 We're on Highland Radio and it is time for us to get a little bit of news and we say good morning now, once I find the jingle, we say good morning now to Michaela Clark. Hi, Michaela. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The Fiannafall Party is focusing on health and housing at a think-in in Mullingar today and tomorrow. The party says there will be a pandemic-level response to the cost of living and energy crisis in budget 2023. Senator Catherine Arda says the government is in a position to give supports to people. The cost of living is a huge crisis that's affecting everyone, but particularly the most vulnerable. It's not a national problem, it's a global problem. We're seeing this energy crisis hitting every country in Europe and it will affect those who are most vulnerable, especially those on limited incomes, but I think thankfully the government are in a position to give people pandemic-type support towards their energy bills. Price prices in Donegal continue to rise. The latest residential property price barometer from iPad covering the first half of 2022 shows an overall price increase nationally of 6.36% on the previous six months. Donna Marie Doherty has more. Latest figures from the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers. Residential property price barometer shows the cost of a four-bedroom semi-detached house in the county has seen the biggest increase, now costing on average almost 217,000 euro. That's an increase of 4.84%. Meanwhile, figures covering the last six months show the price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house property has raised 3.67% to 188,334 euro. A two-bedroom apartment will now cost around 166,600 euro, up 4.48% when compared to the previous six months. A number of public meetings are being held next week as part of the preparation for the new local area plans for the Twin Tines and Bunkrana. Donegal County Council is seeking to identify suitable future housing and economic development lands in Balibu-fei, Sturnaurla and future housing lands in Bunkrana also. The meeting will take place at Keyes Hotel, Main Street, Sturnaurla on Tuesday, September the 20th from half past seven to half past nine. Geherlock of the Inisho Municipal District, Councilor Paul Canning, is urging people to come out and have their say on the Bunkrana local area plan next week also. I would encourage people to come out and it's on Wednesday, September the 24th and it's at 7.30 and it's in the Genesho and Gateway Hotel that's to focus primarily on the identification of the most suitable lands in the town for providing the housing. So to get an overall view of Bunkrana, it's more or less like a health check on the town and it's to identify all of the lands that's needed. Weather night, cloudy this morning with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle, highest temperatures today of 15 to 17 degrees. 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It is just turning five minutes past nine on this Monday, the 12th of September and you're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show and I hope you had a fantastic weekend and I was lucky enough to have one as I was chatting today before the news that we were down at Garth Brooks and he he put on a show he really really did and I know fans of his will come away thinking it was just the best thing ever and even those like me who are casual fans kind of fans know you know a good few of his songs come away thinking you know he puts on a show it was fantastic and to be there with so many other people as well a wonderful experience if you want to share your experiences many of you went down took your car down down on buses etc let us know what your highlight was what you thought of it on 086 60 25,000 that's the number excuse me to have your say I beg your pardon to have your say on any of the topics we've got lined up for you today or you can give us a call and 07491 25,000 and your emails comments at highlandradio.com as we heard just before the show started there you can watch the show right now on our website or across our youtube and facebook channels all right let's have a look at what's making the front pages and inside some of today's newspapers and this is a story from the Donagall News and it's a reminder from Irish Water that their customers served by the Lettermark Award public water supply are being reminded that a boil water notice remains in place this notice was first put in place on August 12th the notice arising out of what Irish Water described as operational difficulties at the Lettermark Award water treatment plant is in place to protect the health of approximately 2,200 customers in the Lettermark Award Port New Rossbeg, Clean Gourd, Dukery, Meenacross, Dewey, Glentis Road, Mahri and Falmore Areas following consultation with the Health Service Executive Irish Water and Donagall County Council is issued the boil water notice on the Friday of the 12th of August but it's still in place and for all of you out there I suppose you know I don't need to throw up scenarios you know them all young children etc etc to be having to boil your water especially during an energy crisis let's not forget that it's not cheap either it's for a month now it's it's going on an awful long time what's the story in that area let us know 08 660 25,000 or call 07 491 25,000 the Irish Daily Mail this morning climate change minister Aiman Ryan wants to impose a swinging windfall tax on energy firms profits in a matter of weeks the Irish Daily Mail has learned currently the issue is being examined by his department officials and the Department of Finance the letter has traditionally been hostile to the concept of charges on windfall profits on the basis that they are traditionally passed on to consumers however Mr Ryan will oppose any bureaucratic foot dragging with one senior Green Party source noting he wants this done in a matter of weeks the proposal initially received a chilly reception in August when Mr Ryan became the first minister to suggest the state should consider such a tax and we know that the override car in this program was pretty cool on the notion as well I didn't rule it out but wasn't hugely in favor and you know already we're seeing increases in our bills coming to us did the energy firms look at what was coming down the line and say right okay we need to stick it on the bills now or will they do so before this tax is introduced if it is introduced so we end up paying for something that is supposedly for our benefit and yet it looks like the government is doing something okay the Irish independent there should be a substantial reduction in the amount of money parents can leave it to their children tax-free an expert group has advised the government what do you think about this what they're effectively saying is is that they want to limit the amount that you can receive from your parents or whomever before you pay tax in other words the tax-free level of it a good idea what do you think the proposal is set to prove hugely controversial as inheritance tax issues are a motive and any move to make changes sends tends to generate an enormous backlash last November finance minister Pascal Donner who was forced into an embarrassing U-turn on a budget measure to try to tax soft loans for house deposits given by parents to their children now the commission on taxation and welfare is set to recommend that the tax-free threshold for inheritance tax should come down radically over the next few years a big reduction in the tax-free threshold would be particularly problematic in South Dublin where houses often sell for one million plus under capital acquisition tax rules a child can inherit three hundred and seventy five thousand euro before tax and then they have to pay thirty three percent but that used to be five thousand five hundred and forty two thousand but I know from conversations and questions that we have with Seamus gone when we do our legal item with him it's a question that comes up an awful lot about tax and how do you avoid tax and what's the best way to legally avoid that tax you know in terms of transferring property and all that type of stuff so I think the government's right whoever is advising them that is going to be controversial I think it really is another controversy is the amount of frontline staff and others who have yet to receive this much-loaded pandemic bonus payment and it's covered in the Irish Times today state officials have been forced to hire a contractor to help pay health care workers still awaiting a one thousand euro COVID-19 pandemic payment bonus more than nine months after it was promised by government the tax-free payment for frontline staff was announced in January in recognition of their work during the crisis but thousands still have not been paid among them are nursing home and hospice workers agency staff employees in long-term residential care facilities home carers members of the defense forces redeployed to frontline COVID-19 work for the HSC and Dublin fire brigade paramedics the HSC has sought a third-party contractor to assist with payments so what that means is the HSC have hired in a group a company to help process these payments now if it gets the payments out all well and good but not a great use of money you would think they would have the internal resources to do this themselves but clearly not so they've had to employ another company which is not going to come cheap Ukrainian military seems to be making greater inroads by their perspective in Ukraine and maybe you know those of us and I may have said it myself on this program who thought that you know there's a incredible loss of life the outcome is inevitable and perhaps maybe you know worked towards a negotiated settlement even with compromise should be accelerated to try and you know stem the inevitable loss of life and the inevitable defeat but I would say the Ukrainians today are saying what have you got to say now because Ukrainians military has retaken a swathe of eastern territory in a swift counterattack potting to flight Russian troops who accepted the error short who occupied the area shortly after their all-out invasion began more than six months ago Ukrainians hailed the breakthrough after several months of near stalemate on the battlefield but concern continued to surround Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in the southeast of the country where the last operating reactor was being shut down after frequent shelling in the area Moscow claimed its rapid withdrawal from much of the eastern Kharkiv region was part of a planned redeployment of forces but did not explain why so much Russian equipment including tanks and other armored vehicles and large stores of ammunition had been left behind of course so there's the battle of the narrative there let's see what well I mean it's it's just an absolutely awful story we're going to go into the Irish daily star for this it just seems to be one tragedy or tragic incident involving children after another of late and I got the email from the guard of press office on this one I think it was on saturday and you know when something sort of stops you in your tracks and it was just one of those a guardie now believe a car plays that cost the lives of two children was started deliberately it's also been established that investigators probing friday night's horrific fire in county west mead also believe they know who carried out the attack there is one suspect a source told the star last night uh children michael who's two and thelma who's five perished in the horror blaze in um multi-farnam while their mother lin egar who is in her 40s suffered life-changing injuries she was pulled from the blazing car by a passing lorry driver who also managed to rescue the two children tragically though michael died at the scene and little thelma lost her life shortly afterwards uh this after she was rushed to midlands regional hospital in tolamore ms egor who lives in the nearby village of rathowan suffered horrific injuries in the fire and was being treated for those wounds in a specialist doublin hospital last night but she is expected to survive although her injuries are clearly um by all reports seen as life changing life altering injuries uh the irish son today um i i think it's fair to say just from my observations not that i walk around looking at what everyone's doing but sometimes you know you can't avoid it is that lots of young people vape lots of lots of young people vape and lots of young people vape that probably never would have smoked i'm not sure if they will smoke uh you're more likely to start smoking if you vape but lots of people vape um young people particularly uh more so perhaps than would have smoked before vapes were invented if that makes sense but the government has been urged to ban the sale of vaping products to under 18s what do you think about this i think most people would have thought the same rules that apply to tobacco sales apply to uh the sale of vapes but it's not the case excuse me up to 250 000 people in ireland have ditched i particularly my throat apologies up to 250 000 people in ireland have ditched cigarettes in favor of vaping new figures reveal and teen smoking has begun to creep back up following two decades of decline see i just wonder if teenagers who are vaping you know and then what happens is is you get a if they contain nicotine in the old do you get a sort of dependency on nicotine well it's not a big step then to start smoking do you know what i mean i think older people who could never stop smoking there's an advantage to vaping to replace the smoking it's still harmful but less harmful but young people it's seemingly a lot of them are starting to vape because it's probably seen as kind of cool and safe although you know that's not what the doctors tell us um and then they start smoking because teenage smoking rates are going up now this is a product that kills 50 percent of the people that use it i mean it's really really quite serious it's no joke i mean look what we did to try and limit the loss of life through something like covid and the fatality rates you know really quite low half of people that smoke die and yet more teenagers are starting to smoke is it time then that we ban the sale of vaping products to under 18s as well and even perhaps maybe and there are some calls to extend the sale of the ban on the sale of cigarettes to under 21s that's coming from some quarters today but anyway the number of 18 smokers fell from 41 percent to 13.1 percent in the 20 years to 2015 but it's risen to 14.4 percent since one in five 15 year old girls in england currently vape okay this is a cut and pay story from their english paper uh and here the iraq does committee in health um wants a ban on flavored vapes and urged the health minister to consider upping the age for buying all tobacco products to 21 but the vaping industry wants a ban on sales to under 18s instead listen don't waste your time trying to ban flavors of vapes it's nothing it's got nothing to do with them it doesn't matter you get rid of cherry strawberry whatever you like it doesn't matter uh the problem is is the vape itself and it's the nicotine you're addicted to not the taste of strawberries for crying out loud you could get bubblegum for that um finnegale support hits an all-time low the irish daily mail tells us in uh their paper support for finnegale has fallen to an all-time low in the latest red sea poll the survey commission for the irish uh sorry for the sunday business post as leo viradkar's party just 18 percent dan won from the last poll in june their coalition partner finafall has seen support grow by three points they're up to the heady heights of 17 percent it's finnegale's worst red sea business results since the polls began back in 205 the green party and the labor party both moved up a point each to five and four percent respectively uh shin fain remain the most popular grouping uh though maryland mcdonnell's group has also dropped one point to 35 percent only 26 percent believe the government is doing all it can to help with rising costs one and four which is not terrible though the government might might look at that and so you know maybe we can change a few minds anyway that was a run through the papers if there's anything in those or in that that uh caught your ear and you want to have your say you know the numbers get in touch 08 660 25 000 the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letterkenny the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie do you suffer from high cholesterol menopause symptoms digestive issues anxiety aches and pains or a lack of energy they're highly trained 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material dunneagle county council protecting your environment have you heard about the regal room at eclipse cinemas leford's treban feel the glitz and the glamour of old style cinema elegance with the luxurious modern twist enjoy a red room a armchair or log seat each with its personal footstool relax and unwind with a nice glass of wine some italian gelato or even a pizza to find out more about the regal room at eclipse cinemas leford's treban or to book your luxury experience go to eclipse cinemas dot com okay you're very welcome back to the program keep your texts and comments coming into us kept texts and what's apps coming into us i should say an 08 6 60 25 000 or call 07 49 125 thousand we're joined on the program now by aintu councillor emet doil emet thanks for joining us good morning to you good morning unfortunately you're still bearing the scars seemingly emet from your assault at the weekend how are you feeling i'm feeling better now still a bit sore but um don't look the uh the black eyes and everything i will slowly die down and i'm back at work right tell us what happened to you on friday and well i was out on on thursday night as as i normally do for a