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In response to a question from Councillor Frank McBrarty, the local authority says costs the mind as there is a requirement to facilitate members and staff to join meetings remotely and more recently also streaming the meetings live on Facebook, both of which the council says requires significant technical setup and operation during the court of meetings. In addition, given the size of the meeting area arising from requirements to comply with social distancing rules, the council says there was a need to put in place an amplification system. At present, the all-in cost of a meeting in the Oral Leisure Centre is approximately 3,000 Euro. Significant costs are also said to be incurred in relation to adjourned meetings given the setup required in advance. Concerns have been expressed over the number of planning enforcement notices being issued in Johnny Gull. There are currently 1,198 outstanding enforcement notices, 291 of them in Latter-Kennie, 292 in Achaun and 257 in Lenties. The remaining notices have been issued in other municipal districts. Councillor Jerry McMonagall says given the high number of enforcement notices, extra resources are needed to deal with them. I've asked the chief executive to look at ways and means that we can get this down or prevent enforcement orders having to be used, i.e. educate people better about the planning regulations but if need be that we need to get extra staff and resources for our planning department which is under extreme pressure at the minute. It's expected a design team will be appointed in September to commence the design stage of the new Cleary Centre in Donegal Town. 100,000 Euro in capital funding has been allocated to progress the design. The new facility will provide day services for adults with intellectual disabilities from 18 years up across South Donegal. The HSE says it will continue to engage with service users and their families at each stage of the process. A motorist has been arrested after being caught drug driving in the Latter-Kennie area. Last evening, Gardie from the Latter-Kennie Roads Police Unit detected a vehicle driving at 155 kilometres an hour in a 100 kilometre in our zone. The vehicle was subsequently stopped and the driver tested positive for cocaine and cannabis. Gardie, say court proceedings will follow their urging motorists once again to slow down, never to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs and to always make responsible decisions behind the wheel. A Donegal councillor is demanding that more Gardie resources are made available in border villages across the county. Donegal councillor is to write to Gardie Commissioner Drew Harris asking for more resources to be made available in Donegal, particularly in border areas. Councillor Terry Croson made the call on the back of recent news that Gardie are to be relocated from Moff to Bridgend. Councillor Croson says the resources issue is an important one. Because the proximity of border areas to the North of Ireland, that has its own issues in terms of cross-border crime, etc, the movement of drugs cross border, I think it is absolutely essential that there is enough manpower and enough resources available to the guides in those areas. A number of retailers in the county are benefit from an online retail scheme. 9.3 million euro in grants has been approved for projects across Ireland to enable businesses enhance their online capability and presence. Thirteen Donegal outlets are to receive funding, including Michael Hennies, Evolve, Foy and Company, Michael Murphy Sports and The Cope. And two people have died in a light air crash crash in County Down. It happened at Newton Arts Airport last night, home to the Ulster Flying Club. James Gould is at the scene. Police said they've received a report at 20 past eight that a light aircraft had crashed at the airport. Emergency services attended the crash site but it was confirmed this morning that two people were pronounced dead at the scene. With very few details at the minute, it's unclear if the victims were part of the Ulster Flying Club. A small police presence remains at the scene here with access to the airport cordoned off to the public. 9 to 12 just light variable breezes. Thursday we'll see a mix of clouds and some sunny spells, mostly dry but some well-scattered showers occurring, highest temperatures tomorrow, again hitting 15 to 19 degrees Celsius in mostly light northerly or variable breezes. That's Island Radio News. We're back with news again at 11 o'clock. Until then, from the news team, good morning. Letter Kenny. Reposing at his late residence from 12 noon today until 9 o'clock with Rosary. 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This morning, my family and I visited the Kinnaker Beach about 11 a.m. So this was yesterday. They went along for a nice swim on full tide. As we walked down to the beach, there was a tent and a car parked at a Donegal Ridge just on the beach. And I would think the occupants camped there overnight. Walking back though, we noticed that the tent and the car, they were gone. But the rubbish left behind was a total disgrace. Bottles, cans, wipes, assorted plastic packaging and the remnants of a fire on an already eroded dune. We were so upset by this site that my husband went to the car and returned and filled a false supermarket bag with their rubbish and disposed of it responsibly. Is this the message of cleaning up after you still not getting through in homes and schools? This is the height of our holiday season. And if I was a visitor, I certainly wouldn't like to be spreading my rug or towel near that and letting my children play amongst it. Shame on those people who did that. Best wishes coming in from Eileen. Yeah, indeed, Eileen. It makes no sense. It really doesn't. It is easy to gather up your stuff. You just put it in your bin at home or wherever you put your normal waste. But to leave it lying on the beach, I saw some images of a beach. I think it was in County Dublin. I don't want to do the county to service, but obviously it was really, really busy one day. And there was a before picture of loads of people enjoying themselves on the beach. And it looked wonderful. And the after picture when everyone had left and the beach was an absolute disgrace, people leaving rubbish behind them. And people might say, well, where do you, you know, there's not enough places on the beach to dump your rubbish or what have you, but look at, you know, you can put it into a bag and take it home with you. It's just respecting yourself, primarily your country and those around you. But unfortunately, it doesn't happen all the time. 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Right, okay, so that's their take on it. Let's get the take off. Patricia's on her way to work, so I'll go to Patricia first if that's okay. Good morning, Patricia. Good morning, Greg. You on the Facebook don't see this as entirely bad news? No, well, I think anybody relying on the banks these days are on a sad road, I think, because a few years back, I'm based in Greencastle. So the nearest bank to us would have been Mobile and we had three banks there. We had all three main banks and they removed all three of them. So this whole east side of Anishoan has had no banks at all for a number of years. Our nearest bank would be Karnedona, so now they're removing that and we would have to go to Lerrickeni to deal with anything with cash. So back when they took it out of Mobile, I did all my transactions through the post office here in Greencastle. And it's a fantastic facility we have. It's very efficient. Deals with numerous customers every day for a post office that was under threat, less than 10 years ago. He's absolutely thriving now and I know it's extra work for him, but it doesn't seem to faze him at all. He's glad of it. So in a way, you're saying you're at the other side of this. You've seen the banks locally close. You've seen the local post office step up to the mark and it sounds like you're saying for the better? Yes, well, absolutely. I find it more convenient for me. The other is the post office do is more convenient. I can go there at lunch hour. He only takes a half hour break. So what it fits in with any lunch hour you have, he works on a Saturday morning. He works to half five in the evening. So yeah, to me, it makes more sense. I know people are upset that the banks are not providing a service, but they never really did, did they? They're always looking after themselves. So look after the people that are looking after you. And I say more people should go to the post office and support them. All right, Patricia, listen. Have a great day. Thanks for your time this morning. Patricia Gill there. Right, our next guest is Pierce Doherty, Finance spokesperson for Sinn Fein. Good morning, Pierce. Thanks for joining us. Good morning to you. All right, what's your initial reaction? I mean, that's Patricia's experience and they've been through this. There's no threat to the local bank because they're already been closed. But what's your overview of this decision by AIB? And I would say perhaps maybe this is the start of a general direction of traffic. Yeah, look, I think this is a terrible decision by AIB. I think it's terrible that they're doing this in the middle of a retail banking review, which AIB is part of. There's a whole discussion. We've been calling for it for quite a while now. The unions, those represented that working in the banks have been calling it to look at the future of banking in Ireland. That's underway. And AIB decided to pull the pin on basic services in a third of their facilities in the middle of this. It's not acceptable in my view. We're not talking about a private-for-profit entity. Like there's companies that withdraw from our communities and there's nothing we can do really about it, but this is state-owned. This is majority shareholding. It's in the state and the reason that is because over 20 billion Euro of taxpayers' money was pumped into that bank, much of it not being returned to the taxpayer yet. So there is an issue here where the Minister for Finance should intervene, can intervene, and in my view, given the scale of what has been proposed, should make his views known too. If you were Minister for Finance and this decision was made without consulting you, would you be upset about that? I mean, surely he should have been consulted before such a... And clearly it was going to be a controversial decision. Surely there should have been consultation before that decision was made. Yeah, well, there's what's there between the Department and the Minister and the banks where he has shareholdings and is what's called a framework agreement. So if certain things above a certain level are happening, then the Minister needs to be consulted on. In some cases, the Minister needs to approve of it. And one of these issues, I would argue that this falls under this because it impacts on the reputational damage and the impact on customers across the state, given the size and scale of this year. We're not, we would never suggest, and as Minister of Finance, I wouldn't be looking at having powers to intervene in relation to