 Thank you very much Rory, very good morning to you. See you tomorrow. It is time for a news update though at nine o'clock and it's a very good morning. Catherine Gaffney. Good morning Greg. Ibex calling on the government to reconsider its plans for all companies to have a remote working policy. All firms will have to participate under new draft legislation that has been announced. However, Ibex says the requirements excessive as many won't be able to facilitate it. Spokesperson Maeve McElwee says a change is needed. Part of the legislation is somewhat unnecessary. It's also quite challenging to understand its implications for businesses where clearly employees will not be in a position to work remotely. Brexit poor checks in Northern Ireland could be stopped after a controversial move by a DUP minister. Edwin Poets believes they need storm and approval following a core challenge and has asked the executive if they want to continue to carry them out. They're required under the Northern Ireland protocol which the DUP once scrapped. Alison Morris from the Belfast Telegraph says the issues due to be discussed at a storm and executive meeting tomorrow. It looks like regardless of whether the assembly allowed a fever to be tabled on Thursday or not Mr Poets determined to halt the checks from his department at which stage that sort of puts the ball back into Westminster's court and they have to decide what they're going to do because the EU will not permit the borders to go unchecked. A man charged with the murder of Ashleigh Murphy in Condeauphaly is due to appear in court again this morning. 31-year-old Joseph Puska of Lanalli Grove in Mucla in Condeauphaly was remanded in custody after appearing before a special setting of Tullamore District Court last week. He is accused of murdering the 23-year-old schoolteacher earlier this month. And funding is available for a number of heritage projects in Donegal with the Heritage Council inviting applications to its community grant scheme. The aim of the scheme is to support capital projects that improve access and inclusion to heritage sites. Grant applications must be submitted using the Heritage Council's online application system with the closing date Wednesday the 16th of February. Joseph Galleher County Donagall Heritage Officer says it's an important stream of funding. It's one of the few funding sources that's available really to community groups in the county in terms of supporting heritage and the Heritage Council have supported a number of projects. I mean for example last year they awarded 160,000 in funding to 19 heritage initiatives right across the county. And again the work that's undertaken in these projects supports local communities, local tourism, local employment and also reinforces community engagement in heritage projects. Whether now a largely dry start to the day with sunny spells, however it will turn cloudy or by afternoon with patchy rain and drizzle developing breezy with highs of 9 to 11 degrees. We're back with more 10 o'clock until then. Good morning. Well, Davie, brilliant that you weren't in work today. We had some crack. It was Petters last shift so we all went out for lunch. Thanks for staying away. The lads are delighted. Chat to you soon. Mind yourself. No one will thank you for turning up to work or anything else when you're sick. Stay at home and get a test to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 from the HSE for us all. The Ninetown News Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the Ninetown News Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. It is four minutes past nine on this Tuesday, sorry, it's Wednesday, the 26th of January. How are you? I hope you're well. And you're very welcome along to another edition of the programme. Lots coming up through the next three hours. We want your involvement, your contribution, your comments, your text to 086-6025-000, 086-6025-000, WhatsApps of course to that number two, or give us a call in 07491-25000, Caroline taking your calls there. And if you prefer, you can also email comments at highlandradio.com. Right, OK, so let's crack on with a look at the newspapers this morning and starting with the locals and the Finn Valley Voice. 901,000 euro for Finn Valley Walking and Cycling Projects. Pedestrian Cycle Footbridges at Seshia O'Neill, Ballabafe and Midtown Bridge Crossroads costing 325 euros will be delivered in 2022 as part of a 289 million national fund from the National Transport and Walking and Cycling Infrastructure in 2022. Positive news there. The Enish Times this morning vindicated is the headline. Enish Shoneman and the Craig was accused of abusive and threatening behaviour by a letter from the University Hospital. The Ombudsman has now found a menacing of all allegations. In addition, the Ombudsman has ordered a review of LUH's overall complaint handling process by the National Director of the HSE's Quality Assurance and Verification Division. Onto the Donegal Post now and a major recruitment drive is underway as Donegal reopens for business. There is certainly a celebratory mood throughout the county with most COVID-19 restrictions now lifted. Despondency and frustration are being replaced with a sense of optimism that our local economy is being reignited and there's more positive news as it relates to our economy in the national papers. As businesses open the doors and look towards preparing for the year ahead. Recruitment is underway across many sectors and while this is great news for those looking for work or considering a career change, it's an anxious time for many business owners. And of course, you know, might as well throw it in there. It can be hard to get the right staff and hard to reach the right staff here at Highland Radio, of course, the number one local radio station in the region. We have the job spots. You can if you're struggling to fill a role, a specific role you can get in touch with. You can get in touch with the advertising team on 07491 25,000 and they can help you out in that regard, I'm sure. The Irish independent return of the boom as central bank predicts three years of growth. Ireland's economy will boom for three years as we emerge from the pandemic. The central bank has predicted costs. Consumer spending will play a big part in strong growth, which is expected to average 6.5% a year until 2024 and setting up another roaring twenties like the 1920s, they say. This spending will all the wheels of domestic firms which combined with exports will add a mass estimated 167,000 jobs over the next three years. And there's just if we're not there already, we very soon will be at a point whereby we have we have more jobs than we have people to do them. But sure. Look at we'll see how we get on from there. New figures from the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland, meanwhile, show nearly 43,500 borrowers got 10.5 billion in home loans in 2021. That's the biggest number since the market crash 13 years earlier. First time buyer activity was also back to boom levels. However, higher electricity and home heating bills are here to say with energy prices unlikely to fall back from the current levels, although they will stop spiking next year. The central bank predicts what the central bank kind of predicted to didn't they that they that they would not stay at the levels they were and they got that wrong. So we'll see. All right. Okay. We'll see what happens there. I think at this point, we're getting to the point whereby we're going to have to see wages increase to before people a decent standard of life with other things going up. The Irish Times this morning, employers hoping to work from home in future may have to carry out a self assessment on issues like the suitability of their workspace and data protection requirements under the proposed new law to provide the right to request remote working. Now this the way it's set out to me anyway, and I don't know an awful lot about this type of thing, is it really feels a little bit more like this is to favor the employer because 13 different grounds to refuse someone the ability to work at home are going to be enshrined there. And I would say there's not many situations whereby an employer, if they didn't want to offer someone the ability to work from home, there's plenty of reasons why they think they can decline that. And yes, the workplace relations commission is there, but you know the waiting list to get into that is very very long as is I can see what they're trying to achieve here. Maybe it will change mindsets, but it seems to me very much favored towards the employer, where the employer has more grounds on a legal footing to decline someone who may well be able to effectively work from home to do so. Maybe it could end up bringing finding people who are working from home and thought they might be doing so for some time. They might be brought back to the office against their against their wishes. Honestly, over our car who's been pushing this of course unveiled the heads of rights to request remote work bill 2021. As he said that now COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, he wanted workers to have a choice of being able to work remotely or in a hybrid arrangement if they wished under the plan employers will be able to refuse to grant an employee's right to work remotely on at least 13 grants. However, they will have to be able to justify the decision if it's appealed either internally or as I say to the WRC which already has a huge backlog. But what does this mean for our town centres? I presume that like maybe letter Kenny in particular in this region if less people are working in the town itself. Let's say that were to happen. It's going to affect businesses. I mean our businesses in the town worried about that. We're going to be talking a little bit about this later on by the way but just to give you the heads up the Daily Mail tells us that fishermen say they are set to defy advice from the government and Russian Embassy and face Russia's military off the coast during planned war game exercises next month. The Russian Embassy in Ireland has called the fishermen's planned actions should they go ahead reckless and irresponsible and tonnishly of radical quotas again. He's appealed to Irish fishermen not to put themselves at risk. We're going to be speaking to one fisherman who's going to be taking part in that to find out why and why are they prepared to take that risk? Okay we shall see. Right now on to the Irish Daily Star and they tell us that a young deer hunter got high on cocaine and alcohol and roamed through a town shooting at guardie civilians in buildings out of control as is described. Stephen Dowling fired up to nine shots of ammunition from a high powered rifle in Glenties in the early hours of February 22, 2020. Now I remember this story at the time and people were contacting me from Glenties and you know obviously people were feeling in general high alert anyway and you know it was causing great concern. They didn't know what was going on and what could have been happening and as it turned out it was a very very serious event because this man shot at terrified guardie missing them by inches. He shot through cars and also into the window and walls of three houses in an hour-long escapade. The 25-year-old father of one appeared at Lederkenny circuit court yesterday and pleaded guilty to charges on a night which was described in quarters like something from the wild west. He's going to be sentenced next week. Were you in Glenties that night? What are your memories? Let us know share 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 or call 07 491 25000. What was it like in Glenties on that night? I'm sure some of you that were there witnessed or heard the events. A quick word on the COVID situation. Positive words coming from the WHO, the World Health Organization, who you know are pretty cautious but their expert Dr Mike Ryan says any further lockdowns are unlikely and we should be all right even if a new variant emerges. Last week the majority of COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in Ireland. The executive director of the WHO's health emergency program said the lockdown scenario is unlikely with our Macron vaccinations and booster shots and with the sequence of vaccines and infections our systems develop longer term immunity even if a new variant emerges we should be all right. He of course is originally from Dr Sligo, from Dr Sligo, from County Sligo but he's normally obviously pretty cautious in his words but perhaps this reopening is as we all hope and we're I'm living my life as is that this is it now this is the this is the way life will be going forward right the Irish daily mirror obviously with the few things that have to be removed the Irish daily mirror tells us that a total of 92 sex offenders including eight rapists were released from prison in 2020 figures revealed 37 went to live in the south of the country 13 moved to the west 12 provided addresses in Dublin, Mid Lentster region and nine resided in the Dublin northeast area statistics from the sex offenders risk assessment and management agency found one form of prisoner was deported after serving their sentence 20 had no fixed address and it revealed 39 if the offenders were convicted of sexual or indecent assault and 12 served time for defilement of a child their back out on the street um and 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say because you know i think particularly with with lockdown we're seeing a lot of places being visited that weren't before and sometimes you have to go over private property to do so and that can create problems so what is the concerns if your members feel them yeah just as we have outlined in our press release there there's a number of areas which are causing major concern at the moment top really being the dogs running wild through stock on the hills and that now this is particularly difficult at this time of the year with the run up to lamin season one thing another and we have had a number of communications from our members right down through the whole west coast and down to south the country and relation to dog attacks on sheep especially sheep so that would be one of the major issues of course then there are other issues and so far as that you know there's issues with gates being left open the parking and access you know the the nyan farmers access to their land and such there's a new development actually at the moment and it's one that we're very very concerned about and that is the wild camping because in a situation where say there's wild camping and maybe a fire is lit but that results and land being borne that then can result in a situation where the farmer could be denied payments and that is a very very serious concern that we have as an issue that we we're certainly going to have to try and address in the near future how do you go by how do you go about addressing that though well you know they the care obviously and if somebody is on a mountain camp and overnight you know if they are going to light a fire and I and I think it's something that really leads to be looked at whether fire should be lit at all they definitely have to make sure that it isn't that danger to the surrounding countryside because that's not just one you know the the actual plot of land that the camp might be placed on but that could result in a widespread fire situation and you know we've seen where that there've been wildfires and various mountain ranges over the last year and that and it's causing a problem from a wildlife perspective as well so that that is something that needs to get for the consideration and like who needs to I mean this listen I mean obviously you've got landowners they ring you they're frustrated they're upset about it but there's only so much you can do do interviews like this like what I'm trying to get out of here is is what needs to be done to sort of better protect hill farmers but I suppose also you know protect people's rights for legitimate access where that might apply so you know who needs to take the bull by the horns here yeah well absolutely I think and it's actually included in our statement as well that the vast vast majority of walkers are compliant with all the rules and regulations signs and all that there's a very very small minority that are creating difficulties and to a certain extent those compliant hill walkers probably have a role to play