 A mix of funding available to bus air and to run additional buses, he says leaving children without school transport is totally unacceptable. We can't be in a situation where children can't get to school. I think there's a number of issues this year in relation to the free school transport has put extra capacity on some because they haven't maybe applied in time and some people thought that the bus, that the free bus transfer was just free and you're already on that and you didn't have to apply again. Whatever the issues are that has caused us they need to be set aside playing to see from bus air and database that there are vast numbers of children that don't have seats and buses and I don't think that's acceptable. It's emerged that almost 5,000 children from Derry and Sturban district are relying on emergency supports from food banks. Ladies figures from the Trussell Trust reveal that there's been a 125% increase in the usage of food banks in the region when compared to figures from 2019 and 2020. Fall MLA Shanid McGlachan says the stark figures demonstrates the scale of the cost of living crisis facing people. She says it's a national shame. The fact the food banks actually demonstrate policy failure throughout the whole of the UK and how we're making it now a core component of how we support people in food poverty. I think we've come to the point that it's actually a national shame that we have to still support our people and many of them are working people out doing a week's work and still their wages and their support systems are failing them and they have to rely on the emergency food to get by. Landowners are being reminded about their responsibility to trim overgrown hedges and grass verges. Hedge cutting is now permitted following the summer months ban and the council will be on the main roads in the coming weeks. However, council Michael McClaffery is reminding landowners of the importance of insurance. Their hedges are not obstructing the road. He said this is essential to ensure roads are safe for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. Generally along the main road they do have a hedge cutter out with a hedge cutter there only for a minimal amount of days. So that will do from point A to point B. You may have roads coming on the main road then you have junctions to go on. Obviously a lot of junctions can fall with the landowners then to get that shorter. To either now, occasional showers or longer spells of rain today, some heavy with a possibility of isolated thunderstorms, some bright or sunny intervals also, highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees. That's all for now, we'll be back with an update again at 10 o'clock but until then, good morning. Potential victims. But what do I know? So who's done it? See how they run. Incinimous from Friday, rated 12A. The Ninetill Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union. Now offering myCU current account and debit mastercard, bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union. You it's the Ninetill Noon Show on Highland Radio, on till 12 noon today. If you want to make contact with the program, you can text us on 086-60-25000. That number is good for WhatsApp messages as well. You can call us on 07491-25000. Caroline and Donna Marie on the phones. Caroline producing as usual. Also, you can make contact via email. It's comments at highlandradio.com. You can use social media. We're at Highland Radio on Twitter and we're Highland Hub on Facebook. And by the way, you can watch the show on Facebook. Our Zoom calls will be live. And you can follow that on Facebook and on our YouTube channel as well. And we are, of course, streaming on the internet. And also available on FM radios, as has been the traditional case here on Highland Radio. It's a Tuesday morning, which means the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press are both out this morning. Main story there, rally case. Gar thee examining device. A Gar The Forensic team is examining a device allegedly used to damage the rally car of a competitor in the Donegal International Rally this year. Chris McNulty writes that John Crowther is a 62-year-old with an address at Balianashi Road in Glenbury in Balamena, Accantian from Thaces. Three charges over an alleged incident at Ballerain Letter County on the 18th of June 2022. Also on the front of the paper, a coupling court after cocaine, find a couple have been brought before court in Letter County. After more than 70,000 euro worth of cocaine was found in the vehicle in which they were traveling and a story that was covered by Emma and Michaela on news yesterday. Planning granted for wind farms. 60 jobs are being created during construction of a new wind farm near Letter County, which has been granted to planning permission by onboard Planola. That's the front of the Donegal Democrat. Front of the Dairy Journal this morning. Interesting story. School leavers seeking study closer to home. Laura Glen writes that increasing numbers of young adults in the nation are looking to the north and Letter County to study at third level due in part to the increasing cost of living and the accommodation crisis nationally. And certainly we're hearing anecdotal evidence and stories of young people and their families basically making the decision that because they can't get accommodation or they can't secure accommodation in places like Dublin or Galway and so on, that they will actually take up courses closer to home where they can actually live at home and not have that particular problem. And I think we're seeing more and more of that this year and certainly it was interesting to note last week that local link the bus service have announced new services that they'll be confirming in the coming week or two. That will be serving basically the ATU in Donegal and their services coming from North Nation and services coming from South Donegal as well. Very specifically being put on so that they can get in to Letter County and stop outside the ATU before classes begin at nine. And I think we're going to see more and more of that over the course of this year and possibly future years as well. To the nationals and the front of the Irish Independent this morning, Irish Independent give cheap loans for electric cars to cut emissions. Watchdog urges, low-cost loans to buy electric vehicles, congestion charges for urban drivers and more public transport fare reductions must be introduced to start turning greenhouse gas trends around the country's climate advisory team has told the government. The team also wants a definite date for the state to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars and for VRT on petrol and diesel vehicles to be increased in the meantime. Now obviously this is something that's really going to work in cities and when you're in a rural predominantly rural County like Donegal obviously you know it's a completely different story. I've had reason for the past couple of weeks I've been in Dublin every Saturday where I had some business in the city centre and what I tend to do if I'm doing that in Dublin is I will drive down the M1, down the M50, I will park up at the park and ride at the Red Cow in London, I will board a Lewis, I will get the Lewis into the city centre, I'll do my business in Dublin on foot, I'll then get a Lewis back out to the park and ride, get