the day-to-day operations of a bank. But when a bank decides to withdraw cash services from a third of its locations, like if you take this down to it, you know, in Donegal now, if you've coined or if you want to go to an AIB branch in Donegal to withdraw euros or to large euros, and then the only place, the only two places in Donegal are in Donegal Town and in Ladder, Kenny. And that's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous in this day and age. What makes it worse is actually that they're removing the ATM machines from the actual banks that they were drawing the cash. Like why in under God are they doing that? You know, the argument that they'll have in terms of cash facilities is they want to reduce the level of staff in these branches. But Greg, we've seen the playbook here. Bank of Ireland have done this already. They've done this a couple of years ago. They withdrew cash facilities in a number of their branches to put out a nice statement saying, this is enhancing in an investment into our services. You can go to the post office and you can go to the post office and people should be using the post office. There's over 900 branches. They'll tell us that you can access cash and lodge cash in. And that's fine. And they told us this was investment. What happened a year and a half later? They closed down 88 of those branches. The branches that they turned into cashless, they're closed now in my own community here in Godore and in other communities. Branches that went cashless a couple of years ago now have the key turned in them. They're lying empty. They've got a for sale sign above their door. And that's unfortunately the route of travel we see in terms of these banks. So I think there is a serious issue here. It's not just for customers, but also for businesses and for community groups. And we know that one of the things when businesses are located in communities to look at basic banking services. And unfortunately now, in a lot, a lot of our towns and a lot, a lot of our villages, there is no basic banking services that businesses look to, which are the night safes. They able to go in with coinage that you can go in for coinage in terms of your post office, but it's limited to a certain amount. And to remove the ATMs is a huge issue. I mentioned yesterday on the news on Highland Radio, we ran in the last fortnight a very successful not-for-profit music festival where thousands of people attend here. And one of the things we do every year is we contact the banks to make sure that their ATMs are full. And that happens right across the board when you're trying to bring people in for festivals or for different events. And it's the same for businesses if they're operating a big event. Now they're talking about withdrawing these ATMs. And I think it's a disgraceful decision, one that has to be resisted and one that the Minister for Finance as a shareholder in that bank that owns 70% of that bank on behalf of Irish people needs to speak up. But can you live with the banks going cashless but the red line is the ATM machines? No, I think there has to be a basic level of services in society. Now the banks, they did the same thing. Bank of Ireland did the same thing. They said, oh look, there's less people coming through our branches. And that's why they took a decision last October to close 88 of them. We had COVID-19. People were encouraged not to go into public places and people were encouraged to stay away from the branches indeed during some of the period that were closed. AIB are saying the same thing. They're saying there's less demand in terms of our coinage and cash and our facilities again using the period during COVID. Now Greg, I recognise that people are moving. I do my banking online in a large amount of way. But even the central bank of Ireland recognise that cash is going to be a part and it's going to be a crucial part of our economy. Into the future and will also help in terms of dealing with social inclusion and people who simply won't be young and old. And it's not just elderly and we shouldn't pigeonhole elderly into that the fact that they can't use the apps or online. Many of them can. Many of them are far more comfortable than younger people doing it. But there are people there from different age groups who simply are uncomfortable and are not happy with doing it. And also- No visitors as well. I mean visitors to all parts of the world as well. I think it's particularly unfair for those who move to AIB because of Ulster Bank exit in the market as well. You know, they went and they would have looked at the charges and the services and the branches and they might have said, right, well, I want to be able to go into a branch. I want to be able to deal in cash. So Revolut's out for me or some of the other cashers out. And they went, right, I'll go to AIB. They've gone through that home rigmarole and now they're being lumped with this. I think that's really unfair. They could have deferred this or flagged it in advance or something. I really feel for those people. I want to bring you back in, of course, Piers. But George Starrett is the Donegal Farm Business Chairman with the IFA, you know, and I know George Piers has hit on a lot of the points maybe you wish to raise. But just talk to me from your perspective, your member's perspective, why this is a bad move. And just unmute yourself there, George. Good man, thank you. Right, yeah. Thanks. Well, I suppose myself, I was an Ulster Bank member and just have to move into AIB. And Barbara Faiz went up the road, right off I was Ulster Bank and I moved around a couple of branches. And now sort of Barbara Faiz moving to have worked through the post office for a good few years at the moment. And now I'm working through AIB down there. And with the five branches and Donegal, and more or less, as I said, more or less once they go cashless, they want to close those branches, as I said. And as again, Rue Ireland's hit, like in the farming game, we're getting hit from all sides to Rue with more than just the banking sector. And cash machines going, as Pierre said too, and services and everything we get. It's not, I suppose, state-owned as AIB, a state-owned, 70% through the Irish Strategic Investment Fund. And I think the minister got involved in an oversight in the council, economic and emergency. And they have wrote to Bank of Ireland, wrote to the minister and all that now. And what would come back? We don't get involved in commercial decisions. But I think now they should be able to get involved in commercial decisions here because this is now in everybody and they have a fair, they've the main shareholder in that bank. Competitions going, I suppose there, and I have the post offices, like they've got a good bit of money there, and work with Castle Thun there, for Ola McBride, who did very well there. She's the treasurer of the Postmasters Union. And credit unions, now we're working with them, we're starting to, they're not just up to speed yet, but they're starting to come in. And I think the services that all have to come in to get the competition going and the elderly and vulnerable people, like having to move, go miles to get services, whenever they can just get stuff locally. Especially people changing now, things can happen online. If you start moving stuff, the bank, I heard of it, just people getting their accounts froze because moving from Ulster onto AAB and stuff like that. And what that happens, where do you go, set phone call and all that sort of? Do you go to your local branch? Did you go to get this sorted and all that? All that stuff has to come online. Thank you, Greg. No, no, listen, thank you for your contribution, George. I really appreciate this morning. I do. Excuse me. Pierce, between the jigs and the reels, you know, we've seen it at the people shopping online. Even, I never thought I'd see self-service tills in parts of the county that you do see them in now. You know, I feel for those going around pubs and what have you sell in the bingo for the local GEA club because, you know, very few people have cash. They're tapping or they're using their card. A lot of people feel that we are being coaxed or herded into a cashless society. Do you subscribe to that? Is it part of, you know, move maybe beyond our shores to move away from cash? And if that is the case, what's the motivation? Well, first of all, the pandemic turbocharged or, you know, that type of transition for a lot of people. There's no doubt about it. Just like it did a lot of things like we're doing this over Zoom, Greg. You know, so that it's had its impacts. And some people are very comfortable with that. That's fine. But, you know, you have to go to the central bank again. The central bank are very clear. Cash is going to be a part of our society. It's part of social inclusion. Not everybody is happy with the credit cards. I was part of the conversation in relation to the forum on the future of banking. And one of the points I made at the meeting, Greg, is see unless the state can get a hold handle on the fraud that has taken place. Like how many times did we get these text messages out there? If this continues at this scale, you know, people will not be familiar or will not be as confident doing online transactions because you're just not sure anymore whether this is a safe transaction. Is this genuine? Is this real? And, you know, you just want to deal in cash. And there's a danger in all of this here for rural communities, Greg, because like people, you know, you can you lodge cash in and post. You can go to your credit union and I would encourage these kind of entities to be used and set up your accounts there and all of that. But people are also, we know, they don't move from bank to bank. And that's the problem. So people will hold cash under the mattress or in the cupboards. And it makes them vulnerable in terms of crime as well. So like, there are really, really big issues here where we need to have a discussion. That's what the future of banking is supposed to be about. About what type of service do we expect to have in terms of society? And that's why I and Sinn Fein have said very clearly in terms of the shareholdings that we have in the banks. We shouldn't be selling AIB shareholdings because AIB should be a state-owned bank and it should provide a basic service to communities. And, you know, this is just going to continue. In my view, you're going to have a situation where you have to travel further to do cash transactions or look at what AIB are doing in the last number of weeks and you'll see some prominent people in Donegal posting stuff on social media. Anybody who's had a mortgage who has had it restructured. So these are people who are not in arrears. These are people who might have missed a payment, you know, during a period of hardship or during the recession and are caught up paying their mortgage in full. But because it was restructured at that time, it's called an MPE and AIB are selling them all off to vulture funds. So there really needs to be a question about what are we getting back from a state-owned bank when we put our money in there, when we pay our fees, when we take out loans and pay big interest? These are