look at all aspects that affect diversity in the community and to make sure that they're ensuring that discrimination is not happening to anyone in in the general population especially including people with a disability in elderly people and families and so on but there are there does need to be there is an opportunity here that we can pick up on and they can happen working with state parties working with local authorities working with the the organization that you suggested there ibeck and so on that really for people to pick up the pace here and say there is a gap here and the disabled community in the last census makes up 22 percent of the population in the previous 2016 census it was 13 percent but just because we're a margin like the people with disabilities are a marginalized smaller group in the population doesn't mean that they should be forgotten about and that people need to recognize that when their needs are taken care of and address society it's easier and it's actually more user friendly and more accessible for everyone thank you so much for your time today and hope the message gets across because you know i think we'd all want to i don't think anyone purposely wants to be discriminating or excluding people in this fashion thank you so much for your time that's laying Kennedy there advocacy and policy officer with the Irish guide dogs for the blind maybe you've experienced that and you can give us some you know real world examples uh 08 660 25 000 hi Greg totally agree with minister mcconnellow very childish behavior you have a very fair non-biased view to comments and interviews on the show sorry to say the minister has done well this person believes nothing for donagall i've listed off what he believes uh they've done or she believes they've done only for farmers Greg Edward here you can get a license for an articulated hgv at 18 with a cpc 21 without cpc without cpc you can't get paid so there you go uh there's no reason why women drivers shouldn't get the same money as men considering they do the same job every bit as well it is a peculiar one that i can't understand why they might get paid less uh lorry owners believes this caller are the worst payers i know several lorry drivers who are old hundreds in wages many are getting cash in hand so they can't make an issue of it drivers getting 1700 euro per week is nonsense in fact for the hours they work their hourly rate is uh very low i listen to you every day and as a woman over 70 i think it's disgraceful that the minister has just decided to not engage with the only media i listen to you raise all the issues relative to me in the county thank you and i hope you uh because i've go out of my way to um platform the issues as much as is possible like say for instance just give an insight this is the way i'd see it is like say an issue on the hospital like you know we we accept that and not to bring that up again but we accept that you know a lot of people have really good experiences down there uh the staff are fantastic the consultants are fantastic and everything is fantastic but there are issues that need to be highlighted so we've platformed those to try and help hopefully we contributed to the minister coming up and meeting with consultants and gps that does not mean that you're anti-government that doesn't that means you probe the people probe the improvement of services as i said as i said to minister donnelly here i'm not the enemy we're to work together to try and to get to where we all want to be and 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family's efforts to secure a fresh inquest into his death would be thwarted by the u k legacy act gardy have not ruled out that a fire to beckon heist on friday last and killy bags may have been started deliberately the blaze which broke out at around 10 o'clock destroyed the property on the dunigol road there are no reports of any injuries meanwhile a woman whose home in letter kenny was badly damaged in a fire on sunday night last has praised the fire service personnel who tackled the blaze but says they were hampered because a fire hydrant close to the house was clogged with mud and couldn't be accessed karen told the nine-ton inshow earlier that it caused delays at a crucial time the justice minister is confident she will survive a motion of no confidence in her politicians will debate the shin fian motion in the door this evening following the riots in dublin helmack and t has described it as a distraction but sainth dunigol deputy martin kenny feels it's justified gardy are investigating a burglary at noknamona park letter kenny on tuesday last they say at approximately quarter past five a resident of the property was upstairs in their home when they were they disturbed an intruder the intruder ran down the stairs jumped out a window and left the scene nothing was stolen and no property was damaged meanwhile gardy are looking to identify three youths seen throwing stones at a house in letter kenny on sunday evening glass in the door of the house in the beechwood road area was smashed during the incident shortly after six o'clock anyone who observed the youths or who has dashcam footage of the area between six and quarter past six is asked to contact a gardy in letter kenny and finally this friday december the eighth is the closing date for the public consultation on dunigol county council's draft climate action plan people are being invited to have their say on the plan and also to comment on two environmental reports which have been published with it those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon mackayla thank you very much indeed millionaire raffle from the national lottery is back with one millionaire guaranteed and over 6.3 million euro in cash prizes to be won it's the biggest ever the draw is on new years eve and tickets are limited to 600 000 the national lottery it could be them gift responsibly now we are joined on the program by natto connor policy specialist with age action not good to have you back on the show good morning to you good morning right okay now there's a warning out there about family members who use next of kin status to swindle older people's money a senior social worker for the call can carry region is warned of disgusting financial abuse of elderly patients by family members who use next of kin status