 a short address man. Have yourself a great Monday, whatever you get up to. I have to say you looked very well Friday evening. It was a good night, wasn't it? Well done to Sean and Corinne and I and all the team there picking up an award. Yeah, very good, big celebrations. Yeah, looked like a good night. I've realised you can actually use a waistcoat as a corset. Ooh. Yeah, it feels like it sucks you all in. You've really polished the shoes. The shoes looked very shiny. Shiny shoes, right. What product do you use? New. Straight out of the wrapper, out of the box. That's it, right? Anyway, I'll be back tomorrow, yeah? Back tomorrow, half past six, yep. All right, good man, fair play to you. Cheers. All right, that's Kevin back in for Lee tomorrow morning at 6.30. The 9th of the noon show's on the way, but first let's get a news update and it's over to Makayla Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The tonnage share is to visit Egypt, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory later this week. Miho Martin made the announcement at a meeting of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this morning. He says he will be engaging in particular by Emily Hand, the eight-year-old Irish Israeli who was kidnapped by Hamas and other Irish citizens still in Gaza. Motorists are still urged to drive with caution this morning with overnight rain resulting in a large amount of surface water on the roads. A standard shallow wind and rain warning is in place for Donegal while the red weather warning affecting eight counties is not coming to an end. David Martin from the Road Safety Authority says driver vigilance is vital. You just got to exercise extreme care and caution if you have to travel and our advice obviously where there's a red warning is not to travel but if even following it just keep an eye out for debris branches etc that may be impeding a route. Rent in Donegal have jumped 20%. The county however remains one of the cheapest counties to rent in the country with the average rent of 1,122 euro. According to the latest DAF.ie report in the third quarter of this year rents rose by an average of 1.8% across the country compared to the previous quarter. This compares to rent rises of just 0.4% in Dublin due to a boost in housing supply there. DAF report author Rona Lyons says it's a different picture in other parts of the country. I think the underlying story there is one of supply working in Dublin new rental supply has been built and as a result we're seeing an end to rental increases whereas elsewhere in the country there have been no new rental homes built supplies still very tight and rents are increasing at a very fast pace. There's calls for Donegal County Council to ensure all tidy times groups in the county are evenly supported. Following the success of Donegal in this year's competition Councillor Patrick McGuyan says a fair share of assistance needs to be delivered to all small towns also. He says it's not only financial assistance that is needed to support volunteers. We do need to be given more full-time assistance to small and medium-sized towns to keep their towns straight and clean, full-passed wept and just you know penting and cotton briars and bushes and definitely people are out walking. It's just something to assess the volunteers that are out there or in some case you might have seen schemes to have somebody in the size of the town or shared between towns to help go out and clean up. Whether or not I is stormy morning as storm Debbie moves in extremely windy with severe and damaging wind gusts expected leading to some disruption. Heavy rain will persist through the morning bringing the potential for flooding before clearing to sunny spells and shards this afternoon highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Apply online for learner permit and driving license services including renewals, updates, exchanges and replacements. It's easy and hassle-free. Visit NDLS online today at ndls.rsa.ie. Verified my Gov ID required. A message from the Road Safety Authority. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello good morning to you four minutes past nine on this Monday the 13th of November 2023 and we're into another week. How are you all keeping? I hope you had a a good weekend and you're not being too heavily impacted by the weather this morning. Of course we're escaping the worst of the the winds and what have you from storm Debbie but still a lot of wet weather out there across the Northwest. So if you still yet to get to school or work drive with a wee bit of caution because I do notice there are some areas where water is lying really quite significantly. Okay if you have anything to pass on with us by the way in terms of what's happening out there if there's a particular issue on the road so what have you let us know we'll pass it on to our other listeners 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts that number just to remind you you can send your voice notes to that WhatsApp number as well or give us a call on 07491 25,000 we've got Donna Marie and Shannon taking your calls today and you can email us from anywhere that you're listening on comments at Highland Radio.com. A busy old show lined up for you lots of chat and with some good personalities in studio to talk to as well so you'll want to stay tuned for that later on in the show. Alan O'Reilly from Carl O'Whether will be joining us just to give us an outline of what was experienced in other parts of the country maybe what we might expect over the course of this day that's in the first hour as well so stay tuned for that. Let's start with the newspapers the Monday edition of the Dairy People Donegal News the Board of Management of a Castle Finn School has said the community feels betrayed by Donegal County Council after it granted planning permission for a telecommunications mast meters from the building those at the helm of St Mary's National School have lodged an objection to the go-ahead warning that numerous families have informed them that they will remove their children from the school should the construction of the mast go ahead are you some of those parents that are threatening to move your children from that school getting contact with us 08 660 25,000 and we can have a chat about it or let us know what your concerns are we can read them out for you whichever you prefer the Dairy News this morning a dairy mother whose nine-day-old baby daughter Kaley almost died from RSV bronchitis has urged other parents to be aware of these symptoms of the infection Nadine Hamilton who was quick to thank the brilliant nursing staff and not the galvan who cared for Kaley during her illness told Dairy News two weeks ago she had been completely unaware of RSV broncholitis or it's dangerous apparently BSV broncholitis is or RSV is rife at this time of year my friends three month old baby was also recently admitted to hospital with the illness she said on to the nationals now and an overhaul of the driving test curriculum is on the cards the chair of the road safety authority has said a move that will be seen as part of a response to an increase in road deaths this year this is the Irish Times. Liz O'Donnell said the requirements to pass the driving test had not changed for more than a decade despite significant changes in the driving environment in Ireland there have been a lot of changes she said nothing sorry noting that e-scooters and e-bicycles were prevalent now and that motorway driving was a bigger factor throughout the country the new driving test introduced in 2011 was more onerous than previous versions for example learners are required to take 12 essential driving lessons with a qualified instructor before they are allowed to take the test but still the glaring holes for me are the tests don't take place at night they don't take place in frosty weather if you live in this part of the world there's certainly no motorway action going on I don't know they need a if they're going to overhaul them they probably need a proper proper overhaul rather than just messing around at the edges what do you think what do oh maybe you think they're adequate did you do your test recently you think you know what that set me off okay there's no need to change a thing the irish independent reports on the asking monthly rents that these figures unless i'm very much mistaken are asking rents okay so this is not reflective of the current rental market per se these are new properties that are being offered for rent and these are the prices that are being sold so you know you might well be living in a property in donagall and you could be paying if you're lucky say 900 euro per month and you're wondering well how is the average now 1,122 well it's new properties coming to the rental market these are the rental asking prices but a lack of properties outside dublin is continuing to push up rents even as things stabilized in the capital with rental stock only a third of where it needs to be prices for new rentals across the country rose by an average of 1.8 between july and september compared with the second quarter of the year and we're up 8 compared with a year ago the latest reports by property website daft.ie shows but as i say in donagall there's been a huge increase in 12 months 1,122 is the uh current new rental asking price the average that's up 20 on last year so if you are now going to seek to rent a property in donagall i'll try be as clear as possible it's going to cost you 20% more on average than it did last year which is a really a big big jump the irish daily mail now welfare payments to refugees arriving from ukraine are to be significantly slashed as the state seeks to curb the numbers coming here ukraine refugees are entitled to much higher benefits than those from other countries something t-shocky of radcor identifies as a poll factor the government is now examining treating new arrivals from ukraine in a similar way to those from countries such as syria which could see weekly welfare payments cut from the current 220 to as little as 38 euro the number of ukrainian refugees in the country is expected to surpass 100 000 in the coming days a spokesperson for the department of integration told the irish daily mail former cabinet minister and phoenix ltd for meo michael ring said we're too generous with our social welfare payments it's creating an awful imbalance in housing and other areas is that something that you would welcome do you believe that the would you support this government if it were to reduce the amount paid to new ukrainian arrivals if they were to reduce it from the 220 per week down to maybe 38 or somewhere in between do you think that would be a good idea at least maybe look at what the european average for what ukrainian refugees are getting and align it with that because we seem to follow europe in every other way don't we or do you believe it should be maintained as is and also do you believe it was floated a couple of weeks ago not sure if it forms part of these plans do you believe that there should only be a certain amount of accommodation for a certain amount of time as well are those changes that you think should be introduced let me know 086 60 25 000 on to the sun now and an irish world health bosses said the fighting around the hospital shows nowhere safe in gaza dr michael ryan executive director of the world health organizations health emergency program said many hospitals in northern gaza have become non-functional or are in harm's way he described the situation in particular as al-sheifa hospital which currently houses at least 200 patients including 37 newborn babies fraught as it runs out of fuel and water and there are some stories that it's a probably human condition that you become somewhat desynthesized to but not this one it is horrendous what's happening to people in and around these hospitals not the the awful terrorists responsible for the october 7th atrocity who deserve no mercy but for regular people who have i mean can you imagine if you had a baby in that hospital and it was on an incubator and they said you know you better head south or we're going to because we're going to be dropping bombs you wouldn't leave your baby would you or anyone else that might be in that hospital or if you had no means to move and on and on it goes and i heard listening to an israeli senior official being interviewed saying that we're not doing this and we're not doing that and we're on a using precision missiles and we're up we'll open four-hour windows and all that kind of stuff but in this day and age no one's buying that are they it can't be presented as fact because you know the indiscriminate killing of innocent people murderers somewhat describe it there's no justification especially in this day and age and i think even the international community is starting to say well hall in a second what are we standing by and watching here or what are we facilitating with weapons and that is notwithstanding the awful events that were visited on the israeli people over a month ago now at this stage the irish daily mirror tells us that the government is to speed up new laws giving judges the power to jail evil killers like yosef puska for a minimum of 30 years in jail they'll have the legislation passed by the end of the year and it will come into effect early 24 the move is being pushed by justice minister helen miconteen reaction to the national outrage at the horrific murder of ashlyn murphy she wants zero tolerance of all hideous crimes and a justice system and a justice system where the sentence matches the crime uh puska will be sentenced next friday after being found guilty of the 23 year old teacher's appalling murder in january last year the mandatory sentence for that crime in arland is life in prison but at present judges cannot set a minimum jail sentence for a prisoner to serve so the judge can't say you are going to spend the rest of your life in jail for that awful awful crime the average jail time for a life sentence of the past decade has been 20 years so theoretically um that person could be uh out and about in 12 10 15 who's to say i presume the majority of you support would support different sentences for such crimes um finally in the irish daily star this morning the shock community of a couple found dead after a suspected murder suicide have been left numbed uh priest said yes today to mass father pat o'neill asked mourners for togetherness and support for one another following the deaths of joe and claire collins he asked the community to pray for the pair their two adult children and both families who've all been left deeply traumatized by the deaths the bodies of the couple were discovered at their homes on thursday by a friend who called to their detached bungalow in kilnaboy outside carfin in county claire god he believed joe collins killed claire before taking his own life in um uh outhouse at the detached bungalow in a rural area and that is another incredibly violent death of a woman uh in this country just three days after we talked of 18 violent deaths of women um since ashley murphy's awful murder and there we are that's another woman uh dead okay uh do you want to talk about anything we've just mentioned in the papers or if you wish to raise your own issues or tell us what's happening in your area please get involved oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand the whatsapp and text number you can call us an old seven four nine one uh twenty five thousand the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny the c store national large forecourt of the year for 2022 the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today shared insecurity now introducing zero wire smart alarm systems zero wire zero mess and a real peace of mind with a simple press the button your alarm can be set or on set or download the free app and control it from your phone call us today on zero seven four nine one two six zero two five and get your alarm from two 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morning to you william good morning how are you i'm doing okay william so for those who are not aware talk to us about your current concerns that you have and where you're living on the island we're living in the west town at tori towards the end of the sea wall there the front of the island and we're trying to get a development done there by complete the development that started 22 years ago a bit of a sea wall it's only 45 meters long there have to be completed and we're at the moment for the last three years we're trying to get the council to find out which department of the council is responsible for the wall and we're just going around chasing our tail for the last three years and none none of the departments want to take responsibility for it at the moment and in the absence of this wall what is life like for you well what do you fear could happen to you in your property well eventually if the storms keep going the way they're going behind the sea wall is getting eroded away and it's going to end up on the front garden and stuff like that but now is the time to stop that and complete the sea wall and and it was began what do you know about that situation William why wasn't it finished do we know but apparently the funding ran out at the time they were doing the wall and it was left in that state yeah and there's been lots of meetings and I'll talk to Marjorie about that as well but there's lots of talk about this but that's not really doing anything to secure your property is it it's not doing anything at the moment all we want to the moment now is to find out which department of the council is responsible for it and then we can approach them and get the funding to complete the wall and is it a case too that a cap is missing from the wall because presumably if that's if the case now I don't know it but what is actually there could be lost as well if it's not capped off properly that's my understanding of other projects yeah there's a cap of a hundred meters a cap and to be completed and the wall has to be extended 45 meters to see wall itself so that's the most important one but the whole lot has to be done as one project yeah I get you all right just throw us over to Marjorie there if you don't mind William I might come back to you Marjorie Carroll is community development manager on Tory Island and it seems William and others at Marjorie