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Give us a call on 07491-25000 and your emails as always to comments at highlandradio.com. And a very good morning to you as you join us across our social media where we stream the show live. Feel free to leave your comments there on our Facebook pages or indeed on our YouTube page, Highland Radio Ireland. And if you want to watch on YouTube, you can click on our website and you'll see the story there. Click into it and away you go. Right Thursdays means lots of newspapers today. And it's a mixed bag, but at the same time, understandably, I suppose, there's one or two stories dominating most of the front pages. A different one from the Turconal Tribune this morning. Last Thursday morning is one of Milford, Cople, Cullen and Stephanie Lynch. They remember for the rest of their lives, their little baby girl, Alice, was born not at Lettacan University Hospital as planned, but at their home in Fox's Glen. And it was a stroke of luck that Cullen was at home to be with Stephanie and assist with delivery of their third daughter. He's a regularly based in Dublin, but his employer unexpectedly told him to work from home last week more on the front of and inside that paper, including a lovely picture on the front. The Donegal Democrat tells us today that fears are growing, and further COVID-19 restrictions will be introduced to mid-rising case numbers and pressure on hospitals. The announcement of fresh measures on Tuesday, including midnight closing for pubs and nightclubs, has fuelled fears that a circuit breaker lockdown will be introduced in the coming weeks. The change in mood among the public has led to the cancellation of public events, to switching on Christmas lights in Lettacan and Balabafay and Stronauler, hotels, restaurants and bars in the county have reported the cancellation and the bookings have made growing nervousness about the spread of the disease and we'll be talking about the impact on those industries in the not too distant future. Of course, as you can imagine, I suppose it's not the hotels are cancelling stuff, it's that people are saying, and this was happening last week at events, people are saying, right, I'm listening to the advice, I'm making this decision myself, it does happen, people make those decisions. The Dairy People Donegal News, the manager of a popular Lettacan bar, says he fears a repeat of last Christmas and a full closure of pubs. As a new earlier closing time comes into place from Friday, a closing time of midnight will be enforced for bars, restaurants and nightclubs in an attempt to reduce COVID-19 cases less than a month after the late night entertainment industry was allowed to fully reopen. Philip Ward, the manager of the McCafferty Group, said his biggest fear is that the new restrictions are the start of a repeat of last year and the bars will be closed down again towards December 24, two weeks. I think the government will do everything they can if there is likely to be a lockdown to push it back into January, but we shall see. The Dairy News this morning tells us that a song dedicated to journalist Lyra McKee's on course to be a number one smash hit, Legendary Girl by the Star Jets is climbing high on the heritage charts and could well be top of the pops by the end of the week. There's a song about the 29-year-old who was shot dead by a new IRA gunman while watching a riot and a fan of driving Kregen in April 2019 has received a huge amount of radio interest all over the world in places like Australia, Germany, Holland, California and the UK. The Farmers Journal today tells us what I think many in the community have already been seeing or were seeing the start and signs of and are fearing where it's going to go. The fertilising supply chain is grinding to a halt with merchants unable to guarantee either prices or product for farmers. As the surge in fertilised prices continues on international markets, importers here have struggled to source supplies or secure shipping for contracted stocks. One significant importer told the Irish Farmers Journal that he's purchased just 70% of his fertiliser requirements but had only secured shipping for less than a quarter of the quantities bought. Now if you've an interest in that and can give us an insight into what impact it might have, get in touch with us. Oh wait, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps or texts there. The Irish Independent tells us that thousands of vulnerable people in their 60s face spending Christmas on the sidelines without the protection of a COVID-19 booster amid forecasts of up to 400,000 cases of the virus next month and this is where the problem lies in that you have lots and lots of cases and although very few people get sick very few people die thankfully very few people get very seriously sick once you scale up the case numbers that high that very few in terms of a percentage becomes quite a lot of people and therein lies the problem. You know the hospitalisation rate, the fatality rate we know those figures are well established at this stage but if that's of 2,000 cases it's a very low number but you scale that up to 400,000 cases and you can see very quickly even if you know people might say well it's got a 99% recovery rate which is true it is true in fact it's slightly higher here in Donegal the recovery rate is very very high which is great but if you've got 400,000 cases that leaves an awful lot of people in that 1% passing away and potentially more if it gets into certain settings but anyway more than three quarters of the 475,000 people aged 60 to 69 who received the AstraZeneca vaccine had to wait until July or August before getting a second dose it means thousands will not meet the five to six month gap to become eligible for a booster shot Kingston Mills Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College said he saw a case for expediting their booster shot in light of the Christmas socialising risk and a lot of these people looking at Israel Israel vaccinated an awful lot of people early on very early on in Israel that the vaccine started to wear off and they plowed on with booster shots and it seemed to have a remarkable impact so you know the international example was there it's just one that we don't seem to be following The Irish Times tells us that the government's bracing for an extremely difficult few weeks for hospitals due to high rates of COVID-19 infections with ministers expecting public health experts to recommend further restrictions in the next two weeks which I personally see sadly as inevitable modelling of likely pandemic scenarios presented to senior ministers suggests the health service will face extreme pressure in the coming weeks as tens of thousands of cases worked their way through the system this was the basis of stark warnings from senior health officials earlier this week that led to the restrictions announced on Tuesday and it is those really in hospitals those working on hospitals and managing hospitals that are driving an awful lot of this they're saying look we can't we're going to buckle under this burden they're already buckling but they're managing and these they that are saying look if there's lots and lots of cases there's lots of small percentages they get sick and they simply can't deal with it Government hopes though that these measures introduced most recently as well as a changed public mood evident in research for them from the Department of Health will start having effect early next month and that would be the fingers crossed situation The Irish Daily Mail tells us that the Department of Finance recommended cutting the pandemic unemployment payment to get construction workers back to work documents obtained under the freedom of information show that the PUP was viewed as a source of labour constrained by senior department mandarins one official insisted that if the government was eager to solve the shortage of builders during a housing crisis then tackling the PUP is part of the solution now fair play to the mail for you know getting the freedom of information finding out what you know that permanent government we're thinking but these comments came straight out of ministers man so I can't remember the exact minister so I don't want to I don't want to wrongly attribute the comment to them but they said reducing the PUP will free up people to go back into and he was referencing at that time the hospitality sector so I don't think it's just the the department chiefs and people working within it I think that was a view that was held by certainly some senior politicians all politicians out of touch let's see the Irish Daily Star here Simon Coveney and others he believes it was responsible to shut down night clubs the senior government minister was speaking as night clubs prepared to pull down their shutters at midnight tonight after only reopening three weeks ago following 18 months locked up Mr Coveney said that socialising in late bars and night clubs after midnight is a risk factor that the government has decided we can do without that you haven't decided we can do without Mr Coveney because as we mentioned yesterday and predicted yesterday night clubs were opening earlier Copperface Jack's perhaps the most famous nightclub in Ireland I would suggest though it's now opening from 6 p.m. to 12 midnight it's new opening hour seven days a week so it to me it points to the fact that you know the government got advice on Monday night that's when they got the letter from Tony Huland Monday night then they met on Tuesday and made all of these decisions on Tuesday morning and they were announced at lunchtime now they obviously didn't take enough time to think about this did they how could they they weren't announced at lunchtime but they were leaked verbatim at lunchtime they're actually saying that they believe what they've done will stop people congregating in these settings they won't they just do it earlier and that makes me worry about how in touch with the situation they might be the Minister for Foreign Affairs added that he could not rule out further restrictions being reintroduced if you're concerned that with COVID rampant rampaging through the community again and with rising rates amongst school children coupled with a shortage of teachers that schools may not reopen in January after the Christmas break and we were having a conversation yesterday and that's exactly what I believe will happen I think schools will close for an extended period in January but I only suspect that by the way I don't have any information in that regard right and also too I've received emails from health care workers that say that they've been told by management now I'm not saying it's letter Kenning University Hospital by the way because I would have a network beyond Donegal that they've received letters saying that the new rules as it relates to self-isolation so from now on I'll restrict new movements from now on if you're a close contact in a household close contact regardless of your vaccination status you're being asked to self-isolate for five days and take three antigen tests which will be sent out to you at some point I don't know how that's working and then after five days if all three a clear year are way to go and it includes teachers and health care workers but I've seen an email sent to some health care workers at least it seems legit as much as I can determine that says that the new rules do not apply for them but yet you have others within the health service saying oh no no it does yet on the website the government says itself further confusion the government says the health protection surveillance centre will issue further guidance on derogations for health care workers in respect of restricted movement requirements for those who are household close contact so what does that say it's not very very clear these are the types of simple bits of messaging I think we should be getting correct the Irish son today the Irish fishing fleet is to be reduced by a third to make up for the five percent Brexit quota cut sixty trawlers will be decommissioned and taken out of business by the end of next year leaving just a hundred vessels left in the whole country the government is to pay out sixty three point five million in EU compo to the fisherman leaving the industry now the ones I've spoken to don't want to be paid not to fish or they don't want to be paid to tie their boats up this is kind of like what we did with the sugar industry here or what we've done with the peat industry here kind of feels like paying people you know not to work or not to do what they love doing but there's something deeper about our fishing industry because it's so ingrained in our coastal communities as well if you're involved in the industry and this stinks or in fact if you're in favour of it by the way as well it's very important getting contact with us so the government's going to pay almost sixty four million in compensation to fishermen leaving the industry all Irish fishing groups agreed to the deal except the western south fish producers association so maybe this industry approval of this our fishing quota was slash from twenty to fifteen percent by the EU to make up for the loss of British waters as a consequence of Brexit it means just fifteen out of every one hundred fish and our seafood seafood rich waters can be caught by Irish fishermen so yet look the access to UK waters problematic but give us our fair share look at the fair share the French fishermen get and instead of us fighting our corner in the EU we are buying out our fishermen as I say maybe that's what the industry wants let us know call Caroline an old seven four nine one twenty five thousand now finally in the mirror a serving guarder has been charged with assault and coercive control marked all thirty six based in West Dublin but currently on suspension appeared before Judge John Lindsay at Dublin district court yesterday Inspector Adrian Kinsler of the Guarder National Protective Services Bureau told the court that he arrested Doyle at nine fourteen and charged him with nine offences after which he made no reply the offences allegedly occurred between 208 209 and 219 Judge Lindsay noted the director of public prosecutions had directed trial on indictment in the circuit court he was remanded on bail until January seventh to be served with a book of evidence and that those charges seem to be relate to a very long period of time ten years okay 08 660 25 thousand that is your whatsapp or whatsapp number for you to text in the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly centra mountaintop letter Kenny home store and more all our Christmas table linen is half price time to get Christmas ready with festive patterns for the table that is at the heart of every home but better hurry because when all our half price Christmas table linen is gone it's gone 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40 euro at Christmas club now open at letter Kenny shopping centre we're already dreaming about the festive season so why not make a start park for free and enjoy your Christmas shopping this year letter Kenny shopping centre bringing you the time at the time is 22 minutes past 9 and we welcome on to the programme now Monania Griffith who is CEO of belong to we're talking in the context of the 12th annual stand up awareness week good morning to you Maninia thank you for joining us pleasure to be here thank you it's good to have you on the programme tell us about belong to what is the organisation well we're the national organisation for young lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people aged 14 to 23 we provide youth services in Dublin and we support a network of youth clubs and services around the country including work it we work closely with break out in Donegal youth services and big shout out to Nica up there who amazing youth worker who supports LGBT young people across Donegal and then we do a lot of campaigning work as well changing attitudes and as you mentioned them this week is stand up awareness week so you think at this day and age with marriage equality and all the progress that we've made in Ireland that this wouldn't still be an issue but unfortunately homophobic and transphobic bullying is still very much an issue and we did a survey of LGBT young people back in 2019 and 73% of them