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That's a price for you, isn't it? No, no, I just don't boast about it. I'm very impressed. Did you do that by yourself, did you? It never happened, but in my head I did. Oh, right, you're telling me lies then. Can we have a little bit of a late show? What do you think? The late-day show was OK. I thought Patrick did really well. Yeah. I just... It's just more of the same. Yes, that's what it was. You know, I just didn't enjoy the guests. Hmm, is that bad? They probably had to do something on that, right? Yeah, this was the first show. Right, do you think you would have an A-lister coming in? No, it doesn't have to be an A-lister. Why not talk to people that aren't from RTE? Just talk to... Well, it's their own bank of people, isn't it? I have an interesting story. Caroline's got an interesting story. I'm not saying they should interview us, but, you know, stop trying to get people that everybody knows and bring people on for interesting conversations. You know what I mean? And maybe even give people a profile or a platform or whatever, you know? But they don't have the guts for that, you see, because, obviously, it's all about... Well, they might have to dig deep, won't they? Well, just reflect Ireland. You know, use the show, as Gay Burn did, to a great extent, to reflect Ireland. If a good guest comes along every now and again, bring them on. You know, that's great if you can get access or even maybe get a few Hollywood stars on Zoom. It doesn't matter, really. People don't care. It's on the audience in studio. They care. It doesn't matter to the outside audience, you know? But just try and hold them here up to Ireland and... We'll just have to see what happens, then, won't we? Yeah, but... You did well, tough gig. Yeah, Mum, my mum wasn't impressed what he wore. Yeah, she came down on some... But you couldn't really see it because the desk was up to his chest. And to see the way that... I was following it on Twitter, as well. Just the only time I would ever do it, it's just the comments and stuff. But the way the guests were sitting, they had to really creak their neck to see. Patrick, do you know what I mean? It was kind of... You turn it inside me. And also, too, I did feel sorry for them, because the one big joke... The big joke was that in his local pub, everyone was miserable because he wouldn't say the name of the local pub. But then, when he went to the first link, the three guests ruined it. And they had to, you know, they said, go on, you look very sad, cheer, blah, blah, blah, you know what I mean? And then it ruined the big reveal later when he mentioned the pub. Yeah, but he kind of carried off. But I think he bed himself in, takes time. Do you know when you set mentors off? Fine. Everyone likes Patrick Kilty, but you'll only watch the show with these interesting guests. Or interesting topics. That's it. One person in itself is not going to make you watch. Who have you got on your program today? Having a clue. Caroline's back. Isn't it great to have Caroline back, isn't it? Yes, well... Oh, you're a bit... Oh, Caroline, do you hear that? Oh, yeah. We'll see what mood she's in. Oh, I see she's a good mood today. By the way, it's an early 10. Good luck. Bye-bye. All right, it is the 9-to-lune show at two minutes past 9. Michaela, sorry for the delay. Very important conversations you can understand. But good morning to you. Here are the latest headlines. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A number of shops in Lettercanny have been targeted over the weekend by what is understood to be a shoplifting gang. Guardi have confirmed that they've received reports of a theft in the Port Road area on Saturday morning at half past 10 and a short time later in the Lesnanan area at 11 o'clock. It's believed those responsible are from outside the county. Guardi say no arrests have been made, but investigations are ongoing. The Minister of State for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth says she is aware that there are significant staffing gaps across three children's development network teams in Donegal. Minister Ann Robert recently visited the county to discuss various challenges in the area. Ellen Butler has more. Minister Ann Robert has fully acknowledged the impact. Staffing shortages in Donegal North's CDNT, Donegal East and in its own CDNT, and Donegal South West's CDNT are having on children and families. During a recent visit to the county, Minister Robert met with members of Donegal North's CDNT and HSE Management to discuss the various challenges they face, including recruitment initiatives, vacancies and waiting lists, as well as how to tackle them. The Minister has engaged with local HSE Management in Donegal and CHO1 generally and is fully supportive of the range of measures being initiated to enhance capacity, including trying to attract new graduates, establishing a bursary scheme, attending jobs fairs and outsourcing assessments to private providers. Minister Robert is optimistic that success in these endeavours will see teams enhanced, capacity across the network teams increased and access to services developed. Social justice aren't it is calling for local authorities to be empowered to collect a new tax on empty houses. It wants the government to align councils to receive a new site value tax on underdeveloped land in Budget 2024. It also wants a new levy on empty houses of 200 euro per month, with the revenue from this charge collected and kept by councils. Donegal County Council is coming under pressure from councillors in the Initial Municipal District to ensure a water tanker that is currently in order is located in the peninsula. There's been calls for many years for such a resort for Initiawn to provide backup for the fire service. There was huge disappointment when a much sought after tanker was located in Lettercanny with the time having been identified as the optimum location. Now with the council believe to be awaiting the delivery of a second tanker, Councillor Martyn McDermott says there can be no questions over the location of it. It has to come to Initial in this time because it's very, very unfair the last time that it didn't because we were the peninsula that put it forward and we were the ones that pushed to get it ordered. There can be no way around this time of coming to this peninsula and being part of our fire service here and then the show. Whether now scattered shards and sunny spells this morning more frequent shards will develop this afternoon with highest temperatures today off 13 or 14 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Jack, everyone asks me if you're teething when you cry but can you be teething all the time? Maybe you're hungry or you're sad and need a little cuddle or maybe it's something else. At the HSEs, mychild.ie and in the free My Child Books you'll find the answers you need. From doctors, midwives, public health nurses, dieticians and lots of other experts. Mychild.ie, expert advice for every step of pregnancy, baby and toddler health from the HSE. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning to you. Six minutes past nine on this Monday, the 18th of September, 2023. How are you all? How was your weekend? Let us know. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The WhatsApp and text line open for you right now and in fairness it's open for you all of the time you've ever needed and we've lots to come on the show, as you can imagine, lots of stuff broke over the weekend which we'll be covering and lots of interesting topics for you. If you want to get involved in the conversation, raise your own topics, your own issues. 07, 4, 9, 1, 25,000. 07, 4, 9, 1, 25,000. And emails, comments at Highland Radio. They'll get us from anywhere. Right, as I say, our guests are already waiting to join us so we'll start with the newspaper, which is what we always do this morning. The Donegal News, and this is an issue we're going to be talking about a little later on, a call has been made for permanent park supervisors to be deployed at Burnham McGlynchie Town Park following reports of concerning activity over the weekend on Saturday. A local mother urged parents to report suspicious activity after her three-year-old son was allegedly given a bar of chocolate by a man in the park. The woman claimed her son told her the man had been hiding in the bushes. The alleged incident occurred while a number of children were playing in the park and we're going to speak to that mother on the show a little later on, so please stay tuned for that. The Derry News this morning, a Derry community worker has expressed the man to concern about the perceived recent increase in the number of suicides in the city. Speaking to Derry News, Martin Connolly, the manager of Community Restoration Justice, Community Restorative Justice, which is based in Gallier Community Centre, said he's becoming increasingly worried by what he described as the normalisation almost of suicide. Martin said, at the minute, all I'm hearing are conversations like there was another one at the weekend. It's just a vicious cycle at the minute. You worry for the future. You worry for your grandchildren and the young people in this city. It is terrible. It is heartbreaking. And it truly, truly is. If that's a topic you wish to discuss as well, of course, you know the numbers. Let's go to the national newspapers. The Irish Times this morning. We learned that the European Union is working on a new 20 billion package of military support for Ukraine to run over five years so that you aren't in peace mode at the moment or in fact, they aren't perhaps seeking to find a resolution to this crisis. They're actually funding and supplying weapons to Ukraine to cover the next five years. It's been raised the issue, which has been raised informally in recent weeks with the Irish government and others. Tollister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miehal Martin, said yesterday he had alerted the Cabinet that the proposal was coming down the tracks. He said it was agreed Ireland would provide only non-lethal aid and Ireland has provided quite a bit of non-lethal aid so far. How much would you imagine? 122 million euro has been given so far by Ireland, by you in non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine. Mr. Martin told the Irish Times in New York he would be announcing a further 23 million in government aid to Ukraine at the United Nations in the coming days. So that would bring since the war began a 150 million euro of non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine from Ireland, but the EU's currently working on a 20 billion euro package of military support for Ukraine to cover the next five years. And of course, there's also money going into them from the United States and calendar and other countries that are backing them. The Irish independent this morning, the victim of a random attack at Dublin Airport was smoking a cigarette outside the departure hall when he was stabbed multiple times. Sources say a pen knife was used in the attack and the man suffered several stab wounds. Emergency services were alerted to the instant outside terminal one at around 11.30 a.m. yesterday morning. Port police responded to the serious assault within 90 seconds of being alerted to the matter before Guardi arrived on scene. The victim, who's in his 50s, was stabbed a number of times in the neck in abdomen. He was rushed to Beaumont Hospital where he was treated for injuries that are not to believed life-threatening and I think he might count himself lucky once the dust has settled in that, is obviously a short blade knife that managed to miss major arteries or he certainly would be in a far worse condition, dead most likely. A suspect was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault and was last night detained at a North Dublin guard station. The man who is also in his 50s is not known to the victim and there is understood to be no clear connection between the men. So this other person just decided to randomly attack him. We discussed this on Friday, the 240,000 euro job of a photographer, it was to take still pictures on the set of the Sultvair City. Well, that 240,000 euro contract has now been suspended. Director-General Kevin Backer said the process would be paused following his decision to halt discretionary spending, the move to advertise for photography which would have paid a maximum of 60,000 a year over four years prompted serious questions from politicians given it was happening at the same time the broadcaster was asking the government for a multimillion euro bailout and that is the one that we found out about and that is the one now that has been suspended. It does make you wonder what other tenders are out or what other monies are being paid that are going ahead as planned because we don't know about it, the politicians don't know about it. But anyway, I would imagine there was someone that may be an incumbent who's not going to be too happy that maybe they've lost out on that contract now. So Lee mentioned the late, late show before we came on air officially on the 9 o'clock noon show. What did you think of it? How did you think the show went? Did you enjoy Patrick Kilty? I think for the most part, everyone enjoyed his performance. It was funny at the beginning. He did what he had to do. I suppose he referenced the scandal that is swirling around as he was appointed, not over his appointment, but as he was appointed, he didn't mind referencing the fact he was paying for his own flights. He had a bit of fun with that. Again, there was a few other bits that I didn't, I don't know those three people. I know them. I know two of them. I don't know all three of them. I'm not familiar with their podcast and it wasn't really made clear to me what they do or what they did. And also the, Mary Macalese's contribution was a wee bit. I didn't understand what was going on there. There was one question towards the end, I suppose where there was a bit of headlines from, but other than that, it was a bit rambly to me anyway. But highly anticipated viewing figures for Patrick Kilty's first night at the helm of the late, late show will be released at lunchtime today. It's expected that Mr. Kilty's numbers will be a lot higher than those for Ryan Tuberty's opening night on September 2nd last year because of the curiosity factor, an RTE spokesperson would not be drawn on any guest-emitted figures over the weekend but added the audience figures are collated by Nielsen, an independent outside body and they'll be provided to us at lunchtime on Monday. We do not engage in estimates until we are given the data. But I think, as I say, if no doubt, he'll do quite well. The people I've been chatting to sort of casual over the weekend, watched it, enjoyed his stuff, then found the guests a wee bit meh and tuned out. The two Johnny's were on it as well. Of course, they're 2FM and the 2FM guests as well. But anyway, it doesn't matter what I think. What do you think? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Now give us a call on 07, 4, 9, 1, 25,000. The footballer who was on the show, his name escapes me at the moment. I know him, but I just can't think of his name. One other thing I thought about his interview was that McLean, isn't it? Yeah, it's McLean. The one thing I thought about his interview is that if you didn't know what the crack was like in terms of the abuse he gets, it was never really referenced. It sort of started off as like, well, how do you deal with the stuff from the fans? So if you didn't know really what that is, the kind of interview would have went over your head a little bit. But anyway, it was interesting to see James on the show and a lot of people enjoyed that interview. But as I say, what do you think? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The Mirror this morning, TV bosses last night launched two investigations into Russell Brand with one insider admitting there is more than a whiff of panic. Both the BBC and a production company on behalf of Channel 4 are probing a series of serious allegations of misconduct centered on Brand while he was working for them in mid-2000s. A source said the reviews will look at what concerns were raised at the time and crucially, if they were acted on. There is more than a whiff of panic among certain quarters. This off the back now of a special, as it's described to Spatio, show broadcast on Channel 4 at nine o'clock on Saturday night, which is a little bit unusual. There were four women who made a range of allegations against Russell Brand, who was very popular at one point. He used to host a spin-off of The Big Brother Show. He had his own shows and other channels as well. And they made a series of serious allegations of him. Russell Brand now is not in the mainstream media eye. He is an alternative voice. He speaks out against Big Pharma. He speaks out against the mainstream media and war and who benefits from it and all that type of stuff. He's got a lot of followers on YouTube. He's appeared on a few shows over in America as well. So he is still incredibly successful, just not in the mainstream and inverted commas. And he made one statement as it relates to those allegations, which he fully denied. And I'm sure he'll speak again to his followers because they expect the truth. And I'm sure he'll, but I'd imagine he will address that to them. On to the sun now. Irish OAPs look set to be handed a pension increase of between 12 and 20 euro in budget 2024. Government TDs have yet to agree on a final figure for the pension rise, but have been informed. It will go ahead. T Shockley of Radcar previously hinted pensioners were in line for a budget booster. Finagel so said the state pension is now 265 a week and we want to move it to 300 euro per week before the next election. And they kind of have two budgets to do that, I suppose. Hopefully now people who do get increases don't find it's taken out. Often people find that when they get a payment increase, a social welfare payment increase, especially if they are social housing residents that effectively it's written off with a rent rise. You get a rent increase or you get an increase in your pension or your pay, then you're assessed and then your rent goes up because you have more money. So effectively they give it with one hand and take it back with the other. Is that an experience you've had? Hopefully it doesn't happen this time so people can get the benefit of any increases. And the Irish Daily Mirror finally, Daniel O'Donnell. Well, he's revealed he's reaching a new generation of fans thanks to a TikTok page he launched last year. The Donegal-born star says he usually recognizes longtime fans at gigs, but he's recently seen younger ones showing up who tell them that how they saw him on a social media channel. Daniel, who's 61, said, I feel very grateful that I've been allowed to have the career that I have. 