 I know I was listening back to the start of the program yesterday when you were talking to me You know you play gold and we were talking about the weekend. Did you really love it all? I was a miserable git I must have been well about four years from now, but I think you were just you were just I thought you were kind of very No, no, you were just being very modest and you know not you know big headed I almost thought my god is a boring old git his day a boring old fart Why don't use that word a boring old bang bang you see the bang bang's I say we say toots in our house Well, toots and all the farts. What's toot? Poo poo. No pee pee. No. What is it a rift pee pee pee pee a toots a pee pee in your house Don't worry. You're okay over there. Oh, she's Listen to this chat and the morseys all started with you yesterday You would have been raised using the word bang bang wouldn't you don't worry? No, no, no, what would you call a bang bang? Or toot or a fart. It's more of a who did that? Who did that? Yeah, no one's gonna accept no one's like something responsible Why do men find farts funny like I don't know do not but in our house to still find them funny, do you know what I mean? Mommy farted again poor mommy and no one girls don't fart. No, no, no There's two girls looking at me go why is he talking about it? I want I want to just disassociate myself with the last 30 40 maybe Gonna listen back to this tomorrow. That's it finished a lot. All right. See you later Lee way for toot, okay? It is nine o'clock. Let's get a news update now over to Donna Marie Thanks, Greg. Good morning The public expenditure says today's budget is about helping people meet the cost of living while protecting important public measures Budget 2024 will be unveiled at lunchtime today It will contain changes to USC a 12 euro weekly increase for pensioners and those on welfare Supports for renters and those trying to cope with increasing mortgage interest rates along with supports for businesses Minister Pascal Adonis who says while there will be something for everyone They have to be careful, but won't be it won't be a conservative budget The amount of growth in day-to-day public spending is at a lower pace Then the budget that was brought forward for last year And also the one-off measures that we have brought forward have been changed to reflect the fact that While inflation is still present in all of our lives It is growing at a slower pace than it did a year ago. So the budget is of a different scale But it is still by historical standards a big budget It's hoped that threats of a blue flu over Garda rostering complaints have now been put to bed with an interim roster for the force Set to be implemented shortly the four main Garda representatives Organization met with management yesterday and agreed on a deal that will avoid seeing members return to their pre-covid roster on the 6th of November The development was welcomed by the Justice Minister Helen McInty who says the interim roster will ensure Garda can continue to deliver service to the public president of the GRA Brandon O'Connor says both sides will return to the negotiating table shortly to work On a more permanent solution Well, there's a commitment on all sides that define the speedy resolution as I say What we have on the table for discussion as As a starting point is very close to what we believe is the future and will satisfy the needs of our members Police are repeating for information and witnesses following recent thefts from chemists in Castle Dirk and Strabane over the weekend It's believed two men aged in their mid 20s to 30s were involved in three separate incidents. Tara Duggan reports It was reported on Saturday afternoon shortly after 25 to 2 that two men entered a chemist in the John Street area of Castle Dirk and Stole eight candles and made off on foot. The first man is described as wearing a light blue sports top and gray bottoms He was wearing silver jewelry and had tattoos on his left forearm He was also carrying a black bag. The second man was also wearing all black clothing as part of police inquiries They're linking the theft to a second occurrence on Saturday afternoon at approximately half past three It was reported the first man entered a chemist in the Main Street area of Strabane and took five perfume sets from the premises He's believed to have also entered another chemist in the upper Main Street area of the town But was challenged by staff and left without taking anything Those with information including mobile phone or CCTV footage are being asked to contact police Look into whether outbreaks of rain and drizzle this morning and more persistent rain will develop in the northwest towards the evening Tracking southeastwards warm and humid with highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees That's all for now. The next news update is at 10 o'clock until then. Good morning From Marvel Studios, what I'm about to tell you it's gonna be hard to believe again Loki season two war is on its way. 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You're very welcome along to Tuesday's 9 till noon show here on Highland radio Now we have another patch show for your lots coming up on the program and we want you involved in the conversation I'm gonna remind you as I do every morning how you get involved or indeed start your own conversation there with us here Oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand your what's apps and text that number now if you're dialing from outside the Republic It's zero zero three five three eight six Sixty twenty five thousand you can send your voice messages to what's up as well by the way to and if you want to Give us a call Caroline taking your calls this morning. Oh seven four nine one twenty five Six thousand and if emails your thing comments at Highland radio Calm and good morning to Dolores and Audrey already joining us to watch the show Just to remind you if you want to watch it on your smart TV most smart TVs now have access to the YouTube app You can download it or it's there already just search Highland radio Ireland and give us a like and watch away there in your big screen And also on your fire stick you'll find the YouTube app there as well And we're across all your devices on both YouTube and Facebook The papers today are full of devastating pictures of Primarily what what stands out at me is its children covered in dust caught up in Caught up in the awful scenes that we're seeing in the Middle East at the moment and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is fighting for its existence and called our position parties to join an Emergency national unity government. This is the Irish times his comments that came as Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza in advance of a massive ground offensive, which is expected in the coming days Almost 700 residents in Gaza have already been killed with almost 4,000 wounded Israel claims hundreds of fatalities were militants Israel also killed For his bull our fighters in south Lebanon yesterday after Palestinian gunmen infiltrated across the Lebanese border raising fears that the powerful Iranian backed Shia group will launch a second front and that would be As devastating as things already are If a second front opens it's going to make a very very unstable area Of course, I mean you could even roll it out to the global level around backed by Russia Israel backed by America. There's already a war proxy war raging between the two in Eastern in Eastern Europe And now obviously it could happen here as well We are at the third day of the war for our very existence one which we will win Mr. Netanyahu said in the live televised address to the nation last night Hamas is The same as ISIS and will combat it in the same way. It was combated by other countries in the world We've always known that Hamas was and now the world knows is to let me say this clearly We're only we've only begun to act against Hamas His comments come as the number of Israelis killed in Saturday's attack When hundreds of Hamas militants infiltrated across the border rose to nine hundred and that figure is expected to rise now, of course to what he also announced yesterday Netanyahu is that he is and it's really against international human rights laws You would imagine he is cutting water gas electricity to the city of Gaza Which is obviously going to have a devastating impact on its population It runs as far as I'm aware by controlled by Hamas and on it goes and another part of the world where There's just a devastating loss of life and children caught up in it as well The Irish and that's the Irish times the Irish independent focuses on what we're likely to see in the budget There's going to be no surprises this afternoon because most of it's out in terms of housing mortgage interest or relief worth 1250 I believe that's particularly if you are on a variable rate or you are on a tracker 750 renters credit tax cuts for landlords Almost 400 euro in energy credits are expected in terms of social welfare 12 euro per week increase on pension and social welfare rates Christmas bonus of social welfare payments once off Double payment of all social welfare in January and there'll be plenty of scrutiny of all of this of course But it's probably going to work out that workers will get effectively a 15 15 euro Increase per week and those on social welfare will get 12 euro of an increase per week And I presume I suspect there might be a bit of a backlash from workers in relation to that Top rate of tax to rise by two grand cut to USC from 4.5 to 4 percent minimum wage hike by 140 to 1270 which is a Cost that will be taken by employers not necessarily the government in terms of students student grants to increase by more Than 300 euro free school box for 770 thousand children cigarettes are going to go up 50 percent as well, and then there are some other measures There'll be 50 cent added to the price of 20 cigarettes while mr. McGraw will outline a plan to tax e-cigarettes and vapes that that requires That new legislation fuel and alcohol will not be hit with a further excise increase and a scheduled 7 cent increase in the Pice of petrol and 6 cent on a liter of diesel which had been due to apply from the end of this month will be delayed And there's also a problem to coming down the track with all prices because that situation that has now emerged between Hamas and Israel is already driving up the price of a barrel of oil which means eventually and I don't know how long it might take Unfortunately, that's going to filter through to the petrol pumps and to your home heating oil and what have you Right on to the Irish Daily Mail this morning and Ireland is paying Ukrainian refugees 220 euro a week more than five times as much as other refugees concerns are growing across Government over Ireland's outlier status when it comes to the scale of welfare payments for Ukrainian refugees When compared to other European states Leo Bradcar hinted at potential for changes in areas such as welfare in response to a recent parliamentary question from independent TD Mark McSharry The latter asked if the t-shock was aware that while we provide 38 euro 80 per week for those seeking international protection We are a complete outlier in the EU and neighbouring countries with the provision of 220 euro per week for those fleeing Ukraine Deputy McSharry said according to the European Center for Parliamentary Research and Documentation this is more than twice that provided by the next highest country Finland at 107 euro and almost 28 times more than the 790 per week provided in Belgium He continued such an anomaly Amounts to the effective marketing of Ireland as the preferred location for those fleeing Ukraine Will the government adjust our policy to provide an element of balance with other countries given the inordinate pressure on Accommodation in this country he asked well The t-shock said the benefit of the temporary protection directive gives people particular rights under EU law We're constantly looking at what our offering is for refugees fleeing the war Ukraine versus what is offered in other EU countries And he indicated that we have to be sensible about these things. So whether or not that will be changed in the near future It remains to be seen, but it's clear There's much more money available in Ireland than there is in other countries Onto vapes and a couple of papers have done a expose on vapes today Children can buy vapes with shocking ease the Irish Daily Star says it has revealed a 14-year-old boy openly purchased for disposable devices in an hour because there's no law on selling them to under 18s Ireland is one of the last countries in the world that has not yet banned their sale to kids He bought brightly coloured sweet-flavored vape pens as easily as lollipops in a corner shop a Dedicated vape outlet and two phone stores in Dublin City Centre the papers special investigation Also found seven children were hospitalized last year due to vaping one with anti-freeze poisoning The paper says it also learned primary schools see young kids with vapes while principals report most teens use the devices and Our probe as they described it also confirmed plans to introduce a raft of laws Before the end of the year to regulate sale and protect children, which will also cover The excise on those devices as well. I'm sure The Irish Daily Mirror about 17,000 women in the north will have smear tests Rechecked by the Southern Health Trust as part of a major review dating back to 2008 a report from the Royal College of Pathologists found that while the majority of negative results issued by the trust's Laboratory screen service were correct a significant number of women are likely to have had negative screening results in What the Southern Trust called a precautionary measure records of about 17,000 women screened between January 1st 2008 and October 2021 will be review reviewed Dr. Stephen Austin of Southern Trust said the report identified performance issues in the lab and also an interesting Study which was reported yesterday as to what the British public think of Brexit. Are they happy with it? Did they think it's going? Well, well less than one in ten or fewer. I think when you're talking about Individuals you have to say fewer not lesser fewer than one in ten British voters believe Brexit has gone well according to a new study However, the research found the idea of a new referendum is divisive and that a majority of leave voters would still vote the same way again The poll was carried out for the UK in a changing Europe think tank only 9% of respondents feel Brexit went well and less than the third believe it will ever turn out Well, however, the public first opinion poll and interviews with focus groups found that this Disatisfaction would not automatically translate into a vote to rejoin the EU It found that 48% would vote to rejoin while 32% would vote against so it might pass probably when it came down to what it wouldn't On the subject of whether or not you would vote to go back into Europe if you're in Britain's 5050 really I would say But 9% of people believe Brexit went well And finally cork TD Sean Sherlock is the latest politician to announce He will not run in the next election according to the Sun the Labour veteran yesterday confirmed He will not be on the ballot after his mallow stronghold was removed from the cork east Constituency in the latest boundary redraw it follows the shock resignation of former party leader Labour Party leader that is Brendan Howlin lots of them are saying right enough is enough I'm going to take my money in pensions and run And go on and do something else. 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It's 19 excuse me 19 minutes past nine as we revealed on the show yesterday morning 78 GPs working across Donegal come together to write a letter to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly calling for urgent action At the emergency department at letter Kenny University Hospital It follows on from a meeting with hospital management Where they highlighted their patient safety concerns particularly in relation to access to services at the hospital and we heard yesterday from Dr. McGinnis that they don't believe that the current hospital management really have the wherewithal to make the changes that are required to ease the issue that they talked of their patients not wanting to go to the ED they talked about Them feeling it not safe sometimes to send Their patients particularly the older patients to the ED Paddy Rooney's former assistant general manager at letter Kenny University Hospital and has accepted our invite to give us his insight Into this Paddy It's a difficult one because we are all of of the one community. Do you know what I mean and and You know, there are individuals involved and it's it's kind of a difficult one to talk about at times But this is so severe that that we must It is unprecedented to have 78 GPs come together and put together such a strongly worded letter Paddy Your initial reaction to that Well, it's not difficult to talk about it at all Greg because it's a very it's a very serious matter for Everybody and I suppose not alone for the cohort of people who are depending on the ED and letter Kenny But also a people around the country because I mean, we're only talking about Johnny Gall here This has been repeated round and round. I suspect Greg that if you Chose any cohort of GPs around the country that they could equally pen a similar letter To the Minister of Health about their local hospital and the content of it wouldn't be any different I mean the letter is it's it's very well constructed And I think that very few people can argue with the content of the letter because it's expressing the deep frustration on behalf of GPs who are looking for access to secondary care for their patients And also about the feelings of patients themselves about their experience But I have to say it's also expressed in the experience as well of hospital consultants. I mean, Dr. Camel Peter was on your program within the last Two years more or less articulate in the same thing from the receiving end but I have to say as well that it's it's sort of It's not in the letter, but it's articulates the feeling of hospital management Remember, I was that soldier part of that team one time and there was a huge frustration on our part That we felt that we didn't have the configuration and the tools to be able to meet the demand. I Mean some of my