to swindle their money now this is someone who's spoken out from the call can carry region but i presume it's not exclusive to that region is this something that age action is familiar with unfortunately so and you know the the the issue here is this is not a an uncommon occurrence we know from the latest hsc report that over 850 cases of financial abuse of older persons were reported and those are just the reported cases and more than half of them affected an older person aged 80 or older and of course it's happening all around the country so unfortunately while it's not most people's experience there's a there's hundreds of cases happening every year and it's certainly an issue for national concern that this is happening and you know you you said yourself the outset people are abusing next of kin status there's no such thing in law as being next of kin it has no legal power now if you're some if you're married to someone if you're the spouse then you have certain legal rights but other than that you know that this this term has been abused and unfortunately it's still used sometimes in you know nursing home application forms and the like it just means who to contact it doesn't give you any rights to come in and make decisions on behalf of an older person in one case a relative of an older person who was sick in hospital sent in a slister to have a will change at the hospital bedside when the patient was suffering from a progressive illness now that is shocking on so many levels but did that person do anything legally wrong although clearly there is moral questions to be asked there well the issue there would be you know would any court uphold such a a a will you know is there a solicitor involved who's going to be you know verifying that will or you know registering it because if somebody's making a will under duress or if they're affected by dementia and they're not able to you know make decisions at that time then certainly that would not be a valid will but but it's very serious that such a thing should happen and I mean there are steps we can take I mean part of age actions concerns that we don't have all the legal protection in place that we should have for example coercive control is recognized in law in a in a marriage or in an intimate relationship where somebody might be essentially bullying or psychologically pushing someone into doing something that they don't really want to do but we don't recognize that in law but it's an older person affected as so we need to bring that into law widen the definition and likewise we need an adult safeguarding law at the moment the HSE has a national safeguarding team but it's based on guidelines we want to see legal obligations so that there can be no gray lines and no confusion about this kind of next of kin business yeah because it doesn't have to be happening widespread it's happening all too often but it doesn't have to be widespread for it to I don't know how you how you describe it but just a worry for for an older person do you know what I mean that that's something like this could happen to them when I mean an older person can come out of hospital you know perfectly fine and live a healthy life for some time to come but can be really quite disorientated in a hospital setting for example where it could be exploited do you know what I mean like there's I just don't want older people to have any further things to have to worry about God knows society set up to to make their life difficult enough as is without this sort of emotional worry absolutely I mean certainly you know there's over 180,000 people in Ireland aged 80 and older and happily most of them are living independently at home you know aging in place in their homes and communities which is what most of us want but at any point in time there are about 30,000 people in nursing homes or other residential care and it's there where particularly someone's affected by dementia or other cognitive issues that there's a particular vulnerability and it is only a minority of cases but unfortunately it's a case that people are being abused in that context financially abused psychologically abused and unfortunately it's mostly family members and sometimes the wider family who who get involved and this is to do with an assumption that some people seem to have that they have a right to inheritance and the law does not recognize a right to inheritance except again for your your your husband or wife or for your children and and even then not in every country not in every circumstance so when quite a wider family is getting involved and saying oh well I'm the only surviving relative this is just someone seeking unfortunately to line their own pockets and that's something I think as a society we have to take on because unfortunately we know that people are not reporting issues like this because it's inside the family yes they don't want to get the guards involved they don't want you talked about how um you talked about you know in in the the health care setting the majority are living independently at home but they probably still have someone calling around that's constantly at them or you know emotional blackmail or coercion or whatever it might be if someone listening is in that position whereby someone is you know consistently calling around or called around once and trying to influence them or guilt them or as they say emotionally blackmail or whatever it might be to to write a will they should have a will of course but or to adjust a will you know what what should someone do in that situation I would say there's quite a few people listening to this program that say you know what I can kind of identify with them well there's a number of things I mean I can give you the number for example of the HSE's national safeguarding office which is on 0 6 1 4 6 1 1 6 5 and likewise age action has an information helpline on 0 1 4 7 5 6 9 8 9 and there's other numbers people could call and indeed if somebody is stealing your money so for example if someone's doing the shopping for you and you're giving them the bank card and you know you check your balance and that's just some's are missing or there's items on the receipt that were not for you that were for them that's theft and if you're not in a position to have that conversation directly with somebody because you need them to do your