back into my car and then drive back and it's a really handy place, it's really handily centred for the M50 actually so it really works. So somewhere like Dublin absolutely things like park and ride, things like congestion, I will not bring a car into the centre of Dublin, I have no intention of ever bringing a car into the centre of Dublin if I can at all avoid it to be honest. So you know things like that are great in Dublin. One of the problems is because so much of our policy making is concentrated on Dublin what you tend to find is all the policy tends to be geared toward Dublin and urban areas and very often people in Donegal find themselves saying well look yeah we would love to buy an electric car but there's like two fast charging points within 70 kilometers of my home so you know we need more in terms of infrastructure and maybe what we need to be doing is looking at more infrastructure in the rural areas as well as in Dublin and as long as there's a Dublin centric focus on all the policy that's being made up then you're going to find it difficult to you know perhaps sell the message fully in counties like Donegal. Irish Times' new plan to control and cut energy use in office buildings measures could see heating turned down across the public sector this winter the EU considers skimming the revenues of energy companies in order to tackle surging bills and it's been interesting that you know we had for so long work at home work at home work at home work at home let's let's all work at home and that'll cut the pressure on offices and office buildings and now what's tending to happen is a lot of people were told in order to avoid the excessive use of electricity at home and the cost that that incurs people are actually going back to the office now because of the high cost of electricity and the high cost of energy so you know there's there's a very interesting discussion to be had over that particular one and also man charged with murdering three of his siblings a 24-year-old man replied no comment when he was charged with the murder of his two sisters and brother in talent a court has heard Lisa Cache 18 and her eight-year-old twin brother and sister Christy and Chelsea Collie died after a violent incident at their family home at Rossfield avenue in the Brookfield area in the early hours of Sunday and that's being covered on many other of the papers as well. Irish Daily Mail this morning again energy windfall tax on energy firms to ease burden companies making millions of profits face paying levy on revenues energy producers are to be hit with windfall tax with the government poised to raise revenue that's according to senior government sources last night who were adamant that the tax will happen mechanics are still being ironed out along with a suite of measures to tackle the cost of moving crisis in the budget which is now three weeks away and the interesting question now of course is are we going to see some meaningful long-term proposals in this budget or is this budget effectively going to get us another couple of years a hundred quid off this but in 200 quid off that bill and you know is that going to be enough and I think unless we get something more long term than you know a voucher to get a you know a discount off your next electricity bill it's going to take more than that I think it's definitely going to take more than that. Irish Sun siblings murder charge Chelsea Lisa and Christie's bro is in court Andy Cache 24 appeared before a special sitting of Dublin district court last night and that's the front of the Irish Sun Irish Deli murder unbearable pain of angels mum and a picture of Margaret Cache McDonough the mother of the three murdered siblings at a vigil in Dublin last night and the main story of course brother charged with triple murder Andy Cache 24 appears in court over alleged killings in family home and front of the Irish Deli star this morning again slain kid's brother in dock triple murder charge mum weeps at vigil as older son taken to court also um a story Garth's nerves over five all Ireland's and it's a big story about Garth Brooks and how nervous he is about the upcoming gigs in Crow Park um someone said to me last night actually and and I have to say it it was an interesting point to me there are so many Garth Brooks tickets on sale over social media at the moment and I strongly suspect it's a lot of people just cannot get accommodation any where next to near Dublin so there are so many tickets available on social media um one person asked me last night is anybody go to be there at all because it seems that this stage if you want to Garth Brooks ticket all you have to do is go on Facebook and you are in on data with offers of tickets so that's the way it appears to be there um there are the papers uh as I said if you wish to make contact with us and comment on any of those stories comment on any other of the issues that's under discussion on the program this morning or indeed if you want to raise an issue that's been pressing you uh all you have to do is pick up your phone and text 086 60 25 000 WhatsApp use the same number you can ring us 07491 25 000 comments at Highland Radio on email and of course you can also use uh social media and uh it's Twitter and Facebook Highland hub on Facebook and it's uh at Highland Radio on Twitter we're gonna take a short break back 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zoom this morning by pat mcgart who is a columnist with the uh irish deli mur and no stranger indeed to the nine till noon show and it's predecessors pat good morning to you morning don't lie very well indeed pat it isn't very often i get to quote the who on highland radio pat but uh i'm reminded of the old line meet the new boss same as the old boss is that where we are with regards to this trust i think you've just explained perfectly donal this is a woman like you sort of have to ask yourself does she have any real principles you switched so many times uh start off basically as a liberal as now the probably the most hard line prime minister you know peter dively i think a couple of people asked i was watching channel four news last night and the the guy asked is this going to be the most right-wing government in british history so donal i really don't know i don't think anybody knows where we're going with less trust so far it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence when it comes to what will be some very intense discussions with the european union about the protocol about the uh the various elements of the the brexit agreement because it seemed as though we had resolutions but now it seems we've been further away than we were three years ago somehow yeah the problem but trust donal is like the center not good her fingerprints are all over that uh build the protocol build that just has gone through westminster and is now at the house of lords and i think and i'm doubling from reading and listening to various reports they both senior civil servants and senior politicians are nervous they they don't think that things are going to improve much now michael martin was very sort of diplomatic yesterday when he said he was looking for a reset and that things that he was hoping that things would improve but you know the only thing you have to be done too as well donal see yesterday know that speech after she won the the vote she