as well and so far as if they're out in the mountain and they observe something that wouldn't be in accordance with the rules and regulations that they would maybe just take it and charge themselves because it does impact on all walkers if there are difficulties so that's something that needs to be avoided if possible right okay so really what we're talking about here is in the first instance you would like would you a government backed public awareness campaign particularly I suppose you know there are still lots of people active through this season but as we had to spring into the summer are you looking for you know maybe media adverts sponsored by the government or the Department of Agriculture or whoever it might be and then in the first instance asking people to to respect land and what have you yeah yeah well actually I was involved with a national group at the back end of last year as a national outdoor recreation strategy group these are some of the issues that we actually discussed and linked now that group actually is you can have an umbrella for all walking groups and one thing another so the types of issues that we have outlined and our press release are the issues that we would have discussed at that forum but I'm asking you to sort of because it's a radio interview feeling I'm not being smart I'm asking you to relate what you put into the press release for our listeners oh sorry yeah yeah yeah no bother well we've actually effectively identified what the issues are through contacts from our members in relation to access to the lands and the issues that we have mentioned for example the dogs running wild gates been left open litter being thrown about the place access being blocked those are the kind of and that's basic disrespectful stuff that really that's not you know we don't need to come down with a hammer to crack a small knot here that is you would expect people in general in our countryside whether it's privately owned or otherwise not to be doing the things that you've just outlined there so it's just really following basic you know manners the common sense and and respect are probably two the things that need to be applied respect for the property respect for the farmer because it has to be accepted that farmer the land is the resource that he has to provide the living for himself and his family so anything that actually impinges on that is going to have a massive impact so I think that needs to be understood by hill walkers that there's no major issue in relation to access as long as you know there's fair procedures used in that and that respect is actually given to both the property and the landowner and the stock which are important as well and do you think maybe also some landowners need to be a little bit more considerate of you know hill walkers people out trying to enjoy our environment oh look there's nobody that I have come across that absolutely objects to walking there's I haven't actually come across that there are concerns and those concerns are leading to I do know the build-up of resentment to and in that extent to the once a few give access to walkers to your land and that access then has been abused that's where the resentment build-up and the one of the reasons we have actually gone public on this now is that we we don't want the situation to arise where there are problems we want to try and you know get in ahead of the problems and solve them and get an understanding out there that there is an acceptance among the landowners that it's a great facility to have but that it has to be actually you know a two-way process is there any concerns from your members though about maybe needing more supports in I don't know maybe establishing particular walkways or something now and picking stuff out of the air or indemnifying farmers in the event that someone turns their ankle in a hole or something like is that a concern that your members are coming to you with as well yeah that's another issue actually we've been looking at as part of the national outdoor group and that is the whole area surrounding the occupiers liability act because that actually places certain burdens on landowners from a safety perspective but you know there has been a number of cases discussed where you know claims have been taken against landowners as a result of accidents occurring so the whole issue around the there is a review to be carried out on the occupiers liability act I mean I think it's unfair if someone were to cross a field with a bull in it for example and end up getting charged or if they climbed over a stone fence and it were to give way and they were to fall over and crack their head or something go forbid it really I think is unfair to expect the landowner to be you know culpable responsible for that yeah well that's an issue about signage and that is important as well you know if there is say a bull in the field that that would be actually notified you don't actually enter now there are you know various situations where accidents can occur but where there's no deliberate action on the part of the farmer to create a hazard that's really the kernel of the occupiers liability okay so just finally then William from your perspective who needs to take a hold of this particularly I mean I've wondered off a little bit no pun intended but in relation to the the likes of the attacks by dogs on sheep the blocking of gateways access routes illegal parking verbal abuse to fall towards farmers walkers disobeying signs those are the key issues that you've raised as we head towards the spring and into the summer who needs to take you know you've you've raised awareness here now but I'll ask again like who needs to take this seriously now and try and best help your members other than the public themselves do you believe there's a role for the Department of Agriculture any other arms of the state oh yeah absolutely I think it'd be very important if there was a proper awareness campaign launched just to highlight the areas of concern and an education program around that now most of the organized walking groups will actually have that system in place but as for the individual walkers or maybe small groups that there needs to be more public campaign of awareness around all the issues that are of concern to farmers and that we don't get to a situation where there is a major incident because that's the last thing you want to get to I think if it can be worked in the spirit of cooperation and understanding and that I don't think there should be any major problem but you know it's very much a two-way process and I call her asks do you have a position or are you aware of the Greenway Code of Best Practice and Farmers Access? Yeah we actually have a policy on the development of Greenways now effectively it would be around the access to the land and that for the development of the actually now our policy is that we are actually in favor of Greenways and Walkways provided that there's proper consultation and agreement with the landowners and that there's no difficulties created from that perspective okay listen thanks for speaking to me I appreciate your time this morning okay all right take care of yourself have a good day right I call her says my mother is in a nursing home and we are still not allowed access the building which is much stricter than than the guidelines that are out there now obviously every nursing home is a right to I believe they can set their own visiting guidelines but it's hard to imagine people still have no access to the building and they're still being asked to visit via a window okay but it's too cold as you can imagine and this person's mother can't hear them properly and you know I mean it must be very distressful I think that's almost more distressful than no visits at all having you know people that you know and love at a window and you can't hear them I mean that must just be like hell on earth maybe I don't want to over amplify it either but I'm just imagine if it was someone close to me they said that I've called the nursing home again after Friday's announcement and still today Wednesday and I'm still told they're still operating window visits only she's vaccinated as are we Caroline do we know which particular facility that is is it worth calling them just to find out the reasons why they might be very legitimate reasons but everyone's vaccinated and there are you know much more lenient guidelines as it relates to nursing home visits out there so why is that nursing home still being so strict in that regard what's the rationale for continuing with the face mask policy in the classrooms when all pubs clubs and restaurants in this country are open it's time for school principles to stop the opening of windows and wearings of masks if real normalities to return well that will be gone in less than two weeks I presume the rationale is and you know I don't really want to get into it again but I presume the rationale is that as everything reopened the one group that is primarily unvaccinated are school govers and this is to try and slow down the spread to slow down any impact it might have elsewhere in society that would be the logic whether you agree with that or not that's completely up to you but as I say it'll only be there for another week or two because at that point anyone who's going to get Omicron will have got it and the point the need for face masks in that environment will be out the window which is open and hopefully they're closed too right the rise of podcasts have given a potentially huge platform for anyone to voice their opinions on says this caller and with such a platform comes a range of people with different views which can sometimes be fairly contentious a presenter of the no filter podcast has come in for some huge criticism after saying he'd leave his wife if she in inverted commas let herself go after giving birth well if I was his wife I'd be out the door already the podcast is run by brothers Anthony and Nick Casanta and their friend Jason Girattano three lads and the trio have quickly gained a reputation for putting out pretty misogynistic content the clip is no different with one of the presenters saying a clip that was posted if my wife lets herself go after I have kids with her I'm going to tell her once if you get your stuff together in inverted commas I still want to be sexually attracted to my spouse if you can't do that I'm out one of the other presenters can be heard saying agreed the clips were in wildly shared on widely shared online and received huge backlash but comments on the original video have been disabled what's the matter lads can't take the hack or hack the flack so you know it's kind interesting that in a particular environment he would say to his partner lose the weight or I'm out but he can't take a bit of criticism but you see that an awful lot often those that particularly are a spouse free speech the first ones to block to switch comments off which is quite interesting but listen if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen lads if that's your view stand by them and you know if you're going to do a purposely controversial podcast which you know Joe Rodin does very you know very successfully you're going to have to be able to take the backlash as well finally before the break when driving home at around five p.m. this week on the road from Balabafe towards Clon I met joggers running side by side with flashlights said they were shining flashlights at oncoming traffic I think this is a dangerous practice at any time on a busy road and any driver would not expect to be blinded by lights on that side of the road I was wondering if it would be a good idea to discourage this type of practice on the road for the safety of all who use the road and I think that's a fair point you know because and the joggers in fairness to them they're trying to make traffic aware but if the two of them running side by side with the flashlights you might think it's a vehicle on the hard shoulder or something pulling out and you know obviously if you've got oncoming traffic and visibility isn't great definitely could cause acclution so I imagine the joggers think they're doing right but if they're running side by side you know on the wrong side of the road they're on the right side of the road but you know what I mean from the driver's perspective and to see these two lights it might be doing more harm than good maybe come up with a different way maybe one run behind the other and just use you know use your lights that way I don't know if that's something you've come across something you've got an opinion on 086 60 25 000 086 60 25 000 or call 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audiology team today call us on 048-9066-7030 or visit kingsbridgehearingcare.co.uk okay you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show now we are going to be speaking about erosion coastal erosion John Farnes manager of Balli Lift and Golf Club he joins us now good morning to you John thanks for taking the time to speak to us good morning Greg it's good to have you on the program and now Chancellor Martin McDermott is also joining the conversation hi Martin good morning to you morning Greg morning John right John relate to us again your concerns as a manager of Balli Lift and Golf Club obviously it affects you know where your course borders the sea but it goes beyond that as well so outline to us what the current situation is well basically Greg there's a coastal walkway at Power and Beach in Balli Lift and that was put in place by the local community many years ago it has fallen to a state of disrepair and is in fact in dangerous state of repair at the moment with people falling and recently we've had a number of incidents where people have broken ankles etc so accessibility to our beaches is limited at the moment and this is not just Balli Lift and this is of course yeah Asian-wide lag in particular is significantly hampered in terms of access but it's got a long story short our entire coastal boundary is a special area of conservation and that brings with it responsibilities for all the stakeholders as we're aware but it also brings responsibilities in terms of preventative measures and restorative measures to ensure that a coastal erosion isn't you know let rip through the place and putting not just golf courses such as ourselves in danger but you know coastal amenities and walkways like the Power and Beach walk which is invaluable particularly in the current climate where people are trying to to be responsible and take exercise in beautiful coastal areas but are limited and when they can do it and how they can do it I just feel that it's time action was taken it is an emergency situation as we stand at the moment where you know it's very limited access at limited times of the day depending on tide and people are taking their lives in their hands climbing up on dunes because the walkway is impassable and this further adds to the erosion of the dunes being broken down by people having to being forced up onto dunes because the coastal pathway is not passable yeah and once the damage is done it's virtually impossible to undo really I mean possibly you can but I mean you want to be preventing any further erosion that's the obvious way to approach this absolutely you know reparative works can be done but the problem is at the moment everyone has been hamstrung by the fact that people you know parks and wildlife's OPW are limiting anything being done in these areas of the special conservation areas because of the EU directive now what we're asking for is about a common sense to be implemented here and that the local community together with Dunnegal County Council be permitted to you know carry out works in conjunction with stakeholders landowners etc to make these beaches accessible to the local community and indeed visitors make them safe and you know limit the possibility of any future damage to the dune systems yeah can I what does the impact as it relates to the golf club and are you your hands are tied in what use can do to try and sort of mitigate erosion can you tell us like what what is happening or what could happening what could happen what you can't do to try and stop it yeah well basically Greg it's a very fluid ecosystem so the shingle on the beach which is our main defence moves up and down the beach with coastal storms and over a period of time you know it amasses in certain areas and it's depleted in