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I brought them to the very McGlinche Park at about half 10 in the morning simply because it wouldn't be packed and the one-year-old could kind of batter about. But when we got there, it was very quiet. We went on, I took the look of what the balance spiked because I wanted them to have a look at that new area that they opened because that was a great facility. But when we got there, the one-year-old saw the swings and of course we were dragged in there first. There wasn't very, very few people there, maybe two mothers and two small kids on swings and they left immediately when I got there. And then it was just myself looking and my little child, my smaller girl and another mother a wee bit younger than me with her toddler and a small child in a pram. I was kind of pushing my child on the swings and kind of keeping my inner because it was very slippy because it had been wet. And the bell was up playing on the bigger playground and shouting down and me shouting back and because he likes you to watch him, you know, wow, children are. And within two minutes, he was shouting, mommy, mommy, so I kind of went up towards him that way because I thought maybe he didn't want to be on his own. And when I got there, I was helping the younger one climb up to go on the slide and he kept saying to me, we can't go down the slide, so the sweets are there. And I says, what are you on about? You know, he says, I can't go down the slide because the sweets are there, mommy, they're from Santa. And I said, I kind of just passed them off thinking he's just chatting rubbish, you know? And he kept saying it and I said, where are the sweets? So I climbed up myself and I looked in the slide and there was a whole bunch of Kinder chocolate sweets and bars and notes saying four kids from Santa. Now, the only reason I knew to ask him is because he can't read. So I said, how do you know that they're from Santa? And he says, because the man told me. And I said, what man? He says, oh, he's away into the trees there, mommy. So I turned around and I kind of looked and of course he put to your stomach. I kind of felt a bit sick and I thought, where is this man? I said, what did he say? He said, he looked and I turned out his pocket and then yesterday and what he did and he says, all the sweets are gone now. They're all from Santa. I said, did he give you any chocolate? He says, yeah. And I says, well, where is it? And he says in my pocket and he handed me out two bars. I says, put them back in the slide there. You're not allowed to take them. So he put them back in and I kind of ushered them down. I was kind of shaking a bit because I thought it was a bit strange and to be honest with you, some random are coming out of the trees to talk to your child. It was a bit creepy. But I approached the younger mother then because she had been coming up towards the slide area and asked her, did she see a man there? And I told her what happened and she said she didn't see any man at all. And I kind of took the kids and went towards the exit again, but we did a lap around, you know, to see if I could see any man in the park. Now, people might go, well, maybe he didn't see a man or blah and stuff like that. Right. So Luca is a pretty switched on young fellow, but he can't read. So in other words, the note that those watching the show can see here, it says four kids from Santa. So Luca wasn't able to read that. So someone had to say that to him for him because that's the only thing that made me think. The only way that I copped on, he was talking to somebody and I knew from him speaking to me what he was saying. He was kind of, he was telling me what he had said, you know, and it wasn't something that he can come up with himself as a three-year-old. You know, I said, who told you? Who told you? How do you know they're from Santa? He was, because the man told me. I says, what man? He says, the man that gave me the sweet and I swear as I, he says, he's in the trees. And then he pointed to where he went up and through the trees, you know? And of course, the gesturing of empties his pockets. He's not going to talk about himself. Yeah, he built some stuff. He wouldn't do that himself. Exactly, that's something he's seen and he's copying. So just remind us, what time of the day was this again? I went there at half 10. This happened roughly at about maybe, I would say about 10 to 11, 11 o'clock. Okay. And how did Luca describe what the person looked like or what he was wearing? Well, I had been on the phone then at that stage of the gallery and they had said, I know it's a silly question, but can you ask him to see what he says? So I said, you know, I thought I need to kind of ask him random questions now and say the putting words in his mouth. So I said, you know, it was this man wearing a tracksuit like you are. And he says, no, no, he had shorts. And I says, okay, this is what colour with the shorts. He says blue. And I says, we'll be wearing a T-shirt. He says, no, he had a jumper, green jumper. And I says, right, okay. And then I said, well, you know, was he a young man like daddy or was he an older man like Granda? And he says, oh, he's an older man like Granda. He's got white hair. Very specific stuff. Yeah, really specific stuff. So we'll talk about the conversation with the guards at the moment, but presumably this person is not entering via the established exit or is hiding for long periods of time in the trees. Like it's very, it's very concerning, isn't it? And why would any person approach a any child? And especially with sweets and a note, it's very peculiar. Well, if you were going to be kind enough to give a child sweets, Greg, anybody would go approach a parent and say, you know, oh, would it be okay if they had a bar of chocolate, you know, as you don't hide in trees and speak to a child privately and then specifically into trees again, you know. I know, I know it's just right. And your instinct as a mom kicked in straight away. You knew there was something very off. Just knew from talk and Tim, Greg, that it was something not right about us, you know. For sure. So then you said, right, I better call the guards about this. And how did that conversation go? They were actually very helpful and fair enough now. They had obviously asked the questions and wanted a description of what Lucas thought he looked like. And then within, I will, I, you know, I had kind of gotten the shakes from the whole experience. So I took my kids in the left the park, but within 10 minutes, a detective was up to speak to me and has been in contact with me every day since and is making efforts to try. He's actually, Ryan said he's got a request and further CCTV footage from two different cameras, I think, and he's hoping to get them today. Like, listen, at the end of the day, until we find what went on here, you'd be very reluctant to go there with your children again. You would personally. I'm so sad because it's such a beautiful park, but it's completely put me off, wanting to go anywhere near it now, you know. Yeah, okay. And let's just say it's just some weird advice. He had sweets on the top of the slide already, or did Luca and then? Yeah. He had obviously given Luca a bar or two for his pocket and then he must have put the rest inside the tube slide at the top, so they wouldn't see it as a parent. Yeah. He wouldn't see them lying. You know, they were inside the tube slide. So, you know, the only ones that would have access to them were kids, really, that were off going down the slide, you know. And I mean, listen, you try and get inside someone's head like this. I mean, is that to sort of earn trust with them? In other words, if they go back again and next thing, oh, did you get the sweet to left you the next time they're there or something? You know what I mean? As I say, I hope it's not that, but you know, you start wondering, it's a strange series of events to approach a young child where their parent is, you know, not directly beside them. It's completely wrong. But then again, this sort of dropping some sweets off mysteriously, are they trying to create some scenario where they can build trust with kids? Well, the bundle of sweets on its own, anyway, is a bit strange. You know, what has been tension? You know what I mean? It's a bit strange, like it's just, I don't know, I just felt wrong, completely wrong. You know, you don't just hide sweets in the slide, in the park, you know. And it's not a very nice feeling to have a stranger come out and watch us and approach your wee one because then you think, well, what if you wanted to grab it? It completely freaked me out. Yeah, completely freaked me out. I just wanted to get them and get out of there because it's not the first story. Neither has come up this last couple of weeks. No, we had one. We can talk about that. But we had another concerned parent. Was it down at the skate park? Was it down the skate park that there was a story recently whereby there was someone acting really quite suspiciously? I think it was behind, yeah, behind a similar area, is it? OK. Caroline's just been informing. What did your friends say to you? Sorry, Emma. A friend of mine had been walking there maybe a week or two and she told me that yesterday, but I didn't know. But she had said a man was in the trees in the middle of the park as well. And whenever she was walking past, she felt like he was following her. And every time she turned around, he would disappear again. You know, it was, I don't know. There's obviously, we would hate to think it's a group of men, Greg, but, you know, if it's one man, then he's obviously in the park a lot. Well, we can't ignore these things until we get to the bottom of it. That's the bottom line. Emma, I don't know if you want to stay there just to have a councillor, Jerry McMunnigal, who's chair of the Joint Police and Committee. You're listening to Emma there, any parent at all, Jerry, would find the hair standing on the back of the neck listening to that, because you can imagine, well, what if it was us or what was it me? What's your take on what's going on? Yeah, good morning, Emma. Good morning, Greg. No, I mean, the hairs in the back of my neck are standing at the Grand Fowler even, but, look, this isn't a nice little incident. Unfortunately, there's been a number of such complaints and concerns that have been raised over this last number of years. And Emma's right, the park is a fantastic facility and it's being extended on now with the New Year Adventure Park. And it's growing and it's growing and it's attracting and it's bringing more and more people into the park. And at council level, like, I mean, we've got CCTV installed and hopefully the cameras will reveal something that can be acted on. But we also have been looking for park wardens to be there on a permanent basis, to be there every day when the park is open, the assistant help mullers and people who are using the park and keeping an eye on it generally. And they try and prevent this type of activity. I mean, the chocolate bars in the swing is so wrong in so many levels and so many concerning and so many levels, like, you know, someone, a man in the bus has given out chocolate to a child, it just doesn't bear thinking about it. But even for an adult to give chocolate to a child without the permission of the parents is totally irresponsible because... A lot of the children could have had the notology for crying out loud. Exactly. There could have been all sorts of consequences coming out of that. But, to be thinking that you're going to a safe place with your children to play in the park and that some person is hiding in the bushes, I mean, it just scares the life out of you as a parent. And it's something that we as a council, and we need to do something about this. We need to be looking at putting in place those park wardens. And I'm really pleased that the Guards have been on there so quickly and listened to Emma to call the information they could and are now following her up with the CCTV. And as I hope, as I say, I hope that we can get something from the CCTV. Yeah. Well, two things are going to happen. Either A, we do something whereby people can feel safe there and the beautiful facility is used. Or B, nothing is done. And people like Emma and many, many others simply don't use it. So we're maintaining a public facility that a lot of people don't feel safe going. And then you won't hear their voices because they'll stay away from it. You know what I mean? So I think something needs to be done shortly at least to make people feel secure and safe. Or else, you know, people simply just won't go there, especially on your own. Do you know what I mean? No one wants the possibility of an encountering some person out of the bushes giving children sweets. You want to avoid that? No, we have our MD meeting tomorrow and I certainly be raising the doubt that we need to be looking at that very, very seriously. And we need not to be looking at the park on its own. We have the next to the park is St. Connells, which is renovated and more and more services are being provided there. So that means more and more people are attending that area. With Cargillia, which has recently extended their premises. So there's a massive footprint there that is an attraction to a lot of people for different reasons. And in the middle of that is the Bernard McMillan City Town Park, which is a fantastic facility. And just listening to Emma, we need to build a confidence of parents like Emma again and what the general population, they come into the Bernard McMillan City Park, which is a safe place to be. But unfortunately, as I said, there's been a number of reasons, say, for incidents down through the years. And we need to ensure that people have confidence in coming to the park that they're looked after and the way they do that, I think, is for us to employ park wardens there from the park opens until it closes in the evening time. You're there to help and assist and reassure all the people who visit and use the park that it is a safe place and they're there to help and assist them. Yeah, Emma, I call this as if it was something sinister, why would the seats be left out openly? Not everything is something suspicious. So I mean, this is suspicious. There's no reason for a fully grown adult to be leaving suites there. And maybe they call it missed the fact that he actually handed your son suites and said they were all gone. I mean, I don't really feel there's any mitigating circumstances here because at least this person, even if they didn't have motivations beyond what they were doing, they used to understand that this is not really suitable adult behavior. There's no real excuse for it. But even if there was no bad intention, it still doesn't sit well with parents, you know, to leave chocolate on the slide. It just doesn't sit well with anybody. I don't think, you know, it's just not right. I call this as to why are the trees and shrubs around the playing area in the two parks? I'm not familiar with it. Could that area be cleared? Go ahead. I think it would be a good idea to remove them trees, but that's just my opinion, but it is the opinion of a lot of other people too, you know, to have it a little bit more easy viewing. Improve lines of science. So that people can't be hiding in trees, you know, around the park, especially around the kids playing area, What do you think of that, Councillor, that, you know, particularly around the children's playing area, maybe we should just open up the lines of sites and... Open the rocks, yeah. Yeah, look, I fully support that. I fully support that. Look, with children myself, with grandchildren now, we take them to the park. I mean, you're sitting there, you'd like to see where they're playing, where they're playing, who they're playing with, and that they're not getting in any difficulties or harmful ways. So, yeah, look, that's something we need to look at. And as a council, and I'm sure our door staff look at it regularly, if that's a request, then it can be addressed fairly quickly. There is now a command this time of year, we shouldn't be looking at that and try and do something and open it up a bit more and let the site lines be more visible to all who use the park. And, Councillor, just for clarification, is there currently CCTV in the park? Yeah, there is, yeah. There is, okay. Okay, so we'll see what comes from that. I appreciate your time. Emma, I appreciate you sharing the story as well, and hopefully now something happens whereby you can go back and enjoy that public space. It's different for me. I live in the country, right? But it's different for you. The chance to get the children out and out and the bikes and all that kind of stuff and have a bit of fun. It's more difficult in a built-up area. Emma, thanks very much. No bother, thank you. Best wishes to you and the family. Councillor Jame, I'm on the glade again. 