 Johnny Gall Deputy Podrick McLaughlin is warning that the hospital is under severe pressure and strain from COVID and non-COVID care. He says Letter Kenny is constantly top of the table for the wrong reasons and it's high time the government intervenes. We need a special attention being paid to Johnny Gall. Letter Kenny Hospital you know has repeatedly been at the top of the table when it comes to the amount of people on trolleys that can't get into proper beds and boards. Of course on the other side of that is the pressure, unbelievable pressure on our healthcare workers. So we've had those meetings now with the Letter Kenny Hospital management with the Salem Hospital group management and we are very clear on what the issues are and we know now what the government needs to do and they need to step up here. And new data centers owned by big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook will need their own emergency power supplies if they're to be allowed access to the national grid. The Irish Times reports they'll also have to cut consumption when required under measures being considered by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. It's aimed at easing pressure on the country's electricity network and is said to be unveiled within days. Environmental journalist John Gibbons says the new rules are a step in the right direction. We already have 70 data centers in operation in Ireland with lots more planned. Now each of these data centers in terms of electricity consumption is using about the equivalent of a medium-sized Irish town, so about 40,000 houses. So what we've seen for example over the last four years we've added the equivalent of another half a million households worth of data centers. 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Three minutes past nine Tuesday the 23rd of November and it's another edition of the nine to noon show. Welcome along. Busy show is always coming up including the community garden slot coming up for you just after 10 o'clock and so much more besides. Get involved with the conversation. We still have some comments from yesterday that we just simply didn't have a chance to get to which I will read out of course. Add yours to the list. WhatsApps or texts to the following number 08 660 25,000. That's how you have your say. Raise your issue. Make your comments if you want to give us a call. Caroline on the phone lines as always 07 491 25,000. Good morning as you join us to cross our social media. Welcome on YouTube. Highland Radio Ireland. Feel free to comment there as you can on Facebook forward slash Highland Hub or Highland Radio News and Sport and always there's always your emails. Welcome to comments. That's at Highland Radio dot com. Right. Let's look at the papers today. We'll start with the locals as we always do the Donagall Democrat. Donagalls 37 counter councillors are set to get a big pay increase in 2022. Their pay for serving on the council known as representational payment will increase by just under 40% from 18,707 per year to more than 26,000 a year. Approval for the increase was sanctioned earlier this year by the cabinet which took into account the recommendations of the independent review by Sarah Moorhead published in 2020. Since then there has been a further increase in the amount they will get as part of the rise in public sector pay rates from October 1st. The country's 949 councillors who sit on 31 local authorities will be eligible for the pay hike, which will cost an additional nine million euro per year nationally to the taxpayer. The Derry Journal today, the tourist caught up in the Fitzroy's Fitzroy's. That's right. Fire in Derry yesterday is grateful. The fire service grateful for them, but heartbroken for the staff and owners. Doblin or Anthony Kane was in Derry for the weekend and staying in digs above the restaurant when he realised something was badly wrong. It's as someone from Doblin up at a restaurant in Derry, and this is besides the point, a tourist. I wouldn't have classed someone from Doblin in Derry or Donny Gall as a tourist, but anyway, as I say, that's an aside to an important story here. I walk around 6am with the smell of something burning. We looked out the window and saw smoke billowing out of the building. I went downstairs and across the road and the fire brigade arrived to the IT worker and photographer said his immediate concern was that someone may have been staying in the apartment above, but this proved not to be the case and hopefully they get Fitzroy's back up and running and back into action as soon as is possible. Right. If I go to Doblin, am I a tourist? I wouldn't have hoped I wouldn't. Anyway, The Irish Times tells us that a cutoff date for new entrants to pandemic business supports may be extended if more sectoral closures are forced due to the worsening decrease in the country. The Irish Times has learned and it's interesting. Everyone's talked about December 13, December 20, all these types of dates that's been bandied around and it's all off the back of one report that was published in a, I mean, it's not in any way disrespectful, but a small enough publication. It's the liberal. It's controversial enough as well too because it's a controversial enough newsletter at least was in the past, but it had one story quoting two sources that said there may be a lockdown on December 23, December 20th. It was screenshot and shared absolutely everywhere. I got at least 20 or 30 direct messages with the screenshot saying, have you seen this? Is it true? I'm not saying it's not true. Anything could be true. You could pick any date in December and say anything could happen such as the way it is, but at the end of the day, they made an announcement as it relates to trying to reduce the figures. And if that works, the last thing they'll want to do is close before Christmas because there's a ton of money to be clawed in before Christmas. They'd want to do anything to avoid that. But if they continue to go upward, well then maybe they might do something further. The only problem is that, and I don't mean this with any disrespect to anyone who might end up in hospital, that die has been cast. Whoever is going to end up in hospital over the next week or two already has COVID. And that can't be adjusted. So I don't know what metric they use. Will they use cases or hospitalizations? If it's hospitalizations, well, an increase in the number is something of a fate to complete. If it's cases and are rateable, maybe it might be somewhere different. But as I say, I don't think any decisions have been made as of yet. And the last thing they'll want to do is to shut down pre-Christmas. And then in the schools they're talking about amongst themselves as students that they might close for a week ahead of Christmas or a week afterwards. But it's all speculation. But sure, look at that's what we do, isn't it? A high-powered government committee met last evening and while no options were signed off on as it relates to these measures, it's understood that allowing new entrants into the employment wage subsidy scheme that EWSS is under consideration. Obviously, we've interviewed this gentleman on this program before. And of course, he is from Donegal. So an interesting story in the front of the Irish Independent. Grieving father Andrew McGinley was dropped from the late-late show lineup after the broadcaster received correspondence objecting to his appearance. It's an unusual one. The father of three was due to appear on October 8th to announce plans for a fundraising concert in his children's memory. It was hoped the high-profile slot would raise funds for the Ask Dara did charity. However, just hours before the show was to air, he announced he would not be appearing in response to queries. Mr McGinley said I was informed by RTE. They'd received a letter which said that it could be a painful and traumatic experience to see me talking about Conor, Dara and Carla. That story's continued on the inside of the paper. And it gives just more details as to that last-minute decision there. The Irish Daily Mail. We want more restrictions apparently. Over half the country's population want tougher restrictions to curb COVID-19 cases and avoid a winter lockdown according to a poll. After a week of warnings about the steep rising COVID-19 case numbers, Department of Health data reveals 56% of people want the government to go further with more restrictions as many cancel the nights out and slash their social contracts, contacts about your pardon. Almost 57% that say they've decided to reduce the number of people they plan to meet between now and Christmas, while 45% of people have canceled plans. Now, I might be on my own on this one, right? But this Amorak research, which I believe you have to opt into, does not consider the views of anyone under the age of 18. It does not consider the views of people from 12 to 18 years of age. And what we're doing here is cherry-picking statistics to suit ourselves. So when we want to talk about the amazing success of the vaccination programme, for example, and I know some of you don't see it, is that it's 12 plus, isn't it? It's over 12s. We're the envy of Europe and the world. And we talk to our 12 to 18-year-olds. We say, don't do that. Don't do this. They come to us and say, look, Mum, look, Dad, I want to get this vaccine because I can't go on my transition year trip until I get the vaccine. Can I get it? Or they might even say to you, look, I'm not going to head to my mate's house this evening because, you know, they're granny sick or could be sick. And I don't want to give them a disease or whatever it is, right? So we've got 12 to 18-year-olds heavily impacted by this whole pandemic, making really grown-up decisions. We include them when it suits us. But as it relates to the likes of this survey, their opinions do not matter. We don't even ask them what they think. We just all of a sudden speak about people not including them. And I think I would have more respect for this research. In fact, I would have some respect for it if it actually included the views of that cohort of people that we ask so much of that we expect to be responsible or we respect their decisions whichever way it goes. But when it comes down to something like this, an opinion poll, how it might affect them and their lives, we don't even ask them. It's just the adults that have that conversation. Now, as I say, I probably, you might text in and go, well, who cares what they think? I don't know what people think. But for me, that research, if it doesn't include those people, to me, it doesn't stand up and it doesn't represent the views of this country. But anyway, as I say, what's up? I could be on my own on that one. The Irish Daily Star, Amark needs to, right, either make it very clear that 12 to 18-year-olds are not included or don't talk about it as if it's the people because it's not the people. There's a lot more than 18-and-overs that have sacrificed so much, given up, so much made grown-up decisions, had to grow up very quickly and they disregard their opinion and it's spewed out in the front of the page as if it is represented above their opinion and that makes me sick. The Irish Daily Star, Sinn Fein leader Marilyn McDonald said talk of a Christmas lockdown need to stop. She said the government lacks a plan to cope with the latest wave of COVID-19 and that plans to ramp up the booster programme and roll out discounted answering tests needs to speed up. Mrs. McDonald said that's what's been sadly lacking here. I recognise that all of this is difficult. A pandemic is difficult. This virus is awful. I know I was one of the very many people who are sick with the virus, but what we've had is a government that has been consistently a day late and a dollar short. Some encouraging news overnight. The rate of hospitalisation dropped by 80 overnight across the country and by 37% at Lettokennie University Hospital. So I know when things go up, their platform front page stuff, when things go in the other direction, maybe not so much, but the number in hospital with COVID in Lettokennie reduced by 37% over the course of yesterday and by 80 across the country. The sun tells us that there has been a sharp rise in assaults on Frontline Guardie over the last year. The Goddard representative association has claimed the group which represents over 12,000 officers will raise awareness of growing levels of attacks on Guardie at their 43rd annual conference. The event taking place in Kalani County Carey today is titled Communities Matter. So do we. And last but not least, what do you think about this one? Maybe it's the way things should be going. I suppose judging people differently because they've got different bits and pieces. Is it old hat? Is it old-fashioned? Well, it's not going to happen any longer at the Brit Awards because they have scrapped their male and female categories, replacing the gender specific award with a single artist of the year gone. Non-binary singer Sam Smith previously nominated in the best male category had criticised the Brits for lacking inclusion by keeping gender awards, but the decision has raised concerns that dropping the female categories in an awards previously criticised for its male dominance will lead to women being snubbed. Well, that in itself is a problem. The problem is, is that judges can't see past gender. Having two different awards is not the solution. Is it get new judges or get a new voting criteria for crying out loud? But February ceremony is likely to see Adele up against Ed Sheeran for artist of the year, an album of the year awards, and I would say no harm to Ed. He's not in with a chance. Adele will sweep that up. But anyway, what do you think? Should they retain the male, best male, best female, actor, singer awards, or is it best just to judge everyone equally on their talent regardless, as they say, of their bits and bobs? 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Spent about 2,200 pounds sterling and we got on to Michael Cole at the Tax Clinic for an answer because we promised that we would and he said we get questions about this all the time when someone gets a medical treatment outside of Southern Ireland so firstly yes tax relief can be claimed back for orthodontic work like this even if done in Northern Ireland the tax relief can be can be claimed on the amount converted to Euro. You would get 20% in tax back on the Euro equivalent so if it was 2,600 you would get 520 Euro tax refund but and there's always a but you must have paid tax in the first place to get the tax back so if the parents were on a social welfare for example and paid no tax then they can't get tax pack i.e. you must have paid tax in the first place to be able to claim a refund to get some of it back okay which perhaps they have i would imagine maybe they have right so what that means is that it might not be everything but you can get up to 520 Euro back of that 2,600 outlay right now Dr Gerard Rorty is a vet and farmer he joins us on the program now good morning to you doctor thank you for joining us can you hear me Gerard right okay i don't think Gerard's connected on audio there Caroline so we might not be able to hear me i might try one more time so hold hold the line there right traffic lights at Stroller are shocking it's a bottleneck during rush hour there needs to be a relook at ways of easing traffic at that junction the lights at each junction is not freeing up traffic cars are also entering the yellow box and blocking up cars traveling from the Finn Valley to Balabuffa junction especially when lorries are traveling on it i've seen so many crashes around that area surely it needs proper investigation on ways to improve it i would love to hear someone from the countercancell on the matter and i think the problem is is it's such a slow and difficult junction that especially since sort of pedestrian crossing was included in this that people get people get frustrated and chance their arm and sometimes therein lies the problem right just to remind you you can contact us on 08 660 25000 or call 07491 25000 right i'll try dr rorty one more time before we switch the phone can you hear me doctor no unfortunately not right Caroline we'll switch to the phone on on that one because it is an important issue right more of your comments here hi greg we'd be grateful if you could read this out on your program don't go gap heritage and history group will hold their 2021 a gm on saturday the 4th of december 11 a.m in ednafahol glentes covered 19 guidelines will apply everyone most welcome for further information please email ardraheritagehistoryatgmail.com ardraheritagehistoryatgmail.com greg would you discuss the issue of allergies and eating out i had two bad