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Gregorys, after 9 o'clock, I wanted to ask you about Big Hudson, Big Three Party. Big O3, boy. Oh, well, he's not 33, but he's... O3. O3. Yes, isn't he? Big boy for three, isn't he? I don't know, I think so. God, he is looking great. Yeah, he's a great wee boy. Ah, that's great. And the other thing I wanted, but you might have to shout about it, what did you buy online? Yeah, it means the spenders all begin. It's literally nothing. What did you buy? Well, I shop local, right? Particularly electronics. You know, TVs, laptops, tablets. If you have to... You know, if there's a problem... Go back to store. But I need a laptop, right? So, I was online, I went into a shop and there's a reason why I went out. So, I've bought a laptop for €220. And the shop? No, no, online. Right, new? Brand new, 15-inch screen. From a legit website, is it? Yeah. It's not imported via containers or stuff. But it's coming later today and I can't wait to see how bad or good it is. So, I'm going to return it anyway if it's bad, but €220. How much is it, say, €240? €240. But see, laptops are a thing of the can now. No, it's an 8-gig memory, 10-hour battery, 256-gig hard drive, a full quad-core processor. God, good enough. HD screen. Yeah. That's what they say. Yeah. But I can't wait to see what they actually need to live in. Very good. All right, so it could come in today. It could be just a big global grab. We could unbox it live on Highland. And, yeah, it's just... It should be €700, €800. Yeah, but they have to... In terms of the techno... No. No, it's obviously going to be a scam. Well, you took a big gamble of €220 on it, if you thought it was going to be a scam. Yeah, but it's true, Amazon's so... It's very easy to get a refund. Is it? Well, let's just wait and see. Can't wait to see it now, then. Take it in. We'll see. All right, then. Have a good show. All right, hey, bye-bye. It's two minutes past nine. Let's get a news update and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Head of the upcoming elections this year, de facto block campaigners are urging affected homeowners to have their say on what a true 100% redress scheme is. A meeting is being held on Monday, March 4th at 7pm at Angrenan Hotel in Burt, where a document articulating the key principles of a true 100% redress scheme will be presented. The 100% redress, Micah Action and Redress focus groups believe the four key principles to be properly process people and support and prevention. Chairperson of the Micah Action Group, Lisa Horn, believes the document will be influential when it comes to people casting their vote. That document is going to go to every single political party and every single politician in the country for a response. And that will very, very clearly set out to the electorate in terms of how they see this, where their priorities are and whether they have any intention whatsoever of coming anywhere near what we define as a true 100% scheme. There's calls for the media minister to address the dull in relation to events that led to the Ortee chair from resigning from her position. Catherine Martin asked you to appear before the Eroctus Media Committee tomorrow after feeling to express confidence in she and Nirahali on live TV last week. The former top civil servant in the department says she has no recollection of the approval of an exit package for former CFO Richard Collins, which included a confidentiality clause. Another crash on what has become a busy road outside Lettercanny has led to renewed calls for safety measures to be implemented. A woman was injured as a result of a crash at the Lestak Junction on the round road over the weekend. Donegal Ian II representative, Mary T. Sweeney, says the route has become extremely dangerous. She says signage must be erected as a matter of urgency. I would like to say stop signage signs before we move on to the summer season, especially with visitors and tourists. We need to just take stock of all these signs that either need replaced, upgraded, or basically some of them just need washed. They're quite difficult to read and to make it a safer road for everybody. A woman has been arrested after a car was discovered on its roof in the Ernie Road area of Strabana yesterday evening. Police attended the scene just before 8 o'clock where the 30-year-old woman was arrested in suspicion of drink driving. There were no other vehicles involved and no reports of any injuries. The woman has been charged and is due to appear at Strabana District Court in the coming weeks. Finally, for weather, dry and bright today, with long spells of sunshine, high as temperatures of 6 to 8 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Didn't know this car was diesel. It's not. At the garage, you use the black pump. Diesel. No idea. So we're going to miss the flight, but some holidays are overrated. Oh, that's sun and sand. Who needs it, eh? How about you use the black pump? Diesel. No, I do. So I'll call Allianz Breakdown Assistance. With Allianz Car Insurance, you can also add Breakdown Assistance. Save 15% when you get a quote online at Allianz.ie. You write it, we underwrite it. Allianz. Allianz PLC is regulated with the Central Bank of Ireland. Standard acceptance criteria, policy conditions and a minimum premium apply. Breakdown Assistance is an optional extra and an additional premium applies. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine to Noon Show, with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning to you. Five minutes past nine on this Monday, the 26th of February, 2024. How are you all keeping out there? I hope you had a lovely weekend or if you're working that work went well for you and it's great to have you on board The Nine to Noon Show for the next three hours. And we've got loads, as you can imagine, to keep you informed and entertained. We're going to be across the big issues locally, covering the topics and features nationally and beyond as well. We want you involved in the conversation right from the get-go. And this includes if you want to raise an issue with us if something happened over the weekend or maybe something nice happened to you that you want to share that as well, please feel free to do so. 08-660-25000 is the WhatsApp and text number 08-660-25000 or give us a call on 07491-25000. You can email from anywhere in the world, of course, to comments at highlandradio.com. More and more of you choosing to email as well. 