they feel they're being fobbed off on this issue that they're being passed around and no one's prepared to take responsibility for it yeah no that's totally totally correct um like we we start bringing this up at the islands committee meetings um we're having one tomorrow and on low again so it will definitely be brought up again tomorrow but it's brought up and we brought it up with um the local county councillors as well so basically what we're told at every meeting is we will we'll have answers at the next meeting but the next meeting comes and goes and we still don't have answers so I suppose what we're what we're looking for really is just to find out exactly what department is responsible for it and then we can obviously liaise with them because when we speak to the department of the go-kart they're saying well you have to go via the council but when we go to the council and they're saying well um nobody's taking responsibility for it the various departments taking responsibility for it so I suppose tomorrow I would like to get out of the meeting that we're going to as ourselves the council and some of the public representatives and the department of the go-kart and some of the homeowners maybe we could meet that would be ideally what we would get out of tomorrow just so that we know once and for all because obviously the residents are concerned um but just we're being fobbed off for the past few years you know so it's getting frustrating at this stage and for those that would be familiar the familiar with the island is the as you approach the pier is the seawall to the left of the pier it's to the left yeah on the seawall so to the left yeah okay and and then obviously the needs extended there are a handful of properties there that aren't protected by any wall whereas the you know the main collection of houses are that's correct yeah yeah okay um and really it's very hard isn't it to sort of make a noise about something like this until you find specifically who is responsible it's hard to imagine that over this amount of time that someone doesn't put the hand up and says actually we're responsible for that but we don't have any money at the moment or whatever the excuse might be but to me in the situation where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing is really quite bizarre I think anyway oh it is definitely and I mean all the departments within the council are at the island's committee meetings that we attend you know every quarter and they're all there but no one no one's taking responsibility for it and I suppose if it isn't their responsibility then obviously can't put their hand up and say well it's all you know so um so yeah so unfortunately that's that's where we're at at the minute but hopefully now tomorrow that we might get a meeting arrange know what the departments be doing because they're ourselves and the council okay well listen we'll be interested to hear how that goes at Marjory staying contact with us it's it's obviously required but as I say even ourselves couldn't make inquiries about it because well who do we send the inquiry to so we're going to send it to all of them anyway we'll see how we get on Marjory Carroll William Doohan both of you thank you very much this morning thank you all right bye bye take care of yourself and we'll get an update for you as to how that meeting goes tomorrow if you're on the island and you want to have your say on that as well 08 660 25 000 uh Gaddy Duff clan Manny water off since last night Greg what is the problem enough water coming down when it's back on I'll have a look to see if I can find out any faults uh fault reports there on to the roads now the roads in Dunlewy and around Mount Errigal are in a dangerous condition flooded warning uh to delivery vehicle cars and Laurie slow down as you don't see it until you are uh on it Lochris Point Ardra Road is treacherous I'm told so please drive with care an awful lot of rain fell over the last uh a few hours the road from uh Kerch in Guido through Dunlewy absolutely flooded up as far as the car park in Errigal flooding up through the road it's absolutely treacherous advices another caller government has to do something too late they're flocking all right I'll come back to that in a second I just want to remind you that if you want to uh pass on any information as it relates to um road conditions or what have you please feel free to do so and we can spread the word out across the community back to this comment the government has to do something about refugees I presume too late they're flocking in here as they hear of all the handouts and the big social welfare well that's precisely what the government um are looking at you are so correct Raithy inadequacy of the driving test in 2005 in my first car a car presented a presentation to the Donegal VEC I highlighted the necessity of drivers being tested in all weather conditions especially in frost and snow and also pointed it out at rsa conferences did anyone listen certainly not that comes in from Mary because I know with my own son there like thankfully he's done all of his tests and brilliant people teaching him the lessons and all don't get me wrong um and then he did his driving test and then it's right off he goes on and anyone out there who's got a child or someone close to them that started driving you start going right that's okay but do you didn't do any lessons in the dark you didn't do any tests in the dark was there any conversation about how you break and use your gears in frosty and icy conditions or snowy conditions uh you know you just pass a series of measures and off you go um if the situation with letter candy university hospital does not improve says this listener then the people of Donegal will need to take to the streets as we did with the water charges to make a stand with the gps and the doctors in the hospital and I think really what I took from the conversation with Dr. McGinnis who I think speaks for most of those gps is is that they're going to wait until early next year because the wheels can move slowly and take it from there uh 40 year old male here and I finally plucked up the courage to phone my gp for an appointment for an embarrassing male problem but I was very surprised to see it's closed on a friday is this normal for gps and if so then no wonder casualty is overcrowded well firstly well done to ring the gp um I don't know how long you were putting it off for but might be it might have been for some time but anyway um no appointments in that gp practice on a friday it might be particularly specific to one um would you please give a christmas toy appeal a mention for disadvantaged children one year old to 17 uh boy or girl uh here in Donegal new toys only please it's great to give uh contact union to any ball of a fester and all or we have his number here union does that every year with great success so if you have new toys or vouchers or whatever it might be and you want to uh make christmas for a boy or a girl one to 17 then we have a there's no point me reading out the mobile number now for union to any because it will just um be sound like a series of numbers and make no sense we have it here if you want to uh if you want to get involved right we're going to take a short break and then we're going to be talking about um the message not getting through about drinking drug driving uh four people uh arrested under the suspected to be under the influence of drink or drugs uh in one night in Donegal as I say clearly the message is not 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under the influence of drink or drugs were detected on donagall roads one night over the weekend uh cancer jerry mcmonagall joins us on the program now to discuss this jerry thanks for your time today good morning to you good morning greg good morning and i suppose most people you'd hope most people out there would say you know fair play the guards are out uh and people driving under the influence were detected um but i think a lot of people feel this is only the tip of the iceberg even as we are having this conversation people are probably about to take their phones out and say they haven't seen a checkpoint in years um what's your view on it all? yeah look uh the message in there it's getting out it's quite regular uh but there doesn't seem to be the enforcement sorry i know some people are being uh apprehended and detected driving wild sounds of the influence of drugs or alcohol but it's worrying that it's happening every weekend you know there's hardly a week goes past that someone isn't detected in different parts of the county and what suggests to me is that the the guards and whatever resources they have are moving them about uh instead of focusing on something as serious as this on a regular basis and look greg it wasn't that long ago uh a number of years ago you wouldn't have dared thought about taking your car to drive after a drink never mind doing it because you knew there was going to be uh checkpoints uh around the time when you were leaving etc etc after a night's out so i i just think there's an enforcement issue here uh i i don't believe the guard i have the the necessary resources and it's back to uh having enough guard on on on the beat so to speak yeah and this might sound like a strange comparison but it just emphasised the importance of enforcement like let's take the the the four lanes coming into letter kenny for an example we're not talking about that but you know there was a particular issue with speeding and uh there was one weekend last year early this year can't remember where it was but there was a there was a strong enforcement for a day or two of the 50 kilometer speed limit and see the next week and the next week after that every car was doing 50 do you know what i mean because the word had gotten around that if you speed on that stretch of road you're likely to get caught so to say it's a bit of a messy comparison but you're right i think those who might be inclined to take a risk don't feel that it's a big risk at all that the most people will never drink and drive or drug drive but clearly those that will don't think there's a chance of them getting caught and i think you're right they don't believe they're going to bump into a checkpoint yeah and the unfortunately the statistics uh show us that's correct uh more and more people are are being detected uh and i think it's because i mean if they praise the guards and being out uh on those checkpoints and carrying out those checks but i'm sure there there there is uh you know frustrated as a lot of our people would be that they are still detecting people driving with alcohol or drugs in the system despite all the messaging and i'm sure no i'm sure they would like to have more resources but look people need to understand the message to need to get the message into their head because at the end of the day it's our own personal responsibilities if i'm having a drink i don't take the car with me simple as i leave the car at home and that's what people need to do they should not take a car leave it in the street outside the pub or a car park nearby and then coming out maybe can't get a taxi i get frustrated waiting for one and decide to take a chance look that chance to lose you your job your livelihood and and could you know have on treated that the consequences for you and your family down the road so i would make the appeal again that people should think before they drink and drive and young people should and i'm saying this to young people because primarily is young people they should not be taking drugs and driving because you can be detected now all the apparatus is there and you will be prosecuted and it will have life-changing effect on your on your life losing your license the problem is is that those calls of yours are somewhat hamstrung by the views of the Justice Minister Helen McIntee who was asked about policing on the roads and level of enforcement what have you and i'll read a quote from her here when we look at the different numbers in the units where we've seen the largest reductions is within the greater Dublin area and yet the number of road fatalities in that area has not increased in the same way as the rest of the country so the numbers don't necessarily correlate to where the road deaths are now for context that was about detecting people under the influence and and that could have a cause and effect if you know what i mean so if you've got the Justice Minister meeting with the head of vanguard of shiokana and their their view is is that well they've looked at the numbers we've lost a lot of guards in Dublin but things aren't getting any worse there it's kind of troublesome because they are the policy makers so that's their view and and sometimes we've seen with officialdom if in a view is is locked in it can be very hard to change even in the wake of all the tragedy on our roads recently yeah and you're right and if you know and it's a test again they live in a bubble i mean talking about Dublin you know it's like day and night talking about Dublin and rural areas of of the rest of the country you know Dublin there's a great public transport system there's a adequate roads light and traffic lights you know but no it's all there and they compare that then with rural Ireland where people have to drive out through the countryside bad roads you know it's just it's it's not the same as that matching same with same and and again it's it's Dublin based thinking you know we have a the geographic nature and size of this county and how people live in rural communities and yes look and that's not to say people shouldn't go out and enjoy themselves of course they have but they need alternatives if they do go out to enjoy yourself how do they get home now a lot of pubs used to put on minivans and stuff like that and drive them home there's not enough taxis in rural areas but that's still not a reason for you to get behind the wheel and and drive a car under the influence of alcohol drugs no of course we change our lifestyle and we heard yesterday we heard yesterday not yesterday sorry the end of last week from a business owner in uh reth mullen i think it was reth mullen yeah who uh was talking of the fact that you know rural businesses can be quiet because the majority of us won't drink and drive or drug drive the majority of us want so we stay at home because there's no taxis in some areas the local link is there but it's not necessarily there at the right time you know those are the type of things to give people options and maybe to change a culture that really we should be focused on you know improved connectivity for an example at the right times let's see how that might work um rather than sort of saying you know stay at home yeah look and it's about just how even the public and you know it's about them thinking about right do i want constitutionally command here does the community need to come together it's my premise is place for that how can i help them come in and join themselves get to know talk to their neighbors and get home safely and you know powers of b should make it possible for that to happen and we've had this discussion before around you know insurance and having proper drivers and all of that but if a public is in a rural area and they have access to a minivan and they can drive their customers home then why should that not be allowed it's someone who's uh a good enough driver has competent uh has not got alcohol or drugs their system and they're taking their customers home it can't be much wrong with that you know and but it's it's back to the personal choice again uh but we we just need not to do it but they enforce the message i think we need more garrie we need more resources for the garrie and we need unfortunately we need more checkpoints to get that message across but unfortunately i have to go back to the quote from the justice minister after me to with it uh with drew harris suggesting that that doesn't seem to be the problem and and there we go we're in sort of a circle but i that's not to take away from your point it's just gives an insight i think into the the mindset of those that make those decisions for now councillor jay mcmonagall is chair of the donagall joint police and committee thank you for your time thank you great all right take care of yourself uh susan gray is uh of park road safety and joins us now susan obviously this is uh uh an area that your organization's been strongly focused on and i've made contact with the powers that be with a number of suggestions good morning great yes we did and i was listening to your last caller he spoke really well on this issue so far great we have nine deaths in donagall the last two was uh helana harkin and palms galaha and uh our socks are with their family because they're going to live in hell and nine deaths in donagall eight for the whole of 2022 right and seven in 2021 and guess what there was a reduction in garrie assigned to roads chasing them donagall this year we've 166 precious lives lost this year that's 34 more in last year in top area 16 deaths and there were seven last year golly 12 and last year there were six and guess what there was a reduction in the roads policing in that county now we hear the powers that be saying dublin has the most reductions in roads policing and yet their deaths aren't up dublin now the latest death was over the weekend dublin now is 13 deaths and last year was 13 for the whole of the year go figure that one we don't believe for one minute that there's not a connection of the reduction in roads policing numbers in counties and high-rise and road deaths it's toss it's basic we wrote to the t-shirt uh leo brad karen august and we brought his attention although he probably knew the amount of road deaths and the amount of serious injuries and reduction in roads policing and and we put it to him uh we sent many points to him that we thought if they were acted on by the government it would save lives we wrote to him again this week last week and we pointed out the latest increase in road deaths now his positive reply said that he's going to in august he said he was going to um send all our points to the minister his colleague the minister for justice helen macinty and the junior minister for transport back chambers send our points to them and ask them for an update on the issues we raised we asked him last week if he could