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There must be an election in the background. Or am I just a cynic? Well, both could be true. The EU's new mandatory migrant relocation deal would be the detriment of Ireland and its people. It's important for the Irish people to have a say in this matter by way of a referendum. Don't be jealous, Greg. Everyone likes Patrick Kilty as do I. I thought Patrick was great. As I say, I just think he needs a little bit of a handout with some of the guests. Morning. Oh, my God, Patrick Kilty was cringey and wooden. The fake emotion at the start, please. And the guests need I say more. I don't think he was... I didn't find he was cringey or wooden. Obviously, it's very nerve-wracking. And I thought the emotion was genuine personally, but that's your opinion, and we appreciate it. Greg, Patrick Kilty was very good when compared to Tuberty. It comes across as not so entitled. He never interrupted guests, which is great. As for the two jollies, they must have RTE connections because they're terrible. Well, they work for RTE. They've got a new show on the telly, and they're on two FM's in the afternoon, and they say lads a lot. Right, Caroline McLaughlin is a Tip O'Neill diaspora awardee and joins us on the programme now. Good morning to you, Caroline, and congratulations to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Good morning, and thank you very much for the good wishes. What does something like this mean to you to be recognised in Donagall? It's a huge honour because it's local recognition, right, for someone who's from Balcrania originally and who is away abroad, still very proud of their roots and very much flying that flag and using their platform for good. So it's very much something I'm very proud of to have recognition from home. Now, you've been lauded and praised for your community-building talents and your long-term dedication to giving back to a community. So how do you do that, Caroline? Tell us a little bit about the work that you do. So I work in financial services, so I have a day job that pays my bills. You all need, everyone needs one of those, yes. Yeah, yeah, and I guess I was very fortunate that I had a great education in Crown of College, and then I went to University of Ulster, and I don't take that for granted because my own parents didn't even get a chance to go to secondary school, so it is one of those things where I had those opportunities and I now see that there's so much focus on diversity and social mobility, and it's not always the case still to this day that people have those opportunities. And also that you don't always need education, it's in apprenticeships programmes and what have you. But for me and where I work, we have an Irish network and I've been co-chair for over 10 years. And essentially we use that platform for something good. We do a collaboration with Corporation Ireland, charity based out of Northern Ireland Peace Building. So every year for about 15 years now, we've taken students from two sides of the community to London. We mix them with London students from different ethnic backgrounds. We also have representation from the Irish traveller movement and from Dublin, inner city Dublin. And it's all about networking, broadening horizons, giving them something different to think about. It's not about a career in financial services. We do visit hotel kitchens. We do go to Bloomberg TV studios. We try to just give that boost of confidence and take them out of their environment that they're used to where they can meet new people. And they can be, we can all be I suppose, but particularly young people, dependent on your background, you can be in a bubble really, and it's really great to interact with other people and very quickly you realise that we're basically all the same, aren't we, Caroline? 100 million percent. And for the London students, like I'm very conscious that we go to the state schools and we invite them in. They can see these Canary Wharf towers from where they live, but they've never really been in or around the Canary Wharf region or they don't have anyone to be in their family or network that is working there. So it's a great opportunity for them to also come in and see what's inside the doors of these buildings, see what a trading floor looks like and inspire them to think about what they might want to do in the future. And we see a sort of a public face of, say for instance, our closest neighbour, Britain and Ireland, you know, the British Irish relations, and we maybe sometimes associate that with, you know, what happens at the very top level, politically, the commentary, the diplomacy and all that kind of stuff, but I think, and this is one of the areas you are excellent in, I think really an awful lot of the groundwork, the real stuff that affects real people on day-to-day basis is kind of done under the surface to some extent. It's almost invisible to the general population and that's something you work very hard in, isn't it, in improving those relationships? Oh, completely. It's a real practical thing to do, right? We have a, you know, a small budget to cover some of the expenses. And then, you know, if you don't ask, you don't get, I'm like always, who can do something for free? Can we get a speaker to come in? All my Irish connections. My green book gets a lot of run up to this event and the network that I am co-chair for, like we get volunteers to come have pizza, sit beside the young person and do a bit of a speed networking around the room. And it's just a really practical way of giving back as opposed to just throwing money at something. So it's, you know, it's for us, it's really rewarding. Yeah. And the one thing in visiting the Irish diaspora in various parts of the world, and I hope we can explain this correctly, I've kind of said it before, there's a sense of community togetherness, support that sometimes I think we're seeing more, unfortunately, outside of Ireland. And we also need to be doing the kind of work that's going on in London or Dubai or New York or wherever it might be amongst Irish people at home. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I just think we're doing it better now outside of the country in terms of being there for each other and stuff than we are actually doing on the island if that makes any sense at all. Yeah, and I'm always saying, it takes a village to raise a child. And wherever we go as all immigrants, really, you create a village around you because your family become friends when you, your friends become family when you're away from home. And I guess, you know, I'm always, I'm always in awe of the organizations from Bocana in a way that from me growing up, like the local band, the GA, the community groups, charity groups, my mom's involved in the, you know, the retirement groups where they have coffee mornings. And I feel like they do it so well in Ireland because it's a local community, especially rural Ireland, local community groups. And when you're in a big city, as much as you're in a big city, you're actually still in a small neighborhood, right? So all the neighborhoods of New York because my siblings all live abroad actually. So my other sister, Pauline is in London. My brother's in Boston and my sister, Margo's in New York. So we're all involved in community groups where we live because you have to build that village where you are to find that support. And with amongst our diaspora too, there's different groups of individuals and one which there's quite a bit of focus on and I can really get why there is when people who've moved to another part of the world when they go past working age and all of a sudden their network that was there can sort of begin to sort of diminish and it can be very lonely and then having to access state services and can all be very complicated. And then there are of course students that travel over there, maybe inspired to do so. And then of course, I think students and women in particular are two groups that you like to focus your attentions on. That's right. So being here nearly 25 years in London, alone I've seen charities like the Irish Centre in Camden and I've seen like a local charity to me, Irish Community Services, who are there to support that aging generation of Irish and it's to do with, as you say, like the bureaucracy of claiming for their benefits or their pension or helping them with accommodation needs. But just to create that social forum because they may not be as mobile, some of their friends may have passed on or moved back to Ireland and there's also groups that help that relocation process. So we do what we can in terms of, I do have that day job and I am a single parent and I have, it's a full on life but I try to get other people who maybe have more time or disposable income to give. And so we are very much there to support attend events like this week in London, Irish Centre, Dermot Kennedy and Glen Hansard are doing an event for charity on Wednesday. So there's, you know, like right, get your wallets out and go and support it. And, you know, you're all lucky to be working in a well-paid industry, financial services especially. But I find like the Irish companies here, especially the construction companies are so generous. Amazing. So generous. And you were over for the vintage day and you just see that in operation, right? They're just there with their, what can we do? Not being waiting to be asked, what can we do? Yeah, it is amazing. There's some amazing people over there. But it's pulling it all together and that's the networking side of it, isn't it? Because you can have loads of people that are well resourced and have good hearts and but you have to get them all together, get them at the same events, get them into the same room and that's the suppose where all that's the, that's the bit I would struggle with, you know, that's the networking side of it. Yeah, and that's, I guess for me that's, I'm like right here is my, the WhatsApp comes out from Caroline or the email comes out from Caroline with a big invitation in the title and then the price will be in there for what they need to pay to attend. And I guess during the pandemic, we really, we found an ask from the local charities here where I live and it was, you know, to be a befriender, to be someone who would call up someone or to go to the older Irish person's house to help them with technology because they gave out like iPads and what and they wanted to help them with how do we use these? And also we did a hamper at Christmas so for the whole of December, my son and I were delivering hampers to houses and it took a long time but we enjoyed it as much as the recipient enjoyed it because it was a chat at a doorstep that they haven't been able to do for months. You're based in London now but you've travelled all over the world and at the moment we have a situation whereby some young people, a lot of young people are leaving, there's a couple of reasons for it, A, to go out and see the world and explore and grow and what have you and fantastic B, there's those that feel they have no choice, they feel there's nothing here for them. I might ask in a moment what we need to be doing maybe to make it a choice rather than a need but what is your advice for young people looking to travel the world to see new experiences? Yeah, and I guess for me it was very much adventure and I'm still away and just be prepared. I think that people underestimate what it's like to go away and London Irish Centre looks after as many young people as it does old people so look out for your local Irish groups. It's very important that you join those groups, you feel the supports, the GEA was hugely important to me in Australia and in London. I played football and camogie and neither, I'm good at neither and didn't you know but it still was an instant network of people. And I think the sport side of things and particularly in London is kind of replacing the social clubs and things. People are interacting, you're connecting through their GEA club rather than the, do you know the Irish club or whatever it might have been in the past? Exactly and also you don't need to be good at the sport to be part of it. You could be involved in whether it's their social media or their marketing campaign or being a treasurer just turning up to support them, cut the oranges because we had, we still get involved in that side of things and so yeah, be prepared and also be prepared to get your hands mucky because you need to pay rent wherever you go and if you can get some sort of temporary accommodation with someone you know that's great to get your feet on the ground. Secondly, get your CV and make sure it's, you haven't done up as best as ability. So that's there and leverage your network. Who do your parents know? Who do your friends know? Yeah, you have to have a bit of a neck on you, don't you? You have to use your advantage. Finally, you've travelled extensively and I know you're incredibly proud of Bancranne and the initial and particular Peninsula and the county more generally but on your return visits, what do you see that you think we could improve on? So I know that there's big plans for the shorefront in Bancranne so that will be a great and also for Donnery they've also got a grant to do a tourist attraction. So we really found that the world Atlantic way has extended to Donnery Gulf far more now than it had and before the pandemic, I guess there's been that real introduction by the rest of Ireland. We also have the initial and innovation hub just opened there in early September. A fantastic remote working space so I really encourage people who are either going home on holidays or just go on holidays and you can use that space to work from. I've used it myself, it's a great resource. There's a good lot of them all around Donnery Gulf actually so it's a great way to use that flexible working narrative and accommodation I think is sometimes tricky with a lot of the places around and it's expensive so but if Airbnb's become something that's really popular now and family groups go together in those we've done that every year now since the pandemic as well it's a real thing to go as a group and rent somewhere. Lovely stuff, come here, I wish we had more time but Caroline, congratulations and lovely to speak to you and hear of the work that you're doing over there vitally, vitally important stuff and I'm delighted that it's actually been recognised. So Caroline McLaughlin, Tip O'Neill, Diaspora awardee thank you so very much and again congratulations to you. 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A letter Kenny mother has been left shaken after her three-year-old son was allegedly approached and given sweets by a man in the Burner McGlinchy time park. Emma's son became unsettled and when she went to investigate she found a pile of sweets accompanied by a note reading four kids from Santa at the top of one of the slides within the play area. Her son told her that the man was hiding in the bushes. Speaking on today's 9-to-noon show Emma says the man's behaviour was very unnerving. If you were going to be kind enough to give a child sweets, Greg, anybody would go approach a parent and say, you know, would it be okay if they had a bar of chocolate, you know, if you don't hide in trees and speak to a child privately and then they're into trees again. Well, cancer Jeremy McGlinigal says this is not an isolated incident. While CCTV is in operation at the park, cancer McGlinigal has repeated calls for further resources to be put in place. We also have been looking for park wardens to be there on a permanent basis, to be there every day when the park is open. The assistant help mullers and people who are using the parking to keep an eye on it generally and they try and prevent this type of activity. I mean, the chocolate bars in the swing is so wrong in so many levels and so many concerning in so many levels. Ireland and Qatar are co-hosting a major UN summit in New York today about the global Sustainable Development Goals. T. Shockley of Radker will address the conference later with Tonish Jamee Hall-Martin also at the UN for the summit. Just 12% of the 20-30 targets for the SDGs are currently on schedule to be completed. Pinafoul MEP Barry Andries will attend the summit. He says it's important, Ireland leads in getting things back on track. Euro stat examines where EU countries are and we were already way off track pre-COVID. So there's 100 million people living in Europe who are at risk of poverty and that really tells you all you need to know so you can extrapolate from that that it's obviously much worse in developing countries. A number of shops in latter Kenny have been targeted over the weekend by what is understood to be a shoplifting guy. Gardie have confirmed that they received reports of a theft in the Port Road area on Saturday morning at half past 10 and a short time later in the Listnenin area at 11 o'clock. It's believed those responsible are responsible are from outside the county. Gardie say no arrests have been made but investigations are ongoing. The Minister of State for Children Equality Disability Integration on Youth says she is aware that there are significant staffing gaps across three children's development network teams in Donegal. Minister Ann Robert recently visited the county to discuss various challenges in the area. Ellen Butler has more. Minister Ann Robert has fully acknowledged the impact staffing shortages in Donegal North CDNT, Donegal East and in its own CDNT and Donegal South West CDNT are having on children and families. During a recent visit to the county, Minister Robert met with members of Donegal North CDNT and HSE management to discuss the various challenges they face, including recruitment initiatives, vacancies and waiting lists as well as how to tackle them. The Minister has engaged with local HSE management in Donegal and CHO1 generally and is fully supportive of the range of measures being initiated to enhance capacity, including trying to attract new graduates, establishing a bursary scheme, attending jobs fairs and outsourcing assessments to private providers. Minister Robert is optimistic that success in these endeavours will see teams enhanced, capacity across the network teams increased and access to services developed. Donegal County Council is coming under pressure from councillors in the initial municipal district to ensure a water tanker that is currently on order is located in the peninsula. There have been calls for many years for such a resort for any shown to provide backup to the fire service. There was huge disappointment when a much sought after tanker was located in Letter Kenny with the town having been identified as optimum location. Now with the council belief to be awaiting the delivery of a second tanker, Councillor Martyn McDermott says there can be no questions over the location of it. It has to come to any shown this time because it's very very unfair the last time that it didn't because we with the peninsula put it forward and we were the ones that pushed to get it ordered. There can be no way around this time is coming to this peninsula and being part of our fire service here and then the show. 