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I still have to keep hold of that hope that somebody knows that my son is out there still, she said. And we've spoken to Andrea on a number of occasions on this show and she's a powerful, strong, brave woman and still holding out hope. But the unanswered, it must be incredibly, well, I know it is because I've spoke to her about it. The unanswered questions and not knowing incredibly, incredibly tough. The Dairy News this morning, two widows whose husbands were murdered by the UDA in separate incidents in 1976 have accepted substantial settlements in cases brought against the M.O.D. and P.S.N.I. Mary Locherie, widow of Jim Locherie and Marie Newton, widow of John Toland settled their cases for an undisclosed significant sum. The two families commenced civil proceedings following the publication of reports by the historical inquiries team. On to the nationals now. We'll start with the Irish Times and immigration remains at the top of the list of issues getting the attention of voters in the past month, according to the latest Irish Times, Ipsos B&A snapshot survey of public sentiment. Over a fifth, that's 22% of respondents to the survey cited immigration issues when asked what they had noticed about what the government had done recently. This represents a decline of two points from last month. The next on the list was housing at 15%. Again, a decline of four points from last month. Climate change, sustainability, was the next most frequently mentioned issue cited by 7% of respondents. Now, I'm not really quite sure how this survey works and what they mean by what they thought of or commented on. Just 22%, like, if you're not, say, housing, for an example, I mean, if you're not concerned or thinking about housing or immigration, for that matter, like, what are you actually thinking of? But 22% over the last month to the survey cited immigration issues when asked what they had noticed about the government. Energy prices, the cost of living and crime, previously areas of high concern amongst voters, were each mentioned by just 3% of respondents as was employment. Again, I don't really know how that measurement works, how to read those figures, but immigration and housing, the top two nonetheless. Speaking of immigration in the Irish and dependent, demand for migrant workers to fill skill gaps has more than doubled as government officials deal with a surgeon employer seeking permits to bring in staff from outside Europe. Hikes in the minimum salaries that must be offered from last month do not seem to have put employers off. Demand for work permits has intensified since the economy hit full employment according to the department in charge of issuing permits. Nurses, healthcare assistants, chefs, computer programmers and doctors are among the top candidates sought a Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment Spokesperson said last month was a particularly busy period for work permit applications. There was strong demand before the rollout of new higher salary thresholds for permit holders last month and a total of 30,981 work permits were issued to people from outside the European Economic Area last year. 387 of those were in Donegal, which is relatively high compared to some counties, but not quite as high as you can imagine as it relates to the likes of Galway, Limerick, Cork and Dublin. And there's also a feature from a worker in the healthcare sector. A Nigerian healthcare assistant has told of how lonely it can be to work on a general employment permit in Ireland. John, who's 36, who studied and earned his master's degree in Ireland has been working on his current permit for the past two years while his wife cares for their daughters in Nigeria. He said he loves Ireland and even speaks Irish with his elderly patients, but that life here can be difficult due to the conditions of the permit. Ever since I've been working so hard, just thinking that if I can do more overtime, take more shifts, then it will be enough to bring them over to Ireland. We speak every day. They tell me, Dad, I miss you. I want to hug you. It's not easy. It's difficult situation for me, he said, his family in Nigeria and he is here working in the health service. Onto the Irish Daily Mail now and I don't really read newspapers much of the weekend, just more snapshots of stories or what have you, but it seems that the whole RT crisis continues to dominate the papers. The government we read in the mail is facing another week of chaos and infighting over an RT crisis that appears to be escalating as the focus shifts out to media minister Catherine Martin and director general Kevin Backhurst in the wake of the controversial resignation of RT board chair, Shun Ni Rahali in the early hours of Friday morning. The Irish Daily Mail learned Mr. Backhurst is facing new pressure within government. Ms. Martin is facing a media committee and a dull grilling on Ms. Ni Rahali's resignation as well as a meeting with the board that was rebelled or has rebelled against her. Concern is also growing over another settlement involving the departure of David Nally who was Mr. Backhurst's number two when he headed up the current affairs department and on it goes and on it goes. Onto the red top tabloids now, we'll start with the Irish Daily Star and three in five voters will vote yes in the referendum on women and carers. This is according to a new study, three in five. That's a significant majority, isn't it? Yep, 60%. Is it three in five? It is 