send us updates and reply he hasn't received a reply from helen macinty now we find that alarming but susan can i can i say we brought up i get you susan but can i say respect look i don't think the i don't think the government believe that what you're saying is the issue here because they're talking about very as quickly as possible reducing uh speed limits they're talking about their their uh at bank holiday weekends increasing penalty points they're talking about putting more go say fans up you know the stuff that they're actually talking about doing is not not what you're talking about so you can't that i don't think that can be ignored either now all of the measures that they believe are going to make a difference aren't worth a scratch without more enforcement but they don't want to talk about more enforcement because the the justice minister believes enforcement is adequate at this time so do you get where i'm coming from like you i believe you're probably as far away from getting some of the stuff that you want over the line then you've ever been because they're not they don't but they don't seem to be on the same page as you and other road safety groups susan they believe it's about more points at bank holidays lower speed limits uh more go save fans but with you know like no they know great they know what needs to be done they know what we're saying is right they're taking the easy option more speed vans we welcome that that will never catch a disqualified driver or drink driver or drug driver i didn't know that they're on about um reducing the speed limits that has to go to legislation that's going to be next year 2025 we're talking about now what are they going to do now to just reduce and the only thing that will always work always has worked always the number one thing is to ensure that people are scared of meeting a checkpoint when they go out yeah which is what councillor mcmonigall said as well i agree uh okay listen susan we'll speak again in the not too distant future i know 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something never change and glenn road is flooded very badly it is just about possible but i reckon it might close soon says another listener alon O'Reilly from carlo weathers with us now allen good morning to you good morning greg how are you doing i'm doing really good and you've been very busy as always i think you're always busy but particularly with the arrival of storm debbie so um talk to us a little bit about its path and and and where it came from and where it's going allen if you don't mind please yes great so it developed very rapidly just out to the south west of Ireland and tracked in last night into kind of north kerry and then really into Galway bay where i did a lot of damage in Galway with coastal flooding and some very strong winds a private weather station at the marine institute in Galway recorded a gust of 142 kilometers an hour with some of the seawall collapsing there in arne moore and also flooding in salt hill it then moved kind of into the midlands so into ross common some very strong gusts and right through the midlands with over i think a hundred thousand power outages homes and businesses without power moved true then into the northeast and the center storm debbie is just off to the northeast now but unfortunately while a lot of people are talking about winds probably the bigger issue for you guys up there is the rain as well because it had some very heavy rainfall on the northwest of it so looking at the stats just updating 42 millimeters of rain since midnight at Ardara and over 32 a guillador so the west coast of dunny gall has seen over 40 millimeters of rain and obviously it's still raining heavily there so that will lead to some localized spot flooding and also some strong winds thinner recorded a gust of 100 kilometers an hour and still gusting to 90 kilometers an hour at malin head in the last hour all right so whilst we didn't get the worst of it we're in the yellow warning zone not immune from it whatsoever and generally speaking will it clear the island as the day progresses alan what's the the forecast for the northwest as you see for the rest of today yeah so the storm will pull away but the rainfall will continue for another couple of hours yet in the northwest so you're looking at rain probably up to around two o'clock or three o'clock in dunny gall it will then slowly improve the winds will ease off and by late afternoon the winds will be much much lighter the good news is is that there's not as much rainfall to come in the next couple of days there will be showers there certainly will be some rain but it'll really be showers and some good sunny spells especially on wednesday and not too much rain looking likely then again until friday into saturday really so it will clear it will improve and just give it a couple of more hours do you think we've learned any lessons with the weather warnings alan obviously you know the likes of metareans struggling to get it right and they are responsible for the the official warnings you know i mean i think people can get a wee bit panicky about the weather and start going oh well 10 is it the weather going to be okay at five past 10 and not you know what i mean but some people just have that just personality but overall as someone across the weather do you think that they did as best as they possibly could with how they laid it out yesterday and overnight i think they did really i suppose i think the biggest confusion for people was this you know telling schools not to open in orange areas until 10 i think we need to be very clear about whether we we either make a decision for orange warnings that schools don't open or we tell the schools to make it up because telling people that late on a sunday evening that schools weren't going to open until 10 o'clock meant a lot of parents were very much you know trying to figure out what to do and then the storm did track a little bit further north so it wasn't as bad as expected in some parts like here in carlo for example but it's very hard to forecast these exactly but i think we do need to maybe be a little bit more clear into in terms of the orange and the red and what what we do in those scenarios the other thing was we did see them split the counties so they went for east gallway and south russ common which a lot of people in cork would have said was badly needed but they still show red for the whole county and the map so then that causes confusion for people so look it's never going to be a perfect situation and the the storm didn't even like exist on friday was the first inkling i had from the weather models that something could come this was a very late developing storm it was really hard to forecast exactly where it was going to come and you know there's there's a lot of people waking up to small amount of power and trees down and damage so if you wanted us that isn't then maybe count yourself lucky rather than complain about the weather warnings i hear you all right alan listen thanks for your time as always it is really appreciated you know that thank you take care of yourself alan all righty there from carlo weather a quick one from a listener please greg can you ask drivers to switch your lights on so we can see them in this weather a lot of the modern cars have uh date running lights or have automatic lights but people don't really use them and in the older cars too people seem to forget to switch the lights on but it's really important that uh you're giving yourself the best opportunity to be seen uh cancelor donal mandy kelly is with us now as well uh what's the situation you're hearing from the local authority and on the ground donal as it relates to uh the weather yeah good morning greg good morning to your listeners and yeah i suppose greg it's one of them mornings we're the phone the phone fuzzy it's a topic and i'm i suppose right they show we could have with them i suppose i do believe michelle fam we're getting more of the tail end of the short storm but what was expected but um yeah the stubborn areas they're supposed to along the rock hill road and new malls and the old town there in levy kenny and then glenc yaw area there of uh of church down that that house scene stand in water and and um i suppose that we're just urgent drivers to take care on it uh greg you know and that's not have made calls to your own local authority donal county council and the men are out on the ground and um you mean we have a good team there and that will do their best to thank you um get this cleared up as soon as possible but listen greg it's both on the conditions it's not easy and you know you have to from our own men's point of view too you have to look at their safety aspect of it as well because them conditions they're driving with the one and rain you know and the visibility is not just very clear so people just need to take caution um until this passes greg yeah and the roads and the rain seem to be the biggest problem just looking at the esb power check map there and and thousands upon thousands of people uh right in the path of that storm without power uh thankfully in donagol all power is up and running so we've got away within that regard so it is really water lying water and you just wonder donal are we doing enough to to let water away off our roads uh because how many it shouldn't lie on the roads in some areas you know you just wonder are we doing enough to make sure drains and gullies and what have you are clear yeah yeah greg it's a fair point and i suppose lesson i suppose on the conditions we're having us here today it's just not easy keeping on top of that um but yeah it's something that i have raised on on different occasions and i mean i remember years ago um donagol kind of quite so local authority that there's always a man on the ground with shovels keeping water tables and that clear you know and that seems to have gone to the wayside i suppose and the digger has come in and the digger has taken over but you know i think we need to go back to the grassroots we need to get councilmen on the ground um and certain areas because when that war's going on greg many years ago you know and then them men on the ground they knew every water table they knew every inch of road that was liable to flood them and they kept a player and done a fantastic job and now your own men today they're still doing a fantastic job there's no doubt about it but i think meself um the roads maintenance crew there you did the need more help we need to employ more staff um to give them more help on the ground to tidy alleviate these problems going forward you know and i say it's something that i have raised before and i will raise again tomorrow as well at our at our local md meeting because i think it's important because we're expecting men to go out there now on the ground and i see them adding emails they're trying to clear water and that's very slim nearly impossible greg with the water that's coming down on top of them and and there's plus on top of that as i say the safety aspect of it i mean that they're signed up there they're in their high bars and tabs you know and that's still it's it's it's not an easy job for them to do because the buzz of all these not clearing them from a driver's aspect yeah all right listen thanks for that councillor donal mandy kelly stay safe okay uh greg can you have mentioned that switch the lights on indeed it's a simple thing and i don't think it's done purposely i think it's just people don't remember um back to the roads until a certain cohort of people have a recreation of hearts and minds a conversation drink and drink driving will never change uh january 2020 is the last time i was tested for alcohol at a checkpoint it was my second test since i started driving in 2005 the last time i was breathalyzed was the day the i don't want i must timeline it actually i'm sure i can do it on the social media uh on the internet was the day that 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radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm mckayla clark with the news at 10 o'clock donnie gall is being hit this morning by the teal end of storm debbie there's reports of flooding in boncran and in the dunlu area of west donnie gall while other parts of the county are experiencing high levels of surface water on the roads gardi and donnie gall are urging motorists to slow down and allow extra distance between the vehicle in front they're advising that if aqua planning occurs to not steer or break until grip is restored david martin meanwhile from the road safety authority says driver vigilance is vital you just got to be exercise extreme care and caution if you have to travel and our advice obviously whether there's a red point is not to travel and but if even following it just keep an eye out for debris branches etc that may be impeding a route well a yellow rain and wind morning remains in place for donnie gall until three o'clock this afternoon that erin is warning of fallen trees and branches localized flooding and dangerous traveling conditions alna riley from the carla weather channel says the county is being battered by rain and strong winds 42 millimeters of rain since midnight and at our dara and over 32 a guilladour so the west coast of donnie gall has seen over 40 millimeters of rain and obviously it's still raining heavily there so that will lead to some localized spot flooding and also some strong winds thinner recorded a gust of 100 kilometers an hour and still gusting to 90 kilometers an hour at malin head in the last hour enforcement is an issue as people continue to drive under the influence of drugs or drink that's according to the chair of donnie gall's joint police and committee who has been speaking out after four motorists were caught drink or drug driving in the county in one night alone over the weekend canter jerry mcmanigal says it once again points to the lack of resources available to guard a number of years ago you wouldn't have dared thought about taking your car to drive after a drink never mind doing it because you knew there was going to be checkpoints around the time when you were leaving etc etc after a night's out i just think there's an enforcement issue here i don't believe the garter has the necessary resources and it's back to have enough guard on on the beach so to speak the driving test is being overhauled the chair of the road safety authority leso donnell has told the irish times the rules around the test haven't changed in over a decade despite the driving environment changing it's likely the new driving test will reflect the rise in e-skitters and high motorway driving is a bigger factor across the country it's not clear what the new test will look like or whether skills like reverting around a corner will be examined there's calls for donnie gall county council to ensure all tidy times groups in the county are evenly supported following the success of donnie gall this year's competition cancer patrick mcguyan says a fair share of assistance needs to be delivered to all small towns also he says it's not only financial assistance that is needed to support the volunteers we do need to be given more full-time assistance to small and medium-sized towns to keep this town street and to clean hot past wept and just you know penton and cotton briars and bushes and definitely for people are out walking it's just something to assist the volunteers that are out there or in some case you might have c schemes it's to have somebody in the size of the town or shared between towns to help go out and clean up broadband connections are now available for more than 200 000 households of farms and businesses under the government's national broadband plan over a third of premises targeted by the plan have access to the high-speed internet while three and five have moved to or through the construction phase national broadband ardent says the average take-up rate is ahead of projections and 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may change for teas and season rates see you know energy.ie the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio now just before we get to some of your comments i want to mention the annual northwest breast cancer charity ball returning on friday the first of december in the silver tassie hotel in letter kenney this year's event is set to be even more special with the announcement of two esteemed guests kira daherty a popular television presenter and mr peter barry a renowned consultant on co-plastic breast surgeon will be joining the event as special guests fund raised from the special night are invaluable in improving the treatment at the northwest breast centre mr michael su grew consultant breast and general surgeon at letter kenney university hospital has been emphasizing that the profits from the ball help advance research into clinical care at a local level the balls are brilliant way to connect with family friends and colleagues while raising money that will help make lifesaving research education and care happen into the future the upcoming event promises to be as thrilling as ever with red alert providing the music and no cunning amacting as the mc the festivities begin with the drinks reception at seven fifteen on december first followed by a delicious three course meal and dancing tickets can be purchased now from the silver tassie hotel for just 50 euros so you can have a great night out there and support that excellent research that's ongoing there january 2020 i just read that one about your pardon this is always being blamed on young people nothing ever said about the older men who have their few pints in a drive home i think that's it wasn't me that mentioned younger people in particular in relation to drug driving that comment was made not drink driving it was specific to drug driving the profile for drug driving does tend to be younger people but in terms of drink driving it's across the board and perhaps even maybe the older generation more responsible than the younger generation but look we're not in the blame game but i think it's generally accepted that drug driving a greater issue among younger people nice to hear the head in the sand gang now willing to talk about payment accommodation for refugees funny how they'll talk now when before if anyone talked about this they were classed as racist or far right where was that maybe it's in