northern erlan didn't even get a mention not even you know a passing reference she didn't mention the protocol she didn't mention northern erlan she didn't mention anything she just sort of passed a word that she the cost of living and that by looking after the Tory party and paying tribute to boris johnson yeah northern erlan did not get even a centella of a word and and the way she paid tribute to boris johnson to uh to my friend boris you got brexit done you smashed jeremy corbin that sort of seemed almost to to be an indication of the way her mind is at the moment and uh not the most diplomatic way it would appear it's geared i i i thought that was actually pathetic donal had he laughed you got brexit done no he hasn't you stood up to a Vladimir Putin and now what like did he go out from fight him hand to hand you know different necklace and by the way it was so wooden you know and i think at the end of it people didn't know whether to laugh or cry but you know it says something about her mentality apparently i don't know whether this has got anything to do with it donal but apparently her father is totally left-wing he's a professor i think of maths and physics and i can't believe that his daughter has gone to you know to join the Tories so she was brought up in this sort of she went off with her mother as a young girl to you know cnd marches now how she's gone from somebody who was anti-nuclear and she said she was asked some time back would she press the button on an event of a nuclear war and she says yes she would so i don't know donal maybe in british politics principles don't count it's getting deparant to hell with the the result but i don't think she's good news for irland i genuinely don't think so it'll be interesting to see what happens now there there is also an argument that says that someone like Liz Truss who is ambitious is going to say what they need to say in order to reach the top spot now she has now reached it so could it be that she will rediscover some of her past principles or is she just going to keep on running in the direction that she's running at the moment because she's something of an unknown quantity in that respect she she she isn't that long in the the top tier as it were and really is one of those who came to prominence after the camera on may administrations reached her peak during the the johnson administration is it maybe the case that she she said what needed to be said while borris was in power and now that she's holding the reins herself and doesn't have to be bespoken to anybody else perhaps the real list trust might come through or am i just being a cuckoo at optimist i think you're very cuckoo i don't optimist normal because she like i'd love to know how many she's got the support of the rg group which is the really right wing and no nihilistic brexit group and she has written them i think quite a few checks to get their support so when do they catch them the other thing as well don't know what you found very interesting last may and churin she had enough sort of court meeting with saman coveney and apparently they were in some sort of al alcove where people could hear what they were saying apparently it was really hot and heavy and she's she was upgrading coveney for not being more supportive of the britain's demands for a change in the protocol and no apparently by all the times she was given as good as they got but i'm halfway during the debate apparently she was overheard saying you're talking about a part of my country now like with an attitude like that you know maybe she should have noticed that northern ireland is part of the island of ireland as well so that you know that doesn't sort of fill me with confidence this is a woman who seems to think that no the old british rule like she's very dismissive as well of nicolas sturgeon you know the first minister in scotland you know it's she seems to be have some of the worst threats of that old english nationalism that we ruled the world and like when we speak to the rest of you you should tug your forelocks and get on with it hey don't know that could be totally wrong maybe all that was part of the whole thing to get the you know get all your ducks in a row to won the leadership and then maybe change who knows yeah and interesting too that when the now maybe it's just that they have to use the formal title when they're making formal announcements like that wasn't noticeable that uh when the mc was announcing the result they did refer to the party with its full name the conservative and unionist party party yes yes yeah you know made several now you see the dup along the way has totally supported trust they like her hard line stan and sir jeffrey donalds and i don't know if you heard him yesterday don't nobody was saying we will not be pushed around and we are going to hold out here and so on so on and then michelle anneal almost diametrically opposed it it's time the british government stopped pandering to the dup we were democratically elected there's a cost of living crisis here there's four million four hundred millions sitting ready to be spent uh in northern erin you think you have problems in letter kenny general hospital it's far worse in the north he can't even get an appointment uh there's a nesty lp concert whose name escapes me at the moment but he said he and a constituent sat in his office and he rang a doctor surgery 154 times that this is about two weeks and he said he didn't even get a response well i know there's been several um that that's been reported by several i know it's certainly dangling across and the mla reported that as well there's been certainly many uh politicians across northern erin and reported but when you can't even get a get a response they say we're not giving you an appointment yeah like that really is bad it is in terms of boris johnson uh his farewell speech last night um he made it quite clear he was littered with references to greek classicalism as boris's speeches always are but he also was was very um strong in in expressing his full unwavering and nothing nothing but support for this incoming government i couldn't help wondering was that a little bit of a dig at treason may who's been uh less than overwhelming in her support for him yeah well you know i don't if i was treason may i would have been much stronger boris underminder from day one uh you talk about a cuckoo in the nest uh he waited until nearly the last minute to resign but he made sure that when he was resigning he did as much damage as possible uh so uh of course he referred uh referencing treason may but hey there don't there's quite a lot there wasn't a lot of apparently yesterday i know i didn't see us i'm sort of this is second hand and the alonting times were apparently they're already saying that we need to bring boris back and it's there's a quite a sort of underground movement in the Tory party that uh there's a guy had delivered 80 seats for us list trust is sort of the bottom of the barrel in regard to she's very you know she's very wooden she's had a charisma bypass she you know she's not particularly popular look at it i guess don't know she in terms she got left she but let's start again she got left she was the lowest of the mps she got the least amongst votes from the mps when she stood originally she's got when all the membership of the Tory party is put together