60%. On March 8th, the public... Oh, sorry, the subtext to that is three in five voters will vote yes in the referendum on women and carers but bishops claim the amendments will dilute the importance of marriage and motherhood. On March 8th, the public will be asked if the reference in the constitution to a mother's duties in the home should be replaced with an article recognizing the role of family carers, the latest Red Sea poll for the Sunday Business Post revealed 58% of those asked intend to vote yes in the carers referendum, which aims to widen the definition of the family. However, in a statement read out at Masses Nationwide on behalf of bishops yesterday, they said the family based on the exclusive, the exclusive lifelong and life-giving public commitment of marriage is the foundation cell of society and essential to the common good. But the argument from the government is that that ship's already sailed. In other words, that might be what one might feel and might hope, but it's not really the makeup of families anymore, but that's where the bishops stand on that anyway. Ireland's being targeted with huge drug shipments because our poorly patrolled waters are asked to be or are asking to be exploited. This is in the sun this morning. The Irish Navy described as the eyes and ears of the North Atlantic are down to just one vessel actively protecting a region which is eight times our land mass. Ellie James Joyce and Ellie George Bernard Shaw are currently doing back-to-back patrols. So only one is on patrol at any time. Just 10 days ago, almost 33 million euro worth of crystal meth was seized at Cork Port, but I mean, the huge expanse of water and obviously those moving drugs feel that we're a soft target because what's being found or discovered or washed up in shores is obviously the tip of the drugs iceberg. And finally in the Irish Daily Mirror, the mum of backpacker Danielle McLaughlin has spoken of her relief that the man accused of her murder was too sick to take up bail to attend his sister's wedding. And you could just imagine and sense the emotional roller coaster that this family are going through learning that someone, let's not forget, Danielle will never attend a wedding again because her life was taken from her. But you're sitting over in Ireland and over in India, they're going, right, he can go leave to go to his sister's wedding and then always too sick to go to his sister's wedding. It's just the range of emotions. It's so, so difficult for the family, I'm sure. Danielle, 28 from Bonkran, was found dead in a secluded spot in, in Goa in India. It's popular with holiday makers of course the night before Danielle had attended a holy party near Cancunah Beach in the south of Goa. She'd been raped and murdered. Vikat Bagat has been charged with her rape and murder and has pleaded not guilty. Last Thursday, Bagat made an application to the High Court in Goa for temporary bail to go to his sister's wedding last Saturday. He was granted bail leaving Danielle's mum Andrea, of course, and family heartbroken. Now the paper reveals that Bagat did not take up the bail because he was too sick. Again, you know, it's just the ups and downs and ins and outs and the emotional pulls one way or another. Oh wait, six, 60, 25,000. Just a quick reminder there for you of what the WhatsApp and text number is. We're back with loads more in the Lionel News Show after we take a quick break. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop Lederkenny, the C-Store National Large Four Court of the Year for 2022. Choose life. Choose fun. Choose not sitting at home getting bored. Choose something better. Something really fun. Choose Fundamenia. Coming to the Brunswick Movie Bowl from March 1st. 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Staying in the beautiful four-star Sol Costa Gerata Hotel, this is a trip not to be missed. Book now by calling Country Music Tours on 074-9119-955. Or email info at countrymusictours.ie. We'll see you in sunny Saloon. Right, so one of the big stories locally last week was the removal of physiotherapy services from St Joseph's Hospital. That's what was announced early in the week. We'd got contact from some concerned people, of course, made the inquiries. We were able to reveal this information. The information was given at very short notice and we were told in the pressaries that these services would be provided from Lyford and Donegal Tann, dependent on where you are based. Then concerns was raised by local GP, Dr. Dennis McCauley on this programme. He said that if physiotherapy services were not available for patients in the hospital, then he couldn't see functioning on a safe, as a safe step-down option from the LUH. And the HSC had said they were trying to find another venue in the Finn Valley area to operate these services. But Dr. McCauley said that unless they're actually on site, then St Joseph's couldn't be seen as a safe step-down, not somewhere he could refer one of his patients to. Well then, towards the end of the week, the HSC said physiotherapies are still being provided for patients at St Joseph's Hospital and the facility can still accept discharges from Letter Kenney University Hospital. So it's all very confusing. Like, we still don't know and we're having to, it's like being a dentist, dragging information one bit at a time out of the mouth of the HSC. The question is, where in St Joseph's will these services happen? Is it in the ward or is it in the department? And there's no community services either, right? So what's the story with waiting lists and what have you? So there's lots and lots of questions and this is what happens when information is dripped out and you have to try and drag it out because all we want is very clear information for the staff, for the patients, for the families of the patients and what have you. Father Lorcan Sharkey is a committee member of the Save Our St Joseph's campaign. Father Lorcan, thank you very much for your time today. Good morning to