said that they felt unsafe in school so that's why this week is so important it gives an opportunity to second level schools the staff and students youth reaches and youth services across the country to celebrate and recognise their local LGBT community the young people in their services and their schools that might be LGBT or might be thinking about coming out and we provide them with all the resources that they need. You mentioned that one in five LGBT Q plus students face bullying but three quarters feel unsafe so where is that feeling of unsafe coming from is it the fear of being bullied or is there something else about the school environment? There's lots of stuff going on for young people when they haven't come out yet there's a huge fear of rejection it's still hard to come out because everybody's expected to be heterosexual and cisgender so it's a big worry when my friends still like me when my family still love me and they don't want to be bullied will I be excluded how will people perceive me so that huge fear of rejection is huge the big things that young people have said to us and what we're supporting schools to do during stand up week is to look at three things inclusive environment inclusive curriculum and inclusive policies so what I'm talking about inclusive environment literature books, that kind of stuff available in the library and whenever a family or a relationship or identity is presented in a poster to try and make sure that different types of families are represented and everything is considered normal because when there's greater visibility people feel that they're more safe and they're more welcome and that this is somewhere where they belong in terms of a inclusive curriculum or indeed programs and projects in a youth service space but in a school space it's important to make sure that LGBT young people see their lives and their experiences across the curriculum and it's been shown in research that this results in a much more positive school environment when there's an inclusivity across the curriculum so we have reviewed most of the junior cycle subjects and we found opportunities to integrate LGBT related topics relationships identities making it really easy for teachers to introduce this in a really simple straight forward way and the last thing then is around policies so policies that make a specific reference to homophobic and transphobic bullying should be in every school's anti-bullying policy or code of behavior and that sends a really powerful message and to young people and to parents that the school doesn't have this kind of behavior. In relation to the attitudes in schools you know schools can't operate in isolation of wider society and I wonder how many of sort of the attitudes that young people might have are filtering down maybe from parents and guardians outside the school environment and you know even maybe young people I can imagine a scenario where they're fine they're open minded they don't see anything but they go home and start looking to the parents who get quite defensive what's going on in schools what are you talking about there if this isn't right there's something wrong there and then obviously that sort of maybe on does the work that the positive work that might be happening in schools so really the wider point is that it's hard to sort of change things in isolation in the schools it has to be much broader and wider that I'd imagine. Yeah absolutely so we've started a program called Safe and Support of Schools and it looks at six different areas including the three that I've already mentioned but also community engagement and you're absolutely right you need to include parents, boards and management you're the local services that support young people to have those conversations because the truth is that many of us including LGBT people carry around unconscious bias notions and stereotypes and myths about what it means to the LGBT so it's really healthy to have an open conversation so that people can address those, can raise questions in a safe space, have them addressed and have them answered so they understand that some of those attitudes belong in eras way before and that we don't believe that anymore and the main thing is really as well is changing hearts and minds is to change language I think a big focus this week with stand-up is to use words that heal not harm because a lot of young people and I think this is, I get this from online use homophobic language not always with the intention of hurting their LGBT friends it's just because it's so commonplace so it's not with the intention of hurting but nonetheless it does hurt I'm part of my ignorance on this but where is the Q letter gone from LGBT you hear lots of other people use that is this a change no no it's just different organizations would use different acronyms there's lots of why would you not use Q in your acronym well it's something that we're looking at at the moment for sure because young people really would like us to use it so in other words even those promoting this have a bit of work to do don't they absolutely there's still we're all still learning as we learn more about sexual orientation and gender identity we're all still on that learning journey and schools, youth services indeed organizations that work without LGBT young people we still have lots to learn okay now part of this is a social media drive as well tell people about that if they want to get involved in it yeah so alongside the stand-up campaign we're running the come in campaign and that again is really about learning the language that many of us use without really thinking and not necessarily with the intention of hurting people around or so using things like that so gay to describe anything at all that you don't like the rain your homework anything at all so it's really that really perpetuates the problem that we need to solve so what we're asking people to do is to get get involved online follow the hashtag come in across whatever social media platform you're using use our stickers show me that you're a good ally show that your intention is to support your LGBT friends and family members and to use words that heal and not hurt the problem is when you use social media like this people have generally already found themselves in the company of like-minded people and you'll have certain groups of society that will embrace this and then you'll have other groups who've already found each other or individuals that would certainly not but anyway we need to work on all of that thank you for joining us my pleasure and happy stand-up awareness week to all the schools across Dunningham and some of them doing excellent work others maybe not so I suppose it's hit and miss is it yeah but we're 68% of schools last year who participated we did really good turnout from schools across Dunningham that's the Loretto secondary school are on our cover of our magazine so I mean so we're really hoping that we'll hit over the 70% this year it's growing schools realise how important this work is and the students are really calling for as well okay thank you very much Maninia it's been nice speaking to you and see you soon see you again hopefully soon I'll kind of take care that is Maninia Griffith there who is CEO of Belong 2 08 660 25000 is our text to WhatsApp number give us a call and 07 491 25000 I meant to mention this yesterday by the way and I just want to mention it early on in the show today it's something completely different because you'd be well familiar lots of people would be familiar with Michael and Mary Woroski's house at Caught Callie and Kerry Kill always lit up for Christmas this year is no different you're invited to visit the amazing display of Christmas lights now the display will light up each night from 6pm to 11pm from Saturday the 27th of November now it's free but there's a donation box situated at the crib and all proceeds in aid of bombulance the Children's National Ambulance Service so if you want to go along as many of you do and many of you will you can from the 27th of November and donate if you can and you can also donate online forward slash Woroski's Christmas lights idonate.ie forward slash Woroski's Christmas lights if you don't want to leave the cash there or whatever it might be alright we'll mention that a bit closer to the time as well but it's a lovely initiative and it 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council for online safety I'm not going to lie to you Brian I'd be not terribly confident in this making a difference but maybe you're more confident good morning Greg well there's a lot happening in this particular space at the moment and the legislation that the minister spoke about has certainly been long in the preparation and there's a lot of detailed discussions surrounding these things but not just here in Ireland you know I think we can see right across the world there is a gathering consensus or an emerging consensus that we are moving into different kind of phase and different relationship and that regulation of some kind is needed so the purpose of our particular report is really just to provide some of the background evidence what's going on, what are the issues what are the problems that need to be addressed but I mean there's many people listen there's no doubt the likes of Facebook still continues to help promote misinformation on all manner of things by the way I'm not just talking health it's clear to see this you could expect from them maybe it's a shield saying you know this video contains certain images but you still can click through and watch it that's happening already but also an awful lot of people who are interested in sharing this information or viewing it and moving to your likes of bitchute or to telegram you know this is all coming a little bit late in the day isn't it I mean I presume this new legislation wouldn't extend to the likes of bitchute or gab or telegram would it well there's you know it's a complex piece of legislation and what it's going to do is establish a media commission and an online safety commissioner you know then data has been as I say you're promised for some time and they will go through a process of designating certain digital services so the potential scope is really quite wide and it looks at a range of issues whereby companies will be required to comply with a range of online safety codes so it's really what's going to be contained within that and certainly harmful online content you know has been earmarked but other areas such as you mentioned disinformation you know I think you know for a couple of years now legislatures have been particularly focused on this because it really is sort of attacks the democratic process it's interference it's misinformation and there are moves towards doing this but you've got to see this this is an ongoing process the issues are complex it's not that the companies are willingly promoting disinformation or harmful content but I think there is an agreement said that there needs to be a step up in action but who would be the gatekeeper who would determine what is misinformation you know is any opposing view any view that at odds to health or government narrative is that I mean like you know I listen to politicians okay sits on the other end of a zoom call with me on this program or listen to them on other programs and I know what they're saying I'm not saying they're lying but it's what's that I always get mixed up between dis and misinformation but you know it's not exactly what's going on let's put it like that there do we have a platform where they can they can spout what they want to say and yet someone who might have a different point of view that goes against the general narrative they would be shut down how do you regulate that yeah well that's and you know these are the challenges and the balancing because the internet brings us an extraordinary expansion of all possible diversity of opinion and you know with that you get the good the bad and the in between so certainly there are clear issues in terms of balancing the right to freely express an opinion and you know these are fundamental rights alongside not doing harm and you know the you know the willing or intentional campaigns to interfere to mislead and to lead to potential through so-called bad actors who are clearly there let's move away from that type of information then right let's just talk about pornography right twitter is one of the biggest pornography sites in the world hardcore pornography throughout twitter anyone can sign up to twitter yes you have to be a certain age right but if you have an account or even if you don't have an account twitter which you know obviously that's where all the medics and academics and journalists hang out right it's full of porn it's bigger than a lot of the mainstream porn sites and inverted commas how would that be regulated well and of course yeah and I can't speak for any of the individual platforms but what they will point to are their guidelines and where they identify content that is against their guidelines they have their own obligation and you know what legislation will do is further reinforce the need to comply with agreed set standards so twitter points off elsewhere across the internet and knowingly hosting content these aren't links it hosts uploaded pictures and videos pornography it's not linking them off it is is that right like this is all well and good but I want to leave this interview and then people think things will change because personally I can't see how they can change well the intention of the legislation is in fact to bring in a regime that is unprecedented and I think and again I don't want to be seen to be speaking in relation to the legislation itself is a matter for the minister and her department but it has been long in development and it is about a changed era internationally there are relatively few examples and Australia is the example that is often cited because within Australia they don't have some of the constraints of international transnational markets and they have moved further in terms of regulation and putting in place codes such as that but also the European Union is looking at building within its overall EU policy what would be EU agreed rules around regulation of digital services and platforms and Ireland is one of the first that is coming forward with the idea of obligator online safety codes that would and with the sanctions of significant fines attached to them not dissimilar in a way to data protection and look at how GDPR is something that has changed everybody's lives in terms of their operation or their use of digital services I think really what actually has changed with GDPR Brian with all due respect is that instead of us being tracked in two or three ways we go on a website we just accept everything because it says are you happy with us tracking you and people can't be bothered and they hit okay and it opens the door to absolutely everything personally I think we actually probably consent to more now in using the internet than we actually did prior but that's just my own personal opinion in terms of expecting these global companies and also a small population to listen to what we have got to say would it not be more advantageous for us to limit the abuse and the bullying and the wrong age of people access and certain information by tying your online presence to an ID right so and then that removes the anonymity it gives people a space where they can access it if they're of a certain age freely right but at the end of the day too if they act inappropriately there is a possibility of a sanction it's a good observation and I think what it points to is the fact that there are multiple kinds of strategies that all come in together and you come at this from different points of view or from different directions and it is a combination of all of these so the question that you're posing in terms of ID and whether that is in relation to the actual age gating so that certain services may be gated or there's a minimum age threshold or certain content which is again also different age groups so that means in terms of registration for services are there better mechanisms are there more robust mechanisms because clearly what's there present is not working and it's far too easy to simply run up to any kind of service so again