 with the Irish news in Belfast says Sinn Féin are being traded with greater respect lately. Michelle Leeds entitled to be first minister, Sinn Féin control most of the councils in the north of Ireland now and of course they are the biggest party in Ireland. So when she goes there she's speaking with authority and you know an electoral strength that just cannot be ignored that Sinn Féin represent the majority of voters in the north. The Minister for Rural and Community Development is travelling to Donegal today. Minister Heather Humphries will officially launch Donegal's Broadband Connection Point Network which will supply clubs and community centres with good quality broadband while on her visit the minister is also set to open a number of facilities including Brookless Community Park. A new campaign will be launched today to help struggling homeowners and those finding it hard to repay other loans or credit cards. The Banking and Payments Federation is joining forces with MABS to launch a special website dealing with debt.ie. Brian Hayes of the BPFI says the campaign is there to help anyone who is under pressure. It's absolutely essential that lenders provide solutions for people particularly at pre-arriers but the good news is we're not seeing significant upticks in the level of pre-arriers right now but of course as we go forward and as the potential of additional rate rises into the summer increases we've got to stand ready to help those customers if a difficulty emerges. Liam Burns' arrest has been described as the most significant since the beginning of the Hutch-Kinahan feud. The Dubliner has been held by Spanish police in Mallorca since Sunday and efforts are being made to extradite him. Burn had been living in Dubai where many other key members of the Kinahan Cartel also located. Special correspondent with the Irish Independent Paul Williams says it's a major blow to the organized crime group. Liam Burns is one of the most significant figures who has been arrested by the guardies since they break out of this notorious Hutch-Kinahan feud. Liam Burns is a man with an awful lot of blood on his hands. He's a violent, arrogant, devious thug. This is a major, major blow to the entire Kinahan organization because this is another senior figure gone and it shows that the net is closing. And now for the weather. Today will be mostly dry and sunny highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees generally but not as warm near the coast in light to moderate easterly breezes. That's all for now. I'll be back with the next news update at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Is your home or motor insurance up for renewal? Now is the time to check if your policy still offers you the right cover and the right fit at the right price. 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You can email comments at highlandradio.com. And as we always say, if you would like to make contact with the show by letter, you can always write to the show. It's the Ninetyl Noon Show, Highland Radio, Pine Hill Mountain Top Letter Kenny. But as we always say, Highland Radio Letter Kenny Donegal will get to where it needs to be. Starting off with the newspapers on this Tuesday morning. It is the 6th of June, by the way. And as I always say, when I do the show on a Tuesday after a bank holiday, if I sort of start to call the show Monday, which I almost inevitably at some point I will say Monday this morning, please forgive me. We all do it on a bank holiday Tuesday. So if I call today Monday, you'll know what I mean. It is Tuesday, the 6th of June. We have the Donegal Democrat before this this morning. And the main headline Donegal soaks up bank holiday sunshine and a lovely picture of crowds at the Rory Gallagher Festival in Bali Shannon taken from the back of the stage. If I have one regret this weekend is that I wasn't able to make it to the Rory Gallagher Festival. But I was involved in Relay for Life and Letter Kenny, which was a huge success as well. And because of my involvement in Relay, I couldn't get to Bali Shannon because I haven't quite mastered this by location yet. And it's a shame because some great, great gigs as always in Bali Shannon this weekend. Donegal baked in tropical temperatures over the June bank holiday weekend. The Mercury hit the high 20s as the sun's beams scorched the county. Thousands flocked to Bali Shannon for the Rory Gallagher Festival. And there were also major events right across the county of Donegal and rightly so as well. Dairy Journal this morning. Housing is just unaffordable. Now this is a piece you may have heard actually on the news last week because we did have the clip from the doll of this particular story. Housing is just unaffordable. The huge disparity between earnings in Donegal and Dublin means that housing is unaffordable. For most people it's been claimed. Deputy Thomas Pringle told the doll low earnings are locking people out of the housing market. CSO figures show that earnings in Donegal remain among the lowest in the country. And as I say if you want to go into our news section on our website you can actually hear that doll piece from Deputy Thomas Pringle. If you scroll back it was on I think Thursday or Friday of last week. Irish independent cities outside capital suffer biggest spike in crime rates. Cities outside of Dublin have recorded the highest spike in crime rates according to compared to pre-pandemic levels. Analysis of crime figures by the Irish independent reveals that 252 out of the total of 564 gar the stations nationwide witnessed crime levels in 2022 that were beyond pre-pandemic levels including 119 stations recording a five-year peak stations in cities such as Cork, Limerick and Waterford had the highest increases. Irish Times this morning a name you're going to hear an awful lot and you've heard it on the news already and you're going to hear this name I suspect an awful lot over the coming days and indeed weeks and months. Liam Byrne to face firearms charges after arrest in Mallorca. Dubliner is alleged to have run Kinahan cartels operations in the Republic move seen as one of the most significant acts since the Kinahan hutch feud began. Dubliner Liam Byrne who allegedly ran the Kinahan cartels operations in the Republic is expected to be extradited to Britain to face serious firearms charges after his arrest in Mallorca at a family reunion. He had flown from Dubai to Mallorca via Parma Airport on May 26th but was arrested on Sunday evening while in a restaurant in Mallorca. Irish Daily Mail this morning. NCT firm to be fined millions for long delays. Junior Minister says service a complete failure but company blames motorists claiming three and a half thousand a week are not turning up for their test. The company operating the failing NCT service is to be hit with millions of euro in penalties for the chaos in the system. Minister Jack Chambers described attempts by Aplis to run the service as a complete failure as motorists face months of delays in getting a test some are facing a wait of 200 days or into 2024 for an appointment. Garvey revealed the drivers could be prosecuted or have their vehicle seized if stopped while driving without an NCT. The company hitting back saying an awful lot of this is down to drivers themselves not turning up for appointments. I'm sure there's an element of that whether that's actually causing the problems in the system. I could not say I am at all convinced of that. Also there's a piece once you waited through Holly's compassion her words were utterly brutal. Jan Morris verdict and you can read all about that on pages six and seven. This I take it to be a reference to Good Morning and the whole Philips Gofield controversy and does Philips Gofield deserve the grilling he's getting in the media at the moment and there is no doubt the media at this point and I said the media in inverted commas. I would sort of slightly amend that to say the tabloid media in particular and do seem to have it in for a Philips Gofield at the moment and it's interesting the different commentators in the different papers as I say the mail once you waited through the compassion Holly's words were utterly brutal. There's a piece on the Irish Daily Mirror with again a lovely it's in fact the same picture of Holly with her hands sort of clasped in front of her and you know if you're actually looking at that at our screen today I'll just hold it up to the screen and remember you can watch the show by the way on our YouTube channel Highland Radio Ireland or on our Facebook pages as well. So this is Holly and the Irish Daily Mirror's take is shaken and worried. Holly fights back tears so Daily Mail she's brutal on this one she's fighting back tears and take your pick take your perspective and the main headline in the Irish Daily Mirror thug nabbed in restaurant last supper for Kinehan Chief Byrne monster facing up to 20 years behind bars for selling weapons. Now there is a small little matter of a trial first but hey that that doesn't really make an interesting headline because of this is the moment that Kinehan Lieutenant Liam Byrne was led away after his rest in Spain. He was eating dinner with his two children in New York on Sunday. Irish Daily Star and the puns abide on this one I have to say I do like the sort of the sub headline tapas on the shoulder. Now that's that's kind of clever. Would Cirque here to see the Alacartel menu is the main headline? Yeah would Cirque here to see the Alacartel menu and again Spanish restaurant swoop after gangster Liam jets in from Dubai and then the front of the Irish Sun. Kinehan mob chief nailed in Spain. Sunburned BYRNED is the main headline lifted during family meal out probed over cartel gun hall. Kinehan Chief Liam Byrne is in custody and facing extradition after taking a last minute holiday and one would assume that's a holiday. He probably wishes he did not take given what has happened but he's being extradited it seems initially into the UK and he could face up to 20 years behind bars were told. 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Highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letter Kenny to Dublin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time it's quarter past nine the night to show on Highland radio don't know with you until 12 noon today right you'll be aware or will you that on-call firefighters are taking industrial action from today in a dispute over working hours and to pay firefighters that won't be servicing any of their equipment or attending training drills for the duration of the action the recruitment and retention crisis in the service is contributing to the action and I'm joined on the line by SIP to organizer Kevin McKinney Kevin good morning. Good morning. Good morning to your listeners. Now Kevin the reason I prefaced this by saying you'll be aware or will you is that I did see a statement from SIP to last Friday in which the union was very concerned at the fact that they believed that local authorities were not publicizing the fact that this has happened and they were concerned that members of the public did not know that this was on the cards is that your experience in Donegal? Well really that's exactly what it is not very many people seem to know I think after this week work will start to get out and there'll have to be action from the employer so hello it's a serious situation and it will escalate over the next three weeks and that's a serious problem for our members and for the community in general. Now at present your members are functioning if there were to be an emergency at this point in time your members will respond what they're doing at the moment they're not going to service equipment to attend training drills and so on and so forth you believe it could at some point escalate from there? Well we have a plan this week it's industrial action next week will be industrial action plus rolling strikes so we'll decide we're meeting today and we'll decide how that'll roll out in Donegal we have 15 stations here and then the week after that we will be moving to an all-out strike now this is national as well it's not just in Donegal so the impact that will have will be difficult to foresee at this point in time but this is the space that our members have been put in and to be honest we've been trying to resolve this for years and I mean that total years we've been at this we just we can't continue the way we are the retention and recruitment is in crisis for the most part of the country and it's going to get worse not better unless something happens unless only changes. One of the issues that's made by the union is that the terms and conditions under which you have to work are extremely restrictive now you're on call and you can be on call pretty much 24-7 you may be working another job you may be at another pursuit but you are on call and because of that you're limited in where you can work you're limited in where you can live you're limited in where you can be and even when you are not actually working as a firefighter when you're on call you are living under very very restricted circumstances that do not pertain to anybody else who isn't at work. That's correct you're basically on call 24-7 you do get annual leave but apart from that you're on and you have to be attending but if you look at what we haven't done in Osum as a fact we have a number of stations with two stations actually who would be manned to 15 of a crew that's what they're meant to be because there are two pump stations then the rest of the stations are one pump station and that requires a minimum level of nine people and you must roll when an incident happens you roll with a minimum of six that's the the the the safety procedures that's required. Now we can't fulfill that in some of the stations at this present moment in time so we're on demand and then when people do turn out to when the staff turn out to an incident they can be going with maybe less than six and that puts the firefighters themselves in danger but when you look at it from a time consuming situation that you refer to they by being on call 24-7 a lot of our firefighters in fact the majority of them will have to give up a life event for their kids and their families no particularly communion's confirmations and all that goes with that to have a family life away from the service then once they're on call they're on call and they get up and they go now the other restriction is you have to live with a five kilometer radius of the station that you're you're attached to and and that itself it means that if you're to go off anywhere if you have to go into Jerry's shopping for example you must put it on the board that you're going away for that hour an hour and a half or whatever and you have the management need to know where you're at at all times and the event of something happens so they can legislate for it but the reality is our guys have a huge commitment it's more like a vocation for them that they apply themselves to the job 110 percent and presumably as well and presumably even if we break it down to something as simple as if you are on call and your mate rings up and says look the weather is lovely you're coming down to the pub for a pint you have got to say to them I cannot go for a pint because my page could go off in five minutes not I hope you can't do that you have to be on your yard at all times and even like you did an example today we're meeting with management and it's this is a management to discuss the actual strike next week and what we will be doing and what we won't be doing and we will probably have maybe four or five people there but maybe not a 15 so that tells you they can't leave the area they're on they haven't got the cover and that was the same last week when we met with management so it's not even management be able to turn around say look you come we'll sort you out when you come and you must be there the guys can't leave that's how bad it is so you have to you have to understand this is unique and it is a vocation the guys do over and above and the we're at breaking point and if you look across the country there's other counties worse than us and some might be a bit better but we know this is just a time bomb waiting to go off and we have to do with it now we can't this can't continue the other thing to denote is that the guys get a retainer and it's paid quarterly and we're rears and that retainer um goes up with the service but that retainer isn't uh when you look if you go for a mortgage or look for a loan it's not picking on the consideration either it's not considered a job so it is really part time um and it really is demand all the time on a person's time moving on from the question of the retainer the other issue that's been raised is the fact that you don't qualify for pensions or that the your services of firefighter you believe should qualify for a higher pension and there's question marks over the level of pension you get and what needs to be done in order to create a more satisfactory situation for yourselves talk us through that whole thorny issue of pension well that's another thing too yeah because it's not it's not recognized pension the pay that they get for turning out the drills or courses are going to an incident I mean they get paid uh I'm not sure off the top of my head exactly what the figure is it depends on what service you have in sport so close and what grade you're at but the that money is the only piece that's pensionable now there is a change in the pension scheme uh that was done under um the public service agreement and the way that's impacted on the retain fire service now here to four you have got a gratuity which would have been a lump sum payment when you retired that no longer is there and the pension that the fire service gets is minimal um it's very low so uh it it's just they will not be dependent on let me put it that way when they come to retirement as you've said that this has been ongoing kevin now for a number of years management know the issues the union knows the issues everyone involved in these discussions know the issues right up to government it's been discussed on the floor of the doll it's been raised by a number of tds it's been raised in the shanad it's it's been discussed and it's been discussed quite a bit on the air waves in in the quarters of power etc are you getting any sense that there is a move towards resolution here or is it going to take an escalation of strike and is it actually going to take the muscle of a union and the muscle of the voice of the workers in order to make something happen well i give you my honest assessment i'm looking at from where i am and i have been involved in the national committee meetings and as far as i can see at the moment there is no gift from government or management they have cited the public service agreement that it's a pay increase and as such on the public service agreement they will not be doing anything worth pay but it's much more than that it's about it's about the life that the guys lead when they're when you become a routine firefighter that life is completely different to a normal nine to five job and the difficulty that we have now is if government continue like they are it will take the muscle and the plight of the workers and the union to actually achieve anything out of this because we've talked around this for so long and when i say years i'm talking five plus years that this has been going on that we've been highlighting these issues along it even text to get someone recruited and so forth and when you look at areas like in donning hall where we have um grand column kill for example if you talk about mobile car and don't know what we the catchment area area for for um recruiting someone it's very very difficult and young people now who would have