she got less than half percent and she's never won a general election she's gone of the last four elections from the membership she's got the lowest vote so she's not an overwhelming success you know in terms of Tory support so this is this is the woman now that they're expecting to take them into the next election and they're already 10 percent percentage points behind Labour so you know if it looks bad for the Tory leadership or the Tory mps she could be dumped before the next election but they're presumably looking at Keir Starmer and they're saying look Keir Starmer isn't setting the world a light either and Keir Starmer certainly isn't coming across as a prime minister in waiting so from that point of view if you know to put it bluntly maybe the Tory party's belief is that if it comes up to trust versus Starmer perhaps trust is going to be seen as the least worst of the two and could be the only way around you know that trust is 10 points behind the wooden Starmer so let's bring back the charismatic Boris Johnson and we'll have a no sort of conflagration or conflagration of an election come 2024 but like they are done at 10 points now that's well they were yesterday morning 10 points behind Labour for the first time in about you know a very long time and as you said or mentioned earlier on you crushed Jeremy Corbyn you know so you know Starmer is basically a Tory what the Labour should on yeah and I can't have wonder too I mean Theresa May I think history when it looks back on this past sort of seven eight years I think Theresa May is going to come out of it better than anyone else in terms of that even you know some of what she negotiated with Europe and actually ended up getting rejected by her party was exactly what is now being demanded by people like the DUP I mean she was offering a deal that didn't include the protocol and somehow what Boris Johnson is being credited with doing is coming up with something better when indeed what he came up with is actually what the DUP and other unions are rejecting that's unbelievable don't know what Theresa May offered the DUP was but they wanted you know I'll skip on but the DUP wanted was the hardest of hard lines Susan McKay wrote a book that Donald at a red red quite recently where she said that she quoted something when you're living in one of the I think it was Larnesmore she says the DUP came around here and told us they wanted the hardest of hard borders they wanted the physical borders up again around from Donegal around Timonan and that we would all be good we unionists again and that pokey EU which was pro Irish would be gone and so that was the whole reasoning behind no they didn't say that publicly they in fact they said they didn't want any borders on the island of Ireland but apparently that was not what they were selling their constituents they what they did get instead was the protocol and so on like Boris I said he would never have a border on the between the any part of the the United Kingdom well he has one on the every scene now so he sold the unions out and like the unions don't seem to learn that British Prime Ministers when it comes to their own interests will do whatever they need to do absolutely interesting times ahead it would appear Pat McCart for the moment thanks very much indeed for your perspectives Pat and we'd wait and see exactly how this trust turns out but not optimistic not not particularly optimistic good morning Good morning to you Pat you too take care but that's it Pat McArthur columnist with the Irish Daily Mirror and of course no stranger indeed to this program let's take a look at some of your comments before we go for a break I call us as I know some families who were to get the family income supplement you were supposed to have 21 days to get your documents submitted to finalize your application they were caught off after seven there are quite a few now contacting these infants to Paul considering the cost of arts supplies for school is so expensive that's just one subject many secondary schools leave getting supplies under the September it depends on what teachers you have so the bills can stack up indeed they can and you know that it's something that I mean a lot of families are facing very uh you know heavy costs going back to school now and uh it is a difficult one uh call us as we need another election to vote this government out my ESP bill has doubled I've never seen the likes of this before my heart is going out to all those people who are in dire straits call us as I was a customer of prepay power two years ago standing charge nearly doubled I had a dispute about the number of units I was being charged their customer service wasn't great left when the contract was up it's a great concept being able to pay weekly but it doesn't necessarily always work other quarter says the government are faced with a choice they can either sit back and watch the energy companies rob and destroy the economy in order to create a bananza for their shareholders as the bank stayed in 2008 or they can place the companies back into public ownership and take some responsibility and indeed I did see that referenced in in a few places people were saying well what about France France can keep the bills quite low and the response yeah yeah but France owns the electricity companies um caller says my ESP bill my most recent my last ESP bill was uh 135 86 this one is 225 46 and there's just two of us in the house so says a caller um regarding Christmas lights and and I know Greg actually was uh raising questions about this as well um what's going to happen with Christmas lights uh caller says we are in a village in Wexford and I'm on the lights committee for the past five years we've been running on LED lights and have our own power points for the two months most years we can run the lights for less than 300 euro uh we've got a tree that's a couple of thousand small lights and on the street we've learned 2000 we run church lights as well we fundraise all year long and the community would be expecting us to have a full display on show that was a comment that was made on Facebook and I know Greg was asking you know are we going to see Christmas lights this year or will the energy crisis and the cost of electricity actually compromise that I hope it doesn't I really hope it doesn't I have to say the Christmas lights and uh you know driving around various towns and seeing the Christmas lights are they're a lovely part of Christmas I have to say in fairness Remelton in particular is is wonderful I I go to Remelton every week for a music session on a Thursday night and you know Remelton at Christmas was absolutely gorgeous I really have to say that um and you take the run into Derry of course as well and you know letter Kenny know the other towns and have to say the window in McElhenney's last year was absolutely stunning too so it would be an awful shame to lose that um with regards to a TD pay rise didn't Leo not say a pay rise wouldn't help us in this crisis I hope we remember this come the next election and we don't do what we've always done this is unbelievable Monty Python wouldn't have come up with this farce it's just gone half past nine gonna take a short break back after this the night till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today since she got her free hearing aid with her prsi at spec savers Roshin