 April. Kevin McPartlin, the chief executive of fuels for Ireland says the decision should be made earlier. I think if the government is set on reducing VAT as it now seems that it has finally reached that conclusion, then it should be doing so immediately. But this long lead in time is unnecessary and it's not helpful to people. It distorts the market for this period and it doesn't give people the discounts or the reduction in price that they really do need to see. Weather night today will be sunny and mainly dry. However, Clyde will build in the afternoon with scattered showers of rain, hail and sleet and a possibility of some snow, highest temperatures of 5 to 8 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio. News for now will be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Often in life, your tall things are better together. While in this case, it's true. 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Plenty coming up on the show to keep you informed and entertained. We want you to get involved as well, of course. You know the numbers, do you? 086625,000. That's your WhatsApps and your texts. So give us a call to 07491 25,000. Jump on our social media, by the way, if you want to watch the program, Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube where you can see our guests and just watch the program. You can do so on Facebook, Highland Radio or Highland Radio News and Sport, or preferably go straight to our website, HighlandRadio.com. The link is there. Right, let's go through the newspapers as it's a Thursday. Lots of front pages out there today. Let's start with the Donegal Democrat this morning. St. McCartan's Primary School in Bundoran will have seen its school population increase by over 10% in just four days as young Ukrainian pupils join their ranks. All our children refugees from Ukraine who've been forced to flee their country following the Russian invasion just over a month ago. With 20 additional Ukrainian pupils also attending today at the local secondary school, Mayena College, 50 children have been absorbed into the local education system in a matter of days. St. McCartan's School warmly welcomed its first cohort of 21 Ukrainian pupils on Monday, and now that number has risen up onto 30. On to the Chicano Tribune this morning and a faulty sewage system has been discharging heavily polluted effluent from a housing estate in Milford into Mulroy Bay for the past 15 years, that according to local residents of the area. Councillor Liam Blaney has said the delays in getting remedial action done is very frustrating for everyone in the area and he's working with council officials towards a new system being put in place sooner rather than later. The effluent is reaching out well beyond the holding tank serving the grey rock estate and it is spilling into a fast-moving stream before reaching Mulroy Bay close to the former bakery and flower mills. The grey rock estate has 20 houses and was constructed over 20 years ago by a private developer and this week residents told the tribunal they have given up on any immediate action by the authorities and they've revealed details of communications with the council as far back as 2010. Their original concerns related to the completion of services on the estate. OK, if you're affected by that. Right, OK, well, there's other people affected by sewage systems in letter Kenny in fact and we're going to be talking to some residents in the Thorndale area. This is what they're having to listen to at night, by the way, listen to this. All right, that's going there quite regularly of an evening. Could you sleep through that? I'm not quite sure how loud it's going to cross on your radio, but that's what residents in the Thorndale area and letter Kenny are reporting having to hear, having to sleep through. OK, and that's just recorded off a phone. All right, so if you're affected by that as well, by the way, get in touch with us because we will be talking to one local resident later, hopefully 08 660 25000 if this is the noise that you are trying to sleep through. And that actual audio clip goes on for three minutes and 15 seconds until they stop recording it. OK, we're going to be talking about that. That's one problem facing residents, at least some residents in the Thorndale area of letter Kenny. As I say, if you're affected by that, or you can describe to us what it's like, how it sounds, what it's like to sleep through, is it having an impact on your life. Get in touch with us. We're going to try and get to the bottom of it. But we obviously, the more people we speak to, the more information we have. 07491 25000. Caroline taking your calls this morning. We'll call us an 08 660 25000. We were talking earlier in the week about people's difficulties in getting an NCT test. Well, maybe this is part of the problem. Laura McGonagall writes in the Donagall News that the National Car Testing Service has cancelled 1200 NCT tests in Donagall so far this year due to staff absenteeism. Well, it's staff being absent. A spokesperson for the service told the Donagall News that their absence has been predominantly caused by COVID-19 refurbishments are also being carried out at the letter Kenny test centre, which has reduced capacity for testing at the centre. NCTS said the first three months of this year is their busiest time in the NCT as the NCT is due on the anniversary of the vehicle's registration date. And most registrations occur at the start of the year. But we're only just three months into the year already 1200 NCT tests have been cancelled in Donagall because staff are absent mostly because of COVID. So that will explain an awful lot of the delays. I would imagine the Dairy News tells us that a micro address campaigners at a stage of protest in Dairy during the T Shock me home Martin's visit to the city tomorrow. The Fina fall leader will fulfill a number of engagements in Dairy in Donagall during a two day visit to the Northwesties due to speak at a John Hugh memorial event taking place in the playhouse in Artillery Street. Dairy Mike affected holiday home owners are being encouraged to gather for a protest march in Guildhall Square at 7pm tomorrow night. A spokesperson for the organisers said we will not be excluded. This crisis remains unresolved and holiday home owners will not be excluded. And thousands are expected according to the front of one of the papers this morning to protest in letter Kenny on Saturday morning. And we covered that yesterday on the show and you heard the micro action groups version of events as it relates to their demands for meeting with the T Shock requests for a meeting with the T Shock and we also administered Charlie McConaughey on stating that look, we agreed from the get go. There would be a meeting, but we could only give late notice as to when that would be because of the schedule being decided and he wanted that meeting to be in and shown and so on and so forth. That was on yesterday's show. The Irish Times tells us this morning that Russia has bombarded suburbs of Kiev and besieged city of Genohev hours after Moscow offered to scale back dramatically. It's military action in Ukraine as part of the peace deal of course proof of the puddings in its eating. There is there are reports today of troops falling back, but the concern is from within Ukraine that they are going to be redeployed to the east to the Donask region to pursue the objectives there will Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukrainian troops surrender the city of Mariupol before Moscow will allow humanitarian evacuation of the devastated Southern port city where thousands are feared dead but things move very quickly actually and we'll see how it goes. But there is a ceasefire or a cessation of hostilities in Mariupol. It just started at nine o'clock today and that is apparently in association with the Red Cross who are bossing in supplies, which are very much needed, but also bossing out people. So we'll see hopefully that ceasefire holds and those people in Mariupol. I can only imagine what they are enduring regardless of what you think. It's awful what's happening there. Anyway, after a telephone call with Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday night, Kremlin officials said Mr. Putin would think about a proposal by the French president to give Mariupol's residents access to food, water and medicines and leave the city if they wish. As I say, that seems to have progressed. This extremely degrading humanitarian situation is linked to the siege of the city by the Russian armed forces said the LC Palace. Okay. Fuel and the cost of fuel and its potential to be rationed is on the front of many papers as well today. But the cost as it relates to the cost the Irish Independent tells us that staff at the state owned ESB continue to get massive discounts on their electricity bills despite its energy supply subsidiary announcing double digit price hikes. The semi-state 7,800 staff are still entitled to a 670 euro discount a year on their electricity bills in early half the average annual bill. Electricity Ireland parent company ESB admitted staff get a 55% discount on the first 1000 units of electricity on the bill they receive from the company every two months. I don't begrudge them that though. I mean, is the Irish Independent seriously trying to embarrass the ESB into reducing this benefit for their staff? Like everyone has various terms and conditions attached to their employment. If working for the ESB is that they get discounted electricity not stealing electricity out of my mouth. I have no I don't have an issue with that. They're workers and that's part of their terms and conditions. Am I as far out as fan of lighthouse on this? Like I think it's not really fair on the workers who as I say they this is part of their contract to for it to be highlighted highlighted like this or to for them to be shamed into sort of getting this discount. Maybe I'm wrong. What do you think 086625,000? But anyway, they go on to say that few households would use more than 1000 units every two months. Electricity Ireland is pushing up units electricity prices by 23% from next month. The standing charges are going up by 36%. It's the third electricity price rise in 18 months. Gas unit prices are going up by a quarter. Sorry, 25% with the standing charge going up by the same. So as I say, yes, listen, we need to do something about it. Maybe they can reduce their profits a little bit and pass on less of the costs to us. But you know, if ASB workers get to discount on their electricity as part of their terms and conditions, I don't begrudge them it anyway. The Irish Daily Mail continues with this story. The Taoiseach has warned that the government is concerned about securing fuel supply next winter as customers continue being hit with soaring costs. He's looking at what's happening in Germany and I think dent is Holland. They're also setting up and warning their population that rationing may be a thing. Well, outlining the potential grim scenario TDs and senators at a private Finifor Parliamentary Party meeting last night said that they interpreted what Mihal Martin has said as meaning that the government is worried about energy shortages in this country next winter because of the war in Ukraine, but we'll have to wait and see. We were talking about late last year, we were talking about energy cuts, electricity being rationed potentially because of data centers, you know, these stories come in cycles. Let's see. Let's wait and see if it happens or not. We can see the likes of the Americans. They're releasing an awful lot of oil onto the markets. They're reserve of oil. There's ways around it. Presumably, hopefully, they'll find a solution. It's getting very expensive to farm. We know that, of course, and the cost of silage is set to hit 50 euro a bail. The cost of making around a bail of silage is set to increase to between 45 and 50 euro a bail this summer. Rising fertilizer, plastic and contractor costs mean that bailed silage will be 31% more expensive to make compared to last year. So everything's going up. And I was listening to one of the council meetings there earlier in the week. And apparently a lot of contractors are pulling out of roads projects, other type of projects as well because of the rising costs, which is going to have an impact on how things progress here. We might actually try and see if we can speak to someone from the council to see what the impact there would be. Of course, you know, they're not going to absorb the costs of the likes of tarmac and other and other things that are reliant on oil and what have you, the price of that skyrocketing. So if, you know, someone from roads, I didn't catch the name, stated that a lot of contractors are pulling out of their contracts because they simply can't do them at the cost agreed. So they're going to have to retender it and all that process will have to be gone through again. I'm not sure if it's a development or a road in your particular area, but anyway. Sad news from the world of showbiz and the Irish Daily Star today. And maybe this is something that might affect people out there. I don't know. It's one of those conditions I hadn't heard of before. But Bruce Willis will be stepping away from his acting career duties due to health issues. The US actor has recently been diagnosed with aphasia. It's in addition, which has affected his cognitive abilities and ability to talk disclosing the news on social media. His family said it had been a really challenging time for them and thanked fans for their continued love, compassion and support. To Bruce's amazing supporters as a family, he wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities, a statement shared on Instagram read. And he's been doing an awful lot of films of late. You know, not big high budget films, but he's been in a lot of sort of TV movie type films of the last number of years. I'm not sure if he had any full knowledge and he just wanted to work as much as he could. I don't know what it was. But anyway, that is from his family there. The Irish son and a follow-up to an article we read yesterday tells us that a man who was arrested by police probing Michaela McReevy's murder was last night in hospital. Ex-security guard Dasan Narianan, 37, was lifted over and led his plot to obtain a key to the Mercius Hotel room she was killed in. He took ill after being arrested on larceny charges. Cops were last night standing guard at the hospital in Capital Port Louis as they wait to interview him again. Nariavan, Narianan, was working at the Ireland's five star legends hotel on the day newly wed Michaela was strangled to death. G.A. legend Mickey Hart's daughter was killed on January 10th, 2011, 10 days after tying the knot with John McReevy after disturbing a burglary in her hotel room. And finally, to the Irish Daily Mirror now, refurbished churches may be used to accommodate thousands of refugees as the housing minister revealed an extra 35 homes need to be built. And this is a call some listeners were making. Why doesn't the church open up its premises? Well, it seems maybe they might. This startling figure in addition to the 33,000 the government has said need to be constructed every year to deal with the highest in crisis here. Ministers have also confirmed that tented accommodation, which is being erected by the Defence Forces at a campsite in County Meath will also be used soon to house Ukrainians. Dara O'Brien said a lot of what we're going to be doing is taking maybe old commercial stock, old state stock and converting that into apartments or homes. We're going to have to look at providing permanent housing solutions to that's a in that space we would potentially require up to an additional 35,000 homes over the period of time. But if there's a picture there about the tents in a field that will be used to house Ukrainians. Okay. If you want to comment on any of that raise your own issues 08 660 25,000, 08 660 25,000 or call us an 07 491 25,000. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Sentra Mount and Top Letter Kenny. The nine to noon show brought you by Kelly's Toyota with over 45 years of experience. Trust us to help you on your electric journey. 