few drinks i came at the time was actually quite quiet here in dairy and i went to get some food before home entered an establishment which was quiet i think there maybe were two other people there and a group entered some of which i know to be um activists who wouldn't necessarily agree with my view on the right to life um they gave me a bit of verbal abuse which unfortunately from from someone used to i ignored them and left and i got about three footsteps outside the door and uh i was attacked and unfortunately because they pulled my glasses off i couldn't even identify the person who physically did it to me but um yeah that's very disappointed and was it a sustained assault emet was it one individual did they gang up on you how did can you remember obviously it's very very distressing for you but can you yeah i mean no as far as i can remember it was one person but they were with others um and um it was yeah it was rather quick i have to say i mean i was had about four or five times but um you know in the scheme of things from from my own memory it was it was rather quick um but yeah i mean it had to say it totally unprovoked i understand obviously that people have very different views than i do um i respect them and you know i would never cross my mind to even think about lifting a hand to somebody who might disagree with me on anything i mean obviously i presume this is being investigated by police so we don't want to say anything or i don't want to sort of leave you in a position to say anything that could compromise any investigation but how can you be so certain that of the motive behind this emet well i mean look as i say that the people who entered um and started to you know to give me abuse i i physically know that they've i know their faces from from haven't been at rallies and protests for example um and you know there was no one else uh around the vicinity at that point um and you know obviously the police have to investigate and and i'll let them do that um but i can only um you know i'm out in the city center once a week at least um of 35 years of age this has never happened before and you know if if anything it could be you know with the least serious end of things we could call it a very serious coincidence that moments have to be in verbally abused um that this happened yeah and of course you sustained you know pretty serious injuries but we know with these type of assaults especially when you're not expecting them one punch you know over and smack your head it can be over very very quickly like this could have gone it's not dramatic to say this could have gone you know much more seriously uh much worse for you like no i mean look i it was quite heavily raining at the time um on friday morning it was about quarter past one or so um and at that when i got when i did have a an egg i suppose it caught on the side of my head which is still quite sore i think maybe the person who had had me was wearing a ring um so i have a quite a sore cut down the side of my head so yeah i mean it could have been and you know this isn't necessarily about you know just be if this kind of behavior is totally unacceptable if it had been someone less vulnerable um sorry more vulnerable than me we could have been looking at something quite serious and and that's not good for them overall but it's also not good for the the reputation of how safe a city center can be i just wonder do you uh see this as an isolated incident or is it possible or you may see more of this going forward you know i mean we would love to live in in this utopia whereby we can all have different views strongly held views on very divisive topics and we can debate it out and we can have protest and counter protest but at the end of the day you know we respect each other but we we we we can differ in terms of our views i just wonder if there's a if there's such a hardening of opinions now on so many different subjects uh amit that maybe could we see more of this do you fear that there are a lot i have to say i have to be very clear that i know many people um who disagree with my uh view on the right to life and they're good people um who would never resort to this kind of of uh action um to to to put across their own views or to to denigrate mine um so that you know this is is not representative i'm sure of of a great many people what i would say is yes i do think that attitudes on a range of issues are hardening in this country and you know we know that people in the in the public view are often um subject to you know threats and other things in social media and that's that's widely reported i would like to think that we were we as a country mature enough to to have these debates and these discussions it's particularly around the the right to life i know and i respect that it's a very difficult and contentious issue for many people um but i certainly try not to shove it down the throats of others i mean you're not going to hear me at a council for example you know pontificating to people um you know i'm here as a public representative to deal with people's issues on a day-to-day bread and butter business and that's what i try to do okay well um as you said yourself you're back to work today but i mean you know it's it's clear that you you know you suffered quite a serious assault i mean will this make you more nervous about going in for you for a couple on a thursday evening or or can you sort of isolate this and say look this was one individual that was capable of this and and you know if they're dealt with you know maybe it won't happen again or is this something that's going to affect you do you think in terms of how you socialize or where you socialize no um i had a an event with friends on on saturday night um in the same street and i was back uh i don't know because do you know what it isn't representative of of our city um the city center is quite safe um most of the time and no look i'm uh very very proud during man and i love this place and there's very i would tickle up more to stop me doing my work or for going out and enjoying the the city that i love so much all right listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it and speedy recovery thank you thanks so much all right take care that's saying to his emet dole counselor emet dole um who was the victim of a vicious assault due to his stance on abortion that's his views uh he is a rep of course uh for uh deri and starban deri city and starban district council the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio 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kenny has to offer florid have a large selection of solid semi-solid and laminate click vinyl wood flooring together with a fantastic choice of parky herringbone flooring all at incredible value don't delay call florid today on 087 161 7008 all right loads of us were down at garth brooks almost like one in 11 of the population will have seen it seen him perform live by the time his concerts are finished anthony from remelton uh was anthony in dublin anthony good morning to you good morning right okay what did you think of the garth brooks concert my throat's a little bit raw today greg but you'll understand you've been there and experienced it but i've never never was just glad to hear someone like yourself come on the radio and say i'm not a garth bricks fan but the show was just you know it was brilliant because i like i don't hate any music but you know i know the river you know the dance uh ain't going down to the sun comes up friend in low places you know those sort of you know that group of songs and then there's loads of other songs that his real fans know every word to and i could see them singing yeah but he on some show i don't want to bring age into it right but he must have got himself into some shape for that performance anthony because he ran and he sighed that's that's the that's the reason i called on greg i have been to every concert that he has put on in ireland um going right back to the point and um it's just amazing to see that the atmosphere and the show that he did put together for i mean when he was in ireland last year announcing that he was coming back obviously he knew himself he was overweight he didn't hide it but as you say that man was just as slim as he was in the point and don't come back 20 years or whatever the dates were you know yeah and then for them to put on a show like that i was not expecting what i experienced and it's a lifetime experience in my eyes and i have been talking to so many people that are not fans that are actually looking to go back and that's that just says it all about the man you know i can only say um i'm sure you see in the movie the greatest show man and that to me he is the greatest show man on earth what was it that happened anthony that you weren't expecting do you know what i mean what exceeded your expectations well like you said um not bringing the stage on the consideration but that man is the age he is and for him to run back and forth stage the same as he did back then when he was a lot younger and fitter for him to maybe i'm sure that man has been working his ass off trying to get the weight down and getting fucked for that show alone you know and i just admire him for that and then the way he treated all of his band members you know telling the story that tells the his own life story whenever he goes back through the the band members saying they're all welcome from day one most of them you know and all the shows all the records that they ever recorded care all the people that are playing on it it's not people brought on to the studio to put this piece on and that piece on you know yeah there's an interesting time on saturday where he what night were you there anthony sorry i went friday and i was back down last night on saturday he brought out a couple of musicians that do the studio work you know what i mean but they don't get the live bots i don't know if he did it on the nights that you were there no i admire them yeah i thought that was a pretty great yeah and but that's what i'm saying yeah go ahead something i didn't notice about it now and i used to do it but i do graph myself so they've had the same costumes on so obviously that's for their live shows yeah recording their shows they can use spots from different nights you know so that's people might go there and think they haven't changed their clothes and i was expecting these color charts and all this crappy game you know but i just i noticed that last night that that'd be all for a card and it must be for an amazon special because there's a lot of amazon browsing and he streams his music branding sorry and he streams his music exclusively on amazon you can get some live stuff elsewhere but all his studio stuff is on amazon what was your what was the highlight musically for you anthony and if anyone else wants to get involved in the conversation call us now all seven four nine one twenty five thousand what was your the highlight for you musically great from the very touch off i mean i know i don't know if i can talk about the experience how they open the show before it comes on stage at all and i don't know if you want to talk about the yeah go on because i don't think it ruins it for anyone i don't know why go on talk about it whatever well right from the word go greg from alexa you know play gareth brook's live and out and that was just for someone to come up with the imagination to use that to open a concert great where would you get it you know that was from that right through to the very end we just i don't know i just never ever experienced anything about it and it was clear to what came across and for some people it might have been a bit old tt and a bit cheesy but he the love he has for this country is clear yeah well for me i was looking i was looking at the um the player or t player all day the news all day but it actually said on it that it does feel quite emotional and on Friday night he broke down a few times in Friday night you know um really from the heart now not just putting on a show or a man really that he just can't get over and i remember going back to the point um he actually announced you know he couldn't believe that he come to Ireland to play music to people for them to sing to sing his songs to him you know he just couldn't he was overwhelmed with it this year again but he knew what he was coming to this time because he made it clear that he had told his new band members that you know this is an experience that the he has never experienced obviously all the work traveling that he's been yeah and i don't know if there's another country even if his own country if the truth be told where he could sell out at least 80 000 it looked like 90 000 in there and saturday to me i'll be honest with you yeah but um i don't think even in his own country there's another place where he could go and do five concerts and pack out not a stadium like crook park there is a connection between fans here and him that i don't know how it came about or whatever but anyway it's it's just something else like was it proper i was i was actually shocked last week i was listening to it he had put out i think on a radio station in america before he came to Ireland just the he put out i thought it was lovely he said any musician that's out there he says uh he haven't really played until you play and he says that's the way he put it out and i thought but i remember going back greg after 2014 so someone on the television had had interviewed him and i'm not quite sure who it was but there was a little Dublin sign sitting behind him on a desk behind him on the left hand side or on his right looking particularly but they highlighted back then you know is that is that an indication that he is going to come back to Ireland there was no talk about it back then it was after the 2014 one fell apart you know and they just thought you know is that an indication that he's going to come back and there was no talk at that time but yeah i'm really really overwhelmed and he did come back and i'm sure friends of mine that were down your brother and all and they said you think is that it nice is no that man will come back maybe in ten years time yeah but have a fair way i'll show an identity definitely well and i think too the the the way he did the on course as well was very good sort of switched acoustic a little bit of almost like taking requests i know it varies from night to night but i mean everyone knew he was going to come back out again but it was kind of cool the way it was done wasn't it there was a bit he sort of went intimate on it for a little while even in a stadium that's big he kind of sort of was able to get that sort of intimate feel to it then of course you know to pick it up again before things finished but even to have a tradition come up through the stage if you have led it there i mean i was expecting like that because that has been happening the last concert you know but maybe i was expecting maybe more pockets because i remember the point the opening in that concert that there was an elevation came up from under the stage but it was a huge box just and everyone thought it was gareth was actually standing there no it was the fiddle players i remember the gareth appeared out of nowhere just you know and that created a huge a huge buzz as well but the fans really really did tell their parts you know oh he had he had and he had everybody in the palm of his hand and it didn't matter if they were in the the mosh pit area kind of at the stage or if they were right at the very very top on the far end he had everyone in the in the palm of his hand didn't he well i couldn't understand a few people had said to me great and i was disappointed because maybe it's just because where i was sitting i was sitting off to the left of the stage um on the holding stand at the very end so i had i thought i had a bad seat but i had a fantastic seat it worked out and speakers and everything kind of pointing in our direction so i took a lot of videos and everything to me is perfect but people were saying that um the sound was hard to figure out at times and well you see i this yeah the sound to me i was in between i was on the same side as you not to get i don't want to bore everyone that wasn't there but i was on the same side of you and i was in between the two sets of tops you know so it was a bit echoey and it wasn't fantastic um but that just but they they adjusted it about half an hour 35 minutes into the concert and it did improve somewhat but i kind of know maybe what some of the people saying to you but it didn't really take away from the overall experience because it's alive oh god you know it's not like uh um it's not like a a drum kit or whatever so i think with the it's different with the omnidirectional sound but i think with those two high speakers if you happen to maybe be in between them the sound can be a wee bit bouncy but i mean it's a minor thing it was really all about the show for me yeah well no i could go on all day and talk to you about it great to see i'm a huge fan but i would just like to thank gareth rips and all his team and everyone in dublin even for the way that they actually organized to get people in there and out you know um you know the stadium was massive and they were coming in on droves just we couldn't believe the amount of people that were still coming in around five to eight and trying to get a seat and stand in the areas you know but it's just a huge credit to himself and maybe even the promoters you know that they brought him back yeah um i've supposed asbestos to the people that went out there and showed their support for him you know and we have to also mention the residents are supposed as well because well it was funny we were very lucky we actually put part unbelievably three minutes walk from the studio well don't you're gonna really pee people off now no it turned out that an FU man had an