 Smell musky. Musky? You think musky doesn't sound like a nice smell? I'm not saying you smell muskier, because I have to go out this door now and face Caroline, the first person I meet. I don't think you're going to make it to the front door sometime. See you, you see the way you... I trapped you there. You did trap me, and I fell for it. Your phone's digging away, you better put it on silent. Oh, I've just gone live, accent. Oh, there you go. That's the notification. So, folks, if you put on notifications, you'll know exactly when we go live. I'll say that. On YouTube. Oh, very good. All right, Lee, have a lovely day. You too, good luck. OK, take care of yourself. It is the 9-till-noon show. Coming up, it's a busy one for you, as always, of course. But first, let's get a news update from Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Kablet is expected to sign off on financial assistance for businesses in Ruffo and Castlefin today, affected by flash floods on Saturday. Proposals are coming before Kablet this morning to reopen the Business Enterprise Fund. Support is available for homeowners through the Department of Social Protection's Assistance Fund. Agriculture Minister Charney McConn-Nokes says he agrees with calls for flood relief schemes in Ruffo and Castlefin to be expedited. I know there has been plans put in place by the OPW working with the county council, but it's important that those happen as quickly as possible. There's been ongoing flooding issues over many, many years in both those towns in particular, both Castlefin and Ruffo, as well as many others. But there is particular proposals which can actually alleviate the problems in Castlefin and Ruffo. It's important that those are expedited and I know coming out of the meeting of the county council yesterday, that every effort is going to be made by the county council working with the OPW. Searches are being carried out in Farned after a Galway man went missing. Grey King was visiting the area with friends and was last seen at midnight on Sunday. People are being asked to check their land on any outbuildings. In a social media post, a friend of Greg says they are all very worried as a design of character for him to go missing. A Donegal man is to be sentenced today after being fined guilty of the rape and sexual abuse of his young daughter. 55-year-old Michael Carter of Kinnego Balli Magamban, Kranah was fined guilty last month of one kind of rape and 25 kinds of sexual assault when his daughter was aged between nine and 12 years old between June 2010 and June 2014. His daughter, 22-year-old Karen Harkin, has waived her right to anonymity and said in her victim impact statement that she will no longer imprison herself in feelings of guilt and shame that are not mine to carry. The full report is available on our website, hynandridiot.com. Government ministers are due to hear this morning about the recommendations of the All Island Strategic Reel Review. The draft report includes plans for the restoration of a real link between Letter Kenny and Derry. Among the proposals being outlined by Transport Minister Eamon Ryan are more letterification of the network and services at least every two hours between the main urban centres and our link between main cities. Finally for weather, a good deal of dry weather today with sunny spells this morning becoming cloudier this afternoon with some shards possible, highest temperatures of 17 or 18 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. There's nothing quite like a muck delivery in your own home or eating a quarter poundy with cheese in your PJs. 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You hear them first here before anyone else on community guard information. We're going to be talking about the future of democracy. We're going to get an update on those new IVF rules that are coming in or the new availability of it. We're going to hear an appeal as it relates to that missing person, friends and family going through an awful time at the moment. Does that end so much more besides we want you involved in the conversation or starting it, sharing your information with us. 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts. If you want to text or WhatsApp us from outside the Republic, it's 003538 660 25,000. Maybe you caught up in some of these extreme weather events overseas and you want to let us know what it's like there. Is it exactly as it's being portrayed? Is it worse? Is it not as bad? Interested in any feedback at all whatsoever? Or give us a call in 07491 25,000. The Donegal Democrat this morning, sandbags and piles of debris were the only signs left of the deluge that swept through Raffaulon Saturday evening. By Sunday afternoon, there's a palpable sense of relief that the rain had stopped and for many. And that it was business as usual after the previous evenings, frantic cleanup at the Tans Diamond. Local people were coming and going, picking sandbags from the temporary depot and checking in with each other. You can read more about that, of course, on the inside of that paper. On to the Irish Independent this morning. The state will pay for a full cycle of IVF for couples seeking to give birth under a new scheme to be introduced in September. The programme will be available to couples who do not have children and where the woman is under 41 years old. What do you think about that, the age, the upper age limit being 41? It's not just that though. Along with the age limit, there are also criteria around the body mass index of women of women applying to the scheme. So they will be able to apply. But A, and there's another criteria too, which is really quite confusing compared to international best practice. A, you must be under 41. And B, you must have a certain BMI level or certainly not be above a certain BMI level. Couples who have a known clinical cause of infertility will also miss out. People, couples who have a known clinical cause of infertility will also miss out on the free IVF programme. The criteria for access to the scheme were recommended by a working group of clinical experts. I actually thought it was couples who have an unknown clinical cause of infertility will miss out. I must get that double checked here. I hope it's not a misprint in the paper this morning. But anyway, the criteria for access to the scheme were recommended by a working group of clinical experts. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly secured 10 million for the scheme in last September's budget and is expected to seek around 30 million to continue the programme into the new year. Just hold off on any opinion as it relates to the known clinical cause of infertility because as I say, that doesn't make sense. I would imagine it's an unknown one because that's where the problem lies. For about 25% of couples, for about 25% of couples, the cause of infertility is unknown. And if you haven't been able to conceive for two years in other countries, then you can normally go through a state-backed scheme. As I say, I'll double check that. It could be a misprint in that paper because I think it's important clarification. But we have been speaking about that over the years as you regular listeners would be aware. So we'll have to get someone in the know to see whether or not they believe it goes far enough. The Irish Times, as night follows day, ExtraGuardie follows national newspaper and radio and TV coverage. And as predicted, dozens of additional officers are to be assigned to guard stations in North and South Central Dublin within two weeks, Assistant Commissioner Angela Willis has said, now, it's the capital. It's where a lot of people come to visit. I get it, it needs to be safe. But we up here in the Northwest are constantly saying, we've got this particular problem. We've got these unique geographical challenges. We need more guardie. We say, politicians say it, chief guard in the county say it, and nothing comes of it, even when we have massive drugs being found on our shores. A horrific murder recently. People being stabbed and fighting in broad daylight, no extra resources. But as soon as there's a, and this sounds incredibly insensitive to the tourists that was attacked. And I don't mean to be in any way insensitive. But as I say, last week, as soon as night, as sure as night follows day, as soon as it started getting the media coverage, all of a sudden extra guardie can be found to put into stations in Dublin. And yet places outside of Dublin, nothing, no extra resources it seems. Well, anyway, assistant commissioner Angela Willis was speaking as Drew Harris must be on annual leave. She added that these guardie would be deployed on high visibility patrols in an effort to tackle evidence or sorry, violence and antisocial behavior in the city again. The call has been made locally here in certain areas. That we need more high profile guard of presence, but there's no guardie available. Then we have to talk about getting cameras because there's no guardie available. But now in Dublin, they're gonna have extra guardie and high visibility patrols. Which as I say, I don't begrudge them that don't get me wrong. Of course, it's very important that the capital, it's our capital that people feel safe in it. It just always seems to be the case that we can bang drums here till we're blown in the face and nothing comes of it. And as soon as it's on the front pages in Dublin, all of a sudden, the guardie are available. Ms. Willis, who is in charge of policing in the capital, said guard commissioner Drew Harris had also promised that the Dublin region would receive a continued flow of new personnel from the guard of college in the months ahead. Speaking at the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee yesterday, Ms. Willis said a recently opened guard station on O'Connell Street had very, very little of any callers after 10 p.m. daily despite being open until 2 a.m. So as I say, and I've leveled this, I've made this observation in the past that unfortunately our policing in this country seems to be reactionary. And it's not the fault of, you know, mid-ranked guardie and regular members. It's the people that make the decisions they're reacting again rather than being proactive. A bizarre story across many of the papers today. Guardie are examining, this is the daily mail, we'll take it out. A guardie are examining, if a criminal investigation is necessary after more than 400,000 euro worth of gold belonging to the national party was allegedly removed from a vault by two party members. The party leader, Justin Barrett, initially claimed the gold had been stolen and contacted Guardie in the Dublin 4 region. They posted on their social media saying that they were expelling people from the party and this money had been, this gold had been stolen and the people who they alleged may have been involved in it had control of the social media and all this kind of stuff. Really bizarre as it unfolded. Once contacted, Guardie from a nearby district detective unit began to investigate and managed to locate the missing gold which was then returned to a safe location according to sources familiar with the incident. In a statement, Mr Barrett accused two men of conspiring together to remove from the party's safe vault in Dublin a considerable quantity in gold which formed the main part of the party's reserve in the event of a mishap in general or more particularly a collapse in the value of flat currency. Now obviously, you know, it's not unusual for political parties to seek donations. It is a little bit strange, particularly for a political party that has no elected representatives to be able to convert those donations into gold bars and store them in a safe in their offices in Dublin. It really is quite bizarre, perhaps even the makings of a Netflix three-parter down the line. How do you buy leaflets and canvas and all that kind of stuff with big gold bars? Well, anyway, Mr Barrett wrote, the only safe and secure means of proceeding was to contact the Guardie. It was, I can assure everyone, an absolute last resort to secure the vaults from the removal to God knows where of the party's property. The party leader continued, whatever the motive of the two individuals, I can only speculate and might be sued of a such speculation. So I shall refrain. I can't string two words together. Maybe any coffee or something. I don't know, my mouth must be very dry. But anyway, so it's a really bizarre story. I don't know how it's gonna play out, but this is a story donations in gold. How do you spend it then on whatever you need to spend it on? The Irish Daily Star today's story, which I presume will come as a surprise to some and send an interesting message out. That's the only way I can describe it without fear of getting into trouble. But a high profile Irish celebrity charged with defilement of a minor is to have his passport returned to him next month to allow him travel overseas for two weeks. The man in his 40s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of three charges of engaging in sexual acts with a child under the age of 17 in Dublin on days between 2010 and early 2011. The man who denies all charges against him is to face a trial which is due to begin on October 9th and is expected to last five days. The court previously heard the complainant is now in her late 20s. In a bail variation application at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday, defense barrister Ian Woodland said the application is for the return of the accused's passport for August 3rd to August 17th. So this person who is widely known, I think, but on governed media like this, names can't be mentioned, of course, but this person is widely known. He has been given his passport back to go on holidays in August for two weeks, but is facing trial in October for the defilement of a child. It's, as I say, I would say that those that are affected by that, let me put it like that, will be saying how can such a thing happen, I know people are innocent and proven otherwise, but that being said, it does seem a little bit bizarre to me anyway. The sun this morning tells us, and this is a common sense, hopefully now coming to the fore. We talked about this regularly on this show as recently as last Friday, and this is about maybe increasing the role pharmacists might have in healthcare to, presumably, alleviate pressure on GPs and who's to say, maybe even hospitals. Well, new plans to allow pharmacists to prescribe some medicines are being put in place in Ireland. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says it will be a welcome move for beleaguered GPs, and Donnelly told how pharmacists would receive additional training. He said, we'll have very significant additional training, specialist training, a regulatory framework in place. We're working closely with the regulator on this, and a task force that we put together is a very serious group of people, very serious. He said this scheme would only be for certain medicines, adding this would only be done with the pharmacists as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and there's lots of little things, and you know them yourself. I don't have to give you examples that you're looking for a script for that hopefully the pharmacist may be able to prescribe. And finally, in the Irish Daily Mirror this morning, grocery inflation rose by 14.7% in the 12 weeks to July 9 compared with the same period last year. You know, we could be easily hoodwinked into thinking that, you know, oh, milk's come down, bread's coming down, everything's moving in the right direction. But no, 14.7% increase in the cost of your groceries year on year, that's huge, that really is huge. The latest data, which was released by market analyst Kantar, also showed consumers visiting shops more frequently compared with last year. But despite inflation continuing to rise, it was down from last month's figure of 15.8% and the lowest it's been all year. But listen, any fall in inflation, it's hard to welcome a fall in inflation from 15.8% to 14.7% when really what it means is your stuff is still going up by 14.7%. Ema Healy, Business Development Director of Kantar said, this is the second month in a row there has been a drop in inflation which is welcome news for shoppers, but we need to see deflation, or we need to see at least inflation running around about 2% or 3% 14.7% for food which we need to sustain ourselves and to feed our families is way, way, way, way too high. I don't know why clear savings that they're getting at wholesale level are not being passed down to the consumer. All right, that's a run through of what's making the papers today. 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We're joined on the programme now by Neil Ford, PRO of the Irish Deer Society. Good morning, Neil. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning, dear listeners. No, it's very good to have you. It's very good to have you with us. OK, so there has been some commentary locally about deer and the deer population, and we'll work through some of that and also talk about the column, what impact that might be having. But it was stated here on this programme and elsewhere by a local councillor, Michael McClaffordy, that TB is on the rise in his area, maybe in Donegal, and this is down to deer. Deer are to blame. So, I mean, is that the case? It's not borne out by any research that's been carried out. There was a study made of deer in Sligo just a few years ago, and they found no incidence of deer of TB in the deer at all. There is TB in the herd in Wicklow. One of the reasons why that may be prominent there, why it is more likely to be seen here, is due to the density of deer in Wicklow, which is approaching areas in Europe where you have a similar issue, where the very high density of deer, there is an incidence of TB in the deer. But even then, it's very, very low. I just had a look at the figures there yesterday. It's 0.7% of the deer are reacting, are showing signs of TB. Of course, it's the deer that have been culled. So, you know, we don't know the overall figure. Yeah, OK. Well, that's encouraging also. There was some claims that Lyme disease, deer are responsible for Lyme disease. I hadn't heard this before. I mean, normally it's ticks that I hear it of, but maybe it's ticks being transported on deer. I don't know. What's your information in that regard? Well, you get certain parts of the country. I live here in County Waterford and I shoot deer on a number of farms and woodland just close by. And there's no ticks on the deer at all. But I have shooting up and up Midtown Mountains, which is about 15, 20 miles away, and they're heavily infested with ticks. So, you'd always be cautious there with regards to getting a tick on you or getting a tick on one of the dogs. Now, of course, it's the ticks that carry the Lyme disease, not the deer. So, you'll get ticks on sheep, you'll get ticks on cattle, you'll get ticks on dogs and cats. So, really, the thing is to be cautious. One of the reasons for the rise in Lyme disease is because we now recognize it. For many years, people didn't know what it was. And it was put down to bruselosis, flu, persistent flu. And in some cases, it doesn't emerge until many years after the infection has occurred. So, the most, if you do get bitten by a tick, this is the advice I would give anybody. There are better qualified people than me to give the advice. But I would watch straight away for what we call the bullseye mark at the location of the tick bite and get treatment immediately because doctors are reluctant to give you any biotics for it, but you should really have it attacked straight away. The longer it's left, the more likely you have to have a problem. Yeah, and it's something we discuss an awful lot on this programme and you have to be a strongly advocate on your own behalf if you have any concerns as it relates to potential Lyme disease. Also, there were calls for the culling early of stags. And also, I see, do you know what? Rather than just go through bit by bit, let's talk generally speaking. We still don't know. We still don't have a sense of how many deer we have, do we? I mean, we're like, don't load, there's loads of them, there's this, that and that. But we still actually really don't know how many deer we have, which I think is a remarkable position to find ourselves in. Yeah, we have no real idea how many deer we have in the country. We haven't even a rough idea. The UK thinks that the population there has risen from 1.1 million to 2 million in the period during COVID due to an absence of any culling at all. But once you get to a certain position with deer numbers, they expand exponentially in population. And you get to a certain point on that graph and beyond that, it's nearly impossible to control them. So we need to know how many deer we have and we need to know how many deer we need to cull. So you see figures of, I saw one politician stating a figure of 70% of the deer should be culled. Well, 70% of what? We don't know what the numbers are. How do we know what we've culled 70%? And there's a right way and a wrong way to do it because if you look at a farmer with a large dairy herd, he does have to take out some of the older cows. He's got to sell them on. He's got to bring on young stock. He doesn't keep all his young stock. He sells some of it. We won't go into what happens to the male calves, but that's been well covered over the last week but it's managed. And that's what we need to do with the deer herd. We need to manage the deer herd properly and we haven't done that. And everybody is to blame. You can't say, as a stalker, I can't say it's queen or it's a government or whoever. It's everybody. Stalkers themselves are more inclined. They, all right, they're paying money to shoot on queer to land. They want to shoot a buck. They want to shoot a stag. They want to shoot something big that they can bring home and say, look what I've done. When actual fact, we should be shooting does. We should be shooting the young bucks. We should be taking out quite a large number of the young bucks. Should we be removing the sport out of it? I mean, you know, should we be removing the sport out of it? That, I mean, should this not be something that is done in an incredibly organised way? I mean, we've had tens of thousands of deer called, but we don't really know if it's the right deer, what type of deer, what impact that might have. And people are out doing it for recreation as well to, you know, as sport. So do we not need to look at this and say, right, properly plan it out and do it in a more organised fashion? Well, at the moment, there's very intensive discussions going on led by Teddy Cashman of the IFA into a deer management forum. When we're looking at all of these issues, I mean, all the various issues of whether there are sufficient stalkers, whether we need professional stalkers, how we should proceed, what we need to do. Immediately, the most immediate result before that forum comes to any conclusions is stalkers on the ground need to shoot more dogs. And one of the ways for the local farming community to help themselves is to form deer management units or farming clusters, because you've got different types of stalkers. You've got the really serious guy that will put effort into it. And then you've got the butterfly stalker who go from farm to farm and just shoot your deer here and there, Jordan sees and then he's happy. And you want somebody who's gonna do the job. And for that to happen, you get a group of farmers in an area, identify how many deer you have, get a cull plan in place and tell that stalker we want you to shoot one buck and 10 does or three bucks and 30 does. And if you can't do it, we'll get somebody else. There are other factors here, though, play, isn't there? It's not simply just how and where they're culled. It's how they're managed, not just how they're managed, but how the environment that they live in is managed. Yeah, there's a, if you can't see them, you can't shoot them and you can't count them. So what happened in the UK where unfortunately repeating what they've done in the UK here, they had big blocks of forestry. They were right to the boundaries of the next door neighbor, if you like. There was no such thing as a deer lawn or little inserts or little areas that you could leave in the wood to allow a stalker to control deer in that forestry. And once deer find they're not under any pressure, well, that's where they're gonna go. And we need to redesign how we do forestry. We, there are farmers and that's up to them, but they don't want any shooting on their land, maybe for ethical reasons, whatever the reason. But what I would say to those individuals, there are people who you can bring in just for a very brief period to cull deer on your land. But it isn't fair on your neighbors if you allow large populations of deer to have a sanctuary, if you like, on your property. So we have thousands of deer culls, 2000 just shy of 2000 in Donegal in the last 12 months. We've no really, we don't really know, do we, if the truth be told, we don't really know if that will have any impact whatsoever on population numbers. We don't know what. Well, if you just, if most of them are bucks, and I say, not bucks, but stags, in other words, with antlers, whatever they're called. Yeah, yeah, mainly red deer, stags. Stags in red, bucks in seeker and fallow. And if you're shooting mainly bucks, you're not of fat or the males, let's leave it at males. If you're just shooting males, you are not going to affect the population at all. Because you only need one male, presumably, to impregnate many, many does. Up to 50 does, yeah. Whereas if you have 50 males and 50 does, you'll still have the same number of forms at the end of the year. So we really have to concentrate on the does one. But in a humane and ethical manner. See, that's why I don't see anything humane or ethical about people shooting these animals for sport from a distance, maybe not shooting them in the right area, maybe injuring them and then moving forward to finish the job. It just doesn't seem to me to be, like why don't we just say sorry, but to repeat myself in an organised fashion with professionals in a regulated way that we know is fair, as fair as is possible when you're taking the life of a big creature like this. And again, even maybe supplementing the food chain or making industry out of it or something. I mean, they're there, I think most people, 80 odd percent of people realise that we have to control these numbers. It's just the idea of people going out, instead of going out for a game of golf, going out to shoot these animals. And there's no real oversight because we don't know which of the animals they're shooting. That's just haphazard to me. It doesn't seem right. Well, it's, that's a whole new debate about whether or not people should be talking to you at all. But at the moment, that is the only method we have. There are no other methods available to control the numbers. Now, as you say, you could bring in an expert, but an expert has to learn and that's the problem. When a surgeon does an operation, you know, the first time, the first couple of times, maybe it gets the patient. So that's unfortunate. I mean, at the very least, if we're giving people licenses to do this, OK, and 1900 deer are shot in Donegal, do we have no documentation where that person, obviously they retain the, return the figures because we have an overall amount, that they give us a breakdown of what they shot and where. I mean, do we even have access to that information? Because, I mean, you were speculating here at the moment. It feels like that anyway. Yeah, every stalker with a license has to make a return at the end of the year. Now, how honest they are with regards to that return or how accurate they are, that's down to the individual. I don't see any follow-up by the department at any stage to audit a stalker. So I think there's definitely room for improvement there. The other side of it then is we have introduced a training system that was done voluntarily first. And now it has become compulsory for a new permit holder to have carried out a training scheme under there's three bodies doing it. And it's referred to the Hunter Competency Assessment Program. And that particular training scheme looks at their accuracy, how accurate are they, how good a shot they are, teaches them about safety and shooting, teaches them about the deer and teaches them about the risks. And at that level, we see they can shoot. Once we can see they can shoot, can they shoot a deer? A lot of people, there's a thing referred to as buck fever where people get the shakes when they get a deer in front of them. But they're likely to miss it altogether when that's the case. Okay. Thanks very much for that, Neil. Again, it's a conversation we need to have and it needs to be done at the highest levels as well to come up with some sort of a proper solution. But I think you wanted to make sure too that information is being put out into the public domain that it's on the money, so to speak. There will be more information coming in the future now once this deer management forum has completed its work. So I would hope that the public would be educated further on in that case. We'll watch with interest. That is Neil Ford, PRO of the Irish Deer Society. A couple of quick comments coming in. Tag deer that go for the abattoirs for processing to get a real idea of numbers and to stop poaching. And other far too many deer causing a lot of accidents on the roads and they are breeding and getting more plentiful indeed, which it makes it more important that if we are calling them and if we are doing it in the fashion in which we are now, that we make sure it's the right deer, doze that's how you control. There's no point as we heard from Neil there. If you've got 50 stags and 50 doze and you shoot 49 stags, you're still going to have the same amount of calves from the doze. So you have to manage that in a certain way. So unfortunately it's an awful thing to, I feel it's an awful thing to say it's the doze you have to go for because it's the birth. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. Harkins have been providing customers with quality fireplaces, stoves and electric fires for over 30 years. And now you can experience the elegance of luxuries worked up from Harkins. 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There's a picture of him here, and we want everyone to have a look at that picture or go to our website and have a close look at that picture. He's distinctive enough looking because he is missing, and that's the purpose of this conversation. But just have a look at that image and just search your mind to see if you've seen Greg recently. When was the last time you've seen him and what was the nature of his disappearance? The last time I saw him, we'd been in the San it lodge on some roads, watched the hurling final, and we've stood there for the whole night. And so I'd last saw him at all. We must have been about course in those nights. I'd last to go home and I'll walk on the road. When you come out, you walk up straight on and on that. Where I'd noticed that I'd left, he was still there with my parents, and he came out and rang me and said, you know, he was going to catch up with me. And then we had a conversation. So we had a conversation. For 15 minutes. So as far as I was aware, Greg was behind, which I had no reason to doubt. And then that was the last time I spoke to him, was on the phone. And then shortly after that, when it didn't come along with half, I realised that something was wrong. And basically I had been looking to him as I see. Okay, Sinead, I know this is very difficult for you, but hopefully now we get a positive outcome. Was there anything about Greg on the evening that would indicate that he, you know, want to disappear or anything as you reflect on that might indicate what he might want some time to himself for a period or anything like that at all? Now, and it's a really important question, but in this instance, absolutely not. I think there's been that really sticks to my mind as opposed to Greg, who is using that Greg less is because he wants to come and see me. And that's the nature of Greg. He is like a very caring person, and he will have less to come and catch me up because he'll have been worried about me walking on that road by myself, even though, you know, I was completely comfortable with it. That was why he asked me to come and see me, and he told me that when I spoke to him, that he was going to come and catch up with me. So, yeah, I've got absolutely no reason to believe that there would have been any other reason for it other than that. And in terms of his mobile phone, does he have a mobile phone? Did it or does it continue to ring? Is there any possibility of, you know, using something like Find My Phone or anything like that there? Presumably it would be with him if he has one? Yeah, so basically, Greg doesn't have an iPhone, and his phone doesn't have Find My Phone on it. And unfortunately, one of the other really alarming things is that after I'd spoken to Greg, I wasn't able to get hold of him so I spoke to him initially for those 15 minutes. And then I turned to McGann for the duration of our call. His pocket was, his phone must have been in his pocket because it was sort of like the key tones of the phone. It sounds like it turns out he was one of the most rude friends to me because Greg was like an athletic. So he's a set man. So that would make perfect sense to me. That guy would have been running on the road behind him to catch up. So it's an Android phone and he has Sinead, isn't it? Yeah, it's called an iPhone phone. Yeah, but you do know if it's linked to a Google account, you can sign in if you were able to sign into his Google and it can still identify when it was last pinging. So hopefully the authorities are looking into that as well. It's not a specific app, but okay, excellent. Okay, that's good. And as you say, he's healthy and fit and there was no reason as to why he might go missing and he has been missing now for quite some time. So have you, what do you think has happened? Do you think he strayed off the road or he might have become confused or what Sinead? Because there's no clear indication as to what might or could have happened to him. Yeah, and I think another really alarming thing about it is even though Gregg hasn't been to this path many times, that very day, we'd walked to the Pineda Volta Church to go to mass, we'd walked back, so both of them they were in that roof past the Pineda Lodge. So we'd done that twice together and then we also walked to the Pineda Lodge together. So he'd walked that path three times on that day and he has a really good sense of navigation in general. The difficulty I've got is I don't know where he's gone. Now, when I spoke to him on the 15 minute phone call he did say to me, which stuck up to me at the time, he said that he was in a field. So of course I said to him, why are you in a field with the road? Like you don't need to be in a field, you need to be on the road. And pretty quickly he then said to me that he was on the road. Now looking back on that, I don't know if Gregg was just very massive human maybe because he probably didn't want me to just keep going on the road or make a force and come back or anything like that. But even if he did stray off the road and became lost you would hope that once daylight broke because of who he is and his health and everything that he'd very quickly get his coordination about him and then get home. Yeah, I know obviously as the time's gone on at first I saw although I could have the initial thought that something had happened because I went out looking for him straight away. My parents' friend who drove from home from Swansea at large. So there was a very small window where I hadn't spoke to Gregg before I was out looking for him. It was probably I would say maybe like 20 minutes to 30 minutes off the road. And then Brendan drove me and we went to a search. So I asked him other things like I know he wasn't on the road at that time because we looked everywhere. So it's just really difficult to sort of to know where he was. What we do when we use DCP on the road that leads to where we were staying. Yeah. So he did not take that path he trod before. He did not go in the direction to the accommodation. Do you know do you don't I mean is any part of the suspect's foul play here, Sinead? Foul play is in. That some harm came to him that a third party might be involved or? No because obviously in this situation you just wreck your brain and to be honest the only thing that I thought could have been a possibility when I was coming to London to see your scenario was you know has he been hit by a car that was the thing I was worried about. But there's like there's absolutely no trust and also I didn't see any cars on the road when I was walking. Yes. And then when I went out with Brendan to walk I think we only saw maybe one car that whole time. Yeah. Yeah. So no it turns out right I mean I just can't I couldn't even it's not something I need to consider because we're a star. You don't know anyone here. Understood. Now Sinead we were on we were on to the Guardi nationally and this is not they have not claimed that they're not stating this as a missing persons they say that they haven't been notified of it. Now on Goddess Yukana from Dublin would issue maybe three four missing persons appeals a day. Do you know why that might be and what are all resources that normally