different channels i don't know it's certainly not here uh anyone everyone's entitled to an opinion that that's respectful of others um but anyway anyway the country is a mess and it's too late in my opinion to make any drastic changes now last year oh this is a few on scams by the way i tell you what i've been getting an awful lot of scams for lately and it doesn't seem like a great scam but one to be aware just in case you're in the market is job applications being invited by a text and whatsapp to apply for a job or it says that you know uh we received your application and so on and so forth i've never really pressed any of the links or what have you uh to test how that is a scam but anyway that's another one that's doing the rounds at the moment um something to do with job offers or what have you maybe they get the information from linkedin i don't know uh last year my card was tapped in a shop in kiv i phoned the bank saying i've never been to ukraine it got sorted thank god hi gregg have you heard of anyone's phone number being cloned these past few weeks i've been receiving calls daily from strange numbers who said they've missed a call from me but i haven't rang anyone i contacted my service provider and they said there's nothing they can do about it yes cloning of phone numbers is common practice now it is the norm the days where it was a strange international number are over they can ring you and it might appear that it's anyone's number it's eventually though they're going to clone a number that is a real number and you're going to get the call back so yep it sounds but you're in no danger um they just have software on a computer that can generate the appearance of a telephone number but it doesn't mean that you've been compromised or you have to worry about your number they'll move past it and on to the next number soon enough so those calls might dry up so i wouldn't be concerned but that's what's happened uh and they can clone any number at all they can clone the local guard station the council passport office any number but often they just randomly clone 087086085 numbers gregg i got four or five of those messages for to collect a pass in the last two weeks but i ignored them that's the right unit i was almost course recent caught recently by scammers when they called they could tell me where i was the night before and that i had spent money or what i'd spent it on so i was it was almost uh felt real the scammers are getting better and better at catching you my conclusion was i uh hooked into open wi-fi when i was out and i think that is how they gained access to my phone and hence everything wow worrying we've heard of them knowing your name um or your surname or something you know some bits of information that can be gleaned from a hack for example of a big company but for them to know where you were the night before how specific were they was it like somewhere local or was it an airport or what's the story just text us back because my curiosity is up calls every day from air they tell you you've a fault now it's not from air it's someone important to be from air they're telling you if a fault on your computer and to go open it up now no offense to air and i've dealt with air in the past but they don't have the best reputation for customer services and a lot of people complain that you can't get through to them if you've got an issue not just them but other companies as well and so say you know i've i've dealt with air in the past i didn't have any real problems with them but they 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business person of the year award congratulations marchie but i presume you'd argue you couldn't do it without the team of course uh and that's exactly um i said we would joke internally you know i just turned up for the photographs the staff always get me there yeah um and have done for years um and i had time to reflect since we're in the award you know i mean we would have shared our vision back in in in november 2011 and uh and it was a five-year vision at that point and our staff has been with us throughout that journey since september 2011 we took over and they've shared that vision and have helped us realize that vision and to do it and they still realize that vision every day we open our business they realize that vision for us and we're very appreciative of that and uh very appreciative of all the staff that currently worked for us and staff that has worked for us and has moved on and and then staff as well who's passed on as well so today we remember all those people what did you take over in 2011 compared to what now because once something's established you you for you know as a passerby or as a customer you think it's always been there you know what i mean but you've been there so what was there when you took over it was always a good stand there um from from the time that Drew and Eamon Blaney had it back i think they uh originally built the business in 2000 so when they built it they built the 2000 uh i think it was 2300 square feet store i think they had hair dressers and they may have had another unit i just can't remember so when we took it on um we took on i think two and a half thousand square feet and a 40-seater cafe um and we currently uh after a number of revamps sit on about 6300 so we've treble the size of the store and we treble the size of the restaurants as well to 120-seater diner um an extra parking and so on so forth and different services as well that we've added on over the year so a considerable change from from its original concept in 2000 to where it is today but you talked about a vision and a five-year vision is this way you wanted it to be yeah absolutely um i think we've gone well beyond the first five-year vision we would always do five-year business plans so we're in our third five-year business plan so in in the main it would think uh when we review and reflect on what we said we were going to do we've done it um i suppose this next uh phase of our our business plan is around technology artificial intelligence how we can improve the customer experience and make it much more um easy uh self-service checkers is one thing um some customers like them some customers don't in the main i think customers like them i know 40 percent of our transactions go through them so that tells us how has that impacted on staff because you know the big the big just whilst you brought it up and recognized that some people because it's always nice to speak to someone who actually knows the answer to a question because sometimes we believe we do but we don't so um do um those units display staff not they might from the role of checkout but from a business no far from us so if we look at our staff numbers last year we had 66 and this year we have 76 staff so we've increased our staff numbers by 10 presumably those staff can do things that are more productive not to suggest for a second standing engaging with the customers not productive don't get me wrong but you know what i mean from a business perspective they can be redeployed into other areas of business well for us our primary function when we're redeploying staff is to try and get customer service and add on value so customer service value added so if you think about it um it would be much easier for me to get staff to making sure that orders are correct making sure there's a better product on sale and if there's better product on sale that means the consumer always gets what they need when they need it um other things so for example we're currently looking at a robot that'll sweep on map floors and it's very similar to what people have at their house they've got these robot hoovers it's the exact same thing um forcing foremost a customer will get a debris floor they'll get a floor that's free of debris and then the staff the ward doing that can do more as you said meaningful roles whether that'd be customer service ensuring the place is better stocked ensuring shelves are better cleaned whatever the case would be so yeah i think um there's always this fear that there'll be displacement in fact i think it'll actually grow your business even further which means you need more if you have more football you need more staff now i mean obviously any decisions you make are are rooted in business and they're businessly sand right but you always seem to be reinvesting um in a very organized way with with with not a great deal of disruption to the the customer um is that just an onward journey like is that a philosophy for your fuels because there is points i'm sure you could go back over the last year the year before that year before that we could say right we've a decent business here we've got decent infrastructure good infrastructure excellent infrastructure we'll just rest on our laurels now but you seem to always be pumping money back into the business i mean obviously it's a calculated decision but what's the what's that rooted in yeah it's rooted in trying to be ahead of the policy all the time as well as that's the phrase where you would use to try and be ahead of the policy we're constantly looking around the corner for opportunities but also for risk um so our investment is very much about um making sure that we're ahead of the game making sure that we're ahead of the trend before let's say our competitors and in the main we've done that so most recently we invested in aria the the robot and john brism would have helped us i suppose picked a name for us um so looking around the corner in terms of investment for us is what we're rooted in but we're also rooted in the community as well so continuous investment in our community so most recently we would sponsor the under 12s uh ilson uh soccer club um and both girls and boys and it's that's investment in community as well so there's a number of things as investment in staff investment in community and then investment in infrastructure uh trying to get an understanding of the trends being ahead of the policy so if you don't give it away you can't get it back i believe no and and that's one point i try and make on this program as much as possible it is the locally owned businesses that you can actually go and speak to someone and say look could you back this or could you support that and i don't want to elevate you and sound like i'm putting any any other businesses down like the multinationals or what have you they do their thing they've got to you know they do their own initiatives in different ways and what have you but it could be hard to go in and say listen could you sponsor such and such or this that and fun you know what i mean and uh supporting local and not just the community but also you know local businesses uh it's important too yeah very much we we're very lucky that we partner with two big brands in centra and in circle k and they certainly do that kind of corporate social responsibility piece really really well at a national level but that just doesn't for me work we need to get down to the ground roots we need to support local businesses so we try to where possible source things locally whether we need new carpet we can go to highland carpet we go to you know we try and support local businesses ourselves because we know that they in turn then will support us and it's the same as sort of local community local teams so for example we've been involved in tournament uh g a minor board for the last 10 years and we've seen those children grow to become customers of ours so you know we have a philosophy where you have to give it away to get it back and it's a very simple philosophy you have to give it away to get it back it's a natural thing for me it's built in and then it's built into my management team so where we can where we can help support local community that's our primary focus and then we for the last probably five years or certainly six years we've done local surveys so we send someone out into the local area and we'll survey what consumers needs and then we'll try and bring it back so for example coming out one the surveys was that our daily counter at times can be very very busy and the queues can be long so coming out of that we put in two self-serve hot food units so the daily counter is still there but consumers who want to get away quickly can now serve themselves and get away so we do listen to what the community needs we try to listen intently and I think at a national level you can't do that yeah square in that circle is always going to be difficult those like taxis you want a million taxis at three o'clock in the morning you don't you don't need two of but it's one of those situations isn't it so where what like what where do you did you talk about your developing your five-year plan now or you're in the midst of this year year two yeah so like where do you want to be in five years I still want the business to be as successful as it is today I think we are very much grounded in the community and I think we want to continue with that path I do believe that technology and artificial intelligence is going to play a huge part in business and I think it's twofold I think from a consumer point of view consumers will want that ease of doing business ease of transaction I do know that there is projects or programs within Centra where they're trying to make things you know you can use your phone to transaction so you literally walk into the store you do your shop and you walk out and your phone gets charged and that's something that may be five years down the line but it's something that's very much part of our own thinking artificial intelligence we're currently coming out of a program with most goods where orders for the shop floor so anything that's needed on a weekly daily whatever will be ordered automatically that'll allow managers to look at other commercials within the business so I think it's it's just sharpening how we do business and I think we can see the potential but as we've discussed in the show before I think we can't actually see the potential it's so great yeah and where we're going now and how quickly it's happening and I think it's so far advanced now that we just the general public don't really even realize how far how far that's advancing how important is it um well it's a bit of a strange question because it makes I kind of forcing you to be um uh but anyway I'll ask the question how important is it sort of get the recognition from the public uh to from your peers in the business community as well like you did on Friday night to be named the business person of the year I think it's more important that my team get recognition than it is for me to get recognition um and I genuinely mean that um I mean we have 76 staff over there um and every one of them from a partner to a full summer to a member of the management they contribute every day to ensure that me and my family and our livelihood is protected and that's the way we look at it so it's probably more important that they're recognized more than I'm recognized now in saying that you know I've very proud parents there this morning um and my dad actually asked that I would get this sent on to me as a recording as he'd like to have it for prosperity so you know I'm proud of course I'm proud of of winning the award but it's not my primary taught my primary taught us from my staff and their recognition um but yeah I'm very proud I'm the own kids very proud you know my wife's proud um it's pro moment yeah we can be a bit snobby about jobs too again as a point I've made in this program before in that you know um if a call center or something on which is fantastic don't get me wrong was was was creating 20 jobs you know you could you could get the tarnished for that cut the ribbon do you know what I mean or it's lauded if if it's a certain type of company if it's a multinational one have you but we have these businesses the exact same as yours supporting 76 people in their livelihoods paying mortgages putting kids through school maybe putting themselves through college yeah do you know what I mean and I think sometimes just because they're the the jobs are in the retail they're not they're not I'm this incorrect they're not given the same sometimes the same importance as other types of jobs it's interesting you said us because uh Dennis Ferry who would look after all our company vehicles only said to me a number a week ago he said you know you've helped so many people go to college get mortgages get loans emigrates holidays and so on sport and I've said all right well life's gonna fair enough Dennis and thanks very much for that until about a week later uh a chap who'd worked for us for five years uh who qualified only this year actually on his last day came to me said I want to thank you for putting me through college for the last three years so he said I have learned so much he said and I'm going to take all of that learning because he ended up being a supervisor in the end and he said I'm going to take all of that learning and go into his now what he has qualified to become I was actually probably more proud of that moment of receiving an award and going wrong word is great but to hear that back you're thinking do you know what I'm making a difference in someone's life however small yeah it's not it's not supposed to be significant it's it's significant uh yeah brilliant stuff and I think anyone I think everyone should do a year or two in retail or hospitality I think it's really just in terms of especially now with maybe we're are we you know some people might feel we're losing the ability to sort of engage and socialize and what have you because we're not getting into the whole mobile phone and computer-y type stuff but uh and that's fantastic and I love technology I think you use your uh business to scratch some of your nerdy technical itches as well yeah well if the truth be told well but my point is in so in other words technology is fantastic yeah you can't beat that sort of you know interaction in a in a in a in a retail stroke hospitality type environment well it's interesting there's two points on that we took in our own three kids uh not last summer the summer gone before that um at 13 and 12 and and as much as they didn't want to be there because they didn't because they're teenagers they learned so much and had done so much for their confidence um and I have a 15 year old son now and now coming out of that he's now starting to frame how he's going to view