 murder of a man in Bunkrana. Garde have issued a renewed appeal for information in connection with the killing of 23-year-old Andrew Allen. Jade McLaughlin reports. Andrew Allen was murdered by a group of individuals in his home on the night of February 9th, 2012. He was shot dead in front of his partner at their property in Link's View, Bunkrana. Investigating Garde believes that a number of people were involved in the murder, destruction of evidence and subsequently sheltering the killers involved. A number of people have been arrested and questioned in connection with the case, but Garde believes that there are still people in both Bunkrana and Dairy City who have information that may assist in bringing those responsible to justice. They are appealing to anyone with information, however insignificant it may seem, to contact them. A former Finafall minister says Berty Ahern is hugely popular and a huge asset to the party. The former T-shock is back in Finafall after resigning in 2012. At the time, Micheal Martin was making moves to expel him over the findings of the Mahan Tribunal. Former Minister Conor Lennahin says Berty Ahern's return will be a huge asset to the party. He is the supreme skills of organisation and in terms of political skills that he has at his fingertips, if you like. He's a brilliant man to organise elections, to reorganise party structures, to keep in touch with a party base. A turning-gold deputy says Rockall has cost Irish fishermen millions. Deputy Podger McLaughlin has slammed both the British and Irish governments over their failure to reinstate access to the 12-mile limit around Rockall. It's been two years since the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement came into effect, yet he says the blockade by the British authorities continues. After the EU and UK trade agreements, the British government unilaterally and outrageously blocked Irish fishermen from accessing their traditional fishing grounds in the 12-mile limit around Rockall. It's now two years since this has happened. I have repeatedly called on the Minister for the Marine, Charlie McConnel, when the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Colby and now Micheal Martin, to get this sorted out. There's no basis in international law. It's absolutely outrageous when it's costing about £7 million every year to our fishermen. Whether I mostly dry today with light winds, there will be sunny spouts and the chance of an isolated shower with highest temperatures of seven or eight 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. At Ulster Bank, our team is continuing to close current and deposit accounts, along with some of our branches. 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And do I ever lie? I don't think so. It's always really busy. But we always have plenty of space for anything that you want to talk about, any comments that you wish to make. How do you do so? Well, I'll let you know. WhatsApps and texts 086 60 25,000 086 60 25,000 Donna Marie is answering your phone calls today on 07491 25,000. Don't forget, we also love to hear from our diaspora or people listening from outside the Republic. 00353 drop the old, you know, yourself. And if you want to email it's comments at HighlandRadio.com. And we also have the option for you to watch, which is great, particularly for those who are hard of hearing, because we've got captions, which is reason why I started it in the first place. You can watch this live on Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube, on your smart TV, on your fire stick, just to open up the app search Highland Radio, like and subscribe, by the way, and hit the bell. I sound like a YouTuber, don't I? And on Facebook too, on the smart TV, a lot of these apps we don't use, you know, you've bought a nice new TV. It's got Facebook watch on it. It's got YouTube on it. And you can watch, you know, the likes of this show up on your big screen. Same apps are on your fire stick as well. Lots of you out there have fire sticks for very honest reasons. I'm 100% sure. But don't forget you can also access on those platforms as well. It's just more ways for us all to connect and be together and sort stuff out together, isn't it? Right, okay, let's look at the papers. It's a Thursday morning. So there's plenty of them. We'll start with the Dairy People Donegal News, a devastated mother who lost her daughter in the Creasel explosion called Tiji Kahar Begging and Pleading for a documentary on the tragedy to be delayed. Donna Harper lost her daughter, Leona 14 in the explosion at the service station, which killed 10 people on October 7. The documentary was broadcast last night at 9 30 p.m. A lot of people I think thought it was broadcast at 9 and then saw another show was on and thought it had been deferred. But no, they went ahead with it. Tiji Kahar said the documentary focuses on the rescue effort carried out by the ordinary people of Creasel in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. However, a number of the victims' families expressed their fear and frustration over the program, which they were not consulted about or included in. And therein lies the biggest issue for me, I think, in that it's their tragedy, their loss primarily, and they should have been consulted. The argument of, well, we didn't want to encroach on their grief by engaging with them cop out. They should have spoken to them. The program itself, I mean, obviously, I think we're all familiar with a lot of the contributors who I feel very, very sorry for in that they kind of find themselves in the middle of it. We did hear of their bravery, what they've been through, how they cope going forward. They are heroes. And as I say, thinking on them last night and this morning, because they've kind of been put in the middle of it there a little bit, because I think people thought there was going to be a different type of thing, or it was going to be broadcast later. And as I say, there's a lot of people would have felt raw with that being broadcast last night, that last night. Personally, we took the decision, I took the decision within minutes of hearing of this tragedy, not to publish any of the pictures of the explosion. I viewed it, and we viewed it then as a team. This was, you know, this was people's final resting place, effectively not final resting place, but where lives were lost. And we just decided we're never going to show that stuff here on Highland Ready. On that suggestion, we made there was new images last night that I hadn't seen before, that I imagine was very difficult for people to see the drone footage and stuff like that there. Maybe it's because we're local, maybe we feel it more, it just personally I thought I wasn't comfortable with it anyway, but it doesn't matter what I think. And I don't know, I mean, I suppose there was some information that maybe people might be hearing for the first time that might be an inquest might have been a better place for it. I don't know. As I say, it's not for me to say. It's down to the families and the local community. And when I say the local community too, of course, there are people that lost their lives and were injured and damaged by that aren't immediately from Chris Lent and we should never ever forget all of the 10 people that very sadly lost their lives in that explosion. If you want to have a comment on it, because I mean, it's what a lot of people were talking about, get them into us. We'll see what we do with it in terms of the rest of the morning. WhatsApp or text 086625000 086625000 or give us a call on 07491 25000. The Turkarnal Tribune this morning tells us that Ukraine refugee numbers in Donegal at the end of January are estimated at 4513 with numbers stabilizing over the winter months. This position is expected to change going into spring when fighting on the battlefronts expected to increase. The Donegal Electoral Area has the largest number of refugees in the county with 1,227. So that's the likes of Kili Beg's, Bundor and Rosnalla and what have you. The Lederkenny area is providing accommodation for 588 at 12 locations. In the Shon has 658 refugees at 37 low locations. The largest number are in Balli Liffen. The Finn Valley has 259 based mainly in Balli Liffen and Sonora and finally Glentes, well it's not finally either, it's at 930 and in the Milford Electoral Area numbers are reported in the region of 645. On to the Democrat today, leading nursing home in Donegal has revised its practices following the death of an elderly patient who was given almost 10 times her prescribed medication on two occasions. Strict new measures have been implemented for staff at Larissa Lodge Nursing Home in Lederkenny following the death of Marie Glacken in 2020. In 26 hours prior to her death, Ms Glacken was administered 10 milligrams of oxenome, having been prescribed doses of 1 to 2 milligrams of the drug. The 97 year old of Main Street Dunlop passed away on May 14th 2020 and more coverage inside the paper today. The Dairy News this morning tells us that it understands the controversial one-way traffic system around the diamond area of the city is to be scrapped, councillors were expected to take the decision, were expected to take the decision at Wednesday's meeting of Dairy City and Straban District Council's Environment and Regeneration Committee. The paper obviously went to press just before that decision was taken. The introduction of a temporary one-way traffic management or arrangements along Ferry Quay Street and Upper Carlyle Road were designed with the objective of creating extended pedestrian space on Ferry Quay Street and associated reduction of vehicle traffic flow along the narrow street, but the arrangement was heavily criticised at the time. Let us go to the Irish Times and Bertie's back. The return, but this has been on the cards obviously because there has been sort of a what you might call it particularly on the national airwaves and RTE, there has been a rehabilitation of his character for those who might feel that it does need rehabilitating. For others he remains and always will be incredibly, incredibly popular, but he's back in the Fina Fall party. The return of former T-Shark Bertie Hearn to the Fina Fall fold is appropriate given the passing of time and the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement, tarnished to Meeho Martin has said. Mr Hearn has rejoined his local party organisation in Dublin Central just over a decade after he quit Fina Fall in the wake of the findings of the Mahantribunal. The move will ramp up speculation that he will seek to run for the presidency in 2025. Mr Martin said nothing like that has been discussed, that is just speculation, he just wanted to rejoin his local common and it's as basic as that according to Meeho Martin. What do you think? And I don't, I mean listen, I want to hear too from Fina Fall party members as well. Do you believe that this is the right move, the right time, has enough time passed with his contribution to the peace process, is it right that he's a member of the party, come 2020, what is the date of the anniversary, the 25th anniversary is coming up shortly. And you know, I suppose if any of us do wrong or what have you, that's to be an opportunity for rehabilitation, doesn't there? What do you think, I think views and that might be quite polarised but get them into us and we'll try and read out a balance of them for you. It was inevitable anyway and I was asking Minister Charlie McConaughey not so long ago and I can't recall exactly what he said in the interview but I think he did recognise his important role in the peace process and what have you. I can't remember his exact answer. The Irish Daily Mail this morning, the end of our father in the Lord's Prayer. A gender-neutral God in the end of our father prayer could be a step too far for parishioners, some priest's fear. The Church of England, now this is the Church of England, is to explore the use of gender-neutral terms which could see the Lord's Prayer opening line, our Father, become our love who art in heaven. So instead of our Father who art in heaven, it would be our love who art in heaven. Irish priests told the Irish Daily Mail that while they broadly welcomed the introduction of more gender-inclusive language in the liturgy at Mass, adapting prayers which date back more than 2,000 years could provoke a backlash. Dublin priest Father Duffy cautioned that change would not be easy, saying some prayers are deeply ingrained in tradition going back 2,000 years. I don't know how they would approach our Father. Father Willie Cummings, parish priest in County Clare said that he believes God should remain male as per the Bible. I won't support any change there, he said. However, Miss Father Cummings said the Church should be more inclusive of women in its language. Only today I changed the Gospel reading when it said that man was made in God's image. He said, I changed it to, we are proud, sorry, we are made in God's image. As I say, these are discussions ongoing from the Church of England. I was going to say mess around and I don't mean that because it sounds disrespectful, but they change texts or what is said at Mass reasonably regularly, don't they? I'm not a big fan of that in any case. I just don't see what problem are they fixing? Who's offended? Is anyone offended that a prayer starts our Father? To whom are they trying to appease, if anyone? Maybe it's got nothing to do with genders or what have you, but I don't see how changing our Father to our love is gender inclusive. I don't understand it. Maybe I'm just getting older. I am older. Maybe I'm getting older. I don't understand it. I don't even know what the motivation is, so I can't sort of go, oh, it's a disgrace because they're doing this because of, I mean, the paper said it's because it's more inclusive language, but then again, some people in religion don't see God as male or female. That's another view. It's very important as to why the decision is being taken. I'm not quite sure it's specifically the reason that's outlined in the paper there. I'll do more research on that. We've talked about this before, and it was always, this was a bugbearer of mine. I wasn't one of the complainers, but I've said on this show a couple of times about how some of the electricity providers, one which I was with, claimed that their electricity was, it was all green, right? It was all green energy, right? But at the same time, it's going up and down with the fluctuations in oil and gas and we know why that is. But I just didn't like the claim because it's misleading because you think you're doing something really, really good, but in truth, you're not. They're buying credits at best. But anyway, they can't do it any longer. Electricity firms are in the hot water with false 100% green claim. Electricity companies are misleading hundreds of thousands of you out there by claiming to supply 100% renewable power and advertising watchdog investigation has found. The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland says the claim, investigated in adverts by energy, but used industry-wide, must be dropped for marketing materials because the reality is, is 30 to 40% of our fuel is, what else could be scrapped? This unlimited data, get rid of that because it's BS. It's not unlimited data. There's, there's fair usage in caps. That's another thing. Why say that? There's loads of them out there. I can't think of them off the top of my head. But anyway, they're not allowed to say it any longer because 30 to 40% of the country's electrical needs are generated from wind farms and solar panels. So then how really in reality and in all fairness, could you say you're providing 100% green electricity when you're sucking it off the same grid? What else in on this? You will wait 60, 25,000. The Irish Farmers Journal this morning, weanlings continue to soar in price with records broken in most nationwide, in March nationwide over the last seven days. A combination of live exporters, factory-aligned feedlots and grass buyers are driving the trade with some exceptional prices being paid for top quality weanlings. Okay, so that's good. I hope that's benefiting the people that are raring them. I'm not a farmer of course, but I just hope that that's that's a good news for the farming community. We all have concerns. Everyone has concerns, I think, and we all chat about what's wrong in this country, what could be right. But there's something very Irish about us in that we are welcoming, that we can see the woods for the trees, that we can separate out concerns from, you know, race or religion or sexual orientation or whatever it might be. We have enough experience this myself, as I've said it in the program before. We've gone to other countries, honestly gone there to try and better ourselves, and we've faced racism. You know, people go straight to the posters from the 60s and 70s, but people have experienced it individually, even being called Mick or Paddy or, you know, certain jokes being said in front of you or whatever it is. And unfortunately, I just hope that we're not sort of becoming the people that do that, that we can have issues with certain things, like maybe the numbers of people coming to this country, the pressure on housing, other people not able to get housing, that we can talk about that, but not then turn into, some of us at least, turn into the type of people that would then be racist towards others, as we've experienced that so much ourselves. But some stories are emerging, and I don't want to over amplify them, but I just want to reference them. It's in the Irish Daily Mirror today, nurses are facing stab threats being spat at, kicked and verbally abused at work, a traumatised health worker told the Dall Committee yesterday. Sylvia Chambers was speaking on behalf of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, who were in Lentzter House to talk about abuse being suffered by the members in the state health board. The INAMO said at least 10 nurses a day being assaulted in our hospitals, and there's also some then reference to people who are working in the health service then, being grouped in with other people that have come here and facing, facing abuse. The Irish Daily Star, and you wonder why this is going to go, Vladimir Zelensky, he's on a tour of Europe, he wants more jets, and he wants jets in Ukraine. And I think there's a general acceptance that if Europe does provide the jets, if America provides the jets, that this is an escalation of the situation. Russia say that that's the case, and I think it's been generally accepted that that is the case here. Is that being said, without our support after this new Russian offensive, it will be like sending young Ukrainian men primarily, like lambs to the slaughter on the front line. So that's why he's making the argument for these planes, but you just really would be concerned exactly where this is going. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky yesterday told the UK parliament, I appeal to you in the world, with simple and yet most important words, combat aircraft for Ukraine, wings for freedom. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has so far only said that he will ask Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to investigate what jets the UK could potentially hand over, but in a press conference with Zelensky insisted nothing is off the table. Now, the truth is, though, particularly the high speed jets, they cost 100 million and it requires between three and 10 years training to fly them. So are they going to give them those jets worth all that money and allow people who want training to fly them to fly them? It wouldn't make a great deal of sense to me, but I don't know what they're going to do there. I just really worry where it's going and the incredible loss of life that's being experienced over there. And finally, Ryan Tiberty insists the late, late show should continue hosting EuroSong. Eurovision experts last the atrocious sound and peanut butter giveaway as Wild Youth bagged the slot. One said we were dying with embarrassment, but Tubbs said every part of the country tunes in. I didn't think it was that bad. There's certain things that I kind of let flow over me, the presentation style, that backroom cringe stuff. Maybe I didn't. I didn't mind it. I kind of enjoyed the program, but you know, maybe it's time we do something a little bit different. 21 minutes past nine. Good morning to you. It's the Ninth & Noon show here in Highland Radio. Any views on what we've just been reading? 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts. If you've never texted a show before, give us a text. Put the number in your phone. Your view is the same as everybody else's. Don't be turning to that person to your right and saying, do you know blah, blah, tell us and tell the entire Northwest. More and more of you listening all the time to the show too. I'm guessing I don't know, so I can't say anything, but maybe we'll be able to, I'll be able to say something tomorrow. I don't know. I'm just guessing I haven't seen anything, but it's great if that is the case. We'll see. All right then, let's take a break back with more shortly. Wet and Wild is celebrating 20 years in business with a massive 20% off absolutely every product in store in February. Choose any top outdoor brand product in store and we will deduct 20% of all prices at the tell by premium quality outdoor clothing footwear and equipment today and save 20%. 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from your phone call us today on zero seven four nine one two six zero two five and get your alarm from two hundred and ninety nine euro stay local stay safe and protect what you value most with Sheridan security systems all right want to mention the request Lee referenced just as he handed over earlier on today and it's happy wedding anniversary to Kay and Ignatius McGlinchey and Rafa hope you have a wonderful day Kay and Ignatius and that's coming in from all your family and all of us here too call us as it's great to see Bertie Herron rejoining the party he did a lot of good things while some bad nobody is perfect yeah I mean that is true nobody is perfect and you know it's a little bit like football you know Manchester United and Liverpool supporters you know your quick to highlight mistakes they've made or to wallow in joy ads their downfalls as well as obviously you know people have different political views what do you think um January Greg I didn't watch the tg car program out of respect for the grieving families in Creasel who wished it to be deferred four months is four months is such a short time since the tragedy with the families waiting for answers and I wasn't going to watch it either but I was asked to watch it by a handful of people directly affected so I did out of respect to them Greg it's all to please transgender it's not for other families anymore we know there are two genders a man and a female no other might think I'm talking nonsense but the truth always hurts everyone has their own truth though don't they and there are people listening that their truth is different quite interesting to hear former president Donald Trump and future president he would hope making some very strong statements as to what would happen under his stewardship if he were re-elected another call assess if the energy suppliers say they are giving a large uh they're giving large green energy why is it not cheaper than oil or gas generators the wind did not go up in price due to the Ukraine war it's because we have this crazy system where wind energy providers were guaranteed a rate and it was linked to the price you couldn't make it up could you it was uh it was linked to the price of electricity generated with fossil fuels and what have you so even though they were generating a clean energy they were guaranteed the same rate as other energy generators which took out the financial incentive for the consumer but that was a decision that someone made and thought it was a good idea uh just want to let motorists know there's an oil spill on the ballot paper letter kenny road a driver says fellow drivers should be careful let's stay on the roads and safety on the roads and welcome on to the broken pj hi pj good morning greg uh right you're i'm doing good i'm good nice to speak to you pj right tell us um your concerns when you're out driving uh mike it's not really a concern i just want to take uh make a attention bring attention to the caretaker of the dunigal league football pitch about the floodlights on the asset turf because as you as you're coming in from elison to do to the football pitch uh once you come around the corner at where shon haigiri has his lorries you get this bright light and you think there's a car common that hasn't dipped and as you move closer to the football pitch it actually gets brighter and the whole road there's that much bright brightness that the road actually is in darkness which is a contradiction but it seems to be all black spots so it's the same as someone with high powered lights is approaching you with the headlights on it's hard to see anything else but those lights is it that kind of uh that's that's that's the same that's the situation and just in case there will be an accident and probably the people that are involved in this didn't didn't realize this and and it hasn't been brought to their attention i'm not complaining about the lights being on or anything it's just the lights need to be readjusted that they're tilted down the way i'm not facing out on against on common traffic and the the lights that seem to affect them uh that are the worst are actually the the lights that are on the pitch the the plane pitch side of the astro torque you know the pitch the the dunigalic pitch is behind the astro torque well there's so set of lights there that are the ones that are causing the problem now i don't know if anybody else has found this or not but i have driven that road a couple of times in the dark now and i just find it nearly impossible and the sad thing is that i think if somebody was even walking and using high had which wearing high vis clothing i don't think you would actually see them because of the lights and the the black spots that the lights produce yep okay well listen let's put it out there and say i know you're not being critical of the lead league or any individual you're just saying are you aware of this and if you're not it's something maybe you need to have a look at uh we'll throw it out there and see if anyone else has noticed this i know you're focused solely on safety and that's why you've uh that's why you've rang us so we'll see what others say pj yeah yeah i have no problem with the with the football pitch or the lights are running it's just that the need to just need to be adjusted tilted down a little bit that the glare is in common like they're so strong that they're actually stronger i think then actually driving into another car towards another car that has its whole headlights on you know right okay so you're saying um they they need to put the dips on the pitch okay i get you pj listen well it just needs yep tilted down a bit you know i get you i get you right okay listen leave it with us we'll see what others say thanks pj take care and stay fat on the roads 08 660 25 000 it's the whatsapp or text number uh gregor remember when they changed the responses at mass nobody will get this yeah indeed and there's a few occasionals uh who go now and again uh that probably didn't know the changes were there and found themselves caught out not that i know anyone that would fall into that category uh greg i seen last night a man cutting pete's been fined 7700 euro but can go to the shop and buy pete wrapped in plastic from germany it makes no sense indeed on the face of it it doesn't seem to make much sense right okay we're gonna have our next guest on the program very shortly watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com covid 19 and flu viruses are circulating in the community keeping up to date with your recommended vaccines will make sure you have the best possible protection from serious illness and everyone aged 18 to 49 can now get a second covid 19 booster vaccine from the hsc vaccination center or a participating gp of pharmacy see what vaccines are recommended for you on hsc.ie or call our team in hsc live on 1800 700 700 from the hsc at ulster bank our team is 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you're always in good hands at hegardy's ford turn a mug of letter kenny see hegardy's dot com okay you welcome back to the program and we are going to talk about maybe it's not going to be for everyone for the next five or ten minutes so just be aware we're going to be talking about shag week in letter kenny uh barry breason welfare equality officer with the student's union at the atu letter kenny joins us good morning to you barry morning greg thanks for calling in and aina mcdormand education communications officer with the student's union at the same facility how are you getting on thanks for joining us very best greg thank you for having us what's the whole function of shag week then so shag week is a sexual health awareness and guidance week it's not all about shagging as some people may think uh it's a joint campaign run by the hsc and uh usa and it's from one of the core campaigns of a atu student's union formally li at for as long as i can remember anyways it focuses on sexual health empowerment consent contraception unplanned pregnancies effective pornography on young people um and it's starting uh next week on february 13th everyone events on and off campus uh just to get the students informed get talking about sexual health and everything in that realm so on the face of it aina uh shag week obviously people think it's all about promoting promiscuity or however people might want to describe it but really what it's about is is i presume recognizing that a lot of it goes on anyway uh but to make sure that people you know do it right that they protect themselves that they make sure the other party is consenting that they avoid illness yes uh it's not quite as exciting as the word shag weeks but that's what it's about really isn't it yeah and uh also they've uh do great services provided by on four students on campus uh in terms of contraception so uh recently uh you you can now get your you get your coil on uh both types of coil your copper coil um and uh you can get your patch every single contraceptive measure is now available to students and is now free uh for anyone under under 25 um and also we're um barry can talk about some of the events that we're having in terms of uh educational talks uh just say night in students on consent and other things yeah barry so kicks off on monday yes so on monday as eno is talking about the various types of contraception that we have available so to try and gamify some of these things as sometimes just information stand not as appealing as it sounds even though you may have sweets and freebies and like that to give away so i'm trying to do is gamify it so like a little tick the box your list of the contraception that are available you just take off the ones you think we have so lucky enough uh some of them are like we're taking the joke with them so people will know we're having the crack so yeah uh luckily then by the end you will come away with the sheet list of all information available and uh on the what concepts we have so it's kind of a trying a fun way approach to educate really isn't absolutely that's what you got to do because unfortunately um when you're just putting some information it's not all that appealing and then we have other fellowship studies coming in as well we've done a lot of your services they have a consent consent uh campaign going on consent tuesday the first tuesday yeah on the tuesday and then following on from there on our wednesday we are rolling out our wellness cafe we sent a coffee morning that we have for students that we're doing on a monthly basis just back to tuesday the consent thing is an important issue and not uniquely but i think particularly in the third level setting there can be you know it can be quite an issue there uh it's very important i think that for you know everyone uh knows what consent is absolutely because it's the end it causes it's like a atu dunagall's international that in different countries consent comes in at a different age and there's certainly a different environment and different attitudes towards there so we've got to educate people on what is like around atu dunagall and what is expected and respected on campus and so we are campuses and they're all of alcohol in that situation absolutely and a person's ability to consent as well all the things that need a great deal of focus right across society not just as a third level uh the wellness cafe on wednesday um is tell us about that i mean that's obviously about promoting positive mental health i presume yes and essentially it's a safe space or kind of a break from college life saying you're feeling the pressure and that we put on like tea free teas and coffees and that and also we try and tie it into some form to our weak themes as we did back in christmas we did like a gingerbread making house competition so essentially got people together and we give them all the tools provided the gingerbread the icing and that actually turned out really well so we're looking to replicate that again with just a little bit more of a sex theme so where it might have to be people about the truth and false around pornography so that's something myself and aina was able to attend training earlier on in the academic year we also find it very helpful and um yeah that's how wednesday is going to go and then on our thursday we are getting women's aid to come up they're doing a pop-up stand around their two into you campaign and that's all around healthier relationships as in college it can be your first experience with to be getting into something serious maybe on whatever your secondary school romance may have been so yeah that's one of great opportunities as well if you cannot attend say the pop stand along the main corridor we're then getting out after for an instagram live so you may not even be in college that day so we may as well feel free if you do have any questions yeah just popping and we're happy to help aina um how is student life for for the masses at the moment is it is it stressful is it more difficult i mean obviously you know there's people are challenges in terms of funding it you know and that feeds into sort of you know people's general mental well-being i think and there's different triggers as well oh yeah i'll just say that uh with uh it's changed even in my in my few years experience being in college especially like uh with students coming out and leaving uh coming out of secondary school not having done their proper exams and just missing a lot of them you know very formative years um not properly socializing so there's a lot of