others and areas where the shingle becomes depleted the walkway falls away becomes impassable and that then leaves the dune systems exposed to the full force of the sea and it also you know it it forces walkers up onto the dune system which breaks down sand and marmgrass which holds everything together and leads to further coastal erosion so really what we're looking for permission to do is to put in place a sustainable walkway that will allow people use the coastal immunity and at the same time protect the dune systems which are in turn protecting the golf course Yeah and Councillor Martin McDermott you know this is also an environmental issue it's hard to believe that you know I've eroded significantly since this conversation first came up on the agenda you know this is about protecting our natural amenities this is about how we integrate you know with nature it's about protecting some of these beautiful dunes and and their surroundings why is it such a struggle why are we having to you know constantly talk about this with very little action Yeah we've discussed us a number of times Greg and the action is very limited here and it's really like you can't get nowhere with it the OPW for instance we really need to get a discussion with them and I think John a number of years ago they met they came up to to Balli Luffin and had a meeting up there I've been trying now for well over a year to get the OPW to engage in the coastal erosion situation and here and in the show and in relation to the reverse situation that we have with reverse because that is another issue Greg that is out there and will come back to bite us as well that has not been resolved has never been resolved since 2017 Are you on about just don't want to digress too much because that is a very important issue on it in and of itself are you on about how our rivers aren't properly maintained to allow for the flow of water meaning we could have a 27 well unless we do it a 2017 flooding event is inevitable again there is absolutely no question that that will happen so in your conversations as it relates to erosion okay what are you getting back is it like it's not our problem or you know we'll do something about it in the future or we let nature take its course or like what are you getting back what where is the resistance here what's the foot dragging yeah well there was there was a survey done on that whole area there was a there was nearly 80,000 done I've spent on a survey from lag the whole way around to the pond and beach after that survey was done they came back to more or less say let nature take its own course that survey was very stark it was stark in relation to for start-ups the pond and beach that was in the next 18 to 20 years that the movement of sand there could be on the hang up to 30-30 meters in lag it was even more stark now sorry to cut across there and you can mention like again is it let nature take its course is that based on a cost-benefit analysis do that I mean is that what they're saying here are they saying this is how much it would cost it's not worth it let it rip or are they saying this is just this is just nature in the natural shifting of sounds they haven't even done a cost benefit analysis on any of this if you take lag the likelihood over the next 50 it was between 50 and 60 years that the sand could possibly be in as far as lag chapel if it kept going and the way it's going now at the moment so the scientists and the people that worked on this they do believe that that will change over a period of time and the sand will start coming back but there is absolutely no guarantee of that now we really need the OPW to engage in this because every door we open we are hooked with the same thing let it be at council level we can't do nothing unless national parks and wildlife are involved then when you go to that level they can't do anything unless OPW is involved I've been at correspondence with the OPW now as I say for over a year and again it's the same thing I apologies for the delay in responding I request an urgent update from the relevant section and we'll revert when it is received and that's the same type of thing that keeps coming back all the time the initial MD meeting I brought this up when I had the chief executive John McLaughlin said that he would then make contact with the OPW on behalf of Donnie Law County Council because this is a serious issue all over the county not just here in the show it's brought up by councillors all over the county and we have sent on through John and myself have sent on some documentation through him that he's going to make correspondence with the OPW to see can we get this fast-tracked and have someone from Neil Job BW to come up here and meet us Yeah but John Farron can you imagine running a private business like this you know trying to get things done if this was the way the private sector operated nothing would ever be done we'd be in a perpetual recession I mean this is ridiculous that you know this backwards and forwards and this department needs to be involved in that dull you know I mean why can someone not be appointed as a project lead get them all together and progress this John Greg you're absolutely right it wouldn't be tolerated in the private sector it wouldn't be tolerated in any other country I don't believe but it certainly wouldn't be tolerated if this was happening in Kerry or elsewhere in the country I do believe that action would be taken and action has been taken elsewhere in the country Well listen let me read between the lines in there when you talk about Kerry I mean are you pointing to maybe then we need no disrespect to Martin McDermott and his fellow councillors I mean if you reference Kerry you're probably talking about the Healy Race wouldn't stand for it I don't know if that's what you're referencing but are you saying that we need to be politically more noisy about this at senate or dull level is that what you're sort of suggesting Well I am like I don't think it's taken seriously enough and I don't think it's prioritised enough these are natural resources for not just for the local community but for visitors expect to be able to access our beaches it's one of the main attractions that Donegal and this whole region has and if you brought visitors to in a showroom for example at the moment like lag you're stopping three or four hundred yards short of of a narrow pathway to a beach with a steep incline inaccessible to a lot of people in Ballyliffen you're walking on stone cobblestone for a good part of a coastal walk that has been absolutely destroyed emergency action would be taken in other counties and has been taken in other counties to stop this situation worsening and to carry out restorative works that would you know as you rightly pointed out no social or economic benefits or analysis has been done in this CERM report that was commissioned by Hopi Dome through the county council which basically said let nature take its course now that is totally contrary to best practice in coastal erosion management throughout the world and that report should simply be scrapped because it's a nonsense anybody with any common sense knows that you cannot just stand by and allow more nature to destroy the natural resource and expect it to be restored because it's not going to happen that sound is not going to come back Councillor McDermott are the council executive strung off on this issue pushing this issue up to now no certainly not I think that that this is something that needs to be pushed at council executive level and I think that to be fair to the chief executive he has taken this on board and he has what does that mean always take it to be fair to the chief executive he's taken this on board by what does that actually mean with all due respect to you he has engaged over the last since we had the MD meeting on a number of occasions with himself has got information and is forwarding that has he convened a meeting between the relevant organisations and banged their heads together that's what he's trying to convene at the Malik Reggie he's trying to convene a meeting with the OPW National Parks and Wildlife and ourselves and the local authority to try to move this forward because John had on a point that Kerry and Clark there has been numbers of I've been doing a bit of research into this to see what has been going on on our countries and there has been work going on on the likes of Clark and the likes of Kerry and the likes of the culture erosion and I do feel and I said this to Donal I certainly do feel that if it was them areas tourism is looked upon in those areas in a completely different way than is looked upon here in Donegal by a number of authorities and a number of tourism related authorities there's no question about that and I think that when those areas have issues that could affect tourism they jump right away and get something done when it's Donegal it's not looked upon in the same manner and I know we've come a long way in the last number of years but I'll tell you we have a good bit to go yet before those people look at us in the same light as they look at the other parts of the country All right and finally John Farn you know whilst we're still talking about it and I appreciate Councillor McDermott coming on I appreciate your time as well but we're heading into another year we're heading into another year and time and tides and dunes are being away I mean this is incredibly time sensitive It is absolutely and both of you are correct in that every so often this pops up as an issue is given a token headline for a while and then simply disappears again it's time that strategy by all parties involved stops and this be given prime slot in terms of priorities for the county I'm not sure if it's happened but the OPW the National Parks and Wildlife Services the council you know called out on the floor of the gall maybe if that's what it takes you know the TD to say look what is going on here local people are completely frustrated we can't seem to get these people into the one room that's what really needs to be done here Yeah and it's a coordination of that too Greg because this is happening the whole way along the Atlantic Seaboard with communities being hamstrung by you know bureaucrats who say no you can't do this but they won't come up with a suggestion as to what you can do to restore facilities for locals now delighted that Liam Ward and the chief executive are fully engaged with the the outdoor recreation strategy for Donnie Gall but surely anyone looking from the outside uh even considering an outdoor recreation strategy for this county has to appreciate that access to our beaches must be the number one priority well there's no point having strategy about a coastal walk that won't be there in two years I mean that you know as it's basic stuff okay listen Councillor Martyn with German thanks for your time good morning to you good morning and John as always good morning to you as well thanks very much for joining us appreciate it greatly okay right back with more on the Nintel Noon Show after the 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info at orsgchildcare.com Okay, there's been a kind of by coincidence an outdoor sort of environmental field to the first hour of this program continuing that with Noel who's part of a walking club the Swilly Hiking Gag Club Good morning to you Noel thanks for joining us good to chat to you I'm good so when you're listening to the conversation this reminds me a little bit like about dog owners when we're talking about dogfiling or cyclists you know it's often a minority that really the likes of the organisation we were talking to were talking about maybe giving other walkers the likes of those the members of your clubs a bad name Well that could be the case now I didn't just hear the start of the program there but what Phil was saying there was I would agree wholeheartedly with what he says you know walking clubs well walking clubs Swilly Hiking Club were affiliated with the mountaineering Ireland and we go along with their guidelines at all times and we have no dogs policy strictly no dogs policy if you're the dog you don't come hiking with our club and we also for your support leave no trace we'll send up to that group as well we leave everything as we find as the gate is open we leave it open if it's closed we close it and just maybe we don't in any way sort of in all of the farmers because a lot of the walkers a lot of people come from farming backgrounds I see a lot of people in our club but would come from a farming background and leave them themselves and then fully understand that their farmer situation you know they're there to make a living and you know I can see that walkers and hikers are well they accommodate us yeah and I wouldn't be surprised if your members find yourselves picking up the rubbish you know other randomers would leave behind you know you talk about leave no trace behind you probably see you know about what the minority are capable of whilst out walking yeah as fun as you say that we do but there's one there's one particular man in the club tennis and he comes back here every day with a bag full of stuff he'd go to him I seen a thumb on Sonda kicking a bottle out of the ground with a heel to find and route it up to bring it bring it away with him you know and that was out in the Glenby area we were in Sonda you know yeah we we allocated a day and pick up rubbish along the road there didn't last year because of covid you know yes of course and relation to the cars you know the cars normally we would carpools going out hiking or occasionally get a bus but during the covid here now people were looking for carpools you know so we had a quite a few cars but we picked any fish we were going we were sure that we had proper parking a good parking space you know yeah all right I mean and it's nice actually to hear you coming out sort of understanding of and in support of the landowners as well you know as a walking club because there's obviously a two-way relationship there and I think it's I think it's nice to know that you took the time to call us and sort of offer offer your support but also a defense of you know organized walking groups like your own and I appreciate your time Noel and and continue the insurance the insurance is a big thing too it was important like we insured the mountain during our end there and they did different workshops and that and they've taken part in them you know and it's very rare that they would ever that they that the insurance company would ever have a claim and I'm not aware of any claim against farmers I know there was a case case down in Wicklow but the courts overturned it on appeal and every there's a declaration that that person coming out of what hell walking that you declare that you're responsible for your own safety and you understand that that's it can be risky and it can cause injuries or even up to death but that's that's a declaration that's in the application form before you can join the likes of your club before you're you're joined and most most problems have it and it's it's a man during our own policy that you that you that you sign this declaration and we have it in our application form all right very good it's online as well yeah that you understand that that you're responsible for your own safety and then hell walking can be dangerous but all right interesting stuff I continued happy walking enjoying the outdoors Noel and thanks for your time take care of yourself we'll be back with more after the news at 10 and the obituary noses live on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News Good morning it's 10 o'clock Donald Kavram at the Highland Radio News Desk surveying works linked to the government's national broadband plan is continuing in Donigol with progress being reported this week in Donigol there are over 32,400 premises in the intervention area including homes farms commercial businesses and schools this equates to 32% of all premises in the county with more detail here's Miquela Clark under the national broadband plan Donigol will see an investment of 128 million euro in the new high speed fiber network this will enable e-learning remote monitoring of livestock or equipment e-health initiatives better energy efficiency in the home and facilitate increased levels of remote working MBI Cruzar said she have made substantial progress in the county with the following areas have been