 Yeah, it's not the nicest of words, but anyway, it's true. It was a dirty trick what you pulled there. No, no, it's just... So it's very hard to find the moments to do something like that. Well, all the person that won't rip your head off. No, no, I know. It's where I live. And see, I know I can hide, you see, because I'm not on the radio tomorrow or next week, so Marty feels in, covering for me. Ooh, anything nice planned? No, well, kind of a few odd jobs about the house and spend a bit of quality time with the boys. And then I'm helping out with... Because it's National Heritage Week. Yes. And if you don't mind, could I mention this? It's a traditional building skilled at the Guild Hall in Remelton. It's taking place on Sunday, 13th of August. It's from 10am until... Is that like thatching and stuff? No, well, it's to do with, kind of... Well, it's nothing to do with that, but it's raking joints, addressing cracks, pointing, laying water, mixing and stuff. And there's a good guy, S. Crawford, Construction Seamus from Remelton, and his team are going to be hosting the workshop. Nice one. When's that? That's on Sunday, at 13th of August, from 10am. It's a bit early for people, maybe 10am until 1pm. It's also a long way away, but I suppose you're not here next week. Right, OK, well, enjoy that. Enjoy your bonds yesterday? Ah! That was a nice surprise, wasn't it? Yes, indeed. I'm sorry. I had to declare the bonds now. Yeah, who had the bonds? There was four. I had two of them. Who had the other two? I have a clue. You don't know what you're doing at home? I didn't take them home. I ate them here. Ah, give me a... Good luck. All right, Lee, enjoy your break. OK, Lee will be back. Well, he's in the safe hands of Marty Freel next week, isn't it, tomorrow? All right, thanks very much, Lee. It's 9 o'clock time for news update. In fact, it's a minute past 9. Let's say good morning again to Donemarie Daherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The funeral of two teenage girls who died in a road crash in Monahin will take place today. Best friends, 16-year-old Dalava Mohamed and 17-year-old Kia McCann died while on their way to the Debs Ball in Monahin on Monday night. A funeral service for Dalapa takes place in Klansky Mosque in Dublin from 10am. A cortege is making its way from Clona's town this morning. Rayquiem Mass for Kia takes place in the Sacred Heart Chapel in Clona's this afternoon. Largy College, where both girls were students, is providing buses for Monahin to travel to and from Dublin for the funerals. Parished priest and Clona's father Peter Corrigan says people in the town are numb at the scale of the loss. Very much a mood of sadness and heartbreak, a mood of feeling very sad for the family. Both families were going through a very, very difficult period. So that sense of sadness, yes, as well as heartbreak, even numbness at the death of two young people. There is a warrant out for the arrest of a former Sinn Féin official after he failed to appear in Derry Magistrates Court for child sex charges due to a flat tire. 41-year-old Michael Jared McMunnigal of Lionwood Street Derry is facing three charges. Alison Morris reports in The Irish Times that McMunnigal is accused of attempting to communicate with a person under the age of 16 for the purpose of sexual gratification, attempting to cause a person under the age of 16 to look at an image of sexual activity and attempting to incite a person under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity. Round zero CAO offers will be given out to applicants today. This round for graduate medicine applicants, some mature students and some PLC graduates going on to university. It comes after round A offers were handed out to some mature students last month. Brian Muney, career guidance counsellor and education communist, explains what's next. And then we move on in three weeks time to what is called round one, which in many ways negates all these mature people and PLCs, but that will be in three weeks time. So this morning, it's good news for those 5,000-plus people who will get their offers by 10 o'clock. October's budget could be a generous one. Ex-checker figures for July showed yesterday the tax take-up is 10% on the same time last year. Just under 48 billion euro was collected in taxes for the first seven months of 2023. Looking to the weather, mostly cloudy today with good dry spells and scattered showers, some sunny spells will develop, especially towards the evening. A fresh day with highest temperatures of 15 to 18 degrees in Blustery, Northwest winds. That's all for now. The next news updates at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Like lower prices on everyday essentials? Then make Aldi top of your shopping list. Essentially, Aldi have lower prices on, well, the essentials, including Belmont Milk Chocolate Butter Biscuits was 99 cents, now only 89 cents. Brownwell Squeezy Real Mayonnaise was 109, now only 99 cents. Brookly 12-pack yogurt drinks was 175, now only 149. And Carlos Stonebake Flatbread Calabrese Salami was 329, now only 299. You won't just like more value, you'll love it. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. You're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show at four minutes past nine on this Thursday to the 3rd of August 2023. I do hope you're all feeling very good, feeling well and on board with us for the next three hours. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. And the WhatsApp and text line is open for you right now, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Or give us a call on 07491-25,000. In both instances, if you're calling from outside the Republic, it's 00353. Drop the first O and away you go. If you wanna email us too from wherever you're listening, it's commentsathighlandradio.com and we've another busy show for you. Even though it's August, it is a little bit quiet, but yet we plug away to bring you all the information and entertainment that you might need. On another damp day, a bit chilly too. All right, lots of newspapers out this morning. Let's see what's making their headlines. The draconal tribute this morning, the nightmare experience in the view of a well-known letter-kenny family who had a brother admitted to Letter-kenny University Hospital twice in the past fortnight amid lengthy delays and lack of information to his family. The man was first hospitalized after falling suddenly ill at the family home in Letter-kenny. The man is 70 plus and has a history of epilepsy after a head trauma in former times. His siblings said their contacts with the HSC and its relevant services have been the worst nightmare of their lives and they would not wish their experience on anyone else. And so a detailed account of that story on the front of an inside that paper today. The Donegal Democrat tells us that panic is setting in as student accommodation crisis worsens. As the start of the academic year approaches, students and parents are finding it impossible to secure accommodation for some third level institutions. While this is a perennial issue, it is a highly stressful time for young people who should be looking forward to pursuing the next chapter of their lives. One parent told Donegal Live, I have a very distressed young woman here. She has her heart and soul set on a course in the ATU in Sligo. She's worked very hard to get the best leaving cert possible and we don't know if she'll be able to take up the placement, even if she does get it. Is that a stress and a worry for you out there today? Finding student accommodation, let us know, oh wait, 60, 25,000. The Donegal News this morning, strong claims that violent assaults in Latter-Kinney are becoming a common occurrence have prompted a call for the guard or commissioner to revisit the allocation of just one newly attested guard at Donegal inside 24 hours on Tuesday to separate altercations occurred in Latter-Kinney Town Centre. Once again, there have been calls for an increased guard presence in the town. Meanwhile, one local resident has told the Donegal News that there is now a nervousness among local people living in the lower Main Street area. The latest instance began at around 5.45 on Tuesday. Two males were observed involved in an altercation on the Pierce Road. The incident, which happened in Broaddale, it was observed by many local people and caused a delay as traffic has to swerve to avoid the two men. Just hours later, a guardie was called to a public order instant and alleged assault that occurred and an address at Lower Main Street in Latter-Kinney. The problems seem to continue. There is a, I mean, obviously, they've thrown 10 million at the situation in Dublin, promised more guard a tonne of those guardies that were recently qualified are being appointed to Donegal, one single solitary guarder was appointed to this district and this is despite many concerns. The solution here seems to be CCTV. I think that's useful in terms of acquiring evidence, in terms of preventing these types of activities. You just get the impression, considering they're happening in Broaddale, that that's not going to be deterrent for those that might be involved. Again, if that's something you want to talk about, 086-6025-thousand WhatsApps or text or call us 07491-25-thousand. The Dairy News this morning, major concerns have been raised locally regarding the recently announced redundancies at First Source Solutions Call Centre based in the city's Springtown Business Park. In a somewhat bizarre arrangement, it appears First Source's competitor, Results CX, is handling the Dairy redundancy negotiations. In late May, the Global Business Process Management company revealed it was beginning a redundancy consultation process with its employees in Dairy and Belfast. It was believed the company was seeking 200 redundancies. The full story inside that paper today. On to the national side. Let's start with the independent. And this may be going to come as a surprise to some of you. And the reason I suggest that might be the case is that it's come as a surprise. To me, I tend to use incredibly little amount of oil during the summer purposely. So what that means is that I don't track the price and I probably should because maybe that's the best time to buy oil. And I'm kicking myself now because apparently the cost of home heating oil has shot up again just weeks before many homeowners ordered their first winter fill. It now costs around 1,036 Euro an average for a 1,000-litre fill. The average price for 1,000 litres was 900 Euro just a few weeks ago. The cost of a full tank of heating oil has shut up by more than 50 Euro over the past week alone according to a nationwide survey by price comparison site OilPrices.ie. This is one of the fastest increases seen this year. Around 1.5 million Irish households use home heating oil to heat their homes with most of these in rural areas. The lowest prices I'm seeing are in Dublin and Kildare at 941. Get it while you can. It's at Eamonn-Mullverhill of OilPrices.ie. He said that the highest prices were also in Dublin and in Wexford. So that's a bit of a shocker. I've never filled a tank, an oil tank, if I'm honest. It's normally half at most, but it looks like it's over 500 for 500 litres, over 1,000 for 1,000. And as I say, I'm kind of kicking myself that maybe I didn't order the oil a couple of weeks ago. As that comes to surprise to you. The Irish Times leads with an American news story. Former US President Donald Trump's expected to appear in court today for what's likely to be the start of the process for a third criminal trial which he'll face in the months ahead. Mr. Trump will be arraigned at the court appearance in Washington, DC this afternoon, where prosecutors will allege that, essentially, he led a conspiracy aimed at overturning the 2020 election after he lost to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, a coup of sorts, you could say. A grand jury in Washington earlier this week indicted the former president on four counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceedings, obstruction of and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights now. This is only working in Donald Trump's favour. The grand jury in Washington is not really seen as impartisan and every time Donald Trump is accused of something or he's tried before the courts, his popularity goes through the roof. Him and Biden, if they went head to head today, they're neck and neck in the polls. It's a pretty much a 50-50 race. So I believe that actually Joe Biden and whomever strings he's pulling are actually doing Mr. Trump a favour. There's a remarkable story of Nicholas Alachverdean and it is the stuff of a Netflix documentary. There is certainly podcasts being made about this and there is a very good podcast out at the moment and we're gonna be chatting to the person who put that together. But this person is a rape suspect. He posed as an Irish orphan and is accused of faking his own death to avoid prosecution. Well, he can now be extradited from Scotland to the US to face charges of quarters ruled. Nicholas Rossi is wanted by authorities in Utah for allegedly raping a woman in 2008 with the sheriff in Edinburgh yesterday branding him dishonest and deceitful. He also faces complaints against him in Rhode Island for alleged domestic violence. Now he insisted that he was not this person from America who allegedly they faked his death and then he came over to Scotland pretending he was of Irish descent that he wasn't the person at all, at all, at all. It turns out he most likely is or he is. And we're gonna speak to the producer, the compiler of the podcast about that story because it is a fascinating one in this hour. Goddard Commissioner Drew Harris will this morning meet leaders of the forces largest representative body a week after it announced and no confidence vote in him. This is in the Irish Daily Star. The meeting with a delegation of the 11,000 strong Goddard representative associations to be held at the forces Phoenix Park HQ in Dublin at 9 a.m. So it's underway and it was Mr. Harris who invited the officers to take part. It's understood the commissioner who came back from holiday on Monday decided to invite the GRA delegation to the meeting at short notice to discuss the organization's concerns. Neither the GRA nor Goddard HQ wanted to comment last night. It'll be very interesting and we should know later today if the GRA suspend that vote. They're hardly gonna call it to vote confidence in Mr. Harris, are they? So it's either they go ahead with it in the knowledge that it'll be passed or they'll withdraw it. We shall see. This on this morning, RTE must publish the four internal reports into its secret payments to Ryan Topperty. Now a TD is insisted. Finnegales Alan Dillon said the fact the Montrose sponsorship saga is rumbling on for a third month is having a negative impact on all concerned. Dillon who serves on the media and public accounts committee argued that it's very much in the public interest to release the reports immediately with license fee payment continuing to plummet. Now I don't know if the publication of these reports will stem the fall in those paying their TV license but I suppose it's good to have that information out. Now we were talking to Bernardo yesterday about the cost of sending young ones back to school and the lady we spoke to was optimistic that the government would extend the free book school to secondary schools. I pointed out yesterday on the program that I've been talking about this for a very, very long time. It's easy for them to do. They can do it. There's the money is there and it would make a huge difference but they're holding back on it. And we sort of got the impression yesterday that maybe something might be happening really soon. Well, T-Shock Lee of Radcar was asked about this yesterday afternoon and he's indicated it might not be possible to introduce free secondary books alongside the primary school books. In an interview with the Irish Mirror, the T-Shock said despite warnings from charity's parents who are on the brink, the plan is a medium term project. So in other words, not in this term it would seem. Research published by Bernardo's yesterday found the average cost of the basics needed for a fourth class pupil is 320 a year. A first year pupil is 972 and a fifth year pupil is 863. It's back to school survey, which, well, we know all of that. I wanna get to his comments. Mr. Radcar cast doubt on whether it would be possible to do whether it would be possible to do so soon after rolling out free primary school books. Children up to sixth class will no longer have to pay for the books from next month. We know that. But he said, it's definitely something we'd like to do. I can't say it's going to be in the budget. A big part of our agenda is to reduce the cost of healthcare, childcare and education. When it comes to schools, what we're bringing in is the free school books and hot meals, hot school meals. We want to be able to extend that. I'd love to see a situation where we have free school books for secondary schools and we've every primary school getting hot school meals, but we have to make sure we have the capacity to do that. It's not always just about money. We'll decouple the food in secondary school from the books. I don't see why there has to be a connection between hot food and books. I can't imagine them, what resources might be needed to provide free school books if you decouple it from the hot food. But anyway, so if you were hoping that was about to happen, I'm afraid your hopes have been dashed according to the comments there from Antti Shach. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letter Kenny, the Seastore National Large Four Court of the Year for 2022. Raymond Sweeney here to let you know about some great value laptops we now have in stock, like the super affordable Venturer Europa, powered by an Intel Celeron processor, ideal for studying, heat learning, and keeping up to date with the latest news for just two, four, nine. Also the super fast Avita Purel laptop with a Ryzen 5 processor, eight gigs of RAM, 256 gigs of storage for only three, nine, nine. Check out these and other great value laptops now at Ben Swinney Euronix in Letter Kenny and Dunlop. 