experiences eating from a deli in a shop recently my son has a nut allergy when i asked if there was any chance that they could use a clean knife and bread ball before making up his feud they hoffed and puffed when you ask them to be careful clearly lacking the understanding of what could happen to him yesterday i went into a deli and they said they can't guarantee me that everything was not free surely to god they should be able to i'm just wondering how others with allergies have found trying to eat out and i understand what you're talking about there because i have seen foods that not that i'm allergic to but i certainly don't like the knife being used on those wiped and then straight on to my order uh not fantastic now okay if you have any experience of that right dr roti can you hear me okay no that's just not going to work there right um um we'll batter on here because i've got more of your comments uh we were talking about gambling jennifer this was uh the end of last week jennifer texted in to say gambling is a scourge it destroys lives the incredible thing is that the national lottery are featuring nice adverts now showing how they have helped funded community projects while it is on the back of misery for many and i think lots of people put all their hope on winning the lotto and delay making life choices or improvements to their lives and just pin all hope on winning the lotto does that happen would people be uh that inclined to defer things in their life because they might win the lotto the chances of winning the lotto are very very very remote and the chances of getting five numbers are remote but the chances of getting six numbers are way way way more remote i think people think that if you get five numbers you're really close to getting six when you're not because the odds are multiplying all the time so the jump from five numbers in terms of like odds and likelihood is so much greater uh when you go up to six we were talking about that yesterday of course and another thing too the lotto if you have the app for if you have the app for scanning tickets it is constantly pushing uh you to enter the lotto beat the wednesday saturday zero millions daily millions scratch cards uh you know it's constantly at you saying look have a go this have a go this right okay the agricultural ministry has given reassurances that everything is being done to combat bird flu confirmed h5n1 has been detected in a turkey flock in monaghan with additional surveillance steps put in place it comes as a number of wild birds in donningall were confirmed with condition earlier this month now we are joined by dr jared rorty who is a vet and farmer good morning to you dr rorty thanks for joining us good morning greg how are you not too bad i'm sorry for those earlier uh technical difficulties okay so what is bird flu and why is it something that sort of makes the news or something that those in the industry be very worried about bird flu is it's an influenza virus that's carried in wild wild birds um and it circulates naturally in the wild bird population and every year it's inevitable around november around november around this time of year because we're on the east atlantic flyway it's inevitable ireland will have a few outbreaks of the virus which doesn't cause much of a problem at all in wild birds the big difficulty that we have is because we intensively farm poultry our poultry farms are naive and are very suspect to infection of this wild bird by this wild flu virus so what farmers have to do particularly in monaghan whether it's a very high concentration of poultry farms is bring on all the birds and make sure that the wild birds don't have access to them to cause disease so what the far what we it's the same way we protect ourselves against foot and mouth and cattle whenever we have an outbreak in one of the larger poultry farms what we start to do is slaughter out um whatever birds are affected and then try and have exclusion zones to stop it spreading so and i'm not being facetious in this at all it's effectively a lockdown for the birds it's effectively a lockdown for the birds but it's something that's that's inevitable and it's something that has been happening for for centuries viruses circulating in the wild bird population in the same way as they circulate in the human population and i suppose a good analogy would be describe what happened when measles went across atlantic to the states and we started wiping out Indians it's the same thing that the wild birds have a natural immunity some of them some of the Irish birds will die with it but it wouldn't cause doesn't cause a major problem apart from where you've intensively farmed poultry houses so what um then happens next you know i mean you talked about birds have to be cold do they how like would an entire flock have to be cold how do they determine you know what birds die and what birds don't basically what they'll do is the vets for the paramedic culture who will control the outbreak will try and figure out which birds are at risk which birds are becoming affected and they will call out that house and then they'll set up an exclusion zone try and protect it spreading and the critical thing and this is a really critical thing that then they'll give a direction and this happens on a yearly basis they'll give a direction to all major poultry producers just to ensure what they call biosecurity to ensure that world wild birds don't have access and to poultry houses and there's no wings of spread now it's a cyclical thing because as i said we're on the east atlantic flyway where about 90 million birds will travel from US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Siberia on their way down through western Europe a lot of them will stay with us but a million will stay with us the rest of them will carry on down heading right down to the south of South Africa so again it'll be in the press for a while until christmas it'll lay off and we'll hear about it again next autumn but i think the one thing that kind of rattles people a wee bit is that there's always always a suspicion that we might you know as to whether or not it's a zoonosis so zoonosis is a disease that spread can spread from birds or from animals to humans now the H5N1 is not a perfectly pathogenic virus as far as it doesn't cause too much too series of disease and it would be really really difficult for a human to become infected but what's more concerned to us is a different one called the H5N6 it's another orthomics virus which has appeared in china and there has been over 20 infections there because people often speculate back to the great flu virus of 1918 and that great pandemic which made covid look like a play as to whether or not it originated out of wild birds yeah and then of course people are going to worry about crossover and all that type of stuff as well and and new variants and what have you we don't want to over amplify the the the dangers in that regard but everyone's up to high though at the moment I mean you can be absolutely reassured there is zero risk of disease from the H5N1 and you would one would to contract that you would need to literally get a one of these birds that are died with H5N1 and you know actively try and affect yourself with it from the bird and even that that it's not going to cause too major a sign of disease but what is interesting in the story and you know I think that something gets no real we or us farmers get no real credit for is that from an environmental point of view we play a massive role in east unigall and facilitate an east atlantic flightway and farmers go out of the way to get involved environmental schemes to ensure that a lot of these birds that arrive exhausted from green land and Iceland and Canada have somewhere to graze and if you go down to in Shiland you'll see an incredible sight the amount of those birds the wetland birds that have arrived from places like Siberia or Canada exhausted haven't crossed the Atlantic on their next stage of heading south so where are they coming from they're coming we're on the big major flyways in the world in terms of where birds might graze and this has been happening for since the year dot so we're on the what's known as the east atlantic flyway so the east atlantic flyway the birds come from the the u.s. Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Siberia and they're heading south and they're heading south skirting off western Europe the bottleneck is the rock of Gibraltar because these birds have got to avoid the Sahara desert and the Atlas mountains and for an awful lot of them the first port of call is unigall now unigall is massively important because the first port of call in the western highlands scotland's not much good to them because there's not much grazing but along the banks of the swallay from Manor, Cunningham, Newton, Cunningham, Birk the whole way down along you'll see a lot of those birds arrive a lot of the geese and swan swans arrive there and they'll graze in the grass and farmers are a lot of our farmers are involved in schemes to ensure that they have grass growing at an unseasonable time of year so when these birds arrive exhausted they're somewhere to graze and that's left for them that's all planned I mean I'm trying there's some compensation there for it yeah there's a little bit of compensation but it's a real good news story that people aren't aware of the Manor Cunningham viewpoint people at Manor Cunningham viewpoint that's only a wild Atlantic way you have one farmer in particular that does incredible work Michael and Heather Wallace do great work to ensure that most of their land is suitable for the swans and the geese that arrive coming in from Siberia and Canada and if that grass wasn't there a lot of those would die and a lot of them they will stay on you know there's a significant proportion of those wetland birds will stay in Ireland roughly a million will stay in Ireland but the other 89 million will head on further south I mean okay there's a few things going on here that's amazing nature is one of them I mean in terms of the journey the fact that and man working with nature as well the fact that I mean in terms of the distance they're traveling and how they travel to find this area I mean it's it's like a needle in a haystack but they're equipped to be able to do it and that we have that we have the table set for them when they arrive okay when we have the table set for these 90 million odd birds or the million that we host for the for the season that we have the table set for them when they arrive and then they just get up ahead over the rocket Gibraltar and onward it really is nature is remarkable but also that little bit of harmony between man and nature too as you say not talked about but it really is quite great yeah and the one big thing as well that we have to credit for as well as we're the one of the few countries that actually give tremendous protection to those birds unfortunately as the head further south particularly there's parts of Europe where a lot of the hunters will go out of the way you know the we swan for example are iconic and Irish folklore and you know there's no one what they're going on islands won't shoot in the swan but a lot of those birds when they travel further south and Europe it's fair play in terms of people actually attacking them are trying to take I'd say the biggest threat here is power lines power lines yeah power lines are but these birds tend to skirt the coast what they tend to do is come down along the coast most of them ahead tend to hit dairy or dunny go all in their first there were the first landing point and then the skirt and down further south now there will be a certain amount of them as I said a certain amount of will be carrying that wild flu viruses and the bird blues and people with pulpit a lot of people who now keep poultry know around this time of year to actually keep their birds inside because it's a time of high risk and the partner culture every so often they'll let you you know a report in a warning on this time of year say look how's all your poultry for the foreseeable future to the stage and again fascinating Jared thanks very much it really is and as I say it's actually really good to give credit to those that you mentioned and those that we didn't mention that do they're a bit as well yeah and as I said at this time of year you know take a run out for your binoculars some anaconda and viewpoint are on down to Enchiland and as I said we're a world-renowned location you know from our logical point of view and just to think that you've had 90 million birds have flown exhausted across the Atlantic to arrive here and are so glad to get here to that I presume they they would try and time they time their journey to be assisted as best as possible with airflow airflow is massively important and as I said that's why I mean it's obviously evolved over centuries but why does this particular pattern on the Atlantic Atlantic flyway is that there's no real difficulties in terms of barriers on their way down now the significant barrier for them is the Sahara Desert and the Atlas Mountains when they're heading on further south into South Africa and again you know rocket you were altering that area the bottleneck for them in terms of where they're actually traveling up further south all right brilliant stuff listen thanks Jared appreciate it greatly that's Dr Jared Rorty there who's a vet and a farmer fascinating stuff I think anyway I hope you agree get involved in that conversation 9-1-25,000 call Caroline there or text 086-60-25,000 some more of your comments here just wondering about the school boss until today the buses ran at 50% capacity to help stop the spread of COVID from this morning the buses running at full surely with the high numbers of COVID this doesn't seem to make much sense and also too you know of course we're thinking of our younger people what about the people driving these buses as well they've got more people on the bus with them I presume and maybe someone in the industry can if it is a problem I don't particularly know but they were had a contract or were being paid to to operate more buses to people I presume they don't have buses lying around what happens to these extra buses that might not be used any longer or maybe they were doing double runs and didn't get extra buses as I say but still it's a big change 18 years ago two of my children needed braces and were waiting six years for them eventually they were told that it couldn't be done on the medical card as they were not orthodontists available there were none of them and that they were being taken off the list we had to go private and they cost 4200 euro each now if that were now you would get a proportion of that back 8400 per child I wondered did you claim the tax back at the time it Matt if that man pays tax you can claim tax relief at a standard rate for all medical expenses yes indeed my son has braces we paid 3000 euro and we're very happy with the results so far and the treatment he received I was told by the orthodontist to apply to revenue for a tax rebate guess how much they get back got back off a three grand spend 27 euro I wonder did you check across all tax years maybe I don't know there 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anthony onto the program now good morning anthony good morning gray how you doing i'm doing okay how are you keeping grand grand right this is not your first time on with us isn't no no i think we've probably been two years ago around before and can you tell us what that was about and basically i was trying to trace i'm adopted and i'm trying to trace my birth mother and basically i went on the radio i had her name for the main mic manaman and i got plenty of calls from us and found out where she was who she was where she lived on that which was great okay and can i ask were you able to connect or i know she died in 2001 i'm sorry to hear that i think actually now i remember i remember that story uh but in terms of i don't know get did you get answers did it help you in other words you know obviously uh it's sad to hear that your mother had passed away but left with more questions than answers okay and we are we're going to try and answer some of them today is that right um hopefully um now it's a big reach um i've found out there a week ago that i have another sibling that i have a brother who is two years older than me and that i never knew existed and up to a couple years ago the mic manaman family never knew i existed um so basically i'm looking to see if anybody uh that's maybe my mother fil filamina or phyllis she was better known as um might have confided in somebody or uh said something to someone or somebody might put two