surveyed Creaselot, Cregtine, BallyConnell and Mahrablad these initial works paved the way for the next stage of deploying fiber on poles and docks and includes the erection of poles on blocking of docks and the insertion of sub-doct into existing docks for the fiber to be installed residents are being reminded that all MBI contractors will also carry official ID cards and essential worker letters they will have vehicles PPE and signage with both their own and MBI logos Covid passports will no longer be necessary in pubs, restaurants and cinemas north of the border from lunchtime a series of restrictions are being lifted at midday it'll also see the reopening of nightclubs where Covid certs are still required dancing is back along with indoor standing events social distancing at work is also being scrapped funding is available for a number of heritage projects in Donegal with the Heritage Council inviting applications to its community grant scheme the aim of the initiative is to support capital projects that improve access and inclusion to heritage sites and also the purchasing of essential equipment grant applications must be submitted by Wednesday February 16th Donegal County Council's heritage officer is Joseph Gallower it's one of the few funding sources that's available really to community groups in the county in terms of supporting heritage and the Heritage Council have supported a number of projects I mean for example last year they awarded 160,000 in funding to 19 heritage initiatives right across the county and again the work that's undertaken in these projects supports local communities local tourism local employment and also reinforces community engagement in heritage projects as you've been hearing on the show with Greg there's a warning of a very difficult summer ahead of farmers concerns about public access until walking are not addressed there has been a big increase in the number of people accessing local hills but this in turn has led to an increase in the number of farmers making complaints to organizations such as the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association complaints include dog attacks and the blocking of gateways and access routes through legal parking the INHFA's national vice president Phil Malloy has been stressing the need for immediate engagement between state bodies and farmers there needs to be more public campaign of awareness around all the issues that are of concern to farmers and that we don't get to a situation where there's a major incident because that's the last thing you want to get to I think if it can be worked in the spirit of cooperation and understanding I don't think there should be any major problem but you know that's very much a true way process A member of the Women of Honor Group says the defence minister is kicking the can down the road in addressing their concerns the group of former defence force members who are alleging sexual abuse harassment and discrimination met with minister Simon Coveney last evening but they walked out of the talks after an hour saying the meeting was a waste of time Diane Byrne a member of the group says they want a full statutory investigation and not just a judge-led review to me what this is is kicking it down the road he has said to us that the review may get to the necessary recommendations that we're looking for but it's a gamble weather forecast and Met Erin tell us Annie Patchy frost and mist will clear this morning leaving a largely dry day with sunny spells however it will turn cloudier into the afternoon with patchy rain and drizzle developing later breezy today with highs of 9 to 11 degrees celsius that's silent radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning The obituary notice is for Wednesday morning the 26th of January the death has taken place of Mary Devine Ni Sweeney Claudie Conde Derry and formerly of Derry Connor Gortha Hork her remains are reposing at her home in Derry Connor rosary tonight at 9 o'clock funeral mass in Christ the King Church Gortha Hork tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjacent graveyard the funeral mass can be viewed live on MCN media or the Cairn Rorty funeral director Facebook page the death has taken place of Vincent Barron Dear Park Convoy Vincent's remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in St. Union's Church Ruffaux which can be viewed on the parish webcam interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard the house is 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and nightclubs to open fully I have a six year old who comes home every day from school saying how cold he is in school I rang into the school a few times and all I get is put on a coat put on an extra jumper I wouldn't matter how many coats or extra clothing they have on when you're sitting in the one spot you're going to feel the cold it's really not fair on our little children thank you and in defense of the teachers and the schools okay equally and this is the one thing we have to remember firstly they are having to follow these guidelines albeit only for another week or two but there would be parents of children in that classroom who would want the doors the windows open as well because they might be vulnerable themselves now you can say well you know that doesn't make any sense but you know teachers would have to and school principals primarily would have to balance those concerns Greg it's the same in our town runners are out on the road and don't use the parks so what's the point in creating these parks if they're not being used last night at a hit I had a near miss with four on the road definitely agree with you on the jogging scenario and high-vis vest should be mandatory than actual should be more mandatory than actual face masks yeah indeed I see where you're coming from why a doctor's surgery still making people wait outside well you see they are private businesses really aren't they are they classed as such and they make their own decisions and you know that's what at the point I was made a couple of times in the show yesterday that's the type of stuff that people are vexed about a contacted yesterday by a lady on social media just can't get into their GP just cannot get in and he's very distressed about it it's causing great distress out there hi Greg my mother also in a nursing home no window visits it's very frustrating and can you tell me if you don't mind anyone that's being stopped from visiting because I will get the national directive out because it's an important issue what are you being told are they being told are they being told why are you being told why you're not allowed to visit churches are the same Greg they haven't opened up all the seats okay farmers should not be allowed to close off the right of way with barbed wire gates along the shoreline in the Loch Swilly area there's several closed off in Donegal good morning Greg when you have the fishermen's representatives on this morning would you please ask him why haven't the fishermen protested similarly before when other countries have carried out maneuvers in the same area and will they do the same in the future when military maneuvers take place thank you I mean are bombs and rockets being let off on the scene that area on a regular basis I've no problem asking the question but is it grounded in it does happen does it uh county councillors are getting a 40 pay rise 40 pay rise I don't know 40 what in 2022 this will take their annual rate to 2600 not hard times for some a lot of them are dedicated to that full time you know and 26,000 it's not a bad wage but is there particularly for full time councillors they would argue many would argue that they are in it maybe you disagree I'm not saying one way or other because I haven't really thought about it too much if the government allowed the people that want to work that already are working to work extra hours be it if they're already in the hospitality sector or other sectors to come into the hospitality sector to do those extra hours without being hammered in taxes and making it not worthwhile of anyone we wouldn't see this problem or any other problems for that matter so what are you saying if someone was working an office job for example nine to five you're saying they might want to work in hospitality Saturday and Sunday for an extra few euro it would fix the staff shortages in that area but you're saying they wouldn't because they would be hammered with tax so they just don't is that 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thanks very much for having me on right now um you are making an appeal tell us the background to this in 1986 there was a body washed up I was of course the mayor in a place called knockback in tullihan that's between bandone and mulloch moor now the intriguing thing about this is it is the only place the Atlantic ocean touches bedroom so that's why it's simple enough place to find out now this body is washed up and the real real good thing in the kernel of this is it's identifiable from the waist up and with tattoos you know all police force in the world now use tattoos they seem to be very good form of identification and this man at the time had tattoos four different types of tattoos on his raise up our arm he had a green shamrock and the forearm he had a dagger with red handed crossed in front he had a shield on on he on it we're on a shape of a on a shield type thing you know he'd lift forearm he had the air in front of a of a green shape and he had two rapier like swords with red handles now the thing about these were on the body and he had a buckle belt on him and wrangler jeans and the buckle belt to to pistol a dog or a bull with two horns that was hard to to work out it was a bit of writing on it now all this forces and stuff we can put on the social media page after they're on my own page now Tasha we'll do that but but I mean given the fact that you know this would seem the remains seem so easily identifiable was there a surprise in the 80s that very quickly it wasn't obvious who this was well what happened that the guardian kidding off were dealing with us and the body was taken to Manor Hamilton and the post-mortem carried out and so on and they they say that the man is between five foot four and five foot seven and they said that he was between in these turkeys but they're talking now he was exhumed this body was exhumed in the first of January 2021 and by the the coroner and they came in for and DNA was taken now it is intriguing and how this came about again for me and Jim Brennan is there and more and more he's my my contact up here and we've always always stated in all the body jobs we've done that this should be identified because of the description and so on it seems to be an Irish man and with all this carry on now is it suspected that maybe this person could have been shore fishing or fell into a river and ended up to see or was it someone who was working at sea and fell from a boat like I mean obviously it might be some speculation at this point but you've had a long time to think about it Tosh what is the working theory here the working theory here is the Skiford sank in 1981 and there was a young lad called McGovern on one of the crew members who was never found and his father used to travel up I was up there myself driving at the time when I met the man he used to travel up every day and a bus from Mayo searching out there until the Italian and out opposite there are more and in her own boat before that's where to our last the Skiford was lost on the man who he felt there now when this body was recovered this man McGovern came back now you must remember the Skiford in 1981 they were up there searching the young fellow was never found when the body was recovered up there they came back and that man when he looked at the description the tattoos all that was not his son but he says that a boat this was the story that a boat had left out or Mayo coast or uh Donny Gol or sorry the Galway coast at that time in 86 or 81 sorry 86 no 81 is the Skiford 86 they left the time that the other body was found and they went to go to Rothwald put a flag on it now whether this was drink related or whether they were rebels or whether they were Irish men going to go to Rothwald whatever anyway it stays it now this is what he still said that the boat was found and the men were never found and when he came back up he came up to put his son but having said all this last if we get this out now this happened before I was up there with that body in 1983 up in Bonbeg was identified by someone coming far with DNA but I think it's twice as easy as in before this body with all the tattoos and stuff the solid but we have the DNA now as well because of of the remains being exhumed so if a family member comes forward and there is enough obviously because it there's a process to be gone through uh there's enough there to sort of you know to make a connection well it would be very easily resolved through DNA this as well this will be solved because look left for anybody no matter all around well I'd say the west coast there now like because the body went in now you must remember if anyone is out telling I hope you not practice the name of the place it's a very very small place where it's rocky in the tea the sea just goes in with the tide and goes back out now for him to go in along there he must have been in somewhere along the coast there now lad if somebody is missing belong to anybody and you know his age you know the time and you know what everybody knows what tattooing people have in their family in their family they were very able to tell us the wrangler dreams that he had a vocal well let's run through it again for people whose attention would have been sort of pricked in the mid mid 80s May 1986 the remains of this person was found at mulloch moor just south of bundor in there now the place is called tolyan it's unique yep tolyan it's tolyan strand it's tolyan strand we're talking about isn't it oh you're not 100% sure I'm going out there yeah I believe it I believe it's tolyan but anyway it's between mulloch moor and bundor and I believe that's tolyan strand and now the the dead man is suspected to be in his 30s he's got tattoos on both arms he's got era shamrock and cross daggers wrangler jeans he was wearing and a buckle belt in the shape of a dog now that is you know and a pair of soft shoes out of GB's or BJ's yeah now they should be that person someone can't just disappear and no one not miss them so it's just connecting this story with the right ears if you look at that there you'd say he's an Irish man you know he's not a want to be Irish man he's an Irish man and then the issue that we're hearing now he went to Rockall well that's a lot of fellow going out to play in Rockall maybe they might have got drink got him they might have got to a boat they might have took up but the man said the boats found that they worked now I know we could look back at that but if the special men in the area it was discussed up in at the time of the search when there was searching up around Tully Allen and not up there up near Borkport when that man came back well I'm sure there's people around older people especially in the fishing fraternity who remember a boat leaving one of their harbors the two fellas on it and they went to Rockall somebody must have it no the information they did have as well that was a priest down in Tully and at the time when this was discussed he was only after coming to Borkport at the time but I hear now that that priest is not well but I do believe there would have been records kept by the priest in these diaries but the only problem is that was in nineteen they said they discussed it in nineteen eighty six sorry yeah he might have kept he might have kept that information that was discussed that day he might have went back home and ordered in a diary and the man moistened this Mr. McGovern from Mayo a very nice man I met him after on another search believe it or not he had a daughter of Miss Fortune there in a car and he possibly knows what went on well maybe this evening but you know I mean maybe the person went to the same tattoo artist you know who's to say that could be you know cross diggers Shermock era Tosh can I ask you you're a former Guard of Sergeant of the Guard of Diving Unit why does this case still why does this case still interest you so well I'm involved with families who miss some people and I know what it's like for