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Perfect in a neat mess, with cream, or even a twist of black pepper, or just on their own, because summer treats don't get any better than this. These are not just strawberries, these are M&S Irish strawberries. It's 19 minutes past nine. Now, Ida Nidangha is principal medical officer for North West with the HSC, and joins us on the programme now. Ida, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. It's good to have you on the programme. Now, we're here to talk... Good morning to all your listeners. I'm delighted to be here to talk about the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up programme. OK, so just give us the background to this programme. We've talked about it before, but just for those who may not be aware, talk to us about the history of it being named after Laura. Yeah, well, just a bit of background on the whole programme. You may be aware that the WHO have targeted survival cancer as a disease that can be eliminated. So by 2030, they want... The target is that 90% of all girls by the age of 15 would be vaccinated with HPV. And this would be a significant... This is a roadmap that they have designed, and Ireland has its own roadmap. And as part of that, a very key part of that, we have the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up programme. And that gives an opportunity for those who previously missed out and were eligible to now register and get vaccinated. I'm sure your listeners remember, Laura Brennan was a young woman who at a very young age died from survival cancer. And during the final stages of her illness, she was a very, very keen campaigner against, in favour of preventing survival cancer and therefore promoted the HPV vaccine in particular. And her slogan was, get the facts, get the vaccine, and get protected. And that's my message to everyone here today who might be out there, who are in the group. So young women under 25 and school-going boys and girls from second year up to leave insert. So to please check, I'm sure you're not awake yet, but your mums and dads, even grandparents, are probably listening, hopefully. And if you think your child hasn't been vaccinated, please check in on HPV. There is a database that works in the background to check whether people have previously received the vaccine and therefore it'll be able to guide you as to whether you need, whether you're eligible and require a dose. If you've previously been vaccinated, you don't need another dose. Yeah, and I think that's quite useful because life is very busy and with the passage of time, people might be uncertain whether or not they actually received this vaccine. So is it easily accessible, this database, for people to, rather than actually enter the process to try and book it and then to be told, but to find out in advance if they have received the vaccine? Well, the way it works, Greg, is that you may have your immunisation passport or your parents, your mum or dad, may have it in a drawer at home. And if you receive the vaccine at school, the chances are it'll be stamped in there. The way it works then is when you register your interest for the vaccine, you give your name, date of birth, your PPS number, and the background check will happen. It's not you that activates that database just by simply registering it, it activates the process and it will check it in the background. Sometimes people can, when they know a clinic is on, they may walk in and the checking can take place at that point, but it's best done in advance if at all possible. There is, I mean, obviously a lot of talk of vaccines over the last year and people might have one concern with one particular vaccine and then it can be grouped into all vaccines and, you know, yourself with the all the information out there, but without really going down that route, what would you say to people who have found themselves now vaccine hesitant and are lumping this vaccine in potentially with concerns they might have about other vaccines? Well, that's a great question. Thank you for asking because I agree. I think there is a little bit of hesitancy, as you call it, or complacency out there, but what I would advise people very strongly to do is if they have any concerns at all, just get the information. And if you log on to HPV.ie, there is a link there that will give you access to over 100 research papers, all of which are based on the fact that over 100 million people have received this vaccine over the last 15, 16 years, and all that data has been analyzed, brought together, and is now presented in a manner that it's very clear that this is a very safe and effective vaccine. So it is over 90% effective against this disease. So in that sense, it is a very important prong in the protection of people against cervical cancer and not just cervical cancer, but other genital cancers and also the very uncomfortable and unpleasant condition of genital warts. So just to remind people of that. Sometimes people can feel it'll never happen to me. Cancers are rare and they happen to older people. And sure enough, there is quite a significant lag phase with the development of cervical cancer. What actually happens is most of us in our lifetime through sexual contact will become infected with HPV and most of us will shed it, if not within the first year, within the second year. But if the infection persists, then that is more likely to be the higher risks HPV subtype and that can linger there and persist and infect the cells of the cervix and eventually go on to cause either precancerous or cancerous lesions. And that does take time, but then you're down the road of treatment which is quite invasive and so on. So the key message here, this is an opportunity if you missed out before to now get protected. Yeah, and we're in a position whereby the medical consensus seems to be that and we'd love it was the case across the board that we have a cancer that could be effectively eliminated, which is incredibly significant. So in terms of the catch-up clinics, they're being held on Tuesday, the 8th of August between 9.30 a.m. and 4.15 p.m. And Tuesday, August 22nd between 9.30 a.m. again and 4.15 p.m. All clinics will be held at the Immunization Department at St. Coles Campus, Letter Kenny, County, Donegal. How do people after book and advance through these walk-up clinics or what's the situation? This is where that you log on to the HPV.ie and register your interest in the vaccine and book an appointment. So that's how you do it. And then you will get a text back to confirm that you've received your appointment and also you'll be asked to bring some form of ID. When you arrive at the clinic, then you will have a consent form that you will fill in and then if you're eligible, you will get your vaccine. And then, of course, as is customary, you will be looked after for 15 minutes following your vaccine and then, hey, Prestor, you're good to go. And it's for women only, isn't it? No, no, no, it's the women under 25 and it's for boys and young men and girls and young women between second year and leaving cert. OK, and just to be absolutely clear, because I do have in the press release here, it says females have completed second level school and are 24 years of age or younger. It's 25, though. Under 25. Right, OK, so 25. Female second to sixth year of secondary school. Males in second to fourth year of secondary school or fifth year if they've skipped transition year in school. All right, OK, well, people can take that information on board and if they have any reservations, do their research and they can see if they're interested. Thank you very much indeed. I do appreciate your time this morning. That was Ida Nick Donahoe, who is principal medical officer for Northwest or for the Northwest with the HSC. All right, we'll be back with more after this break. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. 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Now, I think there's almost another podcast in your podcast as to how everything sort of came to pass and how you began to work on this. But can you, before we talk a little bit about the podcast, can you just give us a bit of a background to this gentleman? This gentleman was born Nicholas Alivarian. He's a company member of the Year of Birth, exactly, but he's 37, and he was born in Rhode Island, in Providence in Rhode Island. And his background, he had quite a dysfunctional sort of upbringing. And his mother, basically, remarried. And he then took the marriage book down. She then, she married a man called David Rossi. And then Nicholas Alivarian then took on the name of his stepfather. So it came that he had to leave home. I think it was sort of a mutual sort of breakdown in the relationship between the parents and Nicholas. And he ended up in foster homes in Rhode Island. And there it is alleged that he says he was abused. And it's come out that it seems that he might have been an abuser there as well. But he was a big advocate for the child welfare system in Providence in Rhode Island for improving it. And it was through that then that he actually became quite a figure in local politics in Providence and Rhode Island. And that started actually from a very early age, about the age of 13 or 14, when he got in on a scheme as a page, which was really like a gopher for the politicians, the representatives of the state house. And he got a taste of what it was like, I suppose, being inside the state house. And from there, he then was on a mission to try and bring big changes into the child welfare system. And he was well respected. He was journalist, knew him. He was like the go-to guy for a quote in terms of the whole child welfare, the Department of Children, Youth and Welfare in Rhode Island. So he was a wee bit of a figure there in terms of the child welfare system in Rhode Island. OK. And what is he accused of that led to him fleeing the jurisdiction of the United States? So basically, he was on the sex offenders registry for a sexual assault that he had committed in 2008 in Sinclair Community College and Dayton in Ohio. And so his basically DNA was there in the system. He was on the sex offenders registry. He still is until the end of this year. And it was in 2019 that the state in Utah was going through all sort of rape kits that hadn't been fully investigated at the time. And this was going back a number of years. And they actually got a match for a rape that hadn't been looked into or investigated. And the match was off. Nicholas Rossi's took aloe verdean from 2008. I mean, he knew then his days were numbered. I mean, he knew he needed to get away. And because there was other sexual assaults that he had been that they were wanting to question him about being in and out of trouble with the law for a number of years. And so he, I mean, he decided, I mean, he was on a mission to try and evade justice. And in 2017, he got a one-way ticket to Dublin. And from there, then he got over to London and he stayed in the UK. And it was there to, well, actually in 2020, he then decided to fake his own death because he realized that they were coming after him. And then he realised that he thought that, you know, his days were numbered and he thought the only way I can avoid this is by dying and that's what he did. Yes, but he's such a bizarre character, if that's the right word in that. He didn't want to sort of just fake his death and slip off into anonymity. He wanted Nicholas Rossi to be recognised and lauded in his death. Is that an exaggeration? No, absolutely not an exaggeration. You've nailed it. That was one of his downfalls. I truly believe he's such a narcissist. He loved the attention. Now, you know, he could have just died, you know, but he prepped it. So basically, you know, he wasn't around, but he was making calls to local radio stations and, you know, informant local politicians. Obviously, he wasn't in America at the time, but they didn't know that he had very advanced stages of lymphoma and he had, like, months to live. And, you know, he was on radio stations talking about it and all the rest. So, you know, he had his plan. So then he dies, in a verticom, was on the 29th of February, 2020. But that's not enough. What then happens is that there is a grieving widow that appears on the scene and nobody knew he was married. Nobody even knew that he had children, which he didn't. And she then goes about, you know, she's on a mission to get obits written for him, to get proclamations made in the state house from the state representatives, you know, to get a requiem, to get a memorial service arranged for him. She goes after, I mean, so it was like, and she, I mean, she was really going for it in terms of the obituaries, you know. She, I mean, it was the Providence Journal, was one of the newspapers that she went after, but she also contacted the Boston Globe, you know. It was like, you know, she, Nicholas knew one of the journalists in the Boston Globe from his early days, you know, whenever he was trying to push for child welfare, his name is, I can't remember the name now, but he's in our podcast. And he basically contacted him and, you know, or she contacted him to basically, you know, to say, you know, my late husband, you know, he was such a great man. And, and, you know, he did get some of those open. So actually was on the Boston Globe online for a very short time, and then they suspected something and they got it taken down. Yeah, but that in itself is a six-parter right there, if you know what I mean. But that's not really, I mean, you haven't even entered the fray yet as such because he is discovered, seemingly, though he claims he is not in a COVID hospital ward in Glasgow. And it's the coverage of that, which really is not necessarily headline news everywhere, that you come across this article and just instantly, instantly the story grabbed you. What was it about? Talk to us a little bit about his, how he was rumbled and Hannah, how you sort of saw this and said, I have to do something. I have to make something about this. It's too bizarre not to. It is suspected how he was rumbled is that the intelligence services got into some internet storage account. It seems that he was still using it and that's how they were able to figure out where he was. So the net was closing in on him, which he didn't suspect. And he, in September 2021, the police, along with Interpol, do turn up at his flat where he lives with his wife Miranda in Glasgow. And he's not there because he'd been admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, really suffering very badly from COVID. So he's in there, he's in intensive care, he's on a ventilator, but the police have their man, they've got the staff there in the hospital to look at photographs of the Nicholas Rossi and compare him with the man in the bed, very sick. And also he had very distinctive tattoos, Nicholas Rossi, the man in the bed in the hospital in Glasgow had very distinctive tattoos. Anyway, the net was closing in very much and whenever he came out of his coma, he wasn't in that of a coma. So it was in December, so it was like three or four months after he was admitted into the hospital, he's still there, but he's just in a normal ward and Police Scotland turned up and arrest him in his bed. Yeah, okay. And you saw an article on this, so is that what sort of caught your interest? Is it as simple as that? Absolutely as simple as that. I mean, it just jumped out of the page for me online. It was, you know, I live in Scotland, I'm from Balfast. You know, every morning, if I'm just having a cup of tea, having breakfast, I look at the news online and I went to the BBC Scotland page online and it wasn't really, it was a wee bit further down. I mean, it certainly wasn't the lead, but it was US man who faked death found alive in Glasgow and I was like, wow, and I just, you know, the article posed more questions than it answered and said they was going under the name of Arthur Knight and I just thought I am working on this story. This has got to be a podcast, you know, and from then on, I just picked it up and I ran with it and I thought I don't even know who I'm making this for. But I went out and, you know, attended the hearing in Edinburgh Sheriff Court. It was a couple of days later and went to where he lived, spoke to his neighbours, spoke to the man that owned the bar that he frequented, you know, around the corner and made many calls to America and I was on a mission and it was very exciting because nobody seemed to be looking at the bigger picture. It was just sort of the odd news report, but the bigger picture was the story, really. What was this all about? And the thing about this podcast and all good documentaries is access to people, people close to it, be it the landlord, be it people that know him, be it the man himself and his partner. Do you know what I mean? I love that stuff. I don't mind the talking heads ones, right? But that's fine. It's just past the time of day while you're on the phone. These, when you have access to the people and you, and I don't want to give it away and not give it away, but we want people to listen to it as well. But you're on a journey here as well. I mean, you are, to some extent, hood went through this process, aren't you? And the tape's running. And the more you listen, the more bizarre it gets in terms of you going round to his house and we don't have time for it. But it's just one of those stories that develops as it goes. That's why I almost say it's almost a podcast in the making of this podcast. It really is one of those pieces of work, isn't it, Jane? Yeah, I know it was. And I think that's why it's very... It has been very successful. I mean, Audible are saying it's the best. It's the best performing true crime podcast since Wes Quark. So, I mean, that is saying something. Think good company, isn't it? Yeah, it's a big deal. And I think that the secret to the success of it really is because the story is evolving from the moment that I start looking at it. It's not as if I'm telling the story that happened in the past. Yes, I'm going back to the past. But then I've become very involved in the story and the story goes on as I'm working on it. And within a few weeks, I was being asked around for dinner to his flat with himself and Miranda. And that was a whole eye-opener. And I didn't know what I was going into. I thought that I was sort of 99% sure he was this rapist sex abuser with a very violent temper with being in and out of the law in the US and really not a very nice man. But then there was a wee bit of doubt thinking, well, actually, maybe, maybe, maybe they've got it wrong. Maybe the authorities have got it wrong. And it's the first episode in the podcast, but something happens when I'm there. And they're four and a half hours, which makes me completely sort of reverse my thinking. And I come out of there and I actually, you know, he's hoodwinked me. There's absolutely no questions. We won't go into any further because there's a couple of things along the way. And I did hear someone review it that talks about these things. But I think people, if they choose to, you kind of want those discoveries as you go through, don't you? They're not necessarily spoilers as such, but it's like those were seriously moments. So we don't want to in any way ruin that journey for people, though, as I say, it's not really a spoiler. So obviously he's back in the news again now. You're convinced, obviously, I presume at this point that it is Nicholas Rossi. And there's videos out there of some bizarre performances with him in the mask on and everything. It's just really the most remarkable story. Where can people listen to your podcast, Jane? Because I think this is up there with some of the, you know, the best if people like this real stuff with great access to the characters involved. Yeah, no, thanks. It's basically it's on Audible, Audible's website. So just go into the research box and you put in, I am not Nicholas and it should take you straight to it. OK, listen, thank you for your time and thanks for joining us from the other side of the world. Isn't it amazing, the technology? If I had you on a regular phone line, there'd be like a three or four second delay and here we are looking at each other. Jane, congratulations on the success of this and thank you so much for joining us. Very welcome. Bye bye. OK, that's Jane McSawley there from Belfast, living in Scotland. Let's just say it's just an interesting story and it's just something a little bit different for us to talk about. 