 Have yourself a great day, whatever you get up to. I will speak to you real soon, and now it's over to Greg Hughes. When? What do you mean when? When will you speak to people? That is a mystery yet to be decided. It is. Keep an eye, keep an eye on social you'll find out. All right, Kev, thanks very much. Just came to bed now. Yeah. It is the night till noon show. Let's get a news update and we'll say good morning now to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Security at Lanster Heights is to be reviewed in the wake of the aggressive protest outside the door yesterday. Thirteen arrests were made as a result of the demonstrations. Some TDs and senators required guard at escorts to leave the building while politicians and staff were verbally abused. Public expenditure Minister Pascal Donahue was appalled by the scenes. It was not a protest against individual politicians or a protest against political parties or even a government. It was a protest against the concept, I believe, of representative politics. As we know, within our country. Attorney-goal Deputy says the local government bill is a missed opportunity to give county councils the overhaul and review they urgently need. Deputy Thomas Pringle says the legislation should have been the chance to foster tree local empowerment, not just a symbolic gesture. Speaking in the doll, Deputy Pringle says there doesn't appear to be a desire from councillors to change the current format. The councillors are quite happy to participate in that system and go along with it. And you have the fiasco of Finifall, Fungale and the independent Finifall as they were at one time, all pretending that they operate the Governor Donahue-Goal County Council. And actually they don't. The county manager governs it. But the councillors are quite happy to go along with it, make it look like that they're in control, appoint a mayor every year, and it looks like that they're doing the business when they have no say whatsoever. Guardi and Donahue-Goal have issued a stark warning to parents and young people in the county of the dangers of money and parcel milling. Money mills allow fraudsters to use their bank accounts to receive money subtuned via fraud while packaged meals work for fraudsters by accepting packages on their behalf and sending or delivering them to designated persons or addresses. Guardi are warning people that being a mule is a criminal offence, carrying a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. They're pleading with people to not allow themselves to be used as a money mule or a package mule. It's been suggested that the former Reynolds Music Shop close to the local link boss stop and letter, Kenny could be acquired for use as a temporary boss station pending the development of the town's transport hub off the Pierce Road. Councillor Jerry McMonagall says at the very least a new bus shelter with seating needs to be provided. The National Transport Authority has indicated it is prepared to provide funding for a new shelter and council officials are looking at the options. Councillor McMonagall says the potential of the Reynolds side should be explored. A resident has said to me, why would you not think about taking over the vacant Reynolds Music Shop and using that as a bus station building where you would have seating and toilet facilities for those people waiting for the bus services? And I think that's a good idea. I think it's thinking outside the box. What we need to do is ensure that if that doesn't happen that there is proper bus shelters with seating that they enable, especially the elderly people, that they have a comfortable seat while they're waiting for their bus. Weather and I largely dry this morning with just a few isolated showers, a little cooler today with highs of 14 to 16 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Only people from the 90s will know what that sound means. I can picture it now. Back when McDonald's started cracking free-range eggs across the entire menu, an internet dial-up was the only way to get online. Those few minutes' wait felt super fast, and it was known as the World Wide Web. Ah, the good old days. It's just one of the little changes McDonald's have been constantly making to the way we source and produce our food over the years. Find out more at McDonald's.ie. McDonald's, change a little, change a lot. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, and a very good morning to you. Four minutes past nine, Thursday, September 21. How are you all keeping out there? I hope you're doing very well indeed, and we have another busy one for you. Another three hours of entertainment information. And what if you want to talk about it as well? We want you involved in the conversation to raise your issues, comment on what we've got lined up for you. We'll be covering all the stories I think you might expect us to. 08-660-25000, what's apps and texts that number? And feel free, by the way, if you want to send a voice note to that number, 08-660-25000. If you want to give us a call, it's 07-491-25000, 9-1-25000, and your emails come in to us at comments at highlandradio.com. And you can watch the show live as you can every single day, of course, on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland. Good morning to you. If you've joined us there, you can watch on your big TV, your smart TV, your Firestick, or any of your devices. And on Facebook, it's Highland Hub or Highland Radio News and Sports, and loads of papers out, as it is a Thursday morning, of course. And we'll start with this morning's Chicano Tribune. Micah scheme, adding to people's distress. That was the message coming out loud and clear from the Micah meeting at the Rye Community Centre on Tuesday night. A big crowd had packed into the room long before the meeting began, and Lisa Holm, chairperson of the Donagall Micah Action Group, said the lack of political drive is simply unacceptable. One of the hot issues on the night is the snail's pace of progress by Donagall County Council in processing Micah redress payments amid claims that contractors have had to walk away from property not fully finished because not one red cent has been paid out so far and nobody seems to have any answers. The lack of political will to solve the Micah nightmare for thousands of traumatised Donagall homeowners was hammered home to the public reps at the information meeting in Rye. If the political will was there, this would have been done quickly. All the homeowners need to work together in every way to keep the pressure on. Was just some of the commentary from Lisa Holm there, more on the front of and inside that paper today, of course. The Donagall News talks of an unprecedented demand for the Kenney Food Bank facility. We covered this a few months ago. Well, variations of this story a couple of months ago. Things have not improved. In fact, they perhaps have worse and let's read on. With the cost of living crisis pushing up to man, let's say Kenney Food Bank has been forced to reduce its handout frequency. The registered charity has warned of its concerns for this coming winter amid a 33% surge in the number of people it has supported in the last six months. Such has been the pressure on the market square-based charity. It's been left with no alternatives and increased the frequency of food to families reaching out to them once every four weeks because it does not have enough food to sustain a three-week rotation. That's how bad it is. And the problem this is too, food banks would have relied on people out doing their shop as well, of course, and picking up a few extra bits and dropping them off. But everyone's feeling the squeeze now. Everyone has saw the weekly shop or the bits and bobs go through the roof or that's how it feels anyway. The Donagall Democrat, a West Donagall pensioner, has appeared in court charged with numerous alleged sexual offenses. The accused man cannot be named to protect the identity of his alleged victims. Detective Garda Eugene Organ told Falkara District Court that he arrested the man at 9 a.m. this morning at Main Street in Milford when the charges were put to the accused. He made no reply. The man is charged with a number of alleged instances, including indecent assault and sexual assault. The Derry News this morning, with our lead story, our patients deserve better. Strike action wholly unprecedented in the health and social care sector is taking place across the north, including Derry, health and social care professionals from Unison Unite, NIPSA, the GMB Royal College of Midwives, and on it goes and on it goes. They'll be on the picket line today and Friday, Mary Little, Unison's Foyle Joint Branch Secretary for Health said her union is striking for better pay there. On to the nationals now. We'll start with the Irish Daily Mail for a change and any of you on social media or having watched the news will have seen the scenes outside the doll yesterday. About two to 300 people. It was a well-organized protest. Well, well-organized, sorry, well-publicized across various social media platforms, Telegram, X, Twitter, and Facebook and so on and so forth to call people to the doll, to welcome home. If you wouldn't quite put it like that, but you know what I mean, to welcome back TVs and senators returning after their summer recess, but it got boisterous, it got a wee bit violent too, there was pushing and shoving, some awful things being said and shouted and there were gallows there with various effigies of elected public representatives effectively saying, you know, hang them. Michael Healey Ray, who will speak to you a little later on in the programme, he was being escorted by guards, he was jostled and insulted, his main crime because he would be a bit of a, I suppose someone that's normally quite protest friendly and let me put it like that, but I believe he's housing Ukrainian refugees and that was enough for him to be subjected to that abuse. 13 people in total were arrested. When you watch on, I think it's done whatever the causes or whatever the campaign is and it wasn't really quite clear to me yesterday what it was about really. There was a lot of shout and stuff. I don't know what it was. It was angered towards maybe the elected representatives, but it wasn't just they that were subject to abuse. Anyone going into the doll was, but it wasn't really articulated very well from what I could see, what the message was. You know, what is the campaign? What do they want? What needs changing? And also, I think it's expedited any argument for hate speech because of some of the stuff that was being said. We are going to see now more restrictions in terms of protests outside the doll. So the way it was conducted, I think has been incredibly counterintuitive and what you'll see now, the next protest that's called, you might not even get a fraction of those, the amount of people there because of the perceived or reality of the toxicity of the situation. Did you watch on what do you think? Oh, wait, six, 60, 25,000. What's absent texts to that number? Give us a call on 07491 25,000, as it's a Michael Healey Ray. We'll be on the show a little later on to talk of his experience. But reading on the article here, independent Kerry T.D. Michael Healey Ray was jostled and jeered by protesters yesterday as the doll returned after the summer recess with politicians from across the spectrum condemning the protest outside the Eroctors. Later in the day, Guardi had to form a barricade to allow a convoy of politicians to leave in their cars from the Marion Street entrance around 200 protesters gathered outside as politicians returned from the summer recess. Guardi confirmed 13 arrests were made during a day of protest that saw demonstrators block entrances and display mock gallows. Mr. Healey Ray said, I come to Dublin to represent the good people of the country. Nothing will ever deter me from doing my job. He added, I've no issue with protesting, never have, never will, but you can see the videos circulating and judge for yourself if that behaviour and use of language is acceptable. I was going to say, we're not made of sugar either, but I mean, there's some really, really strong stuff. The gallows too, it's just not a good look. But anyway, what do you think out there? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. An issue obviously that's come upon this show on numerous occasions is e-cigarettes. There's an update on it in the Irish independence, so I thought I'd bring it to you. Disposable vapes will be banned as part of a further crackdown on e-cigarettes, including curbs on flavours and advertising. If you go into a shop, you'll see often, there's a screen behind the counter and it's all very fancy advertising, all really sexy. The products all look really sexy, bubblegum flavour, all different types of flavours. Naturally, that's not going to, it does nothing for me. I mean, I'm not going to go, all right, I need one of them in my life. But if you're 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, they may not be targeted at that cohort. It's certainly the cohort that might be attracted to such advertising. It's interesting, a lot of the screens are actually shaped like the same dimensions as a phone screen, which I think is quite interesting, they kind of look like TikTok ads. It's clever marketing, but unfortunately, it's young people that's getting addicted to these products. The government earlier this year moved to ban the sale of vapes to children and Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has now said he wants to ban single-use e-cigs earlier this week for in a fall TD Paul McAuliffe called for disposable vapes to be banned altogether by government due to the environmental impact. Mr. Donnelly said he is now planning a second piece of legislation to further clamp down on vapes, which would curb flavours and where they're advertised. In shops that fully support this policy, Mr. Donnelly told the Irish Independent. But are any of you out there now concerned? And I know we can't be with our children all the time and some of us, you know, might find that our young people are addicted to these things now. And some of them have really quite high nicotine levels if they become hard to get. Like what are you gonna do? You're gonna go into a vape shop and get a non-disposable reusable vape for them. Are you gonna hope they go cold turkey? Like it does create a problem because if these products aren't there, there's a lot of people that actually really are quite dependent on them. Young people, adults can, you know, plow their own path and find their own way. But I wonder are any of you out there concerned as to what you will do with your child's nicotine addiction if they've developed one? And lots and lots of young people are using them. If they aren't freely available in these shops, you're either have to buy them for them or come up with an alternative nicotine patches. Like what are we gonna do? There is going to be hundreds of thousands of young people who are going to have a dependency on nicotine. Well, tens of thousands, let's be more conservative. Tens of thousands of young people with a nicotine dependency. And what are we gonna do about that? It's a really strong addiction. The Irish Times tells us that up to 30 care homes could face criminal investigations depending on the results of a guard inquiry into the death of a woman in a residential home during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Guardy are examining the care received by the woman in a County Cork home in the period leading up to her death, which occurred during one of the worst periods of the pandemic. Sources have confirmed to this paper the cases being investigated as potential gross negligence manslaughter. The care home in question saw a large number of fatalities in the first 18 months of the pandemic, which began in early 2020. The Irish Times understands the investigation has been ongoing for a significant period of time and that a large number of interviews have taken place, including with relatives and staff, a file on the cases due to go to the office of the director of public prosecution very shortly and we'll make it, it'll make a final decision on what if any charges are brought and there might be a few follow-on cases there. No doubt if that does come to pass. The farmer's journals out today, weanlings up 140 euro a head. Weaning prices have reached a new high this week with Irish farmers journal Mark Bidd's data showing a 140 euro a head rise in the bull prices compared to the last year. Mark managers nationwide report a significant lift in demand among store producers, finishers and weaning exporters. And there's also some images from the plowing championships. It's a wet, muddy mess, but people in the picture look like they're having fun. There was a survey of taxpayers about whether or not they want to see the license fee discontinued. Now, I don't know how the question was phrased and we'll teach it as we go through this. The bottom line is, is that if they get rid of this license fee, they are introducing something else. So there's not going to be a system whereby they get rid of the license fee and there's no public contribution to public service broadcasting and inverted commas. So whether people like this license fee or not, if it's going, it's gonna be replaced by something and that is a fact and you won't get a political party that will propose otherwise. Certainly not one of the mainstream parties. So people should realize that if they get rid of this they're getting something else. Over 60% of people want the TV license fee to be scrapped according to a new pre-budget survey. It found that more than six in 10 want the 160-year-old charge axed while one in five claim there's no need for public service broadcasting. Three in four would not support a move to appoint revenue as collectors of the TV license. Well, you see that's the alternative. The findings come from the Taxback Taxpayer Pre-Budget 2024 survey that polled 2,000 taxpayers nationwide. Okay, let us go to the Sunday. You heard yesterday, Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson, Pierre Starrty, on this programme, calling for mortgage interest relief, a scheme for homeowners. Well, ministers last night shot down Sinn Féin's call for such a scheme. Meanwhile, T-Shock, Leo Veradkar, Tarnas de Miehal-Martin and Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan, ditched the doll on its first day back after somewhere to attend a UN summit in New York. Lovely little impact on the environment. That trip was all three of them over in New York. I wonder, did they all fly in the same plane? The government leaders, absence left, Finnegales, Simon Coveney to defend the coalition as they came under pressure over the housing crisis and the cost of living. Sinn Féin last night tabled a motion in the doll calling for the introduction of time-limited mortgage interest relief schemes to help hard-pressed families. And what we see just in terms of international travel and what have you, obviously, I think most of us, except we have a problem, we have to do something. But if you, like, there's always a reason why the powers that be or rich people can do stuff like fly around on jets. Because they want to, we have to fly, how else are we going to get to America to, how else are we going to get to America to attend this important UN conference? We have to fly in a jet, so, you know, that's the way it is, but we can all do that. Like, you know, I want to go on holiday. Why am I going to go on holiday after flying in a jet, don't we? So whilst the leaders and the rich continue to be able to justify doing stuff like that, but at the same time telling us maybe we shouldn't, that we're all in the same boat, they're no different to us, there's always an excuse us to do it, I would love to cycle to work, but I can't, I have to take a car because I live too far away from it. You know what I mean? They need to go to America. They can't paddle there, they have to fly. You know, we're all in the same boat here, but they get away with it more than we might. And a record-breaking Welly Chuck at the Plowing Championships, almost a thousand revelers as they're described here, put their best foot forward yesterday as they set a new Welly-throwing record at the National Plowing Championships. In the muddied field of County Leash, 995 participants eclipsed the efforts of the 792 people who set the previous best in England in 2018. Why don't we all get together? We'll meet in the town park and let her can you somewhere and bring a Welly with us. We can get a thousand of us together. We'll get into the Guinness Book of World Records. 995 is not a big deal. We can break that, can't we? Right, it's OK. Everyone paid a fiver. You'd create five grand for charity. Anyway, that is a look through the papers today. We've got loads of people to talk to, loads of people to interview, just to remind you that if you want to send in a message to us, WhatsApp or text 08-660-25000, and feel free to set the ball rolling on voice messages as well if you want that played out. And you can call us to an 07491-25000. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Central Mountaintop Ledrick Annie, the C-store National Large Four Court of the Year for 2022. When you start to search for a home to call your own, it's good to know that there are many ways in. Whether you're looking to buy or rent, a number of supports are now available. 