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Three for a better connected life. Minimum term and direct debit required. Speeds may vary subject to availability, fastest 5G network based on analysis by Eucla of speed, test intelligence data Q3 to Q4 2021. Seed three. Okay, if you're away on holidays, if you're lucky enough to get away, what would be one of your worst nightmares? Losing your passport? Well, that's what's happened to four people, presumably potentially visiting this area. Noel Duffy is the owner of a coffee shop in Belibuffet called the Cool Creamery and Coffee Doc. Good What did you know? Morning, Greg, how you doing? Great to speak to you. How are you keeping? Good. How is business? Great to be with it once to go myself and a friend of mine. Fair play. She and Duffy and it's going good. Where are you? Where are you located? No, we're in the lower main street, Balibuffet. We're just in there at the gate to McCool Park. So the Cool Creamery and Coffee Doc for all your coffee needs, all your coffee and ice cream, totes of sandwiches. Give us a wee shout. We're getting the great support from the local community in Balibuffet and order and school and that's not what you came on for, but I wanted to give you an opportunity to speak about your business while you're on because it's great to see new enterprises starting and the more they the better they do, the better for everyone. So fair play to you and your partner, your business partner. Right. OK, that's not what we're on about because yesterday, four people or three or four people were in five people. Sorry, we're in having a lovely cup of coffee and whatever else. Tell us what happened. Well, they were sitting outside and after they left, I'm sure down yesterday evening and the young lad works in the shop had said they forgot a handbag and was hanging on a chair outside. So we were closed at a half five. This is around half four and we looked in the bag and there was five passports and a Spanish passports. And the first one was a child's passports. We just closed up the bag. We didn't rummage through it. We didn't look into the bag. We just left with that. I phoned the guards last night and told them that we had this bag safe enough. But it could be somebody staying locally or it could be somebody staying somewhere else in the county. And I'm sure they've been out of their mind this morning looking for the passports. Yeah, I'm the airporter. My Spanish isn't great. So they might not be listening to me know. So really we're looking at maybe people working in a hotel, Airbnb, a bed and breakfast, maybe the evening in a campervan or whatever. But they're going to be hamstrung without these passports, but they are safe in your possession. So we're putting the call out there. We want to reunite these passports with our presumed they're probably tourists, aren't they? Probably tourists. Yeah. And if they're somewhere else in the county and they get in touch with me, I'll go and meet them halfway or go to wherever they are and bring in the passports. Now that's a cave made a fortune and a half, isn't it? No fair play to you. OK, so we have five passports, Spanish passports. It seems to be a family because one of them is a child. They were out enjoying their coffee in Ballet Buffet at the Cool Creamery and Coffee Dock. You've got them. They are safe and we are now trying to reunite them with their owners. Is that it? No. And if they get in touch with us or ring the guard the station in Ballet Buffet or letter Kenny and they'll get in touch with us and we'll get them back to them. OK, brilliant stuff and continued success into the future. Thank you very much. All right, no. Thank you very much indeed. That's an old doffy there of the Cool Creamery and Coffee Dock. So five passports seems to be a family. Most likely, I think, that they are tourists and we have them safe and Noel has them safe and he's even prepared to meet the owners halfway. He can't do much more than that. So if you own a B&B hotel, Airbnb or whatever, maybe you might check it if you have Spanish guests with you, you might check and see what the story is. Right, Vicky joins us now. Hi, Vicky. Hi, Greg. How are you keeping? Not too bad. All right, now you shared a post on social media. You're going to share it with us now. What is the issue? So what it was was I kind of... It was kind of like a money rank, to be honest. Um... Somebody had ordered... Many Vicky, it's an essay. No, no, it was actually a wee money one. No, I'm on a joke. I'm on a joke. So, um, somebody had ordered a head piece that was to be left... lefted in May. Now that's a head piece that's about a week to make. Everything's hand sewn on to it. The band needs to be covered and everything else. Quite a... kind of detailed piece. So, um, I contacted her. Just started the head piece and I contacted her and I got, oh, well, maybe I might lift it here and maybe I might do this and maybe... Actually, do you know what? I'm in no rush. I might do... I might get it at this time. And I was like, I need to know do you want the piece? You've ordered the piece and I've turned people away for this. And then somebody else asked me then. They were like, oh, I've got a wedding on Friday and, uh, I need a head piece. And I was like, yeah, no bother. And she was all want a white one. And I said, no, this is half six, seven o'clock in the morning. So I sent her videos and pictures of what I had available that was ready. And she was like, yes, I want that one. That's what I want. And she was all down today to lift it and sent her on, uh, the price and stuff for it. And she's perfect. She's as early as the day. She never turned up. Now, everything, I box everything up and present it really well because it's handmade. You want to make there's no point in spending hours doing these pieces. I just throw them on there by. It just doesn't look good. So she never turned up on I and just stopped replying. And I just got sick of it because it's happened a few times now. And I just I just put up a ramp. Well, many ramps. And what do you what do you put it down to Vicki because it's a very specific item? Do you know? I just people's no respect. Yeah. But do you think they're ordering in multiple places to make sure they have one on time? And if one comes through, they say, well, stuff it. I'll not even worry about the ones that I've ordered. Or, you know, I'm trying. I don't even think it is. And that's been completely honest. I don't even think they're doing that. I think it's just they're like, oh, sure. What I caught. Oh, I don't know. Oh, I'll just I'll just buy it on eBay or something. Or they see one on eBay. That's really cheap. But it's cheaply made. Yeah. But you also handcrafted. There's a lot of your time goes into this. And obviously, you're very proud because obviously then as well, presentation is a factor. So you're putting your time in here. Yeah. So like, see for like, I specialize and bridle head pieces, whole communion head pieces and wedding guests. So for a bride, I actually do a consultation. They come to me. They try on different sizes and sizes and everything else. You could spend maybe an hour and a half with somebody and trying to gauge what they want and what's going to be perfect for them. And it is a very, very bespoke product. It's made for them. Do you know what I mean? And that's that's what makes it so annoying that somebody then would waste your time. Then the time then to actually make the thing and then just be like, oh, I'll just not text you back. I think you want about and people will text in. So I might as well say it to you while you're on air, maybe paying advance or or a big deposit. And that's that maybe focused. I'm going to have to start. But the thing I don't want to do great. And it's it's not just me. It's beauty sounds, it's dog rumors. It's people, people making a cake. We all have the same problem. And the thing I'm worried about is with with charging the deposit, there's a lot of people now with the price of oil, the price of diesel, everything's going up. And people don't have the money that they used to have. And you're being very nice. And it's clear you're a very thoughtful person. Maybe too nice though, Nick Vicki, in that, you know, there's an awful lot of expense, for example, goes into a wedding and you're putting your time and effort in. And it's not even the money. I think it's more the respect, the disrespect of you than anything else. It's the disrespect that annoys me. Like, one of my head pieces to buy it off. It's like a designer, but my minor custom made. So the people actually pick what beans go in there. And they pick what diamonds go in there. They pick whatever they want. So something might, parts of it might match a dress, for example, and you might put different colours in to pick out the bouquet of flowers or whatever. I mean, it has that level of customisation. And there's an 800-year-old difference and the price of mine and the price from designers and mine's a Facebook. Everything, none of my pieces have anything glued together. Everything's hand-to-one or hand-wired on. Right, well... It's completely bespoke, look. Deborah says, I've got some pieces from Vicki. She's amazing at what she does. It takes so much of her time to make you what you want. Shame on those who don't pick it up. Keep going, girl. Thank you very much, Debbie. Your work is... Your work is keep going, girl. I don't know if Debbie's... Deborah's American, but it felt right. Keep going, girl. Your work is amazing. Yeah. Thank you very much. Yes, so, I think maybe people should think on that you know that you're in there. You're putting your heart and soul into this piece as well. You're looking for some respect, you know? And you seem quite understanding if it's a financial issue. Yeah. Do you know what? Like, I have a piece there. It was ordered by a lady. It was before COVID. And I still have it. It was completely bespoke to her dress. I won't lie to anybody else's dress unless they buy the same one. So, I'm left with that. The cost of it, to actually to make just the materials alone, cost me £25. Plus the work you're not doing because you're doing this. Yeah, exactly. So, what I thought, I now use it at wedding fairs because I can show off what I can do because I can tell it's a completely bespoke piece for that lady and she just stopped me only. OK, another caller says I'm in the same situation as Vicki. I opened a small cake business. People ordered cakes, prices were agreed and then they just wouldn't pick them up. I'd call on the day and they just wouldn't answer. Some even had the neck to place second orders saying they didn't lift the last one because they had COVID. I'm sorry, it's just not good enough. Yeah. There was a lady put a cake on, on, let her get her babies. I think it might have been last week because somebody didn't last it. And you want to see the cake, cake was absolutely beautiful and so much time and effort went on it and I don't know the circumstances behind it. But it was obviously somebody just didn't text them back or didn't reply. This lady, I know that she sells shoes and people order them. She orders them all and people buy them and she delivers them but she gets payment on delivery because of shoes you have to try them on. So she is just sick of people just not responding, not being there when she lands. It's not just me, it's everybody. Like people need to realize that if you book a beautician, say for instance, you book an appointment there and you don't turn up. You don't text them, you don't bring them to council. They can't get that slot. Oh yeah, and you know people are booking three or four slots to try and cover all bases and let's go talk about the restaurants, people booking five or six different restaurants because they don't know what everyone would like and then they just ignore the other. Deposit though, Vicky deposits is the thing that's what focuses people minds because it's they that lose out, not just Vicky Yeller. Yeah, exactly. But in fairness now, for me taking deposits, it's different and I'll be grand way to deposit but the restaurants and the, like the beauty shop, but all that, they'll not get the rest of that money back. But what it's going to affect is say like single mothers and stuff that once they have a wedding or something, they want to book an appointment. Maybe they don't have that money for a deposit and they're not going to say like, I really, really want this appointment. I swear to you, I'm welcome, but I can't afford to pay a deposit if the matter is because may, I don't know, we tell maintenance or something hasn't come through. No, your empathy is there, I get it. I know, I understand. But then again, you have to look after Vicky as well and I get exactly what you're thinking about others but you have to look after Vicky because you know, when we talk about, we talked about the cake maker, we talk about you, Vicky, I don't know how big your business is or, yeah, so you're not Amazon, do you know what I mean? You're not selling five million things and if half a million is returned, you can absorb that. This is your time, your energy, it's you not able to do other work. You can lose the profit of a week or a couple of days because someone messes you about. And that's, you know, it's not fair, it's not fair on you because you've got your bills to pay as well as worrying about other people. I've tried to keep my prices as low as possible because I know how expensive weddings are. Do you know what I mean? There was a lady at a wedding fair and there was a piece I had that was similar and she says it was actually nicer than the piece that she had bought. And the piece that I had was 35 pound. Yeah. And the piece that she bought of a bridal store was 250 sterling and she said that she wished that she was able to bring it back but she couldn't, they wouldn't take it back. Well, listen to this stitch it Bernie. I don't know if you know that she's got a great reputation. I have the same with christening outfits was made to the requirements, but they never came back. I texted her. Do you know what the person text back after getting effectively a bespoke christening outfit made? If someone else wants it, sell it. Oh my God. I know how she feels says and love, I do crocheting, isn't it? And a woman asked me to make her table mats. I made them and said I would deliver them to her. She said, that is great. Addressing all called me on the day and said the sister got her some and she didn't want them. Wow. And this is handmade stuff, hand crocheted stuff. And love, the person rang up says I don't need them now. That's unbelievable, isn't it? There's more people like this. I have the same issue as Vicki. I have a small business of fine people in employment are mostly guilty of this. I know self-employed people know the impact of doing such a thing and are less likely to do it. And although this is a problem with sales on Facebook, people don't see them as real businesses. They see them as a side business. Well, they shouldn't because they are real businesses. And another Vicki charged them once they placed the order. They'll get a lot more respect then. If they decide not to take it then, they lose their money. But Vicki, I get a feeling that you work with your clients, right? And you understand it and you'll say look at no problem. And the majority you have no issue with but there's a couple that betray that trust and that understanding and it's you taking the hit. And I think that's why you're reluctant to get down there. You know, no orders before deposit and all that kind of stuff. And I get that. I get that. I understand how many people book in weddings and stuff like that through COVID. They've lost a pile of money with maybe DJs not being able to do their new dates but they're not giving back say deposits or whatever because they're nonrefundable. The person has had to move their date because they haven't had say they have a big wedding but they weren't allowed the numbers. So it was their choice. So that's why some of the deposits weren't given back. But a lot of people have lost a lot, a lot of money. But listen, I don't, yeah, but also, you know what I mean? And I understand that too. Yeah, even if you took a deposit right, let's just say we're not gonna get into your business but I'm just gonna guess here. Let's just say, all right, the deposit might cover the materials, okay? And you still continue to make it and then they don't turn up. You're sat with this headpiece and you've made no money at all. You know what I mean? So like a deposit might encourage people to come and collect their items but if they don't, it doesn't cover all the cost. You're still gonna be out one way or other. Yeah. Yeah, I'll get you all right. Listen, how do people get in touch with your business? Vicky, if you wanna say it on air, it's up to you if you don't. Yep, no, I'm love me or have me. Yeah, what? I do. You're what? Love me or have me? Love me or have me. Yeah. It's a very quirky name but it gets stuck in there. You can say that again. Like what do you call it? I set my eyes on just all pieces for weddings. I do baseball headpieces, pins, combs, vines. You name it. If you bring your style to me that you like and you can't get it in the color you want, I'll make it for you. Love me or have me? Yeah. Search on Facebook, is it? Yeah, I'm on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. All right, Vicky, continuing success with your business because you... Thank you very much, Craig. So, I might say you're a wee bit soft but sure keep being you because I think you have an understanding of the realities of life as well. Exactly. Okay, listen, well done, Vicky. Thanks. Thank you. All right, take care and well done. Stitch it Bernie as well. Thank you for getting in contact with us. Deborah as well was full of praise for Vicky and Anne Love, hopefully. You don't experience the types of problems. Imagine crocheting table mats and then someone says I don't need them on the day they were to be delivered because this is how my sister got me some. That's what small business people, small business owners and not so small business owners haven't to contend with any more stories like that. Get them into us, 07, 4, 9, 1, 25,000. All right, 6, 60, 25,000. Could you deal with this noise sleeping at night? It's a racket, some people are having to deal with that. We're gonna speak to one person who's having to endure that in the Thorndale area of Letter Kenny. I don't think I could sleep with it anyway. And it's not even if you could sleep with it, you'd wonder what it would actually be doing to your wellbeing, what your wellbeing over a long period of time. We're gonna try and get to the bottom of that and maybe even try and get some sort of a resolution to it. If that's a noise you're familiar with in the Thorndale or surrounding areas, get in touch 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Joanne's gonna be talking to us about it after these. The Nine Till Noon Show, brought to you by Kelly's Toyota, Port Road, Letter Kenny. 