airbnb house taken just so um there was a free car parking facility they had parking facilities there and we just go down where are you gonna park on saturday though are you driving down again on saturday i am going to park the same spot we parked the same spot last night so um nobody getting in i had to address on my phone so the guardian were very good you just showed them the address and you know there was no hassle at all getting people were very good that's what i mean i just like to thank everybody for the experience because it didn't seem to be any hassle uh people went to and from without any disturbances and and as you say the residents do deserve credit because we actually come out to hear the atmosphere on the outside and um some of the residents where we had parties you know people think that we're getting paid and it's not it's not actually the case they don't get any money at all and they said to be in the house while that's been on their wonders are actually vibrating great and i can understand that because you stand outside i know but have a national stadium in a residential area i mean but i mean it's done now and it is what it is but uh if that were just located somewhere else with a huge car park you know we shouldn't be having that i have to have that conversation all right well listen um you're gonna enjoy the next show of course because you've enjoyed the two that went before it um so thanks for sharing your recollections of it anthony and it's great that it lived up to your expectations and i think from my perspective i think maybe 20 years ago i'd have been thought i was too cool you know and go it's not my thing but now sort of is get a bit older you kind of let things wash over you and take it in and enjoy the experience and that's exactly what i've done and i thought he was uh he was great i enjoyed as much watching other people really happy do you know what i mean that's what kind of i just to see other people happy was lovely that was the whole experience great game i mean i have never experienced i mean i know a lot of people i've been speaking to people have been to maybe most of uh functional concerts and that and they just said that you know the atmosphere there alone was just totally different to anything that had ever experienced in their lifetime you know and i've phoned a few friends while i was sitting i'm not to talk to them just to let them hear the atmosphere of the crowds and um they were going the following night on the Saturday night like yourself and it kind of caused me on what happened i said look i don't want to spoil this piece so just go and enjoy it and that's the way i left the rain hold off last night anthony sorry i meant to ask yeah they were it's funny great you say that we were driving down yesterday and oh it's bad thunder storms down you know and then i actually my friend contacted me again he was on the Saturday night show and we had a conversation on the phone heading down just and i said to him god the weather's just delicious one down here so he says that's been in Dublin all morning so we were just lucky that it's cleared up it's beautiful but there's actually a camera last night that was Friday night you know here are here's a text before i let you go Greg i loved every single minute of garth brooks last night it was safely the best concert i was ever at the only one thing i wasn't crazy about was his last song we'll not mention it just in case it ruins it for others that haven't been there i just wish he'd ended with a big one of his own i i can see why he went for that one because it's a big firstly isn't american uh and i suppose he spent two hours talking about how much he loves arland but at the end of the day he is an american and also um it's it's very it's a it's it quietens things down for security as well back in my dj in days you'd always try and sort of dip towards the end because obviously then you know everyone has to leave and whatever you don't want everyone on too big a high either so i'd say if you put all of those things in and because it's so interactive with the audience maybe that's why they chose that were you disappointed with the last song no as i say i was buzzing from from the word word go greg right through to the very end and i didn't mind what the man was choosing to sing because it's the same when you're a fan it's just i suppose you can't explain your feelings to anyone else but through everyone has their own artist that now i can listen to any style of music but i've just been a massive garth all my life and i actually went down and Friday night and i didn't wear any gear at all greg what when i was strong i had nothing even i had to check shirts on on a cowboy hat well i had no i just went down and on the brother and family and all said we're surprised at you and i said listen i can down the lessons of the music you're a purist you're a purist i got you but no last night i do have a very expensive hat man i did put it on last night to work out and i just i was expecting maybe the only thing i would think maybe what's actually boost and um whenever the irish well whenever the fans i won't say irish because there were people traveling from all around the world there you know my friend was talking to people from canada and all you know as well um that's quite shocking as well you say come that distance to actually i know he did say that iran does the place to play music if you want all to all the artists but yeah a few people a few people texting anthony sort of along the lines thinking it was a bit schmaltzy uh you know a bit too emotional uh on friday now i think that just depends maybe on your own personality you're probably there with him thinking you know this is a beautiful moment uh or you might have think it was a bit o t t it got a bit cheesy for me at times but i wouldn't let it root i didn't let it ruin the experience you know but uh i suppose it just depends on the individual really great if you're standing there and five night how long does it take to sell out those five concerts what other artists in the world would actually well no one i don't think anyone doesn't know yeah but you take it you just imagine that yourself great you're you're a presenter on the radio now you huge listeners and you know i don't know what you're you're listening to fans shit goes but uh you taking your stand on that stage you have to appreciate what's in front of you very what so many people within a few hours had sold out those concerts you know and what kind of a buzz with that i used to do about a promotion you're quite honest um i had a rough few years there just a dropped away from everything great as you know you know my personally but just that that left it nice for it's great good well that's what it's all about that's what the arts and music and everything is so you've memories to last lifetime i was i was i was going to say that i would like them to join on what's what i would call maybe the irish soccer round from night break you know the song i'm talking about as you say we don't want to be talking about what happens or but that kind of story i'm about the ole ole ole that kind of starts in the crowd i think that's it i think that doesn't ruin it because no one starts that really that's that was that also actually reminding me that was a brilliant thing but i think he just stands back and and lets the audience do it i think he lets that be the audience's thing if you know what i mean but i think that would be and i think that would be amazing if it would just maybe join in for two two lines of a break i think that that would just be the icing on the cake listen anthony enjoy saturday okay great take care i'm really really glad you enjoyed it yeah really glad it was absolutely brilliant um thank you so very much indeed right okay um is anyone selling tickets by the way for saturday night we're looking for uh for one of our listeners they're looking for four tickets on saturday preferably together but i mean they would take two sets of two i'm sure but if you are looking to um shift four tickets for saturday night get in touch with us we have an instant buyer for you oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand if you've got four tickets for saturday night uh we have someone who will take them straight off your hands i call it says nevermind garth brooks oakfest was the place to be this weekend indeed i heard it was great uh and i know people that went to it and they thoroughly enjoyed it and it doesn't have to be one or other we can have two fantastic events and people love them uh i agree about the last song bit disappointed but his concert was unbelievable another i'm a huge garth brooks fan i actually cried when he came on for me it was an experience of a lifetime the buses parked up at whitehall park but we didn't mind the walk to croak park it was a dry summer's evening indeed and it is a tight enough walk uh from the bus park to croak park but you walk with so many other people and you're maybe it feels a bit longer on the way back than it might on the way down i was at the concert on friday night i seen him last time in croak park and was blown away on a big hike had tickets for the cancelled concerts and raging he cancelled i love his music but disappointed with the concert felt he could have sung more songs and for longer hated all the acting in false tears still love the music but wouldn't go see him again and i agree with the sound all right okay good morning could ask a question we're going to garth brooks on saturday we're traveling by car could you suggest any parking areas near croak park thanks a million i'll throw that one out to you guys if if you don't mind uh to get near to croak park might be a challenge um to be honest with you uh but maybe someone out there has some tips and tricks uh but lots of people are all going down to get that sneaky parking place close close to uh croak park and as i say it could be a challenge for you uh garth has lost 50 pounds since the biden inauguration inauguration for the doublin shows that's why he looks so well yeah it's the cardio element of it you know i mean i've seen big guys who can run around uh with more athleticism than than smaller guys but it was his cardio that impressed me greg me and my boyfriend enjoyed friday so much we got tickets for saturday well uh speaking of boyfriend and girlfriend's going to the concert on saturday night there was a proposal as well which was uh quite nice to see and they got a big uh round of applause from the crowd uh i'm not a garth brooks fan but delighted with the joy in uplift he's given so many at this time with up to three million spent on ticket sales it goes to show that we are not broke yet despite all the gloomy fiscal reports i think uh 400 000 multiplied by at least 85 euro is much more than three million uh i'll work it out but uh i think you can up that a little bit not to mention what he must be getting off amazon for the um the special that they're putting together but it's uh much more than three million on ticket sales uh over the course of the five concerts um right okay big call out to oakfest and refo i'm still here the chance of hey ho refo sung out by the fantastic undertones who uh brought their first amplifiers from reynolds and refo many years ago great safe family atmosphere plus welcoming staff great music food and drink expensive but that goes for all 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talking about why they're going to attend this process that we talked about it last week i mean we don't um we don't ring people up per se and say you know will you come and talk about this you know we don't use stooges um so it's up to people to call us and if they want to talk about why they're going and whatever no problem um there's another protest on the 14th though and it's getting a little bit confusing for me because i'm hearing some people involved in the mica campaign for example saying go to the 14th and i think others saying the 24th so we're just going to try and get some clarity on that because they're two different protests organized by two different kind of groups if you know what it means so as i say maybe it's go to both i don't know but there's one on the 14th and one on the 24th um so we'll try and sort that because i'm getting a little bit confused about it all to be honest with you and it's very hard for me to relate a message when i'm confused to uh the constant barrage of abortion propaganda on mainstream and local media undoubtedly has some effect on whipping up abuse and aggression acts aggressive acts towards pro-life supporters as ain't to counsellor emet dole related on your show some people in the press should go and have a quiet word with themselves okay that's one point of view there um another here a shocking attack on a democratically elected ain't to counsellor in dairy unfortunately in countries where there's strong pro-abortion lobby who are backed by vested interests in the media there's always hostility and abuse towards pro-life supporters sad to see such violence now taking hold here i wouldn't say it's taking hold because even by the counsellor's own uh comments there he believes that that uh we could be heading down that road but it was an isolated incident again even how we talk about these things subsequently i don't think we should accept that you know i still think we need to keep talking and exchanging views and having 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online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm akilah clark with the news at 10 o'clock a dairy conser who was assaulted in the city in the early hours of friday morning believes he was attacked because of his stance on abortion into conser emet dole was injured in an unprovoked attack in the waterloo street area he believes those responsible are part of a group with opposed views conser dole told today's nine to noon show that the incident is not representative of the majority of people and have to be very clear that i know many people who disagree with my view on the right to life and they're good people who would never resort to this kind of action to put across their own views or to to denigrate mine what i would say is yes i do think that attitudes on a range of issues are hardening in this country and i would like to think that we were we as a as a country mature enough to to have these debates and these discussions the finafall party is focusing on health and housing at a thinking in mullingar today and tomorrow the party says there will be a pandemic level response to the cost of living and energy crisis in budget 2023 senator catherine arda says the government is in a position to give supports to people the cost of living is a huge crisis that's affecting everyone but particularly the most vulnerable it's not a national problem it's a global problem we're seeing this energy crisis hitting every country in europe and it will affect those who are about who are most vulnerable especially those unlimited incomes but i think thankfully the government are in a position to give people pandemic type support towards their energy bills gardy believed the car fire that killed two children in county west maith was started maliciously lynn eager and her two-year-old son michael and five-year-old daughter thelma were in the vehicle when it became engulfed in flames it happened on a rural road in multi-farnham on friday afternoon and gardy suspect it was an arson attack irish times crime correspondent corner laleigh says the blaze ended in tragedy so lynn eager and the young boy were actually out of the vehicle when gardy arrived but unfortunately telma was effectively trapped in the car and her remains were found in the vehicle when the blaze was brought on the control so michael was brought off to hospital nearby but unfortunately he was pronounced dead there on friday evening and lynn eager was airlifted from the scene and she's still recovering in hospital price prices in dunninggold continue to rise the latest residential property price barometer from ipab covering the first half of 2022 shows an overall price increase nationally of 6.3 percent on the previous six months donna marie doherty has more latest figures from the institute of professional auctioneers and valuers residential property price barometer show the cost of a four-bedroom semi-detached house in the county has seen the biggest increase now costing on average almost 217 000 euro meanwhile figures covering the last six months show the price of a three-bedroom semi-detached property has risen 3.67 percent to 188 334 euro a two-bedroom apartment will now cost around 166 600 euro up 4.48 percent when compared to the previous six months and finally a number of public meetings are being held next week as part of the preparation for new local area plans for the twin towns and bunkrana dunninggold county council is seeking to identify suitable future housing and economic development lands in balibu fae and stern order and future housing lands in bunkrana also a meeting will take place at keys hotel main street stern order on tuesday september the 20th from half past seven to half past nine key herlock of the initial municipal district councillor paul canning is urging people meanwhile to come out and have their say on the bunkrana local area plan i would encourage people to come out and it's on wednesday september the 21st and at seven thirty and it's in the county shown get the hotel is to focus primarily on the identification of the most suitable lands in the town for providing a thousand so to get an overall view of bunkrana it's more less like a health check on the toad and is to identify all of the land that's needed weather night cloudy this morning with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle becoming mostly summer sunny later with highest temperatures today of 15 to 17 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notice