own extended family members attended the emergency department During the summer and their experience in the ed sorry to say has been something similar to the sentiments that have been expressed in the letter now The the letter it's a very long one and I suppose there's about three or four nubbits in the in the middle of it But one of the things is that that they're looking for Apart from the reviews additional resources, but don't actually spell out what they are because and I know Jerry McMonnie called the chairman of the Western Health Forum was on your program yesterday too And he was also calling for extra resources now the big danger here would be that people would start putting in things Greg without finding out first of all, what is the problem here because in the letter That they talk about review the services I think everybody in the round is going to welcome that and I'm talking about hospital I haven't spoken to anybody now in the last 24 hours about this in the hospital, but hospital management will greet this warmly and so will hospital consultants and I mean at the center of all this Dr. McGinnis said it yesterday and it's in the letter about potent patient at the center and About a timely access to care for them. I mean there's something odd going on in the round here at Greg and by that I mean You had a nice sort of a folksy warm interview with dr. McGinnis yesterday Which was fine and he articulated all his points very well and you could argue it's very little at them but There's something going on about demand whatever about supply here and Nobody can answer that question, but these are things that are going to have to be answered and hopefully they will be in the review And what I'm talking about here is that over the last 30 years have been a 400% increase in the number of referrals and Tennis is at the emergency department in letter Kenny and that cannot be explained away by the increase of population because the last two Sensors didn't prove that we lost a TD in the general election here in 2011 We didn't get it back because the population didn't increase just in relation to that Paddy And I know you it's a thought out well thought out point that you'll want to continue We heard from dr. McGinnis yesterday regardless of the tone of the interview He said was it five percent of of patients that visit GP practices are referred We've also speak to spoken to people within the ed Um Who say the majority of people that are there need to be there I mean that when I was told that straight up they're like so in other words You know they need to be there the the people we talk about when we talk about waiting lists It's people waiting to get a bed in the hospital. They're twiddling their thumbs It is to be there, but it's not an extraordinary thing that We will have about 200 people will attend the emergency department in letter Kenny today And is anybody trying to suggest that there are 200 people that require uh The emergency no, but if someone's got if someone's yeah, but if someone's got a cut on their hand That requires stitches When I cut my wrist, uh My upper wrist on a piece of glass, uh years and years ago. I got stitched up in the uh in the hospital in Donegal town You did but that's not the hospital that's not the fault no hospital No, I'm not saying but it's but a lot of the people in a lot of people this is of course This is why greg that People are going to welcome the review because there's everything but everything I mean, how do you explain the fact that there's 52 000 people attended the emergency department last year when there was only 12 000 It's interesting to note as well by the way, I'm not bashing the gps, but I'm I'm talking about things in the round here about What needs to be done to fix this? There was 79 gps signed the letter and they provide Uh You know a very valuable service 9 to 5 monday to fray it but for the other 28 hours of the week greg that drops down to three Um, that must mean something or does it mean anything? And I mean dr. Dennis mccauley the spokesperson for the areas college of gp said in your program last year and he repeated it on rte pv as well about the gps now because of the pressure they're under now that breached the same day appointment rule Um, there's anecdotal evidence coming through that people are not getting timely access to gp care either and they're voting with their feet I don't I don't I listen to what dr. McGinnis said yesterday of people that are Afraid to go to gp, but they're coming in their droves and they're going up There's an extra 12 to 1500 year on year Probably that long reg we'll be at 100 000 people and be attending the emergency department as the way they go So a review is very very welcome to deal with your cut hand and everything else That there's going to have to be a mechanism in place to have ed avoidance Put in place an alternative to it because the demand is too great And I suppose the other thing that dr. McGinnis said which I was very disappointed in I know you pressed him on the point about the confidence in hospital management here to be able to respond to this I mean a hospital management. I've spoken to you before about this. They actually have their hands tied behind their back in dealing with this because gps know hospital consultants know And the hospital management knows what needs to be put in place to be able to respond to this And dr. McGinnis made one very very valuable point yesterday about the reopening of the medical assessment unit and In order for that to work though because in the medical assessment unit my experience was now because I'm out of the place for six years so things may be different now, but medical referrals Which are the most complex that come to a hospital They start to drift in around 11 or 12 o'clock and they lasted them come around slows down at around seven to eight o'clock in the evening But just because somebody comes in at seven to eight you have to process them and so on and so forth But because hospital consultants, it doesn't matter if you have a thousand consultants in the hospital They're all off duty at five o'clock. There's only a small cohort on call They've worked that day. They have to go into work the next day. So they can't be there all of the time So you have a situation then Greg that you're going to have gps I know a lot of the names on that list. They're very experienced They've got a high skill set and they're referring patients into the medical assessment unit to be seen by junior doctors With nowhere near level of experience And nowhere near level of skill set as the people that has referred them And a lot of the tools that the doctors in the hospital and the clinical staff need to be able to see the patients They're all switched off at five o'clock. I get that and I and and I made I made that point here though, Greg is the hospital management have no capacity to be able to fix that Yeah, of course they don't but they could but I said but in a later later interview we cancelled jay mcmonagall I put it to him. Why is that? Why is that information not communicated to people who are sitting in ad for 12 hours when The services that you talk of are closed. They're thinking right are we going to get cold soon? Well, you know, you're not because it's eight o'clock at night. They don't reopen till eight That kind of information could be reiterated But let me put it to you like this though and as I say I'm not in I want to work with People in whatever role we have here to improve things But if we've got gps that are saying that we're not we don't want to send We have to make a clinical decision where they're sending a patient to the ed would actually Worse than their outcome. They could potentially die from that And then we have people that are sitting there for 36 hours Older people sitting there for 24 hours a terrible state of affairs. Okay Is it not about time then the hospital management came out and not Say our hands are tied. There's nothing we can do about it. This is potentially life and death. Is it not about time then that they Made it very very clear how their hands are tied. What is lacking for them and call it out now that might not be very good Professionally, but we're talking about life and death here Paddy So that you know, I appreciate you coming on right, but we hear this from you Where why don't we hear this from the management that says look at we see what's going on in this hospital Where we but our hands are tied. There's nothing we can do Well The answer to that I suppose is fairly obvious because if I was still working in the hospital I would be having this frank conversation with you like I'm having now And I can't remember was it about four or five years ago? There was five CEOs of the major teaching hospitals in Dublin issued a joint statement about the level of safe care And it was like the matter at the moment of the St. Vincent's and they were all officially sanctioned by the chief executive of the HSE at the time And they were told not to do it again. Do you remember that you can google that? I can't remember the names of the guys and so on I mean because they don't have the permission and the and the wherewithal to do that That's why Um, and it wouldn't be a career enhancing move to do that So do you think these gps have thrown the hospital manager the management team under the bus then on this? Well, I think it's what Dr. McGinnis said to you yesterday was unfortunate because if he wants to lay the blame somewhere I'm afraid he's going to have to go somewhere else to do it. I mean, we've had a very complex Slaunchy care report to deal with this and there's about it's about 800 pages long and We're well into the there was supposed to be a 10 year roll out of that program I don't know what's happened to it that people will bring blame cover. I suppose for it being derailed But it's not Achieve it because the demand keeps going up and up all the time But the capacity of the hospitals and the configuration about the way the services are provided are not changing red I mean Gray in the face saying on this program over the last five years About the fact that hospitals need to be switched over to a 24 7 model And then give the hospital some chance of being able to deal with because they have to deal with efficiencies in the first case Rather than putting in Extra resources. It's a pity. You didn't ask councillor mcmonigal yesterday. What do you talk about additional resources? What exactly is he talking about? because More beds is not going to fix anything here. It's about efficiencies It's about the patients in the hospital that have been medically discharged already by the hospital consultant Is it hospital's management fault that there's seven or eight hundred patients up and down the country? Warehousing and hospitals at the moment because there's nowhere for them to go No, we've seen that before but but then right you talk about if you poll gps in in in various parts of the country That that you would hear similar messages, but what then is it about donny gall that we have Some of the longest waiting times in a d that we have We are Consistently one of the most overcrowded hospitals in the country that we have Some of the slowest ambulance response times that we have 14 ambulances queued up outside the hospital Now that is an extreme occurrence, but it does happen There are unique elements to the the crisis at letter candy university hospital or not unique, but but You know that are worse than elsewhere Are you saying that that I Can't answer that and I don't want to be coming up because i'm outside of the system now for six years And I don't want to be trying to Justify the awfulness because I said at the very outset that are my own family experience was consistent with what's in the letter And that there's no lies or anything like that. It is real But what i'm saying is that a simplistic fix about You know passing a no confidence motion and the hospital manager an opening the medical assessment unit will do nothing to fix this It is much more Complex and multi-faceted At than it because i'll tell you what when I was on your program During the summer we were talking about rte and if you remember greg I said to you I'm sort of less interested about what's coming out of rte and more interested about what the response is going to be Well, I'm going to really love this one to see about a if the gps get a meeting with the minister of health And I see robert wattess c c d into them. Good luck to them with that And about the ceo of of salta because they are all in the mix here if they think for one minute That's the solution that this is internal to the hospital only and I fear that that's a very simplistic view on it Let's see. Will the cavalry arrive arrive here then with the ceo of salta and the ceo of the of the hsc and the minister of health And fix it. Let's see what comes out of that and it'd be very interesting to revisit this in about six months time and the other thing I suppose That dr. McGinnis said to you yesterday about and I fully agree with him about doing the same thing over and over again And expecting a different outcome that that's silly and that they won't be put off this time and they will take to the streets well You know, I hope that Mary T. Sweeney the into representative in the area was listening to that because She tried to organize a public demonstration in july of last year About the overcrowding in the hospital and what was happening in ed and she got less than a hundred people There's a fundamental problem there in that Any politically led even if you say in advance that it's not political any political led protest If it's saying to fina forfina galsh and if the gps look look what look what? Professor mulpita achieved Because he was not political and he had People lined up right around the hospital if the gps Call a protest and say they'll lead it I would not be surprised if it were in the low thousands of people that would come out to that party Well, I I I hope so I hope that success because I am at the age now for instance Greg that because I'm retired and I'm at the age that I fall into the category of people now that's going to be Overusing the health service and I may well end up being a person or a patient in ed And I don't want to have to wait there for 36 hours. So I hope that something comes of this Only point that I'm making here is that it's it's not going to the solution that is not in turn to the hospital much better than that So what then for finally is it is it changing it to a level for hospital? Is it You know because there are loads of positions advertised and funded, but they can't recruit There has to be our solution though paddy You know, I know it's not I know it's not easy They're the in in the letter it mentions the word radical and dr. McGinnis said to you yesterday radical Radical looks like something like this. It looks like examining the breath and the depth of Primary care service in this hospital to try and keep back the low complexity stuff that's coming to the emergency department Radical looks like Having senior decision making I'm talking about hospital consultants in the different in the major specialties in the hospital Boots on the ground from 8 a.m. Until about 10 o'clock at night seven days a week That's going to call calls for extra consultants It radical means that the tools that they need to be able to about the respiratory lab to have To have pulmonary function tests about the cardiac investigation to do cardiac echoes stress tests whatever else they need About to have an OT assessment having physio assessment have an MRI available to have in CT readily available That's what radical looks like, but I don't think we're going to get that because hospital management won't get approved to put that in place Okay, and I asked a direct question of the doctor yesterday and ask you A direct question as well to some extent and I think you maybe have hinted at this for the course of the interview Do you think gps are deflecting and perhaps need to take a look at Take a closer look at uh at the role they may be playing in this I don't I don't know because I'm not close enough to it But if there is this review and the round is done properly and it's done fairly it's going to have a look at it I mean, there's anecdotal evidence coming through now that The people out there are having difficulty in getting timely access to a GP A lot of not all of it, but a lot of primary care services have not returned to pre-covid level Um, I mean there's only certain things that gps can do the certain things that they have to pass on But the the low complexity of level. I mean the sheer volume of people going through See a lot of the people the problem in ed2 is congested because the exit routes out of it are are are blocked um The problem is manifest in ed but it's not an ed problem We have in this country. It's just what it's what happens before and it's what happens after is the problem Okay, as always patty. Thank you very much indeed. I appreciate your time patty rooney He's a form-resistant general manager at letter candy university house. Watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio Dot com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro For all occasions visit letter candy. See you dot i. 