groceries or whatever do get in contact with a third party whether it's age action or the HSE or even the Guardi who'll give you advice on what you can do in those circumstances because you know that the risk is that you'd let something slide and that you know these things can escalate so somebody might be doing your shopping and you think actually they put petrol in the car should that's only fair it's something for them but if it grows and grows and becomes abusive then we have to say no you know the older person and you have to ask yourself you know someone might say well I don't want to lose them from my life for all their for all their failings but you do have to ask yourself is that person worth having around you if that's what they think of you that they might try and convince you one way or other of something or they might be you know exploiting you financially as well before I let you go Nat the GEA Go conversation has raised its its head again and and it affects older people in my mind to a great extent it's now going to cost you know 79 euro for people to watch 30 odd games on GEA Go obviously it's a condensed season now there's a lot of games the GEA argue that if they didn't have this service the games wouldn't be there but again older people more likely to use cash if they go and want to watch a game in person they can't pay cash they might not have access to the internet I think what three and ten older people don't have access even to the internet to watch GEA games now the GEA clearly is a business okay but it is also of the community and supported by the community and supported really quite healthily 25 mil 50 million total I believe last year by the state a few any concerns age action any concerns of the way even something as important as a GEA seems to be sidelining older people that they don't seem important well you've put your finger on it and you really spelled it out I mean as a society we spend millions every year to support arts culture and sport and part of the deal has to be inclusion to make sure nobody is left behind and as you say three and ten older persons don't use the internet at all and another three and ten who do use the internet have below basic skills and this is according to regular surveys done by the season we're into the majority now so the majority would have a difficulty with online and of course it's not just the subscription cost of the GEA go which is reasonable but if you don't have a digital device buying of that buying a broadband subscription you know subscript you know you have to update devices and other software it's expensive it's complicated to get on a telly as well it is complicated you know what I mean it's not really as simple as perhaps it should be so so there's a lot of barriers there which we call invisible barriers and our concern is you know the the organizations involved which includes the GA and RTE need to make sure there's a pathway there if an older person wants to learn digital skills you know more programs are needed to help people take that step and at the same time if people can't use a GA go we have to make sure that the premium matches that people really want to see are available on the television in and all the way you see the government is prepared to withdraw funding in terms of say for instance gender balance on the board of a sporting authority so they are prepared to say right you know we're not going to give you this money until such time as we see a bit better representation of gender yet it seems to some extent the GA is a law into itself that we will chock the 24 50 odd million at them annually but there's nothing coming back in return to say hold on yet we come and need to come up with a business plan that is inclusive that's inclusive of the people who perhaps maybe made the GA what it is today in terms of you know cash at the turnstile in terms of being able to watch the big games it's like I just feel I just think those people need advocacy at the highest level in government uh I think they need more advocacy that's all I'm saying really maybe that's an opinion but I don't mind expressing that early and you again you you put your finger on it and the issue about the cash list is important because people say I show why can't you tap you have a bank card but if you're not using the internet you can't check your balance online and we know more than half of other people rely on social protection for more than half of their income so most are on low fixed incomes where you're minding your money you're minding it through cash and exactly as you say if you want to go pay cash at a turnstile and certainly from age actions perspective we think every match there should be at least one gate where you can pay cash and there's all these work around where you can do it but the great PR of it like the great PR of it says you know what we really value the the older community and with that in mind we are providing one cash turnstile because we love them we care about them they're in our community they've built our organization that's you're matching the positive PR from that it's wonderful now apparently you can actually pay cash at league games believe it or not but anyway it's not advertised but we'll not get into that last question to you uh it's a it's it's specific i know you can't get into specifics so let's pretend this is a general inquiry i'm listening to that there um talking about elder abuse can you ask him what do we do as the same thing happened to our relative in a nursing home a relative broke into their home reported to the guards but they wouldn't help as they said it was a civil matter we the person changed the locks and put their name on the ESB meter our relative has advanced dementia so they're in the the care setting and a relative has broken into the home changed the locks changed the electricity into their name guard won't get involved they believe it's a civil matter i understand it's going to be difficult for you to comment on this because it's kind of a specific case but what would your general be there as a generic case it's somebody has no entitled to be in your home entitlement to be in your home so for example if i'm an older person my adult's child has no entitlement to live in my house but who can who can advocate on behalf of the older person with advanced dementia