been able to get a job locally have to have to move away maybe to the main centers will it be Dublin Galway Cork or whatever in order to get a job and then they can't have a job locally within the fire service so we don't have an attachment of people to actually take it on so we have to do something we have to change the model what that's going to look like um will depend on serious negotiation and it means that both sides on the common table have to come with meaningful um input and at the moment it's all one sided we're asking and getting nowhere uh government and um management are basically saying no it is what it is they've filtered around the ages if you can in terms of giving more leave maybe increasing the numbers but we can't increase the numbers if the model still the same you have got to change the model so and as you say they can promise to increase the numbers all they like but if they can't recruit and if they can't retain then promises to increase numbers are pretty much meaningless meaningless and now that's that's the point don't want people need to understand them and I hope your listeners do understand that and if anyone knows a fireman out there they're the first that when something happens you you know the local fireman you know it's going to be there to help you and then in serious situations if you take Dunningall and some of the horrific accidents that we've had in this county and the firemen have all attended those instances that's traumatic in itself and people need to understand you know they're not taking this likely they've come through some serious situations and well in the future and it's not even it's not even mentioned you know the firemen know what they do we know and I know what they do but does the general public really get it unless it hits your door you probably don't of course and there's going to be a lot more discussion about this over the coming days and weeks I suspect it for the moment Kevin McKinney thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning that action starting today it's starting today as industrial action refusing to take part in training refusing to check equipment it will escalate as time goes on and we wait to see what's going to happen with this dispute in the meantime Kevin McKinney thank you very much now if you are yes thank you Kevin now if you are planning a flight today particularly if you're flying to a destination that involves traveling over French airspace you may have difficulties because dozens of flights in and out of the country have been cancelled airlines to transit over French airspace are facing disruption as air traffic controllers they're protest over an increase in their retirement age passengers with concerns are advised to check with their airlines we've been informed of cancellations in flights to Caliere, Marseille, Amsterdam, Basel, Nice, Spirits, Beauvais, Carcassonne, Murcia, Reus and that is by no means I suspect an exhaustive list now let's talk to a man who knows what's happening Owen Corrie is the editor of Air and Travel Magazine and Owen joins us via zoom Owen good morning good morning Dona Lemon Istanbul for the world aviation summit here a good conversation with Willie Walsh about this yesterday as you say some of those flights cancelled or over flights it's he says it's it's an intolerable situation closing down airspace is one thing closing it down for people flying to Murcia Reus and Caliere is another in terms of the and the advice always to people in situations like this is first and foremost contact your airline both in terms of confirming whether or not you're flying today and also arranging alternative flights and it's going to be difficult over the next couple of days but I suppose that that's the situation we're in is this the start of a series of these actions because we know there's an ongoing protest in France over a proposal to retire to increase the retirement age and the suggestions are that this this is not the end this is the start yes and you know the ongoing this I think I think it's the 14th day of action on the pension situation that you mentioned the reality is this is one of the last shakes of the dice it's supposed to be a very big day of action to finally because the the change in the retirement age in France listeners will be familiar with it has gone through effectively gone through but the air traffic control thing is all separate has that there is a whole load of separate legacy issues with air traffic control you have three competing unions they compete on belligerence they compete for members they try to make each tries to make themselves a little bit noisier than the other one and that is a big problem for our passengers it's been going on for more than 10 years that we have a series of strikes they tend to strike over the summer and the Marseille region is probably the one with the worst record for striking the way it works donal is the unions let the authorities know they're going and strike the dgac who are the french air traffic control they tell airlines you have to you have to cancel a proportion of your flights generally it's around 20 percent so you got to remember we have 26 flights a day coming to and from Dublin about 10 from Belfast and three or four from cork and shannon at this time of the year and most of those are flying we've lost six flights to two and from France from Dublin one from cork the rest are all flying the airline will get in touch with the passenger really they're good at it they've had loads of practice they have everybody's details text messages they tell you when your new flight is they reroute you and they're they've in this day and age with the technology and the different platforms that they have with email and text message they're very good at letting passengers know no need to show up the airport for a non-existent flight and contacting your airline is as you say the general advice but remember most flights are flying so unless you've heard from your airline assume that you're actually taking off those watching us on our social media or youtube channel we'll see your your background picture of a lovely quiet airport now the last time i was in an airport was shiphole in amsterdam on the saturday morning of the first saturday in july last year it was nowhere near as quiet and pleasant as that i can assure you how are airports functioning this summer on because we know last year because of the post pandemic drop in security staff and the failure to recruit more in time uh there were horrendous situations and as i said shiphole for saturday in july you did not want to be in that airport on that day and i why i eventually got on board the flight thinking if i never see an airport again i'll be happy have things improved this year and i must fess up that's a background that i use because it's a nice quiet Dublin airport in the winter and winter i'm fairly sure that it's not a first saturday morning in july anyway i'm flying back through shiphole later on today shiphole was described by willy waltz who is ex-CEO and british airway CEO um is from glas levin and dub them listeners may be familiar with him he's now the CEO of iota which is the world aviation buddy he described shiphole yesterday as the worst airport in the world uh i think he was making a terrific just a point on how far it's declined from being very very good the reality is that airports are very busy we had a terrible summer last year shiphole was one of the worst offenders for lost baggage connecting hubs in in europe uh frankfort uh amsterdam but particularly heat throw lost a lot of bags and toronto coming across the other side had a big reputation for bag gloss a lot of that was due donal to the fact that um the air all the airport's airlines everyone scaled down during the pandemic and that they underestimated the demand for last summer they uh didn't get the staff hired in there was a particular problem with security clearances in dublin uh that a new licensing system was brought in and the whole place was basically held together with two meltdowns end of march end of may but a lot of uh a lot of things like cleaning of toilets serving of uh food all of those sort of things they broke down there was some excuse for it last summer there's no excuse for it this summer everybody should be up and running for a really really heavy period the biggest problem and dunning all people would need no reminding of this is that car parking in dublin airport for a lot of weeks is unbookable the car parks are full they've 26 000 spaces owned by dublin airport there are 6 000 other spaces which are owned by private we're owned by private operators quick park yeah remember what are you doing and they're out of commission so the car parks are full and car parking will remain the biggest single issue for dublin airport i do expect problems elsewhere though with all of that baggage handling quite clearly he throw uh is not back up to anything like it should be uh not back to the pre-pandemic levels so i mean what i always do if i'm flying out of dublin uh almost because obviously it's a four hour drive well three and a half to four hour drive down from from dunningall is we usually book into one of the hotels close to the airport and book a hotel stay and car park a deal and use that now the advice i'm sure at this stage would be if you're going to do that book as far ahead as possible don't assume you'll get that deal the week before you're flying absolutely and the car they will look after your car they will actually let you park uh and shuttle in um to the airport from the hotels a lot of the hotels around the airport have that and book in advance very obvious interestingly i when i came through the airport of the weekend on my way out to istanbul here they um a lot of people had booked only 10 days or two weeks in advance and it got to reason reasonably good rates they used to have incentives uh they used to give you discounted stuff if you booked in advance from the airport car parks uh they those really are not available which makes car parking a little bit more expensive and people are complaining about the price as well but um the reality is that a lot of the key dates and the peak date for dublin airport is going to be that last weekend july uh and the august bank holiday weekend they're not the car parks are already blocked off they're full they a certain number of spaces are kept for emergency situations a lot of people are really disconnected they don't know they've never heard anything about and i met some of them at the weekend they were able to pick up the ticket and get the car parking space but don't assume that's going to be available do we know is the quick park site going to be recommissioned or is it on the market or what's the story with it because i would have been a user of quick park back in the day and and it was a very good service and it also as opposed it also gave competition to the dublin airport car parks themselves and there was no harm in that price wise either yeah absolutely competition is the key here because dublin airport has offered to buy the site um and they want to operate it but the uh competition commissioner has said we're going to have a look at this those sort of things take ages anyone who's looked for planning permission for a new window knows how long it takes and the way it works is they you know the day they're supposed to give you the decision they look for more documentation that appears to be happening here uh the february they put in uh to operate dublin airport as far as you put in to operate the quick park march they got a request for more documentation they say they are ready to do it they'll be able to get it up and running with them maybe a week that's uh kenny Jacobs uh said to me it can be done in a week probably 10 days two weeks they have the bosses they have all the technology the listeners to be familiar with the app that you use for booking your parking and the question is is the will is the political will are the willingness there to circumvent the system without affecting the long-term judgment by the competition people that will allow an operator there's a couple of private operators say they can do it as well but let's say dublin airport authority allowed them to operate the system the amount of pressure that would take off people it would release 6000 spaces immediately and the amount of pressure it would take off people it's going going traveling is a very stressful business anyway before you start worrying about whether you can park your car oh and Corrie thank you very much indeed it's illuminating as always and enjoy the rest of your conference in Istanbul and save home and may your trip through ship all be efficient quiet and relaxing i hope so you'll be lucky oh and thank you very much indeed that's the one Corrie there the editor of air and travel magazine and uh speaking to us so as i said there the airline if you're due to fly over france today and there is an issue with your flight the airline should be in touch they'll be in touch with the alternative arrangements but a number of flights out of dublin and also cork and shallon being cancelled today as a result of that action it's uh 22 minutes to 10 o'clock i'm gonna take a short break back after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com irish sun doesn't really count right look we all deserve a bit of sun skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland so whether you're at home or abroad protect your skin by following these sun smart steps slip into long loose clothes slap on the sunscreen slap on a sun hat seek shade yeah even on the cloudy days oh and slide on the sunglasses i do have very 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or wherever you may be and hello to rosemary as well of course now senator jerd crocwell joins us on the line because there was recently an article that said the defense forces here have destroyed more than 3600 weapons including rifles that would have been of considerable value to collectors strict rules prohibit the military from selling weaponry to anyone except the manufacturer or where feasible another government now sources do say the weapons which were decommissioned could have netted a significant payback for the states now joined on the line by senator jerd crocwell who has a history in the military and is something of an expert on military matters senator crocwell good morning good morning to you good morning dear listeners and delighted to see you on youtube and uh online grace grace initiative on your part and and hopefully the next time we converse we can do so on zoom and and we can get to see you as well as hear you um jerd in terms of the the sale of spare military items um you believe that the government is missing a trick here in terms of the money that's being lost in honestly they miss a trick every time uh we scrap uh things particularly in defense but if you take a trip to france to visit the psalm uh anywhere around the psalm you will find three or three rifles for sale at anything between four and five hundred euros each uh they're they're decommissioned they're more expensive than the ones that are not decommissioned so it battles me that we couldn't sell uh what weapons we were destroying to an agent who would then dispose of them on the market the concern is always going to be that to speak of decommissioned weapons going to collectors is all very well if they're not always a risk that once weapons go to agents and go on to international markets that they may find themselves uh falling into the hands of those we do not wish to have them and it's better to play it safe oh absolutely i mean when i when i said that we sell them on to agents we'd tell them on to agents on the basis that they have been completely decommissioned and are of no value uh with respect to being fired uh they're merely display items uh at that stage and um i mean if they can do it in france surely it's not we can do it here you are making the point that to your in your view civilians should not be making policy decisions in areas in which they have little knowledge are you suggesting then that the future and fate of these weapons should be actually made uh by army personnel rather than made by government or committees yeah i think what what should happen is those with the expertise in the area uh should advise government with respect to how something should be disposed of and once once that advice is given and once government are satisfied or particularly the foreign affairs and defense committee which i've chosen on myself um once we're satisfied that the weapons can be safely decommissioned and cannot be recommissioned if you want and then i think we should be open to find the highest bidder for them and possibly auction them and uh on the open market and the last thing i want to see is a usable weapon being sold but certainly the collector's items many people i know particularly up there in dunningall over in gallway down in the brick cork in kenny dublin would cherish the opportunity to have a beautiful 303 rifle decommissioned hanging on their wall uh browning revolvers exactly the same thing there's some of the heavy stuff uh there's no real market for but that's i suppose there's a market for the heavy stuff in the film industry but apart from that there's no real market for it you've also made the point that you believe it goes way beyond uh revolvers and rifles and even things like helicopters and ships and the state has you believe lost literally millions on the sale of some heavy items like that absolutely absolutely the helicopters for a pickings we sold them with spare engines spare parts all sorts of goodies with them for a couple of hundred thousand as far as i recall at the time and they went on to be sold for many many millions on our service today i think in chili are some someone of the south american countries as flying aircraft with the military we sold off a naval ship for a couple hundred thousand euros and i believe that that ship was subsequently sold on for something like six million so it is heartbreaking to see valued items in souls so deeply pardon me bless you is it going to take legislation do you believe then from the doll or what legislation governs what's happening at the moment and is the way this is done at the moment governed by legislation is it governed by regulations that can be changed by ministerial order or is it just this is the way we've always done it it's governed by regulation really that can be changed that they spoke of in by a minister but okay i mean my view is that we take the least line of resistance whenever we're doing anything and that includes selling off state so it'd be easiest way to deal with the the weapons for example just probably quite expensive to decommission and destroy each one of those weapons beautiful beautiful pieces of of history the three or three rifle many listeners and bodyguard will afford a three or three rifle and number one to the fire one again given the kick they used to deliver to us but i just think it is such waste and i i don't i fully understand and take your point that we should never have ourselves in a situation where a decommissioned weapon could become a lethal weapon again but i think we need to sit down and look at how we do things our civil service to buy in large do a great job but some of them should not be involved in making decisions like this yeah i mean i i can't help wonder our ministers thinking if it ever happened it probably won't happen but if it ever happened that a decommissioned weapon got into the hands of will say a gangster in Dublin and it was used in a shooting and it turned out that a weapon used in a killing a gangland killing in this country had originated in the irish defense forces i