 highest amount in a decade, South Donegal to the Marion Harcun says people in counties like Donegal with no other option but to drive would be hit the hardest. If you look at the average kilometers driven each year it's about 16,300 whereas if you live in Sligo and Donegal the average is about 17 and a half thousand and in each mineral scum it's about 19,000 so that means you're going to pay more than the average motorist. A Liffords roller counselor is asking Donegal County Council for regular reports on the negotiations with the HSC regarding the Lifford common site which has been earmarked for a new community hospital. The area is currently being developed by Donegal County Council with roads and services such as water being planned as well as the hospital. There are plans for 60 social housing and some commercial developments in the area. Counselor Jerry Crawford says if its potential is to be maximized then Donegal County Council's Economic Development Department should also become involved. The hospital is certainly from the HSC we're getting all the positive jibes from it and you know everything seems positive and the council replies when you ask is that yep there are discussions this should come on the economic development as well because the advantage to the economy of the area I think that that's very important and I think that we should be getting a possible public reports from the economic development section on how negotiations are going. The Minister for Justice has described a new EU migration pact as a game chamber. MEP voted yesterday in favor of reforming how migration is dealt with across Europe. However it's been criticized by migrant support groups and Amnesty. The agreement was also severely criticized in the Dull last night by Donegal Deputy Thomas Springle. However Minister Helen McEntee says opting into this pact will allow for faster and stricter processing of arrivals. There is nothing in this migration pact that doesn't benefit Ireland. I genuinely believe this is a game changer and I say that because it will mean that in law we will have to process applications much more quickly. We know the quicker that we process people's applications people who genuinely need our help they can move on with their lives we can support them to integrate people who shouldn't be here who don't have a right to be here it is much easier to remove them. 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Hello good morning to you six minutes past night it's actually five minutes past nine my apologies and it's Thursday the 11th of April 2024 and you welcome along to another edition of the 9 to noon show loads coming up for you all for the next three hours we want your involvement in the conversation and raising your own issues and topics and passing on your own information good news as well of course by the way we love that and you can whatsapp it to us 08 660 25000 and you can whatsapp your voice notes as well to us if that suits you better 08 660 25000 that's the SMS number as well if you want to give us a call it's 07 491 25000 and it's emails to comments at highland radio.com. Let's look at the papers this morning it's busy as it always is on the Thursday the Treconal Tribune this morning the EU election campaign is set to move up a notch with speculation that former Dragon's Den star Peter Casey's about to join the battle in a bid to win a seat in this sprawling five seat constituency Mr Casey was in Remelton at the weekend to support Councillor Port McGarvey's election campaign and he would not confirm officially that he was entering the race but I'm not ruling anything out he told the Tribune however sources close to him said he is a definite runner but he's seeking an opportune time to make his declaration in the climate of politics where the government parties were so heavily whacked in the two referendums there is the possibility that voter fatigue with the current government could see many voters turn to independent candidates Peter Casey could easily be the choice for many of those disillusioned voters a recent opinion polls suggest that three out of every five people believe the country has taken in too many Ukrainian refugees 62% are of that view while another 20% are neutral with only 3% saying that Arlen must continue to take in refugees but it will be interesting in that I suppose when he ran for office the last time he maybe was seeing as something of an outlier in his views but what we're seeing now is that the main political parties are perhaps coming closer to what his views might be in relation to a lot of maybe the issues that he might be talking about interesting times the Donegal news this morning and what their whose teenage daughter has a progressive disease has told a public meeting letter Kenny she's very concerned proposed assisted dying legislation will lack safeguards the woman whose daughter is just a teenager spoke at a packed public meeting in the mantaergal on Tuesday night the event was organised by a group of local doctors and medical professionals who are opposed to any such legislation the joint doctors committee on assisted dying has recommended the government introduce legislation to allow for assisted dying in certain restricted circumstances my daughter is 19 she's an adult with a progressive disease she lives with chronic pain but she's not let this dampen her will to live she the worried mom said my concern as her mother is for the regulation of this legislation how are they going to regulate it mental health wise she asks how are they going to determine that a person wishes to die by assisted suicide and that the art suffering from depression which can be treated another question she posed to that meeting the dairy news this morning a young dairy mother fleeing domestic violence had her hospital records assessed by or accessed by an unauthorised western health and social care trust staff member the woman who wished to remain anonymous received written confirmation of the data breach from w h s c t chief executive neil guccian in his letter of apology mr guccian confirmed to the woman her medical records had been unlawfully accessed by a member of her ex-partner's family who was a trust employee just worrying that that could happen but it was picked up on to the Irish independent now and cancer patients in need of time critical surgeries have suffered cancellations due to hospital overcrowding a leading medical expert warned yesterday and this is something we knew anyway but i think the fact that it was put on the record and the rockers committee means it's worth mentioning again professor john kennedy an oncologist st james hospital also said that a number of radiotherapy machines were lying idle due to a lack of specialized staff he added that only two percent of cancer patients in Ireland had access to clinical trials when the figure should be as high as 10 but doctors who want to carry them out are caught up in red tape the real hallmark of excellent services being see is having plenty of clinical trials available for patients we have enormous problems doing it and the regulatory environment oppressive professor kennedy said but i know for a fact there's going to be people listening to us who are cancer patients who have had surgeries cancelled and they're often called elective surgeries which kind of sort of suggests it's you know getting rid of an ingrown toenail or something the elective surgery sort of description but no often it can be very very important interventions and surgeries if you're affected by that please feel free to get in contact with us at the Irish times this morning Ireland is to overhaul it's the asylum system after the european parliament approved a new policy to harden the bloc's borders after years of deadlock the international protection act 2015 will be repealed minister for justice Helen McIntee said yesterday and new legally binding time frames for making decisions on international protection applications and appeals will be introduced it's no coincidence by the way that this has been talked about for years and years and years and as we approach the european elections all of a sudden people have got to move on to introduce this there are mixed views as to whether or not this improves the situation in Ireland or in fact makes it worse the the measures have been criticised by and i can only describe it like this for the purpose of the description the far right and the far left so those of the liberal or critics critical of it those that want tighter borders are critical of it as well we read that there'll be greater focus on efficient returns for unsuccessful applicants and accelerated processes for those from safe countries or those with no documentation of false papers the european parliament vote which was opposed by Sinn Fein allows for more people to be detained in facilities at borders and allows countries to make financial contributions in lieu of taking in asylum seekers and just listening to miss McIntee's comments this morning i thought it quite interesting in that she said this would sort of go some way to addressing the problem of people arriving here without documentation and it's not that long ago that we were being told that there wasn't really an issue with people arriving here with no documentation and now the government themselves are saying that this will help in that regard miss McIntee said the vote marked a historic step which provides a robust legislative framework to address migration and asylum across that he usually described it as a shared european solution to a shared european challenge um we'll talk about that of course what interests me though is is that where does island sit in this because there is a part of this and i'd be interested to ask someone who knows part of this is that you really are it's supposed to mean that it's easy to get you back to the country that you first arrived in so if someone arrived in spain um sold asylum there but ended over in arland seeking asylum uh then it would be easier to send that person back to spain which was the first protocol but there's very few direct flights from an awful lot of places that people might be fleeing into arland and i'm sure our european neighbours have discussed that because theoretically if this were to be enforced to the letter of the law the fact that we are an island nation with not as many direct flights as others or easier access by sea that we could be an advantage in terms of numbers but i haven't heard or seen that addressed anywhere and i can't imagine we're going to be led away with that so that's worth digging into a little bit more as well irish daily mail now this morning guardi are policing almost twice the number of cars and vehicles as there were 15 years ago since 2009 the number of guardi dedicated to road policing has declined from a high of 1046 to 647 this year a drop of 399 in the same period the number of licensed vehicles on the roads has risen by at least 440 000 from 2.46 million in 2009 to over 2.9 million now that means that while there was one guarda for every 2,351 vehicles on the roads in 2009 each officer is now responsible for 4,832 vehicles now i don't think each guard's responsible for those vehicles i'm not here to to sort of advocate behalf of the guardi but i think it's more than the roads policing that actually enforce you know the rules of the road and what have you but that being said it's still notable that the the amount of traffic cops so to speak has reduced while the amount of cars has increased significantly but i'm sure it's across the forward front across the four front-line guardi are involved in administering the laws road safety authority chief executive lizelle donnell said the 40 percent reduction in dedicated road police since 2009 was not acceptable okay i think drew harris wants 18 000 guards were well short of that the farmers journal uh heavy rain and delayed turn out have started to impact the cattle trade with a marked drop in cattle prices over the last two weeks analysis uh of irish farmers journal mark bids data shows that average quality 500 kg to 600 kg heifers have fallen from uh three or three a kilogram in mid march to 287 last week a drop of 88 euro head not insignificant speaking to the irish farmers journal kill kenny march said george candler said empty sided pits full slurry tanks and waterlogged fields on farms across the country and not helping confidence in the cattle trade i'm a little bit ignorant here i would thought that would is that about the quality of the cattle um presumably okay uh on to uh the star now the government was paying up to one million euro a month to accommodate the pets of ukrainian refugees in hotels and other state-funded properties during the first year of the country's conflict with russia the department of integration picked up the tab for the accommodation of animals that had made the journey to ireland with their owners and also for pets that refugees had acquired since arriving here so um even if you didn't bring a pet to ireland if you got a pet the government ie us was still paying for it now in terms of accommodating them uh were the pets not kept with their owners were there were they in separate accommodation at the peak of the practice in november 22 1806 pets were staying in state funded accommodation for ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection uh these included 933 dogs 819 cats 54 of the animals were categorized as others it cost up to 20 euro a night for each of the animals according to records obtained by the star at which rate the monthly bill for accommodating the pets of ukrainians uh bltps would have been just over one million a spokesperson for the department said the precise figure could not be supplied because the invoices issued by accommodation providers did not categorize between bltps and pets what's a bltp i have no clue i'll have to i'll figure it out so the they weren't being kept in the they were being kept in the premises that the they were staying but the people that own the premises were charging the government for a pet accommodation for the pets so they were from my reading of that it seems like i would have thought if there was a bill like that it would be because they were in kennels or uh some other separate accommodation until such time as they could be with their owners but that sounds to me like uh the people that provide the accommodation were being paid extra to accommodate the pets to the tune of a million a month a million uh how much was it a million a a million a month surely would that have been happening is that happening if they were in the hotel room or or other type of accommodation that was extra money paid for the pets the irish son this morning rt staff must declare any gifts worth between 50 and 100 euros part of the ongoing cleanup the register of gifts affects employees and contractors working for the broadcaster directed general kevin backhurst yesterday emailed workers about the change he told them they must fill out a form after receiving a present giving them a realistic valuation of between 15 and 100 euro and mr backhurst warned uh any gift with a realistic valuation of over 100 euro should not be accepted or if it must be accepted then is declared and becomes the property of rt so car deals and all those type of things are going to become more um complicated and lastly this morning uh the mirror shin fame blasted new t-shock simon harris's absence from the doll yesterday afternoon because it was too busy taking calls from world leaders opposition parties criticized the government for voting through changes to the doll order of business for yesterday which means that leaders questions was among the items dropped from the schedule government chief whip hildegard nocton said mr harris wasn't able to take leaders questions as he had to conduct phone calls with ukrainian president volodomir zolensky uk prime minister rishi sunak as well as north and island first minister michel o'neill and deputy first minister emma little pengelly i mean he said he was going to hit the ground running listen i i i think if mary lou mcdonnell becomes leader of this country uh she's going to take some time out to accept the congratulations of world leaders i think that's a bit of a what's that word people use now nothing burger uh but anyway it is what it is so there's two annoying phrases we were talking about that lee uh to lee just before nine o'clock apparently it was uh must have been a world annoying phrases day if there are any words or phrases that you hear regularly last time i asked this i got a right hammering but if there are any phrases or words that you hear generally in society please don't make make it all about me let us know if you could consign a phrase or a word to the uh to the stockpile of non-used words let us know what it might be 08 660 25 000 that is the whatsapp and text number or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 daily newspapers our courtesy of kelly 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on the outlet at highland radio dot com or call us on