misunderstandings um and especially like when we did that by mentioning the pornography and uh yesterday uh just our second ago that you know the way the way people approach relationships now is so skewed and is get and the things that we're hearing from younger and younger people is absolutely terrible like that they're uh they're getting their education from education yeah perceptions being perceived that isn't true which means say just to say the women might believe there's certain expectations of them for example and fellows might believe that they're uh that this is how you do it you know and i mean obviously it depends on people's sexual orientation but just to use a basic example there that's um that's uh that's not a way to do it is it no exactly as like as seen on tv as such you think acts out like no performance is something's going to be asked of you in duration and things like that so essentially making a more grounded uh education is something what we're looking forward call it says great can you ask the lads if they think young men will listen better to young men i've got two teenage boys and want to make sure they respect girls i mean i think everyone has a role in it but certainly uh a young lads probably more likely to listen to a positive positive advice from a peer you know someone doesn't feel like an old fogey or a parental figure or well i'm fairness now it is getting better like they're teaching about consent from the uh from the age of five five years five years along the words and there is from what we're hearing uh the the rse programs in schools are being majorly overhauled and they are being taught about not just you know like your genitalia you're taught about like relationships and how to treat people properly and like if i'm going to put my hand on barry's knee here that you know that there's all right like and like when you know when that there's all right and that there's a start with the basics and that there advances as you go out in free school as opposed to you know what me and you would have had free school is like you know it's wasn't talked about at all you know but the reality is is that um without getting into the ins and outs of it the only way you know that you are not being mistreated or you're not being abused is if you have some understanding of what that is i mean that for me is a basic you know i think going back generations and decades ago there are people who were being told that what was happening to them was okay it was normal it was there was a reason for it that it was okay and it was our secret and that allowed and we know that allowed generations and generations of children to be abused hopefully now children and i'm not saying what i'm not 100% sure about all of it but now a younger person can recognize when something bad's happening to them you'd hope you'd hope that's the case um but anyway that's it's all tied in but that's maybe quite separate from from what you guys are doing um that's modelled Thursday on campus there's lots of stuff happening around the town presumably as well the letter kenny town that is yep so we've we've a couple nightlife events lined up so i just a couple so on the on the Tuesday Tuesday evening we have a sex toy bingo in the orchard so basically you know instead of numbers you have a so sex paraphernalia and with the chance to win some sex paraphernalia and then the then the Wednesday night dance i don't know if you're aware of the belter quiz that takes place in the central every week it's very popular among students we've linked in with them and there's going to be a sex theme on a few of the rounds and then there's going to be some sex related prizes arranged from box of chocolates to um well i won't finish that sentence where green singlin ready to mingle yeah uh so then there's the traffic light party as well and sister sarah's of course uh so uh upon entry you'll be uh you have the option of free stickers so uh one of the stickers will be you know your green your single you're ready to mingle as you said greg uh your your orange then as you know is a bit complicated you know just you know if you weren't in the orange light come up to me and ask me and i'll tell you the situation uh and then for the red you know taken don't come near me all right okay we could do that all the time maybe not just uh i think it would stop a lot of awkward interactions you know and you know i thought it like is she and look at me is she not you know it's like black mirror stuff but you know who's to say maybe it is it all right well listen uh i mean the more the more young i'm not a young person anymore i don't really know necessarily what's right or wrong but i think if people have an education and understanding to do what they're going to do anyway safely uh but also that they anything that's being done is being done with the consent of both and respectfully as well i mean so we'll see he's going to have a good week anyway all right we plan to don't overdo it oh no we haven't done it yet anyway yeah don't overdo it because you know yourself less is more sometimes all right um this all this information is being distributed through the atu obviously to all uh uh the various people that are studying there and what have you so they'll be well aware of it and just let the general public know anything he's want to add lads yeah so just make sure to like you know uh keep following us on our instagram and our facebook you can get us uh by just searching simply atu students union dunagol and you can get all the information uh we run loads of campaigns that it's not just about sexual health awareness uh we you know there's also biodiversity and uh edi and obviously rag week last week where we we haven't finished counting yet but we raised thousands a thousand zero for charity yes uh so yeah we do we do and everything we do as far as students if there's any if you're a student listening please do get in touch with us with any issue you have at all barry brezlin thank you for joining us you're very welcome welfare officer with students union at the atu uh aina mcdormitt education communications officer with the students union at the atu both of you thank you very much have a great week enjoy an absolute pleasure greg take care cheers on this week's business matters 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right let's welcome on to the program on regular contributor from the jacunnel trip you know i always like to wait till you've got the paper out junk so i don't want to put you under too much pressure you know paper out last night available today uh good morning to you don't don't be worried about i'll be worried about you john i'll be worried about pressures for tires says you right okay we wanted your views on the return of t-shirt birdy her and i mean probably one of the worst kept secrets in politics the the i suppose the kites were being flown for quite some time now does this simply fall down on political allegiance you know if you're finna gale or shin fain just to use though too you might you might be on the fence a little bit of a completely opposed if you're in finna fall you think this is the best thing ever is it as simple as that i don't think it is as simple as that uh remember that birdy her led the country on three occasions 97 2002 and again in 2007 the flood tribunal the man tribunal inquiring into certain aspects of planning irregularities in and around the Dublin area and uh that was ongoing for years and it it was coming to an end and birdy was he was he was he was he was a man of the people he was a big big popular visitor here to donag all to let a kenny he got to know people very very quickly and he uh he had he had a great appeal no other party leader in finna fall could ever do what birdy did exactly what he did do we we will never find out because you know the the man tribunal found that he had failed to truthfully account for the sources of his bank accounts and the feeling of the new finna fall leader mail martin in 2012 moved very quickly to have him put down a motion of expulsion and birdy jumped before that motion was put down because it was going to be carried but martin said and afterwards that a heron had betrayed the trust of the party and the country remember those are two very very salient things that he said about him uh where do you come back or how could you come back from that but there has to appear pathway back though doesn't there i mean you know we also do we not have to recognize people's contributions and if people do wrong too the whole judicial system is built on uh you know punishment but rehabilitation i mean there must come a point um that you know if you have done wrong in the past that you have served your time no well if you really look at the late deal british case he was expelled with charlie hawke in 1971 and for the rest was political career once he died in 1995 he never managed to get back into finna fall so he had to look out against backgrounds of that kind of know how he got back in maybe he crawled back in blaney was never going to do that uh i don't have anything terribly against bertie heron i don't know where finna fall is going at the moment i don't quite understand they're more up around it right now i know that the good friday the 25th anniversary of his coming up and that's going to be quite a big thing in fairness bertie heron played a very big role in that as did many others as did gerry adams as did tony blare and bill clinton and john cube and right across the political spectrum let us not forget all of those uh david trumbull and all of those people across northern island but is it a time to have a big celebration for the good friday agreement given the impasse that you have a you you have an assembly that is completely out of context and and that they can't get to sit and also to people's faith in an interesting poll recently as to how people might vote if if that proposition was put to them again it shows you know a very divided northern island in in relation to that that question it is it is you know the celebration doesn't feel like the right word does it but you know we're putting the cart before the horse here we're doing polls without any preparation whatsoever as to what an all island would look like post the post the conflict and and in reunification would have to come to terms with exactly what re-unification actually means it's going to mean some different things to all of us but bertie heron would have would have been played a very prominent role in that as did albert reynolds albert reynolds was probably the man who kickstarted the uh the peace process with jerry adams but a heron as probably has probably other ambitions i would imagine well let me put it to you like this is this really the next part of a job in other words like i don't see and this is maybe it's telling maybe it's not i don't see a queue of leading finafore representatives looking to get into the papers or maybe onto this show to to welcome the fact because maybe at this point it's still there's still a bit of toxicity there some would see you trying to defend the indefensible but of course we have seen bertie heron return to uh rte is a very regular guest there news talk have him on on a regular basis then we have this and we talk about his contribution uh to the good friend agreement and then we make our way in a couple of short years to the presidency so this is part of a process rather than the end of the journey i wonder because this is being very well managed john you know yourself it's being very well managed it's been very well managed but i mean it can't be involved managed things given where they are in the polls or is this just a shot in the dark that might kick start them give them a five point uh increase in polls i doubt that very much because you know there are people out there waiting to talk to bertie heron to try and get some rationale from about the the charm of economics that he that he probably didn't have a lot to do with but he he'll he'll be he's commander a lot of scrutiny about his bank accounts that hasn't going to go away he there is a legacy there if he and of all are trying to rehabilitate bertie as a leader rather than anything else i think and if the good friday agreement is going to be used to do that so be it that is that is their decision i'm not too sure how that's going to go down with the public i know that some of the some of the polling companies did a straw poll maybe about this time last year they were thinking about bertie heron and those overwhelming support to bring him back and of course there's overwhelming support within the party to bring him back but is it the right thing to do given that to the first time that a feign of file a new feign of file leader was going to put down a motion to have a former leader expelled you can't get beyond that without some just mere passionate to buy and say nothing about it just something happened that you know like it's over and done with but the question is the findings of the mahan tribunal are not over and done with and this is a tribunal with the most costly ever in the history of this state costing somewhere north of maybe 300 000 and you know it was never going to be totally inclusive because it went on for years and years and years maybe nine years they were asked almost to investigate something that there weren't going to be clear answers to but to have found that a former t-shirt failed to truthfully account for the sources of his bank accounts is a very very big no no no for bertie heron right so then are you saying that we don't really know which way the wind's going to blow in terms of this announcement do you think this could as opposed to have a boost for feign of fall in the polls could it have the opposite effect could it say right it's it's back to more of the same this confirms everything we knew i'm only putting out some some thoughts that might be out there i'm not expressing any views myself that this actually could be counterproductive for fenigale or maybe even fenigale might feel that this is this is a bit toxic for them though it's an awful lot going on there too well you know those points that you raise are all all very very valid feign of all i've probably been doing a bit of research with them with on their own party from talking to some of the grassroots here and done it all they are just not in favor of it right they're not they're not terribly opposed to it it's not going to encourage them to get off their seats on election day either being at the local elections next year or at the general election to get up off their seats and go out and vote it's going to take a lot more than that to get a lot of the feign of fall grassroots to go back it really is quite interesting to see a few of the old faces return and i don't mean old in in terms of age but that we haven't seen for a while yeah it's that part of then a broader strategy then because as i say you know there are people back involved that i perhaps didn't expect to see back involved again around the country yeah but uh there's a generation there going back 20 years going back 30 years that would have loved Bertie here and they would have loved that his his visit to the tent of the Galway races and all these kind of things God almighty there was adulation when it came to lyrical people running around the word never going to wash their hands again after he kissed Jesus give my head peace with you it was a bit of all right so come here in the last minute we have then like a hugely popular appeal and still do and people defended him to the hilt and i remember people around me it didn't matter what he did it was leave the man alone he's you know so and i'm sure there's still some of that out there but you know something beautiful i was riding the crest of a wave at that time so riding an absolute crest of a wave Bertie Herndon come in he had been minister for labour he had been minister for finance he could do no wrong and i mean he drank in Fagan's pub in Drumconder and she like that made him he shook hands with Bono every so often and he was pictured his croaked part and uh the boom the the building boom as he called it was was was was never going to end well he ended up then just been literally just having to walk away from it and i mean that is politics can you revive a career of that kind is that what they want to do those are all the questions that we're not able to answer this morning we'll find out over the course of two years then finally how do you think he would do now remember of course there's another two years to work on his on his public persona how do you think he will do in the presidential elections in 25 25 is a bit away we don't know what candidates may emerge there but intellectuals uh Bertie Herndon will always have an appeal uh with the grassroots of Dublin he could do very very well he is he is a renowned Dublin man he's a man of the people he never rose above a station and just as as a as a as a two blue Drumconder man and that would is something that that that would carry a lot of weight still maybe not with the younger generation uh i would have mixed views on that given the circumstances but there could be the argument that the younger generation might find a different candidate and that maybe Bertie Herndon would get an older generation at harking back to better times at to vote so you just wouldn't know John listen i i wish i wouldn't know you wouldn't know i i i just can't say him swinging a younger crowd and maybe that's not what they're