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It's the perfect family day out and we can't wait to see you there The letter candy motor show is brought to you by the local franchised motor dealers and proudly supported by first citizen finance Letter candy chamber dunningall county council the society of irish motor industry and fbd insurance visit letter candy motor show dot e for more detail Okay, you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show here on highland radio. Now we are going to uh speak to um People affected by uh what's seen as terrible news or what is terrible news this week 18 families in ballah mccool estate have received eviction notices from the developer landlord They say they uh the company Situation has changed and they are selling The properties now we've contacted the company in question or the individual in question and as of yet We've had nothing back from them Uh cahill uh mac finn is chair of the ballah mccool residence association. Thanks for joining us cahill Good morning. Greg. Thanks for having us on so this has come somewhat out of the blue. Oh completely out of the blue, I suppose Hi, Greg. Uh, this came out of the blue to all these families at the end of last week where they were all issued with um eviction notices To vacate their houses so the houses uh so the developer could sell the houses um, we have uh, we have now at least 19 families With uh, we think more that have yet to come forward that haven't contacted us But I'm the chair of the residence association out there. So over the weekend we started getting um a lot of a lot of messages through our facebook uh site From these families who were uh who've been issued with the notices, you know, so obviously We have a lot of worry and anger and frustration At the fact that these families are now facing homelessness um It's it's uh, we think it's it's just an awful situation. You know what the way things are at the minute There's no accommodation out there for these families Um with, you know, mica that's going on and with the state of the country at the minute We're in the midst of a housing crisis and these families are uh Although it's eviction notices there in reality facing homelessness where they have no place to go We've been looking on um daft.ie for example for uh To see how many uh Premises are available for rent in the locality. So we have basically 15 15 uh properties that are available for rent around the area, but none of these None of these properties are affordable for working-class families at the end of the day So we we have been in touch with and working closely with uh councillor meal column, Miguel Aspog Who has been in contact with donningall county council housing manager nether kenniforce To ask that staff are available to meet and support these unfortunate families um, we have also been working closely with uh with kattu who are the Uh the community action and tenants union and we've had some constructive discussion with them Is the Is the option been raised of the council purchasing these uh properties? Not all of these uh families are on the council housing uh list. So Um, we're hoping to work uh, that we're hoping that the council will uh facilitate a meeting so that we can Address and meet and support all the issues uh that the families are facing at the minute So that's what we have requested from the Count county council housing manager that he can meet uh with all the families and see If that is an option that the council will be able to purchase at least some of them And uh keep these families on their homes. Yeah, I'll come back to call stay where you are because alexandra is a resident in bali mccool alexandra. Thank you for joining us this morning No problem. Thank you at all. Uh, when did you get the letter and and what was your reaction? Uh, when you when you read it So basically around 20 families received letter last week Uh, we all were in shock. Nobody expected that Uh, especially that, you know, our landlord landlord is going to build another 52 houses on our estate So nobody was expecting that letter at all. Uh, we all are in shock. We all are very stressful Because it's also just before christmas time, you know, that's our community here and All the kids are playing together. We all know each other. We all can lean on each other and It's just very difficult situation for all of us and everyone has their own Things in life that make it, you know, even more difficult. Yours is is that uh, you have a child you're expecting and This eviction. Yes. Yes. I I'm during march. So basically the same month that I have to move out Because we have to leave the house till april Yeah And do you see any any any hope? I mean we heard from kahl there about the lack of availability of of property Yes, as kahl said, it's only 15 houses available for renting letter can at the minute And at the moment around 20 families on our estate only receive the letter to move out. So Basically, some of us will have to be homeless Our kids are already very stressed, you know, they are they were playing yesterday and they were asking mommy daddy Are we going to be homeless? So it's it's very stressful for all of us I'll come back to you kahl in terms of of of twin estates who were selling these properties In the letters, uh, they recognize the the the difficulty this presents But also how their situation has changed They say, uh, I'll offer you the opportunity to reoccupy the dwelling under tenancy if we do not, uh, sell the house Several tenants have expressed an interest in purchasing the houses They say they're happy to explore that further and also that they're spoken to other accommodation providers Who've indicated that they have alternative premises and are willing to help where necessary So why does that in your view kahl not go far enough? This is another letter greg that uh that they sent around the households yesterday evening And I think what they're trying to do there is just soften the blow I mean they're saying that these families can move back into their houses if they're not sold Where are they supposed to go in the interim? Are they supposed to put in the meantime are they meant to put tents up in valley mccool park And stay in the tents and wait and see if their house is sold out from under them or not before they can move back in You know, that's that's just not realistic Uh, the developer there has other properties In the town he states that he has other properties that he's uh That he's renovating and that they could possibly move on to them Why doesn't he sell the properties that he's renovating and keep the families in their homes? I think that's just that's just trying to soften the blow really of of the of of what is happening here You know, that's the fact of being obviously, you know These are families that are settled where they're they're settled. They've got friends and neighbors They're the children the same maybe maybe the the access to schools Even just moving to the other end of town Even if that were an option, it's you know, it still changes the dynamic of that community Absolutely a lot of these families have been living in the estate for over 14 years You know, their children go to the local schools. They go to the local creches They're working together, you know, their friends and families and all living beside each other It's a close-knit community And even if they were to be rehoused to rehome somewhere else You're dividing and splitting that community up and putting them to You know, they don't even know if they're going to be in letter Kenny If they have to get a house, it could be in a different town So you're totally separating these people and breaking the community up So it really isn't an acceptable situation. You know, we've never seen the likes of this before I've been the chair of uh, we're they're the bally mccree residence estate Committee has been in place for over 10 years and we've never ever experienced anything like this before And alexandra what you have is uncertainty. You don't know Where you're you're going to end up or how you're going to end up there Especially at a time as you say when you're you know, looking after young children and and pregnant And an eviction due around the time the baby is It must be very stressful for you and the family It is, you know, instead of Having a good time now planning everything and just being happy We are very stressful because Also, like 90 percent of this family is here who received letters from toland So, you know, even we don't have like families here or Any places to move even for a while till we'll find another house to rent or buy or will get council house So it's very stressful for all for all of us And you know, like our kids are also going to local schools here or play schools None of the not everyone is driving not everyone has a car. It will be and you know buses are coming here to collect kids for school, so It will be just very difficult for all of us Okay, alexandra. Thank you. So cahill finally. I mean, this is privately owned property And whoever owns it has given the reasons as to why they want to sell it the evictions are within Whether people agree with them or not to sell the property, you know, there is no eviction ban at the moment So they're perfectly entitled to do that. So and you mentioned the options, but what do you see is the solution here? If if the person who owns these properties is determined to sell them and I know you mentioned some options But what do you see is the solution? Well presently or right now Our focus is on keeping these families in their homes for as long as we can We will be speaking to The council housing manager again We will be contacting threshold. We have different avenues that we're going to go down. We need to speak to the rtb To see if all this is legal and above board first We will be going through each individual case because you know, although it is A large number of families each each case is individual. So we'll have to look at all of them and um, you know what we want or what what we would like to happen is for 20 states to to reverse their decision to Ask these families to vacate their homes and to keep the families in their homes Okay, I'm sure it's a story. We're going to hear more of cahill. Thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Alexandra. Thank you If anyone else wants to get involved in that conversation Or wait 60 60 25 000 the 9 till noon show with letter kenny credit union Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union. 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It's no wonder so many landlords are leaving the field Um, did I hear correctly? Uh, patty runes say that the hd but hsc bosses warn management of all the hospitals keep their mouth shut We're not quite what he said was is that there were uh, a number of hospital managers in Dublin that came together They were reprimanded for doing so and patty think and I don't I don't want to misquote him But I think he says that um It might not necessarily be a good career move uh to speak out Well, this caller says that effectively throws patients under the boss in order to save jobs And that's says a lot about the caliber of hospital managers that we have in irish hospitals that they're so easily cowed I mean, that's that's that's your assessment of it and I appreciate Your uh text many thanks to the honest person who handed in the money to don stores yesterday from the person Who lost it was hugely appreciated as it would have been a huge loss really encouraging That is uh good to hear And fair play to the person that handed it in all right It is the 9 till noon show community got information and so much more besides coming up in the next two hours of the program But now we're going to take a break for the news and the bituary notices The 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro With no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102127 The dunigal tech cell breeders will hold a sale of 45 rams in refoo livestock mart this friday 13th of october at 7 p.m Online bidding via the mart bids app. That's this friday at refo mart keep out the cold cold cold And ring flaming for their full range of garage doors, agri doors insulated doors milking parlor doors Fleming 91 48 234 reman swinney here to let you know about some great value laptops We now have in stock like the super affordable venturer europea powered by an intel seller and processor Ideal for studying heat learning and keeping up to date with the latest news for just two four nine Also the super fast avita pure laptop with a rise in five processor eight gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage for only three nine nine check out these and other great value laptops now at ben swinney ironix and letterkenny and denlo The cacities here in vondoren used to often wonder is this a good time to use the dishwasher when they signed up to ESP networks. 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It's donna mary dirty with the news at 10 o'clock 18 families in letter kenny have received eviction notices The homes located in the bali mccull estate are being sold due to a change in the developer's company that holds the rental agreement Kaho McFinn chair of bali mccull residents association spoke to greg hughes this morning on the 9th He says there's very little accommodation available for rent in the area. And what is there is simply not affordable We've been looking on daft.ie for example For uh to see how many uh premises are available for rent in the locality. So we have basically 15 15 properties that are available for rent around the area, but none of these Uh, none of these properties are affordable for working class families at the end of the day The t-shirt says today's budget will be one that will benefit nearly all workers The minister for finance and public expenditure will announce the details this lunchtime Andrew louth reports One of the changes to be announced in the budget this afternoon will be in the income tax brackets with the higher rate entry point Going up to 42 000 euro. There will also be changes to usc rates But t-shirt lia veracar denies they will only impact higher income earners The income tax package with mr. McGraw announced the detail of later involves increases of tax credits reductions in the usc and also Pretty much all workers There's also due to be a package of one-off measures which will cost around 2.3 billion euro They will include supports for pensioners carers people with disabilities and working families While there will be 450 euro in total work of energy credits in three installments of 150 euro Public expenditure minister pascal dunner who says the package is not as big as last year, but still necessary While inflation is still present in all of our lives It is growing at a slower pace than it did a year ago. So the budget is of a different scale But it is still by historical standards a big budget There will also be another cost to childcare costs free school books up to junior cycle and hikes to a packet of cigarette Andrew louth lentster house It's hoped that threats of a blue flu over garter rostering complaints have now been put to bed with an interim roster for the force Set to be implemented shortly the four main garter representative organizations met with management yesterday And agreed on a daily that will avoid seeing members return to their pre-covid roster on the 6th of november The development was welcomed by the justice minister helen mackinty Who says the interim roster will ensure garty can continue to deliver the service to the public President of the gra brendan o'connor says both sides will return to the negotiating table shortly to work on a more permanent solution Well, there's a commitment on all sides to find a speedy resolution as I say What we have on the table for discussion as As a starting point is very close to what we believe is the future and will satisfy the needs of our members Residents and businesses in bali shannon and the surrounding areas may experience water outages today as planned leak detection works proceed Works will begin in about an hour's time and will last until 6 a.m. Tomorrow morning Meanwhile a burst water main may cause supply disruptions to minigore, umrikam, shandrum, desert netegi and bunkrana Those repairs are underway and are due to finish at 4 o'clock this afternoon Ishka erin are urging the public to allow for up to three hours after the works have finished to allow for supplies to fully return Police are appealing for information and witnesses following recent thefts from chemists in castle derg and strip an over the weekend It's believed two men aged in their mid 20s to 30s were involved in three incidents Tara dougan reports It was reported on saturday afternoon shortly after 25 to 2 the two men entered a chemist in the john street area of castle derg And stole eight candles and made off on foot The first man is described as wearing a light blue sports top and gray bottoms He was wearing silver jewelry and had tattoos on his left forearm. He was also carrying a black bag The second man was also wearing all black clothing as part of police inquiries They're linking the theft to a second occurrence on saturday afternoon at approximately half past three It was reported the first man entered a chemist in the main street area of strip an And took five perfume sets from the premises He's believed to have also entered another chemist in the upper main street area of the town But was challenged by staff and left without taking anything Those with information including mobile phone or cctv footage are being asked to contact police Looking to weather outbreaks of rain and drizzle this morning more persistent rain will develop in the northwest towards the evening Tracking southeastwards warm and humid with highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees Becoming breezier with moderate to fresh and gusty southwest winds That's all for now. The next news update is at 11 o'clock in the meantime. Keep up to date on our website hide and radio dot com For myself and the news team. Good morning The obituary notices this tuesday morning october 10th The death has taken place of anthony murray Art in addition manner cunning him remains reposing at his home Wake today and tomorrow from 1 p.m. Until after the rosary Rosary each night at 9 o'clock Requiem mass on thursday at 11 a.m. In the church of all saints newton cunning him Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery mass can be viewed on church services dot tv House private to family only on the morning of the funeral family flowers only The death has taken place of arnie white ross view house letter kenny road convoy Remains are opposing at his late residence Service at his home tomorrow at 2 p.m. With burial afterwards in st. Ninnian's church graveyard Family time please from 11 p.m. To 11 a.m. And on the morning of the funeral family flowers only Donations in lieu of desired to the society of st. Vincent de paul Care of any family member or terence mclintock funeral director The death has taken place of john mcgarvey 41 rosemount kill mcrennan formally bernice termin Remains or oppose at his home from 5 p.m. This evening Requiem mass on thursday at 3 o'clock in st. columbus church kill mcrennan Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery mass can be viewed on church services dot tv Family time from 10 p.m. Until 11 a.m. And on the morning of the funeral family flowers only Donations if desired to the family room. I see you golly university hospital Care of any family member or patrick sweeney funeral director The death has taken place of mina white 26 mcl hill view castle derg