his career going forward um and then we see loads of students come in during ty and you see the ty student comes in and lacks confidence in day one and they might even beat us for a number of weeks but by the end of their period they have really come out of the sponges and they've learned to talk and they've loved they've learned to receive information as well probably more important how to receive information um because I think you know when out being controversial I think teenagers can't receive sometimes because they've got so much else going on so yeah I agree retail is really good as is catering industry the restaurant industry is really good as well for teaching young people to listen and to have the confidence to talk and to answer back and ask questions and work at that ratio of two ears and one mouth yeah absolutely use is there a second point you wanted to make on that no no that's okay listen marching continued success congratulations to you and all of the team 76 in total it's 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The move to Electric is on with Kea powering ahead in Electric Vehicle Technology. Take the stylish KeaNero EV, the multi-award winning EV6 or the all-new EV9 with space for up to seven people. Order your 2-4-1 model now to avail a flexible finance options, a free home charger and a 500 euro super-value gift card. T-Sensee's apply. Visit Heron Auto, Donegal Town for your 2-4-1 Kea. OK, you're very welcome back to the programme and I'm delighted to welcome into studio the Leta Kenny Chamber Business Awards 2003 Hall of Fame winners James and Anne Russell from Glenard Plant. Both of you, thank you so much for calling up. I do appreciate it. Thank you, Greg. When did you stop celebrating? Are we as good boys and girls? Oh, too bad. Well-behaved. Good stuff. Anne, when did you establish Glenard Plant? James established Glenard Plant in 1992, previous to that there, James had been working with Leta Kenny Town Council as the street cleaner in the town and an opportunity arose to bring a machine into the town and with a little bit of encouragement, James Wentford. And James, I often wonder, you know, for business people like yourselves there, did you have a plan? Did you see where this could go? Did you take a chance? You know, because there's folks in their olden life, isn't it, where we can sort of keep on one path and we can go, we're going to take a risk on the other one. How was that for you at that time? Well, I started with the local council in 19, I think, there were a job opportunity arose in 1984 and in 1986 then with the town council, Donegal County Council had handed over the street cleaning services to the town council. So, myself and another colleague of mine, we both took on the role. So, we continued that on till 1988 around that and then there was a force mechanical sweeper come into town. So, then there was an opportunity arose then as time went on and I thought, you know, I think I would seriously like this here, I think this would be something I would like to do and I always had an interest in machinery and stuff anyway, you know. So, it kind of, from there, we secured the contract and, you know, just time kept come past us and stuff like that there and, you know, as hard to believe, I was just thinking this morning there that 37 years tramping up and down the streets, you know, it was a long time. You were tramping up and down the King Street that you've left behind, you know, I think really is the situation. And then in terms of the scale of the business, James, was it clear that this was going to become something much bigger in those early years? No, in the early years I didn't plan it. I thought, you know, if I could keep maybe a few machines, you know, but as just as time had on, this thing started to, you know, the more demand come on board, we got into some very good work in Northern Ireland and it just started to grow and grow and grow and it was kind of growing really too fast for us, you know, because back in, as you know, Greg, there was no, like I was listening to the Marchions interview there, like I couldn't share that story, there was no technology, there was no computers and was the book woman. Everything was pen and paper. I used to sit in a Sunday worth of linen and English, I wasn't sure about how I would go through that with her and that was the way we went, you know, but it grew. In 2000, 2001, it started to really take off, you know, and I have a son there, Eamon, who, from knee height, Eamon was part and parcel of the business, didn't want to go to school, teacher reared up one day on me but Eamon, he was restored in the class because every time he heard the machine come up the back road, he was up with the seat. But that's a familiar story. An awful lot of people working in agriculture and different businesses that they've got that son that did that this morning or that daughter now as much as anything. And of course, too, the more plant you get James, then the calls come in the morning from some fellow girls, you know, I think the gearbox is gone, I think this, you know what I mean? So the bigger you get, you know, the next thing, you know, there's more little bits and bobs you have to maintain and what happens. Maintenance are a big issue. Maintenance are, you know, the answer for that type of machinery as well, you know. But the son, then, he moved on more into the septic tank cleaning and all that drain jet and CCTV and that there. And Hampton East now, there's no question about it. I'm proud of them, to be honest. You know, they're doing a very good job there, you know. Christine's on there as well with them and that there. I couldn't do what they're doing now, to be honest with you. I couldn't do it. They were able to take the baton and run with it. So talk to us a little bit more about all the business. I touched on much of it, but you know, what stuff do you do now? Well, we do what we started off with. We do the basic, the road cleaning and we do septic tank cleaning, CCTV. We do a big bit of water maintenance now, which is something that knew that came on board for the last few years. And we do CCTV, camera work, drain jetting. We do everything environmental and that's, you know, that's... I'd love to have heard the conversation when whoever decided that we... Should we try CCTV as well? You know? No, you wouldn't know. But I could imagine it, you know, I could imagine it because it's like, right, OK. Yeah, but anyway, it all worked out, which is good. It all worked out very well and like a few hard work and a few are dedicated to what you're doing and if you keep a clear path and, you know, everything does fall into place and that it takes a wee while, but everything does fall into place. And do you have to be really, really cautious with decisions over the years or do you have to be a bit brave or a mixed group of both? Because, as I said to Marchine too, there comes a point where you could go, are we too big now or are we big enough or where could we go? I wouldn't be a risk taker and that's why I'll never have two shillings to run together. Do you know what I mean? Well, on our day, myself and James, like, we had many a late night and many a sleepless night, trying to make decisions in that, trying to be brave, to make the move to go forward in that. We always did manage to make the move to go forward and James was, like I mean, his dedication to his work was second to none so, and it just, yeah, it went from there. And James, a word from Anne that keeps, that's jumping out of me is we because, you know, you always need someone to back you up or to check you or, do you know what I mean? And I think you've both been very lucky in that, that you've, you know, been there to check and balance each other or encourage you, or discourage each other where needed. And I think it's a good question with that. Greg, like, it took us, it took both of us, like, you know, I couldn't have done what Anne done and her part on it and probably she couldn't do what I was doing. Yeah. You know, but, you know, come back to decisions and that they're like, no, there are times you make decisions and unfortunately they're the wrong ones. Oh, true enough, yeah. You know, you paid the price for it but I always said, like, anytime whenever I made a decision that went wrong, I always made sure that I didn't make as far as growing the business concerned, either times it would scare me, you know, you can get, because when we've come through challenging times, I think we're going anti-challenge in times and that, and, you know, we're very fortunate we have some very good staff there, you know, but staff is something it's hard to, you know, it's hard to come by at this present time. But, look, you're, I always say, look, to be truthful we can be what we want to be, you know, but we didn't do it and we're all like, you do it with a hard work of your own dedicated staff as well, you know. But you have to look after that staff to get that loyalty too, do you know what I mean? And I think that's sometimes where some businesses fail that they don't realise it's such a two-way, a two-way street. James always had a theory and it still runs through the business to this day. James always said he would never ask a member of his staff to do a job that he wouldn't do himself. That's timeless advice, isn't it? I think it's strong, yeah. Exactly. And of course, I presume there was regulations and all that kind of stuff from the very, very beginning. But I presume also, since 1992 as we get to now, there's so many more different hoops to jump through and all for good reason. I'm sure in some of it you'd wonder what it's for and all that. But it is a heavily regulated industry, isn't it? And you really have to be on top of that as close as you are. There's times you can go over, there's situations you can go over the top on a two-way. I think so. Look, you need health and safety, you need all that stuff, but you also need common sense. And you don't want to frustrate business. And unfortunately, sometimes that's what the power has been to do. They can just frustrate the odd-of-do in business. But it's rules or rules and they have to be strictly adhered to. Of course, of course. You've got a work-life balance. Have you been good at that? James has jumped in on this one. You've just worked yourself to the bone. Work, work, work. I think it's all around you from a very young age. And just work, work, work. And still, I would never retire. It's not my books. I definitely not. I enjoy what I do at the minute. I don't have a book in Spain at the window. I'm sorry about that. We've just answered that for you. From your simple beginnings on this, not far from this site, I think. We never was. People who socialised an awful lot on the altercation that we would have. There was many a time we could have been ready to go to something. An emergency would come through the phone and you just had a change of plans. That was it. You know, you've got people working in cleaning area and then you've got people working in, you know, media. You know what I mean? All under this one roof and all treated and recognised equally. I like that, James. I'll be honest, Greg. I'm pinching myself. I just can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I'm pinching myself sensually. I just can't believe it. I've won this award. There's many a time you're on the town like any other town you're cleaning it and you really do believe you're on your own. You think nobody sees you, nobody cares. But for people to see me worthy of this award, I can only say a massive thing. And I think each and every one. All the awards are special, but I think the Hall of Fame award, it recognises everything. It's incredible, that's what it is. And unfortunately, I've been a person all down the years. This is my first time that I've ever done an interview in my life. That's the truth. Well, I don't need to go to Cairn back a few weeks ago on the podcast. We're in the big leagues now. I'm only joking. But there's so many out since then few interviews have taken place now. This is where I'm starting to realise the whole thing. And I was sitting on there this morning and I said to Ann, in 1982, you're actually living and sighted you're sitting on here this morning. You've just come on so well together. Yeah, we actually loved you. And maybe you just were in a hard work and bubble and as you say, sometimes you're not appreciated because you're not looking for people to clap you on the back but you can feel a bit anonymous at times that you're battering away and, you know, and you're not getting it. So this is brilliant. You don't look for recognition and hoping that it ends up a good job and that's all you think about. But honestly, like I was supposed to the other thing that I would just like to say is that, you know, this is a this is a happy place today, you know, but it was hard. It was not easy, like there were many and many of them on that road and I'll tell you how we got over and I do not know, you know. And the only thing kept you going was he kept saying, you know, can't allow this to feel like, and then you started to think in of a family of who you'll most defeat here. This has to work. This has to work. You know, and you just plowed away and many of the time you could let down financially and every other way and you're left down on your own. You're going to say, what am I going to do now? I've come at it to buy this vehicle and now the bag's prepared and not prepared now to bag me. And like this is where I would use the thrust. Like you built up a trust with people and that's what got us on the road because instead of you paying back to the bank, to the person you bought the vehicle after, you know, and they put the trust in you and that will be further. There's a lot of people I tell I'll be further grateful for. And that still goes on today. I don't understand like it's a it's a tradition. It's an old school way of doing business that a certain generation of people listening would know what we're talking about here. I hope we don't lose that because if we do we're going to be worse for it. You know, okay. So you've no intention as well, you're not going to retire or anything. It's just one of those industries that you can keep out. So that's it, man. That's the way it is. I think you love it too, don't you? Oh, I do. Yeah, definitely. And it's great that you have a team that... It's nice that the family's involved. Three of our children are involved. One of them or one of our girls decided that she would take herself off to Australia a few weeks ago which was not a nice experience but there she is. And please God, all will be well for her and her husband. And you don't want to see them leave but you don't want to hold them back either. You don't want to hold them back either. But not good because we have the other three working on the business and that and we keep them right and they keep us right and that's the way it is. It sounds like you're a wonderful family that will work like all families, ups and downs and ins and outs but you know at the end of the day, at the end of the day it's clearly a family business as well as all the other amazing stuff that you have. Okay, well listen, it's been lovely speaking to you and it's great to be the first live interview as well and I love the fact that the penny's dropping James as to what you've contributed not to your own business per se but to the wider community and same as marching and employing people and you know, paying wages and all that kind of stuff and keeping the place looking good. Yeah. 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Clear spells and showers tonight some showers heavy and prolonged lowest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees. Congratulations to James and Anne and all at Glenard plant from Hugo, Madeline and family in Kilmackrennan. James McLean here community activists particularly in the field of disability I think it shouldn't be lost that both Kelly's and Glenard have always been positive in offering work experience and employment for people with disabilities. Huge congratulations to James and Anne Denise, Amon, Christine and Sarah and all their staff on their wonderful achievement no doubt behind every good man is a wonderful woman from Joan, Carmel, McGeady. There's absolutely no doubt you'll have to spend a little time in Anne's company you can realise the pivotal role she's playing it all Amon and the team at Glenard have been brilliant in helping us restoring the Porthouse building in the centre of the town very professional and helpful service which is much appreciated. Congratulations to Marc Sheen and his team Kieran and Josephine and all of them great, all of them great says Mary and on it goes. And congratulations to our own team too recognised at the letter County Chamber of Business Awards 2003 Sean Quinn head of sales at Highland Radio it would have been remiss Sean, I may not to bring you in and congratulate you on the team for the award for excellence in marketing which is double pronged in that obviously this is a service provided by Highland to an extent as well so to be recognised for excellence in that area as I say it's a win-win. Yeah and it's you know it's lovely to be recognised. We took a bit of a journey during Covid Greg where we looked strategically our marketing we looked at our website and we took time to see how can we better what we do for years we've been doing things so well but it was always a great opportunity to look and see where can we move this forward and we've done that we put the resources in and we're reaping the rewards not across across everywhere across on air online on digital and it's fantastic and I think we're getting stronger and we're getting better at what we do. Yeah because you know media is a difficult space in that we've seen you know a lot of newspapers close very very sadly others are struggling somewhat on a national scale you know and we see people to some extent moving away from radio to podcasts or whatever it might be that being said and I think we're very lucky in that and it's down to the loyalty of our listeners in that you know we are often seeing an upward curve in those areas booking the trend that here in the Northwest people still want to listen to programming but my point being is that we're also meeting people's needs in the online space which is what