suspect the backlash in the press and the response and the reaction is something that no minister or government could survive and i suspect it may very well be on that basis that this is the reason that this isn't changing and it could take some discussion from people like yourselves to get a different mindset going there yeah look i mean there's always the possibility that some gore would particularly the browning revolvers that were destroyed a nice beautiful craft of weapon but a small weapon and if somebody walked into your petrol station or your shop today and pulled out a browning revolver are you going to ask them is it a replica is it fully loaded or is it a decommissioned former defense right now since i think you'll just hand over the contents of the tale and thank god that you weren't shot so you have stories of that but the three or three rifles are an entirely different equation i can go to France today and i can buy a decommissioned three or three and i can import it into the country i'd notify the guardian advance of course i was bringing us in and i'd notify them that it was in fact a decommissioned weapon and would present produce it for inspection when it came in was i just think that we're missing a picture particularly when we're disclosing of assets certainly food for thought senator jarred croc will thank you very much indeed thank you thank you indeed i said senator jarred croc will they're going to take a short break back after these this is not just chicken this is buttermilk chicken in a crispy coating this is katsu curry chicken marinated in aromatic spices and rolled in golden breadcrumbs this is chicken in a fiery flaming hot and spicy crumb and they're three for 12 euro these are not just chicken tenders these are m and s chicken tenders subject to availability t's and c supply valley shannon and 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until saturday at their letter candy and valley buffet stores book a free in-store color consultation with the dulux consultant in letter candy this thursday are in valley buffet on friday also call in an enter to win big prizes like a sofa mattress room makeovers paint vouchers and more this is the nine tail noon show on highland radio and a very good morning to you on this monday morning donal kavner with you on the program this morning and we're here on tail noon today now i have two very special guests in studio with me this morning i have tony mcgilloway who's president of don fanny golf club and i have sean quinn who is head of sales here on highland radio tony sean you're both very welcome thanks hi donal uh very well indeed now don fanny golf club is holding a 24 for 24 golf challenge it's taking place on the 23rd and 24th of june uh tony as president of the club tell us all about this event well as you say we have 32 players actually start on the 23rd 13 of we start teeing off at 10 o'clock in the morning um and they will continue to play for 24 hours and complete the following morning at 10 a.m hopefully they'll have managed to play at least five rounds of golf in that period of time to to my knowledge and we've done a lot of searching on it and this has never been completed anywhere in the world will you have a minimum of 24 players completing that number of rounds and that's playing through the darkness and all sean as as the the head of sales at highland and indeed the vice captain of the club in don fanny i have to be honest and i know you and i've known you for quite a few years i see your handle over this actually do you know what i'm gonna be honest it's actually tony's tony's brainchild of that because um the golf is hard enough right it's hard enough when you land at whatever time at nine o'clock in the morning and you're going out and you're going to play 18 holes of golf and now i'm no spring chicken anymore and and i think at 18 holes 36 is a stretch but to do this now this is pretty phenomenal that uh the 32 golfers are going to try and play five rounds of golf consecutively and and probably this be fair at least one of those in the dark it's going to be some challenge and and when tony came and spoke to me about it i thought number one i thought he's mad uh but then when he's been so passionate about it the club was rolling right behind him as well and and he's managed to get 32 others who are completely mad to go and do this yeah in the pure darkness so he has to be applauded um and and it's going to be a brilliant event absolutely fantastic um if we get this weather there won't be much darkness but it will still be a huge challenge and there's things that tony'll talk about is um what are the challenges of playing in the dark and and you've just he's just he's he's that's how good he is he's just taken my next question i mean presumably you're going to have to get some special spotlighting in which will be portable that you can sort of travel from hole to hole but i mean stand up at a tee someone that does this is going to have to know that course really well because they will be hitting knowing that where they want the ball to be somewhere over there in the darkness but presumably they'll have to know the course so well that they can literally do it in the dark well don't we're not not actually going to be that sore on them so we're not because we're going to provide them with golf balls with lights inside them oh lovely so we are um as you say the it's a challenge playing in the dark because don't follow he has a lot of the members knows got lots of drains in it yeah they're hard enough to miss during the day um so missing them during the night i don't know how we're going to manage that but we have actually a sponsor who has come along and created he's given us the thing called glow sticks so we're actually going to have the drains lined um so that nobody ends up walking into them yeah we're going to have a circle of glow sticks around the greens and in the holes themselves so we can actually see where we're going we aren't actually going to put spotlights anywhere the the all the lighting is going to be provided by a small head torch right and uh apart from that the challenge is because it would actually take away because we did talk about lighting up the course but actually it'll take away from the i suppose somebody actually said the romance of actually trying to do this in the darkness um yeah and shawn did say i am very lucky that i've had one of the challenges was to find another 24 maniacs um and we have found them there are 32 of us and they go from the ages of i think the youngest 20 and the oldest as far as i'm aware in his mid i'll not give us exact age but as in his mid 70s um i think i'm all doing it myself but fair play to all of the all of the boys that are taking on the challenge for doing it none of us are spring chickens there's a few umphalus there but the majority of the golfers are getting on about an age yeah and it isn't as though uh because it's a golf course and because it's a links course in particular it's not all nicely paved paths and nice clear walkways you're going to have to be very very careful however well you know that course and you will know it very well obviously you're going to have to be very careful because i mean if you put a foot wrong on trip or slip or whatever you know it's it's potentially an iffy situation yes i agree with you there and um as i say we're doing everything we can to make sure that all the competitors are as safe as possible as i say we're providing they'll all have high high vis jackets on them they'll all have head torches to provide a path for them and then as i say any hazards that are going to be out there will be lit up with glow sticks but they're still taking money on who's the first person to fall into the bunker Sean um a time is about to catch up with us and there there would be an outbreak to take soon and i don't want to annoy our head of sales but not taking our outbreaks no no so um there are three benefiting charities from this and three very important charities that are close to your heart and close to the hearts of the people in that area absolutely so they all the money raised is going to the crucially disaster fund alzheimer society of Ireland and the irish society of autism now just a very quick one there is still sponsorship sponsorship availability for the t-boxes on the day if you want to do that you can call the golf club 0749136335 or tony on 0894185574 they're looking for medics that can be available for a couple of hours just in case especially during the the nighttime hours that's important all the details are on um done fanny golf clubs facebook page it's a brilliant event uh we we're looking for people to support it because it's as you said rightly so it's for three brilliant charities and tony final word to yourself obviously this is going to be there's going to be 32 people yourself included actually out on the course playing this event but it's going to literally take the support of hundreds of volunteers and backroom people involved with the club and beyond in the wider community to actually make this happen yeah i mean there's no doubt i couldn't have done this and none of the players are actually going to be able to do it without the support of the club and in fairness uh the local sponsors you know we have we've been very lucky that we actually have four sponsors um four main sponsors there Smiley Monroe the kill mac group um McGinley motors and maguire and farry accountants have all backed us from the point of view because it is quite an expansive thing to put on as well um but as you say the support of the club the support of the locals um it's all part of the event tony McGilloway president of donovan he golf club and shon quayne uh vice captain of the club and also head of sales marketing here at highland radio 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sceptre says local authorities have failed to address the recruitment and retention crisis in the brigade firefighters won't be attending training drills or testing their lifesaving equipment like breathing apparatus speaking on this morning's 9 till noon show kevin mckinney sceptre organizer says the meeting is taking place today to make a plan for dunneagle's 15 stations for next week well we have a plan um this week it's industrial action next week will be industrial action plus rolling strikes so we'll decide uh we're meeting today and we'll decide how that'll roll out in dunneagle we have 15 stations here and then um the week after that uh we will be moving to an all out strike now this is national as well as not just in dunneagle so the impact uh that will have will uh be difficult to foresee at this point in time the current stalemate over the stalled storm and parliament will be discussed in washington today the shin fame leader in the north michelle o'neill will tell us politicians the dup no longer has the mandate to prevent the assembly from functioning her visit comes ahead of a similar trip to the yes capital this week by british prime minister rishi sunak dr brian feeney with the irish news in belfast says shin fame are being treated with greater respect lately michelle o'neill's entitled to be first minister shin fame control most of the councils in the north of ireland now and of course they are the biggest party in ireland so when she goes there she's speaking with authority and you know an electoral strength that uh that just cannot be ignored that shin fame represent the majority of voters in the north liam bern's arrest has been described as the most significant since the beginning of the hutch kinhan feud the double no longer has been held by spanish police in mayorka since sunday and efforts are being made to extraditum bern had been living in dubai where other key members of the kinhan cartel are also located special correspondent with the irish independent paul williams says it's a major blow to the organized time group liam bern is one of the most significant figures who has been arrested by the gaurdy since they break out of this notorious hutch kinhan feud liam bern is a man with an awful lot of blood on his hands he's a violent arrogant devious talk this is a major major blow to the entire kinhan organization because this is another senior figure gone and it shows that the net is closing there are concerns the lack of rainfall may lead to water shortages ishka erin is advising anyone to everyone to conserve supplies as much as possible linda hues from met erin says there will be little to no rainfall in the coming days kind of between now and friday really there's going to be very dry with very low amounts of rainfall if anything uh just the odd shower possible in in ulster and north khanok today but really most places are going to stay dry for the rest of the working week a new campaign will be launched today to help struggling homeowners and those finding it hard to repay other loans our credit cards the banking and payments federation is joining forces with mabs to launch a special website dealing with debt dot i a brian haze of the bpfi says campaign is there to help anyone who is under pressure it's absolutely essential that lenders provide solutions for people particularly at pre-arriers but the good news is we're not seeing significant upticks in the level of pre-arriers right now but of course as we go forward and as the potential of additional rate rises into the summer increases we've got to stand ready to help those customers if a difficulty emerges looking now to the weather it will be mostly dry and sunny today there'll be some clouds at times and just a slight chance of isolated showers developing later highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees generally but not as warm near the coast in a light to moderate easterly breeze that's all for now i'll be back again with the news headlines at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices this tuesday morning june 6th the death has occurred of william willi mcdermott five knock pneumonia terrace letter kenny proposing at his late residence removal tomorrow at 10 30 a.m for rakeway and mass at 11 o'clock in st unan's cathedral with burial afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery glenn fenn rosary will be held at 8 o'clock family time please from 11 p.m tonight the rakeway and mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family flowers only donations if desired to the irish kidney association care of any family member or marley funeral directors the death has taken place of jared o'connor hollymount cairndona remains are opposing at the home of his brother andy o'connor hollymount cairndona funeral leaving their tomorrow at 10 15 a.m to the church of the sacred heart cairndona for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery jared's funeral mass can be viewed live at church media dot tv the death has taken place of charlie doherty hella clohen quickly's point his remains are opposing from his home removal there this morning at 10 15 a.m to the church of the sacred heart cairndona for rakeway and mass at 11 o'clock in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please before the funeral this morning charlie's funeral mass can be viewed live at church media dot tv the death has taken place of bridget trainer knee mackleroy 256 less narrow road donna mana and formerly of straban remains are opposing at her home funeral leaving there this morning at 10 40 a.m for rakeway and mass in st mary's church of her brak at 11 o'clock in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please before the funeral this morning the rakeway and mass can be viewed live via the donna heady parish youtube channel for more details including any family health guidelines for rakes and funerals please go to highland's radio dot com after a long hard day treat 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ask the caller we spoke earlier about the retained firefighters dispute uh being coordinated by sip two now the caller said good morning donal it's quite simple if these people want to work further afield then don't be a firefighter most of these people wouldn't be able to carry a person out of a window anyway how many jobs do these people want or should i say how much money do these people want they want their cake and eat it now i think in fairness it does need to be said number one this is the retained firefighter service it's not a full-time job these are people who are on call and for that on call they are paid a retainer four times a year so four times a year they get an amount of money which is a retainer i.e it's compensation for the fact that they are on call on a 24 seven basis that does not count toward a mortgage that is not counted as a wage so they are not paid a wage per se they're paid a retainer to be on call so they do need a second job to live and to pay their bills and so on and the problem we have is because of the situation a lot of people are saying well i can't be a firefighter because i need a job and that's why we have a major retention and recruitment crisis so you have a problem getting people to go in in the first place and then equally you have a problem after that getting people to stay once they've gone into the situation so it's i think in fairness it's not as simple as saying well if you don't want if you don't like the conditions just don't take the job it's not that simple um other caller says the fire crews are employed by the department of defense via the civil service and administered by local county councils let's not forget these teams are paid handsomely to remain at home on call then they get 75 euro an hour for the first hour of the call out and 45 euro an hour after that certainly getting no support or sympathy from me so says the caller and other caller says i'd like to ask you listen to my phone goes off all day and comes on at night um now if that's a mobile i don't know if there's something in the settings that the phone is um suddenly activating i have a major issue with my phone at the moment for some reason audible starts without warning and i do know what what's causing it i thought it was maybe i have a fit bit that i thought the bluetooth might have been setting it off when i was in the shower or something like that so i got into the habit of switching off bluetooth but no even with bluetooth off audible suddenly randomly starts for no apparent reason even when the phone is on standby um i had the interesting experience recently of i was listening to equal rights which is a terry pratchett book um and uh i i was i was in the theater i was involved in a show and i i walked in and one of the the crew had my bag in their hand and they said what's wrong they said look this bag was over in the corner and there's some woman in the talking about cats it was yeah audible had started off and an excerpt from terry pratchett's equal rights was being broadcast from my bag because my phone had suddenly switched on for no apparent reason uh we spoke to own carry earlier about the air situation uh good morning donor we're a family of four we flew through charlotte gall in paris yesterday it was a fantastic experience the airport had faster lanes through security and passport control for families we encountered numerous friendly staff the place was spotless they even had playstations and tv's set up with boarding gates which our older child really enjoyed i never usually like going through airports but this was a very pleasant experience and very family friendly as and i absolutely am delighted that you had a good experience there as i said to own during the course of our conversation uh the last time i was actually in an airport um with the exception of meeting a family member at donnie gall airport which is always a lovely airport to both be at and fly into and out of but the