families to be dealing with ambiguous loss in other words they're not known if there are families out there would give their that's miss and Mrs. Bail is up there in the Ross's Mrs. Clernes Mrs. Pender all those people are there mothers who are left behind with nobody and this case the reason I believe this totally and Jim Brennan believes this is a simple case for one person to just come forward but it was a hesitancy in the last one that came forward and he came forward and he's DNA identified his brother so this can happen can I ask I don't think it's personal we're not talking about individuals where would the hesitancy come from in your experience why would people be hesitant there's different things can happen we all can't we might be all happy and some fell in my tone around and say well I don't care if he's never found that would be a thing that might be said but I do believe there are family members I don't care whether there's one in a family or in a family there is one person there who would want that person found you see the only thing when I say that is can be conflict in families when the persons go missing over lots and lots of different things why do you went missing the reason you went missing you know what happened there's not but someone still is going to be missing this person no matter what was the circumstances led to their disappearance now in terms of the his remains being exhumed the start of last year was that off the back of representations you were making Tosh well it was very coincidental from the guards but Jim Brennan my man there a lot more would have been very honest the new guards are the missing persons section there on Kevin Street and Dublin have pushed forward for a lot to get DNA because DNA is the big deal well the case closed if you match the DNA that's that's oh yeah well November there in crime calls over the similar case the guards from Manor Hamilton the body is is buried in serious clear in St. Clair cemetery in Manor Hamilton it's unidentified it's you know it's it's sad to see the walk into graveyard and see across there was no none of I believe that if this can be done right to be an awful lot of people we get an awful lot of satisfaction from the point of view you walk up to a grave you say that's my brother you're not lying at home in the house and this and please stop using the word closure because people use the word closure to know such thing people struggle for a way to describe things Tosh you know and I know but I just want to say about closure there's never closure no there isn't worry how he was where he was what you were doing how did he get hurt even afterwards you know so use some other words just I well I only I only say that I don't think you'll say that we're out of happiness but look please let's let's get this out there and the media have been very good in the last couple years with me some persons because if we get this out and we put it on the source of media the photographs of those tattoos yeah you would have seen a brother walking around the house out the beach whatever I should ask so and so all right yeah then listen Tosh thanks very much for the time this morning I appreciate it greatly and listen it would be wonderful albeit in such tragic circumstances but to get this resolved Tosh thank you for that I appreciate it Tosh Lavry there now that body was found in Tolahun which is in Litrim as he as Tosh rightly pointed out I threw a bit of confusion in mentioning Tolan Strand but it's in Tolahun in Litrim that small section of of Litrim that meets the sea the body was discovered at Tolahun now that the two places aren't that far apart it's not a it's not a game changer but it's it's good to have it right so Tolahun that was but his remains were discovered it's a man in his 30s this is in May 1986 and and and you know I don't want to he was so identical he can't have been in the water too long so around May 1986 found between Moloch Morin Bandorin at Tolahun the man's in his 30s suspected to be in his 30s but possibly late 20s or early 40s or maybe even late 40s so I would I'll go wee bit allow a wee bit of variants on the age there but he had tattoos one was of era a shamrock crossed daggers he was wearing Wrangler jeans shofts soft shoes jba bj shoes and a buckle belt in the shape of a dog someone matched in that description left in May 1986 and to never return and his remains are lying unclaimed in leechroom I believe Tosh said okay right oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand if you've any comment on that The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today you have one new message Hi Claire Auntie Dee here I just wanted to say a big thank you for skipping my party we had a great night and everyone was so happy you didn't come now you take care I hope to see you soon bye no one will thank you for 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have a question into Dunnyall County Council with a view to get an answer for you so hopefully before the end of this program if you stay tuned we'll find out what the situation is there and whether or not we can get it resolved another caller says the council closed a road in Drumhalla for a week no work has been done up until now a very useful road which I use every day wonder what is the time frame for closure again anyone out there know what the story is with that road in Drumhalla it's used by a listener they can't use it at the moment and nothing seems to be nothing seems to be being done Monique Gregory working from home in the introduction of new legislation always reminded of Lee Overadkar's comments some years ago stating that Margaret Thatcher was his political inspiration and hero I don't think even for a second that he'll favour workers over bosses when it comes to employment rights and conditions just on the subject Martin and John Farron we're talking about there back in 2006-2007 the DCC marina put round bales of straw in Mallon Lag and Ludden or Lag Mallon and Ludden two weeks later the high tide washed them all out talk about wasting taxpayers money but at least in that at least in that situation at least in that situation they tried something okay Pierce joins us now for a quick one hi Pierce hi Greg how are you I'm good Pierce now you've come on to publicly thank someone tell us what happened my wife yesterday around lunchtime had a bad fall just below Michael Himmis on the pavement and this well two ladies came to I was in the bank at the time and two ladies came but one had to go but one nice lady stayed water till I got there a Louise who's all over there my god she's Louise from Longford so she stayed water until we got started right and I just want to thank her for that if she's less than I don't know if she's she lives around Balbafe or not but she was very nice all right and she stayed with your wife until you got to her yourself waiting on transport to the hospital presumably Pierce yes well I was driving and we drove to the hospital and after that yeah all right and your wife broke her wrist did she she had a bad break of her wrist and a lot of bruising and cuts but that's just thank god well thank god for let the Kenny A&E as well they were absolutely brilliant and especially on North Squan from Lufford as well they were all so nice and they were fairly quick as well so brilliant so you saw the best of humanity yesterday when you needed them Pierce oh absolutely yeah yeah it was great definitely you know there's so many good people still about right Pierce you're going to be doing a lot of cooking and housework for a wee while are you exactly well I was doing that anyway I shouldn't have presumed otherwise should I listen would you pass on our best wishes to your wife it was it's distrustful especially in public and it's lovely that Louise and the other lady come to her assistance and then you were able to take over and you had a good experience all things considered in ed with a special mention for nurse Quinn there Pierce definitely yeah absolutely brilliant brilliant experience apart from the break of course all things considered I get you okay and you'll pass on our best wishes to your better half as well I will indeed Greg thanks very much okay thank you Pierce lovely stuff well done to you Louise from Longford that's the kind of difference you've made to people Pierce was so moved by it that he wanted to thank you publicly and also to nurse Quinn down and the rest of the ed staff who as Pierce said will be in a very difficult circumstance they made it as bearable as possible and we hope a speedy recovery now happy 60th birthday to Irene Patterson from all of your family Irene they are Donna Hazel Kira Leanne Lisa Keith and Graham and your husband John last but not least have a wonderful day I hope you're treated like the queen that you are Irene and as I say take the week out of it enjoy the 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since he was 17 and the gun that he brought with him was a very high caliber Remington gone with huge velocity in the bullets so they went and they did whatever for the farmer and returned to Margarit's B&B in Glenthys and headed out got out of their hunting clothes headed out shortly after six o'clock and visited various pubs had just copious amounts of alcohol and a detective in the Jennings gave evidence that Dowling had taken half a gram of cocaine while in the toilets and Sonny's bar and became quite agitated they were refused alcohol in Highlands Hotel at a later stage Sonny's ejected them and eventually went back to their B&B just before midnight but Dowling changed back into his hunting clothes and he was spotted in CCTV emerging from Margarit's wearing his hunting clothes kind his rifle and a large hunting knife so he then basically went on what his council described as a wild west rampage in Glenthys he fired up to nine rounds two of which penetrated the patrol car he fired into three homes and he fired at Gardie it was miraculous no one was killed because the Gardie had very good CCTV photographs they had the their Tetris system which is their communication system on which you could hear Dowling firing six shots as he walked down Main Street and Church Street in Glenthys it was extraordinary to say the least and a very difficult policing operation because obviously the first Gardie on scene would be unarmed and they're dealing with a person here if they don't know what his motivation is they don't know what he's capable of is as you say carrying a very high powered weapon arm support some distance away as I say a very difficult situation for unarmed Gardie to deal with how did they try and manage the situation Kate? well they handled it extremely well in as much as they had a patrol car trying to lead to Dowling out Mill Road away from the town and there was a patrol car behind initially Gardie thought it was a shotgun therefore its range was limited to an extent but when armed response unit detectives Jennings and Darren Carter arrived on the scene Detective Jennings knew immediately when he heard the shot that the rifle had a much wider range than they initially thought so they got behind the marked and unmarked patrol cars to get out of range but I mean it actually penetrated the cars when he fired at them and at what point then or how did they manage to take him into custody to Sarban? and Carter basically got on either side of him but maintained radio silence which left both of them in the dark so he wouldn't hear them coming he had the rifle over his shoulder and he was shouted at to put his hands up and at one stage Detective Jennings thought Dowling was reaching up to grab the rifle and he actually had his finger on the trigger of his pistol ready to shoot Dowling because he thought Dowling was going to shoot Carter and it was incredibly tense but they eventually managed to get him to the ground and at that stage Dowling said oh it wasn't me it was Brian which of course is going to trigger more concern then yeah which led them to think well is there another gunman but as a transpire there wasn't so he was eventually arrested and taken to Pali Channel I'm very lucky to make it out of out of it alive himself other than he did he did thank yeah in court justice he did thank the Carter that they did not shoot him I mean that's how close it was other than the the the conversation as it relates to how much drink was taken the fact that drugs were taken was there any other explanation or defense of the actions given no it was described by Dowling's own council as an act of lunacy you know there was there was neither rain nor reason alcohol on cocaine fueled yeah and in terms of what he pleaded guilty to and the range of sentence available to the judge particularly to the latter point there sentencing is next week I believe do we know you know what what range of options are open to the judge yeah that was briefly discussed before Judge Shailman yesterday and for the first five counts there could be a maximum of life and a minimum of 10 years and five years to 10 years for the criminal damage but Colin Smith Dowling's council you know did say did make the point that while this young man was on bail back in carlo he saved the life of the child by the child's attack by a put the pit bull terrier and Dowling jumped over the garden wall to his own detriment saved the child the child was actually had to be flown to Temple Street Hospital Dowling has no previous convictions but instead an act of lunacy right and and those who were affected by it on the night did they speak speaking court and what did they have to say yeah there were quite a number of victim impact statements and I mean from the armed response unit the other unarmed guardie who were involved and the civilians who there were three homes hit by Dowling with his rifle they were all traumatized certainly the guardie all have suffered post traumatic stress disorder and have gone to counseling what what very much came out of it was how much a guard that actually goes out and puts his life on the line to protect the community yeah okay listen Kate thank you for that and people can read the the full article in the the next edition of the Donegal news as well as tomorrow morning tomorrow morning there's much much more detail and you can read Kate's piece in the Donegal news grab yourself a copy tomorrow morning we've only touched on some elements of the case Kate thank you very much for that not at all okay take care as I just to reiterate in the Donegal news tomorrow you can read Kate's full article Brian Carr joins us on the programme now Brian I seem to recall you posting on social media on this night in question you were in obviously ob glentes but were you in glentes what do you remember of the night and how things unfolded Brian morning Greg um yes I was in glentes that it was a dark night a Friday night and I was in the sunny's bar and we were playing in the dark league and these couple of guys came in and they sat down on the tables and one of them just he was running up and down just you know as we just did about he drunk the young lad he not thought nothing more of it but he just kept he just kept going and then he was wanting to go putting out the full darks in the middle of the game and they just I just got a little bit too much then and the young girl behind the counter she was in a young girl she was scared she didn't know what to do so we saw them in James's ball game from a boy we just said to her you know just ask them to leave and they'll leave quietly and she did she just went over and says hey lad the darks are on and needed a quiet thing to leave and and the other two lads that was along with them said it's a joke with them all you've been put out to be drunk but they all got up and walked out nice and peacefully and you would have thought that was the end of it you could there was nothing that happened that would indicate what was to follow no definitely not definitely not and and that was that was probably around 11 o'clock or so that night and then when the darts are always over it's just a quarter past 12 I went to get a taxi to go home and as I was going out I heard this bang that I thought you know that's fireworks or somebody's letting off something down the town and I got into the taxi and I went home and just as I was going home my mother who lives on the name street rang me and said there's somebody shifting them in the name state night holders you know up on you because