you've been referencing there which is also very important for the future because you always want to be bringing a new generation of listeners or viewers or interactors through. Absolutely and I think if you keep doing the same thing you get the same results and I'm a big advocate of that but we have a strong brand and sometimes it's a challenge to try and make a strong brand even better and I think as a team collectively I think we're doing that at the moment. I think we've never been in a stronger position and you're seeing more of Highland and you are one of the first people to actually start that Greg with your Facebook Live during your shows and what we've done is we've just expanded from there and we've offered it now to our customers to help them to promote their businesses through our listeners. And it's collaboration, you know what I mean? 100% using all platforms and our skill sets where you know there's some gaps there that go well you know we need to be doing a little bit more in that space so we need to be, you know, have we a present on TikTok for an example do you know what I mean and marry that too maybe with the on air stuff because I hate talking like this because it sounds like we're blowing our own trumpet but I don't mean to but we have the highest market share of any radio station and someone told me recently that she couldn't find a highest market market share in Europe so that is the amount of people that listen every day for a long period of time I think it's around about 64 at the moment other stations offer around 20-25 so in other words they might switch on the radio for one event in the day on a particular station and again I'm not being critical of anyone else by the way in trying to elevate us but we have this amazing thing with our listeners where they put the radio on in the morning and they stay through it so you can offer that reach to a client but also then you can say well what about you know Instagram what about Facebook what about TikTok what about these other areas as well and that's where you have your team that can can help businesses in that offering the best of both worlds. Yeah and I think what we've also brought is experience that and we're able to actually go and help a business to develop their business and come up with creative ideas. Tool them, yeah. That's the key being creative being different helping a business to grow through different methods and touch wood we're on the right journey. We're bucking the trend as well Greg where a lot of people historically have thought let's try Facebook, let's do this a lot of companies are struggling to grow their Facebook page. We're bucking that trend. We've grown year on year where we've now got over 46,000 followers on our Facebook page. Our Instagram has gone over 10,000 that was a challenge to get there we've done that and TikTok is we've had some incredible results on TikTok but that's a small part of what we do. Our core business is what we're sitting doing now at the moment is talking to our listeners and delivering quality programs on a daily basis. Yeah indeed and long may it continue. Sean thanks very much indeed. Congratulations to you as I say and all of the team the whole team. Exactly. We'll be back with the news at 11. The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter Kenny Credit Union. Call us on 0749102126 or apply online via our app or in office today. Have you got a one for all gift card that you've yet to spend? Now is the perfect time. Spend with any of our retail partners nationwide or online before December 31st and you could win one of three 5000 euro prizes. Simply spend your gift card and visit www.ie forward slash redeem for your chance to win. Townsend edition supply the one for all gift card is issued by GVS prepaid your limited GVS prepaid your limited is regulated by the central bank of Ireland. 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It's clear enforcement is an issue as people continue to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs in Donegal. That's the belief of the chair of Donegal's joint policing committee who has been speaking out after four motorists were caught drink driving in the county in one night alone over the weekend. Counter-Jerry McMonagle says it once again points to the lack of resources available to Guard D. Donegal is being hit by the teal end of Storm Debbie this morning. There's reports of flooding in Monkranagh and in the Dunlu area of West Donegal, while other parts of the county are experiencing high levels of surface water on the roads. A yellow rain and wind warning remains in place in Donegal until three o'clock this afternoon. The foreign affairs minister will visit the Middle East this week. It will include engagements in Israel and the occupied territories. Egypt is also on the itinerary. Tonish Jameel Martin says work is on going to get Irish citizens out of Gaza and to secure the release of eight-year-old Emily Hand. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has made a dramatic return to the UK government. He's been named as a new foreign secretary replacing James Cleverley who's been appointed as Home Secretary. It follows the sacking of Ciela Braverman who was accused of stoking tensions ahead of a pro-Palestinian protest in London at the weekend. A special meeting of Donegal County Council is underway to approve the draft Letter-Kennie Plan and local transport plan. It follows two periods of public consultation since the plan was published in January, with 62 proposed alterations being discussed today. Half of them have already been accepted this morning, with discussions underway on the remaining issues. Meanwhile, a public meeting to discuss the need to address regional imbalance and reverse rural decline is taking place in Glenties this evening. Midlands Northwest MEP Chris McManus who is hosting the event, along with Donegal Deputy Pierre Stroudy, says it's clear from many reports through the years that the region is in need of positive discrimination to revitalise the Northwest's economy. And there's calls for Donegal County Council to ensure all tidy towns groups in the county are evenly supported. Following the success of Donegal in this year's competition, Councillor Patrick McGowan says a fair share of assistance needs to be delivered to all small towns also. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. McKayla, thank you very much indeed. It's not just that Sammy has had his world torn apart by the conflict. It's not just that he has lost everyone that he ever loved. And it's not just that Sammy is only seven years old. Right now, children are being forced to live through unimaginable horrors in Gaza and around the world. And it's not just this Christmas. Your help could make all the difference. Visit trochra.org or call 1-800-408-408. Trochra, together for a just world. All right, you're very welcome back to the programme. It is Monday, which means later on this evening. We've another edition of the DL Debrate, DL Debrate, DL Debate for you. And its presenter is Brendan Daveney. Hi, Brendan. How are you doing? I'm good. What's happening? A few things happening. A wee bit of baby action, yeah. Fantastic. Congratulations. I couldn't be happier for you and your beautiful family. Right, okay, so that mean you haven't looked at sports for the last couple of days? No, no, no. It's two recalls, two recalls. No, listen, I was in Calvary yesterday, Greg Shirley. I was doing a bit for the Ulster Streaming, doing a bit of co-com for them. For the two games, which I was going up anyway, just to cover it for Highland, and so I was up there and he asked me to do the calm. So a couple of very interesting games, particularly obviously the second, the EVE Collins. Should we start with the first one? Will Dan's be kicking themselves, coming down the road, where they weren't at the races? What went wrong? Was it the early goals, just killed the game or what? Yeah, kickouts I suppose was a big thing. You know, Ballet Hayes really clamped them on the kickouts and this and all over the pitch, that Ballet Hayes team was top-class, you know. Now that said, they were operating in Division One Cabin this year, but Downins were in the, don't know how you call it, Division One. A lot of people were kind of tipping Ballet Hayes to win the game, but the manner in which they won it was a bit surprising. They kind of overran Downins all over the pitch, you know, they were a real top-class side. I couldn't see anything wrong with the team. They were a real complete side. Ballet Hayes, listen, Downins never give up. They kept trying, but it was, the game was over fairly early, like so it was, it was a double loss. How do you adapt as a player on a pitch in that regard where, you know, you're clearly against a tough enough team, but you've given them a nine-point advantage or something and you got most of the game left. Like as a player, it must be very difficult just to keep the head down in that regard or keep the head at all. I suppose there's something in that game around, you know, pride and finishing the game out proper, I know, for Kevin Gallar, you know, he put out so much work. I mean, junior champions, to be intermediate champions so quick, coming through that, it was, I mean, a massive rise for Downins. Was this a step above then maybe in their journey? You could say it looked that way. Ballet Hayes had lost two finals in Cavern going into this, and they beat a very good den team in the final, which is a team Downins struggled with in the intermediate, allster final previously as well. So listen, it's been a brilliant year for Downins. That's how you judge the year though, isn't it? I mean, you judge it on the historic. Yes, 30 years since he'd done that. Not on. Yeah, Downins had, you know, dropped down in the intermediate, they won the title, and then, but a lot of the same people would see them as an intermediate club, and they probably felt themselves as where they belong. So they actually won the title. It was brilliant for them, but certainly that Ballet Hayes team, you just look a certain side, I wouldn't be surprised now Ballet Hayes compete well in the Cavern senior championship next year. They really looked like a side that's on the, on the up and up. So listen, Downins hit them at the wrong time. Yeah, I was saying, I couldn't blame Downins for yesterday, really, you know, it was more that Ballet Hayes were so good. Yeah, right on to the second game of the day, a dramatic match between Neve Connell and Gauna. Yeah, listen, flying the flag for Donegal as, as we're Downins, and it's such a, such an interesting competition, the Ulster Championship, you know, the club championship is such a special one. I mean, a lot of people were looking at the possible, Cross, McGlenn, Kylku, Semifinal at the other side, they were both beat at the weekend. And then, Neve Connell, we're taking on Gauna, both teams back-to-back champions. A lot of people were fancy in Neve Connell because of the way they play good in the Ulster, it's a very, it's a very good system that they play. It protects in games and you can grow on the matches and they bossed the first half. Greg, they got a goal, brilliant goal from Leo McClun. What a funnish, chipping the keeper. The keeper kind of spilled it, they followed through in the kick. Leo took it, it was very little room to put that ball. He chipped it over the defender in the dent. It was a super goal. Now, in a very low scoring game, it put them double scores up, like one, five to four, at half time. And you thought then the way Neve Connell play Gauna's out of the game, because Gauna, luckily, they were falling under the traps of Neve Connell. And you thought second half would be more the same. And fairness to Gauna, they really come at Neve Connell second half. And you know, you send at half time, if Gauna get the first two points to pull it back to half, they'll make a game of this. And they did get those couple of scores. Neve Connell maybe could have hit them in the break a couple of times. You thought they'd still edge it. But the more the game went on, the more Gauna started to grow in confidence. Those gaps started to appear in the Neve Connell defence. And when they went two up, Greg, in the game they got, you were thinking, right, this game over, time was almost up. And then, as I say, lo and behold, the great game of football, and fairness to Neve Connell, won high ball in, and you're thinking the whole Gauna team are in. There's no way a goal could happen. It comes to McGilligan at the back. I just had a quick look at the replay. There was a monitor over to the right. It looked like Gauna had a player on the keeper's left hand post, but not on the right. So the ball came to McGilligan. There was actually a couple of Neve Connell players. He snapped it and drilled it into the net. And it just seemed that that happened. The Neve Connell crowd went crazy. I mean, you're literally, you're about to go out of the championship and you snatch it, you know, from two points down. It's a crazy thing to happen, but I mean, fair play to them. That's what you do, you never... That's what the sport's all about. Yeah, you play until the end. And yeah, phenomenal stuff from them going into the semi-finals. Fantastic stuff. And continued success for St. Unans, too, in the Junior Hurling Championship. Yeah, penalty shootout. Greg, listen, penalty shootouts are very unusual. The way they settle games anyway, and football, they're unusual, but because of how you score in nature of Hurling, tends not to happen that often, because it's so quick to get a score, get a winner in that. So we have five foreign penalties, reaching also during your final beating swatter of Derry. They'll play Castle Blaney now on, I think it's coming up in a couple of weeks. So this will be interesting. A great, great trip for St. Unans. Of course, they'll have to play their semi as well. So listen, the Hurlers going well. And just marking on the pitches yesterday, a lot of people used to talk about Ulster Championship, you know, in terms of the mould and the tougher teams and the rougher football. But the pitch was a Maclet yesterday. And you're seeing the upgrade of pitches, changing football a bit. The skillful teams can still come to the top, which matters a lot in Hurlins, because that's the way Unans play as well. So you're seeing a big change now in what Ulster club football used to be about. It was always very physical, very tough, and you get into the wonder once. But now a lot of the pitches, that was two games on Kings Band Park. That's how you pronounce it now, not Kings Band, Brefney Park. There was a way of, there's some woman kept coming in saying, this is how you say the name. She couldn't give it off to the commentator. What was it? Kings Band, Brefney. Yeah, Kings Band, Brefney. She wanted to say there's nothing we can name. It's the Kings Band, Brefney, is it? Kings Band, Brefney. Oh, Kings Band is the, is it not? No, is that not the, is that not what you call that stuff? Insulation guys? All right, it's them guys. They're a huge company. How much like me stomach with bread? And they play Castle Blaney. Kings Band, what are you thinking about? Is it? Sorry, Kings Band. Yeah, anyway, look, he'll get it right for the next commentary. Michael McMullen is going to be double job, and he's from The Gate of Life. Of course, he's going to have plenty to say about the club action across the, across the province at the weekend too. And he's got a new book out, Game of My Life. That's it, 25 years of history of Derry. Great fellow, Michael, you don't know why some people there, they're just entrenched in GA. Like, whenever you talk to Michael, he has so much knowledge of the game. And you can see he's going to research this. He's a load of people have contributed to the book. So from Derry's famous time, of course, 93 in this, and there's a lot of talking that around that time with Donny Gull, of course, we were 92 and down either side of that. We're there to all islands and a lot of info from different people, phenomenal time for, for Derry. So Michael's going to come up and say, wrap up those other Ulster games and talk about his book. So certainly something I think any GA fan would like to get a, get a read off. Definitely. And just the right time of the year to be releasing a book as well for that person. You don't know what to get them, get them this book if they're interested in the sport. The deal debate is on after seven o'clock. It's brought to you in association with Sarah's Kitchen at Sister Sarah's letter, Kenny, and it will be available for you very shortly thereafter to podcast, to listen at your leisure. What's they say in America, your leisure. Your leisure, you're right for the charity ball in, are you? You're right for the charity ball. Oh yeah, I think so, yeah. That's okay, definitely. That's a big enough name to sell it there. Greg Hughes, charity ball, 24th November. I think you might be better going with other people than me. Can we have any tickets available? Yeah, there's still a few tables left. We're above what we did the last time. Really? Yeah. There's quite a few more to this. Now we're late, but it was busy. And this and Terry's done a lot of work out there since two, the police looks phenomenal out there. So yeah, we're food comedians and we've everybody signed up and we're just putting the run and order together there. So loads of personalities, GA personalities that say we have music on the night as well from a few different acts and that. So be interested in Alma Kavana's out there. I'm sure everybody in the town listening, she's probably been in, she has prizes and presents for everybody at every table and that she's doing phenomenal stuff. So all the lads are helping out in the background there as well. So we'll just briefly remind us why you do this and the charities, Bren. Yeah, I do a bit of work for my spare time. We sponsor kids. So we sponsored 23 kids on the last ball night. And then obviously hospice, in honor of my dad and epilepsy Ireland connected the family to my sister. They'll be remembered on the night as well. So that's why we picked the hospice and epilepsy Ireland. It's going to be a really important night. Yeah, many different levels. Looking forward to it. Bren, thanks so very much. Brendan of any live with the deal debate after seven o'clock this evening. You've heard what's on it. It's going to be great. And also you can listen to that podcast then a little later on back with more after these the county's number one talk show, the 90 noon show on Highland radio. The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter, Kenny credit union digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. Adult safeguarding day takes place this month. Safeguarding involves keeping ourselves free from harm and protecting our rights. This includes all adults planning ahead to reduce the risk of adult abuse. 