last airport i actually went through to catch a flight was shiphole in amsterdam now granted it was the morning of the first saturday of july last year and it was horrendous um now it was right at that time when there were staff shortages at security decks and there was queues going out airport doors and down airport footpaths it was it was awful um and i never want to experience something like that again um had a lovely call from a man at a bank telling me that four thousand euro was being used from my card for online shopping today naturally i was very shocked he asked me to get my card in my hand so he could help me he could see i was shocked to ask him what could i do he said read out the card number i said i had a question of course i could ask him something so when i asked him what hand should i hold the card in he went very quiet no answer so i just hung up i think he was going well until that uh again a scam in itself and there are so many of these scams going about and the um the the advice is if you get a call like that if they say they're from the bank say okay i tell you what you hang up and i'll ring the bank back um and that that'll um make it hopefully a bit better corner says um can you please put out a plea to all walkers and cyclists on our road at the moment please wear high vis vests when out and about i came across a cyclist this morning in dark green clothing just blending in with the hedges saw him in the nick of time when the sun is in your eyes it can be very difficult to see uh and that's a corner there and that's a very good point um high vis is can be important now also when the sun is in your eyes it can be hard to see and do please bear that in mind as well that if you're looking at someone coming towards you and the sun is behind you that means it can be straight in their eyes yeah and it can be difficult um color says good morning the agriculture minister wants to reduce their herd in ireland with a big deal done to import from brazil same as the peat close down all the bogs in ireland then import peat from roma same happening with our children exporting them and then importing staff from other countries so says a caller now i think in fairness charlie mcconnellogue as i understand that is fighting this um the demand that you significantly reduce the dairy herd and i think actually charlie mcconnellogue is not necessarily giving his full backing to that i do believe behind the scenes he's fighting that one now it is quarter past ten we're going to take a short break um and then we'll have the gar the information slot with sergeant charlie and anderson but of course before any of that it's time for bingo numbers so please grab your books grab your pens and uh let's go for it the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's tuesday the sixth of june you're playing on the brown sheet the reference number is s12 it's game number 23 the numbers 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you buy two areas you get a third area for free for more specials visit lamore beauty skin and laser clinic on facebook the community garden information slot is brought to you by charidan security systems protecting what you value most call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro charidan security 91 26025 and let it say we're joined in studio this morning by sergeant charlene anderson and charlene good morning good morning donal how are you very well indeed um we actually the two of us got a chance to walk a bit together during really for life at the weekend and we had an absolutely great weekend and it was great to see you in the guard of the team down there oh thanks so much i still have the blisters to prove it but i'm sure yeah oh yeah i was i was at home yesterday and i was fit for absolutely nothing to be honest but um that was a was a great weekend and and thanks to you and thanks to grania and thanks to all the squad who came up uh from angar the shoe corners were great to have you there now let's move on to the issues in hand and sadly there are a number of crimes that you're seeking help with and we begin with a very recent one early hours of this morning in balaba fe that's correct donal so um gar thee and letter kenny are appealing for information in relation to a burglary that occurred in the early hours of this morning that's Tuesday the 6th of june now the burglary occurred at approximately 3 30 am in the blue cedar's area of baliba fe now resident in the house in question disturbed an unknown man in their utility room and he then fled the scene now it's understood that he stole a black wallet containing a debit card and a driving license and a set of keys from the property now the car keys were later located on a roadway near the house there was no damage caused to the property as the door had not been locked at the time so we're just saying should anybody come across the black wallet if it was discarded maybe in the estate or in a garden or nearby we're asking people not to touch it but to contact gar thee immediately um we'd also appeal to any road users that may have been in the area and once again who may have dash cam footage or indeed any residents who may have heard a disturbance in around 3 30 am this morning in the blue cedar's area to contact gar thee on 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 100 and again in the early hours of this morning attempted theft of a car at goth mccall millford that's correct so gar thee and millford are investigating this attempt um at theft of a car from gorth mccall area in millford in the early hours this morning and this occurred at approximately 4 am now the residents of a house um at that location heard a car starting and stopping outside their home two youths then ran from the house so the residents went to check their two cars which were parked in the driveway only to discover that both cars had been entered an attempt had been made to drive one of the cars and a small sum of money had been stolen from the other now there was no damage caused to either of the cars but again these cars had been unlocked at the time this incident occurred now the area in which the incident happened is on the Kilmachrenner road just a short distance from millford again we just appeal to any road users who may have dash cam footage or who may have been in the area at the time of the incident and again it's approximately 4 am in the early hours of this morning and we'd ask them just to contact our dean millford this time donal on 9 1 5 3 0 6 0 moving now to north nishon and an incident at ballahillian mallon head that's correct so gar thee and bunkranna this time are appealing for information in relation to an incident that occurred at ballahillian mallon head and that's near bambas crown on saturday the 3rd of june at approximately 10 45 am now a man and a woman reported that they were in the area when they met a man and a woman two teenagers who had two dogs with them now the woman alleges that she was assaulted by the man um sorry by a man from the group um after having a brief discussion with them and then they left the area on foot so we're just appealing to anyone who may have observed this group of people or indeed observe the the altercation to contact gar thee or once again if anyone was traveling in the area that morning between 10 15 am and 11 15 am and again dash cam footage is is vital in a lot of these incidents and we'd ask them to contact gar thee and bunkranna on 9 3 2 0 5 4 0 we're going back now to the saturday before last this is saturday 27th of may in lyford that's right so gar thee and lyford this time are investigating an alleged assault on a teenage boy by a man at murlock lyford on saturday the 27th of may at approximately 8 30 p.m a motorist who was passing at the time stopped and intervened now the boy in question did not require medical attention at the scene so we'd appeal to that motorist to contact gar thee because we're hoping that he may be able to assist us with their inquiries and we'd also appeal to anyone else who may have witnessed the incident to contact us or indeed if anyone believes that they may have captured the incident on dash cam footage or indeed have any information in relation to that particular incident we'd ask them to contact us at letter kenny or if they you know don't want to contact the guy the station the canal was contact the guy the confidential line donal and that's 1800 666 111 and that's open to everybody something you don't hear of very often this is the first time i've come across this i think it's the theft of batteries from an electric fence yeah i have to say it's a first for me as well so where gar thee are investigating the theft of three force field electric fence batteries from a field at bali lin malin and this occurred between five p.m on friday the second of june and eight a.m on saturday the third of june now the owner had placed the battery units on the fence along the roadside at five p.m on friday evening only to discover they were stolen overnight said we just appeal to anyone who might have come across similar items perhaps they're for sale on a secondhand basis we'd ask them to notify us if they do or indeed anyone else that has any information in relation to the incident we now seem to contact our the in bunkrana on 9320540 and presumably that would be a fairly limited secondhand market between batteries for an electric fence i mean they're not going to be widespread on sale so it could be a fairly small pool of of people in interest in those i would imagine so donal now but again look this is the first time that i've come across this um as we alluded to earlier but um i suppose the biggest thing if there if someone's trying to sell them on secondhand we and i suppose if somebody is looking to purchase something like this um perhaps if they do come across secondhand and items like this for sale maybe just to notify us and we can follow it up criminal damage now in bunkrana last week so um god the in bunkrana are investigating this criminal damage incident that occurred at swilly view apartments between five p.m on monday the 29th of may and eight a.m on tuesday the 30th of may i'm sorry a resident in that area had their car parked there between those times and somebody called substantial damage to by kingish so we just appeal to anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity in the area um to contact our the in bunkrana and i understand as i said the damage was substantial the vehicle was completely keyed all down one side so not a nice thing to happen to anybody absolutely not um to lyford now sin jude's court and an incident there the weekend before last as well that's correct so this incident occurred between 9 p.m on saturday the 27th of may and 1 p.m on sunday the 28th of may so downstairs window of a house um was smashed between those times and the house was vacant when the incident occurred so we just appeal to anybody with any relevant information to contact our the and as you said the incident occurred at sin jude's court in lyford on the 27th of may back to northerners shown again and a road traffic collision this time on sunday that's right so this incident occurred on sunday the 4th of june and it was shortly before 3 40 p.m so gar thee received a report in relation to a road traffic collision that had just occurred between the lorry and a number of cars now the lorry which was a volvo 240 we understand with the partial registration number of sb12 had just left kuldaf beach area to travel in the direction of kuldaf when it allegedly made contact with a number of parked cars along the roadside now the lorry driver did not remain at the scene so we're just asking if anybody witnessed this particular incident to contact us um or indeed if anyone has dash cam footage um we'd like to be able to follow this up and get the matter resolved they can contact gar thee in bunkrana on 93 205 40 now staying on the roads and a number of arrests to report uh sadly on the roads of donnie gall over the holly weekend sadly it would appear that yet again the bank holiday road safety message was maybe ignored in some cases donal but there was a number of arrests across donnie gall over the course of the bank holiday weekend um for offenses relating to driving under the influence so between friday and monday there was two arrests for drug driving and 12 arrests for drink driving related offenses so once again we just urge all road users to always act responsibly when it comes to road safety um if you take to the roads while under the influence you're no doubt putting yourself and other road users in danger and we'd ask people and particularly young people um well i suppose look everybody in general but predominantly what we find young people that not to get into a vehicle um as a passenger if you think that the driver may be under the influence or you know if you have any worries or anxieties in relation to somebody perhaps driving a car don't get into the car with them um the donnie gall rally is on the horizon as we know and it'll be happening in the common weeks and again we'll be putting out a number of road safety messages um leading up to the event and we just urge everybody really to make road safety their top priority now if i had read my briefing notes i'd have realized that we are about to talk about what we talked about at the very start um in terms of the weekend it was a hugely busy weekend for yourself and in fairness uh garthy from donnie gall we're all over the place over the past couple of days we were there was a lot of events going on it was extremely busy weekend um across donnie gall many social and sporting events taking place donal but look we're delighted to be able to assist um and in as many of these events as possible and look it's fantastic to engage with local communities and particularly in the beautiful weather um we're grateful to everybody um who supported us at the relay for life um in letter kenny over the weekend and there was some fantastic support shown for soca garther i think you might have been involved in that there may be a picture of me yes there may well be yes and look it was a lovely family friendly event um we're also grateful um you know for anyone who came out and supported the other events that we were involved in particularly relay for crumbland i know we had a team in from from chronoguard the station there was maybe 12 or 15 members that took part in that um there was also initial pride took place on sunday a huge turnout in bunkrana and look it is great to see it and we're coming into this time of year the weather is brilliant people are out and about there's a lot of events happening and if anybody would like us to attend any events going forward i can know we're asked to attend the clanmani festival to set up a stand absolutely make contact with the station we can't guarantee that we will but look if you put in your request we'll do our best to get there and it does have to be said that we on this slot do tend to highlight what went wrong and we highlight the wrongdoing in our society but it does need to be acknowledged that this weekend tens and tens of thousands of people in this county went out and just had the crack and behaved themselves and everything was fine and for the vast vast majority of people that were at those events and on the roads and out and about in donnie gall over the weekend it was nothing but good humor good natured banter and the crack was had absolutely and that's what it's all about and for us as well we love to take part in events like this and get out and get into the community and you know speak to people a lot of the times people you know incidents that we're dealing with we might you know be dealing with offenders and different things but this is a good opportunity these are community events they're happening all over donnie gall we love to be involved and again as i said earlier if it's a thing that people do want maybe the guides to comment set up an information stand or be at an event make contact i can't guarantee it but we'll do our best and i just want to say as well i know we've read out a lot of incidents there this morning and we're always seeking information and just on a personal level we're always appealing for information and i'd like to say thank you very much to any everybody that has come forward to date and that has given us information provided us with dash cam footage and any nugget of information that we get it's so important it just could be the missing link that will that someone could provide to us that will help us solve an investigation so thank you to on that just i just wanted to mention it at the end so thank you to everybody who has provided information today we really do appreciate it thank you charlene our pleasure as always sergeant charlene underson thank you very much indeed thank 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serving letter kenny and the surrounding areas for over 100 years charlie mclafferty funeral directors and our family take care of your family and guide you through a difficult time this is the nine till noon show on highland radio it's donal cavern with you on the show on till 12 noon today now it isn't very often that i get to chat with a fellow waterford man on the show but i get to do that now because i'm delighted to say we're joined on zoom by the one from mario rosenstock mario good morning donal i had no idea you were from waterford and i didn't detect the old blacks in front of you see the here's the thing about it by you see i left waterford 1990 now i grew up i was living on the donmore road by indlenville that's where i lived now you see i had gotten a job in radios where i had to sort of kill the accident you know what i mean by how's it going by you're two blackheads talking with each other on highland radio at the other side of the country by we're going to have a proper waterford lunch hang black kind of coke in a packet of tato fantastic that is the waterford home already oh absolutely mario it's a pleasure speaking to you you're touring nationwide with a gift grub live 2023 you've got gigs coming up at manium forum um this coming friday actually and on june 30th the mount erigal in letter kenny um always good to see you up this part of the world good for you to be back on the road again oh absolutely yeah um i mean i've mainly performed when i've been in dunny goll i've mainly performed in the clanry and i remember the first time i performed in the clanry and i was i was advised you know very very carefully that it was the place that daniel got married in and you'd want to be quite respectful here now to daniel is a lot of fans that are going to be coming to see you tonight and i was extremely nervous like of the idea of taking the p out of daniel in his home territory but he is loved so much that it actually even a even taking the mickey out of him seems to go down well up there so um you know absolutely fantastic memories from from from dunny goll down through the years and we're going to try the mount erigal um hotel and now on the 30th of june and also the the the dairy date which is my first uh trip to dairy because um we did our first show in belfast on friday night again uh hugely nerve-wracking experience under the idea that you're kind of going will people know what this stuff is i think they will i i i i i certainly think they will will dairy they certainly will because i mean you forget half of dunny goll will go to dairy you've been in his own gravitates towards dairy more than a gravitates towards letter kitty anyway but uh no i i suspect they'll be great gigs i mean i know more than most what it's like to work in radio studios and i am well versed over many many decades working in radio uh being in a small room and i started on sure set radio in waterford if