zero seven four nine one twenty five thousand good morning to mary and kathy they are amongst the hundreds of people watching the show across our media social media channels this morning just to remind you you can watch the program on your large smart tv or your fire stick on the youtube app highland radio island or on facebook as well highland hub highland news and sport demino brian is from donna gall but living out in australia he's with us now hi demian hey how's it going big man not too bad at all thanks for joining us okay so uh your is it your facebook account that got hacked demian and tell us what happened um basically uh just i got a request from my friend and it was stupid on my part because i didn't realize you know to go back in and check to say look there's an effect that you hear about these i just i got a message for as i said from a friend to say go on send me a code there from your phone um because i can't get in the messenger without even thinking i just sent the code and within three five seconds i was just frozen out of the account um and there are just scammer people ever since i can't get in there a reporter at the facebook um as soon as i put up an ad on that page and that's under my wrinkle brand that's that's the page that they're um scamming out of and they're selling Taylor's rough tickets they're selling never been match day tickets they're just selling everything that can get high octane money off it and that's that's a shame really because i've rang the literary kindergarten they didn't see if they're fraud squad to get on there maybe they could get on to the bank you know to see if that account can be frozen or whatever but nothing seems to be can be done about it you know unless facebook itself there's no direct line to facebook like a phone number you know so unless people individually reports it in the facebook hopefully pick it up and they'll block yeah the line's actually really quite pure pure but effectively what happened these scammers obviously uh their recovery code that was sent to you you've passed on to them and that's how the access to your account you've got quite a number of friends and connections on facebook so if they post an advert and people do what they might see as a bit of due diligence it looks legit uh and that's the problem isn't it yeah see that's like because you have a mutual friend so like i you know thousand people there like i know so many people i don't want to say them popular but i just i know a lot of people and you know and sometimes you have just mutual friends of mutual friends and you just like automatically i will see friends with my friend they must be okay and then they look through the site and they see me say i own something or they're like oh well again it just looks legit you know so and and i hate to say this but we all know not to hand money over so people that don't know me personally or i don't know anybody personally i wouldn't hand over the guts of 700 euros or a thousand or never mind even 50 or 100 euros never mind that kind of money so it's just for people out there listening do your due diligence on it and and just don't unless you're meeting the person and chat you know and person don't be handed out any kind of money at all even if it's only 50 euros or you know or 700 euros of this matter because you can there's a sign there that you can tell that it's a fake count you know of like if someone says uh give me an example right um e-tickets for a concert in Dublin all right nice one oh i'm in there can i i will send me send me a a deposit you know say well i was there in Dublin will they'll come and meet you automatically they'll just say oh no i can't because i'm white right that's green that's red flags you know so there's just small little signs to me personally all right stay where you are because obviously you're here trying to avoid people being scammed out of money but there's reputational damage to you as well because you know people might think that you are willfully engaged in this activity you're in Australia but your family's here as well Teresa is Damien's sister and Teresa's with us as well as i say i i i understand where Damien's coming from we're trying to warn people off these scams in general but it's damaging uh i suppose the O'Brien name too as well and you're getting the the brunt of that Teresa yeah good morning yes we are um a few friends of mine have contacted us to say that Damien has found tickets and it goes to a count has been frozen and like as i say there are a lot of people getting on to me just people messaging me do i know this person i've been scammed and we're trying to you know what it's actually so bad on our behalf because we're starting to go he's gone that accounts closed that's a scam and we're trying to warn people and then friends of mine and cousins like they're they're actually coming no text and saying oh they're at it again so we have actually warned people look if you see it just right under it it's a scam report it it's really bad on us not bad it is bad on us because you're thinking oh my god like Damien O'Brien is scamming people or the brains of scamming people we're not we're just trying to warn people just be please be very very careful yes the majority of the the majority of people are going to know that it's got nothing to do with you guys it's literally scammers they're all over the place and i mean obviously your sister also nearly fell victim to a scam on a facebook selling page as well that's correct she was actually on facebook and seen garden furniture i draw furniture for sale and like that too yeah we'll buy it we'll collect it this evening and the person that was selling it's just always near deposit so she says no i'll just pay when i get there i'll let this see them and like that i'll get back to you later on and as the evening came then she tried to message them again to say well we'll come this evening to pick it up to realize she was blocked and then the next day the thing was up again and the following day so we're just like that too we just write under that's the scam and the last day there was a few more people had comments on dress yeah i was nearly caught as well looking for deposit looking for deposit yeah and they were sitting there going like we'll pay on arrival but in other words the weren't here telling us when they realized that they weren't getting any deposit then you were blocked and just to be clear because that this is not automated it's clever non-collection can delivery of local serious buyers only full set it's just over a year old with no scratches stains or dents it's really lovely comes with egg chair full corner sofa table stools and cushions and a full product and on it goes and on it goes you can you can see how you can fall for it looks completely legit doesn't it in terms of how it's worded or stuff it's not saying it's brand new you know we want it and we're trying to give it away it's got a decent story that you think right this is this is legit yeah you know kind of you think it's legit you think and that's brown i'll put it at the side of the house or i'll put it at the back of the house or or i'll have at the garden and then we go on to acquire answers uh all right that's the text is all legit things that's legit and when they say oh we'll pick it up the next thing then they ask for deposit yeah when you should be client then the deposit that's at your block yeah and also too what people have to be very careful when they post on these buy and sell websites is that it starts off often as a missing dog or something um and loads and loads of people share and become friends with these people because they think oh my word a poor doggy let's get the doggy home and then later that day they change the profile and then they start posting these adverts and they've already been shared amongst a whole friends network previously as a dog missing dog or something on those lines but now it's one of these scams um Damien you haven't no luck with facebook at all like are people reporting it are not reporting it and saying that this is a site impersonating you or that you've been hacked or locked out or you can't facebook aren't taking them on at all no they're not even like i'm in Paris here now and there's people being scammed and suddenly like i set up a page for help an irish move to australia called party connect and they're just coming on to me and they're going you've just scammed me out of tickets for concerts and suddenly like so the they've even come on they've obviously come on to my site and party connect you know because it's you know associated with maverick you know and they're just trying hard you know and it's really unfair you know that facebook is not picking it up you know considering all that and with all with all my friends and everybody as Trisha says there hi Trisha um you know right now under this hack they have the power to take away that comment for a second you know i mean so even though that i would write or leave me blocked on it from the party connect site um so they they just take down your comment that you have brought it up that it's a it's hacked so this is a hacked account and anybody that makes that it i'm i'm seeing anybody that makes a comment on that maverick brand today right well let's try something here let's try something here a lot of listeners are on uh facebook you know and i think if 50 the 50 of the listeners to this show we even took part in this it might help if they search out maverick o brian profile okay um and reported they probably have mutual friends because we're a small enough old region the northwest let's see if i'll do it during the next break that a lot of us report this as a scam page or as an impersonation page to facebook we'll like i'm asking people listening here get out your phone on facebook put in maverick o brian and obviously uh is it easy how do we know it's the right maverick o brian is there many maverick o brians on facebook yeah well i know i noticed that there were two maverick o brians one's got over a thousand friends i think it's 1100 or some and the other one's got 27 friends so you'll know the one that and it's a and it's a picture of a wee dog and a baby on on the picture right okay i'm doing this and i'm assuming there are a lot of mutual friends i've got 42 mutual friends with you uh right okay i am literally reporting this now as we speak um where do we do report profile i'm doing my best for you damien therese i'm trying my best it's pretending to be someone okay so i've clicked pretending to be someone yeah uh a friend this is where it starts getting complicated now because i'm trying to search you but yours is the one that's been hacked i'll figure this out we'll do a fake account all right i'm gonna go fake account submit uh and away we go right okay so open up your phone get maverick o brian on facebook it's a wee baby beside the dog report profile and let's see 50 of us do it maybe they'll i've done it now so we'll see what happens all right um damien stop uh helping people move from donna gall to australia please we want to keep you at home i know i know but i i'm only messing i'm only messing yeah i know it's a is there a ton of uh a ton of people from the northwest over there now damien ah look hi there's so many people from donna gall here like avapage there with 7 000 people even if you go on tiktok there and just look up paddy connect there's a hundred questions that you want sitting at home as far as Jesus accommodation you know what age you know like there's there's consultancy people out there there's charge the 500 euros just to go on the phone for a half an hour consultation fee and i'm like look i'll do it for free it's better that you have somebody that there's one of your own and if you can ask me a hundred questions and if it helps you you know to take your the contents of your house over your car over ralan because there's so much expense associated coming over here so if you can cut half of the cost you know by coming over here and get maybe putting you in contact with um people that have accommodation houses you know realtors um you can set up a bank account before you come over here ralan so you can hit the ground work or you know running before you know to get working pps numbers like it's a tax file numbers you know there's just so many things that you can do from home that you can rather than coming over because it's expensive over here you know and there's a whole panic mode when you come over here and you try and get into a hostel or you try and get in but if you take out the sun so much if you take out the sun right you have to go over there and graft it is it much better because you know obviously you're away from your your family and you're away from your infrastructure and all that kind of stuff and but i mean at the end of the day i've i've seen posts where people are effectively being put out of their accommodation and are worried that they're homeless this is irish in australia and i'm not talking about all of australia just one particular case like is it as fantastic as it sounds it's just i don't know it's it's a way of life you know um they say it's a whole like there's so much activity here you know for the likes of kids like every 150 meters there's nearly a park with a fold you know well there's only one park and there can be a two park story you know and it's every suburb which is like every house in the state nearly has their own park that's for one you're living on the coastline you know there's just a sunset there every day where you just a couple of hundred meters and even if you're not a couple of hundred meters you're 20 minutes from the beach you know on the work side of things you know if you're working on an irish site you know you're doing 10-12 hours you know you're you're it's just a few of a concrete portal and it's just a lot harder work at home we're here it's an eight hour shift you know i mean and if you can do it tomorrow let's do it tomorrow like it's more based on family you know it's not all about work work work you know okay well listen i'm gonna have to cut you off there before we've no one left in donninggold i mean it sounds so bloody fantastic stay there a little briefly okay me i yeah just stay there a second the money's the money's triple okay that's fantastic any radio presenter jobs going right jackie has reported bridge it's reported thank you so very much indeed which account do you unfriend well it's not really about unfriending it's reporting you unfriend the one with a thousand friends or report the one with a thousand friends or followers sorry not 27 so it's maverick or brian it's a picture of a dog and a baby looking at the camera there's a car as a picture and it's scamming people and we all have it an odd gift to keep report on facebook they can't ignore if many of us do damien thank you very much indeed lovely chat and to you hopefully that gets sorted with the power of the people give me a thanks very much take care tereza you're not going away you're gonna stay with us here in donninggold aren't you i'm still here i'm going no road good woman all right thanks listen we'll be back with more on the nine-ton noon show after we take this break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com the nine-ton noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today return arlands deposit return scheme is now live and we're bringing it back in addition to a refundable deposit on return logo plastic bottles and cans during the transition period there may be a deposit on drinks containers that don't have a return logo but remember if you pay a deposit you'll get a 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june the ninth plus they'll have the satisfaction of knowing that they made a positive impact on their customers nominate now nominations close 23rd of april now jimmy stafford is of course of highland radio but also operations and risk manager with bank of arland good morning to you jimmy thanks for your time today good morning Greg and just as we were talking about scams and there is a fraud awareness week ongoing at the moment and there is a fraud awareness event taking place at bank of arland that's a canny what's this about yeah it's an event that's been rolled out across the country Greg in the last few months i suppose it's started here so it's bank of arland group fraud so there's about 250 working in our fraud department which in itself tells you the extent to what's going on at the moment and also a local guardian here in donninggold will be in attendance tomorrow morning at half eight and really the whole objective is to raise awareness and Greg you know yesterday alone across the country there were 10 what we know of invest suspected investment fraud scams yesterday for customers that's what we know of in one day alone and just in that regard would that be people notifying the bank that they suspected that they could be the victims of fraud or would they be contacting the bank because the processor was already underway so to speak yeah bit of both Greg so one ones would be