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Expressway, bringing you the time ask. Okay, the time 22, just turned 23 minutes past nine. Martina Porter is Quality and Patient Safety Manager with Letter Kenny University Hospital. Good morning to you, Martina. Good morning, Greg. Thank you for having me. No, thank you very much for joining us. Right, Martina, is yours a new post or is it a new sort of initiative we're talking about or perhaps both? Well, no, my role isn't a new. I knew in the role, failing you in the role, but it's not a new role as such. But so it's, but this is kind of looking at World Patient Safety Day, which is a global initiative. So we wanted to do something locally to mark World Patient Safety Day from a Quality and Patient Safety perspective. So what we wanted to do here was the theme this year for World Patient Safety Day was empowering, engaging patients to improve patient safety and, I suppose, elevating the voice of patients. And this is something that we've been looking at since we've implemented a few different initiatives since I've come into post. We have introduced patient feedback forms where patients can fill out a questionnaire and make suggestions for service improvement. And we're setting up a patient and family experience group as well. So it's in keeping with the themes of our national patient safety strategy. But what we wanted to do was introduce something that brings that information to the bedside for the patients. So to empower and engage patients, patients need, I suppose, to have the knowledge and, I suppose, information to be able to do that. So what we decided to do was design a bedside poster. To look at what information we would put on that poster, you know, we did like an analysis of all of our most commonly reported maybe patient safety incidents and look at themes and what the causes were. And on this poster is top tips for patients on what they can do and how they can engage with us to improve safety. So there's information there in relation to medication safety, falls prevention, protecting personal property and items, you know, advice on quit and smoking. And there's QR codes there as well. It takes patients out to other websites where they can get more information if they wish to avail of that. So we have updated our patient information booklet as well. And we have hard copies that we can give out as well to patients, but there's a QR code there as well. It's available online if people would prefer to access it online. And there's a wealth of information now that's going to be available right there at the bedside for people. But I suppose more importantly, to build on the patient engagement piece. And as part of designing this, we went to the Patient for Patient Safety Ireland group, which is a national network of people that are really focused as patients on patient safety. So they were instrumental in helping us put this poster together for it to be user-friendly and contain the appropriate information that they've been heavily involved. Yeah, and Martina, how do you engage patients who may be older or perhaps who can't read very well? Or feel so sick and down that they don't want to engage? You know, how do you make sure that they're appalled as well? Engagement is entirely optional here, you know. And if patients feel they don't want to engage, there's absolutely no obligation on anyone whatsoever. Martina, how do you include that? I understand that Martina and people have a choice. How do you include everybody? Well, I suppose it's open to patients and families. So what we're saying is patient and fans. So a patient may themselves decide they don't want to, but they may want a family member to engage on their behalf. And that's absolutely fine as well. And on our forums, you know, it is, you know, if it's a patient that completes it or if it's a family member, you know, so that we know if it's a patient or if it's a family member that's providing us with the information and it's all accepted. And it's a patient and family experience user group as well. So it's very inclusive of patients and their families. So if there's a trend, Martina, how is that acted on? So say, for instance, something pops up two or three. I don't want to give examples because I don't really know any that might fit what we're talking of. But say there's a trend of, you know, a number of patients highlight the same thing. How do you act on that? So we have a few different ways of feeding back. And I suppose it's really important because it's on this poster as well, where we're inviting feedback from people. So what we do is we collect it, we go around and then empty the suggestion boxes and we analyze the feedback and we feedback A to the department and the staff so that they can action. And B, I feedback in my report, I report back into the hospital, various hospital committees. So say, for example, if a patient was to give feedback about, and I'm just using this as an example, say about food or snacks or, you know, availability or quality or whatever, then I would feed that back into the appropriate committees, you know, as well for decision and action. But it goes back to the departments and the teams as well. So we do a lot of analysis and we do a lot of reporting back. And, you know, then it's quality improvements then and deciding what we're going to do to improve on that and build on that moving forward. But I think it's very important to say as part of this poster as well, there is an invitation on there for patients if they wish to feedback by completing out a form or equally there is a QR code that will take them to your service, your say, where they can do that online if they wish to leave a comment or feedback online. And equally an invitation if people wish to join our patient and family experience group that they can do that as well. And be part of that group as well that, you know, where we can all work together collaboratively, you know. And it's ongoing. It's a great service improvement. Is it ongoing? In other words, you don't collect this information for two or three months and then act on it or perhaps you do. This is something that I do monthly. And then I trend analysis from month to month. So, you know, it's quite comprehensive. And has it been going long enough where you can give us an example of something that was flagged and then acted on and improved on? Well, I can't get into specific examples, I suppose at the minute, because I mean, it's going off into another work that we're doing here at the moment. But I suppose it's important to say that we get the feedback that we can act on. And there has been a huge amount of, there's been a huge amount of actions and it is something that we are actively engaged with. When we get our patient and family experience user group up and running, we hope that it'll even gather more momentum. And that there'll be direct involvement there and then feeding back through the group as well to improve services as well. Right, and I'm just trying to phrase this in a way, Martina, that without getting into stuff, but just to, I mean, there are certain issues with the hospital that we talk about here extensively in terms of staffing and things like, there's some things, surveys like this can't affect and then there are other things that they can. So in other words, presumably, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, this is patient engagement to improve experiences where it's possible to do so with minor changes. I mean, this is, I mean, obviously it's not separate too and it's part of, but we're not, this is not part of the sort of necessarily the big issues that people would be familiar with. This is the patient, inpatient experiences that can be tailored for on a sort of ongoing basis. Exactly, exactly. And I suppose, Greg, this is so in the seeds, like this is in a sense and say, we're really just getting this off the ground. We started the questionnaire in January, we're getting some feedback, but it's gathering that momentum. We're hoping with this poster now, patients will feel more able to engage as well. And especially when we get this group up and running and we have more projects that's going to be more patient and family centered as well and patient and family focused, where it's going to be really, I suppose service improvements will be driven with that collaboration in mind, so I suppose we've a few different things, a few different strands through which we're going to try and achieve this. And I suppose the poster is the kind of first step to gathering that momentum. So we have the questionnaires, and they're being filled out, but it's not a consistent approach at the moment, there's not a consistent, people don't often know they're there or people haven't, don't know where to get the information will be there at the bedside now, so people will know that the poster's there and there's a suggestion box if you wish to do that. And Martin, is this in wards and rooms? It's not in the ED, for an example. This is specifically for people. This could be everywhere throughout the hospital. OK, all right, OK. Right, Martina. Thank you very much for people going in, can keep an eye out for those. I do appreciate your time this morning. Martina, Paul to their Quality and Patience Safety Manager at Letter Kenney University Hospital. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. The 9-Til Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenney Credit Union, with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkenneycu.ie. The Queen of Country in Irish, Margo comes back to Donegal for one night only. Join Margo live and concert on Wednesday, the 4th of October, in the Margo Hotel Letter Kenney with special guests, David James and Shunny Cramsey. This is a show not to be missed. That's Margo live at the Mount Derrigal, October 4th. Tickets available from Hotel Reception or online at eventbrite.ie. 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So effectively two months from today. Pat Griffin is Senior Inspector with the Health and Safety Authority. I suppose Pat will begin with what changes are taking place in relation to quad bike usage? Good morning, Greg. And I'm down here deploying championships for the third day and we're demonstrating these quad bikes and risks around tractors and quad bikes here at the championships. And the regulations, as you say, come into effect on the 20th of November. And they're quite simple. It'll require anyone operating a quad bike. That's in any sector, whether it's in construction, farming, quarrying, forestry. Wherever the quad bike is used, the operator must have training and they must wear a helmet. So they're the two simple requirements. And we're glad to see that there is starting to be an uptake in the training. And we really encourage people to comply with these regulations. Is it certified training? So say, for instance, I want to, if I had a quad and I want to use it legally on the 20th of November, how do I complete this training? You must get the training from a registered training provider. So it must be certified training. It can't be just a father teaching the son or vice versa. It has to be registered training provider. And it must be certified training. And there's lots of trainers around the country. You know, trainers are registered with QQI, Landfra, City and Guild. And we would encourage farmers to go out and find the trainer in your locality and get that training done. And is it a test, in other words, is it or is it just a run through of health and safety? Well, the training is for an experienced rider and there's many, many experienced people out there on quads, it'll be a one day training period. For an inexperienced person, it'll be two days. And there won't be two consecutive days. It'll be two days separated by some time where the operator has some time to practice. At the end of either training courses, there'll be an assessment. There's a very short, simple written assessment and then there's a practical assessment where the trainer will assess the competence of the operator to fulfill certain tasks in the training. So it is practical and it's an assessment done by the trainer. And if he feels your competence and have been trained properly, he will give you the certificate. I presume, I could be wrong, but I presume when we talk about training being obligatory and the wearing of a helmet being obligatory, we're talking about on public roads. No, it's anywhere. So whether you're operating the tractor or the quad bike on your farm, whether it's been operated in a quarry, on a construction site, in a factory, on a forestry, it's not just on the public road. And I think some people have got that impression. Though this training is wherever you operate your quad bike. So effectively, if you own a quad bike, you're going to have to have training and a helmet. Absolutely, absolutely. And the importance of the helmet can't be overemphasized. There's been 10 fatalities in the last 10 years from quad bikes. And when you think of the number of quad bikes in the country, that's a very, very high number. It actually makes the quad bike the most dangerous piece of equipment