that's a set of measures that are certainly being actively discussed Professor if it were me and I don't want to come across a cynical right but if I were most of the population I think most of the people for one reason or another in this country use VPNs now they do whether it is streaming services whether it's accessing the BBCI player whatever it might be maybe they just don't want people following them around online VPN services okay so if I were Facebook or Twitter I'd be laughing going to this they're actually you know going to try and make us do something doesn't we'll get around it we'll watch whatever we want to do like we always do right you can put the VPN on your router everyone has access to wherever in the world it's light touch regulation if we used ID to make sure people couldn't access content that they couldn't access that would be fixing a problem and this is light touch stuff that the Facebook and Twitter and the rest will be rubbing their hands with Gliad well I don't know about that and I'm not sure if you've got data to support the fact that everybody's using VPNs certainly you know there are lots of workarounds and ways of circumventing any rules or regulations that you put in place that's absolutely the case and that will always be there and whatever way technology evolves is always going to be some way of working on that but remember how this is progressing is that people are being given more choices and you spoke about the GDPR aspect again I don't think evidence would support the fact that we're consenting to more and more just as an example on that when you open up a website and it's got a splash across about cookies do you actually open the next dialogue box to click what cookies you will not accept or do you just click OK well can I look at you know can I point to some evidence within this within our survey which is what NACOS undertook to do which is to try and bring some evidence to this and that's in relation to where we surveyed adults and privacy and privacy awareness has simply shot up and it is the top area that people are concerned about they want to find out more they're less confident about their own knowledge of what is a complex area and remember that alongside providing people with the tools the next part is in fact whether it comes from the Data Protection Commission's office or other public agencies is actually informing people about their choices and then they look at different services and service providers or operating systems remember there are various different variations on this and they will provide varying levels of privacy protection and that is about empowering people giving some choices and in this case that the relevant agencies are stepping up their activity in terms of setting what are the rules of the game and they're certainly looking to do that in partnership with all the players and listen and much of this conversation is about protecting our young people too and we have to do everything that we can whatever tools we have professor to do that don't we yeah absolutely and you know that's a big focus so this survey that we've launched had three parts to it one focused on children and in fact that was the most detailed part of it then parents specifically their relation to how they are a really important part of online safety reinforcement and then adults and something that we haven't actually quite considered and they totally have lots of information about the prevalence of bullying for all trolling online all that kind of stuff so we wanted to find out more about how adults are responding to all of that that provides and we need to keep doing this we need to keep really close listening to what are people's frustrations what are their problems and how to respond to that yeah can't wait for the white flag we have to keep going listen thanks for your time and answering the questions and teasing that with me I really appreciate it Brian if people want more by the way information from the National Advisory Council for online safety or to go through that survey more details where should they go absolutely it's easily accessible it's on gov.ie forward slash online safety report and I'm sure we'll be happy to circulate and disseminate the links yeah full detailed report great stuff thanks very much indeed that was a professor Brian O'Neill deputy chair of the National Advisory Council for online safety what do you think 08 660 25,000 a caller says can I ask you to highlight this please surely after more than 12 months with bosses running to secondary schools at 50% capacity now is not the time to return to running bosses at 100% capacity but Sarah and plan to do so from next week our parents and teachers aware of this that comes in from a very worried parent another caller says that curfew announced for today's only a starter and to break people in again didn't want to close things right away and otherwise the greenest island in the world surrounded by one of the best fishing grounds and yet our fishermen cannot fish and our farmers are being made to start farming oil gas rights were more or less handed away for nothing it's like every Irish government is out to destroy Ireland because they certainly aren't standing up for them we use pretty much of our oil with there's no oil off off our coast there is gas and we consume most of it but I suppose it is another company selling it back to us hi Greg do you think all staff in pubs clubs and restaurants should be vaccinated it's completely up to them I have no opinion on that people make up their own minds morning Greg one mistake that was made in relation to COVID is not clamping down on the COVID search I see Northern Ireland is introducing COVID search for all events even outdoor dependent it's not all outdoor events but I'll take your point when the rule was made it should have been obeyed it shouldn't be that the people who decided not to take the vaccine have the freedom as those who've taken it I feel sorry for young our young and old such uncertain times for them well we see what's happening in Germany and Austria in terms of lockdowns for those who have yet to receive a vaccine can't see the point of it here because so many people have taken a vaccine who's to say Greg all the garden shed garages shebeens will be reopened after tonight crazy decision yes of course they will I think really what they're hoping though is that maybe you know the young people might go right okay yeah I can't really do this because of you know sick people in my house or maybe mums and dads about pressure and they might don't know what their strategy is but I presume that forms part of it I just you know when you see the nightclubs they're just running three hours earlier and why wouldn't they it's perfect within the rules they've been shut for well over a year open for 27 days that's what they're going to do Greg do you not understand you 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stop hospitals being overwhelmed The reproduction number is currently about 1.3 We only need to reduce their contact or to mitigate the risk of contact by about a third to bring the virus back under control I remain optimistic people if they hear the message get back to the basics there is every hope that we won't see the scenarios set out in the model Labor says the HSC needs to increase its COVID testing capacity to cut down on delays and getting an appointment Six Counties, Donnie Goll Sligo, Ross Common, Monahyn, Mayo and Kavin have no available slots at self referral clinics today The HSC has capacity for around 200,000 PCR tests weekly Labor's health spokesperson Duncan Smith says the waiting times aren't good enough If you wake up this morning with symptoms and you take an antigen test and it's positive or indeed if you don't have an antigen test you will not be able to get a test in Dublin until the half one tomorrow afternoon where it really is having knock-on impacts for contact tracing and everything down the line and it's something that the HSC really need to get ahead of here With the Irish Government once again urging people to work from home the cross-border workers coalition says this makes it all the more imperative that the government tackle the issue of cross-border taxation The coalitions say the thousands of cross-border workers face financial penalties from January The issue isn't addressed there's calls from the government here to support employees Co-Chair Aidan O'Ken says there are genuine fears among workers that the home working flexibility they were granted since the pandemic began is set to be lost What we would be asking is for a simplification or a harmonisation of tax rules which allow people who live in Donegal but work for companies in Derry for example to be able to be taxed at and not face that double taxation liability to the Irish revenue Oseo Global are set to establish a strategic base in GTEC in Ghidor to facilitate their continued expansion into the Irish market Headquartered in Belfast the international trade and investment consulting firm works with governments around the world and advises private sector clients on international expansion Ghidor will join other Oseo Global offices in such as London Paris, New York and Los Angeles to name but a few CEO of Uther Isnegiltukta Miho Lohini says the availability of talent in Donegal plays an important role in attracting companies like these to the county This follows on the decision by Pangea from Switzerland to establish their European headquarters in the Donegal Delta based on the availability of such space and as well as that it is very importantly for us the availability of talent and the ability to recruit good talent in Donegal is a very important part of being able to attract these companies Garde say they are yet to confirm a single case of injection spiking despite a number of complaints the issue was highlighted on social media in recent weeks when women said they'd received puncture marks during nights out however officers say they are waiting toxicology reports to determine what exactly happened meanwhile the force says it has recorded less than 25 drinks spiking instances so far this year compared to 10 such cases in 2020 and Gareth Brooks is set to play Crow Park next year after confirming dates for two shows it's expected another three concerts will be added to the two announced today on September the 9th and 10th the country music star famously cancelled five sold out gigs at Croker in 2014 after licenses were refused for two of them Colm Stevens from the Clawn Lyffe and Crow Park area residents association says too many concerts are being allowed to go ahead anything more than three in a year we would object to we think it's unfair nothing more than an exercise in corporate greed it doesn't do anything for the area bar a few low paid jobs whether now mostly cloudy today with some patches of rain drizzle and mist mainly during the morning the cloud will break in some areas during the course of the day allowing a few bright spells to develop a mild day with temperatures 12 to 15 degrees that's it for now we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for Thursday morning the 18th of November the death has taken place of Sean Cromlash upper Balibrak mobile his remains will repose it as home from 12 noon today funeral from there on Saturday morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock in St. Mary's church Balibrak followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the death has occurred of Mora Menon the Glee Stranorla reposing at her home from 5 o'clock this evening funeral leaving her late residence on Saturday morning at half past 10 for Requiem Mass in the church of Mary Immaculate Stranorla at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in Stranorla Cemetery the Requiem Mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam house and funeral will be private to family neighbors and close friends only please the death has occurred of James Armstrong formerly Craigyn Balibafay his remains are reposing at McCool's chapel of rest in Balibafay with visiting time for family neighbors and close friends today from 7 until 9 o'clock funeral leaving from there tomorrow at half past 1 for service of Thanksgiving in Stranorla parish church at 2 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard donations and loo of flowers if so desired to medical forward Lettercanny University Hospital care of any family member the death has taken place of Mary Curran niece Spence Clondovadoch Church Hill removal from the eternalite chapel of rest Montaintop Lettercanny funeral mass at 11 o'clock to arrive at St Cullum Church Glendon for quarter to seven to repose overnight funeral mass at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning followed by burial in Garten cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has occurred of Anne Doyle, Neigill the Rock Road, Trim, Condy Meath and formerly of Coventry Manay reposing at her daughter Elaine and Noel's home the Rock Road Trim, Condy Meath this evening from four until eight o'clock funeral mass in the church of Our Lady of Lourdes Dangan, Summer Hill, Condy Meath tomorrow at half past twelve followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on churchmedia dot tv forward slash camera forward slash church of the Assumption Cull and the death has occurred of Raymond McGlynn, Doon Terman and formerly of Claggan Church Hill his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral service in Trenta Presbyterian Church tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery family time from ten p.m. to ten a.m. family flowers only please donations if desired to the Donegal Hospice the service can be viewed on the Trenta Presbyterian Church Facebook page for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highlandradio.com oh look Tom and Mary Murphy are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter Neve to Rory O'Donnell one previous owner full service history three months NCT like getting your money's worth enjoy the delicious triple cheeseburger just two euro ninety from the McDonald's EuroSaver menu with all the stories that matter across the Northwest it's Greg Hughes on the 9 to noon show on Highland Radio and you're very welcome back to the second hour of the program a very good morning to you at 10 past 10 now a caller says following on from earlier on I have sorry I always have and do and I will respect and treat with equality all people but I object to our schools being saturated with LGBT agenda all week many children are upset and made very uncomfortable with the pushing of LGBT flags and signs and want to stay off school the rainbow has been confiscated by LGBT which is not fair bullying is prevalent in many walks of life sad to say and should be tackled in a general way and you know I've heard that view expressed before that people feel that and I've had and listen you have to have all types of conversations that sometimes you know teenagers of a certain age might be a little bit confused you know they've got different hormones running through their body and I know I've heard some parents say and and you know open minded parents say they're a little bit concerned that that could you know sway their children one way or other now I'm sure there's no scientific basis for that or I'm not aware of it but those are real and genuine concerns as well and feel free to to share them I think all views have to be aired especially since that's such a respectful comment we've heard before it's not the person is very open minded and believes in equality they just have some concerns about this week in their school oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps are texts Greg is it true that only three hundred can be vaccinated in letter Kenny at the hub now since they moved from I-T would it not be an idea to hire one of the empty buildings like primarica to use the aura or community centre or some of the big vacant spaces in the town and try to get up to figures that we had previously vaccinated a few thousand daily I really think this is a priority now well whether you are in favour of vaccines or not the bottom line this is there is not the demand anymore for the type of vaccination centres that we had previously you know over nine out of ten people in this county have taken the vaccine now at this stage