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But it's people in this instance from Ireland who've done very well for themselves and rather than resting on their laurels, they give freely of their free time and their expertise and money to build networks and strengthen Irish communities abroad, which I think is really worthwhile. And it's a diaspora award. So she gets my vote anyway. The late, late was great best host in Ireland, Patrick Kilty. Okay. Patrick Kilty was cringe at the start, fake emotion in my opinion. Didn't like him giving Ryan the digs at the beginning. Yeah, a few people seem to not like the Ryan, Tobredy digs, but I've probably cleared it with Ryan. And it is comedy. And I suppose it cleared the air a little bit. It was the elephant in the room, to some extent. I didn't get the cringe or the fake emotion at all. I'm not going to lie to you. Good morning, Greg. Our government don't mind sending our money to Ukraine. They say it's for non-lethal stuff. But how do we know? There's no audit. We already pay $30 million a week of taxpayers' money for the refugees. Don't do it for your own homeless. How is this allowed? I'm not sure about the $30 million a week. I'll double check those figures. I presume we don't know if there's a, there is no audit, is there? Greg, I'd like to know what the lane setup is on Lifford Roundabout heading towards letter Kenny. There used to be arrows on it to show which lane to use. But now there are no arrows. So going by the rules of the road, you should use the left lane for first right and second exit. But everyone seems to use the right lane to go straight ahead. I hate using this roundabout now. I use the left lane when going towards letter Kenny. Am I wrong, Greg? Well, my, the way I was taught was if it's on your average roundabout, if it is, you know, 12 o'clock on the clock, or before you use the left lane, if it's after 12 o'clock, use the right lane. Now that's on a two-lane setup. I don't know why they got rid of the arrows. It's similar. There's other roundabouts like that. The totally arrow roundabout, for an example, too, there's no arrows as such. So I don't know the rules. If it were me, I'd be in the left lane heading towards letter Kenny H and every time. Anyone out there? We always get a good reaction when we talk about the rules of the road and roundabouts. Let us know. I know there are some professional drivers out there that will tell us the facts. Some shopkeeper might recall a person buying an unusual amount of Kinder suites could be a possible lead. It's not an unusual amount, though. It was like a couple of those multi-packs. It could be me to be honest with you because I've gone in and bought them for birthday parties and things as well. The little Kinder, they're about two inches long. You know those wee things and you get about 14 of them in a packet. Greg, cut down the trees and fence the park properly. One way in and out. Yeah, I think we're at that space now. And I don't think there's any harm in that anyway for people to feel more secure. I call this time to put proper security in our parks. They're not safe, believes the listener. As I say, we don't hear everything. We hear a lot, but we don't hear everything and we've heard a couple of really quite disturbing stories in public spaces around Letra Kenneal for the last month. Hi, Greg, listening to the lady on about the park and my stomach is pure sick. Something definitely wrong there with that situation. The lady was right to report it and good on her wee boy. Maybe the guard should take a round and walk about every now and again. Thank you. That comes in from Lorna. Yeah, indeed. Maybe if people thought the word. But how does someone access where that person was from? Again, I'm not from Letra Kenneal. I'm familiar with the park, of course. I mean, they're walking around. Blue Shorts was a green-top beard. It's really quite distinctive. 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Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. OK, we're joined on the programme now by Marie Shields, Business Development Executive with Letter Kenny Chamber. Good morning, Team Marie. Morning, Greg. Thanks so much for calling in. Thank you. We've invited you in because it is a milestone. The Chamber now has 300 members and amongst them, they employ over 8,000 people. I mean, it really is a powerhouse now, isn't it, in terms of business representation? Yeah, it really is. We're representing a whole range of sectors and different types of employer and it's brilliant. It's kind of a milestone that we're working toward and we're delighted to have achieved it. And as you mentioned, it's from the biggest companies, the biggest employers in the town and surrounding areas. It's not just Letter Kenny. We'll get into that in a moment. But right down to the smaller businesses, employing one or two or three people that are now currently members. Yeah, that's the thing. It's about making it inclusive for anybody who is doing or wants to do business in Letter Kenny and the wider Northwest. That's what it's all about. Is there a target? Like, I mean, obviously you've broken through the 300. Yeah, that would be great if that was the target where the target ends. But it'll be 300 and counting. 300 was sort of a figure that the Chamber were keen to reach. But yeah, we're hoping to grow far beyond that, if possible. And we've seen recently with recent events whereby potentially the next tee-shock, Mary Lou MacDonald addressed businesses as part of the Letter Kenny Chamber launch. You know, Leo Veradkar has been up here in the past, Michael Martin as well. In terms of a united voice for business, it's very critical. It has a very critical role in that regard, in terms of lobbying and talking to government and trying to, I suppose, forge measures that benefit the Northwest. Yeah, that's a key part of Letter Kenny Chamber, our CEO, 20 Forester, would make lobbying, submissions locally and nationally on behalf of all of our business members. That's why the more members we have, the more representation we can give at that level. So, you know, when you're a member, surveys go out, you can have your say, we speak to you directly, and then we can feed that back to government, which is crucially important to the Northwest. Yeah, and you also can get a good sense with a broad network of businesses of the mood, in terms of sentiment, where it is now, where I believe it's going. I mean, it really is the finger on the pulse stuff to get the information. Yeah, it really is. We can kind of get a good snapshot of challenges, current challenges and how that changes, and even we can identify gaps and opportunities too. Yeah, and there's a major money announced for Letter Kenny, obviously then continuing to forge stronger links with Derry as a Northwest sort of a city region. It's an exciting time, I suppose, for the Chamber with what is to come, not just where we're at now. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, we have a memorandum of understanding with Derry Chamber. We're trying to do a lot of cross-border work and just, I suppose, keep things moving, keep things growing, and provide a lot of networking opportunities for all of the different members as well. So, even though the lobby is important, so is the facilitation of networking, referrals, promotion and that type of thing. Yeah, and it's a lot of that done through events because there's more events now, I think, than there has ever been. Yeah, yeah. How does that work? What do you do? We do a lot of different events. So, Greg, you were at the President's lunch that you had mentioned as well. That was sort of a bigger event, and we have smaller events as well, sort of a couple of events a month. It could be anything from a topic like sustainability to cybersecurity, marketing, entrepreneurship. So, we would ask our members what they want, and then we try to provide peer-led information there. So, you're learning something, but also, you might get chatting to somebody who could refer you to some work as well. Yeah, exactly. And that's where a lot of the business is done, I suppose. Mm-hmm. Now, it is Letterkenny Chamber. What is the situation in terms of membership from outside Letterkenny? Obviously, primarily it's going to be from Letterkenny, but is it open to be on Letterkenny and talk to us a little bit about that? Yeah, so we are Donegal's only full-time chamber that's affiliated with Chambers Ireland, and that's important from that lobbying point of view. But we welcome members from anywhere, so anyone that wants to genuinely do trade in Letterkenny or the Northwest region, they're welcome to join. Our focus would be Letterkenny in the wider areas, but we have a lot of members now coming from beyond because they want the same level of representation, and they use Letterkenny as their, you know, it's a wide catchment area where people will come to network, and yeah, so no, we don't exclude anybody from outside of Letterkenny at all. Yeah, and especially, you know, not for, it doesn't have to be for new businesses, but you know, relatively new businesses, it's a great way to instantly plug yourself into a really big network, you know, not just for advice, but for, you know, as you said earlier on, for, you know, exchange of services or products. Yeah, there's a social element as well. Oh, you used to tell me about that. Yeah, but I think... Can individuals join? Yeah, a little bit of this good crack. There's a lot of positivity to business. Yeah, a lot of breakfasts. Business can be a little bit isolating and challenging, so I suppose even if you're not even new, if you're a smaller business, sometimes it's just nice to even get out if you're working remotely or you just want to have a chat with like-minded people, there's that part of the network as well, which is good. You're from Carrick, obviously, your sister works with us here. Hi, Neve. Hi, Neve. Nice, she's waving at you. You used to be childish, but I'm not. Cringe, okay. And I'm literally cringing. But how have you enjoyed this? Because you are... This position is the first time... This position is... You are the first person in this position, so really you're setting your own bars as well as, you know, the expectations of the Chamber. It's quite exciting. Yeah, it is. It's great to be able to sort of... Your ambitions, sorry, not bars. Yeah, ambitions is the level of... Yeah, there are targets that I, you know, expected to reach and I enjoy trying to reach and surpass those. And I suppose I was fortunate coming into it, even though the role was brand new. There were good groundworks laid, you know, by the Chamber team and the Chamber Council before I arrived. So it's nice to be... I really enjoy it because it links into what I had done before, but it's nice to carve out something new as well. So what's your message to anyone who's not a member that would like to become a member of Flutter County Chamber and talk to us, you know, about how big you must be or not, don't need to be or whatever, that kind of stuff? Yeah, there are no restrictions in that way. It's kind of any self-employed person, any employer, any, you know, you're welcome to contact myself or Tony at the Chamber. Call in, call us, email me and just have a chat. Oftentimes I prefer to listen to the prospective member to see what we could do for them, whether it's a good fit, it normally always is. It's a little bit like any membership. It's what you want to get from it, and then we'll do our best to provide that. But now there are no restrictions at all. If you're kind of... If you're doing business and you think that you could do... You could benefit from some promotion, networking, a little bit of socialisation with like-minded business people, then please get in touch and ask us and we're more than happy to provide info. The Chamber Awards are coming up as well. That's another big one on the calendar. How's that going? Yeah, we had a really a vast amount of interest. All the nominations are in now, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, so yeah, there'll be some short listing announced very soon and it makes for a great night. It's very good for morale in the business community and it's a good recognition for businesses to celebrate all the different things that they do so well because we can be quite humble in Donegal. So it's a nice night to just brag about all the things that are going well within business. Yeah, we're really not good sometimes at self-promotion, I think where it's not bred into us. It doesn't come naturally to us. Exactly and the night, the big night question is, do you know if the top of your head, I don't want to throw it on you. The 10th of November, yeah. The top, it's drilled into me. Yeah. The 10th of November, okay. And that's going to be a great night out as well. Are tickets available for that at the moment or has that process started? I don't think it has actually, has it? Yeah, yeah, I believe so. Contact the Chamber, I'm sorry. Yeah, contact us. Okay, anything that you want to add, effectively I suppose it is, is to recognise through the 300 mark, recognise the 63 new members which were acquired in the last year, which is a huge percentage jump and say look at, you know, come and join it. The bigger it gets, the more powerful it is in terms of, you know, lobbying as well. And it's not just the national scene, obviously the Council heavily reliant on, you know, rates and all that type of stuff as well. So it's representing business views locally and nationally. Yeah, that's the thing. And I suppose I'd like to acknowledge and thank all of the members. So whether they've been acquired in the last year or members who have been with the Chamber for years and years, you know, your membership is valued and appreciated and would like to see it grow and everyone to mix and for, I suppose, the collective voice to grow as well within the Northwest. Yeah, indeed. Okay, and I'm rising tide, as they say, lifts all boats. So the stronger the economic development is across the region, the better it is. And we heard even at that launch that you mentioned, or was it that one? I think it was, yeah. You know, the importance of investing in and supporting education. So that's another work of the Chamber to sort of platform those views and those conversations because we do have to be looking to the future as well, of course, Marie. Thanks for your time and continued success. And we really do appreciate you calling up. Thanks so much. Oh, if anyone wants more information, I'll just get in contact. Yeah, just you can call us at the Chamber. You can email me, Marie, at lettercannychamber.com. If you have any interest and pass it on to any peers of yours who might be interested in joining in as well. All right, great stuff. Marie Shields, who is Business Development Executive with Lettercanny Chamber. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at highlandradio.com. 