 at them in repairing their homes. I don't think so. What do you think, 086625,000? The Irish Daily Starters this morning tells us that over one in ten Guardi were on sick leave by the end of August, just as Minister Helen McIntee has revealed. That's 10% of the force. In fact, it's more. Out of a total workforce of 14,283, 1,785 members were not available for duty. Of those, 1,593 were suffering from ordinary illnesses and 192 were injured while on duty. The figures reveal the day-to-day pressure many rank-and-file officers are under, but also follow a series of car-ramming instances against the force in which members were injured. But the minister also confirmed that despite a much publicized Guardi recruitment campaign, only 24 new Guardi have been hired so far this year compared to 385 last year in 2020. However, the minister said the force will be hiring an additional 1,000 members plus 400 Guardi staff over the coming months. She said, I am informed by the Guardi authority that at the end of August, there were 14,283 Guardi members supported by over 3,117 staff. Right, now on to an opinion poll which came out over the weekend and this is carried in the Irish Daily Mirror. Sinn Féin is still by far the most popular political party in the state with well over double the support of Fina Full a new poll has revealed. The survey also found that neither Fina Gail or Fina Full got much of a budget bounce with their popularity largely unchanged while Mary Lou McDonald's party support has reached a record high. Even more telling is the revelation that Sinn Féin now commands the support of more than half of those who do not own their own home. The latest Sunday independent Ireland thinks poll reveals that Sinn Féin's support stands at 37% increasing their lead by one point. Fina Gail are the second most popular at 21% with no change compared to the previous poll. They'll be disappointed that they didn't get a lift from the budget. Fina Full which held its order at the weekend are in third place on 17% with a one point increase. Coalition partners the Green Party have seen a two point increase to 4% so 21 and 21 42. So the entire coalition the three parties together only have a five point lead on Sinn Féin on its own. Smaller opposition parties have not seen much change with people before profit solidarity dropping one point to four while the social democrats are now on 3% labour and Aintu are stuck on 3% while support for independence has dropped by 3 points to 8%. So Sinn Féin are sweeping up it would seem at this point. Not good news if you are an EV driver an electric vehicle driver. This is lastly in the sun today electric car drivers are paying more to charge their motors at some service stations than they would to top up with diesel. Motorists lured away from fossil fuels by cheap or running costs are being blindsided when forced to use more expensive pays you go options on the road. One man told the newspaper how he paid almost 58 euro for 350 kilometers worth of juice in the Circle K in Kilkante Kildare 10 euro more than the equivalent diesel refuel but whereas the price of a liter of petrol and diesel is clearly stated in every full court in the country EV charging prices will not be displayed on site until 2023 what's the big secret right so that's not good news if you're an EV driver and out and about charging up at random stations around the country okay that was a run through the newspapers anything catch your eye there 08 660 25000 or your ear in fact we'll be back with our first guests on the show but first we take this little break the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountain top letter kenny the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full 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facing now for quite some time talk to me about it yeah it's about our water and it's gone on night three years and sometimes our water runs i've sent you photos i think you've seen them and the waters come through i've looked at it to manages the teams uh then i've been reporting this to irish water they've contacted the local authorities i spoke to local authorities myself and he said as well it is our pipes are lab and cast iron so they were recommended to their cost scone flesh out the pipes every month then i've got really bad so now they've been told me to do it every two weeks to try and keep the pipes clean it's just a build-up of the lab and then the pipes so basically what he had said to me was that the pipes may change because we're there over 80 years so irish water really has just panned us off and panned us off so our last letter that they'll receive back from as they're trying to say now that we need to investigate our own house first to see if there's a lot of pipes on it and then they'll think about doing straight where the local authorities have already told them know the lab pipe is on the street and it needs to be replaced it's only 300 meters of the lab pipe that needs to be replaced and we're fighting with them most three years um so talk to me again explain the the logic to this you happen to check the pipes in your home because i mean the i actually go ahead that only came in the last week or before when i've been talking to irish water you know the pressure from one to the other yes and the last time the past week was to a manager and she says oh it's on the process that hopefully they're going in 2023 and it's not 23-24 and it will be replaced and then all of a sudden i was received a letter now to say to follow the rest get the possibility of presence of lab in your house that one would have to do um employ a private plumber give him to assess the pipes in the house and then to say i'm so clear he's to give us a certificate now i live on the street shown most older people yeah you know they're coupled with milk but maybe they want to for them to give it plumber and come out and assess the house it's just i think that's almost beyond most people especially if it's going to lead to a bigger bill isn't it yeah and the local authorities have told them the main pipe on the street is laid out and cast out and needs replaced they said they'll spend the fortune flushing out the pipes of the tulips and the amount of water they're using to do it and they have on their behalf as well milk to irish water but they just keep seem to be dragging and dragging how the he's left the group had no water nice from the world for last year my next doing river has you know the faltering jokes yeah yeah well she had no she bought one around for her water because hers is really bad as well and on the faltering wish you're supposed to get six months of your falter she went through three falters in three months my the water's that bad and the falters were actually orange when she took them out of the junk my word it put you off use it at all wouldn't it i mean how can how much can you trust a filter you know that that's just yeah but if your water was half decent i'm sure the falter would last you for six months do you know what i mean yeah like this change you would put washing on the wash machine and you're going to do it they'd give it eight on the wash and boil orange you'll actually have to wash it again so talk to me then about the the impact this is having on you then in terms of what you can use water for what you can't is it damaging to products like you know showers and baths or or what you'd have to get them flushed out do you know what i mean yeah you'd have to get the shower cleaned out so because i can see some the the water in the shower and i've had i've gone through three washing machines and i have brought this for attention of Irish water as well just because of that they're bowed up and bowed up and then just watched their appearances yeah but you have yeah okay and there's been representations um i think we were in contact with Sinn Fein was it what what have they been been saying to you if they had anything back from irish water that is the last letter no that they have got back that they sent on to me yeah they say no that sort of returning the spouse they went back on yesterday they said that we need to check our pipes first before they touch the pipe in the state even though the local authorities have been on Irish water so it just needs to replace there's a lot of places on them Kramer that they have replaced their pipes but all of a sudden they assume they've stopped and there's a health hazard without a shadow of a doubt well what when the filters are picking what do you see because it actually really paints the picture when you see what the filters are picking up you know it paints the picture of what's actually within the water that you might not think of you know the only thing we would use our tap water now is to boil a kettle yeah you know you certainly wouldn't put it in your mouth and i'm not the only person there's a heap of people that have complained about it and there's another person that has wrote off letter with a list of questions you know that he wanted answered you know when was left on and when was the water tested and he hasn't received any word back at all right well listen we're going to get in contact with irish water to see what they have to say and an explanation they might give i'm not sure how it might progress things on but sure we will never know unless we try will we so we'll see what they're saying a source of trash breaks with us yeah and this has been going on a long time for you and three years now i'm carrying water from a well for a year okay right okay leave it with us sorry for what you're going through and the rest of those rest of you affected tracy and we'll get back to you as we get any updates anything you want to add before we wrap up no that's fine thank you for listening no no it's that's what we're here for but we also want to try and get some results as well so as i say leave it yeah all right tracy thank you and looking at the pictures of that water it's just completely unacceptable in this day and age no doubt and especially when the responsibility seems to be shifting trying to be shifted on to the residents trying to get a contractor this is a separate issue trying to get a contract a half inch water pipe 150 mil i need a road opened license which can only be granted the countercounselor irish water to people who said it was too small a job would anyone be interested not 100 sure what's going on there but anyway right okay let us take a very quick break and we'll be back with more in the ninetal noon show in just a couple of minutes the ninetal 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 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members or by the local public to ambulance services found them either unavailable or um in one case uh 40 miles away from uh carndonna the nearest ambulance and no way the target of 19 or 20 minutes no way could that be delivered or no way was it delivered so i found it and i used the word it was it was consistent which was upsetting that on these occasions highlighted it was one hour or around of that before any services could arrive to support these families was any explanation given or where were these ambulances or what's the problem yeah one uh in one case where a person took girl um the local civilian and people nearby drove this person and had to go down to the galvan on another occasion a family was told that the nearest uh service was uh 40 miles away in strunner and a follow-up response arrived as well where the ambulance service themselves on them wednesday or thirtieth last week confirmed or and i'm using their words our response time fell outside the expected target for this call so that uh certainly concerns me and i do believe that there was a report in the national ambulance services in the summer where it was highlighted that recruitment in the service was being surpassed by demand and if that is the case and i read it to be so then action is needed uh worthless yeah so it what has to happen for this to be the case like it could be today tomorrow we know what's happened in the past what what ambulance provision is expected for any shown because there's been a lot of conversations about second ambulances and that over the years you'd remember that uh you'd have had plenty to say on that as well of course as a local representative uh and then what went wrong where were they so what should be there why weren't they there what was going on well i i think the aim to deliver seventy eighty percent of calls within nineteen minutes is admirable however if it's not been realized if there's failure there it's it's an all too sensitive issue for us in kandana here as we have had tragic circumstances before as we're waiting on ambulance services which didn't uh to arrive so you know the ambulance services tell me that as demand can exceed resources that the nine nine calls are uh triaged clinically triaged to prioritize the uh ensure those patients with their life threatening injuries are visited the fastest well on the three or four items that i raised last weekend the three or four families in the initial area in the kandana area did not seem to be uh receiving the fastest possible response from nas and i'm back again to say if this is a recruitment issue then something needs to be done forthwith yeah okay um it's a strange phrase um that it was a supply versus demand issue um especially in such a you know such a service what uh short and long-term measures are in place we were given any details as to to that the footnote in in the reply i received i received greg the hsc state that they welcome the opportunity to engage with service users so that the hsc can understand their experience and to see if a requirement for service improvement exists and they encourage us all service users to uh contact hsc directly through your service your say well as a local rep i am saying on behalf of those who elect me we need an analysis of the services immediately to see why are they falling outside the 19 minute response if it's uh staffing then that's resolved easily if there's other issues then we want an in-depth analysis action response and i would be encouraging all of those in the general public put your experiences good or bad but especially if they've been disciplined put them on the radar of the hsc and i will continue to follow this up at our hsc west uh regional health forum councillor was it a written reply you got or we were able to question okay i get you sorry that that that explains luck then you're not able to sort of follow up with questions as to uh what's coming back from them i get you okay right um it's it's it's a life and death situation potentially so it's something that needs to be sorted out as soon as is possible all right councillor albert darty thank you very much for your time this morning i really do appreciate it um if you've any experience of that or any comment on that as well of course 08 660 uh 25 000 hi greg anyone from fina4 speaking about uh 500 euro charity money to go to their election what's the issue here i'm not