so I don't know if there would be the demand maybe it's required for the booster program I don't know talking of pornography what about love island contestants parading around half naked pulling with my parents another one the list is endless children exposed to all this it's a very sad society that accepts this as normal I've sort of expressed my concern about love island my the thing I had with it maybe just me being just age thing or other I just thought it waters down commitment and love and choice and thinking things through and you know that's my problem with it I don't know of bikinis or guys in shorts it's certainly not pornography is it what I for about sort of the attitude towards relationships and stuff are we're never going to stop I mean don't go on tiktok if you don't like bikinis and fellas in shorts and that's where most of the young people are they're not watching love island but I take your point our children exposed to it who's exposing the children to it I mean love island what age should you allow your children to watch that at you know there's parental responsibility here we can rule and legislate but we also have to have parental responsibility too don't we back to school three quarters of my child's school off with COVID it spreads in all classes it's a huge outbreak it certainly spreads in schools well officially it doesn't see and they keep insisting that it doesn't and I think that's a great reason why they they're not reading the room correctly because a lot of people have people in school or connected to people in school and they know what's going on but they say it's not happening in schools and then they count the cases in the household then and if they do that isolate the entire house doesn't make much sense to me was in Straban not very many wearing masks in a supermarket plenty of coughing and spluttering it's a joke they say figures going up in the Straban Dairy area unfortunately here in Donegal by the way actually I should say that we have the sixth lowest rate of infection of COVID in the entire country the sixth lowest now obviously everyone talks about Donegal when we're top of the tree but we're sixth lowest at the moment so there are what 20 counties above us in the Republic in terms of the amount of COVID in the community now I would hope it's passed through us a lot of people vaccinated 15% of the population have been have been vaccinated part of me thinks though one vaccination centre in Letrakenny sorry not vaccination centre one testing centre in Letrakenny one in Donegal town not sure how much the Donegal town one is used are people bothering going for a test you know no testing no cases I don't know anyway a little bit later on we might discuss that see what the crack is I don't want to have Mr Paul Reed cosying up to Johnny Giles at the Aviva stadium neither wearing masks and ignoring social distancing how on earth can the public take anything they say seriously when they can't even lead by example the kind of incident together with Mr Ryan's double COVID test fiasco has made the public very cynical about the recommendations and could be doing untold damage to our efforts to suppress the virus I referenced that Paul Reed picture yesterday I don't think there's any breach of regulations the optics of it though you can chat to people I don't know there's no people are asking you to stay a certain distance but there's no obligation to do so especially if you're having a dance hi Greg can you clarify for me please I'm a close contact and I'm not vaccinated do I self-isolate it for 5 or 10 days 5 apparently but if you are not it's very confusing if you're not symptomatic you take 5 if you've got symptoms you're supposed to go and get a test you take 5 sorry you take 3 of these antigen tests day 0, day 2, day 4 then you're out and about after day 5 that's whether you're vaccinated or not vaccinated and we're still trying to get some clarity on what's the guidelines for healthcare workers still a bit of ambiguity there okay now I know lots of you waiting to play bingo because it is jackpot day hopefully this goes today and one of you have lots of money in your pocket for Christmas now the numbers stay with us interesting chat coming up after these in the break it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio it's Thursday the 18th of November jackpot day you're playing for the jackpot prize of 6,400 euro on the 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for free and get everything you need thank you for shopping with us this Christmas letter Kenny shopping centre bringing you the time at 10 20 we welcome on to the program deputy part McLaughlin Sinn Fein party whip in the Dolan Spokes person on fisheries and the marine good morning to you deputy sorry I don't have you freighter that's my bad good morning to you morning Greg just a couple of things before we get on to the important matter that you're going to be raising are you confused by this latest announcement from from government as it relates to these new restrictions you know what we're seeing is night clubs running copper face jacks for example running seven nights a week 6 p.m. to 12 p.m. I'm not sure what material effect it will have in terms of people mixing in great numbers in certain environments no word of ventilation there's some confusion as to whether health care workers actually have to isolate for five days you know how long will it take people to get these antigen tests out you know and do people really know how to use them correctly I see the HSE is a video up 11,000 12,000 views of a population of 5 million we're only heading in in one direction aren't we this is all just really to is it to soften us up for the inevitable I think the most frustrating aspect of all is the antigen testing I mean we had very eminent people in Ireland and internationally who constantly recommended that we avail of antigen testing obviously a quick turnaround it should be free as it is in many other European countries right now and that would give people the the comfort and security that they need in a range of settings I have huge sympathy for the hospitality industry obviously pubs and nightclubs that have been closed down for so long and it's just desperate news for them and realistically particularly in nightclubs you know people would be going there late you know while you're out socialising so we need to know about what supports are going to be in place for the workers for those businesses and that's not clear at all but have you seen any evidence to say that say for instance nightclub, late bars are a hotbed for I mean if we don't away now with statistics and evidence I mean do we know that this is where the cases are coming from because every parent in this county believes that it's spreading in schools but they're being told it's not those school cases will be counted now as household cases and that household will have to isolate for five days that will have and yet we're closing down nightclubs whilst at the same time put them school bosses back to 100% capacity from next week. Like can you unravel any of that does any of that make sense is any of it evidence based from an opposition parties perspective? No and we haven't been given any of the evidence that form the basis of these decisions I mean in fairness to the teachers they have raised serious concerns about the removal of contact tracing no this is just having a range of staff in place you know who obviously you know just keep an eye on this virus in the schools give that bit of extra security for parents and teachers and people aren't stupid I mean people have made huge sacrifices Greg in this country and I'm conscious you know we're talking to people of Donegal today huge sacrifices in their personal lives and their business lives and their family lives you know they've done everything they can to try and get beyond this but it's just the the contradictions the lack of planning the lack of resourcing on an ongoing basis that I find exasperating and you know the problem is that people will if things make sense so people can make logic of what they're being asked to do they'll do it but there's a lot of things that just haven't made sense with us Greg say you got that letter from Tony Hulhan on Monday evening now the timeline is to me and I mentioned it earlier on the program and this is not a criticism of this is not for me it's not I'm not talking about politics here this is just the people that are making the decisions I don't care if they're what party they're members of or not and I hope the listeners understand that I truly don't care but they got a letter Monday they met on Tuesday morning and they had the decision made by Tuesday lunchtime that to me seems a very short space of time to make these fundamental yet obviously flawed decisions because nightclubs are still going to operate but earlier people who delayed weddings for three three times are having to change their plans for Saturday and Sunday not taking account any of that the confusion as to whether teachers or healthcare workers also have to isolate for five days the impact it will have on our health service if nurses and doctors do and GPs particularly if a child comes back from school with COVID GP had a commission for five days even if they're triple jab right all of that was decided in the space of three or four hours but what would your party have done differently though well our health spokesperson David as you know you'll be speaking to him tomorrow he's in Donegal visiting the hospital meeting the campaign groups in the county tomorrow but he has made clear in recent days that the absence here is what planning so there's two big issues that stand out to me is the whole issue of the booster vaccination the issue of the resourcing of our hospital so you know in letter Kenny hospital before this pandemic we had 19 people on average every single day 19 people on average were on trolleys couldn't get a bed within the hospital that's before the pandemic so we knew that we had an under resourced hospital system and here we are now going into the winter in the summer the preparation so what was in the budget not one additional inpatient bed acute bed was provided for not one additional not one additional bed in the community hospitals so inevitably if you have any upsurge at all your hospital system is clogged my office is under ferocious pressure now every day with people with hospital appointments cancelled can't get transferred to hospitals in Dublin and Galway for really you know these are life saving procedures not minor procedures we're talking about and that's the pressure that's on the system that's the first thing the antigen testing the total confusion around all of that that would be a huge role and then of course the booster vaccination and you see the difficulty is because that none of those things were done then inevitably we find ourselves back in this place again as I would say and as I hear you and people think you're saying all the right things I only have to look 25 miles to the east of where I'm sitting here today and you know things are moving even slower in Northern Ireland where your party has significant support and significant influences only talking now about covid certs in affairs Robin Swan that push that hospitals under immense pressure over a hundred percent capacity GPs under immense pressure 12 13 people dying a day hospitals turning ambulances away from the front doors like if you can't influence what's going on up in the six counties how could anyone trust you to be able to influence what's happening in the 26 well the difference in the north as you know Greg is that unfortunately the model of the north is funded by the British government so if you look at investment in health services they have been running down the National Health Service which which is in fairness being one of the great things in fairness for the British people one of the great things they did was develop a new system but as you know in England Scotland Wales and in the north of Ireland that system has been run down for a long period but I just want to say something one thing because you talk about planning here deputy right and you talk about leadership right no one very few people wear a mask in Northern Ireland is your party actively encouraging people to wear masks in Northern Ireland I don't know are they are you actively encouraging people if symptom magic to go and get a test you know are you the use of antigen tests we need to fast track we need to fast track certs if that is what you believe you know because you can say it's London and London fund this that and the other okay but you have influence and I don't see that influence being exercised up there and it feels to me like one thing is happening with your party in six counties and then you're saying all the right things in the 26 well just to be clear the six counties you would start one just let me ask you from what I've just said there do you think I have a point or not if you're telling me that you find the form of government in the north of Ireland not effective I totally agree with you I think that we have basically a glorified county council up in Stormont that doesn't have any hands on actual finances to make the difference to people's lives I found it a desperately for straight in form of government you can try and influence the public you can try and exercise influence you can push to move things forward I'm happy to answer that question too I think if you go through the social media of all particularly Michelle O'Neill our joint first minister but if you look across our MLA's you'll see that all of them have consistently and when it was popular or unpopular have appealed to people now can I just clarify one point because you mentioned about the certificates of vaccine certificates the difference in the north is that you can avail of an antigen test a PCR test or a certificate it's not the same as it's down here a lot of people are concerned that they have made a decision not to take the vaccine and they're been excluded from society that is not the case in the north in the north you can avail of a PCR test an antigen test or the certificate whatever one works to give the necessary comfort that people require is your party actively because I haven't seen it lobbying London for more resources for hospitals like on a constant basis the same as you are doing in the Republic saying that we need more investment if in power we'll provide more investment I know things work differently there is Michelle O'Neill using her Twitter campaign to at Boris Johnston and say our hospital system is collapsing over here we need extra funding is that happening all the time in tandem with trying to get the public health message across because I'm not hearing it but I mean because I'm not hearing it doesn't mean it's not happening maybe you can tell me that that's what he's a flat out doing in the six counties Of course we're Irish Republicans we don't want to be having to deal with the British Government with a Tory government on top of that Conor Murphy is the Minister for Finance Sinn Fein Minister in the north he is an Irish Republican held back by British Tories delivering the type of society that our people need to find storm months as an Irish Republican deeply deeply frustrating I see it as a very frustrating transition on the way to United Ireland I want the Irish people and only the Irish people to decide on the type of society that we run and that's unfortunately what we're left with in the north I feel so sorry for all political leaders in the north it's deeply frustrating and yes of course they're fighting all the time against a Tory government that don't give a damn about the people of the north who have been honest about it right okay that's not what you command for but I appreciate your views on it you are raising the issue of the land registry this is an interesting one it's kind of a problem I think unless you're affected by it no one would be aware so can you can you briefly outline to us what what changed and what impact it's had on people yeah thanks Greg I mean the the I first came across this a number of years ago and I won't name any names or identify locations because some of these matters are subject to legal dispute but but basically this man said to me that that whenever