is a changed one music has never sounded better and that makes 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enjoyable afternoon there and was very impressed with the way kitty begs is looking and indeed it's set to get even better there's regeneration meeting taking place in the tarot hotel in kitty begs from three to seven on thursday of this week to discuss the regeneration of the area there is a 5.4 million euro redevelopment plan under the kitty begs 2040 town project let's go to zoom and say good morning to the Coherlough of the donnie gold municipal district councillor neif kennedy neif good morning good morning donal come on here listeners um neif this is an interesting one because we're seeing this an awful lot these days in donnie gold where areas have regeneration plans and the the council and the planners and and the members are just saying to the people look come to a meeting look at the plans that are there talk to us tell us what your priorities are tell us what you want to see and ultimately what comes out of this process will be something that the people actually want correct yeah absolutely that is the case some people will say that's not the case but others will say yeah it's great it's exactly what we what we need and what is required for the area it can start it off originally as a plan for the island house building which is down on the pier um it was used to be called the harbour store which will be locally known as and that has been vacant and empty for years and it belongs to the department of the department of agriculture so um there was an idea as a stage back to facilitate and put something into that room for public conveniences which were badly lacking in the town and considering the fact that we get so many cruise ships in as well as other visitors there was a problem with public conveniences so that was the start and that kind of an idea I suppose and in 2018 we thought about doing a master plan for the town and in 2019 we applied for the the rrdf fund and were successful initially it went in for just the building but it came back to say that it uh the department wanted more of a grand plaza in the town centre to incorporate the new build so that's exactly what the plan for and that's what we're doing now and essentially you you mentioned the cruise ships because in in many people's Kili Beggs is a fishing harbour and people have a utilitarian view of Kili Beggs it's a workplace it's a place where things get done but I mean I think more and more Kili Beggs is becoming recognised as a tourist destination in in its own right and certainly um I mean I would have a bit of an interest in the cruise industry myself and I was in Kili Beggs I was there to actually look at a ship because it's a new company had their new ship in for the first time this year so I wanted to go to go down and have a look at it and on their website certainly the commons that are coming back from people you know who were and and this is not nothing to do with Kili Beggs it's only called this is that the cruise lines own Facebook pages and Facebook groups the commons coming on to those groups were very positive about Kili Beggs people that you know stayed some people just stayed and walked around someone to sleep league some did the journeys obviously but many people just got off walked around and I would do if I cruise I will do that quite a bit myself I'll just stay and I mean and you know there there is a huge potential for that and they were very positive and people saying oh really like this town it's a really good town and maybe we're starting to see Kili Beggs recognised as a tourist destination in its own right now absolutely I mean and it's not to say that both don't work in tandem which they do I mean the fishing industry has its season and the tourism industry has its season as well so both can work very well together and when both parties do work well together it really is a key to success and it's quite unique in the country really I suppose Dingle will be another town that would be that was similar a similar scale not scale as in size but with the fishing industry and the tourism say we are we are way behind Dingle but we we certainly are getting there and you can see it and you can feel it and the feedback as you said has yeah what Kili Beggs always reminded me of actually is where I grew up in Waterford and the an area very close to us is Dunmore East now Dunmore East is both a fishing port and a tourist destination and both and so I grew up going to Dunmore East every year and that operates both you know equally and always has done so I mean you know it isn't any strange thing to see a fishing village well and okay Dunmore East is nowhere near the size of Kili Beggs but it would be a reasonably sized fishing harbour in that respect so absolutely you know it can be done the two can work hand in hand and in terms of this regeneration you've okay we're talking about Kili Beggs as a potential tourist destination we're talking about visitors but Kili Beggs is also home to several thousand people and has the capacity to expand so you're also saying is what the other balance we have to draw is okay we want to meet the needs of visitors and meet the needs of cruise ships and meet the needs of the industry and meet the needs of of the fishing community but we also must meet the needs of Mary and Johnny and Billy and Jack who live up the road absolutely and that that's what this is about as well it's about our community and it's about making the best for our community possible we've done a lot of work on it as you've seen we've done a lot of paint jobs a lot of bright colours again and all of that to make it a more pleasurable place for us all to live in and to enjoy and indeed to take pride in and there's a big pride in the town now to be perfectly honest everybody's doing their bit there's a lot of people out watering plants a lot of groups coming together there's a lot of litter picking going on all of those things that should be done when you have pride in the town but yeah the town centre project itself then is going to be like a plaza or civic space for people to enjoy we can have if we want markets on it we can if there's a band is coming up with festivals and events on that's where it'll be we also with the public conveniences it'll be in the brown floor of the new build there'll also be the new tourist office which is very very important and for everybody to come in there'll also be history and heritage of the fishing industry in the town as well and we're hoping to have that on the top floor so as we'll have like an intern or civic space for people to come in the bad weather if they want to know the history of the town got lovely storyboards all along the shorefront but they now will be also internally inside in the bad day and especially to you when you've got the likes of people coming and they're waiting on one of the boat trips or waiting on a buster they can all sit in there and wait and enjoy the pleasure and look down on the boat and it's just the start of a really really exciting time for kind of else the initial plans will be on display as we said in the tarot hotel on Thursday between three and seven what what can people expect when they come down to take part in this well the regeneration team will be there and they they were there from the beginning they