looking for listen it's always a pleasure John have a lovely Thursday chat to you soon thank you Greg all right bye bye thanks very much John McAteer there of the Chicano Tribune let us take a break back with a much more in the show of course after the news and obituary notices Armaculla jewelers in letterkenny are synonymous with fine jewellery quality watches and gift wear with stores at main street letterkenny and the letterkenny shopping center are online at armaculla.com you can choose from their quality product range in a relaxed atmosphere and their sales staff will be happy to help you make the right choice whatever the occasion armaculla jewelers making moments 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information in connection with the killing of 23 year old andrew allen jade mclafrey reports andrew allen was murdered by a group of individuals in his home on the night of february 9th 2012 he was shot dead in front of his partner at their property in lynx view bunkrana investigating gardy believes that a number of people were involved in the murder destruction of evidence and subsequently sheltering the killers involved a number of people have been arrested and questioned in connection with the case but gardy believes that there are still people in both bunkrana and dairy city who have information that may assist in bringing those responsible to justice they are appealing to anyone with information however insignificant it may seem to contact them attorney gold deputy says rock all has caused irish fishermen millions deputy podger mcloughlin has slammed both the british and irish government over their failure to reinstate access to the 12 mile limit around rock all it's been two years since the euk trade and cooperation agreement came into effect yet he says the blockade by british authorities continues after the euk and uk trade agreement the british government unilaterally and outrageously blocked irish fishermen from accessing their traditional fishing grounds in the 12 mile limit around rock all it's now two years since this has happened i have repeatedly called on the minister for the marine charlie mcconnell when the minister for foreign affairs simon colby and now beyond martin to get this sorted out there's no basis in international law it's absolutely outrageous when it's costing about seven million every year to our fishermen the ps and i are pledging to proactively target those in the community who contribute to the cycle of child abuse a detective inspector was speaking after a 44-year-old dairyman pled guilty to four offenses at colrain at crown court iman falvey has more yesterday at colrain crown court patrick divine pled guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity detective inspector richard vasey from the ps and i's child internet protection team said afterwards that mr divine believed he was talking to three young girls age 12 13 and 14 the profiles he was talking to were actually decoys and law enforcement officers he said there are specialist officers within the team who are dedicated to shining a light on these often hidden crimes robustly investigating and bringing those responsible before the courts he stressed the ps and i's aim is to protect further vulnerable young people from harm the detective inspector said their operations would continue and he urged anyone with concerns or information to get in contact with police a western engulf cancer fears the lack of investment in rhod's infrastructure in gi dore could give the wrong impression to investors canter me hall call mcgill aspects says the state of the roads and footpaths in the local business park is hampering efforts to attract new businesses to the area while dunningall county council has responsibility for part of the road leading to the business park internally it is under the remit of uterus nigel talk to counter mcgill aspects says there must be equal investment across the country there's fantastic work being done by uterus nigel talk to if you look at the g tech and other investments in the area but in terms of the infrastructure we're lacking behind and the state and minister needs to listen that the people in the guillotine dunningall are equally as important as anybody on the east coast or anywhere else and it's time to invest proper monies and not pennies into our community whether i'm mostly dry today with light winds there will be sunny spells and the chance of an isolated shire highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the 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professional staff meeting i was told openly that i knew when the boat back to scotland is because i criticized some policy constant mucking of accents and stereotypes meant to be funny it's water off a duck's back to me but i feel sorry for people from other parts of the world facing these types of comments or worse on a daily basis bring back birdie a herring to irish politics is an insult to the intelligence of the irish people in my opinion as for certain media outlets continuously giving a herring a second chance as if nothing has happened doesn't surprise anyone really another the church of england can do what they want we don't have to follow anything they do thank god it's about time people stood up to these people for the sake of our children and although it was god not referred to in the bible as our father even jesus words in the bible are about his father in heaven how can this be changed after thousands of years asked another god was definitely a woman no man could create the world in a week a bit of humor there no harm in that either not near the wise any of them soon i will not be called a woman just a whoa am i even female or just a fee daftest thing i've ever heard or we won't be allowed to say brother and sister is just siblings slurry tankers and tractors some roads wrong are incapable of coping with these loads yeah i've seen some of that myself hi gregg could i just say that john macketeer is the most interesting intelligent guest that has ever been on your program explains everything very clearly and is very well informed his coverage during elections is excellent and makes everything easily understood keep up the good work yourself too thanks for your lovely comments takes a bit of time to take your phone out and i'd say something nice so we really appreciate it hi gregg only in arland where you would see burry her and getting back into government the quicker they're wiped out the better thanks that's uh from one person there it just goes to 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mcloon uh from the manor curling club virginia good morning to you good morning greg thanks for joining us and you are in studio with caron guffrey donnie gall sports partnership sports development officer caron good morning great to have you with us right so i didn't know there was a curling league i didn't even know curling you could spell it with a k so this is indoor curling then isn't indoor curling it's a an adapted version of the the ice um i suppose the olympics port of carlin adapted for older adults by age and opportunity um it came to us probably in 2014 uh lady from raffle gene wilson you move just a little bit that way because you're just off mic slightly perfect um and so how does it shall i ask you how difference differs from the the the caron uh virginia you can't keep pointing at caron's answer all the questions you are going to speak i insist i want you to tell me what curling is please uh virginia go ahead well curling is played is played uh and on a wooden floor and um there's a mat and we use stones and pushers to uh get stones on the mat and it has to be 40 feet away from the mat that we push the stones okay and uh each team plays four four ends and the the rules are similar to the ice curling you're knocking the other players out as a bullseye you're looking to get closer to that exactly yes on the mat yes do you replicate the brushing no we don't it's we use a pusher to push the stones straight yeah onto the mat or as possible or as near the mat as possible okay and how long have you been playing caron i'll keep calling you the wrong name virginia sorry uh the manner curling club is playing since 2016 we set up the club and uh we're playing then and then with covid we we lost a while and um we're back by 2022 and we're very proud to have won the east dunagall league brilliant and how many clubs are the routines do you know there are seven wow so we're the last team that has joined the league um we didn't do too well the first year but uh we had a demo actually from uh a member of the liver club and we thought well that sounds good to us we would like to you know to play because uh you know i suppose it evolved from the women's group um we found that there was money available from available to us from 18 opportunity and we applied for the grant and we decided that we'd like to do curling so then uh we needed some men and naturally the men wouldn't want to join the women's group yes so we formed we formed our own club then the curling club yeah and we have three men playing we have a total of 15 players at the moment wow and uh and and would this have a sort of a crossover share an interest with people who've bowled in the past i wonder would yes well we have we have three players who would have played bowls in the past and we also have an all island komogi champion who's on carl wow okay yes and uh a lot the rest of us really probably i only played netball school because i couldn't play komogi because i wore glasses and i was afraid of getting them broken you get here yeah so 10 years ago you would never have imagined that you'd be a curling champion presumably would you no our our club not me personally do you not play oh yes i do i'm afraid you're a curling champion that's just the way it works you know you have to take your bit of the credit as well um but caren i think people are hearing this for the first time that there's you know this type of and and a lot of people involved as well a lot of teams 15 in the in the in the manner team i mean that's great yeah the legal beer on 10 years next year so um so don't say i was established yeah so that was back in 2014 you love that side of that microphone well i don't know what you want on the other side um jean wilson yeah um jean sadly passed away it'll be two years ago now in in july of this year and um she approached the sports partnership and said listen this courtland's great crack and you know you need to set up a league so we started with four teams in the east of the county and um it just took legs you know we've 120 members there now that play they're starting next week and they'll play for the next 14 weeks and then they'll break for the summer and they'll go again in september and they love it they love the crack and and you know we heard from virginia she played a bit of netball in the past and others have but i'm sure there's others uh and and i think the majority later in their lives that probably playing competitive sport for the first time that's right and that that was the big thing for us was providing people with an opportunity to do something that they wouldn't wouldn't have done even they wouldn't be provided the opportunity even in school we've we've done taster sessions in badminton and you'd be surprised that their hand-eye coordination is excellent and if only they'd have been given the opportunity earlier in life they'd have been brilliant at it so they're trying something at 80 years of age that they've never tried before in their life and that's a big one for us is it's just exposing them to to new things you know and are there opportunities like the the person that had the vision whose name escapes me at the moment sorry gene wilson gene um are there opportunities for people another gene out there to sort of say right you know this is something that might work in our area or is this something we could try not just curling but other um sort of activities absolutely that you know our focus is participation in sporting physical activity so there's a lot of active retirement groups out there that that do different activities they'll they'll go on day trips and they'll do various things but it mightn't be ultimately physical activity focused and for us it's trying to add that element to their their schedule i suppose or their weekly schedule if it's curling great you know we've we've obviously the seven teams here in the east of the county but their the teams here are constantly on to us about getting you know somebody maybe in the south of the county teams in the south of the county or or um even an initial one and they would play off against each other then for kind of like a county title so they're always thinking they're thinking big um ahead but for us just to have them participate or even trying it would be would be huge you know i mean obviously for genie it's great to be active it's great to uh there's a competitive element clearly because you saw the champions um and you never lose that that that sort of will to win but there's a presumably there's a lovely social element to it as well is there absolutely yes and it's it's lovely meeting all the members of the other teams and sure we've great crack ourselves we practice i'd be afraid if i got down i wouldn't get back up again you'd need a pusher do you Greg you'd need a pusher i just ended up down my head hitting off the jack well it's not a jack in curling is it but anyway go ahead no that's a pusher i love this pusher yes so um our the age profile of our group is from 55 to early 80s and everyone is very active needless to say and um you know we practice as i said uh once a week and we have our competitions coming up now but it's not just the practice we have it's the social element yeah when we get together you know there's a bit camera i drink and you know what i don't know there's the members men sheds and all that type of stuff which is very very important but i i think as we get older as men uh our friends circle shrinks rapidly i think more so than it might for women not to compare but i think it really doesn't you know really quite quickly knife men can find themselves really quite isolated uh i'm not saying that women don't but i think it's a particular issue with men this is an opportunity isn't it to get them involved in something else maybe the men's shed or whatever else might be that might not be for them but this is yes the more we have the more we can include everyone isn't that right uh virginia and we would like to recruit more men into the team so you know there's that opportunity there for us to come and see and you know and watch maybe a game and have a go and see if they would like it and we would we would welcome them and we have tea always as well which is hugely important absolutely and you know sharing views and having a crack after the games and so on and do you think karen that maybe people don't realize that this is part of the role of the dunagol sports partnership yeah probably people are not curling specifically but you know the you know different things that you've come back to get and our target like we've a target from three years of age up to 83 years of age it's basically a focus on getting people of all ages and all abilities active and just participating and doing anything at all so um this one for us is a lovely one because you you've regular participation every week they have something to come out for um and that happens kind of twice a year so and listen you know we're indebted to the to the group leaders the likes of virginia you know we have a virginia in the six other um clubs as well in in stern orler kelly gordon castle fun lifford we're full letter kenny so um you know we're indebted to those people because without them it wouldn't happen you know they keep the thing running and as you say there's no reason why there can't be teams from all around the county absolutely the doors open just give the sports partnership away ring and even if there's people in those areas of course there is yeah but i mean i'm sure you'd love to to knock someone outside through the gap as well uh for janiel certainly would or even any shown or even exactly they're highly competitive really open those rivalries um and it's played in halls presumably on the wooden floor yes yeah yeah community halls or church halls but because you carry the equipment and the map presumably is mobile that rolls up or rolls out if i'm correct am i yes it's a really flexible way you can play it yes absolutely yeah and can i just say we're indebted to caron and sports partnership as well for assisting us you know getting up and running and helping us to source the funding and so on so forth so it's an infantable resource the sports partnership as is caron caron do you think you're hiding from the camera it's better to virginia on it there thinking of if you look to your left over there that was getting away with it now virginia's the spotters caron's been here a few times i think and thinks she knows where to hide but we've uh we've we've we've known that people do that so we've been on over here right okay so how do um people get involved in i think there's going to be people listening that even in the local community of virginia that didn't know this is happening uh you know that there are different types of clubs like this here and i think you'll get a few calls on it do you do it through the sports partnership or it's probably the most straightforward way originally um uh