that a farmer can use. They're a very useful piece of equipment and they're very, very simple to operate, but they're also very, very simple to overturn and get a serious injury or fatality from if you're not training properly on how to use them. So I presume on Goddess Yukana, we'll enforce on the public highways as they do. How will these measures be enforced on private property? Well, the HSA inspectors will go and do inspections of whatever sector it is, like with our student construction, or farming, if the inspector goes in and he finds a quad bike at the place of work, then he will ask the person who's operating the quad bike for their training certificate. And that's how it will be enforced. If they don't have training, if they don't have a training certificate, we will take action. The other element is we will ask them where their helmet is. And if they don't have a helmet, we will prohibit the use of the quad bike. But it absolutely makes sense that people wear a helmet. I mean, who these days would actually drive a car without a seatbelt? People should not be operating the quad bike now without a helmet. The vast majority of fatalities and serious life-changing injuries from a quad bike overturn our head injuries. And many of the deaths that have been caused by quad bikes would have been prevented if people were wearing their helmet. Yeah, and it's not hard to see how that will happen. It is a heavy vehicle, but they are easy to overturn. And just with the nature of them, when you come off them, you're generally not too far away from the quad when that happens and they can easily go over on top of you or whatever it might be. Or you could be thrown from it and smack your head off a rock or something either way. But it's not hard to see the argument for it. Is it a bit... Do you think it's a bit over the top, though? Do you think it's too far reaching, going on people's private property, going on people's private property and insisting that they...? No, not at all. As we all know, we can't turn back to talk. And I mean, there are people today that have suffered, family members that have suffered, that have had fatalities and they've had serious life-changing injuries and our sympathies go out to these families. But you can't turn back to talk and all these families would turn back to talk. They would do things differently. They would certainly insist on helmets and training. And I'm sure they would agree with this approach. All right. Two more questions then, if you don't mind, Pat. From what age can you get this training? Yeah, well, all the quad manufacturers will specify the age on the quad and they all specify you must be 16 years and over to operate a quad. So really, what we're saying here, Pat, effectively going forward, it's illegal for anyone under the age of 16, regardless of the size of the quad, to be on a quad? Absolutely. Absolutely. In a work environment. This is workplace legislation. So if a person is operating the quad for work, then you must have training and you must be a person of over 16. There are other quad bikes that are not as big and not as strong, that are used for recreation. They're not within these regulations. They're for recreation. How long does the cert last for? It's a lifetime cert. It's only once off training. Once you do this training, you're trained and you're good to go for life. And that is the good part. I mean, once you know this training and learn how to do active riding on a quad bike, and that's the critical thing that people practice active riding. You'll notice that most quad bikes have a very, very big seat. Some people think that's for carrying passengers, it's not. It's actually for moving your body weight to keep the stability of the quad. So that if you're going up a steep hill, you slide your body forward and actually you could even have to lean over the handlebars going up a slope. And going down the slope, you have to place your body weight at the very back of the seat to keep stability and moving left and right when you're taking corners. So that seat is that size to practice active riding. So that's what you learn in this training. And you also learn how to maintain it and make sure that the tire pressure is correct. And just one thing about, how are we differentiated? Other than where it's being operated, just to be clear, because there could be some confusion, how are we differentiating between a work quad and inverted commas and a recreational quad? If someone is doing work with their quad, that's work activity. And we will enforce it then. That's a simple rule. Okay. Right, okay. It comes into effect from November 20th. Pat Griffin, Senior Inspector with the Health and Safety Authority. Thanks for your time this morning. Thanks very much, Greg. Okay, take care. Bye-bye. 086, 60, 25,000, WhatsApps and text, 086, 60, 25,000. I call this as the hospital is in crisis because of lack of staff. And this is the answer they come up with. What a waste of money. Let's make a better effort to put money into real services needed as opposed to those box ticking exercises. Kind of addressed the overall problems and then the things that can be addressed sort of within that. And I think that's what that survey is about. But listen, if you're in the hospital, don't fill it out. That would be your view, I presume. As a staff member working in the hospital, I definitely see efforts to improve care for our patients. I recommend Martina. I commend Martina Porter on her efforts. Thank you very much indeed for that. Nice to get some positive feedback as well. Morning, Greg. Just heard you mention protests at all yesterday. I'm not a fan of protests, but there comes a time when enough is enough. And by that I mean, when you struggle to put your children through college without any help from the government, when those children work harder at college and promise to pay you back when they get a job, those children are now well educated young people, but despite their hard work and reasonable good job, they can't and probably may never be able to afford a home. They can't get access to a GP because all practitioners are full and apparently not taking new patients. They're promise of paying their parents back has gone out the window as they're now struggling, just like we were to send them to college. This may sound like a rant, but this is what our great young Irish people are going through. This is why I think protests are never more needed, but keep them organized and peaceful. It's protesting is an essential form of democracy. People have to protest, people should protest when they need to. That's not the issue here. The issue is the nature of the protest. I didn't see any young people at that protest yesterday. To be honest, we did not that that matters, but those that are affected by this, like you say you are. And it's the gallows, it's the pushing, it's the language. It's the nature of the protest, not the protest itself, which we're discussing. And I think I would hope, I would hope we never get to a point where anyone would come out and say there shouldn't be protests. Greg, these protests are just the beginning. Beginning of what though? People are no longer angry. They're furious. Main issue being rampant uncontrolled immigration followed by cost of living and a complete breakdown in trust between the public and the political class. Seeing elected reps scooping massive amounts of money for housing immigrants while the rest of us get crucified with 1,200 euro a month rents for one bed flats, is sickening hate speech laws being brought in to protect politicians, not the immigrants. I understand where you're coming from. A lot of people may well feel the same, but why do people, where is this at when it comes to an election? I mean, the council elections are coming up. Will that view be reflected in those? Probably not. General election not too long thereafter. We'll, you know, up until now, people that stand opposed to migration and things like that often struggle to get a handful of votes, if you know what I'm saying. Right, OK, I have to take a very quick break. 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Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Letter Kenny Credit Union. Call us on 074 910 2126 or apply online via our app or in office today. Now parents have lost trust and faith amid a long-running national scandal regarding the care and treatment of their children, co-founder of the Scoliosis Advocacy Network. Claire Gahle has said her comments come after the publication by Children's Health Ireland of the internal and external reviews into spinal surgery for patients with spina bifida at Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin between 2019 and 2022. Sinead is the mother of Makayla, who is a spina bifida patient and who had an operation five years ago in Liverpool. And joins us now. Hi Sinead, thank you for your time today. Hi Greg, how are you? I'm good. Now, you believe, do you not, that the scope of any review needs to be widened much greater? What's the background to those views? I suppose the background is that we were aware from Makayla was about maybe five, six months old that she was going to need further surgeries. And they recommended that they would do it around 18 months. But by that stage Makayla was actually showing movement that they really hadn't expected her to have. And then her team were willing to wait until she was four and see how she was at that stage. And we were happy with that. But I suppose as time went on, Makayla went downhill quite fast too. It came to a point when she was seven that she was losing the power to walk. She was given a wheelchair. And while she could still walk the distances she could do, we're just getting shorter and shorter and shorter. And her feet were becoming more clubbed. Her kidneys were under pressure. And I knew she needed the surgery. Obviously the country wasn't in a good shape at the time economically. And long story short, the team that she'd been with since birth wouldn't do it. They said, you just have to accept that it's too risky. We were told the risk of paralysis with the surgery was 50-50. And that there was a huge risk greater than that of hydrocephalus. So what did they suggest then, in the absence of them doing the operation, what would have been the treatment or the outcome for Makayla? Get her used to the wheelchair or the exact words that I was told. Get her used to it. I was told by somebody this is the will of God. And I didn't buy that. I got to know some other parents who had the same issue and needed the same surgery. And long story short, they were all told the same risks. But this didn't add up to me. Not that I'm a genius when it comes to medical stuff. I wish I'd never had to deal with any of it, to be perfectly honest. But I figured it can't be the same risk for somebody who has feelings than somebody who hasn't feelings. So I looked for opinions abroad. And I got quite a few of them. And I was absolutely hell bent for one to a better term that Makayla was getting this surgery. Dublin wouldn't do it. They wouldn't put her on a waiting list, which meant that I couldn't access the treatment abroad scheme. I became aware of another scheme that Makayla could possibly have accessed. But the surgeon in Dublin wouldn't sign the form. Now, I looked for interventions from so many places. And I have to commend the TDS in the county here and just wasn't in my native, Manninghaven, where they all tried to see if there was something could be done. Makayla's pediatrician in that, or Kenny, was fantastic, tried to make representation that wouldn't sign the form. So effectively, not only were they refusing to do the treatment here, effectively, they were blocking you progressing her treatment in Britain. 