into together um the person looking for is a martin anthony mic manaman now that was his name on this bird cert and he was born on the 26th of july um in a modern baby home in nabbin nabbin rodent dublin so he's just coming two two one or two years shy of 60 yes okay um no he wouldn't be um he's two years older than me so i'm 54 he'd be 56 56 okay sorry beg your pardon yeah yeah to 20 60 july um that's when he was born now if he he may well not know he was adopted there you go yeah this is the problem so um it's holding us try and match the name up with the uh the date of birth obviously you know yeah so the date of birth um around 26th of july 1965 he may not be using his birth name either that's a possibility isn't it yeah there's a possibility so like i said it's a big outreach now my uh name is kevin anthony mic manaman and i'm kind of hoping she kept the name obviously anthony in the two names uh martin anthony mic manaman uh even even the first name but like you said he could be adopted he might even know he's adopted uh but i'm hoping somebody may be in dunny gall uh around blaine car or someone might be able to put two and two together you know uh here's mother also uh is your mom filomena uh as you mentioned also known um perhaps better as uh philis mic manaman yes and she she lived in in letter canny as well she did she was uh i think with laine car she was in and she was in uh hill quest house nursing home for a while then before she died you know and can i ask how you come to find out to find out that you had a long lost brother um well it's a very long story and basically i had a social worker in the north helped me start to find my mother's name and that was a big help and then from there i ended up with a social worker in the south then helped me and as she was helping me she came across you said did your mother have another sibling so they couldn't tell you she said well when i was tracing her name we came across um her exact signature with another sibling and that was the first uh i've ever heard of it or came across did you know how did that make you feel a great delighted uh to know there might be somebody else out there and sorry anthony i might jump jump the gun a little bit up until now did you know that up until like would martin mcmanum as he is on his birth start is he your only sibling that you have learned about since you started this journey yes uh when i started tracing my mother's family all her brothers and sisters and she had four sisters and a brother and they're all passed away and i've spoken to some of my cousins and which was nice to meet them but they were kind of in awe as if i don't believe this you know what i mean um they were nearly shocked as much as i was you know yeah of course someone just coming out of the blue being a close relation why wouldn't you be shocked yeah especially when they never knew they existed you know or anything um so here we are and basically uh to find out that there's a sibling out there um it's fantastic you know did you ever get a sense that part of the story was missing and this makes sense or i don't know if you sort of subscribe to that yeah yeah you kind of do um there is a bit of that as i actually as you go through your life you know um just the different things that happen that um you know funny things and you look back and say what the hell happened there you know what was that about you could have been sitting in the same pub as him at one point or other you just never know with these things i'm not saying that's what you're talking to but we're a small country you just don't know you don't know there was a mad situation uh in a local town here where i am near draughta where a girl in the flower shop came out to me one day and gave me a kiss and then she says oh sorry she says you're not uh i touch with my boyfriend and i shook me head as if to say here's the one trying my hand or something you know don't want to stand so vain but um you know then i was gonna say you must be handsome man anthony it doesn't happen it doesn't happen too well no no no no no um and then i think in fact maybe there is somebody out there that looks like me and this is going through my head it's not impossible with different situations and then it's kind of saying to me you know maybe the person has been adopted and he's more local than i think you know yeah that's quite true and so because you don't have any idea where this man is it's just by happen chance that he might have settled up here uh really you're casting the wide net it could be anywhere exactly exactly i'm casting the wide net but i cast the wide net the last time now and i got a lot of places you know i get you like there's not a whole lot of mcmenome and denarnment and most of them aren't on me go which was a fair um assumption right so uh he was born around the 26th of july his name on the birth cert was martin mcmenome uh it'd be a couple of years older than you he was adopted from navin road in county doblin he may not know was adopted we just simply don't know that he may know is adopted he may be listening to this and wants nothing to do with you that's also not not to do with you in a on a personal level but you never know the way people's lives move on so there's a lots of variables out there or he could be listening and this could change both of your lives forever that's just the way things go his mom's filomena she uh his birth mom uh known locally as phyllis uh and she lived in in letter kenny and her father was uh kroneleus in terms of finding out more about your your your mom did you get any answers that you needed answered like especially maybe speaking to the extended family her immediate family had also passed so maybe those that she may have confided in had taken those secrets with them but did you learn anything to fill in the gaps for you anthony no i haven't even a photograph offer um basically um i think they shock uh on their faces and that even existed said it all you know yeah um you just like i say you kind of left with more questions than answers and like you're kind of hoping that as you said yourself like it's different times back in the sixties in ireland where people didn't want family secrets being heard and things that everything was well not everything but often everything was kept on the qt that's how we dealt with things behind closed doors curtains closed yes and i did get a couple of phone calls uh the last time as well from a couple of people that sounded like social workers saying that um why would you want to be looking for your family why wouldn't you leave us alone and all of this as well well there is that there is an element of that in you trying to seek your answers it can disrupt other people's lives i get that uh but maybe that's a failure of our record keeping and the information we give people and checks and balances and all of that i mean you have to you've got your your life to live out as well um so i think a lot of people understand uh right okay well we'll see um what comes from it if if anything comes in um anthony just out of curiosity do you do you like when you've got speaking to your cousins does it bother you like did you ask about medical history and stuff because for for those who are adopted you know uh you don't know of cancers prevalent in a family or if heart diseases or or anything else were you able to sort of does that even be in your mind do you ask those questions yes it did and it turns out that's one of them that i'm in touch with is actually a doctor and he's very nice guy and um thank god there's nothing to worry about yeah that respect you know like it that was one of the things years ago as you're going to your own doctor and he was saying his first question they say to you is is there any history family history and you're looking up to heaven as if to say what do you say you know what i mean um so it's been tough for things like that but now it's good to know yeah okay well should listen it's out there now uh anthony we'll see we'll see what comes of it um maybe this could just be the best thing ever for you and your for your brother or you want me to leave a contact we'll do that offer anthony um caroline will get that off you and we'll retain that and if anyone contacts us caroline knows the procedure to be gone through there uh and i i wish you the best of luck with everything um were you disappointed uh the the last time because expectations can be so high and maybe you sit there thinking well what about this what about that or had you prepared yourself for the fact that your mom may have passed on and maybe all the answers that you were looking for weren't going to be there what was your emotion um you don't know what to expect um you kind of keep the emotion out of it because even if you find somebody and you meet somebody um you're meeting the police during the first time yes um especially as well you know you're disappointed when you find out that somebody's passed away and then the family have passed away and it's like everybody has moved on and forgotten about you but then when you figure out they don't they don't realize you haven't even existed they didn't even know you existed like you know um there's a lot of uh secrets in this country we need to sort out you know um a lot of uh things need to be clearer for a lot of people you know yeah like i said there's a lot of questions that are not been answered even still and i don't know for what reason at this point you know well i think a lot of us could sort of speculate on that but we'll do that another time anthony listen best of luck with everything lovely thank you very much thank you for having yourself no problem it's okay anthony there looking for his long lost brother his birth name martin mcmenemon born around the 26th of july 1965 he was adopted from navin road and county dublin his mom he shares the mom with anthony phyllis kevin anthony phyllis mcmenemon philomena she was also known as her dad was cornelius and her brother's sister sadly our deceased normal anthony has at this stage is a birth cert now he was on with us a couple years ago he found out about his mom and made connections with his cousins but of course now very recently he found out that he has a long-lost brother that neither of them i would imagine knows about the other right okay today's nine tone in show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires ready for winter call in 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kavana at the highland radio news desk the transport minister says the planned cabinet menu on subsidizing the cost of antigen tests has been delayed because more detail is needed health minister steve and donnelly was due to bring proposals to his government colleagues this morning the subsidized tests will be available in pharmacies with the government rebating a portion of the cost to reduce the price of an antigen test to two or three euro minister m and ryan says they need to find the right approach it needs more detail it needs more it needs more uh precision and and we prefer to give a time and get it right and uh but there are half a million tests have gone out there people are using them and critical things they use them the right way well professor of experimental immunology at trinity college dublin kingston mills says antigen tests should be as cheap as possible if some has a large family they're going to test a whole lot of them a couple times a week it's a significant expense so i think they should be my personal view is they should be around one euro um but not making them free but i think i one euro charge are thereabouts would be would be appropriate but four euro sounds a bit high to me there are calls on the hsc to reinstate the pop-up COVID-19 testing facility in inichown as a matter of urgency it comes as latest figures show the COVID incidence rate in north inichown is the second highest nationwide and the highest in donnelly gall the walk-in testing center on the peninsula ceased operations at the end of september with people having to go to letter kenny to get pcr tests local councillor martin mcdormitt says in a lot of cases this simply isn't feasible and the facility is needed is very very difficult for a lot of families especially families that have people mothers and fathers out working that have to take time off work um to vote letter kenny that uh you know the test centre here in inichown the pop-up test centre was was it worked extremely well when it was here and i think you know the numbers that the way they are at the moment i think it's vitally important that that pop-up test centre is brought back here to inichown even for a period of time to alleviate the situation that are in at the moment it's been confirmed that the technological university in the west and northwest will be called the atlantic technological university it'll include letter kenny it sligo it and gallway mayo it in a statement this morning minister semen harris said atlantic conveys power strength inspiration creation vast horizons a distinctive geography rich history and shared heritage there are new calls for special attention to be paid to letter kenny university hospital in a bid to tackle overcrowding and cancellations it comes as northwest shin feinted he's met with the executive management team of the south hospital group yesterday to discuss issues affecting the system don't go to the public mclochland is warning that letter kenny university hospital is under severe pressure and strain from both covet and non-covid care he says letter kenny is currently top of the table for the wrong reasons and it's time for government intervention we need a special attention being paid to let me go letter kenny hospital you know has repeatedly been at the top of the table when it comes to the amount of people on trolleys that can't get into proper beds and boards of course on the other side of that is the pressure unbelievable pressure on our healthcare workers so we've had those meetings now with the letter kenny hospital management with the sales of hospital group management and we are very clear on what the issues are and we know now what the government needs to do and they need to step up here the guard representative association says the number of attacks on gar thee has risen significantly in recent years the organization which is holding its annual conference in kerry once mandatory sentences introduced for those convicted of assaulting officers the vice president of the g r8 on a gold base brendan o'connor says it's having an impact on the number of gar thee available for duty there's been an upward trend in assaults on guards for the last number of years so we're seeing huge exponential rises so what that is meaning is that more members are suffering the trauma of the physical injuries and there's an abstraction right because people are not praying for duty because they're off what injury so it's it's impacting on the very personal level on our members and then it's also impacting organization feeling fresh and cold this morning dry though with a good deal of cloud and limited sunny spells highest temperatures today six to nine degrees celsius in light southwest winds tomorrow dried to begin with clear spells rain developing in the west of the region and spreading across most of the region by dawn cold with lowest overnight temperatures minus one to plus four degrees celsius coldest in southern parts rain clearing through tomorrow morning with scattered showers and sunshine following showers very frequent though the odd shower will be heavy with a chance of isolated hail highest temperatures tomorrow six to eight in moderate southwest winds that's island radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notices for tuesday morning the 23rd of november the death has occurred of tony creeran'd formally of muckish avenue his remains will be reposing at the letter kenny funeral home port road from six until nine o'clock this evening funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in zane union's cathedral letter kenny with cremation to follow in lakeland's crematorium cavern at a later date family flowers only donations if desired to the donnie gall hospice care of any family member or calm mcdade funeral rector the funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv forward slash letter kenny the death has occurred of mary ellen burn core friend bally buffet her remains are opposing at mccool's chapel of rest today with visiting time from seven p.m to nine p.m funeral leaving there tomorrow morning at half past 10 for requiem mass at 11 o'clock in zane mary's church shesha o'neill and term it afterwards in the adjoining church yard the funeral mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam wake funeral and burial will be private to family neighbors and close friends only the death has taken place of freddy duncan castle third carragans his remains are opposing at his home removal from their tomorrow afternoon at half past one for two o'clock funeral service in montreal presbyterian church followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only please donations and lou and aid of montreal national school care of any family member or terence mclintock funeral director the death has taken place of sheila mehan arder and mobile she lives remains are opposing at her home funeral from there this morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in zimpias the 10th church mobile followed by burial in ballybrack cemetery family flowers only donations if desired to symbols and appall care of any family member the funeral mass can be viewed live on mobile parish dot com the death has occurred of john gormley mullenty boil glantees and formerly of balanamore condi litrim his remains are opposing at st connell's church in glantees the house is private funeral mass this morning at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the local cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv forward slash glantees family flowers only please donations and lou if desired to killie bags community hospital care of james mcginnis funeral directors glantees or any family member on the death has occurred of marie doherty knee lynch linds fort bunkrana her remains are opposing at her late residents funeral from there this morning at quarter past 11 going to the star of the sea church desert agony for funeral mass at 12 noon in term of afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam family flowers only please donations if desired to the dialysis renal unit alton agarvin hospital care of derrick mccabe funeral director or any family member for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com black tag sale now on at curry's bc world save a massive 400 euro on the lg 48 inch smart 4k OLED tv now 1149 save 150 euro on the energy efficient samsung eco bubble nine kilo washing machine for just 449 and get a 14 inch asus laptop with 128 gigs of storage and up to 12 hours battery life now just 279 save 80 euro get in store our online ad curries dot ie with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the night and noon show on highland radio i see the government's just announced the name chosen by the institutes of golwin meo sligo and letter kenny institute for technology they are coming together and they're going to open their doors officially as a combined university on april the first 2022 that is no joke and the name that they have chosen is wait for it atlantic technological university atlantic technological universities so the atu perhaps it might be known as it'll open its doors officially next april the first 2022 ly it will cease to exist under its name of course i presume that's the way it works isn't it it'll be the letter kenny campus maybe of the atlantic technological university okay and that was agreed external companies internal stakeholders students and what have you they come up with that atlantic technological university all right maybe the hospital wouldn't be so busy if it hadn't shut down an 11 bed ward for refurbishment something that could be done anytime mismanagement on an industrial scale at the heart of all of this country's health and social problems i think you know when you close down a ward with 11 beds in it you don't send the staff home and say look listen we're doing a bit of refurb work here you know you can take six weeks off those staff would be deployed elsewhere and working on beds i'm sure just wondering greg are you the king or the servant i don't know where i'm on that italian scale of people this is a man who was in court i believe yesterday on driving charges i had my way he'd be deported back to italy on grounds insulting the irish state and our people what a cheeky brass neck he's anti-vax this person says he didn't mention his name and gave him a platform to promote his own importance that comes in from patrick and donle well of course he i believe subscribes to common law so it would be interesting to see how that pans out i believe he tried to serve papers on the judge who refused them he's back up on december 13th as i say as it relates to alleged driving charges as far as i'm aware i mean we are in the e u so i don't think you to pull people back uh from you know within its borders or such but i take your point i got someone to order uh to send me dna ancestry tests from the uk to trace biological father mother i put her partner's name on my birth certificate will it get me help using the test as anyone had any luck with the tests um i call us as i use this when searching for my mother's family we did find people but they have to be in the system and searching for a connection to be made yes so obviously if you use one of these dna tests it can you can find out a little bit about yourself where you're from your bloodline that kind of stuff um but you can log your details that you're interested in connecting with someone else so you'd need another group of people your family to also have done the same and then they can and can they can connect you that way it can be i mean it's it's long odds but anyway i'll be doing that one of these on air a little later on it's an antigen test for those of you watching on facebook youtube you can see there um someone's joining us to tell us how to do these correctly hold the right way up to the camera i suppose so i'm going to be shoving one of those up my nose later hopefully i'm not positive uh i'm not symptomatic of anything so who's to say uh but being a hypochondriac i think probably my mind i can skew the results who's to say but anyway we're going to be doing that a little bit later on uh because apparently if you don't do them right there's no point doing them at all if you don't want to do them if you're not interested in any of that stuff it's going to be of no interest to you at all because you'll never take one uh many years ago there were hidden things were hidden and it was such a different time says this caller i got a call from a man who turned out to be my brother my mother had him while she wasn't married she gave him up for adoption he found us but he had a lot of issues understandable he felt disowned so there isn't always a happy ending or happy ever after to these stories not to mention the huge shock of discovering exists it's a huge upheaval finding out the exist just because someone is your blood relative it doesn't mean they're the same as you you'd get on with them then there's pressure maybe to do so and then as you say in that situation someone can have uh have their own uh instances uh call us as covid figures in letter can you not surprising since there are large gatherings like the matches hardly and i've been wearing masks but they're outside uh you know we're being told that's okay if it's not okay don't let us do it then do you know what i mean there's no point opening up uh a pub uh and then going into the pub and then being told off that you shouldn't go into that pub but don't open it then and i don't mean i want pubs closed before someone says that but you know everything seems to come back to us it's our fault it's our responsibility we are doing everything we can we've been doing everything we can okay it's not our fault uh that the booster program is slow rolling out it's not our fault that antigen testing they can't make i mean no harm to let me listen to this and this is the this is not a personal attack all right what's his aim and ryan being asked about antigen test just listen to how the sentence is structured and what's actually said it needs more detail it needs more it needs more uh precision and and we prefer to give a time and get it right and uh but there are half million tests have gone out there people are using them and critical things they use them the right way it's just a lump of words we need more time we need more precision uh you know what i mean what does that even what does that even mean you know he must have known that question was coming anyway right we'll be back with the community garden slot after the bingo numbers and a quick break good luck if you're paying today it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's tuesday the 23rd of november you're playing on the 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welcome back to the program at 20 minutes past 10 it is uh tuesday the 24th of november and it's just after 10 o'clock so that means it is time for the community garter slot and we welcome into studio with us today uh guard at grania daherty great have you with us grania thanks for joining us thanks for having me great right okay we'll get straight into it then because uh you're looking for information or assistance from the public as it relates to car thefts from cars in muff yeah and we have posted actually to our facebook page during the week in relation to this also so this happened in the early hours of thursday the 18th of november approximately between 2 a.m and 6 a.m a number of cars were unlawfully entered in the ard ban estate in muff property was stolen from some of them so we're appealing to to anybody who may have witnessed any suspicious activity in that area particularly other residents in the area to contact garrity in bunk rana on 9320540 we're particularly interested in any sightings of a dark color peugeot possibly a dark gray black color peugeot that may have been in the area that night if anybody believes they may have captured this vehicle on dashcam footage it would be most helpful to us if they could come forward um the garrity confidential ain't also maybe reached on 1800 666111 um just a bit of advice also and like we've we've spoken about this before but particularly now and they're on up to christmas with people doing a lot of shopping you know and parking in public areas but also parking at their home you know you have to be so careful um we want to remind everybody to ensure that your car is locked secured at all times whether that's parked in the driveway if your house or in a retail park in town regardless of where it's parked ensure it's locked at all times when unattended don't leave anything valuable in your car cash jewellery electronics or you know maybe someone's celebrating a birthday or something around about christmas and they might see the boot as a safe place to hide something they might yeah you know what i mean that's you know some people will do it and these criminals know they do it they do surely yeah but they're not silly they know the usual hiding places and the handbag and under the seat you know the the hiding places that people usually use but you just don't know who's watching when you're hiding items in your car so our advice is don't leave these items in the car to start with handbags on seats as a common enough occurrence you know handbags thrown on the passenger seat and someone runs into a shop don't leave anything valuable within sight in the car or in the car at all so with the christmas shopping some false swing so anybody who is out buying particularly if they have an expensive item in mind that they want to buy we would advise them to leave that purchase until the last stop of their journey you know so that they don't have to leave it unattended while they finish their shopping and if anybody does see anybody you know while they're out shopping or even in their own estate or area if they see anybody who's acting suspiciously you know looking in windows of cars trying car doors contact garrady immediately and alert us and the four four district headquarters are open 24 7 letter kenny milford bunkranna and ballet shannon and i can give you those numbers it's 9167 100 for letter kenny milford is 915 3060 bunkranna 93050 and ballet shannon is 071 985 8530 okay now criminal damage being investigated in lyford yeah this happened at the diamond and effort this happened on friday the 19th of november so this was shortly before 7 10 p.m four youths were captured on cctv footage and we're following that up we're going to view footage from other premises also so these youths were in dark clothing they were in the diamond area one of them through an object through a window of one of the buildings just across from the old courthouse there in lyford the window was smashed and they took off running then on foot towards lyford bridge so anybody that was in that area for youths in dark clothing um if they seen these youths if they caught them again on dash cam footage we'd like to hear from them and letter kenny on 9167 100 um and garrady and letter kenny um investigating criminal damage in the ash lawn area yeah another incident of criminal damage so this happened on friday the 19th of november again between 5 p.m and 5 15 p.m for a very short time period there i wonder what the side of a house was smashed between those times now there were reports that a gang of youths had been seen in the area not that we can say one way or another that they had anything to do with this but if anybody observed the incident happened if they seen anybody hanging about in that general area between those times uh we would like to hear from them and letter kenny on 9167 100 now an incident at mclure's terrace too uh yet another yet another criminal damage accident there at mclure's terrace letter kenny this happened on the 16th of november tuesday at 9 10 p.m um we are appealing to anybody who was in that area around that time it's a very specific time 9 10 p.m the bang was actually heard and reported immediately to garrady so that was the time that it happened so if anybody seen anybody any activity in that area that might assist us with their inquiries we would like to hear from them and letter kenny on 9167 100 all right next we'll go across to uh karik an investigation in that area yeah valley shannon garrady you're appealing for information in relation to criminal damage incident again this happened at a house on the bugger road in karik on sunday the 21st of november this happened between 1 p.m and 2 p.m so significant damage was caused to the front wall off this house by a saloon style car a blue saloon style car sorry between those times and two males were believed to have been on board the car at left traveled in the direction of karik village following the incident so we are appealing really to anybody who may have been on the bugger road to karik between those times between 1 and 2 p.m who may have observed this car it would have had damage caused to it also if they may have captured it on their dashcam footage if they could contact garrady and valley shannon on 07198 585 30 no the b went to b winter ready campaign was launched back in november 17th at a supposed appropriate timing to the way things are going tell us about the campaign and what we can learn from it yeah and we have information on our garrady shaykana johnny goff facebook page in relation to this also but it was launched on november 17th this campaign is now in its 11th year so it's intended to raise awareness about the challenges that winter can present and where people can seek support and help you know in response to those challenges the campaign provides practical advice on how best to prepare for winter it ensures the public are aware of where they can find the appropriate help and advice advice is there from a wide number of sources including us in garrady shaykana the hse government departments local authorities the office of public works and transport providers so this year's campaign is focused on staying safe on the farm over winter and they have devised a campaign leaflet on farm safety so that's leaflet and all of the b winter ready literature may be viewed on the website www.winterready.ie we also have information on our own facebook page and we have a link available there that you can download the b winter ready booklet okay excellent stuff now uh crime prevention webinar is taking place tomorrow i think it is yeah so we hope to have details up on our own facebook page later today the link you know that people can join into the event you have a facebook page do you yeah i wouldn't have been aware of garrady shaykana johnny goff facebook page a big fan are you i've mentioned it a number of times already have i have to get the sales team dancing i'm not doing a great advertisement campaign today for adult together um so this is actually being run well it's been supported by the joint policing committee in gallway city but it's open to everybody and it's free of charge and there's very you know topics that that would be beneficial to everybody