you remember that i started on sure side and it'll be with wlr and you know i know what it is to do radio work in a room with a microphone and think into yourself there could be a couple of thousand people listen to me or there could be two dogs and a cat and you never know how big is it for you to get out of the studio because it must be lovely having done most of your work in a studio to actually get out and see the whites and people's eyes and hear the laughter and see the faces and see the joy people often ask me what's your favorite bit to do is it is it radio is it live is a tv or whatever and i would say that my favorite thing to do is live because live is a composite of all the stuff that you've done on the radio but brought two people right in front of them so that you can see the reaction right in front of right in front of you like the best reaction i i remember ever receiving um on radio is that idea that you get a text into the radio station and it goes hey i'm just driving through traffic and i looked to the guy on my right hand side in the car and we laughed at exactly the same time and that is a lovely feeling when you bring when you get that on the radio but you can't see it and you can't hear it um when you're live you can see it you can feel it you can hear it and it's it's it's extraordinary um the thing is about radio though is you get a chance to try out characters and you can feel which characters work before you bring them on stage so in a sense you get to trial stuff all the time um and so by the time you get them on to a stage people may already be familiar with them and uh and ready to engage with them and ready to have a blast with them but um yeah so i would say live like you cannot beat the the the live experience you just cannot and uh and and this thing has been missing from Irish life as well for a couple of years that that sense of communal laughter um that sense of not only laughing live at something but the sense of watching other people laughing live while you're laughing and that whole idea of laughing together and being in the room together when we all laugh was something that we missed desperately for about two years i mean it must be hard even more so than live music i mean i think they said even my promoter said i said what's big what's really big coming back and they went comedy comedy comedy people want to laugh yeah they want to laugh i mean they got they were able to get a little bit of music you know from online and from youtube and from live streaming and everything but you can't really reproduce that feeling of live laughter yeah that's absolutely true and it must be hard to in a studio because i mean how long does it take for you to know that a character is working or an arc is working because i mean you can come out with something and and you you put it out there and you work on it in the studio and you and i i know enough about editing in a studio to know exactly how much work goes into what you do and i mean you know if anyone thinks an episode of giftgrub is sort of thrown together in 20 minutes i i suspect they're very very wrong i'm saying you're probably talking minimum five to six hours if not more giftgrub generally lasts about three three and a half minutes and they may that might be the result of thoughts i've had for the last few months a giftgrub it might be in my phone and then i would take those those little notes into the studio and i would meet with iain demsey and charlie our producer and we would we would i would shoot those notes off them very much like um let's say a journalist would propose a feature to an editor and i would run it by them and i would say that we could do this we could do this we could do this and then we'd have a chat about it throw it around then i would go out and i would write it and that would take me about three three and a half hours to write it and i take the writing seriously and then i go off and i produce it and that takes another two hours maybe and then i send all that stuff to a to a brilliant sound engineer called paul duffy and paul then uses his magic and puts all the sound effects and all that and the bells and whistles as we call them on then he sends that back to me at about five o'clock in the evening i listen back and i give him the thumbs up and i go that's grand so a giftgrub sketch that lasts three and three and a half minutes actually takes the guts of a day to produce an entire day and how long does it take for you and ask your question and ask your question about how do you know yeah i mean all we can do is trust ourselves as a comedian and as people who listen to radio iain i always felt is the most brilliant judge of an audience and i mean years ago like we had no social media donal and when giftgrub started in 1999 there was no social media not everybody had mobile phones there was hardly any text messaging no instagram no facebook no twitter no youtube no nothing and the only way iain would know something was going down is he'd go down to tesco he'd be down in tesco and a person might pass him and go oh i love him that birdie in the morning and you know somebody might say i'm loving birdie and that's the only way that you could find out nowadays you get immediate reaction on twitter and social media and so on twitter yeah yeah yeah so so you can kind of you can kind of gauge and um you become quite you become quite quite well you're good at picking up people's vibes and all of that in terms of the reaction of the people that you're partying i remember listening years ago to the decorate uh dermit morgan speaking about jimmy megee and he he said you know jimmy would be banging on the door of the office on a friday dine to hear what he was going to do on saturday because he loved it so much and he couldn't wait and you know the more you took the pee out of jimmy the more jimmy loved it and i seem to remember a couple of years ago you had ronan keating actually took part in it in a sketch and ronan was very sort of good at sort of playing along and and you know playing up to the stereotypes as portraying gift grub himself i mean have you ever had anyone who's not been that kind of much into it and has been a little bit sniffy with you oh the whole the whole spectrum donald of experiences i mean you mentioned ronan there ronan's a typical example um you know for years i was doing ronan at the beginning you know sorry it's all that you can see all that sort of stuff and everything and he was only 22 or whatever and he used to get a bit pissed off with me doing it and uh until i think keith duffy kind of took him by the shoulder and sort of went oh yeah buddy you know you're better on on it than not on a buddy you know and um i think ronan then kind of grew to know that if you are on it it's it's actually a a compliment and so then he fell in love with it and even i think he said later he got a boat or a boat yeah and he called his boat fair play yeah so that's like over embracing then there are people who you know then there are people who sort of your politicians are interesting because politicians believe it or not they want to be on it uh and because they are so interested in their own public relations that they feel being on something like this is better is better than not being on it and i remember being approached by michael noonan once in a thing at the gig at the birdington hotel and he called me over with he beckoned me over with his finger and i went over to the to his seat and he just looked up and meant why don't you do me at all you never do me on the radio you're always doing your mom birthday and is the dodger the dodger and he's getting away with this and he's getting away with that why don't you ever do me you never do me and so he was basically in a sense asking me to do him yeah and it took me about three weeks to do him and three weeks to figure out how to do him i couldn't i couldn't find a way into him that's another story of course that's another uh day's chat but um so people ask to be on it um want to be on it uh and are disappointed if they're not on it and then there are other people like michael flatley who oh god i think i think it was a very famous dunny gall singer who told me you nearly worked that out yes a very famous dunny gall singer told me you know daniel hates it or sorry you know um flatley hates it and uh and i went no i don't and he went oh he hates it and uh you see that's an example of of maybe flatley he would see his role as being a kind of air be Jesus i'm into an ambassador for ireland and i'm a great lead all together and shiver me she am rax and i'm doing a great job as an ambassador and flying the flag for ireland and why would this guy be the hope he'd be taking the piss out of me and me doing such great jobs for ireland and so he wouldn't really you know appreciate it that you know so i mean daniel is great because daniel pulls the rug from out under me all the time i remember he was on ray darcy once on to dfm and ray said um right so the elephant in the room daniel i have to ask it what do you think what do i think of what ray what do you think of the mario rose and stock oppression do you know there's a great fellow up in dunny gall who does me and he's a wonderful impressionist i don't know the fellow you're talking about now ray but oh yes absolutely shade yeah shade from daniel oh yeah i always said it about daniel i mean you know daniel there's many many things but the one thing don't ever underestimate that man's intelligence he's one of the cleverest men i know daniel is one of the most cleverest men i know oh absolutely he's smart and shrewd and he's a pro and i mean daniel is an absolute legend up in dunny gall and everything he's done you know for people and and for the community up there and how people revere him and everything but never be under any misconception daniel is cute daniel is cute and he protects the brand the whole time yeah so he would go i don't know who that fellow you're talking about is ray but can i just say that i've sold out the i and he's seeing glen eagles twice this week so hopefully we'll see you all down there of course we have people like pierce daugherty now who are sort of you know trying to muscle their way in and who knows what may happen in a couple of years time now we may hear him even more that's right pierce daugherty i really enjoyed doing pierce and i see pierce as kind of almost in the same vicinity accent wise our voice wise is leo so when i'm when i'm doing leo i kind of you know i kind of crystallize it a bit clearer like that and he's always fighting with pierce and pierce is kind of a little bit you know pierce is a little bit down a little bit down a bit more gravelly than leo and always you know taking taking leo to the cleaners you know and i'm holding holding leo to uh to to account you know whether it's the public accounts inquiry or any that sort of stuff you know but it's it's only a matter of time i suppose before we see uh more of pierce in the future you know pierce is going to love that actually you know the fact that he's just a step down from leo i'm sure you've just made a mistake you love this by the way i never said i was a step down from from leo and i don't know no sorry don't like i actually take issue with you saying that and uh there's a lot of voices up there that are kind of related to me so uh you have pierce daugherty who's kind of a bit like that but then you you kind of the um aamon mccann who to to uh paraphrase the great donal from waterford would say that you know uh hot press was uh uh a seminal if you like characterization of 80s ireland uh going forward and then you have um uh phil culture who uh so it's lovely kind of baritone voice um and phil of course was present at every uh single juncture of important juncture in his the history of man i remember meeting alad in 1968 i think it was and in arizona and we had a coffee together um we looked up at the sky and this this orb in the sky and i said you should go there sometime next year that man was neil armstrong he said put on the moon he took my advice and of course not that i'm taking uh you know the credit for putting neil armstrong on the moon but he did he did have a little chat and and he you know i said to him perhaps if you go there a couple of words you know one small step for i don't know and and and if we use my words well it's fantastic and credit to neil you know i want a fair play phil phil is i did that i did that joke in front of phil once and he had no problem with it at all but it was the idea that you know the idea that phil has seen everything met everybody done everything i hope you haven't blown your best bit for the millennium forum on friday though that's the only thing i have so much material they haven't even seen even how i did they haven't even they haven't even heard how i perfected my jerry adams i i perfected my jerry adams from growing up on a farm in county waterford all lovely and we used to have 85 cows and one of the cows was half tame and she was called val and i remember when i was learning to do jerry adams jerry adams was the first character i ever did on the radio and um i remember when i was learning to do my jerry adams i remembered the cow in the field and i remembered how i got the noise and the noise was that was the cow and then i learned how to do jerry which was are you are you don't are you it was very much the the tone of the car the tone of the car um but that lends to my doing jerry adams you know my grandmother my grandmother spoke very like that and of course that reminded me of somebody as well and my grandmother used to always tell me that i'd be a great comedian and an actor that i'd floppy blonde hair and blue eyes and i'd like irons you grant and that of course lent itself to my Michael D Higgins of course and i was delighted i was able to tap into that voice if you like don't and and i mean that is that is uncanny actually it's a next and i'm sure you were you were doing well but i do like that i like that a lot because that's wonderful if you i like it as someone as someone who actually started reading hot press uh in about 1981 yes i was a contributor to hot press indeed you were indeed and i remember attending pop dealing of course in the early ages and then that's what i've still was 1982 yes yes indeed i think i think i actually met Michael D the first time when he was yes i remember missing yourself i remember it very well you haven't changed the business thank you very much you have um i i think at this stage Michael D you've met everyone in the country at least twice if not three times mario i'm going to say goodbye but before i do a lovely piece of synchronicity that just happened um no one of our future guests as we were chatting earlier on a little notice just appeared in front of me on my zoom screen and it just says ronan entered the waiting room ronan ronan entered the waiting room i doubt very much it's the ronan but it's certainly a ronan by the way don't just one more thing for you if anybody um if anybody wants them i found some batteries from an electric fence there yesterday and if anybody you can they all have my number i found some batteries from an electric fence myself and bejella are holding them at home loving them any more interest in soca garda i'll be down tomorrow with a bucket and an old bucket to throw it over in the old gardy great job they're doing and on the sold out line eagles by the way and i'm selling out mount erigal on the 30th of june and any forum on this coming friday mario rose and stock it has been a pleasure thank you ah thank you very much for having mario take care bye good luck cheers bye good luck bye shop lk at brine mccormick sports and leisure main street let it can be all the kids are back playing football with longer days and shorter nights kids football boots from only 25 euro available in velcro or lace check our new range of kids boots shorts socks and accessories visits our new club room with quarter zips t-shirts and matching bottoms for your favorite local clump click on team wear at bmc sports dot i e for more details a huge warehouse sale starts at mcginley's furniture letter kenny this wednesday the 7th of june at 10 am with up to 70 percent off due to shawarma expansion all warehouse stock is clearing at massively discounted prices it's first come first served and stock is limited so don't miss the opportunity to grab a bargain this wednesday from 10 for three days only at mcginley's furniture portlink business park portrayed letter kenny charge into summer with two e choose from a beach cruiser city break or mexico flying direct from dublin holiday sorted two we live happy the reverend jim lomond presents an evening of music and song in angrilyn theater letter kenny on friday 9th of june at 8 p.m with hupey and maria dowry tehan and iona holt tehan leckie andrea long amy mehan and the region quartet tickets 15 euro on sale now from the theater box office proceeds in aid of the donnie gall hospice and the evening of music stories and a donnie gall farewell at angrilyn theater letter kenny on friday 9th of june and you are welcome back to the nine tail noon show it's uh donnell with you on tail 12 noon now you may have heard uh on hyland and red in the papers recently that uh letter kenny community child care's facility uh will need to be vacated uh in the coming months because of a mica issue they are currently renting that premises they're looking to develop a new premises and uh buy it outright i'm joined in studio by jordan berg who is the manager of letter kenny community child care center and we're also joined on zoom by ronan hilfordy who is the director of ron hillbred distribution limited who is going to come into our story in just a moment but first of all jordan we're going to go to you and first briefly just outline the situation that you're in at the moment and why you find yourselves having to fundraise substantially well in 2019 the cracks that were in the building that we thought were settlement we decided to get tested and it came back as 35 percent mica so that was sort of four years ago now and the cracks have gradually got worse we have serious cracks internally externally in the floors one of the cracks is in a load bearing wall so it'll have to come down our landlords have done remedial repairs and our lease is up in december and we will we have been told we will be given six months lease at a time till we can vacate the premises because it was structurally at the moment not too bad but it is unsigned and it's going forward we need to relocate and we'd like to relocate in our catchment area and you've made it known you would like to buy a premises rather than rent again and that's really what's at the root of this it is really because we feel that if we can buy a site and build that we will have loans for about 15 years at the end of that time the community will own the service outright and it is a community facility this is not a pride now at the moment it's the enterprise board isn't it are your landlords at the moment it's Dunnegull Enterprise Fund which is slightly separate and we are a registered charity not for profit so we for the last we've been in that building for the last 20 years we have been the only full day service that is community in the town of the size of letter Kenny obviously over the coming months we're going to hear a lot about this fundraising drive I suspect and it's going to become part of the the ongoing discussion but the first of what will be I suspect a series of big events takes place on this coming Sunday and it's linking in with the launch of the Wilton Recycling Dunnegull International Rally and that's where Ronan Hilferty comes in Ronan good morning to you good morning Barry and thanks for having me on yeah we're in good form indeed