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Right, okay, Joanne, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. How are you keeping? Tired. Right, okay, let me play this out again. So I want you to listen to it down the phone line and then explain how different it might be to reality one sec. Right, so tell us how you recorded that audio, Joanne. Okay, from my back door last night, after 11 o'clock. And this has been going on all day yesterday from after about a half-night, it got louder and louder, but this has gone on for months and it's just progressively getting louder each night. And do you know what it is? It's the sewage plant. So that's like the home of a motor or something there, is it? Yeah, it seems like it, but when they've been contacted a few times and each time that they're contacted, they can actively turn it down after the phone call. But then when they leave the plant and there's no one on duty, this noise just constantly gets louder and louder. It's like torture. You know, those old videos we've seen where prisoners, they try to bring them around to the captor's way of thinking by bombarding them with noise. Oh, completely. Yeah, and say you're lying in bed, can you hear it, Joanne? Or can your young ones hear it? Yes, and my kids sleep to the front of the house or they're kind of sheltered with a house to the back, but I sleep to the back. I can't sleep with the window open because the noise is just like it's in the room with me constantly. And I have very good hearing. Even with the double-glazed windows and then closed, I can hear this in bed. Yeah, but it sounds like the tone of a noise that kind of reverberates through the house. I'm not trying to exaggerate, but it's like a penetrating low, it's high pitch, but it's like one of those penetrating low, constant homing noises that sort of vibrates. That's how it sounds through the radio anyway. Oh, it is, it's completely, like I don't know how anybody can listen to it at nighttime. And there's other houses here that has single glazing windows to the back. And that must be unreal for them to try and sleep through. Right, so this has been ongoing for some time. It's louder at some times. They can turn it down a little bit if someone's on duty, but they can't if they can't. So talk to, like how long can you remember hearing this noise for? Well, this is a new plant. It's in there about 10 years and this has got gradually louder over the 10 years, but over the past few months, it is just unbearable. That is unbearable. And is this a sewage plant that services much of lettercanny or is it specific to Thorndale? Like is it a private sewage scheme or system? Much of lettercanny, I would say. Okay, do you know if they've put any walls or any soundproofing up between the plants? No, they had said that if the noise was getting out of control, and this is a good few months going back at that, they would put up a sound barrier. But what they do, they go into, there's a football pitch bank, and it's called Goose Green, and they go up on the banks of the river to monitor the sound. They need to go into your bedroom. Really? Yeah, exactly. It's not monitoring when they go and turn it down and then go out then and do the readings. It is unbelievable at night. I mean, you's all got up this morning, you and the three children, you know, like even if you slept, I just wonder what the quality of sleep you would get. Everyone must have been, you know, next to none. Tired eyes and cranky. Yes, very cranky, and I think the sprues are that I'm on here. Your crank level hit 10, and that means that you'll speak to me, okay. Oh, definitely. Do you notice it less during the day or do you don't hear it during the day? Is it only at night? What's the pattern throughout the course of the 24 hours, Joanne? In the morning about, see any time after nine o'clock, it starts off and can progressively get lower, but then it'll drop off. And then around lunchtime, it'll get louder again. But then it's just a constant, that noise is constant right up until, I don't know, I fell asleep last night with 10 plus one, but I was back up at half six. This is just not good, look. That's torture, that is, that's not, not acceptable, Joanne. And as I said, I do wonder it's what, and there's been studies done on noise coming from wind turbines and the impact it can have on people. Now, I'm not sure, on people, I'm not sure if that's a different frequency and I'm not trying to scare Munger here, but that could not be good for you, that type of a persistent noise, even if you're so tired that you're not off, it's gonna be disturbing you sleep, even whilst you sleep. Yes, oh, completely, and I have headaches from it. Yeah. And it's just down to tiredness. Okay, and your neighbours are in the same boat, you said some of them have single glazing towards the rear, they're getting even worse. Yes, there is like, and I've been around talking to a few of them before I contacted you. Yeah. And the noise level is ridiculous in each of their houses like. Right, let's hear it one more time here for, I don't drive you nuts, like I keep stopping after 10 seconds, because I'm getting enough of it in my headphones here. Now that's recorded through the speaker of your phone, right? So how loud is it when you were out videoing that, taking the audio, Joanne, how sort of loud was it outside, if you know what I mean? Is that about the volume there? Extremely loud, yes, definitely, extremely loud. And it gets worse, and even when it's turned down, is it an annoyance, but one you kind of get used to? You get used to it, we've got used to it over the 10 years of it getting louder and louder, but then it's just had a patch now that you just cannot deal with that, like. Like I don't mean to deal with it. Yeah, like I don't mean to funny, Joanne, and you're probably no intention of moving house or whatever. No. Or say you're, I don't know if you own the house, that doesn't matter for my question. But I mean, if you were selling a house, say that was your house and you were selling it, it might well be. You wouldn't want anyone landing around, now you wouldn't deceive them either, but you wouldn't want anyone landing around when that racket was going on. No, definitely. No one would move into that by choice, would they? No, they wouldn't. And I'm living here 20 years, so no. Right, okay. We are going to make some calls, make some contacts, that's unacceptable. There's no way, and that's been visited on you. Yous didn't build a house beside that, that was built beside yous. So that's not, this is not your fault, this has been imposed on you. Totally agree, yeah. Yeah, okay, do you want to leave it with us, all right? Try it, if you can, squeeze in half an hour. Half an hour of sleep, do. Or turn us up, turn the radio up. It might be a slightly more annoying wine out of me, but at least look, I changed my tone now again. But listen, we'll try and sort something out, all right? At least raising awareness about it. And if other residents in the area get in contact with us, the more that do, the stronger our inquiries can be. But we're gonna get on it, Joanne, maybe we can do something, maybe we can't, but leave it with us, is that all right? No, thank you very much. And thanks for raising it with us, that's Joanne there, she's a resident in the Thorndale area. And this is the noise that was ongoing last night at one o'clock, was it around 12 or one o'clock? It starts at nine, and it keeps going, and going, and going. And if they complain sometimes, it can be turned down, so I presume they can maybe turn down the rotations on whatever, that sounds like a terabine of sorts. So maybe they can slow it down, that drops the noise, but there has to be a way to, bushings or sound barriers or something. You couldn't live with that long-term, could you, what do you think, oh, eight, six, 60, 25,000, oh, eight, six, 60, 25,000, or call us an 0749125,000. It is the nine till noon show, we've got loads coming up on the program, we want you to stay with us, and we will have more in this hour of the program after we take these messages. The nine till noon show brought to you by Kelly's Toyota, Port Road, Letter Kenny, home of the new Pro-A City, your perfect business partner. Highland Radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime. More than $10,000, you're up. Plus five grand, spending money. Get your ticket now at highlandradio.com, answer the question, and start packing. Start packing. 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Hello there, this is Daniel O'Donnell here, and I'm delighted to be able to tell you that we're coming back to the Millennium Forum in Derry for a couple of concerts. We're going to be there on Wednesday, August 31st, and Thursday, September 1st. Both these shows are going to be taped for American television, so I hope you can join us. See you then, that's the Millennium Forum, August 31st, and September 1st. Highland Radio weather updates with Ireland West Airport. Gatwick's back. You can now fly Derry to London Gatwick with Erlingis. The perfect gateway to explore south London. Ireland West Airport, you're flying. All right, after the frosty start, it'll be sunny with mainly dry weather overall. Cloud will build a little later in the afternoon, and there'll be scattered showers of rain, hail, and sleet with a possibility of some snow on the hills and mountains, temperatures of five to eight degrees, and feeling cold in a moderate to fresh north, northly wind. I can deal with, I don't mind the cold as long as it's dry and relatively still, and that's what we have at the moment, which is cool. Right, Vicki is right. People don't care, yeah, indeed. Greg, listening to you about the contractors and roads pulling out because of increased costs, I dread to think how much the famous children's hospital is going to cost now. Indeed, though, it's slightly more difficult once the contract, normally speaking, it's more difficult to pull out of a contract once it's begun, and not all contracts do allow for increases to reflect sort of the increase in, to reflect the increase in materials. It seems the Children's Hospital does. I'm not sure many roads projects do. Paul Hannigan is president of LYIT, joins us now. Hi, Paul. Good morning, Greg, how are you? I'm doing great. Tomorrow is a historic day. That word can be overused, but there's just no doubt in terms of LYIT's history and education in the Northwest. It's history. Tomorrow is a historic day. It is, I suppose, today, and tomorrow, like today, it's the last day of existence of LYIT as an institute, so it formally finishes off tonight, and then we move into the Atlantic Technological University from tomorrow. So it's a big day in terms of the new governing body of the university. We'll meet here in Letter County tomorrow and they'll appoint a new president, and then the new institution will kick off from there. So we're all excited about the developments that are happening currently. And what are you calling, casually, the N8, the ATU, or going for the full title Atlantic Technology Universe? Well, I suppose we want to get the title into people's minds first of all. So like we're very anxious that the Atlantic Technological University will become part of the normal parlance of people generally. I think it's a very strong name and I think it captures a lot of the region that we're talking about. But I think obviously ATU is easy said and easy remembered and that's obviously become part of the language very quickly as well. Yeah, I get you. And what does it mean? What actually changes tomorrow? Well, tomorrow, you have a situation where you're setting up a new university with a new president, a new governing body, a new academic council. All those things have to be put in place and there'll be one president, one governing body, one academic council. So that unifies the three existing institutions at the one from the very beginning. And then we've really got to look at structures and the new president would be considering this as what's the most efficient structures for running the organization? Well, at the same time, we have to operate as one and as a new university, we're also very conscious of the region as I mentioned. But in terms of courses or in terms of accreditation, what changes? Well, what changes really, I suppose the biggest change from anybody's perspective is the sheer scale of the institution. We're moving from, you know, Letter County IT is an institution of 5,000 students with around 400 staff. We're now moving to an institution with 22,000 students with 2,500 staff. And all of the additional, you know, power and strength that comes with that as an overall technological university. When the dust settles on all of this around the technological university sector with the new university's been set up, you'll have to double the technological university as the biggest one and we'll be the second biggest. So from our perspective, you know, our bargaining power has improved, our scale has improved. And, you know, we should be able to bring a lot of the capacity and capability of the other campuses within the university to bear here in this region as well. All right, what does it mean? Not asking you personally, but obviously we know you and we taught you and you're our first point of contact as president of LYIT. You've talked about there being a president overall at the Atlantic Technology University. So what is your role in all of this going forward? Yeah, well, I suppose my official role as president of Letter County IT finishes today. It's the last day, obviously, if Letter County doesn't exist anymore, then the president doesn't exist anymore either. So the title, at least. The title, yeah. So the new structure will emerge fairly quickly under the new president and, you know, hopefully it'll be retained in a role to contribute significantly to the Letter County and Kilimanjish campuses under the Atlantic Technology University Donegal label. Okay, Paul, and I wouldn't have asked that question if I realised that was a process ongoing, by the way. No, no, no, no, fair enough. I wouldn't have, as I say, we'll see how that pans out. Exciting times. I mean, obviously, there's progression and progression is good, but it's the end of an era, but the start of a new era. And then 50 years, we were celebrating our 50th anniversary, this academic year, and you look at the decisions that were made back in 1971 to set up the Donal Mali Regional Technical College here at the time, and then ultimately moving into Letter County RTC and into LYIT. And after those 50 years, I've been here for 24 of those, and you just see the change instead of a card. But the initial decisions to set up the college in the first instance in Letter County was a really brave one. And do you know what we might do, actually, Paul? Because we're just against 10, and it's actually maybe reflect on the 50-year history in a longer, sort of more formal format. I think that would be really useful to mark that, and I would hope that you'd be a big part of that, if that's okay, Paul. That's no problem whatsoever. Thank you very much indeed, and good luck with today and tomorrow in the future. Thanks, Paul. All right, Greg, thank you. Okay, that's Paul Hannigan there. Okay, back after the news and obituary notices. Live on AIR Online and on the Highland Radio app, this is Highland Radio News. Good morning. It's 10 o'clock, Donald Kavanaugh at the Newsdesk. Emergency powers introduced to slow the spread of COVID-19 will expire at midnight. The Health Act has given the Health Minister the power to restrict travel, prevent gatherings, and close premises for the past two years. The lapsing legislation would also be needed for a mandate on mask wearing to be reintroduced. That's something that the government has ruled out, and again, this morning, the Health Minister has stressed that there are no plans to reimpose COVID restrictions, saying there's been no advice from senior health officials to do so. The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine and Nursing Unions have both called for a return of mandatory mask wearing and also a higher emphasis on working from home. Minister Stephen Donnelly has admitted there is significant pressure on hospitals from COVID cases, but he maintains at present there are no plans to reintroduce restrictions. There is no advice coming to me at the moment in terms of the reimposition of any measures for various reasons. One, this sub-lineage BA2, which is about 95% of cases right now, being so contagious that actually using population-based measures to push the curve down would require some very serious measures indeed. A decision on whether Ireland can reduce that on petrol and diesel may not be made until the end of next month. Ireland is looking to cut the rate from 23% to around 13.5%, but needs permission to do so from the European Commission. Thysiog Meeho-Martin says the Commission will come back with proposals by the end of April. Well, Kevin McPartland is Chief Executive of Fuels for Ireland. He says a decision should be made earlier. I think if the government is set on reducing VAT, as it now seems that it has finally reached that conclusion, then it should be doing so immediately. But this is kind of long to, you know, long leading time is unnecessary and it's not helpful to people. You know, it distorts the market for this period and it doesn't give people the discounts or the reduction in price that they really do need to see. A Donnie Gold Deputy is to lead a delegation to the Ukrainian border next week on a fact-finding mission. Donnie Gold Deputy Joe McHugh, who chairs the Iroquois Committee on European Affairs, will meet with refugees during the visit to Romania and Moldova. He and a group of colleagues on the committee have also already met with a number of ambassadors in the region. Deputy McHugh hopes next week's visit will allow them to bring some lessons