so i mean there's lots of options there i mean organizations such as sage advocacy can offer individual you know uh support for a person uh likewise i would be going back to the guards and saying no hang on or going to a solicitor and looking at this because it may be a family matter but if the person has no right to be in a house and certainly no right to be changing locks or changing bills that is theft and it's you know on a fairly hefty scale and so that would need to be investigated and if the person for example may be is lying in line to inherit a house they don't own it until probate and the whole legal process you know they have no entitlement to use a property that they in their mind think that they're going to inherit um quite the contrary all right somebody commits a crime they can root themselves out of inheritance as far as the courts are concerned they can lose any right the court might have given them uh to inheritance if they commit crime so there's a lot in this but certainly you know i wouldn't be taking it lying down uh in terms of you know wider family who may be concerned it's something they're seeing unfold not as always it's great having you in the show i do enjoy thanks for your time today again thanks very much by natto connor policy specialist with age action the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on 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psychotherapist a very good morning to you stephanie how are you i'm doing fantastic and really pleased to be speaking to you and it's off the back of a survey which tells us that just over half of women report stress during the christmas period what are the triggers for these stresses stephanie well the article that i wrote um which i think you're referring to is the um i suppose that i i find perfectionism drives a lot of stress but there are many other stresses the one i was speaking about especially was perfectionism and how it how that desire to have everything controlled to have everything um super organized super complete um leaving nothing to doubt um how it really drives stress into an already quite stressful situation you know because people what happens then is people find themselves focused on all the wrong things you know they're focused instead of being focused on the crack and the fun and the joy and just the niceness of doing and the um the act of doing if you like doing up the house making the you know making the the boot that you don't normally do and all of those things if you put yourself into the perfection mode you find yourself just focusing on all the things you're doing wrong and all the things that aren't perfect and and and what's not done instead of what is done so that was why i focused on that but there's loads of other stresses of course you differentiate between perfectionism and achievement yes absolutely because because the person i mean we all we all do strive to have nice christmas you know and we all have little pictures in our mind about how that looks but for most people they're able to do their best and kind of to align there and say well you know it's pretty good but i'm pretty exhausted now so i'm going to put my feet up but so having good good high standards is absolutely fine but if you're finding yourself not enjoying it even though you've got a lot done you're probably in the perfectionistic situation and you say that sometimes this can be quite deeply rooted in your past yeah perfectionism tends to be very associated with anxiety with um and other kind of you know obsessive compulsive disorders all of that kind of it's it's attached to that but in clinical terms we would usually go to the root of things because that's obviously what therapy is about and we try and find what is it that you are soothing in yourself by keeping everything perfect keeping everything under control keeping things without doubt and without risk if you like of it going wrong so you do everything and then you don't have to rely on everyone and we find that in broad terms that tends to go back to childhood it may be a chaotic household it may be obviously addiction we know how much addiction there is around us all in life and um and that causes dysfunctionality it also causes a lot of children's needs not being met children children as I say parenting parents where they're looking out for them and these are the things that spike anxiety not in all children but we all have different little tendencies some some become aggressive some become you know withdrawn some become shy some become no trouble so there's there's a whole load of ways to defend yourself against that but perfectionism is one of them yes and I like the the suggestion you make as to how you might sort of address that obviously you know as you say through through through counselling and what have you you know people can tease that stuff out but you can begin that journey yourself really by because it is Christmas writing a letter to Santa yourself and and and reflecting writing stuff down it really because you often see it when people write books don't you need to talk about that question was it cathartic you know and it always is right because it's the first question you ask someone who's written a book but the reason that question pops up is because it can be very helpful because you are forced not forced but you think about things that you don't necessarily think in your mind or even that you might say to somebody yeah it draws it up you're absolutely right it draws it up and it draws up memories and it attaches one thing to the other and it also makes you focus a little on the detail and you know it's the essence of therapy when you say something the emotion is attached but equally you know when you sometimes just say it out loud you can feel yourself sort of welling up about something that you weren't even sure you would you were going to well up about before and that's why we always say to people at emotional times practice your speech say it out loud because whatever emotion is attached it will pop up when you write things down it does the same thing not exactly the same but in a very close sort of connection to that and it's very therapeutic so I often say to people try let's just try and find out what's going on here and a simple way for yourself as you say we don't all need therapy we're