0866025000, that's the WhatsApps and text number. Give us a call in 07491, 25000. We're to you, CFC, the summer sale at CFC Interiors. Unbelievable offers right across three massive locations. Get up to 50% off interiors, sofas, beds, flooring and gift wear. An amazing offers on garden furniture and Weber barbecues. CFC Interiors, Cookstown, Camsey and Abbey Centre. Sale must end this Saturday. Over recent months, we've all been dealing with the reality of rising energy costs and we've all been making changes to reduce our energy use. However, if you are having trouble paying your energy bills, be sure to talk to your supplier as soon as possible. There are a range of protections in place for customers. Organisations such as maps and alone can also help. For information on these and all other supports available, visit gov.ie forward slash reduce your use. Brought to you by the Government of Ireland. Alright, we're back in the room. Right, let's get to some of your comments here now. Government gave students accommodation to refugees. What will they do for the students now? Hi, Greg, if I remember correctly, you said when immigrants were given student accommodation would normally be for the holidays, but we knew this would happen in immigrants' pot before the students. What I said was that the government said, and I'm not a government spokesperson, the government says that this was being given to them on a short-term basis. So just to be clear, if I read what the government says or if I read what the opposition says, it's not me saying it as such, but if I do express in a view, it should be clear that it's coming from me. I was listening to Michael yesterday regarding his terrible experience with Irish life. I had the same experience with them and I lost everything. I'm so sorry to hear that. Greg, there are two telegraph poles between Bonkranagh and Struggle Beach or Struggle Beach that are completely unsafe. And I've been like this for weeks. Why hasn't this been looked at, says a caller. Greg, in relation to back-to-school allowance and school uniforms, I think there should be a voucher given and these vouchers should be spent in local shops. Lots of these smaller shops depend on back-to-school trade for the biggest part of their income. When this money is being handed out, it should be spent locally so everyone gets the benefit. Also, I agree with the comments where the working families are not entitled to this as a lot of them struggle. Listen, of course, anything that's introduced we wouldn't want it to be a disadvantage to business. And that can all be hopefully accounted for in the wider picture. Send in my little girl to play school in August. She's not three yet. She's got two Euro for her uniform. I mean, she's not three. Important report by Bernardo's highlighting a reality for many parents says this listener. I used to subscribe to Bernardo's but cancelled when it was revealed in 2014 that the CEO, Fergus Findlay, salary was 117,000 Euro on top of being a journalist with the examiner. Sounds like a lot now, but not really when you see some of the salaries being paid, but I take your point. This is part of a letter we got from my daughter's school. Is this legal to demand this payment? It clearly says must be paid. Could Greg highlight this issue with Bernardo's now? Oh, sorry, it's underneath the sheet. Let me read what it says. Please note, the admin charge of 50 Euro for fifth year students must be paid in full before the first day of the new school term. This can be paid online during July and August 2023. Unfortunately, we're no longer able to accept cash payments and all payments must be made through our Compass app. Well, that's a demand, isn't it? An admin charge of 50 Euro for fifth year students must be paid in full before the first day of the new school term. That certainly doesn't read to me like a voluntary charge. Can I please ask Greg what is driving up the fuel prices? Petrol in Carandana, 169 per litre. If you could put it out there to see, is it all the same in other parts of the country? I saw over 170 for petrol in letter Kenny this morning. I don't know why prices are trending upwards again. There is more government vat to go on. But I don't know. But the oil's gone up, so the petrol and diesel must be going up as well. But as I say, to see petrol now over 170, I can't remember the exact figure and I don't want to mislead, but it's not specific to your area. Hi, Greg. Could let your listeners know to make them aware if getting a passport signed off in the local guard of Barracks? Well, I know all about this and I haven't read the whole message yet. I had got my son's passport form signed at the start of June in our local Barracks. They said Barracks is rural and not manned every day. I checked the progress of the passport online yesterday and quickly got an email to say the passport application was declined due to them not being able to get anyone in the station. Hence, a new application had to be submitted. You can understand how frustrated this is, especially when you're on a time schedule. Please, make your listeners aware that if they require a passport, they would be better to go to one of the main stations, Rébalochane and L'Etricane or Boncran, to avoid disappointment and distress. I would... I wouldn't like anyone to feel the pressure I'm experiencing right now. I feel you're pain because I went to a big station, Donegal Town, and this is not a criticism of the guard. It's a criticism myself for not understanding the process. I thought everything was fine, was watching the little bar, go up, go up, go up, go up, go up. We were potentially going to go away if this came through. We were leaving our options open. And next thing you know, the bar went back to zero, and I was told that they couldn't get through to the guarder. I think you're far better off if you can to go... What do you call those people again? Can't remember the names. Something of oaths, if you know what I mean. Or someone else, a teacher, or someone that you know that will be able to take the call. Because if the guarder, there's no fault of theirs, it is the specific guard that has to speak to the people in the passport control. I think they ring them a couple of times, and if they can't get through, that's it, kabunk. So I didn't go... I went to a 24-hour station, but there's always someone in there, seemingly. And I also had your pain. I didn't get to go away, and that boat sailed now. Literally, I'm metaphorically. But there's just a wee piece of advice for you because you think things are going well. Barry's not through, by the way, Caroline. So I don't know if he's on a phone line or what the story is. You're on board with the witch hunt conspiracies, then the man's broken multiple laws and he's been held to a county's not above the law. Now, I'm not really 100% sure what that means, but I read it for fear that someone might think that I'm being a bit selective in some of the comments that I read. I wonder if you could ask the guardee about how legal electric scooters are on footpaths. My wife and I were close to being knocked down twice on set. We were close to being knocked down twice on Sunday last on Bunkrana's Main Street footpath. We found the guardee who told us they have no power to stop these scooters. Can you get clarification from the guard on your slot, please? Well, we can throw it out there. At the moment, they're illegal. You can't cycle or ride electric scooters at the moment. There is no law governing them as such. You can't... In terms of things being on the footpath, in terms of things being on the footpath, it's even a little bit convoluted when it relates to bicycles let alone scooters. But listen, we'll try and get some clarity for you on that. We'll put a few calls in as we always do. Right, OK. Barry Murphy is deputy news editor of the Irish Farmers Journal. He joins us now. Barry, how are you getting on? Thanks for taking the time this morning. No problem at all. Thank you for having us. Right, OK. You've been looking at internet black spots and they're looking at western farmers as so much has to be done online now. We get it all the time. Great to see you platforming it too in the Irish Farmers Journal. So what was this report all about in more detail, Barry? Yeah, look, we've had information or data highlighted from the census by the Western Development Commission and they've pointed out that there are still huge internet black spots in the west. But we're seeing lots of rural dwellers and as the policy analysts here to frost from that Western Development Commission pointed out they're often rural, they're often older and particularly so for farmers. So we're seeing about 12.6% of the households in Donegal currently going without internet of any shape or form. At this day and age that's so far behind the, say, for example Dublin City has about 6% only of households. Actually interesting, even Galway City is right down to 3% of households going without internet. So Donegal nearly has four times, say, as many households going without internet and the case isn't Galway City. The country's worst black spot will be in County Leecham where 14.4% are going without internet and even say Cavendare 11.9 and Monaghan 13.1. So still quite large ways of those counties going without any connection at all and what it's meaning for farmers underground, the business of farming it's gone more and more online. So the schemes farmers apply for that all has to be done online and things like registering calves, conducting their business and it's all requiring an internet connection. And what's happening is those farmers without that broadband are finding themselves having to available advisors which comes at a cost and again takes more away from farming income. So those farmers particularly we all have an elderly be they grandparent or relative who has an internet connection there wouldn't be all that good. And using a computer and those farmers are kind of being left behind and it's the schemes but also then it's the other types of uses we see internet being used for and on farms the likes of calving cameras so a camera that a farmer can check their cows at 2 in the morning to see what's calving or what isn't and by having a calving camera they can stay at home they don't maybe have to drive to the farm or walk down in the middle of the night. Whereas without internet those things aren't possible. Yeah and it's about computer literacy as well this doesn't tell us really how many don't have access to the internet even if they have broadband to the house because they might struggle with using a computer so you know I don't know could you double it or whatever we don't know I'm not going to speculate but this is 12.6 without access to internet so it's going to be a greater number that struggle even with access to the internet to engage in modern day farming. Absolutely and the Western Development Commission pointed out you know that there's a lag time as well between internet being rolled out in an area and uptake from those living in it so while the national broadband plan is hitting Donegal there are delays and the commissioners basically calling for it to be an expedited roll out but it's saying that farmers particularly and all the people are left behind in that roll out because they I suppose aren't getting the information they need about when it's coming and how to connect and so on and they're calling for greater engagement with that community but you're spot on once internet is there that's part that's you know maybe half the solution the other part is I suppose education around how to use technology and look for farming is becoming more and more educated it's one of the most educated workforces in the country but that's the younger farmers in particular and you see it maybe particularly in the dairy sector but the small older suckler and sheep farmer in Donegal you know wouldn't be part of that kind of cohort that is really moving on in terms of innovation and technology and I suppose there's a body of work to be done to ensure that they come with the sector in that we're speaking to the Department of Agriculture on it as well and just you know for example before scheme deadlines concluded there in June there was 23,200 calls made to the Department of Agriculture and a lot of them were to do with the you know the ins and outs of how to apply online and there was clinics set up across the country and I think one up in Donegal as well the Department went that far up and there was 3,200 farmers engaged in one-to-one meetings with Department officials to get to that information because look it's important that farmers don't miss out on drawing down their maximum payments and you know a lot of those schemes at the moment are environmentally based and they're quite technical there's a lot of you know ice to be allowed and tea to be crossed and it's all done through a computer now and look we want to just make sure that farmers aren't left behind in that one. Yeah and I mean you know it also talks to real-life people feeling they have to book their boss tickets online to buy tickets for a football match or even the plowing championship for that matter do you know what I mean it really is a disadvantage to an awful lot of people more than a court in these figures but listen thank you very much indeed full coverage in the Irish Farmers Journal out today that much more it's a big paper and very popular paper by it's gone from strength to strength it's bucking the trend in that regard fair play to the team. It is yeah I know it's the most read paper in the country of a Thursday and we're going we're increasing our readership look it's a loyal older reader in particular we are the one buying the paper of a Thursday and so look as always we're grateful to our readers but plenty of reading this week's paper for sure. 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of limwood street Derry is facing three charges Tara Duggan reports Alison Morris reports in the Irish Times that mcmonagall is accused of attempting to communicate with a person under the age of 16 for the purpose of sexual gratification attempting to cause a person under the age of 16 to look at an image of sexual activity and attempting to incite a person under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity he failed to turn up to court yesterday morning because of a flat tyre around a half a mile away while he said he would be there soon his defence solicitor could not make contact with him District Judge Barney McElhome said the former adviser at Stormont could have walked and said he has his head deeply in the sand a warrant for his arrest was then applied for to be issued The opportunity will be made available to the HPZ vaccine the free programme is aimed to those over the age of 16 and were previously eligible it runs for the last until the last month of this year two clinics will be running in Lederkenny this month at the Immunisation Department of St Connell's campus the first on August 8th and the second on August 22nd both from 9.30am to 4.15pm Dr Ida Nickdonica says the catch up programme has been named in honour of Laura Brennan who battled to cervical cancer Laura Brennan was a young woman who at a very young age died from cervical cancer and during the final stages of her illness she was a very keen campaigner in favour of preventing cervical cancer and therefore promoted the HPV vaccine in particular and her slogan was get the facts get the vaccine and get protected and that's my message to everyone here today October's budget could be a generous one Exchequer figures for July showed yesterday that the tax take up is 10% on the same time last year just under 48 billion euro was collected in taxes in the first seven months of 2023 Economist Austin Hughes says we could see more money given away on budget day these numbers suggest the government has the capacity and may have increasing arguments to do more in the budget than perhaps a plant the economy is doing okay but there are several risks to it the greater risk for the government might be that it does too little in the budget than it does too much On the same night that referral in Castle Finn and Donny Gull was hit by flash flooding Castle Derg was also impacted Dairy City and Straban District Council held meetings this month with statutory agencies to discuss the flooding risks in the area at a meeting of council last week Derg area councillor Rory McHugh asked that a meeting be arranged as quickly as possible this week he's been told it's hope discussions can take place before the end of August but no date has been set he says some of the areas are already susceptible to flooding and it's feared the situation may worsen I have held site meetings previously with some of the statutory agencies and some of these areas that have flooded before so while the weather was unprecedented some of the areas have flooded in the past and obviously that is the fear now particularly with the onset of climate change I have been liaison with council officers pressing upon them and in turn seeking assurances from the statutory agencies that this meeting that I have asked for will take place sooner rather than later Round 0 CAO offers will be given out to applicants today this round is for graduate medicine applicants some mature students and some PLC graduates going on to university it comes after Round A offers were handed out to some mature students last month Brian Moody career guidance councillor and education communist explains what's next and then we move on in three weeks time to what is called round 1 which in many ways negates all these mature people and PLCs but that will be in three weeks time so this morning it's good news for those 5000 plus people who will get their offers about 10 o'clock looking now to the weather mostly cloudy with good dry spells and scattered showers some sunny spells will develop especially towards the evening time a fresh day with highest temperatures of 15 to 18 degrees in blustery northwest winds that's all for now the next news update as at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notice says for this Thursday morning August the 3rd the death has taken place of John Jim Pat McFadden late of Ross Cadd Creaselaw Weg is taking place at the home of his daughter Angela opposite the family home on the Carygarde Road Ross Cadd Creaselaw from 2 o'clock this afternoon funeral mass in St Michael's Church Creaselaw