100%. And I felt profusely intimidated for many, many, many, many months by different things that happened, which I won't outplay now. Because I don't want to obviously prejudice any review. Because this review is going to take place, if it's the last thing I ever do, it's going to have to be, scope is going to have to be widened. You know, there are so many children that I know from Makayla was born or that were born after her that are waiting on surgeries. You know, we're very close friends that I've sat and I've watched on different news channels and I've heard them on the radio and I can only cry and that's just the God's honest truth because I know what they're going through. I've been there. I know what it's like to be waiting for the surgery. I am so lucky that we've had it. But I suppose there are so many of those families that are living in areas that don't have the backup that we have, they're not in the rural location. And I'm like a broken record ever since Makayla got her surgery, saying it takes a village, it takes a county or two counties in our case. What's your name? We're the lucky ones. Just to make sure I get all elements of this before the news. Dublin says there was a 50% chance of paralysis. Liverpool, it was 2%. How did you manage to get Makayla treated in Liverpool? Were you able to do it publicly or did you have to do it privately? No, no, we had to do it completely privately. And we still attend Liverpool a few times a year as private patients. So we have to pay everything, all our costs, everything, you know, have to be. And we're happy to do that because she gets the care that she needs there. Unfortunately, we have to also attend Temple Street because if we don't do that, Makayla can't transition to adult services. Understood. So I can't take her off. So Makayla's never, Makayla's not on a list. So when we talk about long waiting lists, Makayla never got onto that list. How many other children have and their parents have been told that and have watched their child deteriorate and have to get used to life in a wheelchair? That is, that's very, very worrying. That's very worrying that the outcome for people. It's hugely, yeah. Right, okay. That's one other thing. I would say that while the politicians and otherwise people in power are saying that we can send some of these people abroad, I absolutely wholeheartedly agree with that. But the element of it where these surgeons have to find the paperwork that needs to be taken out of it, if a case can be made by the surgeon abroad to verify why it's doable, we're entitled to second opinion and the effort to get that should never be frustrated as it was in our case. And the outcome was drastically different for Makayla having had this surgery done. It is for a lot of children in Ireland. That's a huge concern. If you hadn't done what you had done, what would Makayla's situation be like compared to what it actually is like? Sorry, it's just very hard to knock it upset when I think of this. I know Makayla will be in a wheelchair. I know she would have had to get it, probably a kidney by now. We were told by 12 and she's now 13. I honestly don't think Makayla would be alive had I let that team operate on Makayla. And that's the truth. So it's really disturbing to think about, but it's more disturbing to think about the families that are in this predicament now. And God, how did it sleep and function? I know I struggled with all of that before her surgery. I tell on Earth, for people in that situation, that there's no other term for it. Well, I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention to upset you, but I just wanted to... No, you're quite good. I just wanted to... I mean, talk the GA with you, not this. I just wanted us to get a full understanding of it, Sinead. You know yourself. Yeah, I appreciate it. Fair play to you and your resilience and fight. And I just feel so... I just worry if there's others listening that took the 50-50 chance of promises for granted and trusted and how they might feel now. 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And you have the fiasco of Finifall, Fungale and the independent Finifall as they were at one time all pretending that they operate, they govern Donnie Gold County council. And actually they don't, the county manager governs it. But the councillors are quite happy to go along with it, make it look like that they're in control, appoint a mayor every year, and it looks like that they're doing the business when they have no say whatsoever. The public expenditure minister has defended the government's decision to send four ministers to the US for international events. There's been some criticism that the Taoiseach tonnaged a Green Party leader and health minister are out of the country at the same time. The doll resumed this week in their absence. Minister Paschal Danaugh says he does believe the US trip by senior members of government is necessary. And the reason for that is some of the challenges that we are now facing from a political point of view are so global in nature, but even though they're global in nature, the consequences are national and even highly local. Whether it be migration, whether what happens with regard to climates and how we deal with that. It's proposed a pedestrian footbridge be erected adjacent to Castle Finn Bridge in a bid to alleviate serious safety concerns. There are fears someone could be seriously injured walking on the bridge because of the speed at which cars are travelling on the route. Councillor Gary Doherty says in its current form the bridge is unsafe. He's urging Donegal County Council to prioritise safety works. It's very important I think that the council do whatever they can to carry out safety works there to try and get the footpath on that portion of the road and also then to look at a pedestrian footbridge across the bridge because I think given the examples that we've had of pedestrian footbridges that have been utilised in the Lufford-Strenarder MD, if we look at Balbuffet-Strenarder, if we look at Crossroads Village, we have a number of very good examples of how these pedestrian footbridges can be utilised. Gordie and Donegal have issued a stark warning to parents and young people in the county of the dangers of money and parcel mulling. Money mules allow fraudsters use their bank accounts to receive money subtend via fraud while package mules work for fraudsters by accepting packages on their behalf and sending or delivering them to designated persons or addresses. Gardier warning people that being a mule is a criminal offence carrying a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. They're urging people not to allow themselves be used for these purposes. It's been suggested that the former Reynolds Music Shop close to the local link bus stop in Netterkenny could be acquired for use as a temporary bus station pending the development of the town's planned transport hub off the Pierce Road. Councillor Jerry McGonagall says at the very least a new bus shelter with seating needs to be provided. The National Transport Authority has indicated it's prepared to provide funding for new shelter. Council officials are looking at the options and members are seeking a meeting with the NTA. Councillor McGonagall says the potential of the Reynolds site must be explored. A resident has said to me, why would you not think about taking over the vacant Reynolds Music Shop and using that as a bus station building where you would have seating and toilet facilities for those people waiting for the bus services? And I think that's a good idea. I think it's thinking outside the box. What we need to do is ensure that if that doesn't happen that there is proper bus shelters with seating that they enable, especially the elderly people that they have a comfortable seat while they're waiting for their bus. 43% of Irish people believe the TV licence is dated while more than six in 10 want the fee scrapped according to a new survey by Taxback. Licence renewals have plummeted since the RTE payments scandal began, pushing calls for a media levy to be introduced instead. Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy believes new thinking is needed. People should pay their licence. That would be my own view on us, the law of the land. At the moment, it does need to be replaced and reformed and we had the commission on the future of the media. I don't think it went fair enough. I don't think it went into the detail it needed to go into in relation to online. Well, the forecast largely dry and sunny this morning with just a few isolated showers. 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The death has taken place of Mary Patricia Hohe, four Rosemind Kilmackrennan and four Park Naholonga Maharnchur Bunkrana on Highland Radio. Good morning again to you. Welcome back to the program. Good to have you on board this Thursday. Let's get to some of your comments as we head towards the bingo numbers today's jackpot day as well, by the way, so very exciting if you're playing to the same rules apply to e scooters them and the quads two of my pet hates know we're talking about quads here being used in workplace environments. What about people that ride quad bikes on beaches for fun recreational quads doesn't apply in that instance. How long does the cert last for eternally? Does he really think that farmers will abide by the rule of 16 all young fellas well under that will be driving them. It's not realistic to say young person growing up on the farm not to drive the quad around the farm or up the road to other land. Well, you know, I presume they're looking for a cultural change. That's going to take a while. I agree with you that's happens. It's going to continue to happen. A caller wants to know does the same law apply in England re quads as well as here. If not, why not? I'm not sure what the laws are in England on that one. Oh, hey, oh, they actually throw Wellington boots. I thought it was some kind of culture euphemism for stuff I probes rather not know chuck in the welly. I don't know what it could be your mind. I don't want to get in it either. They literally throw a Wellington boot 995 of them. I call it believes the protests were a reality check for some of our politicians. Well, it's going to be counterintuitive because it plays directly into their hands and wait to see the laws, the regulations and the rules that will come into effect off the back of yesterday because even, you know, how would you describe it? I'm not I don't do I'm not a fan of labels. Okay, but for me to make this point, I have to sort of go down that route. Okay, even say, for instance, you know, right leaning or sympathetic senators to these and media all have roundly condemned yesterday's activities. Amazingly how quickly politicians act and come out and speak when it affects them immediately. They got a bit of verbal abuse and jostled yet my family's lives are falling apart and politicians really dragging their heels. But if if that happened out at the micro protests, for an example, now the scheme that's there at the moment is an improvement, but we know when we discuss the defective concrete scheme routinely on this program as you know regularly, if that protest wasn't as peaceful, as big and as controlled as it was, we probably wouldn't have they could have used it as an