familiar with that i'll do a bit of research and come back i tend not to comment on something i haven't looked into so leave it with me greg wasn't it the government who said to cut back on cement while making blocks if so i'm guessing who's really responsible for micah i've never heard that uh claim before i've read it there from that text to be honest with you um irish road safety week will be taking place from the third of october to the ninth of october please drive safety today and everyone uh that's a message coming in from my listener as it relates to road safety uh over the next um few days greg i've been trying to get a doctor's appointment since last week says this this listener the phone goes dead after 15 seconds and into an automated message and by 10 30 the message switches to say they've reached their full capacity for the day nobody can get an appointment they've been saying it was because of covid but surely that can no longer be the case i'm at a loss well gps are incredibly incredibly busy at the moment uh even if you park covid to one side they are incredibly uh busy that's uh what we are being told and it varies obviously your interaction with the gps depends on which gp you're attending because some listeners have no issues whatsoever when contacting their gp and others do but if anyone's got any insight or maybe even the gps listening or someone in their staff and want to explain um what's the story what is the problem uh why is it so difficult for people to get an appointment what's happening when um the call goes to an automated message before 10 30 and afterwards the message says they've reached their full capacity for the day what is going on there uh is there an email address maybe people can try and use i know that's been uh suggested in the past i'm a weave it blind in that i'm not fully sure where uh and which practice that is um and you know as i say there's some out there have no issues getting gps appointments so i don't know what the story is uh right um we were talking about scams so this caller um had an attempt uh for someone to defraud them um and we appreciate them messaging in here they got a whatsapp which said which i thought was my daughter it said hi ma'am i lost my phone and credit card i need some money to make a payment so i authorized a payment from revolute uh 1019 euro the scammers asked to buy something else i then realized too late that it wasn't my daughter asked her to send a photo of herself no reply never thought anything about it as my daughter has a business and is always losing cards and phones people be aware right i said they lose one thousand and nineteen euro oh my god that's awful uh but that was one of those scams that was flagged to us by the guardie last week you get a message by the way uh just to recap it for those who may not have been listening or maybe want to pass it on to uh a relative or friends that don't listen to the program or don't be on social media you get a message either a text or a whatsapp uh and it says hi ma'am hi gran um i've lost my stuff this is your daughter here or this is your granddaughter here or your grandson i've lost my wallets and my phone um this is a temporary number i'm stuck can you help me out with some money and 99 percent of people go are you serious that's a scam or ring the number or whatever but some people in a panic some people will um sanction a payment and they don't need an awful lot of people to do just some so just uh to be aware uh just to let you know by the way uh before we take a break that uh there's an open day at balashan guarder station it's to mark the centenary of angadashi akana there's been um a couple of these around the regions uh the guarder regions and it's the turn of balashan and guarder station as you are aware angadashi akana celebrating the centenary of the organization this year and in order to celebrate and mark this an almost occasion an open day will be held at balashan and guarder station on sunday the ninth of october uh this coming sunday runs from 12 p.m to 4 p.m with a sensory hour from 12 p.m to 1 p.m this will be a very special occasion with lots of entertaining uh entertainment and fun for all the family a large number of external agencies have been invited and will be in attendance and uh it'll be a great opportunity we're told for all agencies and the community to meet each other members of angadashi akana past and present uh present will also be in attendance and refreshments will be served and i spoke to a couple of people that attended a couple of these uh and they actually enjoyed them and the young people particularly uh seemingly uh enjoyed them so that's uh an open day at balashan and guarder station it's at the old bondoren road into your right uh it runs next sunday from 12 p.m to 4 p.m the first hour is a sensory hour and uh i know and they had the mounted units and motorbike units in all manner of things at previous ones uh so anyway they say i'd like to extend invitation to attend this open day or um and we'll mention it i'm sure on the community guarder slots uh on tuesday that's tomorrow isn't it as well i'm sure it'll get another mention just in case you want to stick that note in your diary all right 08 6 60 25 000 that is the whatsapp and text number 08 6 60 25 000 or call 07 491 25 000 the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current 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struneller and no time wasn't on my wife's side but it may have made a big difference to other occasions when she had an asthma attack and our local doctor was here within a few minutes and the ambulance was there soon after this time everything just stalled like i was standing at the door with them now doc and he was sitting down in the hospital that didn't even realize that the call wasn't sent through right so you presumed once you made that emergency phone call that well that would trigger maybe to contact someone local uh someone that could get there between um the call and the ambulance arriving but that didn't happen you say for 20 minutes i was told there were a 20 minute delay in the call getting through it he's canned on and now doc the only assistant i had my wee neighbor she's an officer nothing gavin and she was coming out to go to work and i shouted her and she came down done her best but wasn't enough but i mean there's going to be cases where people are gasping for breath and there's no doctors no amulets all things are shambles yeah there's going to be no communication at all and quite a week at two amulets is like and probably somebody somewhere else in the county's quitting on an ambulance and makes sense to me and you were told that there was ambulances available because people anyone passing the hospital will see this often six or seven ambulances but it was drivers a driver was the issue seem to be the ambulance basis when you hunt the couch below the hospital like we didn't seem to have no local coverage at all it seems to be a driver as you and every time i go down that road there the ambulance is not out on the road they're one or at least two of them sit at the house and i was told by a man that loves on that road that the worst ambulance is sitting there that morning and i mean obviously while you're dealing with the loss and the grief um is there anger there that this call hadn't that there was a 20 minute delay in unpassing the call over to the local now doc or what's your feeling shameless well time wasn't on her side but and other cases like it that could be the difference in life and death like you know as i say like when she took the asthma attack a couple of years ago like only we had a quick response from dr gavin jumped in her own car and landed here and ran up the stairs and took her back from death and that was to happen somebody else me with 20 minutes your fight's gone you know the whole thing needs to have reset up a lot of people the scenario doesn't want sorry let me rephrase that not a lot of people but i'm sure there are some people that this has affected that time was very very important as you say perhaps not so much in in your wife's case but you know why was there at that delay in contacting the local now doc why did it take 50 minutes for an ambulance to arrive and why did to arrive then at the same time you know there's a it doesn't it's a whole break in the communication like i don't understand what's going on okay you know say that was somebody and the stress and you're sitting standing to the door looking waiting on a doctor waiting on no sign of nobody you're just fighting a losing battle just right you know okay are you okay at the moment shameless you holding up not too bad not good days and bad days great okay so i understand that stay strong shameless thanks for for letting us know while you're still doing this with your old friend we don't use highland radio and thanks for your service for getting the story out there like okay all right look after yourself will you all right thank you great make sure you look after yourself please okay yeah okay all right take care of yourself thanks very much uh indeed okay that is James there um hi ask councillor doherty why does it always take someone to lose their life to get uh uh uh counselors responding uh to come out and talk about this another poor family in our area um our self health system is a joke i'm not here to to defend um local reps the well capable of doing that themselves i'm sure but particularly there's been particular challenges with the ambulance services in in a shown and they have been raising it consistently at um they have been raising it consistently at uh meetings and i've spoken to them many times on this program as well as i say i'm not here to defend them but i just have to be fair uh this is an ongoing issue that uh local reps particularly in in a shown and not only an inch on they have been that raising for quite some time a caller says there was an accident in my area about a week ago uh and he ended up with two ambulances as well what if another person had have needed that second ambulance and that time was essential how does this constantly happen when two ambulances show up to the one call out now is it this no possibility is there that one is a a different type of an ambulance you know what i mean has a different level of care or status of care i don't know i'm just throwing that out there because i know there are first responders and then there are other ambulances that have all the gear um that is required i'm not sure what the situation is i'm just throwing out there in case that is a a factor but um we're hearing a couple of cases of two ambulances arriving um when one is required hi greg lead in the water can cause serious mental development issues in children this is well documented in the united states this is a very serious health and safety issue here yes it is indeed and that's very much why we were very keen to speak to uh tracy to help get that story uh out there um right okay uh whilst we wait for our next guest to join us hi highland radio this is via letter by the way uh just wondering if you would take the time during the day to read out my idea i would of course my idea is for shops and local people buying in those shops to use a to use more simple irish words spoken irish during the shop for example gourmet my god gourmet my god thank you uh and so on and so forth are you well just a few of our own language as it's no point in us learning irish schools if we don't use it a little bit in our daily uh occurrences i'm losing what little irish i had because i am not able to use it i'm sure it's the same for other people and with the fantastic irish schools we have we can let the children show us how what do you think yes it's a brilliant idea but don't wait for uh it to happen you know don't presume the person behind the counter can't sort of pass the time of day with you in irish start at you as well and see what kind of reaction uh you get but it is a good idea and maybe it would be interesting or maybe it's already been done whether if there were an initiative an initiative to sort of focus that in particular towns um at particular times just to try and uh increase the use of the language but start yourself and see what happens uh what do you think of that idea oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand your whatsapps and texts so give us a call on 07491 at twenty five thousand right okay i think we can speak now to frank brady the regional chairman of the ifa frank can you hear me okay good morning to you i can hear you perfect can you hear me i am good uh are you at work i'm at work unfortunately i have to the pigs have to be fed to as well great no problem well though but uh i'm we're going back into giant of protest now in about 20 minutes right you are protesting outside aldeys and lidl in caventine why it's their policy of having a margin for everybody but the farmers that's their policy and their policy is that we can sell below costs which is their prerogative but let them take the hits rather than expecting the farmers to take the hit all the time as we see going across the country they've put a lot of the them and the other supermarkets i must add as well have put a lot of the okay that line is failing us on us a little bit why are you doing the business pardon sorry uh you yet no we just had a slight break up there you were saying um you were saying what your issue is with uh these discount retailers yeah they're not giving enough to the farmer we don't mind them uh selling at whatever price they want but give the farmer a margin so in other words if they want to do loss leading with eggs and what have you that's up to them but don't expect the farmer to subsidize that Greg i couldn't have put it better myself right how much more do farmers need then i mean who strikes the price well that's why we were hoping that uh charlie your minister up there who has been helpful in a more ways than one that he would come along and he would uh instruct that this homeless man that's supposed to be coming he would come and he bring in a fair price for everybody all right what kind of products what kind of products are you're being asked to sell more cheaply um is it um everything that's not scarce yeah basically everything that's not scarce if they're looking for us to sell eggs pork uh chicken uh milk sometimes uh beef all the time so that's basically where we're at you know is it possible maybe there a little bit out of touch with the consumer maybe the consumer might be prepared to pay that couple of cent more for quality irish produce well what we have found out and i have found out in all the years i've protested is the consumer will pay that thing and we've seen the consumer we've been giving them out free eggs for the last since we started last thursday morning and some of the people from your region were down last night peter and uh george uh charlie uh were down last night and they found they couldn't believe the response we were getting from the local people and they've