are available in a missing persons case. I you know the rescue 118 helicopter you know whatever mountain rescues or whatever is applicable. Are all of those are all those services actively seeking out Greg King at the moment. Yeah so I mean that I didn't know that he's not been in person and that's not I mean I'll have to pick that up. Please do because just on the off chance he got confused of this in Galway you know I mean I know for a fact Galway Bay FM would be running this story if they were given it and you just never know that's that's why Sinead I was a bit concerned when the the guards didn't state it was a missing person so maybe just follow that up. I mean I would I don't know how it works here but I shouldn't have learned it after 24 hours but I will follow it up with them and because that's really important. But in terms of resources yes so we've had last night we've had the helicopter out and we've run like some half six of our Irish coast guard. Okay very good. We've got some more like I do feel like you know that at the moment that resources are being used and the only thing I really must say is the local people are behind us and it's been really special and it's been so appreciated by me and our Galway family. It's just been unbelievable everyone has helped us and we're just desperate people to keep helping us with the search. Check land check out buildings if you've got a drone get it up just keep your and but and it could be over a distance as well not just in that local area Sinead. Most times there's a positive outcome to missing persons. I hope it's the case in your case and that you and Greg are reunited really really soon. I appreciate in very difficult circumstances you're helping us to get the message out here across the northwest and we as I say we've got the image on our social media website and the image is also on this live stream that we have of the show so hopefully people have a look at that picture and if they've spotted him anywhere to get in contact with Guardi straight away our fingers across Sinead and I really hope there's a positive outcome to this and you're incredibly brave to be able to uh to submit publicly and at this very very difficult time so we're thinking on your all right and we just hope there's a really positive outcome soon. Thank you thank you bye Sinead. Let us know if there's anything further we can do will you? Okay Sinead there. John McIntyre is editor of the Chaconneal Tribune heartbreaking story there. John and it is it's a mystery particularly considering that Greg didn't take the route that Sinead was expected him to. Do you have that long conversation 15 minutes on the phone? He said he was in a field and and then he said he was on the road which has led Sinead to believe that you know maybe he had straight off the beaten path and was just saying he was on the road to reassure her uh but but what else can you add John and talk to us about the search and where the search might be taking place and I suppose that the the lay of the land. Sorry John just unmute there I beg your pardon John thank you very much indeed. Okay just waiting for John to unmute there and then we'll get his commentary uh there you go John. Yeah thanks very much for that. Now it's muted again on us now you're go ahead John yeah. Yeah the lay of the land there is a well known road across Trialock beside the football pitches there and Kinnella anybody on the road to Fannet Head Lighthouse. It is one of the it is one of the better known roads in Dublin or in this part of the world. It is also sort of almost a straight line from where the left the Fannet Lodge to where they were staying could have been very hard to sort of go off the beaten track but then if you weren't familiar with the area and it was dark at night there are different permutations you could have turned left which would have taken you towards Tamley Ross and Kill down at the junction point would have went towards we would have expected there's another road that goes off towards Turnban and towards towards a different part of the country he would have been taking the road directly across Trialock a lot of sand dunes on one side there's a Neilburn Carbon Park there there's access to the beach there and further on again past the community centre on the football grounds there's another access road there are several access roads if you straight off the fact that they were talking together and that she presumed that he was probably five minutes behind her was probably reassuring Sinead that everything was fine because they often went walking together they're a passion for walking and he was he was he was a very fit man and it's just mystifying and so just total mystery because I was down there at the Farnett Lodge last night at midnight and the numbers of people there who had just come back from searching the local people huge numbers of them the emergency servers the Gardie and the whole lot of them and especially a big group of people on quads who know the terrain they had searched high up and low down all evening and came up with nothing the Gardie had shot out the CCT village the one at the day centre of Trialock she would have been about more than a third of the way home at that point but as she said there the TV the CCTV picks her up but he never materialised so he was obviously not on that road or else she had straight off it is there is there an obvious would you expect given the resources that have been thrown at this so far if he were had straight off the road and given the local knowledge of those involved in the search would you have expected him to have been found at this point or does it not surprise you that given how much land there is to cover I suppose that that that he still hasn't been found I would have to confess that I'd be I'd be worried at this point that it hasn't been found because there's a pretty big search coordinated there yesterday by local people the emergency service right for the last numbers of hours they're waiting for the for the rescue helicopter to sweep the area again as it did last night it's sparsely populated there aren't many places that you would go there aren't there aren't many farm yards or or or or sheds or outhouses on that road I mean people will know that road very very well it's pretty pretty close to to Renmore beach and and Balahirnan and there's that strip of grazing and the sand dunes now whether he ended up down there whether he took a different route CCTV footage at Tamney has been checked there's no sign of him there and you know you're well and now to to 36 hours he was he was wearing a t-shirt and wearing shorts weather conditions would be be a concern at night because I would I would be like walking on Sunday night just around that time myself and sharp northerly breeze in it and hopefully hopefully as you said there to Sinead that all will end well and that they can be reunited but with every passing hour fears continue to mount and grow and concerns about it's whereabouts but there's a major search on there today all of the emergency services have thrown their full might added and let us hope that throughout the day that something will emerge that they will find him it's like it's it's it's a simple it's just hoping for the best at this point really John as always thank you so much and thanks for your insight there I really do appreciate it that's John McAteer of the Chaconnell Tribune and we just as I say we just hope that Greg King is found safe and well as soon as is possible he was last seen at midnight that's Sunday night Monday morning in the Trierloch area of Fannad and they are appealing for anyone who's in that area if you've got an outhouse maybe he shall sort shoulder there he could have took a knock to the head and is disorientated you know what I mean so there's loads of options but this is a critical period of time now for everyone if they have the ability or they're in that area to have a look to have a look to see if they can find Greg on their property or in their sheds or outhouses or or whatever it might be and of course he may have gone further a field that can't be ruled out either his picture as I say is on the stream as we speak right now but it's also available on our social media and our website and I just really hope as I say that Greg and Shanaid are reunited shortly okay we are going to take a break for the news and the obituary notices after that community guard information these instincts it's why the Cooper born are 100% 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Greg King was visiting the area with friends and was last seen at midnight on Sunday people being asked to check their land and any outbuildings in a social media post a friend of Greg's says they're all very worried as it's out of character for him to go missing his partner Sinead spoke to Greg Hughes on this morning's nine to noon show she said they'd been in the fanat lodge together all day on Sunday but she had left just before him. He came out and rang me and said you know he was going to catch up with me and then we had a conversation for 15 minutes that's the last time I spoke to him was on the phone and then shortly after that when it didn't come along with half I realised that something was wrong and basically I had been looking to him as I say. Government ministers are hearing this morning about the recommendations of the all island strategic rail review the draft report includes proposals for the restoration of a rail link between letter Kenny and Derry among the 30 recommendations in the report which will be outlined this morning by the transport minister Amon Ryan are more electrification of the network and services at least two hours between main urgent urban centres and early between main cities as he went into the meeting minister Ryan said he would like to see a rail network return to the northwest he acknowledged the country has left its rail network laps for too long. It's it's long term it's where we want to go to bring back rail early parts of the last century we probably had the best rail network in the world we've led at laps we've we've lost lines we've given up on rail freight we don't have connection to the northwest and what the report says is we bring back rail we bring back rail as a way of getting better balanced regional development particularly to Dunnegal. Cabinet is expected to sign off on financial assistance for businesses in Ruffo and Castle Finn today which were affected by flash floods on saturday. Proposals are coming before cabinet this morning to reopen the business enterprise fund support is available for homeowners through the department of social protections assistance fund. Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnelog says he agrees with calls for flood relief schemes in Ruffo and Castle Finn to be expedited. I know there has been plans put in place by the OPW working with the county council but it's important that those happen as quickly as possible there's been ongoing flooding issues over many many years in both those towns in particular both Castle Finn and Ruffo as well as many others but there is particular proposals which can actually alleviate the problems in Castle Finn and Ruffo and it's important that those are expedited and I know coming out of the meeting of the county council yesterday that every effort is only made by the county council working with the OPW. A Dunnegal man is to be sentenced today after being found guilty of the rape and sexual abuse of his young daughter 55 year old Michael Carter of Kinnego Ballamagan, McConnel was found guilty last month on one count of rape and 25 counts of sexual assault when his daughter was aged between 9 and 12 between June 2010 and June 2014. His daughter 22 year old Karen Harkin has waived her right to anonymity. She said in her victim impact statement she will no longer imprison herself in feelings of guilt and shame that are not mine to carry. Heather Laurie has more. The court was told that Karen Harkin's parents were separated and the abuse occurred when she visited her father's rented home. Reading her victim impact statement Ms Harkin said blaming herself was a way she coped. She said it seemed easier because having to accept the fact that my father chose to do this to me is too hard, too painful, too difficult to understand. The court heard that Michael Carter does not accept the verdict of the jury and maintains his innocence. Ms Harkin also expressed hope that speaking out will help reduce the stigma that this abuse carries with it. Ms Justice Karen O'Connor adjourned the case to today when she will finalise the sentence. More details on our website charlandradio.com and RTE has rejected reports that the second Grand Thornton Report into the understatement of payments of the broadcaster has been completed. In a statement this morning it says the report process is still underway adding it's not received a copy of the report nor has it been briefed on its findings at this point. The Irish Independent had reported today the report was ready but hadn't yet been handed to media minister Catherine Martin and the Irish Independent's Ireland editor Fulon Sheehan stands over his story. I am told by very reliable government sources, unlike people in RTE who have proved utterly unreliable throughout this process, that that report is finished. So I'll beg to differ with the RTE board on this one. Well the forecast and meteor in tell us to expect a good deal of dry weather today with sunny spells this morning it will become cloudy this afternoon though with some showers possible top temperatures today 17 or 18 degrees Celsius and that's charlandradio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning. The obituary notices for this Tuesday morning July the 25th. The death has taken place of Jim Muldoon, Stranococra, Derry Baghe. His remains will repose at his home from four o'clock this afternoon. Rosary at eight o'clock, heist private after the rosary until 11 o'clock. Removal to St Mary's Chapel Derry Baghe to more evening for seven o'clock to repose overnight. Funeral mass on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock in St Mary's Church Derry Baghe and termined afterwards in Mahara Gallon's Cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on Kearnroaty Funeral Director's Facebook page. Family fliers only please, donations in late to Down syndrome Ireland. The death has occurred of Sheila McGlinche, Idae Kluenwer at Bunkranna. Sheila's remains are reposing at her home. Funeral leaving at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning going to St Mary's Church Cock Hill for 11 o'clock recreation mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family time from 11 o'clock until 11 o'clock. Funeral can be viewed on churchservices.tv. The death has taken place of Dan Cullen, Glasgow and Devlin Ray, Carygaard. His remains will arrive at the Church of St John the Baptist this evening at approximately six o'clock. Funeral mass to more morning at 11 o'clock fall by interment in the adjoining cemetery. The death has taken place of Henry Doherty, Convent Road, Cardona. Remains reposing at his late home. Funeral from there to more morning at half past 10 going to the Church of the Sacred Heart, Cardona for recreation mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral mass can be viewed live on churchmedia.tv. The death has taken place of Colm McLaughlin, Hatter, Priestine, Cardona. His remains are reposing at his late residence. Funeral from there on Thursday morning at half past 10 going to the Church of the Sacred Heart, Cardona for recreation mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral mass can be viewed live on churchmedia.tv. The death has occurred of Mary Connor, name of Carol, formerly Mary Rodden, five Pine Grove, Wrathbond Road, Casabar and formerly of Drimna Raw, Creeslock County, Donegal and the UK. Mary will repose at Kill Coins funeral home Thomas Street, Casabar to more evening from half past six until quarter to eight. The funeral will arrive at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Casabar on Thursday for funeral mass at 11 o'clock. The funeral will arrive at Shannon Crematorium for service at three o'clock. The funeral mass can be viewed on churchtv.ie. Family flowers only please, donations and new desire to COPD are the Cancer Ward Mayo University Hospital, Care for Kill Coins funeral directors, Casabar. The death has taken place of Eddie Young, Kilgoal Ardra, reposing at the family home today with family time from 10 o'clock. Funeral service at his home tomorrow afternoon at half past one with interment afterwards at Ardra Church of Arlen Graveyard at two o'clock. Family flowers only with donations if desired. In lieu of flowers to the Donegal Hospice. The death has occurred of Tommy Cunningham, 46 Glen Road, Straban, reposing at the family home from 11 o'clock this morning. Funeral from the family home tomorrow morning at quarter past 11 for a recurring mass at 12 o'clock in St Mary's Church, Melmont, interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. The mass can be viewed via the parish webcam. The death has taken place of William McLuckas, Ishkiheen Moth, County Donegal. His remains will be reposing in his home today from 12 o'clock until six o'clock, house private at all other times. Funeral service in Greenbank Presbyterian Church tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining barion ground. Family flowers only place donations in lieu of flowers if wished to Greenbank Presbyterian Church, care of Mrs Sylvia McCann, Windy Hill, Three Trees, Quigley's Point, County Donegal. The death has taken place of Marie Hickey, Nick Campbell, Strand Road, Bombay, originally of Carrick Macross, County Monaghan. Her remains are reposing at Roshie's funeral home, Derry Bay, until eight o'clock tonight, rosary tonight at eight o'clock. Funeral mass tomorrow at 12 o'clock in St Mary's Church, Derry Bay. Her interment and the interment of her son David's ashes will take place in Mahregalm Cemetery after the funeral mass. The funeral mass can be viewed live on Kearnroaty Funeral Directors Facebook page. Family flowers only place donations in lieu to the Donegal Hospice. The death has taken place of Mildred Nesbit, Tar Drum Green Castle. Mildred's remains are reposing at Liam Collins's funeral premises. Funeral service will take place this afternoon at two o'clock in Melville Presbyterian Church, Glen Crow, followed by burial in the family plot at Sinfinian's Church of Ireland, Drum Aware, Green Castle. Family flowers only donations if desired to the high-supported unit Sincollum Kill Village, Clamane, Kervann Doherty. The death has occurred of John McGonagall, Three Westview Terrace, Sly Mills, reposing at the family home. Funeral from the family home this afternoon at half past one for recreation mass at two o'clock in Sint-Trees's Church of Sion Mills. Interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. The mass can be viewed via the parish webcam. Family flowers only place donations in lieu of desire to the Foyle Hospice, care of any family member. Family time please before the funeral this morning. And the death has occurred of Bridget Heron, 30 Glendale Drive letter Kenny and formerly Breenette Glenn Swilly. Reposing at her daughter, Noreen and son-in-law, Nul McDevitt's residence Cabra. Funeral mass at 11 o'clock this morning in Sink Columbus Church, Glend Swilly. The mass can be viewed live on churchservices.tv. Burial afterwards in Kilfeeg Cemetery in the family plot. Family time before the funeral this morning please. Family flowers only. For more details, including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals, please go to highlandridio.com. Electric picnic tickets are sold out. Or are they? Every week in Aldi be in with a chance to win your weekly shop and electric picnic tickets. Just spend 25 euro or more in Aldi. Take a photo of your receipt and upload it to aldi.ie.com. Imagine one moment you're strolling through Aldi, the next you're singing your heart out. So pitch up in Aldi to win big. 