this wasn't going to be happening again you know went into the house and she said I'm after ringing the guards they told me to stay away from the window hide in the back room and don't look out the window again because at that time too Brian we would have been seeing you know international reports of instances in different cities and towns you know in Britain and across Europe I mean it kind of I presume at the time if people could have joined the dots it had the hallmarks of something like that I'm not suggesting for a moment it was but people would have been aware that this stuff you know people randomly walking around with guns can happen does happen yeah but at the start I didn't believe it but then my mother told me that she rang back and she said the guards told her to go away and they told anybody that rang that we found it afterwards to go and get away from the front window and that and then it became real that this this was unfolding in the town but he came what happened well okay to give a great account of the thing there but when he came out of the bed and breakfast he went up the street and he went up I said pal's pizza was at the time and one of the works at ties was sitting in this car outside he thought he was a taxi and he went to get into the car but he couldn't get in because the rifle was on his back and then he stepped out to take the rifle off and ties drove away and if these drove away maybe a hundred and thirty yards up the street next thing uh he fired a shot through the back window and had to pat him the sheets out through the front window that was one of the first shots that he had fired and then he went down the road that most people would know was the football field road and he fired at random houses and through uh down front one the back window and through uh protection wall went through a mirror and in the bathroom and out to another petition wall and locked the front wall and then lucky for us that the other two houses that he shot in were were were unoccupied as well so and then he made his way up the stick but you know one of the quick thinking things from one of the the what we call them heroes on the night too was Eddie Galler who who's seen who heard these shots and then when he was leaving he was on the darts as well he was at the darts and he was coming down the stick and he seen the gunman coming back up the stick with the rifle on his back and he he rang the guards and he ran back up into sonny's and he warned everybody in the bar sonny's bar and he did everything he did way around the corner so that they weren't near the windows and everybody was all piled around but there was the cctv they were able to see that he was uh placing up and down outside the bar and they could see this on the cctv and there was a wake just further up the stick uh did he seem disorientated or well mimicking what one might see in in military or what what what we well they just said that he just looked like a drunk man with a gun you know he didn't need to be gone off his back outside sonny's he just he just marched up and down and you know i would say he was confused he didn't know exactly what because all the doors and everything was closed and then he uh the squad car came around the corner of the empty down the ui in the middle of the street started shouting at him and he fired randomly at them but they let him out of the town they let him up past the takeaway with people in the takeaway they let him pass away i haven't figured that in my head how that works uh why he would i don't know i just still haven't figured out because i've read it on a couple of occasions i still haven't worked worked how that works getting out of town but anyway it's what happened yeah he started shouting at him and calling him names and everything and he ran after them and you know he ran out the road and he went out past on the ardra road to the garter station and then a second squad car went out and he started firing at both squad cars so on the night you know the the garrity on the night were absolutely superb we had the local sergeant demon griffon the local guards turned cast in old gaffigan and them and cast away and then they were joined by guards from bondage and then the armed response the armed response were lucky they weren't so tired because it was 45 minutes they were in town but if it could have been further it could have been a full could be an hour and 20 you know it could have left longer you know and i'll tell you they they showed great restraint seeming me now i mean the and it's it's actually nice this element of it in that you know obviously it's been it's been hugely distressed for all involved but particularly the garrity but you uh and i presume you know with the backing of others um have written to the guard of commissioners seeking to have these garrity uh commended for their actions on that night with it uh the lentus development group and as chairperson we wrote to the superintendent the areas to pretend the bally shannon column levin and chief superintendent uh terry mcginnan dunning all the same and the garrity commissioner through harris just to you know thankful how good how the work that the their garrity done on the night and everything protect the people of lentis and i have no doubt on that night that you know only for their quick thinking and bravery they certainly did save injury and maybe death on on the town that night so as we tell you you know we just want to make sure that they're recognized we're doing that when i mean it's bizarre of nights nothing will have has happened like that before and hopefully and very unlikely anything will happen again just the most bizarre of nights uh and uh yeah but we can reflect on it now but if you think of the images the visions uh you know what you can imagine what it must have been like because people did not know what was going on or what was to come next brian thanks for your account i appreciate it greatly thank you very all right brian car there all right back with news on the way the night 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 at cherrymore kitchen and bedrooms dunnegal town their sale is now on new 2022 collections now 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there's a fresh appeal for information over a body that washed up in a northwest beach in the mid eighties the body of a man was found in tollehan strannier bundorn in 1986 however despite the best efforts by gar thee the man has not yet been identified there's a warning of a very difficult summer if farmers concerns around public access and hill walking are not addressed there's been a big increase in the number of people accessing local local hills however this in turn has led to a jump in the number of farmers making complaints and funding is available for a number of heritage projects in donnie gall with the heritage council inviting applications to its community grand scheme the aim of the scheme is to support capital projects that improve access and inclusion to heritage sites that's it for an hour back with a further update for you at 12 noon okay kathryn back with more after the break the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mycu current account and debit 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so she busted her nose and she busted her forehead but bloody hell she broke both her wrists the two of them now you know yourself one is bad enough and i feel for pierce because i've seen what mom once through what the two so it's bad enough on one but even the logistics of showering or going to the loo or stuff for that independent stuff stuff that cooking wrong food whatever it might be yeah as i say my mom's in her early 80s and we're going to blow like this but to make matters even worse she got a complete knee replacement done in june prior to the october so that was the first knee to bang on the ground so she's actually i think she's actually on the right there's second or a third injection for pain since in the night whether she's disturbed that now the injections are working but um i spoke to councillor patrick mcgarran about it he has been lobbying the council as has john and gala house butchers now just just so we know martin um obviously pierce's wife fell on the side of the street below macklehenny's i can't figure out in my head are the is this the same stretch of pathway that you're talking about it'd be like an airship great yes at one yeah all right so it goes in toward right i understand now what you're talking about yeah it turns the corner and goes in and around towards those other businesses yeah yeah and the part that i'm annoyed about is that both Patrick McGowan and john from gala house and the other businesses along there have been lobbying the council for years about the state of the footpath along there and as of today it's fallen on death years i think it might have been car wash maybe in the last few days but as of yet nothing has been done about it absolutely nothing so yes i'm annoyed that it's happened to both pierce's wife and and particularly now for for my own mom that this should happen to somebody that that should have been started about years ago and that nothing has been done to date so far what's wrong with the footpath as you see it martin the footpath the curbs are up and down and the the slabs are some of the slabs are up and down and the actual curb along it's it's totally deteriorated at half of it is nothing um the the sections of it there are sections of it that actually have no curb at all so my mom my dad would have reversed under the under the disabled bank mom got out and started walking up and she didn't she sucked on that i must pull it and take some pictures take some pictures of that and get it up on on social yeah do and we'll get it up on on twitter and we'll get it up on on facebook so people can see the state of of the footpaths in this county and in this particular area because you know that's a huge set back for your mom who's not right since happened to get an injection presumably had to wait plenty of time to get that knee to begin with uh and now has this uh for this this this fall to contend with and also um pierce's wife um you know when the dust settles and and you know the the positive experience of the community you know people around them uh coming to their aid the pain will be there the experience will be there and you know it's something they have to deal with i wonder who else has fallen here anyone else fallen in this stretch of of footpath sounds to me and i don't want to exaggerate martin sounds to me it should be cordoned off until such times it's made safe i can guarantee you you're going to get a couple of calls now because there's numerous people that have fallen on that stretch along now dad had reversed and mom fell behind luckily there was a gentleman a good strong gentleman going along and he was able to just whoops he said he just left it me clean up of the air but by the time he put our stand by side the count banged on the back of the car my dad came out the blood was just streaming down her face out of her nose and her forehead it looked awful hugely distressed for your dad as well absolutely successful for both of them um he didn't even see it happen he didn't see anything happen so straight up to dr shearn and dr shearn stayed out to um to letter kenny they arrived out there sometime around about half four and they didn't get home to quarter past now that's no reflection on the hospital i think it was around about half seven quarter dates the following morning to the home so the two of them sitting on on chairs the whole night but two broken her with two broken wrists sitting on a wheelchair dad wasn't it on a steel chair beside her but uh no i'm fuming what they're doing all county council after me that should have been started a long time and to think that it's still the same today Greg it's a bloody decision i mean obviously we're talking about it uh but also which is important but pictures paint a thousand words so get those pictures into us martin whether you send them to me personally or whichever she looked like she had two black eyes and the busted nose and the forehead she looked a little bit like a panda you know the two black two big black eyes but i shouldn't be now i'm not well i know you kind of have to look at the wee bit of the yeah and how is she now in terms of the obviously the the injections in the knee um i mean i mean she was she nervous out walking now or how are risks or what's the story she never the stick she has a stick with her now walking for her own balance i called her to say that it was going on she is actually currently and fuzio at the moment as we speak and she says i'm probably gonna must yeah uh on but she says i'll probably be lesson back yeah but she's that good but that's where his mom is at that's very second and and fuzio and then for the you know and since you know rosemary on facebook says i saw an elderly lady falling there last week so we've got uh pierces wife was it yesterday um rosemary talking of an elderly lady falling there last week and we've got your mom um who fell out did you say october martin october the 15th mom fell great yeah yeah i'll talk to caroline and i'll send you some pictures so that i'm not pleased to the paint the pictures will paint a thousand words but believe me soon as you see it you're going to say that's a bloody disgrace and yes maybe it should be cordoned off well if if people are falling uh if people are falling on a regular occasion and particularly it would seem and this is no slight on older people some of them could outrun me don't get me wrong uh but if it's particularly our older generation it has a a a much bigger impact perhaps generally in recovery time as well thank god your mom got her hands out to break uh to break the fall to some extent martin although it broke her wrist to protect her her face in some way because the older we get and when i say the older we get i'm on about from like 20 onwards the less graceful we are when we fall yeah yeah well i know that i know no no you'll see the pictures Greg and believe me be in for a should be in for a surprise now when you see them there's no doubt about it because that area is earmarked earmarked i think for a significant development to change that area into you know a more improved outdoor space if we're talking about the same area i believe we are uh also also let's talk about the butchers and other businesses these are ratepayers okay uh who i think could rightfully expect safe and proper access to their businesses for clients of all age groups and they don't seem to be getting that at the moment because our people are going to avoid it uh you know if they're on steady not on steady on the feet i don't want to generalize uh as to say martin because there's there's there's people much older than me much better than i am in terms of you know stability and stuff but if i were a business owner in that area i'd say well where's my rate money going here can we fix this footpath please how many more people have to fall over yeah and just to think that it's been gone for years and john out of out of gala heart butchers there is just what he has been lobbying and testing the council since for years and nothing has been done about it absolutely nothing has been done but hey listen there's great release we're chatting about it here today but as of as of today nothing absolutely nothing has been done ever with the state of the footpath or the kerbs along that and people are continuing to fall on a regular basis there there's no doubt about well we've got two we've got one last week and we've got one this week those of the two we've heard of so far we've got your mom in october who's in physio at the moment yeah october november december january three months later he's in physio at the moment over the head of that i'm sure she would prefer to be sitting at home listening to the nine to noon show martin absolutely well i'm gonna send you i'm gonna send you a picture that i took off mom's hand last week and you'll see the bulge coming out on the left hand on the left side um i'm not a surgeon i'm not a bone specialist but it doesn't look right it doesn't look like it's set properly we'll but i'm gonna show you the picture please you'll see the state of you'll see the state and do you have pictures of the footpath as well i have pictures of the footpath as well now do you want to send