is for this monday morning september the 12th the desk has taken place of anna mcgloughlin named mcnulty three glenn rodestraban and formerly victoria bridge reposing at her home funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at 25 past 10 for requering mass in the church of the immaculate conception straban at 11 o'clock and herment afterwards in the sacred heart cemetery dairy road donations and leo flowers please to chest heart and stroke care quickly funeral directors the requering mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death house taken place of john gormley killed dairy moth funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the sacred heart church moth followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard john's funeral mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam house private at the request of the deceased the death house taken place of christopher mcfadden maher roti gore to hork his remains are opposing at his late residence rosary tonight at 8 o'clock funeral mass in christ the king church gore to hork tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjacent cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on cairn roti funeral directors facebook page and on the parish webcam family flowers only donations and lew to the dunagol hospice care of any family member where it gets private to family neighbors and friends please family time after the rosary and on 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age nine e for age seven we had a brilliant night the children loved the whole experience and it's one thing we were talking on saturday night uh that there was very few young young people at the concert but uh obviously maybe it was different on friday and sunday night uh was it garth brooks and saturday night we are massive fans that met all our expectations and a million times more he was incredible we were lucky enough to get into the pit and right up to the barrier at the front uh memories to last a lifetime the last song is a song that means a lot to garth brooks so it was very fitting and there you go and i think you've uh you know fans know uh garth brooks and his fans know him so uh that will make sense what's the deal with garth brooks is it an age thing i'm happy thanks with daniel o'Donnell thank you very much indeed um it's just lots of people like his music like lots of people like daniel o'Donnell's music and it's not something i'm gonna start we argue about everything nowadays uh some people like garth brooks some like daniel o'Donnell and some people like both it's not it's you know it's just personal preference uh what people like and uh over 400 000 people like garth brooks enough to part with their hard-earned money to go and uh see him uh garth brooks was there on friday night amazing show but the sound was awful he wasn't clear at all i i didn't want to sort of over emphasize that um because it there was just a general experience is there but the sound could have been a little better i think but i just don't know in a stadium that size if you could give everyone the perfect audio experience if that makes sense uh we parked at castle knock train station got the train to drum kondra uh station walked croak park was so easy and simple first time at a concert we'll definitely do it this way if we ever go again so that's to our earlier caller there get a uh you park at knock train station then you can get a train from drum kondra station to drum kondra station sorry and then the we walk to croak park that's they were very happy with that is the queens uh the the queen's death not more important than garth brooks uh garth brooks um it depends on the individual i suppose um some people will be very moved by uh queen elizabeth's death more so than a garth brooks concert and others the other way around i don't know everybody's different just before the entrance to croak park there's parking on the right hand side it costs 10 euro to park there for the concert uh goers greg okay thank you i'm encouraged to hear a young man like emet dole not afraid stand up for his right to life i'd certainly be voting for him in any election i wish emet a speedy recovery hi greg hi greg can't believe the government after our homes under the title of inheritance tax it's time they got kicked out uh right okay that's one view there is some proposals to to reduce the amount you can get as inheritance before you pay really quite heavy tax greg with the cost of living and fuel would it not be better to have protests at each county's biggest town so those who maybe couldn't afford the trip to doblin can attend more locally just a thought and it's one that's come in the only difference this is uh the any government will be delighted with smaller protests scattered around the country because it's really the only way i think you can affect changes if everybody who can goes to the capital um you know otherwise it's it's not going to have the impact and as i say they might be quite pleased that it would be watered down like that even though the numbers would be huge you know there's nothing like the streets being absolutely chock-a-block with people and i think that's um what the organizers are looking for um restrict the sale of cigarettes says a caller and vapes it will only drive them underground into on to the unregulated poisonous world of the underworld where cannabis cocaine etc are now we cannot even regulate illegal drugs the vape sigs and drugs war can only be won by education and health control sadly well listen i think a lot of people that are still smokers are not necessarily getting their cigarettes in the news agents i think isn't that fair to say but also it's with young people and the conversation is about young people if you know vapes you just can't go into any news agents or any shop and pick one up it will discourage a certain amount of young people starting to vape and then maybe end up on cigarettes i think that's pretty generally accepted um that if you make it a little more difficult now are people going to be going around with vapes and saying to 16 17 year olds do you want to buy a vape if they're made illegal yes but it sends the message that really you shouldn't be doing this and maybe it enforces it to parents uh if a parent says to a 16 or a 15 year old you know don't be vaping you know it's not good for you and they go it's not illegal is it dad or whatever you know what i mean so i 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welcoming people onto that site on the basis that they can bring their dogs with them and uh he has decided now that there will be no more dogs on the site from the start of the season next year which begins in march now that affects about 70 owners that's about 40 percent of the people on the site are going to be affected by this he has completely refused to enter into any sort of a discussion um we have put proposals to him to try to help we have offered to pay a dog tax for uh to help to make the site more secure because he's citing a dog filing problem now the only filing that people on the site and this includes non dog owners the only filing we are aware of is that done by uh dogs belonging to a very small minority of people who visit the beach who are not resident on the caravan park and let the dogs run on the public path to the beach and don't pick up after them so you're saying that even if dogs uh from caravan owners even if dogs are banned you're saying dogs that belong to people who aren't resident are still going to continue to litter in other words that the ban does not fix the problem is is that what you're saying no absolutely not um and we we have offered to help fix the problem we've said we would put a router together as well as paying money to make the site more secure to keep stray dogs out now filing on the site is not an issue it is absolutely not an issue there's only an occasional dog would come running through the site and it's usually one belonging to a local farmer but it isn't an issue um the the issue that what appears to be the biggest issue is the public path which he owns but the public access to which is outside the park we have offered to put a router together all dog owners on the site and make sure that path is clean with no trouble no expense to the site owner we have said we will do that we will help to identify any problem dogs be they local dogs or if there are one or two offenders on the site we would help to identify them because it affects all of us now we even ones get the good ones a bad name yeah we invited the the site owner to speak to us we have a statement from him which i'll read shortly but does this mean that you can't bring your dogs onto the site or that you can't let them out of the caravan uh george i wonder we can't we can't have them on the site at all so for 60 or 70 of well it's it's it's about a third say about a third of caravan owners they're dog owners yeah if you're going down there for a couple of weeks in the summer or even longer people aren't going to leave their dogs behind them or get a dog sitter because the whole experience is is banjax then presumably for a lot of people i mean there's one there's one caravan very close to us who's just come onto the site this year they have a small dog and i mean i don't know if your listeners are aware of how much caravans or mobile home static caravans these days cost but a cheap one is 30 000 and you can go you know 50 60 70 80 000 pounds for a caravan quite easily um a couple of thousand euro in site fees and charges every year you know i've been there for 10 years so you can you can see the sort of money you've had off us um but i mean i i feel particularly sorry for single parents who have sunk all of their savings into a caravan to give their kids some sort of a holiday um i know of one mother who has an autistic child with a service dog and she has been told personally that that's it the dog can't come well that's something just just in relation to that that's something we're gonna have to uh we're gonna have to check again because um a service dog or a guide dog we'd be going into a different territory now if if they were banned so we might just park that we might just park that for a second george and i'll double check that because that would that would change that would change the perspective quite significantly in this conversation that is the way it was told that's the way it was told i understand no i can't say it's a registered a registered service dog i can't say that right but it might be a dog that the family know brings great comfort to the child but let me just i'll check that separately um of course what does this mean in in real terms if this is held up if this is enforced george what does this mean to you and your family are you less affected than others perhaps or you know no absolutely not uh well it means that we can't use a caravan uh we live in dairy here so it's about an hour's drive to the caravan park so that means if i want to be down with my wife i'm gonna have to drive up and down twice a day to feed the dogs morning and night obviously walk them clean up afternoon that's uh you know four hours driving uh the time the expense the inconvenience it just means we can't use the caravan the way we did we my wife and i won't be able to holiday at the caravan uh together now he uh and i'll read the statement it's always better if we could have the conversation but we have a statement but i'll read much of it but it says that or he says it states in our site rules for each season in bold block capitals if dogs continue to roam and file the site then they will be banned completely no exceptions in brackets so uh did i mean you must have thought well george this could be coming or did you or did you see well the thing is it absolutely it absolutely does say that and he has said to us you know in the letter that he sent out as you're aware this problem continues blah blah blah well no we're not aware and and if there is a problem why has he not spoken to anyone about it you know if if there was a dog filing issue um surely the first people he should have been speaking to was dog owners but his idea of doing everything i can he has put up two bins for dog filing and a couple of signs around the site but he hasn't actually said to anyone there is this problem no one was aware that the public path actually as far as i'm aware nobody knew that the the public path was on his property and he was responsible for it now in terms of do we know the views though of the majority who are not dog owners what yeah we absolutely do we absolutely do i mean we have formed a group we have compacted as many people as we can and no one who we have found has any objection to the being dogs in the site in fact there's quite a few who are furious that are you doing this well this caller says i have a caravan there i have no children but i have two dogs the owner wouldn't dream of telling me to leave the two children at home surely a compromise must be met with us another i have a caravan there and i disagree that there's an issue with dog filing on the camp there is an issue outside the camp but that has nothing to do with us which i think is along the lines of what you said so let me get to this statement yeah uh george um the owners say we've struggled to control dog litter within our two parks in clon mani this has been an ongoing issue and despite letters signage and direction of dog litter boxes there's still an element who refuse to pick up after their dogs with some folk even kicking sand over the litter to disguise it it is not just about having dog feces on your feature on the wheels of buggies dog feces contain parasite which can result in blindness the many children playing within the park are in continued danger of coming into contact with this parasite after one particularly busy weekend we lifted over 20 pieces of dog feces between caravans and over 40 pieces on pathways to the beach and across the top of sand dunes our staff have been struck on the face a number of times this summer alone while streaming the grass we felt that we were left with no option but to ban all dogs completely off the site we've sent out letters explaining the change in the rules as of the first of march 23 giving residents time to make suitable arrangements for their dogs next season the change in the rules has not come out of the blue it states in our site rules for each season in bold block capitals if dogs continue to roam and file the site then they will be banned complete no exceptions we appreciate that there are more responsible dog owners than irresponsible ones on site but feel that despite our best efforts we must take this drastic action before something worse happens so they're conceding that it's drastic action and they're saying they've made their best efforts to come up with a solution to this but george you and others would argue that you've come up with proposals attacks a rotor those type of things that they have not been implemented or tested to see if they would work so maybe you might feel that they haven't they haven't taken on their best efforts yet let me give you just a wee bit of context here um he he says about picking up all this number of dog to you after a particularly busy weekend i would say that was probably during the clan mani festival which i'm only guessing at which time the caravan park is packed and there are a huge number of visitors to the area so i could well believe that the public path had a lot of dog later on that that would that would come as no surprise because during that time you'll get an awful lot of people down there his his statements about he's done everything he can well one of the first things he should have done was speak to dog owners and they haven't done that in the past if there's been a problem resident they've been shown the door very quickly they've been given warnings about whatever they were doing and to be fair i mean the site the reason it is there are so many families on it is because it is a fantastic site it is very well kept you know all credit to the owner the site is very well looked after it's very well kept and on the very rare occasion when there has been an issue with the resident he has tried to sort it out and if they refuse to comply they've been told to move on and nobody's any objection to that so that makes it all the more perplexing that he has spoken to no one he has refused completely to speak to any representatives of the dog owners he has completely turned down a raft of proposals which would have done away with any problem and his reply as i say he was speaking to me and as a loyal customer for 10 years uh i said to him look at me now i'm not at all happy about this you know this is this is really destroying um our time at the caravan and he said well if you're not happy i'll move your caravan off site free of charge to the road now maybe he thought he was being generous but i think that is so cold and insulting i know i know i know i do understand what you're saying but it is it's a private park it's a private run business and they set the rules whether people like them or not uh they do concede though well not concede but they state that it's a small minority of dog owners it does just seem like i would like to exhaust every effort before you know upsetting a third i just don't if dog out the type of dog owners that travel with their dogs are not going to leave their dogs behind them so that means a third of the people on this site will probably have to reconsider their options for next summer quite a few people already have sold the caravan because we've been we've been speaking to families whose kids are devastated and broken hearted because they have they've had to sell the caravan because they know they're not going to be able to use it and number one they wouldn't leave the dogs and number two they couldn't