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Plastic chairs, golf ball size, even bigger sized Hellstones going through this, going through the seats. An awful situation there. It has to be said as I say, Lake Garda familiar to an awful lot of people out there listening today. I'll just throw up another image here of Oops, had the fader up. You got to hear the Hellstones hitting the lakes over there but some believable stuff, what we're seeing. Some will say, look it's just normal. That's what we always see. Others will say I ain't seen nothing like that before in my lifetime but I wouldn't like to have been under these golf, well not like baseball sized, baseball sized Hellstones. All right, anyway back to local business here. Deer carry a wider range of tick species than sheep. Sheep are confined and routinely treated for ticks. Deer roam freely and can invade multiple farms overnight making them huge transmitters. Vectors of tick related diseases says a listener. Another, can any of your listeners give me advice on the C-Pen reader? Are they worth the money? I have special needs child and would be interested in buying one to help them read. What is the best one to buy? That comes in from Claire. So I'm not familiar with that Claire but obviously those who you're trying to reach with that text will be. Is it that you drag it across the text and it verbalizes what's being read? Anyway, RC-Pen reader's worth the money and it's for Claire's special needs child. Interested in buying one. What's the best one? So a bit of recommendation that you cannot beat a human recommendation. So if you can help our listener out there please get in touch. Now I want to let you know that a set of keys to a business was lost in the Ballet Buffet area on Monday between the Bank of Ireland and the bus station. There is a Bank of Ireland key ring and a photo of a person playing football on it. If you found them we'd really love to get them back to their owner. So it's a set of keys lost in Ballet Buffet between the Bank of Ireland and the bus station. There's a Bank of Ireland key ring on them and a photo of a person playing football. We have the number of the owner. They're for a business. It'd be great to get them back if you found them. Please get in touch with us 07491-25000. I was sent a picture of I don't want to show it in case it identifies anyone. I don't believe it would. Sold a picture of someone cycling out on the road on the four lanes. Now you would know effectively millions have been spent to build cycle lanes because if the truth be told there's been four lanes there for God knows how long. So I mean there's more to it than that. Don't get me wrong but primarily we've kind of been delivered four lanes and there's a fella or a lady cycling up the road and the listener says, Greg don't know why the council wasted their money on cycle lanes on the four lanes. They're never going to use them they say. What's wrong with the cycle lanes? I wonder why that person was cycling up the middle of the road. Great to see United Front from councillors read the weekends flooding but disappointed that one chose to have snide remarks in my opinion at fellow councillors and I'm not sure which councillor you're talking of there genuinely I don't know. Greg while talking about the crimes in Donegal you forgot to mention all the cars that have been stolen and used in attempted robberies and the culprits are in most cases not old enough to drive the guards don't have the time to investigate them properly indeed and sort of part of me at the same time too doesn't want to talk our beautiful part of the world down too much but you're right there's been a spate of those types of crimes but we're not going to see any resources are we the additional resources that we clearly do need for a on-street guard of presence yet again as soon as it leads the news in Dublin as soon as it leads the national news as I predicted to you last Thursday or Friday straight away extra guards extra patrols high visibility policing presence and yes it's our capital too it's not them and us it is our capital but if you don't make the headlines you don't get the resources and that just seems to be the bottom line okay let's see I want to come back to more serious matters after we take the break but I want to say some happy birthdays now we love doing happy birthdays by the way weddings birthdays people people celebrating anything in particular we love to mix it up a bit here that's why we have you know obviously we have to talk about some really serious stuff but we try and talk about informative and fun stuff as well and if we can bring a bit of sunlight in someone's life with a request we really would love if you send those messages in to us as well happy birthday to John McGuinness from Dunlow from Mom and Dad brother Declan two sisters Mary and Catherine two nephews Owen and Joel and two nieces Jessica and Anna happy birthday to you John happy birthday Mary McBride Granny Feeney from Downings who's 90 today from all your family and friends Feniel Feeney my apologies it's F-E-N-N-I-E but anyway Mary McBride you'll know who you are you're from Downings and you're 90 today a big happy birthday from all your family and friends and neighbours I'm sure and everyone here at Highland Radio Sophia Bradley is in Stranawler and is eight today a big happy birthday to you Sophia from Granny Bridget have a lovely day hopefully Granny Bridget now has dug deep hi Greg can you wish my husband Shamus McLaughlin I molt as a big happy 50th birthday are you 50 Shamus you don't look a year over 55 happy birthday to you Shamus that's lots of love coming in from Maeve Killian, Tyrannan and all of your children that Shamus talks about all the time I know how much he loves them and his whole family so happy birthday to you Shamus and hopefully you're being I was going to say hopefully if your feet up up there relaxing on your birthday but someone say okay happy birthday Shamus all right we'll be back with community guard information after the break the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio it's Tuesday July 25th you're playing on a brown coloured sheet the reference 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suspected cocaine find on the shores of Donagall Granja yeah so Garda continue to investigate the circumstances of the discovery of a number of packages along the North Donagall coastline that occurred on Wednesday morning the 19th of July these packages are believed to contain cocaine weighing approximately 60 kg with an estimated street value in excess of four million subject to analysis by FSA that's the forensic science of Ireland so Garda in Milford with the assistance of the Garda Air Support Unit and the Garda Water Unit along with Revenues Maritime Unit they've carried out joint searches up along the North Donagall Fanatehead coastline investigations are ongoing and anybody with any information in relation to the discovery of these packages we asked them to contact Garda and Milford so the guards in Milford they're continuing to appeal to landowners in the Fanatehead area with coastal land or any persons who use the North Donagall coastline over the coming days or weeks even to be conscious just of these packages that have been recovered anybody who sees any sort of similar package or any marine debris that attracts their attention they're asked not to interfere with the packages and to contact Garda and Milford on 915-3060 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800-666-111 there's actually another number here too a customs drug watch confidential number that people can contact 1800-295-295 now there's been lots of coverage of this granny as well some serious some people having a joke with it but if there was one package there was two packages if there's two there could be three or four it's it's very important that if this if someone comes across another bundle of this or whatever the contents of it might be that it has to be you could get into really quite serious trouble if you were found in possession of that like as I say I understand that people have sort of tried to make have a bit of fun with it as well as always happens I'm on about members of the public but if you don't do come across this it's not something you can put in your pocket and take home with you you could find yourself really facing some very serious charges this has to be made the guard you have to be made aware or as you say the custom drugs watch confidential number they have to be made aware of anything found they have to of course so should anybody come across any sort of similar package the advice is if possible and if you have the time just remain at the spot where you found the package contact guardie and maybe you can flag them down when they arrive but under no circumstances open the package interfere with it or remove it from from the area there would be serious consequences in relation to as I say I know most people know that all people know that but just to be really clear because sometimes as I say with the commentary especially if it was young people hearing they might not realize the full consequences of of being found in possession of that even if they found it themselves okay right guardie and milford also investigating a quite serious road traffic collision growing up yeah this collision this happened on Saturday the 22nd of July happened shortly after 305 p.m so two cars involved happened on the n-56 just between terriman and kill mcranon in the townland of clon clon killy moor so these two cars they'd been traveling in opposite directions when this collision occurred the driver and passenger from both cars had to be taken to letter kenny university hospital to be treated for injuries and while some of these injuries where they were quite serious in nature but they're not believed to be life-threatening thankfully we appeal to road users with a dash cam in particular who traveled along that stretch of road on the date and time given to make that footage available to us and if anybody witnessed the collision who has not yet spoken to guardie you know i'm aware that a lot of people were spoken to guardie at the scene but if if anybody did witness that guardie haven't been in contact with them or they haven't made contact with us please make contact with guardie and milford on 9153060 guardie and letter kenny also appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision growing up yeah this happened at the old field round about on thursday the 20th of july so between quarter to two and two fifteen so a motorist was traveling from the old field round about they were heading towards the station round about their car was struck from behind by a white van with a blue logo the driver of the van didn't remain at the scene so if anybody witnessed this collision or if they think they might have captured it in their dash cam footage again we asked them to make that footage available anybody with any information if anybody witnessed this incident we asked them to contact us in letter kenny on 9167 100 alright traveling knows that it is shown to another appeal relating to an rtc yeah this one happened at balliam again so this happened on the r238 at balliam again so it's just past the cash on the car resource center that's what the incident happened on friday the 21st of july so this happened between 4 20 p.m. and 4 45 p.m. so the collision happened between a bus and a camper van the camper van left the scene it was driven away following the collision in the direction of umbra cam damage was caused to the bus as a result of the collision the wing murr on the driver's side was smashed the driver's side window was also smashed so again we're appealing to anybody who traveled along that stretch of road particularly those who had a dash cam and if anybody witnessed what occurred contact garrity in bunkrana on 9 3 2 0 5 4 0 i presumably if you're the driver of the camper van and the crack makes sense i don't know the circumstances of it obviously in the best interest to come forward rather than to be inevitably tracked down i would imagine okay now um your colleagues in letter kenny investigating criminal damage incidents yeah and this actually happened in the in broad daylight so we're hopeful somebody may have information in relation to this one this happened on monday just yesterday shortly before 1 40 p.m so a window of a house in college park letter kenny was smashed two youths were seen running from the scene one of whom was dressed in dark clothing so anybody look if anybody was in that area if they observed what happened at the house or if they seen these two youths and fought leaving that area we asked them to contact garrity in letter kenny on 9 1 6 7 100 again as always every appeal now we're appealing for dash cam footage so if anybody was in that area for the dash cam just drop the footage and as we'll go through the footage then yeah and of course i presume to dependent on the area if it's a residential area your doorbells nowadays uh and other security camera as well worth checking them out because we've got uh decent specific times there right uh investigating the theft of a car now in the letter kenny area yeah unfortunately this is becoming quite a common appeal every every week now there's hardly a week we haven't got a theft of a car appeal but letter kenny garrity again they're investigating the theft of a white toy toyota crola estate so the registration number is 142d 28573 this was stolen from a business premises on the pierce road there in letter kenny between 6 p.m on friday the 21st of july it was then located at 4 25 a.m on sunday the 23rd so it was located on the creve road there in old town letter kenny on fire and it was totally burnt out destroyed as a result of the fire so if anybody remembers seeing this Karen around letter kenny being driven at any location between these dates or if of any relevant information in relation to the theft of the car or the destruction of it we asked them to contact garrity in letter kenny on 9 1 6 7 100 and distinctive vehicle a white toyota crola estate reds 142d 28573 so they would stand out a little bit okay yes um right okay let's let's let's do the reminder on on these particular vehicles that seem vulnerable and and the reason it's important to remind people is is that it's clear that there are people out there that know the vulnerabilities of certain vehicles they do of course and it just would appear that these types of vehicles are being targeted on a weekly basis now unfortunately imported vehicles and in particular Japanese imported vehicles so we're just wanting we want to issue security advice anybody that owns an imported vehicle or if they're considering purchasing one particularly Japanese imports buyers of these cars or owners of these cars should check out the security features make decisions relating to augmenting the security of your vehicle so many second hand car imports that don't have a fully fitted car alarm system or they're without a fitted immobiliser this then makes them vulnerable to hot wiring so cars without an immobiliser an additional steering wheel lock or chain should be considered to augment the security if the model has a keyness keyless ignition it has been proven possible to pick up a signal from the key fob from within the house where it's parked and as we said already we have noticed a rise in recent weeks and months in the theft of Japanese imported vehicles in particular within the letter Kenny district so we're just urging owners just to be security conscious and take the necessary steps to ensure that your vehicle is secure yeah and look at whoever's responsible knows about this they're they're clearly very active until such time as they're stopped uh it's going to continue because it's happening every single week so as to say you know one of those big steering wheel locks very visible big deterrents of course and listen if you are the owner of a Japanese imported vehicle or any other imported vehicle that doesn't have these additional security features and you're not sure you know how to augment the security take it into a local garage even call to the garada station you know with plenty of should say ladies and men and their men that are well up on cars and you know they can come out and advise you have a look around the car and give you a bit of advice and augment the security there's no issue there that's it all right okay um last appeal i think now in relation to the theft of a raha a bicycle a bike yeah so this uh was actually reported yesterday at the station it's a men's black apollo gradient mountain bike this was stolen from a house at salagrain letter Kenny so it was stolen between July 14th and July 19th and i'll post a picture later on of a similar style bike to our facebook page um so the area in which it was stolen from it's out there out around maybe bally mccuse in juneans i'll pitch out around that general area this bike in particular it has a number of distinguishing features it has a fluorescent green bracket in front of the spring on the center frame the mudflaps are on on front and back back with a red brake light mounted on the rear mudflap and the light that's mounted there's a light mounted on the front handlebar the bell doesn't work mounted on the left handlebar the cassette wheel is missing this is the protective guard in front of the gears it's next to the pedals this prevents shoelaces etc from getting caught in the chain when you're pedaling and there's a tear in the middle