not and I'm not I'm not plugging that in any way but I think it's really useful if you let the child in yourself speak dear Santa this is how it was for me and you start to say those words because I always think letters are quite emotional I think it's the child in us all we were all taught to write letters so when we say dear anybody we feel quite close to them and I think that by just connecting with that part of you that was happy or sad or disappointed or tense you know you will hear people often people will often tell me they the tension of Christmas comes back to them they didn't know what was going to happen who was going to come in the door how was mother going to be where was her mood where was his mood and these are little small people trying to navigate that but the but in every man and woman today there is a small person there and I think just the letter to Santa actually is very clever because it immediately disarms you you have to go back to that to that space even more so in fact if you were writing letters at any time of the year maybe it might be good to write them to Santa how do you a partner or someone else in the house assist someone who is a perfectionist like this because they can often be really quite controlling and the only way they can achieve their perfectionism is if they do it all themselves if they have full control out of it if no one has their dirty sticky fingerprints metaphorically speaking over it so how do you then sort of assist them you know because the easiest thing would be to say it's not fun have a bit of fun but that's like telling someone with anxiety to pull themselves together it's it's not helpful so how do we support these people yeah that's very insightful of you I have to say I think that's exactly you've put your finger just exactly on it and how do you support them first of all it's important to remember that if you're a perfectionist you're also slightly excluding your partner so it's kind of hard for them to come into you as you say and and help you out there so they feel cut out and a bit helpless and and I know it's easy to say well will you let her do all the work or you let him do all the work but but really deep down there's an unhappiness in it so you can reach out to them and I suggest to people that before the time comes upon you in a total way and takes over all your thinking that you might just say to yourself allocate one task to everybody beforehand that that means that's going to be someone else's responsibility now I know it's difficult you have to sit with the discomfort a little but this is how you help yourself the other is that you promise yourself that you will always sit before the job is done not after the job is done so again you're teaching yourself and your impulse to slow down the process it's not a it's you're not operating as completely unconsciously and the other is of course that you acknowledge that as I say you get in the centre letter but what does Christmas do to me and and acknowledge that say it to yourself I'm tense because it's Christmas but that's an old feeling now this is a new Christmas with my husband my children or you know my friends this is a new time and I don't have to bring it with me fully so I'm going to try and forget that I'm going to try and let that go into the past now it's a process I'm not saying it's a click your fingers but these are the things that help is it possible too that in some cases this is avoidance you know that maybe it's a difficult time of year for some people and no matter how perfect they got it they couldn't be happy and really this is to avoid something else in the life that they're not dealing with is that is that possible in some cases well I think you know hyperbusiness can be a defence which is you could say it's in that the perfectionism I think has a unique kind of character to it but you will often see people who yes they sort of hide in business don't you you know you can see at times and and it may be and it may be a good defence you know being busy at Christmas and get all involved and get up to your eyes and all and it may be a good defence and a good help to the person against maybe loneliness or grief or whatever so some defences are very positive for us and they help us forward but there are others that kind of destroy our life a little bit and I think it's it's not so much choosing the right one as acknowledging which one is operating okay so we have to remember for those who are in a position to be to be happy and what a few because obviously people listening you know for different reasons they may not be but if everything is all right you can't forget what Christmas is about either it is a opportunity maybe to relax a little bit to form memories that you can bank memories for times to come you know mend the bridges perhaps no one wants to sort of have any regrets if someone passes away what have you but ultimately to allow yourself space to be to be happy or even content I think I think what you're touching on there is and of course there's so much in Christmas I find I've I look at it from so many angles and you know the as you say to mend bridges there can be a very big pressure on people to mend bridges at Christmas and that can be tricky for people and like you I agree it's an opportunity just to you know put a good wish to somebody that maybe you haven't been in touch with but sometimes people stay out of touch with people for good reason oh yes for sure I get that yeah yeah and there can be a lot of pressure you know to kind of drop that and get back well we could start the whole conversation about Christmas dinner and at mom's or something uh you know a family party I get you uh okay Stephanie listen thank you so much for your time it's very insightful the top of the article's been cut off it looks like the independent is that correct or is it the times yes it is the independent it looks like they're bold and it's in there today and it goes through a few bullet points and I think it's food for thought because as much as writing a letter to Santa sometimes you've actually read the words and you can relate it a little bit better than to hear them as well so grab a copy or check it out online but for now Stephanie thank you have a wonderful Christmas I love your Christmas tree it looks like it's very comfortable to hug though