the land registrates now call the property registration authority of Ireland the PR AI whenever they digitized the mapping system and the convincing system there were changes to the maps that were in place that led to conflict between adjoining landowners and you know in Ireland obviously people are very proud of their weebilla land holding on the surf so unfortunately this man got into conflict with a neighbor and ended up costing him tens of thousands that was my first and he was very traumatized by everything he'd been through I do believe that he was a victim of a of an injustice as it happens and then more people came to me over time incrementally and I'd say now I have about seven or eight cases that I am very clear that the maps which were ordinance of Ireland maps you know there were hard copy maps that they had along with their folio over the years that these don't correspond in some cases you can see the lines are going down the middle of a field, the lines are going down the middle of a house, clearly there are errors the problem is the land registry wherever there's a dispute will not accept responsibility now a couple of years ago Greg and this is an important point I brought to the minister's attention there was an interprofessional task force and property boundary at the Irish institution of Sturveyers Law Society of Ireland Royal Institute of Architects Ireland Engineers Ireland Bar Council Ireland Irish Planning Institute so they came together all of those bodies with these professionals they were seeing there were problems, there were mistakes been made and they made recommendations to government and those recommendations to me have been ignored but why is it back now on the floor of the doll I thought this was just an issue in Donegal I actually sent a letter out to councillors through Sinn Fein councillors around Ireland a number of years ago and it wasn't coming up in other locations apparently but in the last week I received correspondence from a family in Galway who had spotted that I had been raising this in the doll and emailed me so I spoke to them and it turns out that they are aware of people in Galway, Clare and Wicklow who have experienced the same and there's no mediation process Greg people are left to fight with their neighbours it's really cruel really really cruel like this is not in any way to reduce the seriousness of what we're talking about now but there are companies out there that you can apply a couple hundred quid a day or something they'll come out to write and they will survey your land and they're able to actually peg out the boundary and I'm not sure if they reference the digital maps or the old maps but at that point which if I were to do that right which map is the legal one is it the new digital maps or is it the old one in other words could I appeal how my land is now represented in the new digital map would I get a hearing and could get that change that's too late for the people we're talking about here but what is you know what's the yeah I mean basically those various professional institutes in that report what they were saying to the land registries now called the property registration authority of Ireland what they were saying to them is you need to work with the digitised version the more precise modern mapping that's the standard you should hold and where there's a discrepancy between previous maps put in place a mediation process you know but what's happened unfortunately Greg is that where you might have one landowner which I do believe some landowners have been opportunistic they've gained it but it's going to benefit one party in a two party situation exactly Greg and what happens is they're staking claim on the land putting in place you know fences and so on and it's actually putting neighbours and indeed in some cases family into conflict with each other and costing them a fortune of money in some instances like it's really cruel and I can't believe that the land registry haven't and the government have not put in place a mediation process I've known about this now for at least eight or nine years and it hasn't been sorted out so I raised it with the ministry yesterday I'm dealing with oh I just one thing Greg I spoke to a professional yesterday in Donegal and I asked that person how many cases just they have come across and they said 20 cases at least 20 that's one professional in Donegal so I would say there's hundreds of families in Donegal who have been affected but those professionals and that's the companies I'm talking about you can employ them right and if they say like if they use the old maps right and they contradict the digital maps do we know at this point if the PRAI will adjust the digital maps you know what I mean so in other words it you know you can pay these guys they'll come in and they'll say no that digital maps off but will the PRA adjust that the difficulty is the PRA I have been saying that they've been saying you know here is the boundary and that's it you know we're right and that's the end of story and then you have one neighbor who I believe a lot of people have lost land and lost a lot of money and other neighbors have benefited we're other than just saying here is our assessment let's all come together so let's get these landowners let's have a mediation process and agree with common sense as to what you know exactly and and I can just tell you the good news is that there were some neighbors and family who spotted this discrepancy and they came together and agreed with common sense right hey this is clearly the boundary there's a mistake made here it shouldn't be going through the middle of your house clearly I don't own the middle of your house and you work it out and you go back to land registry and I understand in those instances that there has been agreement to amend the maps but also we know from our regular sort of legal question slot this is the type of stuff that people get very very emotive about understandably so and it's something they have you had any commitment as to what might happen going forward because you've raised this was was it accepted that you know that there's an issue here and any committal to look into it at the least there's been ongoing reluctance for a number of ministers because this infamous and we see it now again with the Micah and Pirates nightmare is this issue of the cost of the state exposing cost to the states and you know the Attorney General whispers in the air of the department official so this issue has remained unresolved so I'm going back at it again for another round because I just think it's desperately unfair and there must be some way of mediating this out without people falling out with their family or neighbors right we'll watch on with interest because there's a lot of interest in that I'd imagine I appreciate your time and answer all the questions this morning. Thanks so much Greg. Take care Deputy Potter McLaughlin, Sinn Fein, Party Whip in the Dolan, Spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine and just to be clear it's not that I want all of those things introduced into Northern Ireland or I believe that they should I'm just my question was along the lines of if that's what you're saying in the Republic why aren't you as far as I can see and the Deputy why aren't you saying the same thing in the North I don't want anyone thinking I'm not so they're saying this should happen that should happen sooner that's for people on way better money than me and with far more intelligence than me to to sort out. Pennies, Argos, B&Q, Curry's PC World, TK Max and many more. Simply spend your gift card and visit oneforall.ie forward slash win for your chance to win. Terms and conditions apply. The one for all gift card is issued by GVS Prepaid Europe Limited. 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TF tell me Fleming OK excellent stuff right talking right we'll come back to that in a second some of your some of your comments here actually someone messaged me saying that they got the booster and it said it was valid for two months now this could be one of those situations that maybe it's a misprint or misread or something like that but if you got confirmation that you did get it is there a validity date on your that with the documentation you given with your booster have a quick look if you have and let me know 08 660 25,000 or call 07 491 25,000 Brandon good morning to you good morning Greg right you were listening with interest I imagine to definitely Patrick McLaughlin's comments on land boundaries yeah yeah and I want to thank Patrick for his intervention because that's very very necessary I have a problem with a site I own where the neighbor came on to my land he agreed that he would abide by a surveyor to decide on the boundary would correct whatever wrong was done I employed my surveyor who told me I needed an instrument which I didn't know what it was but it's actually the document that is used initially to register the land when it's first registered and divided we got that he marked it out I was happy with that my neighbor appointed a different surveyor that specialize in digital and surveying and they use the digital map this give my neighbor the right to go further on to my site so I thought nothing of it although my surveyor advised me that this could be a difficult journey I thought all we had to do was point out the error and it would be corrected how wrong I was they have advice they have inspected on five occasions and said that the maps are identical that there is no error occurred in the digital mapping and it won't be corrected so I have two choices the neighbor wanted rain now because he has now got more he's got the back of our land yes so they have the digital map on their side and so my choice is either agree with them or go to court yeah it was interesting because he answered the question I was pointing to the deputy in other words will land registry except you know the word of a surveyor that might contradict the new map versus the old map you've been told quite clearly they stand by the digital maps the boundaries have been drawn either where they were or they do and they're sticking and they're sticking to that and they don't accept any responsibility and they have told me in very clear language if I want to change I need if a judge decides that it needs to be changed then it will be changed so it requires a court order okay how much land would we be talking Brendan we're talking about small sites but they're very expensive sites yeah but I'm on about sort of you know how a line on a map on the boundary five meters five meters at one end and three meters and another yeah so it's not insignificant yeah exactly oh no no the boundary line set out by the land registry is actually in the centre of the entrance uh-huh so if you go to court if you go to court who are you taking to court because you know is it land registry or under their new name because it's they that have changed these maps it's going to court to present the evidence to say that what I have this is my original map against the digital map and then the judge will rule on which one he decides is right but who are you taking the case against is it that your neighbour or the PRAI oh neither right it's it's neither it's to establish the boundary line right okay okay so well okay and then take it from there so do you see the registry do I sue my neighbour do I sue the surveyor who set out because the surveyor who set out the digital map when that comes from the land registry that is clearly marked not suitable for boundaries this is a non-conclusive map and also too Brendan and this might not apply to you if someone sold land and then after the fact found that they were out of money because of an inaccurate digital map and and the court you know back them up on that could they have a case then against the state I mean you would strongly argue they possibly could I expect there is a case against the state the minister has actually written to on my behalf to Charlie McClendon and said that it's unlikely anything would change because it would expose the state the compensation and I have that from a government minister right okay so the whole thing is absolutely it's a real scandal and is you absolutely right is your case a test case Brendan or is the president has this gone as far as I'm concerned my case is a test case for anybody because it's very simple I know other cases will be really complicated because it will be large amounts of land a lot of things will have happened in this case there is an established landmark in very close proximity to the boundary line which can always be used as a benchmark which my surveyor identified on the first day he was there but the other surveyor there is a clear set of guidelines set out by the institute of character surveyors that surveyors should follow when they come to investigate a boundary dispute you must feel quite isolated though because you know obviously the land registry are going to sit in their hands and let you battle away your neighbour is going to let you battle away okay well listen I don't know these things take a long time but they also can dominate your mind an awful lot but Brendan let us know how it goes I will thank you very much alright thanks for explaining that by the way and it cut through a few of the questions that I had so I appreciate it 08 660 60 25000 Greg says Anne Marie via email I never accept cookies straight off I always either reject them or X out of the banner that pops up or I choose the cookies I want the thing is I believe if a website asks you to accept cookies they should also give you the option to reject all you see they don't and this is why and Anne Marie what happens is I for whatever reason browse 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mostly cloudy with patches of rain drizzle and mist cloud will break in some areas during the course of the day allowing a few brighter sunny spells a mild day temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees okay Judith McGlynn joins us on the programme now Judith thanks for taking the call today no problem right you are the test centre coordinator at lettercanny and I was looking through the test centres cork no availability at one point overnight other areas too having difficulty with capacity or a lot of people looking for appointments not someone lettercanny is what's the situation I mean we definitely have a lot capacity left for the day Greg but we find that as the day goes on our capacity is taken up by people booking appointments I don't know I don't really know why there's support to book appointments we aren't definitely not as busy as other parts of the country as you said rightly there's parts of the country that are booked up for tomorrow completely but we do find that we nearly reach our full capacity every day and I don't know Greg I don't know this is just me speculating is it because people are starting to do more antigen testing oh geographical too you know I mean it's quite a drive to either lettercanny or donagall time for a lot of people maybe because of that we do it in a different way and we book in the morning and head in the evening I don't know it could be geographical we all know that when initial one was open there was a high uptake there but we extend our capacity when initial one closed to be able to take on whatever the initial one people needed so we do definitely have the capacity here to take on that end of the county but I don't know if that's the reason Greg I'm not sure in terms of the level of testing that's being done now versus say for instance a month or two months ago Judith is there a downward trend in the amount of people coming forward for tests there actually isn't when you look at our figures over the last few weeks there actually isn't we're still testing an awful lot of people in donagall over each week so I think when you look at compared to the rest of the country it just looks like we're not that busy but we are still busy it's not for me or you to decide I suppose Judith but we had had high rates for quite some time we now have the sixth lowest rate I kind of suspected maybe we're not testing as much that could lead to a lower rate but if we're testing as much and the rate is still lower maybe perhaps there's a lower instant rates in donagall and that's the