were there already back in 2019 at the start of it all and they had promised that they would come back and let the public know what it was that they were doing and how they were working it and some people felt you know initially that you know there wasn't enough parking and people were very upset about the fact that there was we're going to lose car park spaces but we've been guaranteed by the team that we won't lose car park spaces and indeed part of that five and a half million project there's land acquisition involved in that so there's all there's a car park purchased within that as well so that's very important and it'll be very important to stress to the council that you know you do not operate car park spaces until you have the other car park web that that has to be a given that's the most important part the people in the town and particularly the businesses around the diamond area are feeling we're going to be really operated by this so we want to try and reassure everybody that we're going to do this in phases and how it's to be done and to make sure that we have the least inconveniences possible for the people in the town where i parked when i was there was actually parked over just down from St Catherine's well there that car park over by the harbour and i actually didn't know that was there i stumbled i stumbled upon that car park by accident almost um you know and i actually found that a really handy okay it was a little bit of a walk into town and obviously if there was any mobility issues it would be totally unsuitable but you know for for for those who are mobile i found that a really handy car park to use plus it gave the chance then to walk up the the little walk up to the well and you know actually walk right up to the top over by the the ruin of the church at the top there and that's a lovely little point up there i'd say a lot of people don't know about yeah it's absolutely beautiful i mean it's it's really it's it's our little star attraction really and when you go into the tourist office it's one of the things that people will tell you where to go and they say oh have you been up to St Catherine's well to the church in graveyard there's a lot of work going on there at the moment it's been fabulous we've got enough on funding over the last number of years from both the heritage council and all kinds of things so the works has gone on that church to to stabilize it and there's great history there and so that's all happening there's a lot of different groups and a lot of people doing different things and combining it all in the end to having a really successful product by the time so with your lives with us and that car park is great absolutely and i have to say i was really as i say i i i i don't spend a lot of time in kitty bags but i'll be spending a lot more because i was really impressed last time i was there and also had the nicest ice cream i've had all summer in kitty bags as well which also helps find a great little place selling homemade gelato in absolutely fantastic and really really enjoyed it so i mean you know it's great to see kitty bag and i think kitty bags is probably going to come on more and more as as a spot for visitors and there's great food attractions there as well one one in particular that would draw me to kitty bags time and time again and i won't mention which food truck it is but i think a lot of people will be able to guess and so yeah i mean i think you know things are probably looking up for kitty bags and something like this this is really well positioned i think at this point in time for people you know to to have their say in in how that growth continues into the future in the meantime at near of canady kohirak of the donny gold municipal district thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning thanks very much don't it was our pleasure you too that's a council leave there and that's taking place in the tarot hotel in kitty bags from three to seven on next thursday evening now a few of your comments before we go to a break uh caller says can you tell your listeners that the mass from orte news is now coming from the iconic church in burt uh the church of sylvanian i said half past ten thank you so that's the the mass from ortee news now oh it's ortee news now i think the ortee news channel the mass is coming from the sylvanian church in burt and a wonderful lovely church that is uh one or two more comments um a caller says uh these ministers and tds are very absent minded when it comes to their properties reference to the uh robert trey stroke steven donnelly conversations from last week while it's not illegal for a politician to own and rent a property maybe it should be if these properties are leased or rented to local authorities then there is an obvious conflict of interest also i wonder how many of them own properties that are being used to house ukrainian people how do the government choose which property to use for the ukrainians the bottom line is i think politicians should they be tds senators or counselors should not be landlords um it's it's a difficult one it is a difficult one um and really there are registers of interest and in steven donnelly's case for instance there was no question mark over uh whether or not his um property was registered in the doll it was registered in the doll he hadn't elected to update his registrations with the residential tenancy board it's an ongoing debate you're always going to have uh i think when it comes to two things like that um so and it's uh you know we've had the debate about tds being landlords before and we will no doubt have us again we're going to take 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very familiar with i'm sure tyke good morning good morning donna go to speak with you and you too tyke tyke um nursing home operators in donnie gall i'm sure we'll be looking with a great interest at this story today confirmation from this survey that the rates paid under fair deal in the county are indeed the lowest in Ireland yeah look this is a long-standing issue in in terms of the fair deal scheme and your listeners and indeed our members and indeed older people across donnie gall are being seriously sharp changed as a result of the failings of fair deal we've seen in the last number of weeks where there's been a significant number of closures of nursing homes and i suppose what's highlighted by this report again is that if we don't take action to stem that tide and to ensure that we resource older persons care appropriately there could be further closures and donnie gall as both you know is very much in the news as a result of this finding that it is the lowest in in the in the country um and i think the other point worth noting um is that the differential between the cost of care in the public homes and the private homes is of the order of 72 percent in donnie gall so the state knows what it costs to provide high quality residential care in the community what uh the failings of fair deal over many years is having a significant impact across all nursing homes and is in crisis at this point in time now as many other media outlets do we hear in highland radio will track the various hickory reports on nursing homes and we'll do new stories on them and and one of the things that it's clear from those stories is that the standards that nursing homes are expected to