formally of knock ganan convoy Her remains are opposing at her late residence with funeral from there this afternoon at 12 30 for one o'clock funeral service in drum lego presbyterian church followed by burial afterwards in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard Family time please before the funeral today Family flowers only please donations in lieu to drum lego presbyterian church building fund Care of any family member or terrence mclintock funeral director For more details regarding wicks and funerals, please go to highland radio dot com So you're saying mental health difficulties can be smaller things. Yeah, like troubled sleeping. Yeah, or if i'm always stressed like yeah Or often anxious. They're all part of your mental health. Hmm thought those were separate. Nope. They're all connected I how do you know all this anyway? I'm not sure i've been there myself Anxiety ongoing stress low mood or troubled sleeping They're all part of your mental health Make the connection and find support that can help at your mental health dot ie from the hse The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio And you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show coming up very shortly We'll have community guard information for you just to catch up on a couple of the comments though My son sat 18 hours in the ed waiting on a bed to have our operation for an appendix Um, they believe that was too long Maybe we should ask the nurses and care assistants how they would fix the problem here their voices instead of listening to higher management All of the time where they are precluded From being able to speak out publicly and also Under the new consultants contract the gags been put on consultants as well. So we've uh had the Insights in the past of of um Of consultants who were obviously in a senior position and felt they could speak well that they can't any longer under this new Consultants contract the gags are on them as well A hospital is open 24 7 doctors come on to work after doctors go off work not strictly true though In terms of certain functions and services Another hospital up until recently it was standard practice for a pregnant woman suffering complications to go straight to guiney And children to go straight to peeds Why did this practice change to send a woman who is suffering a potential miscarriage is barbaric and unfortunately we've spoken to Women in that exact position an incredible stressful time for them Spent a few different times sitting in the ed and the amount of times they came out calling names that weren't even there Couldn't understand why so many people would have left or went outside for air a lot of people leave Before they receive treatment. Um, I think I don't have the stats off the top of my head Uh, but it is somewhere in it's over a thousand over four months if i'm not mistaken Um, there is a ch01 responsibility here Where are the home helps and community beds to get to lay discharges to the right places for them? I didn't hear the 78 gps outcry about community bed services closing Uh, it's no wonder so many ukrainian refugees choose arland as their place of refuge over other e u countries If we're paying them five times more than the rest 220 per week's a lot of money in ukraine. It's a lot of money anywhere and I suppose I've said before Um, would I flee ukraine possibly if I was there with my young family the the fear of Sons being drafted in to be sent to their deaths or a bomb dropping on the roof Uh, so I have to honestly say would I go where I perhaps would have more money if the answer to that's probably Yes, too. How did alan shatter get more airtime on the tonight show last night? It looked like podrick mcgloughlin was just there to listen to a lecture from alan shatter on terrorists. Well, I'm kind of Not interested in who says what and you condemn this and you condemn that or don't condemn it or whatever the way I look at it is There is an incredible loss of life and children dying being blown to bits. Um, what someone here thinks I don't know. I don't really It's not forefront of my mind anyway. Okay community guard information after these It's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio It's tuesday the 10th of october you're playing on the brown sheet the reference number is s2. 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Thank you for having me, right Let's get straight into some appeals now your colleagues in bali shannon investigating a fatal road traffic collision close to glentes Yes, greg gardy bali shannon are investigating a road traffic collision Which occurred last sunday evening the 8th of october shortly before 4 p.m The collision occurred on the r262 near dentis a one vehicle collision Involving involving a motorcycle which was traveling from glendis To towards glendis from dunigold town the motorcyclist who has been named as arnie white from convoy received medical attention to the scene But unpronounced dead a short time later and our torts and prayers are with arnie's family and friends at this difficult and sad occasion So the guardian bali shannon are appealing for any person who have witnessed the collision to contact again at bali shannon garda station 07198 58530 that's 07198 58530 or again the confidential line 1 800 treble 6 treble 1 or again any garda station greg So again road users with camera footage including dashcam Who are traveling in the area at the time are asked to make it available to the gardy Okay, now a burglary in letter. Kenny being investigated. Yes, this is a burglary record last friday evening at approximately 10 30 p.m greg At the rear of letter. Kenny retail park at the rear in the area of mark's dispensers So where you can drive around the back there? So 110 loading food wheels from the rear of the retail park were stolen. So these are these green Green loading trays that you see on trolleys for storing food. So they're left out overnight and 110 were stolen So the estimated value is up to 5 000 euro. They're also substantial loss there We're interested in a white transit van which was seen in the area at the time partial ridge phz so a white transit van phz was seen in the area at the time last friday night at approximately 10 30 p.m Again, gardy and letter. Kenny if anybody's information, please contact us at 07 491 6 7 100 or again the confidential line 1 800 treble 6 treble 1 or maybe anybody who's dashcam in the area at the time to check it or bring it forward to us To be checked at the maybe the the van that that we're looking for can be picked up Yeah, and just to remind people that the gardy aren't expecting you to download it edit it and forward on a file If you hand in the device, they will go through it for you and and dig it out It's the information we've had before. Yes, right a burglary now being investigated in burton port Yes, this is a burglary which occurred in the mean abandoned area of burton port Last sunday week between sunday the first and monday the second of october at a compound in the area So in the locks were broken on a gate to gain access to the compound And locks were broken of four shipping containers within the compound Fortunately, no property was stolen at the time So information if anybody's information in relation to the matter to contact the gardy at milford 07 491 530 60 or again the confidential line 1 800 treble 6 treble 1 all right Shipping containers targeted to gain this time in newton conningham. Yes This is a burglary which occurred at the ga club leave column kill on torres the last the 5th of october Between 8 p.m. And 10 p.m. So the two shipping containers which were stored on the g ground for For holding property were broken into and a lawnmower Strimmer and a leaf blower were stolen from the property greg The ga club was adjacent to the main letter. Can either he rode the n13 very busy road So for appealing for information to anybody who may have seen anything suspicious at the time The contact the garady letter kinny 07 491 6 700 or again the confidential line So that's last torres the evening the 5th of october between 8 p.m. And 10 p.m Is it possible that these criminals see these shipping containers? As soft targets that normally maybe might have expensive items in them maybe just Double check security on them. I guess that would be good advice again In some instances, I know the containers aren't locked, but the advice is to if you have a property You know when you're using containers to store property make sure it's adequately locked Maybe with some lighting and if possible a alarm if possible or even a camera So that's the advice to begin. Yeah indeed now a burglary A recent burglary in letter kinny. Yes This is a burglary which occurred between 5 p.m. Last saturday night and 2 a.m. On the sunday morning That's between 5 p.m. Saturday the 7th of october and 2 a.m. Sunday the 8th of october So the occupier has happened in the manor view park area greg of letter kinny The occupier of the house have been on a night out and When the person were told to notice substantial quantity of cash and debit cards have been stolen from the property Entry to house have been gained through an open back window So again, we're peeling for information anybody in the area at the time to be seen anything suspicious people or any vehicles to contact the garrity at letter kinny 07491 67100 or again the confidentiality 1800 travel 6 travel 1. Okay next to police one We don't hear an awful lot of thankfully. This is a robbery. This occurred in bon crana Yes, this occurred last Thursday night friday morning the 8th of october greg at approximately 6 25 a.m So a male victim was assaulted by two other males in the vicinity of church street and cahar cahar adori avenue In the vicinity of the lake of shadows hotel So he's assaulted on a number of occasions and actually followed over towards swan park by the defenders And he had badly assaulted and a number of personal items stolen from him jewelry His ring and a watch So again quite a vicious unprovoked assault, which is investigated by the garrity in bon crana And the appeal is to contact garrity bon crana 07493 20540 or the garrity confidential line 1800 travel 6 travel 1 again anybody who may been in the area at the time May not have witnessed the stalk the attack but they have seen Males in the area and we're asking them to come forward, please Okay, and garrity in bon crana also investigating a theft from vehicle Yes, this is the theft from a car which occurred in the aardraven heights of bon crana Last saturday morning. So friday night saturday morning the 7th of october between 3 30 a.m And 4 30 a.m So a handbag containing some cash was removed from the car and the handbag was actually located nearby in a ditch Uh inquiries by the garrity in the area revealed that attempts were also made to break into a number of cars in the area at the night So again the appeal for information last friday night saturday morning between 3 3 30 a.m and 4 30 a.m We have some ccv showing a number of young males in the area at the time So the information if anybody's information or dash cam to make it available to garrity of bon crana 07493 20540 or again the confidential in 1800 travel 6 travel 1 All right, and a horrible incident in letter kenny, which i hope we don't see any more of and You know has real potential for real serious injury. Um, this happened at dr. McGinley road, uh, you know Yes last uh sunday night the 1st of october between 9 p.m And 9 30 p.m greg unfortunately a firework was placed in the litter box of a house and the front door of the house went on fire Uh, fortunately the occupier of the house was at home at the time Um got a smell a smell of fire and was able to distinguish extinguish the fire However, there was extensive damage to the door and the house was filled with smoke And again, I would hate to think what would happen to property if the occupier had not been present or a toddler You know You know our young boy runs around the place plays in the hole I mean, it's just unbelievable any information to the letter kenny garrity 9167 100 or that confidential line Uh, which is there for you as well. I know, uh, sergeant mollusk, but important to reiterate. I think uh, you know Fireworks it's a it's a heavy punishment for them. Could you go through that for us? Yeah, I can you'll just to be a bit aware We have more reports of fireworks this year than we had in other years I don't know the reason why maybe coming out of kovat people more access to fireworks. I don't know gregg, but again I'd ask people to be wary, you know when your children are coming home in the evening if they go to their bedroom straight away Maybe suspicious of hiding something it may be a firework They may not know the consequences of hot damage of firework can cause and the penalties are quite severe It's been something that's been treated quite seriously. So, you know, if you're igniting an illegal firework The penalty is up to 10 000 euro and a maximum imprisonment of five years Throwing our ignited firework at a personal property, which would be the crime in the sketch word making the appeal So 10 000 euro and again up to five years imprisonment And again possession of illegal fireworks would intend to sell them or supply them to other people again the same penalties 10 000 euro and or five years imprisonment So again quite severe penalties something which we're taking quite serious and we're asking people to be mindful and be aware Of the fireworks and that they are illegal and most of all the damage they can cause to people to property and indeed to pets So we're asking people so when you say there's more of them about Are you hearing more reports of them being lit or More reports of fires being being ignited being ignited around the town at the minute gregg. I have to see yes And it's quite worrying. Yeah, and that's quite severe penalties there that may be the people are not saying it's always young people but maybe They do not know the serious consequences For handling them. Yes, right. Okay. Another big topic that comes up time and time again on this program and around this item is the matter of e scooters and e bikes the bikes harder Maybe to determine from regular push bikes, but we see an awful lot of e scooters about Mostly on the footpath people seemingly commuting from college or work Um, so what's the story with them and legislation? I don't know why I got stuck with this one But yeah, so they have been signed in the legislation under the road traffic and roads act 2023 Okay, it introduces a new class of vehicle called personal powered Transporters pp2 ppt's Okay, so this legislation clears the way for rules on the use of e scooters on public roads signed into law So the new law is aimed at modern Ireland Modernizing Ireland's regulatory system for road traffic also clarifies the legal position on e bikes and e scooters So the legislation classifies e scooters as personal powered transporters And these regulations will specify the appropriate power speed and weight Values along with other technical and usage requirements for e scooters regulations have been drafted Greg and they're currently with the european commission for review so and when the comment of review they will be legislated and i'm told by the The roads policing unit in Dublin castle that it's early next year And i'm also told by the department of transport that e scooters will remain illegal on public roads until the regulations are in place And when the regulations are in place The it'll deal with registration and licensing the scooters and e scooters will only be permitted on public roads and not footpaths Again, the legislation will also put e bikes on the legal footing So under the legislation which is proposed e bikes with a maximum power output of 250 wattage And the motor cutoff speed at 25 kilometers per hour will be treated as bicycles under Irish law So they will not have to be License and tax insurers or whatever the regulations will be and i'm told and i haven't told that if you go to buy an e bike at a Bicycle shop at a minute They're the only ones that did be selling because to be telling people if i sell you one of a higher power Next year you'll have to license tax insurer or whatever So just be careful. I'm told you can buy the the power powered ones online So just be careful if you go to buy an e bike that you that you may have to license it insurer or whatever next year so Those e bikes above these limits and those to can operate without peddling will now be classified as emo pads And again, they'll be regularised under this road traffic and road sack 2003 And dave will be seen as motorized vehicles that will require a license registration tax and insurance to be used on Irish roads So it is added that the owners of make any changes yet And continue to legally use their e bikes or emo pads like a pedicycle Until the regulations are in force and the emo pad is if your maximum power app But is over 250 watts and you can exceed 25 kilometers per hour Yes, that's what's proposed in the regulations gone to european commission. You know, it may be amended or whatever, but that's the proposal at the minute, so Yeah, I know you had to do your research and you dug deep on this right But at the moment that we see the scooters on the footpaths. Yes Is that well scooters at the minute can be treated as mechanically propelled vehicles and although they cannot be licensed Ensured. I mean, I feel sorry for people who has one But the we are mentored that they are illegal to be used on the roads which includes footpaths at the minute Okay, and the new laws as well. Um, it'll go to obviously we'll have to pick up the slack on this one and um It'll give powers of seizure Yes powers of seizure demand name address all the usual stuff that you've seen on the road traffic acts and we'll also deal with the powers to seize and dispose of scramblers and other vehicles such as quad bikes That's we can often seen being used dangerously on our roads. Great. All right. Okay cyber crime Yes cyber crime. That's you like cyber crime. We always you're always promoting it. We have to well promoting how to avoid being Yeah, so the european cyber security month was officially launched on the 1st of october And the team is I like this one think before you click This focuses on the joint cyber risk of fishing and ransomware attacks Which can target anyone as you know in any business So the campaign coordinated by the national cyber crime bureau Will see events around the