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I'm a child minder and recently, one of my parents witnessed a man in the same park with his trousers half on, half off. I was warning everyone. The same person has been seen there one or two mornings. So he seems to be irregular in the area. The other day I was in the park, I made it clear to everyone around me that it's a real danger to let children out of your eyesight. And I think that person that you talk of, we did speak to a mum who witnessed that activity as well. So you're not on your own in relation to that. Right. Nula Moore is an author. And that book she's written is Limitless. Good morning, Nula. Can you hear me, Nula? No. Unfortunately, we're having some technical difficulties in reaching Nula. We'll come back to her in a moment. I just want to make sure she's connecting to audio. I don't believe she is, but say nothing. We'll sort that out in a moment. Whilst we do do that, I shall read more of your comments. Greg, can you, can anyone tell me why cycles use the dual carriageway in letter? Can you not the cycle lane? Yesterday, a cyclist was on the road and he thought he owned it. Why is there not a sign up for cyclists to use? It's very dangerous to use that road now. I think there was a road race on yesterday. But that being said, we did speak to cyclists in the past and especially the ones that go very quickly that they don't necessarily like to use cycle lanes, especially with their small tyres and with other traffic on them. So just because there is a cycle lane, I don't think you can be sure that every single person will actually be using it, whether we like that or not. I have a 13-year-old who walks to the bus in the morning and I'm anxious now, but he has no choice as we both work and I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry if that is the case. We don't want to be instilling any fear in anyone, but there are issues that we just simply can't ignore either. So that's why we have to highlight and platform these things. Okay, let me see. Can I speak to Nula more now? Nula, are you there? Nula, I can't hear you. Can you speak to me, Nula? Yes, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you perfectly. We are live on the radio. Good morning to you. And what a beautiful view behind you. I'm sure you're not waist-deep in how she's gone. Disappeared. It's absolutely lovely. Right, Nula. Congratulations, by the way, on the beautiful book. Getting it out, getting it printed, getting it written. It's a wonderful achievement to be able to have done that, isn't it? You must feel so proud. I absolutely am so proud. And I think a lot of it is that when you get to a certain point, it's lovely to be able to put your history in a way that it can be looked back on and be, I suppose, something to be proud of because a lot of what we have achieved has been in the last 10, 15 years. And now with the, I suppose, the speed and progress of all media, it's lovely to have it in such a format that we can look back and say, yeah, this is our history. Now, you are born and bred in Dingle, but you do have strong connections to the Northwest as well. So we might as well get them on the table straight away, Nula. Yeah, I was born in Kilibegs. Oh, that's pretty strong. Yeah, it is pretty strong. Yeah, my mother was Bridget Magone from Kilibegs. And all my family on both sides, still a lot of them live in Kilibegs, still. So my father in the early years, my grandfather, Ned Moore, took one of the bigger boats at that time, a 59 footer from Dingle to Kilibegs in 1939. So the Moors and the Magones are still very, very big in the family tree in Kilibegs and in Donegal in general. So yeah, very, very bedded in the green and gold, both in Kerry and Donegal. Brilliant stuff. Now, I know what open water swimming is, obviously, it's pretty obvious, but you're also an ice swimmer. So what's an ice swimmer? You know, I think as time moves on, we have wild swimming, ice swimming, cold water swimming, winter swimming, but we're just swimmers who swim in cold water. So in 2011, Anne-Marie Ward from Dunn-Fanahy and myself, we went to New York because Anne-Marie had just completed the North Channel. And in 2006, we were part of a team who swam around Ireland, 56 days, starting in Kerry-Finn and rotating Ireland. So we had many years of really strong swimming. We ended up in New York at the World Open Water Swimming Association conference where Anne-Marie was awarded World Open Water Swimmer of the Year. We met up with Rambark High. He was introducing ice swimming as a swimming, I suppose, a standard of water five degrees and under. And we said, come on over. So in 2011, we invited Rambark High to Donegal and the first ice mile was completed. Even though it's supposed to be five degrees and under, we were 5.66 degrees in Molleroy Bay. And we completed a mile at that temperature in Molleroy Bay with the Shippewa and Saabakwa and a lot of the Marine Rescue Unit. So we brought ice swimming through Molleroy Bay in Donegal to Ireland back at that time 12 years ago. And really it's all open water swimming then, but there are just different challenges within that. And we see that in other sports as well. And your love of the water goes back to your dad, as you mentioned, and jumping off his fishing boat taught to us a little bit about that. You know, as children, I think when you grow up, the sea is a way of life. You know, for us, any of the coastal communities, and I think it would be the same for any of the areas around Donegal where you are there, it's like the sea is a way of life. Going to the beach is a way of life. It's you get up and the sea is in your blood. For us, we were very lucky that on a Sunday, my father would take us out, throw us in, and we would swim to shore. And that wouldn't have been an uncommon thing at that time. I think what's very interesting is when you look back at that, like from a very young age, we were risk assessing. We were jumping off piers. And your primary goal was always trying to figure out how you get out. And I suppose your greatest fear is that your parents would catch you or you get given out to. So I think from a very young age, from maybe six, seven, eight and nine, we were swimming in water that now would begin to be quite, I suppose, challenging. But for us, it was a rite of passage. So the skills, I think I learned at that young age, swimming from an area of Slaudin around to being born, you know, navigating around by a lighthouse would be probably unheard of for children now, but that was what we did as a very young group of people. Amazing stuff. What is the character trait that you have that is most critical to be able to achieve what you can achieve? I think one of the interesting quotes that I use in the book is, when you're picking your team, you can teach skills, but you can't teach character. And that's an interesting question. And thank you for asking it. I think characteristics, my father always said, you never take your eye off the sea. And it'll take you tomorrow. It can take you tomorrow. And there's a beautiful quote in the book from a man that is a Pat Connor Balagall. And it's, you know, and I'm going to say this in Irish. So it's really about the fact that if we give the sea the chance, it will take us and it's not out of badness. It's just what she does. So for me, I think growing up in and around the water, the most important thing that we can have as a swimmer is situational awareness, emotional intelligence, understanding of our position in the big picture, putting a team around us that are there to understand the challenge. So if you're going in for a five, 10, 15 minute swim in the winter, or if you're going in to swim the North Channel like Anne-Marie or swim around Ireland like we did, you need to have in place a plan. So for me, the characteristics would always be, I suppose, a humility and understanding, courage, strength, bravery, but also I suppose making sure that you understand exactly what it is that you want from the swim. Because if you're just going in for a short swim, you still have to understand the challenge to which you're going in. So there's a lot of characteristics, but I think the most important thing is an understanding, honesty and humility. Yeah, and our dad always advised us, because we were raised by the sea as well, to respect the sea, which I think is a catch all for an awful lot of what you've been talking about, respect its power, respect its whims and what have you. So in terms of the book, it's obviously it's going to focus on some of your swims and where you were at, both physically, geographically and mentally, I presume as well, but you're like all of us. Life changes, doesn't it? I mean, we think we're in a period of our life where everything seems grand or we can manage everything that we're dealing with and then things change in our life and it's often as we get older and then we sort of have to start reassessing and refocusing. Did that happen with you a little bit? Obviously it does for everyone, Nula, but just in terms of what you wanted to achieve, where you're at, then we all get chocked this curve ball at some point or other. Yeah, that's a very... Yeah, I think that is the curve of the book and thank you for asking that. You know, when we swam around Ireland, we went in as six swimmers and we thought, okay, it's going to be just all we have to do every day is swim between four and six miles each. What else happens? But then as we turned the North Coast, came down the East Coast and then headed West, you know, you're backing up this back-to-back immersion, you're putting in this whole picture of this is not just about the swim and the courage and bravery it took to finish that swim by using 28 miles to get up the West Coast. It became about buying into a common objective, it became about working with teens, it became about trust. When we finished that swim, unprecedented in the world, of that type of an immersion, you know, walking away from something that big, you redefine your relationship with achievement and sacrifice. Like who gives up months of their lives for very little recognition. So the whole arc of recognition, achievement, value, balance, sacrifice was shifting tectonic plates in my life and I know it was in the team as well. So walking away from that and entering into short swims, I felt I had completely broken myself. I mean, there was no reason for anybody to give up on a swim. I mean, we had pushed into the abyss and the team had held us together to get us there. So what I had broken within myself was my relationship with sacrifice and value. Like, I mean, if I give up this, what do I get? And then as time passed and you know, I did a lot of other big swims, I set up swims in the area, I just wanted other people to experience what we were experiencing. You know, that sense of power and amazing courage. But then I fell out of love of marathon swimming because like, where was the value coming from? If you give up six, seven hours, what do you get? And for me, my value shifted in that I wanted to feed my spirit. I wanted to get more for me. And I think we do have a very strange relationship with recognition and achievement. So my journey going into the ice was to be pushed back. There was something so exciting about not being able to do something. And when you go into the very cold water, and I'm sure a lot of people now are experiencing that cold shock, it forces your mind to readdress your breathing. And for a lot of people, it's a breathing thing. For me, it was a challenge. So when I was pushed back, I loved having to push forward and train for what stopped me. And then the ice was a short swim. So in my life curve, I then hit all of these kind of like walls where do I find value? Where do I find achievement? Like what keeps me honest? Because I was able to train at about 70% and rock up and do a six hour swim. But I felt I was hoodwinking myself. Yeah, and whilst you're tossing and turning with all of those challenges and taking them on and introspective and all that type of stuff, then obviously there are other people that you have to give up your time as well. And obviously you became a carer then for your father. So how does that, I mean, obviously it's a lovely thing to be able to do. But then it sort of throws, it does throw a spanner in the work of maybe what you want to do, if that makes sense. So was that a, was it hard to strike a balance there? Because it's a very difficult time of your life in any case. Yeah, but I think caring for people's parents, you know, caring for my father and caring for people's, you know, when you're paying for your children, caring for your, that's an arc of life. And I suppose for me, like it was, I do talk about it in the book because like I was faced with the challenge. I didn't have time, but I still wanted to find greatness within myself. And, you know, for me, the ice was such an easy thing to control. You know, people thought, you know, used to say to me, like, how do you do what you do? How do you put yourself into freezing environments? And I would say, well, do you want to meet my daddy? You know, and, and I think if we can just find an avenue where you can achieve some level of progress in chaos, my life shifted in its balance. But in that balance, I was able to sit myself down and say, well, if you can just do this and find achievement within that, because I think we all, we can't go through 15, 20 years of our lives and not have highs and lows. We all hit troughs where balance isn't there. We don't run out, like we all run out of brownie points at some point. Yeah. Now, yours is a remarkable story that, and you've lived a life that many won't be able to live. But your story in your book is like a really good song. You know, it's relatable and in different ways. We all kind of go through the same stuff. Yours is very extreme. Yours is about endurance. Yours is about, you know, battling and what have you. But other people have, it's all relative, isn't it? And they presume people will be able to, you know, wonder at what you've achieved, but also relate to your life journey that we've been talking about for the last little while. And I think it's interesting, because for me, like going south of Cape Horn and letting go in the Bering Strait, like it's about control. Like it takes an awful lot to trust yourself and it takes an awful lot to let go. So when like I was on the southern tip of Cape Horn, you know, 100 nautical miles south of the mainland of South America, like letting go of that boat and trusting myself and my team were the hardest things to do, because the reality of the situation is what if they lose me? But at times the reality is what if I lose myself? And I think everybody has that opportunity to let go and take control of their lives. And you don't have to go to those extremes. For me, the hardest thing at times was turning the key of my door and going home. And facing my reality. So I think everybody has their own Mount Everest and everybody has their own extreme. And I think it's very important that we acknowledge and respect that within everybody. Yeah, for sure. And if you've achieved the remarkable as part of a team, are you a good team player though? Or can you actually work in a team but are you a good team player? You know what? I hope you don't get any text in on this now. I would like to think I am. I think there's different types of teams. There's the teams you set up for yourself and then there's the teams you've come part of. That's it. For second, I'm talking off the earth. Yeah, I would think so. I would think I'm very emotionally intelligent and situational awareness. What I loved about team is the person I became in those teams for me was amazing. I was invited recently to Carton House to speak to the Irish rugby team before they left for France. And I think that's testament really to where other people view me. I would like to think so. But I think it's a brilliant compliment that actually, isn't it? It's a great, you talked about recognition and why you do things. I mean, that is astonishing really. That's an amazing invite to receive. It was and I remember standing in front of the team and talking about the fact that we are all on the cusp of greatness. And I know that might sound like such a coin of phrase. But unless you keep pushing, like, I mean, I'm not talking about greatness in other people's opinions, but it's trying to get the best version of you. Because when you're in a team environment where everybody's working and it was like when we were heading up the West Coast, we had, you know, the Brenton Proctor, Derek Flanagan. We had all of these amazing Sheep Havens of Aquaclub. They were working so hard to keep us strong so that we could achieve. And that's what teams do. They keep your perimeter clear, find progress in the clutter, but make you the best version of yourself and those environments. So I would like to think that I am a very good team player. Very good. And obviously, in someone reading this book, you hope that they enjoy it, that they love the story, that they go on your adventures with you, that they understand what you went through and the markable things that you've achieved and the experience that you've had. But what else do you want the reader to come away with? Do you want them to see the potential within them? Do you want them to set new goals? Do you want them to feel inspired? Is that important to you? Or if it happens, all well and good? I suppose in writing it, one of my greatest focuses was I wanted to leave my legacy in print because I feel we drift into the gray of today's world. I would really genuinely love if my family, my nieces, my nephews wouldn't have seen the crazy, but in particular, see the strength, the courage it takes to let go and the commitment it takes to be the person that you want to be within yourself. And I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the journey. It's not always about the outcome, it's what you give up to be who you want to be. And I think what I would love people to see in the book is the fact that we're all human, like we all break, we rebuild, we break. I used to sit at home with a cup of tea and the cup of tea and the pen and paper and try and train for what stops me. And I was very lucky as a child growing up, like we were exposed to the risks of the sea. So risk assessing my entire life was part of my journey. But I would like people to understand that putting people around you whose focus is to try and help you navigate out of chaos. Because if you put yourself in the Bering Strait or Offs Line Head or in the middle of Donegal Bay, you don't see chaos, you rotate your arms, but the team find progress. And if all we can do at times is try and keep our perimeter clear and allow the people around us to navigate us out of a storm. And one of my father's great sentences was that no storm can hit you on four sides. So just rotate and find your calm. So what I would love people to find is just a journey through chaos into madness and hopefully find strength. Yeah, indeed. We could all do with a bit of that. The book is called Limitless. From Dingle to Cape Horn, Finding My True North in the Earth's Vastest Oceans. It's Nula Moore, who we've been speaking to. And Nula, it's going to be available from Gill Books, all the usual stores and what have you. And I'm sure you can get it online as well. All right, please go ahead. On Saturday evening, I will be in Arnold's in Dunn-Fanahee. And from half six to half a state, we're just going to be celebrating the round Ireland in particular. It's been a challenging few years and I know people are going to get together and going to be doing a little presentation. And Marie Ward is going to be there and we're going to be sharing some of our journeys with a lot of the team. And then between half past three and five o'clock in McAuliffe's in Dunn-Fanahee, I'll be doing a book signing if anybody's interested. And I'm sure there will be. Nula, congratulations on the brilliant piece of work and it's written on some brilliant achievements in life as well. Thank you so much for your time. I really do appreciate it. That is Nula Moore, author of her new book, Limitless. Nula's new 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. It's the great autumn of savings at Supervalue with over a thousand price cuts on all the big brands you love. Like the Messos Bleach 750 mil was 220, now 175. Johnson's Cotton Buds 100 piece was 127, now 95 cent and money off vouchers every week on the app too. So pop in for great savings in store online this autumn at Supervalue. From all the leading insurers, so you get a great price. 