read yes you're fair play you're only looking for two cent an egg in this case and they were quite happy to pay that two cent an egg if it meant that they had board b approved quality food on their table in the morning or evening yeah and we may not realize uh those of us who aren't farmers but of course you know the production of eggs and milks and other items uh draw a lot of power yes we do a lot of power and we we've proved the power we've had for the last five days it's like i can send you a video and i will if you want to send me a whatsapp quick should show that the store in aldi is completely empty and it's the second largest aldi store in ireland and little are there now they might have had a little bit more in stock uh when we started our protest on four o'clock thursday morning and it hasn't been easy it's been hard work but we've got a lot of support from the broader farming community which is what we're very appreciative of from other counties as well just to give people an idea i mean obviously the production costs have increased significantly over the last uh the last while but in 2012 half a dozen eggs were 219 a decade later the same eggs well they're not the same eggs the same number of eggs 15% cheaper at 189 do you know what i mean that's not sustainable presumably yeah we we've had no food inflation since i've got involved and long before i got involved when my parents were feeding me my father gave my mother 46% of the family budget to feed us i would be given my wife and everybody else who else who are married would be spending 15% to down to 12% of their budget on family food on food and it's not sustainable all right what about if they say right well we'll just import these products and sell them on the shelves if the uh if you're going to be so but i think that would really anger the farming community and we might see that a quite an escalation of uh i i would say every little analogy store in the country would be closed overnight and the i wish consumer wants to support board b or i wish food like i saw a chicken there the one of them to his cost sellers had produced in ireland but when we looking at it it was danish chicken yeah almost we've a few examples of that i'll let you back to your pigs uh thanks 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them as they're trying to say now that we need to investigate our own house first to see if there's lead pipes in it and then they think about doing the street where the local authorities have already told them the lead pipe is on the street and it needs to be replaced and there's only 300 meters of lead pipe that needs to be replaced and we're fighting with them those three years crazy house prices in denigol have risen by 21.6 in the past 12 months according to the latest my home dot ie house price survey is the largest increase of any counting in the state with more detail here's daniel bannon the average three bed semi-detached home in county denigol now costs 152 000 euro with the 21.6 price rise the highest rate in the last 12 months in the entire state the average price of a home here is the second lowest of any county in the republic the prices have continued to rise consistently as inflation goes up pressure continues nationwide on the housing market and the mica crisis puts 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firms can effectively do what they want no because most of the companies are private providers he's no control over them and he'd probably say that he'd tell us go to the regulator and then they'll say as well that they have no function here so he's just bluffing his way out of a deep hole and facing the abyss he knows that but tell people what you want to hear mostly cloudy today with light rain or drizzle becoming persistent at times along the coast top temperatures of 50 16 degrees celsius with fresh gusty southerly winds against strong in coastal areas and that's island radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team have a very good morning obitri notices for monday morning october 3rd the death has taken place of anna paterson kill town killy gordon reposing at her residence house private please with family and friends welcome funeral from there tomorrow at 145 p.m for service in dunham more presbyterian church at 2 p.m fall by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard the death has taken place of hannah macketeer gordon atrah carry keel hannah will repose at the family home from 12 noon tomorrow funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has taken place of philip st john hamilton banger county down informally of belfast in balentra a procession will take place from mulford and a funeral will take place on wednesday at 2 p.m in cavern friends and family are invited to a reception at cavern crystal hotel from 3 30 p.m on wednesday inquiries to mackleway funeral directors milford the death has occurred of margaret leeper formally ballona toan welsh town and 104 ard mackle sternorla remains reposing at the home of her sister flora hum 53 the beaches today from 6 p.m funeral leaving there on wednesday at 1 30 p.m for service of thanksgiving in sternorla parish church at 2 p.m interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard funeral service of thanksgiving will be streamed live by the parish facebook page the death has taken place of charlie mcminamon 47a oan ray drive stroban and formally of castle fin reposing at quigley's funeral home this evening from 6 p.m with removal at 7 30 p.m to st mary's church melmont requiem mass tomorrow morning at 10 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the requiem mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam the death has taken place of danie mcshane two landstown park stroban and formally of burn denett his remains are reposing at his home funeral leaving his home tomorrow morning at 9 15 a.m for requiem mass in st mary's church clock core at 10 a.m. interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in leo flowers please to mary currie care of quigley funeral directors the death has taken place of agnes mcglennie mulford reposing at the residence of her daughter heather and steven walsh 65 less nennan court letter kinney today from 12 noon until 9 p.m funeral leaving less nennan court at 12 10 p.m tomorrow afternoon for 1 p.m funeral service and holy trinity church karigart followed by interment in the family plot at mulford church of ireland cemetery family time please on the morning of the funeral donations in leo flowers to alcimer society of ireland and the tear fund care of mack away funeral directors or any family member the death has occurred of josephine joe onene 600 bungalows drum queen her remains are reposing at her home funeral mass from there this morning for 11 a.m requiem mass in saint patrick's church langfield drum queen burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations in leo if desired to any family member or to shawn okane and sons and the death has taken place of brendan cullen mill road newtown conningham his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there this morning at 11 40 a.m going to all saint church newtown conningham for 12 noon requiem mass which can be viewed live on church services dot tv interment afterwards in the 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once again you're very welcome back to the night till noon show here on highland radio with me gregg hughes a caller said i got a scam call last week it was scaremongering saying i owed money i know how it no debt but it definitely panicked you if you did okay see the try and get the emotions going don't they great the teachers here are to be trained to teach alcohol abuse in schools about time the shocking irish drunk culture was challenged and changed this may hit the pockets of publicans and shareholders in the drink industry but will surely improve the well-being of irish society in the long run that's not a little bit controversial i think i just glanced over something in the paper today that that might be being backed by the irish drink industry i'll check into it well done shameless keep strong last january i phoned an ambulance to take me to hospital and it came from balabafay to klon mani it's a disgrace as for gps phoned at nine and my gp was to call me back still waiting for a call back to see the doctor the exact same thing happened to me a few months ago i lost my partner it was 65 minutes to wait for an ambulance and two arrived at the same time time was not on our side just like shameless and i'm so sorry again but what you are going through there uh we need the local link to do an evening run to take us out on nights i badly needed in the area so hard to get a taxi and costs if you are getting them all the time where are you based um i'm really interested to know greg olging old english notes are no longer legal tender i found 150 euro and a person saturday from a holiday in the uk what can i uh where can i go to get it changed to new tender please and thank you i would imagine a bank would it be anyone out there particularly maybe if you're listening from northern arland or you're in and out of northern arland um a caller has 150 euro uh in sterling and once it changed to the new plastic notes i believe any advice would be helpful i'm gonna say send it to me but uh i'll probably end up spending it on you um right a caller says i was called by irish water and told there was a leak which was in my street and i would have to pay for the repairs the leak turned out to be on the water meter they installed this leak has now happened twice in each time the meter was replaced and it's still leaking i've never heard of that well i've heard of it but you don't hear about it too often uh just to let you know that uh there's an eighties disco in arena seven this friday night nine p.m. until midnight it's uh for tj's wish to walk it's her second birthday paul mcdevitt and marty frill are the dj's so that's gonna be great music and good crack too with those two involved it's 10 euro to get in and it includes finger food there'll be a raffle tickets for great prizes on the night okay isn't that a nice thing next friday an eighties disco in arena seven uh and it is to support tj's wish to walk uh our own paul mcdevitt and marty frill two great 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ticket this year now i said and did go on the school bus but i just presumed that there was a hold up but the bus tickets what the fiasco that was ongoing and then i got the call to say that we hadn't been issued with a bus ticket and he obviously could go on the bus which of course i understand but when i emailed bus air and i've been told that there's no seats available but i and it's just i just find it very hard to deal with because like he was going on the bus there was seats available on the bus and even like i know that there are seats that are not being used now i'm not saying that all the tickets haven't been issued because that's obviously what bus airing or saying all tickets for that bus have been issued which is fair enough but there are seats available on the bus yeah i think you're referencing maybe you're referencing and it was deputy mark mcshary that raised this i think in the doll that a lot of people that maybe don't need a ticket or weren't ever going to use it applied for it because it were free and their students aren't on the buses and people like your son who was using it uh he's not able to get a ticket to get on a bus that has empty seats yes well don't greg that is one thing like i don't begrudge anybody a ticket and everybody is you know if they're eligible for a ticket of course you know and if they need it and they use it of course but i just feel that you know we were we had a ticket last year and i don't see why we we weren't we don't have a ticket this year like senator he's in second year and you know i just find it very hard to take that you know this is october and that we we're no further forward like i'm not the only family in this position in the glenn fun area there are other families we are eligible for tickets but we're not being issued tickets so therefore we can't use the bus service the slight problem though um maybe is did you miss the July 29th deadline well greg to be to be honest and i put that in my email to you um i had my two children register for the bus before the end of April which is the date right and what happened last year was you went in before a certain date in july and you paid for your bus ticket which is what i did now this year when the announcement was made that bus ticket the fees were waived i just assumed when i had my children registered i never got an email to say i had to request tickets or anything like that and when i did hear from other parents that they'd been issued tickets i did request my tickets and obviously i was late and i hold my hands up and say yeah i was late i never got an email to say that i had to actually request tickets because going on last year i had had been the same as last year i would have had paid for my ticket before the end of july and i would have had my tickets yeah you thought your kids were on the system i think that's fair and and if the interest is a new thing and i think a lot of this a lot of the problems that we've been dealing with are about a lack of communication however the the information was to be gotten out to parents and guardians i don't think it was so i think that that's i mean that's not unreasonable i can understand how that would be a very easy error to make alice yeah and i you know greg i really aren't we aren't any further forward i don't know like are there going to be more buses made available or do we just accept now that we have to make other arrangements for our children to get up and home from school again you know or is something going to happen but i mean how long do we wait i think it's also important from boss erin's perspective and you can correct me if this is not relevant alice but they need to audit who is actually availing of tickets so that i think so yeah that would be a great idea greg yeah you know so if people have a ticket but aren't using it because maybe it suits mom or dad to drop them on the way to work or whatever it might be but they applied for a ticket just to be on the safe side i think boss erin need to audit the situation so that the tickets that aren't being used can be redistributed because there's no point there's no point putting on an extra bus if there's six empty seats on a bus for example i'm just picking numbers out of my head you know but that wouldn't make sense either alice would it absolutely not and there's a lot more greg i know on a lot of occasions that there's a lot more than six empty seats yeah on that's a 57-seater coach you know and there's a lot more than 10 empty seats especially a seemingly on a friday there might be less than 10 pupils on that bus and i'm driving in to pick somebody up and there's a bus coming up the road but it's not even 50 capacity right okay yeah this is