country which focus on cyber risks and online safety To counter the continuing growth in cyber attacks So again public information graphics will be posted to the garada social media accounts and the garada website On the different teams and videos Different teams and videos were released on the central risks of fishing and ransomware attacks Information on the cyber crime security month can be found on Uh cyber crime month Dot eu forward slash so if you type cyber crime month dot eu into google you will get the appropriate information So this week's team Greg is online safely and I just had a quick look at it last night And again the best advice for anybody at home or at businesses to stay alert And keep your antivirus up to date and again Same if it looks too good to be true. It is good to be true Take advice from somebody contact your local station report any suspicious activity And only use known or trusted networks to connect. So if you're out ordering stuff Maybe do it at home and you know no harm to you, but you strike me as uh, you strike me as a man that Perhaps has to rely On people around you to reboot your phone and check things. No, I'm not too bad I have three I have three high tech daughters at home. So they keep me up. That's what I was thinking Yeah, I keep you up today. So this is one this is one that that we're all victims of keep your personal and your work data separate And change your passwords regularly We are so people are so reluctant to do that and again to tell us that you'd have different passwords for different accounts So one password for your amazon account another password for your Whatever account you're buying so if you in other words if you'll hack done amazon It doesn't mean they have access to every other even your bank or wherever it might be That's the logic. So if you're hacked on amazon, they have your password However, they'll know that there's a good chance you're using the same password for every for every online Because it's a human nature and it's a very difficult thing to do and again the advice is Don't store passwords on your phone. No, we're all guilty of it And we're going to quickly iphone users seem to put all of their private information in their notes Yes, and again if you lose your phone and your phone can be hacked everything is there So and I think the advice that I've just given was you find this hard to believe Keep a notebook in a secure place at home. Which are different passwords It's time-consuming. But if you want to be secure 24 7, this is what we've got to do Radio drop-in clinics across the Bunkrana district Yes, uh, Gardian McCranner having a number of dropping clinics actually today the tent 11 to 12 mall and head community center You're not too late yet 2 p.m. To 3 p.m. Mobile family resource center 6 p.m. To 7 p.m. Green Castle community center So there'll be a member available to sign documents and forms passports stamped etc Advice and guidance again no appointment is actually and maybe even a cup of tea So to be ideal for people maybe for people maybe who cannot travel You know the smaller stations made up the opener even time You cannot travel to Bunkrana to get your form signed or your passport signed calling to these dropping clinics mall and head today between 11 and 12 2 to 3 p.m. Mobile family resource center 6 to 7 p.m. Green Castle community center now hive is Questions coming in quite a bit Union against that time of the year I think some of it is that people go out for a walk and get caught out by the the dusk Yes, exactly knowingly sort of saying stuff that you know you get home from work at 5 or 6 o'clock You know you have something maybe split bite to eat and say I'll go for a walk Nice and bright and then all of a sudden You're feeling fit to extend your walk, but you get caught Exactly, you have to wait back Yeah, house visits and my advice is even during the day Hive is vest if you come driving a car even during the day and you see people walking You'll the people with the hive is vest will strike your eye quicker and those without it So that this is we have some in the station We're dependent on the RSA for them, but it can be bought in local shops and things like that Exactly and it should be an open door will push him because if you and this is I'm not interested in the slightest and pitching any group of road users against another But if you're on a motorbike you have your helmet on if you're in a car You have your seatbelt on you have your lights on exactly So if you're out walking whether it's daytime or nighttime If you throw on that hive is vest and get into the habit doing that it It's hard to it would be hard to sort of evaluate How it reduces the risk of harm, but it does reduce the risk of harm And it reduced the speed of road users who come along and see people have his best so Mindful people will slow down when they meet people walking on the road It should just be a given like other areas of road safety for other Should be part of the rules of the road perhaps it should yeah, I didn't want to go that far But since as you said it union listen, thanks very much just a quick Greg I want to Congrats yourself and Caroline and all the team on the award. Thank you Is that on behalf of yourself or all of on goddess you can't true Harris as well. Well true. Yes You're friends again now isn't I never follow them Of course you're but you're It's from everybody in the garden. She done the all cats. Congratulations on your hard work You've always been there for for for appeals and also for things for sharing our Things in relation to cybercrime missing people everything like that And I was just at home the last day and my daughter said to me. Oh daddy. There's your friend Greg He looks like the next James Bond Well, she said I think she said he looks like the next gym bond or he thinks he's the next gym Probably the second one And she says I'm not sure what where he was wearing his dickie bow, but okay Well, it's it's it's been the talk of the town the dickie bow. Hey, I'll lend it to you Congratulations to yourself and Caroline. Thanks so much union really really do appreciate it and It's contributions from the likes of yourself and your colleagues and others as well, which are all part of it Thank you very much indeed. Do you know Greg? Thank you. We'll be back with community guard information Next Tuesday just after the 10 o'clock news and you'll be able to watch it back on our facebook page and on goddess She kind of facebook page a little later on today The community guard information slot is brought to you by Sheridan security systems Protecting what you value most Call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro Sheridan security 91 260 25 Watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com The 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter. 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We have eddie moore station officer at letter candy fire station with us eddie. Good morning to you Great. Thank you for joining us and michael pertl sub officer at letter candy fire station. Good morning to you michael morning Greg So what is the the main points that we want to get across in this piece michael? Yeah, so I guess this week is fire safety and the theme this year is we're safer together So the I guess the theme or the theory behind that is We have vulnerable people in the community. We have those living on their own those that may not be aware of fire safety And what we've seen during the covet times was we can be a fantastic community We can look after everyone around us And we're asking for that to continue this year with working and being safer together So go up to that older person in the community in the community that you know Just check to they have a smoke alarm. Is it working? Is the roots clear, you know And talking to them talking to your neighbor even if they're not older not isolated Talking to your own family and just getting that conversation going about fire safety because we know unfortunately if you Are over 65 65 or older you are more likely to die in a hands fire Yeah, so I think it's around 52 of fires I was looking at the stats there this morning from 2010 to 2020 And it was over 52 of people that died in house fires were over 65 And that's the kind of people that we want you to go out and Provide this kind of message to them It was there was a I can't remember whether it was a covert reaction or if it was part of a Transition year study or whatever But it was a young group of it was a group of young people And their project was to go into older people's houses and check the fire alarms and all that kind of stuff I thought it was brilliant. Yeah, and it'd be great if it would catch on So, I mean we have stop and these things work to eddie because it gives us an opportunity to talk about and remind ourselves of Some of the measures that we need to take and michael's covered them But stop obviously number one smoke alarm. I mean it's it is invaluable. It's a lifesaver. It's approved It's proven there's no debate a working fire alarm is really effective So so we're talking about smoke alarms. Remember what we're talking about there is our early detection So if a fire does occur we want to be alerted as quickly as we possibly can all right So that's our smoke alarm or smoke alarm or 24 7 for us. So it's constantly detecting to see if there's a fire So you take what we're most vulnerable. We're lying on our beds. We're sleeping A fire occurs wherever it may occur in the house We need something to alert us to wake us up that there is a fire that is our smoke alarm So we need to make sure it's there the second thing and we're talking about our stop there. So our stop so It's stop fire essentially and the stop acronym is a s as you say the smoke alarms and t And it's for testing and it's testing weekly. So all our smoke alarms should be tested weekly Um, I just want to back back to your smoke alarms. We should have at least one smoke alarm per level of our house at least one and in terms of where they should be, you know, like Is it is it sort of head height when you're lying in bed? A lot of people have them up at the ceiling Is there a recommended place we should have them located? So our smoke alarm should be on our ceiling ideally because there's smoke that's going to rise So that's where it's going to go. So it'll go up and then comes down really doesn't it? So it'll go up and then it'll just keep on filling up. So remember keep on filling with smoke So that's why we want our smoke alarm at our highest point as possible in that room. All right Does it annoy you when people like me call them fire alarms? I would say it does because it's really the smoke's the early detection, isn't it? It's the same thing really, you know, it doesn't doesn't bother us as long as we have one and it's working You know that that's that's our message message essentially testing them is the t Testing then is the t. Yeah. So so we have tested Tuesday is what I was taught. Michael was taught Whenever he joined something different, he was taught thumbs up Monday We don't care when you test them as long as they're tested weekly, you know And that is what the t is for. So again, Michael's talking with us safer together So if we do have a more vulnerable person near us that we can check in on Check obviously first do they have a smoke alarm and then we need to check Is it working? So can we test it for them? And if not, then uh, then we can make arrangements then for that as well All right, okay, and we'll come back to omp. But Michael I Was looking at a smoke alarm and noticed there was an expiry date or a best before date on it I'm not sure if that's a smoke alarm. I'm not sure if that's across all of them But you know, there can be an expiry date on some of them. Is that correct? Yeah, all all smoke alarms will have an expiry date and this should be replaced on that expiry date You can't get ones now that have a 10 year lifespan and they have a sealed battery because I mean What we tended to do was once that alarm was going off once we were burning our Bacon on the cooker alarm was going off. We would take the battery out So true and we certainly wouldn't replace it again And that's the normal working smoke alarm then but now they come sealed they come 10 year But yes, they do have experiments and I would say there's an awful lot of people listening at home Or else I'm an outlier who may be around Christmas time went looking for one of those square batteries And they came out of the smoke alarm and did it ever go back in as you should have, you know But there is there there is options, I guess when we talk about a smoke alarm You can get a heat alarm as well. So in areas In our round the cooker you can put a heat alarm in which text it detects heat rather than smoke So it won't go off when you burn that bacon Is that useful too for likes of dishwashers and stuff if you have a heat alarm, I wonder Yeah, well the heat alarm it's what we find is it's incorrect placement of the alarm So people put alarms like above a cooker. That's not a correct place to be, you know So putting them in the right places Tends to mean that they don't get taken out then or they don't get the batteries taken out. So they're put in the right place Then they get used much better. I was in a house Eddie not so long ago I was plugging something in anyway, and it was an older house Now it sort of struck me that it was almost the perfect storm because it was an older house There wasn't as much things back in the day to plug in, right? So it was a single socket Uh Wiring to an older spec But obviously Even though you might live in an older house, you've still got all the gear and you have an extension lead with four or five things Plugged into this single socket Is that a potential obvious danger that you could be overloading that socket that you maybe need to sort of say? Is that really a danger if I leave that on all the time? So so yeah, absolutely and just you mentioned they're over on the socket So, you know what we're talking about there is an adapter essentially So it's it's it's one plug going into one socket But then off that socket then there's four or five different other plug points that being plugged in and that's what we're talking about They're overloading socket. So I suppose if we are going to use anything at all like that We need to be using certified ones proper ones So they should have a CE mark on it at a minimum If we can't get around it, but again like that we shouldn't be using it for prolonged periods of time So if we can we need to be switching it off when we're not using them, etc So again, we use we use the term unattended, you know So we try not to use any unattended or leave anything unattended. Sorry For for periods of time they may cause a fire, you know And again, and I know one of the themes about this is to sort of, you know The community element of it and we'll come back to that but just generally to go over it Plan your escape route the I can't remember when it was Back in the day the young fella Aaron landed home from school with the stickers obviously with some of you guys had been in the school and The stickers are still stuck to the You know what I mean, they're still stuck to the glasses and all that kind of stuff And it was a bit annoying at the time, but do you know what it got us talking about? Yeah, if I were incapacitated how would the kids get out the market, you know what I mean And all that type of stuff It was a simple thing but it really really worked because we started talking about well If you're in that end of the house There's that double door and and all this sort of stuff so more generally This is the P plan your escape route you might think and you may never and god forbid you ever have to use it But if you've sort of thought about it, it's etched in your mind then when it comes to a situation that you might need it Yeah, well back to I'm sorry back to that with the kids and we go out and we talk to kids And I talk to parents all the time and they tell me that other kid came back and they talked about fire safety Children are fantastic taking that message home and they'll talk to an adult We'll have a lot of adults listening to us today And they'll go to them what's go home now and check the smoke alarm and they'll forget about it And it won't be done So one of the things we ask is to try and make a point of going home today And thinking about fire safety thinking about that evacuation route and that evacuation route is what do we do in the event of a fire So if I'm upstairs at three o'clock in the morning and that smoke alarm goes off What do we do so we have a plan a Or normal route out of the building is to go out this door and if we can't go out that door We'll have a plan b so if that's blocked because there's a fire we'll go out a different route It's thinking about your escape routes and obviously keeping them clear That's so important that we always keep them clear them stickers are fantastic because they identify the two escape routes and that's ingrained on your brain That's our escape routes that we normally go to It's keeping Keys near windows You'll see a lot of windows can it can be locked 100 so then pvc windows if that key is not in there And you're trying to get out that window in the middle of the night, then you're going to have a I know And we also find a few of them a lot there, you know, maybe people have the The top ones open for to let some air through but that escape route that wide window Is now I'll have a couple of them open but you know what I mean? It's it's what you're saying is true in a lot of houses It's the same a pvc doors as well So our escape routes or out know our door to go into the house Can have a lockable key sometimes we take that out But if you're going down in the middle of the night and start full of smoke And you're panicking and you're thinking where did I put that key? You know an alternative is How do we get out then a lot of people we have found Who have died and house fires were found down at the door So they got as far as the door, but they just didn't get to that last part So what we say to you is we want you to Detect that fire early Evacuate as quickly as possible then call us out and we'll come we'll put that fire out But we're delighted to see you stand outside that house Get out stay out and get the fire we're good at it's not what that's exactly it. Yeah, exactly And just on on the escape route there, you know, it's