afford if it's a right away on this path as well if there is a right of way yeah um i don't understand how you ban dogs from going from wherever the people parked their cars down onto the beach you know whatever about banning yeah well you can't you can't yeah so but that and even in the statement here it refers to this path so yeah you would have a situation where people in the caravans and paying to have their caravans there they don't have dogs but the general public who will use this right of way to access the beach will be walking past the caravans with their dogs who may well poo all over the place for all we know well it it whilst it seems drastic action the action doesn't seem to go far enough to address the problem it should be more drastic if the idea is to keep dog poo off the site and off this path well the thing is the path the path that he's talking about doesn't go through the caravan park it uh it's reference yeah but it's referenced in the statement and the dunes are referenced in the same way okay fair enough it says here after a particularly busy weekend we lifted over 20 pieces of dog feces between caravans and over 40 pieces on the pathway to the beach and across the top of sand dunes so the worst problem at the this weekend was uh on this path and on the dune twice as much poo was found there is actually on the site itself so what i'm saying is is banning dogs from the caravan park does not eliminate the cause of most of the problem because the statement says mostly it's on the dunes and it's on the path and there's no reference to dogs being banned from either in this statement so that's what's infusing me it's not fixing the problem but it's inconveniencing an awful lot of caravan owners yeah it can ban dogs from that path because it's it's a public beach he may own that land but there is a right of way okay well maybe they'll add a bit to the statement because i'm not trying to pick holes in it but it it it confuses me in that it doesn't actually fix the problem but it does pee off an awful lot of people who pay to be on the site you know what i mean so yeah maybe they'll add to that and maybe we could clarify the situation too with assistant and guide dogs if the legally registered or otherwise and we'll see what the story is there right george i mean you've explained it pretty clearly i have the statement that's all i can sort of read out um yeah and we'll see where it goes from here and what other people think um but from the contacts we've got so far people aren't happy um and they're in a same boat and some are actually wondering what they're going to do next summer that's because between this and dogs being banned from beaches and every other thing maybe that fix the problem maybe it's clown money it's the beach there is it a blue flag beach not that i'm aware no wonder is it a blue flag beach because if it's a blue flag beach dogs will be banned from there for much of the summer anyway we'll have to get clarification on that as well and maybe they're coinciding this with that ban i don't know uh that could be the thinking there george but look leave it with us we'll see yeah go ahead the thing is great if it is to do with blue flag beaches why would he not say that and say look guys this this isn't my fault this this is because of the blue flag beach regulations you know which would which would completely exonerate him they're not going to be they're not going to be enforced anyway people are still going to bring the dogs to the beach yeah of course they are of course i mean there's i know local sign areas and the funny thing is five or six dogs and the funny thing is those most likely to flout those laws you could probably argue they might say well it doesn't matter where my dog poos i don't know i'm not judging people but you know what i mean yeah no of course if you don't follow certain guidelines why would you follow others that's all i'm yeah yeah right george we'll see how the story develops it's not going to go away i don't think um it'll be lovely to see a meeting uh and some sort of compromise i know these things come to a point where they have to be discussed publicly but it would be lovely if this could be resolved because it has a fantastic reputation uh and you're obviously a big fan of the park in its setting if we could just if we could just come up with a compromise on this issue we could all just put this to bed and and and look forward to next year you know because because the site has been so well run and it is clean and tidy uh you know and and you know one of the things they didn't have said is they they pride themselves on it being a family friendly place you know out of the blue to suddenly go well there's 40 percent of you aren't going to be able to use a caravan partly you have done before we're banning you we're banning your pets which is effectively saying you can't come down here but if if there was if i wasn't a dog owner i'm not a dog owner sorry george and i was staying at that caravan site and there was poo everywhere i probably would go up to the owner and say you know what like i've got yeah this is a family caravan park here and for the third time one of the kids has brought dog poo into the caravan you know what are you doing what are you going to do about this do you know what i mean so of course i can see it from the owner's perspective if the message isn't getting through even if it's only to a minority at what stage do you say you know what enough is enough and i can i can see it from the caravan park owner's perspective to george and i think you can oh of course of course let's try let's try march and april let's try having a poo tax let's try having a a rotor that maybe someone goes out at seven in the morning and or what you know what i'm on about let's try that for maybe march and april and that doesn't work then you know then right let's go with the ban well we said look let's let's do this for a year let the dog owners try to sort this problem out for you with no trouble and no expense to you let us sort it out and if we can't sort it out then you know what you really have we really have done everything we can do and and then maybe a ban is the only option right okay you know a black a blanket ban immediately just seems crazy well i would say it's not immediate i would say this has been rumbling and i've i've hit dog poo in a streamer and i know what that feels like as well it's not like you know i don't think this i don't think this sort of you know something happened on a saturday and they decided on a sunday it's obviously been an annoyance because it wouldn't be in the site rules otherwise uh but i i take your point and i'm just trying to take some middle ground here jobs because i think that's the best way we can maybe try and and broker a solution to this but i appreciate the importance this issue has to you and others who are dog owners and what it means for next year or even yeah whenever okay you know i can only thank you for giving us time to air this and and just to say that coming on air has been a last resort for us i know we didn't we didn't want him to feel as if he was being backed into a corner and being made the bad guy but he has refused to talk to us he has made a decision as well like you know in this day and age not you know he provides whoever owns these sites they provide a service they have the rules they set the rules they're entitled to change the rules they don't necessarily you know there's no obligation on people like this to sort of maybe explain themselves you know i take where you're coming from george but i just think in this day and sometimes we can go well you know like you hear in other programs where it's almost like you know people must come on and explain themselves and we've got it we've got a press release again it's a private individual private business oh yeah if they don't want to add to the press release or if they do at the end of the date it's up to them but we are more than happy to give the likes of yourself a platform as well george and if they want to respond further that's that's fine i hope there's a compromise reach that's good for this excellent business and that's also good for your responsible dog owners and then that would make you know that would be that would be satisfying to me all right george listen yeah thanks for that thank you take care of 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ahead the senior fixtures next week it's a deal debate just have to say be a news this monday and podcasted and hide a video dot com the deal debate with sister sarah's letter kenny serving food you'll love in sarah's kitchen okay we're joined in studio now by uh joe morgan of the mica action group joe thanks very much for joining us and good morning to you morning greg and just to clarify i'm actually not on the committee of make action group anymore but your outfits yeah a member yes of course um we're in a kind of a funny space from my perspective and you can tell me from a homework perspective in that you know obviously we had the the the protests that we had the campaign it was very public and we had all the pressure on twitter and you know then we had this announcement of the scheme and then the sort of the disappointment that it didn't match an awful lot of people's expectations and then it's kind of tailed off a little bit and at the same time everyone affected and even those who have found out this year they're affected they're facing into another particularly difficult winter there's still that uncertainty there's still that sort of you know mental health anguish as well that goes along with this and it's sort of like i'm where i'm trying to give my support it's kind of like you put what next where are we at now can you sort of describe where we're at if that makes sense yeah sure and it's a good intro greg that that's ultimately why why i come in um you'll have heard it first hand from michael daherty when he came in after the bill was passed on the door um and and there has been a lot of devastation and a lot of hope lost if you like in terms of where we were going and and what the next steps were so that's why why i've come in um i think the government missed the beat in terms of the passing the bill there was uh amendments in there that would have made such a difference and allowed us to move forward without leaving anybody behind that hasn't happened so we are building momentum again in terms of our engagement with the EU which started back in december when we went over to bustles and we're changing our tactics and we're extending the remit of what we're asking the EU to do to come to the table and this time as well as make sure that our children aren't in the same place where we are today in 10 15 years time but to also now directly influence the parameters of the scheme that are currently on the table so i mean we never gave up but to some extent on a national level then does it feel a wee bit like the i mean obviously you would hope there's the protests that are upcoming i mean there's so many issues on the table i don't know if this protest on the 24th and not discouraging anyone from going but it's going to be very hard to hear the screams of defective blocks over the screams of you know fuel poverty and price do you get me so i'm not in any way discouraging anyone but so between that and where we're at with the current government nationally then are we at a bit of a stalemate then is that why much of the focus is switching to europe yeah i think the campaign is going to go ahead on two fronts greg if i've been honest michael darti as i've already spoke to a proposal relative to going forward in terms of what my ag are going to do themselves and that's nationalizing that campaign right and bringing together the various different groups i think we've 13 counties now that are either are confirmed or suspected with defective materials in houses so i think that's going to be an important strategy from a mag perspective and from our own perspective i think given the areas government have let us down and the e u is an overseer of member state governments and we we need to really ramp up what we're doing with with the e u and that's exactly what we've been doing since the government passed the bill and in the door we've been researching different aspects of legislation that we can go after and we're working hand in hand with the left group within the e u parliament but ultimately we need to get to the e u commission because they're the guys that can of course the hand of our own government but you have an ear over there you know that because of the meeting that took place was at the end of last year or yeah so we were you know you have the ear so talk to us a bit about that meeting yeah so when we went over in december and again just to reiterate the context of that particular meeting was very much on building regulation and we purposely made that decision because there was a very active campaign and discussion going on with government right now we know the outcome has not been ideal and we still have a scheme that won't work for everybody so we're now going back to europe and we're escalating beyond the e u parliament directly into the e u commission where the power to influence our own government lies but we're also extending the ask of them now beyond building regulation to human rights and what that allows us to do is to ask them to get directly involved in defining the parameters of the scheme and i can go into a few yeah go and talk to us a bit more about that because to be honest this is an area i don't want i don't want to ask the wrong question the the real thrust of this doesn't come across so i'll sort of bow to you on this joe because you know what's going on yeah it's relatively straightforward right so there are four main threads within human rights regulation within the that the e u have stipulated that we can lean into that are directly related to what families impacted by defective block and i'll just read them these are not complex um the charter of fundamental rights the e u charter fundamental rights says this i every person has the right to have the union make good any damage caused by its institutions or its servants in the performance of their duty right now we've gathered new evidence homeowners have been screaming for years that there has been light touch regulation in Ireland over the last 18 months what is of interest is that the government is saying it now themselves and their advisors are saying it an industry experts are saying it so we flag all of that additional evidence back to the EU commission last week um the regulation goes on and this is slightly different one this is the human uh european convention and human rights protocol um the enjoyment of any right sorry sorry i missed that one sorry just let me go back yeah here's an interesting one right given that we're living in properties that are complicated every natural legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possession right so given that there are rights there to protect us in terms of our own possessions um the fact that we have a right to recourse if there are servants of the e u where we have had damage as a result of their their their actions and the government are now saying themselves that they have not fully implemented EU regulation around building control well we feel we have an extremely strong case and that escalation has gone back to the EU commission last week we've also copied the very key committees within the EU parliament which we're hoping to engage with again over the coming months weeks weeks hopefully um to frame um because we're not experts in law right i'm certainly not an expert in law but the EU parliament committees have expertise in the space right so we flag it to them and then they can put a case together for us that we can take to the commission and hopefully that's going to end so and as well as that too joe there's people listening to us um who probably you know feel that they're losing hope at this stage that they'll ever get the house repaired and maybe just to manage expectations in relation to this like what could the outcome be of this i mean we know say for instance in terms of you know the biggest wind farm in the country it was breaching EU regulations for ages we were paying fines it's recently been shut down but we were paying fines and you know we there was a you know we found as it relates to vrt you know double tax and there were sort of recommendations and slaps on the risk from the EU in terms of water quality do you know what i mean yeah the EU have called us out on that they've give us a slap again and we're paying fines as it relates you know so my point being even if this is successful other than it exposing you know the failings of the government it's not going to put a new roof over anybody said either or is it do you know what i'm on about like you know so a couple of things in that Greg i mean look there's there's there's obviously been an issue in terms of people's hope since the government passed the bill right and that's why we're trying to reinstall hope that we do have an avenue now there's there is a long tail on this you know working through politics is is long term but that said i do believe there was a very strong case here and if you go back to what has happened since december off the back of the visit in in to Brussels we asked them two things we asked them to look at the evidence we asked them to communicate to the areas government and we asked them to mandate Irish regulation to make sure this wouldn't happen again since december there has been a communication from the petty committee back to the government and they've responded and there's some interest in revelations in that response and so that has happened and equally there has been the government have now set up a new body in double double city council which has now got market surveillance