you might not encourage me to do so on all of that thanks so much and really nice to talk to you up there and Johnny Gull I have a super friend up there and love the place lovely stuff thank you Stephanie Stephanie Regan there clinical psychotherapist again if anything resonates with you and you want to share it with us please get in touch show 86 60 25 000 right so we are running our competition I need this tattooed on my forehead this competition because I've thrown away the information on it but anyway it's in association with our friends at Cadbury would you excuse me please and we're giving away a hamper a day or Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday uh for someone who nominates someone special in their life and the person that they nominate receives a wonderful uh Cadbury secret Santa bar through the post so it's win a winner chicken dinner right okay so some of the entrance so far these may be winners by the way just because I read them out it doesn't mean they're not still in the draw but I just want to give you a sense of the love and affection that's out there uh for our fellow man and woman I'd like to nominate my mum she is and always will be there for me I love her so much that comes in from Mary my special person is Beep she glued my shattered pieces together with her magic glue it's not every day you feel a real life angel I nominate my brother for the secret Santa he is the best person I've ever met and I'd be lost without him during my dad's illness last year my brother and I nursed him at home until he passed away but without him being there with me through it all this would not have been possible and now our mom isn't well and again we're doing our best to care for mom at home and without his help I just don't think I could manage on my own he's also a cancer survivor some himself plus he is a chocoholic hi I'd nominate like to nominate Mary my son recently died by suicide and this lady went over and beyond the call of duty calling each and every day with gifts of flowers and chocolates she's one in a million and has been my shoulder of strength when my lovely daughter died tragically people like Mary are very rare thank you and can I also pass on my condolences and good wishes to you uh with the awful situation of the loss of two of your children it must be terribly difficult and you're clearly an incredibly strong person um so sorry really really sorry for everything you've been gone you have gone through and continue to go through I'm sure especially at this time of year our thoughts are with you and I'll include you in my prayers I'd like to nominate my husband after four years of treatment for a very rare disease yesterday with his was his first day medication free I would be giving him the hamper too thank you indeed okay I would like to nominate my husband for the bar of chocolate he really deserves it he's been in a wheelchair for the past 20 years he's an inspiration to everyone he meets and brings a lot of fun to the lives of others he is my rock and last one for now Greg I'd like to nominate my granddaughter for Secret Santa she's saved up all year to buy Christmas presents for children in an orphanage in Uganda she also is sending stuff to Ronald McDonald house and does a shoebox appeal she says she wants to make people happy at Christmas I'm so proud of her as her parents are and I think she would be worthy of a Secret Santa and she is just six years old what an amazing young girl thank you for that Mary we really do appreciate it's we're continuing to take your nominations you know it's actually really warm heartwarming heartbreaking and all different emotions reading some of those absolutely beautiful relationships people have with each other out there and some amazing people doing amazing things and what an opportunity to be able to thank them so you still have time to enter and re-enter by the way send them in again tomorrow or Thursday please don't just leave it today and if you entered Monday keep entering and we'll go through them all okay but it's not we have this Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday so I don't want some of those brilliant stories to be lost today re-enter them tomorrow there's no problem in doing that okay so send your reason the person you're nominating your name and address to 08 660 25000 your prize for nominating if you're the successful nominator is a Cadbury hamper and the person you nominate will receive a Cadbury Secret Santa bar as well I would say though you'll all end up tucking into it all together perhaps okay let's take a break back with more soon watch 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in nine hours and she'd just have to wait there's also a baby here since 12 a.m yesterday morning oh still hasn't been seen Greg would you ask the Garde to bring the E and I Junction at Burnfoot would to bring the I don't know I'll have to look at that one again asking my apologies although I have no loving for government ministers usually I'm sorry to say I have to agree with Charlie McConnell's comments today in my opinion the 9 till noon show should be renamed the Greg Hughes's opinion show okay thank you for that and that's perfectly fine too everyone's entitled to their opinion I'm I'm sorry if it comes across like that I guarantee you it's not my intention but I appreciate your comment hence why I read it out why did Sinn Fein withdraw the motion of no confidence in Helen Mackintee did they I didn't hear that news yet I've been in the studio I presume because it's not going to pass if they did in fact withdraw it I'm a hgv driver for 20 years the average wage is six to eight hundred euro a week it's a lot of commitment no facilities nowhere in Leto Kenny to even get a sandwich and a cup of tea until this changes nobody will want to come into the profession we were chatting to a lady earlier on in the first hour of the program if you missed it who's a very sad story of her house burning down but at the same time thankfully her and her husband got out safe in the cat as well and a couple of treasured possessions that poor lady my heart goes out to her we are not half at thankful Greg I meet tractors all the time in the evening and while it's greats at the of great lights at the front that would nearly blind you the very few lights on the back and that's the