fine, you know getting out You know if we have our family or our children We also need to identify a point where we're going to meet in the event of a fire So we're you know, they're probably plenty of your listeners now listening now work today And they'll have assembly points at the work That's exactly what we need at home to as well somewhere for the whole family to meet There's nothing worse that if there is a fire in the house then everybody gets out Where's Greg? Where's Greg? Where's Greg? Next thing you know somebody's decided to make that that bad decision and go in and look for Greg And that's the last thing we want so we want to get everybody out together and lease them on the fire service arrays We can take a look around say yeah, everybody's here everybody's accounted for or in the case look Greg's not out. Greg's he was up in his bedroom. That's where he is And again, we can make the decision now to to go in and is there any right or wrong and leaving keys in the doors Not for a security perspective because in a way I think they can do they can work to stop people fiddling with the look from externally But is there any risk of them melting or malfunctioning of the less left in the lock? You're gonna be alright. You're gonna be alright. We are we are before that. Okay, um, so we've been talking about we started off Well, we then we went on to talk about how important was our children coming home to us and and and and sort of getting that conversation Go and get the stickers going and that's where we started to make sure that if there are older people around us Not just family but neighbors who maybe don't have someone that calls or someone who may call and hasn't talked about this to Bind together as a community and make sure we have the stop in place for for everyone and remind everyone how important it is Michael do you want to just recap on that? Yeah, so again, it's important that again the theme for this is we're safer together We're safer that everyone is out there and talking about fire safety um over 40 of those that died In the house fires between 2010 2020 didn't have a smoke a smoke a work in smoke alarm Didn't have a one more time. So around 40 of those that died in house fires didn't have a work in smoke alarm And then over half of those were aged 65 and above So there is a lot of vulnerable people in our community those that are older those that live alone those that maybe Mobility issues and so on and they probably don't have a Listening to this because it doesn't matter what age or if you're not listening to this You haven't got the reminder and you know, so spread the word Spread the word talk to everyone in your family. So let's even have conversations when you think you're not at risk Talk to everyone at home. You know just say is that smoke alarm working? Is it out of date? Maybe we should replace that. They're not expensive anymore. They're easy to put up Um and for those that are vulnerable, I mean contact the fire service They could provide a smoke alarm for you and will ensure Um that it gets installed in those vulnerable people for them Okay, and just generally suppose, you know phone chargers Um things like that there just to to to make sure that we don't let our guard down because you know There's an instant and then there's a big rush of conversation You know about overloaded sockets or phone chargers on the pillows and and then everyone's All concerned about it for a while and then we return to our bad habits again Yeah, yeah, so so absolutely again when you're talking about phone chargers again there was a there was a Rise, you know and and fairs happen because of phone chargers particularly because what you were saying there phones being left charging on beds soft materials Stuff that could easily go on fire So if we are charging a phone it should be charged on a on a hard service So legs of a table something that that isn't going to easily ignite, you know So again, it's just just being aware of these things and taking care and again We shouldn't be using chargers that aren't aren't from the manufacturers. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Okay That's anything else you want to add. We've come pretty much everything there No, like I say just pass on this information. We are safer together If there's any community groups out there in the county that want us to come out the fire service throughout donigal Contact the donigal fire headquarters in larkinny And we'll try and arrange to get out and have a talk about fire safety this week. All right, okay Thank you very much indeed clean your chimneys to actually a lot of people starting to light fires for the first time That's it. Absolutely. Come in to winter. You need to get your chimney cleaned too if you can all right Michael pertl who is the sub officer at a Kenny fire station any more to station officer both of you. 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Oh, where was it? I had the weather up there and it disappeared on me. I'm going to get good at this soon I swear. All right, weather forecast for today outbreaks of rain and drizzle this morning more persistent rain will develop in the Northwest towards the evening tracking southeast woods if you don't mind Warm and humid with highest temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees becoming breezier with moderate to fresh and gusty south West winds now just time for a brief on with ann connan from the killi begs community council Good morning to you the chair of it indeed. Hi ann Hi greg how you doing? Good. Good to have you on the show, right? You're being you're urging the public to let the council know if they get any obnoxious smells in killi begs What's this off the back of? Um, this has been going on now for a number of years potentially probably about even four or five years Where there has been an extremely noxious noxious and obnoxious smell happening Over the show road in killi begs from kind of anyone who knows killi begs the black rock pier over towards moony boats But then also going up Towards the russian road up the new road Extremely bad. Um, it's a very popular area for people who walk Both locally from our own community, but also obviously tourists and it's the direct route that People would take when they're walking from the cruise ships over to the town Um, and is it a case sound that is it a case sound that everyone might be talking about it and noticing it? Because it's not being formally lodged with the council. Maybe It's not getting the attention it needs Exactly. Yes. That's exactly that the community council have been in contact with a number of the agencies Apa ishkaran don't even they come back to donning all council. All of them seem to Over the years With no success Um, everybody seems to it's somebody else's problem But then nobody seems to be fit to identify the problem or do anything about it. And yes, locally we all talk about this But it has been said that really we need to be locking these complaints with the donning all county council It is quite easy You ring their main line and ask for the environment department and lock the complaints there also online It's very easy to do So the more complaints that we can get logged obviously we're raising the attention of the county council And hopefully we'll get something done. Yeah, it's so important because Especially when people get petitions together, it's effectively one complaint And all the effort goes into it, but it's one complaint you Are saying look if this is something that bothers you contact 91 53 900 make an Ask to make an environmental complaint or go on to donning old cocoa dotie e and Probably empowering the council as well Because they can maybe start putting pressure on, you know, whomever is responsible. Okay, and listen. Thank you very much For that we do appreciate it and hopefully you get a good response to that. That's an connehan there Who is the chairperson of the killi begs community council The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter. Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions Visit letter. Kenny. See you dotie Ready for winter it could be a busy one. 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Let's get a news update now from donna marie daherty Thanks, greg. Good morning 18 families in letter. Kenny have received an eviction notice The homes located in the bali mckel estate are being sold due to a change in the developer's company that holds the rental agreement cahol mcfinn chair of the bali mckel residence association spoke to greg hughes this morning on the ninetown news show He says there is very little accommodation for available for rent in the area and what is simply is not affordable We're two hours away from finding out the full extent of this year's budget A 1.1 billion euro tax package will include cuts to usc and income tax As well as increased excise duty on a packet of cigarettes while on the spending side There will be an increase on the minimum wage extra supports for small businesses and a cut in child care fees Gardie are investigating a burglary which occurred on thursday last between 8 p.m And 10 p.m at the gaa club in newton conningham Two shipping containers were accessed and equipment was stolen during or including a lawnmower a trimmer and a leaf blower Anyone who believes they have information that can assist greg with this investigation is asked to make it available Cash and debit cards were stolen from home in letter. Kenny over the weekend Sometime between five o'clock on saturday evening last and 2 a.m on sunday morning Entry was gained to a home in manorview park via an open window at the rear of the home The occupant who was out for the night returned home to discover a substantial amount of cash had been taken Along with two debit cards those with information is asked to contact greg And finally greg and millford are appealing for information in relation to a burglary that took place Between sunday the first of october and the following monday in burtton port Locks were broken and entry was gained to a compound at mean benad Further locks were then broken in order to enter four shipping containers. Nothing was taken Those are the latest headlines the next news updates at 12 o'clock until then. Good morning. Thank you very much Donna Marie and of course you heard Donna Marie mention the budget We pretty much know everything that's in it at this point, but tomorrow We will have a review of it and try and find out What it might mean for you, you know, they're all about putting money back in your pocket Well, we'll hopefully determine if that actually happens. All right Next item on the way after a short one Only people from the 90s will know what that sound means I can picture it now back when mcdonalds started cracking free range eggs across the entire menu An internet dial-up was the only way to get online those few minutes wait felt super fast And it was known as the world wide web The good old days It's just one of the little changes mcdonalds have been constantly making to the way We source and produce our food over the years find it more at mcdonalds.ie mcdonalds change a little change a loss Now I want to play a very special request albeit a little late My apologies, but it's a very special request for cathleen dowherty in carne baller buffet Cathleen is celebrating her 93rd birthday today granny dowherty as she's affectionately known Is hail and hearty and we'll be looking forward to all her visitors today to help her celebrate Best wishes and love coming in from shivan tommy and all the family So a very very happy birthday 93rd birthday to cathleen dowherty in carne and I've been asked to mention that the mall in ahead to glengad road will be closed at Urbal ria is it from 8 a.m. To 6 p.m. On wednesday the 11th thursday the 12th and friday the 13th of october The road will be closed for its junction with the black mountain road to the junction with the drenna road Alternative route is the black mountain road tolly road drenna road malin head to glengad road donagall County councilor apologizing for any inconvenience this closure may cause Right, okay, we're joined on the program now by schnade smith schnade. Thank you for taking the call this morning Oh, you're very welcome a very happy birthday to cathleen and carne dowherty Yes, right schnade You say you've thought long and hard About whether or not you should share this and you decided Fecke to use Your words, but you say schnade it needs to be called out. What's the issue? um Well, the issue was that we have to we run an artist retreat here in carndona And it's how I earn my living being an artist teaching painting and Providing these retweets for people and during the winter here now coming into the winter We decided to go on to a couple of booking platforms To try and even things out a bit, you know, because um things can get a wee bit slow so we had our first visitor through um booking up and They just booked for two people and we have our policy of If you're bringing a pet let us know we have a one pet policy Because you know yourself dogs getting together they're jumping all over each other and we're all around playing whatever and that's just dogs but um, they had to come over from england by by a cork they'd gone to cork first and then come up to us after a long journey and it was dark on friday night and um I showed them around cottage and back out and I could see there was a dog in the car So I always make it a habit of meeting the dog just so we know what's a friendly dog So could we have a child and I always say don't go near that dog. It's a wee bit angry or a wee bit Anxious or leave me. I'll just leave it alone or that dog's friendly. He can pet it um And she opened the door and three dogs jumped out a large husky and two collies and I was like, oh, holy god. Okay, and the husky liked it up the road. So they had very little control over um the dog um An alarm bells just broken off in my head, but you know, I suppose He don't like I don't like confrontation and I don't like Turning people away. It left you in a very difficult position schnade because you did ask for a prior notice and you've got a one Dog rule which I think would cover most They didn't let you know they had pets the land with three rather big dogs and one at least Rather lively. You're stood there. What do you do next? I know and you don't like people not having a bed for the night Maybe that's just me being From an issue one, you know, you like to be welcoming. Yeah um, and I just went down and said to my husband just say we prayer We're left in a good position after this that they're nice people and whatever um, but they left very early in the sunday morning um, because our dog barks at the slightest noise outside and we were walking about half half seven eight o'clock I think and I um Well after we got up I went and checked in the the cottage and they had gone completely And the schedule to stay longer schnade No, no, they weren't there but we don't expect people to leave, you know until about 12 o'clock on a sunday And just before you progress the story it's it's a it's a particularly nice property that you have It is we always I always have had this dream of providing a wee bit of luxury space Especially for creative people. There's an art studio attached to it to see so they have access 24 seven and Beautiful like I I spent a lot of time on deciding the decor myself And you know, it's an experience you're offering. It's not simply a bed You're you're obviously trying to to give people an experience. It's often uh, and very much so, uh, appreciated as you've been very busy. So People work hard for their money, you know, because I want to take it from them. I want to give them something nice So it's clear then they've left so it's time to go into the property. What what what were you meant with? I was met with dog pee on the floor beside the kitchen sink um dog pee on the carpet big stains muddy footprints all over the carpet besides fire and thick with hair like kicked and because they had three dogs I had um been very civil with them but kind of very, you know We don't allow dogs in the bedrooms to to keep the integrity of our bedding because we may have you know, when dogs come we do a good clean after But guests may have allergies to dogs So we don't allow them in the bedrooms and they were like, oh no, that's reasonable Well, the dogs had been they had spread the bed covers like patchwork quilts and Lovely blankets over the beds and the dogs have been sleeping on the beds One of the rooms was so humid from obviously from dog breath because it's stank that I had to get the dehumidifier on You know and the the hairs were just unbelievable and it sounds like the dogs had been running around Uh getting messy coming in shaking their their coats jumping all over everything because the walls was better The paintwork, you know if someone was having a party in there of a night and they spelt red wine all over the floor or on the on the carpet or around the cupboards or on the walls and the radiators They would clean it up Um, so they just up and left they just left at this point then the bathroom is well even got a touch So at this point then it's a it's a it's a deep clean and presumably any money you were going to make out of the whole experience is gone now Yeah, well, I mean we would have asked 230 for the two nights the Friday and the Saturday and you know I spent Approximately 10 hours cleaning now. I'm not a cleaner By trade so somebody if I'd hired somebody they may have done it faster But if I paid myself the minimum wage 11 30 an hour For 10 hours you're taking away 113 From that minus the booking fee from the platform minus the wear and tear and Five loads of washing everything had to be washed the cushion covers and the sofas Stofe has had to be wiped down. It'll light them up there as well Unbelievable, you know and we're we try to be environmentally friendly so your cleaning products are more expensive So, uh, you know, what does this mean for your one dog policy then? I mean, you know, it's obvious that you wanted to sort of you recognize the importance of a dog in a family's life or an individual's life for that matter, but I mean Do you think twice about it now? Well, if I'd had that experience already It's a learning process for us because we've just been open a year And you know, I've a lovely artist coming from England. He's arriving tonight for a full week in tuition and everything so it's a different