of the saddle so we're just urging anybody look should you come across a similar type of bike for sale this bike could have been discarded somewhere either in a ditch in a hedge in an estate somewhere you know so if anybody comes across this bike we're asking them to contact guardian letter Kenny on 9167 100 okay now the most recent scams what has come across your desk Grania yeah and listen there's scams coming out of your ears you know that there's so many different types of scams but this this is actually one it was quite concerning this lady called the station during the week she'd received a call from a mail caller he proclaimed to be calling on behalf of Aircom so he provided her with his name he came across as being very genuine he inquired about a broadband signal and it just so happened this lady has got a broadband package with Aircom so this of course then made it seem even more sincere so he said that he inquired about her broadband signal and he said that it was poor of late you know that they wanted to throw up their game and they wanted to improve the signal for this lady so they were going to call out to install new equipment at her home to improve the signal and this man then informed the lady that she was due a refund of 246 euro as a way of compensation for the per signal that she had been receiving so he then asked for her bank details just to process this refund of 246 and at this stage then alarm bells started to ring with her and she informed him that she does pay by direct debit so you know she was savvy enough to realize that there's something wrong here she said you should have have my bank details already you know why should I provide them for a second time at this point then the callers demeanor changed and he became quite irate and the lady in question really she wanted to make us aware just in case others might be caught out especially if somebody rings and you happen to have a broadband package with Aircom you know it's different obviously if you don't have and it's like these calls that come from Amazon or from any you know all these entities that ring you they say that your broadband package your signal isn't up to date you might even have broadband on your house of course then it's evident then it's obvious it's a scam but for someone who has a broadband package with the likes of Aircom to receive this call she was afraid they'd get caught out just so we just wanted to make people aware and just maybe as well if your listeners could advise elderly and vulnerable people members of their family and friends in relation to it also yeah because it's it's gone on the days where you know it's a Nigerian cousin or prince that's won the lotto you know and you've a share of 10 billion pounds you know they don't it's now well we've 246 for you the same with revenue they'll go you know we've a refund of 73 euro you think well if it's a but they only need access to your account to lodge the money and then they can empty it out so they're getting cute on it and as you say they look through who's the most popular internet provider one of the most probably most common concerns and and that's how they target it and they only need to do to a day successfully and they make a fortune exactly yeah right phone cloning phone number cloning this is a I would love to see and I'm not asking you to comment on this I'd love to see our mobile phone providers take more of an interest in the lead in relation to this because it's their technology that's been exploited here but anyway talk to us about the other calls you've been receiving this week yeah well actually we had a call from a few members of the public but my phone has actually been hopping all week as well with these calls this is a call you receive a call from an unknown mobile number and and when you answer when you pick up the call it's an automated message you're not speaking to another human being it's an automated message and automatically you're informed that suspicious activity has been detected on your bank account you're then asked to press one to speak to whoever will speak to two I was asked in my calls press one and you'll be put through to an investigating officer so just we're advising people should you receive this type of call if somebody calls you you answer the call it's an automated message hang up automatically hang up and if you have any concerns just some people then look there's warriors people who worry if they hang up and they're still over here not so much me maybe maybe you I would hang up and that's me that I forgot about but some people do in the dwelling you know some people might be worried then you know should advance should have stayed on the line but listen if you have any worries about your bank account I'm sure the staff and the bank will be more than happy to assess call into the bank in person or look up a verified number for your bank and contact them and they'll put your mind at ease then in relation to the matter yet so what was it to say Tilya the basic advice that applies to all of this because we and we will keep doing it and talking about scans because all we have to do is save one person getting done and it's worth it right I get it that some people might think it's repetitive but I think there's a huge appetite for this kind of information but no matter how clever they get no matter how they try and say it's the guards if the hospital it's broadband it's the HSE it's Amazon there's a few key things that have to be done for them to be able to extort you so they can come up with all the different ways that they want to try and get your bank details but that's what they're looking for Grania be it by for you to verbalize them to them or to click a link so the key advice covers all of the various sort of different emerging scams what is that advice it does of course and as you said there's so many types of scams we'd be here all day if we tried to go through each individual type of scam but the bottom line is never divulge personal banking details to anybody whether that be over the phone via email text message regardless of who they say they are it doesn't matter who they say they are because they will go can I have your four digits security code the first two digits of it you can do nothing with the first two digits and you go one, two and they go sorry the line broke up there I have to refresh so I can have the second two digits of your security code three, four all right okay three, four then you know your security goes one, two, three, four that's the type of of sophistication they have of course and there can I even you know and there's so many ways around this and of course people are unfortunately people are I see it myself a check pulse there are people falling victim to it and it's sad to see the people are falling victim and just really and truly we're asking people just if you state look stay tight lipped do not give any if you're information away you know on the four email text message never click a link in a text and a no a text never click a link or an email or a text if it's unsolicited and it's mostly actually text messages yeah that they send these links out and and some of these text messages have quite a a worrying factor to them there's an urgency about them you know that you know that your account has been emptied more or less you need to click this link to erectify it don't click the link in case you're not aware to they can clone numbers that would make a alleged text from your bank appear in a thread of texts from your bank the kind of course yeah and then of course that that is I would say how the catch the catch most people out here because it does some of these scam messages appear in a genuine thread of messages and listen just don't don't click links don't give personal details again as in the advice we gave for the previous type of scam there if you're worried just hang up don't answer the email delete it delete the email delete the text message contact your bank and your financial institution via a verified number or call in in person you know check with them and if it is a case that they do need to take action they can then do it you know and at least you're sure then that this has happened and action needs to be taken but just we would ask people really just contact anybody that you have that's anyway vulnerable or elderly please make them aware that even those few basic steps not to click links and never to divulge personal or banking information I don't suppose there's any property market events coming up so you heard about this last week there is on the Saturday actually now Saturday July 29th yes so the first event will be held out there at Drummahal Fupfuphich that's between 11 and 2 and the second event is on the same day this Saturday at Kloheung Community Centre that's plenty of space there so this is not just about this is about trailers and stuff as well yeah well we were trying to find locations just because usually it would be there would be a lot of tractors and trailers and things like that so we wanted somewhere with plenty of space that they can all pull in and queue up you know so so yeah the Kloheung Community Centre that's between five and seven so we would ask people this is a good opportunity to have your items marked with your air code we would ask people also please ensure you have the correct air code once once we mark it if you give us the air code at that event we have it marked and if your air code is incorrect it's there it's on it so please make sure you have the correct air code and you get to stand around looking at other men's trailers and tractors and whatever they bring you know and men love doing that so like it's a win-win well it's me this is going out there I don't have much interest in looking at tractors and trailers to be honest property you're there to mark but then look it's a good social catch up to that's what I'm saying yeah you just start that yeah no it's a good social social we day out for them too they can catch up with their neighbours and friends all right okay that is Saturday July 29th drama hall football pitch between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and then the clock and community centre between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. you can bring your bigger items there there's plenty of space and get them marked but make sure it's the correct air code because it's a sort of a one-shot job such as the security go ahead just as well actually Greg if anybody does want if there are anybody other communities within you know the letter Kenny district because that's grain based but of course all other districts within Donegal also if there are any communities who wish to have the property machine taken out to their community there's no issue can't remember now there was someone from some organisation and I think we mentioned it anyway that were I don't want to say because I think it was might be something to do with anyway doesn't matter so whoever that was that got in contact you might know who I'm talking about they were saying when is one coming near to us because we've got some equipment I think it might have been first responders I'm not sure so in other words God you'll work with you and especially if it's something important like that there to make sure all your gear is all right Grania I have to let you go no problem all right thank you so much for calling it that's God of Grania hardly there and that was community God of information for this Tuesday the 25th of July 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Majin Why, Greg it's a lot based yet though good morning to yourself and to your listeners there in Highland Radio Right now set your face to Stund or set your ears to Stund because Dr Joe Kelly believes we have a crisis in politics in this country and he doesn't blame the politicians he's blaming you well somewhat okay ish I'm just trying to be controversial right okay where's our starting point here is politics in crisis if so why? Well I'm drawn to to a historical story of Benjamin Franklin when he was leaving Independence Hall while drafting the American Constitution he met this woman and she said to him sir what manner of government have you bequeathed to us? and he replied a republic madame if you can keep it a republic madame if you can keep it our democracy is not something that just exists it's something that we have to keep and everybody has a role to play in that democracy and everybody has a duty within that democracy to ensure that it survives and at the present moment I'm off the belief that our political structures not just in Ireland worldwide but particularly in relation to our own country we no longer have politics as we know it and let me maybe explain the meaning politics it's a Greek word Paulus means city in Greek and in Greek times the idea was that everybody had a say in the running of the city and the people that were in charge were there for the well-being of every individual within that city and so over the centuries we've adopted that into our European ideology of politics and that we all of us say and we go out to vote but I think that concept is noble as it is and noble that we might feel that we are really you know we control the politics we no longer have that situation but we we we'll get to that but we sign off to it because what we do here and it seems to be in most similarly democratic countries is that we we go out and vote not in huge numbers just about a majority we elect we vote for individuals or for parties and then they form a government which we don't we don't actually vote on the government that they formed because they keep the cards very close to the chest we know going into elections they'll say we'll never work with that party and next thing you know they coalesce in government with them but politicians now seem to think that once they've been given that that they have a mandate to at carte blanche that's to play with our immigration policy our neutrality what you do with public fundings the direction of travel of the country in many different areas so that is that democracy so it you know because we don't really get a say on it we get to fiddler around the edges but it seems to be once you vote for a person you've given them the mandate to do whatever they want yeah well you see the fundamental understanding of our democracy if we go back to the foundation of the state and what we call our public representatives now please I want to separate RTDs from our county councillors the county councillors are good guys honestly they are they're the people that we meet on the street every day that are fighting for our communities and dealing with the real issues so they're the good guys and ladies so please I want to make that very very clear in fact you know if you meet a county councillor they say thank you to them because they are genuinely working on behalf of the ordinary man and woman on the street however our RTDs and almost all our government and nearly most not all there are good Chakti Dala but a Chakti Dala TD means a messenger to the dial Chaktit is a messenger so we in Donegal send someone as a messenger from us that's the concept of TD Chakti Dala but what we have at the moment is a DT Dala Chakti they're telling us what we are to hear what we are to believe what we are to do and they're legislating us to the point where we nearly can't breathe we can't think we're being legislated out of existence by this present government I would argue I would argue as a historian and it's my opinion that Helen Mackinty is the most draconian minister of justice we've had since Kevin O'Higgins a hundred years ago when he signed the execution of 77 people during the Civil War her laws are so draconian and they're coming so fast they're not being challenged they're not being debated and sadly sadly President Higgins did say during Covid he wasn't happy with the amount of laws that were being sent to him to sign and the speed at which it was happening he would need to start refusing to sign these laws and to law he has a power to do that there's so much but you disagree with them though Joe and we've talked about some of these individual and we can't go through them all and debate them as such but you are of that opinion okay because you disagree with the laws that she's introducing for some they see what she's introducing as a protection a protection of of women in abusive relationships a protection of marginalised groups from verbal or physical abuse and on it goes it just so happens that you disagree with them but that doesn't necessarily mean that she is as draconian as you make out surely does so Mark Chrissie well go ahead anyway answer that well I hear what you're saying but you see I'm not the I'm not the judge here and I'm not the person that sets the standards here what is this the standard that has been set to for us is our constitution and the constitution belongs to every man and woman in this country doesn't belong to the politicians and she is fundamentally changing our constitution consistently not just her this very government that's in place is tampering with our constitution law after law after law that's not me saying that this is our constitution so why is the opposition then I mean then you've talked about the role of the Chuck the doll I think there's a recognised role of the opposition to challenge it that's what the opposition that's what the opposition is therefore when they're not in government that's how it's supposed to work they are there to hold the government to account to a chat to challenge the legislation to test the legislation by whatever means politically necessary well like some of these laws that she's passed will be challenged constitutionally it isn't my intention the dialogues and recess and when the Senate comes back they're going to vote on this hate speech law which is a given it's a given that it will go through yeah maybe make a McDowell will object to it but it'll go through and then it'll go to Michael D Higgins to say my intention is to write to Michael D Higgins and ask him to refer that to the High Court very few of these laws have been referred to its constitutionality that to the High Court this is the process and the powers that the president has and I feel that he's failing us on this regard and it's not about necessary opposition I think many of our politicians are of the same way of thinking and that they're all on the same and I use this word before agenda and an example of that was a few nights ago when the all every one of the Irish MEPs voted for the new green deal in the EU and had the Irish TDs not voted it wouldn't have gone through it won 312 I think it was or 612 to 312 sorry it was well orchestrated okay well let me let me ask you this yeah go ahead go ahead Joe let me find