you know it makes absolutely no sense at all and and maybe um the company on that route that might give us a ring and just explain what the situation is or maybe they give us a solution to this um you don't the problem is as well you're not getting any information we got on to to boss erin to see what they had to say and the bit that seems relevant to this is that for any student where submitted application ticket request which was the error that the mistake you made was made after the deadline of i'm not beating you up about that by the way i'm just making sure that everyone knows no no i know and that's fair i hold my hand up to that but it's a genuine mistake but this is where it's relevant in this statement if the ticket request was made after the deadline of the 20 29th of july the application is deemed late it'll be dealt with once all on time applications have been processed seats will be allocated to late applicants only where capacity exists on a route once all on time eligible children have been contained catered for now you see this is where the audit comes into it because as far as boss erin is concerned that boss that has no space for your child is probably full you see and until they determine who is and who isn't using these tickets how are they going to get a ticket to your son that's the problem uh concern i yeah yeah i don't know and i'm just wondering you know and if that is the case okay and people are using their tickets do we do we accept that we just have to make other arrangements like do we accept this one alice i think we have to fight this if if listen as you say no one purposely applied for a ticket they didn't need no one could have predicted that it would have cost another child a place right i mean we can accept that so it's up to boss erin now to sort of say right okay all of these extra people that applied for tickets not all of them needed them and those that mean tickets aren't getting them so we have to keep it yes we can't just accept this this is an administration situation that they should be fit to resolve for us alice yeah yeah and it is lack of communication greg you know when you do get you know an email to say it's being looked into but what what exactly does that mean you know you know do we wait another week and another week and another week you know it's going to you know the time is going in very quickly of course and this is the same press they pretty much the same press race word for word that was issued to us in fact it might be the same press race that was issued to us a couple of weeks ago we need something updated to find out where we're at now uh alice yeah what what does this mean to you in terms of you know trying to get uh your child to and from school obviously it's it's going to be an inconvenience to say the least yeah it absolutely is greg well because obviously i'm in work myself um and i have other children as well to get to school now i am very lucky and i'm very thankful that i have really good neighbors and that they are helping me out at the moment you know the other the other side of that is then and actually finishes on a half day on wednesday um so you know you're always looking for somebody to pick him up from school and bring him home and it's really a unfair you know he should be on the bus what his friends yeah of course and you know it's lovely to be able to have uh to to rely on people to help you out but you kind of want to paddle your own canoe as well too don't you you know you do and it's all it's you know it's okay for a short term it's you know it's a solution short term but that's why i need to know is this going to be a long term saying you know that i really need to get something you know sorted for it yeah okay well we're going to chase boss Aaron up again and see if they'll give us an updated press race you know with some new information but at this stage even if it's bad news you want the news don't you you know what i mean you're yeah well yeah well you'd like to know one way or the other Greg absolutely yeah okay um and as you say the time the time's fairly going in isn't it yeah it absolutely is yeah third of october okay alice if we can get anything to anything to move this forward we we can this just needs one person to take an interest in this that is a decision maker and it would be fixed do you know what i mean so we need to try and yeah one person isn't that it yeah absolutely and it would make life a lot easier for a lot of people yeah for sure all right all right thanks thank you Greg all right take care of yourself that's great thank you right okay stay in touch with us um and um tell us your thoughts have you got some suggestions for alice perhaps uh oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand that's the whatsapp send text or call 07491 25 000 hi tracy good morning to you morning Greg how are you i'm good this sounds like a bit of common sense incoming talk to me about it what's your suggestion i just think there has to be another way of looking at this whole bus transport system like when a child starts secondary school or primary school well especially primary school they're gonna finish out eight years same for secondary school why do the government or the bus air and not just issue the child on the first application with an eight year or a five year ticket and then review it like they do your medical care so rather than them having to deal with hundreds and thousands of applications coming on every year why not just i suppose depend on the parents as well to inform them if the child no longer or what they could do is they do it with the children's allowance don't they every um july or august send out a letter saying um has your circumstances changed will your child still be availing of the school transport arrangement that would be another way of doing it tracy just take a box it's a yes or no i think i think this can be far more simplified and i think that especially for families out there who have children with additional needs and start in school we have enough stress going on and i think my just thought on it the easy way to do this is issue the five year ticket give them the give them the full term and then i'm sure 95 of parents would inform them if the child leaves education which most children don't do now most stay the full term in education and sure are we scamming ticket on the bus yeah scam the ticket going on that we mean we have internet we have all this new technology the little ticket that the issue put a barcode on it that the child's scam it going on the bus so they'll know on their system if it's not used for let's say 10 consecutive days it raises a flag and and they can inquire if the child still needs the seat or not maybe something else exactly okay exactly the amount of administration the amount of administration this would this would this suggestion would get rid of every single year yeah and the amount of stress for both like i know from my own personal experience in shin order the staff there i'm more than helpful it to me it's simple it's simple just just do it for five years scan on service or as you say a review like the medical card and that's a lot but you're not going to have all these phone calls every september i can't believe i can't believe you're the first person that suggested this to me tracy it makes well i just think it's a great plan yeah perfect sense and take everything away from his own his own joy or enjoy our start of school year without all these stresses of pickets the same every year because with everything comes at once i've never had to deal with it but dealing with the ticket getting the uniforms getting the books dealing with them maybe not wanting to go back to school or whatever it might be you know this would be one level of stress for hundreds of thousands of families out there that could be removed and it would also save the state of fortune in admin yeah and it would also it would also allow boss erin to plan ahead because once they know the numbers so once you know a class is getting bigger coming in then the capacity automatically needs to be improved so they can be they can be like 12 months ahead of themselves 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perfect autumn midweek escape okay that is joe dolin and goodbye venice goodbye okay now we are joined in studio by our next two guests firstly we say good morning to uh jennifer daherty down to us from bunkrana good morning jennifer how are you keeping i'm good gregg thanks it's great to have you uh in with us and also uh joining us is john wilkie good morning john how are you keeping good morning gregg and good morning listeners how are you doing it's great to have you with us okay so how did you skies end up teaming up me it's up to you whichever go ahead jennifer um so i was contacted by irish guide dogs because john was doing a fundraiser um he wanted to do fundraiser for guide dogs and they put us in touch um and he told me all about his karate and his challenge to raise some money first but to climb Kilimanjaro next year so he raised 3000 euro for irish guide dogs in was that me yeah me and he's that hasn't hasn't been enough he's going to keep going so why did you decide uh john to pick irish guide dogs as a fundraising well it's uh worthy charity gregg um i know it takes a lot of money to to run this organization i think it's five million to run it a year and i felt that donnie gall branch wasn't getting much publicity so i thought to myself i know roy keens a big ambassador for the guide dog so i was thought to myself i would contact the people in cork and they put me in contact with jennifer so um i says well we'll do a barefoot walk she says what barefoot walk so uh it was quite easy it's only four laps of the track and letter kenny uh or our leisure center so we got 3000 so that was the start the new year was serious so um you know we do a annual um charity every year and uh this year through the club isn't it yeah through the karate club and it's just you know we get together and everybody you know sells tickets or brings on sponsor cards you know and that sort of thing and it's worthy charity but i just thought uh the irish guide dogs will be an amazing charity to work for or you know sort of amazing and there's a crossover between what you're planning and what you've done jennifer because you took on a an amazing channel challenge and before we do that your experience in 2004 you were in thailand at the time of that tsunami did that uh change things for you did that change your perspectives i think it did i just you know i didn't really realise at the time i was talking about that coming up the road um to deba who brought me up here because that was my first time ever in highland radio we came back and we spoke about being in the tsunami but you know it had a big impact at the time because we were all my family were all okay and we were able to go home and you kind of felt guilty leaving everybody and leaving you know people that had suffered so much devastation and um there was a local school beside us that got completely washed away and i think of that all kind of you know that always stuck in my head so like my family raised money we all raised money and mom and dad i went out and gave the school money and the hotel and people we knew you know but this is amazing how something can touch us like that that would have a group of individuals in northwest arland being so moved that they'd feel they'd have to to fundraise and go out and help people in thailand it truly is an amazing thing yeah and then i think part of when when i was in napal that we got to go to school and give some copy books and things to people in the school and that was the first experience of that i've ever had so it's kind of something i've always wanted to do um and you know you go through things and you don't realize the impact they have but i think it's definitely made me thankful for all the experience that i've had and all the good things that have happened to me yeah and of course you've taken on your own challenges as well uh including talk to us about uh the trek of mantaphrist uh it was just the best experience i thought you were gonna i thought you were about to say ah that was nothing that's what i thought you were gonna say it was nothing but come on talk to me about it it was just like the hardest thing i've ever done physically and mentally everyone thinks it's a physical challenge of it which obviously it's really tough you're trekking for 12 days and every kind of surface you can think of and it's you know it's so like it's so steep it's so difficult but it's such a mental challenge too because you just have to get your head around you know being somewhere completely different i was with people i didn't know um you've altitude or um you know different language sleeping in a different place every night there's so many things and trust too you have to trust people implicitly don't you yeah trust was the biggest thing i mean i there was 10 of us went from doneigall and nine of us along with jason black and like i didn't know jason a year ago i didn't know him and i only met him at christmas and four months later he was taking me to everest and convincing me that this was a good idea but like i never ever felt scared at any part of it you know everyone was the whole group were amazing really helpful and the fact that i was blind wasn't really a bother they just described everything and you know made sure i knew what was going on and i wonder how maybe you had the conversations afterwards at base camp or effort jennifer how was your experience different to um you know someone with vision uh because it's you're having a completely different experience you're experiencing it with different senses did you talk that to others and did you come up with any you know any sense of how different it was for you the feeling and the experience versus for them i wonder yeah um i think well i always said they laughed at me because i always said i was really lucky that i couldn't see if i could see there's no way i would have done it like i couldn't see the big massive hill in front of me or pile of steps or you know i just had to walk and kind of like live in the moment and not really be distracted by what was ahead of me or you know so i think that was kind of lucky and then uh napal is such a sensory experience like when you're on the mountain you've got the yaks coming with their bells and you have you know the prayer wheels and just so many people from different places and different food and there's so much going on with your senses that you even though you can't see there's so much you don't feel like you're missing out on anything i mean everyone just described everything that they could see so yeah it's really quite interesting isn't it that you're drawing everything in from all your other senses yeah and building your experience from that and and talk to us it was 12 days is this a misprint did you do 330 kilometers in over 12 days 230 230 is a tight trek and a lot of that