result maybe maybe I mean you're right that could be Greg but one thing I just would like to say to people is not to be using the antigen test falsely you know the antigen test should only be used for people if they're asymptomatic if people have any symptoms at all they should be attending for PCR test and not going on the results of an antigen test so you don't know if that's the reason why we have lower testing I don't know but just to make sure that people are aware of that that you could definitely get false results if you use them when you're symptomatic alright can you just roll up to either Donagall, Tan and Retta Kenny or do you have to go on a website or what's the story you have to go on a website and you book your own appointment so just hsc.ie and then search for Covid testing and that takes you through all the steps it's extremely straightforward and any problem you can attend the test centre and then we'll help you out when you get here yeah okay I understand where you're coming from there okay Judith so in other words maybe as many people don't require them but if they do don't be discouraged by a lack of availability elsewhere there is capacity in Donagall, Tan and Retta Kenny that's it in a nutshell I think that is Greg and even if they look and there's not much capacity we create capacity as we need to so you know just if people really need a test you know and they can't find availability they can't come to the test 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weekday here with me Greg Hughes another busy hour to come on the show today we are live music with Tommy Fleming and so much more besides BOD at one minute past 11 it's time for a news update Good morning Catherine Gaffney Good morning Greg a top Nefford official says it's not inevitable that over 200,000 people will get COVID in December at midnight curfew and hospitality takes effect later aimed at reducing the current infection rates from home advice from tomorrow Nefford estimates over a thousand COVID patients could be in hospital next month in the best case scenario with over 200 in ICU there were 49 patients awaiting admission to Keney University Hospital this morning according to the INMO it is once again the second most overcrowded hospital in Ireland today nine people were on trolleys in its emergency department another 40 were waiting on wards the foreign affairs minister has warned the UK triggering article 16 of the Brexit protocol would strain their relationships with the US Simon Coveney says there's no need for the British government to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland protocol Gaffney have recorded less than 25 drink spiking instances so far this year that compared to ten such cases in 2020 they are also yet to confirm a single case of injection spiking despite recent complaints OCO Global are to establish a strategic base at GTEC in Ghidor to facilitate their continued expansion into the Irish market Headquartered in Belfast the international trade and investment consulting firm works with governments around the world and advises private sector clients on international expansion Simon Coveney says there's a very real risk that laws intended to address the climate crisis end up punishing the poor people in society speaking during a all debate on a Labour Party bill on carbon labelling Deputy Thomas Pringle said while labelling is a useful tool it doesn't begin to address the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis that's it for now 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with this but the reality is is that speaking to those in the industry we're already seeing some uncertainty some cancellations some events being pulled a lot happening outside the guidelines but I suppose as the government and Nefitra appealed to people's sensibilities that's where the problems are lying for you yeah morning Greg and I think people were probably ahead of the curve on this one you know once the numbers went up about four thousand people could see the rating on the wall and I suppose people were could be described as being sensible and started to pull back on bookings you know pull back on Christmas parties large gatherings and then one doctor Tony Hoola and you know came out and said that asked people to reduce their social contacts and the HSC you know sort of recommended pulling back on Christmas parties you know that resulted in a huge amount of cancellations but I suppose you know at the end of Christmas and look at the pressure that the hospitals are under so small price to pay you know if we can get the hospital situation under control in them yeah it certainly is but there's something of an inevitability about that end of things one would sadly feel but from a business perspective and not being unkind to the health element of it the way this has been framed now is that night clubs are closed hotels are going to have people in but remain open they're going to have less functions so they will achieve what they might achieve with a full closure order okay but because they're doing it this way they're not they don't have to assist or compensate you as an employer or the PUP payments to employees some would say it's playing the game a little bit yeah well from a business perspective the way you've described that is 100% and that seems to be the way that it is and you know it's it's very frustrating because a lot of hotels you know especially in rural Ireland or here in Donegal and the Christmas business would be very important from a cash flow point of view to carry them over January February when there's no cash flow you know and keep you going until St Patrick's Day or whatever so certainly you know that might be an approach of the government but we would certainly be calling for the Confederation of Supports so that we you know survive the next couple of moments. I can just hear that conversation goes you know you as head of the Irish Hotels Federation here you say look you know we need supports they say well sure look we've said you can stay open you say to them yeah but because you told people not to do anything we're sitting here with the moment empty and then they rub the shoulders at you. Yeah that's the frustrating part and you know people are being responsible by doing what the HSE are telling them to do and you know in turn that's as you say that's wiping out our business and you know it's very frustrating it's very difficult to see where we're going to replace that business from you know hotels around the county with reports you know it's not only Christmas parties and functions it's people that were coming away to the hotels and you know for weekends or family gatherings or whatever you know it's every aspect of the business that's been cancelled out of you know what a huge rips that can mean you would nearly think that the government have announced a lockdown with the rate that the cancellations are coming up. Well I think what people are doing is there firstly you know there are a lot of people listen to what the government say and and you know sometimes a minority it sounds like the minority is the majority but the majority of people are listening to the guidelines they do listen to Tony Hulan but also a lot of them read between the lines and feel the lockdown is coming and they're thinking right I'm going to cancel that hotel anyway make sure that it's not done at last minutes and it's too late for my refund and that kind of stuff you know so you got some people that are restricting their movements because they're being asked to and others who are saying right I could lose this money or I might as well just cancel it anyway because a lockdown is inevitable so it's the perfect storm really in a negative way for your hotels. It is you know when other lockdowns were announced we were going to the customer ringing them up and saying unfortunately to cancel your book and it's turned completely on its head before there's even a lockdown announced or if there's going to be a lockdown announced the customers are coming to us and saying listen we don't feel it's safe we're doing the responsible thing by cancelling so as I say it's just not the thing completely on its head. And is your organisation on the national level seeking to meet with government with a view to discussing supports once again I wonder they are you know there's a lot of things still up in the air for example we don't know as everyone knows restaurants and bars and everything have to be closed by 12 o'clock we don't know if that applies to weddings we don't know if it applies to that was confirmed late last night Paul it does apply all bar activity whether people are residents or not has to cease at 12. Well if I knew that definitely I mean the hotels federation haven't got that confirmed that's very frustrating for someone that's getting married you know tomorrow or the next day you know so all of these you know a lot of these decisions are taken without us present it's up to government to make the decisions but if we were consulted you know we should have more of an input you know that's the way it's been before you know back last year when they closed Donegal there was no consultation whatsoever they just decided on when the meeting that they were closing Donegal on Friday any consultation whatsoever from the industry and yet here we are now with the sixth lowest infection rate in the country counties above us ours is going currently and it can change very quickly in a downward trajectory but that's not in the headlines nationally anyway alright Paul listen thanks for that I appreciate it and I really feel for all of you in the uncertainty it's not just the public it's business owners with big buildings that require an awful lot of time to turn over just to tickle tickle on and to have that boost at Christmas potentially taking away with you going to leave January, February and into March long three months but we appreciate you coming on as you say it's the uncertainty again yeah okay thanks Paul bye bye take care Paul Diver chair of the Donegal branch of the Irish Hotels Federation some of your comments here it's a shambles of what is happening the new digital maps that someone shed is in the next door neighbour's garden or the next door neighbour owns half my garage why can't they leave things as they were it's interesting to start seeing just something I wasn't aware of and it's really quite interesting interesting not in a good way it's causing a lot of distress for people Hi Greg another example of government civil servants incompetence the veil covering the behind the curtain actions of department officials slips again just like Paul Benson in housing time of the department's the door's completely ineffective and it's no longer fit for purpose they believe no one is held to account there it's a real total waste of time new structures needed ASAP says Liam and you know like when ministers or something don't apologise where they skirt around the language on big issues they don't come out and say look I'm sorry this happened it's because it opens the floodplates you know they can't say words like that and I've been saying that on this program for a long time and now we're starting to know because if you admit any responsibility at all it opens the floodplates and they're trying to avoid that and they're trying to avoid it on issues like Micah on the mother and babies homes to some extent though there is progress being made there though many not happy on this land registry issue Acola says along with putting the school buses up to 100% they're also removing the allowance to operators towards cleaning and disinfecting buses which at the moment are to be well I mean if you look at the figures the amount of money the government the Department of Education spent on hand sanitizers which listen hand washing is very important sanitization is important but the amount of money they spent on hand sanitizers for an airborne virus okay this is a virus that would be best dealt with with proper ventilation proper monitors you know air purifying systems and they spent the majority of the money on hand sanitizer it's that kind of stuff that can be very frustrating hi Greg can you please highlight to the people of Donegal about the massive pressure nurses are under in the ED and NUH constantly short with no help from hospital management they're leaving in their droves of their burnt out the hospital ED is dangerous due to the shortage of staff and no one's doing anything about it but hide the fact but look we talk about it regularly I understand I get the frustration and I know speaking to nurses to people that they're compounded by people saying that this is all a lie there's nothing going on and they're down there working very very long shifts under huge pressure sacrificing so much time with their family their own physical and mental well being and then you've got people that are saying it's all a load of nonsense that compounds from the medical professionals that I be speaking to and to be honest with you get much of my guidance from those that are actually working on the ground see things first hand and are living a reality it's they really that that perhaps I take most of my thinking on Greg can someone answer me my two adult children got vaccinated but my teacher won't take it teenager won't take it because of not knowing what it would whether it will do any harm my question is why aren't schools talking and giving me information to teenagers about the vaccine as a parent I'm worried my child won't take it as not enough information is given out in secondary schools well I mean I don't know do we want schools trying to influence our students in that regard I understand where you're coming from the teenager has made a decision though and if they are generally healthy you know they are a very very very low risk it has to be said you know unless they've got underlying health conditions or what now you could say obviously I'm not trying to influence it in one way or the other I'm just don't know whether we should have schools telling students to get the vaccine I think that information might be best sourced outside of school but I understand your concerns but also I suppose if your teenager is a healthy young person you know you should get some comfort in that as well until such time as they make up their mind one way or other right could you please announce that our event due to take place this evening Twilight Tales at 6 30 p.m. in Green Castle Community Centre is postponed until the new year online storytelling will take place on Friday at 6 30 p.m. that comes in some from Susan 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Now, world day of remembrance for road traffic victims is to be commemorated on Sunday the 21st of November. 