adhere to in terms of management in terms of staffing and in terms of the physical construct of the buildings those standards are exact and those standards are to say the least demanding and the amount of money it's going to take nursing homes to keep up with those standards and to meet those standards is huge absolutely and and you're dead right the standards are exact they're robust demanding as they should be because we do need to ensure that we have a high quality of care but that's your point is well made what you have is a complete disconnect between on the one hand the standards and on the other hand the funding and under such time as that gap is closed you know we're going to see failures unfortunately in terms of nursing homes 11 nursing homes have closed across the country this year to date Hickwood themselves announced just a number of weeks ago that 29 nursing homes closed between 2018 and 2021 so the you know unfortunately the issue here is all about funding and you know the government to be fair we've had very good engagement with minister but through over the last number of months we still haven't seen the scheme of support to meet the exacting standards at your reference but also the unprecedented inflationary pressure so the pressure on nursing homes now is absolutely intense we've come through a very difficult period as you know with covid many have exhausted their reserves for example and now we're into a period of unprecedented inflation so I know I don't we don't use the word crisis lightly but we are most definitely in a crisis now in terms of nursing home care and that's going to impact hugely in the winter if there is loss of further beds because as you know in Donegal significant pressure on letter kidney hospital if we don't have the community care that we speak of in shlant to care then it's going to uh obviously be deeply challenging and upsetting for older people but it's also going to have an impact across the wider health service and the other thing of course is if a nursing home closes then either a state hospital or some other form of even acute public hospital has got to take up that pressure if that person can be cared for at home so the closure of a nursing home is another um point at which the state's going to have to intervene in the state's going to have to find someplace else and that's going to put even more pressure on on already crushed state system so the nursing homes very much without them the state's in serious trouble absolutely look the nursing home sector has a vital role to play as part of a well functioning health service absolutely um and we're well serviced in Donegal there's nine public nursing homes and 14 private and volunteer nursing homes and we've got to remember this is people's homes that's the key point here so while you know we talk about statistics and and they you know the gap in funding 72 differential you know we're talking about your mother my mother uh people your your listeners parents their their uncles and aunts who are worried now because they may not be able to find care in their local community or indeed some of them may have to move nursing home because of the failures of fair deal and this isn't something that has happened overnight we have flagged it a number of years and many government government reports have also highlighted this so now is the time for action on two fronts we need an immediate um support scheme to stabilize the sector and as opposed to inject badly needed confidence into the sector so that we can get through what is going to be a difficult winter and then we need to sit around the table collaboratively with government with the HSE to ensure that we can have a sustainable long-term care sector that we can all be proud of and that can meet the needs of the community in keeping with the government policy ultimately of shalom to care and reorientating services from acute to community this policy of underfunding of fair deal is is driving uh matters in the opposite the completely opposite direction obviously you're having regular meetings with the department officials with ministers and with politicians at all levels are you getting any indication from them that this is going to be addressed uh even that there might be something in the budget in three weeks time that might bring sucker to your members yeah look we'd we'd be uh dare i say confident i mean we met the minister would you believe uh on the 29th of march of this year that was our first engagement on the inflationary pressures uh we've had a number of meetings over the last number of months and to be to be quite frank we were expecting a scheme to be in place from the first of july what has happened since then has illuminated and has created even further crisis so absolutely we'd be expecting a dedicated funding stream for nursing homes you know we don't want general um you know measures that are for business generally you know they will be introduced obviously as part of the budget but there needs to be a dedicated targeted funding stream for nursing homes and for the care of older person ideally pre-budget so that we can inject as i say the badly needed confidence back into the system and also to older people so that they're not worried about are they going to is their nursing home going to be in difficulty in the in the weeks and months ahead if i get someone well obviously we'll be keeping a very close eye on before i let you go that there is one question i want to put to you and it's a question that we've been asked by one or two staff members in nursing homes and it's with regards to the thousands euro payment and where whether that is coming now obviously we know there's there's been delays in getting it in the public sector not not to mention the private sector what's the process with presumably what has to happen is there has to be discussions between the operator of the nursing home and the department and revenue before this can come through are those discussions taking place what is the story at the moment do you know yeah look this is usually frustrating issue dawn to be quite frank you know the decision that was announced on 19th January was the right decision to include the staff in the private and voluntary nursing home sector but nothing has happened to date just last week we understand that the HSE published a tender to seek an external company to process this payment so this is a further slap in the face to the private and voluntary sector you know the staff who worked so so hard on the front line many of your listeners would know them and would you know be well aware of the fact that people put their own lives on hold to care for those who are most vulnerable so at this point in time there's been no payment to staff in the private and voluntary sector our position is quite is absolutely unequivocally clear from our point of view we need the government to set a date can communicate that to all of us and deliver on that because you know eight months on it's just frankly not good enough and obviously there's going to be revenue implications and you know the accountants and your members when processing wage slips they're going to have quite a lot to do so that there has to be the discussions between your members and the government or this agency that gets the contract to get this payment done absolutely we could have