Ronan Ronan tell us about the event that's taking place on next Sunday June 11th well this event is the first of its kind in Dunnegull and I think for any rally event what we're having it kind of breaks into two sections you know we have a family day from two to five which is free and for people to come along see the rally cars there'll be face painting ice cream for the kids music and lots and lots of crack and then the second part of it is where we get the Stars of Irish Rally a very unique opportunity the Stars of Irish Rally past present and future we're going to be on a panel in this the discussion with your own Osheen Kelly he'll be there you know putting the drivers through their paces the big names involved guys like Gary Jennings the recent winner of the Sperrens Rally you have Kellan Devine one of the contenders who I was tarmac championship our own rally team Ron Hill Rallying our driver Mark Alborn will be there on the day doing very very well this year Kevin Eaves Jason McCarn and lots of other guests to be announced keep your eye on the Ron Hill Rallying webpage one of one of the one of the favorites of Dunnegull rallying will be putting this video up there shortly today so just keep an eye out for that and the rally obviously takes place the following weekend but there is a huge interest in the rally here in Dunnegull and people will be sort of getting their their their heads into rally mode a few days beforehand and what better to get your head into rally mode and start the preparations for what is for many the weekend of the year than by going to an event like this yes and like this is all for charity you know this is this this is all for charity and the great thing about this you're going to get up very very close and personal with the rally cars and the rally drivers you know the when the when the live event when the rally is live you'll not get as much access as you're going to get this weekend to the rally cars onto the rally drivers now there is one car that's going to be there of significance to the people of Dunnegull and the people of Dunnegull Motorsport and Manus Kelly's winning car will be there and this is a you know we have to thank Dunnegull for allowing us to take this car down and have it on show so you know like you know calm down support this is a very very good cause and it's very close to my heart because my own daughter is in that facility and I know Geraldine and the staff well they're stellar people the work that they're doing and to do it under such circumstances I think it's you know we we have a duty of care here to the people of letter Kenny to the people of Dunnegull that we must support them in this endeavor you know this is a this is a facility for the people by the people so you know this this this is a very very good cause and as you said the late Mandy Kelly the legend of Dunnegull rallying and Donald Mandy his brother of course currently mayor of the letter Kenny municipal district and I've no doubt that Donald will be there and Donald senior will be there as well and that the the Kelly family will will be supporting this oh yes I went out of shadow and died now for for the tickets for the upstairs event it's 25 euro and they're available on event rights so everybody the tickets are selling fast so get on make sure you don't miss this because this is this is the first time that anything like this is happening you know so get on book the tickets support a good cause. Geraldine back to yourself in terms of the ongoing issue as we say this is the first of what's going to be a number of events that are going to take place over many weeks and months the community crash has a go fund me page up and running as well at the moment and there's various initiatives so this isn't if people can't go to this obviously they'll get their chance to donate online or there would be more events coming up in the future as well that's that's correct and we we hope to plan most of them to be family oriented we have a quiz on the 22nd of the 6th in arena 7 and we have a family fund cinema day on the 2nd of July in total we have organized 15 events over the next 12 months it's quite packed in but we are on a very tight timescale we believe so presumably you need to be in a position where you can have a deposit for a premises by the end of this year ideally correct do you have a premises in mind or are you looking at building on a greenfield site we're looking at building on a greenfield site and we hope to do a site quite close to where our facility is at the moment we've been through plans before and we have a good idea of what we actually need to build we hope to expand and triple our service which is badly needed because there is very very limited supply of childcare places in letter kenny and surrounding and as you said there is very much a timetable on this because of the mica situation at the building you're in at the moment so that's limited so it isn't as though well we can just stay where we are for two or three years until we get sorted there is a limit here and you do need to be out for safety reasons if for nothing else you need to be out within the space of a year 14 months hope yeah for the year 18 months at the maximum and really as you say it's for the safety of the children the safety of the staff and you're going to have to go through all the you're getting a builder and all that so there is a lot of work to be done and not much time in which to do it um we wish you well rolling with the event and fair play to you and your colleagues for organizing it in the meantime jordan i've no doubt we'll be speaking again i spoke to michelle about this uh less than a fortnight ago there's no doubt we'll be speaking again in in the coming weeks and months for the moment thanks very much indeed and we wish you well with the event and thanks ronan as well thank you ronan so that's uh jordan and ronan there ronan you want a quick final word yeah yeah thanks for having me on i'd also like to thank the staff from ron hill limited because they make all this possible they allow me to go off and do this kind of stuff so a big shout out to them guys i appreciate their work okay and uh jordan best of luck you know we're looking we're looking forward to pushing this event as hard as we can brag thanks for your time ronan and jordan thank you both very much indeed disney's the lion king in dublin more to be seen than has ever been seen 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contact gardy immediately on call firefighters have been staging industrial action since the early hours of this morning sceptu says local authorities have failed to address the recruitment and retention crisis in the brigade firefighters won't be attending training drills or testing their lifesaving equipment like breathing apparatus kevin mckinney sceptu organizer says a meeting is taking place today to make a plan for donnie gall's 15 stations for next week the current stalemate over the stalled storm and parliament will be discussed in washington today the shin fame leader in the north michelle o'neill will tell us politicians the dup no longer has the mandate to prevent the assembly from functioning her visit comes ahead of a similar trip to the us capital this week by british prime minister rishi sunak and attempts are underway to extradite a leading irish crime figure arrested in spain the inburn whose brother david was the victim of the regency hotel murder in 2016 was detained while eating dinner with his family on the island of marioca on sunday he traveled there from debaille where he and other prominent members of the kinhin cartel are now based and finally there are concerns the lack of rainfall may lead to water shortages ishka erin is advising everyone to conserve supplies as much as possible those are the latest headlines we'll have more to come at 12 o'clock an obituary notice this tuesday morning at 11 a.m the death has taken place of jerry column five alge avine and mean and iller dairy bag formerly from ards bag gore to hork his remains will repose at roti's funeral home dairy bag today from 12 noon until rosary at 8 o'clock removal afterwards to the family home house private tomorrow please the funeral mass is in st mary's church dairy bag on thursday at 11 a.m with burial afterwards and knockfall a cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on karen roti's funeral director's facebook page for more details including any health guidelines for 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across the country and the idea would be that there are national issues but there are also local issues and the idea is that in each local area the local issues will be teased out and national issues will be discussed as well now the whole thing is being coordinated by my colleague in the newsroom donemary doherty it seems really weird actually donemary that i am now going to interview you like as a guest on the show it is it is i i'm not back a nerve so i am but i think it is just being on the other side and yes in case you're wondering yes this is the same donemary who read the news at 7 8 9 10 11 this morning but donemary you're uh heading up this particular project so first of all tell us ours to protect what is it ours to protect is going to be a weekly five minute segment it's going to happen at half past 12 every Tuesday and it's to look at things that people can do every day to make their life a bit more sustainable the idea is that there's only is only one planet it is ours to protect and to be completely transparent i'm learning as well as i go of things that i can do and we did have um it's a quiz it's kind of like a quiz that you can do and it tells you how many planets it would take if everybody lived the way that you did and i was absolutely mortified with myself so i was and so we'll be talking with a again expert every week and they'll let us know little tips and tricks and it will all be available there's a website there's a page on our own website on highland and there's also the ours to protect dot i e and it's in conjunction with other local radio stations so there'll be an absolute plethora of information for people now a man who is no stranger to the half 12 on a tuesday or any day slot on highland radio is a voice you hear often on around the north west with john brisman and that's uh ingus kennedy who is a lead guide with nature north west ingus good morning to you and how are you doing and hello everybody ingus um important from your point of view as someone who keeps an eye on the ecosystem of donnie gall on the wildlife of donnie gall on the fauna as it were of donnie gall and the flora as well this is an important issue it's an issue that needs to be discussed it's a huge issue um sustainability climate change biodiversity we hear all these different big words big topics but really it's all about climate change we're warming up the planet by burning fossil fuels and biodiversity loss we're we're losing a huge amount of the living things that are out there that we rely on and the two issues are hand in glove they're both tied in with each other so get an opportunity to to discuss it it's just brilliant the other two guests we have in studio this morning for this launch panel are uh susan uh bogan who's the environmental officer with donnie gall county council and we'll get you in a moment susan and geord mccormick who's the co-chair of tidy towns in letter kenny and the name of cormick's anonymous for many many years with with tidy towns in letter kenny and geord you're supposed really the one who's at the cold face you're you're the one literally keeping an eye on the the streets and the the environment around letter kenny in particular every day and and taking action to make sure that it's improved well i'd say i'm representing the people that do that but yeah we try and do that and our competition that we enter is tidy towns and people kind of think of it sometimes as a as a flowers and litter competition and it's a lot lot bigger than that there i mean sustainability and biodiversity that that engas was talking about has a huge part to play in that and a lot of our work has you know has over the years moved transformed into that type of looking at sustainability plans and how we can do things better and how we can improve the plans and how we improve biodiversity as well so those as as inga said they're they're hand in hand and we do a lot of work in that field as well or we try to do enemy and one of the things people have noticed that particularly around letter kenny in the past couple of weeks if not months is the appearance of signs in some areas with biodiversity area on them and a no year central in actually getting that signage up and and making sure that there are ears and oh there was an a no more may a no a idea in progress to say that look a nicely manicured lawn is all very well but bees need access to flowers bees need lawns and you know we need to sort of sit back and think you know are there things i can do on my front lawn that can help here that's right you know and they've been very successful and i think when i remember about four years ago having a discussion with some some of the council officials and they basically would have said at that stage there's nobody talking about this you know we don't know where you're coming from but we're four years in further down the road and we're very much talking about it we're very much doing it we're very much working with the council with that and i think a big part of it i think david donnelly has our town gardener has done it very well what he's done he's created kind of wavy borders between the they're not just direct straight lines between the the cut grass and the uncut grass which is there for the the biodiversity reasons so and i think the big part of it is you know you need to communicate with the signs is a big big help and and and we get we get good feedback about it we haven't really had any problems and i think it's just another way once you train your mind to a different way of thinking um it's amazing we just adapt to it and move on uh it definitely five years ago that wouldn't have been in our town and and every year we're growing it and growing it every year and finally susan and ask you to get right close up to that mic beside you there susan in in terms of of your work your environmental officer with donnelly county council i'll be honest over the years and we've we've spoken on a number of occasions over the years in your professional role i would always have said susan oh yeah she's waste management but again just like jarred said it's it's way beyond just waste management there's more to your job than that that's right this was the focus is primarily around waste and educating people on on recycling um composting and and today happens um this week happens to be actually national food waste recycling week so we're we're actually set up if i can plug and we're set up at um our recycling centers for the next three days letter kenny currently um until 12 o'clock today and then done low from two to four and what we're doing there is actually promoting food waste recycling and tying in with our partners brice and recycling and a viral grind who are providing free compost as well which has actually been made from recycled food waste um so i have a list of dates sometimes and maybe before we finish up if we can go through them uh donnelly that would be great um but again yeah i suppose my role is is is focused around waste but it does cover sort of the wider environmental issues and we work closely with a lot of fantastic volunteers out in the local communities um around our beaches and our towns and villages all over the county and like that they're they're doing what they can to help make their environment better um today is actually also the launch of love this place leave no trace campaign which will be a summer campaign um with and we're partnering as a supporter as well if that campaign there'll be a huge focus on um everybody just taking that little bit of responsibility to look after their environment over the course of the summer um now that we're in that time of year let's go back to you donnelly and let's let's go back to that ecological footprint calculator now i also want to say and and i will say this and i will say this up front i am quite sure that much as i would sort of regard myself as someone who recycles and someone who composts and someone who puts out the right bin at the right time on the right day i quite possibly would do this survey and i too i'm sure will find myself lacking and find myself falling behind what i would have thought would would be my score so i think if you were somewhat surprised at your score i suspect we may well all find ourselves in the same boat absolutely um so you can go on again this is on our web page i um i completed the survey and i'm going to do it halfway and at the end and hopefully we'll get a bit of a better result so if everybody lived their life like i do it would take 5.7 earths to sustain humanity and i yeah i was absolutely mortified by this um so it takes into account um like your traveling um things like recycling but also your house type how many people live there do carpool and one thing that kind of struck me whenever i was doing this footprint was um it asked about how much you travel by plane or the hours um which whenever i kind of was thinking about sustainability myself and what i do as a person never really thought about that that much so i was thinking right well i went to germany this year and i went to amsterdam and i'm planning hopefully to go to portugal and uh it put me way up over the average um but again it will it will give you a breakdown um it my low my ecological footprint was 9.3 global hectares my carbon footprint was 15 tons per year and uh that made up 56 percent of my total uh of what of why it's going to take nearly six planets to sustain me if everyone lived that way well i i will make a commitment i will do the test today and i will i will announce tomorrow what my what mine is okay well it again it's open to everyone it's there it's on our website we have also shared it on our socials as well um you will be but it asks you at the end how do you feel about it and had all these like proud and i was like no embarrassed so embarrassed but then it also gives you um things that you can do to to help kind of track that back and reverse it so you know what it's not it's not like a a point in blaming shame thing like it is something that we all need to kind of have a look at which is which is the purpose of this wee segment so hopefully we'll we'll and i suspect most of us would find ourselves wanting if we were to do a survey like that all of us in ireland or virtually everybody at least in ireland and and it's a really important um point that that don't really just made there it's not a blame thing um instead it's an accepting of this is how it is this is the reality i am we're burning fossil fuels at ferocious rate we're heating up the planet and there's all sorts of consequences for that that's it that's not your fault or my fault it's the way our society's been set up and especially in a place like dunagall quite often these conversations immediately people are saying well how am i supposed to eat my home how am i supposed to get to work and we can't change this immediately but we can start taking steps and it's not about saying that this person is bad or that person's doing the wrong thing but it's about accepting what we're doing is not sustainable we can't keep doing what we're doing and we have to start making changes and it was interesting i saw a change just as i pulled up here in my uh in my petrol car i am getting to the studio a sound electric post van i'm dropping off and i'm chatting to the to