24,663 killed and 84,977 seriously injured on Irish roads since records began. And that is just devastating for those that lost their lives before their time. But for family, loved ones, partners, sons, daughters, grannies and grandads, moms and dads, friends, friends, groups, just it's absolutely heartbreaking on such a scale. Carmel Boner, very sadly, knows all too well the emotion of losing a loved one. Jamie passed away or died in this collision, the eighth person to die on Donegal roads in 2020. Carmel, tell us a bit about Jamie, if you don't mind. Morning, Greg. Well, Jamie, he was a happy, easygoing young lad. He got on great young and old, loved his cars, I suppose, most young lad, tractors and machinery. And it was well liked by everyone who knew him, and that's reflected in the support as a family we are receiving today. September the 1st can only be described as the darkest day of our lives, getting that devastating news for every parent's worst nightmare. Jamie was in a two car collision near Chrysler. He was a front seat passenger and he died at the scene. Do you ever come to terms with something like this, Carmel, because it's completely against nature? Do you sometimes expect him to walk into the kitchen or what if? Definitely, without a doubt. There's so many times, so many things I've seen that I just think, oh, I must tell Jamie, or I see somebody that looks like him in the distance, or every time we hear a tractor, because Jamie was always on the tractor, and it's the small thing. It's not always the big days and the big things, it's the small things, it could be a song, a smell, food that he liked to eat. It's just, I don't think we'll ever, it'll never sink in, but Jamie won't be coming back home. And then we don't realise maybe how many important days there are in years between your own birthday, his birthday, Christmas. That's right. It's every, you know, as I say, unless you're faced with this loss, we probably don't realise how there's so many days that just trigger feelings like, why isn't he here? What would be happening if he was here? It just must be so difficult, Carmel. It's very difficult because Clara, our girl, she, her confirmation took place just a week after his funeral, and like, we went through the motions and we'd done what we could for her, but just that one face wasn't in the picture, this won't be in our family pictures anymore, and his 21st birthday is coming up now on the 3rd January, so that could have been another difficult time for us. Yeah, a lot of families, not just us, there's a lot of families that are grieving, the same, going through the same, and it's not until you're in that position, until you've lost somebody, that you realise that, you know, your heart is never going to be the same, life's never going to be the same, unfortunately. And the reason, I think, and you correct me from wrong, Carmel, firstly, in speaking, obviously it's remembering Jamie, and we'll be talking about an event in his memory shortly, but presumably too, you don't want any other family to go through what you're going through? Definitely not, and unfortunately, you know, I often say that to parents, I hope you never have experience what we're going through, but unfortunately, every day, there's, there's tragedies on the road, and it's not just on the road, it's everywhere, but the roads are very dangerous, and have to be respected, and people have to be mindful, and I know every day we, doesn't matter what we do, we're taking a chance on life, but the roads are so dangerous, and it's a call, I hope. Some of these can be avoided, Carmel, too, you know, like going forward, if we all change our habits a little bit, I mean, sometimes something's going to happen, and it's very hard to, to avoid, but much of what happens on a road can be avoided. Yeah, well, I suppose so, but, you know, there's a lot of conditions, you know, different things, they suppose it could be maybe weather conditions, it could be something very simple, it could be road conditions, you know, yeah, road conditions, it could be, you know, just avoiding something on the road, it doesn't have to be, you know, not always speed. Oh, yeah, 100% your right. Yeah. And those are the cases that I'm talking about, Carmel, and I often reference, you know, one of a huge important factor is the likes of road conditions, for example, that that can also be a big contributing factor. Tell us what you're doing to remember, Jamie, or in his name, Carmel? Yeah, well, Sunday now, third Sunday November is road, World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims. So we just felt it would be a nice way to honour Jamie's short life by holding a modified vintage car show. And with the help of the Midwest and Donegal Vintage Club and their members, they're helping us out. So we're having that in the school, the Ross Community School grounds, and on the whole here from 12 to 4pm. And we just feel Jamie had a great interest in cars, and he had bought a Sierra to restore it last winter. So in his memory, Declan, his dad and his brother Shane, along with family, friends carried out this and his wish, and they have it restored and ready for Sunday. Oh, wow. So it's going to get sort of public premiere as part of the show almost. Yeah, yeah, hopefully now, hopefully it'll be a good day and everything will go well. Yeah, well, it's given cold, dry weather, I think for Sunday, which is good as long as the rain stays away for a while. And do you know, it's, um, I suppose there's a lot of worthy charities out there needing donations, but we just chose to they're very close to our hearts. And I hope that Jamie will be very proud and I know he will be that it's these charities that are benefiting from it. Do you want to mention them, Carmel? Yeah, well, of course, one is Gemma's legacy of hope. And that's what we do. Yeah, to explain it to people on what they'll be helping. Yeah, well, it's a vital service that is based here in Dung Low. And it provides counseling for children aged five and up teenagers, adults and families throughout the Rosses and Funtown area. And the service was set up by the Boyle family to honor the memory of their Gemma. Gemma brought joy and happiness to her family and community in her lifetime. So what's their intention now that Gemma's legacy of hope will continue to do so in her memory? So it's this week, actually, there was an information leaflets have been have come delivered through and post. And there's a lot of very important numbers on there, helpline numbers. And the number shown on the leaflet, it's a center letter, Kenny, they run and manage this service for Gemma's legacy of hope. So if you're from the Rosses or Funtown area, and you would like to speak to seek counseling, ask for Gemma's legacy when you ring this number. And there's a small charge for each person using the service. And the rest is funded then by Gemma's legacy. So we're honored to be able to contribute towards this important organization. And Hughes House in Dublin is another very important organization. Yeah, it's a Hughes House. Well, Laura, my sister calls at a home from home, and it provides free accommodation, meals and support to families of sick children. While they're receiving treatment in Holla Street, Temple Street and Rotunda hospitals. And it was set up by a Dublin company who's our family, whose little boy spent a long time in hospital. And while they were there, they saw many families from other counties struggle, they were exhausted, sleeping on floors, chairs and cars for months at a time. So sadly, their little boy Hugh passed away. And in his memory, they decided to set up a house for families in the situation, calling a Hughes House. And it's a six bedroom house with a large garden. So brothers and sisters of the sick child can come and stay with their parents if they wish. So in 2019, my sister Laura and her husband Ethan, little girl Mia, she was born 13 weeks premature. So they were very fortunate to get a room in Hughes House. So again, the service can only be run and managed by fundraising and donation. So we feel it's another very worthy charity to benefit from Jamie's Memorial Day. For sure. Now there are reminders of the memorial dates on Sundays in the grounds of Rosses, isn't it? It's in the grounds of the Rosses Community School. Yeah, and it runs from what time to what time? It runs from 12 to four, but the show cars can arrive from 11 on. All right, and the Sierra is going to be on show, lots of other cars. The Sierra is going to be on a show, yeah, at Pride of Place in Mr. Gorman, the principal's spot, somewhere again, you always say. I love it, absolutely love it. Okay, that's brilliant. That is, that's wonderful. He'll be laughing, looking down at that one. Yeah, looking down on that. Hopefully. Well, you know, it's going to be an emotional day, but a happy one as well. Yeah, exactly. There's donations. Sorry, there's prizes of people have been donating prizes and all that kind of stuff. People are just amazing. They're just fantastic and without support of all our friends, family, all the local businesses like this day wouldn't be happening. So it's really, we came up with the idea, but it's everyone else that's really making it happen. So lovely stuff. You know, people are just amazing. The generosity is just overwhelming. As you are, Carmel, and Jamie will be incredibly proud of you. I can say that without any fear of contradiction, it's going to be a tough day for you, but hopefully there'll be smiles as well, Carmel. It will be hugely supported and donations to those two great charities as well. And I really appreciate you sparing the time for us this morning. Well, thank you for having me on. And can I just say, just one more thing before I go, you know, I suppose what I'd like to say is there was three families involved that night and it's the accident. And one thing is for sure, we will always have great memories of our boys, and we will be forever proud of them. So just to keep that in mind for our three boys mailin' down on us and hopefully helping us through the rest of our days. All right, thank you. Thank you, Carmel. I appreciate it. All right. And best of luck for Sunday. Thank you very much, Greg. Thank you. Carmel Boner there. Right, and a very gracious words at the end there too. Nationwide, the Irish Road Victims Association, RVA will hold a virtual event commemorate the UN World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, the 21st November at 3pm. All are invited to join this event. Facebook.com forward slash Irish Road Victims. But if you're locally and you've any interesting cars and you want to support Carmel and her family and those charities, Gemma's Legacy of Hope and Hugh's House in Dublin. You can get along to Ross's Community School there on Sunday. I think the weather's going to be good. And you get to Sierra parked in the principal spot and rightly so. And just a couple of comments before a quick break here. Jamie was a lovely young lad and a credit to his parents and grandparents in Dunlowe and Lecture Mac awards. They said just someone who wanted to ring in and pass on that information. And lastly here just for that, Greg, no need for me to reiterate that my heart goes out to Carmel and her family. 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Right, okay. Councillor Nicholas Crossen joins us on the program. Councillor, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. Right. The Bunkranna Christmas light switch on. You's are plowing on with it. We're going ahead with it, Greg. Tomorrow night at seven o'clock sharp and we're welcome Santa back into Bunkranna to switch on the lights for us this year again. What did you see in the sort of the global situation here in Donegal that was different from Ballet Buffet in Stranawler, Donegal Town and letter Kenny that you thought we'll just carry on? Well, we were asking the people just to... It's an outdoor event, obviously. The main seat of Bunkranna is probably about 400 meters long. There's plenty of room for space there, so I just asked the people to wrap up, keep warm and keep safe, keep your distance. I think it's a... The reason that we went ahead with it, Greg, is I do believe that it's for the children to see Santa in their town and to come along to the event. But we're almost... I'm a great one for this, but a responsibility for everybody. And, you know, if people feel that they're not safe, we will have a video YouTube that can be done on it as well for them to see that. If anybody wants to come along, you know, wear a mask, keep your distance, do all the natural things. I mean, Greg, there was 40,000 people at the rugby match last Saturday. I didn't see many masks and that there was a closure environment. But this event's going to take about 15 minutes. And I think it's a great event for the kids in Bunkranna. And the general community supporting in this decision? Yes, as far as I'm aware, I didn't hear any voices against it. It was a decision, the committee. No, this is a fluent situation. Fluent situation, it could change. But at the present moment in time, there's nothing to say within the health and safety that you can't have an outdoor event for a simple thing that's switching on the lights. And I know Lebroukeny and Ballupetay in Domingo Town have cancelled theirs. And, you know, that's the choice that they made. We had a very small event last year where Santa will come to the market square and we videoed it because of the, we were in the heart of the pandemic. I know the numbers are very high, but they're just asking people just to come along, respect other people, respect, keep the distance and wrap up and keep safe. Okay, just remind us when it's happening again? Tomorrow, tomorrow night, Friday night, seven o'clock, and it will be seven o'clock sharp. There's only two things to start in Bunkranna in time. That's Patrick's Day parade and the Christmas lights are on because obviously it could be snow or it could be raining, but we're not keeping the children too long. Santa would love to see them there. Come along, out, enjoy yourself, wrap up, keep warm and keep safe. And you'll be there yourself? I hope to be for the good Lord's birthday. Okay, right, thank you. Okay, great. Take care. Bye-bye. Councillor Nicholas Cross in there. Right, now looking forward to attending the car show in Remembrance this Sunday in Dunlop. Thoughts and prayers are with you all at this difficult time from everyone in Finn Valley Cars and Coffee Group. I hope you have a lovely day. Hello, just wondering if there is a backlog on COVID certs. I got my last vaccine in September, got no cert yet. I have a car to get a got with at the time. I received vaccine in Chemis, some restaurants, pubs won't accept it, please help. There's no backlog at all. They've, if you were to ask the government, they'd say they've all been dispatched at this stage. There is a telephone number, you can ring, I just don't have it to hand where they will, you call them and they will send it out to you. Why is it in a show and people have to travel to letter Kenny for a test? It's crazy. I can make no rhyme or reason for it. Now at this point, you just accept these things in Donegal. You have to because, you know, we, it was about getting a testing centre there before pop-up ones two weeks after cases have peaked in certain areas, then a pop-up test centre would arrive, made no sense to me at all. Lots of people wanted to see a vaccination centre there to help with that. They stuck it in the school so that when the school opened, they had to close it. Couldn't make any sense of that either. At this point, they expect people from Mallonhead to drive to letter Kenny for a test. I don't know. If you can make sense of it, get on to me, I can't. So I don't know, it's just something we accept at this point, isn't it? Hi Greg, could I ask, is the Mental Health Service is not covered by a medical card? A relation was sent to the emergency department in Datrakenny to see a psychiatrist, waited five hours to be seen and then got a bill from the hospital. Is this right or is it covered? And that was the bill for attending A&E. So, you know, if you were referred there, was it like 50 euro for turning up? Because I think regardless of what your ailment is, physical or mental, you have to pay to attend the ED. Or did you actually get charged for seeing the psychiatrist? If you could just get some clarity on that, it would help with us if we get to chase it up for you. Hi, I'm affected by the issue, but the PRAI will not adjust the land boundary. And I'm fighting this now for five years. I would get in contact if you haven't already with the offices of Padre McLaughlin. Limerick or Wexford, one of these counties have the old land registry maps, the original maps done by men, possibly women too. Hi, Greg, got my vaccine yesterday. The expiry date is the 31st of March 2022, so that's three months, isn't it? December, January, February, March, four months. Okay, that's interesting, isn't it? I think that was your booster in inverted commas, yeah? Greg, I was just listening to you about the booster injection. I got my booster injection on the 22nd of October. It's got an expiry date of December 2021 on it, which is this year, isn't it? Yeah, so October, November, December, two months. Caroline, that's something maybe we should check up on, because the boosters, people are contacting us, saying the expiry date of the boosters two months after it was administered. I think that's very interesting. Greg, if there was 100% compliance with vaccination and boosters, would COVID leave our shores or will we have to get boosters, etc., like flu jobs as part of the public health normality now? I don't know. It remains to be seen. Infectious disease experts believe it will be around for a few years. I think these new tablets that are coming online early next year will help. In terms of, would it be