ones that we would intercept and then the other ones were customer would come in and say i think i've sent this money and it hasn't arrived and it's gone and i've tried to contact the person and lo and behold the email does work the phones don't work um so it's it's really you know if paul walis has been on with you many times uh now retired talking about it but it's it seems to just keep on going on and on and on the watch app scams their man their dad um and clicking on the link so we're just seeing it's increasing all the time despite the level of awareness that's that's being put out there um and people just seem to be still clicking on links still uh you know believe in i suppose saint caroline you know you want to make that quick book uh you see a link you're clicking it and no behold you're brought into another false world yeah and jimmy often what it is is though it's shock and awe as well uh i know it's a different type of fraud but in damien's case there you know he knows what is that but he got a mess a message on messenger from a purported friend saying listen could you send me this uh number probably busy like we all are you know we're running around like uh uh cats uh and they just in an instant sent it and then within an instant he was locked out of his account and and they can do it the same with the fraud because they'll ring you and say you know i've seen a very convincing scam where revolutes involved and they talk about that being compromised and it's linked to your bank of art under cat and we're gonna have to get access to one to the other or you're gonna lose all your money and it shocks people and it's all done really quickly and really professionally and that's what you're talking about isn't it stop think check you've got a team there for an example as most banks do if you've got any concerns get off the phone call get out of the email don't click the link and contact your bank yeah that's what i would say i mean immediately and i get called from friends and family said jimmy do a click on this you know you've got them kreg i've heard you in the morning i've got them two two from the on post or whoever might be your parcel is ready for collection click on the link i would say just don't click on the link just don't click in it and then the other message greg is go to whoever go to your local bank if you're if you're on the shore go in and even go back in the whatsapp messages greg you know the ones with dear mam dear dad i've lost my phone yeah we've we've had parents who've come into branch and say i'm sending this money now we're saying this is a scam and we've had live exams where we've asked the parent to ring the child in front of us and they ring the child and the phone is answered now it's hard to believe you haven't done that before but you get such a fright because you think your child needs money now you want to get to that money straight away so i mean what i would say and i've seen friends and family ring the number that you have your child and lo and behold in 99 percent of the cases the child will answer the phone and i think that's an important one but greg the key message is as you said stop thinking check but go to your local bank go to your broker if there's an investment i mean we're when i was in cases where you might have an investment online where you're dealing with a bank or a broker whatever and then you have forms that you email off the fraudsters as we know can intercept these emails and then they can start manipulating those emails or the forms that are in and we've seen a couple of cases like that as well so you know it's it's really important and greg the other one that you've spoken about in your show is invoice redirection for businesses yeah and that's a huge problem again where a business has you know an invoice the invoice is intercepted and they get another email back saying we've changed bank account can you now send the money to this bank what i would say in that case ring that cost always have a phone back up don't you yeah and i think it's important managers as well isn't it jimmy inform their staff because you know someone in a council that could be new or what have you if there's a protocol where everything's checked by a phone as well it kind of means that you can't get done that way you know providing you have a number a legit number not one that's included in the email a legit number that these type of things could be checked on yeah and i think it's it's what we it's called a double or triple checking system that you know somebody who's maybe doing the accounts in the office maybe double checks with somebody else in the office that there's a procedure there around payments and then somebody might say you know we might just double check that and might go back to john or jimmy or greg and just check is that the right details because that's changed that doesn't sound right so it's having that that checking process in place yep so the the event bank of honor that are kenny it's an 8 30 a tomorrow morning is it for business owners the general public who's not everybody and anybody greg it's all ages i mean the world the lads are going to school as well tomorrow morning a couple of schools so it's it's all ages and i suppose you know you look at from a parent perspective or a grandparent perspective big issue as you as you're aware you've talked about is the money mule accounts so talking about that and young kids my own teenagers who are now being via snapchat and tiktok are being brought into this world where do you want to make a quick book and all of a sudden these money mule accounts and that's becoming more dangerous because the the guard he will talk about this tomorrow as well that that teenagers and will be prosecuted and have been we've seen in the news down the career on the money so it's it's trying to raise the level of awareness out there it is because what's important about that god the guard he have said ignorance is not seen as a defense in that regard and we've been talking to about people traveling and going abroad you get done for being a money mule even if you say well i didn't realize what was happening you get a conviction yeah it's money laundering effectively and it can reflect very badly on you for a very long time jimmy okay listen thank you very much for that i appreciate your time take care of yourself for call us as my business page has also been hacked i have been to the garden twice there's nothing that can be done lots of people have reported it to facebook they do nothing about it and i've notes of at least a dozen people now and maybe it's more that i've reported that i've reported the maverick o brian facebook page it's the one with a thousand odd friends on so listen it might not make no difference but it might also as well higher rates so good morning to you good morning greg how are you i'm not too bad you were very popular on on social media earlier this week weren't you i was yeah and so on tuesday greg i just want to make the listeners aware of a scam going on on facebook and on tuesday morning i got 12 friend requests from what was said funeral services and it had the pictures of local people that were deceased and their funerals were taken place and so i clicked into the link and but i was made aware a few weeks ago about the scam about as you click on the links that they're providing they're asking for money to view the funeral service online so i reported it to facebook and blocked the senders but just wanted to make people aware that do not click on the link for these funeral services yeah i think there's something particularly nasty about these people uh going through obituary notices rs or rip.io wherever it might be taking the picture of a deceased person that we'd probably know all from our community and then using them as a scam i've seen some any of them are horrendous but they don't have any uh conscience whatsoever and as you say it's the funeral services click the link to watch the funeral and they only need one or two people it's not to get the 499 to watch it as soon as they get your account details they will clean you out rachel it's horrible thank god that you have that awareness yeah and even when i clicked um the blocked and stuff i still received a couple of friend requests later on that day from them you know so it's a very um yeah it's praying on vulnerable people you know and i was actually attending the funeral one of the the pictures up and you know that day and obviously maybe from comment and then under you know people put on their rest and peace or whatever and on on a branch race so they're obviously getting like senderlust from from that type of thing you know and that it just it's praying on people's vulnerability so it's not very nice no i see what you're doing they're actually even going into the comments to target people right okay uh that is really well hazard a guess no i think right yeah it makes sense that's what they're doing you know all right rachel listen thanks to make the public aware well done to you thank you so much rachel really appreciate it all right great thank you bye bye so that's rachel who um just to recap what she's talking about uh we see it all too often now and it's horrendous uh but people that we know people from our community our region uh these fraudsters will take their funeral details they'll take their pictures and they create these fake accounts and uh they'll offer a link for you to watch the funeral and they will seek money from you and as soon as you enter your bank details they'll empty your bank account out which is incredibly regrettable but the fact they're exploiting grief and losses even more horrendous and again uh particularly on some of these buying sell sites and what have you if you see a missing child or if you see a dog that's been missing double check it often it's very very clear that it's from a fraudster's account and what they do is you see if it's a missing dog or cat or something 50 people will share that into their profile and you'll think you've done a good thing but a few hours later they will change that to a scam or one of these funeral notices and uh what happens then is that you will appear to be part of this fraud because it will no longer be a missing dog now it will be a funeral service or it will be a um uh some other sort of a fraud so i suppose we all have to help and keep an eye out for each other the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union 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it's for anything which you uh that you may want to talk about or what we can help you with uh get in touch with us we're joined on the program now by uh josephine josephine moll hall director of moll hall contracts thanks so much for joining us um josephine i wish you were under different circumstances uh but you're looking for the public's help we are great we are we're just just putting a bit of an appeal out um i'm sure you're all aware now we had the our trailer with um cutting material and purlins on it stolen on thursday night up at foil golf up in dairy and um we're just appealing to anybody to keep an eye out and see if we can try and get this trailer back so tell us all the details that might help that we know uh in in terms of the descriptions and the trailers and and what was seen well the trailer was a 16 foot tri axle tough mack trailer um there's mud guards on it there's a very distinctive yellow 16 amp plug wired onto the back of it um the cladding then um trailers knew we only bought it last year the cladding material then it's an anthracite in color gray um dark gray the sheets are about six meters long and they're distinctive because they're non drip cladding um there was also a quantity of purlins and flashings on it this is all stuff that's specific for a job it wouldn't be much use to anybody else for any other thing um it's just supposed the inconvenience and the awful awful expense of it all yeah now the trailer's reg is listed as well but i i imagine that's been uh disposed of almost immediately um now those are watching the show and myself here at the moment uh we can see it being told what type of a van is that it's obviously a white van uh do we know the make and model it was a Ford transit van a fairly i would say older type model um they they were very professional they were very quick um there was somebody on that site until 10 o'clock on Tuesday night um the compound was locked and um they were in and had the material stolen by 22 minutes past 10 so we're all shocked and we're we're devastated but unfortunately that's the time it's relevant yeah now just to recap and all you've said a lot of this before it was being told by a white uh transit van which seems pretty clean actually it's got a the black line down the side which you presume is for a sliding door but it does make it a little bit distinctive it's a triple axle trailer flat bed trailer carrying 16 uh thousand euro worth of steel for the new extension so this is uh you know this is a lot of financial loss here it is it is plus for the client where we're under um a bit of pressure with the client too because he that's in foil golf they're they're building that extension to facilitate a new trackman system which is on route from Italy so it all had to be up and done roof on ready for the new system so now to be fair or our supplier fabric has been very accommodating they've tried to get us going and everybody's very good they've been offering trailers and people are so kind all the messages and the shares and facebook that has been very nice for us to see all that support yeah people are disgusted by it obviously um so tuesday night uh tuesday night uh just after 10 p.m uh just remind us of the area again uh just to recap some of that information where did this happen the foil golf centre is on the alder road that's it's just over the border there um so it follows on to the race course road which would be around the back road into dairy around um the bally harness if you turn in by moth so um it was in around there um it was taken any idea in the direction it was going i know from the image uh that that was captured i'm not sure if that gives you a a strong indication we don't want to have people looking in the wrong direction either but any idea the direction in which it may have traveled yes i think the pace and i between the pace and i in the guards i think they were checking did they go via moth or did they go on into dairy so i think it went the other way into dairy maybe around the back roads then and out so there's just so many roads and so many options but they are they have been very helpful and everybody's been very good they're keeping an eye uh camera footage yeah brilliant stuff yeah a reward is offered for the successful return of the trailer and steel for golf have offered a reward they have yeah all right brilliant stuff it's it's a tough max 16 foot tri axle flatbed trailer isn't it by the looks of it it had a lot of stuff on the back uh any information uh get it to us we'll pass it on uh contact mall hall contracts directly or the guardie or the ps and i hopefully there's some success with that it is a bit of a needle in the haystack but you just never know josephine well you just um thank you very much all right let's come on no problem okay thank you and i hope i hope it's fine soon the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online 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for diesel this month as excise cuts implemented during the cost of living crisis were reinstated with a further rise coming into effect in august almost four billion euro in fuel tax was taken in by the state last year that's the highest amount in a decade well south donnie gall td arian harkin says those in counties like donnie gall with no other option but to drive will be hit the hardest the average kilometer is driven each year it's about sixteen thousand three hundred whereas if you live in slago and donnie gall the average is about seventeen and a half thousand and in each mineral scum and it's about nineteen thousand so that means you're going to pay more than the average motorist a livered knowler councillor is asking donnie gall county council's economic development department department for regular reports on the negotiations with the hsc regarding the differed common site which has been earmarked for a new community hospital the area is currently being developed by donnie gall county council with a roads and services plan for water and others being outlined part a planning permission is being sought for that at the moment as well as the hospital there are also plans for 60 social homes and some commercial developments councillor jerry crawford says if the site's potential is to be maximized then the council's economic development department should be giving regular updates the hospital is certainly from the hsc we get in all the positive james from it and you know everything seems positive and the council replies when you ask is that yep there are discussions this should come on the economic development as well