excuse to sort of say, well, that's the, you know, stick to the 1910 scheme. Now there's still a lot of work to do, but throwing things around the place. Justin people foul language, you know, that's not that plays into the decision maker's hands. Fair play to the real men and women who were in Dublin protesting yesterday, but it's gone past protesting the government to gangsters and won't listen. Time for return to the dark days. I mean, is that really where we're going now? The good men and women of Ireland counted 200. You know, so I'm not sure it's the general view out there. Who's to say? On to the patient survey. Every patient in the hospital should feel safe, employ more security personnel like Sligo have done in theory. It might be a good idea. Doesn't always work. Another folded job for a nurse, I think. Pardon my ignorance on this in increased security in what way like what has what what could happen in the absence of security if you know what I mean. What happened in Sligo? Why is there extra security? What what would make people feel more safe? Um, like what is there a particular problem or experience you've had that makes you want that? And I ask only just so I can better understand it. Good morning, Greg. I want to point out that we have many numerous complaints to the hospital system and no response. Why is this going to be different? Because I think it's a different team about, you know, the quality of care, interactions, communication, food, you know, the stuff that can be sort of reviewed on an ongoing basis and little changes can be made. Now, if it's in terms of, you know, when someone was discharged, you know, lack of staff. I mean, I'm sure they'll take on board things like, you know, we've been waiting for 12 hours in the ED, but that's not actionable. I think really speaking to Sandra, the stuff that they can make a difference in the experience, you know, the fantastic nurses down there, they really are. I've dealt with them myself and they were fantastic to us and they have been in the past as well. Maybe there's little things, ways that things can be improved, but obviously that doesn't talk to the greater problems which aren't going to be fixed with a, with a survey. That's all we need. Another manager at Nutter Kenning Hospital says another listener. Three weeks into edge cutting season, very little done. Roads are dangerous, closed in with overgrown bushes and briars and no one wants to move in some more risk of collisions. Something needs to be done. I've spotted quite a bit of it down what area in particular because it might go by municipal district, you know, so maybe no harm, maybe no harm in letting us know. Good morning, Greg. 185,000 euro raised on Jive for June for Donegal Hospice. A big thank you to Highland Radio for all the support, big thanks to all who took part and all who held a event and who donated. Everyone's support is very much appreciated. All money raised will be used to care for patients of Canter Donegal regards, Isabel chair of Donegal Hospice. 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Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. OK, you're very welcome back to the Ninetal Noon Show. And we're joined on the program now by Declan Murphy. Good morning to you, Declan. How are you keeping? Hi Greg, yeah, I'm not too bad. Good to chat to you, right? And we're talking about Don Canini National School and some concern about safety at the school. Declan, what's your experience or what can you tell listeners not familiar with the area? Yeah, no problem, Greg. Yeah, so the experience is as recent as yesterday. So I've got two small boys in Don Canini National School. And the youngest lad is in junior infants. He gets picked up at 2 p.m. and the oldest fellow gets picked up at 3 p.m. And so yesterday I was on the school run myself and went to the school parked up at the community centre as parents usually do and then walked up towards the school. There were a few parents congregated outside the school gates waiting for the kids to be taken to the gates by the teacher which is standard every day. And so the kids came down and they all took their parents' hands. We went to the pedestrian crossing just outside the school gates. One of the kids that pushed the button on the traffic lights and they're all told to wait for the green man before you proceed across the road. So the green man started the flesh. We start to walk across the road with the kids holding their hands. And with that, a vehicle coming from the Donegal town site I can only describe it as heartling towards us and then screeching on the brakes. The vehicle skidded for at least maybe 10 to 15 feet before it finally came to a halt and it actually had to put its passenger side wheel onto the curb to stop. So with that you can imagine there was a lot of animation, frustrated parents and it sort of created a lot of discussion here locally in the community yesterday and just a conversation around how we need to highlight the dangers with the traffic in Doncanilly in general but around the school in particular is really bad and it's an accident waiting to happen. What needs to happen do you think? It's a decent stretch of road. It feels kind of residential now to some extent Doncanilly unfortunately and that's subject to all together. People don't feel they have to slow down going through and that school, if I'm correct, you come around a bit of a sweeping corner and then you're at the school effectively. Is that right? Going up the hill slight hill? Yeah, so coming from the Donegal town site there's a good long stretch coming in as we call it the Mill Road and then there's a slow sweeping corner where you approach the school. Now there is a number of signs when you come in it's a pretty fast road coming into the village and it's the same on the other side as well too just to mention that on the Kili Bag site I mean I don't know what the solution is. As I've said to a number of people I mean you've got a national school that was built during the 1950s and there's really there's been nothing to be in a different place to sort of support a school that's been built in the 50s there's a lot more traffic on the road the roads are obviously really good surface now so vehicles are they're moving a lot faster people seem to be in a lot more of a panic nowadays but the school still stands the same, nothing has changed so it is quite frightening from a parent's perspective especially when you witness it for stands in terms of what needs to be done I'm not really sure what the solution is Greg I mean you know people have talked about rumble strips, traffic common I myself think maybe the lights are not in the right position the traffic lights themselves, maybe they should be further back from the school maybe there should be two sets of traffic lights but there needs to be some measures put in place do you know if there's temporary speed limit signs there as you come round that corner is there a light that would flash to say slow down because I think sometimes we could get down the road here whereby the council say well it's not our responsibility and TII will say well we can't do this we can't do that because it's a national primary and we'll have to do a survey that stuff immediately why can't we have because I think they're really effective a flashing sign just as you're coming round that corner you know saying school ahead slow down slow you know what I mean I think sometimes we should try the simplest things first and then get caught up in surveys and the big stuff I don't know what you think I mean that's something that you know I mentioned as well I said to actually one of the teachers that spoke to that side of the local community meeting so I'd lived in the UK for five or six years and in the UK and it was in Scotland there was a lot of the smaller villages have these really sort of bright flashing sign signage lights so that they read your speed back to you they're really effective because I know myself I've witnessed going into a small village maybe going a little bit too fast and you know you get your speed read back to you and it's like a very sort of vibrant light maybe that's the first there's a set going into Capri from the Donegal side you always see people put on the brakes now that it's there there's ones going down into Sligo as you probably would know Declan they're really effective because it's an instant feedback of what you're doing and you can't ignore it yes there are the two orange flashing lights they're really effective but it's not effective and I think by the time you get up to the school you've probably forgotten you've seen those lights we need to be doing more 100% Greg and I just want to hide it as well this is not the first occasion there's been a number of occasions where there's been incidents or near misses high potentials whatever you want to call them out of that school my wife on the first day back of the school term this year had reported to the council an issue where someone ran the red lights and I know myself and my other parents last year had a close call they're trying to cross the pedestrian crossing as well same thing a vehicle ran the lights so it's an ongoing issue there's an issue at the school itself in terms of parking there's no word suitable to pull in when the bus comes in there's no word for any of the parents to try to park in the park of the community centre and then walk up cross the pedestrian walkway where the issue is that's where we experienced the problem yesterday if there was somewhere at the school that we could physically pull in for a drop off a pick up I think it would ultimately resolve a lot of this but then you're talking you're into a lot of money then there's a lot of funding needed for that but we need some sort of control measure put in place I think eminently before there is an issue a big issue out of that school if it's not already the case it certainly should be the case these schools and it's not just here we see it right around the county they were there often before the road was built to accommodate heavy traffic and it should be part of planning that safety measures in schools are put in place because as I say they're there they're the fixed object it's the high speed and great surface roads that are built alongside them often or widen and increase the traffic listen it's something I think something needs to be done I think we don't want this to get tied down in TII surveys or you can't do rumble strips residential all that kind of stuff we just need actually well what can we do and what can we do really really quickly to avoid something worse happening into the future I think it's a reasonable request and it's been reasonably articulated Declan the young people's lives here and I think that's why something needs to be done good stuff and the schools are involved with this as well by the way it's actually Duncan Indian National School that issued the initial warning saying that look at this was a scary situation talk to your children obviously we can do that but we need the road users and the road and the infrastructure to also do it as well I think Declan I mean again just to highlight the fact that you know one more time Duncan really in general from the Kili bag side right through to the Donegal town side of the village it's been treated like an airstrip by a lot of vehicles I've witnessed vehicles overtaken on the main street in Duncan really if you can believe that something needs to get done on the streets I'm just looking at an image of it here