on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in Doe Graveyard mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia.tv family time from 10pm to 11am and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only please donations in lieu to the Lake House Comfort Fund care of any family member or Jim's Harkin Funeral Director the death has taken place of Father Henry S.J. Grant, Miltine Park and formerly of Boncranagh County Dune Goal, Belfast, Porta Dine and Assuncion Paraguay proposing a cherry feed launch from half past two this afternoon with prayers at 4 o'clock funeral mass in Gonzaga College Chapel two more morning at half past 11 call by burial in Glassnevan Cemetery the death has occurred of May Deary Apartment 2, the beaches Bally Bufay and formerly Dunningall Road Bally Bufay remains reposing at her late residence this morning from 11 o'clock funeral leaving from her late residence on Saturday morning at half past 10 for requiem mass in the church of Merriam-Atlidsternorder at 11 o'clock cremation afterwards in Lakeland's Crematorium Cavern the mass will be streamed live via the parish web come at churchservices.tv donations in Leoflage if so desired to Barns View Ward St Joseph's Community Hospital care of any family member family time from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of Tony Boggs, 20 Ingleside Drive Sturban and formerly of 14 Durgle Road Sturban reposing at his home funeral leaving his home on Saturday morning 20 past 10 for requiem mass in the Sacred Heart Church Derry Road at 11 o'clock followed by interment in Sturban Cemetery family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. the requiem mass can be viewed on churchservices.tv the death occurred on July 2nd of Tessie Dolan named McQ 23 train to Mungan Road Ahyarn Tessie's months mind mass will take place tomorrow evening in St Patrick's Church Derry Road at 11 p.m. on the death has taken place of John Hegerty, Mina Largan Glenties and formerly Mina Wonia reposing at his daughter Elisha Gilday's residence Stranilok Glenties John's funeral will take place to more morning in St Connell's Church Glenties with requiem mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment in the local cemetery for more details including any family health guidelines for Wigs and funerals please go to hindantradio.com watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show 8 minutes past 10 this Thursday the 3rd of August good morning if you just have to join us so you must start on the first hour which you can always listen back to on our podcast available from about 1 o'clock on our website you can watch back anytime on YouTube or Facebook of course and we rebroadcast the show at what time Caroline I'm normally in bed 12 or 1 is it 1? it's 1 is it 12? well maybe I might be up for the first half hour if I could tolerate it anyway there you go and we do have a really loyal listenership overnight people working different shifts so those it takes a little bit longer for them to nod off so particularly if you're listening in the early hours of Friday morning a very good morning to you and thank you for listening back to the 9 till noon show overnight here on Highland Radio it's good to have you on board and tomorrow we are on the road in fact I'm hitting the road later today going to a beautiful Dunlowe can't wait to get over to see everyone as part of the Mary from Dunlowe festival and we're broadcasting the show live tomorrow morning and it's the regular show for the most part 9 and 10 we'll have our Friday panel Michael and Fnula will join us later on but we've got lots of guests and what have you I guarantee you though unlike David James yesterday I won't be singing sorry to disappoint you but we will have plenty of crack as well as making sure you're across all the important stories of the day as well so stay tuned for that and all going well you'll be able to watch that show live from Dunlowe as normal as well that's the aim anyway that's the game right work we have a big announcement later on Caroline on the show as well do we later on in this hour Caroline she's not listening to me she's talking to someone I think we do I think Sean Quinn's going to join us with some news we'll give you more details on that a little later on hi Greg the network around Newtown Cunningham is terrible and that's every network you do get black spots alright and and also to what's a little bit frustrating areas where there are lots of holiday makers you know the phone service mobile service can be okay most of the time but as soon as visitors arrive it doesn't have the content ratio to accommodate all the all the bandwidth to accommodate all the phones in the area and people's can have hit and miss service then over the summer and then it returns to okay in the centre I want to thank Rosemary who quite rightly pointed out it's a peace commissioner or commissioner of oaths that's the name of the alternative witness you can get for much of what's on passport broadband every road in the country being dug up with broadband the last 10 years or more hundreds of millions paid out a joke I don't know I think it's good that people have access to proper broadband particularly in rural areas but if that's maybe talking about the cost of it I'm not sure maybe if people take a picture of four court fuel prices and send them in we can see who's charging what and where there is a picture sent in diesel one sixty three point nine petrol one seventy two point nine it's kind of difficult for us to do that on the radio because it's we can't do it fairly in that maybe one petrol station got a delivery today and the neighbouring petrol station doesn't get it to the day after and you know we could be seen to be given one a competitive advantage over the other or not telling the full facts but certainly I'm surprised someone hasn't created a Facebook page or something that gets that information out there I was in a supermarket in Boncran I say this listener I witnessed a boy in through the shop on an electric scooter allowed in the footpath is one thing but inside the shop what is going on Greg I went to let her kind of guard a station to buy first time child passports all back within three weeks that is fantastic but if the guard that signed those forms was off the following two weeks you would have had a problem and it's not the guards fault either by the way they can't sit there by the phone but I was caught out by it and an earlier listener was as well it's not the guards fault they're doing us a service and there's no guarantee they'll be there but if they aren't there to verify that it was they that signed it you have a problem hi Greg applied for my new passport online on Sunday guess when they received it Tuesday that's fantastic obviously a pretty straightforward renewal but great to see the system works I see a similar problem with my daughter's passport we found the issue was that the guard are not making the stamp or signature clear enough to be used the speed limit on the lec road went from 80 to 60 kilometres per hour and now it's changed to 50 at the play school would they not put ramps outside there as well it would be a good job just passed a petrol station 171.9 for petrol mental they say it's going up again isn't it it is going up again and we're going to go heading into another winter where we're going to have to worry about all those little bloody charges and increases that on top of the things like back to school Christmas just around the corner to not trying to be depressive by the way or depressing I'm just saying that that's how it feels should we do a couple of requests now before we take the bingo numbers it is jackpot day to day so by the way get your pen out get your book out in the National Council for the Blind of Ireland it is a huge part of their fundraising efforts so thank you all of you for buying your book it's five euro a week and you get to play five days so it's a euro a day we've got hundreds of euro and cash prices every day it's one all the time we don't necessarily bang the drum hard loud but it is there are people winning money all the time and that jackpot is ready to go hopefully soon on a Thursday and it's not a club or you it's not like isn't that start 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that might be able to assist wait 60 25,000 is the WhatsApp and text number will give us a call in 07491 25,000 and just a reminder for you that you are free to watch the show as well as listening to it with an overwhelming majority of you listen but we do have a large and very loyal watchership that's the opposite of listenership who tune into our YouTube channel Highland Radio Ireland you can watch on your phone tablet laptop your smart TV through the YouTube app or indeed your fire stick the BBC covered Sunday's All Island Football final and the viewership actually rivaled that of RTE in terms of viewing figures and fans reviews and I don't forget it was on a Sunday afternoon on BBC2 but it was for the first time ever the BBC broadcast the GAA final in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain and viewing figures peaked at 800,000 which is not bad Dublin of course beat defending champions Kerry in the closing stage his RTE figures showed that an average of 971,000 were watching their live coverage of the football decider on TV while there were 181,000 streams on the RTE player Line of Duty star Adrian Dombar late-late show host Patrick Kilty appeared on an extended BBC panel alongside Dara O'Brien or Dara O'Breens the comedian and Paul Mescal who is also pretty famous has been in a lot of shows okay we are going to be joined by our next guest on the program but first let us take care and catch up on this quick break by two Clarence skincare products one to be moisturizer or serum and you'll get a choice of three treat size essentials from a selection of ten which three will you choose this great Clarence offer is available while stocks last in store at McGee's Chemist at Dara Kenny and online at McGee's.ie where the best costs less for any skincare advice call in and talk to the resident skincare consultants Mary or Gemma new 50 euro per suckle opens for more in your farmers journal is Paul Mooney we have all the details of the new suckle cow welfare scheme open 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birthday it's a great treat for small kids and plenty of big kids too for the chance to see and hear Oreo the robot in action visit Kelly's award-winning diner today at mountaintop better candy now we're joined on the program by Tony canavan who's CEO of Seattle Tony my apologies I didn't realize you were there that's my mistake how you keeping Tony and thanks for joining us very good thanks indeed more into great right now the health service is issuing a warning to people of the region stay safe this public holiday weekend presumably that is to minimize pressure as much as possible on the health service well I suppose first of all it's in the interest of the general public as well you know to make sure that people are safe but yes it does reflect what we expect or what we're planning and we're trying to be prepared for health services over the coming weekend we are expecting that things will be extremely busy and that's across the range of health services including general public health services including providers including indeed pharmacists in the community but of course specifically in relation to the sales group including our hospitals and our emergency departments throughout the region right okay so there is also COVID-19 back circulating in the community as well it has to be noted yes and we have seen I suppose over the last week we've seen a couple of things change one of them is the numbers of patients the numbers have started to increase again and we have relatively small number we have 12 people that are kidney today that are COVID-19 positive and at that level it's not really impacting on bed use within the hospital just yet but it's because the numbers are increasing and we see in other hospitals across the region for example in Galway the numbers are increasing at a faster rate and beds are being impacted so we're being careful from that perspective but also what we've seen is we've seen an increased number of patients in the last week of patients waiting admission on trolleys in our emergency departments and letter Kenny has certainly featured in that regard for the last four weeks for most of July sorry for a good part of June and all of July we saw that the numbers of patients waiting admission on trolleys was the trend with the downward trend number is decreasing but in the last week that has changed and shifted which is concerning as we head towards the bank holiday weekend really what you'd want heading into this bank holiday weekend and that we're going on Friday evening with relatively quiet emergency departments and that's just not where we're at right now yeah and it doesn't seem to be easing as you would know Tony programs like this and others we're hearing horror stories all the time of people we were chatting to one lady in her 80s from the emergency department that have been waiting to be seen with really severe head pains for over 24 hours that's just one case there are others why in summer although you wouldn't know by looking at the window why are we still seeing particularly for older people I find it quite bothersome such long waits and delays in our eds so the very first thing I would say and I don't even really want to maybe single out any one patient no I just give that as an example yeah but for any patient that spends time on a trolley in the emergency department we certainly regret that and we don't apologize to any patient that has had to endure those kind of circumstances it's extremely difficult on patients and it's also difficult on staff and I think why we see that the overall numbers have reduced and the situation has improved as I say throughout June and July and we still have significant numbers of patients waiting and fundamentally there is a capacity issue within our health services and I described in that way because we do need more hospital beds for sure and but we also need to continue to develop our capacity in the community so that more people can receive appropriate care you know in in their community closer to where they're living closer where they're working instead of having to rely for the majority of their care rely on the hospital for the provision of that care yeah and we'll not get too deep into that tonics I know you're busy but people find themselves sitting in a hospital when certain services aren't even available could things like that be better communicated do you think so that you know people aren't sitting there overnight particularly if they're older when you know maybe there aren't the facilities to check a fracture for an example so I would say for sure what we see when our hospitals get extremely busy is that the normal kind of lines of communication they tend to they don't tend to function as well as there was in other circumstances so when things are extremely busy we do find that problems like that do occur and people are sometimes waiting unnecessarily I would also say in fairness to staff working in any university hospital that you know they are very attentive to the needs of patients and they really do their level best to provide the best care that they can but you know the pressure that hospitals are under do result in those kind of difficulties emerging from time to time yeah well we get very little criticism of staff and in fact often patients when they're talking about their own hardship take the time to recognize how difficult a working environment it is for the staff that are generally quite kind to them so of course this stay safe advice is in the interest of the public more generally but there are occasions whereby you don't need to go to the ED you would like for people to look at those options first and what are they so the first thing we would ask people to give some thought is think about what's in your own local community your pharmacy is a great source of advice and great source of course of medicines and treatments and so on so think maybe of your pharmacy as one possible source depending on what your issue is of course think about your GP and out of hours GP service we put additional out of hours services in place over this coming bank holiday weekend so people should get taught that as a possible source for both care and advice and support and then we are absolutely saying to people that if you have an illness or an injury that is you know life threatening or is an emergency come into the emergency department and you will be looked after and but as I say you know think about all of the other possibilities that are available to you if that isn't the case and do you just have details of those additional resources that have been put in place for the out of hours GP service what does that look like well what we have arranged is that the out of hours GP service in the northwest now doc and care doc and that they will be open from 6pm on Friday on August the 4th until 8am again on Tuesday August the 8th and you know so that's the services there for those are on the HSE website but care doc is at 0818-365-399 and now doc is at 0818-409-11 but you know all of those details and helpful suggestions about care in the right place right time they're on the HSE website so that's www.hse.ie and very finally are you worried about the winter Tony we are having winter like conversations and the height of summer now I think worried enough that we're starting to plan now for the winter you know so we've just quite recently prepared a plan for this coming winter which we've submitted and a lot of that is dependent on us using our existing resources both on the community side and in the hospitals to try and align them as much as we can to the needs of patients as they're coming through and we've also been working on what's being described as a three year plan not just a winter plan but a three year plan and I think that's a really sensible approach because there are things that need to be done over the longer term that will help to make sure that patients move through our hospitals more efficiently and will receive better care and so that we're drafting and redrafting that three year plan currently and we'd expect to have that completed by the end of August of this year and hopefully that will help to move things on for us as well OK Tony thanks for your time Tony Canavan there who's the CEO of Seattle to hospital group covering this region of course 0860 25000 WhatsApps and texts that number or give us a call on 07491 25000 I've mentioned this for quite some time on the programme when we talk about the change in climates in different parts of the world we hear you know might be a bit wet or might be a bit drier or we don't see massive extremes of weather though we have seen increases in rainfall and the amount of sunlight as well but generally speaking it's steady as she goes and that's not in any way