home. We've met with the Ukrainian ambassador, the Moldovan ambassador, and also the Romanian and Georgian ambassadors as well, along with Slovakian ambassador, trying to develop a deeper understanding of what's happening in transfer stations. We're going to go to visit Sučeva in Romania and we'll also be crossing the border into Moldova where there's a lot of pressure in terms of humanitarian issues and refugee issues. And to see if there's quick lessons learned as well that we can bring back home. 103 complaints made to the financial services and pensions. Ombudsman last year originated in Donnie Gold, a total of 4,123 complaints were received by the body across the country. The areas of banking, insurance and investment accounted for the majority of complaints. There were over 5,000 complaints closed in the last year. And as Donnie Gold, Depli believes Ireland can remain neutral in a very active way. Depli Thomas Pringle was speaking in the Dahl during statements on the government's response to the situation in Ukraine. Around 600 people a day are arriving here, with 75% of them seeking accommodation from the state. Depli Pringle says the focus should be helping the refugees coming into the country as opposed to trying to please NATO. I can't understand why some in this house are pushing this conversation so much. The Irish people have always voted overwhelming to maintain and protect our neutrality. Why is the government seeking to undermine this? Are they responding to the pressures of the EU and NATO overwishes of their own citizens? Or are they looking for foreign direct investment where we are losing out on it now? About 600 people are arriving every day to Ireland from Ukraine, and at 30,000 are estimated to be based here by the end of April. Let's start focusing more on how we can assist these and last on how we can please NATO. Weather forecast, and after a frosty start, it'll be sunny today with mainly dry weather overall, cloud building in the afternoon, with some scattered showers of rain, hail and sleet, a possibility of some snow on hills and mountains, highest temperatures five to eight degrees Celsius, feeling cold in a moderate to fresh northerly wind, some showers in coastal areas tonight, some of them wintry, widespread frost expected with lowest temperatures between minus three to plus one degree Celsius in a light northerly breeze, and tomorrow Friday it'll be dry to start, but after a cold sunny morning, we'll see more cloud and rain developing in the late afternoon, top temperatures tomorrow five to eight degrees Celsius. That's how in video news. We're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team. Good morning. The obituary notices for this Thursday morning, March the 31st. The death has taken place of Billy Graham Tully Remelton, removal from the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest, Mount and Top Letter, Kenny, this evening at six o'clock going to his home. Funeral service on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. Remains will be reposing at the Eternal Light Chapel Rest, Mount and Top Letter, Kenny, this evening from half past seven until half past nine. Funeral Mass at the Church of the Irish Martyrs, Letter, Kenny, tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock, burial afterwards in Cornwall Cemetery, a strictly private place. Funeral Mass can be viewed on the Irish Martyrs Facebook page. The death has taken place of Patrick Duffy, a private task in Derry Bag, whose remains will be reposed at Rotis Funeral Homegheedore from three until eight o'clock today and tomorrow from five until half past six, where it was reached tonight at eight o'clock. Removal at half past six tomorrow evening to St Mary's Church Derry Bag for seven o'clock at two repose overnight. Funeral Mass in St Mary's Church Derry Bag on Saturday at 12 noon with burial afterwards in Mahore Gallum Cemetery. The Funeral Mass can be viewed live on Kearn Routy Funeral Director Facebook page and on the parish webcam. The death has taken place of Gerard Cunningham, late of Thomas Court Bond, double in eight and formerly of Seven Pierce Gardens, Sturban. Funeral leaving his nephew Gerard Cunningham's home, 77 Lisnefin Park, Sturban, tomorrow morning at quarter past nine for Recreate Mass in St Mary's Church Mellmind at 10 o'clock, and term it afterwards in Neage Owning Cemetery. Recreate Mass can be viewed live on MellmindParish.com. The death has taken place of Lily Donahue, nake hair, 29, clumb and terrace, Sturban. Funeral leaving her home to more morning at 20 past 11 for Recreate Mass in St Mary's Church Mellmind at 12 noon, and term it afterwards in Neage Owning Cemetery. Recreate Mass can be viewed on MellmindParish.com. The death has taken place of Brandon Gallagher, Monclink, Galdonna, Mahore Cunningham. Brandon's remains are reposing at his late residence. Funeral from there to more morning at quarter past 10 going to St Columbus Church Dremel for 11 o'clock, Recreate Mass, and term it afterwards in Neage Owning Churchyard. The death has taken place of John Harkin, Glen Crow Mobile, remains are reposing at his home. John's Funeral Mass will take place on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock in Sympires the 10th Church Mobile, by Beryl and Balna Cray Cemetery Lechemy. Family time please from 10 p.m. until 11 a.m. Family flowers only please through Nations of Desire to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member. John's Funeral Mass can be viewed live on MellvilleParish.com. The death has taken place of Mary McCue, named McMullen, 74, Art Connell Glenties, remains are reposing at her late residence. Wives private to family and close friends only please. Remeble from her home to more morning to St. Connell's Church Glenties for Recreate Mass at 11 o'clock, with burial afterwards in the local cemetery. Family flowers only please through Nations of Desire to Killie Beggs Community Hospital Patients Comfort Fund, care of James McGinnis and sons of funeral directors. John's Funeral Mass can be viewed live on ChurchServices.tv. The death has taken place of Theresa Cuskelly, Ney O'Reilly, Thorndale, Letter Kenney, and formerly of lower Ardo Donald, Letter Kenney, remains are reposing at her late residence, Thorndale, Letter Kenney, who is strictly private please, at the request of the deceased. Funeral Mass in St. John's Cathedral, Letter Kenney, this morning at 11 o'clock, followed by burial afterwards in Conwall Cemetery. Family flowers only, donations and leave of desire to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member or Jim McGlynn, funeral director. The death has taken place in London of Christie Tinney, Hammersmith London, and formerly of Gramesland at Castle Finn. Funeral Mass in St. Augustine's Church, Hammersmith, a quarter past 12 tomorrow, while they interment immediately afterwards. Funeral Mass can be viewed live on the parish webpage. The death has occurred of Father Patrick Dugher, Columban Fathers, Dalgan Park, Nathen County, Meath, and late of Gorta Clare Road, Clegan North, Dunamanna Strabhan, and Pre-Mission. Funeral Mass this morning in St. Columban's Dalgan Park at 11 o'clock, followed by burial in the community cemetery. And the death has occurred of Mary McAteer, name McMenaman, Whiteheart Rathmullen. Requiem Mass this afternoon at 1 o'clock in St. Joseph's Church, Rathmullen, while they interment in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only, the house is strictly private to family and close friends only. The Mass can be viewed on MCN media. Family flowers only, donations in lieu to the Lord's Invalid Fund, Care of Michael B. Funeral Directors, or any family member. For more details, including any family house guidelines for wigs and funerals, please go to hylandradio.com. Good morning again. You're very welcome along to welcome back, in fact, to the 9 till noon show here on Hyland Radio 08-6-60-25000. That's the WhatsApp number. Some of you messaged us and on Facebook says, Hi Greg, I'm a resident of Thorndale. It's a torture every night with the noise from the treatment plant. I'm asthmatic and need to sleep with the window open. Because of the constant droning noise, I have to shut the windows. The noise still drives me mad, no sleep. That's unacceptable, isn't it? Good morning, Greg. The attempt of government to railroad Ireland into giving up on neutrality without a referendum is disgusting. The Irish government should be ashamed of using the awful plight of Ukraine to drive this long-held agenda. And the Irish people will take to the streets to protect our neutrality if needed. There's been a couple of surveys on our neutrality, you know, our alleged neutrality, as we've discussed here. We're not actually neutral as such. We aspire to be neutral. We're non-belligerence, but our history shows that we aren't truly neutral. And of course, the only real declaration of our neutrality as such is a line in the – which treaty is in 2002? Is it the Nice Treaty? Anyway, but, you know, there is a proportion of people out there that says, no, we should be in NATO because we never know if someone might do to us what Russia has done to the Ukraine. So it's not across the board. It's not like there's 90% of people think we should retain what is perceived as our neutrality. But listen, I take on board what you're saying in terms of people's neutrality. In terms of people going out onto the street, I don't know. Can you ask people, do they know why the driving tests are being cancelled? My daughter has had her test cancelled twice since Christmas. No explanation or nothing. Anyone affected by that will have an insight into that. Get in touch. A caller says, as we read daily, the electricity companies are putting up their prices, and we also read that these same companies are making record profits. Why is the regulator body sitting on its hands and letting this happen as a people were being thrown to the wolves and this government couldn't care less? I suppose it's government interfering in private industry, which is what it is. It was all privatized. If it was state owned, I suppose in the whole, it might be different. Greg, I for one don't begrudge the ESB workers their discount, but the government must step in to stop these huge increases in electricity. The ESB made over 300 million euro profit last year. Surely it's not to hike our bills by 25%. On another note, why is petrol 13 cents cheaper than diesel since last week? Our politicians are keeping very quiet about all these increases. Yeah, I agree with you. We've said it on the program before. I think it's scandalous and unacceptable that oil companies, you know, the people that deal with the source material, they are making record profits in 2021, record profits. And these increases were coming a long time. I know people say, there was an awful lot happening politically that we're seeing all prices increase from middle last year. Okay. And obviously then the shut up once the war in Ukraine actually started. But all the while these companies are making an absolute fortune. And I don't know if the ESB and other electricity suppliers are absorbing any of these costs at all. But we are incredibly loyal customers. The problem is, though, we're trapped. We're stuck. We have no real options. Yes, you can shop around. But listen, there shouldn't be shopping around anymore. At the very least, in my opinion, and excuse me for expressing it, at the very least, everyone should be given the best deal. So everybody should be getting the new customer deal right now. At the very least, scrap the switching new customer benefit in a very open and transparent manner. Everyone in this country at the very least from the electricity and gas suppliers should be given the top discount rate at the very least. Okay. If you know, maybe they don't want to absorb any of the cost themselves. But that would be something that would be at least fairer. You know, especially people on prepaid meters or people living in rental accommodation. Give everyone, everyone, the best discount rate that's available rather than making people go through the rigmarole of switching. That would be an active good faith, I think, and reward our loyal customer. And it's loyal, really, because we all need power. Akola says, I'd like to thank Donagol County Council and Ayman on the great job they've done at Westbrook on the traffic calming measures. That comes in from Tony Paul. Paul, always good to give credit where it is due. Greg, we have a small retail outlet. People come in and ask us to keep items for them. We're out of goodness, have in the past kept them. Since COVID, we no longer hold items. People don't ask the large multi-nationals or online stores to do this. They walk in and pay up front. Small stores can't reorder stock until the previous stock has been sold. Another that poor woman, terrible noise. That's mental torture for sure. That's what Joanne and the rest of, at least, some of the residents of Thorndale. We've had contact from at least three others that I've had access to. Steve on Facebook, another on Facebook, and Anna on Facebook. They're saying, look, they're at the wit's ends with it. This county is a joke living along the Lennemore Road in Moff is like living in a war zone with heavy goods vehicles. Is that a... Tell us what's going on there. Is that a route that I think we might have done this story before? I think we have done this story before. Is there no hard shoulders on that roads either? And this house is right up against the road. Are we talking about the same road? A caller says, maybe the guarder could get onto the airports and they might be able to tell them if they have flights booked just a thord. Right, maybe the guarder could get onto the airports. That's coming in from Eddie. Ah, yes, Eddie. Sorry, this is the passports, isn't it? Right, very good. The guardie, Eddie, sorry. The guardie have been informed, but I think we should be able to get them back to them, shouldn't we? It's five Spanish people. They're in Donegal just for those of you that are switching on in the second hour. Where were you? I know where you were. You should be with us at nine o'clock. Five passports, right, from Spanish people. They were in a coffee shop in Ballet Buffet yesterday. They left them behind them. The coffee shop owner has them. He's contacted the guards. He's retaining them for safekeeping. So, out there somewhere in Airbnb, maybe in a camper van, in a hotel, there's five Spanish people. One of the passports was for a child, so it could well be a family. We are presuming they aren't resident here, that they're on holidays here. There's five people out there going, where's our passports? I wonder, do they even know they've been lost yet? That's what I'm wondering. Because do you check for your... We don't really demand passports much here in this country. Is it possible that they think they're safe in someone's bag and have yet to discover them? They might even get as far as double an airport and go, where's our passports? In Spanish, perhaps. Vicky, this is our head dressmaker. Vicky, if people don't have deposits, it's unlikely they'll be able to repay for the complete job. Listen, I think Vicky, from what she was saying, works with her clients, and nine times out of ten they do. So that's the impression I got. That lady should always take a deposit. I do for every job. If they want booked in, they need to pay a deposit. I sand wooden floors, and the cost of the lacquer to apply on the floors is the deposit I take. Well done, Christy. Thank you very much. Oh, you're busy. I'm sure you are. And last for now, my mother lives beside a factory in Balabafe at 83 years of age. She can't sleep at night. I think I'm familiar with this story, actually, with the noise from the plant. We've been on to Donegal County Council. We've had acoustic surveys done. The noise is still continuing. The council have done nothing to stop it. The Thorndale residents haven't much hope of getting it stopped. I think I'm familiar with that story of that lady in the Balabafe area. 