the postman and most of the fleet he was saying around dunagall is electric and and they're able to do it they're able to manage it and it's working for them i was in glen vey national park there recently and their buses are electric they don't need to charge them every night despite the fact they're going up and down to the castle flat out all day at this time of year they're going off during school trips and picking up school groups and whatnot a wonderful service but those changes are coming and they're coming little by little we won't change it all by tomorrow but it's really important to inform ourselves that it's the inevitable jared tip o'neill was the politician who came up with that great phrase that the secret of politics was to think globally and act locally and if ever there was something that that phrase maybe was designed for it's for our reaction to this very topic i think so i think you've hit the nail on the head there i mean i was driving up here myself and trying to think about how it's such a broad sustainability is so broad i mean you could talk for for hours and not cover everything but you know we we've had an idea in our committee that we're trying to launch uh we have launched it but we want to do a lot more about it and it's called the power of one and it's you know as a community i think it says some of the things that we don't have control over but there are things that we ourselves have control over ourselves personally and um that's the idea of power of one if we what can they as you as an individual what can you do in your life to improve it and if enough people collectively do that you can make a change and and i do think that you know it's a lot more lately this idea of sustainability and what we do with our planet is there's a lot more debate about it than there was a few years ago i think that's a very very good thing i don't think it's a thing you solve overnight but uh i think the more debate about it the more people will think about what they can do and the small changes they make and they all add up and i think that's the way to go about it i otherwise i don't know how you go about it and i think about the power of one though is a lot of people and this is an argument you hear time and again and i will be honest i've maybe in my in my own head used this to justify the fact that i'm going on holiday this year on a cruise ship and i know and there's a voice in the back of my mind going hmm and i'm thinking yeah but there's coal power power stations in china that will create more uh environmental damage in in five minutes than i will do in in my lifetime and that's kind of like my almost i won't say justification but that's that's the little voice in the back of my head going no it's okay because i mean it the problem isn't me the problem is is a big huge coal powered factory in china the problem is a big huge dam in india the problem is over there it's in russia it's in china it's in india it's not little old me and i think a lot of us have that little voice in the backs of our heads and it's uh let's be honest it's a liar yeah i think so i think that's the challenge we all have yeah if i can come in there um and there's a great phrase in the north and you hear them trying to uh trash out their politics uh in the north over the last year or two in particular and there's a great phrase water battery and somebody says well you lot did this and they go well you lot did this um and that's what we're doing if we're blaming other countries it's just water battery where the second highest emitters of carbon in all of europe and europe of course is is is developed countries so we emit a huge amount of carbon and currently the world with the changing climate and we can see those changes going on we can even feel them in ireland but we can see them especially around the rest of the world the world is around about 1.2 degrees warmer than my granddad's time 1.2 degrees warmer we've done that we've heated up planters if everybody lived like irish people if everybody lived like don and maria and me and the rest of us and everybody listening here the world would be four degrees warmer because that's how much more polluting we are than so many people so we need to look after our own house that's really really important but um as gerard was saying there we need to get the message as you do what you can personally we still have to live but the more we can talk about it the more we can discuss it the braver our politicians are going to get because at the end of the day they're going to be the ones that are going to make the biggest changes and guide us like like things like that electric feed for on post and so on and susan you're you're one of the people who's at the point where services you're in charge of providing at a local level gives people the opportunity to go to a recycling centre to actually avail of the services that are on our doorstep and even if everyone did that it would be a start absolutely and i mean it is it can be a little overwhelming when we think about everything that's going on but i think it's really important that we do bring it back to what we can all do as gerard said the power of one because it makes it more manageable for everybody to have an impact and if you have the services provided the majority of people will come along with you and use them you know so the council owned a number of recycling centres across the county operated by brison a very wide range of materials can be can be brought there for recycling next week actually we're having half price bulky goods and promotions for two weeks so keep an eye out on our social pages and the press for for that and again just trying to ensure people manage their waste responsibly and use the recycling services of their local waste collectors and in particular this week food waste recycling week they're you know taking part in a food waste collection provided by your waste collector and is the first step and then that material is actually getting treated industrially and made into a compost again that we can use so the circularity there and keeping i suppose when it comes to waste and i probably talk a little bit more about waste than other areas but you know we sort of have we've we've taken it we've used it and we've gotten rid of it for a lot of years and we're trying to get that whole area of circular into our vocabulary now as well and into our actions so that we're we're keeping what we have in use as much as we possibly can so whether it's about thinking about getting something fixed or repaired or reusing something again and then recycling what we what we what we can as well that that's so so important so that we're not having stuff to get rid of at the end of it they're trying to use as much as we can and that could be as simple as you know donating clothes to your local charity shop you know that's so important as well that's simple action that every household in Donegal can do and that has such a positive impact as well getting something repaired rather than going out and getting something brand new again and recycling all of those electrics electronics white goods that we have in our homes as well making sure that we do the right thing with them there's so many very manageable actions that that everybody can take even if it's visiting your local beach and you you mightn't have the time to do a cleanup but if you see a three pieces of plastic you know just pick up those three pieces of plastic and pop them in has been and all those small actions have a huge positive impact but I have said this on the program before and I'll say it again I know a gentleman who happens to be the chair of a tidy towns competition I'm out walking most mornings and I very often bump into him and inevitably I bump into him as he's walking back to his house and he's got three or four pieces of litter in his hand that he's picked up off the street um and that is that is it in action and I've said it before Jared and I said before fair play to you because you are actually doing what you're asking everybody else to do and you know it is the truth most mornings I see you you've got three or four pieces later in your hand that you've picked up my wife says I know every bin in the town I have no doubt but that's that that is and that's and that's really as we said you think globally you act locally that that's bringing it right down and and you know it it does need to be said and maybe all of us could pick something up and put it in a bin or do something as simple as that and if we all do something as simple as that you know it is and I know Jared we were speaking about the pollinator program that the tidy towns is supporting here in in letterkenny in particular but I know too Suzanne that the council is involved in pollinator programs around the county and certainly in in the show in bunkranna I know bunkranna carn there there's a very strong pollinator sort of campaign working up there as well and I'm sure you want to see that spread right across the county that's right and it is linking with our local communities across the county as well you know there's so many proactive community groups and tidy towns groups and schools you know we just recently um had our green schools awards here where we had 40 schools um being recognized for their achievements in environmental issues from litter and waste right across the board to biodiversity travel caring for a marine environment so those communities and schools are very very active and and where they where we can the council will support them as best as they can don't worry going back to yourself and and the actual podcast and and the content I mean obviously it's going to be as you say every every Thursday or every Tuesday Tuesday don't know Tuesday Tuesday every Tuesday have 12 during the The Nines and Nunes show obviously you you've got three great guests right here but there's going to be a lot more people on both locally and nationally as well give us a flavor of what can you expect in the coming weeks well um we're going to be looking at things like fast fashion um starting off next week we have Miranda Rosenberg and she runs the TikTok called Homestead Donegal and she's half a million followers on there and she goes through just she just shows her daily life of of what she does and what we can do and we're going to look at real it's the purpose is to look at real simple things on how people can can get a start on on their own journey and one thing that I would like to say is that there's like a pitfall almost whenever people think right okay I'm going to do this now I'm going to live sustainably and they go and they clear the house they read the house they say great that's not sustainable getting rid of that there and they'll go out and buy their bamboo cutlery their bamboo lunchboxes this that and the other and it's a whole lot of time is like that's not that's not the first step to take it's it's like you're you're it's greenwashed like you're greenwashing thinking this is how I'm going to start this it doesn't have to be a costly thing if anything if you do make the decision to move to move to a more sustainable lifestyle you'll save a lot of money and so we'll be talking about things like out there especially what the cost of living crisis and I'm as presenting this here anyway what I'm bearing in mind is don't like when people live more sustainable but how will it benefit you and in other ways of your life because it has to be something that you can take home think about it and and apply it it has to be simple things that you can do so we'll be have lots of little tips and tricks I'll be the excellent a few questions well there's one question in particular I'm going to put to the panel because I'm stumped and we spoke about pollination programs earlier there's one caller wants to get right to the heart of it someone asking where where can I purchase beehives someone wants to get into beekeeping angus this might be one for yourself yeah beekeeping is um uh it certainly is growing in popularity so have a look um have a look at google dunagol beekeeping association or the national beekeeping associations of which there are many and many regional ones there's the national one and they'll be able to point you in the direction of um of a beehive and how to start off that that journey because you need a bit of training you need to know what you're doing but crucially I would say sometimes people think I need to get uh or I want to get honey bees and I want to do my bit for pollination what are the honey bees going to eat so before you even do that google go off to the nursery or start looking around your own garden today and start thinking well where would the bees go what are they going to eat are they are you relying on neighbors having enough food um and it's not just the honey bee we've won species of honey bee in Ireland we've um uh over a hundred species of wild bees bumblebees and they all need the same thing and they all pollinate our crops so uh the most important thing is getting the food sources in them making sure you you've plenty of color in the garden so it is an ecosystem and you have to understand the ecosystem before you introduce another factor into that ecosystem yeah just say you wouldn't you wouldn't buy uh herd a cattle if you didn't have uh fields to put them in and it's the same kind of thing people sometimes rush into that um and tying into the uh the nomo may um and we should be all trying to leave little patches little wild areas in our garden and it doesn't mean you have to re-wild or walk away or abandon the land but if each and every one of us left a patch a bumblebee for instance will fly for about 500 meters before it just it'll collapse out of hunger um so we all need to have little patches of um of wild flowers for those bees for the honey bees that we might keep or for the wild bees that are there uh color asking what's the website for the test at Don and Marie they can access through our own website highlandradio.com yeah if you go on to our website highlandradio.com there will be um the it's ours to protect section on there alternatively you can go it's ours to protect.ie and it will also have the link there and it's called the sustainability eco footprint uh digital footprint survey and just to note there's an environmental musical on this saturday in Bunkrana free admission and that's part of Korean Union nog and if you wish to uh go to that you are absolutely welcome now uh just before we wrap up um Suzanne did you say you had one of the things you wanted to mention before we go? If I could um just just to mention um we're having free compost giveaways and food waste recycling starter packs um we're distributing those across the recycling centres over the next number of days so letter Kenny another half an hour or so and we'll be finishing up and letter Kenny recycling centre then moving on to Dunlowe this afternoon from two to four tomorrow seventh of June Cairndonna 10 to 12 Milford recycling centre two to four and these are at all the the Bryson recycling centres and then finally on uh thursday the 8th of June Lahine recycling centre from 10 30 to 12 30 and then finally Stornore the recycling centre from two to four um so just to promote um uh using your your food waste um uh using your waste collection service for food waste and then actually um getting yourself a biocompost generated from food waste as well. Thank you indeed Suzanne. Thank you. Jared the work of uh the the Tidy Towns Committee continuing in letter Kenny I suppose no help ever turned away? No help ever turned away no so we have we're always looking for volunteers we couple of volunteers are working hard and our Donald today as I was driving past planting there and this is our really busy period and there's a lot of work happening on the ground and actually it's a great opportunity for to thank all the volunteers and because without them we would be lost so a legacy or as we said a regular guest with John on around the northwest and and no doubt you'll be taking the opportunity as as we go ahead to remind people at every juncture of the potential we have to to help our environment to help our ecosystems and ensure that you know that again going back to that sort of acting locally while thinking globally that there is a lot we can do and and we can do it in our own areas. There's a huge amount we can do as individuals and the huge amount of it's very titleable. A huge amount of looking after your garden especially when the weather's like this is a fantastic thing to do and improving our own our own towns getting involved to a tidy towns groups getting involved with other other community groups is a social and a wonderful thing to do as well but crucially and really importantly I think is um us as individuals won't solve it all on our own we can all do our bit but by doing our bit we're raising awareness tell our politicians some of our politicians have got it some of our politicians still don't seem to have got this message sometimes it's left to some small parties and we think that that's a special remit for them it's not it's each and every one of us and they're the ones that can really steer our change there's a new um plastic bottle recycling scheme is going to be coming in soon for instance these are the kind of system changes that that we can't do and hopefully tidy towns groups won't have to pick up as many recycle or many plastic bubbles when that comes in but tell your politicians tell them tell them that this is an important issue it's just as important as the other more the kind of the immediate issues that we hear about on the news Gerd Engus Suzanne thank you all three of you very much indeed and uh Donna Marie all the best with the podcast and the first episode can be heard at 12 30 on Tuesday coming this day week here on Highland radio and then it will also be for playback on the website thank you all very much indeed the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio the euro millions jackpot is a guaranteed 17 million euro play responsibly in store in app or at lottery dot i the national lottery it could be you why leave all the magic moments or great scenes you've captured on your phone sitting there or in the cloud when you can have them printed at McGee's chemist using the McGee's app or one of the in-store kiosks you can upload your photos from your phone google photos 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and community centers affected with mica and other defective blocks it's a really worrying thing it needs to be highlighted and talked about honestly by government and they need to get pressure put on them by the management of these facilities that's an interesting point caller says could you please wish my parents ronald marlin crawford a very happy 50th anniversary today love from all of us we spoke earlier to tony and shon about the dunfany golf club challenge uh wishing tony all the best of luck that's from liam lynch in bunkrana and to tony mcgilloway and all at dunfany golf club good luck with the event and that's from all in dunlow community hospital now we are joined in studio by two special guests i have martin mcdemon who's assistant community development manager at dl dc and also dr uh jim and me who is a community volunteer with meva day center gentlemen you are both very welcome indeed uh dl dc is starting a campaign to highlight the need for community volunteers for daycare centers across dunney gall and uh going to dr jim at first who is a community volunteer with the day center in meva jim at this is very important work it's really because we're providing day services for older people in the community and it's provided by the community itself it's a very local service and basically uh uh older people who otherwise uh it