climbing as well yeah oh it's so 8700 meters of climbing i think that one's correct uh did you bring civil with you on that trip out of interest um jennifer no she couldn't i could hardly walk it myself never mind her um but she didn't travel at all like what i'm saying is that i would say that was a bit of a was that a bit of a was that difficult for you it wasn't really because i think i knew it was just something like when i'm trekking if i'm doing anything like that or a hike or anything she doesn't come with me anyway so you know i'm kind of used to not having her and i knew she was with family and they would look after her well but it's okay right okay so there's a meeting tonight um john yes um you are planning to climb Kilimanjaro in july of next year and it is you're laughing there because it's only little is Kilimanjaro big that's that's not 100 machetes it's not it's 20 000 it's only 20 000 why did you decide to take this on have you have you any experience of climbing like would you be up down regular not really aerogal regular or anything i've done aerogal uh for 10 times now i've trained on this last hundred days or something yeah um i've got it in this uh the blue stacks as well with Jason black and reading maps and so you have the climbing bug anyway you're not starting from zero here no yeah i'm getting fit and uh well 2015 i couldn't do it because i was um paralyzed so i suffered from a neurological disorder and re just building up the body again and you know between it and lumps and bumps and type two diabetes and the whole works was going on so um i says i have to do someone here and then the consultant says you need two hips as well mr welkin so look um i mean i mean you've been climbing a mountain for the last seven years really effectively a personal medical emotional mountain yeah i was down and out uh so i had to sell the whole lot and get out and but uh for anybody out there thinking about doing anything get out and do something yeah because look we're only getting one spun here and move you know if you can help people or you can help anybody that's why i thought the gay dogs what's an amazing charity you're helping somebody they're you know the dogs they're eyes so i mean it's you know so this meeting tonight it's in the community center in letter kenny um what are you planning what do you want people to attend for is it for teams is it for fund raising or what what's the purpose of the meeting tonight john well first of all it's probably volunteering as well um i guess getting people and for me a lot of people don't know much about it uh the donnie gall branch jennifer is involved and it's just to get people involved maybe volunteering for the dog or take a dog for a walk that's everything jennifer yeah so there's kind of all so chris bennett is coming up he works and he's the regional fund raiser okay so just be clear jennifer and i want you to explain all of this sensors i've actually uh got mixed up here this meeting tonight's not specifically about your kilimanjaro crying well there's a bit of a launch is there tonight okay so you take over now jennifer and tell us all of what's happening tonight so the launch is the meeting tonight is just kind of supposed to make people aware of what john's doing too so hopefully there'll be bits of fundraising between now and when he goes next year but it's also to recruit volunteers so whether that's people who want to help with fundraising or the puppies so we had our first letter of puppies born in donnie gall last year they're just about to go into training um they're the first puppies ever to be puppy raised in donnie gall and we're hoping next year that that there'll be more so um you know just different things people can get involved in if people like john have a fundraising idea or they have something they think they can help you know they might say i'll have a room or i have something you could have a coffee morning or if people have ideas if they want to come and tell us that would be great or if they want to get involved in some way like we're not looking for volunteers to do something every week it's kind of just when things come up that we have a list of people who are interested and lots of people can do a little and make a big difference rather than absolutely a couple of regulars doing everything so okay and we have some so we have chris Bennett coming up from cork so like he works there and he'll be able to answer any questions everyone has anyone has as well so it's a great opportunity to get someone from guide dogs up and on a go yeah and this is also to yeah he's the CEO of the Irish guide dogs so that's a significant guest to be having and it's not unlike our conversation we're having in Fridays it relates to the NCBI um none of us ever know really whenever we might find ourselves you know maybe needing um a guide dog yeah or an assistance dog as well Irish guide dogs train assistance dogs for children with autism and obviously that affects a lot of families you know so people don't know when that could be something as well they might need I've spoken to a few people who have them in their family now and it's amazing what these animals can do and the difference they can make for people isn't it so anyone's welcome to come along tonight at 7 p.m if they have a bit of spare time if they want to learn a bit more about the work of the national um the Irish guide dogs um you're inviting them to attend it's at the community centre in letter Kenny and John you'll be outlining a little bit more talking a bit more about your great challenge that you're undertaking well I don't think it's uh hopefully it works out but it's just to highlight really and empower people are you are you nervous about this climb not really yeah I'm not he's so relaxed she told me I'm not nervous because it's doable yeah and no matter what challenge I've been challenges are you would your outlook be different maybe 10 years ago John to something like this absolutely yeah I had no light your life experiences absolutely yeah okay you know I looked at it out there and I says hey you know you have to change it that negative you know positive things create positive energy you know I mean that's okay now do you do this as part of a team do you sign up to a team that's already scheduled to go once do you do right our team leaders Jason Black you know one another great human being he's done great things but um but I think the training is important oh yeah add on my first marathon with two weeks training and that's not that's right I don't think that's that would be advisable is the word I wasn't sure but it was you did a whole marathon with what three hours a bit well two weeks train I don't even run that you didn't really do training John no you can't call that training I don't think you did any training it's three hours 27 minutes it does doable yeah well there's pure thrannous or whatever it is but look um all I'm trying to reach out there and people sitting at home wondering what they should do get out even go walk around the garden yeah you know we're in we're in times now sometimes that first step is the most difficult one though we're unusual times but this this is an unusual person here beside me Jennifer Doris she inspired me I know what you're trying to say what about special there is a well you know she's a very unique unique unique yeah unique very unusual though Jennifer if you any what's your I mean your feet getting itchy for your next challenger have you already got it lined up her I already do and it's something something John's doing as well just that he forgot to mention um next year Jason is doing Ireland seven summits so you were doing that it's a mountain range a month for seven months and I asked him a couple of weeks ago did I think I could do you one or two of them and he said now you'll do all seven so with him it's like all or nothing we get a medal then apparently yeah we get a medal so apparently I'm doing all seven brilliant and does the Kilimanjaro climb fall in between those yes in between that and June so so you've a busy busy 2023 how do you uh John train for um altitude um I haven't really done much altitude I've been up and down Ergal I've been up on Mockish but it's it's not high enough is it the air is not thin enough really you're kind of climatized into it you know over there yeah so it's it's not the system yeah it's a system all right very good um is it if people want to support you in what you're doing John is it too early have you got that set up yet do you want to set up with us donnie goll probably the donnie goll branch if people want to like message us there or are we going directly to them um at least then we can keep track of you know what's coming in from donnie goll if people want to contact us or if people aren't on facebook Greg can I give them a number of course again if you're happy to yeah um so my number is 0861651075 um I'm the chairperson it's on the goll branch so if anyone not on facebook or has any ideas or any way they want to support john um that would be great yeah well people can reach out to you directly too we're having a week ticket draw as well yeah coming up in december so um so we're going to go with the tickets yeah two year old that sort of thing so three thousand you raised walking around yeah just four laps I was going to say could you not just do that twice or something again that's what jennifer said do you want to read it save all the effort now but it's all going to the irish guide dog so that's a great charity and it's i'm delighted to be able to be part of it okay right brilliant stuff well done john answer you'll let us know thank you when things are more timely for us to mention um when when uh but in the meantime if you want to support uh john you can contact the uh donnie goll branch of the irish guide dogs or thanks to yourself and caroline and kerry for making the tea for what did you have today i got a cup of tea thanks kerry did you get it in a nice cup a lovely cup okay that's good and come here um a final plug for tonight jennifer uh anyone who's got a bit of spare time or you're not looking for people to dedicate an awful lot of time in terms of volunteering come along uh you'll be able to hear from chris bennett he's the CEO of the irish guide dogs find out a little bit about the work they do find out about the fact that um poppy's now a bit being born here and raised here which i think is quite a an exciting development that's a massive is there a significance to that in terms of matching those poppies up with their their new homes that jennifer you know and climatizing them to whomever they'll be working with or is it just good to have uh more guide dogs being rared all across the country yeah so having them here just expands the guide dogs you know so they're not all concentrated in cork or doubling or whatever um the poppies they can't be matched until they're fully qualified so it just depends on the dogs they have and the people they have waiting so where i'll be getting one next year because sybil will be 10 next year so unfortunately i'll have to get a new dog but we're kind of hoping maybe one of the dunagall puppies may come back you know and it's cybled the same dog that you had with us the last time you were in uh i had oj in here before oj's black yeah right oj was uh lively uh cybled usually as she's just showing off today like when that harness is on she's quiet if you saw could you throw harness on john all right listen come here john fair play uh for what you're doing and it's one of those things there's a myriad of reasons in there personal absolutely for the irish uh the irish uh guide dogs which is there's always hope great it's something that you've you've uh connected with there clearly um and we wish you the best look keep us updated with what's going on um jennifer good luck with your uh challenge your is it challenges isn't it challenges next year you're it will be challenge it's some not adventure i know but still you'll get it done and it's impressive and also just to remind people get along to that meeting in the community centre letter kenny um tonight uh the c eo of the irish guide dogs chris pennant will be there so it'll be nice to get a big crowd for him landing up from from cork his cork is coming up from us so it's a it's a big journey so we'd love a a big donning all about we can take a local politician that ian mcgarvey the last day and he says you'll run out of run at a time before you're out of money so okay let's enjoy let's enjoy this exactly i know all right okay it's it's just it's a strong message you want to know you want to get across all right listen thank you so very much both of you thank you all right john and i can stay in touch with us with what you're doing and jennifer good luck with that meeting tonight and everything uh that is to come all right thank you very much all right we'll be back with more on the program 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weigh-in at the regency hotel in dublin 2016 the case will be heard before the non-jury special uh criminal cords um paul williams is author of the monk the life and crimes of ireland's most enigmatic gang boss and i'm delighted to actually say paul's joining us this morning hi paul good morning greg how are you i am good how significant is this trial um for those who may not be aware well i saw that in some of the papers this morning where one newspaper is describing us the the criminal trial of the century and i certainly uh it is probably one of the fourth nerds who have been considered as those ganglion historians and criminologists and all of that in the 50-year history of organized crime and this is one of the standout seminal trials um because um jerry hutch is one of the standout best known most elusive most enigmatic and most powerful godfathers that has ever been produced in our criminal history here and he was the man if you ask me and i think i started my career in the 70 world in 1987 the same year and at the same month uh as jerry hutch started his career so still so to speak as one of the biggest armed robbers in the history to say in 1987 when he led one and a half million in the prince allied robber or not prince allied but the marina marco um if you ask me in all of that time what would happen to jerry hutch i would always say to you that there is a predictable life cycle and a life story to all of these criminals but the one thing about him was that he was the one guy who i thought was the cleverest most cunning and smart as a moral of them and who was most strategic and pragmatic and that he would he had retired but that he would retire and go off into the sunset and enjoy his retirement with his grandchildren and die peacefully in the sleep as a free man and all of that everything has been turned upside down and said and it all goes back to the regency hotel attack in february 2016 when five men three of them dressed like emergency response unit members stopped it away and been organized by daniel kinnan who was dead in the trove