kettle of fish I suppose But if that has happened if that ever happens again, I will simply be saying I'm sorry. You're not our problem Are you worried now that you have to worry too now that you're not nose-blind? Um, we haven't been in there all the time. I'm sure your guest won't notice. It sounds like you've went to town with the clean Well, you had I had to there was like There was marks on everything Unbelievable, you know That sounds like a silly question. Did they leave a revision aid? No, okay. No, no, we contacted them and asked them for An additional cleaning fee of 30 euro You know, and uh, I think all in all taken everything out of it. We probably came out with 20 euro for that Yeah, plus the stress and the frustration and disappointment Yeah, and and it's also incredibly disrespectful You know to do that to somebody else's property. I mean you could have turned them away at the first contact But you did let lay down some basic ground rules Which I don't think were unreasonable at all at all and they were, uh, obviously Completely and obviously ignored because they even went beyond a dog running into a bedroom accidentally They bedded the dogs in there with yeah, they bedded the dogs in there. Okay. Yeah, and I mean it's not the dogs Of course It's a matter of, you know mutual respect and general soundness that we allow animals into the Into the cottage and most people Are now we have had a visitor during the summer who allowed the dog on the bed and there was a stain on the mattress We had to get that cleaned and they didn't even leave a review So, you know, you can bend over backwards for people Okay, and not that you know, it just depends on the individual But in a way to you see what what is sad is that it kind of Has made you have to adjust your philosophy to some extent not to a great extent But in other words like what you wanted to offer what you believed you could provide Now you're at the point whereby if Someone lands in the same situation again, you actually have to do that confrontation You actually have to turn them away. So in a way it's kind of it's spoiled It's spoiled really a little bit a little bit of the sort of philosophy It's clear you've put a lot of time and effort into this. It's it's a shame really, but it's it's it's you have to And then then you You run the risk of getting a bad review for doing something like that and a bad review We have like we've been in operation a year We've just got the status of superhosts with Airbnb for the few who we've done there but um All our reviews are five star and one person left a four star review Because they said it it was too cold and they wanted the Heat and turned up and when we went over to turn the heating up for them They had all the windows and the back door lying fill open. You see shenay people are strange We're all strange in a way. Do you know what I mean? And that's when you're in the service industry To get our our review back up, you know, and and but that's what you're a guest, of course Yeah, all right shenay. We'll listen. Thanks for for sharing the story with us. Thank you so much for asking me on No, no, it's it's just it's a seconder, but look at I'm sure you're guest arriving for the week We'll we'll have a lovely stay and hopefully it'll ease the the memory of your previous experience. Thanks shenay Thank you very much. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Okay more on the way The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio The nine till noon show with letter candy credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter candy credit union Call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six or apply online via our app or in office today It's a tuesday. You're off, but you're not off You're in time to pick up their kit or do a big shop and you'd love a bite to eat somewhere But it's only tuesday. 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You can pay at the door We look forward to seeing you there Highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter candy to doblin when you book online and travel for less Expressway bringing you the time us Okay, well the time now is 17 just turning 18 minutes past 11 now Fergal blaney's the political editor of the irish mirror. He joins us on the program now. Good morning to you. Thank you For joining us. I do appreciate it Right now, um You've published today part one of a special invest investigation into a supposed the ease of access for teenagers and And vapes for what stood stood out for you Exactly. I suppose um, but what prompted our investigation was it's obviously been in the news a lot lately about vaping and everybody sees the little disposable products on every Every street corner on the ground. So so we were curious on that and we asked the hsc If there were any incidents where people were getting seriously hurt from vapes and we were shocked to discover that Last year there were seven people hospitalized children seven children were hospitalized Vape related incidents. So it was zero in the two years before that it was seven last year And we don't know what it is yet this year. So that prompted our interest But obviously we seem to be having a little bit of an epidemic So we've gone to a couple of areas on this and we'll be exploring it more over the coming days So we have our response from the hsc seven, which is very shocking And then we got on to a teacher down in Tipper area. Um, that's principal Peter creedon And he told us some very very very disturbing news of what it's like at the cold face He had a student that was able to toy with the wattage on one of the vaping machines to basically turn up the heat And he suffered a very very serious reaction. He collapsed in the schoolyard. The ambulance was called And he was told by first responders the teacher that was touching go for a while So that was very very serious So we've moved it on to political level as well then we will be over the coming days And we talked to thonister me hall martin because everyone will remember he's He's the famous all over the world for bringing in the actual smoking ban 20 years ago now And he's very very concerned about this and he told us yesterday that this he considers vaping because by the way Not everyone knows but the vapes The companies that own them are big tobacco as such. Yeah, he called it revenge. Yeah He called it revenge. Is there any is there any? Yeah, indeed an interesting an interesting quote there But listen we we had Early warnings of this an awful long time it goes as you would know in america We're kind of reaching a point that they did now six seven years ago And other countries have have taken strong action. I think we're a bit of a laggard in terms of banning these The state of these to under 18s has anyone ever in in political circles given an excuse as to why This has been allowed to become the epidemic that it has because still to this day you walk into a shop They've got a a a sexy tiktok shaped screen behind the counter You know promoting vaping all the different flavors the fancy little machines that are there impulse purchase Like as anyone in political circles actually responded as to why it's only now they seem to be waking up to this issue It's scary. It's scary. I suppose my simple answer is politics moves very slowly Politics is a bit of a tanker when it comes to issues like this They will always say that it takes time to introduce legislation that they have to The dreaded reports that they have to commission They have Finally got some sort of legislation on the table. It's the public health tobacco products and nicotine inhaling bill But so that's stuck in it's stuck in committee land at the moment It's actually going to be there tomorrow and when that does come in if it comes in Sometime next year. We would definitely not see before the end of this year It's going to ban sales of vapes for under 18s. But as you say that there's nothing for where we are now where you've got the brightly colored bubblegum flavors and you know vaping advocates will say, oh, it's it's a you know smoking cessation And advice that they're giving to people but you know, I don't see many adults that would like to have full We could find ourselves in the situation for a girl whereby legislation will be passed Once it's announced in the budget later today Legislation will be passed before the end of the year to enact a tax on vaping products Before we were we were hopeful of that. Yeah, but before the legislation comes into ban them for the sale of under 18s Like I think parents and guardians. It's tough out there. Isn't it Fergal? They need a hand on this one It is it is it is it's complicated. It's intricate and the vapes tax Confusingly, like you say is completely separate to the public health Nicotine inhaling products bill the indications are now that it will be mentioned in the speech today They do this sometimes in governments. They mention that the tax is coming But then they say oh, we need to do more work on us So my sources tell me that it's the going to be next year Perhaps in the budget next year as far away is that that the vaping tax will be brought in That'd be another tactic from the government as well for everybody Not just for children to try and make vaping very dear on a power with cigarettes Perhaps someday and that they hope that will drive people away from a bot I'm not so sure because once you make something A little more illicit and a little more legal especially amongst children and young adults It's going to make it more attractive for them. Do you know what to never consider? Yeah, go ahead. Please add away. Yep. Sorry one of the main one of the main points of our day One of the investigation today was we just sent a 14 year old out And with his parents permission, of course And we sent him out to vaping shops in Dublin and within an hour he had a Armful of vaping products. They never asked him for ID. He was only 14 There is no law against it to say but some shops mainly the multiple supermarkets, etc Did say what age and no, we don't want to sell it under 18s But as it stands and we proved it today youngsters We know they're vaping as young as 10. We're told by the school principals Youngsters can go into any of these vaping shops. They sell other devices as well You can see them in every high street in Ireland And there's no law against it at present and we don't really know what's in them Except that they can be very dangerous if they are abused as we saw with poor child who collapsed in an ambulance called a temporary Yeah, indeed And that was the shocking element of the reports that the the injuries and those are the ones that we hear of But what I was going to say also Fergo before you passed on that important information is that like everything When legislation is written and passed in in Dublin, it doesn't often take it into account border counties We've seen that. No, we've seen that with coal. We've seen it through covid And I think we're going to see it with vapes again in that, you know, it will perhaps Benefit the majority, but we're still probably going to be in a situation where You know, these products are easily accessible across the border and people will start to travel for them If they have an addiction more so now I'm talking about the adults than the than the teens Fergal, but you know, we need to start doing stuff on an all-island basis We do of course. Yeah, there needs to be a joined up thinking there, which is often lacking And in the post-Brexit days as well It's it's people are divided on all sorts of trade issues So you're hitting another point there that's down the tracks again Past legislation that we need to work with our colleagues in the north because thank god There's no way of such border as such anymore And it's very easy for people to guess products that they want in one jurisdiction or the other And easily transport them and do what they want with them. All right, Fergal the Investigation continues tomorrow. Is that correct? Is it? Yeah, tomorrow we have the chief tonnage there speaking to us me hall martin And then we will concentrate on schools and then the medics We have people like a consultant respiratory respiratory The big word respiratory consultant Ted Cox and John crown who's an oncologist who everybody will remember was a senator a few years All right, listen Fergal Thanks for that in the mirror today and we'll continue for the rest of the week. 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We'd love to have you tune in All right welfare increases tax cuts there among the budget measures Which the cabinet sir is signing off on this morning It'll have a range of cost-living payments included including three energy credits of 150 euro each Michael McGraw will outline the full budget in a dull speech at 1 p.m But an awful lot of it's already been outlined as is the norm now tell us see what's in this John low of the money doctor's joints is John great to have you back on. How are you keeping? Very well indeed. Can you look great? Thank you very much. That's very kind of you Right, so I mean can you frame this or could not you could this be framed as a giveaway budget? There's something for everyone in the audience But is there enough I suppose for it to have the the impact the government parties are hoping Well, there's obviously one eye of the next election as for sure But in fairness we are suffering quite a lot every aspect of our nation from You know the low-paid to the high-paid even the squeezed middle as they call them but You know, I've been certainly campaigning for a while On the fact that you know the by-to-less the investment properties and their land 100 interest on the mortgage But yet the poor unfortunate homeowners who have these huge mortgages along with the fact that for 14 months we they had 10 increases Well, there is finally you get in some respite So there's a mortgage break up to what 1250 for those homeowners Who had a home loan between 80,000 and half a million at the end of last year What they'll get is 20% relief on the increased amount of interest paid On their mortgage between 2022 and 2023. So that covers those basically those 10 increases And does that still only apply to those on tracker or variables? There's been no interest relief for those who fixed I wonder I think it's only going to apply to those on on trackers because Maybe the the variables may squeeze in there as well But certainly the the fixed rates there were a lot of people a lot of my clients who fixed last christmas You know they fixed Greg at like 2.05 percent for five years You know, they're they're laughing all the way to the bank And it's good to see tax credit for renters as well. That's going to go from 500 a year to 800 I think that's a fair enough comment And you know rents have also gone through the roof and they certainly need some some support And and there is the danger Now you see that we have this situation where the majority of people listening this doesn't feel like it's relevant to them But we have a a economy that is performing very very well and we have seen a reduction in Inflation but that doesn't mean the cost of things aren't going up And there is genuine concern that's come from many quarters Except for government that this budget and the way it's been framed could actually drive inflation Back up again, and I suppose negates really some of the function of interest Rate increases that remains to be seen But it is certainly a risk that this could add extra fire To an already hot economy john You're absolutely right. Greg because it's going to certainly With like they're they're they're dealing with fire here, you know, they've increased for instance the top rate of tax From you know to 40 000 at the moment you pay the 40% tax rate over a 40 000 that'll soon go up to 42 000 and all of these little You know moves by the government Are going to admin six percent of the moment is inflation And you're right it could creep up again as a result of all these little mini Breaks that they're given social welfare And I I've been harping on again about the pension the pension is going up by 12 years a week So that'll be about 277 euro and You know Like in 20 years time, Greg We will be able to afford the pensions for the burgeoning amount of increased Pensioners who are retiring like we will have three times the numbers we have today And yet instead of having five workers for every person who retired as we had last year, there'll be two So basically it's not going to the money is just not coming Coming in like we're already down what 23 percent in the corporation tax this year Like there won't be enough workers paying coffers into the the extractive funds to actually fund The 1.8 million people there will be over the age of 67 certainly By 2050 maybe that's why they're so keen to see the see the Population growth who is to say that that's not one one function of that But also too obviously it'll be sold Again as a budget and I'm not saying it's not the case as one that is to sort of help the squeezed middle You know the working poor But you know like some people might frame it that Someone working the working poor will only end up three or four euro a week better off than Someone who's on social welfare Because they're going to see an increase of 12 euro per week as well And I think it will probably be worth about 15 or 16 euro to your average Worker so you know some might say well, that's not really fair because you know We're not we're working out there and people don't work for lots of reasons But it they might not see enough of a gap in that to be satisfied that this is good for them You see one of the problems here about your squeeze middle is that all of the costs like food The childcare costs They're all net income Like you have to have a net income to pay for your child to go through a do a crash or go to kindergarten or go to even Montessori And also also the same for food or food has gone through the roof I mean, I believe in mark greg. I've come across couples who are on Between them over 200,000 and they can't cope They can't cope. They have a huge mortgage which went Think, you know, they've got the food. They've got all the crash child carries can be the equivalent of a mortgage and and john also to like I This a lot of this feels to me a little bit about moving the deck chairs around uh, because you know The the big news emerged really for me in the last couple of weeks is the cost of getting to net zero 700 billion and