now that's absolutely not an image of the overtaken but an image of the street to imagine that that's happening right okay take care Declan hopefully something comes of it and I mean you or the school or stay in touch if we can give it any further publicity we read if no issue with that at all thanks Declan thanks Greg bye bye and for those of you watching you'll see the main street of Duncan really where Declan witnessed overtaking it's just used as a sort of a rat run and a bit of a pain if you're getting from Donegal town to Kili bags I think by some in any case alright okay thanks Declan for that if you're listening down in that area and you also have a student of that school any suggestions or what you think needs to be done please let us know there's a coffee morning taking place this morning in the new hall in Falkara it's starting now shortly and it runs to 1pm and it's in aid of Donegal Hospice so if you want to support that get along right back with more of your comments on Declan's new show watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com I've just had the Eclipse cinemas experience wow they truly have taken a night at the movies to a whole new level amazing recliner chairs directors lounge VIP rooms pizza and hot food served to your seat have 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Police in London they have like 34000 officers the police the part the Met Police had to issue a public apology because of basically an institutional lack of confidence by the public in the Met Police and I thought that was absolutely extraordinary you know there's apparently like a thousand officers in London have either been suspended for duty or put on restricted duties here and I think there was 201 that have been suspended and 860 that have been put on restricted duties in here in London so are those figures in Ireland are they that's London the Met Police they have a commissioner Mark Rowland who became commissioner a year ago and I thought it was just sort of as an outsider it was absolutely extraordinary could you imagine in Ireland doing what the Met Police you know obviously with the commissioners approval there was an independent review of them and they found there was a lot of shall we say issues all over the place so what is your point are you saying that you believe there is a lot of rotten apples in the guards that need rooting out I mean what's the what is the what is the comparison you're making there well I guess primarily comparison was they had the courage to issue a public apology saying we have a very serious problem because the public doesn't have confidence in us and if you look at the Aractus Doyle Aaron I think it's an identical situation but here in Ireland where there's like a total lack of confidence it's almost without being sort of derogatory it seems to be almost sort of a master to slave relationship but the slaves vote the masters in Raymond there's an election coming now in the next 18 months that's the time to root it does it not threaten them with the hanging nothing never changes you know it's like it's controlled by two or three parties basically but that's the one of the people though Raymond do you see you're criticising the politicians and I get that right but it is the public that vote them in bringing their hands of this and just because there's 200 people angry outside about the Doyle yesterday it's still what is there for right or wrong is the democratic will of the people not necessarily the parties that are coalescing now but my point is that if people are angry often and dissatisfied enough you address that at election time surely well no Greg I understand the point you're making you enter corruption and brown envelopes and favours in here or perceived on the road like last week I was listening to your show and this sort of upset me seriously there is a long term I think it was long term family fish business until he begs to come around the peers and if I understood correctly they were having to go out of business because fish was coming in off the west coast to Africa supposedly okay I'm not a fisherman and basically fish being caught off Donegal can't compete with fish coming in from west Africa and then yesterday you had a gentleman on your show I think he was representing one of the organization and it was like it was just terrible he's basically saying there's no hope out there right now and then I think from an earlier show and I'm not up on this it's like Ireland only has 15% of the total catch off the IRC and you sort of wonder what in God's name and why and it's like this family business until he begs there's something needs to be done and what you're saying is and sorry to move you on effectively what you're saying is that all of the reasons you've been outlining is the reasons as to why people take to the streets like they did but you wouldn't condone the justling, the foul and abusive language the gallows, the effigies would you or do you No, no, I'm not justifying that but there's an underlying you know when you've got the current peace shock and a play like they're the victims in here but we don't want to address the real cause there's a serious issue in here and like Greg, I'm sorry the people in Doyle, Aaron or wherever they're all looking for supposedly big jobs down the road in Brussels and we do whatever you Brussels tell us to do there was a number of years ago there was a prominent English politician he was a former chancellor and a few years before he became chancellor he said the way and he wasn't English he was I think Indian he got a gentleman named Saaji Javed and he said the way you deal with the Irish is either threaten them or you bribe them and Brussels has learned you know they've learned everything and do you think that anyone even if they were of a different mindset wouldn't go up there and collect their 120 grand a year and then get used to that and maybe think wow I could get 250 grand a year in Europe that's the system and it seems that anyone who gets involved in the system sort of I don't know not everyone but for most people it becomes something that they want to progress in listen I have to go beyond that Raymond thank you very much indeed David Hall is a regular guest on this program and was at Lenster House yesterday in meeting Deputy Dara O'Brien David thanks for taking the call I appreciate it good morning Greg what was your experience David you will talk us through what happened to you I was in to meet Minister O'Brien yesterday for a one-to-one relationship obviously housing and we do a lot of work through I Care Housing and in relation to Margaret Holder's organization and various projects I had a meeting with the Minister in his office I walked out of the building while walking out the building a number of staff were obviously issuing concerns as to what entrances and exits were safe to exit the building from the most remarkable experience to be listening to a number of ministers and junior ministers and their staff having conversations amongst themselves as to which entrances and exits were safe to exit from and what badge IDs and stuff would be required in their national parliament I had a genuine sense of fear I had entered the building I parked around by Marion Square I had entered the building in Kildare Street and while walking across obviously the place was entirely cordoned off the guards had made the decision to cordon off the entire area and there was a lot of shouting and roaring while I was on my way in when I came out of the Minister House I was mistaken for a TV or member of staff and they don't know me they know nothing about me but it was irrelevant I was exiting a building and they decided without any cause I've been a party to many protests outside House House I've been a party to many protests outside repossessions of properties and auction houses and they're all done with a just cause and I do them again in the morning but there's no abuse of individuals of no threatening behaviour no such environments that would make you fearful for your safety and fearful for the safety of others what was that to you David they believed you were a TD I was working for Europe I was working for Brussels it was a pathetic accident you couldn't have found somebody of the most opposite leaving the building and I just showed the complete incoherence and ignorance that was on display and a sheer ranting for the sake of ranting and I don't know if it was therapeutic for those that were involved but whatever it was they were ranting and raving with no relevance whatsoever in the sense that I'm in protecting the very people they claim to be representing and others trying to house them and set up a housing charity which now owns 510 homes with 1500 tenants from scratch again to protect people from housing and homeless and set up an organised and ranted charity for the last 10 years since the recession helping 22,000 people in mortgages protect them from losing their homes so these were just a group of head bangers who were shouting and roaring and ranting and raving and threatening using violent language and I'm very very unsettling to have an aunt to guard me then escorted me to my car because they were trying to clear the gates of the Marion Street entrance to the house where staff had to park and T.D.'s and senators had to park and the gates were being blocked by a small group of people as I say the guards were as professional as they could be under the circumstances they made a decision in relation to effectively locking down this outside of the city centre for a couple of hundred people so what do you say David to those that in situations like this it's actually you're most likely to hear in a program like this and I'm sure it's the situation nationally you're most likely a person is most likely to text in if they are sympathetic to yesterday's protest that's just a fact of life because people are thinking it went too far generally they're not going to get the following but my question is a lot of those will say enough is enough we tried the softly softly it's not enough but here's Greg here's the question what was yesterday a bunch of tourists walked past as the guards were bringing me back to my car and they asked me what's the protest about I said I don't know I don't actually know it's about immigration, it's about Irish lives mattering now I I'm not sure I'll know that normally there's a cause that requires a change so what was the cause yesterday throw anyone who's not Irish out of the country what was actually the ask farmers you know what the protest was last week we would protest regularly in relation to housing we know what the requirements of what the request is then it does not justify an escalation to an intimidation to verbal abuse and to violence that is just not acceptable under any set of circumstances in any semblance of a democracy it is not appropriate to threaten and shout and roar at TD senators or indeed their staff or indeed me or anybody else that is unacceptable behaviour and there's no escalation in the world justifies a warrant that all right and in a way whatever the motivation is this is going to be counterintuitive because not as many people will turn out as the next protest there's going to be increased security it's going to fast track certain laws I think whatever they were trying to achieve they've probably achieved the opposite David and yesterday they had this gallows thing yesterday and I sort of said this is anti-government like you I said this is an anti-government protest and I came close to