real danger I've spotted that myself the road of the Donegal County Council was fixing a year ago and did cover one of them you get water okay you get water from to put the fire out man uncovered a man uncovered it and the County Council did come out to him and told him told him off for uncovering it okay Greg I was traveling from Newtown County yesterday and was approaching a school on my right hand side a few kilometers from Manor round about a slow down to about 20 miles per hour as he approached the school entrance gate a woman with two very with two children walked straight across the road in front of me I had to slam on the brakes to stop and let her cross I did not expect her to do that with such young children this school's in a very dangerous location with no warning signs on such main roads red flashing lights should be erected a kilometer from the school driving hours during school hours a school warden should also be employed if I hadn't reduced my speed and approach I dread to think what might have happened we are always warning drivers to take care the same warning should be applied to pedestrians and we often do have people on with warnings for pedestrians but I take your point thank you very much for that right okay Donna joins me now Donna how are you keeping I'm fine thank you okay that's good we were speaking a little early run and perhaps naively was blown away by the fact that 83 percent of people with a guide dog or an assistance dog um are refused entry to transports hospitals restaurants um what's your experience been uh and it might be in relation to that or access and services I don't know whatever you want to talk about Donna yeah well Craig I came back home to letter Kenny 21 years ago and one of my experiences here in letter Kenny was I my husband was old so I I live at the very top of the long lane so I walked down town with my guide dog to get his prescription and was getting some groceries called a taxi at the old roots chemist in the high road because that's where I knew where I was from when I had my sight and um I waited and waited for the taxi and nothing came eventually I smoked three cigarettes at the stage and I rang the taxi for him back and I said apologize this is odd Donna sorry we were trying to get through to you but um we couldn't well I'm not very good with a mobile phone and she says sorry the taxi I says what's happening to the taxi and she says and this is my regular taxi for him or she says the taxi man refused to come and pick you up Donna because of your dog and I was just in total shock so I was very anxious at the time because it was near time is around half past two my children were coming home on the bus for three o'clock and I needed to be there to pick them up because my husband couldn't so I said so well can you get me another one she's well we're busy done at the moment but she says I'll phone another company for you for what she did and luckily enough this other company came high road carbs and I was just told the man in the taxi at the time I says my god I says I can't believe it I've been in England for the last 15 16 years and the only time I was refused a taxi was by an Asian driver that picked me up at the hospital I says I never thought this would happen in letter Kenny and I was quite upset to be quite honest I was just shocked I mean I'm a letter Kenny girl and I just totally shocked so that happened to me and thankfully they told me to go on the shop Sean the dock hour and tell Sean the dock and Sean the dock got all sorted out and a lot of other taxi drivers from Larry Kenny did come up to my home place and apologize on behalf of the other taxi driver who never and is a local businessman who actually never came to apologize and I was totally in shock but he walked down Larry Kenny main street and I mean I was born and we're out here but I only lost my eyesight 33 years ago and he walked down Larry Kenny main street the main street itself is not too bad but you try to get an alternative outlets and between foot passing and traffic lights that are for visual people only they're the weak green man apparently is flashing up but there's no bleeper on some of the lights here in the town it's a large very large time but it's not built for anybody with a disability not just blind people and you said that you said that you'd actually be reluctant to go into Larry Kenny unless you were accompanied or would you not go in at all I know I don't have I didn't give a dog after me last one day because I just thought there's what's the point because I'm down there people are shoveling me one way the other and it's not that it's the footpaths the long lean footpaths are absolutely desperate so unless I just decided bugger it and I just set up here and left me husband takes me out it goes out shopping with me or maybe now me daughters are older now they were children at the time I depend on them yeah that's taken away I mean you've kind of been forced to or left in a position to forgo your independence because of the infrastructure of Larry Kenny effectively like I mean I know you retain your independence but you know in terms of no you're right Craig no you're right Craig since I've moved back here I have lost all my independence because of the situation here in Larry Kenny between if it's not if it's not being a taxi driver which that was only one incident uh been refused entry to a cafe or just the road structure and the light structure alone later Kenny is a very difficult place I have myself lost the independence I don't go out by myself anymore now you talk I mean obviously you talked about uh you're being travelled and living elsewhere did you live elsewhere uh since you had lost your sight and the reason I asked the question is to try and get a comparison maybe between all the places that you've been uh versus letter Kenny or had your sight when you returned home I lost I moved to England in 1988 by 1989 I was having trouble with my eyesight and although I'm a diabetic I was diagnosed wrongly and when the doctor realized what was wrong with me I was bulimic everything was going okay until one day I went back in I was getting a laser treatment twice a week and one day I went back into the hospital and my consultant wasn't there so another junior doctor took over and from that day to this day I had never seen and all