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Now, there was no warning about any dangers of asbestos in those days. So there are no protection at all. And asbestos dust was thick in the air. So anyhow, we knew about the dangers of it because his late father, he was Charles as well. He was a young, strong fit man. And he was diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer. And he died at the age of only 52. So we were very well aware of the terrible dangers. So this was on Charles's, you know, on his medical notes when he went from the UK to here that he was exposed to asbestos. And all that time had passed, Greg, and we thought we'd gotten away with it. He got through his 50s and through his 60s. Nothing unexpected happened. We thought it was going to be okay after all that time. And then just over a year ago, Fluid began to show on his right lung. And it was found accidentally. He had an MRI scan for another reason because of back problems. And the MRI scan showed off this fluid shadow on his lung. This information was sent to a GP out in Mobile who contacted us immediately. He acted very quickly and referred Charles into Letter County Hospital. Now, he was in there for about three days, I think, Greg. Now, what happened then was, you know, was, as he had been diagnosed properly then, he was stronger and better and better. His chances would have been much better. So what they did is they removed some fluid by a syringe from his right lung and they told us that that would be a definitive diagnosis. So in other words, if they didn't hear from us, everything was okay. So Charles came home feeling full of joy. He said, Spring, it's okay. You know, nothing's happened. Haven't heard anything from the hospital. So then one day, about three months later, he was, I noticed he was beginning to breathe in, was beginning to be a bit labored and he wasn't as fit on his well as he normally was. And one morning he said to me, I'm not well. I need help. Now, he said, he's just brave soldiers so he wouldn't, you know, complain. You knew there was something up with him when he said that to you? It really was serious. So we got him back, back to Letter County. He went again. And he didn't have any, we had an outpatient's appointment after being, and again for two days. But the flu had come back and it had an x-ray that day and we saw a consultant. I think she should be left unnamed because I know some of them are doing their best there but they don't have the backup and what have you. So we had an outpatient's appointment with a consultant, a chest specialist. I asked her, could the fluid be drained again? And she said, no. And everything, every question we asked, there was a negative response, you know, shugging shoulders, no, nothing to be done. So she says it's almost certainly mesodymyoma, the lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos dust. So that was it. We just left there feeling hopeless. So no treatment options were discussed at this point? No treatment options were offered at all. So what were you sent home, did they say we'll contact you for another appointment? He wasn't, and I don't want to be in any way harsh in my language here. Was he sent home to just? She said they would probably arrange another appointment. But when she had said no help for anything, and it hadn't been definitively diagnosed really at that time, but it was almost certainly, you know, we knew. But that day after that appointment, Charles and I drove back from Latter-Canary, he drove, and we didn't know what to say to each other, Greg, utter silence. And I kept thinking, what are we going to do? He's going to drown in his own fluids if it can't be drained, if there's no help, but there's nothing else to be done. So when I got home, I came down to bed here, and I lay down, and I cried. I was heartbroken because he's been my lifetime partner, and the thought of losing them is awful. The grief is so painful. So I cried a lot, and then I thought crying isn't going to help him. I've got to try and do something. And I had the good fortune, Greg, to have made a friend of a consultant chest specialist down at the matter. Now, he was in Latter-Canary at one time, and then he was transferred to the matter in the heart and lung transplant team. So I had his mobile phone number, and I rang him on the mobile phone, and I was crying, and I said, David, this is what happened today. Can you help us? Is there anything else to be done to help? I'm desperate. So he said, press him down here to the matter immediately, right away today. And I said, we'll just come back from Latter-Canary. We'd never make it today. You know, they forget that we're so far away. Yes, of course. And anyway, it got a long story short. He got down, he didn't have a bed in the matter, so he went to the Beacon Hospital. And David recommended Professor Donna Eaton. And she is really the best cancer surgeon in her field. Absolutely wonderful. So Donna did the surgery on a Saturday afternoon. She rang me immediately afterwards, and she said, I've drained more than a liter of fluid from his lung. You can imagine how early it was with a liter of fluid already gathered, and it was going to go on gathering. And anyway, the thought of that was awful. She drained the liter plus fluid. She says, I've removed two nodules and a piece of lung tissue for analysis. And I said, you know, can you definitively say to look at it, or have you a good idea that it does message him anymore? She said, yes, I think almost certainly it is. But she said, we're not going to give up on him. And he's out of the theatre now, and he's regaining consciousness, and I've talked to him. So she says, we're not going to leave it there. We want to do everything possible. This must have been just the words that you wanted to hear, Hazel, because you went from being sent home with no information, no treatment plan, no actual diagnosis, not knowing what was next to someone sort of saying, it might be the worst news, but we're not giving up here. But there's nothing we can do to help you. That was basically what was said. We can't do anything to help you. We can't drain it again. We can't do it. It's almost certainly caused by asbestos, and there is no cure for it. This was the only information that she gave us, and that was one of absolute negativity. And the fear of dying in such an awful way was also running around in my head, Greg. And following that, he came back from the beacon, and he was doing pretty well. He was out doing cotton grass, and once he recovered from the surgery, it was keyhole, and it's called robotic, throbatic surgery, a bit of a mouthful. They actually use robots, Greg, to robots do a better job, apparently, getting into all the nooks and crannies. Obviously, they're programmed and they're guided on the screen, but I watched one of these processes, and it's such an amazing robots. Anyway, that's what it was. So, she couldn't tell us that's the end of it, but that's a cure. You know, he sorted it, but she said we're going to continue to watch how it goes and see what other help we can give. And when was this, where are we at now, in terms of dates, Hazel? No, we're at, this is when we started the surgery. It must be about seven or eight months ago. Okay, so mid-last year-ish, yeah. Yeah, mid-last year. So, he came home, as I say, he was doing well, but we knew that wasn't going to be the end of it. And he became breathless again. So, the fluid was starting to build up. Not as bad as before, but he became breathless. Now, he had to scan in Letterkenny, and these were instructions from the matter of Private and Dublin to the hospital in Letterkenny. These were the tests they wanted done, prior to seeing him down at the matter. So, they did the blood and the scans, and all these results were sent down to Dr. Picardo. She is head of the oncology team, or is part of the oncology team at the matter of Private. So, we've done over the video consultation over the internet with Dr. Picardo. And she recommended immunology treatment or therapy. Now, she explained what it was, and I'll try to make it... My understanding was limited, because I'm not a non-cologist or a doctor. But what immunology therapy is, it is using the body's own immune system to fight the cancer. Now, what actually happens, as Dr. Picardo said, with his cancer and with all cancers, in fact, is that, you know, if we are exposed to a virus, to a cold or a flu, the body's immune system kicks in to fight off the enemy. But in the case of cancer, it doesn't, because cancers are a collection of abnormal cells that keep growing and growing and growing until they kill the person. But the immune system hasn't recognized that as an enemy. So, that is really what I, as far as I've been able to understand. Yeah, no, I actually explained it very well. So, going forward then, I think his cancer is incurable. So, going forward then, it's about, obviously, prolonging his life. So, what is the treatment plan, and it's Dublin-based, by the way. So, we'll get to the point of... Well, like she said, it is not going to be a cure, but slowing the cancer down, and maybe even doing a bit better than that. I'm using the consultant's words now. So, it's been set down for four, at least four treatments. They are in the oncology day center at a massive private. It's prohibitively expensive, but money is only paper, Greg, and his life is so precious to us all. Do you want to say how much it is, just as an idea? Yes, I'm willing to say that. For the bed alone, he had to go in for the night before, and his first treatment, which happened a week ago. And he had to go in the night before, because he has to do a lot of tests, and do bloods again, and it's modified and tweaked all the time, to get it right, before the pretendless infusion. So, we had to take him down for the night before. Now, our son drove us, and he did a very good job, but Greg, the journey was long, it was exhausting. It was exhausting for me, I'm not very well either, but for somebody as elder as Charles, it was absolutely exhausting. And when we eventually got to the matter, if you drove us to the matter door, but he had to help his father out of the car and up the steps. That's how he was trained in this. The journey had taken so much out of him. And it used to be that the roads here were bad, and across the border, they were better. Now I think it's the other way around. And there was road works, there was diversions, there were more road roads, there were diversions, there was humps and bumps on the road. We went round, we narrow lanes, to try to get back onto the main road again, and it took far, far longer than it normally would. So, it left them utterly exhausted. So, my hope is, there used to be a flight from city of Derry to Dublin. Yeah, it was a subsidised flight too, wasn't it? Yeah, and we used it very frequently in happier times. Yes. I used to do some work down at the Canadian Embassy, and we used to be up and down all the time in that we'd flight. And it was only 30 kilometres, you know, it was great. And most of the passengers that I talked to, as we were waiting to board the plane, there were relatives of people who were very ill, people who were very ill first, and the relatives who were going there. And the only treatment they could get was through Dublin. And you're saying that we need to restore that flight? Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. And all the centres of excellence are in Dublin. The matter of public and private are excellent hospitals, you know, they really are, and they have attracted the best consultants and the best teams that there are anywhere in the world. I mean, David McCharrie, my friend, told me, that they come up that Don Eaton is not only the best, we have an Ireland, but anywhere in the world. And what's quite clear from this conversation, Hazel, is that because of geography, there are people that aren't going to endure that journey. There are people that are going to say, you know, I can't do that. There are people that are going to die sooner than they need to, or might, simply because of our distance from Dublin. What's helped this immunotherapy from everything that I've read about it and been told about it by the experts, it can prolong life by years. Right. And Charles' life would have been over by now had we have done nothing when he came back from Latter-Canary, with the fluid back in his lung, he would have died. There's no doubt about that. So through the help of the matter of private and it shouldn't be about who you know, it should be about compassion. There's hundreds and hundreds of people, Greg, throughout the Northwest, and particularly Don Egall, who are in the same pickle. So do you think at the very least, they should have said, listen, as much as we can do here, we have done, but there might be options for you in the matter. At the very least, he could have been sent with that information. You know, they should have given us that option, but they didn't. And the same went with the diagnosis. I mean, they told us that they could diagnose if it was cancer or not, with the fluid that they had removed. But they cut this categorically. And that is absolutely not true. That was a lie. I asked Professor Don Eaton, she said, no, it can only be diagnosed by lung tissue. And therefore, that was another road, you know, wrong road that was sent in Istanbul. I mean, she made her own determination based on her exploration, but she would only be able to say categorically what the situation was after that tissue had been. So when is his next round of treatment, Hazel? Well, his next round of treatment is a week away. Okay. And you're trending that journey again already, I can be sure of that. We have to do that journey again. We've been thinking about all kinds of different routes that would be possible to get trained from dairy to belfast and belfast and dogma. It would take too long. And it's five hours. It's doing what it's five hours like. You know, the other sun will introduce the driving. So we might maybe stop in halfway, it might help, but it's still a very long journey. So you're saying at the very least for access for people to their ill relatives who have been treated in Dublin, or even just access to treatment, a flight from dairy to Dublin should be restored and should be subsidized as well. So we need to zoom into both governments, Greg, and ask them to support us. Now, it will probably need some subsidies, but not an awful lot of subsidies. And when you consider the journeys that very ill people by ambulance or sent by ambulance down to Dublin take the cost of that and the paramedics and all of that, you know, surely making life easier on the grounds of compassion, Greg, on the grounds of compassion for people who are so very ill, get them to the health that is needed as quickly and as comfortably as possible. Okay. And this way, for somebody driving those awful roads or ambulances going, it is awful. You're putting patients through terrible suffering. This treatment that Charles is getting, it's not available publicly. It has, is it only available privately, Hazel? Yeah, it's only, the HSA won't fund it because of the cost. It's too expensive. And what is the cost? You were going to mention it to us, Hazel. Yeah, well, the cost, as I said, it's 1,500 per bed per night. Yes. And we said one night bed down there and then it's 10,000 for each treatment. And he needs four, maybe five. Right, okay. So you're looking at 60,000 euros. You're looking at settling your house, getting the mortgage, whatever you have to do. But as you say, it's paper and your time with Charles is far more precious than... It's far more precious than money. Money's only paper. And only when you're in this place, between a rock and a hard place, do you realize that. Okay. Now, the whole family are behind us as the grandchildren and children and everybody knows and loves them. And he is a lovable kind character. So we want to have some quality time with them. And what's Charles' quality of life now between treatments? Obviously it takes a while, presumably, to get over the infusions. Yeah, it takes a while. Now, he has had some side effects. Okay. Not too severe, but nonetheless debilitating about, you know. So he's up and dressed and about every day. You know, his appetite's okay. My daughter here come with a... I think to test his oxygen levels and we test his temperature and on the COVID test and on and on we go. But our practice in Maville, GP practice in Maville, Dr. Duffy is our doctor. He has been wonderful as has all the... And Hazel, I mean, it's a long enough drive as well. And then you have to get from the car to the plane. But obviously you'd be familiar and you mentioned you're in Maville. I'm not sure off the top of my head how far Maville is to Donegal Airport, but did you look at if maybe... We looked at that break. Yes. Now, it would take two plus hours to get there. And we would have to get there at least an hour in advance of the flight. So we're looking... You're looking at three plus hours and then whatever the flight time is. Transfer from Dublin as well then. Well, you know, we thought about that as an option. It's a full two hours. It's a full two hours. And you'd be two hours down the other direction towards Dublin at that point. Listen, Hazel, listen. We're going to make inquiries. I want to... And I know you said yourself your health's not 100% and you're caring for your life. Soul partner Charles as well. And we just wish the two of you the best of health. Thank you very, very much. And thank you so much for... And just before I finish, could I give you just one brief example of travel to Dublin by ambulance? I have tuberculosis and about a year ago my skin started turning yellow. No, that's a bad sign. I was a nurse in another life, by the way. So anyway, I went to the GP. He immediately referred me to letter Kenny. They kept pushing me... Was I an alcoholic? And did I drink a lot of alcohol? Which I don't. I said just the odd glass of wine. And a birthday or Christmas or whatever. But that wasn't the cause. So eventually they did a scan. The scan showed that I had gallstones blocking my liver ducts. So the liver function was very, very, very poor. And that made me very, very sick, Greg. Vomiting sick, you know, that horrible, horrible sickness. So I was very weak as well after because I'd been vomiting for three or four days. Do you hydrate it, probably? Anyway, it was in the wintertime. It was snowing. It was frost on the ground. And at 4 a.m. a dressing gown was put on me and I was put into an ambulance. And it was a long five-hour journey because of the weather conditions. The roads where I see, the ambulance was spinning in places. The paramedics were wonderful, by the way. But by the time I got there, I was like a wet rag to say the least. And I believe, you know, I'll let your listeners decide. That is not a compassionate way to deal with very sick people. Now, I'm elderly and I was in a very bad way. Now, they took me straight down to the theatre when I got to the matter and you have to swallow their gadgets, which is not easy. Otherwise they have to go in and do a peak whole thing. So I was prepared to put up with the swallowing and not gagging and they were able to pop all these stones out. You know, obviously an expert in the theatre did this and I was able to watch it on screen. So it was very quickly dealt with. Now, it could have been dealt with, Greg and Alton Galvin, I discovered. So I was sent all that way. Yeah. So ill and an ambulance and an awful weather conditions. I was awful for the brand. It's tough on you and it's... I mean, does that make any sense? No. Hey, so listen, it doesn't. You've highlighted a few really important issues today and we really appreciate your time and I just again genuinely wish Charles... And thank you. I want to just say a brief thank you to all my social media friends. And the emails or the messages are coming in second pass. So thank you so all for supporting us. And there's so many people in the same position as Charles and they will relate to this and they have been on that journey with such relatives and they will, you know, everybody is in agreement. This should be changed in some way. It's people who have... We talk about electric rail travel. That's a way into the distant future. That won't help the present. But it's also, Hazel, it's not just people of Charles age. Obviously we are... The Centers of Excellence for Child Care is down in Dublin and we know of people actually moving closer to Dublin for better outcomes. From the Royal Victoria pediatrics, they have the edge completely on that. I mean, just childcare. There's very old babies who have a whole march. Yes. All sorts of people who have to go down to Dublin because that's where all the Centers of Excellence are. All right, Hazel. And the journey for us is very, very difficult. It is. 