banks that are making a billion euro profit, remember? And then if we miss a payment, are we saying right in the future that loan that underpins our house is going to a vulture and that we can't use cash, that the branches are likely to be, more branches are likely to be closed down in the future? And that's the discussion we have. Can you refer to this though, because... Yeah, I can't, do you think he can though, or if there's a will there? Because unfortunately, we have these conversations and people make very good points and strong arguments, but the decisions get made anyway. And probably in 2023, the same AIB, ARB branches we're talking about probably will close because what are they going to be doing, selling financial services or something? What else is their function? These decisions, we hoff and we puff, but eventually they just roll over us, we have to take it. And we heard from Patricia earlier on, that people in big swathes of Donegal have been through this already, they know what's coming. Absolutely, and I heard Patricia's points and it scared it nearly, kind of like what do you expect from the banks? And I'm at that myself, but there is a difference here, and that's what I said in the first comments, is this bank is owned by the state. The Minister for Finance is the majority shareholder. Every single director that comes up at the AGM cannot be reappointed, unless it is the Minister for Finance agrees to reappoint them. Remember, this also, Greg, is a bank that just was issued with the biggest ever fine in the history of the state, 83 million euro for the fact that it took hundreds of thousands, actually millions of euro, out of people's accounts, wrongly under the tracker mortgage scandal and actually took homes from people as well, repossessed homes from people that weren't entitled to it. So there is, look, as I said, if I were Minister of Finance, I wouldn't be intervening in the day-to-day operations of the bank, but if I were Minister of Finance and I heard this announcement without being consulted and didn't approve of it, I would be saying to the director of AIB, I want to see you, and I would be saying, what are you at? We're in the middle of a retail review, we're having a discussion of the future of banking. Pull your horns in. This announcement should not go ahead in October, and if it does, it's against the interests of your larger shareholder, which is the people of Ireland, and therefore I can't subscribe to it. That's what I would be saying and having a proper conversation then of what basic banking service is worth to provide. Finally, just a couple of questions. So to reiterate the first one, a lot of people believe this is part of a move to remove cash about government's control of people, and there's so many people texting it, you know, I wouldn't ignore it anyway, but I just want to tease that out with you very briefly. Let me just make it clear in relation to this here. AIB's decision, is about, in my view, only one thing, and that is maximum the profits of AIB. By removing cash, they remove people. By removing cash and people from their branches, they allow themselves to close that branch in the future. I can remember having a discussion with the former, it's not just the recent former CEO of one of the main banks, but quite a number of years ago, and they were saying if they were to establish a bank in Ireland, if they were to do it from scratch today, they wouldn't have any branches, none whatsoever, and that's the direction where they're going in, because they're competing with the likes of Google and Amazon and all these that are now offering cash services and so on and so forth, which have no presence whatsoever, or Revolute, as you mentioned, which has no presence and doesn't even come under the ombudsman here in Ireland. You can't make a complaint in Ireland against them. They have an Irish eye ban. Yes, that's, and they've turned into a bank, but again, they don't fall under the services, but they have no physical presence. So this is where AIB and other banks want to go to. And the decision here is that if these were private companies, there's nothing really we could do about it, but they're not private companies, and that's where the minister needs to intervene and say that. Very finely, just at the start of the program, we were talking about a newspaper article, 5,000 euro TDs are receiving for their summer break for on-vouch travel and expenses. And I said, wouldn't it be nice if TDs took a stand and said, look, with everything that's going on, we're not going to be using this money, we'll not take it. So it would be remiss of me not to say the same thing to you. Are you taking it? Is your party taking it? And if so, why? Yeah, well, first of all, I will be traveling up to Dublin as I was last week and I will be again during the summer period. As you know, the budget is an important part in my schedule, so all of that kind of work gets done during the summer and gets done online and some in presence. But let me be clear about this here in terms of travel. Travel is, travel has to be paid back unless you have traveled to Lesterhouse and rightly so. You have to travel to Lesterhouse and you have to clock in and if you haven't clocked in that amount of times then the payment that you get is paid back. So the way that they work at Greg is that there's a certain amount of payment based on the distance that you are from Lesterhouse and they pay that out monthly. So it's kind of even but you have to then give it back if you haven't clocked in. So a lot of this 5,000 for TDs will end up being refunded then? If they haven't traveled to Lesterhouse absolutely that's the situation. Like last year I think I had to refund I think I missed one day I got COVID in the last two weeks of December so I missed the last second weeks because I was obviously isolating I had COVID and but at that stage I had already nearly done all the days that I had to clock in I would have done more than would have been expected if it wasn't for COVID but because I missed those last two weeks I refunded the money for those weeks. All right. Okay listen thanks for that I appreciate it good morning to you. Thanks a million take care. Pierce Dougharty there and Jermid Dougharty joins us now. Good morning Jermid what do you think of this latest I suppose attack on cash a lot of people see it as? Good morning Greg well it's just like before I'm sitting now in my business on Man's Beep and Dorn I had a bank next door to me and I had a bank across the road to me 10 years ago now both are closed and we were banking in Bali Shannon and it was causing problems in Bali Shannon because your place was busy and then they started reducing the counter staff so you kind of felt that they didn't want you coming in with cash and now if I want to bank cash which I have to do on a regular basis as does thankfully most of the business is Dorn or Bali Shannon or even as far as can knock I got to go to Dornigal Town which is ridiculous you know it's it's it's by the time you get out parking I mean you're talking you want an hour and a half out of your day I think you know well there's there's all sorts of problems with it I mean there's a security issue I mean they say you can go to the post office but we and the post office in Dorn is is extremely busy now with we have a lot of Ukrainians staying in the town and they seem to use the post office not a lot and on several occasions I've gone to use the post office and the queue was out the door so this is putting more pressure on the business and plus the 5,000 limit is you know the post office isn't geared up for this kind of business it doesn't have the infrastructure for it and it just complicates matters could the local post office be enhanced to fill the gap German but you look at that when will that be yeah you know they only get X amount all for for providing the service you know and the building and I mean why should a bank close to put the pressure on the post office because this is you know just this is going to be a closure because they've done the same in Dorn they said oh we reduced we removed the cash and then the next thing there was announcement because of lack of use we're going to close the branches of course there's a lack of use there was no reason to win there you know but I mean it's it's if I there's a big problem as well a lot of small businesses wouldn't have credit card facilities it's too expensive for them they might help you do in the summer they might have a need for but the charges and the expense added on to have a credit card facility and the internet and all that goes with it it doesn't it's not viable for them so what are they going to do yeah I mean it's going to be and I think they realize and they have to have the big signs up at the door or at the front doors is you know ironically there is a lot of people that don't carry cash I mean do you have any idea German with your job with your business sorry what is the what is the sort of digital payments versus cash payments and yeah in the in the bank far we haven't been doing it's about 57 to 50 to 60 percent card top yeah and so 40 percent cash yeah but that that has with the covert and that that has accelerated it would have been about 45 percent before covert yeah and a lot of younger people particularly I think and this is not an aegis thing they're tapping with their phones because you see it you go up to a bar now and there's a line of about eight people with their phone ads you know ready to go yeah oh yeah but it's but what happens when the internet breaks down oh I've seen it it's a nightmare you know or your credit card machine my credit card machine went down over a weekend it took us five days to get a replacement for us you know and at the same time the cash machines in the door they get you know they get rattled at the weekend and they run out of money so I mean we're really just been really really bad service in regards to what banks are doing because I don't think you made the point too is you know we've been good to the banks and not by choice that decision was made on our behalf and it's a one-way street where the banks you know absorb a little bit of loss you know as as pierced off had you mentioned they're making billions absorb a bit of a loss and provide these services in the more rural parts of the country as part of your service there's the phone lines going again I thought after a week they'd be back working again but the answer I've lost you German have I last call last orders nope gone all right German Daugherty thank you very much indeed he's the owner of the bank bar in Bandorn all right that's where we have to leave it for now because we are going to take a break looking for the summer sporty look from the best brands like Nike Adidas and Under Armour Brian McCormick sports and leisure has your summer look Nike pro tees and vest tops with matching shorts Nike mid-layer quarter zips with women's tights in many different lengths Under Armour t-shirts with matching bicycle length shorts layered with new woven jackets and quarter zip tops look the part play the part in store or online click and collect on bmcsports.ie beat the cost of brexit with no customs