what those MEPs did was they put their political parties in the EU before the people of Ireland and they all jumped into their political lines and did what their parties told them now what they'll argue back and say well we don't know them a new shot off this green deal but they're talking about re-greening 20% of Ireland and all and the word is all ecosystems by 2050 what does that mean this isn't a deal for farmers this isn't a deal for green Ireland but yet every one of our MEPs jumped into line with the EU masters so this is what you're talking about politics you know we can change your government and we may very well do that but what we're going to get be it a brown cat or a white cat or a multi-spotted cat it's still a cat and wear the mice right well let me ask you what is the agenda then what is the agenda of the cats v the mice if we're the mice because you've obviously given this a great deal of thought it seems that you believe this is part of a greater ideology so what is the motivation then and who is the beneficiary well I think that like you can tear up the real question is you can tear up what Patrick Pierce read on the steps of the GPO the proclamation we have a new proclamation which is you will do what you're told I mean the MEPs two nights ago voted for this they all jumped into their party lines they put their parties before their people so what's their agenda they're going to follow their masters and dictates and we the people we are being silenced we are being labeled and we're you know if we stand up and speak we're told to be silent we're labeled I mean I get it and other people getting we're constantly being labeled we're homophobic we're anti-transgender we're extreme right we're catholic or we're religious or we're just being labeled one thing after another when we are only asking simple questions about the betterment for our children better health service better infrastructures for our communities these are questions which our councillors deal with these are questions that we want to address but we don't get those questions addressed can I just make one point Michael McGrath was asked about the immigrants and we we we've had about a million immigrants come into our country in the last 10 15 years and he was asked about the budget for this and he says well I put a budget of 2.3 billion aside in 2023 for this and we the people in Donegal where would 2.3 billion go with our make-up crisis there is nothing clear for me yeah but the money yes but the money you see but Joe you know yourself you know the money is there for both it's not like money's being diverted from one issue to another so then as soon as you stop pitching the migrant issue against the against the the defective concrete issue I think that I think that's beneath you because you know the money's there for both that's not what I'm trying to say that's not what I'm trying to say and by all means we talk about the migrants again oh god no that's not what I mean but my point is there seems to be so much red tape for the make-up people but no red tape for a migrant well I get that 100% I mean that's indisputable that's my point and this is again we the people are being ignored right okay so so how did it come how did it come to a point in the political landscape and it's worldwide now at this point whereby we don't have a meeting of mine so you don't have representation whereby there is a conservative element to it that in other words it's either really really extremely liberal or really extremely conservative and then we have this and we're seeing it in Spain at the moment the country split 50 50 you have people that are pushing back against you know wokeism and advances as some might see it and others that want things liberalized even further politics isn't working in that we're not finding any middle ground or any or any consensus right and the people have their role to play in that as well because the people themselves are becoming polarized families are being split down the middle friendships are ending I hear what you're saying but I don't think I've said anything today that would put me either left or right if I ask someone you know what side am I on I don't think I've said anything yeah but you very clearly said Joe unless I messed up that you don't feel that you could speak absolutely freely on some of the issues that you feel passionate about because you would be labeled far right very very quickly well I don't think so in that sense because I think that this is what they do they label people once people cannot control you they control how you're perceived stay there you've done it again you've done it again I'm going to have to take a break for the news you'll stay with me for a couple of minutes won't you okay this is Dr Joe Kelly if you agree with him disagree of course you can get in touch with us 08 660 25000 or give us a call on 07491 25000 we'll go back to Joe after we get the news headlines and it is time for us to say good morning once again to Makayla Clark good morning Makayla thanks Greg good morning the partner of a Galway man missing in the fanat area says the last conversation she had with him was him saying he would catch up with her searches are ongoing for Greg King who was visiting the area with friends and was last seen at midnight on Sunday investigations are ongoing into the discovery of four million year-worth of cocaine along the north it only got coasted last week on Wednesday morning last two packages weighing a combined total of 60 kg were found on Tremor and Bally Heron beach Cabinet is expected to sign off on financial assistance for businesses in Rufon Castlefin today affected by flash floods on Saturday proposals are coming before Cabinet to reopen the business enterprise fund Guardi have re-issued an appeal for information in relation to a weekend crash between Terman and Kilmercranon shortly after five past three on Saturday afternoon two cars traveling in the opposite direction crash in the Clon-Killymore area the drivers and passengers of both vehicles were taken to Letterkenny University Hospital for treatment to injuries which Guardi say are serious but not believed to be life-threatening Meanwhile Guardi and Letterkenny are again warning over the theft of what they have described as vulnerable vehicles they say the theft of Japanese imported vehicles has become a weekly occurrence a white Toyota Corolla was stolen from a business premises on the Pierce Road over the weekend and later found on fire a number of days later A denigol man is to be sentenced today after being found guilty of the rape and sexual abuse of his young daughter 55-year-old Michael Carter of Kinnigol Balli Magan-Bankrana was found guilty last month of one kind of rape and 25 kinds of sexual assault when his daughter was aged between 9 and 12 years old between June 2010 and June 2014 Hikwa has published inspection reports on two residential centres for older people in denigol the denigol community hospital in denigol town was fined to offer good care but issues were noted with the premises in total five non-compliances were fined Larissa Lodge and letter Kenny was fined to offer good care and previous improvements were sustained no non-compliances were reported those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon Okay, Michaela, thanks very much indeed Okay, we'll go straight back to our conversation now with Dr Joe Kelly Joe, thanks for that Right, okay, so what I'll put to you before the news there is is that there seems to be no middle ground anymore there seems to be no space whereby we come up with some sort of a public consensus where you give me a bit I give you a bit have you anything to say about that? Do you recognise that that's the case or do you see it some way different? I think that's you're hitting the nail on the head that's where the crisis of politics is our politicians have masterly put us into extremes what they determine as extremes liberal or left or right or whatever and this is the labelling you see once you start labelling people then the conversation is gone you move from conversation to confrontation and I'll just give you an example as a teacher when I walk into my classroom every year and I get new students right I have a sign up on my wall a big poster up on the wall Einstein's and it says if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it'll go round all its life thinking it's stupid and I tell my children some of you in here are not meant to climb the tree of the curriculum that I will teach because you are fish you are meant to swim in the sea and if I were to label them and say you're stupid so therefore I'm not going to work with you for the next six years my job is not to label the student my job is to try to understand and listen to the student and work with that student and what I discover 99.999% of the time is that that student in front of me may be a fish and a wonderful fish at that that's never meant to climb that tree of what I might be teaching there are other people that will climb that tree no problems so back to the politics if we label people and this is what's happening left and right at the center and I don't think there's anybody liberal or conservative or in any spectrum of politics that doesn't want a better future for their children that doesn't want better health services that doesn't want a better community that don't it doesn't want better security and safety and etc etc etc we all agree on that and we're all in the center and that and this is where we need to be and unfortunately and this is the danger Greg politicians will bring us to an extreme they'll jump on one side knowing that if I get enough of one side I'll get elected and the other go well if I get enough on the other side I'll get elected what we need is someone that can build consensus somebody that can stay in the middle and see the goodness that's in everybody no matter what political orientation view direction they have because I fundamentally believe that at the heart of every human being are the same wants and desires as any other human being is it possible though that people the people that do speak out don't articulate their language very well in that you can have lots of issues are grouped in okay so you might have people that are conservative on certain issues and then have certain issues views about the climate for example about gender about abortion and the list goes on and then what happens is is they're all you know you can't have a nuanced conversation because the views are so so sort of right across the board and I might agree with them in certain things but not in another isn't I don't want them really governing me because I don't really like the world that they're trying to create if they had the the power and that's you again that's very well put an example is the last abortion referendum and I don't want to get into the debate of it you had 1.2 million I think voting yes you'd 800,000 vote no and those 800,000 were just ignored abandoned not all political parties almost almost I think one or two didn't turn their backs on them says you know what your view isn't important anymore that's a wrong kind of vote though that's a referendum yeah but a lot of people felt abandoned and put down but you want to protect democracy but then you question a democrat the democratic vote no I'm not I'm not questioning democratic vote you're missing my point what I'm saying is those 800,000 people had a had a view that is worth respecting in the same way as the 1.2 million had a view that is worth respecting well I hope their view is respected it shouldn't just be about majority because when we come for example to LGBT matters it's not about majority it's about what's right and where the balance is and you build consensus and I unfortunately and you've said this you know we're building on extremes rather than finding the center ground and if you think of the likes of Gandhi if you think of the likes of Martin Luther King people like that they built consensus they brought people together from different views in their time and unfortunately we do not have that in politics at the moment I think it's going to be very interesting come the next died election and Donny Gaul I mean is it possible is it unfathomable and I don't think it is that we will have no present government TD back the next time in the died is it possible that the government party that the constitutional party of the country Fino V might not have a TD represent Donny Gaul the next because I think there's a constitutional crisis going on people know something's wrong it's like you know a corpse and you can put make-up on them and you can put perfume on them but the smell will eventually come out of that corpse and at the people I think at the moment the problem is we have crisis after crisis but people need to really take heed of the smell I don't know I think like I mean you could well be right but I think there are I think it's broad enough that it used to be I think there are 20% of people with extreme views I don't even like that word in one direction and 20 in the other I still believe there's a 60% in the middle that are perhaps almost apathetic at this point that just want to get on with their life and to be able to live a happy life and for people to be treated fairly and don't want to engage in these sort of these extremes of conversation Sinead is joining the conversation now Sinead I mean is anything that Joe's saying resonate with you do you agree with anything he's saying? Hi Greg thanks for asking me on um not a lot to be perfectly honest with you Greg I mean and a lot of what Joe was saying is very contradictory to say at least I mean to say that that our politicians our politicians in Ireland jump on extremes and we'll just go with extremes is when we have possibly the most conservative government our centrist government throughout the entire EU is just unbelievable to me I mean I don't understand where he's coming from I don't understand why there's an opposition to the hate speech about I don't understand why all of a sudden you're talking about a constitutional crisis but then you won't respect or you choose not that it shouldn't be about the majority apparently when it comes to on a constitutional issue I mean it's Joe but he rejected I mean that was a point I made and he rejected that and he's well able to defend himself so we have a centralist government one of the most centralist governments in Europe Joe stay where you are Sinead She's contradicting herself that's making my point the fact that we are being so centralized by government and regulated by government makes my point that's the point I'm making and you're agreeing thank you for making the point for me we are so No I didn't say centralized I didn't say centralized I said center yeah centrist so there's a very different big difference between centralized and centrist and a centrist government government or centrist politicians by their very nature don't have a tendency to jump on extremes Joe well I would I disagree with you on the centrist point of view exactly what what do you mean by centrist and again if you look at all the various concerns that people are having that aren't being addressed so just for for example Nile Collins and his expenses he's refusing he's refusing to to explain his expenses the 9 000 miles as opposed to and his expense he's refusing to explain that we have Helen Mackinty that's got nothing to do with centrism absolutely nothing that's corruption we have Helen Mackinty that goes into a court in camera we don't know the judge and asks without authority from the dial that all our mobile phones and calls and records are kept for a year I mean did you have any concerns with that Sinead I mean not I mean not oh yeah massively so but that has absolutely nothing to do with politicians being centrist in any way shape or form do you have any concerns Sinead what they do tend to do is sort of centrist right which is exactly the point that Joe is making Joe seems to be from a very much a right-wing point of view on it we like you talking things only not all his talking points very much right-wing well no he might he might he might say that put centre centre right he might say you're making his point by labelling him you see by simply speaking out and and questioning the direction of traffic in this country labelling him extreme right or far right that's that that that I didn't say extreme right or far and right I said centre right right I didn't say extreme or far right okay well the connotation is there but anyway Joel bring you back in in a second so Sinead are you not in any way concerned about the H speech legislation of it and really the lack of understanding as to you know what it actually will control how it can be be interpreted and enforced if you know concerns at all in this whole process as to how the hate speech has I mean we we hope it is the case we're right where it means that you know marginalised groups or individuals can't be abused you know they can't be harangued that they are protected that might happen but there could be collateral damage as well are you not in any way concerned that it's not being properly scrutinised like the same kind of scrutiny we're looking for for the effective concrete legislation for an example so I mean I don't know that it hasn't been scrutinised to that level I don't know if it's just the fact that it's gone through a little bit quicker but I mean in terms of the scrutiny look ideally you would want every single law that is to be passed every single act to be passed to be fully scrutinised by everybody in an ideal world of course you would only a single otherwise but I mean I'm not concerned by the proposals within the hate speech law that I can see my only question would be how it is going to in fact be enforced that's and whether or not that will be enforced and whether or not that who's going to enforce it and I mean they're crying out about the lack of clarity yeah so but state so the point is as you see so then some people who have concerns about the hate speech laws all of a sudden they're being labelled as homophobic or transphobic or racist because they have concerns about how far reaching this hate speech may be and limit debate and conversation and with respect Sinead you sound like you might have similar concerns yourself so so I think that's what Joe's talking to in the democracy we have now even though we might agree it seems we can't really comfortably have the conversation I know and I don't Greg I don't have any concerns with what I can see in the hate speech law at all as being proposed at all and it actually is in fact you know you would swear that this was in somewhat with some kind of outlier or some new new thing that's happened in the world that law is actually