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What time is it there? It's currently 10 to 2 in the afternoon. Okay. Right. Before we talk about what you're doing, Justin, give us an idea of the scale. Tell us about Expo 2020 in Dubai. So, Expo 2020 is a world-wide exposition. It happens, I think, every five years. The next is going to be in Osaka in 2025. So, it's Expo 2020, which confused me at the beginning because obviously the pandemic has pushed it back. So, it's 2022. But it's basically where all the countries of the world come together and they generally have a theme to display. They've got a pavilion of their own and then they choose how they want to display things. So, the theme of this year is connecting minds and creating the future. So, I know Ireland's pavilion, I had a look at that about three weeks ago. It's all about architecture and art and how Ireland's kind of leading the world in architecture and actually featured Khalid Shali in the pavilion this year. Now, in terms of your role as lead choreographer and people would know Brian Glespus from this part of the world, of course, and that's what we're talking to him because we're very proud of him. Has it been throughout the Expo or is it the main focus on the closing ceremony? So, my role is the closing ceremony. So, they had a massive opening ceremony and they've got arts and culture and stuff throughout the whole of Expo but each country is kind of in charge of that. And this now tonight is going to be the closing ceremony which scale-wise is similar to the Olympics or the World Cup. How many people are you coordinating? Coordinating in total dance-wise between four different casts is probably about 250 dancers and then there's volunteers on top of that. So, it's a huge, huge cast and then we've got a kind of core cast of higher-level talent and then we've got a few special guests tonight. And as part of your job, I presume you have a story to tell. It has to be relevant to the theme of the Expo itself and you have to interpret that and tell a story but also put in your flair and your bits and pieces. So, that's everything that you have to deliver, I presume. Exactly. So, it's a huge creative team. So, I'm working with director Daniel Ezrallo who's got massive category of catalog of works behind him like the Grinch, Batman and things like that. So, he's been directing it from a narrative point of view and then there's Jared directing it from an AI point of view or an AR point of view or augmented reality and then you've got your film directors and all this kind of stuff but I'm in charge of all things movement there. So, we've all had to kind of butt heads, pipe down and the main kind of aim narrative-wise for this show is to go through everything that Expo's experienced in the last six months as it's been open. So, all of the key moments kind of taking everybody who's been lucky enough to kind of come through these gates, take them back in that journey and anybody who hasn't been able to come, maybe they'll get kind of a sense of what this event's all about. And presumably some of your dancers then are interacting with the AI so that has to be factored in as well. Yes, exactly. So, there's a lot of play and actually you guys at home watching in the live stream will probably get even better of a show than in the stadium because you've got the AI floating in the middle of the dome. So, I've had to create everything with the music in mind, with the lead characters in mind, with the AI in mind, with the projection of the dome in mind. There's been a lot of factors, but it's been super fun. It's the scale of it though, Brian, it's a huge undertaking because you have to, I presume at some point, and of course you've got your reputation and your skills to lean on, but at some point they've described this or you've helped design this and go, right, okay, this is a different scale here, this is something else. It is insane. I still don't think I've landed, to be honest, I've been working on it for four weeks, but I think until maybe tomorrow when it's over, I don't quite think I'm here. It's going to be huge. We're now expecting, I'm going straight into the stadium after this, but we're now expecting about 500,000 people plus to be surrounding the stadium, not even getting in. And then it's live streamed to the world on top of that, so millions. So, it's huge. The butterflies are fairly fluttering. Brian, go big or go home, you know. Exactly, well go big, then go home like this. In terms of talent, where are you sourcing your dancers from? I mean, are you able to pull from Dubai? Have you had to import dancers in? I'm not speaking of them as if they're inanimate objects, but you know, there's certain things that you need to achieve that you need the people to achieve that. So, how are you casting this? How did you cast it, sorry, Brian? So, my creative team cast this before I even landed. So, they've taken from all of the local dancers, but by local dancers, there's not many locals in Dubai, so it is a huge international cast. I've got people from everywhere. I've even got a Northern Irish dancer, actually, in my cast, Jemima Brown, who's phenomenal. So, they had all done that all before I landed, kind of keeping in mind my style and what I work with. So, yeah, it's a huge international cast. I was unfortunately unable to bring my dancers with me because I got this job very last minute because it was a last-minute segment included. Dubai is not huge on dance culturally still, so I'm just, I'm very proud. It's too evocative, isn't it? Or there's a line that you have to walk, really, with the, particularly with the invited dignitaries, you have to make sure that it's not too, dare I even say the word, sexy. 100%. There's certain codes of conduct we have to abide by. There's certain moves that I can't do, facing certain people in the stadium. I'm really, I think the reason I'm so proud of this role is because Dubai is slowly coming around to, including dance culturally, and including different dance styles than their traditional. Yeah, I'm really proud that they've almost trusted me and are going ahead with it, because I know in previous shows they've got to this point and they've actually been like, no, sorry, we can't handle that, cut it on the day. So, I'm very proud that it's actually happening and I've been able to filter in there. And there'd be people associated with very high-ups that would be watching rehearsals or whatever, and they would be saying, is this culturally acceptable, not to the visiting population, but to the actual rulers. Okay, Brian, listen, it's amazing. Just in case your head's too far up in the clouds, I'm going to bring you back home with a message from Granny Mary, okay? So proud of Brian and all he's achieved, that's from Granny Mary and all the extended Glasgow family. Just in case you're a big shot and you forget where you've come from, do you know what I mean? Hi, Granny. Oh, I'll never forget that. Come on, I'll never forget it. You can take him on out of Ireland. You can't take Ireland out of the pond. Of course. Listen, in 30 seconds, how do you top this? I mean, this is something else on the CV. If you pull this off and you will, in terms of everything you're having to do this within the world, you're oyster, potentially, in this field, I presume. Listen, I always dream big and I always make it happen. Make it happen is my mantra. So whatever the mind goes to next, I'm sure I'll make that happen. Do you don't have off the top, you had what time we could watch this Irish time? Or even if you give us the Dubai time, I can make the... Irish time starts at 4 p.m. 4 p.m. this afternoon. 4 p.m. I'll send you through the link that you can share on your socials if you want. It's a live feed to YouTube. Excellent. So 4 p.m. kickoff, there'll be the speeches and inviting the Royals protocol for about 10 minutes and then creative things happen. We're closing tonight with Nora Jones and Christina Aguilera. It's not too bad, is it? All right. Okay, listen, take care of yourself. Thanks very much and continued success and it's brilliant to hear about it and, as I say, lots of love from Granny Mary and the rest. All right, take care of yourself. Thanks, Cardi. Bye-bye. Okay, take care. That's Brian Gillespie there. What an amazing achievement that is. All right, we've still another hour of the program to go. Loads to keep you entertained. You can hear the mix. Look, we talk about everything and anything on this program and we want you to be a part of it. I'll remind you of the text and phone numbers a little later on. But at 11 o'clock, it's time for a news update and we say good morning to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A Donegal deputy is to lead a delegation to the Ukrainian border next week on a fact-finding mission. Donegal deputy Joe McHugh, who is chair of the Eroctus Committee in European Affairs, will meet with refugees during the visits to Romania and Moldova. Meanwhile, a Donegal deputy Thomas Pringle believes Ireland can remain neutral in a very active way. Deputy Pringle was speaking in the Dole during statements on the government's response to the situation in Ukraine. Deputy Pringle says the focus should be helping the refugees who are coming into the country as opposed to trying to please NATO. The president of Latter-Kennie Institute of Technology says he believes the term Atlantic Technological University will soon become part of the normal parlance of the region. Paul Hannigan was speaking on what is effectively his last day in the post from tomorrow L-Y-I-T will cease to exist and it will become the Latter-Kennie and Kilibag's campuses of the new ATU. A major conference will take place in West Donegal this weekend. Hundreds of delegates will travel to Donegal to attend the Ografina Fall National Youth Conference. It coincides with a visit to the county by Tishok Mihal Martin. There's been a slight increase in the number of people homeless in the northwest. According to latest figures from the Department of Housing, 75 adults were homeless in the region last month up from 71 in January. Eleven families in the northwest were homeless in February, including 17 children. Concern has been raised over a leaking sewer in Milford. Effluent has been sleeping from the sewer for a long number of years due to the breaking down of surge treatment systems serving the grey rock estate. Councillor Liam Blaney says efforts have been ongoing to address the issue for far too long. And a decision on whether Arlene can reduce that on petrol and diesel may not be made until the end of next month. Arlene's leaking should cut the rate from 23% to around 13 and a half but needs the European Commission's permission. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. Hi, McKayla. Thank you very much indeed. We will be joined by our next guest on the programme after the break. The 9 till noon show brought to you by Kelly's Toyota Port Road Letter Kenny with offers on a wide range of passenger and commercial vehicles. 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Okay so of course you know we are out of lockdown now a lot of people feel COVID is behind us there is this conversation coming from our medical experts about the mandatory wearing of masks the government are quite clearly in saying look we're not going down that route because the only thing that would actually stop the spread of COVID at this point this particular variant Bath, BA2 is a full lockdown and they're not going down that route so that's our story that's where we're at Mary Macy you know Massey's back on the program with us again we spoke to her previously she's in Shanghai and a very good I don't know what time of the day it is there Mary a very good day to you Mary Good evening Greg It's 6 p.m. here Thank you Right so what is the story in Shanghai? Oh dear well it's very much the case of deja vu so like over the last two years we've been very lucky here since I spoke to you last which was almost two years ago now we have we've been back I'm a teacher my husband's teacher we've been back teaching in school since probably late April early May of 2020 you know we have things like showing travel codes and showing health code mask wearing has been pretty much fairly constant here in that time with varying degrees of sort of enforcement we haven't been able to leave China because it's it was almost it would be almost impossible to get back in so we haven't we've barely left we've actually only left the city once in the last 18 months never mind leaving China we've only left Shanghai once in the last 18 months just because of the strict nature of having to do quarantine when you come back etc but now Omicron has come and we are in lockdown again and what does lockdown look like in Shanghai what does lockdown mean is it a full lockdown well it's about to be a full lockdown so what we've had is sort of staggered lockdowns of housing compounds so the way the housing system works here you have obviously apartment blocks in a compound and the compound operates to sort of like a separate entity so over the last couple of weeks my compound has been locked down twice that means we can leave our we can leave our house but we have to stay in within the walls of the compound and during that time we've had four separate rounds of COVID testing this week now the east side of Shanghai which is called Pudong the east side of the river that's been in full lockdown since Monday and that will last until tomorrow and then from tomorrow until the 6th of April it would be our turn over on the west side and that means that we cannot go outside at all now this is off the back of 20,000 cases in a month now I'm not sure if you're following the news closely but we're banging out 20,000 cases in a day and that's not with actual proper testing as such you know what I mean so they're talking about hundreds of thousands so you've got a city of 25 million people going into lockdown over the same amount of cases in a month that we aren't batting an eyelid as such in this small country in a day yeah yeah and I mean obviously there's maybe a middle ground to be achieved somewhere but I mean sitting here over the last two years and to be sort of watching and watching and reading the numbers from home you know what it has been it has been terrifying and we have felt very lucky being here in lots of ways because we have felt incredibly safe you know it would have been it would have been very unlikely to have caught COVID I don't know a single person living here who has had it no we were like that at one stage no no no unfortunately now it's like you know well that's true there was it's coming but Mary let me ask you you talk about you said casually our fourth round of testing now is it the case that they say do they say politely say listen would you mind calling in for a test there because we're doing a we're going to be testing 25 million people this week is it very casual like that or what's it like what happens there's not a huge amount about China that is casual so before we went to online learning in that sort of week or two before that happened various other teacher friends of mine in different schools there was maybe a case where a student in that school was found to be a close contact of someone who adds COVID that resulted in those schools being closed down and mass testing for that school a friend of mine had to stay in her school building overnight with all the students on the 11th of March I think any school that hadn't already had that experience uh the testers came in that day we were informed on the Friday morning that it'd be mass testing for the whole school it's not optional it's not oh would you mind popping by it is systematic testing and you know that those results are held against your passport number and all of that and within our compound it's been exactly the same you register with a health code and you get your results to your phone and that's attached to your passport number at your phone number and all of that and any protests no no no I mean I think there's sort of you know there's sort of a mumbling and grumbling I mean any organized straight protests I wonder no no no no no wonder what would happen if you try it I think yeah I mean sort of if you