that paper my consultant admitted the mistake but I was only 23 at the time and what caused your what caused your sight loss uh Donna it was actually me being being bulimic I'm also diabetic but it doesn't have to do with the diabetes it was the bulimic I was bulimic at the time also and your sight almost went overnight I said I went I left work on a Tuesday went into the hospital and came home and by Thursday my sight hadn't refocused like when you have laser treatment you go all fuzzy anyway and I went back into the hospital on the Thursday and the doctor went oh my god he gave her too much treatment and my husband was well we weren't married at the time we were getting married the following month and I uh I said to the doctor I said what did you say and he went oh I didn't say anything I said no doctor you spoke out loud I may have gone blind but I'm not deaf and I had to fight the case I was by five years later I tried to take the case to court and was told I would lose my house and everything trying to bring the HHS court story goes on when I asked for my records want to go to the russian eye clinic it's just a long story the hospital disavowed being told me I'm a diabetic I could get infections I could get this and they knew I just gone totally right they circled the wikens and in terms of the laser treatment what was that treatment for sorry if it's not personal Donna no no no I understand well as soon as you say you're a diabetic tony doctor everything's starting to diabetes is wrong and it just wouldn't be the first time in my life that that has happened everything's always always your diabetes it's out of control all this and it was wrong but they I mean I was young they were telling me they were trying to save my eyesight what had happened was the night before I was going to the pictures with my stepson and obviously I just eaten and I went upstairs and I threw up like I usually do because I just didn't like I just didn't like food been in my stomach had to eat for the diabetes but I wanted to throw it up at the same time I was stupid and didn't realize what I was doing and I got this blob in the eye after I threw up and I thought oh god what's wrong now looking out through my eyes you couldn't see it looking at me eyes but looking for me visually out through my eyes it was like a little black temple running around my eye so I went to my doctor the next day explained and he rushed me straight to the carpentry and warwick hospital and and there seen a consultant of course she said you're a diabetic you've been a diabetic for so many years 17 years it was at the time and turned around says oh it's down to diabetes blah blah blah so there was a new thing that came in then that was 89 was laser treatment and he says we'll give you this this will save your sight so I took doctors on the word and I get in the laser treatment twice a week every week and of course then the doctor noticed one week he says have you been sick since I seen you last Donna so I explained to the doctor then that I had several years of it's just throwing up my food which then he turned around he says you're bulimic I didn't understand what the word meant at the time and he explained to me and he says you do realize what he you're he says we've diagnosed you wrong it's because you're a diabetic and the soft blood vessels at your blood vessels at the back of your eye are very soft so every time you wrench you're Boston the blood vessel and if you look over that over a matter of time it's like he explained to me like a piece of sheet of white paper in front of you and put a marker pen and put a black dot for every time you do that well you're eventually going to cover that white sheet yeah and you're going to go blind so this is also to let young ones out there no please do not go down the road sticking your fingers down your throat try and lose weight it's not a good idea you would never have thought it you would never have thought that would be a consequence of it and listen I know you described yourself as stupid but you were a young person and and you know it is it's an illness in of itself as well so I don't I know it's not my place to say Donna but I don't think you were stupid I just think it's some something that you were you had to endure as a young person listen thank you for that and for the chat Donna you're an inspirational person I appreciate you speaking to us thank you thank you very much all right well bless you and best wishes to the rest of the family as well back with the weather nine till noon show sponsored by evolved clothing two floors of men's winter fashions this christmas it has to be evolve letter Kenny retail park or online at evolved clothing dot com open seven days time for magical treats made all the merrier at Lidl try these little bites of heaven deluxe luxury mini christmas puddings only 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to nominate my daughter in november of a year she saved my life after suddenly going into cardiac arrest she dialed 999 and started CPR which she only did as a short course in transition year in school she saved her mom's life and both of you are going to get those prizes we're keeping the names quiet so it is a surprise now later on today at 12 30 it's the latest episode of ours to protect we're looking at pre-loved christmas to cut waste and hopefully costs are in murphy will give her guidance on one-off christmas wardrobe pieces and we also talk to a few people to get their opinion on pre-loved christmas there's a big thing with that now uh whereby you know back in the day it would be you know say a nice suit jacket or a dress at a ball or an event or a wedding or something it used to be oh yeah this cost me 600 quid this cost me whatever it might have been now people go i bought this jacket here for uh i got it for five euro or a dress i got this for eight euro it's great that's the what the sort of modern way of not boasting but you know what i mean talking about clothes is for some not for everyone of course okay listen thank you very much for listening to the show thanks to those of you who watch the program as well we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock but for me Greg Hughes a card i know who researched and produced and Shannon working on the show today have a wonderful Tuesday John Breslin's around