greg just to ring the office 07491 16078 um and just ask for any of us for reference the curling they'll know anyway but um or in any of the areas they probably have a fair idea we've virginia obviously in manor but you have a lady kathy anderson and in strunauer they're they're well known people in the areas you know people know how to kind of go to john butlers and kelly gordon breech devinson's and castle fun um kathy kelly now he's taken over from delia palmer and lyford and margher park and refoe and then granja heins you'll know granja probably has been in a few times with his here granja heins and Dorothy toyer and letter kenny so granja good is she good tear is she continue on out of other in it oh yes she has a date do you have do you have a particular rivals no they're all the other six teams are rivals is there not one team that's a bit of bad blood there no that's not the top no no we actually initially started out with kind of not trying to be too competitive and not rules they wanted a trophy and then every time we meet twice a year down at century cinemas and backstage upstairs and we've we cup of tea and we'll always thrash out the rules and they'll be looking to add stuff in and it gets it gets much more technical as it then goes on is curling popular around the country all beyond i wonder it just depends on the local sports partnerships really um greg you'll find some counties i think they they might be doing it in cavern and maybe down in lester a wee bit more um scooches another one that's kind of taken over it's big in the men's sheds um it's a very similar premise to the to the um curling you're pushing a kind of sliders like shuffleboard to a target um and the men's sheds are are are keen on getting another crossover kind of a discipline with some of the same skills again with a pusher the stupid and bending sometimes becomes a wee bit more difficult it's a leveler isn't it the the pusher because it means you know everybody is um you know if if some people have a little mobility uh issues it's this level it's as much 11 playing playing field as you could get so when does the um virginia use meet up all the time is it every week like does the is was that a cup or is that a league or how do you format the competition well we meet every we meet every thursday from half past one for practice and then uh caron we meet caron then to to arrange the league fixtures i get you so the the first of these now is on the 13th i used to love i was involved in a darts league years ago i loved it i loved the whole who we playing you know the crack beforehand that little thing that you get even if you're not competitive when you're competing against someone else it kicks in you know even though you're trying to suppress it it's there you want to win uh so it must be lovely uh right okay um now is there a lower age bracket with something like this um caron i mean i know it's all inclusive and at the moment it's quite a broad age 50 to 80 55 to 80 80 plus well the funding is provided by age and opportunity is for people over 50 for active seniors really wow so i'm right okay i'm very qualified yeah the thing of it is that you could play it to us and join us she's always recruiting says she's going to be a particularly i noticed handsome young ones as well the door will be open anyway the kettle will be on so yeah and that's it isn't it really um it is it's about getting together having the cup of tea and and everything else brilliant it's okay uh so if you're interested in the curling league uh there are a number of teams seven teams in all uh get in contact with the donagall sports partnership sports development uh group with the donagall sports partnership we've got the development officer with us here caron and you can put people together anyone listening out there that thinks right i wonder is this something we could do in our area presumably you're open to talk to them or any suggestions presumably in terms of uh well i'll let you explain it caron what who who will you do welcome to hear from in terms of new ideas or yeah any active retirement groups obviously they will have a group lead in the community or there's community centers out there that don't have active age groups kind of started already we're also you know in the process we're working with balentrad at the minute and glen column kill just try and get an active retirement groups up and running um great facility of balentrad fantastic facility yeah lovely by call but it was probably underutilized for so long so they have a good lead in patricia there locally now that's trying to kind of just get the doors opened again and get people using so we have an activator poles walking program they're running at the minute and um it's it's really just a case of having that physical activity focused to it and if you don't if you already have an active retirement group up and running we can support you to buy the equipment that's the big one that is often the barrier to this isn't it because we're talking about quite expensive stuff because you would know good stuff versus bad stuff how balanced they are whether they all move freely presumably i'm guessing but i imagine that's the case and they're so easy to use that's the big one greg you know you show them once and then they bat her away themselves and they've a group lead that maybe looks after the cup mentor takes it home with them and they set it up every week and they play away themselves all right well virginia continues says congratulations on your team being the champions again now the job is defending that championship that's that's that's correct everyone's gonna be gunning for you now there's no doubt about that they'll be listening we're looking for it to defending yeah of course all right brilliant okay anything else that we need to add or are you happy enough oh we're happy thank you all right well virginia mclune it's been lovely having you in thank you from the manor curling club the current champions of the donagall curling league league hopefully will grow from here it's already a huge participation i would have thought i just didn't know about it you know when you don't know something you know wow this is all happening in and i didn't realize it which is great and of course you just heard from Karen Guthrie donagall sports partnership sports development officer and the donagall sports partnership can be contacted her Karen oh seven four nine one one six zero seven eight or on email to the and forward active donagall account or my name Karen just brilliant and we will retain all those contacts for any of you out there to get in touch you're really invited too because it sounds great okay a big thank you once again virginia happy curling and also Karen Guthrie again lovely to have you in and we'll be back with more on the program after the break watch the show live now on 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the girls are involved in a team that's part of the young social innovators group in the ross community school it's a ty project it's a national program um it's really amazing where it gives the students um the opportunity to stand up and speak out about something that they feel passionate about something that they feel needs change um a positive input um no matter how big or how small it's just them trying to to make a difference and the beautiful thing about it is that it is student led so they're the ones that come up with what they want to do they're the ones that lead it my role in at all is just simply to be a guide just to kind of lead them in the right direction answer questions kind of help them in in elements that they may not be able to to do themselves but it's they're they're the ones that run with it so they learn an awful lot of skills they um learn to work in teams they learn a lot of problem solving skills all that kind of stuff that can bring them true lots of other different projects that they do in school and beyond in college it's a great thing for their cbs yeah and to own an issue and to be able to talk about it and to you know right any wrongs that are seen in that regard too you can see um how it's beneficial so riana um do you want to tell us about the project that you's are working on um our project is called menstrual waves and we started this because we feel that there's a lack of education regarding the menstrual cycle and the school's curriculum um our tagline is learn to raise your menstrual waves basically describing about teaching young girls about their hormones and how they rise and fall throughout their whole cycle and how to deal with them so it's understanding yourself better yeah um now people might think well sure everyone knows this information you know who you're telling right but use of sort of uh use have done a survey really on this as well haven't you do you want to tell us about that um our survey told us that a lot of girls felt that they were uneducated and that they wanted to learn um how to track their cycle and more about it and that they didn't they weren't educated on the um hormones estrogen and progesterone that rise and fall during their cycle and like how they can feel that can have on them yeah so i mean obviously you can see where the gap is here because you know uh mums or dads guardians either a probably don't know the information necessarily because we're learning all the time but b it is still uh unfortunately one of the subjects that people are a little bit uncomfortable talking about and i'm not sure it necessarily forms in the level of detail that you're talking about part of the school curriculum so there is a huge gap of information there isn't there yeah um in schools they've made it so it is a choice to teach so that it's not set in the curriculum that they can choose if they want to teach it or not so people in a different school down the road could get a much better quality education than us on it as if we even get it at all you know yeah and it is really quite remarkable that you know half the population um something that they experience they wouldn't have necessarily all the information for them to know exactly what's going on or why they feel a certain way or whatever it might be if the girls wouldn't sorry when they were doing the research they realized that uh any young girl would have about four hundred and sixty cycles in their lifetime and for them not to have that full education is such a shame it's just not it's not good enough and as tea was mentioned in there about the choice i suppose um in homec for example um it used to be a very sec curriculum and with the new jct curriculum that's come in it's a more learning outcome base which means that the teachers have a set amount of learning outcomes and when we emailed or when the girls emailed the team leaders within the homec science and sphe um jct curriculum leaders um they came back with a fantastic email you know they're very supportive of what the the team was trying to do and they gave examples of learning outcomes but as they said themselves that it was you know that they may explore the menstrual cycle that it's not actually on set on the curriculum which is a huge loss for the students so as exactly as he said some teachers might have huge confidence and be able to teach it and in a very high level which would be amazing for the students but unfortunately some other teachers just don't have that knowledge don't have that recognizing that's actually really quite important isn't so how important then do you think uh tia oriana whichever you're more comfortable with um how do you how important is it that it's both girls and boys understand this i think that it's equally important that they both understand it so that like you know boys can also help out like their girlfriends or whatever and that then if they go on to teachers that they could teach it and you know it would just result in a better education all around if they taught both boys and girls because a lot of the time when we were being taught we'd get like taken separately and taught about it and the boys wouldn't receive that and i think that wasn't very you know fair on them either and i don't know i think it's very important for them to get it they need to be aware of what you're going through with either their sisters their girlfriends their mothers even so how does menstrual waves work then reanna menstrual waves works because it is it just describes what a woman goes through during these times and it's just about teaching them about how they feel the way they do just so they have a better better understanding of themselves yeah and how they might feel different at different times but as you say as we said there with the boys understanding it too that's an important role and where is this information given to to students reanna this information is given to students through um would you like to take a muscle heart um this was what reanna is trying to say there is um what what they're trying to do is to get a program within the sphc curriculum and science and i landed you in that my apologies it's not your fault reanna this is aspirations where we need to get it's where we need to get to yeah it's it's not something it's not a project user rolling out so that's not your that's my bad reanna yeah okay go ahead they are they have huge plans in terms of they're going to develop um these amazing booklets with information for parents of six last students coming into secondary school but also for first second and third years and it'll have a tracking system so it's for girls to understand how to track their cycles so like i suppose the education that they get is mainly about the period which is only roughly about five days approximately obviously everybody's different but with this it's learning to teach them about the whole cycle it's a full month and during that full month the cycle goes through four different phases the menstrual the follicular the ovulation and the luteal and what's actually physically happening during those processes so it's the hormones which is where their um their project is learn to ride your menstrual waves it's those waves the fall the fluctuation of estrogen and pedestrian and how that makes them feel at different times and it's about learning get teaching them how to be in sync with their bodies to be more understanding of what is actually happening at certain days so if they can track and know that okay you know i'm coming up to um ovulation my estrogen is at its highest i'm going to be feeling amazed and i'm going to be wanting to get out there be more social but after that when the estrogen falls off they can feel very different they can start to feel very low very introverted all they want to do is you know sit and watch netflix and i think this is really important and as i right now in understanding our emotions and you know not wrongly attributing them either exactly yeah because they might feel like there's something wrong with them it's it creates anxiety it creates you know other kind of mental health issues where they think that there's something wrong and once you accept that then it can be it can be quite debilitating okay so this is really positive in this regard does anyone have a view that in 2023 is a happen to almost campaign to have this on the curriculum this being discussed people happen to be educated about it i mean it is it's a shame i don't want to be you know i'm not trying to be controversial i don't think this would be the case if this affected fellas exactly and i'm not being populist here i just give me an example you know give me an example where men would have to campaign for this type of stuff it simply wouldn't happen yeah and like as the girls when they were doing research as well and we put polls out on their social media channels and you know the information that came back was that the only time women learned about this was when they were having menstrual issues or when they were either trying to conceive and had to learn exactly what was going on and that's too late they should be learning about it from as soon as they start their menstrual cycles it's just it's not enough for them to be able to handle what's going on in their lives every day it just it needs to be more done and this is kind of coinciding and i think quite well too with the conversation and the progress we're having in terms of the normalization of periods access access to sanitary products in schools freely available you know in toilets and pubs or restaurants or wherever it might be you know this is all i think this is all interlinked in a in a way isn't it yeah the ysi project last year actually did a project on that where they were getting rid of the stigma or not last year two years ago and they were getting free period products in the school toilets and they did amazing as well you know and made great movements in that so but like we shouldn't be having to fight for it you know it should be just there yeah and we we shouldn't have to pick it out as a particular subject to talk about because people are going i can't believe you're talking about that right but if we get to where we need to be it doesn't it's not front and center because you know it's normalized and you know right okay anything uh tia or rihanna that you wish to add oh we're happy enough we're all good yeah all right listen well done to you how are you enjoying transition year oh we're really enjoying it what else are you doing um that's good not an awful lot yeah we're learning guitar yeah it's great for maybe maybe