of his boxing empire away in the regency hotel and they went in there with the intention of murdering kinnan's august half past ten months it failed they murdered one guy david who was a member of the gang but didn't get the rest of them and from that it sparked probably one of the most unprecedented gang wars or bloodletting and murder cycles that we've ever seen here it actually sparked a very one-sided on poll wasn't it it was a very one-sided really if you look at it a very one-sided it was yeah well jerry went to suffer personally in a huge way because his brother and three of his nephews his brother and two of his best friends have all been murdered in that bloodbat absolutely and it was one-sided it was you know they murdered i think two uh the hutsides the other 16 murders were all down to the kinnan's and of course this whole regency hotel attack has ultimately brought down the kinnan's and exposed them as one of the biggest trip hotels in the world and they are now the most one of one of the most wanted criminal organizations in the world which because as you saw that the united states said that the american authorities have joined this massive coalition of law enforcement agencies across the world to basically target them specifically and make like absolutely impossible for them so the two sides in this um this horrendous feud are now finished effectively are coming to the end they are it is now the time for the third party in this war the law enforcement people to have their say and to do their thing and the fact that somebody as close as um the former schinten councillor john up and down a little farther the fact that he has decided to become a super grass the fact that he has decided to give evidence against and that he was very close to jerry hutch is a game changer it is an extraordinary development um and we started getting hints of this last week when when jonathan delgland his father unexpectedly pleaded guilty to a lesser charge relating to the regency hotel attack is when they went for booking the room for kevin morry the man on his fat cap who's one of the assassins from strudan there um he they they plead guilty to that they're going to be sentenced for that today which again is unholy list and all the indicators are on at that stage yes he's definitely started to talk and he's going to do he's going to go into the witness protection program that last thursday afternoon literally less than 24 hours after he pleaded guilty three of his men as we reported the areas independent last thursday um three of his members gang members went to dowdle's house and it was only then as a result of the police operation something began then that everyone then realized how it is for sure they are being protectors um he has decided to uh basically talk and around that time jerry hutch was arrested for 24 hours in question about running the criminal organization and they served uh the dpp served documents including the statement a 50 odd page statement that jonathan dowd was made to hutch's lawyers and saw the catalyst firmly out of the bag i doubt very much of the trial will start today i'd say it will be a job perhaps for for at least a month i would say because it's going to take it's going to mean that hutch is going to have to completely reconfigure his defense because now there's a witness against him and they're going to have to go after that witness uh a challenge of credibility as much as he can and i would imagine there are authors perhaps not even currently uh behind bars or under arrest uh jonathan dowd all's bound to have quite a lot of information on a lot of people and i wonder how selective in what evidence uh they get from him uh would they be in terms of offering him uh you know a new identity outside the country etc you know there's probably a lot of people in the criminal world uh more worried this morning uh than they might have been this time last week oh absolutely absolutely right there yeah because i i'd like you know there is there will be someone who would start leaving the country uh they would definitely take their heads down and move out because it was about two years from about two years ago but before i wrote the book uh on the monk uh the rumor was the whisper was to his associates that he wanted to come home so he felt all this was over with because all the focus was on the kinhun to hannah does you say this proportion that we try to butcher his family um but all that has changed now and the fact that you have a super grass he would identify and it would always depend as well excuse me it would always depend on what corroborative evidence they can guess to if he names certain people in the state which i believe he has um what corroborative evidence there will be for the police to go charge that person of those people now they will be preparing cases against others and this will be the first test case for this particular super grass uh as in jonathan dowell and his father and how they get on the witness box and how they how they how they stand up to scrutiny and depending on that uh you could see other members of the gang there's certainly one person in my mind very prominently in my mind that i won't say his name who i'd say is probably one of his big time he was the guy who was down on the day of the regency hotel attack from uh booking and buildings a building that was very closely associated with the hodge family um out to the murder area then there was also a couple of other people including one of the main suspects who was one of the guy's dresser's policeman with a ak-47 in the regency on that day he was one of the people who went to jonathan dowell to south south torresday um so it is a very very very unfortunate line to paul sorry paul the paul the line doesn't work yeah paul the line broke down there a little bit but we heard it was only for the last couple of seconds i think it's really quite telling paul that you know uh you you've chosen not to for obvious reasons name people that you would confidently between your information and your sources no were involved clearly the guard here on the same track uh the testimony of someone like jonathan dowell dowell sorry it fills really important to investigative gaps for the guard then so yeah what he is he they can corroborate if you can corroborate the stuff he tells then he then the court accepts the evidence and so there's a there's a big it's it's going to be a three month battle it's going to be one of the most hotly contested criminal trials in our history yeah just a quick word if you don't mind obviously there was a big development in the arrest of uh johnny morrisy but in terms of what impact uh the that that press conference the unprecedented press conference that we had in uh with the american uh u.s representatives the guardian someone and so forth and then some people suggesting that uh daniel kinahan had fled to buy other suggesting he's still there what what is the latest situation as it relates to his whereabouts and the likelihood of of uh him um being arrested or or being sent back to arland or where is it as sure he is he and the rest of his organization are running overall particularly himself and his father and his brother uh the the noose is tightening all the time around the grip um you have to remember when you have the whole world against you there is very limited number of places they can go um so it is really only a matter of time that we've seen this now for the past two years uh even before the americans were announcing it isn't a matter of time for daniel kinahan is probably facing trial in the special criminal court or in some of the american court they are running out of the road they're running out of friends their pariahs in the criminal underworld because they're so hot everybody around them has been subjected to sanctions you know when this global coalition of law enforcement does get together it can be absolutely devastating uh which is what it's for what it's about so they are very much on their road and the likes of daniel kinahan is going to end up like jerry hunt perhaps um in front of the courts uh and i i would certainly predict that daniel kinahan will not die in his sleep uh in a bed somewhere in a free country yeah i think it's such a remarkable story right from the very beginning but even up until what a year two years ago uh daniel kinahan was brokering um brokering some of the biggest heavyweight boxing matches or at least attempting to and now here we are how things have changed uh paul finally with how things have changed with how the gaurdy and other authorities have have tackled this is uh this is a chapter that can't be repeated in in in crime in arland really cannot or even anywhere i mean you can make the world an incredibly small place now can't you have we seen the last of the likes of a uh a hutch gang or a kinahan gang operating like they did or able to do for quite some time in this country no we haven't seen the end of them absolutely not because for every like you know but the kinahan's run a huge billion mostly billion year old drug trade that means people on the other end on the legitimate side are sport and and smoking and whatever and start third year and that that demand will always be there and as long as that demand is there there will always be people there to prepare to supply it and it never stops it's like a river running free you know you can't stop it um so and and it is within that medium within that culture of organized and criminality that it breeds this kind of brutality and violence a culture of violence and so you always have these guys around the place but the thing about it is that you won't see the likes perhaps you won't see i don't know but i would like to see this happen that's the likes of the gerry hutches and the monks and the hutch gangs and the kinahan gangs are never allowed to become so omnipotent are never allowed to become virtually untouchable in the future because they were left untouched for years and i won't chase around europe after christy kinham and there was nobody else chasing after us if the law enforcement people weren't barely paying any attention to him and at the time he was building one of the biggest most marvelous criminal organizations of Europe and he was an Irishman and you know what yourself and another you know a small band of investigative journalists putting your own life at risk really kept this to the forefront you know and when sports journalists perhaps for understandable reasons were saying nothing even though it was clear what was going on it was like yourself pulling a few of your as i say fellow journalists that you know will put it out there and wondering probably why no one uh was interested we were interested here but you know what i'm on about in an international level paul listen uh you book author of the monk the life and crimes of arna's most enigmatic gang boss a good time for people to get it now uh read up on it ahead of this trial starting i'm not trying to make it sound like some sort of an event but i think you know it's a big story and people can get the background and know exactly you know the lay of the land because there'll be a lot of coverage of of it over the next few months for sure paul thanks for your time this morning i really appreciate it take care all right bye bye paul williams there um independent journalist of course but also i wish independent but also author of the monk the life and crimes of arland's most enigmatic gang boss any views on that 08 660 25 000 the night all new 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 the young bakers are trying to make our brennan's family pan and be good go viral on something called 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a fan you like to get along to the games but you're unhappy with how much you're being charged to do so i won't tell you what it is now greg i'm here sitting first of all smoking me pipe and i'm not a great man now it just never was on a radio show before well you're doing okay so far keep her let maxi well i'll tell you now no i was experiencing the last thing they're on the uh earlier on uh yeah i'm an old age pensioner and uh i do a macabre man living in donnie garland uh i do go i do go to the the football matches in the championship anyway do you know and uh i like going and i was i was uh i was there a couple of matches up on my own part of the country there and mother horde and i played with them back the years and uh i was at a couple of the games and donnie garland i was at the game overnight uh in balibu fae and uh no i was just uh donnie garland charging there the charging more than the for the early age pensioner than the than the other counties are do you know and it's a it's a five or they are to get into a matching cabin for an early age pensioner and and it's a five or to get into a match in in manhan for for for the pensioners and and because uh 10 euro they were charging at donnie garland yep and you think that's not fair too much well sure i don't know how it could be double the amount in another ulster county like you know it's it's not that it's a huge amount of money but sure as a cabin man they'll fight for me as much to me as anybody you know so so so i'm i'm kind of annoyed with it because uh yeah it's it's five euro everywhere else it should be five euro and donnie garland now maxi my understanding is is and we were on to the county board to try and get a an explanation for you apparently some games it is a fiver in donnie gall and some games it's a tenor now i wonder when you sort of start getting to the quarter final semifinal final stage is a tenor and maybe for for uh games earlier on in competitions or for uh for um uh divisional matches um you know the club game is not the championship games maybe there are five i don't know is it possible in cavern and monahan as well that once you get to the semifinals and the final that it's a tenor for uh older people as well or no that that's what i was going to say here they are uh just a manner to let you finish with your same but no no no it it's it's it's five it's five euro in cavern to win there and out of the county final in a couple of each time would go on and kill a gary it's a fiver right and the same monahan would badly be and and and scott's town it's a fiver for the final it's a fiver for the semifinals and it's a fiver at the business business end of the championship has to say you know and that doesn't apply at all now in fairness to like in donnie gall there i was at the game last sat sunday evening on our night whenever it was and it was a tenor and it was i was at a begin before that in the quarter finals i think it was with with uh i don't know who the heck was with lentils or somebody and it was a tenor two and that wasn't a semi-final it was a quarter final right so no donnie gall can you pay do you have to book your ticket online maxi or could you pay at the gate i know that's not really the issue here but i know you book your tickets online but can you pay at the gate then no no they're