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Highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter Kennedy Dublin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time at 16 minutes past 11 this Monday morning the 13th of November I hope you're all very well indeed if you're noticing anything out and about in the roads by the way feel free to pass it on to us and we'll share it with the wider public. A big congratulations to the Russell's it's an example for people how they can get on with initiative and confidence it wasn't without hard work. Huge congratulations to you James and Anne you are inspirational people every good wish for you and yours now and into the future and fundamentally as well they seem like two incredibly nice humble people as well. I think it's sad that the GEA are selling the traditional names of our gay link pitches to martial interests as a child I went to see games in Brethony Park it's now Kings Band Park is this what the GEA has become it's listen is a commercial element to everything now and naming rights for stadia is not or stadium is not unusual it's the way things are going and we're probably going to see I mean if you had a million or two million that you could put into youth development to name a stadium a certain name I think a lot of people might take it. Hi Greg in relation to the scam job offers job offers in some cases it's an attempt to recruit money mules without their knowledge okay what happens is when someone applies for the job they're asked for their i-band so they can get their salary and paid into it then once they are working they will receive more money than they'd expect to receive for their wages they're then contacted by their employer and informed that their extra money is refunds owed to customers they're offered a promotion if they agree to send the refunds to customers from their bank account they are provided with a number of i-bands to send the money this is money laundering the extra money is money from crime and the i-band accounts belong to other money mules and the employee in inverted commas is being used without their knowledge to wash the money okay sounds um it sounds legit but complex at the same time what's the story asks a listener with disabled parking at letter kenny hospital I had a family member in a wheelchair attending a clinic and no disabled parking when asked about it I was told it's unavailable is it not law that they must provide these spaces now firstly it's a private car park so I'm not sure any rules of the land would apply to it directly um but I suppose if you've 15 parking spaces and they're all taken up what can you do I don't know I'm not sure I know what you went through is an absolute pain but I don't know what what recourse you might have in that regard anyone out there who has an insight into that please let us know a tree is down on the road about a mile past kernens in newtown on the bridge end side that come in a little while ago so I'm not sure if it's cleared but nonetheless apply approach the area with some care hi Greg I wonder would you say a huge thank you to Karen McNulty and Cahill Kilcullen who work at the ambulance service in letter kenny for all their help and kindness towards us also all in the ed and medical six the staff went above and beyond for us I can honestly say we were treated promptly and with empathy and pure kindness thanks Greg that comes in from Maggie Maggie more than happy to pass on good wishes to those staff that you mentioned and any other from anybody else too into the future as well because I'm sure that will give those people a little lift drew Harris and the minister for justice their method is to raise revenue not road safety even with their jay mcmonagall they never mentioned education our driver training is very poor in this country what on goddess you can't on the rsa call advanced trainees basic training in Finland another i got a speeding ticket in the north you given the option of points in a fine or a fine and a driver safety course you can't get that here you're given points in a fine nobody's talking about education we're teaching the safe cross code young people have to understand if your headphones or if you've headphones on and looking at your phone you aren't aware of what's going on around you and other caller says an early ran into two people because of phones I rared up on them there was a cyclist in Dublin who ran through every red light she didn't care okay thanks for your comments here another caller says I remember the big storm storm Debbie in September 1961 it was a storm roofs stripped bare 12 died six in northern Ireland I don't I mean I don't remember that because I wasn't born but I don't remember reading about it but that sounds horrendous I wonder listener are we a little bit because we give out about warnings and stuff was there ample warning for storm Debbie in 1961 or have things improved in that regard like well we as a country taken by surprise I wonder Greg what Glen road is bad with water my apologies maybe if listeners are kind enough to text in just give us a little bit more detail so we can pass it on reducing the speed limit is not the answer says the listener and again you know we reduce the speed limit more points at bank holiday weekends I'm not saying it's a bad thing because anything that saves the life and we also have to be I'm sure everybody knows that when we talk about car crashes we don't know what causes car crashes and it's not always to do with the driver and it's not always to do with speed or anything else for that matter so we're certainly not suggesting that these measures would fix all but say I don't know some roads do need their speeds limits reduced I would say can someone tell me why bicycle lanes are not used the lanes providing sorry can someone tell me why cyclists are not using the lanes provided for them from the pole star to the clanry on saturday I and other cars were held up on that road because of this really is that happening because they're pretty good cycle lanes those on that road god knows really the only thing that's actually happened is it looks pretty but there's a centre barrier now in cycle lanes that's really the only thing that's kind of changed basically from a road's perspective and the cyclists this quarter says aren't using the cycle lanes what's going on there rural problems with taxis a lot of rural pubs leave people home even on a sunday my husband who owns a pub has driven people as far as garden they leave siblings home I heard a story from a friend that you're very very lucky you've people like him lots of pubs let her friends or their friends who was a heavy drinker drive home when my friend came to cram for people should drive his van home just so he added for the morning people would drive his van home okay let me get you a quick request if you don't mind I want to say happy 60th to Ann Harley from Wrath Dullin in letter Kenny this is coming in from her husband uh okay no problem happy to pass that on there as well now uh Noel Doherty in St Johnson a big thank you I lost my wallet I was sitting in the house an hour or two later got a knock on the door Noel Doherty is this your wallet from a man named Neil who lives in St Johnston know while money just my cards but he was a complete stranger who came gave me my wallet I love stories like that keep them coming uh Neil from St Johnston found a wallet and just landed um sorry a bigger pardon it's yeah it's Neil from St Johnston landed at Noel Doherty's house with his wallet isn't that lovely that that kind of stuff still happens any positive stories like that please more than happy to hear them more and happy to share them a good morning to Michael Audrey Delores and Manj they're amongst our listeners who are actually watching the show we broadcast the show every day for you on our youtube channel Highland Radio Ireland if you got yourself a smart tv most of them are smart nowadays you know you have the youtube app at app built in so just put in Highland Radio and up we pop and you can go about your morning at home if you're at home and have us on the telly in the background we're also across the facebook on Highland Hub Highland Radio news and sport and we're on x as well formally twitter so no excuse not to get involved all right we're joined on the program now by David Fitzgerald who's the CEO of MIBI good morning to you David good morning Greg how are you getting on good good and thanks for having me on i'm trying to get the good i'm trying to get the work done to to to the fleet owners i think we we've spoken about this before but there's a there's a big deadline coming up for fleet owners on the 30th of november so and we we manage the Irish motor insurance database and a a subpart of bass is that is the national database and there's a legal requirement for fleet owners to upload the vehicle registration details into that database by the 30th of november so the insurance providers have already put the insurance policy up but the the missing piece for for fleet owners that have flexible fleet type policies where they they have control over the you know the vehicles they decide to put on to us and need to upload and go those vehicle details if they fail to do so by the 30th of november they're facing a a fine of 500 euros per vehicle and an appearance in the district court so we still have quite a ways to go and in terms getting those numbers up we we're we think we're at about 40 percent we we we've added over 90 000 of a estimated 250 000 vehicles to go so we're we're trying to get the word out any fleet owners and managers and motor traders that have flexible insurance type policies and to to to log on to nft.mtbl.ie without delay and and upload those vehicles I presume they'll know who they are but just to be clear and for just general public information are we talking like a business that maybe has you know five or six cars uh they're all open driven they have a number of staff that can access them is that a fleet uh is is that the criteria that needs to be registered yes that sounds like a very typical example generally fleet you know fleet owners and and motor traders will know who they are the big difference is that the um the big difference is that the um you you'll control over the vehicle so you'll buy a policy saying I've got I've got 10 10 vehicles and it's up to myself which vehicles I have on them and then you'd be uh you you might be dynamically moving vehicles on and off as you change your fleet over the course of the year so the owners is on those fleet owners upload their their their details and and you know and and if the if the vehicles change to to update the database uh accordingly and it's a it's an offence under the new world traffic and roads act you know not not to do that which is um so that that that is an s is this likely to cover you know boss companies taxi companies you know maybe people with multiple agricultural vehicles exactly that you know that that that exactly that's the that that's the type of people who would have it so it's not very onerous so you know if there's any listeners there you know worried about oh this is going to be a you know a big administrative job or we're talking minutes you know not not hours it's uh there's the website is very straightforward they they if they google national fleet database it'll bring them it'll bring them right in it'll be the first test or nfd-mtbl.ie there's there's help videos there it's um you know it's a it's a very straightforward process to to get your vehicles into the database and why it has data sorry beg your pardon why is this database been established and why now well we very high levels on insured driving and on unfortunately so we know that one in 12 private vehicles are driving around on insured so we've been working with the Department of Transport Insurance on and and Garcia corner for a number of years to build this database and you know the information is going across the Guardian now and and they're going to use this with their technology they have automatic number plate recognition technology in the roads policing cars and enhanced mobility devices they'll be rolling that out in the coming weeks and months to those devices and you know they'll be using that to to you know to crack down and on insured driving because it's it's it's it makes the roads less safe and then from a from a honest motorist point of view there's 35 euros going in everybody's motor policy to fund the victims of on insured drivers so you know whatever we can do to crack down in this with the with the assistance of the Guardian well should should reduce motor premiums for people as well as making the roads a safer place often on insured drivers you know their cars also might might be unsafe and there's we see more you know more issues of speed and drinking drugs with on insured drivers unfortunately so you know we want to get these people off the road I said there's two portals so if you could describe it as that fleet and multi-trade registration and then a broker registration what's broker registration so and so some people have a relationship with their broker where their broker is just no assist them in in in managing their fleet so that enables their broker the insurance insurance intermediary I can see you've lived into the psych of that as well you know that assists their their their intermediaries to help them yeah if they put such an arrangement in place but you know that that's something you know a lot of people be managing their own fleets so they go straight in for the fleet of motor trade registration and it's very straightforward and once once they're in there they have a unique identified it's just just for them so that they can only see their own data and then they can manage their fleet the very simple Excel sheet that they can upload and and you know as they as they you know one saw first time and then if they change their feature in the course of the year you know what we're asking them is a requirement that they they update that it's in there within five days well people have 17 days the penalties are potentially quite severe facing prosecution in the district courts subject to fines of up to 500 euro per vehicle what is the status of your insurance if you haven't like how would you be treated by and goddess you can't if you haven't registered in the next 17 days is your is your vehicle uninsured effectively so you might have a insurance policy but if you know if you're you would the guard you know in the first instance of think oh they don't appear to be insured so you're not you know your your appeal is going to be stopped and so that you know that's going to be very inconvenient if you're you know you're trying to get your deliveries done if you're managing fleets or get for your need to go you probably would be able to prove that you're insured if you valid insurance but you would be guilty of the offense of paying to to upload your details into the international database so you would you if you have valid insurance you'd still your insurance isn't invalid but you would be guilty of a different defense and you you might be summoned to the to the district court and they you know they if they decide to throw the book at them it could be you know 500 per vehicle that wasn't registered okay listen uh important so hopefully that won't happen and i suppose that the general driving population have an interest in this in that if we get uh if we get in uninsured drivers off the road hopefully it will have a positive impact in reducing people's premiums David thanks very much for your time absolutely all right take care David Fitzgerald who is the CEO of MIBI over 1600 vehicles have already been added to the national fleet database but don't go fleet owners managers and motor traders are encouraged to ensure all of their vehicles details are added or they risk penalty as i mentioned uh you could end up in the district court and a fine of up to 500 euro per vehicle um okay this is also this i'll just read here this includes having their vehicle identified as being uninsured by Guardi so that seems to contradict a 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in or tuned out so just understand the work of the regulator yeah so if if you're a charity in arland you have to be registered so the charities regulator is the one that maintains that register of charities so people submit applications to us for their groups or whatever they're involved in and we apply the the charity test so you have to meet certain criteria which need to be carrying out activities and you know you have to ensure that you're pursuing a charitable purpose only and that is for the public benefit so it's not a rubber stamping exercise as i think some people think it is it is a test so not every not for profit out there will be a charity but where you are a charity you have to be registered so that's that's that's one of the the key things that we do which is to maintain that register so for the public if they want to see that register and check out any organization to see that it's registered and what you do is you go to check a charity dot i e and you can go into the register of charities there and find out a bit about any organization that you're interested in or any registered charity the other thing that we do is we ensure that organizations register charities and any other organizations as well comply with charity law and so there are particular obligations that charities have the key one being submitting an annual return to the charities an annual report pardon to the charities regulator within 10 months of the end of each financial year and the purpose of that is really that is it shows what the charity has done over the previous 12 months in the in the previous financial year who the charity has helped how they've raised and spent