charges do you need a UK address for your limited company or personal use space hub in Derry can 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poor young children into it if you haven't enjoyed it definitely not what was your pathway into acting Derek well I started my first aspiration that I got was when I went to see the movie Oliver yes way way way back and Mark Lester who played Oliver happened to be the same age as myself and I just wanted to be Mark Lester I wanted to be Oliver so I went home to my mom and told her I wanted to be an actor and she sent me to the Brendan Smith Theatre Academy acting school drama school and I went on from there to the focus theatre when I got older and then I just drifted into it was it all consuming for you Derek like were you able to study other things as well or were you saying no I'm actually going to be when I'm an actor yeah I focused mainly on being an actor yeah at the time much to the annoyance of my parents yeah but they obviously supported you they did indeed as we tend to don't we and in terms of getting involved then in local productions and all that kind of stuff is that important to you yeah I got involved in a Shakespearean company that toured schools for which with whatever play was on the curriculum that year we toured schools and I got involved in a lot of children shows touring schools and then I got into theatre I was at played in the gay theatre I got into equas in the gay theatre in my very early years and played in the the old Oscar theatre and basically I've done most theatres in Ireland now you know and I've done a lot of touring and a lot of travelling yeah brilliant and you know I was at a recent show put on by a local school and it was just transition year students yeah you know and they did brilliant and also what we see in this on this program all the time and others will see it too is you know how quickly children can come on in terms of music we've got amazing music teachers and arts teachers and they do fantastic work so if you give them the chance and the opportunities they're like sponges aren't they it's amazing what young people can achieve so quickly and I've seen that firsthand myself like I've seen really really shy when I was teaching last year in Russia's community school in Dunlop and I've seen firsthand children coming in really really shy and after about a week of nurturing they're volunteering themselves for improv sessions and you know it was really really good do you think the parents and guardians might have to take a lead on this to sort of get them involved in acting because you know I think a lot of them why a lot of younger people now either want to be a YouTuber because it's just instant and you're streaming and then you're a YouTuber and we know clearly that's not how it works or an influencer do you know maybe so I'm thinking of you know that moment of inspiration that put you on your path I just wonder if it's some fellow screaming at a computer game on YouTube you know I wasn't beating them I get you yeah yeah absolutely yeah well I do think yeah the parents can guide to a certain point you know but every parent wants their child to be confident and believe in themselves and that also like this course that I'm giving this summer camp it's not like school it's like I mean they spend enough time at school it's more fun and also you're a wee bit more interesting than some teachers obviously because you are on the TV you know so that is also another yeah it's all about fun and it's about helping them express themselves not teaching them how to express themselves but helping them to express themselves which is also good when it comes to exams because if they have self-belief they'll have more confidence I've seen it myself yeah the confidence in your head it's easy to put it down on paper so it's like and even children that don't have aspirations of going into the theatre it's also it's a great assertiveness course 100% and I've seen how even just if it's singing publicly or talking publicly if it's done in the right way with the right supports like you're doing you can just see the young person grow yeah absolutely you know any mental barriers they might have get broken down and they're able to mature into you know yeah often the hugely you know talented public performing people that they can beat now the summer camp is taking place in the in the Christchurch parochial hall in Boncran that's it it's the three weeks and it's from August the 8th so it runs pretty much for for from August the 8th to the end of the month and it runs on Mondays to Fridays is that right that's right yeah there are three each course is a week so it's from the 8th to the 12th and over that over that day over each day there will be three classes now I don't like using the term classes but it sounds too much like school but there'll be three groups six to nine year olds 10 to 14 and 15 to 18 and their course will be over a week so then the following two weeks are for two different groups of people so yeah the first week six to nines is it yeah second week then no no no the first first class is six to nine understood okay I get you yeah you were trying to make this clear and I'm doing everything I can to make it more complicated so there's three sessions there's three sessions each day for three different age categories exactly yeah we got yeah see all right but the categories the age categories are six to nine 10 to 14 and 15 to 18 and I'm presuming these in this process you see especially over quite a prolonged period of time you see the development yes everyone at different levels not everyone's going to come out singing and dancing and be able to of course yeah yeah you see what's good growth for each individual every every child will get something out of it will take something out of it you know right okay so the drama summer camp led by Mrs. Brown's boys Derek Redden taking place in Boncranna it's in the Christchurch parochial hall it runs for three weeks from August the eighth it's Mondays to Friday and it's suitable for age groups of six to nine 10 to 14 15 to 18 and there must be huge demand on on on places do you see yeah I across the board I hope yeah I have quite a few at the moment there there's a lot of slots booked up there are only 10 per class ah right okay so you know I I decided to keep it down to 10 because I want to give individual attention to each child so nobody gets left behind or nobody gets left out you know so basically there are 10 per class and yeah now we're not criticising school because schools are a great place but I don't think anyone under 18 or over 18 wants to be in the school in summer this is about fun and enjoying yourself and that's your focus and your emphasis it is and it's totally different than school okay how's the gig going with mrs browns boys great we just finished our tour we finished a 40-day tour in the UK on Sunday there we finished in Edinburgh what's that like 40 days on the road ah I know it can be fun and you work with great people but you know yeah this limit isn't it I have to I have to say that this particular tour that we've just finished was the best tour we've ever done it was great yeah and do you gauge that by the feedback from the audience or the the energy on the stage or how do you judge success the feedback is always there we saw the tour was sold out for a start which was great but the the thing about this tour is that the audience had their tickets two years ago they bought their tickets two years ago it was postponed for till 2021 then it was postponed till 2022 so they've been waiting two years to see the show and we've been waiting two years to do it so everybody was really happy and buzzing you know did you have any problem with no shows because I know some in this country it's just maybe people's plans had changed or whatever that there was some patches of empty seats on a show of your scale I don't think that was much a problem yeah no I didn't notice on on twitter and on facebook a lot of people offering tickets to other people because they couldn't make it this time round but there there were a few scattered here and their empty seats but it was sold out of course not it was officially sold out obviously yeah but like anything and I think you know from some some of the comedians that we were playing up here is that the bigger the crowd the better and they sold the place out but because of postponements anyway hopefully that's a thing of the past now right how do people getting touched with you Derrick to to book up these slots okay if they get in touch by email it's derrick redden art d-e-r-e-k or e-w-d-i-n a-r-t at gmail.com okay and we'll retain that info here for anyone who wants to contact us because another our number it's in the Christ Church Procure Hall in Boncranna it's for three weeks in August from the 8th it runs Mondays to Fridays and I love this because not everyone's involved in sport you know yeah a lot of our focus in sports camps kayaking and that's fantastic exactly that's not for everyone and I think this will tick a lot of boxes for a lot of people as well all right and any children contact Derrick and he will I'm sure sort you out thank you so much for joining us and thank you for having me it's been a pleasure all right thanks Derrick cheers okay thanks once again to Derrick it is 11 o'clock another hour of the program to come this Wednesday but let's take a news update and say good morning now to Michaela Clark thanks Greg good morning it's a merit that it costs Donegal County Council around 3,000 euro to hold a meeting in the Oro Laser Center in letter Kenny full council meetings have been held in the facility since May 2020 to comply with social distancing regulations A former Cronation Street actor is being investigated after he lit a bonfire on the 11th night in County Tarouan Charlie Lawson who played Jim McDonald was pictured lighting a bonfire in five mile town the Environment Agency in Northern Ireland says it is now investigating The European Commission will 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challenges and strict diets are often staples of the popular clips you know it's not TikTok this is just the latest platform really I suppose where you know it's somewhat unregulated and kind of undoes the positive health message that the likes of the HSC and others would try and get across Neve or Binsky joins us on the programme now nutritionist and intuitive eating cancer thanks very much Shet Neve thanks so much for having me it's great to have you with us right okay as I say you know this trend will come and go like they all do but it I think really it's it's the messaging that the unregulated messaging on on social media it's always going to be a problem until we get our heads around it yeah absolutely I think that there's so much misinformation especially on social media and it can be very damaging for you know early teens people that are in early adulthood and as we all know in our early teens we're quite impressionable and we can especially in today's day and age young people really look up to the likes of very popular influencers people with huge followings but unfortunately these people often don't