because the advantage to the economy of the area i think that that's very important and i think that we should be getting a possible public reports from the economic development section on how negotiations are going the justice minister has described a new EU migration pact as a game chamber gang changer excuse me mbp's voted yesterday in favour of reforming how migration is dealt with across europe however it's been criticized by migrant groups and by amnesty international the agreement was also severely criticized in the door last night by the nicole deputy tomas bringo we need to start by start tackling these issues or at the very least stop contributing to them the uncomfortable truth is that all of us in europe have contributed negatively to the climate crisis which has caused environmental emergencies and has resulted in the migration of people forced to leave their homes we need to stop putting all our resources into tackling migration and start focusing on tackling the actual causes of migration otherwise migration will only continue to rise and i fear the EU migration policies will only continue to get worse we need to approach this in a humane and compulsive way that assists countries that are experiencing recession environmental disasters and conflict however minister helen mackinty says opting into this pact will allow for faster and stricter processing of arrivals she says it's an important move there is nothing in this migration pact that doesn't benefit ireland i genuinely believe this is a game changer and i say that because it will mean that in law we will have to process applications much more quickly we know the quicker that we process people's applications people who genuinely need our help they can move on with their lives we can support them to integrate people who shouldn't be here who don't have a right to be here it is much easier to remove them a man's been charged in connection with a drug seizure in county monahan revenue officers seized nearly 195 000 euro worth of herbal cannabis after searching a property in the county yesterday the man aged in his 30s is due in court in cavern today a major new report is recommending that convincing ghost digital the legal process of transferring ownership is required when properties are being bought and sold the legal services regulatory 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pleased the nations in louis desired to medical three letter kenny university hospital care of any family member the death has to come place of patricia gillen 51 brook hill coolmore road dairy her remains are opposing at her home funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 to 11 for half past 11 requiem mass since in columbus church long tower cremation will take place in lakeland's crematorium cavern on saturday family time please from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. donations in louis flowers if desired to the foil hospice the death has to come place of julia mclean one ocala in court pier road wrath mollum reposing at her home in wrath mollum funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 in st joseph's church wrath mollum burial afterwards in wrath mollum cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed on mc and media family time please from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only please and the death has taken place of joe curly maharad mollum joe's remains are opposing at the home of margaret mccole maharad funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock funeral mass in st patrick's church a hotlay with burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard rosary tonight at 10 o'clock for family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com every year about 2600 people in ireland get bowel cancer bowel screening helps to reduce your risk of developing it the age range for bowel screen is changing if you're aged 59 to 69 register for a free bowel screen test kit once you've done the test at home return it by free post and we'll test your sample if you need follow-up tests we let you know register today at bowelscreen.ie or free phone 1 800 45 45 55 from the hsc and now in rose 2023 best local original news program the voice of the northwest the nine till noon show with greg hughes and you're very welcome back to the program or good morning if you're only after joining us joining us at last to come over the next couple of hours so don't go anywhere let's get some of your comments before we take the bingo numbers and are you keen to get them if you're playing because it is a jackpot day the bank says that they will not send you a text but a friend got a text to say that their account had been hacked you panic because you don't think it's legit but it was how can you tell what's real and what's not well if i got a text like that firstly i wouldn't be clicking any link within the text but i would contact the bank straight away is what i would do so and in fairness to the banks that i've dealt with if it's a case of fraud and you call the fraud number they do answer really quite quickly so you can get it sorted asap i would hope another big big red flag is if paying a deposit don't use friends and family on paypal if person is asking to use friends and family don't do it really really good advice you will see that sometimes it means that you've got no recourse against that person so there are protections built into paypal in case you are defrauded but if you click friends and family to someone you don't know or don't trust then you lose those protections one of the few advantages of paypal hi Greg i got this message from messenger yesterday from someone i know asking for my phone number i did send my number and then they asked me for a code but didn't go into it thank god that comes in from shame is shameless i got a ton of these messages uh gone send me your phone number uh phrased uh not quite like that but not dissimilar uh so you're right too and i started wondering when i got the first one i was like well what could this be about and then i got two or three and then it the penny dropped these cases are all down to greed say it's a listener um i know i did this i know i did this one day a caller said i had a business account and one day while working flat out the bank sent a message i know now it wasn't the bank but i clicked the link and said yes and almost lost 60 000 euro the bank were very helpful in sorting me but only with the grace of god because they stopped it before it went out of the account i would urge people to take a minute and think regardless of the pressure you're under such uh good advice and there is a window with certain banks and certain types of payment where it can show that it's been deducted from your account i think it's called a ghost payment or something along those lines and there is a short window of time sometimes whereby that can be uh reversed a caller says she was in a and e last week and was treated very well however the process for people who are checking in at reception is ridiculous people's personal details are being shouted out for everyone to hear and there's no privacy it is not the staff's fault but an administration issue where management don't allow a facility for staff to gain information privately and with all the stuff that we talk about some of these facilities it's the little things that you think that a difference could be made on and we did get a commitment on this program that the manager show murphy the general manager would have a look at that because obviously there's big stuff that's going to take years to fix and some might feel they may never be fixed but little things you would hope that could be resolved really quite quickly but unfortunately uh that hasn't happened yet just listening to you talk about government paying for pet accommodation for refugees have they really asked the plot could it be true to say the country had gone to the dogs well they're not doing it as much anymore uh but it was true um there's no doubt about that uh morning greg i watched a program on virgin one tv last night called arland is for a man called nick henderson said migrants who came with no passport documents were assessed within two days fingerprints taken on all information about them found out this is not true the government are treating us the irish people like fools thank you well the reality is is if you listen to um if you listen to helen mackinty talking about why arland uh needs to sign up to this new migration pact it was to actually mean that if we fingerprint someone we know where they've come from what what the their history or background is if they arrived in another country so it's it's crazy in that it's been denied that that was a problem but now we're being told by government to fix the problem that initially wasn't a problem uh the EU migration pact is how we do it you can understand why people get a little bit cynical are we not a sovereign republic and therefore why does helen mackinty minister for justice need to say we need to sign up to the new EU pact on uh migration or immigration are we not in control of our own borders and can we not enforce our own decisions this is a derogation of responsibility clearly when our politicians don't want to do as we the voters want they invent the excuse to blame the EU immigration farming high oil prices etc the electorates are not falling for this anymore they are awake eyes wide open the eyes were never closed i would argue but i take your point and lastly on a different note just before we take a break and we've got lord william hay joining us actually uh in studio for a chat so if you have any questions for william hay uh get them into us right now 08 660 24 uh 60 25 000 we were talking to about phrases that annoy people uh this phrase drives me crazy at the end of the day yeah at the end of the day is often used greg on the annoying phrase issue one that has crept in in recent years is do you know what i sorry do you know what okay i don't know where it came from but now otherwise sensible people are running about you no whatting all over the place another one is the overuse of the word like some people can't string a sentence together without having about five likes and i know what you're saying like because sometimes like it's hard to say something like without liking it another is i'm not gonna lie uh i'm not gonna lie you're looking fantastic today uh does that mean they normally would lie i suppose all these have come from our friends in the usa keep the phrases and the words that annoy you coming into us some of them so far at the end of the day another one is do you know what uh the overuse of the word like and also i'm not gonna lie to you those are some that annoy so far keep them coming into us as well just i find that slightly i find that entertaining it's nice to mix in with some of the serious stuff we talk about and then of course some less serious stuff right lord william hay joining us after we take this quick break it's time for vision island bingo on highland radio it's thursday the 11th of april jackpot day you're playing for the jackpot prize of 10 thousand euro one the pink sheet the reference number is s14 it's game number 15 the jackpot number is 39 this number can come out in any position from the next 10 numbers drawn and now here are 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about three and i suppose the rest is history and where does your britishness come from um if that makes sense well i suppose for many people living in northern ireland and who want to retain their britishness ship as opposed to look uh to britain they look to west minister they look to what west minister can deliver for them but most of all they are very proud and want to be british whether they were born and wherever they were born i think they still want to retain their britishness in so many many ways one of the battles you had uh was in obtaining a british passport well that was a difficult one not only for me but for about it affects something very close to my own heart yeah but it affects about 40 000 people who were born in the israeli republic who now live in northern ireland and i'm talking with people who have lived in northern ireland for many many years who've paid their taxes who pay their nice insurance and uh who have voted in various elections and find a real difficulty in applying for a british passport and remember if you look at the good friday agreement they talked about party of esteem you can designate yourself as british iris or other these people can't do that except to pay a huge fee of 1500 to be designated as a british citizenship with no guarantee of then getting a british passport british citizenship only gives you the right uh to apply for a british passport it doesn't come automatically to you so for many many people and i suppose this was an issue that probably should have been sorted uh during the negotiations both in the good friday agreement and st andrews unfortunately it wasn't uh but we now have a hopefully a resolution to it with the british government feeling that this needs to be addressed and my colleague gavin roberson who's now the interim leader of the party he has a bill uh in through uh the house of commons it has set its second reading and the government is now going to support that bill a load will remain a private members bill and hopefully this anomaly now once and for all can be settled because this goes back uh to 2005 do you think it was really more of an oversight then well i i think it was more or less than oversight because i was able to secure debate on the house of lords and on it i suppose a number of months ago and every political party Labour Lib Dems at cross benches was saying this is a monopoly that needs to be fixed so there is support in west minister and from the british government to resolve this issue once and for all i think they didn't realise that it was affecting in around 40 000 people when it was uh indicated the last census in 2001 um you we may have come back to that but you've been in politics now for half a century it goes back to 1981 um where you're elected into dairy london dairy 30 years in local government it's a long time we're not going to pick through that william because neither you or i have the time for it so really in your own words how would you reflect on the that three decades of your political career i suppose for me i worked for a long time behind the scenes of the politics my mother was first elected to council in uh 1972 73 uh i followed her then at the council as you say in 1981 and for me as a both politics has been fairly good to me i've been lucky in those years i've never lost an election or i know many of my colleagues who's worked hard i've lost elections i haven't done that i've been very lucky what do you put that down to i mean obviously your reference look that's a little bit uh uh you know maybe not giving yourself a little bit of credit there but why do you think that you've had that the people have continued to back you over those years because that's what it takes i think for me it's hard work it's representing the constituency it's probably going the second mile to represent people and uh in a national city in the city i on occasion stop the poll uh that most elections so for me it's all about doing the work and for me as soon as an election's over i'm all the most campaigning for the next election uh so for me as i say politics has been reasonably good to me i still keep in contact with many many people uh across the city uh for me that's very important i still work with people uh who would come to me on issues uh and for me it's probably a labour of love and it's a bit like it gets under your blood you know and you love the cutting thrust i love the cutting thrust of politics and for me as i say i've been very very lucky in those years and how would you frame your relationship with the nationalist population of the city i would hope that i would have a good relationship with the wider nationalist community uh we may have different views politically uh but i would have many many nationalists who i'm friendly with who come to talk to me about issues uh and uh for me the nationalist community and i have worked reasonably well together on many many issues now you and we'll move on to to where you went from there but just listening to you talking about the level of commitment to politics over those uh those 30 years and beyond but we'll get to beyond in a moment um anyone involved with you any family members or what have you partners uh partner uh they have to take you there's a third person in the relationship isn't there it's politics um you need a big support network that are prepared to buy into your commitment with you well i think you need that support at home i couldn't have done the job that i've done over the last 30 years and more without that support and i know at home uh when i was much younger politics was discussed sometimes on a weekly basis around the dinner table so for me i've sort of grown up uh with uh the politics and yes you need that