really if anybody wants to join in it's online free of charge it's happening on the 24th november tomorrow between 10 a.m and 1 p.m the topics that will be covered are home security cybercrime domestic abuse and road safety there'll be a number of speakers on there and a lot of valuable information for our people if they wish to join in yeah and sometimes you know it can be hard to source that yourself is it there is it here you know this is a a webinar where i think home security will be very useful we mentioned a lot of that but they have more time to get into the the announcement as well as you mentioned cybercrime we'll have a quick word on that too i presume before we finish domestic abuse which we had a big focus on last week and continue to us what a road safety it starts at 10 a.m runs to 1 p.m so it's not overly long but there's going to be a lot in there there is yeah it could be of benefit to many people would advise as many as possible to take part and you can get a link to the webinar posted on the goddess yakona donagall facebook page lots of information goes up on there only messing a little earlier on but it's handy to get those links that we've just talked of so you can get the link to the webinar and you can also get the link to that winter ready dot ie the literature that's available there so hop on to it you don't have to actually be on facebook either by the way just searching uh regarding donagall facebook and the page will come up for you right um scams just a quick word on those scams and i know look we're blue in the face talking about scams but i just wanted to mention in particular today um i was actually scammed last night myself so i just wanted to i went home last night and i checked my bank and online and three transactions i come out of my account yesterday evening late yesterday evening from a site i'd never heard of it was the same site the three transactions never heard of this site before so i contacted the emergency line for my bank reported the matter to them and now i hadn't clicked on any links and we're always saying you know don't click on links don't and that is the advice that we do still give but i hadn't clicked on any links you know i hadn't received any emails text messages that were in any way odd to me and i hadn't um and putted any details so just wanted me to make people aware just to keep an eye on their online bank and you know it's important to keep an eye on your account and check the transactions regularly that are taking place there you know there may be many people out there don't look at it for money and the year the next they're online banking scared to look yeah yeah um for fear of all the money being gone but not and not by people stealing it this sounds very similar to a call we had from a person in the west the county too that there was just transactions coming out of their account you know very late in the evening they only discovered it in the morning thankfully they got refunded but still uh the fact they were able to spot it very early on helped yeah and we're getting a lot of if you wouldn't believe the amount of reports of this type of fraud that we're receiving at the moment and similar to that you know people the money's being taken from the account any idea how they may be accessing it and almost kind of personal and it's not it doesn't talk to all of the instances we talk of but have you any theories to how they could have got your info or i don't to be honest now because my card has been with me at all times you know nobody would have had any access to the card so possibly just maybe some website that i have used is the only thing that i can think of some website i have used of late that maybe my details were taken in from that but and and just also another and i know we're everybody's sick hearing about us talking about this but we would like to ask people to please please do not click on links especially the bank uh type messages that are coming out at the moment the amount of people that are falling victim to this is you know it's worrying and losing thousands of euro click in the link and i know it does most of these messages appear under your genuine bank and thread and possibly that's where people are falling victim to it you know they think it's genuine and that is the that has been the big problem with this because say you're with AIB for example you get all your notifications for AIB AIB and then lo and behold there's one in that thread of messages saying something has happened you click on it because you do it very quickly especially if you you know think something's been taken from your account or something and that's it then and that's that was the real game changer for these scammers being able to insert these scams into the legitimate um text threads yeah and then still a feeling of panic you know the messages are designed that way you know that something's going to happen to your account or something urgent you know this needs to be dealt with urgently people panic it's understandable but please please do not click on any links that you're receiving text messages your bank will never ever send you out a text message with a link request and private information and a lot of people are shopping online now and it's not just international by the way we're not just talking about amazon or whatever but a lot of people are using you know local retailers they're shopping online so more people will be expecting a parcel and more of these scam texts saying you know we're holding your parcel it's due out for delivery it'll stop being relevant to more people at well and the scammers will will will make and just can i just give you one other just quick mention of um just uh one that has come to light recently i don't know did we mention it in recent weeks but i just feel it's important to let people know um i don't know a lot of people are doing clearouts at the moment you know coming up to christmas they're selling but some pieces and um we have had a few reports in recent weeks in relation to um people that are selling items on various mediums on online you know facebook marketplace don't deal wherever they're selling their item they receive correspondence from somebody who's interested in buying their item the sale of the items agreed they then get sent a message from this person with a link and for all the world i've seen the link myself it looks for all the world to be genuine it's an and post link that they get back um there's a a link within this message then that the seller has to click this link to input their own bank details in order to receive the payment through and post and it does look extremely genuine they're being told that this is to protect them don't you know by the scammers of course yeah just you know to do things legitimately but of course the minute you put your details in your bank accounts clear then you know money's taken from your account yet right very quick one uh provisional licensed drivers in a small town with no well plates uh no one's accompanying them and they're driving dangerously now that's a lot of information this person believes to know but we presume that they do uh they've been reported to gaudy but no one's done anything about it why would this not be acted upon this caller has already reported this matter to the guards by the sounds of things yeah no there's no problem anybody at all can report road traffic matters to us and they are most certainly followed up on um if it's a case that you have you see the person you ring it into the guards and say they're at certain location at this moment in time the guards will go out they'll circulate the number of the car and look to see can they get this car stopped if the car is not there at that time they will keep the number of the car in mind for future for the future they will stop the car whenever it is seen by them and demand production of documents then from them in relation to the dangerous driving aspect um that caller would be invited to make a statement in relation to the driving the manner of driving that they observed because obviously the guards weren't there to witness the driving yes you know it's up to the person then to come forward to make a statement of complaint to the guard should they wish to do that in order for us to follow up the dangerous driving aspect and and in fairness you know I mean evidence is required and we don't want to live in a world where we no longer need evidence so that explains a lot of what you're saying there I believe okay uh contact them again and you heard from granny there listen thank you very much indeed thank you uh people can get more information as I say uh up on the donagore guard of facebook page as well this item will be posted up there a little later on but and the item will be back on air with you uh after 10 next Tuesday but for now granny thank you very much indeed thank you great we'll be back with more in the night on the show after these today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires are your tires ready for winter call in to ulster tires in letter kenny and ballet buffet today do you currently have vacancies that need urgently filled do you require temporary staff for the christmas period have you tried various ways to find new staff but didn't succeed let highland radio help you source and fill your current vacancies in the most cost effective way simply sign up to our new job spot and we will tell our 70 000 daily listeners about your vacancies every monday wednesday and friday during our prime time shows we will broadcast the latest job 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tomorrow between three p.m and five p.m and seven p.m and nine thirty p.m and in the same venue on thursday 12 p.m to two p.m and on thursday it's four p.m to seven thirty p.m so many of you out there do donate and as you know there's a high probability throughout our lives that we will require blood or someone close to us will so it's good a nice thing to be able to contribute now staying with health assaults i suppose you could say a new obesity drug researched in arland has been found to cut body weight by 11% and doctors are calling this a major breakthrough professor carol larou joins us on the program now spokesperson for iris society for clinical nutrition and metabolism and metabolism and obesity specialist at st vincent's university hospital good morning to you professor good morning nice to speak to you right tell us about this uh drug uh you know where's it derived from how long has it been in research and how does it work yeah so basically when you and i have a meal um our gut sends a signal to the brain to feel full but the problem isn't people who have obesity they don't have the signal strong enough and what this new drug can do is boost this natural signal so what it does is it works on exactly the part of the brain that causes obesity and this is right in the middle the bit that makes us feel hungry or the bit that makes us feel satisfied after a meal so all this natural hormone will do is working on on that um part of the brain and people say you know this is amazing because they just don't feel hungry they feel satisfied they eat the same fruit as they've always done and enjoy it but they just eat less and they say this must be what normal feels like so it's just about treating this as a disease and we now are developing effective tools and this is delivered by way of an injection is it um around meal time or is it once a week or how often would someone have to take this uh they take this drug so the medication has been changed and because it's a natural hormone if you swallow it your stomach acids will break it down so it needs to be given under the skin as an injection once a week but people can do that at home and it hurts about this much as taking your nail and scratching it on your skin um so it's very easy and we even teach children how to use this without any difficulty now um say for instance you know people can use uh a nicotine patch okay and it will satisfy maybe the desire for nicotine but it does also require um it inquires requires a bit of will power there as well you know because you can still of course uh smoke whilst you were wearing a nicotine patch is this drug similar in that it would require quite a buy-in from the person using it in other words they could continue to eat I presume if they you know if there was that reflex to do so even if they were no longer hungry yeah so what it does is it treats the disease of obesity as I said that sits in the middle part of the brain but it does not make you more motivated and the drug does not make you more intelligent um but if the disease is treated then people are in control now certainly very often if we are in a period where we're very happy or very sad we would eat food now that can remain the same and and it's also about putting in extra supports for a patient um if they for example find that they overeat or they come for even if they're not hungry then we can help with psychological treatments to make that even better but most people and eat because they're hungry and they don't stop early enough because they don't feel full so in the vast majority of people we don't need any extra treatments but there's certainly a number of people where extra treatments can be very helpful now if we took in this country obesity as seriously as we should if we treated it as a disease uh and and funded it and committed to it our health service like perhaps we should this is the type of a breakthrough that the health minister make all a press conference on but because maybe we we don't see obesity as the disease it is the way we should it potentially could slip onto the radar to a lot of people is that a non-fair assessment I think it's fair but also we have to have sympathy with the government because you know there's more than a million people in Ireland that have the disease of obesity and therefore starting treatment tomorrow and for all of them is going to break any country's budget so what we have to do is we start with those patients that would benefit most and the idea now is to use these treatments to prevent people developing diabetes or even if they have diabetes to put that diabetes in remission or to prevent people having heart attacks or to prevent people having cancer so these drugs do not make you thin and these drugs do not make you happy but what they will do is they will make you healthier and more functional and that drives quality of life more for people but it also is good from a health economic point of view because the government then benefits as well is it expensive because obviously you know a lot of research goes into these drugs and it can push the price up almost prohibitively absolutely now these drugs will be expensive when they finally hit the market but they will be cost effective for a small number of people but as time goes on all drugs become cheaper because they effectively come off patent and therefore we are able to treat more people as time goes on so I don't think we're going to start on day one by treating a million people in the country but let's start with those that will benefit most and then let's continue to build so we can help more people in the future so in terms of you know how overweight a person might be are there you know are there bands whereby you know this will be most effective that you would see the type of you know 11% weight reduction you know how far overweight might you have to be to benefit from this do you know what I mean no absolutely so um it does not matter how heavy you are this medication is working just as well for people who are a little bit too heavy or for people who are very heavy um because it treats the disease coming back to that point but um we will not make decisions about who gets the drug on who's the heaviest you know we'll get the drug we'll make the decisions on whether or not your excess fat tissue causes another disease for example risk of diabetes or risk of heart attacks or risk of cancer for example so because it's it's all about you know reducing those complications now you can have very thin people who have very poor diets and and have health risks themselves as well so presumably this would work best in conjunction with an eating plan a healthy eating plan to ensure that you're not just eating less of the bad stuff but you're actually eating the right amounts of good stuff that is correct but I must say that most people who have obesity not everybody but the majority of people already eat the right food they just eat too much of it and so if we can allow them to eat less of the good food and then they will actually lose the weight to have the health benefit as well so you don't