go by what has happened with protests in Hong Kong and Taiwan you can see how how those are met by mainland China government you know that it'd be very very surprising to see anything like that and what would happen to you if you if you wondered if you wondered out of your compound Mary and said stuff this you know what I'm going to the park how strictly is it enforced who would you who would you be engaged by what might they say to you well I mean I'm not I'm not sure but apparently I mean different different compounds seem to be dealing with it slightly differently as well I would say so last week we went into a compound lockdown again mm-hmm because in that first round of testing some positive cases were found yes and so actually the house two doors two doors away from me there's a police cordon across the front of the house so I assume maybe somebody in there is positive it's unusual that they would actually not be hauled away to quarantine or something but they're in their house and then two days ago we were sort of released from our compound again and one of the people who lives in that house my husband actually commented and said oh I saw the man who lives there getting his car and drive out of the compound and so yesterday his house appeared to be under police sort of surveillance there was a police car outside their house all day unbelievable stuff and Mary no you stay right where you are what about you and your hobby then you mentioned like it's been a very different life for now god knows where it's going in the next couple of years I don't know if it's even practical for years have you considered thinking right you know maybe we need to to move out yes we are we are leaving in the summer we are leaving China in the summer and coming home yeah well well we're coming home for the summer we're continuing we're continuing our life abroad we're actually moving to Kazakhstan wow these are great very adventurous all together I mean I will say we accepted the jobs before the civil unrest in January I don't think those two things are connected but we've been sort of keeping in touch with the school and everything thinking okay it's starting to feel like I won't follow you wherever you're going anyway don't get on the call with me so that way let me ask you a question Mary is there any conversation about what's happening in in Ukraine obviously you know that China is an ally of Russia they're they're supporting them at least in the absence of condemnation there is quite a bit of suggestion that they might be supporting them behind the scenes any conversation about what's happening over there amongst Chinese people and what the narrative kind of is what how it's being portrayed I wonder well I mean I'm a geography teacher so this these sorts of conversations kind of crop up you know in my classroom and my husband's a history teacher so you know these kinds of things sort of get discussed but you know from our point of view we have to be careful about what we say because obviously you could draw parallels between you know Ukraine and Russia with maybe China and Taiwan for example and so we couldn't really do that but I do know of you know friends who who work with Chinese staff in schools and they are getting maybe a different story from the media you know stories like the Ukrainian Prime Minister has abandoned his people and is actually in hiding you know things like that which obviously isn't isn't what's going on right so following maybe more of the narrative the Russian narrative rather than that it's interesting yeah like Russia's doing the right thing okay well Mary listen stay safe best wishes to you and himself and all exciting times back in the summer off to Kazakhstan then as well which of course you know there are some interesting conversations to finally got off first obviously of course there's some interesting some people from within Kazakhstan actually want Putin to get involved there as well but anyway for now Mary stay safe if that happens we will descend home yeah no yeah listen you stay safe pass on my best wishes to himself and enjoy your remaining time there hopefully you have a bit of freedom soon and we'll see you when you get back to Dominic all thanks Mary take care Mary Massie speaking to us live from China here we are little old Highland radio we're going from Letterkenny to Dubai from Letterkenny to China from Letterkenny to Thorndale staying within Letterkenny of course we're all over the place and that's what we try and do in this program you know you don't have to tune away to find out what's going on across the country and across the world just before the break the caller says I get the impression that Greg seems to be in favor of Ireland becoming part of NATO by his comment why not promote an organization that all countries give a declaration not to join any wars I'm sure if you ask the children of Ukraine or Syria do they want another country to join an army they would say there is enough tragic stuff in this planet without adding more I do not have any interest in Ireland joining NATO what I do have an interest in is as much as is possible laying out the facts about people say we're neutral we should do this that and on right okay that's not simply not the case we are neutral but you know history tells us otherwise our constitution would tell us otherwise okay so just talking about that in a factual way rather than this presumption we're like the Swiss I mean obviously there's question marks there as well now but how the Swiss may have operated in World War II for example and secondly to presume that everyone across the country thinks the way that we do up here I mean that's proven to simply not be the case to suggest that a caller earlier on suggested that the mere mention of us joining NATO would bring people out into the street protesting it's simply not the case because there is a large proportion of people that would go well you know I would prefer to be a part of NATO because you know we do well with America and we do well with Britain and it would offer us certain securities and all that there is an awful lot of people have that view out there as well and I'm simply representing all of those views and having a conversation in the factual space of where we're at as to the varying piece of views and as it relates to also our neutrality that's all we're doing here I'm not in favor of joining NATO I think it's terrible what's going on I think NATO and the United States history will record that they have had a role to play firstly in what they've been doing in other countries and what they continue to do in other countries but what they did or did not do that led us to the position where Ukraine right is being bombed to oblivion and rather than us do anything to try and stop that right what we do is we have pop concerts in beautiful safe surroundings dancing around waving flags while people are being bombed to death in their bunkers that makes us feel better but doing absolutely nothing to try and implore Russia and especially using our neutrality to stop what they're doing Ukrainian people are very appreciative of from what I can gather of the supports and of the concerts and all that and people in the West dancing around all safe and happy listening to Ed Sheeran right but what they want is bombs to stop falling on their houses bombs to stop falling on their schools and returning to hospitals to rebuild their country and for Russia to be pushed back from what they're doing however that might however that might be done all right 08 660 25000 back with cancel Martin fire and after the break the 9 till noon show brought to you by Kelly's Toyota Port Road Letter Kenny home of the new pro-way city your perfect business partner Highland radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime plus five grand spending money get your ticket now at highlandradio.com answer the question and start packing draw takes place April 14th on the 9 till noon show start planning your ultimate getaway only on Highland radio are you worried about trees on your property Northwest Forestry Services Bully Buffet are fully insured and have over 40 years experience in dangerous tree removal tree felling surgery and stump grinding for peace of mind call Northwest Forest Services Bully Buffet for no obligation quotation on 9132033 hop into Easter with done stores mix and match from our three for two range to serve up a feast 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maybe temperatures five to eight degrees feeling cold though in that moderate to fresh north wind the weather has changed of course but you would have heard warnings that we should have been on high alert for gorse fires because the conditions had lent themselves to uh the conditions to let them sell lent themselves to their possibility it seems there was a large one last night a gorse fire between Shrove and Green Castle last night local councillor Martin Farn joins us hi and Martin good morning to you morning morning Greg are you I'm good I'm good no it's great to speak to you long time no speak now the fire service obviously had to send their resources tell us what happened as much as you can determine Martin yeah well the you said yourself there was very large gorse fire last night it was upper Carre-Hue it's between Green Castle and Shrove and it was attended by three fire brigades one from the Maville Cairndonna and the Montcran areas and my understanding is it took approximately five maybe six hours to distinguish so you can see how it was a very very large fire and very very dangerous you know and these type of things can get out of hand very very quickly so basically what I would like to say Greg is I would just like to ask people to be very careful at this time of the year during this very dry spell because as you know yourself it takes very little to set these type of fires off simple things like like maybe cigarette butts or someone out camping maybe just didn't distinguish their fire so anyone that's out walking or if they see anything smoldering at all please down nine nine immediately because this type of thing here if it can be gotten time it can prevent these very large gorse fires which are very very dangerous and can you know thanks for there no people injured and there were no property damage but that again was all down to the fire service and they're and them themselves they're good training and safety protocols and I suppose too we should also mention and this is not relating to this fire landowners as well if they're burning any shrubs or clearing any land which can happen to bear in mind the conditions because the ground is still very it's still very dry and gorse fires take hold very quick this one being seen from all over the place obviously with the clear evening to Martin it was yes it was it was very dangerous actually would don't have a look at it myself actually from a distance and you know and you know as you said yourself and I would just like to take this opportunity like yourself to thank the fire personnel for getting there as quickly as they did and dealing with it and in a very professional manner I think Greg you know over the years my time in the council I would just you know we're very lucky to have such people in our communities and I'm not just talking about the fire services I'm talking about all our emergency services you know they do tremendous work and it takes us a special type of person actually to sort of do this type of work and I just want to thank them on behalf of of the local communities yeah you're right landowners you know they just have to be more responsible and try to ensure that if they you know if there's a small fire they either make sure that it's put out or if there's you know a simple thing because a simple thing can set these these gorse fires off very very very quickly oh and I go quick yeah and the other thing you have to go out of this as well you know as I said at the outset there Greg three fire units there was one from a Ville Count down on Munchana and I'm not playing down because this type of thing is preventable people would take more responsibility but if God forbid if there had been a serious road accident last night or say say a house fire you know like those three units are basically out of the equation yeah resources stretched good points well made Councillor Martin Farron thanks for joining it's good to talk to you all right take care yourself thank you very much indeed we're still trying to get the five Spanish passports which were left behind at the coffee shop in Balabafé yes so they back to their owners I just think they're going to find themselves they're going to find themselves saying if you got everything in a couple of days time and then go where's the passports right so again being be owners Airbnb owners you know maybe this this this is a family of five Spanish people sitting in your calf at the moment the five passports are are in the possession and safely kept but we need to get them back to these people because you can imagine what's going to happen when they get to an airport but a caller says on the back of the passport maybe the child's passport there might be a next of kin and their mobile number okay so I'm sure maybe well maybe they went through the passport so I don't know maybe like I I'd be inclined not to go near their private property but check on the back of the child's passport perhaps might be a next of kin number and we can sort of link them that way hi can you tell me when our last electric bill should be 200 credit on it I can stay there one second I have the information for you here somewhere it's April I believe it's going to be in April but look I'll find that for you I do have Caroline's left it me three days in a row and just because the show was so busy I just didn't get to it I'll find it for you and bring that information to you it's due in the next bill I believe right I want to mention by the way that the autism autism family support group are hosting an autism awareness coffee morning on Saturday the 2nd of April it's between 11 a.m and 1 p.m the autism family support group invites you all to a coffee morning to celebrate and to raise awareness for autism on world autism day 2022 tea and coffee and light refreshments will be available a raffle ticket draw will also be taking place and also I want to mention here too because lots of you we had a an amazing conversation with two amazing women yesterday Emma and also Emma and Kathy they were talking about losing Emma lost her husband Paul did a lot of people knew as to motor neuron disease and Emma spoke amazingly well and there's an awful lot on her plate at the moment and he's doing it fantastically you know with the children and what have you and also Kathy who lost her lovely mom Winnie mommy mommy I think she calls her Winnie and she was speaking to us as well both of those interviews by the way are available on my Facebook page if you want to watch it back again because it's about raising awareness the reason I'm talking to is because let me see who someone someone else contacted me and I promised I would give it a mention let me dig that out because if someone contacts me I don't I don't want to ignore it there's other people have mentioned something one of it was that autism awareness coffee morning so that's been done and then there was another lady who's I think uncle passed to 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terrain along a roadway all the way to the top and it's approximately 10km round trek so I just said I would mention that so if you want to get involved in that if Barnas more you want to get up there and have a look around over the blue stacks that is an option there for you Some of your calls said we should have an EU army to defend all member countries we do and we are part of that EU army in that we don't have members within it but I think we can call on its resources I've read and don't know why I did the terms and conditions of it and it's like one for all nobody's explained why diesel has always been 3 or 4 cent cheaper than petrol but it's now more expensive well the reason that is is that the cost of diesel can be broken down into the same basic elements of petrol both petrol and diesel are the same VAT and fuel charges of course but diesel is in more demand and it's about supply and demand and that's why diesel is more expensive because there's more of demand on diesel if you think about it at the moment lorries, bosses so it's demand driven and that's why it's more expensive can you ask that lady if she has private health insurance I didn't want to ask her that I know she was comfortable mentioning the cost of the therapy the infusion but I just didn't want to ask that private information if that's okay if they can give Paul Reed his own driver surely they can put on a flight for sick people to Donegal or of Donegal Greg Carrigfin to Dublin it's a great flight, it is indeed I haven't used it in a long time actually but the problem is it's one hour or 45 minutes with the foot down from a film which is not by the time you're talking maybe to be there you'd want to be leaving three and a half hours before the flight then the flight itself you're up on the four to five hour mark from Moville if you want to be extra cautious you probably don't need to be there an hour in advance but you know what I mean if you wanted to be sure to get on all that kind of stuff that's just not soot a lot of people say for instance in the east and in a shown areas Michael was talking about the Derry Dublin route which you know call it for humanitarian reasons whatever it might be I mean if that family hadn't give up Charlie wouldn't be with them now and maybe looking hopefully fingers crossed with