different ones in your year that you probably didn't cross path with your friends group can grow to and are you doing any trips um there's an end of a year trip to spain yeah worry about do we know yet i don't know actually there's been loads of trips these are always on the road i think i think this might be the first international one that's sort of the standing at all right well we went to glas go to that was kind of cool but that's all right not the team building stuff lots of other things yeah the the t-way we've a lot of visitors in scotland so just don't go any further all right okay no the t-way program in the school i have to say is is fantastic they do a lot of work the kids they get a lot of opportunities do you think it needs to be protected because obviously there are some potential changes that's going to bring you know some coursework right up to the end of that i think there's great value in it and i think even those that skip it sometimes find themselves going back to it do you think it needs to be enshrined Alicia to make sure we don't lose the positives yes like ty is definitely something that i would always recommend for the students to do it's just that we break it's where they get to you know i think it's great growth in that growth huge myself i just think you know it's a year that maybe the people themselves don't see it yeah but the people around them do see it and there are students who want to just get out the other side and i understand that too some students might just want to get back into apprenticeships or the world of work but you know for everybody no matter what the end goal is they get to explore things that they would never get to explore that get to gain skills that they would never get to do the work experience and we have an awful lot of students coming over from Spain in different places and it's it's learning different cultures it's you know it really is such a benefit to the students so yeah definitely it's be protected right is it just you um tia and riana involved in this or do you have to mention anybody else there's a whole group there's a whole group too many dimensions um we could probably rack it at all and there's two boys stuck in the middle of a god love them or three boys yeah and they're having to listen to all of the the girls given out and but but they're learning loads they're learning loads they should be uh you're it okay right listen riana daherty thank you thank you great to have you in riana uh tia gallagher well done to you as well both transition year students at rosses community school and alicia ohhard young social innovators program uh you'll part of that at rosses community schools that correct yeah just them the guide yeah this year so right okay well done which is fair play to you too as well normally at this point the students jump in and say how great the teacher is no the students are doing all the work she's been healthy normally that's what i'm putting any words in your mind that's normally what happens there's a glistening to me that's the problem going on and on no she has been a great health obviously organising begrudgingly too there are great kids to work with it i have to say no it's one of these programs where you get to know the students really well because yeah it's it's not that typical curriculum based you know thing it's them it's a little bit more relaxed and they get to know me i get to know them and we have a good crack okay so we've done the third level in the first hour uh secondary level will be in baby infants by uh by 12 we were listening to to barry it was very interesting so hopefully the the lethig county institute might take on some of our things as well i think so yeah i think so um that would be and it would be a great mark good link for the project as well to have achieved that all right alicia oh heart thank you so much thank you very much and tia gal hariana the hearty all from the rosses community school where i get back to it now the party the party's over good luck thank you we love pancakes at done stores whip up a fresh batch with a six pack of eggs only 140 or choose an eight pack of already made pancakes for just one euro 10 cent add lemon and sugar or some 70 cent 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you're getting those types of calls because lots of us are getting lots of uh scam calls all of the time it seems um right okay i want to i'm just checking the clock to see what i have time for ahead of the news hi greg i think what the girls are trying to do with the menstrual cycle is amazing as someone in her 40s and now battling infertility if i'd known what to look out for in my cycle i may have been able to get help a lot sooner i've been saying that we all should have been taught this well done girls exactly and you know when that is normalized as i said actually in the conversation when that is normalized you see then you don't have to pull it out and have a particular particular conversation about it right let's get news headlines after this break are you worried about trees on your property north west forestry services belly buffet are fully insured and have over 40 years experience in dangerous tree removal tree felling surgery and stump grinding for peace of mind call north 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zero eight seven one six one seven zero eight the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio all right another busy hour on the way stay right where you are but let's first get a news updates and we say good morning now to jade mclafferty thanks greg burtier herron has announced his return to politics the firmer t-shirt is back in finafoil after resigning in 2012 at the time me hall martin was making moves to expel him over the findings of the man tribunal adonigal deputy says rock all has cost irish fishermen millions deputy padrick podrick mcgloughlin has slammed both the british and irish governments over their failure to reinstate access to the 12 mile limit around rock all it's been two years since the e u u k trade and cooperation agreement came into effect yet he says the blockade by british authorities continues t-shirt layover ad car will meet the ukrainian president vladimir zelensky later in brussels the ukrainian leader will address a special 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campaign for this yes indeed but listen they're they're creating a path so others won't have to greg even down to being denied to go to the toilets when you know you've gotten your period unless you tell the whole class you're stuck it's not good enough well that's a hopefully doesn't happen i i hope there would be an understanding there okay um i want to mention a couple of things here a valentine's disco is being held in megaticans hotel main street letter kenny by donagall dan syndrome it's on saturday the 11th of february that's the day after tomorrow it runs from 8 p.m to 11 p.m admission 10 euro with carers and guardians free so what are you doing saturday night get along to megaticans hotel main street letter kenny for a valentine's disco running from 8 p.m to 11 p.m admission just a tenor i also want to congratulate patrick and philis peoples who are 70 years married today they got married in st. unis cathedral 1953 before taking their seven children to scotland in 1965 um big request lots of love coming into you from your loving family what a remarkable milestone to reach together 70 years married patrick patrick sorry and philis peoples i just hope you have the most wonderful day lots of love coming in from uh all of your family and i'm sure friends and i'm sure all the listeners joining in in congratulating uh you 1953 they got married in st. unis cathedral right i want to give a shout out to to our community hero uh competition it's not competition really is it a competition it's not really we're not viewing it as competition it's an initiative it's a community hero award which will honor a neighbor one of your neighbors your family a friend colleague uh a member of the community a community supporter who's made an extraordinary contribution within their community we're looking for you to email in your nominations what do they receive they receive a 231 nissen cash guy for 12 months right so the closing date for entries is the 22nd of february so it's closing in a little bit so as i said before it's the easiest way i find to explain it you know someone in your life or someone in your community or someone in the area who gives so much right and it'd almost be barrel embarrassed if you went to praise them for it and maybe they have an older vehicle or maybe they don't have a vehicle but they're over 18 with a full license uh nominate them they could win access to this car for a year it's a beauty it's the nissen cash guy uh one of the best selling cars uh and not surprisingly in arland to nominate the person email their name and a bit of a bit of information i don't need you to write an essay or a five-volume manuscript just a couple of words to describe why they deserve this prize uh email comments at highland radio dot com if you want to jot it down you can do that and post it or drop it into highland radio mount in top letter kenny we're going to announce the winner on this show on the 24th of february um also by the way um just a hint right if you're a fan of uh a certain mr jones well schrooner internationally famous um he's going to be playing soon we're going to have a word on something that will benefit you if you wanted to go and see him in the not too distant future so stay tuned uh for that we might talk to you about that tomorrow i call us as uh gregacy x factor are looking for a new job who job new judge who's leaving uh i don't know who's leaving after saturday night you're the man for the job great nice uh great night great calls uh viny and marty here from v&m podcast we had a good laugh love the show cheers gentlemen and they are two gentlemen viny and marty they've got a great podcast out there called v&m podcast and they're interviewing loads of different guests um uh jason quickly was one there's a few others and some interesting ones coming up but two really good guys viny and marty as well though viny's the mouthy one uh but they both contribute well to that podcast and we had great fun on saturday night it was up in on green on and bird it was a fundraiser for a hub for younger people uh in keleigh and there were 10 brilliant acts that got up some better than others right uh but some were fantastic and there were uh some did it for a bit of fun uh and some clearly are really really really very very talented in what they were doing and it was impossible to pick a winner but a winner had to be pick and if such a word exists but you know what it reminded me of um i don't think it's christine is is one of the organizers of it in our region around here we are blessed with people uh who do stuff they decide right what can we do to raise money for young people or for older people or for anyone you know when they give up their time when they take it on on top of jobs and what have you and they organize it all and i think often maybe when they start uh when it all starts they wonder why did they do this but in every part of our beautiful region there are these people that do this stuff for the community and not for thanks to do it for the community and i think it is amazing and it's really who we are uh and everywhere and then uh we were able to once we that was able uh finished we were able to go to the silver tassie for a wee bit to support the uh truckers for creaslove and again got to chat to colin briefly there the man behind it you know uh doing amazing things and everyone that turned up raising so much money and and and showing so much solidarity to those affected by creaslove and that was just two events and i'm sure there were dozens more happening across the region but that was just one saturday night just ordinary people uh going out of the way to help others and i think that's really you know that's where our strengths are and that's the positives that's out there and we need to focus more on that kind of stuff as well so i was delighted to be involved in that random but you know what it was great uh let us take a break shall we because our 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it is thursday the 9th of february 10 minutes past 11 thank you for choosing the 9 till noon show here in highland radio and we welcome into studio and now it's great to have so many studio guests of course um dr pauline galler senior medical officer of immunization in donigol good morning to you good morning thank you for joining us right we're talking about the laura brennan hpv catch-up clinics in donigol can i begin by asking why it's named after laura brennan for those who aren't aware and what is the campaign about yeah laura brennan was that poor girl who died of cancer of the cervix age 26 in 2019 and in the terminal phase she spent her time promoting the hpv vaccine people would have seen her on the late late show etc and since that her parents have continued to promote the hpv vaccine and they have agreed to put her name to this campaign so uh since the vaccine was introduced in 2010 we have been vaccinating young people in first year and secondary school and a certain number have missed out over the years for example last year we vaccinated 70 percent so we know there's a percentage missing this catch-up campaign then is to get those who have missed out being vaccinated um we are in and this was referenced recently by the the who we're in this almost not unique position but a particular position whereby this is um there's cancers right that we can effectively eliminate yeah that's correct which is not something i mean we'd love to get to a point where we could say that of all cancers but through these programs here this is one cervical cancer that we can almost i think i'm not misquoting the who eliminate it no that's correct and nearly a hundred hundred percent of cancers of the cervix are caused by the hpv virus and this vaccine will prevent that and that's what makes it such a great vaccine and so important that we get as many young people vaccinated as possible to decrease the pool of hpv in the community and to prevent the cancer of the cervix and you have to remember there's other cancers as well uh cancers of the anus mouth and throat cancers and penile cancers that are prevented with this vaccine as well okay now um how might someone contract hpv because obviously um people having hpv is is is far more likely than them suffering from some of the cancers you mentioned this is a cancer causing thing right but it doesn't mean that everyone who gets hpv will develop cancer either so can you talk to us a little bit about hpv how it's contracted and then maybe its relationship with the cancers that you talk of yeah so everyone who is actually active almost a hundred percent will get the hpv virus the vast majority of people like so many viruses that we come in contact with they uh their immune system deals with the virus themselves and that's the end for it but in a small percentage the virus persists and that's what causes the cancers then long term so while you get the hpv virus at a younger age the cancers can develop over 15 20 years and some people struggle with the us talking about something that's sexually transmitted and young people you know there are some that might have the view that this in some way is a green light for sexual activity you know i'm really trying to get to and talk to the people who may not engage in this vaccination program do you recognize that there are some out there with those views i think um while you say while the virus is sexually transmitted it's in effect anyone who is ever sexually active is it is probably going to get this virus so that makes a difference i think and i think people have to live with the reality that the vast majority of us are going to be sexually active and that that is how the virus is transmitted how have some people been missed i imagine there's appointment days and people might be away i would suspect there is with all the conversations about all the vaccines there's a bit of toxicity that people in their mind are grouping all vaccines in together i've no in fact i've no doubts because i've spoken to people i've no doubt that that is also a factor are those reasons or do you have your own contributing to the 30 that didn't take it up last year yeah i suppose the reasons can be summarized uh convenience is is an important one so we vaccinate the first years in school and if any of those first years are absent on the day then we will send them a follow-up appointment but it's often difficult for parents to get to those appointments consent forms get lost and as time goes on they lose track of the fact that they haven't got it now we do try and make it as convenient as possible for people by going into the schools but we do miss out some and i suppose the other factor then we call complacency and that is people just don't think it's going to happen to them and but the reality is that in Ireland there's about 300 cancers of the cervix every year and about 90 die so that you know is a way of getting over the fact of being complacent all right so but some will look at that and say well the odds are still relatively small is there vaccine safer i don't trust the vaccine so what would you say to them yeah uh the vaccine is extremely safe vaccine it has been uh studied now for 16 years it is monitored by