them to you as well please do yeah and uh will you also when you chat with your mom pass on our best wishes to her oh well thanks she can she can watch it back on on facebook or listen on the website whichever she prefers if she wants to she might be sick listening to you martin i don't know what the situation is no no i'm a blue right i was gonna say you're the apple of her eye i can tell listen but it's a it's a serious matter but we have to have a little bit of uh lightheartedness to everything but pass on our best wishes and leave it with us we're gonna go send those pictures let us get it out there all right good man martin take and as i say genuinely pass on best wishes to mom thanks very much and dad 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and then the the actions that happened later in the evening is a separate thing all together though though connected but you to get where I'm coming from right Catherine how are you getting on good morning to you good morning to you right we started off this show very close to it talking about people accessing land what's your experience Catherine okay so I would be out many hours every month taking photographs for my website we love donnie gall and you know so I'm all over donnie gall for years and what shocked me the other day when I was out and about was there was a certain place in donnie gall I've already got pictures of it but I just wanted to go and see because I'd heard about it being closed off went have a look and there's a couple of big signs saying do not enter private property that sort of thing but what I noticed was that the one of the wooden what you call those things you know flats or something across the gateway oh yes it's um why did you do that yeah I know what you're on about yeah it'll come to me yeah but anyway um we need your farmer back on to tell us this but um no uh so anyway that was somebody's actually do you know if you were a big strong fella and you hit it with your leg that's it's actually broken like that and then I happened to be um looking around on the internet and I I happened on a certain um tourism website where they're they're discussing that and people have actually said sure just ignore the sign climb on in and I just thought really like as my husband was saying to me imagine if you had something nice in your garden the back garden and people wanted to go in and you'd have signed up saying don't come into my garden you'd go nuts but yet we seem to be free to to just ignore what farmers want and this is ruining it for people like me and people like walkers and people who just want to enjoy the countryside because it's making more and more I would imagine it's putting people's farmers backs up and landowners backs yeah and I had a similar experience I referenced it last week during the summer we went to visit one of these uh the the sites and there will be access but there wasn't access uh and the signs were up and I obviously respected them and turned them went the other way but I did exactly what you did I went on to it was actually I think Google reviews and the first top five or six comments are they can't stop you go on in or you hop that fence and then you follow around there it was telling people how to circumvent or to ignore the signs exactly like what you're talking about Catherine I absolutely know that reminds me I went to I know exactly what you're talking about obviously because it was listening to the radio the other day but um I went to take pictures of that thinking and there is a sign there at the metal gate saying do not enter it's the arch so we let's be grown up a paradise the arch and I was like if you just knew me if I want to get a picture of something I'm just dying to get that picture I really wanted it and I just I was standing there and I thought no I just can't I can't go on the land and that's it but um but then the same as you I did see it on that particular site saying sure just climb over but um like people put up you the man on earlier was saying about um signs saying bulls in fields and all this sort of thing but then I was talking to somebody and another site there last week and the farmer had put up a sign saying beware bull you know and then and then I was I happened to have somebody local I said is there a bull in the field and he said no I'll tell you what it is what happened was this is the craziest thing you've ever heard somebody went to go to this site that you have to cross over a farmer's land to get to and there was a cow having cast and she went up to try and pick up the calf and pet the calf and guess what happened the cow attacked her you know naturally now luckily this woman um didn't sue she wasn't interested in suing but he put it up just to kind of this is the kind of thing that happens yeah yeah exactly yeah because but and as far as letting dogs off I mean every year you have people on with the wee lambs being killed or sheep giving birth early and the lambs dying because they're letting the dogs off you know so Catherine yeah you're out and about you're out photographing okay you know all the hot spots and uh it's the we love Donegal Facebook page and website isn't it uh and some brilliant photos on it but do you feel very restricted in you know do you find that you can still enjoy the outdoors bought respect land owners do you know what I mean like do you feel that your rights are encroached in in some form or other absolutely not because the first right is to the owner of the land I have never gone on to land that says don't go on to it I mean the the murder home downings sure were people what happens I think to is we get hot spots like the murder hole pollen arch and uh largie falls we get hot spots and then the world and his wife want to go and visit it and they trek over land and and then through things thinking it's the right and it's not your right and also there could be dangers there you know I haven't been to the murder hole that I can remember but I think that some of the access in people were using was actually quite dangerous and people have nearly killed themselves you know doing that which is ridiculous it's the same to uh in other places that that people get uh get trapped by tides you know they fall on rocks if it's sea based and of course all the while parking up and down roads which is understandable and I think to some extent we were all that soldier during the lockdown you know when we were actually loud outside our two or five k and and we said right let's explore our own canty you know we were starting many of us who aren't you know as great explorers as you are catherine we're starting to come across this kind of stuff for the first time you know and I think that's when it really came into my notice that you know it can be really inconvenient for people that live in a local area for the landowners you know fences being bent and destroyed with everyone hopping over it and stuff you know but that's why I from the very beginning now when I first saw that when I saw that first photograph of the waterfall the not-so-hidden waterfall I was just I honestly thought it was computer generated it was such a good photograph and then I discovered it was in donny gall and of course nothing would stop me until I could find this place this was before the rush went and then I remember saying at the time I just strongly advise people not to go there because it is it's extremely dangerous you see people walking up in runners right across the rocks for example you know no protection for the ankles or anything you know what's going to happen next I met people in flip-flops well listen I didn't have any shoes that day leave it out Catherine you know but I mean like when I'm out and about much knowledge and I'm not very fond of them I wear em these big hiking boots because I love taking photographs of old graveyards and things like that and if you go around I don't know if you're as familiar with old graveyards as me but there's they're always full of holes or rabbits or where graves are sinking and I have to wear hiking boots because to protect my ankles what's your favorite spot Catherine so many oh one of them then so we won't pin you you know where I absolutely love and it's not even considered a beauty spot I don't think em the top of me in a row I think the view back down from there is just oh the sky and everything is beautiful em but and every time you go up there you probably get a different picture because nature has a way of painting its own canvas doesn't yeah oh it's beautiful I mean it is stunning but it's it's as I say that said not a beauty spot we were going over there one morning seven in the morning you know and as you know up there you wouldn't expect to meet traffic so you know at the very top you're familiar with it yeah you know at the very top where it kind of veers around you're right so we came around the corner and em there's a tourist bus taking up most of the road a giant big one so there's a tourist bus seven in the morning we looked over to the writing you know where they're cutting turf over there and there's a crowd of Italian tourists taking pictures of turf stacks well I suppose seven in the morning they probably when we're over if we're over in Italy they're wondering what are they taking the picture of my my waistband for or something yeah but I mean as regards to the problem I don't know if there's any fixing it I mean it just comes down to people respecting people but as I said earlier on Catherine it's like it's like a lot of the topics that we talk about here and I gave the example of dog poo most dog owners pick up their dog's poo and take it home with them but there's a few that don't it's the same as you know cyclists most cyclists and most motorists respect cyclists the most cyclists don't drive in the middle of the road and groups of five you know the usual stuff it's some that do and then we have this conversation as if it's everyone and it's it happens time and time again and all it takes is you know the few that are going you know I can go wherever I like you know I'm free to do whatever I want to have a bit of respect actually really you can't because that field you're walking across is someone's livelihood it's someone's property you know the probably yeah well my point being is is it just we just have to get maybe the minority to think the way the majority does on this matter not everything on this matter I think I think as regards the places you know with signs up saying do not enter and things as you you pointed out there there's so many places in Donegal I mean there there's just endless you don't need to go to the places where it says don't enter there is another thing which I don't want to brush over either because people might be screaming at the radio radio we do have to sort out access and rights of way and stuff in this county you know because it there's a lot of stuff that you know things are changing now maybe we're more litigious or whatever and people believe they have a right to wait and then we try and establish that and then it's like well you know it's quite confusing and there's a standoff or whatever it might be you know if we are going to be using our outdoors more and we're going to have more visitors doing it that's an element that we need to sort out as well so it takes a bit of pressure off the the adventurer and also the landowner so we know what the crack is in certain places here's the thing about that then Greg if it comes down to something as simple as a fence up in a gate shop don't go in go somewhere else and look you've no fences up in gates up to go on our beaches or to go hill walking in a lot of places you can walk for I mean when we went to that um what you call them where a thing may live can't you get after me more specific than that cottage right okay and five hours quick where to go I nearly died but um um there was no fences up the whole way you know and it's it is a lot of them sort of bog land and stuff like that but I'm just saying look if if you're in any doubt and the fence closed off don't go in because and especially at this time of year whether it could be young in the field like sheep or calves or you know just go and go somewhere else there's no panic there's so many places and I give us one more place go on while you're on um of where do I think it's beautiful um I'll always love Fintra beach Fintra yeah yeah it's beautiful the drive down to there is I saw a picture of that on Flickr years before I'd ever been there and I thought oh my god that's so beautiful to the point where our youngest son got married and he got married down there oh really lovely yeah and I was cracking in a dune day and I have pictures of them coming up in the wedding car there and just the whole bay behind us beautiful yeah that's south southwest coast for people in other parts of of the county uh it's it's a beautiful drive you know if you if you are able just to meander around um just the whole way around it's beautiful but the thing about Johnny Gall Greg is that I've been taking pictures now for about at least 15 years probably longer of Donnie Gall and I still confined places have never been so there's so much to see and what we tend to do is just now our car we aren't driving a limousine our car if we see a side road we tend to go off it and see oh let's see what's up here um but you probably need a stronger car to do these things but that's how we find things and you don't need to rush to the latest hot spot you know maybe you'll find a hot spot if you just explore yes and sometimes the journey uh is is more rewarding than than than the destination as well if you look around you and take your time and not only that you meet such interesting people I I know I sound like a right graveyard lurker but I have met more interesting people in graveyards than there was a time to stand and talk and they tell you like little secret locations or places you might not have heard of and you know it's a history there's a history of it too as well and uh you know a connection to the I don't know I I get where you're coming from I might not have quite the interest you do but there is just something about about that especially the older the older graveyards there's some brilliant ones down my way um we were steeped in history yeah yeah I was over your way there I went round I did all from Pettigold back up again um and I mean like finding I don't know there's a chapel of ease up in the hills and things like this you know the Pettigold road some of the roads off it up Lachey Bar away and uh you know all other ways beautifully it's amazing stuff you know that Protestant graveyard in the middle of um Pettigold no off the top of my head well in there I was in there one day and um I met this couple and of course we're talking and they told me about this graveyard hidden up in the hills it's a very old graveyard and so I went we went up of course to take pictures but what I was delighted to find out was that um Donegal's highway man is buried there now his grave isn't marked but um what's called Princess Princess Black um but he's buried up there but it's not for me talking to somebody in that graveyard I would never have known that all right so that's interesting listen Catherine we've we've we've kind of wondered can we've wondered uh can in a conversation like you might on your feet someone's drilling in this building I don't know what's going on some racket anyway Catherine this has been lovely speaking to you thanks for the tips and you can check out your facebook and website it is the website is welovedonegal.com okay listen 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you i'm not too bad i'm not too bad right do we have any studies or anything to lean on that that gives us an idea of you know younger people's interaction with pornography and the impact that has on them yeah so there was a study back in 2016 carried out by the nspcc in the uk which highlighted children's access to porn so it was focused on children aged 11 to 16 and it was about a thousand responses to surveys and i think they also carried out some focus groups and they found that just about half of that sample had seen porn and that the vast majority of them had seen it by the age of 14 interestingly about half of those who'd seen it had had deliberately gone looking for it and about half had stumbled across it and so you know i think it's quite difficult to get information about this because