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We're joined in studio now by Letter Kenny Businessman, owner of Watson's Higher Letter Kenny, John Watson. Thanks for joining us, John. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. And helping us to get the message out there. Because you, and as it turns out, a number of businesses were targeted by an organised gang or an organised group of individuals anyway. I suppose talk us through what you experienced. What seems so? There was a gang or a group, as you say, in town Saturday morning and I got a phone call from a son-in-own that there had been three people in the shop, and they had taken a substantial amount of stock and left in a great care. Now, the two gentlemen in question left the shop and drove off, and they left the lady behind. She stayed in the shop five minutes after, and then they picked her up. But when I went and done some homework, it seems that Euronix in town had been hit as well and Smoth's Toy Store had been hit. Fairly well organised. Came out of the shop. We got CCTV, obviously, and they browsed around. Just don't want to raise a special look, obviously, but they browsed around and picked up two items, just watched it out when the shop was very busy. Yeah. They seemed to release all the staff or tied up and just watched it out. Yeah, and it's brazen. And I suppose in retrospect, it looks a bit dodged on CCTV, but in that moment, it's, you know, everything's just going on. What kind of stuff did they take? Was it big goods or...? On our shop, they took Milwaukee Power Tools, they tagged with the Milwaukee Tools, so they took a Twanpeck Toolkit and a gas needle gun, sorry, a battery needle gun. Yeah. Milwaukee needle gun. The value was 1,500 euros. My God. So they seemed to know what they were looking for. High-end items. High-end items. High-value items. And brazen, as you like, picked them up, walked out the door. Picked them up and walked around the store for four or five minutes on their hand, as if they were browsing, and they know what they're doing, they obviously know what they're doing. And the Gareland question, Ted, a staff member, asked them questions about a product. So they seemed to really send it to the staff for all busy. Um, did you get the impression they were local people from outside the county? They weren't from Dunning, Illinois. Okay. Definitely not. Did they speak with foreign accents? Well, I was talking to another shopkeeper, and he seemed to think that the Gareland question is not his accent. Okay. Now, if you go on my Facebook page, obviously, the photographs are there and the care read is there and everything's there. And it just turned out that the car is for Shale and Limerick. The minute it's up for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Okay. Yeah. Right. So they went to you. They were obviously on a spree. Then they went to Ben Sweeney's Smith Toys. Do we know in your conversations then what kind of items were taken from there? I believe in your onyx. They took two high-end vacuum cleaners, Dyson vacuum cleaners. Oh, wow. They are expensive. They are. They're about a thousand euros a year. High quality, so. So from what I can gather, they hit Smith's Toys first, the retail part first. Then the timeline, they seemed to have had Ben Sweeney's and then they came to us then. So I would encourage people to smart a check their CCTV between 11 and 12. The photographs from my Facebook page, I would nearly guarantee we weren't the only three shops hit. You know, if they came to the town on a spree, they've had more than three shops. And I wonder why the woman was left behind? I don't know. Maybe she's just a decoy or maybe she's a set of eyes or ears. It's obviously something that worked through here and know exactly what's going on. And your warning is, is that we know Smith's Ben Sweeney's, your place was hit, but it's possible with the way they operate that no one's on a stock take-sync since or doesn't realise that something is missing. Well worth checking the floor. I would just, if you've got CCTV scans or your CCTV between 11 and 12 on Saturday morning, the photographs, the people on my website or my Facebook page. How clear are they? They're very clear. If you knew them, you'd know them. Public hit. Okay. The girls seem to be pregnant. She's wearing glasses, dark hair, naked top, black top. The two guys, if very distinctive, the two baseball caps. But like yourself, we go to Beards and glasses. So they are... I was in bed. You were in bed, lucky enough. They are distinctive. Yeah, but we can't rule out the fact that if they are operating like they are operating that they've disguised themselves in some way or other because we could be looking for a pregnant woman who could have a cushion up her top or something. I'm not saying... We've got CCTV from a shop in Banton two weeks ago that they've done the same thing. Right. Okay. Same girls, same two fellas, same car, and they were in Dundalk last week. So it's very unlikely they were around Donegal at the moment. They come in and go out. We can't rule it out. We can't rule it out, but the shop in Banton was two weeks ago. The shop in Dundalk was last week and this week is us. Guardia are on it and it will be sent out the Pulse system nationally as well, of course. I think really the most we can achieve, I mean, if anyone has any information, of course, please get in touch, but as to all other businesses in and around Ladder County, not exclusively Ladder County, to check the CCTV, check your stock and make sure you're not down items yourself. That's right. Oh, check. Anywhere, any of the big towns, Balafate, Donegal Town, I'm sure they come through all these towns. All right. Okay. Anything the public can help you with? Obviously, go on your Facebook, see if they recognise anyone there. If they know the name, past the Guards or sent ourselves, we'll pass the Guards. All right, okay. Big hit. I mean, we're heading towards 10K of what we know. That's right. This is not insignificant. That's not huge. Right. Okay. Anything else you want to add, John? Not at all, Greg. Just if the public could see, keep an eye now and encourage all businesses between now and Christmas, just to be vigilant, check your CCTV, between 11 and 12 on Saturday and the photographs on my Facebook page. Okay. All right. We'll check that out. Thanks very much. John Watson, owner of Watson Hire. With all the stories that matter across the Northwest, it's Greg Hughes on the Ninetyne Noon Show on Highland Radio. The Ninetyne Noon Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. Pour Corsica in cork. Bring burgundy to Black Rock. The taste of France is in store at M&S with 20% of our whole range of incredible French wines. This is not just wine. This is M&S French wine. Over 18s only, subject to availability, T's and C's apply. Please drink responsibly. Sometimes it's just bad luck, but sometimes it's negligence. From minor bumps to life-changing injury, every accident has a story. 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Hi folks, Paul McDevitt here. Invite me to join myself and Jimmy Stafford this Monday night for another edition of the Monday Night Sessions. On the show this week, we welcome Derry Songwriter and Producer, Eamon Cairne. Joe Gibson from Sailor Bill will be joining us ahead of his up-and-coming concert in the Ballard Theatre. And Ray Devine will also be joining us on the show this week. We welcome Derry Songwriter and Producer, Eamon Cairne. Joe Gibson from Sailor Bill will be joining us ahead of his up-and-coming concert in the Ballard Theatre. Ray Devine will also be joining us to tell us all about the up-and-coming Johnny Cramsey weekend and the Alley Theatre in Strasbourg. So, that's the Monday Night Sessions this Monday night between 8pm and 10pm, right here on Highland Radio. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com. OK, it is just turned a minute past 11. It's time for our news update and it's good morning once again to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A letter Kenny Mother has been left shaken after her three-year-old son was allegedly approached and given sweets by a man in the murdered Bernard McGlinchie Tine Park. Emma's son became unsattled when she went to investigate. She found a pile of sweets accompanied by a note reading four kids from Sanda at the top of one of the slides within the play area. Well, Councillor Jerry McMunnigal says this is not an isolated incident. While CCTV is in operation at the park, Councillor McMunnigal has repeated calls for further resources to be put in place. An organised crime gang has made off with thousands of euros worth of goods after targeting a number of businesses in Netta Kenny on Saturday. The theft occurred in Watsonhire, Bents, Winnie, Euronix and Smith's toy store on Saturday morning. Guardi have confirmed that investigations are ongoing, but no arrests have been made. Investigations are underway in Derry after a man was shot last night. Shortly before quarter past 11, police received a report that the man aged in his 20s had been shot in both legs and was found in the vicinity of Marinus Park. Detective Sergeant Ballantyne says two masked men are reported to have been involved in the attack. There's calls for a victims commissioner to support people affected by the troubles. A survey by the Commission for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland shows one in 10 people in the Republic of Ireland could call themselves a victim of conflict in the north. 4% of those living south of the border have been bereaved as a result of the troubles while 7% say they were present or witnessed a troubles-related incident. The Minister of State for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth says she is aware that there are significant staffing gaps across three children's development network teams in Donegal. Minister Ann Robert recently visited the county to discuss various challenges in the area. Long-waited works have finally commenced on Dunfanahy's new health centre. The 2.5 million euro development was due to be completed in 2020 but has faced many delays throughout the years with planning permission granted in 2019. And to mark World Patient Safety Day, letter Kenny University Hospital has developed an initiative to help patients become active partners in their own healthcare. The quality and patient safety team at the hospital has produced a bedside resource which gives patients access to information about how to stay well, how to give feedback about their care and how to get involved as a patient experience volunteer at the hospital. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. All right, thank you very much. Michaela, I want to say good morning to Audrey and Rosemary, Michael, Marie, Annie, Ursula, Beth, Bernie, Ann, Dolly, Molly, Marie, Charlie, all watching across our social media. It's great to have you on board. I watch the show as well as listening wherever you are today. YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland and you'll be able to see Brendan DeVenny talking about sport, G.E.A. more specifically next. Whether it's a five or 10K, half or full marathon, everyone's running journey is different. Find your pace with the Summer of Running series with Irish Life Dublin Marathon. Search Irish Life Summer of Running series to sign all. A Better Life with Irish Life. OK, the deal debate broadcast this evening from 7 p.m. It's host is Brendan DeVenny and he joins us on the show again. Good Monday morning to you, Brendan. How are you getting on? The very best, Greg. Yeah, fresh yourself. I hear you're out doing 5K runs in your head. That was nonsense in my head. That's the only place I ran. I have a pair of runners in the boot of the car which I got for running. I have them about a year. I've never put them on. But I'm going to change. This is it. Now heading into the winter, Brendan. I am going. I'm going to do something. I don't know what it is. What about that one half cab? It's the breathing. You could do that even in the morning. They don't come on really. Yeah. I don't know. I want to do something really that tightens my stomach. Don't eat as much. Is it that easy? Well, I remember the gym years ago and there was an older guy in there and he was in great shape. I'm always looking for advice off people, you know. So I was on about doing sit-ups and getting the core and all that. He said to me, abs are made in the kitchen, my friend. I'll never forget that. Right. So takeaways have to stop that, do I? Well, listen, you never go too hard, Greg. Is there an alternative to white bread? It's so bloody delicious, Brendan. I remember speaking to you years ago and you were on some sort of a mixed bread or something. Do you still, what do you eat, bread? I'm actually, I'm on the gluten-free, to be honest. Greg, I try to just take a wee bit of bread. Yeah, 100% oatmeal if you have to eat the ordinary pan. 100%, it's the best thing your body can deal with. I wouldn't be eating anything else, but this and this, that's just me. Do you run at all now, or? Yeah, I do, but a training stall, not... I know you're training in the gym and all, but I'm just wondering, is it mainly weights and stuff, or do you do running or treadmill or anything like that? For this woman, I think the main thing is to stay kind of loose, you know, stay a wee bit flexible. You know, as time goes on, I think that's the big thing. I've settled that when I'm driving and up, I'm at job, so you're always trying to stretch out and open up. I think as long as you're feeling good about the energy, I think that's the key thing. Well, I was feeling good, but I was, eventually, after years of being afraid to go and went to the doctor, got the ECG, got the blood pressure and all that kind of stuff, and I thought I was doing really well and sort of glanced down at my midsection, and you know, I sucked it in a little bit, and he says, you're going to have to do something with that, son. Yeah. Well, listen, I think there's wee weights there to kind of cheat the snagging and just, you know, those wee weights there, we are here to kind of stop them munching and sleep. Yeah, see, I am about my weight for my height, right? It's not the eating. I think, really, I need up the exercise. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't eat too much, but I have a very sedentary, I think it's called lifestyle. I need to get off the couch. I think my eating's okay, but I just need to actually start burning some stuff. I think more, Greg, the exercise is more better for your body, generally, for your head, you know, for your brain. There's definitely a great response to the body. Even outside of that, I would say most of that comes down to diet, you know. It's very hard to train against the burn out of my calories if you're not eating, right? It's more about getting to diet, right? The training, there will be more just for your general body healthiness and mood than that, I would find. All right, okay. Well, thanks for that. Is that me now? Is that me for the next time? No, that's not even why we invited you on. I'm sorry, I just thought whilst we're here, we shall have a chat. Right, you have Barry Meen and Maureen O'Donnell on for a look back at the club championship at the weekend. Give us a rundown of the runners and riders and what's spread out to you. Maureen's on, obviously, to talk about all the championships with the ladies. And once again, we have the powerhouses at our terminus and Glenn Funn in the final. So Dune has given it their all at the weekend. They're trying to bridge the gap to these two giants of our game. Greg, but they came up short against Glenn Funn, a great second half. And Karen Guthrie, two to four, as ever, terminate a big one over at St Nalls. And I was just looking at five finals in a row when these two teams playing each other again, even going back in this last nine years, it's been seven of the finals as these two teams. So they're really dominating ladies club football. Well, they're two brilliant teams and it's going to be another fascinating final. We're up to intermediate finals as well and the juniors as well. So a lot happening with the ladies football. So we're good to talk to Moe as well. And then Barry's going to give us a run across. We had a relegation playoff here. Kelly Begg survived in the senior championship for another year. They beat St Nalls, their neighbors at the weekend. So St Nalls now they'll play the losers of Mullford and St Michael's. We had an interesting moment in junior A championship. Greg, you have a couple of teams going to the semifinal at top of the group. And then because of the nature of the teams and the numbers, there's like a pre-quarter final game there, or pre-semi-final game. But they sent Narassa and Neve Connell seating, which is basically their second team. They're both top in the group. And the final game, the game previous to this, Neve Connell, were to play Aarhus and Aarhus didn't field. So who was going to top the group? Greg came down the end, they say happy head and he drew. Then of course, because Aarhus didn't field, you couldn't go to the score difference because there was no such thing. So they, interestingly, didn't have to play a playoff game, which Narassa beat Neve Connell. Close one, yeah, close one. Close to last one. And so it was a very strange situation to happen that you would need a playoff game. So it's Neve Alton that are playing Neve Patrick Muffin, Neve Connell now playing Maval to get on that semi-final