the world health health organization european medicines association and there's been no safety signals with the hpv vaccine in the website hpv.ie there's over 100 papers that people can look at that uh confirm the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine are the multiple strains of hpv and if so does this vaccine cover them all yeah there's multiple strains of hpv there's over a hundred this vaccine is called Gardasil 9 which means it is effective against nine of the types of the hpv and that has focused on the most uh the main cancer preventing and the main genital ward causing uh groups of the hpv so it is targeted to specific strains of hpv specifically the cancer causing do they evolve and change like we might see with a flu virus for example no the hpv is is stable yeah it doesn't evolve it doesn't change all right in the past i've spoken to parents who cost was a barrier i believe if you missed out and you were a certain age and you went back to try and get the the vaccine that there might have been a charge i hope we've done away with that have we uh the program has been targeted at eligible people and those are people who are under 25 females under 25 females who are in second to sixth year in secondary school and males who are in second to fourth year in secondary school or if they skip transition year fifth year now anyone outside those eligible cohorts can still get the vaccine through their GP and it is an expensive vaccine is i don't want to draw you into controversy when you're trying to get information out there but surely for everything that we've been speaking about now we should have free access to this vaccine for all that would benefit from it yes well that is free access for all females under 25 and the eligible criteria and that is who has been targeted by this campaign currently um how many doses of the vaccine are actually needed you talked about you know people getting an initial dose in first year yeah one dose is all that is needed now and that is the change um it was introduced in december uh because the international evidence is that one dose of the vaccine is providing lasting immunity because the vaccine has been around um used in ireland since 2010 and in other countries for longer the testing has shown that one dose of the vaccine is maintaining efficacy and that is maintaining now for over 11 years right so uh where are these clinics taking place then across the county and donnie gall we are providing clinics in letter candy and there's two per month uh the february clinics are on the 13th which is monday coming and the 27th the venue is we're currently using the cvc center which people know in list nanon which is the center where the covid vaccines were administered the clinics are running from 9 30 until 4 30 anyone who wants to register for this can go to hpv.ie okay and there is uh laura brennan the catch-up campaign icon there and people will message so i'll ask the question before you depart uh letter candy is an awful long way away from an awful lot of donnie gall are there any plans at this point to have satellite services available or you know maybe in in central or north in the shown you know west donnie gall um donnie gall town for example no so far we're only providing the one center in letter candy but for that age cohort that we're targeting for example something might be in college in different areas so every county is running this catch-up campaign so it might be more convenient for some uh college students say to get it in the third level educational exactly okay uh what about side effects uh callers on the fence on it concerned about side effects this is a very safe and effective vaccine i have been involved in the school program delivering it in the schools as i say since 2010 so what we see is 90 percent of people have no effect then there's a transient mild side effects for example about one in ten might get a sore arm we would say maybe about one in a hundred might get a slight fever um slight headache but again that'd be very transient lasting 12 24 hours okay um and there's more information i'm sure available for parents guardians to do the research maybe we don't want anyone doing anything without feeling that they're fully briefed on something so where might people get more information on this vaccine so that website hpv.ie has all the information you need including you know what to bring for the clinic how to register and on the menu bar along the top there is um information materials and there there's a reference to all the research all the information you need to know about the vaccine now someone listening um might sort of go right well i want to get my daughter or son the vaccine but they might not be due yet through their schools so you know who uh so what age group it's first year primarily isn't it so in other words if you're if your students under 16 for example your child's under 16 do nothing you wait and that'll be done through the schools that correct exactly so yeah the the regular first year campaign is running as normal so we went to the schools twice a year and do and deliver the vaccine to the first years so then for over 16s can register in the portal hpv.ie and then the in-between group in the schools we will be targeting when we go in to do our school vaccination program which will be happening during march april and may all right and how's a lot of the focus has been on on girls and girls under 25 how important is it that that uh boys receive this vaccine yeah well about 50 countries internationally now have added in boys to the program and for boys there's the protection against genital warts and there's also protection against anal cancers and mouth and throat cancers and penile cancers and it also decreases the pool of hpv infection in the community okay anything else that you think you need to add uh well just to reiterate hpv catch-up campaign for all females under 25 for all girls in secondary school from second year to sixth year and for all boys in secondary school up to fourth year or if they've skipped transition year and fifth year available in letter candy to clinics a month and information via hpv.ie okay um dr pauline galleher uh we appreciate your time thank you very much for calling in thank you it's been lovely having you in uh so that's dr pauline galleher they're senior medical officer in immunization in uh donnie galle we'll be back with more in the nine-ton news show after the break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com transform your home with a visit to mcgillies furniture letter candy located at the port link business park just off the port road 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diverse high on die canal road letter candy call 911 22 600 okay our next guest on the program is bilal akh bilal jahid and he joins us now um a jalila beg your pardon uh thank you very much uh bilal for joining us um and unfortunately again sorry to be speaking to you under these circumstances originally from hams in syria but now living in letter candy uh bilal and it must be incredibly difficult to see what's unfolding in in your country it's a difficult situation on top of difficult situation for your countrymen yeah thank you for you what are you hearing from um syria bilal i presume it's hard to get information with so much going on it is now for syria it's a very very very problem because you have electric in the syria and turkey you have two more two thousand people kill now and uh more three thousand uh more maybe one thousand or two thousand and down building no any no any country help now syria no any country all the country go to turkish help just turkish now yeah um and it's difficult isn't it to get money and whatever might be needed to the people that need it in syria at the moment no no no you don't need that country you don't have money you need just help help you need people you need uh electric you need fuel you need anything no money not everything money for my country need people you need doctor you need ambulance now everything problem because obviously work is going quickly to try and save people in in turkey you don't see the same situation in your home country yeah because now turkish close for my country and turkish it can't come anybody for syria now it's close how does that make you feel it's a problem it's very sad it's very sad now and you need you need you need help you need the bribe for syria need everything and this individuals really this you know people themselves this requires countries to respond doesn't it yeah uh now now uh for morning you have some problem now for uh river it's a problem for uh what's the problem normally is this normal now for uh for edlib yeah okay well listen i hope uh the calls are heard uh and i hope syria gets the help that it needs as well the thought of people uh that could be rescued uh under rubble not being rescued is heartbreaking uh be how bilal yeah yeah please you need for government or government for arabian for world you seek with syria open yeah for syria no close okay now we need people help no close understood okay thank you very much indeed and as i say i also thank you for your country people no problem that's uh bilal uh back to i beg your pardon abte jaleel my mistake there okay um let's get back to some comments here good morning greg in relation to slurry and tankers what a farmer is supposed to do not their fault that roads are not suitable very frustrating for them as well also campaigning for years to get their slurry used for energy but nothing being done your show will be coming down with people complaining about slurry but not all farmers fault well listen we are program our area um you know it covers an awful lot of agricultural areas across the northwest and there is an understanding i think the people understand i have not been inundated let me say by people having a go at farmers okay um so hopefully that's encouraging welcome news that god is to be given a general neutral makeover gender neutral makeover if only the church would change policy on abortion homosexuality the pews would be full again says one listener the current issue about overcharging patients in private homes for 30 to 40 years being illegal it crosses my mind what about girls being sacked from their employment in the civil service for getting married there are few people still living who suffered the guilty in just government verdict and very few of the present population even know of this crazy law if it was a law could this be as illegal now as the private homes issue after all it was implemented by the same phenolpholem phenogale governments is there any hope of a claim here well it's not i think there's actually quite a lot of people alive that that affects because they're having to live on pensions less than their male counterparts so that's still a very very live issue but thank you very much for your text i appreciate it right as you may be aware garity have again pleaded for any public assistance into the murder of a man in bon crana because today is the 11th anniversary of the murder of 24 year old andrew allen woody allen is andy's uncle and joins us on the program now woody thank you for taking our call 11 years ago but i'm sure it's still very fresh in in your memories and and in your hearts as well woody oh very much so um it's something that you'll never forget it was it was an awful night truly awful night and i suppose one of the worst things not one of the worst things but there was so much confusion that night is how i remember it and you were getting we were here in this family that he died and then people who were at the scene in the media were saying me no no he's not dead the guards are saying he's not and and so on and so forth and the ad war as i say for his closest family especially moorish flora brawler sisters that it was a night to never forget or or neither will i it was one of the most horrible experiences you know uh how to will people suffer the the murder of a loved one like that especially in such a barbaric fashion there's one picture sort of has has become synonymous with andy in the the appeals uh but that doesn't tell us about andy himself but that's you know it's the only image we have use have all the other images and all the other memories can you tell us a bit about andy andy was uh he was happy good luck he was always up for a joke a laugh and so on a um um he loved newcastle united football team he loved boxing and i think he talked about uh going back to boxing and and boncran he wanted to join a club there um it was very very popular across both sides of the community here in in dairy and that was something that really struck home when when we saw just how many people were coming forward and seeing how much they thought about them how they couldn't believe this had happened and so many young people um afterwards there were some rallies organized against the republic and actually against drugs and dairy to protest against the you know this barbarity and the number of young people that took part and they came from all sides of the community and that showed showed us all you know how how well thought of he was and i think gave the light to what the republican action against drugs claimed about him it wasn't the person that andy was which makes it even more difficult for family isn't there because whilst dealing with your grief you also probably feel you have to counter a perception that's out there as well so that's you don't want to be having to deal with that when you're dealing and it's and it's the nature of the the he's passing as well it's an awful lot to contend with yeah it was brutal it was really brittle and uh i mean i went along to the inquest and that that was very difficult too and as you say as we're well aware in this part of the world often when someone's killed wrongly there comes a cover-up and a smear champion afterwards and that's what we have felt that we haven't just buried someone buried or someone who was we all loved we then had to fight declare his name and uh no one should have to do that and the guy that they called a master criminal was trying to get a job and a pizza place and dairy the night before he was killed and a few hours before he was shot he'd asked his brother to lend him some money that you know that that was andre yeah not the person that was portrayed by the people who murdered him in um annual appeals um that i've done with gardi um and it is seemingly almost every year now the theme i get from them uh and i wonder would you echo this wouldy is that there the investigation is stalled and what will move it forward is people that they know or strongly suspect have information that's sitting on their conscience or you know that they want to get off their chest and it's that information that will be the key to unlock this case is that how you see it wouldy yes i think so i mean the guard guard obviously have built up a big picture of what happened uh we know that we know i think that they know exactly who was responsible and how they carried it out they know but what's lacking is just that one piece of evidence that could allow them to to take this into court and i think you know what we hope is that loyalties made a change over the years or someone who was involved at the time may have it on their conscience and maybe not be able to live with the fact that they were involved in such a a callous murder and would finally come forward and tell the truth and hopefully we all still hope that they will be brought to justice and that despite the fact that's 11 years on we do believe the guardy are trying hard and that they won't won't let this go but what we do know is that very quickly 11 years becomes 20 years and becomes 30 years and and you don't want to be going down that road no we don't i mean uh the the inquest itself was was one step on the way to closure as people call it you know i don't think it can ever be a closure after an incident like that but at least at least it puts you know it acknowledges what happened to andre and now we just we just would love to see the people who caused that to happen pay the penalty is it difficult for people the family of of andy sort of living in the same area the same community let me put it like that though community when i use that word it has different connotations in in our part of the world but maybe living among those responsible or those that know something i can imagine that must be it must be very difficult yeah it is and i mean obviously they see they see them all the time they could walk past them on the street and there's that old silly saying you know the dogs in the street know who did it and sometimes the dogs in the street do although i think what the ps and i have said here in the past is the dogs in the street can't give evidence and uh that's why we'd want someone who can help put these people in into court would come forward but you're right yes there are times when you pass these people on the street his mother has told me that she's she's walked past and although she said they put their faces down but that's no i mean it's an awful way to be loving you know when you're you're encountering encountering the killers of your son in the street you know as you go about your everyday business knowing that they at least think they've got away with it and might get away with it yeah they will not that's exactly how i thought it might feel uh woody lots of people messaging in in support of you i mean obviously at this point you just want