the gallows to find not only were there sort of photographs of Leo Bradcar and there's on Mary Lou there's all Paul Murphy everybody was up on the gallows Greg everybody everybody's up there Roger Gregg Orman there's no rhyme no reason there was no plan there was no execution of a plan this was a civil unrest for the sake of us which is going to cause great difficulty for legitimate protest and we have a lot of difficulties and challenges and we need the government to give up their arts and solve a lot of difficult problems is unfortunately not only what you just said in relation to backfiring this now is going to give government a 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Good morning to you Good morning What was very, very frightening obviously being there stood with 35 year old children witnessing the light going green going to cross and seeing a cold truck coming a small lorry coming towards its speed and thinking it's going to slow down and then the horrific screeching noises it was just so frightening it was so frightening And you just got home lucky, felt lucky that you actually got home safe with your family very lucky my heart was in took my son home I didn't say much to him and he came in the door and he said to his dad we were nearly dead and he explained the situation that was him coming to his own solution he had the own awareness of the seriousness a four years old You talk about the fact that you were there picking up the younger children but there's older children leaving a little later at 3pm you have concerns that you know this wouldn't have just been a close shave absolutely I have an 8 year old that just wants to light goes green him and his friends and we're there with them but they run on across the road and only far we were holding our little kids hands yesterday and we stopped you know in the middle of the road wondering was this man going to stop but the rest of the children would have ran on and they would have been hit and the fact that the fella in the lorry you know they would have been goneers and it's not a very big sidewalk and there could have been people on that as well you see and I think what really needs to happen here is parents voices need to be heard the schools voice needs to be heard and as I said to Declan, it doesn't matter if it's the council the TII, the Department of Education whatever it might be, parents now are saying we need at the very least flashing lights displaying people's speed telling them to slow down we've got one really strong warning here and we might not get another warning order before something happens no, I don't think the next time it could be the real time somebody gets hit I know parents yesterday that were putting their children in the car with their heads in their hands because they just heard the noise and they thought somebody was hit so it is going to be a reality in the next while definitely I don't know I think they are awaiting funding if I'm correct Dunkinny National School are awaiting funding to look at the drop-off pick-up space that is there so hopefully that is forthcoming now we're going to put a link in the description and then we're going to put a link in the description and we're going to put a link in the description and then we're going to put a link so hopefully that is forthcoming now we're going to put inquiries in obviously to the Department of Education to see if they have anything to say and who is to say it might even help speed those things up order but we don't want to be talking again about another close shave we might not have that opportunity we could be talking about an awful tragedy and we don't want that and I don't think there's anyone in this country that makes decisions once or either so parents have to be listened to you're right especially whatever about us our children you know that would keep me awake at night but thanks very much for helping us highlight it with Declan I do appreciate it have a lovely day Orla bye bye I call this as Greg David's 100% correct protesting is everyone's democratic right this is David Hall but yesterday's behaviour was abysmal that kind of riotous behaviour towards elective government representatives is not appropriate believes Mary protesters as they're labelled by this text are ashamed themselves in Dublin yesterday Greg all the people in this country are fed up with the crowd that's in and all the lies they tell us but what's the alternative I don't know there are alternative candidates out there maybe they'll come forward maybe that's why so many people don't vote a lot of people don't vote if people that didn't vote voted they could actually completely change the outcome of an election you know there's what 40 odd percent of people simply don't vote and then go ah it's crazy the people that are in there and that government making the decisions and I get why people be apathetic but if you don't vote vote you can't influence the change and I'm not saying everyone wants change a lot of people are happy up to 40% satisfaction in the government in terms of popularity as a collective they're more popular than Sinn Fein you know and that's really important to point out a lot of people are happy with what's the current government are doing and the direction they're going not everyone is but unless everyone votes you don't really know what the outcome might be when people in power are inconvenienced by the people they represent they make noise it's not fair and stuff like that they have no shame Greg the people voted the TD in and the TDs are not working for the people look what happened about the micro and the foreign nationals coming in the government don't care about the Irish a lot of people will watch the news this morning I would have seen the extensive bombing of Ukraine for an example and would say look and are saying we need to be doing our bit and are happy with the way things are that's a voice that is not heard as much because they kind of get on with life and are happy and often we do hear an awful lot of people then of course that maybe they're not talking specifically about Ukrainians I don't know but this caller says the government don't care about the Irish Hi Greg all of Donagol should have been up at government buildings yesterday the way this government has treated the people in the canty looked at the next election another caller says I think the problem with the Finnegale Fina full green government has is that their inability to run government is being found out at so many levels and in so many ways they steer from one crisis to the next and still do not fix them housing homelessness defective concrete cost living child children's operations calms to slur violence in the street lack of guardie drugs family court system stock education refugees farmers the list goes on and on and on they do their unfulfilled promises and making a mess of normal people's lives believe this listener Greg Raymond's points and observations very representative of the views of many Irish people I don't doubt that for a second right let's see where are we now okay now I've got plenty of time here good morning Greg please could you give a big shout out to Sue McGlynn from Bonomy which are a very happy 70th birthday today lots of love and best wishes from Damien, Kathy, Jack and Harry congratulations to Ethan Harkin Falkara on passing his driving test today from Uncle John McFadden please play red haired Mary for him I can't do that on this program I can do but we don't have time someone else will well done Ethan your freedom awaits hopefully now you can get on the road tax and insured and now you're able to do pretty much whatever you want Shay Robinson in Termini's 8 today hi Shay you're probably at school maybe this is a little bit late but anyway Joshine and Finn can tell you that we said hello to you Shay have a happy birthday the big 8 okay let's get to some more of your comments here my heart goes out to the poor children trying to get an operation it's a disgrace that the families have to go private to get their children's surgery I would bet that if the parents said they would go private they would be operated on within a month it's the government won't fund the money for these operations just forcing the parents to go private I'm not sure if it's I'm not sure it's just all about funding there's something going on with the system there because there's been no end of promises and targets that haven't been met I'm not sure it's about money a caller says you have to break eggs to make an omelette the people of this country have had enough of this government continued purposeful ignorance I should expect more of these protests it's within our right to seek real change furthermore Mr Martin in his role should be denouncing the right to protest free I don't think anyone is opposed to protests there's protests outside Dallaren every day of the week I think it's the reason why there's commentary on it today and yesterday and there will be going forward is the nature of it the jostling the pushing the phone cameras in the face the foul language I'm not particularly sensitive but I wasn't on the receiving end of that language hi could you please pass this on to people driving from Carendon to Malantan in the dark lots of people walk on this road without hi vis vests or a jacket on just take care when driving thanks and everyone out in the roads it does dawn and in between should have hi vis on for their safety and for other road users as well Greg the people running the country are doing a poor job so they keep pushing everyone down and 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protests outside the door yesterday as disgraceful she says what happened has no place in our democracy and she has spoken to the guarder commissioner 13 people were arrested and security at government buildings is to be reviewed meanwhile the public expenditure minister has defended the government's decision to send four ministers to the United States for international events there has been some criticism that the T shock tonnage green party leader and health of the country at the same time the doll resumed this week in their absence a denigal deputy says the local government bill is a missed opportunity to give local authorities the overhaul and review they urgently need deputy Thomas Pringle says the legislation should have been the chance to foster true local empowerment not just a symbolic gesture it's proposed a pedestrian footbridge be erected adjacent to Castlefin Bridge in a bid to alleviate serious safety concerns there's fear someone could be seriously injured walking on the bridge due to the speed at which cars are travelling on the route. has confirmed that high road will be temporarily blocked for five nights next week to allow for essential road works the works will take place from Monday to Friday between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. diversions will be in place via new line road and circular road and it's been suggested that the former Reynolds music shop close to the local link boss stop will be available on Friday and Friday. canny could be acquired for use as a temporary boss station pending the development of the town's transport hub off the pier's road. the very least a new boss shelter with seating needs to be provided the national transport authority has indicated it is prepared to provide funding for a new shelter and council officials are looking at the options those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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