not taking any money at the gate and that's not he has the air the feral age pensioners now my my nephew uh does do the book on farmedy you know because i really had no how to do it but he just or you have to have it paid on your phone when you're going in and show them the phone you know right and i know but i as i just said yourselves they are like that's not the issue uh i mean jessus down and as i said down in my own county and i hope i'm not uh beating up and donnie gall over send this but shirt shirt like calvin is the home of football and and we're more a layman than any other county i mean i don't want to get into an argument with you but is it possible maxi the quality of donnie gall football is twice as good at club level at least in cavern and therefore it's justifiable that you have to pay twice as much to get in could it be that maxi i don't think so i don't think so no i think you had an angry puff of your pipe there did you no i don't think so i don't think so greg i think i think now i think now you're you're you're talking to me anyone you know there's no there's no uh i know the standard is good the standard is good and all again like the club games because there's a bit of football and you see in the county matches you know and that but uh you know it's just it's it's something that i think in fairness should be brought to the public's attention because i can say it's not there like i mean i'm i'm i'm not just speaking for myself like i'm talking about there's a lot i'm sure there's lots of our late pensioners are going to go and they might even know this is happening but it's it's definitely only five euro in cavern and in manna now i i don't and i'll tell you where it's a fiver as well and it's and it's the same thing it's for the semi-finals they were on yesterday i think and i never your mind was that them up in me the nav and it's five euro to get in there as well yeah so now i know that i know that's lynster and it's a different council like but it's still five euro in in county mead for the games for them them and and so there's three counties now mead cavern and manna and and they're only five euro into any of them three counties and maxi you mentioned uh you mentioned having your nephew um to help you book your tickets a few people texting in uh saying that the online tickets is ridiculous uh you can no longer pay at the gates it makes getting to games harder than it needs to be there were games i would have went to that i would no longer attend you know so there are people that maybe don't have the likes of your nephew around them do you know what i mean and and they feel they can't go because they can't even if it was a five or a ten they can't hand the money over at at the gate i don't i don't know why that was introduced but i don't know it doesn't it doesn't it's not it doesn't seem as it doesn't seem as inclusive as it could be that's that's just all i'm saying no no i agree i agree with you i agree with you entirely because it's not it's not friendly for the older people it's all right for the young people that are you know high tech stuff and that but it's not it's not fair on the older people now as i say i'm lucky i have me son johnny and or me nephew johnny i should say and he he does this book and for me and if he didn't do it i wouldn't be able to go i wouldn't be able to do it yeah and also too there's a lot of people and maybe more percentage-wise in the older generation that want to deal in cash they don't want to be put in their bank card details uh onto the internet whether they're doing it themselves or have someone doing them you know they want to have the cash that's right that's right i agree with you too there i do indeed and like as i say it's the g a i have a lot but but the but the main the main thing what's the name great is great maxi yeah the name the name the main thing great is that i love you to throw out there and and and the the football the football crowd and don't he's all the council or county board like try to try to find it to get get an answer after well i have one for you maxi i have an answer for you right i'm not right it's i'm not it's not going to really change things for you but it says all decisions on bylaws maxi maxi match regulations and admission prices across all grades were approved by the county committee now all 40 donagall clubs are represented at the start of the year so presumably all 40 clubs or the majority of these 40 clubs agreed this admission prices differ for oap's depending on the competition grade and the stage of the competition for some games it's a fiver for others it's 10 if you have any further inquiries i suggest you contact the county administrator so it seems the clubs agreed this that for some matches at least uh the matches you've been to maxi it's a tenor to get in god that's that's terrible that's terrible because definitely as i said before the most thing the the most thing derelict pensioners and donagall is getting more money and our pension than that and the other county then because like that doesn't make sense at all like but i know and i i'm thanks for your help and i know what you're saying but you know it's still the county board have a lot to answer for because they should not be charged and all people i'm in my 70s now and they shouldn't be charging people like me uh double double what they're charging uh down and mana and and down and calvin that's that's not right maxi before let you go obviously you're a proud cavern man defending it to the hilt there even having a wee dig at donagall football but anyway we'll let you away with that maxi um what what takes you to these games do you do you follow particular teams or do you just like to go and watch a a good competitive uh game of club football when there's something on the line i exactly i don't follow the only team now that i'd really follow and unfortunately we haven't much to follow at the moment we're beating there a couple of weeks ago i'm mulla horn and the famous mulla horn would be my club and my team and uh i played back the years with a man i don't know if you have a heard the every hair the gunner brady i played with one of them in my time the the famous gunner brady mulla horn but no mulla horn would be me club but like i'd go i'd be up i'd be up with me neb you he lives between down there conva between conva and cashless sin and he's a great man for the football and he knows i like to get to the games and and him i'm up and donagall with him he he'd set him to the game on and say i'm there at the weekend would up and it was a a good game of football it was and and and ballet buffet a good game that's a that's a good that's that's a good side that uh you know so i'll be just a good team and uh there i would i seen that and next weekend i hope to be if i'm alive with the help of god or sorry not next weekend the weekend after i'll be at the cabin final of brestley park good man and i go i go i go wherever i am i i be down at home most of the time but it would be time to come up to me nebby and donagall here for stuff for a couple weeks and and that's just why you do get around but i do know i do know for sure uh greg that the foot the charges the charges is only is only a fiver and that's for fact quick word and a quick word on gunner brady he's all island uh winner in 47 48 52 uh did you ever reach the heady heights of intercan team maxi no i played i played minor which happened i played minor but i never i never played senior no i never i was i i tell you the truth and you know what i started doing them he hung theirs too was funny oh i got too fond of the even back then in my time to say that's happening now with the youngsters a lot but i got too fond of the good life for a few old points at the weekend and uh and maybe uh those barn dancers and uh chess and after women and everything like that you're like like george besty george best was asked what he did with all his money i think he said he spent it on women drink and partying and the rest he wasted i think that's oh jessie was a good player too well come here now till i tell you and and because i can't believe him after the going on the radio and i was on radio station before but if you look at you never know the hell it could go on the lately a show yet after all this why not no but no we've given you your grounding you wouldn't be the first one got the start here on hide and radio and ended up on arty and ended up on arty maxi come here listen go on thank you for that thank you for that and sure i'd be listening i'd be listening now to your program just as a matter of interest stay there for a second maxi stay there because we want to try and save you a few quid here right schnade brine is a volunteer with the gea in donigolan joins us now hi schnade good to chat to you hi greg how are you yeah i'm brilliant schnade do you listen to maxi there uh he's a calvin man he's he's he's proud yeah he's having a go with i'm a proud man i'm woman i mean him i can get on but we're given a go okay but anyway schnade you heard what maxi had to say he goes to the games i did yeah look at as i say i'm a volunteer with the association and it absolutely breaks my heart when i hear somebody that would stay away from the game because of the price now i have absolutely no jurisdiction over pricing in any game obviously as correctly said by whoever gave you um you know the statement it is decided by county committee and every club in the county have two volunteers that attend and that is agreed by by every club but i would hate as a as a human being that lives and breathes for our association i would hate to see anybody stay away because of the price in every game now i personally will leave tickets for maxi and his son at the gate for the final i'd love to see him attend it just one thing i have to say to him while gone or ready with a great player who's no need to use here we go let's not maxi maxi go on it you're not going to let her out with that are you no no i'll be right now there are different times all right but i know it's funny don't you know that's that woman there now i hear monah and woman and you know what it is and i have good friends too and monah and and there's a player that i have great time for and monah and i'll be just he's still playing too he was as good as ever was in monah and uh paul finley he's a great footballer i i love what i love what i know what from myself yeah yeah and i remember cari woman and he's balibé yeah yeah yeah and he played well he was playing i was listening to her course on the radio they're in the finally in there and he played well at that too yesterday our great player but uh definitely i tell you i can't remember your first name in there what's chenade chenade chenade that's that's that's that's very very kind of you and thanks very much for that now okay it's not so much for that it's not so much for that i know i know it's an ongoing thing 100 percent yes and i do agree yeah highlighted with something to highlight it will all even though as i said earlier they're too great as a cavern man which is the same value that will fight for you know like i don't like to i don't like to waste but but like it's more it's more to bring it into the public to me and that and maxi do you know what it might make a difference and uh it's a gesture from chenade so we have a monah and woman given a cavern man two tickets the donagall final sure what where where else would you get it well that's just that's just fantastic you wouldn't get in any other organization i agree the geisha is a wonderful wonderful organization sure sure none of it i don't know what we do we couldn't survive without it like you know because it's it's just it's in every little corner and and look in ireland of the clubs and there doesn't small clubs or big clubs that keep the life and so on one of the areas but where would i get them now well we'll sort that out maxi we'll sort that out we'll sort that out out fair don't worry we'll make sure we've a ticket for you and your nephew uh so we'll sort that out fair maxi to make sure it's simple for you and you'll know exactly where the our schnades are gonna gonna work with us on that schnade listen thanks so much you might you might mess you may send me a message here to know i'd be i'd go to that that's isn't that next song that is and anybody yes yes don't you worry i'll get in touch and i think your nephew most actually live quite close to me anyway so don't worry maxi we'll sort out the logistics no problem but i hope you enjoy it thanks thanks very much and you'll get to see a good quality final maxi after all the ones you've watched down in cavern which is good god bless you maxi lovely chatting to you god bless thank you bye bye and schnade fair play to you for making the ball i know you've no impact on it but it's a it's a lovely gesture uh it's not actually about the money i think it's about the fairness i know absolutely and i agree with him but i hate to see any human being but clearly he said himself is in the 70s he's been following our association his whole life he should be able to attend games and and that's it and i do hope it's something that we lock out and when the conversation comes up again they're not being able to put cash at give cash at the ground for whatever reason we change that i have a pile of messages here from people who want to be able to pay for cash and actually aren't going to games because they don't want to put their cards in and we do so many warnings on scams and what have you here i think particularly for a generation yeah just the option to be able to hold hand over that cash it would be great if we could see that return but anyway schnade that's above you and i i'll pay grades but anyway i think we agree schnade thanks very much well done to you no problem i take care thank you that's schnade brine uh they're very hard-working uh volunteer with the gea here in canty donnie gall the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features and competitive rate switcher loans oh amy my little one i ask myself a million questions every day when will you give me your first smile how much sleep do you need how can i help you and your big brother to get along at the hsc's my child dot ie and in the free my child books you'll find the answers you need from doctors midwives public health nurses dietitians and lots 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quite a tough and complex subject for for farm families to deal with there's quite a lot of emotion associated with the family farm business there's obviously um you know people have built up the business and family members have worked hard on the business uh over a period of years um and then you have the asset value associated with as well you know so it's uh and you quite rightly refer to it as a business there but it's not like you have necessarily a ceo a manager uh someone in charge of hr and finance do you know a lot of the time you could have multiple children and there uh it could be hard to gauge their input their you