those that proposed law is actually going to bring us into line all right okay just stay there that line will come back Sinead if you can hear me stay where you are Joe you're shaking your head there that totally there's serious concerns Michael D Michael McDowell a formal AG a man of great legal mind has serious concerns as a senator now has serious concerns about this and she says we're bringing this into line I presume she was going to say with the rest of the world many governments many people throughout the world have been watching Ireland and are concerned have expressed concerns about the free speech it's going to happen yeah but that's no the international commentators Joe are have their concerns how it's being framed to them with people with their own agenda as well you see I want to have a real open conversation but I want it to be real and open Elon Musk had a certain a certain interpretation if we're going to talk about him and JFK the same as well they had a certain framing of this H speed law and it's that's which they commented on they didn't comment on actually they never read it or didn't have any understanding of it they just saw right that group has said this is this that and done and there in a game lies that lies part of the problem Joe well see the thing is just fundamentally if you ever look at a statue of justice and courthouses it's Lady Justice standing with a weighing scale holding the balance and she's blindfolded yeah so everybody comes before the law equal you are innocent uncle proven guilty this law suburbs that constitutional reality you are guilty uncle proven innocent that is that is a that is a flapping of our basic but as I say this still has to be dealt dealt through and that is an interpretation of it Joe it's not great because that is the the owners will be on the person to prove their innocence that you did not have this material if you have it on your WhatsApp that you didn't have it with a man who's been made very clear that you could have a racist meme on your phone it's not a crime but if you intend to go and distribute that you don't have to prove that you were never going to go and distribute it that that's that's I think that's making my girls concerned but then but that is that that is looking at what what really really could be possible you don't seriously think any government really actually wants to interpret and enforce the law like that Joe I mean that's I'm not saying it's facetious but I mean well well Greg let's we're having a conversation I mean people that I know that I speak to are telling me and I would love your listeners to phone and do they feel that they can no longer speak in this society do they feel that they're being made shut up and means mean silenced and I guarantee you many people will say that to you Sinead can I put that to Sinead to Sinead listen I mean me you've been on the show before Joe's been on the show before I think we could all probably we could all have a pint and a bit of crack do you know what I mean we're not you know we're not we're not all sort of but there there is a point that we have got to a stage Sinead now though if someone has anything even remotely conservative of a point of view it's hard to get them to come on the radio because they're afraid that they'll be seen as backward or they'll be shot down forward so I'm not on about really extreme views Sinead I'm on about something that someone says you know what I think we're going just a little bit too far here and people like that feel they don't have a voice they're afraid to speak up we don't want to be in that space either Sinead do we no definitely not but the problem I have here is that you know so what is it that's being said that people feel whether being silenced and it's usually to be honest the people who are saying that they feel silenced right say for instance Sinead I'll give you an exact I'll give you an exact example there are people who say for instance on transgenderism for example that they are perfectly happy to support and accept anyone who's of 18 years of age to live that life that they want to live and they will address them as they want to be addressed and they will respect them and that's fine but the same people then might be concerned that young teenagers are being taught stuff in that regard now I'm not going down the library's route and the book stuff I'm not on about any of that Sinead but that might be taught stuff that could confuse them that it's hard for them to deal with that they don't want their children to be exposed to but we have a curriculum that is insisting on this being taught to them but they can't express that view in case they get lumped in with people that are waving certain books in the air and and and screaming in the face of librarians those people don't feel they can speak Sinead that are happy that people live their lives as adults but are concerned of the influence this type of conversation narrative might have on their vulnerable children or their impressionable children so and I mean I have heard people on the radio talking about this Joe sorry Greg Jeepers but I have here heard people on high and talking about this they have on a high and it's different I think yeah and that's the thing this is what this space affords this space affords everybody to say with their piece now you know me I will 100% disagree and just anything that's extremist especially on the right side of things I'm going no but there are people who may have genuine concerns and that is where the conversation needs to happen but if those people are not having conversations with people who are informed with people who are experts in the subject that's where the problem is but their parents are experts in what they think is right for their children too their experts and their children yeah they are and I mean I'm a mother you know I'm actually with my children however you know you do also have to listen to the experts and to be perfectly honest it's not the kids who have a problem with any of this it's the older people people my generation and above but you see just in terms of experts in terms of experts I don't want them being drove back in yet in a second but like say for instance vaping right you know vaping stops you smoking smoking gives you cancer but we don't really know this is probably a terrible example but we can't say vaping is brilliant because we don't really know what the consequences might be in 5, 10, 15, 20 years time right now in terms of the policies that we're employing now as to what we teach our children and how we teach them yes that is the maybe some experts view at this time but we really don't know how that will affect people in in years to come we don't even really have enough information to find out that if someone transitions for example what percentage of them it improves their lives or how they might feel at 25, 30, 35, 40 depending on when they threw that so we can't blindly accept all of the information because we don't no expert could truly know it at this point Sinead so we need to be really careful that the decisions we make now as well-intentioned as they are are the right decisions if because we all love our children and care for them but we have to be absolutely certain that what we're doing now is right because the consequences and ramifications for future generations if we get it wrong now Sinead could be massive but I mean I mean teaching something in school and and teaching that this is something that does exist in our world it's a you know and there are people annoyed to this radio who are transgender and you know teaching children about a reality of life is a completely different thing from coercing them into thinking that way or for sure make it giving them some you know kids are presented with a lot of information a lot and it doesn't mean to say I mean kids are taught kids are taught about the holocaust that doesn't mean to say that they go down and and you know they turn into they're taught a fact and this is a fact of life that there are transgender people right now in our community um and that this is a fact of life that is not something that can be brushed under the sea but we also have to make sure that in that space then right so in that space too we also have to say right well we've talked about lots of different things but there also is this a man and woman can get together and they can have children do you know what I mean like we have to make sure it covers all bases then so but it does yeah I mean I mean it doesn't it doesn't exclude that just in favour of teaching kids about transgenderism or teaching kids about LGBTQ plus um you know matters it doesn't it doesn't exclude anything yeah and the kids don't have a problem with it it's the parents and the people my yeah I think I think it'll have the problem and I think Sinead a lot of parents who are very vexed about this if the truth be told they should talk to the kids because the kids know all about it they've got friends of all different types and they get on with it they've got no issues whatsoever and they wonder what these old people are all going on about because it's lost their life and they get it right Sinead listen to that and I would like just to say sorry I just want to say the kids are reading about this on the internet and they're reading God knows what on the internet Greg I would much rather that children were taught the facts as opposed to you know the extremes that they can see on the internet so you know we should all aim to make our kids knowledgeable knowledgeable about the word so that they can handle the word when they're adults I think there's a lot of there's a lot of that's the entire point of it and there's quite a bit of disagreement there's a lot of agreement to in this this situation not from me but from you and Joe Sinead thanks for your time great to chat to you all right all right okay and as I say it's good to hear all sorts right last couple of minutes to you Joe because I've completely thrown the agenda out the window now at this point look can I just say like Sinead obviously is an articulate lady that's able to express her mind and has no fear I think there's a silent majority that are afraid you talked about this before you know there are a number of people that haven't the confidence she has I'm expressing my mind and I don't necessarily want to be labeled in that but the point I'm trying to make is and she hit the nail in the head when she said conversation both of us three of us should I say we're having a conversation and what she talked about for example the transgender element there she said you know teaching the facts the kids don't really need to be taught the facts about this because as you said they already know this I have young children they understand this they know this it's the way then it's been taught and it's the agenda that's behind that and when they get a little gap the agenda they make it so wide and that's the concern parents have and for example to be able to talk about for example we're on about transgenders what impact is this having on young girls saying changing rooms and dressing rooms what impact is have this having on women's sport and maybe women are afraid to yeah but we'll work in fairness though in terms of the women in sport thing we're working through that now we are seeing the fact that you know maybe things went a little bit too quick too soon and we are seeing now new rules and regs being brought in to recognize obvious anomalies and things that don't make sense and I don't think there are trans people honestly running around changing rooms and toilets harassing people in women's toilets you go to a toilet in a cubicle I don't know why there's not cubicles in every toilet for that matter peeing against the wall just seems neanderthal to me but anyway listen I take your point Joe as always interesting you've started a conversation a lot of people are agreeing with you I don't think I want to live in a country whereby you have what's seen as the government media I'm not saying that's the case but you're seen as the government media and now what you're seeing is you're seeing little shows and podcasts popping up whereby it's only the right or people that get their views hey it's great for advertising revenue all that that's fine but we still need to all share the same space I think Joe and have the conversations in the same place we might disagree we might agree but let's not call each other's names unless someone comes out with something ridiculously offensive but you know what I mean the point is Greg and the hard work is trying to get people in the center and to keep them in the center that's where real democracy happens and that's where the struggle is and as you point out you know going to extremes is a dangerous place and what will happen you will see this happen in Ireland you will see them jump on the immigrant issue you'll see them jump on other issues as political campaigns go ahead and they will be divisive and rather than holding the center and again as I mentioned because we've got the situation saying Dublin there are people being by young white Irish guys being beaten up in the streets women being assaulted terrible stuff happening there's awful things happening to children in this country at the moment in terms of how they're cared in Kusla and yet and I've no criticism of it but then you've got other groups of people that are standing outside empty hotels saying there's men going to come in here and do awful things in the community and to our children we all need to sort of say right it doesn't really matter where you come from what have you but we need to actually put children first we need to put people first you know and then you'll have one group will ignore one problem because it suits their agenda and another group will ignore another problem but we're not getting anywhere we're not getting anywhere we're just getting more and more polarised we're in more echo chambers of her own points of view and we're coming to oblivious to what's actually happening whilst talking about what could happen or ignoring what could happen and focusing only on what is happening it's crazy Joe we need to sort of get rid of our apathy and get our heads together and start talking to each other stop being polarised and start working through what we want from the best for this country and don't be afraid or scared into thinking a certain way think for yourself well I think again this is back to the present government we have there is no explanations they don't have to explain and as I said to you we no longer have TDs we have DTs they tell us coming down from the dial what we're going to get I mean on your own show I've not heard very many government ministers or TDs explaining laws that they're bringing in they go and they give their five minute or three minute speech that their speechwriters write for them and then they go there's no debate there's no conversation and again I think that's and public accountability too it's there's a serious problem in this country with how the media engage with with with the people that are elected or how they allow themselves to to engage the rules and regs you know where we should be able to have proper debate and proper scrutiny of things I mean that's that's that's the fundamental of democracy I would have thought that you have conversations you have debates you scrutinise things you you you hear people's concerns you answer people's concerns you know not not line up for a handy three minute interview where the interview where the questions have been set up in advance how does that further democracy or information or understanding that that's what I'm trying to say this is what we have with the present government and there's no debate there's no discussion there's no accountability and like what you have an RT I don't think it's exclusive to this government though I think it's politics I mean we'll see what happens if a government changes but I don't see I don't see it what what sorry I don't mean to be political in the sense of mean phenophile or phenogale I mean anybody can be in government but government for me is the people that rule remember not all phenogale or phenophile TDs are in that government they're supporting the government the government is the ministers if you understand that is what the government is a very very small handful of people that's what I mean by the government not necessarily all the 160 TDs outside that circle but the thing is then it's not good enough anymore for people to think our democracy back to Brent and we'll end with this Benjamin Franklin a republic madam if you can keep it and what my discussion is I am concerned that our republic is not being kept because we the people are not being listened to and we the people ourselves are not taking the responsibilities and duties of democracy onto ourselves and if it's been reporting a pothole or a sign the right way or asking for the right answers and for the truth from our politicians all that is part of our duty as voting people of this country democracy isn't just once every five years yeah I'm glad I tell you what I'm really glad I'm glad that I am at the end of this rather than starting in it because I wouldn't like a full career of working in media in the political setup I'm glad I'm at the end of it I wouldn't like to be starting there wow that's that's very very interesting and and again I just wonder I mean a number of our TDs are are stepping down don't want to go again like what is it that's that's that's dead and are on our political careers that people aren't willing to go into this field anymore in this space anymore is it just that you're there just to make up numbers that you're not there to speak and express your mind I mean I know one politician I'm not say who fairly well and in all my years since they've become a politician I have never heard them express their own mind they always express political speak but and it's a sad way for that individual to have lived their full political life never having expressed their own mind what a way to live Slang-a-fall boo-hoo-my Slang-a-fall okay take care Joe thanks very much indeed Dr Joe Kelly there 08 6 60 25 000 WhatsApp or text so give us a call and 07 491 25 000 by five see McGee's IE for more details hold your memories in your hand with McGee's chemist letter Kenny are you worried about trees on your property Northwest 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an awful lot I agree with Joe one I mean I fully respect his view I see where he's coming from I don't quite see it like he sees it if the truth be told but as I say you know it's interesting to hear and platform of all different points of view I agree with someone and then other things I completely disagree with but anyways