obviously there is an ethical dimension here you know in terms of asking children about what they've seen and how it's impacted them on them especially when they're young but i i think we can be sure that children even younger than 11 have in some cases access porn and certainly from conversations that we've had with parents and teachers you know it it has arisen in primary schools even so and it starts in a number of ways because you know half of boys think what they're seeing is real but then they would have this expectation presumably of how another boy or a girl would be expected to interact with them but also too presumably girls get a a skewed view of what's expected of them yeah it's it really is distorting reality exactly the word yeah it's a distortion of the reality and it's absolutely not where we want children to be learning about you know what's healthy relationships or sex and sexuality we need those to cut that information to come from informed sources you know we can't entirely remove the possibility that they're going to come across this content online unfortunately because it's all too easy to access and often children aren't accessing it through the commercial porn sites where perhaps there are stronger measures to kind of avoid younger children accessing the content as you said you know places like twitter or or or you know a simple search I mistyped something into twitter it was to do with the parties over it was I was typing the name of someone to do with the parties over in Downing Street to see you know see the commentary what was how it was trending I mistyped someone's name a former press secretary of Boris Johnson's and what I was met with you know even uh I recoiled um you know and that's on on twitter the great the great curator of of of morals and what have you yeah and I mean just the ease of access to this content is just too great and all of these companies will have sorry continue sorry I thought you were finished there I was going to say all these companies will have community standards in place you know outlining exactly the kind of content and language that they tolerate on their platforms and unfortunately too much is slipping through the net and you know it's a real concern that our children our young children can have access to this really inappropriate content and it's very different to the two dimensional images you might have seen in a magazine back you know back when I was a kid for example um you know it is graphic it's explicit it it often represents gender in a in a way that um it's healthy some of the most like what worries me again again I don't want anyone to think I'm I'm coming across this and I'm some sort of an angel not for a second but one of the most popular uh searches here according to the the information that's released by Pwnhub would be step family stuff you know so regardless of whatever you're actually seeing that is the most popular some of the most popular content I mean how is that affecting uh young people's minds or adult minds for that matter if that's it and you see it over and over and over again there has to be a normalization of it it's actually really difficult to to say definitively what the impact on young developing minds is uh to seeing this kind of content and of course it could impact differently on different children I just think there is a value judgment also that we need to make around whether we want our kids seeing this kind of content and what message that gives it well how does that shape expectations uh and and views uh it is really troubling and you know as I said but it can be very graphic can be very violent you know be concerns around desensitization as well as expectation setting difficult to do um gather research data on it because of the ethics involved with of of serving young children around around this stuff so yeah but I definitely think we need to look at this for a two two approaches you know one it yeah and I want you to talk to me about the approaches but I just want to ask like what your views are because okay say for instance the big names in the industry right say they required id to access it and we'd all feel that something's being done but as you and I would know it could be sent via snapchat messenger it could be sent via whatsapp telegram do you know what I mean it could be circulated amongst people so in other words I mean obviously that would actually help perhaps but it I feel personally it's impossible to to block it so do we accept it's out there and then our approach is to talk to our children our younger people and try and educate them uh so it's like swearing in the house they know all the words but you might choose to not you might discourage them from swearing in the house you know to me but they know all the words so like what how do we if banning it is not going to happen how do we deal with it how do we manage it well to your to the first point you're making there about you know restricting access there was a bill in the UK now I think it was the digital economies bill I think that's the right name but it was exactly that it was trying to ensure that commercial porn sites would have proper and robust age verification measures in place to stop children under the age of people under the age of 18 accessing this content and it didn't it it fell down at the european level because of privacy issues I think but actually we would also have to question would a bill like that would a piece of legislation like that make the difference because you know children I would say are largely not accessing pornographic content from those commercial porn sites it'll be these it'll be these simple searches that return content and children are curious so I don't think it would necessarily have the desired effect of completely removing the possibility that children could access this stuff so I think we do need to look much more closely at education I don't you know not suggesting that we start talking about you know pornography to five and six year olds but I think there's things there's conversations that we could be having around boundaries for example for at an early range consent evolving into consent and what that means you know what healthy relationships look like you know we could have be having all of these conversations that involve as children get older you know before we even need to mention the word pornography just it's about you know equipping them and helping them understand obviously ideally you'd also be having conversations at home and with parents in safe spaces and you know frank conversations about what they might come across and if anything ever makes them feel uncomfortable to come and talk to their parents about it because you know I spoke to parents and they say you know some things maybe come out in school where you know a group of kids saw something and we're talking about it and you know then it gets back to the parents and the first thing the parents who says why didn't they tell me I wish I'd known you know and I think we need to reassure children that they can come and talk to us about some of these more awkward topics and then they're not going to get into trouble for having you know potentially look for it or seen it in somebody else's house it's about navigating these things you know from our own survey data we know that about I think it was 25 percent of children this is a survey of four thousand eight to twelve year olds 25 percent of them told us that they've seen something that bothered them online and bothered was defined by it upset them it scared them or it made them wish they hadn't seen it so you know a quarter of those kids telling us that and then when we asked them the next question which was well if you did what did you then do and we gave them various options you know tell a parent or trusted adult so and most kids did over 50 percent had told a parent or trusted adult but I think it was 30 percent told us they kept it to themselves and that's really problematic you know and it could have been the various things that they saw that they wish it could have been horrid even just simply having to try and process that on their own exactly it's incredibly difficult exactly so I think we've got to encourage those conversations we need to focus on education ensuring every child benefits from good conversations in classroom as well as good education and then we need the regulatory approach we do need to ensure that there are age gates and and verification required you know that there are guardrails up around some of these online environments you know that there's stronger moderation there's just too much harmful even though there are community standards in place and the platforms will say they don't tolerate you know this kind of content unfortunately too much when money is a factor at the likes of the playstation network the x-pot network are actually really really quite good in filtering out anything offensive using you know racial or gender-based language it spots it straight away the technology is there because the money is in people resubscribing resubscribing so when that's the motivation they can come up with solutions there's some like the likes of a fire stick has really great website surfing so you know they can do it they do do it so it's just a case of you know doing it exactly putting the putting those technical restrictions in place sticking to them and you know rigorously and scanning the online environment identifying where it's a child and and literally putting safeguards around that child and ensuring the algorithms are designed to do those things as opposed to push us and guardians we have to keep the lines of communication open so that they feel comfortable talking to us about whatever it could be could be this it could be bullying it could be anything alex i wish we had more time we'll definitely return to this again thank you for your time this morning thank you all right take care of yourself we'll be back with a preview of the business matters podcast that's coming up for you after these messages the 90 noon show with 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featured in this year's lists nice one how many of those have you been to a few i think there's only two i've missed i don't get away that much but i think there's only two i haven't been to stick them on last for the year yeah definitely um now uh lwi it news from it yeah lwi it will host a part time and post graduate virtual event this evening between six and nine for those interested in postgraduate and part time programs interested in upskilling reskilling flexible learning or online learning options then be sure to log on to this event liat's experienced academic and student support staff will be on hand to answer your questions and queries during each live webinar nice one now some money announced by the department of tourism and transport for some dunny gall projects yes 5.5 million has been allocated by the national transport authority and minister amen ryan for 32 dunny gall based active travel projects totaling as we said 5.5 million euro the announcement is part of a 289 million euro investment countrywide so projects listed include the nerdy kennec ethereal one-way project the dunny gall town local transport plan and pedestrian bridges in codaf and burnford right fuel prices we all feel this be through your home heating your gas uh if you buy gas uh or at the pumps yeah errant is now one of the most expensive countries in the world for petrol and diesel and as according to a errant prices are up an average of 32 percent since this time last year prompting calls for the government to cut some of the taxes on four core fuel so the average national price of petrol is currently one euro 70.3 when diesel stands at one euro 60.5 but you can shop around and get it for you know close on 10 centimetre uh cheaper for petrol um and uh similarly for diesel now that's in no way an excuse for the prices and the tax take on them because it's mostly tax but you can shop around and make you save some money right what's coming up in this week's podcast yes Greg on this week's business matters i'll be joined by Dennis Ferri owner of ferries garage and Leslie O'Donnell owner of O'Donnell's crash repairs whose units are located at this ninin in letter kennec both left school at the age of 14 and became close friends when Dennis set up his garage at the pine hill industrial estate across from leslie's unit in 2001 Leslie and Dennis were part of the team behind Noah's bedpush back in august which raised almost a quarter of a million euro for nine beneficiaries chosen by the goods family because of their high-profile road trips to different parts of the world the pair have become known as dunagall dunagall's ice road trekkers so Dennis spoke about the importance of the apprenticeship system all right and we'll hear from uh Dennis now when i was 14 i walked around letter kennec couldn't get an apprenticeship and that's no fault to the garage is that was just the way it was um i open i opened the doors i said to myself within six months i'll i'll take some day on was that based on your own experience it was i because the the apprenticeships is a future of people you know and not everybody's cut out for school like everybody finds their feet and if it takes something like avid apprenticeships avid apprentices on since we started um and the first apprentice michael uh he's from creasley michael's still here michael's here 20 years this august with us um he was only in four or five months after we started in february 2001 and uh michael has went from being an apprentice to teaching apprentices dunagall so no it's very important it's very very important because especially with the the evolution of electric cars and hybrids um within 10 years every car park uc is going to change if you look at car parks now they might be one or two hybrid electric vehicles but that's that's going to change um although we don't see cars for a couple of years because under warranty but again that's it's going to change yeah wise words uh there and um also uh who else did you let's speak to let's say let's talk about the impact of the pandemic on this business over the last two years from part of you running the business it's it was hard yeah from point of view you know keeping like we've as denise said we're very very good staff and we wouldn't be here today we have a lot of long term staff that's what it's a long time like and we owe everything that we've achieved today to our staff you know because we can't do it all alone um and from a point of view in the pandemic like at the very early stages we closed for the for six or seven weeks that time in march 2000 but we're just doing any kind of essential work that needed to be done uh that was grand for them few weeks and there were no phones ringing peace and quiet it was a wee break so it was and weather was good everything was fine but then moving forward from that then first past 18 months or so after that it was hard running a business from watching your staff and watching customers coming in and stuff like that and then the parts were getting to a problem you had Brexit stuck in the middle of it then you know uh so between the two it was just it was hard running the business i'd be glad when things do get back to a bit of normality yeah two real successful men there but hot workers that if uh it wasn't hand nothing was handed to them very much they were located just behind us here at Pinehole for a long time and they made the move for for space reasons only but as you say two extremely hardworking fellas with two good teams around them and they have developed two very successful businesses i'm really interested to hear more of those interviews the full interviews with Dennis Ferry and Leslie O'Donnell are available now on our website as i mentioned earlier hotendradio.com in the on-demand section you can also catch up on Spotify and iTunes and you subscribe to the podcast too there so you get a notification when new ones are added but it's every Wednesday because Kieran's very efficient like that or wherever else you get your podcasts and business matters on the radio yeah six o'clock after six o'clock news Greg on Sunday and anyone looking to get in touch with the show you can drop Kieran an email at the following address Kieran businessmattersathandradio.com okay thank you very much indeed Kieran back with us next week that's where we have