their funds and where the benefit of the charity's work is felt so it's a really really important statutory obligation that the charities have and what I would say is if you're out there and you're a charity trustee that would be a person who sits on the board of a charity or sits on a committee that you make sure you check your charities entry on the register and make sure that you've submitted your annual report on time we are a very charitable nation and long may that continue but you do hear some cases sometimes of you know something being launched on on GoFundMe and then there could be some controversy about where the funds might go and what have you is it important that we establish for ourselves and understand what is a charity what isn't a charity what's regulated and what isn't regulated not to discourage anyone from donating to something if they so wish but I think for the reputation of the sector I think it's important that we know and understand what the difference is between a regulated charity and then a charitable cause that may not be yeah that's an absolutely excellent point because we often come across that people you know or have given to something and then they don't know where the money has gone and there's no evidence that it went to where it was supposed to go and the key thing that we always say to people is to inform yourselves you know go online check to see if an organization is a registered charity and that you'll be able to find out about them there what I would say though is as you rightly said there are organizations or groups or people that are collecting for a particular cause for example for a sick child or for an adult that might need particular treatment they are not right they are not charities they're not required to be registered as charities and so you know that that's something that maybe the public need to need to understand the reason being that that's a very much for an individual and it's not for the public at large so public benefit is a critical element of what it means to be a charity and that's something that we draw people's attention to so if you if you're wondering about a particular organization and whether they're a charity check at charity.ie also if you see an organization holding itself out as a charity and they're not registered that's quite a serious issue so we have a part of our website where you can raise concerns and they're effectively complaints about about organizations and you can just go onto our website there and submit an online form and let us know about what your concern is and then we will look into that and in some cases you have organizations just didn't realize that they needed to be registered with the Charities Regulator but in other cases you would have a very small number that will purposely be you know holding themselves out and it's really important that the Charities Regulator takes action in those cases because as you rightly point out this is about the reputation of the sector and there are you know we talked about it there 75,000 charity trustees over 300,000 volunteers in Ireland given their time every day and to help people in their local communities are nationally and it's really important that they they get any funds that the public are willing to give to those charitable causes. Yeah and they get the praise that they deserve because an awful lot of this work goes under the radar and actually often it's because people don't boast about what they do or don't you know they don't look for any credit or thanks for it they do it because they they they want to do it so these these types of a week covers all of that doesn't it's those that welcome a bit of praise and perhaps those that aren't seeking either but it's an opportunity to say thank you for what you do. Absolutely as I said 75,000 volunteers take on a really special role as charity trustees they're overseeing charities to make sure that they are well run and they play an absolutely critical role in that regard and we issued a report today on smaller charities and what you'll see there in relation to smaller charities they'd be charities with income of less than 100,000 a third of those actually have income of less than 10,000 so we call them microcharities and you know they're they're organizations that were the volunteers where they're mainly volunteer led actually they don't have any employees in a lot of cases so as you can imagine the role that a that a trustee takes on in those cases is significant as well and because they may also be also at the cold face in terms of what the charity is doing but their primary obligation is to make sure that the charity is well run and in doing so then they they give a really good foundation to the charity to get out there and help whoever it is that they that they are set up to help and so that's really what this week is about we've got events across the week and it's to celebrate the work that charity trustees do and also to get to provide a bit more information to charity trustees in terms of supporting them in their role and making sure that they have the guidance available to them. I'll ask you last because I want to finish on that positive but more about that but just you know there was a period of time where the reputation of charities took a hit for wrong mostly but there was a bit of scrutiny here and there has that reputation recovered to where it should be because as we've said the absolute majority are you know doing fantastic work working really hard mostly unpaid but but has the public faith in charity been fully restored now do you think? Yeah I think I think this happened not only in Ireland but in other jurisdictions as well where you had you know certain you know scandals effectively affecting a very small number of charities that would have been seen to maybe impact people's perception of the sector overall but what we're seeing is in terms of our own research that we've done and surveys that we published earlier this year that I think we were probably talking about previously is that the level of trust and confidence that people in Ireland have in relation to charities is actually biased when it comes to local and community-based charities and when I say community I don't necessarily mean geographically I also mean a community of people maybe who are interested in a particular area and that's the area where the public have the highest level of trust and confidence and that's really I suppose related to the fact you can actually see what's going on or you've engaged with them I mean I think I think often I'm thinking of the hospice and other charities Cancer Care West and all that kind of stuff it's it's often people's positive experience within it or the Friends of Ladder Canyon University Hospital of that matter and loads of other in different areas it's often the experience within it the people then become the fundraisers for it. Go ahead please. Yeah no I was just going to say that the level of transparency what we've seen from the public is how transparent a charity is willing to be about what it's done so really getting out there telling their story even if you're a small charity you know getting out there and telling the story what you did in the previous year and what you managed to achieve how you spent the funds is really really important and we've seen there's a direct correlation between that and the level of public trust and confidence that we see. Yeah you can do the work yourself I get you. Right so then these events is there a database of them I presume there's a lot as you say most are online but if who are you inviting to go and have a look and see what's happening and how do people get involved? Yeah anybody who is a charity trustee who's interested in becoming a charity trustee or anybody who's just working in it in a charity or volunteering in a charity if you go on to charitiesregulator.ie we have a dedicated web page in relation to charity trustee's week and there is an interactive calendar there of events and what you'll see is there's events by the charities regulator we're having another event online and also in person it's a hybrid event tomorrow evening in Kilkenny and if you go onto that website and on that interactive calendar you'll be able to see all the different events across the week and we're doing different events with our partners Board Match Ireland, Carmichael, Charities Institute Ireland, Docus, Publ, The Wheel and Volunteer Ireland so there are events covering all kinds of subjects and hopefully they'll be of assistance to charity trustees and there will also be some videos up after of those events for a period of time so if you're you know charity trustees are out there volunteering on their own time they could be working they've other commitments so it's something then they can dip into afterwards if they haven't had an opportunity to make a particular event at the particular time. 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Radio so heavy rain persisted through the morning bringing that potential for flooding which we've been talking about though it will clear to sunny spells and showers during the afternoon maximum temperatures of nine to twelve degrees with strong to girl force cyclonic variable or Southwest winds decreasing fresh later in the day clear spells and showers on Monday night some showers heavy and prolonged lowest temperatures of six to nine degrees in fresh Southwest winds. Jennifer is with us on line one and hopefully Jennifer there'll be some respite for you into the afternoon but I presume you're getting quite used to at this point water gathering flooding in front of your house. Yes Greg it's been flowing there now for quite a few years and nobody seems to take ownership of it like it's my house is right beside a field here and it's coming out of that field. So I was talking to the owner of that field last year when he got bogged with a vehicle in it and I more or less said it wasn't his responsible that was filled behind me but I haven't been talking to the person that owns the field behind me because they were told to call him but they didn't call him. Well that's the problem he's identifying really where the issue emanates from but whomever is responsible what kind of an impact does it have on your day-to-day life just in and out of the property Jennifer. Well it's a Singapore day Sam Greg and the things that are going to catch the boss on a day like this I mean your feet are wet before you even get down to the bottom of the road to get the boss left and it's not only that but it's washing muck out the field along with us and then you're going out then and having to pull off the grass that grows on the muck and the place is a mess like and I wanted to get that play to the house done up the year but I couldn't what's the point like yeah no point in doing it like with vehicles driving through it and splashing and all that type of stuff as well I'm sure. All that there Greg yeah yeah it's really it's really very aggravating and annoying now at the minute at the stage. And it's another case where who's responsible you've been on to the council what have the council said to you Jennifer. Council offices I don't know many times Greg and then they eventually put me through to the roads and I think that was Cromacran in our mouth for that I can't remember watching out it was last year like and I told them the situation and I said I don't want to follow it with neighbours but I need to get it looked at like but nobody came near here nobody's bothered about nothing and I've just had nothing at the stage. Yeah but what can you do I mean it's good that you're speaking to us and you know racing the issue but you know as soon as the rain starts you're gonna see the flood yeah okay and it just kind of I suppose if you want to be proud of the I don't know if there's front or the rear of your house but if you want to sort of do it up as you say paint the wall there or what have you or so you know you couldn't even put a surface down there because you'd just be fearful if it washing away. Well should that suck you see Greg because like I said I wanted to get the front of that house tidied up the year and I wanted to get loads of stone out but the council done the front of the house last year when they went up the roads and and thrown on potholes and things like that and I said to the councilman who's responsible and they hadn't a clue either like I thought maybe they could have posted me in some direction but no they weren't able but what's the point. I mean it's their responsibility it's their responsibility though to find out who's responsible for water washing out onto the roads it's not up to Jennifer to to become an investigator to figure this out you know I mean someone is responsible and ultimately you'd think if it's running on to council owned property which the road is that the council would ascertain and get them to sort it out because you're a victim of this. That's right Greg well you would have liked that and I thought that as well but sure doesn't seem to be the case because nobody's come and nearly sort nothing out like and that's why I ran you today because I'm looking at that the other day and it's just very annoying silly. Well obviously Jennifer will make an inquiry to the council to see what they have to say about this and we'll report back to you. Is everything else? Is there anything else I can do for you Jennifer? Is everything else all right? No that's brand Greg thank God everything's good here thank God. You're looking forward to Christmas Jennifer can we say that? I'm not a lover of Christmas Greg because I must love ones that are no longer here. Oh no I get you I get you I know it's it's bittersweet isn't it and we all we all approach it approach that different but I know exactly where you're coming from Jennifer and all people that it's just not the same anymore is it okay. Well anyway have as much happiness and fun as you can not just at Christmas but all the time and we'll contact the council and see what we get back from them is that okay? Good man Greg I really appreciate that. No problem Jennifer I promise anything but we'll try okay and as I say I have a picture here which unfortunately I was unable to display up but it's no point showing that it's an all black and white picture but it doesn't look messy it does look messy in the flesh. If anything you want us to mention for you like that get in touch with us 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number or give us a call on 07491 25,000 I just have a moment to tell you that we are going to see Brian Adams in 2024 and when I say we I mean Highland Radio you can catch him performing his new songs alongside the biggest hits of his career to date. Highland Radio have a trip going to Dublin to see the man himself it's in the three arena which is a lovely arena I think and it's on Tuesday the 21st of May you know what to expect from Highland luxury transfers overnight stay at the four-star carton hotel on a bed and breakfast basis you're standing ticket to the show a shopping trip to Dublin city centre it's 269 euro per person sharing which would make for a great Christmas present and not comparing one thing with the other but I saw another thing running for two nights somewhere another and it was more than that so I think that represents that represents a great value okay now let me see I'm going to go to our next guest on the program who is Caroline Caroline how are you getting on you're in the same boat you're I'm looking at your road here what's going on there what's going on there Caroline for those watching I'm going to throw it up here on the screen but tell us what's happening and that did my rose to look that for i'll say 20 years and the council come out and the screeds and muck off it but they don't dig away any red trenches or whatever to let the water away and the problem is that there's a quarry behind me with a spring and that's water coming out of it all the time and then a neighbour man has hundreds of cows yeah which is going through all that there and making it worse the council have um fixed the road past me but they said they couldn't do anything they were on a particular farm or to court right well we're not we're not getting to that side of the conversation uh but but be that as you may so this road that i'm looking at here that's a public road is it that is well it's um a road down to my house and it wouldn't be uh a good road like a roof and well it's on the break it looks all right but it looks like a mud path uh further down that's a mud path the guy would need to wash me carry every day of the week you know it's that bad and it's the guy must be scared someone's going to come down there somebody's scared of that a bit yeah so you're saying whomever's responsible whatever needs to be done it needs to get done because uh yeah i thought that you could be expected to use that road into the long term you'd almost be and it's not your fault but you'd almost be embarrassed of visitors wouldn't you it's probably the first thing you say yeah don't worry about that road okay right again there's walking trails walking trails up my road to walking trails and people are complaining but none's been done like it's they come out and scrape them up but they just don't dig a way to let the water away and they're not getting to the root of the problem no okay well we hope they uh do for your sake caroline thanks for joining us i do appreciate your time all right take care of yourself thank you all right okay take care caroline oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand is the whatsapp and text number by the way if you're listening to our podcast feel free to get in touch with us or in fact if you are listening overnight we do have quite a lot of you that uh work different shifts or take a while to get off to sleep and listen to us uh when we rebroadcast the show at one o'clock it's great to have you on board as well but if you're listening at that time feel free to text in as well because we can pick those texts up uh the next day but that's where we have to leave it for another monday another monday show in the bag thank you so much for listening and for being involved in the program uh i want to thank Donna Marie Doherty researched and produced the show and uh Shannon working flat out on the program as well we'll be back with you tomorrow morning uh