know their role or what have you it would be a tough conversation to have I think for most families as to how things might be transferred or divvied up or whatever the situation might be yeah a very tough conversation and to be honest we agree that that's usually where the major stumbling block is is is actually getting that conversation going within within the family um and it's it's it's an important step that that farm families have to have to do in order to ensure that the that the conventional transfer goes off successfully but it's actually getting family members around the table and getting them to air their views as to what a successful transfer would look like you know usually the way we would assess it is a successful transfer would be you have the older generation are happy the succeeding generation in other words the next generation of farmers that are taken over the business are happy although family members are happy as well that are not directly involved in the farm um and everybody on both sides uh are all clear as regards the tax and the legal implications associated with with what's going going to happen so you know once those things are the bottom line is is it's going to happen um at some point or other uh best to get out in front of it then and get it sorted and done and dusted because as I say eventually you know someone will pass and their assets will have to be moved on exactly exactly and you know I suppose in relation to the moving on of assets them and a very important step after the conversation step is to put some kind of a safety net in place just in case all these best laid plans that it regards the transfer and the timing of it doesn't doesn't kind of happen the way we we want it and you know when death in the family supersedes all that so putting a will in place is is is a is an absolute necessity to just to cover off that eventuality that in the case of uh where the transfer doesn't happen in the normal way that you have a backup plan right okay to help people there is a family farm clinic taking place in the raddison blue hotel uh on tuesday october 4th that is tomorrow it starts at 10 a.m and it's one of a series of uh meetings taking place around the country organized by uh chagas talk to me about the type of I mean I think we're touching on probably a lot of what will be touched on uh at the meeting but in much greater detail tomorrow so talk to me the format of uh the format of these talks yeah the format Greg it's not a kind of typical chagas meeting as such uh in that uh we it's held in in the raddison blue as you say uh and the first 10 15 minutes will be kind of traditional uh given some information and a few slides just setting the tone or given out some basic information on on on the topic of succession but then it it's very much moves on to a one-to-one clinic format where individuals farm families and you know the focus is on farm family attendees so we're looking for and we've run these clinics successfully over a good number of years you see you know older generation younger generation as I said the succeeding generation of farmers plus other family members that might be directly uh involved in the farm in future years all attending these meetings and they get a chance to come as a family and sit in front of experts in the various different areas including the tax area financial um or sorry legal and what if you took in the fair deal scheme does that complicated at all of course it does uh but we have we have experts there in relation to the fair deal scheme from the citizens information uh service who will be able to give advice on on the principles associated with fair deal as well as the whole issue of um state pensions and so on which quite a complex area which which also kind of comes into this area yeah and and and we've a long way to go because I mean even in some cases I read a quote by um senator uh Boyan that in some cases couples don't discuss uh the the making of a will that one party would make a will without discussing uh it with their partner uh you know I mean that's the sort of the basic start and point I think and we're not doing that and there's an awful lot of head burying I think and sure look at the consulted out themselves or I'm going to be around for forever anyway and or don't even want to face the the reality of our mortality by making a will do you know but at the end of the day as I said five minutes ago this all has to be gone through at some point might as well do it in the least acrimonious way and the best organized way as is possible absolutely I mean we would be advocating in chagas you know the development of a succession plan to do it in a planned way and to cover off all those different areas and different angles around the tax and the legals and and you know put a will in place but make sure that you're doing it in a planned way and and you know have a timeline in mind uh one of the biggest issues that we find is is people just get stuck in a rut that all it can seem just too complex the conversations are too difficult to have and the easiest decision is just sit around I sit on the hands and do nothing and hope it all works out and sometimes it does but in a lot of cases you know it can cause problems so it's better to do it in a planned way. People who've held land for generations want to make sure it stays in the family name for example and maybe want to avoid the maybe an awkward conversation with the daughter or something who's to say. Exactly okay so do we have an idea as to what proportion of of uh uh successions are done in a planned way uh and ahead of time Kevin like is it the norm that people plan this and and have it organized or is it the norm that they don't? It's becoming more the norm Greg that that that it is done in a planned way I suppose a lot of the focus uh recently in in state tax legislation has been around promoting young farmers or the encouragement of young farmers to get involved earlier so you know there's quite good tax reliefs there around earlier transfer to encourage people to transfer before the age of 35 uh to to a young farmer before the age of 35 but in saying that I mean if we look at the statistics uh the the census of agriculture that was done in 2020 you know there's still a significant portion of farm holders that are over the age of 65 I think it's a third just short of 33% of of holders of farm holdings are are over the age of 65 and and those that are holding holding farms that are under the age of 35 are only around the 7% mark so it's it's it's it's we still have a way to go on this you know. Yeah and it is very complicated and maybe people don't even want to to get into this space but I think a good first step is to go to a talk like this where people understand what the situation is where someone can give you some advice maybe help you see the wood for the trees you don't have to commit to anything you don't even have to start a process but knowledge is power and we can hide for things I'm the worst for that myself get out in front of it and attend tomorrow. Now you talked about a one-on-one element to it is do you have to book a slot or is there going to be a lot of people there that might be able to accommodate all the attendees or how's that side of things working Kevin? Yeah we would be encouraging people to book in it's not you don't book a slot as such and we have we have four accountants and four solicitor firms there including and then we will also have a good number of Chagas staff our own staff advisors on the ground there in in Donegal would be would be very much clued into some of the aspects around this because they'd be dealing with farm families you know all the time and they've seen both successful and unsuccessful kind of transfers happen so they're in a good position to give their opinion on that. We have people there from the succession mediation side of things to help families get that conversation going and then as I said we have people there from citizens information so there are enough possibilities there for a one-to-one and it will run from around half ten tomorrow morning and finish up around one or two o'clock but during that period as I said the clinic format will run for at least two and a quarter hours so there'll definitely be a chance for every farm family to sit in front of an expert and put their question to it and it's very much the focus is very much on getting answers to these individual farm family questions rather than just throwing out general guidelines it's people getting answers to their own situation. Yeah it's a tough one isn't it because who starts the conversation because if a young person a younger person say though the person who's likely to succeed their father or mother or both you know if you if you try start the conversation you know even if these are close relationships if someone came to me and sort of says what are you going to do about this that and the other you know you can sort of you could find yourself maybe getting very defensive in question someone's motivation so I suppose even in terms of who starts the conversation and how it started even that part of it's tough Kevin. It is it is and as I said at the outset you know it can be the the the stumbling block that kind of stops people from doing anything and I mean our own staffer have come across those situations in the past where they've had to you know maybe initiate or help that conversation get going but there are professionals in this area professional mediators that have been quite successful in dealing with farm families where there are where there are difficulties just even in getting everybody around the table and getting their views heard and they can they have a process that they can go through with the farm family to get that conversation going so and there will be people there if you from the succession mediation say the things that are clinic tomorrow. Right okay so the clinic the family farm clinic is in the Radisson Blue Hotel tomorrow starts at 10 a.m. you mentioned people registering in advance where do they do that Kevin? If they go on our website chagas.ie there's a link there to the events tomorrow in the transfer and the farm events and they just go in there and book and book their book their place it's not a slot as such to no numbers to no numbers as well to no numbers exactly that's preferable but can people walk up if they don't say have access to the internet or they can they can of course walk up and but we'd prefer people to get an idea of numbers and all that type so that makes a great deal of sense people will understand that Kevin thanks for your time this morning. No problem at all. Okay take care of yourself that was Kevin Connelly financial management specialist with chagas. The Ninetal 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. 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Call into Connelly's Volkswagen letter Kenny today or visit connelly's.ie to book a test drive. All right you're very welcome back to the program and we are going to say good morning now to Oshin Kelly who is presenting the DL debate this evening and it's another busy one Oshin good morning to you thanks for popping in. Yeah Greg good to see it. Good to have you with us. Right okay, Terman won by free kicks to take the Donegal seating your ladies title not necessarily maybe the way you want to win one but sure listen the W's the W isn't it? The W's the W and congratulations to Terman the senior champions again commiserations to Glen Funn. I'm not a fan in Gillick football either starting the match with penalties or starting the match with free kicks like at the end of the day if you looked at extra time Terman had to come back from three down to force to force the free kicks. There was nothing between the two sides throughout the game that sort of purple patches each Glen Funn won three up and then Terman then came back. I'm not a fan of a way to decide a Gillick football match be it for the men or the ladies. There was room for a replay Greg they're not straight back out into Ulster next weekend if you look at the men's final which is coming up on Sunday extra time will be played if required at the end of extra time a replay will take place and I think they could have done that with the ladies. Probably. Some will say it's unfair but at the end of the day that's the rules everybody played by the rules they went to the free kicks. Exactly. First time ever a senior decider was a senior final was decided on free kick so congratulations to Terman but joy and heartbreak all at the same time. That's the way it is on finals day and it's going to be the same for the men on Sunday. Well listen you started off with something like we could have got 20 minutes out of your bugger you could have come in at half 11 so we're going to have to rattle through the rest of it because that's going to be an interesting conversation I'm sure and you've got a great panel. Regular pundits Brendan Cullcoyne Jungle Day are in Neil McGee what a bit nice bit of time into joining the panel after his big news. Yeah stepping away from under county football 17 years is a long time. Playing at a top level 195 games for Dunnegaw. He's been a fantastic servant of Dunnegaw probably the toughest hardest most talented fullbacks that the county has ever had and he's a sound fella he's a great lad. Very very excellent football you know like somebody gets three all-stars Greg you know that you're one of the best. If they get three all-stars. If Neil McGee thought that he could give another five years he would. That's the type. So it's good to have him on the panel tonight we're going to get his thoughts in the big county to say they're coming up at the weekend and we'll also be talking to him about his brilliant career as well where he was one of the rocks and one of the the main cogs in the whole Dunnegaw machine that's in Ulster and all our success Greg. Well listen there's a lot of stuff you read a lot of games we covered a lot of games at the weekend you're going to have to go through all that because we don't have the time but just to remind us the deal debate it's broadcast live after the seven news tonight Neil McGee's joining Brendan Cullcoyne and John Gilday will also have a better reaction from the ladies and not forget it about Dunlop congratulations them intermediate champions as well we'll be recapping on what's been a busy weekend and looking forward to another busy one Greg. Yeah and if you want to watch the show as well by the way and all guests will be in studio you'll be able to do so by going on to our website you'll hit the watch now tap it about seven o'clock or on YouTube or Facebook and you can see all the guests in studio as well so no reason not to watch the deal debate and then it's podcast of course after. Oshin thanks for your time I really appreciate it okay take care of yourself. Oshin, Kelly there thank you so much to all of you who listened to the show, texted in, got involved in any which way you did we really appreciate it we're back with you.