processed this to date I mean you know there is a temporary assistance payment scheme in place you know the sector is well capable of processing this payment the issue is as you say around the fact that it's tax-free so there has to be some engagement with the revenue commissures but you know from the staff point of view all I can say to them is that be assured that Nursing Homes Ireland and dealers is continuing to represent to ensure that it's paid promptly and without further delay Taig Daly, Chief Executive of Nursing Homes Ireland thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you and good morning and good morning to you that's Taig Daly there interesting story that the fair deal payments in Donegal are lower than in any other county in the country and concerns that the sector could see some closures if this situation continues right 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possession of class b and c drugs this follows a search of a vehicle on sunday night close to the foil bridge in the city the case will now be reviewed by the public prosecution service as many as 50 children in parts of north and is shown are without school transport bus capacity issues are continuing to affect students in the glenn gad, malin, cul d'aff, caron donna and claw mani areas and the shown councillor martin mcdermott says the pressure needs to remain on to ensure the department acts and makes funding available to boss earn to run additional buses he says leaving children without school transport is totally unacceptable we can't be in a situation where children can't get to school i think there's a number of issues this year in relation to the the free school transport has put extra capacity on some because they haven't maybe applied in time and some people thought that the bus that the free bus transfer was just free and you're already on that and you didn't have to apply again whatever the issues are that has caused us they need to be set aside plain to see from boss earns database that there are vast numbers of children that don't have seats and buses and i don't think that's acceptable it's emerged that almost 5 000 children across dairy and straband district are relying on emergency support from food banks latest figures from the trussell trust reveal that there's been a 125% increase in the usage of food banks in the region when compared to figures from 2019 and 2020 while mla shinnead mclaughlin says stark figure demonstrates the scale of the cost of living crisis facing people she says it's a national shame the fact the food banks actually demonstrate policy failure throughout the whole of the uk and how we're making it now a core component of how we support people in food poverty i think we've come to the point that it's actually a national shame that we have to still support our people and many of them are working people outdoing a week's work and still their wages and their support systems are failing them and they have to rely on emergency food to get by landowners are being reminded about their responsibility to trim overgrown hedges and grass verges hedge cutting is now permitted following the summer months ban and the council will be on me and roads in the coming weeks however councillor michael mcclaffery is reminding landowners of the importance of ensuring that their hedges are not obstructing the road he said this is essential to ensure roads are safe for motorists cyclists and pedestrians you do have hedges and cutting onto the public road or any road at all cut past except in walkways and there's your responsibility as well if you're the landowner adjacent to get it cut back and our people assume as well that it's all down to the councillors this time of year generally along the main road down from six they do have a hedge cutter out with a hedge cutter there only for a minimal amount of days so that will do from point A to point B you may have roads going on to main road then you have junctions to go on obviously a lot of junctions can fall with the landowners then to get that sorted a man has appeared in court charged with the murders of his siblings in talla in the early hours of sunday morning 18 year old Lisa Cash and her eight year old twin brother and sister Christy and Chelsea Coley died after they were attacked and stabbed at their family home in Rossfield Avenue in the Brookfield area Claire McNamara reports Andy Cash with an address at Rossfield Avenue appeared before Judge Patricia McNamara at a special sitting of Dublin District Court last night during the brief hearing Gar the Rob which he gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution he said the accused was arrested for the murder of Lisa Cash and Christy and Chelsea Coley at 7.43pm he was then charged with the three kinds of murder dressed in a grey sweater black tuxi bottoms and runners Andy Cash did not speak during the brief hearing there was no application for bail as bail can be granted in the district court in a murder case Judge McNamara granted Mr Cash free legal aid and remanded him in custody to appear again by video link at Cloverhill District Court on September 9th and finally Boris Johnson has delivered his farewell speech outside a packed downing street the outgoing British Prime Minister will now fly to Balmoral in Scotland to meet the Queen and officially resign giving his farewell speech he looked back on his government's record listing what he sees as achievements over Brexit the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout Mr Johnson said he would offer the new government his full support to weather now occasional showers or longer spells of free and today some heavy with a possibility of isolated thunderstorms some bright or sunny intervals also highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees that's the news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning obituary notices for Tuesday morning September 6th the death has occurred of Elizabeth Devaney Ney Floyd 52 Drum Naby Park Castle Derg Elizabeth's remains are opposing at her late home funeral from her late home tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m. for a requiem mass at 11 a.m. in St Francis of Assisi Church Drum Naby interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard family fliers only please donations if desired to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member or Liam Collins's funeral director the mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of Maggie Doherty Jack Colkini Malin remains reposing at her home funeral from her home on Thursday morning at 10 15 a.m. for 11 a.m. requiem mass in St Patrick's Church Acha Clay Malin fall by burial in the adjoining graveyard family time please from 11 p.m. to 10 a.m. family fliers only please donations if desired to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member or Liam Collins's funeral director the death has taken place of 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Irish people we're just sitting back and taking everything the government gives us it's time we woke up we're being talked about all over the world for being so silly the caller says after the past two years anyone who still thinks Sinn Fein or an opposition party needs their head measured indeed many will tell you they do believe that Sinn Fein will be in government after the next election as I represented