have qualifications or backgrounds and health and nutrition and are pushing out quite dangerous messaging around food and perhaps messaging they don't even follow themselves absolutely I mean when we look at the what I eat in a day trend we're only seeing a snippet of someone's life right and we don't see anything behind the scenes so for example recently I saw one where a breakfast was a glass of water with a squeeze of lemon juice now that's not a meal and it shouldn't be portrayed as a meal but we don't know if that person is eating more behind the scenes which often happens in the case of people when people are eating very little they tend to them I'd say binge but not always binge but overeat them in secret and that's often not something that we talk about openly or share openly yeah and this is not people young people particularly I think just going about their everyday business living life as completely normal and then just happen to see one video they're in a in a whole world here because you know they're constantly being exposed to you know beautiful people their idols are probably there their idols might not necessarily be an actress of Carnation Street or you know a pop star their idol might be someone that most of us have never heard of you know an influencer on the TikTok platform and that's who they that is who they want to be so that makes the messaging even more impactful on their lives I think and I think I think that's for those of us who don't necessarily live in that world that's something that we have to really take into consideration that what we say is parents you know it probably would be disregarded because they trust and believe the people living in this world their world yeah and you know there's a real dangerous trend around this is you make a really good point that these are often beautiful people right we have this very narrow beauty ideal in our culture and often the young people's idols their influencers are put up on this pedestal when they take some of those boxes but a lot of the time the size of a person or about a person's body shape is largely down to genetics and not all down to the food they eat in a day or the way they move their body in a day unlike some of the messaging out there but it really is only a small percentage of those activities that impact your body size or body shape and that's just completely lost in this trend and on this platform of course and your weight your body shape is not necessarily an indicator of your body health and the what I eat in today form I presumably doesn't talk about you know what the you might look great if it worked but it doesn't it doesn't mean that you won't be dizzy or you know you won't have problems with your digestive system or you know you might not it doesn't talk about you being deficient in stuff which could aggravate anxiety you know what I mean like it what we look like is such a small part of things really yeah absolutely I mean what someone looks like on the outside tells us nothing about their internal health and you can have somebody in a very thin you know socially acceptable beautiful body on the outside but they don't and it doesn't match with their internal health because you could have another person who is seen as being quote unquote overweight but has lots of health-mortem behaviors in their life like eating well and moving the body regularly and sleeping well managing their stress and all of these things are the things that really impact our internal health and yes of course you know if if we look after our internal health it will shine on the outside in in varying ways but they're just you know what we look like on the outside is not connected to what we've got on the inside Conversely then if we are going to sort of and we'll get on to it what responsibility the likes of TikTok and others have in this regard do we also then have to bring into the conversation if they are sort of talking about body positivity being whatever way you like with also not talking about potential health risks there a larger person maybe healthier than a thinner person so we're going to accept that too but at the same time promoting you know positive body positive whereby someone you know there's a lot of people very influential that are presumed carrying weight that will eventually have an impact on the health or is that too sensitive a subject to talk about I mean I think there's a lot of there's a lot of science behind this actually and when we look at at weight we know that there are no safe and effective long-term weight loss strategies and most people will regain the weight that they lose through a diet or through the pursuit of intentional weight loss within three to five years after they embark on the diet and this is what we see across hundreds of studies and rather than focusing on the pursuit of changing your body or losing weight we really need to begin moving this conversation of weight to the back burner to the back of our minds very much front of mind in our society and unfortunately by focusing on it more and more we get more and more obsessed with it and it can cause issues with disorder eating excessive thoughts around food poor body image etc whereas if you focus on health promoting behaviors so very simply eating a wide variety of foods eating enough food which doesn't always come through in this TikTok trend eating your fruit and vegetables moving your body regularly whatever that looks like for you so that could be running or yoga or swimming anything joyful that really brings you joy rather than torture when it comes to exercise when you look at your stress levels you look after yourself in terms of self-care practices when you sleep well these are things that are you can achieve health without or irrespective of weight loss Yeah the reason TikTok one of the reasons is it's so successful is its algorithm in that you know traditionally social media feeds you information from people you follow and your views may change but if you if you still follow the same people you get the same crap with TikTok it learns very quickly what you like right so if you like how you can get a bigger box or a slimmer waist or whatever it might be it'll keep feeding you that because it knows what you like other than you don't right I don't want to see that anymore and I can't see young people doing that what can we expect of that company and others to protect our younger people Yeah I feel like this is such a big question and a big topic and I'm not really sure exactly how we handle it from the big company perspective but I I do know that when we're being subjected to algorithms and especially in the case of social media because they make money off our attention right so our attention is a commodity that can be sold and by you know teaching the algorithm in your social media platform where that is TikTok or Instagram what you want to see versus not want to see so you know reporting certain videos reporting certain ads being very media literate or very critical of the media that you are consuming it will slowly begin to change what you begin to see on these platforms I mean I don't see I very rarely see the kind of content that we're chatting about here because my social media has been trained to not show them That is exactly it you know and Instagram and Facebook are you know they're blunt instruments if you Google you know baby outfits they'll give you baby adverts if you you know Google cars they think you want to open a car dealership because every second that is a car a TikTok if you like people who wear glasses it'll give you people that wear glasses and if then it learns that you've sort of gone off that it'll change it it's incredibly incredibly clever in what it does and I just think so they'll leave you know like it has to be taken in the round doesn't it because you know lots and lots of people from very young ages are sitting watching Love Island every night and everyone still looks fantastic in that program how do you get you know and you're sitting watching that and you go up to your bed after you're sent to bed and you take out your phone how do I look like that with where do you go you go onto TikTok and what do you end up doing you start liking videos that sort of doing what we're talking about now do you know what I mean and I think we need to look at it right across media rather maybe I'm not saying you are focus on one sort of source of media Oh 100% I mean I think when I talk about being media literate I'm talking about Instagram Facebook TikTok Nutelli Nutelli like Anna it's funny you mentioned Love Island because obviously this is a very controversial opinion because so many people love Love Island but we do need to be conscious of the implicit messaging that we are getting from these TV shows where you know people are ranked based on what they look like on the outside and we are absorbing these messages even if we don't realise as to especially when it comes to our value and our self worth like okay these people are more valuable because they're thin or because they're beautiful or because they've got long hair or they're tanned etc etc the list just goes on and on and that feeds into poor body image rates which then fuels the searching on TikTok and the the dieting trend and the what I eat in a day and it's it's really a big system here and you're right we need to look at the whole media spectrum rather than one platform in particular and I think Nev in reality in the interim we're going to have to start doing this ourselves because I can't there's so much money involved here like say for instance TikTok it's investing millions upon millions upon millions in this country jobs announced every other month can we really rely on the government here to sort of you know start making life very difficult for TikTok I would argue not I'm not asking you to comment on that so what we have to do Nev I suppose is in our own homes under our own roofs sort of try and speak to our younger people in the same way you've been doing so today and then maybe hopefully you know society and the powers that we might catch up down the line yeah for sure and there's no doubt that you know social media can be used for so much God as well and so much connection that we all needed during the pandemic but we do need to be very conscious and aware of the messaging that we're absorbing through it right I don't suppose you have a quick answer to this a listener has wants to lose a stone and a half and I think a lot of people a lot of us could relate to that what's the right way to do something like that over 50 by the way I think might be slightly difficult to shift fat in certain places as we get older but yeah I would be I'll go back to my earlier point I would really which might I don't know if this is the right answer that they're looking for on this side we're tough up here I would really try to begin to shift the focus away from weight and focus on how you feel on the inside rather than what you look like on the outside if you want to get into a dress or a shirt though it's hard to you know you can't go up to people at a wedding and say you know I feel fantastic when you know really they're judging you perhaps maybe on how you