responsibility right and there's a full section in that document which was published in june 21 which speaks to construction and they're addressing gaps in exactly the EU legislation that we called out in december yeah so there's action happening there now what we need to happen over the we're trying to extend the ask now given that there has been some response there is beyond that and and call out that there are gaps in this scheme that we want the EU now to engage with the Irish government and see if they can put some pressure on what we need to though is like it would be great if this pressure you know as you said i think at the start actually ensured that our children and their children would not have to go through this um do you see this having any impact perhaps on on the scheme itself or anything retrospectively or is it a case of waiting to see if Sinn Fein in power follow through on their very very very clear commitments and i have a list of very clear commitments and whatever the next government if Sinn Fein is part of it they will be held to the exact same standards that any government might be as well do you know we've been promised an awful lot from at crumbling homes to the local hospital do you know what i mean and it will be very interesting to see how that's followed through on but is is that really is that the best chance that they do follow through on the commitments for people to start getting their houses repaired fairly yeah there is two very distinctive threads here one is making sure that our children are not where we are right and i i there is activity happening like you can read about it the government have set up a new body to take this on and that and that piece is moving agitating things in europe has accelerated i i believe so i firmly believe so yeah so the next piece is now we have a scheme that doesn't work so we need to apply pressure there and whether it's Sinn Fein or Fein of all of vinegar whoever's in the next next government we will be utilizing and asking europe to apply that pressure uh in in terms of making sure the ultimate goal is that nobody is left behind i i read greg and part of the reason i come in i read a commentary from an old age pensioner in dunigal who made common subsequent to that dull passing of the bill that she has resigned herself now that she will not see her house fixed in her lifetime and that that's shocking and and that's why we need the e you to to come in and directly see what what angers me i was going to say no but it angers me is a couple of little measures a couple of little uh amendments that were proposed would have meant that that person you talk of probably would be in a new house and i i suspect maybe the downsizing element to it yes um they could have built a new home albeit maybe smaller or to their needs i haven't seen the particular uh person's comments that you're talking of but i suspect that if that had been included it may well have given that person enough hope to say right i'm going to see out my days in a nice new house rather than this crumbling mess that i'm currently in absolutely i mean that was probably one of the biggest amendments um from talking to michael darty of the my group that they put through and it would have made a difference to a big percentage of people that are not going to be able to get the 20 to 40 000 that they need to to bridge the gap so yeah no that that was a big one and in some context um net neutral in terms of cost to to the government because well i think in most most cases yeah you know if i give you if your house is worth 10 grand that's just yeah your house is worth 10 grand and it would cost uh you know that's how much is available for it i'll give you the money obviously all the receipts and everything you know every all the criteria have to be met but if you you know you can't build your house for 10 grand but you can build our house for 10 grand i mean it's it's it's it's basic stuff because it doesn't cost any more it just saves the homeowner a levy of 20 30 or 40 and we have to remember uh i'll be honest with you i would have no way of raising 30 or 40 grand i wouldn't get it i think most people are in the same boat you know what i'm on about so like to think that it's just a piece of cake that you can go and get money from your bank or from your you know because not let's not forget that your asset is worthless yeah exactly so what do you leverage exactly you know what do you leverage on for example so is there anything else that we need to add here um we've talked about the work that's ongoing we've talked about it being another strand we've talked about it maybe ensuring that our children and their children won't suffer this again um and i suppose maybe even to give the government a bloody nose on a european scale as well you know if that happens i'm sure you'd not be crying yeah no absolutely i mean every engagement that we go to europe with calling out um you know ineptities or inadequacies of the government i mean primarily that's about you know putting that into the public to me and i feel like embarrassing them to some extent but i do think in this case there is very strong legislative background that that we can use to in order to force europe's hand to get involved and make them understand that you know the the the asks that the EU put on member states in this case in terms of construction is not happening in ireland and the last point i'd make regularly would be i just want to stress we are ramping up again and we will be involved in very very heavy engagement with the EU specifically in terms of what i'm involved in and and there is hope there relative to what that particular exercise can deliver and outside of that and i'm not directly involved in so i'm not speaking to them it'll probably come after the agm on the 19th after the new committee's forum but you know there is going to be i sense there's going to be national national a more national effort in terms of consolidating the the 13 counties that are that are currently either suspected or or or confirmed it's haven't defected which is half of the counties in the republic of ireland and we can probably include half of the counties in northern ireland as well if you know what i'm on about that's the extent of on the island i don't think it would be unreasonable to suggest that half of them are affected by this issue i would agree yeah all right joe thanks for your time good to see you again there's nothing you feel you need to add i think we've touched on everything there i'm good the message has been clear enough for you or i have in other words i haven't confused it too much all right joe morgan um he is not on the committee no longer but of course involved with the mica action uh group and that is an update on progress in terms of uh you know um ensuring that this can't happen again at an eu level uh and also um it's disgusting the whole campaign more generally okay back with more after the break the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account the inishon walking festival will take place from the 16th to the 25th of september explore the wild beauty of inishon through a series of 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on their feet my kids are devastated we never got one warning about this so we could have had resolved the matter and other people in mobile homes with dogs and can't open the door let children out with dogs allowed run about dogs should be banned believes another this is what happens when you have irresponsible dog owners everyone suffers i've seen it for the last couple of months on different beaches laneways owners just let their dogs do their business and just walk on and don't feel one bit embarrassed it's just horrible to see we are all sorry we are having the same problem with dogs in an estate in killy gordon signs up dog warden has been seen out a few times and it's the same people letting their dogs out it is disgusting they say okay another busy hour to come the final hour of the nine till noon show this monday on its way but first let's take a break for the news once again and say good morning to mckayla clark thanks great good morning a dairy cancer who was assaulted in the city in the early hours of friday morning believes he was attacked because of a stance on abortion into cancer emetol was injured in an unprovoked attack in the waterloo street area he believes those responsible are part of a group with opposed views the fena fall party is focusing on health and housing at a think-in in mullingar today and tomorrow the party says there will be a pandemic level response to the cost of living and energy crisis in budget 2023 britain's king charn says he cannot help but feel the weight of history as he takes over from the queen addressing mp's and pier's in west minster hall the new monarch also referenced the vital parliamentary traditions of the uk there's outrage as the dunagol caravan park owner has taken the decision to ban dogs for the past 30 years the animals were permitted on the site near klamane george a caravan owner says the banning of dogs which will come into force at the beginning of the next season will affect 40 percent of caravan owners in a statement the caravan park owner says they were left with no other option but to ban all dogs as they struggle to control dog litter house prices in dunagol continue to rise the latest residential property price perometer for ipav covering the first half of this year shows an overall price increase nationally of 6.36% on the previous six months and a number of public meetings are being held next week as part of the preparation for new local area plans for the twin tines and bonkrana dunagol county council is seeking to identify suitable future housing and economic development lands in balibufe and sternorla and future housing lands in bonkrana also those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay michella thank you very much indeed for that and we'll take a quick break and we'll be back with much more in a moment the hp touchscreen laptop now 539 save 120 euro and get a one-for-all gift card up to 150 euro when you buy selected laptops get 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no new dogs would come on site this at least would save people the heartache of having to choose between their beloved pet and their happy place we are totally heartbroken another toluk bay we have chosen to leave the site leaving our children heartbroken our dog is our family and we can't leave him behind i thought we would have had many years down there watching my children growing up in beautiful peaceful that has all gone now a heartbroken house we have Greg in relation to dogs was in a pub restaurant at the weekend and there were five dogs in now i'm a lover of dogs but not in where people are eating but it seems to be quite common now wonder what listeners think i hated to be honest with you i've had this experience of big dogs small dogs running up or running past you and you kind of look over at the owner and they smile as if to say ah isn't it cute some people just still don't get that other people are uncomfortable around dogs um and i think that all adds in to make these types of decisions a little bit easier to be honest with you this caller says dogs are a nuisance and a caravan park is no place for them a caravan park is a residential setting though you know i mean and people are there for long term as well you know for weeks or months i spent years at tollock with my pet and i and family i've never heard of an issue with dogfiling i have never received a letter regarding this problem my children play hide and seek and spotlight outside at night time and never have my children stood on dog litter as it's just not there this was a very sudden decision and has left me worried sick i do not know where to go from here we as a family are devastated and that's a theme that's coming through devastation uh in contrast gregg i congratulate that caravan park owner for taking action to ban dogs due to fouling a which a similar action would be taken in the twin towns where dogfiling is a major issue i work with children with learning disabilities and regularly on walks in drumbo woods and around the town there's dog littering on the path which at times ends up on the shoes of the children causing great upset to them also some dogs aren't on leads and they jump up on the children or run around them again causing great upset to them sub dog some dog owners need to be a lot more responsible and aware of others fear of dogs another great see the council sending out housing review forms during a housing crisis and a cost of living crisis the amount of red tape with irish have to grow through filling in pages of forms and proving everything and yet refugees come in no form filling or anything just handed the keys thus country gone to the dogs anti irish citizens believes that caller 41 people on trolleys at letter candy university hospital this morning um 21 people who were sick enough to be given a bed um are without a bed uh they're on a trolley or on a chair um 20 are in wards or elsewhere bringing a total of uh 41 um we are third behind uh the university hospital limerick which is ongoing problems there uh sligo university hospital has 51 people now normally when not normally sorry in my experience from when i've seen normally um my normal you know we see sligo up here and sorry letter candy up here in sligo you look at sligo and go well this is similar hospital ish isn't it in a similar area ish but their situation is even more dire down there they've got 37 people in the emergency department sick enough to need a bed but none available for them 14 in wards elsewhere so between sligo and letter candy university hospitals we have 92 patients without a bed which is really shocking altogether isn't it uh how do we fix it what what what's the story i mean people and the hospital is a funny one and i actually have a message in along these lines the hospital is a funny one in that unless until you've been there you know unless you've until you've been there uh either you know not so sick but waiting to be seen or so sick waiting to get a bed until you've actually been there you don't really really understand what it's like you hear it and you go oh well you know what if you get out you'll be all right or whatever it might be but once you've experienced it uh the way it is now you understand the penny drops you get it you go right now i understand what you understand what you meant now um and understand what why you just kept talking about it on the radio because this is unacceptable uh for anyone but particularly from my perspective for older people too you know um so we'll read out some of those messages from some people who've been in hospital recently and um they know now how many dogs how many of these dogs should be microchipped i think it should be brought in by the government that dogs cannot get licensed without being chipped i take your point and maybe it talks to a wider issue i don't think this problem would be resolved by chipping um it's something that kind of sounds like chipping is the problem but i don't think chipping would fix it uh right another call it says very disappointing sad people all the stuff up on social media phones etc about the late queen lisabeth do people not have families moms and dads of their own present and past wouldn't like the same uh kind of stuff up very sad world we live in now no respect you see i could sort of counter that point with us to why people might feel that they their country and people that lived here were disrespected by the monarchy but there's no point i understand i respect your point of view and in 2023 maybe you know you have a point but a lot of people sort of maybe might look at what's happening now and historically regarding the high cost of inadvertently leaving the immersion heater switched on says this caller i discovered that there is a switch available which turns on the heater for a preset time intervals for example 15 minutes 30 minutes one hour the 15 minute setting is adequate for most household use except maybe for a bath it ensures that you need never worry about whether or not you switch the immersion off before heading off to mayorka uh it costs them 30 euro which is not insignificant than the heat in mayorka too you didn't need the immersion on in chile uh donny gall uh hi greg i hope this finds you well i recently removed my oil burner from our home and installed a pellet stove to heat our home for the coming winter uh as that would make our home more carbon neutral well so i thought the bags of pellet are 10 kilograms they've gone from three euro 75 to 599 that's nearly an 80 percent increase per bag can anyone explain to me why this is i'm also currently waiting on our new ev car from Toyota and the way of it calculated is that it would actually be cheaper to run our existing diesel car than an electric car where is the incentive to try my best for the environment that comes in from shane shane in terms of the word pellets i don't know what you see we have been conditioned to think that 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school bus issue uh for quite some time now and still was it a game today or friday that children have been left standing on the side of the road greg again this morning and there were seven kids um cut off the bus because there was no seats for them and the bus driver drove off and left seven kids at the side of the road again this morning now it is do you know what we are at our what's end at the moment um it's actually we're worried now for their safety like my own kids as well as other people's kids they're rushing for the bus now in the morning they're getting out and my answer is i just take your time and this is but we won't get a seat if we don't get on for it we won't get a seat so we'll be left at the side of the