where Convoy and Narassa are waiting. So plenty to discuss on there with Brian Ian. And I love the fact that there's a show now that does that right across the spectrum of the sport as well. It gets people on knowing what they're talking about and talks about the ins and outs of it too, which I think is fantastic. And it's what the fans want as well. You also have 92 legend Tony Boyle on. Not, you know, one of the most heard voices of the 92 crew, if I phrase that correctly. Yeah, absolute legend of a man. I can't speak highly of him and anybody knows him, says the same. What a guy, you know, a hero of mine. Greg, I was actually joking about him at the start of the interview because in 1982, obviously, I was a wee lad up in the canal in there cheering on Donny Gall. And then what was it, five years later, myself and Tony were at the full forward line for Donny Gall. I probably never thought that would happen then, but it did. But outside of that legend of a man, I got this interview after the Dunlop Gidoo game, myself and Tony and a gang of Dunlop boys were in the bridge bar. And then we got a couple of words, which was good crack. We had a great evening down there in Dunlop. So this is always great to talk to Tony. Huge involvement, obviously, he's five daughters and they're all playing Gillick. They're all brilliant players, just like themselves. So they're all involved in Dunlop, up through county side to that. So just caught up with him and we shot the breeze out in the smoking area. And there's not many sports whereby you can be standing in the stalls or standing in the crowd one year. And then a few years later, shoulder to shoulder with your sporting hero. It's an amazing stuff. So that interview with Tony Ball, reflection on the men's and women's championship games from the weekend. So that's Barry Meaghan, Maureen O'Donnell and Tony Boyle. It's all live just after the 7 p.m. news this evening on Highland Radio. Go ahead, Brent. Yeah, and miners, just going to have to mention the miners, of course. You're four masters, right? Yeah. Well, no, need bridge, sorry. That's actually kind of... OK, I wasn't sure, exactly. We've never had this conversation. I've never had this conversation. Are you starting something? Because I will go. Well, anyway, four masters are flying around their heads. And again, they're in the final, them at Boncranah. Four masters being good at work at Boncranah, being said, you know, and in the division two, men, if I had to call on any of Patrick Moff. So, listen, great things happen. Good to see Boncranah as well. There, you know, second-biggest guy. Second-biggest town in Dutty Gall. We want to see them always progressing, of course. So good to see their miners doing well again. Four masters after fall, and maybe off the top tier senior, certainly building a load of great young fucklers again in another minor final for them coming up. Fantastic stuff, Brennan. Listen, thanks so very much. Looking forward to have a lovely day. And Brennan will be with you live after the 7 p.m. news tonight. You can listen to the DL Debate in association with Sarah's Kitchen at Sister Sarah's letter, Kenny. And that's if you want to listen to it live. It is going to be available shortly after broadcast as a podcast for you to listen when you're out in your room or whatever it might be. Hi, Greg, could you please play a request for Gemma Wiley, who has said yes to the dress from her mom and Auntie Amanda. Woop, woop, they say. Ah, I know Gemma. I thought she said yes to the dress a long time ago. I don't know what that means. What does that mean, yes to the dress? Anyway, congratulations. Hi there, Greg. My daughter and two of her friends went along to the Mount Errigal on Saturday night to see the tumbling paddies. Enjoyed the night, but were charged 22.50 for three Coke soft drinks. Seems a bit extortionate, but did anyone else at the concert feel it was too expensive? 22.50 for three Coke soft drinks. Does that make them over seven Euro each? No mixer in there at all? I don't know, we'll check into that. Good morning, Greg. I think Patrick Kield, he was just okay as a host, apart from when he tried to sound like Gay Burn, which was as gringy as trying to make a joke to get the big elephant out of your TV screens. It's time the late, late was axed. There's nothing like what it was. Let Patrick stay as host, but change the name of the show and wipe out a show that doesn't work anymore. Okay, so I think the first show. Lot of nerves. I think they really need, I think actually I guessed at least one of the guests that was going to be on the show, the public no longer want to hear RT employees being interviewed. Okay, we have two smaller country here. There's five or six million people on the island of Ireland and we've heard most of the stories before. As I say, why not cover social issues, cultural issues, get a debate going? I think, or maybe people feel that that's being done now by prime time and late debate or whatever shows else shows might be on. I don't know because I don't watch RT, but I did watch on Friday night. So I don't know, it just can't, it's not going to last beyond this season doing what they did on Friday. Patrick, I thought did really well. Lot of nerves, lot of pride. I love the Gay Burn reference to be honest with you and I'm in a bit of a cynical old git, but he is going to struggle if they just wheel out the same guests and other podcasts next week, some other Instagram lotty rhymes. Do you know what I mean? They're going to have to come up with, they're going to have to come up with something else unless they just say that this is a platform for us to promote other RT shows. If they say that, that's fine. It'll die or succeed on that. Could you get some of the politicians to come on and explain when can we get approval from Donegal County Council on our create kind of applications? I'm not sure, not familiar with that. I'll check it in. If the cycle lanes were built to the same standard as the roads, then cyclists would use them as they are full of road debris with ramps on every junction when the cyclist has to yield to every adjoining minor road. But then again, too, would you want to share them with people walking, running, pushing buggies? That's also a problem that comes up. People say, well, I'm doing 40 kilometers per hour down mountain top or in the four lanes, 40 kilometers per hour. I don't want to clean someone out of it on the cycle lane. I just think you'll see scooters on them and people out for a casual cycle. Those cycle lanes are not going to be used routinely by semi-pro, not semi-pro. You know what I'm about dressed up like they're doing the Tour de France. The new lanes going into Lettucequenny are way too narrow. There was no need for the cycle lane to be that wide. Not much space between a van and a lorry or a bus, but whoever designed that needs to go back and have a good look at it. I think they're narrowed on purpose. We have seen that with other road developments. I think it's actually to slow traffic down. I don't think it's a, it's not a lack of space. It's to slow traffic down, I believe. Now, someone who's involved in roads engineering, I'm sure will advise me one way or other, but they did the same at Capri and Balabafé and other road developments. People go, oh, it's too wide. You can barely pass. It's by design. It's so that you slow down and keep other road users safe. 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OK, now we are speaking ahead of a conference that's taking place in Clody, which we'll talk about and on. But talk to me a little bit more about Destined. What is the work behind the title? Well, we set up Destined 22-odd years ago, and basically it was for people, really, that had left maybe school and were sitting at home doing nothing. People with learning disabilities, people maybe just with maybe mental health issues or people with autism. And when we set it up, we were really looking at how we could help empower them and give them opportunities to maybe have a more fulfilled life. Because there probably wasn't an obvious pathway between school leaving and then entering the world. And then entering the workforce or any organisation for that matter. There was like a buffer zone there almost. Yeah. Many of our members would have maybe attended either special schools or gone to secondary schools. Maybe didn't have any qualifications when they left school. And really going into even, now there would have been, the North Best College in Derry would have had a course that they could have taken people into. But a lot of the people that were coming to us were people with maybe autism and learning disabilities that couldn't cope with very large spaces and very large numbers. And they just needed maybe more individualised programs and activities as well. So we started off very small. As I say, this is our 22nd year. We have another centre that's 12 years old now that we opened in Feene, which is in County Derry. Because we were very aware of the experiences of people that were living in isolated world communities as well. Our youngest members now are coming in really shortly after birth. Maybe if it's children's diagnosis of cerebral palsy or maybe Down syndrome, something that could be seen. And our oldest members are in their early 80s. Do you think that we need to be doing more to address some of these issues through education or with the people at that period of time? I mean, rather than have this sort of a cliff edge that Destin is in there and people like you were there to support, but could we not be doing more through that process to help in that regard? Interestingly say that, Greg. I am a parent of a young woman. And I say young woman, she's 42, who has learned disability and who has autism and has cerebral palsy as well. And basically whenever she was younger, I realized the services weren't there. And I actually went back and trained as a teacher. And I started working in special schools and developed provision for autism in the special school that I was teaching in Derry. And then after a number of years, the inspector approached my principal to ask, would I maybe look at developing services for mainstream schools because there was nothing in mainstream school to that state either. And basically, about 25 years ago, I set up the autism service for Derry, Taron and Fermanagh, which was part of the Western Education Library Board. So what you were doing was being recognized to the point where they said, we need to see if we can employ this elsewhere. Yes. Basically, a lot of people were coming, looking at the model I developed. But I think because I probably, I was going to say, was straddling, sort of, riding two horses almost, that because I was a parent and a carer and also because I was an educationalist, I could see where a lot of the gaps were. And basically, as I say, we were looking at other difficulties that were right there as well. But specifically, through working with autism, but say my daughter also learned disabilities and physical disabilities. So we were aware even of all the issues and problems that families are meeting all the time. We talk about learned disability and autism as being lifelong conditions. And basically, I suppose, we talk about it from, say, birth to death, starting off even, now I've listened to your programme, I think it was last week when they were talking about the services in North Donegal. And I was thinking, nothing really has changed. And this is where we're at at times that parents of younger children now that are maybe going through assessment, that are going through diagnosis, that maybe have autism or learned disabilities basically are still knocking on doors. And your guest last week, I didn't catch his name now because I was driving at the time. Leonard, probably. Yeah. And when Leonard was talking, he was talking about the fact that, you know, parents are maybe all knocking on doors as individuals and they're being appeased or they're being sort of sidestepped on things to work with them. And he says it needs to be maybe more concerted approach. So when our daughter left a special school and we realised there was nothing really that could have been done for her that was sort of set up and established, we then said, right, we need to look at something. But my husband and I both have skill sets that were able to do things. So I was still working, but say we set up destined and we said, rather than just help her, we should be helping other people out there as well. So that was why it was set up. And now when we opened the doors, there were people that were coming that had actually were 10 years older than her that had been to a special school that remembered her as a little girl. And they were saying, oh, I remember you from school bus and things. Now, we've a very wide range of abilities and disabilities within destined as well. It just sounds to me like something that requires, you know, so much work and so many skill sets because people are different and it has to adapt and be able to sort of, you know, accommodate everybody. So when you talk about from a very young age, so how if someone comes to you at five or something like that, so how does destined work with them through their schooling and, you know, pass that and into to working life, for an example, like how, what kind of involvement might you have? I suppose it's going to taste interesting because again, I've retired. I retired as a teacher five years ago and came in then full time to help out with destined and basically I suppose a five year old, we're looking at maybe just first of all where the family lives. Yeah. A lot of the children that are first identified coming to us are attending special schools. So we have developed links to the special schools. Our area covers Limavadi up as far as Strabane and into Derry. And again, just through, let's say, my experience of being involved with all the schools, primary, post primary, nursery special, people know they can lift the phone and contact us. And maybe then, you know, we'd say, maybe we need to sort of meet with families or families would like to get in touch. And we explore really what each family's journey is and what their journey is for their child to see how we can help them. We have an after schools program, which is based in Cloddy, which is where the conference is going to be, this conference anyway. And then we do programs with the schools. So, for example, we talk about inclusion. And it's not just about people with learning disabilities and autism being brought out and being involved with society. It's actually about it's a two-way process about people in society coming in and being involved with desk and two and things. So, for example, just after COVID, the railway museum in Derry. And I'm training up our tour guides to be, or some of our members to be tour guides. So, we were looking at developing an interpreter center and looking at exhibitions. So, we involved the primary and the secondary and special schools. And we had workshops and the kids came in and the students came in and got involved with it. And basically, we look at the whole social aspect of things. Some of our members, for example, we have a football team. So, again, if you're a younger child that may be interested in football, we have a Derry City supporters club. Not Van Harps, unfortunately. But we're based in Derry. I used to say where it might go. You know what I mean? It's only because we're based in Derry. But we also do drama. We do music. We actually, for our members now, that are looking to be more independent. We look at life skills. We look at sport, as I say. One of our members is Black Belt now in Chudeau and has actually become a referee in Chudeau. So, you know, there's... So, I'd imagine, Destin, it must be really useful for families that it's an understanding that gets it, a voice that can signpost or can offer certain services that are available because loneliness is something that you hear an awful lot of people. Also, too, just in terms of the different groups that work in this area, do you think, either just within Derry or on a cross-border basis, there's enough coordination between the various groups that are doing fantastic work in different areas, but potentially under the same sort of... under the same roof that maybe a little bit more coordination or whatever might be helpful, and if so, how? Yeah, well, I suppose that's one of the aims of this conference. For example, we work very closely with Bluestack, who's based down in Goldtown, and other groups within, say, Derry and County Derry, but at the same time, we want to look at maybe developing through a partnership approach, having a cohesive strategy and from it then, and that's the support, not just the person with the autism around disability, but their families as well, because it has to be sort of a wraparound approach to it, and then from that, and from the conference then, we want to maybe identify then, you have a roadmap that we can identify the resources that are necessary and then look at even future planning. So it's not just about now, for example, they're building... The two special schools in Derry were amalgamated about six or seven years ago, and both schools, one of them definitely wasn't fit for purpose, so they're building a new school, and we've just heard unofficially that there's going to be a problem because it isn't big enough to take all the students that are at the school. So future planning has to come into it, and again, even sort of looking at lobbying and things and getting the groups together. So that's kind of what we want everybody to come, and I mean, everybody's welcome. Of course, and what we need though is we need the powers that be, the well-resourced powers that be, be it the NHS or the HSC or whatever, to catch up with works the likes Destin's do and the ICA's do and that the Blue Stack Foundation are doing, as you mentioned. All of these organisations that are working so hard to plug gaps really that shouldn't