the information to move this forward but hopefully you uh and the rest of the family get comfort from people messaging in uh wishing you um look and justice as well oh yes you know we've had that there's always a great pouring of support at this time of the year you know and we all appreciate that and as i say a lot of people saw that for what it was whatever the motive was people know it wasn't what they claimed and it is it is some comfort they know how well thought of it was and that people are supportive of the family yeah and i like you uh skirt around the word closure because it means so many different things and for some it never comes but justice an outcome to this would make the birthdays the anniversaries christmas those events a little bit more easier i would imagine if people could go and visit andi's grave in the knowledge that those responsible have been held accountable for what they've done yes and even if we never get that after what even admit that they were wrong you know even that would be a start if they were to admit as i was told privately at the time that they'd made a mistake but they still released that statement you know so if they would at least admit they may start going up you know and i mean it seems like yesterday to me what you're talking of so i can only begin to imagine what it must be like for you and the rest of the family would he listen thank you um for for speaking on this day uh and one of these years maybe this the the appeal will reach the years of a person uh that you have described and talk of that want this off their chest that want this off their conscience maybe before the end before they themselves uh you know yes hopefully we need is that one spark that will will light up the whole the whole investigation all right best of luck to you would he thank you thank you i'm thinking on you and the family of course you know that take care thank you very much okay that's woody allen there who's uh the uncle of andy uh andrew um allen right okay thanks for all of you who have been texting in the show i really do appreciate it to call us as the gea pitching castle fin is the same at night with lights on you can't see the road we were talking earlier on to a listener who's uh having that difficulty in a particular area i'm delighted berty herron to take over fina full party uh nailing the coffin for the party time to call themselves the tory party enjoying finna girl all right okay not a fina full uh membership card holder there i don't think berty herron old pension must be drying up okay um berty herron well i suppose he'll fit right in i heard in the finance minister with no bank it can't give us a break okay i'll get you that's the tone of it uh but some positives which i've read out a little earlier on today and i say very keen to hear those um i call us as a parent of children i know drugs are a serious issue in an issue at the moment kids are going out on a thursday and not coming back to a monday in relation to my own children taking them and the knock-on effect of my children taking them is having on our family we're at breaking point at the minute i've had to call the guard and several occasions i've pointed out the places where they can be gotten and nothing is being done about it it's also the type of drugs they're taking and what those drugs are doing to them as a parent i do plead others in the area let's get together and try to do something about it i also feel pubs clubs and homes should show a greater leadership in trying to eradicate the issues this is a parent so you can imagine parents out there if you're not dealing with this you can imagine what it must be like their children they know they're taking drugs they're out of the house for quite some time and they can see the change in their children you know if a child starts using drugs you know 18 19 20 younger the person that you know them of and and as and you know everyone has their their their pros and their cons we all have our flaws but they change overnight into someone that you don't recognize what can you do how do you help them i'm sure that's the situation this parents in and then you say right well i'll turn to the rg i'll tell them where they get in the drugs because if they cut off the spy maybe they can get back to themselves but they feel nothing is being done about it and also with the legal drugs you just simply don't know what's in them you don't know when you're going to get a call i mean we've seen awful cases recently of people taking drugs that have been cut and spiked and had additives put into them they're dangerous in and of themselves but can prove deadly of course but this person feels a bit helpless i think as a parent i do plead others in the area let's to get together and try try and do something about it i think that's the way i think it'll be very difficult to do anything as an individual but yeah right let us see what this says here greg there's another way to help those with suicidal tendencies and all addictions i.e. alcohol drugs gambling but you won't read it out because it's called god i've had this one before and i read it out before and getting to know him and his purpose for your life and i'm not referring to any religious belief i'm simply talking about god why would i not read that out again i'm it's literally the exact same text someone else sent out you know people can get comfort in religion whichever religion it is whoever they wish to worship maybe it's it's mindfulness maybe it's yoga i don't doesn't bother me i don't mind reading this god or religion is not a dirty word it certainly isn't on this program and never will be and some people i am sure do find a pathway through a faith no doubt about that and if it works fantastic but not all unfortunately suicides are linked to addiction or alcohol or drug abuse either and that's off the back of a comment i made yesterday about us needing to do something i know too many young people that are being lost to us through suicide and and yesterday i said i just wish there's something we could do uh charged 130 euro for a daughter to do the muck jude you're so ridiculous can't understand it as teachers in school correct them will you see and this is another text that's similar to one we had before there are some schools that sent out a bill to parents saying look we need 130 quid i did see that letter on that letter it did seem to indicate that part of the cost was for outside markers now i don't know why uh muck jr certain exams would be done by outside markers but that is the charge and the letter which have somewhere read effectively that if you don't pay the money now uh we're sending away for the for the we're ordering the papers or whatever you'll miss out how that would work i don't know i mean i tell you i'll put the call out here because i think this is an interesting way to get to the bottom of this did anyone's child miss out in the mocks because they didn't have the money now i know that's not something necessarily people want to share but in confidence you messaged me private on facebook if you wish anyone who does know they can do so in absolute confidence but i mean what happens if you didn't have the money you know and you're embarrassed into paying it to you know we have to have some level of free education 130 euro is an awful lot of money i guess half an electricity bill okay uh let's take a quick break super value makes saving money as easy as one two three one we match aldi and the products you love like super value double cream 149 super value chocolate hazelnut swirl spread 109 two get thousands of special offers and three money off vouchers every week on the app super value makes saving money as easy as one two three raman swiney here from ben swiney ironix to let you know about a grit tumble dryer that will save you time and energy the blomber git kidgy dryer has a selection of sensor programs that allows you to decide exactly how dry you like your laundry 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temperatures overnight two or three degrees with light moderate southwestly winds they will be occasionally fresh now rachel morrow is director of advocacy with the Irish cancer society good morning rachel have i pronounced your second name correctly i hope i do i have you have greg it's morrow like tomorrow i got it man i had morrow that's exactly what i said right rachel great to have you on the show now we're talking about um what can you tell us is it an anomaly um or how would you describe uh the the what what the issue we're about to talk of with the uh insurance industry i'll let you lay it out for us rachel please thanks greg and it's really nice to be on the highland radio this morning um so the issue that the Irish cancer society is highlighting and that we've been trying to progress and through the the door and the shattered is that people affected by cancer are being refused financial products which includes insurance and mortgage protection because of their medical history and you'll be aware that thankfully now due to advances in science and research that for some people cancer is quite treatable um and you can survive the disease now which which is really terrific and that's more and more of us as well it's not a tiny small cohort and and as you say thankfully because of advances this is affecting quite a lot of people it is so now around six in ten people who are diagnosed with cancer will live for five years or more and because of that kind of new reality we really need to make sure that the practices of the insurance and the banking industry are reflecting that so that you know you're not penalized after your cancer diagnosis after you've survived cancer and that you don't have to pay increased penalties or actually some people are being refused um financial and banking products for years after their diagnosis i'm thinking particularly um around and survivors of childhood cancer or an adolescent cancer that they find when they reach adulthood that they actually are still the cancer diagnosis is still following them around and it might mean that they're not able to move on with their life like by hand or it's a real emotional knockback too isn't it isn't it it really is and this is what the the Irish cancer society has heard and to our research and we published that in in last year and what it found was that people were really despondent they were really down you know maybe these are people who have recently got married and have to have decided to buy a home and they find that they can't do that and really there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to do that and we've been looking across Europe and and seen what's happened there and many EU countries have actually put in place legislation which means that if you have survived your cancer and kind of a limit maybe of five or ten years has been put in place um that they no longer need to declare that they are a cancer survivor because it doesn't matter um but we know that in Ireland and the insurance industry has been lobbying against this legislation well that's it and that is really important so i really want listeners to hear this because it's bad enough that if this is the situation but there are moves or photos you can imagine to try and change this now is that the insurance arland lobby group are actively lobbying to delay or deter this planned legislation that is immoral in my view sorry i shan't put words in your mouth right now well look i i think that like some of the the words that they've used themselves around this being kind of a perception and that you know cancer survivors are being refused cover and i i know that any any of your listeners greg who have survived cancer and maybe have hit this issue themselves know that it's anything but a perception and it's very much reality and i heard you say there about and kind of the people and donnie gall who maybe weren't able to go through kind of the mocks and because the financial reasons then being reluctant to talk about their financial situation that's the same in this in this case too you know people really don't want to talk about suffering in silence effectively yeah exactly now also there's another strand to this as well because there are um there are some politicians that recognize that this is a problem and are trying to go through the houses to get this addressed that's been stalled or blocked what's what's the background there and i think we're talking off the back of business post reports there if you're comfortable to do that sure so the i'm glad to say that the significant majority of politicians agree with the Irish camp society this is an issue that needs to be legislated for so a a law or a bill was brought to the shanad in november last year and we were very very disappointed that despite every senator speaking in favor of this piece of legislation that it didn't move forward to the next stage which is committee stage and we believe and this is you rightly say greg was reported in the business post we believe that that's because cabinet decision was made to delay this this bill indefinitely so really what we want to see now is that um and and thanks to you for for highlighting this issue but we really want that bill to be progressed and we really want it to move to committee stage and that allows everybody like every voice to be heard we don't really feel um that the voice of cancer survivors has been heard um by cabinet um and we really really want to put that front in center because as he said there's no reason um why this legislation shouldn't move forward to the benefit of the call we'll never give we should never give up hope rachel never keep up bang in the drum but it is exhausting isn't it the battles that have to be fought against the state effectively you know be charges in hospitals thankfully there seems to be some progress in regards to that but even this trying to counter lobbying from a collection of insurance companies for people to be treated equally i mean you know what i mean like as to say we'll never give up but it's exhausting to have to battle for things like this that in any normal civilized society it would be shocking if they existed and and to battle in and i suppose in silence as well you know individuals don't have a strong voice um when it comes to taking on a big industry um like the insurance the insurance lobby groups and it's why in the cancer society we're so grateful for the support that the the people in duny call give us so that we're able to do work like this and i know you've recently been speaking to robert o'connor that the chairman of the duny call really for life um and the recent announcement that mcella donnell is going to be the global hero for hope there and we really couldn't do our work um without your support and it just gives people like you said that that voice um you know through the Irish cancer society that we are advocating um on people's behalf um at a very very vulnerable and to know what it's really useful you make that connection um as it relates to you know me people support and relay for life and and what that does and and then what can be done off the back of that rachel um you know and and you can't lie to an insurance company uh you know you have to be frank with them because of course they will try everything to get out of any claim so people are are are damned if they do and damned if they don't what we need is the blocks to be taken off the progression of this this legislation or conversation through the doll and we we we and it's right to call out the lobbying when it exists rachel listen thank you for your time i really appreciate it uh this thursday morning take care of yourself thank you greg all right that's rachel morrow director of advocacy with the irish cancer society right where are we at time wise we're almost at the end of the show are we that three hours really flew in all right for about a minute's okay let us see what i can do in a minute and do it justice i saw a lot of backlash online about sam smith's they them music video many claiming it was inappropriate and borderline pornographic why is it anyone outside of gender norms does something a conventionally attractive cis person does it's branding as a scandal well listen people have been opining and having opinions about music all the time i don't think really people can figure out why people are having to go at sam smith um for some he goes a bit far with the with the um the presentation nothing to do with his his gender or identity uh but people have been complaining about the content of music videos from all sorts for god knows i haven't seen it so i can't comment all right that's where we have to leave it on the program today uh we'll be back tomorrow of course the friday panel uh talking about all the big stories of the week michael and fenula are in as well we'll be able to talk about uh something that's embargoed for another three minutes i can't talk about it i don't know what it is but i think uh we've uh we've a lot of thanking to do uh for our listeners here uh in terms of the support for this program and the amount of you are listening now compared to this time three months ago and this time last year we're going through the stratosphere it's really brilliant to have all of your support uh but i don't know anything about that because it's embargoed 12 so maybe john can talk about it i don't know i can't all right have a lovely thursday thanks to donna marie who researched and produced the show chats you at nine have a lovely one