support at home you might sometimes get it a hundred percent but i think if you get 80 percent of that support because you're away from home quite often uh you know i'm in london i'm monday to thursday normally i don't go every week but i go most weeks so i'm away from home monday to thursday so you need that support at home yeah absolutely to make to make politics a success but i mean you know you can be a lightning rod for for abuse and opinion and and and what have you as a politician and i suppose as a politician to some extent you sign up to that and that the face of that's changed even since you know you were first elected to now i suppose those around us don't sign up for that necessarily as well which i presume from your perspective is kind of tough well it is tough and you have to know what you're getting yourself into and you try also to have a private life which sometimes can be very difficult and sometimes the public out there don't believe with politicians should have a private life and should have a social life and occasions the two can clash and and for me it's it's trying to separate the politics into my social life and sometimes for many many people that's very difficult i haven't been too bad i've been able to do that and do it reasonably successfully you then were elected to the local assembly in the late 90s 1998 and after that then elected speaker of the northern island assembly in 2007 talk to me about life as a local assembly member well we were i was elected in 98 and i suppose as a party we did reasonably well in that election i have to say but it was a difficult period i have to say because we were elected and some of us weren't used we were all involved in local government but you were taking a very higher step into an elected assembly in delivering for the people that elected you you know you were looking at committees you were looking at departments how would they all work at the appointment of ministers all of that came into it so it's a huge quick learning curve for all of us even our own party leaders and all of that so 98 and we've got to remember in 99 2000 you had the first minister from uh the also unions David Trimble and your team is balance dabbity the assembly fell in 1990 1999 it fell then in 2000 uh for a number of reasons so there was a and i think sometimes people think well the assembly has only fallen recently in in earlier years literally that's not the case the assembly in 99 2000 fell for a number of reasons so it was then trying to get back on track uh in 2001 2002 uh but for me and for many people it was certainly a huge learning curve and we had to do it very quickly yeah learn on the job exactly and sometimes we didn't always get it right and and sometimes what are you thinking the hoof around some of the policy and some of the issues you know but for ourselves as a party uh you know we were representing a community uh that needed to be represented uh and for us that was very very important and i think we did that reasonably successfully did you feel you were able to better sort of deliver for those that elected you as an assembly member rather than as a member of the council well for me i enjoyed my time in council because you could actually see what is delivered on the ground it's a little bit different to the councils in the republic in that it's it's it's it is more influential i don't mind that with any disrespect for donagore kind of council but there are more decisions and more influence you can have as a member of a council in the north uh certainly at that time than you could in the republic and you can see the success of what you have delivered and it's all about helping people it's all about taking on board their deep concerns but the end of the library and you see that delivery at local government where the assembly was sort of a wee bit more difficult because it took a long time to deliver really anything where your local authority was able to make a decision and move on where the assembly went through a number of hoops before they got to make the decision they needed to make so certainly for me local government uh showed me uh that you could deliver and deliver very quickly how well did you work with those of a you know difficult a different political persuasion to you uh as a member of of of the local assembly how well did you work together or are the people that you never engaged with at all well uh those were difficult years i have to say because um there was no meeting in mind between ourselves and shin fey and especially and i suppose for us when i look back at 1999 and 2000 uh david trimble uh who went into government shin fey and on the promise of arms and didn't get it and jumped out in 2000 uh again the year later and didn't get what he wanted we were very clear as a party and we were clear from day one we had a number of of issues that needed to be addressed you know could a party be in government uh with arms sitting out to the door those arms need to be to commission could a party be in government as a minister and not support policing in law and order joining the policing board so there was a number of issues that and we learned from the Australianist it couldn't be a promise we needed to see delivery in a number of areas which happened i have to say and i know many people at that time says you'll never succeed it'll never happen and of course as well a pledge of office uh as you took up your minister position a pledge of office on law and order and supporting on order supporting policing and all of that so there was a number of issues that needed to be addressed this is why it took some time uh for the assembly to be reformed again yeah and then you were elevated to uh speaker the longest serving speaker so far seven years the assembly did a full term one full term under you in any case was it a tough call uh how did you roll in terms of being able to to represent the people which is you know what you spent your career up until then do uh were you able are you able to still do that and be the speaker or to some extent you have to uh step away uh because of time and other commitments from the on the ground stuff and focus more on the role of speaker i think for me was the only i still was very active in the constituency i think for me was just being careful when you went to a meeting knowing that the issue might come into the assembly so then you sort of got somewhere else to the meeting he's had to step back because you had to demonstrate both in actions and not only actions but seemed to be uh totally impartial and sometimes uh that wasn't always easy because sometimes your own party created more problems than any other party uh but i remember when i took up the uh the job of speaker i remember saying to the party leaders look let us see if we can do a full term and whatever the issues are let's see if we can resolve them i will certainly have a very open door policy and we were able to do that in fact do that in fact do a full term go to election and it is another full term did you form any relationships with those that you didn't think you would during that time well it did yes i have to say i did and was interested in anything stand out for you well i suppose for me you know all all the parties were through my door uh on a number of issues and you know for me it was trying to settle them down trying to meet with them but trying to listen to them more than anything else and finding a way of dealing with their issue whether it be Sinn Féin uh whether it be the SDLP or whatever party did that change you at all well it didn't change me in my unionism no i don't have that for a moment but just in terms of you know did it change did you change your attitude or maybe this is we have to do things a little bit differently to get work done i think that is right and get people to think differently to get the business through the assembly and to be fair most parties of all parties accommodated the business through the house and for me it was to keep difficult arguments out of the house if it could be the issue of the house wasn't really an issue it was the issues behind the scenes that you were trying to resolve for whoever you come through your door and and for me I tell you I speak I learned a lot I have to say and a very good team around me as well who were very effective and people who were giving me advice so I would I was very lucky I had a very very strong team around me and you needed that strong team because there were many issues even within the assembly that we had to deal with yeah because remember we were only up and running 2007 you know it was formulating departments formulating standing orders getting committees up and running all of that so all of that took time and and for the speaker's office we were extremely busy yeah I know when I was just doing a little bit of I was doing a little bit of reading up we'll pick up your your your career pretty much in every article regardless who writes it that you referred to your photo is donnie gall born uh william hay yes and I know is that great is that do you like it I don't I have no problem I know you're not ashamed of donnie gall not at all not at all I have still some family who live in in donnie gall in milford kilmikran and where I was born and in latter canny as well my mother's from nara canny and my father's from milford kilmikran so I've never heard that no I know that I'm not always like that and people say to me yes I am you know I hold an irish passport because I can have difficulty getting a british passport you know and uh I don't see any issue with that I would just like a british passport to show my british identity oh I get that I understand what does it mean to to someone in your position to be appointed to the house of laws that was 2014 uh that that would didn't be beyond the david cameron's time how did that come about are the feelers put out do you lobby for it does someone approach you does your party put you forward for it how does that come to pass well it was the party who put me forward for for the house of lords and it was David David Cameron then who appointed me uh just before he left office really uh so for me it was a huge privilege I sit in the house of lords and I look around uh and I say how did I ever get here uh as somebody from dunigrawl uh somebody who represented the constituency for probably well over 30 years and now sitting in the house of lords and what how important is the role of those in the house of lords because I think you know I mean people obviously here there's going to be some with a great interest in in british politics of no doubt about that but just sort of maybe see it in a negative light how important is the the house of lords do you think in terms of the the running of well I mean I've been there from 2014 now I have saw a house of lords that has been very effective especially when bills come from the house of commons that needs change and correct it they're very good at that also as well house of lords have huge expertise in the house and they're very good when it comes to legislation and when it comes to bills from the house of commons to the house of lords and of course bills can start also when the house of lords and move to the house of commons for example you know we have our interim leader and gavin robinson introduced the bill private members bill on pretty citizenship that will now come to the house of lords I will pick that up and then take it through the house of lords so I know sometimes you know when people look at the house of lords and television they see you old men sort of half asleep I'm glad it's you saying all this I tried to scratch but I mean that's not I have to say that's not the case it's a very active house in so many ways and a very fluent house they don't really stand on procedures that much so it's a different house from the house of commons a totally different house and it's not a sharper house just in relation to the dup as a party itself uh how much of a bolt out of the blue uh did the Jeffrey Dunlison news come to you and and I suppose what was your reaction huge shock I have to say it went through the entire party and they just could not believe it you know the rumor was out on the Thursday when he was arrested they weren't giving any names 61 year old man woman all of that and it goes for leadership the party was getting clarity around the issue and then when the names come out and I have to say the party worked very quickly uh uh Jeffrey Dunlison the Thursday party met on the Friday closed ranks and elected Gavin Robinson as the interim leader and you know not only a huge shock to the party but a huge shock to the wider community in Northern Ireland and also especially to the unionist community because it's been a high profile uh politician for many many years and you know we we have to be careful what we say around this issue legally and procedurally but we always want to remember there's families involved here uh so we be so careful as a party what we have said and what we have said as individuals you know but yes Craig it was a huge shock and there's still there's a shock of course I mean I'm speaking I speak to people on the party all of the time they still can't believe it just cannot believe it it did seem otherworldly like it was like well where's this come from well that's exactly right and you know sometimes you hear news and and and and pardon me I can see if other people suspected this might happen I don't know but sometimes you hear stuff right you go right well you were waiting for it you know what I mean yes you get where I'm coming from and then others it's like well where did that come from exactly in like a bullet in the blue for everybody that weekend but the party does come together very quickly when we're talking about crisis and they've done that in the past and they will do it again and Gavin who I know extremely well Gavin has total support of the party you know and you have to choose your words carefully as well uh I mean there's obviously going to be some a mixture of emotions but as you've quite rightly says there are alleged victims here and and one has to be very careful as to uh I don't mean you now here no no that's right in how you respond to something even if you think it's untrue hi and and you know as soon as a DEP politician goes on the radio program anywhere now that's almost yeah which is right which is quite right but my interest more is how it affected you as as someone obviously incredibly loyal to the party rather than the it affected me I just couldn't believe and I don't know what I've known Jeffrey fairly well and it just I still can hardly take it in that we're in the situation we're in and yes as I say it's not only a effect at the party but also I think that wider community as well we still can't believe it yet how comfortably are you uh with Michelle O'Neill as first minister well I think you have to look uh democratically at the election and this is what people voted for and uh you know for democrats we have to accept it can't bear ahead in the silence say well no we will not chair power because somebody else on another party has uh has gained supreme over us that's not the issue at all uh the assembly elections are there that's the result and we have to try and get on with and deal with the issues yeah but it does talk to sort of you know an increase in popularity I mean the politics of northern is changing even compared to 81 or even compared to 1998 you know it was always sort of green and orange but now it's so much different we see the alliance increasing in in population we see the population demographics changing uh you know not in in the way that might have been predicted 34 years 30 or 40 years ago uh and then of course with that and then with the sort of conversation uh that's been having about you know board of polls and unity and unionist place in this new iron as if it is a fator complet and it certainly isn't really once we get down to the debates of it all do unionists feel squeezed or threatened or uh unsure about the future and it's a broad church of many different people with many different feelings don't get me wrong I accept that but what do you think the the overriding sense is amongst amongst um unionists well I personally have very confident unions and I think there are many unions in Northern Ireland who are confident as well in the future of Northern Ireland staying within the union and we only have to look at the report over the last few weeks that have come on the cost that would be uh if we were trying to bring both parts of the island together I have no fear whatsoever and I've heard this argument you know nationalism now will soon be in a majority in Northern Ireland and if that is right that's the way it's going but I don't have this belief that because nationalism would be in a majority that automatically there would be in Ireland I think for us as a party we need to be focused on delivering and ensuring Northern Ireland stays within the United Kingdom I think that's our job as the lead unionist party in Northern Ireland and key to that