to play down what might happen into the future but what's happening in other parts of the world which we don't see and if we don't see we don't necessarily recognise as much is the extreme weathers in different parts of the world there are very extreme undeniably extreme weathers in terms of you know torrential rainfall or extreme heat and what's going to happen this is and there will come a time and as I say I've mentioned this a number of times is that people are going to move to where they can live and operate day to day and there's an article in the Irish Daily Mail along these lines today and it reads an expected influx of refugees who have been displaced by climate change to this country in the coming years poses a societal risk a government report has warned the National Risk Assessment published yesterday presents an overview of the risks of the UK's departure from the EU and the pandemic which were both highlighted in the National Risk Assessment 2014 with the housing challenge first noted in 2015 under the title societal risk the report warns recent increases in the number of migrants with large numbers of people fleeing the war in Ukraine and availing of temporary protection as well as the growing numbers of international protection and the number of people who have been displaced by the UK and the number of people who have been as a growing numbers of international protective applicants alongside growing numbers of non-Irish citizens employed in Ireland underlines the importance of social cohesion and integration efforts over the long term large numbers of people around the world are expected to be displaced by climate change this means regions which are less impacted by climate change ie us or are more resilient to impacts can expect to experience increased flows of migrants from areas where climate damage is more severe so other parts of the world become uninhabitable in a comfortable way and more people move to areas like where we are from our distance from the equator and as I say we've been talking about that for a long time on this programme and a government report just published along those lines okay Donna McDade is enterprise engagement officer with the ETB and joins us now hi Donna good morning to you good morning Greg how are you I'm doing great now you were listening to our chat just before 10 as it relates to well firstly there are two issues here the report was the amount of people don't have access to the internet 12.6% now that's whether internet is available or not they simply don't have access to and I brought in the figure which we don't actually have and that's people who may not have the broadband or the IT skills to either set it up or to use it the ETB can help in that regard I'm told yeah absolutely and it was just by chance I happened to be listening to the radio this morning and we can actually offer fully funded IT courses for the farming sector so that can be for farmers themselves and their extended families so in terms of what we can offer we can offer a very basic IT classes where we're just showing them the absolute basics getting email accounts and then we would also be able to offer slightly higher levels and all our courses are all accredited so not only will they come into the classroom learn what they need to learn for their IT and digital skills but they'll also get a certification at the end of it yeah because even if broadband is available people aren't going to say I'm going to pay 35, 45, 55 euro per month because I have nothing to plug into it or I don't know how to work what I might plug into it so again you know that's going to be well beyond the 12.6% that we don't have access to the internet I would imagine I'm guessing here Donna yeah no we actually have a long standing relationship with the farming sector in Donegal we've delivered IT classes for farmers for a number of years now and they're always very well attended we can offer them county-wide so say for example last year we had IT classes for farmers in Raffaul, Stranorle, Bondorn and Donegal Town a number of different locations throughout the county and we generally just run our IT classes for the farming sector from end of September to lamb and season which is in and around the St Patrick's weekend because once you've got the brighter even and she generally won't find a farmer come into the classroom you can't even get them into the house don't let alone the classroom exactly exactly so how does it work so where do you decide to I presume their groups it would be impossible to do it one-on-one though you can correct me if I'm wrong Donna but like say yeah go ahead there are usually groups between six and eight and as I said we normally have between six and eight groups running county-wide throughout that period of September to March so they're nice small groups so they're not massive amounts of people within the one class where it could be too much for some people there's a lot of one-to-one tuition there as well we actually work in conjunction sorry with the department as well where we actually have a mock site for the ag food so we can actually show farmers how they do that three-tier login process just to view their herds apply for their compliance certificates mixture caps which I know Barry had mentioned in the interview as well so it really is it's a comfortable environment for them they're even in classes they have their own numbers and we can take for their absolute beginners right up to say level 3 4 where we can be a little bit more detailed in maybe ICT skills and internet skills but we also can offer a level 2 in social IT which is all about using your phone for things that Barry had mentioned for check and calving, online videos and even just something as simple as taking a whatsapp picture and then able to forward that on to us so it really is aimed for that basic education level for the lower skills to help them bring up their digital skills and to help them around the farms now do you schedule these throughout the winter months you mentioned Donna or do you follow demand in other words say for instance 7 farmers got together in Kili Beggs and contacted the ETB and said look we'd be really interested in one of these courses now whether it be in Kili Beggs or Donagall but is that an option whereby a couple of farmers could get together and contact the ETB or do you announce a schedule over the winter either way works that's exactly what happened to us with a group of farmers in Rafal we did a lot of the agricultural shows last year just to promote the service and to let the farming sector know that these are all fully funded and it was through just the attendance of them shows that we got people to contact us thereafter but that's exactly how we had a little group that formed there in Rafal last year and perhaps if they're listening today I believe they're looking to come back with us this September as well because there is an element of the social factor there as well you know farming can be an isolated career so we find that there's that social element within the classroom for farmers as well and as I said we always offer the farming classes as an evening course so it could maybe be say six till nine or half six till half nine whatever suits that particular group and as I said keeping it in small numbers of between six and eight it really is just that kind of like that one-to-one assistance and helping them to progress them skills that they need to help around a modern day farm. Yeah and if you don't mind me saying it is it can be overwhelming when you if you've had no access to a smartphone or the internet you might think oh I can't even but you take it off in bite size chunks you learn what you need and you know it's not beyond most people to be able to sort of do it do you know what I mean you're not going to go through every element of it as an unabernate beginner's course but you will till teach people what they can use and most would I'd say walk out of the building knowing what they need to know. So another one I'm trying to say people shouldn't be overwhelmed by it because you just teach what you need. Not at all absolutely not at all it's a very friendly environment that we'll be bringing them into. It could be located in one of our FET centres throughout the county but we also would use community centres say for example the Colgan Hall Karamino community centre and as I said last year we were also in the Volthouse in Miffl so it's bringing it to their areas as well because no farmers are very busy and as long as they're having to travel too far to come and join us there's the social aspect of it as well and of course they're building their digital skills. Brilliant that's the immediacy of radio which is great less than an hour ago we were talking about how people might struggle with IT and here we are now talking to you moments later about free IT skill teaching for farmers delivered through DETV that's the way it works. Great stuff Donna thanks for your time. We're actually going to be at the Kilimani show next Tuesday and Wednesday. We have a pop-up tent there so if anybody has any additional questions get them to come along and see us if they're attending the Kilimani show. We'll be at the Bali Shannon show as well this year or put my contact details on your website or Instagram podcast whatever and they can contact me via a phone, email or come and see us at the shows. Donna you don't put the tent up do you? Yeah well I was going to say it's never whoever puts it up never goes on a pop-up tent because it's far from popping up We'll have to see how I get on with that now There'll be some fellow some women standing looking at 50 poles on the floor scratching their heads before Alright listen brilliant stuff thanks Donna take care Donna McDade their Enterprise Engagement Officer with the E.T.B. So as I say it's free to the farmers Hopefully now a few of you listening will go right OK yeah I could do that 08 6 60 25000 WhatsApps and text to that number or give us a call on 07491 25000 some of your emails here no not emails actually texts Greg Just a quick one I know the hospital gets bad press sometimes but I had to go to ED yesterday and I have nothing but praise and a great service from the minute I went into the door getting the procedure done thanks letter County University Hospital that comes in from John and John I really appreciate you sending those messages in we do get them we do read them out because we're not here to certainly not criticize staff or even necessarily to criticize services it's there to work with the staff to work with the public to get our fair share and to get improvements Greg the four court near me increased its price not once but twice in one week so it's a rip-off nothing more to do with deliveries petrol in Moville 177 0.9 today 20 minutes after the news told us the country's awash with money we have someone from the HSC saying please don't get sick because we can't look after you is not quite what was said but that's what you heard I understand where you're coming from I call a police there should be priority for older people in the hospitals indeed I don't know how that would work and there is already priority in terms of it's not based on age but it's based on need of treatment when's the community hospital being built in letter Kenny where are they on these plans this will be an extra 110 beds for the community well the sooner the better I'm not really quite sure but hopefully work starts as soon as is possible because it is a service that is required and needed we have in studio with us our very own Sean Quinn good morning Sean how are you getting on I'll be better when I put the right mic up Sean Quinn's head of sales at Highland radio and we are launching a mega mega summer cash giveaway just rotate that mic so the numbers are facing you yeah that's it not that's just the sleeve the numbers B1 yeah now I can hear you all right this is the Euro mega summer draw that's up for grabs as part of this so when's it launch how does it work what's the prize breakdown give us all the details all the details so yeah so we're launching it today so officially from now you can go on to our website and buy a ticket and so it's 20,000 euros Greg we've got 20,000 and cash to give away over the next four weeks and every Friday so it will be the 11th of August we will be giving away 2,500 euros on your show the following Friday on the 18th we'll be giving 2,500 on around the northwest following week on the 25th David and the jive time is 2,500 and then the mega final fourth week Lee will have 2,500 during breakfast and then the big one 10 grand 10,000 euros wow fantastic so here we go if you get your tickets early you're in one, two, three, four, five draws that's the bottom line so if you're going to get involved get involved early we wouldn't discourage you from getting involved at any stage but my point being buy your ticket today you might win on the 11th the 18th the 25th the first 12,500 to give away on the first so the earlier you get your tickets the more advantageous it is because you're in more draws and even if you were to win and I know you love this notion that someone's going to win on the first draw and then win the 10 grand your ticket does go back and if it happens I'll buy you a pint it may well do but we'll not overemphasise its possibility mathematically it's hard it is difficult alright and this means that Finula's going to whip out her trombola see that's on its way into your ratio I'm going to have to look at that for five weeks behind you and then for six months after the draws finished that's the way things work around here until you show up and I actually come and collect until I take it out right okay so how do people get their tickets what's the price structure Sean it's well established now at this stage and it works really smoothly it does and it's very simple to do go on to HighlandRadio.com it's flagged on the actual front page you just click on the link and you go in and you can choose ten euros for a ticket or you can buy six for fifty or you can get ten for eighty euros so the more you buy the cheaper you get the most you'll pay for a ticket is ten euro after that if you want to group buy them put different people's names on and what have you they get cheaper then and there's always a mix isn't there's a mix of people who've bought them as presents people have put them their family names down or people that have put their own name down it's a nice mix over the over the years we've been doing this Sean of the winners hasn't there but they're always local yeah it's amazing and I think Newton Newton and St. Johnson's Canada that's the hub where a couple of owners there but no it's great because it's it's giving you actually five great chances you know you could go on a holiday you could help towards going back to school it might do something in the house you know even two and a half thousand if you were one of those lucky four winners and then as I said as you rightly said if you win next next Friday your ticket goes straight back into the draw so you've got four other chances after that so if you go on to our website right now highlandradio.com and of course like everything only if you can afford it as well and it's within your means and you can have a little bit of a little bit of fun with it it's ten euro for a ticket you can get six for fifty ten for eighty personally me now this is kind of gaining the system because I'm tight I would buy tickets with somebody else just to save the money on the tickets well that would be how tight am I there you go all right you can share it you can put the two names on it and you get your tickets cheaper then as well and just to remind you of how the prices are given away next Friday so this happens really quick next Friday a listener will win two and a half grand on this show the following Friday John Breslin is going to give away two and a half thousand grand two and a half thousand pounds a euro sorry then the following Friday David James on jive time two and a half thousand pounds then the following Friday which will be the first of September Lee Gooch giving away two and a half thousand pounds and then late euro why must this obsession with I don't know I haven't had a pound in a long time and then later on the first of September on this program another big prize this one ten thousand euro if you get your tickets between now and Friday week you're in all one two three four five draws yeah okay brilliant stuff now we were talking about access to the internet and all that and we're acutely aware of that so if people ring up we can accommodate that as well ideally online but we can we don't want to leave anyone out and even people can call or pass they have in the past if they want to do it that way but again obviously it's it's more convenient online but we aren't going to leave anyone behind Sean no definitely not so they do want to to ring 07491 25,000 if I recall last year I think our phones went completely and utterly mad at Friday so if you can get an early before Friday it would be great it would just help us out but you have a full week now from today to try and either go online or you can ring Katie and we'd be delighted to to look after you all right so if you get on to our website right now you can't miss it it's there it's the mega summer draw 20,000 to win this summer and as I say over at the course of four Fridays two and a half thousand euro to each lucky ticket drawn out of the trombola and on the fourth Friday ten thousand also being given away did you enjoy your little trip to Dunlop you're going to love this one because the place was empty I'll be sitting in Dunlop on my own David James goes doesn't look there's not a sinner here five nearly I say there's nearly 500 people there yesterday it was brilliant because I've actually got a big thank you to call out here to Rotis service station in Dunlop because I was travelling down to yesterday's OB and I got a flat tire you did not I did yet in the middle of nowhere and luckily we got one bar signal on the phone and we managed to ring Rotis who very kindly came and collected us and gave us a car to get down because we were pushed for time and changed the tyres for me on the way back so fair play to them and I want to give them a shout out before you do I was trying to get away from there that's interesting Kieran Rotis actually my next guest on this program by pure coincidence no way completely unrelated well he can put your headphones on and thank you can say from you can say you can say yourself Kieran listen I'm going to come to you properly but talk about coincidences and this is an absolute coincidence that weird you lined up because I wanted to speak to you about a post you made Sean decides randomly to talk about this heroic shop owner that goes and sort him out and low and behold you're the same person no sorry I can't take the credit for that it's not you Declan my brother that's the same company Kieran don't ruin the story it's the same company come here Kieran fair play to you and Declan I'll come to