might appear but again get me though and I cannot contradict you even you're right but I just think in the real world when someone's asking about especially if it's a smaller amount to weight it's perhaps something physically they're not happy with but are you saying if you look after you if you get yourself feeling better that will follow in some cases yes but the issue still remains that if we pursue intentional weight loss I understand this I say to people every day of the week who really want to lose weight and have been on this cycle for years and years decades and all they have got is higher in weight over time so by pursuing intentional weight loss there is actually more of a likelihood that you will end a bigger over time than smaller and we can see this in the research so when I say move the focus from the inside to the outside I'm trying to stop that process so that people don't continue to gain weight over time and instead begin to reap the benefits from actually focusing on their health and then allowing their body to look after itself afterwards yeah and I think and when you were talking about people trying to slim down and I put in the argument not the argument there but the counter argument that do we need to start talking about maybe not normalizing people being of let's stop talking about weight let's talking about people's health and well-being and prolonging their lives their healthy lives for as long as possible and ensuring their joints last as long as they can because we're living older thankfully but we have to make sure presumably our bodies are best equipped to carry us around and that's not just all weight related it's just our general health absolutely there's so much more than just weight that goes into long-term health and vitality and mobility a lot more than weight yeah Niamh it's been a pleasure speaking to you thanks for your time thank you so much for having me take care of yourself thank you very much indeed that is Niamh Orbinski who's a nutritionist and intuitive eating counselor that was our wellness wednesday talking about that trend the what i eat a day format and as I say the thing with tiktok is you might go on tiktok and you might say well I'm going to check out tiktok to see what my young people in the house might be viewing you'll end up watching what you like thinking god there's no harm in that but their feed is completely different because it's so it's so intuitive all right we'll be back with more in the night until noon show after the break 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register today at uhg.hr slash event that uhg.hr slash event okay we're going to try a couple try and find a few things here a silver chain of great sentimental value was lost in the car park at cost and near the new dons in letterkenny we have a number here if you found it it's a silver chain of great sentimental value it was lost in the car park at costa near the dons that's a big car park but anyway someone hopefully has found it hopefully didn't get caught in wheels and was towed out the road somewhere because you know satatars could pick it up too but anyway did you find this silver chain there is a reward offered for it's safe return okay so let us know we've a number here we can pass that on to you right christine carlin joins us now hi christine good morning krig from picturesque red tassel beautiful part of the world i was down there not too long ago christine okay now talk to me about some groups that you take and something that used to be available that doesn't seem to be available i'll leave it over to you christine yes for many years something like 25 years i've done pilgrimages to different shrines one of them as the holy well a tomb well and the francis infreary at heart now we always for years and years could buy a lovely t-ring with the francis infreary on the front of it and on the back was a tiny little dot of darkened clay and torus clay also the wording on the back of it was that you are protected from sudden death fire and drying now this was foretold by saint colin kill for years and years fisherman people driving i would get lots of orders to get these t-rings and bring them back i went with a friend of mine marie on saturday on a private pilgrimage and we were told and the holy shop that they can't get them anymore and i just cannot understand this because i have relics medals of saint padre pehu and stephen scenes with a relic on the back my two boys patrick and paul they've been several times to the holy land and they've brought me back i've been here with relics on the back of the crucifix and also my eldest son has been to major gory and he's brought me back a medal with a relic on on the back of that and i can't understand why this lovely t-ring has been stopped at the francisco for area time now did they say that they'd stopped stocking them did they say that whoever was making them previously that they can no longer source them from that supplier or is the materials an issue did they give any explanation as to why they're no longer available pristine the only explanation and i do not understand it they said that someone had put in a complaint what that they were selling garden clay oh no like that is absolutely well listen come here they're selling the picture and you can get a bonus bit of a garden clay or tory clay with it i mean that doesn't wash with me now i'm not blaming them because they want to avoid controversy but come here you know the production the cost here is in the ring the key ring or the pictures you know the little yeah the bit of clay garden or tory clay you're not charging for that you know i mean i don't and it was it was just like a little dot a little dot of garden clay and a little dot of tory clay and there is a lovely picture of the franciscan friary at odds on the front of the key ring and i can assure you over 25 years i've brought back hundreds of these key rings and the fisherman green tassel to ramdad and malin and there we went on saturday i god spurs me there's a pilgrimage going on the 4th of september from st columbus and drong and i will go in that pilgrimage on on the coach now i've retired from organizing it after 25 years i retired in 2019 from doing it but there's another lady appointed and she's going to continue it and it was just to say that after all these years why would it be taken why would it be stopped well we're going to try and get to the bottom of it and i think too what most people will understand but i hope everyone understands that to some people a lot of people actually and we've seen huge numbers down at the friary in rossinella recently for event that this is very important to them and i just indeed you know and and uh i just hope i mean if one person messaged in and then they they stopped i don't know listen we're going to find out christine what is going on and try and get to the bottom of it because great great before before you go could i say a quick greeting here's the thing to all my family christine i want i'm going to count you in take your time we don't have to rush the radio waves are yours for as long as you're like three two and one go ahead christine thank you could could i say a nice greeting to my family patrick and luna and my grandchildren and to my son paul and also to all my college at the university in letter tenny we are all on holiday and to our call director that's our call director and call nikeela just say a greeting to all my colleagues and enjoy your holidays the same as myself indeed and enjoy your latest pilgrimage on saturday did you say yes or trip as a force of september that's going from sing columbus and drone lovely stuff you'll have a fantastic time great and thanks thanks a million all the best lovely to speak to you thank you so very much indeed okay if you have an answer to that we're going to pursue it ourselves but why can you no longer in the holy shop by the key ring with a picture of aards on the back with a small piece of garden clay and a piece of tory clay tiny little specks of it almost we would have heard there from christine that the problem is that they were was someone complaining that they were selling it want unbeatable value from sky here's the deal get sky broadband for just 29 euro a month plus sky queue for only 10 euro a month superfast super reliable broadband and sky queue with your apps and recordings that sky broadband for 29 euro a month plus sky queue for 10 euro a month for 12 months now that is unbeatable value go to 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was at the podiatrist and when she had problems with her feet and she got a blister then it was infected and she was the podiatrist and she wrote a letter saying she had to go in for organ IV treatment so she had to go to her own doctor first we did that and then we took her out to the hospital I dropped her off at half five just about half five and half past six last night she eventually got a bed that was over 24 hours 25 hours to wait in a bed you know it's just it's not good enough right and something has to be done yeah I mean it's it's unbelievable and this is obviously a great stress stress for her but for the whole family as well yeah it's an old sort of moment certain words there's no visit and so I can't even go up to see her I mean my son's home from Glasgow he can't go to see her then you know and so what is she's an I'm trying to keep in touch with texts and stuff but it's not the same I appreciate the reasons for not getting and but these situations don't help she was sitting with I mean her foot infection so her foot should have been raised to keep the swelling down but it wasn't you know she was sitting in a wheelchair she eventually got an IV treatment about I think it was a bit technical later in the first night and then you know carried on from there but it just I mean not the staff the staff they're not I've been in later kind of a few times and the nurses and doctors are brilliant you know but there's something wrong in the background there's something not right with the management I watched three people walking around the world a couple of years ago checking if it was clean you know it doesn't take three people to do that job you know as for the resources it could be spent elsewhere yeah and of course too you know the longer it is until she gets proper treatment there is the risk of the infection spreading this is a risk of sepsis obviously things were bad enough that she was referred to the A&E to begin with so you'd be sitting there after four hours maybe four hours would be palatable going hold on yeah is this not that important then because we were sent here to an ED and effectively she's getting half the treatment in the ED department in the waiting room well this is a it's just a nonsense the sympathis three years ago she had sepsis so she knows what it's like so that's playing her mind as well you know she's been through her and it's not pleasant it's not pleasant for any of us to see her going through this she's got diabetes she's got health problems but she's been great you know everything's been fine but she got this blister and they did say two infections in her feet now she's got an x-ray arc she got blood