actually be there, the state should be providing an awful lot of this, but we have a tendency to just throw money at things. You know, we don't want that. We need people to understand the problems in terms of, you know, supports for children, speech and language and all that kind of stuff. We need, we've kind of over the course of the last three weeks been discussing this, Caroline, we've kind of pretty much figured out what the problem is, if you know what I mean. Now, what we need is the people that make these decisions to recognise that the parents know best and to sort of start addressing it and that can supplement and complement and be referred from the kind of works Destin do and the other groups that we're talking of. Well, we would work very closely with the statutory services that is and we would work again with... Are they responsive? This is in Northern Ireland, are they responsive? To a certain degree, but again, I'm going to say their hands are tied because now this is what I discovered. I worked in the statutory sector and now I've moved into the voluntary sector and I just know that through the statutory sector, you know, your hands are tied a lot of the time and you have to pass requests up the line and things and it has to be discussed and the processes and everything else. And again, we don't have a government in the North at the moment. So it doesn't really matter whose door we're knocking on at the moment. We've got recession, we've got inflation, we've got all kinds of problems out there but we don't even have a door to knock on to look for money or whatever. But we're saying to people, let's get together, let's identify what the issues are and then look at how we work together. Now, we're very lucky in Derry that it's quite, it's like letter candy, really, it's quite small and everybody knows Derry or knows each other and we can lift the phone and talk to other groups as well. But I think sitting down together within a room and looking at partnership working and then seeing how we can lobby together to make things improve. A voice that can't be ignored. So this all kind of brings us right back to the conference and so talk to us about the conference while it's about who's invited, when and where. Right, the conference is in the Diamond Centre in Cloddy and it's on Wednesday morning, it's starting at 10 o'clock and it's in the mornings just until 12 but we're going to have invited speakers, we have people with learning disability speaking, we have people with autism speaking, we have family members speaking, we have, we're doing presentations from professionals as well that will look at, I'm going to say, the services that are there already so we can identify them maybe where the gaps are and then we're going to have an invited speaker who's going to talk about the benefits of partnership working and her experiences of that and how that brings people for a cohesive lobbying campaign then to work together. And I say everybody's very welcome, we've invited students at schools and colleges maybe that are doing health and social care, we would have student placements coming in from McGee that maybe are doing nursing or OT and things and again they're coming in and they're familiar with our members and things so really what we're saying is it's an open door, we'd be very welcome to see anybody and I suppose we're lucky in a way that we've got good relationships with Darius at the Interband District Council who provide the funding for it and I suppose another thing I want to do is do a quick shout out if you don't mind as well, Greg we actually, as they have the museum and we have a culture night and Friday night and it's open to the public from seven to nine and there's no admission charges and again I say some of our tour guides are members of Destin for Learned Disabilities and we love to see people along at it as well. Okay and in terms of the conference I think through the course of this conversation people will know whether it's for them or not because they'll say right well that's the area I'm in or that's the area I have an interest in. Okay continued success with Destin and success with the conference which is on 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Diamond Centre, Claudie. Thanks very much Caroline. I really appreciate it okay that's Caroline O'Hara one of the founders of Destin. Please or transaction charges Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127 GiveBlood.ie know we can count on you our community of blood donors to be there for others in their hour of need. Blood donors from Letter Kenny and Bunbeg should attend the clinic in the Radisson Blue Hotel in Letter Kenny from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st of September. Making an appointment is recommended. Regular donors can now visit our website or call 1-800-731-137 to book a time. New donors are vital. 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If you're not tired enough to sleep well then you can sleep better and sleep well. E-T-B is a great place. This is the song from the lyrics of the song Real Tess Nahirn and his Intentus Europa. new organ in all her kind to all of you. Oh, I'm enough. I sure wish us long time. All right. Thanks for your comments as they're coming in this morning. I will get to them before 12 or as many of them as I can. Thanks very much. Keep them coming. 08 6 to 25,000 or call us an 07 491 25,000. Okay, right. Pretty much effectively, we are going to see a new political party. And it is going to be the 100% redress party. And it's public relations officer is PR O is Ali Farron. Ali, thank you so much for your time today. Really do appreciate it. Yeah, how are you? I'm good. So where are you now in terms of having this officially recognised as a party on a national scale? We are probably 15 days or 16 days away from getting their over stump. The register of political parties have basically said that they intend to accept our application pending a 21 day review in case some of the other political parties would like to knock us off the perch before we even get started. But overall, we've complied with all the regulations that they need. And we're, you know, we'll be good to go. Yeah, indeed. And it's unlikely any parties might do that because there's no advantage to them in doing so. So once that's done, and let's presume that it will be done. Just the work start then, in terms of, you know, recruiting people to run for elections, obviously, a party requires a team that will never seek public office that have to work beside behind the scenes. Or is that work tentatively already been underway, Ali? So there's a lot done. But quote another political party a lot more to do. You know, so we have a lot of the paperwork typed on. And when we get approval now, we will be setting up the bank account. You need money to run an election. So we'll be setting up the bank account. And then we'll be looking for members membership people to come on board. Then we'll be looking to set up small commons for want of a better word and different electoral areas. So a lot more to do, Greg, definitely. But look, we've over the first hurdle. This, this is not this is a marathon. So there's good. There's gonna be a lot of hurdles we're going to jump through. And our priority is getting a party formed, and then get our candidates in the race, get them talked out ready for the race. Is this the 100% redress party has been labelled as a single issue party? Is that the case? We don't think so. Of course, it's going to have a massive emphasis on the redress of the houses, the defective country blocks. But there's like, you don't need to be a genius and done it all right down the West Coast to see that there's lots of things that needs to be redressed in different areas. And depending on the first elections, we will be doing will be county council elections. So, you know, there's no point in having a massive memorandum or a bit of policy on the health and education because they're not relative to county council elections. And again, we are from grassroots, like we're new, but it'll be a medium of minds. There'll be a pile of people in rooms that will want different things. And we will be fighting on all fronts when possible. But the main aim of our, like we've, there's been that many, there's three or four parties been around for since the start of this state. They haven't delivered for Donegal or they haven't delivered for defective concrete blocks. So that's the reason why we're putting this party in place. I mean, they might argue that, look, this is a this is a national scheme that councillors have attended numerous meetings on defective concrete. You've got many friends within the council that raise it at every given opportunity. And then we know, to some extent, the executives hands are tied up with bureaucracy and have to interact with the housing department. You know, what what change at council level can 100% redress party electees make? Right, well, the first and foremost, there's, there's nobody in the council at the moment, why do they say they are doing their job for us? The defective concrete block homeowner, business owner, farmer does not have anybody that they can say 100% is speaking for them. And at the moment, we don't have a mandate to be at that table to, you know, and while we know the scheme that was delivered by the government to the council to deliver is not up, not fit for purpose at the moment, if we can get a mandate from the people, the, you know, the powers would be in Dublin then has to take us more seriously because we have a mandate like we are, we will be a democratic party. It's a democratic country. And it's only right that they accept unrespectful democratic candidates have you have some councillors in your own area. I want to say that I mean, generally, in a show that are, you know, very active and have been very supportive of the campaign, you can't rule out displacing them. Are they collateral damage? If that happens, Soviet? Well, you know, everybody who goes to the polling booth has a choice to make. And they can decide that then people work, you know, all right, some of them are high profile. But, you know, a fine example was a few weeks ago or months ago, they were asked to go to represent all the politicians were asked to go to Dublin to represent us. You probably remember how many didn't go, you know, so this is, this is a, this is a, you know, this is a disaster waiting to happen in the amount of houses that's in this area and all over Donegal that probably won't be fixed in my lifetime at this stage. No, people see no, you know, people do not see an end to this handling. And I think there's a really strong point here. And I'll have to, in future conversations, choose my words more carefully, because, you know, I have to interview you guys, and I have to interview you, but there's a voice out there that's not heard as much, perhaps it should be of people. And a lot of them, and I'm not sure if the majority that have no hope at all that they don't believe they can't. Well, an example, if I had a house and who's to say am I not? And I had to get 40,000 euro together. And some people haven't to get much more than that together to access this scheme. I don't know how I would do that. You know, and there's people an awful lot worse off than I am. And also to as you get older, would I really I'm still paying the mortgage, but you know, you'd be looking at paying something into well into your 70s and 80s. A lot of people don't want to do that. And I'm not sure if they're not the majority. I think I'm not sure if they I think they might actually be the majority of people affected by this crisis, not to mention those that are in public social housing who see no hope at all at all. I think that is the majority of people out there that they still feel completely helpless even with this scheme in place. Well, one thing we will soon find out at the next county council election, we will be rolling councillors exactly to support people or to make make a better case for people like me and other people who are, you know, you're right. There's a lot of people here who don't see the end of the tunnel. You know, they they they just can't get their head around this scheme. There's there's while there is help, it's very little. Like we have two facilitators in the whole of Donnie Gull for thousands of people for thousands of homes. We have elderly who can't see an end to it. You know, there's there's so much wrong. And some of the politicians that we have at the moment are nearly saying, well, we've done it. We've got a deal that, you know, like it's this is the second one and it's still not right. So, you know, and if they are collateral damage for us, come the next election, well. Now, I mean, the it's one thing promising something. It's another thing delivering, you know, we have she and Fane saying they will just make this 100 percent redress that there is just no doubt about that. It will be funded. It will be budgeted. They'll deliver justice to the people affected by this. They'll go after the banks. They'll go after the insurance companies. It'll all be done as soon as they are in power and they may well be in power. I take it then that there might be a little bit of cynicism or skepticism, Ali, amongst those affected by this that a she and Fane led government will deliver his promise and that you will actually still need people elected to fight this campaign, even if that were the government in place. Yeah, I think so. I think we still need representation. Like we've had all promises before and fair enough, Jim Faines hasn't been tested yet, but our party, if we get an election, get elected and get a mandate, we will promise one thing we will promise. We will promise to try. And sometimes I think some of our politicians are not even trying, you know, we will put people in place, hopefully, that will be shrewd enough that can, you know, talk and, you know, do it in a way that we need help and we need it now. And, you know, we can't leave it for another four or five years in the hope that if Jim Faines gets in, that they will deliver. We, like at the start, at the same time, we have no mandate to go knocking on a door and up a dialer and say, you know, so our hope is that we get a mandate from the people of Dutty Gall and right down the West Coast should we get candidates in that area and that we can open doors and help, you know, keep this topic on the, like there's so much that needs to be done in this country, but, and maybe if some of the bigger, this new Jim Faines gets on in the next election, their priority, while they say it is, maybe it won't be in Dutty Gall. So, like it might be safer to have, you know, a card in your back pocket that you can fall out and say, well, you know. It's going to make the cancel election debates in a few months, very, very interesting. There's just no doubt about that. I'm looking forward to that already. It's a very serious matter, but of course it's just going to make those debates that will be hosting here in Highland really interesting, I think. Do you anticipate any defections? Do you anticipate any defections in any shown to the 100% redress party? Not looking for any names or anything, but if any fear has been put out, any white smoke, do you expect, I'm not, I don't say you're open to it or we'll see or whatever, but do you expect any defections? At the moment, I don't know. You know, people are probably politicians, you know, they're a closed shop, they don't like the new kids on the block. They just, they don't, you know, they go to kind of say, I will, I think they're going to have to see that the public want change, they want a voice for, you know, defective concrete block owners. And some of them might decide, but some of them might be a fit for us either, you know, they might be what we want. We're a new party, we might want to be new faces, we might want to be new and fresh thinking that we're not going to come down the line that, you know, Dublin or somebody else can say, no, you have to keep quiet this week. You can't say too much in case you annoy a tisha or a tanish just somewhere up around Dublin. So I think we will be looking for fresh faces, young faces. We would love a few women to come on board because the strength of the women that have been involved with the redress or the defective concrete block campaign has been phenomenal. And we will be looking for new or nearly new, how's that faces going forward? I think you've rude yourself out already anyway with the young one, come here. I have a face for radio, not for posters. Listen, come here, thanks so much for that, Ali. I look forward to teasing that a bit more with you. So approval has been given, it's just paperwork now at this stage. And do you, once that paperwork lands on the door, do you have any bombshell announcements? In other words, what we can confirm this person is going to be a candidate? It's still the same question, Greg, no matter what way you ask it. We do not have candidates yet. That's it. We will be getting our membership up and it will be our membership who will be voting on who our next candidate or our candidate. Ali, thanks for your time. Before you cut me off, but now that I have your attention, we have a Facebook page for the 100% redress party. If your listeners could check it out, give us a like because it's through social media that we will be driving our election campaign. We will try and give Highland Radio a few pounds, but overall we'll be doing it mainly through social media. Just give us interviews, you don't have to worry about the money. Thanks very much indeed. Take care of yourself. Ali Farron, 100% redress party. I'm sure there'll be some sort of an online package going into the elections, but as I say, we like to tease out on this programme and on the newsroom, tease out the issues by way of interviews as well. Is this just another left-wing anti-everything party? I don't really know what that is. 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