many more years together if they just said right the hospital said there's nothing else we can do I think Hazel said herself and I'm not being dramatic in saying this is that Charlie wouldn't be with us any longer money because we always say about the health system in America for example I mean this is a case whereby people are spending more time with each other if they have access to money and shouldn't be the case I mean and it shouldn't matter where you are everyone on this island should have equal access to the same level of care shouldn't they and if that means that you can't have centres of excellence everywhere in the country then ensure that you provide access as much as you can from other areas of the country to those centres of excellence that's basic maybe a lot of us thought that was already happening but you can hear you heard earlier on it's simply not the case remember one is a big factor in the treatment at private matter if you don't have the cash you won't receive the treatment it's Ireland's two-tier system what a brave lady talking about her ill husband on other issues Greg has to be thanked and applauded for your kindness and patience toward this great lady keep up your great work God bless all from a concerned and daily listener thank you for listening every day by the way and still your messages come in I'm trying to keep them on the same topics as much as I can I could listen to that lady talking all day wishing her and her husband well indeed and I would say she's got an amazing story to tell as well she just mentioned in passing her work with some of the work that she's done just listening to that fantastic woman 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any facilities on the peninsula Caroline oh that's terrible Greg I just can't get over it at all I was so disappointed I'm so delighted for the rest and places for getting all this funding but I was so disappointed last night to read Charlie's post and I'm not shooting a messenger Charlie McConnell just tell us what's happening and it's great to make it the way in fairness is there to represent all but I take your point you're being gracious there Caroline yeah and you know all in other places most of them is privately owned so I can't understand like there was a pool in Bunkrana here at the shore front and it was a public pool and it was closed on the 20th of December 2016 and that was the last stage and we were told then that it would be rebuilt and it would be better and everything and most of my children went and learned how to swim swimming as a life saving skill we're living in a coastal area everybody needs to know how to swim just even just for the basics you could paddle, you could save your life for a while until somebody comes and helps you a wilder's advantage to the youth to not have a public pool not everybody can afford the fee of a private pool in a hotel you have to think I have to drive now 30 minutes from time to take my children to swim or schools having to boss children out of the area to swimming classes it's crazy well I mean like it's just absolutely crazy and the curriculum you have to have swimming for five weeks of every year of your school but sometimes our school had them us out because it couldn't get a local school and then it would have had to drive to the north so does the school insurance cover them to a different area and people might go oh well progressing this, that and then and we hope this and that will happen all of that stuff grand don't get me wrong but listen we've been talking about this for years now it's six years since the swimming pool closed down no harm but we don't want words at this point we're looking for some action here this as you say even if it's the only argument is that it's a coastal area where people should be taught their basics that should be reason and an off alone to get this swimming pool let alone the other advantages it might have yeah absolutely 100% but I just want I want somebody to answer me why hasn't it been forgotten about why like I can't understand it at all I'd be embarrassed to put a press release out that mentioned everywhere except in a show honestly and that's just me I'm not having to go I would go right okay there's something quite important missing from this press release here I would I would want to find out I would actually even want to I didn't see the full press release but you'd want a paragraph at least referencing the fact that because if an opposition TD were to release this they'd be going in a show and forgotten again this is a disgrace what's going on down in Dublin absolutely and you know there is 170 comments on that post and at 95% why isn't a show not in that last we are calling out for a public pool no we need it to happen and it's not given out Caroline because the people there would probably be 600 posts going thank you so much this is what we've been waiting for this is great news for our area we don't want to complain we'll give credit when it's true you know what I mean but if the platform is laid bare where it's clear there's a massive omission people are going to be upset and angry and express themselves and you know as I say if it was good news they'd be on their goal thankfully at last finally brilliant news can't wait we just need good news one of the wording on that they're posting key facilities for the community what about the omission community I guess the omission community and the people omission doesn't really matter anymore then do you know what I mean have they forgotten about us all together up here you know it's crazy as I say everybody needs to know you know for a life saving for a life saving it's not like I can say anything to try and be fair and inverted commas and put a different point of view on it's glaring in its own has been completely omitted from this announcement seemingly and there is a huge particularly in Bunkrana there is a huge need demand and want for public swimming facilities yeah there's no other way that's just it there's no other alternative argument here and not everybody can afford private membership to the nearest hotel they can't not that it's actually for the disadvantaged people it's just a big loss so why should they even have to consider that yeah fantastic fair play the local hotels provide a great service and I'm sure they're doing it for as cheap as they can but other areas enjoy public facilities well why should Bunkrana not have but it had public facilities we're supposed to be moving forward not going backwards yeah I just I just think we're going backwards every second well we're going to get on to the minister's office and see what they have to say about it and again you know I know the history of that issue and people say yeah progress is being made and we hope we've allocated money it's going to be included in this that and listen what we need is a hole with water in it that people can go and learn how to swim all the other stuff that surrounds it the politics or whatever it might be get that sorted get a pool provided all right Caroline we'll be behind you a hundred percent we'll make her inquiries I'll be very interested and see what the answers what answers come back but thank you for your time today thanks great thank you all right now our pleasure and thank you for coming on and highlighting an issue in your area that's what we're here for folks we've been all over the place today from Bunkrana as it relates to the Swim Pool Thorndale as it relates to that awful racket we've been in Dubai we've been to China we've been absolutely everywhere and and a lot of it is to highlight Donegal's people's lives wherever they might be be it China Dubai or be Thorndale or Bunkrana or Moville or wherever we're here for you contact us 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 or give us a call in 07491 25000 ahead of the break I'm from Bunkrana and yes it's terrible that the youth are missing out on the public pool but is there no controversy not controversy around the money that was left in the pot anyway listen I can't get into that and I'm kind of it's I get where you're coming from I have to be careful what I say sorted out right you've got you've got ministers you've got the local authority you've got cancers you've got the Kahir lock is from Bunkrana you've got other active counselors there whatever the problem is sorted out and not you the listener of course the texture but whatever was left in the pot or whatever the story is there it doesn't matter people want the swimming pool and when a press release is released with every single corner of the county covered and nothing for any shown it obviously stands out like a big sore thumb Greg why won't the government listen to the health care staff who are exhausted all they're asking for are masks to be brought back in again total disrespect given to these wonderful people where would we be without them and I would think you know and that's their views and the caveats out there people of different views but I was working there in the front line and I was thinking this is what we think they are in a mode the nurses the people at the front line the emergency service people the emergency department task force I really would love a more nuanced response from opposition parties rather than well that's what Tony says you know and Tony's the CMO there's no neph it anymore that's one person getting some feedback from public health that's taken on board but all the concerns of all other medical professionals by government by opposition being disregarded that's not too powerful a language because if you say we're listening to Tony you know then you're disregarding the front line workers and the people on the ground and that's what irks me then when you sort of people advocate for them but don't listen to them because you want to you know listen to what you're saying here and I agree and whatever and what's important about anyone in particular by the way I'm talking about politics as a whole then you go well you know Tony says that we don't need masks so we're not with you on that one John will be speaking to some of the exhibitors and organisers John will be speaking to some of the exhibitors and organisers to preview this show so join John Breslin from the Donegal NewBuild and Rebuild Home Show at the Mount Erika Hotel letter Kenny this Friday afternoon Electric Ireland customers don't need to do a thing to get Ireland's lowest standard unit rate that's nothing zip zero because they're already on it Electric Ireland we're brighter together Estimated annual bill 1274 euro based on 24-hour residential electricity-crediometer standard 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Bank of Ireland Highland radio weather updates with Ireland West Airport thinking of a sun holiday with the family you can now fly to Barcelona three times weekly this summer with Ryanair and enjoy some of Europe's best family campsites Ireland West Airport OK, mainly dry today Claud though will build a little in the afternoon there will be some scattered showers of rain, hail and sleet some snow possible on hills or higher Grand Mountains really High temperatures 5-8 degrees feeling cold though in a moderate to fresh northerly wind but it's still nice and bright and fresh out there and if you dress up well you can still enjoy the brightness OK so you know we have the Highland holiday giveaway there's ten grand there for you to spend one dream holiday you can go to it says Lapland or you can go to Toronto or Florida or wherever you want to go or you can knit back and forwards from far out to the blue in the face effectively that's what you can do with your ten grand with 5000 euro cash in your back pocket to spend on your travels we've already given you away on this program well it's the Highland radio really a lovely holiday for two to Turkey and with the lovely lady on who won it I'm excited looking forward to jetting off in October with her partner and the big draw remains open but we sweetened the pot a bit further and we are joined by Sean Quinn from our sales team to talk about the sweeteners quite tasty this isn't a couple of Candarelle here this is cold hard cash yeah I've just thought everybody got used to the sunshine last week Greg and it got a little bit cold so I thought you know what let's cheer people up so yeah we're going to give away 2000 euro cash so 1000 euro to each person who's lucky enough to be in the draw and we're going to do it a week on Friday so a week tomorrow right that's ahead of the official draw not the official draw sorry the main draw is on the 14th of April I want to say 14th of April but before that so if you buy a ticket between now and Friday the 8th the 8th of April sorry you stand a chance of winning 2 grand in cash like 2 people will win a grand each so what we'll do is we'll give away 1000 on your show and we'll also give away 1000 with John around the north west so it'll be anywhere between 9.30 and let's say 2 o'clock on Friday the 8th so if you're in the draw by then you'll automatically go into the draw and also you're back in the draw and you can still win that fabulous prize a lovely lady who won the holiday for Turkey there's a draw drawn behind you she's in there still everyone who's entered here to 4 is in line to win the 2 cash prizes as well absolutely so if you want to have your name in if you're going to buy a ticket anyway and you normally do things last minute what we're really trying to do is say get it early buy it now between now and next Friday if you buy your ticket the real prize is that the fantastic 15,000 euro effectively 15,000 euro prize but we're saying you also if you enter in the next week can win 2 prizes of 1000 euro you'll be in that draw drum that's behind Sean if you're watching on a YouTube or Facebook or Twitter so get your tickets this week that's the message here Sean absolutely Greg and just to remind people that you can buy one ticket for 10 euro 6 for 50 or you can go 10 for 80 euro so if you get 10 for 80 you're paying 8 euro per ticket versus 1 ticket for 10 so that's a 2 euro save in particular effectively what a holiday for 8 euros right okay so get on to the website highlandradio.com if people have not to sort of access to the website can they ring the station I would avoid anywhere between half past 9 and 11 but if they ring we'll look after them and if you enter today you can individually individualise these tickets as well if you want to gift them to can't you Sean absolutely you can put numerous names on to them the one thing you have to have is if you're doing it online yourself you have to have an email address most people do brilliant stuff right so the competition is there it's running anyway loads of you have entered but you know what it's about scale 2 there's some competitions it's a million to one it's not with one of these competitions the odds are really really good for you out there to win the 15,000 euro overall prize 10,000 euro holiday voucher 5,000 spending money but now what we're doing if you buy your tickets between now and next Friday two of you will also win a thousand euro that's the one great simple as isn't it highlandradio.com take us on sale now okay bye early and bye often alright then hey Greg great to hear Dr Callahan's name mentioned I owe my life to that man he was one of the best we know exactly where to send you and I'll read more of your comments actually and we'll wrap up the show after we take our final break now and it makes doing good feel great it gets classmates of all ages active but supporting their mental health and well-being the Bernardo's big active supported by 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Hennies dot com this Saturday Paul McDevitt will be live from homeland letter Kenny to mark the start of their series of super Saturday garden events in April special guest Garth Austin will hold a garden clinic with planting demos offers will rubbs embedding 20% off ceramic pots garden tools feeds and more someone will also win a far old furniture set worth three hundred and fifty euro all happening this Saturday at homeland letter Kenny's first super Saturday garden event okay so let's see what you're saying on the phone lines for the remainder of this morning no swimming pool for our winds I travel to Derry every week for a pool I don't know if I can do it much longer given the price of fuel now yeah it's a pertinent point there in a show one of the most beautiful parts of Donagall always forgotten about sure in Dublin some in government think we are in northern Ireland that comes in from Amy Amy you know what there was a time maybe I thought that a comment like that was tongue in cheek but having spoken to people in Dublin it's not there's a reality to it and and also they some of the particularly I think the civil servants they look at the northwest and they think right will slide go that'll do the northwest they don't realize the time it would take to travel safe for instance to from Malin town to letter Kenny and back for an essential service I'm sort of mixing it in there with but I think you get the point I'm trying to make a call assessive politicians are so keen not to be neutral I hope they're willing to pick up arms and fight their own battles instead of sending young men and women to their deaths politicians are the root cause of many of the troubles in this world along with big corporations and the very rich another way we are no longer neutral those who differ are in denial and there is and you know I try and highlight that and I understand that some people push back on that and don't particularly like that being highlighted because we like to live in this sort of reality that's not actually reality is such right okay listen thank you so much to