able to be controlled by just those who are most vulnerable, like that would get the flu vaccine, getting it, getting it? I don't know. I really just don't know. We'll see. But things can change very quickly with these things, as maybe happened with the Spanish flu. All mentioned of three antigen tests, and I've heard so far have stated day one, three and five, not day zero, day two and day four. Please clarify. I can only go by what was told me by Dr. Anthony Bresson. He said it's called day zero, day two and day four. And I said at that time, I says that's a little bit confusing, isn't it? One, three and five would make an awful lot of sense. Greg, what about the price of the chemists are charging for antigen tests? I paid eight euro for one test. So for a large family, having to test three times, it's a ridiculous price set to pay for antigen tests. They're handed out for free in the north. If you're a close contact, they're sent out for free to you, by the way. So if you're a close contact, you don't go and buy them in the chemist, they're sent to you. Greg, enjoying the show, just listening about the number in schools being high. Surely this is a good thing, and COVID will burn itself out. Well, who's to say? Not I. I don't know what the story is there. Greg, something different from COVID. I walked approximately four miles every morning in this country in the Finn Valley area. I've not seen one rabbit in the field this year. The country used to be full of rabbits. Does anyone know what's going on? I haven't a clue. They normally pop out a bit later in the year, don't they? I don't know, but it's an interesting one. We'll get to the bottom of the missing rabbits. Right, Tommy Fleming joins us on the programme now. Good morning to you, Mr Fleming. How are you? Good morning, Greg. It was... I'm really good, actually, and it's great. You know what's happened to the rabbits? I haven't a clue. I am... Maybe they're not breeding like they used to. Maybe they just decided not to help with all the bad news and they've come back into hibernation to a rabbit hibernate. I don't know. Oh, no, that's another question I'll have to get an answer to. I think... I don't know. It seems a bit early for them so far, yet anyway. Come here. Listen, are you back playing live again now? Not just yet. And, you know, I'm trying not to think about off. I know. It's just... I'm trying. How can we frame this? Because it's positive. We're going to hear your beautiful voice. Yeah, absolutely. We're talking about gigs, but... I am... It's, you know, we were all set. We've everything ready to roll. We're almost there to hit the go button. And then it's kind of... You just feel like you're taking 10 steps and then brought back 12, you know? And it's just in our industry, the hospitality industry, everybody is affected, you know? I mean, it's just this... Can they not just... And this is my rant over. Can they not just give positive news and not stop trying to... The problem is, Tommy, and I get you, right? And we get this a lot. But if we stop talking about COVID and restrictions and all that kind of stuff, it doesn't magically make the hospitals empty. No, I know. No, I get that. And that is the... Because me and Caroline, you know, we didn't talk about COVID for ages in this programme. Well, we tried to keep it to an accident minimum. But it doesn't make the GPs less busy. It doesn't make the hospitals less busy. And it's a bummer. And John Breslin comes on and he doesn't talk about it. And David James comes on and places country and he doesn't. And Rory's on in the morning. I mean, this is a current, a fair show. And, you know, even if we didn't talk about it, but we wanted to talk about cancer services, right? That's it. Let me out and get you. We can't because the cancer services are affected by the amount of people that are sick in hospital. And it's so horrible and it's so frustrating to me. And I just can't wait till it's all behind us. And it's the last thing I want to talk about. It's going to be this day. It's not going to be today or tomorrow. We're not going to solve it either. So anyway, listen, what people can do, what people can do, right? And this is what we have to do is give ourselves breaks from it as much as we can. Decide how much of it you're going to take. Take breaks for the rest of the day. Don't consume it all day. That's what I do because I work in the media. And you can do things like go and see you, December 3rd in the Ballet Art Centre in Ballet Buffet. It's perfectly healthy, perfectly safe. It's a safe environment and you're there. And that's how we give ourselves a break from it all the time. You make me sound like I'm the Messiah. You are the Messiah. You are the silver bullet. The silver bullet. Now, do you know what? Music to me transcends everything. It transcends politics. It transcends bad news. It does all of that. And I spent the last six months recording the new album all these years and that was just a brilliant time because for once I loved going into the studio and working in it where I normally hate going because I always found it very boring. And now anything that I can do that gets me... Bring me to the studio quickly. Bring me down. And it's great being able to say that concerts are back and we're going to go out and do I think four concerts pre-Christmas, Ballet Buffet is on the third, as you said. And then we've got away on the fourth and there's two others just up to pre-Christmas. And then hopefully we're not back until the end of January. Hopefully by then... We'd be flying by then. We'd be flying by then. I really do think so because there's a few changes coming down the line. Do you... I mean, you always come up to Donagall. You've got a big fan base here. I love Donagall. You like playing up here as well, though. What I was really... Do you know what? With all of the things that happened in the last two summers, I was supposed to be up in Glen Column Kill for the summer. I've gone back to in Irish again and I was going to go to Ages Gale there in Glen Column Kill. And we missed that and we missed the second summer. But do you know what? Look, we're still healthy. Thank God we're still alive. And there's a lot of families and a lot of people in an awful lot worse situation than we are. So there's nothing to complain. So in terms of recording and writing, you've been doing that... You mentioned earlier, you've been doing that consistently. Yeah, consistently throughout the... From the first lockdown. And it was funny, actually. The simplest of things worked. You know, I was... We were doing a clear-out of the office and garage and everything. And Tina found this big box of CDs with all the back-and-tracks on it. So she said, Do you want me to throw these out? And I said, No, don't do that yet until I check every one of them to make sure we have them on digital... That was lockdown one. What did you do for lockdown? Go through CDs. Went looking for them after they were dumped. But I went through them and then I ended up being in the jeep every day going... When I'd be going for my run and I'd be putting the CD into the jeep and mixing the back-and-track up. So I started filming, singing to the back-and-track. Why not? Yeah, but it was just... It was a bit of a piss-take on them, on Carpool Karaoke in the late Late Show. But it ended up getting thousands of views and the dogs would join me. So they were the guests in the jeep and they were kind of... Anyway, it was a bit of a crack. But you know what? Some of those things that kind of happen accidentally, that's why people enjoy them because there's an organic field to it. And they're not plants. A fella in a car with his dogs. And it was funny, one day you could see me with a hoodie on and the next day you could see me with a wetsuit because I was on my way to go swimming. So I didn't give a hoot what there was no kind of getting ready or getting dressed up first. But you know what? That's why I'm looking forward to getting back on the stage. I'm looking forward to doing the shows, putting new songs on the stage and just please God, we get the audiences and that they're confident enough and safe enough to come out. And you know, it'll be great. And it'll be just... Are you nervous at all? Because I was speaking to... I think it was Francis Black and someone else as well and they were back again again. And it was a nice nervousness, you know, presumably. But it was like getting up out on the stage again, you know, if you haven't done it for a while. I'm nervous, but I'm also apprehensive. And I don't know why there's an apprehension there. I'm chomping at the bit to get going. And yet, when I have to go and do something, I've almost become institutionalised because when I have to leave the house, I'm kind of going, oh God, I have to go. It's kind of getting... I went to Manchester there about five or six weeks ago and I was flying from Nock. And only for the lads in Nock know me. And I was coming through, you know, you put your bag through the tray and security. And I ended up going through the security screen. My pocket's full of keys, change. I leave my belt on. I have a bottle of water in my bag. So I've done everything that I can. You don't have to hit every X. Yeah. So I had to keep going back and forth. Oh, sorry, I forgot that. Oh, sorry, I took my watch off. And normally that would have been second nature to me too. You know, number one, you don't have change in your pocket or your keys. You know, make sure that you just, everything's like bang bang bang, get through security. But it was just, look, it's kind of you have to relearn skills again, I think sometimes. 100%. And also too, then, it triggers in different people social anxieties. You've got really, you know, people that never suffered from anxiety or whatever, you know, would have seen themselves as really confident, but simply even going back into the workplace or back into socialising or back to an airport, it triggers these sort of emotions that have never ever felt before. And like even when I was coming home from Manchester and I got to the airport and I knew I'd have to give myself loads of time. And you know when the bags and the trays start piling up and it's almost like, it's like bang bang bang one after the other. And you're trying to get everything out of the tray and all of a sudden, like I feel like my anxiety levels are way up there with Nadine Coy looking for her passport. You know what I'm saying? I think airports is the common denominator. It's like it's just about airports. You know, and I just want to get home. Geez, leave me alone. And you never out of them as well. In terms of songwriting, right? Music's sort of escapism for me, TV's escapism for me, right? And if COVID or masks or something is in a TV show or in a song, I'm like, oh, no, come on. You know, I can understand artistically why people want to express it that way. But for me, I use sort of the music or the TV or films to sort of escape from a little bit. In terms of your mood, how you're feeling when you're songwriting, like do you sort of, can you put all that to one side or do you have to incorporate in it or does it feel natural to or does it affect you when you're composing or songwriting whilst you were in sort of the lockdown period? No, not at all is the answer to that. I didn't actually, I deliberately avoided that and deliberately kind of went to somewhere else for what, for want of a better word, for inspiration. For example, when I wrote The Bend in the Ocean, which is the last song on the album, and it's where the title came from is the strangest one of all. I was flying home from Australia November 2019, just before all the whole thing kicked off. And I was flying somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Absolutely exhausted, fast asleep. And then I wake up trying to figure out where I am and I'm like, you know, when you hit the screen and you're going, I wonder where are we? And at that point, I'm like, we're nearly at the top of the earth as such and there's a curve. And as I'm going back to sleep, I sit and I'm like, God, The Bend in the Ocean. And that's where the title came from. Did you write that down? Yeah, I did. Yeah, because that's important isn't it? People should always keep a note pad all the way. And then I'm going past on other notes that I'd written down and I found one that I'd written years ago. When I was living in, when I was working with Goal as an aid worker in Sudan and because it had gotten so hot at one point where we were all sleeping outside under the stars in hammocks and mozziness and I'm looking up at the sky and Africa has always has got this, the stars, it's just littered with stars. And I'm thinking to myself before I go to sleep, my thought in my head was, I wonder do they see the same stars at home as here? And then I ended up with a line in the song that says how come the ones that I've chosen don't see the same stars as me. So that's, so it like it can, the inspiration can be 20 years apart. Yeah. But I deliberately don't go, I don't go down the route of a situational where it is at the moment. I never, because at the moment, I mean, what do you write about? Do you know what I mean? Sitting at home doing nothing. Sorting through back in track CDs, you know, now I know you're pretty talented but if you can, if you can bang out a tune, that's globally relatable to... Yeah, I know that. You are a supreme talent. I just, I just end up trying not to, you know, you try to keep a positive message in the song or you try to keep, you know, even if the song is about loss, it's about that it's, you know, things I'll still be here for you. But the best songs about, say for instance, last are relatable to multiple situations. Oh, completely. It could be the loss of anything. It could be the loss of a pet, it could be the loss of a loved one, it could be a loss of a mama or dad unless it's specifically about something. And that's the, those are the best songs. Right, we are doing this, you're going to sing for us a bit of a backing track. We haven't had a chance to sort it all out yet. You're going to go up and down if it's too loud or too low to me, right? This could either go absolutely great. And if it goes bad, I'm pulling the track all together and you're going back up and down me. And I'm just singing it completely. What song did you tell Arshine to get for us for you? I was scrolling through because it's all kind of panic stations because my guitar player ended up calling me this morning. He was a close contact. So I'm like, okay, this is just going to be the new norm, isn't it? So the one that I recorded was on the new album and it was a version of Fiddler's Green that we did on the 2019 and 2020 tour. And it just went down really well. So I thought, why not? It's very relatable and people know the song. All right, let's see how this goes. All right, here is Tommy Fleming singing for you live. This could be really good fun. As I went by the dark side one evening so fair To view the still waters and taste the salt air I heard an old fisherman singing the song Won't you please take me home boys My time it's not long Up me up in your oil skins and blankets Oxile BC Just tell me old shipmates My mates and I'll see you someday The fisherman Don't over plan things because sometimes at least preparation you get the best results Absolutely brilliant I couldn't really hear it in my headphones Don't need excuses, it sounded great That's for if it was a problem No, it sounded great Because we didn't get a chance in advance to get the levels, you did amazing What a pro Not at all People can see you It's a song for island tour It's playing live December 3 in the Ballot Arts Centre, Ballot Buffet All set up, it's perfectly safe and it's a beautiful environment to see Tommy live Tommy, thanks so very much Not at all, thanks for having me as always and thanks to the listeners for the support Thank you Excellent, OK We'll be back with the weather after the break Today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with Ulster Tires Get your tyres winter ready Drop in to Ulster Tires in Laddercanny and Ballot Buffet today It's that simple to win that car To get your ticket Log on to HighlandRadio.com Highland Radio Exceed in your expectations Is your water safe to drink? 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