have to feel that we're going to beat you with sticks and make you eat food that you really don't enjoy people have a bargain on this yeah nobody can do that in the long term but certainly we can all make better choices and very often it's these small choices that are sustainable that have the biggest health impact would you see this as for some people at least an alternative to a surgery maybe a gastric band or or or a gastric bypass or something like that will some people benefit better with this could it be an alternative to that or does this talk to a different cohort of people yeah there are some people that will go on to lose 20 or 25 percent of their weight with this medication so some people will lose four or five stone with this drug they have a small number of people and for example if that person wanted surgery then they may not need surgery however we think that these medications are going to allow people with obesity to actually come to their doctors and ask for help so we're going to treat large numbers of people in the future and of course there will be about one in or maybe two in every ten people that will take this medication that will not respond to it and so we will end up doing more surgical treatments and because there'll be more people entering into the system asking for help and by doing that again we'll end up making people live longer and live better okay professor karl uhuru thank you very much for joining us today appreciated thank you take care of yourself now it is a new drug it's kagralentide it's a take in a once weekly it's an injection it's not there right now for people to sort of go right what's that drug i want to get on it it's certainly i think something people could speak to their gps about in the first instance it's going to be quite expensive but look down the line it might become less expensive it will become less expensive and and who's to say in 15 years time we might see less obesity if it were to be widely used to call it says so all these years thinking you're greedy in fact when you were actually ill all the time i'm not sure if you mean that in earnest but it's not just simply greedy that and if you were thinking that it's just people being greedy it might not be a fully understanding of all the impacts of all health on different people a caller clicked on a text message didn't realize by clicking on it she was consenting to access to her account when she went to pay for something she realized her account was empty she's been over and back with the bank and the company but it's going nowhere because by clicking she committed and the responsibility is on her now i have heard different stories of people's interactions with banks that's very unfortunate stick with it i think there is also a you know an ombudsman for banks threatened to go to them perhaps maybe that might help the blood transfusion board used to come to livered where they had two sessions there was always a big crowd at both sessions i used to give blood at every visit now they want they won't come to livered i haven't given blood since if they don't think it worth the while coming here i'm not going to run to them if they need blood badly they should visit centres that were donating large quantities i do understand that but let me say and i don't mean this badly if you need a blood transfusion they don't deliver it to your house you have to go to hospital and they work very very hard to get this stuff together and have it there available for when they need it so i understand where you're coming from but look when you need it they don't deliver that either you have to travel for it but i take your point and the more places they could be the the better i'm sure 086 60 25000 that's the whatsapp line that is the text line i'm going to be doing one of these at 20 past one of these for those watching but the most of you want it's a rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen test i'm only doing it because we're going to be told how to do them correctly because apparently we're not doing them correctly getting a full sense of security or perhaps even false positives who's to say so i'm going to stick that up my nose at 20 past 11 if you want to watch it and why would you you can hop onto youtube highland radio island and watch us there the links on our front page there is a part of a news story or you can watch facebook live highland radio or highland radio news and sport and we're going to be finding out when's the right time to use these antigen tests could be you know really really useful but you can't use them when you've got when you're you you're symptomatic when you've got the the symptoms they don't work well in that scenario but they might work well but if they give you a negative you could be going out 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69 degrees tonight it'll begin dry with clear spells the rain will develop overnight by dawn it'll have crossed the region cold with temperatures of minus one to plus four degrees and the further south you go the colder it is going to be that's just the way it is so south of the county into sligo chillier north of the county not so bad hi greg good here you're going to show people how to do an antigen test could you talk about isolation and people living in the same house is a positive case if they're in their room and someone's bringing stuff to them is it safe for them to slightly enter the room of course mask is on uh them should be talked about and clarified a lot more from trees of trees the things have changed big in that regard do you remember about right at the beginning it was lock yourself in to the bedroom i wondered do they sort of kind of sort of feel that you know if you're in the same house you're kind of going to get it anyway they don't seem to say that anymore but it's it's an interesting point and you've made the point yourself there schools where students have missed out in so much school teachers are away with various sports team and no one step in to teach the remaining students while the teachers are away as schools need to step up and give support to their leaving search students the students are going to be lost in the system and also suffering from distressed mental health as a result believes that caller did anyone else get a text message from a waste company stating that regardless of whether you have a bin out or not there'll be five euro taken of the pay-as-you-go cards listeners living alone doesn't have a bin every month but this that's a standing charge effectively isn't it is this a new thing is it one companies across the board standing charges for your waste right back with the news at 11 after the break today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires winter ready drop in to ulster 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celebrating auntie's day it's the perfect excuse to call text or pamper that special aunt in your life to the irish aunts that made us happy auntie's day from aunt bessie's forward emphasis international based in malinhead are actively recruiting for customer service advisors with both permanent remote working and hybrid opportunities available experience and contact centers or insurance services is desirable but not essential as full training is provided fully funded financial services qualifications delivering attractive career path opportunities are available please visit their website www.forwardemphasis.ie or apply via their careers page good morning again you tune to your number one local radio station this is highland radio broadcasting across the northwest on air and across the world online and streaming live across social media for you to watch uh short beginning the actor's going to be joining us very shortly we're going to be taking an antigen test live on air and much more besides but 11 o'clock time for news update good morning kathryn gaffney thanks greg good morning plans for subsidized antigen tests won't be finalized until later this week or early next week health minister steven donnelly was due to bring the proposals to cabinet today but that's been pushed back the gar the representative association says the number of attacks and gar thee has risen significantly in recent years the organization which is holding its annual conference in kerry want mandatory sentences introduced for those convicted of assaulting officers there are calls in the hsc to reinstate the pop-up covet 19 testing facility and in a show on as a matter of urgency it comes as latest figures show that the covet incidents rate in north in a show on as the second highest nationwide in the highest in donny gall atlantic technological university will be the name of the t u in the west and northwest the name was chosen following a number of consultations and surveys donny gall county councillors are set to get a pay rise next year the pay no one as a representational payment will increase by just under 40 percent to more than 26 thousand euro a year it is hoped that the increase will attract more candidates into local politics letter kenny university hospital was once again the second most overcrowded in the country this morning with 48 people awaiting beds 13 of them on emergency department trolleys that's 17 percent of the national figure of 288 adoni gall garthers urging people to regularly check their bank balances online after revealing she herself was scammed this week on this morning's community gar the slot gar the grony doherty said while she was checking her account last night she noticed three transactions from her account despite the fact that she has clicked no links or given her details to any suspect websites and passengers travelling into ireland are reporting a lenient approach to checks on covid certs and location forms by immigration officers at dublin airport a large portion of people who flew here yesterday were not asked for any proof of vaccination or immunity that's it for now we're back with an update for you at 12 noon okay kathryn thanks very much black tag sale now on at curry's bc world save a massive 400 euro on the lg 48 inch smart 4k oled tv now 1149 save 150 euro on the energy efficient samsung eco bubble nine kilo washing machine for just 449 and get a 14 inch aces laptop with 128 gigs of storage and up to 12 hours battery life now just 279 save 80 euro get in store our online at curries dot ie all right survey said 57 percent of people want further restrictions this taxi driver was in contact with us and said that's absolute garbage greg uh i taxi 90 percent of people i talked to are terrified of enough of another lockdown they want to see people uh do they want uh to see people go under forever another caller says uh it's about time europe took control over the present coalition as they seem to be squandering money where it suits them to gain votes over shin feina pay rise for counter counselors when we are over 240 billion euro in debt and this is paving the way for a rise uh to all tds well the all tds have had significant rises over the last while those that accepted them this uh rise to the counselors is we're had we've had this conversation three or four times now at this stage it is the same pay rise that was agreed some time ago whether you agree with it or not this is not another uh pay rise as far as i'm aware this is the same one that was announced um and agreed quite some time ago uh plenty of money for our pampered counselors believe this caller with their already well stocked bank accounts and well stamped passports yet nothing for our underfunded and overworked health service workers just shows what our political elite think of us let lesser mortals says jim hi greg in relation to covid in our schools the government are doing everything they can't keep them open and doing their best to keep the media spotlight this law that you can't name a child that has covid is a deflection and our teacher who doesn't even know who's positive or not in her own class so how is it possible to contain the virus our government are manipulating the media and the figures for their own means and it doesn't matter who suffers in the meantime as long as the schools stay open and norma foley is a minister they believe she's a joke but listen i don't think the media is calling out the lack of recognition that cases are obviously spreading in schools you're entitled to half of what you pay back on braces but you have to be paying tax my daughter got a braces done i got nothing back as i'm a single parent and only work part time but they've done a great job and it's well worth the money says that caller okay thanks for that update i recovered from covid earlier this year so whenever i got vaccinated when i had it it flawed me but i thought it was manageable which is good for you lots of headaches and pains now there are times that i'm tired but not enough not to go to work it could just be age life hormones etc could i now just take the booster vaccine would it leave me covered has anyone else done this and how has it worked for them it's an interesting question i i mean like i don't know like if you're going to get on the root rule of root of saying well sure i could take just the booster would that do me it's really what your gp tells you because obviously you've enough faith in in the medical system to take any element of the vaccine at all so i would speak to speak to your gp i don't know what the ins and outs of that are i'm glad you recovered most people recover well thankfully and that is the fact and just as a a little bit of a breakdown of those figures because you know the truth is most people don't get sick very sick from covid and the statistics are as follows for every thousand people that test positive for every thousand test positive about 20 or 25 of those end up in hospital right so that's a very small amount of a thousand isn't it but obviously it's not insignificant now of that 20 to 25 10 percent require critical care in icu so it's two to three out of a thousand cases end up in icu three out of four of them get out of icu okay but one of them doesn't and so it's one in a thousand people will die at the moment that's the statistics versus the cases and that's not a lot but if you have the 200,000 cases obviously then you multiply that individual by 200 and that's a lot of people it's a lot of people in icu and that puts the pressure on the health service and that's why people look at the case numbers and then worry what is to come so it doesn't really matter if you don't believe in the PCR test or whatever it's it's the doctor saying right we've got this person in icu with covid and that's really what i go by to be honest with you and we have a lot of that at the moment we don't have enough of it that it should collapse the health service we should have a health service at this stage with a two-year running we should have a health service that can accommodate 120 people who are ill with covid that's we should but we don't and that's why we're talking about lockdown or there's worries about lockdown again it's because the health services is not up for grabs okay actually i'm going to have to apologize to Sean McGinley Sean good morning to you good morning Greg you're listening to me ratlin and i'm ratlin waiting for you to be put through to me and i didn't realize you were there so first and foremost my apologies on both cans don't worry about it this is really quite significant for on green on theater and for the arts as well because this is their most ambitious production to date it's a full professional production of brian frills the enemy within and it stars uh the our guest now don't go native Sean McGinley in the role of colomba column kill and it's part of a series of events in the column kill 1500 uh how you know i mean obviously you certain roles you're going to enjoy more than others as an actor uh what do you think of this role is it is it uh one of the best uh yeah i suppose it is um it's uh it's brian frills first full length play first produced in 1961 by the abbey theater and uh um if you know we're we're like in the course of working on this over the last few weeks in our house room uh we we're all becoming agreed that that this that this has the mark of greatness about it this the writing here you can see the great writer that frill was at this stage and was to be to evolve into to later you know so it's significant in his arc as much as it is significant in that you're playing a part within it yeah uh yeah it's um it's a you know there's a lot there's a lot of meat in this role and it's very complex and they're it's multi-layered but um it's the subject matter colomba is something i couldn't know a whole lot about but it as it happens my you know he spent he spent five years in