road and these kids are being left at the side of the road to wait to see if another bus can come if the next bus can take them they've been mourning so they could take them they've been mourning so they haven't been able to take them and they are being left there and do you know what it is just it's a health and safety issue at this stage because they're at a junction and there's four roads at this junction and it's just not on we are worried what's going to happen and we are in week three of the school year and really we're getting the warmsters yeah i mean yeah and there can be sticky plaster solutions to this the bottom line is is there's another bus required do we know if a tender has been put out for another bus i mean if there's any bus drivers or bus companies in the area that would know if a tender has been put out because i'll tell you yeah there was a problem in letter kenny um i don't know if i should say well i was told by someone in letter kenny that boss services were being withdrawn the day before kids started back at school and heaven and earth was moved to adjust conditions so that the bosses went ahead let me put it like that right the day before what's wrong with clan mani how can these children be allowed to be treated like this and their parents as well but you're talking about the safety of it rightly so is it just because it's clon mani that it doesn't matter i don't know and i know that this issue is going on in other parts of an issue on other parts of dunagall but at the moment we are standing there for week three the parents are waiting and these kids it is just not it's not fair it's not fair on them i have a first year and a second year in my house and then kids are going to school and they don't know a which bus to get in home on or be if there is even want to be able to take them home it's just it's not good for their for their mentality it's not good for anything i don't know if the issue has been going on and on and we seem like we're banging our heads against the wall why can't the relief boss on a temporary basis until paperwork is done why can't the relief boss just become the second boss or the extra bus yeah i think it's the minute it's because they are only to be the relief boss if there is extra but we know there's extra like you know yeah we know exactly the gaslighting us and i don't like using that word but look we know the kids there we know there's an extra boss it might take a wee while to sort this out the paperwork and the contracts or whatever it might be but until such time grown-ups need to grow up and who the boss there or whomever it is just provide this second boss until we get the situation sorted let's not play games i don't think that is the definitely the issue greg that it sounds like the relief boss has only been told that they are only for emergencies that if it is a case that the second or the third boss that's coming to the stop cannot take these kids but it's only then that they're allowed to be used and let i was talking to boss there in last week and they told me that there's 41 kids in chlamarly at the minute you have the best ticket but no seat on the bus right that's an extra coach mode do you know did they say what was happening in terms of getting seats for those children even if we get the go ahead to put on an extra coach she says i don't know if i have actual operator to operate it so this is pushing it way down the line we don't know if this one started this week next week this all seems to be red tape hmm and i think also we're so frustrated and we hit it on the radio having tonight but it's just getting to the stage we have no other choice like god forbid but there's a genuine fear and especially is the dependent on the weather conditions on any particular morning there is a genuine concern that there could be some sort of a crash or a collision or something because these children being left on the side of the road so let's imagine what the conversation might be the day after that happens and i'll tell you people won't be able to sort of ignore it and pretend it's not an issue yeah there would be a bus put all men straight away but it's too late you know and that is what we are scared of there is four roads meeting a disjunction and the kids are hopping out of the carriage to make a beeline for the bus because they do not want to be the ones left behind that is no way for kids to be hit and from our perspective we contact boss Aaron and we get some sort of generic statement doesn't answer any questions so we can't ask questions of boss Aaron to get to the bottom of this i can't we've invited obviously the education minister on but she's not going to speak to the iraq this committee she's been called before to speak about this issue so she's hardly going to speak to us so you know no one is prepared to say this is my responsibility i'm taking responsibility or to explain it people are being treated like mushrooms and you know what that is kept in the dark and fed you know what like it yeah you know someone needs to step up here i don't know if it's a local rep or whatever if they need a protest or something needs to be done because this is completely unacceptable that is totally unacceptable on a basis we are weak today at the studio it does seem that the book falls with the education minister and she is nothing but an action she is you know what she is no use to anybody at this moment in time because she's not doing her job what do you do in this situation samantha like what happens tomorrow morning like tomorrow morning we just know what's going to be the same carry on we are you know what to come back for the parents to be succeeded again that's is it first confirmed so is it first come first served like are the seven children that missed out today they just happened to be the last ones left before all the seats were filled yeah so effectively every child on that boss is affected by this issue then because it could be them tomorrow every change on that boss is affected by that issue it depends how quick they can get themselves on that boss so it must be an absolute scramble every morning then isn't it is a scramble and it sounds awful like the but the the kids are actually running we are feared the boss is going to run them down there's going to come other cars it is it is a it's an accident waiting to happen right i mean because i think that paints a different picture here of the chaos of 42 i don't know how many well at that stop there is 23 getting on at that one stop it's the last stop and all of them 23 chances getting on there there is going to be six or seven every morning that is not going to get a seat and how do you do that in an orderly fashion i mean like it's yeah you know what i'm all about like i know you sir the parents are you know take a deep breath and all that but i mean if it's random every day as to which seven or eight are going to be left behind it's an absolute joke like it is and it's going to happen every morning until it's going to be sorted so 23 children aren't guaranteed a seat at the stop that's the reality 23 aren't guaranteed a seat yeah well i don't know there definitely needs a bigger boss a coach on that rate would actually solve the problem but we are getting no answers it is a coaster at the moment it's a 32 33 seater but a coach would solve the extra problem but they are not the best opportunities are not being given to go ahead to put on a coach yeah i mean they don't like the phrase but we need a pencil pusher to stop pushing their pencil here yeah because the problem is is i mean i don't think i don't firstly my understanding is is and i'm open to anyone who wants to correct me these decisions aren't made in donnagoal as far as i'm aware i think it might be slightly ago that these types of decisions are made as i say i'm open to correction on that but this is just completely unacceptable we're going to bombard them again both the minister's office and uh boss erin with another inquiry and we're going to make it more specific so this generic nonsense can't be uh sent back to us but i don't want to like we don't want to be proven right on this Samantha we don't want that conversation whereby we say we told you so but is that what it would take and that's what we're scared of yeah and justifiably so right i appreciate you don't want to be speaking to me you'll be speaking on highland radio i understand that it's the it's the i understand it's the last ditch thing um but hopefully someone has to be embarrassed into doing the right thing here because that's what it's coming down to isn't Samantha it's embarrassing them into a decision it's the last that you can't and as you say we're just waiting for some person to own up and take responsibility for it and say look we will sort this all right okay listen thank you all right listen if there's anyone in the boss industry that will speak to us on the quiet uh in that area about what is going on or what possibly what's going on or is it a paperwork issue is there a bit of a standoff if there's anyone in the industry there that would speak to us very much confidentially in the clan money greater clan money area that might be able to explain what's going on here why won't they put on a bigger boss as opposed to having a standby boss as backup maybe there's a few extra quid in that i don't know what the ins and outs i'm not casting any dispersions but if there's someone out there that can give us an insight into that on the quiet if you know what i mean in a whistleblowery type fashion please get in touch with us now oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand because it just feels to me there's something going on in the in the background there all right a caller says brenton divin it's going to be joining us by the way after a break but this caller says i went for a walk on the beach the other day i did a quick count and there was more dogs than people on the beach i hate when dog owners say oh he's only playing when he jumps up on me dog owners really don't comprehend the fear in others of dogs they really don't in many cases in some cases not many some i agree with the dog poop it is 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off all bathwear remember three days only miss it miss out telephone 9143942 okay delighted to welcome into studio brenden of any presenter of the dl debate it's the gea podcast which will be available for you to listen to on the radio after seven this evening and then there's a podcast to listen to whenever you like brenden good morning to you good morning greg right yesterday in donagola focus was on the intermediate championship quarter finals getting towards the business end of things now you were at the don of fanard game that's right all ask you like a program and all we had to we had to brush what you radio people insist on calling it downings good man unfortunately yeah great unfortunately a bit of history there but trance i won't thank me for that there you know the the grower side's pushing hard but yeah my kids speak gilly greg but um their brains of sponge mines has been damaged over time it's not it's not that's a podcast in and of itself i don't there's still a few there's a few still a few stories i want to hear all the day all the day so fast and good or two when they talk and because i look at things you understand words and sentences now but see when they talk they're they're a hundred million dollars i'm i'm i'm picking up every third or fourth word but i'm you're getting there it's great that they are too right so you and ryan farry of the donagola news are going to talk about the intermediate championship quarter finals um what jumps out for you from the weekend's ties interesting you know the four teams that are left now fan it uh don low um terminally colomba all very different approaches this semi-final and particularly in colomba i've lost i think four five semi-finals they're mad to get on there a final fan it of course the one the junior gill took early in the year and i've had a great season kind of a bit of smashing grab against the downings yesterday in fairness but listen they're there they hung on there they're a good side and of course don low and termin probably like they would see themselves as senior clubs as well great when they would have probably will be the extra reserves them other two teams so certainly interesting games i mean i say ryan farry's on me he kept us right yesterday ryan is an unreal knowledge because a few guys at the wrong juries he's on different things again but ryan knows everybody so it was great to have somebody up there along with you you know but um listen it's nice down there yesterday funny good last few weeks here i was in bondor in a game you know and then i was at mount charles and then it was and um and you do or you know down instead and down and you know and sometimes you know it's some kind of errors that you're going to these places it's a lovely drive and i know yesterday wasn't wasn't the best days it was always something nice of it coming along the sea there and yeah it's a nice place to visit it was a cracking game um yesterday the one i was at now and as i say i'm fanatic is that a missed i don't know if we'll be kicking themselves yeah presume over yeah certainly isn't not taken away from fanatic don't give us a low school angry greg and they went i think their last they went 11 maybe seven up i think it was maybe about 10 to go you couldn't see anything but a uh a down is like they do a couple of chances angry they'll be disappointed but it didn't think it would matter um but uh mcgrinahan fella for um fanatic kept him in touch with a couple of great frees and there's a great story actually greg the one in goal that was kicked um by um allen uh mackett here it was interesting because he's a college in liverpool he's at a real tough time he's 23 he's done both his cruciates great now his flight was cancelled on saturday and he only got the flight down sunday morning so he just made it and there he was popping up to put the ball in the back of net there was two points out of that stage with about two two months to go and that put him a point up they finally kicked on a good enough score after the great story isn't it great story for him because it looked like he wasn't going to make it and of course for the lad to come back from two cruciates you know you talk about greg to be flying home from from college in liverpool as well you know all of that entails and there he was popping up for and then they have to prove to the teammates that they're working us hard over there and i'm sure the what's that group of videos of you know sweating in the gym you have to prove it you have to prove it don't show off too much he's gonna catch you bread it is a great story and then there's a story behind now each of the semi-finals and that that's that that's obviously listen um that the local uh the locals know the crack with their team but sort of if you want to take an interest from outside the area you know there's there's little stories there great story i mean leave or i don't know was obviously a great derby game and you know i think they've where i really put it up to and cool's been a difference in that game maybe the most surprising one was bunkrannas to feed to deep colomba and the manner of it i suppose because other people may be tipping bunkrannas to to go on among the competition but they were they were comprehensively beaten and as i say for new colomba now it's this thing of a semi-final so massive for them to get on there as well so yeah looking looking for the round that up all right that's good stuff uh more in old donnell is in studio two looking at the ladies football championships so far yeah i mean a lot of um i suppose coverage of the ladies you know you've obviously the three championships going on there um i think with the papers greg with so much stuff going on it's very hard for them to get everywhere of course it's it's virtually impossible so listen the senior semi-finals are next week and that's so i just want to move on to give us an idea of what you've seen so far this year across the championships see if it were me if it were me like arguably a new generation of reader stroke listener is tracking the ladies stuff it's it's uh and to be honest with you i know it's impossible to get around and maybe uh i think clubs some clubs do it uh maybe all do um you know you know to have someone that's right i'll text in the scores or whatever or you know what i'm on about i think that's the future because as you say there's a lot of games on in a lot of different places and you're never going to get all the choices right are you but just by all these games greg you can tell the ladies games is on the up yeah you know and that's the thing so many teams can field yeah and i think in the ga very different from other organizations greg you've got to promote everybody and help everybody out nuts that's why i won't move i supposed to come on this week and and give us an idea of where she season is there any team stepping up from juniors or intermediates and and what you think of it the senior next week so it'd be good to get a good day of her on it all right and keep your eye across holster as well with brendan crossing of the arsh news yeah we're gonna have a wee hit across also it's kind of getting in that all the championships are up and running um our our neighbors to roam is knockout championship that doesn't start the next week and i was just looking at the top half of their draw there's there's um eight championship games and the top four of those eight teams seven of them have won the championship in the last 10 years so the throne championship is so um it's the best in holster you know i'm not saying that they they don't have holster winners but actual i suppose competitive nature of it is a way ahead all the other championships so dairy championships kicking