gives them an opportunity to meet up with uh friends from their uh from their younger days and make new friends uh have a meal together um have some entertainment some educational and physical activities and it's great for the physical mental health and it's also great for giving jobs in the area and i'm sure too from the point of view of of the volunteers who go in there they get to know the people there on a day-to-day basis and i'm sure relationships form and it becomes a very important part of the lives of the people who are in there some of those people perhaps don't have families at home for some of those people it may be the main social interaction they have over the course of a day and from that point of view it's a hugely important thing to them it's very important to them yes it keeps them grounded in their community and also it spreads um um uh information about the community throughout the place people exchange news and views it keeps them in contact and it's just great for uh mental health and well-being and it's great for the the people who volunteer and help there and they give something back to the community martin as the assistant community development manager at at dl dc obviously you're you're looking at coordinating this across the county this is hugely important work isn't it it is yeah extremely important because like we lead up a network for the care of the age committees in in our area and it became very evident that you know a lot of the public don't know that the day centers are run by volunteers and that is a voluntary committee that that are involved in overseeing that that whole whole governance and operation so what we uh you know what we identified was the need for this recruitment drive for volunteers because some care of the age committees and the day centers they you know there's ones there that are maybe they're quite you know a complimentary with with the number of committee members they have but there's others that are struggling and it's the theme of this has been part of your continuation of the community story in that you can be play a role and be part of that and yeah so it is it's it's really important for us to make it you know kind of like a whole kind of regional campaign for this and what'll happen then is that hopefully with a good positive response we will be able to filter through where the request for volunteers are coming from and then be able to place them accordingly into those committees that that that that need extra support and the idea you have is that these voluntary committee members will actually play a part in the hiring of staff the running of the center so you're looking at people that might have maybe expertise in law accountancy management that sort of area we're looking for people really who will donate these skills on a voluntary basis to actually help run the centers and ensure they run to their best efficiency yeah and and it's not like you know we're not like there are some examples of some of the skills that would be needed but committees are a group of people so you know you may have one particular skill and German does another and I have another you know so when you come together you're able to collectively you know have a good set of skills between between everybody to be able to to run the center efficiently and then what we do then is deal to see we do provide that additional support in terms of governance compliance if you're reporting to charities regulator and so on so that you know there's there's equally there's there's the committee people themselves and the skills that they bring but it's not to be like you know don't be put off if you're not skilled in it or hitch or whatever like you know we're open and welcome to any offers of volunteer interest and and German Trump from the point of view of what Martin is saying there are someone who yourself sits on the committee I mean you know that is a committee has got to have that diversity of skills and a well-run center is a center that's going to have people running it who know what they're doing and and most importantly have a situation where you have your skill and you can put that to best use I may have a different skill I can put that to best use and if you have a group of people each working together at their best efficiency that's going to mean the center is going to run at its best efficiency and a well-run center is a center that's going to provide the best possible service to those who are using it and ultimately that's what you're there for to make sure that the people coming into these centers are given the best service possible that's right you want something where you're running the center to a high standard we're very we really need people on the committee who live in the area and always contributed to it we don't want to lose sight of that but there would be people living in the community who have the particular skills we need in HR finance law etc who might want to give something back to the community they live in to maintain it there might be somebody listening now who has a mother or a father who attends the day center but they might have a son a daughter or a partner who works in an office and they might make a suggestion to them this evening why don't you volunteer to help out this day center in your area or you might be somebody with a skill who's moved to that area wants to contribute to the community and again this is a good way an opportunity of contributing to the community that you now live and work in and and Martin the centers may be voluntary they may be running a voluntary basis they may be staffed by people who are there as volunteers but they're still subject to regulation they are subject to insurance they are subject to all the checks and balances that any center offering services of a caring nature are going to be subjected to and just because it's voluntary doesn't mean it's immune from any of the bureaucracy yeah and that's that's right you know um as we were saying earlier like you know there might be this maybe um view that the day centers are run by the hsc or they're operated or managed by that um you know we have day centers that might be run on a private capacity some are funded um there's there's a different kind of level for each one but ultimately everyone is trying to provide a good service to the older people in their community and yes you're correct there are like a lot of reports to do there's there's a lot of compliance that you have to fulfill and it's not that's not to put off people by volunteering because when you share this work workload out um that's that's only like maybe one element of it and where you have more people rather than it's just maybe two or three in a committee so where you have more people on the committee and then alongside with the support that we provide um and the in the governance capacity to to the committee members like eventually then it's everyone plays their part in the just great teamwork and camaraderie and and as we were saying earlier you know it's great to have that reward then to say that you know I've I've helped and I've played my part and just as an example as German was saying like you know there could be grandchildren of people used in the day center you know there's young adults out there that you know maybe have a variety of skills and even if it is only one hour a week or or as as we say in in the advertisement on the campaign that we're doing is you know up to four hours a month you know to attend maybe a committee meeting and it's not a lot of time but if you do have that time then please try and give it in and it's where you know even having any particular skill at all it will be able to help and play your part. Martin thanks very much indeed Jim I want to give the final word to yourself Dr. Jim and me as a community a community volunteer with the the day center in Meefa I mean these centers operate and survive and uh persevere because of the people behind them and this is very much a people-centered enterprise. It is really um there are volunteers helping out in the day center you know bringing helping to bring people to the center working with them there they're volunteers who actually run it and manage it because it is you are managing a small enterprise um and you're actually giving everything back to the community all the money that comes into the day center goes back to the community so you are supporting it um and you're just helping the community to grow to survive and you get a great um a great feeling of having made a major contribution and it's three or four hours of a month where you can put your skills and knowledge to use in a regulated and correct way but with less pressure than you'd have in the work environment there's a fantastic sense of satisfaction fantastic sense of cooperation and you can see immediate results and the happiness and smiles of the people attending the day center and in a very real real way in in most cases the people attending that center have built and sustained that community for decades and maybe now it's the community's turn to sustain them yes and that's really how it works we're all in it together we're one big family we're all friends and neighbors Donny Gall's a fantastic place to live in because you do have a strong community spirit here you might have in other places day centers are an important part of that Martin the nuts and bolts of if someone out there is interested in helping themselves or perhaps could joining the relatives to help um as well suggested how can people get in touch what what do they need to do in order to register that interest yeah so they can give us a call um to the the ldc me an office here in letter kenny so they can give us a call at that numbers 0749127056 and that that inquiry then will be passed on to ourselves at the community development team and then there's there'd be a process involved in donal searches like where you are and where the day centers are and so on and obviously your listenerships spans a massive geographical area and so does our day center network so it's trying to match that when we get all those inquiries coming in after this today and finally something of a busy day for the ldc today yes we do we have the minister arriving later on this evening um and which we're delighted with so um and we'll see you there too hopefully yep i'll put my news out back on again this evening and uh go down and cover that one in the meantime martin mcdevous the assistant community development manager at the ldc and dr jim at me a community volunteer with me for day center thank you both very much indeed thank you thank you on money agricultural show monster draw 100 000 euro in prizes first prize a falter attractor a 105 high tech or a skoda kodiak car second prize a skoda fabiak car or 10 000 euro plus eight other cash prizes tickets now available online at the money show dot com or from any committee member this would make an ideal father's day gift it's easy to 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makers and in the moment we'll be speaking to david o'hair who is a communications officer and internal communications specialist with trokara so we're going first going to go to mayra who's joining us on zoom mayra very good morning to you hello how are you very well indeed thanks mayra first of all um this uh seminar that's coming up at the station house in letter kenny on friday tell us about the seminar and what issues are going to be discussed yes thank you so our seminar theme for this year is sustainability and solidarity and really we're encouraging people to focus on the sustainable development goals ultimately to to improve the lives and prospects of people all around the world at a time when inequality is increasing and temperatures are rising and you're going to be speaking to organizations like world resources institute africa trokara as we've said plus they're bringing in a number of local groups as well to give their perspectives yes so we have a program called the seeds of change program where we support local community groups and by giving them some funding but also pairing them with the change makers mentor to look at issues of sustainability and how these local actions can think globally now one of change makers partner organizations is trokara and david o'hare is communications officer and internal communications specialist with trokara david a very good morning to you don't know good morning great to see you you too now you will be speaking specifically at the seminar about your recent trip to samalia and the effects the climate change is having there now we have discussed samalia in the past in terms of famine and in terms of the the political situation there and there have been issues as we know but climate change now really something that's being felt in africa and maybe it's being felt in countries like samalia without the attention being paid to it there that's starting to be paid albeit slowly in places like irland and europe absolutely and and i'm absolutely delighted to be invited up on friday to the event to speak to people so really what i'll be doing donal is is giving a first hand account a personal account of what i saw on the ground in samalia and i returned um a few weeks ago now but samalia when i was there is in the grip of the worst drought in 40 years um and it's all fueled by by climate change um so it's i've worked with trokara for 18 years donal i've been to many humanitarian situations i've never been in a situation as catastrophic as that that one in samalia at the moment so half the population samalia over eight million people are actually facing starvation um chronic malnutrition and starvation um and to put in context for the listeners that that's more obviously than the entire population of our island our island here at home um so i was able to to speak to the people there um hear what they're going through 40 000 people died last year alone um and as you've rightly said it's not getting the the attention internationally that it deserves um i was very privileged to be able to sit with with people and and talk to them about what they have been through and the challenges have faced i spoke to one mother who said she had to leave her home uh over four million people have had to leave home in in samalia basically because their livestock has died their crops have died they have no other way of feeding themselves so they're making what they call a long walk and that's how they describe it um sometimes over 100 kilometers to try to get to idp camps so these internally displaced people's camps um just to see if they can get some emergency food aid to save themselves and their children one mother told me that she had actually lost three of her children um she had to and this is it's very stark but it is the reality um she actually lost one child on the journey from from home to the camp so so this is the the human face of the tragedy that's going on there at the moment um trok was being there for over 30 years and we actually run the only health care services in a region the size of ireland donal a place called ghetto um and we're called the mother of health by the people of ghetto so we have clinics we have health centers we have outreach posts and there is hope amidst the tragedy because we're saving lives every day we're seeing thousands of people every week coming through those facilities it has gotten worse recently but we're there on the ground saving lives particularly young children and mothers and that wouldn't be possible but it's supportive of your listeners the people of ireland and also of course uh iris aid through the iris government myra in terms of the issues that are going to be discussed at the event on friday as well as having organizations like trokara and south help africa and swan you're going to have local organizations as well local people giving their perspectives the hope always is going to be that by acting more here you could do more to help in places like samalia is it your hope that that's what's going to come out of the conference that we'll get ways that we can actually help in a very practical way that will make david's job easier and make the job of the other agencies over in places like samalia easier yes that's it i mean at its root it's that connection between local and global and helping people to recognize at an urgent time that you know local local issues are global issues and we all have our part to play no more than the discussion about sustainability but it's looking at actions like for example don fanny family resource center as part of the seeds of change program both people together to understand the economic systems that are active in ireland in the world and ended up in a conversation about the value of unpaid caring so it's helping people to understand their community their society and to ask questions about that society in order to bring about changes to make it more equal for everyone in the world and speaking of dun fanny one of the things you've been pushing very much is the move toward fair trade and we know dunny goll county council is talking about becoming a fair trade organization we've got a number of designated fair trade towns in dunny goll there's more being done in that respect now ultimately the hope is that designating fair trade towns and fair trade organizations is going to feed into ensuring that farmers in countries like samalia are in a sustainable situation but now what david is telling us obviously because of the drought situation over there that's a horrendous situation that perhaps you know fair trade it's going to go beyond that to find a resolution but hopefully those those changes can be made david i want to go back to you and perhaps give you the final word because the the work you're doing on the ground is going to be in some way hopefully helped and informed by what's being done by people like mara in counties like dunny goll and i suppose it can only be to the good the more you get done in terms of fair trade the more you get done in terms of conferences and seminars like this the more it's going to feed into a global discussion and ultimately maybe get the sort of global changes necessary to help countries like samalia absolutely in your previous discussion around sustainability don't use the phrase think globally act globally and that's why the work of of change makers is so important because for trokra it's not a question of charity it's a question of justice and people in samalia they've contributed not point not eight percent to global emissions and yet they're one of the most at-risk countries so again it's a question of those who've done least to contribute to climate change are suffering most so the work change makers and others are doing is absolutely vital if we're going to tackle this problem david ohare communications officer and internal communication specialist with trokra and mara and coloff the change makers coordinator in dunny goll thank you both very much indeed for speaking to us this morning that event taking place at the station house hotel in letter kenny on this coming friday mara open to everybody yes absolutely open to everyone and you can visit our website change makers dot i to find the event bride link thank you mara david thank you both much indeed that's it for the nine till noon show for today john brazilans up next around the northwest we will have caroline or well caroline or did produce and uh neve took your calls as well thank you to both of them thank you to water contributors thank you to those who listened and took part in the program most importantly thank you to you for myself donal cavena have a very good day disney's the lion king in dublin more to be seen than has ever been seen join highland radio on our trip on thursday 26th of october 20