you in a second but thank you very much indeed sorry you wanted to go on something else there Sean I'd say they're going to allude to it I just wanted to give them a shout out for their their fun country day on Monday just to give them a plug there so I'm sure they're going to mention that alright okay so 20,000 euro up for I hate the phrase 25 euro 20,000 euros up for grabs can be won over the course of the next four and a half odd weeks if you want to be in all five draws for two and a half thousand euro one for 10,000 euro get on the website now get your tickets and the first draw will be on this show tomorrow week I'll not be here do you want to delay the following Monday now or show you how the 10,000 so that's well save the big one to the best how's that alright okay no problem cheers Sean we'll chat to you again right Kieran Rorty is the owner of Rorty shop in Dunloe in it and we appreciate your engagement beforehand but this is something that you've seen and it's disheartened you I think to use your own word Kieran talk to me about what has disheartened you well I have my shop here and at the station at the bottom we're very good in Dunloe and to be honest what we make in the shop in the summertime as I said the shop the shop's busy in the summer but the winter is very very quiet so we need a good summer trade to get the shop going all winter and Glen Bay is a big big attraction to us and a lot of people in the area there's a lot of small businesses that depend on tourism just like so both going to go and there's different things small businesses that only run in the summer and they're depending on a good tourist season and Glen Bay is supposed to be our trump card in the county and it just annoys me when I seen the sign out the last day you know telling people no entry no car park following no entry there's nobody there to explain to them where to go or what to do and I sat in and took that picture for five minutes and there was cars coming as far as they get and they didn't know to turn to go back but you know I feel it's painting a very bad image for somebody who came up from Cork or Kerry and went back home and spoke to some of their friends we're thinking of going to Donegal well don't go near Glen Bay National Park because you might get in and the sign simply said what did the sign say Kieran car park following no entry that's it nothing else okay no advisories to one in one out or nothing like that there just there's no excuse for that really because with the right will the right investment there is capacity there in that car park well this in my opinion this car park problem has been there for the last 15 years they did create 60 access spaces this year but it's not enough it's clearly not enough clearly not enough but as I said it's a bad it's a bad segment to give tours coming to the area and as I said to you there's a lot of small businesses depending on their summer trade to survive to keep them going during the winter like ourselves and a lot of small businesses and a very negative thing but there's a bigger picture out there too we've got Erigal and our doorstep here the car parking up there has to be addressed before somebody is seriously hurt or killed because there's an accident waiting to happen there at the moment with cars parked in both sides of the road and God forbid it's only a matter of time before there is a serious accident there between children running across the road and trying to you know all enthusiastic about Erigal and things and they don't think about traffic and the pilots at the bottom of Erigal is another big problem we have the shop and we're providing the pilots for Erigal which I feel we never turn nobody away from our pilots but I feel there's something we shouldn't be doing but we provide that service I can guarantee you there in a busy day in Erigal that it could be up to 200 people use our pilots there's a bigger picture in the west than it all and the back of Erigal road has deteriorated terribly in the last while and there doesn't seem to be no efforts made to fix it either and that's the main road and to the west don't you go of course Kieran and you're a business you're a rate payer you pay your water rates and all that type of stuff I mean you would feel and be within your rights to feel that you deserve at least the same sort of attention and support that a business in letter Kenny might get so you're calling on local representatives to get on board with this have a look at the the state of the road the toilets the facilities and all that kind of stuff and then we'll ask questions as to why we are turning people away from the jewel in our crown and as you say no explanation what kind of a message is that sending to tourists and that money's been taken out of the area support the area support the park and support the likes of your business in Dunlop at the same time yeah that's my point exactly there's a bigger picture in west than it all and I feel that the councillors are very very quiet you know that you see some of the main roads getting retard and everything and you go out to be on the the mess that's in at the minute and then we can be on Arigal Arigal is one of the biggest attractions in the county at the moment any time of the day now and it could be 30 cars an average of 60 cars parked there all the time now since they made the paths fair play to the ones that organized that that set out that path in Arigal has made a way different the tours is more on Arigal but the infrastructure's there not to support it all right Kieran as you say that you've mentioned the business side of it which we really get but also you're concerned for people's safety as well which is paramount so Kieran thank you very much for joining us I do appreciate it and I hope the right people are listening and something is done here well hopefully there's some of the councillors they get on board now and try and push it on and it'll be better because as I said you know we've been talking about it for years and years and it's time that some action was taken all right Kieran take care of yourself thanks all very much indeed okay back shortly shrink your bill this bank holiday at Don stores enjoy 20% off a fantastic range of wine and champagne like 19 crimes and Whispering Angel mix and match 3 for 4 euro and selected treats and drinks like Tato sharing bags and Pepsi Max 2L plus with our 5 of 25 grocery vouchers you save even more shrink your bill at Don stores always better value terms and conditions apply voucher amused on next in store grocery shop of 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gardener at Balakdurg garden center so if you have any questions about gardening gardens planting potting whatever it is get them into us now oh it's 660 25000 how are you getting on Paul? not so bad Greg how are you? you look very relaxed there you like the new chairs? yes yes very nice very nice purple is your colour? yes getting an upgrade since I was last year I know well some might say they're an upgrade others might not but still they look pretty no respite in this weather is there no absolutely no I'm just going to get disillusioned at this stage I looked at my yesterday I was looking at my fantastic right oh luxury and I haven't watered them very good very good and they're slightly covered so whatever way the rain right amount of moisture is getting into them they're massive size of that telly really pleased with that but what's happening with this weather in terms of how it's impacting is it impacting growth it's obviously maintenance it's not most pleasurable whether to go out and get on your knees is it? no absolutely not no that's what I got it's in one sense it's good stuff's grown very well if you don't mean sorry no pleasure to look at it though absolutely not and even stuff like cutting the grass is very hard to get a dry couple hours to actually get it cut yeah exactly but you're not getting any time to sort of sit out and enjoy the garden and we have officially the wettest July since records began yes and I'm sure it rained before that before anyone points that out Ruffo actually the wettest part of the country the entire country so you know the stats back up what we know it's been piddling down for the last month yes absolutely it's what the old thing was since swiddens day two I can't remember what the whole thing about that was like it was raining that day it's going to rain for four days more right what's the good things that are happening in the garden at the moment then though I suppose if you're growing food with that sort of thing harvesting sort of coming on the potatoes are actually most people's potatoes are ready at this stage so they are softly got tomatoes are coming on nicely so they are but very hard to get them ripen because they're just not enough sunshine at the moment it's the sort of sunlight levels are down so grey and dull if you know what I mean but there's still plenty of good things happening still sort of getting into time where you can be starting to think about planting stuff for the autumn and that too right and you've given me the opportunity really to effectively be rubbing shoulders with Hollywood star Sarah Jessica Parker you've brought up some spuds yes absolutely honey god I see she's she was one of the highlights of her trip to Donegal recently there was her new spuds you can't be a good spud can you I mean I a spud to me has always been a spud but you know I've started to speak to people now who it's where they were talking about wine or coffee yes all the other connoisseurs yeah and some spuds are not great for younger people are older people and all different types of good for mashing or not mashing and all that kind of stuff do you have a favourite spud not particularly funny new ones are ground because spuds are going to take a leaf a lot of a lot of the you're wrong here I mean how many ways do I like spuds yeah I don't like them boiled I don't mind the wee ones if they're boiled mashed with butter salt chips well chips hard to eat now as a nation I think we've got very born rare spuds in terms of just we had all sorts of reddies now two-thirds of every spud sold in Ireland to Rooster really just it's just here for the shelf life of them okay so well yeah yeah I saw a few videos on social media of flying ants horrible little things yes but now is the time for them to emerge from the shadows yes absolutely funny we were working guard of heart there on Tuesday and it was the lady we were over described as a nightmare few because they were just everywhere just at this time of year flying ants come about in terms of they're just your normal everyday garden ant but whatever the temperatures right and the humidity is right they sort of decided it's time to breed so they all spread wings basically take off so your ants walking around the ground normally they spread wings yeah pretty much and then start flying the mature meals and female spread wings they become romantic so it's the exact same exact same ants yes exact same ants yeah and they fly about and just then whenever they when they got the fly away to somewhere else find the nice spot this is why humans are useless because when they start getting amorous they download Tinder or something ants grow wings they're more proactive I'm gonna do something about this situation but they come and go and it depends on the weather and they all sort of get the right signals from nature at the same time don't they exactly funny it seems to be just everywhere it wants that it all happens but it's there it comes and goes in one day pretty much can be over a few days through the period of whatever that it comes to pass but they actually they won't do any harm like they can be quite scary in a VC the sheer volume of them and it's time for birds to fill their bellies as soon as they see them too it's part of the chain isn't it exactly and there's actually an interesting side effect of that there so the ants are within their body produces some sort of acid and seagulls particularly would be very good at very fond of them but the acid and the ant actually makes a seagull drunk okay so if I see a seagull stumbling it's not that it's half a bottle of whiskey it's flying ants it's just flying ants because if you see if you see seagulls stumbling way down low tomorrow it's not the festival getting the better of them and if a seagull sees me stumbling around down low can I say I've eaten yeah possibly not that I would do that of course no I guess you have a lot of flowers and how do we treat them coming into the winter generally most wild flowers would be sort of they're almost like perennials that some of them will produce more flowers but a lot of the wild flowers would tend to be as just a once off for the year so but deadheading them sort of keeps them tidier it keeps them going longer so it's worth doing anyway some of them will reproduce flowers some of them won't yeah now questions coming in about flying ants they're all over a wall at the garden can I do anything about them they're going to go themselves there's not really much you can do the key would be sort of they're seem to be attracted to silver see a silver car will be clattered in them they're attracted to warmth and lights so if it's evening time shut the windows because if you get a pile of them into the house is there anywhere in Leicester County that you can recycle grass and hedge cuttings as far as I know Bryson recycling taking that sort of stuff garden waste they are down sort of not that far from here just down Karnamugle there with the ESB yard is over there as far as I know they do take it in for the course of a summer depending on how big your garden is absolutely I'm sorry and they actually they're connected to another company over by Pedagodirection who actually makes the real stuff and actually reconstituted into fertilizer my hedge had developed large brown patches does this mean it's dying and can I feed anything to help once again probably depends on the type of hedge if you know what I mean, if there's a lot of landies going brown chances are the Grislinia hedges recently have been taken on a sort of fungus attack on us just where fungus aid but basically it is probably take pictures of it and maybe bring to your local garden centre just to get a more positive ID on the hedge and the problem I get you I have a a peony rose is it too early to cut it back no a peony should have flowered by now so they should and they'll be sort of dying back naturally if it is looking untidy you could cut them back I'm trying to grow herbs or herbs as some people call them the Americans call them herbs in my kitchen but they're dying faster than I can use them I'm keeping them in the wrong place I have them in the kitchen window it's kind of interesting because I bought these in little pots as well and I thought okay right buy them in the pot and they'll keep replenishing but as soon as whatever was in the pot it just died and now they're growing than themselves but I've experienced this myself I just thought I'd have an endless supply of herbs yes I know that the herbs is sort of the supermarket ones we've had no way luck with either like even especially basil there you'd buy it in a wee pot set on the one but it just doesn't seem to last it falls over yeah I think to a large extent I think a lot of the sort of them ones are forced on very much a fertilizer and once the sort of nutrients die off it down they go if you know what I mean so probably a more reliable way to it's a slower process but we start from seed and you would have the proper sort of varieties these conditions why would these listeners be dying because they are trying to grow them so presumably they're trying to grow them from seeds yes kitchen window to run by the way kitchen window I suppose if you're north facing maybe they're not getting enough light but kitchen window should be fairly powerful for them especially at this time of year so it should be just keeping eye on the water levels it's sort of not too much not too little it's okay but there's not really specific hair should be quite easy to grow okay yeah that's what I figured what can you do with wild gooseberries and a hedge someone recently told me not to touch them as they're a weed yes wild gooseberries you sort of wild gooseberries you get the black berries not grown as well mostly come out of sort of farms of briars if you know what I mean like if they're not attractive or not where you want them particularly but in terms of that they're if they're not been offensive they can leave them well enough alone if you know what I mean they're not calling your names as you walk past them pretty much yeah I'd love to plant a holly tree is it too late and what's the best environment to plant it in yes no not too late at all holly trees generally they're available in pots you can plant it any time of year depends there's there's a good variety of hollies you have the standard green one you see or actually the silver queen which is nicely white and green very good and you get the berries for Christmas time or a golden king which is yellow and green mix of course now there's a good good lot of varieties I didn't plant them any time right of course now we're coming into autumn how do I best look after my lawn should I keep should I be doing anything or leave it leave it be I mean I mean it depends on where you look at we're not in autumn yet we could have you know a fantastic last three weeks of August first two weeks of September like we're still you know I wouldn't give up on summer yet and start thinking about batting down the hatches for the winter would you no absolutely not you'd have to be I have to be hopeful you would and they're directing their new moon this week I think so hopefully better weather will come with it maybe but in terms of what to do even in the autumn types most most important thing would be sort of keep debris and leaves off it give it a break every couple weeks because that's what breeds moss exactly I was going to say that because we will get as sure as a gun fires bullets when we start heading into summer the issue of moss comes up so in terms of other than keeping it keeping stuff off it is there anything else we should be doing through the winter to inhibit the growth of the moss like you know poking holes in it or whatever it's actually called you can't as an orator is the thing you use that takes me sort of plugs out if you know I mean you can't do that which improves the drainage if you give it a run over with that there leaves wee holes in it and you brush over sand over the top of it which sort of creates drainage holes within the soil and lets the moisture pass through because generally the cause of the moss is sort of being continuously moist over the winter time so generally if you can't keep the moisture moving it does help and even cut back bushes or trees if it allows more light yes exactly I because shaded patches tend to suffer more yeah when do you cut back rose bushes rose bushes generally you cut them back about October sort of you have to keep an eye on when