I mean key to that is selling the union in a very positive but do you believe Northern Ireland genuinely hand in heart is in a better position and a better position going forward as part of the union obviously you know it would be like dragging a family member out of a family you might see it as that you know you why would you want to do that but do you not think there would be a better future of the people you represent as part of United Ireland as part of the EU no I I believe very much in the union between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom and certainly for us as a party we are now very focused on that ensuring Northern Ireland stays within the union I don't hear or see anything or anybody or any party coming forward that has convinced unionism that they should join a united Ireland is the one of the biggest challenges though really is how much Britain wants Northern Ireland or you know like I think the general population are a bit non-plussed we kind of saw the Conservatives to get Brexit over the line they could they wouldn't mind sort of casting Northern Ireland off you know and I just according to one one poll of of of Conservative members is part of the really biggest fight is to try and prove to London and the wider British public that Northern Ireland's place is in the union and that it's and it's it's that's where it should be you know what I mean yes but I speak to Conservative MPs members of the House of Lords even Labour members and I have to say they are very supportive of Northern Ireland staying within the union now some of us could take that at face value and say the serious you only can take somebody at their word and I think for ourselves as a party and I keep saying this we need to do more to sell the positives of the union and they're huge positives I mean if you only look what financial help we get from Westminster huge financial help now we would argue that we don't get enough I think under the Barnett formula we don't and the British government now have agreed with the Treasury that Northern Ireland needs to be funded in a different way on need same as Scotland and Wales ironically and that's ironically that could bring down the cost of reunification well I don't know I mean I have to say the people who are advocating unity will never convince unionists that they should be in that army you born in Donegal moved to Northern Ireland won't hold you any longer do you ever hear from unionists or members of the orange order and I'm not saying both are the same necessarily from Donegal all the parts of Ireland that feel isolated here that they have to sort of hide their identity or that they don't feel they can they can discuss their their political ideological beliefs or or celebrate their orangeism is that even a word I don't know but like I did down where I live I know there are families that are unionist families and if you went into the house it would be very clear but it's almost as if that's a secret life not you know what I mean I'm not overstating is there anything that needs to be done in the Republic that people feel they can be who they are well I think that the the government here could do more to identify with unionists in the Republic of Ireland especially around that East Donegal area and region absolutely now I do know that the orange in East Donegal is very successful in so many ways and I know they have got grants for doing up their orange halls and all and all that's very welcome but yes there would be unionists and I think there would be a majority who feel sometimes they just have to keep their head down they don't have really anybody to vote for either I think most of them would maybe vote just for Nigel or something I'm not too sure but yes I would speak to them and they would say yes sort of head down here now that's not create too many problems and I deal with politicians across the border and and I deal on the very successfully so for me the border is not an obstacle and dealing with constituent work but I do feel that unionists here especially in the Republic do feel sometimes they just can't express themselves the way maybe they should on different issues you're and finally you were on the record in the past saying that you suffered a health scare and I think it was your wife's intervention really that perhaps gave you the outcome that we have and I think you're wanting to be you sort of reference that maybe you put your political life before your health or made those decisions I'm just wondering if that is the case have you struck about a work life balance now I have the the speakership was a very very intense job you know you were keeping some mini balls up on the air you were trying to make sure the work in the house was going all right and the business in the house but you're also doing a lot of work outside the chamber and yes it did have a stall on me health wise absolutely you know I was doing all hours from you know maybe nine o'clock in the morning right through to very late at night so it does take your toll and I have learned my lesson to slow down and not take too much on okay listen it's been lovely having you in thank you very much we've talked about it from time to time this is the first time we were able to sort of make it work so we do appreciate Lord William Hay politician with the DUP of course member of the House of Lords thanks so much for for joining us thank you very much I really enjoyed that thank you the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter Kenny credit union 9102127 the CFC interior stock disposal sale is now on due to renovations an incredible 1.5 million pounds worth of stock must go don't miss our highest ever discount on selected ranges across all departments the stock disposal sale at cfc interiors 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morning hikes and the excise duty on motor fuel have been described as an attack on rural motorists by a south dunigal td fuel prices rose by four cent for petrol and three cent for diesel this month excise cuts implemented during the cost of living crisis are being reinstated on a phased basis a further rise comes into effect in august almost four billion euro in fuel tax was taken in by the state last year but deputy marion harkin says statistics show that people in counties like donnie gall and slago have to drive more than people in other counties because of transport restrictions a differed strunner councillor is asking donnie gall county council for regular reports on the negotiations with the hsc regarding the lyford common site which has been earmarked for new community hospital the area has been developed by donnie gall county council with roads and water services being planned as well as the hospital there are plans for 60 social homes and some commercial developments in the area the u.s president has pledged to support israel as iran threatens retaliation for the killing of two of its generals in syria joe biden is insisting america will do all it can to protect israel's security while calling for more raid in gaza meanwhile the israeli foreign minister has criticized simon harris's maiden speech in the doll as he shook he said innocent children women and men are being starved and slaughtered in gaza while also describing the actions of hamas as unforgivable israel claims the hostages taken on october 7th were never mentioned the justice minister has described a new migration packed in the e u as a game changer m e p's voted yesterday in favor of reforming how migration is dealt with across europe however it's been criticized by migrant groups and amnesty who was also severely criticized in the doll last night by denigol debbie thomas pringle who said that europe has created many of the conditions which cause migration and he said it's rich of europe to then try to limit migration when europe is part of the root cause minister helen macinty says opting into the pact will allow for faster and stricter processing of arrivals and a major russian attack is said to have destroyed a power plant outside kiv in ukraine a senior company official told the country's media missiles and drones targeted energy infrastructure early this morning including in zaporizhiza leviv and karkiv ukrain's ministry says it's their defences intercepted and shot down 57 aerial targets we're back with deadlines again at 12 noon all right donal thank you very much indeed as soon as we mentioned the following from algae you probably won't be able to concentrate on anything else so hope you're not doing dental work cottage pie made with board be a quality assured irish organic lean round steak mince five percent fat was 499 now 399 one of our super six fresh meat offers this week buy all six and save even more follow the path to lower prices go all algae see in store or online for offers terms and conditions while stocks last all right coming up a little later on we're going to be continuing our weekly feature your voice your community this week we're going to be speaking to members of the polish irish community three people living and working in donnie gall if you have any questions about their life or differences between donnie gall in poland or anything along those lines please get in touch just list oh i read that one not bonkers economical self-harm all sanitized and presented as good practice by fina fall yesterday in the dull i'm talking of course about the rises and fuel duty and the devastating effect they have on families in donnie gall says a listener who don't have the option of public transport for work hospitals or shopping our cars are necessities not luxuries what about the hundreds of jobs now at risk in service stations right along the border as fuel is now cheaper in the north i'm not really quite sure there's a balance there i think it's about the same at the moment i'm open to correction on that if they cared continued the listener anything for the environment they'd be rolling out the hvl replacement for diesel 90 percent less to missions maybe give those who use a car a tax break but no this would spoil their obsession with electric cars caller wants to know if you can ask the next politician that's on about the possibility of a referendum about the immigration bill we need to stand up to these people in brussels who are making decisions for us here in ireland with no input from the people the problem is is that i understand that people want referendums here it's very unlikely to happen i think certainly over the course of the next year or so the argument being that you know you elected if you voted you elected politicians and those politicians obviously engaged with european and here we are this is all part of the u project so i'm not sure i'm not sure really you're going to have any success in those course at this stage both politically in this country could change really quite significantly so i'm not i'm just guessing what i believe to be the case not stating up any absolute facts all right some phrases that annoy you the listeners out there but come here is one that annoys one listener but come here most annoying in a business meeting is going forward but that's also political you know going forward hi greg two phrases that i find really annoying i live in my best laugh and smashed it okay right i get you hi greg annoying word when people keep saying perfect all right that's perfect i'm when we do this you get really conscious as to whether or not it's one i do another thing that annoys someone it doesn't really bother me i sometimes it's quite amusing because i was up in belfast and we were up in belfast and there was a person as part of the group and they kept saying a wee this and a wee that and it's it's so polite you know i can have a wee suit with a wee bon and just a wee cup of tea and the person was looking at them i think it was someone from out of arland working in arland and literally couldn't understand they thought they were speaking a different language but anyway this listener says what annoys them is kind of get a wee name or a wee order it's the worst phrase ever mostly used by people from northern arland we use that a lot down here another annoying phrase what have you okay you know i agree with you and what have you i keep them coming into us 08 660 25 000 whatsapp send texts all right martins with us now hi martin how are you getting on good morning how you doing break i'm good martin i really you're you're speaking about experience your father had and i'll tell you it's it's timely because on tuesday as part of community guard information we got a grant you'd already on warning people and it was in the ball of a facial area of approaches seemingly more to older people from people looking to sell stuff or to extort or whatever so i'm really very sad that your dad went through this but martin i'm very grateful that you're getting the helping us get the information out there so what happened okay no i got your your own a bit scammer and earlier on and i thought maybe this might warn to call to bring it bring it to people's attention my dad was sitting in the ball of a area yesterday about dinner time mom was currently in the chemist getting medication dad's eight years of age and he was just sitting there and the next thing that's not came on the window two gentlemen um standing there and said listen you're after bumping into my car and dad says i haven't even moved i'm i'm just sitting here i i didn't touch your car and he says yes he says you've scraped the front of my car he says you've caused a hundred euros worth of damage and dad says you've got to be joking um so between the two of them then the two gentlemen walked away now i haven't seen dad uh haven't been talking face to face to dad yet about it but that's the gist of the story um but what i wanted to bring it to people's attention as well is that you know dad he got a right he got a picture of the front of the car which included the registration so i've already been onto the guards the call is logged so they're they're following that up uh as we speak but uh yeah listen dad's eight years of age he there's no doubt about it he was definitely shook up as probably me and you would probably be the same uh and mom was 83 um but he's adamant he didn't go next to new the car but i think listen two opportunists um but they were doing the ball of buffet well that happened to dad in ball of buffet yesterday now listen someone is way home from from a hospital appointment yeah so he uh he drove to letter kenny sorry martin continue with your story this is a slight day delay in the line pick it up carry on with the story please martin uh sorry you're going to be delayed uh no mom and dad came out to me i love just outside letter kenny so they parked at my house uh i drove them to the hospital appointment uh dad had his hospital appointment uh and during that hospital appointment it was deemed that his medication to be changed that was fine we went into the cup of tea and a bowl of what have you come back up to my house dad and mom jumped into their own car back up to ball of buffet stopped off at the pharmacy to get the new medication and that's when had that happened on the way home now there's no doubt about it i definitely definitely shook him um you know two men just arriving up and dad has a say eight years of age sitting there in the driver's seat on his own and mom and the chemist uh but listen it's good that he got the registration i don't know what put that on to his head or and to take a picture of the front of the car um but uh that's that's where it is at the moment it's going to be with the guard so i think might be sending someone out to take a statement from them because you can see what they were doing because you know firstly the two of them going up to the car what's up with that looking for i mean looking just pricing a hundred euro on the spot to fix this scrape and then leaving once he sort of you know stood up to them so to speak clearly a scam and the problem is it's mobile it could have been ball of buffet yesterday uh you know somewhere else but the thing is as you see the guard of warning that came on on tuesday was for that area and it was about older people being approached in shopping center car parks on what have you there were different mechanisms for this fraud going on we hadn't heard that one yet so it's really important and i really really hope that the guards pursue this with all their vigor yeah because your father was so switched on to get the number plate of that vehicle and he can also attest as to what happened and it's action now that we need martin because i might not have thought of left yeah you know i might even have thought about left the mobile myself so it was fantastic for him because you'll often see elderly people early maybe you know people on their own elderly reversing into spots and they're super cautious and there might be a little bit over the white line and stuff like now whether people are sitting watching people like that um because you know somebody come up here like that you know yeah i don't think it's anything to do with driving or anything