on i was looking at monaghan there actually uh my cousin's team clontuberant um there's there's a five team group and four of the teams are in five points uh how it's funny stuff which is i've never seen a group like that in my life they're talking about down to the wire so uh yeah brendan cross will be on to look across how closely linked is what's happening and the quality um at club level as it then relates to into county level i mean what if can you look at what's happening at a club level at a club level in a county and sort of say well what that might mean for this year's championship or the future championship i mean not like sort of spotting or there's a cracking player playing for intermediate and when but you know as the games are played and the mood in the county does it sort of give any indication as to what might happen at an into county level yeah well i'm certainly talking to my friends in gaughey there's a great lift on gaughey and the club championship this year of course for them being all there in fray you know so i suppose it puts football up at the top and listen you need a healthy club scene for for the county well they're if a team dominates i mean look at kilku all island champions down or probably in the worst have been this last 50 years so it needs a healthy championship probably without a team maybe dominating and it's more about the interest Greg and go back to which end up with the ladies not there's interest there there's interest across our club championships going a lot better this summer i'm seeing teams leaving players inside leaving a platform for attack inside not doing this thing that we've been given off for ages about pulling the whole team back now there is another team still doing it uh by and large even yesterday most in yesterday's Greg take sorry yesterday's game a couple of times fan that had like five players in the inside of 40 they're almost like an old forward six who was mad to see so teams are realizing this and we've got to come at players inside and have a platform i think it was downings i was watching they were in the semi finals ulster i think and it was a televised game and it was really it was the old way of playing you know really pedestrian and then bursting forward and then lose possession and just hang around until the next phase of play but i don't know i could see things are changing a little bit oh great um what is there any and there's not loaded i haven't any update on a point in the new manager yeah yeah the the rimmer most fly and still there's to be an announcement tomorrow as far as there that's what i heard that's what i heard now yeah i was like he's checking his phone now see if anyone's trying to see actually was only something in the county board this morning because when i was wondering uh i'll not tell you the first line of it because we're actually reading the leak there's a call come on this is this is the county chairman yeah come here putting through to own seven four nine one twenty five sorry Michael is he telling you to show let's uh let's keep going so an announcement to our internal external any ideas or maybe you know when it's unfair for me to ask i i know a few people that have been uh approached about the job and there has been talks it's just a suitability thing at the minute a couple of people that have been talked to are involved in club stuff um so they're saying listen we've got to do this first but how that fits in the dunnygogs dunnygogs gotta get got moving soon get it being in place can you i suppose set that up and and finish off the club scene remains to be seen but the last word out there was there was advanced talks and it was to be something tomorrow so internal external candidate um internal as far as i know yeah right okay i've given too much away no okay listen bren and fairness you do keep the cards very close to your chest unless you're getting paid right so we know it's a fella he has a job he's at work at the moment and he's from dunnygogs the guess guess guess who guess who you get the little guess listen i'm you but you're gonna have no podcast if i don't let you go uh bren and listen thanks as always it's always an absolute pressure that's brennan literally away now uh to finish off putting together his podcast the dl debate it is uh broadcast live on the radio after the news seven this evening uh or you'll be able to listen to it on demand there or shortly thereafter on our website at highlandradio.com all right back in a moment cutting through the spin the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features and competitive rate switcher loans all right let's get back to some of your uh comments there are many caravan sites in dunnygog can they not move to another one well that doesn't talk to the emotional connection you might have your grandparent your parents might be from that area or you know maybe you've taken your children there for the last two or three years and that's you know where the memories are are growing from do you know what i mean it's it's not just it's not just a like switch in a car or something there's an emotional connection there um i call us this i still didn't get i still didn't get school refund back from a bus transport first time ever getting free have paid hundreds over the years no answers from boss erin they say most have been refunded but i have not all right that is a problem a lovely three-generation family community in tola caravan park which took 20 years to build has been decimated by a thoughtless action without any warning given or consultation undertaken now i understand where you're coming from uh but it's clear from the press release they have been thinking about this for for a while and the warning was in the turkeys and seas that they could ban dogs at any point if the problems persisted so just to be fair i understand where you're coming from though uh in terms of consultation there seems to be an issue there that seems 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gallagher manager of carjet le calia and these are off the back of a successful dldc event at the weekend too uh which is good to see uh so much taking place right okay right the pasta test i refer to um which one of you wants to explain to me what what this is about because it's about sort of defining um what your activity is whether it's a social enterprise or a private business so do you want to take that one uh yeah yeah i can take that Greg um yeah so uh the initiative came around from dormant accounts funded a scheme called arise uh and that was addressed in one of the kind of objectives from the national strategy for social enterprise which was building awareness of what a social enterprise actually is so uh we came up with this kind of acronym for the criteria of what a social enterprise is and come up with the word pasta so that then created the pasta test and um so that's kind of like taking the key ingredients of what a social enterprise is and uh linking them with uh you know the fun idea of having pasta parties would be in social events then so what would be the benefit then in also establishing the difference between a social enterprise and private business is this sort of to see if a social enterprise maybe might be eligible for any fronting streams that are out there or yeah well i i suppose like you know social enterprise is a word that kind of came about a few years back you know um and it's become this kind of buzzword now and a lot of people maybe don't know what social enterprise actually is and so the past it helps help define that you know so there's kind of like five kind of key areas uh and you know it's where you know you may be a community group or a community center a charity you might be a disability service so there's a variety of organizations out there that actually are social enterprises and might be aware of it so they can go on the website they can take the pasta test and find out and it's then like ourselves at the LDC we provide support to social enterprises um we also provide support say to the managers and to the committees but also you know for community engagement events and and social inclusion initiatives so yeah so it's creating that awareness and letting people know you know if you are a social enterprise this is what's available and and so on yeah so i think rosalie is it fair to say that carter lekelia is a good example of a social enterprise yes carter lekelia um as a social enterprise and we support people with disabilities vulnerable young adults and senior citizens and basically um we provide a service uh through sport recreation education and employment and social activities so um our social a social enterprise is not for profit so all the monies are the revenue that we occur and it goes back into the company like for example we have uh we're based in the vestry the old churches and conals and over the years um there has been a lot of money spent bringing that building up and that's where most of the monies that is brought in goes back into providing a service for people with disabilities and we also have the fern coffee doc is based in sincones campus and we provide a service there as well for the staff in the hospital and also the daily visitors to the hospital and disability groups that go on day services yeah we also provide a pop-up shop in the psychiatric wing of the general leirikini hospital one hour per day and um so basically we have in our um vestry we have a large sports hall and another multi-purpose area downstairs that was once a cafe and then upstairs we have nice training rooms meeting rooms social room and board room disability bathrooms and it's over the years that have been upgraded we have a nice lift there that people with disabilities can access easily onto the facilities upstairs and we have over 25 groups availing offer services um and in 2019 just before the covid we had approximately 26 000 people come through our our building for sale bearing in mind that the upstairs area was closed for three months for renovation again we were upgrading uh making sure that the doors were wide enough for wheelchair new floors dropping the ceilings to retain the heat and since that we have renovated um a kitchen into a reception area where people with disabilities can come in and get work experience on office skills and reception skills because it's real hands-on it's a real world experience it feels feels like that at least yeah we do have people one of the numbers like now though because you felt like you dripped me a bit of information before covid it was 26 000 people through the door are you getting close are you hoping to get close to that maybe 2023 is a full year or this year or this year we should be up around the 20 000 21 000 which is not but not a bad bounce back it's come back very quickly no those last few months all right excellent stuff now how do you fund all of this you know um is this through hiring out elements of the building and all that type of stuff or do you get some state funding is there yes other funding streams because this is amazing what you've done in terms of progress and improving of services and developments how do you how is it funded well firstly um we generate funds from letting out the rooms for meetings and for training and also the big hall as well for sport brilliant and other uh we have church services we have the ukrainian basketball team are on there at the weekends we have the special olympics in there and um so it provides provides facilities to a huge a huge range of people really isn't it it's like it really is a hub it's a hub in the real sense of the word like yeah but we always have to look at our disability group yes of course and then what we can do after that so one of the pastor tests is trading i.e. unlike charities a social enterprise generates income by selling products and services now a lot of organizations that i would see as charities like charity shops charity bosses are so are they then really in in real terms social enterprises if they have like Irish wheelchair association has a shop yeah so it's not just one isolated kind of criteria like that Greg so they might trade that's part of it um so that they have a trading element um a lot of social enterprises maybe charities um you don't have to be a charity to be a social enterprise so yeah it's all a bit kind of like what your social agenda is yeah kind of what what it's all going back to the very basic purpose of what your enterprise is actually doing and if it's not for profit and as Rosalind was explaining there but the fantastic work that to do everyone that kind of manage the management committee they're all volunteers so it's a voluntary organization it's where the people are giving up their time to be on the committee to run the social enterprise yeah and where the profits are reinvested back into you can see they are because of the development and the growth and refurbishment so if they're lucky to make a surplus that's all put back into it and then obviously needing then to get fondant and so on yeah exactly so then talk to me then about uh because i don't want to make sure i want to make sure i don't confuse this so let's talk then about these events that are coming up right yeah there are past a party dates and locations the 6th of september the blue stack special needs foundation in donagol ten another amazing success story of people working against the odds to create a an amazing facility that's the 6th that's gone last tuesday okay so tomorrow uh the uh there is where is that one it's up in nokfola nokfola in guidore yeah the 20th of september it's the old courthouse in lyford and the 27th of september the workhouse don fanahe so talk to me then about who these are for who could benefit and what the long-term benefits might be okay so um well who are they for they're for everyone really like they're for the the public can come along um to find out what social enterprises are in the area the reason we've got those locations by the way is that we were going to like geographically across across the county yeah so um you can be an existent social enterprise that does come along you could be maybe a community group or you might be a service provider and basically it's a very informal uh what works for you what are you doing could we employ that that kind yeah and we we kind of we have a guest speaker there from the Irish social enterprise network chris gordon so he's coming up and uh he gives um a presentation on social enterprise as well um and then we deliver kind of like information on what our supports are from from dunagol local development uh we passed it great as well and but we don't throw it in the roof but uh we it's cooked before we said wall martin i never said roof i said wall so um yeah so it's a very kind of informal event and it goes from 12 o'clock to two o'clock but uh it's basically for everyone because it's you're creating that awareness greg that um it's letting people know what is a social enterprise and are you a social enterprise and then obviously you know what you do in your community exactly or maybe you could be the one that tells everyone else that this is what's working for us or you could be the one that goes well what can we learn from all this has been networking isn't it no and identifying and and you know all that good stuff uh right okay uh now you can take the pass to test by going to pass to test.ie i can't believe that wasn't already registered as url but it's there anyway and you can also register for these uh events in guidore on the 13th tomorrow lyford on the 20th dunfana he on the 27th dunagol tan's already been uh ticked you can go to the social enterprise pastor party dunagol dot event bright dot ie but if you search dunagol pastor party yeah i'm sure it'll pop up or they can contact us at the ldc as well even if you can't make a pastor party that they can get in touch with us and um directly and and you know we can we can respond into and roseline do you are you supported by dldc and how has that worked in your in your favor very much so um we would have monthly meetings uh firstly i am involved in the send meetings and that's community groups all over that is organized and it's very beneficial because we are then aware of the challenges that all the other groups have uh we're also that um you know we're not overlapping our services or we're causing displacement you have to be very aware of when you're a social enterprise that you have to look at the other businesses that's really quite important yeah and that you're not causing displacement so we would be very careful like with the services we offer and say for example our coffee doc uh that we wouldn't be um impeding on other businesses around us um as well as that there's no point in having um doing this we want to be unique we want to be providing unique services and can i just mention we have we are just on the crux of um starting a new project overlook in the park we are bringing out um the we are hoping a new building will start within the next month or two and it's all a sensory room sensory garden multi-purpose area changing area for people you don't stand still do you no and uh a nice multi-purpose room with a coffee doc brilliant all um access from complete access from the park which will encourage healthy lifestyle for people with disabilities brilliant the amenities will be all there for them okay listen uh Rosalind Gowher thank you so much uh for joining us and it's great to hear about the work of Cardiola Kelly and also Martin McDevitt assistant community development manager at DRDC go on to the DRDC website or give them a call if you've missed anything or you want any of the clarifications is that it yep all right we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at set nine thank you for listening thanks for taking part in the shows chat to you then John 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