and that's what being free thinking individuals is all about anyone who wants to get involved in that conversation 08, 6, 60, 25,000 perhaps you feel perhaps you feel that he's gone too far it's something we're going to return to as well as well of course now Marie Dorian founder of Rose and Rainbows infertility and miscarriage support in Lettacenny and joins us now Marie thank you so much for your time this morning Hi Greg thanks for having me right Minister for Health Steve and Donnelly is announcing full public funding for a cycle of IVF for eligible couples from September this will be the first time in the state that assisted human reproduction treatment is publicly available there are some caveats in there but before we get to that I suppose the fact that we have a scheme now that gives eligible couples at least one round of IVF it's been a long time coming I would imagine it feels like Marie absolutely Greg absolutely an amazing day for the country and I think within our community we just want to share so much gratitude as this trip I think it's absolute within today Mark unfortunately it was on the day in the 19th set Marie the phone the other phone lines going to going to park can I disconnect you could you hang up Rean allow us to call you straight back again if that's okay please because it's an important to it's an important conversation and one which I want everyone to be able to hear Marie's views on so Caroline can you bang Marie through again I totally agree with Joe it's very difficult to express certain views in our world today Joe is wise beyond his years well done the woke will never be happy the government knows this and keeps recruiting them to push the latest agenda the North Pole will soon be the South Pole but you see then one's calling group of people the far right the others call them the woke and I just it really turns me off why are the people who complain about being silenced always on the national radio TV and social media shouting about it pretty good point Marie are you back with me yeah I'm here now very lovely stuff so you were saying there I think about how this is such an important day and I think you were going to reference some timeline in the past there yes so today actually is the birth of the first IVF baby in 1978 so it's a really special day for everyone today in our community and I like it's fantastic especially for people starting out on the road it's you know it's going to take a lot of financially just on that first round maybe or if it's gone through one round already and looking at their second it's going to be a big big help yeah what about the the BMI ceiling and the age 41 can you understand why that's in there is that a problem Marie is that something that needs looking at with every screen there is going to be clauses but I just did a quick poll this morning there's also from 19 people that voted got right away six quali sorry three qualified from it from what they've seen this morning and three or one sure okay Marie can I come back to you when we've about the line because it's an important issue we've covered it a lot over the years and I think when there has been such a breakthrough I would love a proper chat with you so Caroline might arrange that with you Marie we might get you on a landline or something but we get your view that it's a it's a monumental day and thank you Marie but I want to come back to you when we've about the line that's Marie Dorey in there and as I say it is something we will return to Greg we know that this government is rotten to the core look what they've done to our unborn children abortion the merger of our future carers but that's not how some people see it either and that's again incredibly strong emotive language and it's your language and that's fine I've just read it Joe's 100% right if you speak out you're cancelled by a campaign to promote a certain view again like who's cancelled to you know like I mean we've a lot of speakers in this country like I'm thinking Patatou Bean for example you know he's he has a views a lot of views that align to maybe a lot of views that Joe might have and he's on this show and fairness he gets a national platform I'm trying to think of other groups that have similar views more conservative groups that there are out there I mean now that I'm struggling for an example that might sound like I'm losing the argument but you know what I mean like there are strong voices out there with a more conservative tone to them that aren't being silence that they do have a platform I think it suits some people to say that oh if you speak out you're but I mean there are some platforms where you can still have a debate and a conversation agreed with Joe you cannot speak anymore about anything or you're labelled I agree 100 but then again you see some people who agree with Joe are labelling people who disagree with Joe woke and there we go you know I'd love if we could move away from that not me and you or the listener and me I'm not trying to tell you how to speak I had to text in I hope you understand what I'm saying I'm about also as a society I agree 100% with Dr. Jones so glad someone's allowed to voice what he has just said if some well less known person said what he said they'd be vilified thank God someone can see clearly what's going on with our politicians and government Mary Doherty there you say that but we had a lady on last week who had quite strong conservative views she was a concerned parent she wasn't vilified we didn't get a load of messages in or no comments on social media saying get that woman off the radio or anything like that there 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most of them are doing great work and fully compliant is that a fair statement absolutely Greg absolutely and we would always you know say that and and even to the extent where there is no compliance we're always saying you know that you have to remember that it's a very small number in the overall context of the number of charities that there are in Ireland but it is a sector of course that needs regulation and it's important and we have that and you get representations from members of the public I presume over the course of the year with their concerns so that's really what some of the findings are it's reflecting that and the investigations that follow yeah so are we issued our annual report today Greg and in that we've covered a number of areas of our work just letting people know what happened during 2022 so in that you know one of the good things that we saw is that charities are engaging with the charities governance code it's how you run your charity well and we're really heart to see the level of engagement by the sector with that it's really really important and then also we covered the concerns these be complaints about charities that we call concerns that we get in from the public during the year so in total we would have got and you know over a 600 concerns would have been raised with us but it's important to remember a that's in the context of 11,500 charities but also not all of those would relate to registered charities in Ireland they relate to other organizations that people may have taught like go fund me other crowdfunding platforms that people believe are charitable organizations but aren't Am I correct? Yeah that actually came out in our survey there that we issued the report there in May Greg and actually yeah it was interesting to see what people taught were charities such as commercial funding platforms online no their commercial entities are definitely not charities similarly sporting bodies in Ireland are not charities so they wouldn't be covered by the charities regulators remit so if your local club was running a fund raising draw and you thought that you know they've raised a hundred grand and the bingo jackpots a thousand it's a discreet that's not a charity you can that's not a charity as such exactly that's a matter for for the organization themselves and they wouldn't be regulated by the charities regulator but I mean we would we would get concerns raised with us that do do fall within our remit that do relate to charities but what I would say about that Greg is that you know we publish a compliance report every year where we talk about the number of statutory actions that we've taken whether it's a statutory direction to provide information or it's a point in inspectors etc and you know 98% of cases where we're engaging with charities the charities will engage with us voluntarily and they want to be in compliance and they will you know we will work with them to bring them into compliance see what the issue is so it is a very small number where we'll be forced to take our statutory or you know to enforce it through use of our statutory powers so I think that's that's a positive story for the sector itself because there is that willingness once it's brought to their attention that something may not be may not be going right or they may not be following best practice most charities the vast majority are very happy to ensure that they they rectify that it seems that I mean when we start talking about governance standards it starts becoming a bit concerning but I think a lot of these problems could be resolved if a lot of the charities which are probably you know a small group of people got their paperwork together on time exactly yeah you know there's how the charities has run and we've got that governance code that I mentioned there and which sets out basic standards of governance you know how you run it well and most charities absolutely engage with that and they found that really useful tool and we've got a lot of supporting materials for charities of any difficulties in that area you know things like how do you do minutes for your meetings the big thing I'd say to charities is to make sure that your trustees they're the people who take on the biggest responsibility in charities and they're volunteers so they're the people sitting on your local committee board or your if it's a company the the board of directors and what's absolutely essential is that they know what's going on in their charity from the perspective of the finances and to make sure that everything that is collected whether it's money or donations and goods that everything is going to the organization's charitable purpose and helping the people that they were set up to to help is there any appetite or scope to bring the likes of these crowd crowd form these crowd funding organizations or businesses under some umbrella or rather because if I was in the charity sector I would be concerned about sort of maybe you know the toxic influence on the good work that's done you know there's quite a lot of grifting going on at the moment for different reasons and people might go what's going on there where's that money going you know yourself is there any conversation about sort of trying to make it a fair and level playing field in terms of seeking money from from the public for causes well I'm not aware of any specific proposals in relation to that great but what I would say is that we have a lot and particularly during 2022 and into this year as well we have our our initiatives where we're out there telling the public to please make sure that if you are donating or you intend to donate to a charity to make sure that the entity is in fact a register charity and there is a register for that there is there's a publicly available register of charities and you can find it at checkacharity.ie so what we say to everybody is to click check and then give so what it's about Greg is making sure that if you're going to give your hard earned cash or your donations of goods in a plastic bag at a door or whatever to make sure that it's going where you intended to go and that it is a register charity and it's really easy to check that. Anything else of note that you think is important that we know? Yeah I think you would have seen there that we were we were disappointed at the drop in compliance rates with the charity's annual report so this is a really basic form that consists of financial information and activities that a charity engaged in in the previous financial year and the level of compliance rates are falling in that so we're working with charity groups and different trustees and stakeholders to see what the reason for that is but I would say to charities it's really important that you submit that form and that you submit it on time we have a compliance and enforcement program in place at the moment and charities will be removed from the register if they are not submitting their annual reports it's really important for the public that they have transparency in relation to the finances of charities that they are supporting yeah okay 59% of charities filing an annual report on their finances and activities it's much lower than you might want bought in fairness that's on time Greg I should say because you have to do it within 10 months of your financial year end by the end of the year we'd over 70% of charities filing the annual report albeit that it was late but that's still that's still not high enough we need all charities a very basic compliance requirement so what I'd say to people particularly if you're a trustee and if you're a charity trustee you know we've over 75,000 of them in Ireland they take on considerable responsibilities they do amazing work so what I would say to those charity trustees is you know checkacharity.ie hop on and check your own charities entry on the register and make sure that you are compliant Helen thank you for your time I'm thanks man my curiosity is to what actually is behind you I'm not gonna put you in a position but I just want to know I wish this is the office I wish I had Greg I just want to see how it compares like that advert where they're afraid to show their kitchen in the background that was running through lockdown all that's behind me is my office I'm only I'm I'm testing it just like just looks so beautiful okay listen Helen thanks for your time have a lovely day Helen Martin there who's the chief executive of the Charities Regulator with a beautiful background there on the video call 08 660 25,000 all the really busy morning on the texts and phone lines thank you so much for that we'll get to a few of those before we end the show so let's take this break it's the 50% off mega summer sale at right price tiles and wood flooring up to 50% off all tiles wood flooring outdoor porcelain tiles cladding and bathware everything in store has been slashed in price the right price tiles on wood flooring 50% off mega summer sale stores nationwide sale extended until Sunday I've just had the Eclipse cinemas experience wow they truly have taken a native the movies to a whole new level amazing recliner chairs directors lounge VIP rooms pizza and hot food served to your seat have a glass of wine and 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his partner earlier on they're all very distressed looking to get him home so there's an image of him there he's quite recognizable I hope and we really hope to get them reunited safely that's the wish isn't it fingers crossed Dr Joe Kelly's 100% he's definitely hitting the mark and what's happening in this country according to one listener another there's no government here there is a dictatorship that comes in from Andy I think Andy we have to be really careful when we ban the word dictatorship around I don't know how many of us will actually really like to live in the you know the actual reality of a dictatorship but I take your point good man Joe how refreshing his voice should be heard nationally hi Greg would agree with Joe 100% the city of Irish just sit back and take everything there's a new law every month now in Ireland and we just sit back was the same with Covid we believed everything this government said my three children can't wait to get out of this country we're all finished big time well they're going to be going to another country that took all the same actions during Covid and their governments pretty much run the same but I take your point Greg Dr Joe epitomizes the saying the arrogance of the white middle-aged western man another in the last election Sinn Fein and Fina Fall got the most votes and that's the government that should have been in power if we had true democracy the Green Party weren't given a mandate by the people to be in government that was given to them by Micheal Martin for his own selfish ambition to be a half in half at T Shock but we have proportional representation and those are the rules under which we vote so Greg Joe was mentioning the Constitution the Constitution is now overrun by Europe Dr Joe Kelly for T Shock we need politicians like him to sort out our country and stand up to Europe Greg Joe's talking for us I only wish we had TDS like him were being sold out to Europe but listen anyone the one thing about democracy anyone can stand for election but you know then do people come out and go right okay actually really want to change I'll vote this way or other a woman was assaulted in Temple Bar yesterday another man was attacked on Java Street last night strange that RTE isn't mentioning it surely our national broadcaster isn't being gagged from broadcasting bad news I heard both those stories in RTE so I'm not really quite sure what you mean by that not every assault is reported either by the way it should be said depends how serious the are and so on and so forth I don't see them there we definitely got notification of it here though so I don't know what the story is I mean you might be tracking actually by the way the story of a case involving a Donegal person a 55 year old man has been jailed for 10 and a half years for raping his daughter when she was a child this is just coming to us now the judge in the case prays the dignity and courage of 22-year-old Karen Harkin from Bonkranagh who waived her anonymity to allow her father Michael Carter to be named he was found guilty last month of one count of rape and 25 sample counts of sexual assault when his daughter was aged between 9 and 12 the court heard Carter does not accept the jury's verdict Judge Karen O'Connor said it was a massive breach of trust and sentenced Carter to 11 years with the final six months suspended that's just news coming to us from the courts there okay thank you very much for all of you taking part in the show today who listened to the show watched the show texting whether you did or not however you did it's just great to have you all on board I want to thank Caroline and Neem for their hard work on the program as always John Breslin's coming up around the Northwest very very shortly but we're going to take a break for the news for me Greg and the team have a fantastic Tuesday talk to you on what's going to be a wet Wednesday by the way