i think it's literally just another way of trying to get money off people and i think if they go up and intimidate some of the driver's door and don't go in looking for two and a half grand that they that's a handy hundred quid for them which is really quite worrying martin thanks for helping us highlight that i really appreciate it and fair play to your dad and not at all you're more than welcome yeah thanks martin okay so that was yesterday martin's dad uh didn't give them the money stood up to them got a picture of the car passed that on to the guardie and there's going to be hopefully now an interview taken from that man and i hope the guardie uh follow that up because the big warnings always is get pictures and what have you so hopefully now that paced evidence but surely this wasn't the only person that was approached yesterday in that area uh if you were or someone close to you were approached whether you gave the money or not uh please get in touch with us 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 and help us get the message out and you know if there were two or three or four more cases of this theoretically you know maybe then that information could also be passed on to the guardie to build a case if a crime had committed but please let us know has that been an experience of yours recently when and where 08 660 25 000 what's ups and texts okay we are going to be going to your voice your community after we take a break stay right where you are the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio new photo scheme for livestock farmers for more in your 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night on 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 okay it is time now for our weekly feature your voice your community funded by commissioner man with a television license fee we speak to members of the polish community who've moved to donnie gall and made donnie gall their home and this is where their lives are three guests to welcome on to the program firstly i want to say good morning to katazina baronaska good morning to you morning thank you so much for joining us katharina also in studio we have robert fabisha good morning to you robert good morning and lastly but not least we have the gusha voznak how are you getting on gusha good morning good morning to you i'll start with you if that is all right because you seem the most stressed out katazina and i always like to go for the first victim no funny joke how long have you been living in in donnie gall now in donnie gall i live 17 years i when i was a child i saw so documentary about island and i told my mommy one day i go to island and i will be live here i had to dream and 17 years i go i go to balina kante mayo for two weeks for my holidays and half a year late i go to donnie gall and i start work in highland baker and was my first first work experience but i'm not baker but i start working bakery and next i work at in elgar mont elgar hotel and after one year and i got give proposition from robert and i start working in sunday polish school because we we have a polish school in elgar college and from 12 years i teach polish language in elgar college to polish children of polish people or people from poland or to the other classes open to the no i i have polish student but polish language is for all students not only for for for polish nationality but is is very hard language and it is problem two years you can not learn this language that's not very optimistic coming from a professional two years no chance is it because of the complexities of it regional variations what makes the language complex katazina or either you actually for that matter uh i'll go before i come to you actually i want to ask you about your imagining of our land your research of our land where you were younger um when you actually moved here to balina initially and then to donnie gall did it match your expectations was it what you had dreamed of as a younger person yes yes and um i'll come back to you if that's okay uh we are as i mentioned in the company as well of robert uh fabi shack so you originally from poland uh you currently teach in the aerogold college in netter kenny and as we heard you're also running the letter kenny polish school uh you came to it was london initially in the in the late 90s is that right robert so 1999 2000 i came to london in millenium was a lovely day you know that day and that's the i never knew that time i'd be working like uh living and working in ireland the was there one and one and a half year and some irish people from donnie gall um then so they organized the job for me and i moved to uh i need some and since that time i'm living in bunkrana was that in the construction industry initially was it you know the the time when i came you know the poland was in use of policy possibility for a job was limited so you have to just apply for the work permit if you want to work and obviously you're more likely to get that work permit in areas that there is need yes yeah well the uh the polish people was always you know the the people looking for them in construction because they are kind of the like the good workers you know so the uh then when poland become to you i have like a fortune to start to work in eric al college you know i apply for because you were a teacher in poland yeah my career yeah well i taught in poland ten years you know and so i was looking for like the the looking for a better life yeah generally when i was in poland was working sometimes starting work and ten past seven in the morning and you have to be looking for another job if you want to just make money in poland that that time so i had also my uh gym after school so tired so many hours so i was thinking like it must be some other place like you know the better place to leave when you came here in the early noughties 2001 there was a big polish population in no uh was done up because i'm trying to timeline it because i used to do a bit of work in bondoren yeah um and you know and there was an awful lot of people from uh eastern european poland started after poland become to you 2004 may 2004 may 2004 for me that's all the one blur yeah if you see this if you ask the people in bukkurana they like you know older people they always remember me you know and whenever people come they always ask polish people the Irish people ask them do you know robert yes robert was first in bukkurana yeah like you know already so that's one and king robert of the film no no no you know but you know the yeah but uh well but there was then after 2004 did you see more polish arriving you absolutely i was massive wasn't i and you know in the beginning i i could know everyone from bukkurana now is no chance like you know you you don't want to meet others because we wouldn't have a time for yourself even but the time when i went to the oracle college that time it was a big numbers of polish students so i was a ploy mr o'connor and then was the miss mcquee the ceo the etb that time and then we have uh the other mr canon the the principal and we have an announcement now mr mcfaden and miss marcom i'm talking about that because when when we when i was working the that time when it was miss mcquee we start to establish the polish sunday school that time we have and is that it's a polish school independent did you just establish that or is it done through and with the support of the college or do they just allow you that's what i'm gonna say like it's a big it was a big support from the college okay well the miss message was like we just read about that in in dobleen it was open a new school for polish people in blackrock okay and we were thinking that's too far to go to the you know just four and a half hours on the weekend school and and so we so i was trying to talk to the polish parents how do you think if if i have like i was i was already in a regal college so we have kind of base what do you think if we can open that and the big support from miss mcquee that time and the big support from the the martin gormley and was continued by mr canon and continued by mr mcfaden and the dromaicon at the moment so the the needs was big that time but since like four years ago we have polish polish become as the curriculum subject and in the normal class understood so that's that's why like you know maybe answer for that question you know well it is still it's open for everyone yes but first people to come that will be from polish from katezina what did you want to say there i want to say and and with in was idea miss ann mcquee and open class in the regal college for for polish student because polish language is critical curriculum subject from four four years but we start 12 years ago and regal college was first ish school where start polish language in normal timetable yeah it was first first school and was very important for polish association for polish community yes gosh your background is also in teaching you are here um just over 10 years now aren't you yeah over 10 years so uh i'm in donig alone in two years but i arrived to island in 2013 so i graduated first in poland then i continued my studies in france i did my master degree there in teaching and i was teaching as well polish language in in france and i did a work experience as well in portugal after and when i arrived to island i took a break from teaching and i did courses in sports injuries sports fitness and holistic therapies so i was working for a few years and you kind of that's where you're moving into now isn't it to sort of make benefit of of that but you came here originally taking french teaching french no i came here only for summer because my family yes i didn't expect i want to stay that long uh my family lives in in island in water first so i just arrived for summer and i stayed and then i i was always interested in health and sport so i decided to take a break and finish a few courses in that uh um in sport and health and then i was working for a few years in in sport and health okay and then i decided to go back to teaching so i registered uh at the start with teaching council it it was a bit difficult because it took me like over about one year to register it is a problem yeah it was it wasn't easy way but finally i registered and then i was working in Dobrin Kilkani and Cantonese and then i arrived to Donegal and i decided as well to do a postgrad in spanish in cork and i work now in irish school which is a small school a garm school but it's uh so we have at least english we have french we have spanish and now we have irish polish of course now you have irish as well yeah i'm learning irish at the moment how's that going for you uh it's brilliant is it a difficult language compared to well we heard polish it can be difficult but if you're born into it of course uh there's a great advantage but in terms of compared to francing french english spanish irish is it more difficult equal i think he's uh i would say polish is more difficult than irish definitely and i think uh once i have idea how to learn language a mechanism yeah yeah so i kind of know how to organize my notes how to organize my grammar so from that aspect it's much easier and uh the school uh that i'm in now it's just amazing now obviously you're very well traveled okay so you know your polish background at least france spain uh much of ireland and then what is it that drew you to donagall um was it work an opportunity or do you have a particular love of donagall i know you do obviously you love donagall but you know you you know yeah you better say that right you better say you're closer to you make sure no but of all the options which i'm sure you have given my partner is actually from donagall so that was yeah and and i think donagall there's different even when i teach now there's that sense of community in donagall yeah and people are so nice and it's like when you know someone you know like there's always connections between people in donagall i think and even when i'm in school now it's more like i feel like part of community it's part of like it's completely different than bigger schools in other countries in ireland it's a more targeted community yes and you feel a part of that yes which is amazing now but but you are looking to pursue your other love aren't you uh working with people with personal injuries injuries to the body presumably is that uh holistic therapies in that regard talk to me a little bit about that uh i finished college in limerick so i did two years holistic therapies and i did as well in u l sports as well diploma so i was working in fitness and sports injuries i had as well my business uh that i was doing like sports injuries sports massages that's that's my big passion for health and fitness and i try i try to do extra activities in sport in school as well but it was that part that i was missing teaching and i really wanted to go back to teaching so that was just a small break in my life okay so currently now teaching is your focus oh yes right sorry i've got my notes okay so you did that stop but yeah that was just break from teaching because i just i just wanted to do extra courses in understood i get you know so that's where your focus is fantastic all right we're in the company of uh robert uh katazine and gosh we're going to hear more from them um after we take this break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at 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the winners will receive recognition at our special award ceremony on june the ninth plus they'll have the satisfaction of knowing that they made a positive impact on their customers nominate now nominations close 23rd of april i call it says i remember robert from my early days coming into arland he was always involved in helping polish kids to get settled in irish schools my wife is irish i'm polish my kids and plenty of uh my kids had plenty of polish when they were young but now it's disappearing since they went to school etc i think polish school is a great idea my wee girl is 10 and i see doing uh see her doing her polish lessons on a dual lingo app on her ipad uh so i don't know where this person is from robert but this sounds like uh people who have moved here from poland the sort of second generation perhaps they'd like to see them you know returning uh sorry to retain the language you probably hear that quite a lot do you yeah like see this is the correct like even you know in my family the my son was born and he got national arish nationality before me so so because he was born here and one of the parents worked two years in island pay tax so that was the that was the new law after 2004 so i had to apply and i have to pay for that you know so that was like i was like no fair like you know i'm so long here and work hard and you just born and you got to know so yeah so we cannot say anymore that's that's the polish the the the students when they come into school you know they are it is because they are born in island their parents already work here for so many years so they got an arish nationality before even polish one so we can of course uh usually if mom is polish okay if it's a mixed so the the kids talking polish yes you know that's the that's the you know it's different about the father when father is the polish as sometimes is like the the kids struggle with that so the next generation like imagine you know they are going with the irish kids in primary school they're going to with irish kids to secondary school they have worked hard at school from monday to friday they want to have other activity on saturday sunday same like irish so it's hard to get them to the weekend school yeah of course but even even if they do do the polish uh a subject on the curriculum that's katazina i mean certainly don't look at me like that i'm gonna ask you questions when he was speaking you were jumping in and when i ask you a question directly you don't want to speak to me uh katazina um you know what we even know with irish okay is that sometimes people see how we teach irish in our secondary schools is a bit of a memory test you know so for some i suppose they might not think the the polish study in the curriculum is thorough enough for people who want to speak fluent polish if that makes sense no it doesn't let's forget about that i want to ask you another question you've been here for quite some time now katazina have you seen much change in ireland over over the years change in ireland yeah it's a very hard question for me and um i could ask you the same question robert you've been here the longest of all if we're talking about a say um of course the you know the changing every year you know uh but it's not that what i want to say is not nothing change is the hospitality of irish people yeah they when i came to bukran i was so uh surprised like everybody was such a friendly and such a you know like curious where are you from and and and but they were welcoming yes and do you believe that still is the case yeah it is yeah well um we always this happened you know something like we hear all this person or that person but that's on the individual