it really hasn't been talked about or figured out as to how the government gets to that point compensating farmers moving farmers away from farming Not having the tax take on petrol oil diesel You know, and that is coming down the line really really shortly you talked of the the pension time bomb The net zero time bomb is absolutely huge and to be honest with you if a budget's not really referencing that now in 2023 It would make me wonder how seriously really this whole net zero project is being taken. Let me say that figure again 700 billion Well, the green party of course would would argue with you, greg and say that they have been managed to persuade the government to Have three billion Into a little kind of fund to help them You know, you'll deal with the farmers Deal with the diesel and the and the petrol How they're going to distribute that or how they're going to say it out is is going to be interesting But you're absolutely right. It is 700 billion and just in case people don't know what that is. That's 700 000 million by the way Unbelievable stuff, isn't it john Um, so, I mean there's a few questions coming in about the nitty gritties of it like working family payments and what have you There's some stuff has been leaked But i'm not sure enough has been leaked to get as I say down into the nitty gritties of it We're going to have to really wait to see what is there and then people will add up what the benefit is to them In terms of reduced child care cost, you know, usc changes tax changes and what have you so Really, it's probably going to take until tomorrow before we can as I say get into the nitty gritty of it john Well, you know, again a lot of the stuff Which is out there, you know, you've got the university social charge Um, which is going to go from four and a half percent down to four percent I mean you look at at the governments for four or five years ago They said they want to get rid of it It was going to be incorporated into the prsi and they were going to be just one tax They still haven't done that Um, as I say also, you know, they got double child payment child benefit before christmas And a double welfare payment after christmas So you've got then the three 150 energy credits One before christmas two after christmas And they're all going to add to at least some Amelioration for those who are really struggling. There's a lot of families out there struggling But with that in mind john, are you surprised that they're still persisting with universal payments and not targeted payments? Are you surprised they're still Focusing on universal payments. So in other words, you could have You know, you can have someone Who's a billionaire a billionaire and we'll get a hundred and fifty year old tax credit Do you think go or an energy credit? Sorry, uh, are you surprised that they they haven't used the resources that we'd have through through the Revenue and welfare to target some of these measures that you could actually give more to those that need it more Uh, I am surprised that I do know in fact, I have come across people Families who are wealthy And individuals who are wealthy and who won't take those kind of breaks and um, they will pay them back Unfortunately, there are fewer five between but I think it should be I mean they have the wherewithal to be able to differentiate between those who really do need the money and those who don't so why don't we use that resource? And I suppose It's never a bad time Is it maybe when taxes are being changed and payments are being changed to? Uh, I suppose look at your own finances, john We talk about this regularly, uh, and there are tools there for that Make sure you're not paying direct debits that are for nothing and Start budgeting a little bit and looking after the the money that you have. I think sometimes we're all a little bit guilty of You know not keeping an eye are I as closely on things as we should it's very easy It's very easy great to you know, first we'll do a budget planner kind of spreadsheets Um, I mean I offer one and then if he wants to write to me I'd be very happy to give them our budget planner spreadsheet Which taught itself book has all the categories and the thing about it is when you sat down With your wife the bottle of wine on the kitchen table and your laptop and you fill it all out And you see what your expenditure is you ask yourself two questions. Number one. Do I need it? Number two Is there a better or cheaper alternative? And really at the end of the day if you are spending more than you're earning You've got three choices and one is earn more two is cut costs And the third one is prioritize and prioritize, you know, the last five years 300 000 people stop paying their Health insurance, they simply couldn't afford it. Great. Yeah, of course And then also too if you're looking enough to have some disposable income that would probably sort of you know So what am I doing with the extra money because I'm not seeing it in my account and it all As I say it works for everyone dependent on their circumstance. John as always. Thank you very much indeed money doctors.ie If you want to make contact and find out more information. Have a lovely day John Lowe there 08 6 60 25 000 The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter. Kenny credit union digital loans now available Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account Hey there folks of letter. 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Councillor James Monaglee is tabling a motion today at a council meeting On this matter, good morning Jerry Thanks for taking the time again to talk to us, I appreciate it No problem, Greg And it was a miss on me yesterday But congratulations to you and the team on your recent award Well, I appreciate that Jerry, I really do So, I mean, if you're a motorist or you live in Letter Kenny Or you travel into it, you know there's increasing frustration out there Is it more traffic or worse management of it? I mean, obviously there are professionals that will hopefully offer the answers to that But what do you think is going on? Why is it so difficult to get around Letter Kenny? Well, look, the bottom line is that with the increased volume of traffic And the town is not set to manage that traffic flow As you know, we have the Port Bridge We have been for over 20 years campaigning to get another bridge Which is termed as the Bonnegie Link That's slowly but surely come the fruition But in the meantime, the traffic build-up has been there And it's now, I mean, saying to anybody once they look at it That we would need at least three bridges In Letter Kenny, one from the Nitae Banner Road Over to Lack Road and one then from the Rockhill Road area Over to the Grantees Road So until they go and come into place There's a number of initiatives have been introduced by Council The latest one will be the traffic lights at the Polestar roundabout But my motion today is about getting the NTA To take notice of what's happened here in Letter Kenny I mean, it's our responsibility to ensure around public transport And that, you know, that there isn't the congestion that there is We have a number of ideas that we've been discussing for a number of years now Park and ride facilities on the edge of the town A proper and efficient public transport system And look, the council is in a position to get all that's needed for that to happen So what I'm looking for is the NTA to come into Letter Kenny Look at it and give us whatever supports and resources that are needed To implement one, a public bus service that is efficient and effective And two, that we can start mapping out the park and ride facilities And that we, you know, we get the necessary finances to put them in place Nothing exists at the moment, does it? There's no town bus There's no public transport to navigate the various parts of the town From the ATU to the shopping centre, you know, down to the Lower Main Street Over to the retail park There's no public transport I'm sorry for straightening for us as councillors But I'm sure it's equally frustrating for the ordinary people out there We've been in discussions with bus providers for three or four years now We thought we had a good service that looked good on paper It was being presented as a way forward There would be three buses on the go all the time That they'd be there from early morning to late end of the evening That they would provide transport for people going to work And also for taking them home from work And that in between that during the day There'd be regular service in the different parts of the town But this seems to have fallen through And we need to get the NTA in We've had a presentation from a local link company recently They're doing fantastic work right across the county And I think they've got the where for all and the plan To put in place a proper bus service in Letter Kenny But that's work that we have to get at And I think without those extra resources, the NTA That there will be a long way down the road And also too, you know, there are ambitious plans In terms of investment in Letter Kenny The development of Letter Kenny The growing of the population in Letter Kenny But your infrastructure, not just the public transport But the roads infrastructure has to match that I mean, it has to be a multi-tiered approach, doesn't it? You can't have a multi-strand approach You sort of can't say, right, we're going to Quadruple the population or whatever it might be Or we're going to try and attract this, that And the other into town But have no way of getting people around the town There has to be fully joined up thinking Yeah, and it's taken far too long You know, in fairness to our roads team And roads design team They have the plans there For, you know, the LEC road For the one day haul road The Bonnegie link, the bridge across The other bridge across the swillie there At Nativa Lane Road But we haven't got the resources to implement that And we haven't certainly got the money yet We haven't given the go ahead The Bonnegie link were dependent on the 10T That's very advanced They're talking about possibly 20, 25, 26 It might be starting, but when will it be finished? 20, 28 I don't think that our county can wait that long So what we're saying is that, you know We're a regional center, as you say We have a vision for the future development Of that our county and the growth of it And the city And what we need is for the NTA They take stock of that, they come up here Look at what we need and they help and assist us In every way and any way that they can The goal says the four lanes was the perfect opportunity For a boss lane to be installed But they never took that opportunity There's no forward planning around the town So what do they expect? Another says that our county needs a ring road Nothing else is going to do it When are they going to do something about this Instead of constantly talking I think the sort of the relief roads Or the roads you mentioned effectively You could probably end up describing that as a ring road I don't think you and that caller Are a million miles away in what's needed No, and then that Then plans are there and as I say In fairness to our road design team They have been battering the door of the department They've been engaging in public consultation And like we're ready to roll on it We've been awarded money to proceed With those plans But we're still far away from getting the diggers And on the ground and look What we need to do is get national bodies To take notice, to come up here And be part of this I mean after all we've been Selected by the government as one of the six regional centres We're seen as the potential for growth Into that city The northwest city region work that we're involved in Also recognises that there So what we need now is for the government To invest in that belief and that vision It should be an easy argument to make Because there are similarly sized towns With green buses, electric buses Buzzing around all of the time So this would take cars off the road Theoretically Particularly in this day and age It should be an argument that Doesn't even need to be had But we'll follow with interest to see What comes from your motion Councillor Donal Coyle He's also going to ask the council to explain The reason for traffic chaos So there's going to be a lot of talk About letter Kenny and its roads infrastructure At today's meeting So for now, Councillor Jerry Monagol I might take care of yourself and we'll Have coverage of what comes Of those motions later on Today around the northwest Is live from Donegal Education And Training Board's newest further Education and Training Centre at the Business Park Road in Letter Kenny It's for their student welcome day To kick off the new term They'll find out more about the range Of fallen part-time courses The adult guidance and information service Student support and about the range Of activities in the centre So join us live on Tuesday today from 12 At Donegal ATB's newest Further Education and Training Centre As I mentioned that's on the Business Park Road in Letter Kenny So great bit of radio there You'll get plenty of information I'm sure if you're in that area Call in and say hello That's coming up for you in about Nine minutes A caller says an age restriction on Vapes could have been implemented Which begs the question then Why do other governments Saying that they need more legislation I have an Airbnb for the past Seven years tell that lady she'll Get approximately two guests like that Each year unfortunately that risk goes With the job there you go So there is an average of people That come in and sort of disrespect Your property but this caller says It's all down to the attitude of dog owners Went for a walk in Dunloe on Sunday And coming back to the car was met With dogs not a lead in sight Can you imagine if you had a fear of dogs Fair practice Sinead for coming on And speaking about this dog owner Needs to be more responsible house trained Always the owner of course And Sinead herself made that point You know the dog doesn't know what's going on Hi Greg I'm an adult I hate Halloween I'm scared of bangers and I don't want People coming to the door last year Had my door banged and people shouting We know you're in there Do you have a gate that you could put a sign on I don't know There's a time of year that brings An awful lot of fear and that's off the back Of a comment from a report From Garda Sergeant Union Walsh Which is really terrifying Can you imagine someone It was in letter Kenny wasn't it Put a firework, a lit firework In through the door of someone's house Can you imagine the injury that could have caused To an adult or a child sitting Or playing in the hall as it turned out The door went on fire They managed to control the fire Thankfully they were in the house and not asleep upstairs But that is Very serious crime Five years in prison potentially Ten thousand euro fine But we really need to talk to everyone Who needs to listen and say If you think that's fun You really need to copy yourself on Because it's not fun it's stupid Because some people maybe don't know that We got this Email in From someone who didn't want to come on Because They don't want to feel the ire of others I live in Beautiful in a shone Stunning picturesque amazing place The people are wonderful and there's a great community spirit And an extremely generous Altruistic nature There's a conversation needed to be had And I'm just not brave enough to have it In my community Are we going to put an end to pointless And needless burning of fossil fuels As a charity event This weekend there was another tractor run In our area I understand people are burning fossil fuels daily For both heat and transport But as a community collectively Burning fuel unnecessarily Now this is not something that's Been brought up to me before But this is someone that says Tractor runs are really bad for the environment And it goes against community I suppose Maybe they're implying there as well Is that something to be considered I don't know You're already seeing places with a reputation For fireworks displays going down the drone route I don't know what the alternative to A tractor run is but Maybe in the not too distant future More people will agree with that listener And we'll say really should we Be burning all this diesel Let me see Saw some disturbing posts And comments from Sinn Fein supporters And various websites Rehama massacres Seems the Balaklava Has slipped again Mary Lou McDonald was speaking On that issue Stating her party's policy on it People regardless Of their political background all have Very different views on it I don't Say I don't have a view I tend not to comment on something unless I have The understanding of it And I'm still working through that in regards to What is happening All I know is An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind Effectively And I'm still processing The justification of some of the stuff that's going on Because of the historic Stuff that's been injured And I get that But I'm still not in a space whereby I cannot think Of little children Being killed or women being raped And men having their heads cut off And being paraded on the back of lorries Off the back of all the stuff Bad stuff that's happened And that's in no commentary on it Really in any meaningful way It's just I find all of it so horrendous I really, really do Hi Greg Could you please ask if anyone else has experienced this The doctor referred a family member For a national diabetic Ice screening They will be five to six weeks before forms Ascent and then you have to wait for an appointment After that thanks I'm not sure We'll throw it out there and see if anyone listening Has a similar experience I'm not sure is the option there to do it privately I think some of the Some of the big optician chains Do similar screening to that I'm not sure if that will fit what you're talking of Hi Greg from Raymond Gaza is the world's largest concentration camp Of some 2.2 million Palestinians And it's made deliberately so by Israel Indeed some others describe it As The world's largest Open air prison Incredibly heavily populated And it's a tiny tiny little Landspace with 2.2 million people in it Right that's why we have to leave it on the show today Come back with us will you We're back with you tomorrow morning at nine But for me Greg Hughes and Caroline Orhoo Researched and produced have a great day And don't forget to stay tuned Out and about around the north west