done and they said there's two infections in her foot one of the blisters and one in the soft tissue so they have to get that sorted because that's obviously where it's coming from I don't think it's going to do with the the diabetes particularly you know but in terms of and I'm not asking for you to explain because I don't want to compromise her privacy in any way, shape or form John but when you're 25 hours in an ED like there's practical situations like changing your clothes for instance I mean you don't want to be sitting in the same set of clothes for 25 hours eating eating you know I mean eating properly as well you know because you don't have you have to stay in the ED because you don't know when you're going to be called well that's her that's her you know you can't go anywhere I mean at one point she says just calling get me and I say no I'm not calling you you're going to stay in because you have to get a scene to you know we can't just go through it again and let's be honest it's not just my wife this is happening to a lot of people I've heard stories of so many people you know recently it's it's 12, 13, 14 hours and longer and it's just so wrong before they're going to attend it to you know right I mean I think the hospital needs to look top from top to bottom yeah I know honestly now she did finally get a bed after 25 hours I think she got a good sleep didn't she yes she said she'd I agree sweetheart she's not going to sleep after 25 hours sitting in the wheelchair so would I I'd sit in a bed of nails if I got one yeah funny enough you can't get that now hopefully she's going to get a treatment now though and hopefully get down to Galway of need be whatever it takes to get a back up on our feet again yeah well hopefully that's you know I mean it's sad that this has got to be brought up but yeah what can we do and your son I think he'll be speaks about it no harm to you John but your son would have come home to see his mom as well you know and uh yeah of course of course I he's his mommy yeah he's a mommy's body of course he's his mommy comes home with me we're always number two aren't we which is fine that's fine listen my best wishes to your mom and family because I know it's stressed out your daughter as well and everyone else as it as is perfectly understandable and I hope she now that she is being treated hopefully she gets the best of treatment John but thanks for highlighting it it's important that we talk about this stuff because as you say whether it has to be topped or what more whatever it's something has to be on this is not acceptable treatment of a person no John have a lovely day okay take care of yourself and best wishes to your better half thank you all right that's John there and as I say we get these messages all the while lots of you texting in on the ARB decision because it's so emotive I don't want you to think that I'm in any way not getting to them for any particular reason you know the way it is nowadays I will catch up on those but we've had lots of calls and lots of stuff to get through I'll get to some before 12 if not though that story is going to run into the morning as well so stay with us on that rights it is Wednesday Kieran O'Donnell is going to be joining us shortly with business matters but you know what I have an opportunity now to have an opportunity now to get through some of these comments uh while gas restrictions so Ireland will be expected to comply aren't we a great little obedient country say as a caller another unable to tax my car online as the site will not accept the credit card or debit cards tried it a few days had to travel to the office seems to be a problem with the company that takes payment but you know I know people who will insist on going to the office to do the car tax because they don't simply don't want to do it online and I understand that too um I think it's a disgrace what they're doing the AIB banking car and Donna is always busy with people waiting at the counter this can't be allowed to happen and I wish we could make a difference you know we do make some progress on some of these things thankfully and we can affect change but see when the banks make up their minds it seems it's a fate of complete another caller says it's not only the banks they're targeting they're targeting old aged pensioners to my mom's pension is being reviewed she got it in the past three weeks also she got a medical card in only for six months just because she is 87 very concerned pensioners the family is very concerned that she received it in the post I'd like if Greg could get the minister on of social protection on why she's targeting old age pensioners she feels very hurt and worried coffee shops that don't sell coffee would be a laughing stock pubs with no beer yeah right the banks are an utter disgrace greedy organizations that are flexing their muscles now with Ulster leaving the market that comes in from Barry in letter Kenny thanks Barry for that I recently opened an AIB account last week to facilitate to Ulster bank closing down I'm planning to close this account and go to another bank as a matter of principle this is a disgrace for tourism to have them remove the cash machines the government should show leadership another I'm raging I switched a month ago to AIB changing direct debit standing orders et cetera because I was an Ulster bank customer you think they should have mentioned this change I was on the brink I was on the brink myself I feel lucky what's it gonna be taking place in these bank buildings now to these folk lose their jobs please Greg ask Pierce I asked that one actually he as it relates to the traveling expenses while I understand the move to go cashless I think this puts personal data all the more in danger I think people not familiar with things like online banking will find it extremely difficult and although the banks are saying there is a drop in customers then how come the post offices are busy with ex bank customers because the dropping customers was during COVID of course and we know that we know they're using that and listen I think I'm I try and be pretty honest here I'm gonna have to use I can understand people wanting banks and the reliance and cash I get but I've said it honestly before I use and don't use very much cash it just suits me so I welcome everyone coming in with their different perspectives on this of course so that it's a a nice and fair balanced conversation here's the clues to what's on the way in 24 seconds business matters an association with the faculty of business and ATU Donegal the part-time level 8 honors degree in business is delivered through a mix of online and face-to-face lectures email exec ed business at lyit.ie that's ex ec ed business at lyit.ie or call 9186206 okay good morning Kieran O'Donnell presenter of Highland Radio's Business Matters podcast how are you keeping good morning Greg I'm good how are you 101 we're on now I missed the 100th yeah congratulations did you just make a big deal about it I was on a beach I wasn't listening to you I'll just just let us later on like a real line well congratulations to get 100 podcasts it's a fantastic achievement I think so we're into the second sanctuary now yeah and all of those podcasts are available for you on our website by the way or on the likes of Spotify and you know obviously some of the time sends it but a lot of it is you can listen to them anytime when you're out and about because it's about people their business their lives and stuff so there's a huge back catalog for you to enjoy there but let's talk about some news first Kieran and more good news for jobs yeah Fintu financial services company is set to create 300 jobs in the Rikini over the next five years the firm which is headquartered and Belfast and employs over 1,000 people worldwide has set up a European delivery center here in the Rikini so the announcement was made by the Taoiseach Meal Martin in the Rikini on Friday and the project is being supported by the ADA all right we need more jobs we need more houses yeah planning permission for the construction of 90 new housing units in the Rikini has been lodged with Donegal County Council the development is being proposed at Glencare Ares and Glencare Scotch by local developer PJ McDermott so the first phase of the development includes 82 dwellings and two apartment blocks containing eight apartments while a crest has also been proposed in the application right yo some celebrations in Stan Church Lane yeah as the thing was tossed on a number of times Greg there will be a celebration of the Church Lane Historic Towns Initiative on Church Lane in the Rikini this Friday July the 22nd at 5 p.m so this project involved conservation repair works to seven historic buildings along Church Lane and the initiative has served as a blueprint for summer projects in Remelton and Balloch Salon and that Remelton project actually was highly commended and awarded recently as well yeah so earlier on Friday the Rikini Terry Towns will host a special conference on dereliction in Dillon's Hotel and in conjunction with the Rikini Cathedral quarter and that event gets underway at 11 a.m so the tie in on the two of them so about to see what the findings and the discussion is during that conference well we can see we can see what can be done you know when the atmosphere it's really tangible proof of what can be done when a concerted effort is made it's not a pipe dream it's achievable right hope it's for fishing probably for cruise ships I don't know what the story is but anyway big investment for Kelly Beggs yeah the contract for the 10 and a half million euro per extension at Kelly Beggs Fishery Harbour Centre has been awarded to the cork based firm Sorenson Civil Engineering so the project will see the long way to completion of 120 meters of additional key space in the harbour and as a result I hope that that will alleviate congestion during the peak fishing season at Port I'm not just sure exactly what that what were you referring to will it be for big or small it's just been a smart art yeah but look there are a lot of a lot of good things happening and Kelly Beggs haven't talked to to Ciaran D'Arif in the KFO a number of weeks ago this is another positive development and hopefully that will continue doing that well and no surprise it's included not a positive development according to the absolute majority of our listeners look the six branches and Donegal AB are going to go cashless by September 30th kind of a fraud you'd slip they're probably going to close absolutely when I hear that the headlines first I was actually in company and it was on the this and on the background I didn't want to be rude so I thought first of all are they closing but you know the six branches and Donegal Balashana, Balbalfe, Moncrana, Ciaran D'Arif, Kelly Beggs and Donegal will be cashless by the end of September that's going to leave at that stage Greg half of AABs are this cashless I listened I got a chance to listen the most out of the bit today and it was very balanced but the one question you have to ask is it a huge surprise? No nothing's as a surprise I think COVID has fast-tracked that maybe five to ten years and I know there's some people going on