clan column kill and my my father's side of the family kind of originated there in theorem in clan column kill so you know i visited there um it did you know the significance of colomba in that place i mean the place is named after him after all and there are traces archaeological traces there and there's the tourists colomba and all that sort of stuff so so he made his mark in the world in a big way yeah and whilst this is in Ireland all over you know scotland and yeah and while he's a historical character there's a lot of tangible there isn't there as you say you know we know a lot about this person we know his movements some of the gaps are filled in of course yeah well there's there's there's not a huge amount known some of the elected frail worked from a a source book called the life of colomba by adnan that was written about a hundred years after colomba's death so in the sixth or seventh century um so and it was the beginning of written history in Ireland that that record uh so frail has you know from from the historical record he has taken certain information and in iona yeah and that is the focus isn't it it's a period in his life when in iona in the autumn of uh five eight seven um that's off the west coast of a scotland for those who might not be aware so tell us what stories told through this period shawn well it's a period in his life um like the central the central team if you like is his exile what that means like he the reason he was in exile he was he was took voluntary exile that you know there's there's some historical disputes as to what exactly the reason was for for his leaving but family members get involved in faction fights for one to a better word and he's disavowed violence and he's agonizes over what to do and how to do it and frail beautifully articulates and it's very eloquent he he teases that out he tears that sort of debate wide open and like when frail wrote this play you know we're talking six or seven years before the troubles started but the the makings of the troubles were there the the sectarianism and the et cetera the state that the place was in was there and i think you know frail picks up those themes of uh how to how do people understand each other well language has a lot to do what people say has a lot to do with it tribal and tribal loyalties yeah it's about division and a battle for the family and you know you know how those kind of tribal loyalties can distort people's perception which leads to misunderstanding and so on and this play is deals with that at the center of this play and also to and and you know we can't frame everything in the current situation but the theme being you know exile uh you know there is a i mean it's 1500 years ago but there's a familiarity to that for some now yeah yeah it is like you know like the title of the play the enemy within uh what is the enemy within well in the play it might be the ego the thing that gets between a person and the truth their own pride whatever might also be the you know the tribal familial loyalties that bend your perception of the world um you know there's a biblical quote in the play and the man's enemy shall be the of his own household he that love his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me uh so the the play kind of based on the historical character columbia it the play imagines the difficulties for a character who is charismatic and worldly but who also aspires to transcend the joys of living and be worthy enough to pass through to the next life so the play talks about humility and community and the banality of evil and violence a philosophy that nowadays probably would by insert courses would be branded marxist but it's free for it first it's beautifully written yeah but there's a great responsibility with the work like this and it falls to the likes of you it falls to another donna gaurnative katrina mclaughlin and the rest of the the rest of the cast it's how yous present this as well you know which as i say it no doubt we're very lucky in that we have this masterpiece of a play by the great brownfield and we're also doubly blessed that we have katrina mclaughlin directing it because she's she's great and she's about to begin a voyage over on with uh with the abbey and she's pulled together an amazing bunch of actors for this uh so yes here for the last five weeks now and uh we feel it's time to do it yeah and this is an opportunity for people to see this live but there is also an online offering too which i think is is great it's kind of a hybrid situation this the stage setting is it a single set um yes it is the whole play is set in columbus cells right uh our designer marie has um sort of imagined it it's a kind of a really beautiful sounds like it lends itself really well to it yeah no it's it's really beautiful yeah yeah okay brilliant stuff uh i'm going to let people know how they can go along to see live how they can go and see online um and um thank you so much for your time this morning and the best of luck with the run is this your first live show so it's not done it is yeah yeah it is yeah how's that make you feel uh it's um delightful and terrifying in equal measure so at this stage if you're learned to use both to your advantage i'm sure yeah indeed you know but i'm really looking forward to getting this in front of an audience you know so yeah for sure yeah all right shawndes and thanks very much for your time and and the best of luck with the run okay thank you all right thanks the enemy within it stars donagall native shawnd McGinley shawnd McGinley who we've just been hearing from in the lead role of columbia column kill the production is one of the key events in the column kill 1500 which celebrates the life and legacy of column kill 1500 years since his birth it's a great cast uh we have shawnd McGinley there of course as we mentioned other actors involved francis harkin shawnd donagan ronan car charlie boner jack quinn liam kerney uh bosco hogan adan majority kiran mcglenn it is of course directed by donagall native katrina mcglotlin assisted by tanya sheena and it's got a great team in there involved in the lighting uh choreography movement and so on and so forth it runs live from sunday the 21st of november uh which it's already uh started to the 27th of november there's no show yesterday so that's irrelevant now so there's a few more nights to go uh online uh thursday the 2nd of december to sunday the 5th of december uh live it's 25 euro concessions 20 euro and uh online 15 to 40 euro and uh you can get more information from on green on box office there um i don't have the online url yeah go to on greenon uh dot com and you can find out what's the situation with live tickets and also uh booking your uh online experience there all right back shortly today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires get your tires ready for winter call in to ulster tires in letter kenny and balli 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you hear me doctor by any chance no no i'm not i'm not receiving him okay i'll close that i've got you there and i agree ah brilliant don't do that to me it's a another medical intervention i'd require rather than a an antigen test if you keep that up good morning to you and thanks for joining us good morning thanks for having me on right okay now the government in the republic are still humane and haring over antigen testing it's not on the agenda for the cabinet today so we don't know in terms of you know how they're going to scale it up how much they're going to be employing them really or discounting them for the general population what's the situation in in northern arland at the moment in terms of the use of antigen tests so as you're aware things are about to change at the end of next week considerably and antigen tests are going to become uh the stable of uh um given people the opportunity to get out to events and clubs and gatherings um and that's going to be done through um a postal service i gather directed by the the the mhs um whereby you record an outcome and send it back to them on a on a link on the website on the nhs website and then they will furnish you with a little qr pass on an app that will then be used to gain entry into events and and gatherings right so i um have an antigen test here with me now i've sterilized my hands uh my nasal passage is is is clear and and the area here was was was sterilized during the ad break um if i take one of these and i'm going to do what what is it looking for what could it find what might it not find well essentially great what it's looking to find is if you have antigens um which would signify a current infection with co with 19 um in a sense in a sense um you really have antigens whenever you get sick at the start of a disease outbreak and yourself with co with 19 and um essentially the antigens are there for about two to three days so it it correlates very well with your degree of infective activity so how likely you are to pass it on to another person so in my view the antigens are particularly valuable at that at that early stage yeah now in the republic um everyone is going on um the radio magazine and magazines newspapers what have you saying don't use these when you're symptomatic because i'm not sure whether or not they they they identified or not you can turn with that as a doctor but i can understand why they don't want to because nothing is a hundred percent they've got more faith in in in pcr and they don't want people taking an antigen test perhaps doing it wrong or whatever uh and uh you know thinking they're free of covid and going out and and uh spreading the disease do you understand that do you get that absolutely well i mean i think that the antigens have improved dramatically from there we first started and all of this uh testing process um way back at the start they maybe weren't so reliable and but i think there's been arguably nothing uh in medicine that has had further investment and development over the last year than antigens and now they're exceptionally sensitive they're exceptionally specific as well somewhere in the region of nearly 99 to 100 so in my opinion an experience of what we're doing and the white scale testing these are very very effective at picking up COVID so and nearly as effective as pcrs actually in the early stages right do you want to instruct me what to do with this absolutely okay so and so if you've and again this is part of the process that we're offering by me observing you and then helping you through your difficulties in doing the test i hope that we can offer the maximum reliability out of the test you know so if you Greg if you open up the test and take all the packet contents out i'm so i've got i'm so nervous uh doctors make me nervous right okay so i've got the the instructions and three packets here yeah so first of all the outer packet is important as well if you take that and on the underside you'll notice a little hole a little depression so if you set that down flat surface there with the whole upwards um and the first thing i'm going to do is ask you to open up the antigen cassette itself isn't it oh the test stand sorry i see the test stand okay so the antigen test is which element of this um so it's neither of those two things it's in the green and white packet here we go okay so i'll open this yes yeah okay okay all right and take that out okay i have that yeah and if if you can just um for validity purposes and this is part of the verification that i offer if you show me that closely so i have the ability to snap that qr code on the test record that okay so that later on we can verify that the test that you're the result that you're submitting to me um will match up with that so it's it's that test that you're doing and it's that test that you're reporting on that's fine okay that's good so if you place that on a flat surface and then the next thing is getting the the test kit ready so if you get the test tube which is in the little plastic packet yes you have that here yep and if you open that and if you pop that into that little hole holder that that you set up at the start in the box so um right okay the box here okay so that's the hole and i place that in there like that exactly yes okay so we have that in there like that okay it's fine and then just put that back on the table again um and then the next thing is you've got a little package there with solution and that's okay here we go be very careful and take and break the top of that and try not to spill any break okay right okay so i wiggle it do i yeah wiggle or twist it whatever it works yeah yeah okay i have that done i very gently squeeze that into the test tube try not to spill anything because that's all all right so i'm squeezing that in i want to get all of it in yeah yes now part of this is not fantastic radio but listen it's important that we're doing it and we can show this video later okay right that's the entirety in there it's about maybe four fifths full and the next part then is if you put that down flat we'll do this all okay it's just a little nervous about because other people do this and have an awful gag reflex i'm not gonna lie to your doctor it's not a pleasant experience for sure but these tests have developed and part of that development is that they only need to be done on the front of the nose now you don't need to go too far back but oh really no caroline could have told me that's okay so i have i have this here so what do you want me to do with that so if you put that in about a centimeter into your nose what's that an inch is and i'm not being smart i a half an inch okay in in my nose and rotate it is it yeah it rotates so you're trying to rotate it and touch that's exactly right touch the skin yeah all okay and if you just do that for a couple of seconds more and then if you try and take that out and repeat that on the other nostril as well okay but thanks it's not too far up it's not too far okay it's horrible go on it's not too bad but okay so then so then Greg that goes into the little test tube okay and you actually what you can do now is if you if you put the whole thing down on the table and if you take the test tube between your finger and thumb and squeeze the bottom of it right so take it out do i you can yes yeah okay and i'm gonna it's not ideal but i'm holding this up to the camera so people can see if they're watching so i squeeze that yeah and then agitate the swab so that you transfer any solution into it that's great i get you in right i understand that okay and it's soaked up quite a bit of that has it yes actually it has like be very careful and remove the swab and hold it between your finger and thumb so you take any excess secretions from it okay so just take it out yeah gently yeah yeah okay now you can dispose of that the test tube no no the swab oh right okay you don't need that anymore okay so i want to put somewhere safe one second right okay so i've got my liquid here and then you put the top over and on the little test tube so you make a dropper out of it no Greg just the little oh yes yes sorry okay right okay so i've made a little agatia exactly okay so i've got this here now yeah and if you look at the test itself it has a little hole with s on it for sample yes that would be there located there yeah yeah and if you put two drops into that little well right okay now here's the moment with Greg so the nerves should start now and i've got two drops in there yeah so if you just watch that for a second you can hold on to the tube just for a second so you can see that the the solution is being absorbed into the little well yes i see that yeah and you could put one more drop in for good measure okay there you go all right okay that's that's dropped in there so okay i'll keep that uh i'm going to stuck that back in there yes now you can see on the on the cassette the test cassette itself you should be able to see this fluid moving up yes yeah i can indeed yeah it's moving up from c it's past t it's heading towards c what next so um we just wait for about another 30 seconds now these tests are very quick um the the devices that you leave them for about um 10 to 15 minutes but in in my experience that's quite excessive if you can see there now in another few seconds you should start to see the c line which is a control line really which tells you that the test is functional and working right and we've got that yeah yeah i can see it there now too um and so there is no line at t which tells me that you're you're negative at the stage okay right right if we were to be absolutely complete we would wait another few minutes just to make that call but um generally if people are sick and you know if they have symptoms and you don't have any of that thankfully