they're going to finish flowering basically but generally around sort of Halloween you would give them sort of a light trim back to tidy them up and take the worst of the weight after and then maybe some Patrick's day I'll trim to them alright um someone sent in a picture of the winter planted onions harvest this week do you want to give them a mark out of 10 now what would you give their onions out of 10 very good very good yes a fine crop there a fine crop they say snails are their biggest issue yes snails can be already they can sort of tend to go out onions at this time of year what would you do with all those onions that's a lot of onion that's the onion I like onions but how long do they store for because the ones in my freezer keep growing yes no if you if you still if your stems coming out if you dry them now and store them you should like theoretically up to next spring but why are the ones in my fridge growing they're probably probably never fully dried off right I mean sort of they've been produced obviously probably in a more industrial scale and they're sort of for immediate use if you know what I mean and if I try to grow one outside you can imagine the disaster that would be and it's there's one there's one growing in the bloody fridge our garden has been taken over with this terrible weed how do you suggest we get rid of it I'm not sure I haven't seen the weed so we can't really answer that no what might it be um we don't know the big big thing along with the number would be scotch scotch grass or they have a creeping buttercup comes into it as well so once again be another one probably take a couple of photos and head to your garden I have three high synth bulbs in pot that I got as a present they seem to have bolted and are drooping in full bloom what can I do uh generate high essence causes produce to have sort of real impressive flowers the plants themselves can be quite weak so the best thing you do is depend on the height of them just get something to stake them up just to get the best idea blooms basically yeah to stake them up even sometimes a pencil works uh what veg do I grow in the autumn will we seen one uh spoiler their onions uh and you harvest them now great harvest there what else pretty onions garlic peas beans and sort of any members of the garlic grow above ground or below ground below ground that's the root then exactly grows exactly same as onion basically they're all the same family okay so they are um but you can get single clove big lumps of garlic and then you get ones where they're all in little compartments yes I what I got out so what's the clove is a wee single but then the bulb is a big bit right there's loads of rage out there you can think out elephant garlic grows very big I think that might be the one just where this thing going okay uh all right I think that's all the time we have uh Paul we will have you back in very soon though and uh again just to encourage people to go along to your local garden center in Paul's case it's Balakdur garden center any queries or questions call in chat to the likes of yourself and your colleagues and all the great garden centers we have right across this region uh you'll have imparting advice yes all right Paul McLaughlin thank you so very much indeed and and these what do you use it just spuds you brought up yes Anna the your own spots absolutely right okay so me and my daughter planted them they're just in springtime they're brilliant we did a wee video of nearly about 900,000 views oh wow so it's a real sort of vintage tractor stuff if you know what I mean so there's what a wee thing for you and your daughter to do together as well so how do you do you I seem to recall from my childhood the smaller ones then are seeds for next year is that it pretty much uh yeah I just you would keep a certain amount of smaller ones back right and then just store them and basically they become next year seed and you just plant them as is or pretty much I had some even like I said we did that video and there was sort of comments coming more in the world and a lot of places that I actually cut up spuds I was going to say cut them in half I cut them in half exactly planted two halves but bring here generally just throwing the whole throwing the whole thing stuff in exactly all right brilliant 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19 minutes past 11 now we are joined in studio by Dave Coleman of Coleman legal Dave of course has joined us a number of occasions remotely and he's in the county today meeting families and took the opportunity to call up and say hi so we really do appreciate that Dave thanks so much for calling in thanks Greg right so you're meeting families today are these the sort of the initial cases or families in general what's the story today well over the next three or four days we're meeting various stakeholders families people on the ground who are advocating for us we're meeting experts we're looking at properties that are affected it's a sort of catch up after our last meeting here in May and the idea of course is just to let people know we're here that we're not a remote firm we're very involved with the community here and it's good to be here and good to promote the EU commission complaint as well and we'll talk about that in a moment but there have been various surges at different stages of this process in terms of people signing up to the case where are we at numbers wise now it was over two I think the last time we spoke we were heading towards it at least yes it was we closed at 2600 odd numbers there but it's still open to people to come the difference now is that as you know it's a privately funded not for profit case but in for people joining now which thankfully they are because they should there's a joint signing on fee of 500 euros in order to cover the expenses of the stamp duty and the drafting of the summons to allow them to join the group now in terms of it's quite a complex document that people signed to get involved in this Dave would you do you find that people want to get independent advice in advance or do you recommend that or what's the situation I think that if people aren't satisfied with the information are not clear on what is being said to them that by all means get independent legal advice it's an important part of your life this whole debacle with buildings in Donegal and yes we'd encourage people if they're not clear on what we're saying to by all means get independent advice we would welcome that and just in relation to the costs it's third party funded as you mentioned at any point will if it's successful or otherwise and we hope it is successful for obvious reasons will there be any payment sought from those 2600 plus that have signed up yes there will be in the event that we're successful and the amount of what people receive is greater than the amount of the current available grant then there is a small fee based on the difference only that is if unsuccessful then it's a walk away we're very fortunate and it's the first that any participant in the case that bears no risk on legal costs which is contrary to current Irish law but the way we design the case and built it there is no risk on costs for people should the case be unsuccessful which as you say we don't wish to see and is it fully established now that this is a legitimate route you would know yourself there's some question whether or not third party funding this type of class action in this state it's not a class action such what you know what I mean it looks like one but we don't have them in this country has it already been tested or proven that this can progress without that element of it being challenged well people of course any defendant can challenge any time they want now this case has been extant for over two years we're very very advanced where we will hope we do hope to close the pleadings in October which would allow for discovery which would allow for a hearing date sometime next year to date there has been no challenge of course people want to know you know how is it funded etc it is not for profit we're not hiding anything we've nothing to hide this is a community based activity and most certainly nobody has sought to challenge none of the defendants which obviously the first port of call would be well we're not even going to enter into this process because we can prove that it is I mean that would be your obvious initial first defence if you were defending this that would be mine in any case that application has never been made to the court one defendant I won't name them they have in their defence said that there is champerty and maintenance which is what we're talking about which means that if you have a financial interest in a case it cannot proceed and you're not a party to it our advice is that we are correct to proceed in the way we are that's number one, number two whereas people have said things they've done nothing about it and the longer they leave it the less likely it is that a court will entertain somebody who partook in the process and then laterally came across to raise an objection people are entitled to raise whatever objections they wish and we don't welcome it but we don't fear it we have a case to win and we drive on so last time I spoke to you and I don't expect you to remember all the timelines but I seem to recall there was a significant element to the case the following Friday I can't just remember off the top of my head what that might be do you recall and what came off that well there have been several milestones within the case laterally the milestones have been the adding of additional defendants to the case being of course top mix subsidiary our sister company of Cassidy's and we've brought them in because some of the clients have got receipts from top mix and there's another company Moil Plant that has similarly been joined and it is envisaged that there will be other defendants added prior to the case coming on for trial is this complaint for all counties or just on the goal it's really all affected homeowners really and not just homeowners I mean it's not it doesn't have county boundaries I presume we talk about it because we were heavily affected here but I presume there's no boundaries to this as such this is the European Commission Complaint no it's just that I don't know it is the European Commission Complaint yes anybody's entitled to partake in the European Commission Complaint but it is brought in the names of a Lehman Gronje or Dohertyk whom of course you know about and Alan Boll as a further lead plaintiff of six and what the Commission Complaint is about is for the various breaches of European law that we say has occurred here in relation to the quality and I suppose the stewardship over the quality of the BRICS and second of all and more importantly which is not in the case is the breaches of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights there are two main ones that we are complaining about one is the right to life as these buildings deteriorate they're becoming dangerous it's a matter of time before there's a catastrophe we don't want it but absent people coming up with a realistic solution to this crisis we fear for the worst and we must plan for it the second is the Article 3 which is the right to integrity of the person and that covers property and family rights the breaches have affected people's properties that's what this is about but also the disruption to family life is massive and it has gone on song and I suppose really we've a case to win and the effects of it thereafter we will be discussing in great detail now of course the government has found Ireland in breach of numerous aspects of of law or people's rights be it in terms of disability in terms of pollution whatever it might be and really the sanction seems to be fine but the government often is not very quick to act on it if you know what I mean so in reality if this complaint is successful can it achieve much other than financial sanctions and embarrassment of the Irish state I suppose the correct answer to it is that it's a multifaceted approach we're taking we believe that the people mostly in Donegal because this is really the epicenter of what is happening that they should stand up for their own rights and it's another way of in effect highlighting to Europe what has gone on or not gone on that should have gone on in Ireland yes you're right that the commission they cannot make orders in effecting the Irish jurisdiction but what they can do is refer the matter onwards so the cases may be taken against Ireland now I don't believe that Ireland wants this we don't as taxpayers I'm sure want it and really it is another way for people to vindicate their own rights through the European Commission absent a proper solution to the problem on the ground now this is it is connected and unconnected it's not a legal action we've already been talking of as you've just really effectively pointed to that now it is part of the wider movement here yes it is another difference will of course be the reference in the complaint to the grant the case of course does not comment on the grant system because a grant is a grant it is not redress and it is not universal in its application the complaint will say that it is limited in its scope with the grant and that property owners who have the same rights no matter what property they have they are being discriminated against by being excluded and the second leg of that of course is what people are finding out now is that the grant is not enough and it's not comprehensive enough to deal with the losses that people have and many of whom are not in a position to make up those losses we'll talk about how people can join that complaint if they wish in a moment but are you surprised that we have in this country of 5 million plus you know in excess of 2600 families involved in illegal action against the state and others over and sort of questioning a multi-billion multi-billion multi-annual scheme the scale of this you know what I mean if you transferred this to the United States for an example the amount of people you might be talking about that this is not huge news or maybe it has been but you know you've got this is an awful lot of people these are families not individuals so you can multiply them by three or four perhaps and it's challenging as I say the state on this multi-billion year old scheme that's not the basis of the complaint but I would have thought this is just too big to ignore it probably is the largest case civil action being brought in the history of the state I can't imagine anything else or I can't think of anything else that would rival this the resourcing required is massive the the effect of it will primarily in our view be limited to Donegal itself yes the precedent may go further into other counties such as Mayo such as Clare we don't believe though that the scale of the damage that has been inflicted on people comes anywhere near what we're seeing in Donegal it is a one-off situation here there have been attempts to deal with this by the authorities and in effect MAG who were involved in negotiations these negotiations although well meant and well intentioned by people who've worked really hard they didn't come to probably the outcome that people wanted having said that the Board of MAG now are full square behind the European Commission Complaint full square behind the case and we work very closely with them because we believe that United Nations can stand and so all of what happened in relation to discussions and negotiations really it's in the past now and we have to deal with what's in front of us both in relation to advocacy for the grant advocacy for the European Commission Complaint and of course our own advocacy in relation to the case do you believe it is a complication if people say right I appreciate that this could go on for a bit I'm signed up to it I want to sign up to it I can get out of this scheme so in other words you know entering this scheme now and going through the process even if you've signed up for this legal action that's not a problem is it we would recommend that people sign up to this scheme everybody has a duty to minimise their losses if there are grants available and there are relevance to a person and they can in effect cure the problem whatever their meanwhile losses are they should do so we actively encourage that and for those who are already struggling the five or six hundred euro I think you mentioned if they can't meet that but they are still very severely affected by this if this is successful will people who are not part of this action also benefit it can't be limited surely to those that have signed up I agree and given the scale of the plaintiffs within the case our view is that any settlement with the plaintiffs will in effect filter out to others what we say though is that any settlement with the plaintiffs now there is no offer of settlement so we are in any offer will of course be relevant to those plaintiffs alone now however we are mindful of other people what we would encourage people is not to hurl on the ditch that they should get involved in this case they need to stand with their fellow county people their fellow victim in effect here and we need to make sure that we get the results that the people are due and if people want to sign up to defective blocks are and complain to the European Commission on behalf of Donagall home owners there is a code that can be scanned here if you see the posters but defectiveblocks.ie forward slash EU petition it costs nothing it just lends your voice to this petition they can get it with Mag with the Facebook page for defective block and they can get it on our own website it is accessible anything else you want to add Dave that I haven't touched on I wonder even if it's a bit rainy but it's drier here than Dublin ok right ok listen Dave thanks very much indeed Dave Coleman of Coleman legal watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 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Doors open at 8.30pm with support act before the main show. Tickets available from Ticketsstop.ie or from Hotel Reception. The High School Profits, Highlands Hotel Glenties. Friday 11th August. Right, Donald Trump's been indicted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The third time in four months that the former US President has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year. Larry Donnelly is a law lecturer to University of Galway and columnist of course at Journal.ie and he joins us now. Thanks so much for your time, Larry. I do appreciate it. And this is perhaps a more serious development for Mr. Trump. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think when you look at what's contained in the indictment and the detail of the indictment, including what Donald Trump and his co-conspirators are alleged to have done in a variety of states trying to influence the election, even when they knew that Donald Trump had lost, still trying to get their allies and people in positions of power to subvert the election result. And effectively, to upend America's constitutional order, it's a very devastating read, I think. Is it politically motivated or driven? Well, look, I mean, you know, of course, in the United States in 2023, absolutely everything has a political component, and it's impossible to divorce the legalities from political realities here. That all having been said, the objective truth, and again, most of the stuff that's contained in the indictment has been in the public domain for some time. The objective truth here is deeply, deeply worrying. And if you look at the statutes with which the president and his co-conspirators are effectively charged with breaking, you see a compelling case begin to emerge, leaving aside the politics of it. Yes, and all that being said, though, we live in this strange political space now, whereby he has the Republicans behind him. He is neck and neck with Joe Biden, and everything they attempt to try and stall him actually works to his advantage. So you have half America effectively saying, right, it doesn't really matter what it's accused of. It doesn't matter that we know it might be true. He's our man, and we back him. It's strange. Yeah, I mean, there are some deep rather dark truths at the heart of this, Greg, that you and I have discussed before. And when it comes down to it, about half of America, frankly, don't believe anything anymore. They've lost heart in the system. They've lost heart with the trajectory of the country. They want to turn back the clock. They don't like the way America is going. They're not optimistic for the future. So when Donald Trump said to them in 2015 and 2016 that he wanted to make America great again, when he spoke to them directly, when he made promises, albeit they false promises, they hitched their wagon to him. And to this day, they remain steadfastly loyal to him, which to me, if you are a true blue conservative, if you do want to go on with Donald Trump's agenda, I don't know why they continue to hitch their wagon to someone A, who doesn't really give a damn about them in truth, and B is so torn apart by legal trouble and other personal scandal that he's probably the only Republican who Joe Biden could be. But no one can really step out and challenge him, because they're shut down almost immediately. Trump is that powerful. Yeah, I mean, the Republicans, I think you've seen some movement from some of the leading candidates in the past couple of days, some unprecedented movement really. But, you know, they're very wary of offending that base because of how loyal they are. And the reality is to win the Republican nomination first, they're going to need to win some of those people over. And then if they do did get the Republican nomination, they would desperately need them to be onside enthusiastically in order to get over the hump against Joe Biden. So they're very wary on both fronts. Is any of this legal activity can threaten Donald Trump's ability to actually contest the election? In other words, you know, even if he were found guilty, how long might that take? What sanctions might he face? Well, I mean, constitutionally, this has been well rehearsed at this stage. There really is no constitutional impediment to Donald Trump running for president, even if he is convicted, even if he's in prison. But from a practical point of view, it may make it difficult for him to campaign fully effectively. If these trials do happen, one is the New York trials in March, the documents trials in May, we don't know I have a date for this yet. All of this stuff could make it difficult for him to campaign. But the reality is, the more the legal trouble he gets in, the more popular he becomes with the Republican grassroots. So, you know, really, we're in unprecedented territory, uncharted waters, all those cliches, that's where we are. Yeah. And I mean, it's an retirement really of the way countries are run or people's attitudes towards, you know, government civil service and all that type of stuff. I mean, he is speaking to a lot of people that just don't trust anything, authoritarian. Yeah, I mean, the United States, and I think this trend has become more dominant in recent years, is quite unlike Western Europe, to the extent to which there's an anti-government mindset out there. And, you know, part of that is Donald Trump's appeal, the fact that he thumbs his nose at federal and state authorities, the fact that he's, you know, played fast and loose with taxes, et cetera, et cetera, whereas a lot of people, he had thought, oh my God, Donald Trump's not paying his taxes, that'll be the end of him. In the United States, that's almost like a badge of honor. It's a real cultural difference to how we see things on this side of the Atlantic. Okay, thank you so much. Fascinating stuff as always and all you're busy, so I really do appreciate your time. Take care and hopefully we'll chat again soon. Great stuff. Thanks. Bye bye. That's Larry Donnelly, who's a law lecturer at University of Galway, also a columnist at TheJournal.ie. Let's get to some of your comments coming in this morning. Would it be possible for Highland Radio to get someone for the community, Department of Health to update the community on when we can expect works to begin on our new community hospital for letter Kenny and greater area? Beds closed in existing community hospitals for Hickory renovations and staffing issues, yet the pressure remains on acute services and that is of course only just one part of what we need fully funded or properly funded home care packages and home helps and what have you as well. But that, listen, there's no doubt this community hospital will be of great benefit, you would hope. We are going to actually try and get an official line as to where it is at, what's the status of it. I have asked in the past and there was talk of it beginning and opening in a short number of years, but I want something official rather than just trying to answer that question off the top of my head. A caller backs up the call for toilets at Erichal. They say toilets are needed as soon as is possible. Another caller says, Poland, Hungary and Denmark have announced plans to hold a referendum on the EU migration deal. The Irish people should have their say also by whatever referendum. Can Ireland say no to the second plantation as the calling? I don't understand what you mean by plantation. I get your wider point. I believe we're not paying money to avoid to circumvent our responsibilities that we signed up for. It is, we signed up for this. You're not obliged to. That's why I don't understand the referendums in Poland, Hungary and Denmark. Maybe it's to see if that will be extended. But if we're talking about the same thing, we signed up voluntarily to do our bit in terms of housing, immigrants, migrants, refugees. A caller says, I'm a farmer attending an IT course in Carindona. It is the best thing I was ever at. I've learned so much from Donagall ETB. Well, there you have it straight from a person's experience. They've had a very positive experience. They're at the IT course in Carindona. So if you're a farmer, you should get in contact with ETB. Maybe you'll have as positive an experience as that listener there. The way you talk, Greg, you think everyone was connected to the internet? I don't understand what you mean. We've literally been talking today about 12.6% of the Donagall population not being connected to the internet at all. So I don't understand what you mean by I'm talking like everyone's connected to the internet. Literally, the reason we're talking about it is off the back of a statistics, which shows 12.6% aren't connected to the internet. And we've pointed out and I pointed out that that doesn't even talk to those who have access to the internet, but haven't signed up or you know what I mean. So I don't understand your point. And I'm really open to criticism, by the way. But if you could just explain to me what in my commentary makes me think everyone's connected to the internet, it should be called no doc, as they just send you to casualty anyway, says a disgruntled listener there. Greg, why do we have daily stress on staff in hospitals to provide a reasonable and effective service? Do we not have an equipped logistic system using healthcare economics to work out yearly, an entry exit number and work out an equation to have beds for 5% more than expected rather than working under the expected percentage. A call says ED is flooded with staff, but they're all trainees. It is not qualified consultants at the bedside, but trainees who are not qualified. The disorganization is down to the lack of qualified staff. That's the elephant in the room that no one wants to address. There is no one with decision making power in the department. Well, you see when I talked about how it's certainly want to address it when I was talking earlier on about certain like fractures being able to not to be seen at certain times, that's because the qualified staff aren't there. There are other services that you could be sitting waiting on and no one they're actually able to do that work. So you could be sitting there until someone comes on shift seven or eight hours later. So qualified staff and the staff that are working there working in the evenings and the weekends, that's all out there. And that's part of the big conversation. They want to move from a nine to five, five days a week to a 24 over seven system, which means having the qualified people you talk of there and in great numbers. Okay, Pat McCart joins us now. Hi, Pat. Great to chat to you. How are you keeping? I'm Grant. Greg, how are you? I'm all right. Now, we've been speaking to a few different people over the course of the week talking about instances on the road and driver's behavior and what they've encountered. And you, with four decades by your own account of driving experienced a first recently, Pat. What happened? Greg, the last name is very strange. They left me son up in Newton, Cunningham, and I was driving back. I live in Burt's, and I was driving back on the main dairy that I can erode. There's a place called the Black Bridges, but my outside Burt's village, I was driving along. And the next thing, you know, I'm driving normally, there was cars coming towards me. And the next thing a car actually passed me on the side, you know, where the, you know, where people will be allowed to walk or where the bike. So all I know it was a Black Passat. I can't really give a registration or anything like that. But it was the most unusual thing. But Greg, it was seriously crazy. Had anyone been coming out of the Black Bridge in a car or a bike or walking, they would have got absolutely clean by the car that was passed. And like Greg, as you said, I've been driving for 40 years. I've driven in my America straight, a good part of Europe. And I've never seen driving like that. It was absolutely for a crazy, it was insane. Somebody passing you on the inside of a single track road. I mean, Greg, I've got it, but I got a real shock because I think he beat the horn as he passed me on a jump. The last thing I expected to see, you know, on a main road was somebody passing me totally illegally on the inside. Unbelievable. And you were driving at the correct speed. It's not like they were frustrated because you were driving slow. You were sitting at the speed for that road. Greg, I'm sitting in the normal 50 miles an hour or something like that. You know, I'm not a fast driver, but I'm not a slow driver. And I was just doing normal. But this guy was obviously in a hurry and there was cars coming to, you know, the oncoming traffic. So he couldn't get past me. He obviously wanted me to go considerably faster. So when there was a wee bit of a gap on the road, he obviously decided to go on the inside track, you know. But Greg, I've never seen anything like that. But I'll remember when we found, you know, the traffic out there at Newton, they saw somebody passing going on to the other side of the road to pass somebody out. But, you know, but Greg, that, you know, I'd have to say this road between Darien and McKinney, it's become extremely busy, particularly at peak times. And it's like a race track because it really should be a dual carriageway. But some of it's insane, Greg, you know, considering the fact that in Monday two people lost their lives and all the people are critically ill than that clonus, I just thought to myself, this is absolutely insane. And the bad manners or whatever it is that you would call that in regard to, I know, other road users, I don't know. I just thought it was jealous. I thought, good God, I'm in my 60s, finally seeing something I've never seen before. I indeed. And I would make you wonder what would it take to change driver behaviour because, you know, obviously the guards and road safety groups are constantly putting information out there. And as you say, that horrendous and terribly sad reminder of the dangers on our roads, you think this would be enough for people to say, like it's just such a blatantly dangerous thing to do. Do you know, this is not like misjudging and overtaking manoeuvres, things that maybe you can happen by accident or whatever. This is someone recklessly undertaking you. And you know, as you were describing the possibility of someone pulling out pads, you know, if they try to avoid them, they were taking you out as well or whatever it might be, it could have been horrendous. Yeah. Yeah. No, Greg, by the way, you have the neon hair there. It was not sort of accidental. This was very much delivered. You know, they had the choice to wait behind me and wait till the cars would pass and pass me in the legal, you know, the right hand way. And they cut inside. And I had there been anybody there. There were, as far as I know, there was possibly three young fellas, maybe four in the car. I presumably thought it was funny or, you know, watch me type thing. Greg, I really genuinely don't know. But all I'm saying is I've been driving for more than 40 years and last night it was the first. By the way, I've never seen anybody do that before either. I've had that experience once going up Lurgy Brake and I was doing the speed limit and or slightly under and someone went up the inside on the slow lane, so to speak. But I've never seen it in a regular road. But funny you should say, Pat, because the texture says, Greg, exact same thing happened to me on that very road. And it happened to my friend also. Apparently, this is a regular occurrence. It is shocking. So it might be your first, Pat, but it's not the first time people have seen it on that road. And we can't even use the word accident. I was going to say it's an accident waiting to happen. But that wouldn't be an accident. That would be an act of reckless driving, causing a road traffic collision. And God knows the consequences that it might be. Three or four people in that car, another car pulling out of the side road, you and your car. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Had a car pulled out of the side road. You know, I don't know how much time this get due to our Greg, let's get this guy pulled out. I was traveling at some speed. He literally he was gone on the space of a couple of seconds. So I presume that them has issued with me that I wasn't going fast enough for him. And I was getting on his way. But you know, the number of people who have been killed on our roads, Donny Gullis and atrocious record for car accidents and road deaths. And you know, I've somebody thinks this is funny. And you know, it's, you know, look at, you know, the old deutery driver out there. I was doing legally. Yeah. I would, I would presume was doing 50, 55 miles an hour, which is a regular speed in that road. But this guy, I would say was easily doing 75 80. Yeah. And as well as that too, Pat, I mean, you've got the experience behind you. But for others, it's actually really quite an intimidating thing to do to to a driver. But you see it all the time. I'd be going over the lock salt road. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it. Others might and people fly up that road and overtake you. You don't even know that they come out of nowhere and you think my word, you know, they're on a death mission, it seems. But anyway, Pat, listen, thank you for making us aware of it and accepting our invite to come on and talk about it. As I say, it's as you say, sorry, 40 years on the road. First time you've experienced hopefully the last but as you say to your words, not mine, you're in your sixties and you saw something for the first time. Hope I wish it was a bit more positive. That's all. All right, Pat, thanks so much. Thank you. Best wishes to you and yours. Pat McCarty there. Who's a regular guest on this show. Passport, says a listener. I found my passport was out of date five days before my nephew's wedding. I went online for an application. I went into the traumatizing fast track lottery to continue all input information all over again and again, no slots available. And when one was available, it was too late. It's done my head in. I contacted the passport office continuously by phone. I traveled to Dublin for a flight I booked, told I could not get on even though I had four other means of official identification and continuous conversation with passports, told different answers. Eventually I got an answer that Friday while in the post office told it may be printed by Friday evening rang at 20 past four in the afternoon. No answer. I went to a passport kiosk and asked where I could get my passport. If it is printed said go to the room down the corridor. They'll tell you I went down to it to be told very obnoxiously that it wasn't printed. I did contact TDs including me home Martin but to no avail received the passport the Tuesday after the wedding. So I missed the wedding furiously. I emailed various government TDs about a lack of training in their own systems. Why is the urgent slot system a lottery not a queuing system? Why does it take too long to produce a passport? I wrote to TDs about this with positive improvements, not one reply from a TV TD. And that's one person's experience. They missed the wedding heartbreaking. If you were trying to use other forms of ID it sounds like it might have been over in Britain. I don't know what the options were. You couldn't have organized that or sorted that out but be that as it may. You missed the wedding which is regrettable. And then we had another caller earlier on and maybe this is the lottery of it. They simple application applied for a passport renewal on a Sunday and they received it in the post on the Tuesday. So there you go different people, different experience. I'm sorry you missed the wedding. It must be heartbreaking. You only sort of get to see that once with that person anyway. OK listen thank you very much for that. Right just to remind you that come along and say hello to we are going to be outside Kavanaugh's Supervalue tomorrow between 9 and 12 for the 9th of the noon show on the road. But down there is part of the Marathon Dunlop Festival. 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