we told you so we all knew this was happening I mean there's south of Donegal town if you're a business and bank with AAB there's no facility for you south of Donegal that's a big and I know other areas of the county they'll know the geography better themselves but that's a huge and it might be even before the north of Donegal town I'm not sure if there's a branch in Kelly Beggs isn't there I'm sorry I beg your pardon sorry yeah you can actually now draw that line from Kelly Beggs right across to letter Kenny right and everything south of that there's not one AAB bank that deals in cash and I think it's going to impact most on the older generation yeah so you know I think I talked to her more actually about what she's been an AAB costum for a long time people like herself still like to operate in cash they still like to have that security or privacy or as a habit as well but again when you when you sit back and look at it on the round and on balance I heard the lady on from from Anish own and she talked about the benefit of doing the transaction and the post and the PO that's the way it seems to be going but you know you're not underestimating it and I wouldn't certainly wouldn't estimate it now of course there's greater challenge potentially with the older older generation some of them probably are better on apps than you and I are but I think there's an awful lot of people maybe and we're hearing their voices now the younger generations maybe you know 20s 30s 40s who go hell on you this is my cash I earned this I want access to it I want to have control over it I don't trust banks I don't trust necessarily big business you know these big organizations and I think though the voices we're hearing now as well hearing them saying now this is this is how we want to operate you know yeah but anyway the banks will do what the banks want to do seemingly and and the government's not going to intervene they'll hoff in the puff and then do nothing and they probably won't even hoff and puff right okay we'll see they say falling cash usage but they're using data from the lockdown yeah and the other thing which is insulting to us that's insulting lockdown was the was a real accelerator for where we've got to know you know we couldn't we weren't we couldn't go to the bank people were obeying not to go on some of it's good some of it's not so good I was going to have them ready okay let's take a quick break we'll come back previewing these this week's broad podcast which went live for you at 1130 at Cooney's Home Interiors we pride ourselves on offering you the very best in choice quality and value on all home furnishings treat your home with a visit to Cooney's today and choose from our large range of suites tables beds not to mention our large selection of home accessories our motto is if you see it you can buy it and we will 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director of strategic initiatives at TCS in the Rookinney Jared Grant Jared was one of the team of 8th that was involved in establishing the primary database in the Rookinney back in 2000 and was tasked with setting up the company's internal IT system excuse me there were over 1,000 employed at the state of the art local campus opened by Primerica in 2017 at a cost of 42 million euro two years ago Primerica was taken over by TCS and the global company has recently embarked on a recruitment drive with the aim of increasing its workforce in the Rookinney by 200 over the coming months a career in IT was something Jared wanted to pursue from an early age and in this clip he talks about the people who helped him along that path when he was a student at St. Dune's College in the Rookinney you know you can go right back to you know my days in St. Dune's College where you know Eddie Harvey who ran the computer department up there was a huge influence in trying to get people into technology at that time and St. Dune's at the time through Eddie and Joe English and people had invested a lot in computer technology and computer curriculum so I'm fortunate to benefit from that and a lot of the people during that in 1990 during transition year who did the first GCSE in computer science and letter Kenny through St. Columns and Derry benefited from that computer education that Eddie Joe and Father Ferry set up at the time You mentioned those three individuals they were looking back very much ahead of their times Jared Oh absolutely absolutely not just in terms of trying to you know get the equipment and get funding for the equipment but also put the different courses and places in the curriculum and trying to track students to do it you know because at that time you know some a lot of students left after enter cert and went to work either in local factories or went to work in farming or went to work in local family businesses and their focus was trying to keep the guys in education and potentially you know looking forward seeing that there would be a future in computer science and computer engineering and trying to drive them down that track Yeah there's a nice sort of full circle element historic hearing from education to Yeah Jared talked very much as well about the importance of mentors and mentoring figures and he mentioned some of his teachers and as well as they helped him pursue his passion at IT was what he wanted to pursue and as we'll talk 2020 was a challenging year for TCS that had deal with COVID and the takeover as well by TCS so now he talks about looking to grow the business not only in the headcount but growing the business that they do as well Yeah all right listen great stuff The podcast is available for you right now and our website in the on demand section is episode 101 of Business Matters again congratulations on getting the ton up Kieran it's also available for you on Spotify and iTunes and if you want to listen on air Yeah Sunday evening after these six o'clock Back to its regular time slot it was earlier last week wasn't it Because of the fun harps game yeah Finn harps okay They lost that game to Derry didn't they? Is that that one? Unfortunately I wasn't there or not Did you watch the women's game? No I was down around the country with Sean McFadden over the weekend there he was doing a cycle cycling wasn't the mountain non stop Did you were you in a car or you weren't cycling? Yeah myself and Kieran and Dory who were important in the car and the number one He does that in an electric bike Sean McFadden does that? He got it into fire The speed of some of them you would think you would think it was the rumour local riders as well Rory Devon from from Bunkranna was first home in an incredible time of 18 hours in one minute and Sean McFadden and Colin Richardson both broke the 20 hours It's unbelievable So it was I mean you've hammered down the whole way to to achieve that not the whole way but you know what I mean not far off but that was a great it was a great trip it was a real 40 years with the difference Yeah All right listen I would say were you in a car in advance? Yeah we were with Sean and we were kind of You're still like he goes on forever because at least when they're cycling you know Yeah they're active We were kind of we were just sort of slightly off and maybe in a minute you might have to go on maybe shoot on to get something to get diesel or get a coffee or whatever and the main you were quite close by and actually you got a puncture come out of Derry and we just happened to be behind him radioed so it worked out not so bad All right I don't know how we ended up talking about that Kieran but I appreciate it nonetheless all right Kieran thanks very much indeed cheers there Kieran O'Donnell there who is the presenter and compiler of business matters that podcast available for you right now it's an interesting story it's all different types of business and elements of business and the people behind it in their lives right okay almost on cue but unrelated we have an email in from letter Kenney University Hospital they're warning you that there will be long waiting times at the ED the bottom line is is every bed in the hospital is in is full that they're full there's not a room in the end and they are only able to get someone into a bed when they get someone discharged you know so that's that's the bottom line and that's what happens when people are deemed to be ill enough and admitted to the hospital but they have to wait in ED because they say they have no beds available so they have to wait for one out one in one out one in that's the way it is right the emergency department at letter Kenney University Hospital continues to be extremely busy high numbers of people attending who need to be admitted to the hospital for ongoing treatment in the past 24 hours 142 people have attended the ED which is above the average for this time of year as a result there are high numbers of patients on trolleys in the assessment area and the hospital is at full capacity in addition there are pressures on bed availability in the hospital due to the number of patients with COVID there are currently 48 patients with COVID being treated in the hospital and four areas are affected by outbreaks of COVID which is limiting the availability of beds for patients coming in through the ED the hospital says it acknowledges and apologizes for the distress being experienced by patients and their families who are facing long delays they say all available beds are in use every effort is being made to discharge patients who are ready to go home so that beds will become available to patients who need to be admitted at the earliest opportunity so really you know there's a lot going on there but delayed discharges seems to be a contributing factor there all right so that's the latest update from the ED there right let's talk up to the ad I was going to take the break and talk up to the news but we'll bring some comments to you here this is the reality of a cashless society we went into a shop to buy diesel and our lunches none of us could pay for what we had because the internet went down the chip and pin needed it to work cash is very important this will happen again and services will suffer for it another I'm not computer literate so I use cash and they should and you should have that right to do so as well but that's been taken from you people should close their AIB bank account and open a post office account rather than giving the bank anything do you know the problem is is though I don't think it matters I don't think if everyone stopped everyone closed their bank account I don't think it would really bother them I agree with pierce darty I use the AIB and recommend them lately to customers of Ulster Bank when it closes this is the start of closing them down all together at a later date that comes in from Tommy Tommy listen thank you very much for that right okay great to be back with you after a week off I mean that genuinely so we're going to be back with you again tomorrow morning at nine o'clock stay tuned because John Breslin is on the way around the northwest and I want to say thank you to Donna Marie and Caroline who researched and produced the show today stay tuned as I say John Breslin's coming up after news with donal at 12 it's the 50% off