um you can really rely that that is that's a negative test are you that's negative i've got one line there that's negative i'm sure it's negative right so we can take the camera off that now you can yeah yeah right that's painless enough uh and when i say painless enough i'm actually not talking about pain i'm on a bad process yeah you know like it's not tough like i did one of those before um but i i felt i had to go further up but i just did that maybe in an abundance of course no that's exactly what you what you need to do and uh you know that's a very reliable um process to tell you uh of your your covid status really right now obviously if i was symptomatic i'm going for a PCR test that's what we're being told to do but from a medical perspective would would that also reliably show if i was shedding absolutely absolutely at home you know for these things to have in the possession of your own home you can do them quickly and painlessly and you can get to the immediate answers really um the the approach in northern ireland and the rest of the uk is a little bit different and that these are being relied on much heavier than than pcrs are as a first-line test um and so you know definitely if they're very useful to have as a first-line um and certainly if they're positive you do need a pcr you definitely need to engage in all of the processes that are advised by the public health such as complex tracing and and so i don't want to pitch you versus an effort okay but i don't know you would have saw maybe you'd have been familiar with the the health committee where they were talking about tonic water and you know they're useless if no one has covid and all this kind of stuff right and and now they are sort of like you start to use them a little bit more like what's your opinion of of of antigen tests and their role in us controlling this in northern ireland in the republic across the board i think they're i think they're essential to be honest with you um we've been using them for the last year in large scale commercial building projects probably the largest one in the country and um i would like to say that we have successfully managed to keep covid out of there and they were testing somewhere in the region of 10 000 people a week um and so for for my experience and results that we've achieved i mean it's there for the proof in the building now i mean i think maybe what they're afraid of though is i take this here now right and i go my granny's triple jabbed you know i was out at the weekend i'm looking at this now i feel i can go and spend some time with her do you have enough confidence in that test i mean that we always have to adopt personal responsibility and care but you would look at that and go right greg as much as we can determine medically you're you're you're you're safe to go and see someone absolutely my confidence and and and sticking my life to that yeah it absolutely is right okay that was an interesting i uh love what you do as doctors but i also hate you equally if you looked under bad patient you'll see my fat bald head uh but that wasn't too bad doctor i'm not gonna lie to you okay thank you very much all right so if people want more information about what you do um jace medical isn't jace medical dot ie yeah exactly exactly okay in terms of other people that have done this with you via zoom how do i rate uh easy you're technologically maybe supported by your teeth i don't know okay listen it was all right i'm glad i did it now do not swab the back of your throat uh do you not swab the back of your throat and only the nose wants no you don't not with these tests the instructions for use for for these tests are what do you say these tests are the different brands of antigen tests well i mean as i said to you i mean there are many different brands but the tests that we're using are very advanced in terms of their development so i mean the progress significantly so all you need to do is the two nostrils and that would be for all antigen tests as far as your concern not problem but for these that we're using certainly that's the instruction so these we just have to be clear these are for uh bolson biotech ones now people need to read the instructions on their own tests but fundamentally they're the same absolutely absolutely yes okay i'm going to go out of a quiet light now i'm being incredibly dramatic thanks for your time this morning doctor thank you very much for having it all right that's uh that's good all right that's uh doctor uh john t darty for the particular antigen test that's how they suggest they use it he's pretty confident he's got a lot of faith in those tests that that's me uh non-infectious with that covid always read the instructions on your own tests though and you know we're not trying to contradict i'm not sure if the exact advice uh the government's giving out because it's kind of confusing uh if i'm honest as to when you get them how you get them how long they take them to be posted out and all that kind of stuff but listen from his perspective uh and that's how 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this program on a couple of occasions there are people in these settings probably getting great care but they don't need to be uh they don't need to be in there barbara in many cases yeah and i think that i thought it's very strong when the ombudsman has done a report and done his research and he has come out very strongly and has worded the report wasted lives he's talking about people who are in these settings whose lives are have no meaning um and they've lost the meaning because they're in a setting that's not appropriate for these are young people um under 65 the report uh um was looking at mainly the under 65 that these are people that are in lot as you say very you know good nursing homes it's not about the care they get it's the fact that they're in a situation that has taken their freedom away that it that they that it's a loss that their lives are lost and they've lost the ability to make decisions about their lives they've lost their families it's a loss to them and it's a loss to the community because they're no longer part of the community and their options their prospects their their development as they say with the best word in the world to those working in these settings they're not going to have the they're not going to maximize the positive outcomes no i mean what i suppose a quiet bridge around we're all about um taking people like 60 of the people we take out are into our services are from nursing homes and what we know is that when you give people the right support in the right environment they just make huge strides they start to take control of their lives again and make decisions you know like at the moment we'll work with somebody in the nursing home and like the big goal is can i buy my own shampoo and my own gel to do my own thing i mean that's that's how limited it can be uh in terms of even being able to use your own money i mean there's no um even consideration around even being able to do you know do a course or to get education and i think and this could be any of us at any time by the way we're talking in this case about a choir brain injury so this is obviously it's it's likely these people have been through a traumatic event but they're going from being me sitting in this chair today to sometime in the future uh questioning uh you know whether or not i can buy a simple hair and wouldn't apply to me but you know a deodorant a tin of deodorant or something yeah i mean what i could share with you is our own statistics about donnie gall um in terms of we have a service and there's a shout out to lachnik in there they do a great job and their residential and community services and basically what we've found is that um the people that we would serve there are people with traumatic brain injury because as you know with donnie gall there's a very high level of road traffic accidents the um both safety authority can you know give you those statistics so the people that we would be looking at would be people who are young men mainly road traffic accidents we do obviously look after people with strokes as well and other causes but donnie gall tends to have much more of that kind of a cohort of people so before we go on to uh can i tag that on to uh the sunday because you know the particular sunday the focus on sunday was and we were trying to make this point last week yes we know about very sadly the lives that are lost on our roads but i think the particular focus of remembrance sunday was people that are injured and have life changing in injuries and this really actually describes that uh because we're talking about people that might not be set used might not be featured in a news story an article because it's not a fatality but the life changes forever following this this this event and i think i'll just to actually marry those two if you don't mind barb because i think it's very useful in highlighting that as well so you were going to go on to say about the the the predominantly young men uh following road traffic collisions that you would deal with yeah and i think what what aquire brain injury islander trying to say is look we have the solution to this the government actually have this in their program for government that they're going to stop putting young people into these situations you know against their will in many cases um and that we actually can we have proven that with the right rehabilitation and the right trained staff people can actually come back out and just be able to make decisions themselves become more empowered not need the help that they're getting at the moment so whilst they might be very dependent on one part of their life if you if you put in proper rehabilitation people can start to take control back of their life you know if all things like the young people they're on instagram they're on tiktok they want to be with their friends they want to go out with their mates we can't give up on them we can't turn our back on them no no do you have an idea of the amount of people that you work with in dunigol and the amount of people that would require the service do you know what i mean like are we able to satisfy demands say for instance in in in dunigol well what i can tell you is that the htc do a really good job in terms of responding but the problem is they're not giving enough money it's so so a lot of the money is in the nursing home scheme and that is the money that then that's all they have to respond to a crisis so when somebody comes back from maybe go away or sligo hospitals or jubilant they have to come back to letter candy general and then what happens is it's like well where to from there and the option sometimes is only nursing home because that's where the funding is and so that's how we would be calling for the government to work with the department of health to work with the htc to enable them to get out of that trap to be able to provide funding but Barbara on that too we have a money tree we do have a monetary it turns out we actually do secondly it's in a program for government right that we should tackle this thirdly we have an ombudsman what is their function to highlight things like this firstly we have a report a stark report that tells us everything or much of what we need to know about young people being cared for in nursing homes when they can do better elsewhere we have if we can't act on that you do wonder you know you do wonder what what is the point of any of it because all the pieces of the puzzle are there yeah and we also have the solutions as I said the apartment injury and we've proven that we're in all the pho areas around the country we have the actual research to prove that it makes a difference um you know like it's all there you're quite right so you know today is about calling out for people to start to advocate start shake start shouting about it to try and get something done about it because it is the next tragedy it is the next scandal that's going to happen is that these people's lives I mean when he called it wasted lives I mean I find it quite emotional because that's what we've been trying to describe for the last 21 years of my life in this organization my brother was locked in the nursing home that's how the organization started well that's it you know but Barbara and you know you know all about it but yeah it's not just the individual it's the friend circle it's mom and dad granny and granddad uncle's aunts cousins where is you know where is Greg what's happened to Greg yeah why is Greg not progressing like we hope he could I'll just use my name is you know what I mean so it's not just the individual is our focus but he could do other things all the skills that Greg has because they're still there and many of them are locked away we have a guy we took from a nursing home he was a quantity surveyor and he came to live in one of our residents he's now on the board of a housing association you know using his advice and what he described was he said you know I had nothing you know problem with the older people Barbara he said but I couldn't build a relationship he said because they didn't remember my name every day every day I was reintroducing myself you know but also decisions are being made in consultation with him and not about him or for him as well presumably you know potentially right Barbara if people want more information uh I mean obviously the purpose of this conversation user out there saying look hsc look department of health speak to us uh you know help us to help these hundreds of people presumably we can be uh doing other things with the the capacity release in our nursing homes as well um I presume that that has to be a byproduct of this absolutely if people want more information maybe to support acquired brain injury Ireland or to get more information as to maybe how they can contact their tds their local counselors whatever it might be to try and push this as long presumably they can go to your socials and your website yes we're on we're on facebook acquired brain injury Ireland and we're also www.acquiredbraininjury.ie um and any support and any advocacy just please do get on to your tds get on to any local and just you know advocate I would say if everybody does it in their own place but their own anybody that's listening that maybe has somebody with a brain injury you're not to be afraid to speak out um and come to us because we have a service in Donegal in North Macon so contact the local um Andrea McGonigal is the manager there um you know and so to contact us and and let's let's pull together on this one yeah and give everyone a voice um and representation thanks Barbara yeah thanks for the take care no problem Barbara O'Connell there CEO of acquired brain injury Ireland you're tuned to the 9 till noon show here in Highlands Radio we broadcast across the region on air of course you can listen to us on your smart speaker just give your command and say stream highland radio you can 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test done and st. carnell's two hours later the pharmacy came back negative same carnell's came back positive so how are we depending on these self tests when they're not a hundred percent well it wasn't a pcr test in a pharmacy it's an antigen test wasn't that that is what public health is saying you know some countries are very happy with the results from antigen and not from pcr which is symptomatic i don't know we need to know more is it the pcr test in the pharmacy or an antigen test she got did she do it at home or did they do it in the pharmacy i'm not we just need more details there antigen test question caller son had symptoms last week took an antigen test negative result took another couple of days later and still negative got a pcr test which was positive it's a bit of a concern as the results are not accurate or maybe there was no covid president present for the antigen tests you're not supposed to take them if you are showing symptoms though that's the public health advice greg maybe when you're at it maybe you could show how to wear a mask even after an early two years people are going around with it under their nose at beggars belief i got a phone call today from letter kenny hospital i have to get a covid test on wednesday uh as i have an op on my knee on friday that is par for the course in any hospital how long after your jabs before you get the booster five to six months they say is um time frame that's when you're um the effectiveness of the first two starts to wane it's better with traffic lights in strunaller than the way it was before it's just more traffic on the roads a bit of patience is needed all right listen thanks for that oh we'll be back we will