things you know the and uh we know where this comes from when the source is going smaller you know the community may be expected the the more or same like before you know some sometimes happen you know but uh if we're talking about the polish community like you know we uh we were also uh in the beginning we were um if we were acknowledged by polish embassie before we didn't even ask about the help they want us to uh help and we we we we get a big help from polish embassy but polish embassy was always uh wants to support polish sunday school with the projects could be combined with irish so if we get say for example um the school cinema with plasma you know tv and stuff like that we can use only maybe 10 minutes on sunday but we can use in five days monday to friday if we just upgrade some uh furniture so there was the the the point was like you can write the project we just support you financially to make that project come true but you have to think about the irish students your irish community that's what we want to be just involved and polish school wasn't never like uh you know to be separate from the irish community only the keep the roots say keep in contact with polish language maybe polish history more polish tradition a little bit you know and and that was the the the thing and now is you know because the generation is coming and it's a different generation now so like the last kids come into that's that's cool we and and and there is a history between ireland and poland as well actually particularly donagolan poland and i spoke to the polish ambassador about that during her last visit here gosh uh um polans changed as well though i was asking sort of what the changes were here and i think poland since it's joining joining of the eu it's a more there's more opportunity it's a more attractive place to to live now is that correct i think it's much easier to travel definitely and i think the fact that we are in union i could travel and i could study abroad so that's that's a big change and i think that's great for young people to get that opportunity to to live abroad and to to travel like we don't like it's so easy to um to go and travel like before yeah and even to study so for me it's i use that opportunity to yeah to move forward and to to to live abroad and to study abroad and uh well you know we every day we talk about emigration on this program uh donagol people choosing to go to australia or new york or wherever it might be and you always hope they may at one point want to come back and settle here and often they don't uh do any of the three of you see your life in in poland uh in the future robert no that's a hard no from robert uh but katazina or gasha one day i back to poland yes my country i think yes yeah and are you the same gasha i know i haven't decided it's like i always uh sometimes it's sometimes i think sometimes it's something you're feeling inside you it's not the plan i would say the culture is like the response that we are missing in poland yeah the culture polish culture is very it's beautiful culture yes and we try to cultivate that here as well and i think there's some aspects that we are really missing like we miss those aspects here in our life give us some examples like for example for easter we have like traditions like for easter's we go on saturday uh easter saturday we go to church to blessed we prepare baskets with food and you can do that here you know we do that i will join in we do that here as well and christmas is there christmas is christmas focus on food and christmas 12 dishes we because of the polish table tables there's multiple dishes must be 12 different dishes that's right on christmas eve yes christmas yes yes it's minimal we don't eat meat on the christmas eve on the fish cabbage mushroom white mushrooms it's very good polish food is lovely lovely and i back to poland because i miss for polish food well it's about the the christmas eve is also like you know the lovely tradition like we are start actually that supper whenever first start coming up to the heaven you know the heaven like you know call us as my husband is polish and i always said the polish language to me is similar to irish when talking about a female and male or him her she he they them etc there is different wording and also one word can have so many different meanings i'm going to look at you gusher on that one is that yeah that's true that uh there is like gender in irish and in polish but polish would be more complicated because we have to change the verbs as well the endings of the verbs from for each person so that would be different as well and one word can like in irish as well one more can mean different we can use one word for different situations as well so i think from that aspect it's similar but we change the endings of the verb so that's extra extra thinking in polish as well because like from different person you will change the the the endings it's like in latin so you change the the endings it's like in latin i love that latin yes i was studying latin because latin yeah it was for seven or eight languages or what what is there in latin was uh in college i didn't continue latin after college it was just in college latin open um way to all languages all the roman languages it gives you the the tools for languages yes okay brilliant stuff all right listen anything you want to else you want to talk about you're happy enough it's been lovely getting to know you a little bit i've robert i've never seen anyone maintain a smile for a long time i'm not sure if this is the tears of a clown or you're just a very happy person i'm a happy person here like you know that's basically what i am like you know see this greg i'm coming every day from letter country to punkrana when i see that view when you come in probably saw that you know that's like amazed me every time like you know so i'm so i am the the right place and the right moment you know and that's when i'm in joy like you know and enjoy your program as well like do you listen no i mean like at the moment like you like you know your person today like you know i'm joking i'm joking katazine would i want to say something no no i think i would like to just answer okay just ask that's poland it's amazing country and i would like to promote poland to visit it's like main status because we have so many beautiful places to visit and the culture is so rich and beautiful and i think that's amazing mr roger is your your principal do you find that people when they visit poland go to particular areas and don't really get to see yes one of the frustrations you would share with us here is that people come to doblin and think doblin is arland when arland is so much more than that so i mean doblin is of arland don't get me wrong but you don't really get the sense i think everyone from ireland goes to krakow and auschwitz that's always points and there's so many places to visit in poland so throw away the map and just go off the way we'll come in gdańsk in wrocław you have so many places to visit even for skiing in polis in polish mode right but maybe on the end i i told about one anecdote and in my life personal life when i go i was in post primary school i learned english and i didn't my english teacher sorry i didn't and i did i and my i remember my last day in the school when i was in i talk talk it with teacher and i told is i will never ever use language english language is my last day and i go to ireland okay and i was just thinking i was struggling to think of the gentleman's name in relation to our history here count paul strelecky are you familiar with him he came to arland during the famine and fed starving irish children here and that's that's the gentleman i was speaking to to the polish ambassador but there was a display in milford um in milford recognizing that so the our histories are intertwined long before this conversation uh robert it's been lovely having you on genuinely thank you so very much indeed robert uh fabby shack also uh katterzina baronowska thank you did you enjoy it will you come back will you come back next week no oh and uh gasha thank you so very much indeed best of luck with your your career and going forward and everything you wish to achieve it's been lovely having all three of you on thank you so very much thank you so much uh that was your voice your community speaking to members of the uh polish community too is it irish polish now robert i'll speak to you i mean your irish polish polish irish are you polish living in ireland well i feel like uh uh if we're talking about like i have a what do you feel not necessarily what official what do you feel well i mean if we have a the polish like if poland plays same time in ireland oh no that's not important but it's like you know if i but if they play just a different time i would just support ireland as well well that's fair we'll give you that considering most people here seem to support a british football team uh right okay no man just i've lived for hours and now i have you all right okay gasha uh katazine robert thank you very much thank you thank you the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 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it something that you had been hoping for working towards or well at the time i suppose it was a bit out of the blue i actually got the call it's gone back last july when we knew that jarlotte burns from our ma was taken over as the president of the gea so a representative of his had contacted myself and said that he was interested in working with me going forward but i didn't understand or realize in what i suppose capacity that would be and so it was back then in november that i was told i would be involved under the department of the equity and diversity and inclusion and then it was february this year that i was told i would be chairperson of the wheelchair hurling group fantastic i'm absolutely delighted and honored here so it's something i'm so passionate about and i'm talking about that in a moment i want to go through that with you shane crowley's chair of the gea equity diversity inclusion working group presumably you will work closely with her and the rest of the group to achieve your aims definitely so it actually all came under the one umbrella in previous years so this is the first year that the working groups have been split into two different categories so we can focus on our own i suppose principles and aims going forward whilst working together as it all just come under this the same umbrella now tanya you were a perfect fit for this position and i think you were about to outline why because you're very passionate about this area so take your time and and talk to me about you know where we're at and where you think we need to get to yeah so i suppose personally myself i have a child who's in a wheelchair and as i explained to the development group i was in crook park on saturday and i met some of the players and the parents that are involved within the wheelchair hurling and for half of my life i have had to fight for my son who's in a wheelchair so you know going forward for the players and the parents involved within this association i want to be the voice for them to bring what i can bring in my experience to the wheelchair hurling and back to crook park to the different committees um so i suppose where where i come into it my involvement within the gea locally i have set up our all stars program which is for children in the area with additional needs and it really took off last year we actually have children coming from other clubs that aren't running this initiative they just don't have the numbers to do it so they come down to darlings on a friday evening and take part in you know coaching and development our fundamental skills all those the typical skills required to play gaelic football in just a different capacity um so it really took off from there and i suppose i got the recognition for that online and it was just recognised nationally i suppose by the likes of jarloth burns and it's just so important for these children to feel included and for the parents as well so when osheen was growing up my son i had nothing you know there was no activities to take him to locally so i got together with a couple of parents we put this in place and it just really took off and i have to commend the work that the volunteers do as well because without them we wouldn't be able to run this program and everybody involved in the association it is a voluntary role they're all voluntary we're not paid for it but it's i suppose that when you see the hard work that goes into it and what actually is achieved and what you get out of it that's the most important thing and also presumably uh i mean as a parent you feel it on a personal level uh but also too in your role in facilitating it it must be wonderful uh to see you know because we use words like inclusion and i think sometimes we don't really think of what's going on behind that word but it's so important isn't it to to these young people and their families that they get to participate definitely and so they understand that most as a parent and as a mother of a child with additional needs it's just to feel a part of something and you know all around the country the GA club it is the heart of the community and to be involved in that it's so special just to be a part of something and see these children progress like we have our senior players come down on a Friday evening and help volunteer so these young children and young adults they get to know them we've noticed the parents are starting to take them to the games now and the players are recognizing them so it's fantastic you know we're all just one community and sometimes within the GA it can get lost in translation we all want the same thing we you know we're all on the same side and so to have a program like this running in the club it is fantastic so tanya you and the team sort of know the issues they're identified you know that through lived experience you know what works and what doesn't work how do you drive this forward now so that you know there is broader availability across our own county and across the country as well so that the the the children that were lucky enough that you started this in the in the Downing's area the Donegal area they can avail of it from wherever they are yeah I suppose it's just raising the profile like a lot of people that I spoke to during the week didn't realize that wheelchair hurling actually existed so it's great that it's highlighted already it's actually been around for 20 years and you know there's an all island series competition there's provincial teams so just to raise that profile of it and to get it out there and the same as every other organization it's crying out for volunteers for coaches for referees so I suppose just it's the normal people on the ground talking with them and seeing how we can collectively drive it forward and you know the GA we're striving towards we've our strategic plan in place and for integration so it's taking all those key elements of the organization and the different codes and just putting them all together and working going forward with the same goal well Tanya if we can be of any assistance down the line of course you you know how to to reach us but congratulations and well done Tanya thanks so much for joining us today thank you so much Greg have a nice day bye Tanya Roberts there the new chair of the GA wheelchair hurling and Komogi working group we'll finish off with a few annoying phrases shall we pet hates people who start a sentence with so and people who say euros there's no s in euro okay that's a minor flaw isn't it uh hi Greg just on the use of we I'm from Belfast and on a McDonald's drive-thru one day the very polite girl handed my order out the window saying there's your wee large coke that comes in from Terry in Refolio wee large coke okay a phrase or a greeting that annoys me is yes lad especially as I am 66 years of age and I think it's just mocking me really well it's not you know yes boy uh it's I don't I know what you're on about but I don't you might feel it's mocking you but I'm sure no one's saying it to you is uh mocking you uh all the GA Ponters start with the word look or listen uh the pundits I very uh irritating GA in sports people must copy each other well listen you know we started off the first half and sure look the second half then yeah I get where you're coming from everybody says hi instead of hello we are Irish people say hello hi is very Americanized but if we are Irish people should we be saying hello or should we be choosing another word okay listen thank you so much for uh actually feeding into the show making it a really enjoyable show to be a part of from my perspective uh we appreciate all uh the listeners all of you who watch the show and all of you contribute uh thanks so much back tomorrow morning from nine with our Friday panel that's entertainment and much more besides but for me Greg Hughes and the team stay tuned uh John Bresen's up around the northwest next have a great thursday the nine till noon