you, Greg. Right, have you been able to make any further sense from what the HSC has been saying over the last week or are you, like me, still very much confused as to what is actually happening and what the implications of it might be? Well, it seems to be very vague really to be truthful with you. The statement that we heard what their services were being taken away from St. Joseph's Hospital and being transferred to Donagold Town and then to Lifford and then the HSC then say that the services are still going to be provided. How can that possibly be? We cannot have two situations. Obviously the physiotherapists who are working there and they're excellent, I had to avail of their services a few years ago myself to help with the problem that I had with the me and they were excellent, excellent at their work and so on and if the premises that they were using needs to be upgraded to equa standards, that's fine. That that should happen. But surely within the building itself that is already there. There are many offices in the building now that used to at one time be an integral part of the St. Joseph's Community Hospital but they were taken over by the HSC some years ago and redeveloped into offices and so on. And I see the HSC as being very vague really in their statements and not fair to us in that way because we have been fighting for some years now to retain St. Joseph's Hospital as a very, very important part of our community. And at the moment, it seems to me that bit by bit the services that are in St. Joseph's Hospital are making it an integral part of our community. And I think too, yeah, and Father Sharkey too, what confuses me is every time we make an inquiry the HSC statement gets a little bit longer, if you know what I mean, and the latest thing they've added onto it, everything else remains the same. In order to complete these works there was a requirement for patients to be relocated within the hospital. The most suitable area identified was the Primary Care Physiotherapy Department known as the Drohan Award. So this ensures existing patients in the hospital are located for and will not be disturbed by the works. In addition, it ensures that bed numbers can be retained but then it does talk of moving Primary Care Physiotherapists services to Donegal Town and Lifford. And then it says further down, this is the bit that's been added on, physiotherapists services will continue to be provided by the hospital. Now, there are two issues here. We know Lifford and Donegal Town are already wedged in terms of being able to take any additional capacity but it still remains a little bit confusing. And even, and this is a fact, we spoke to a couple of GPs father, they actually still don't really fully know what the situation is as it pertains to St. Joseph's being a step down facility for their patients. They still haven't actually received that information from the HSE. So we're kind of, you know, trying to work this out on crumbs of information. Yes. And we're, as a committee, we're in the same situation. We had a meeting on Saturday morning in the Paris Center in St. Order about it. And we were informed about that, that our minister, Charlie McConnel Oak, wishes to set up a meeting between our committee and members of the HSE who are in control of the services in our Northwest area. We're waiting for confirmation then from when that meeting is going to be. And when we have confirmation about that, we're going to get together as a committee again and decide what specific questions we have to ask the HSE because we are very confused. I mean, at the moment, the hospital functions as a respite, please. We're quite a number of people are staying there. Some of them from my own parish, and I've been to and in fact, only just one week ago, a week ago tonight, I visited a person from my parish there. And then it acts also as a step down from people who have been in letter Kenny Hospital and are not ready yet to go home. That's an excellent facility for them as well. But gradually, the number of beds available in St. Joseph's Hospital have been reduced and other services are taken away as well. For instance, the dentistry, which used to be an integral part of it as well, available was taken away. And then the day hospital was taken away as well, which served the elderly people who would come in for a few hours, a couple of days a week. That was taken away. So bit by bit, the HSE are reducing St. Joseph's Hospital. And it seems to me that it's very unfair to the whole area of the Finn Valley, but that has been done. And they're doing it steadily, really. Yes, well, that's what we're trying to avoid happening, isn't it, by speaking about it publicly. Father Lorcan Sharkey, thank you very much. Absolutely. Thank you very much for your time. Committee member of the St. Joseph's Hospital, John Gallagher as chair of the St. Joseph's Hospital campaign. John, thank you for your time as well this morning. Thank you. John, what it appears to me, and then I'm really interested in you expanding on your views. I think whoever was charged with delivering this information to begin with actually hadn't got the right information. Or what's happening is the HSE now are seeing that there's a big backlash on this and struggling to try and come up with something that's palatable to the likes of your committee. And either way, though, this has been handled disastrously, I would say, because we're all confused. Some of us are concerned. Others might feel reassured. We've got top GPs who still don't know what's going on. And there are patients are the ones here that we're talking about. It's a serious concern, John. Well, it was seen as decision that was done in the hurry. And I was saying quite frankly, the second point that you made there that it's because of the backlash now, they're trying to put a bit more polish on it. But this supposed to go back, what the committee would be afraid of, this goes back to January 2016, when at the time the minister was charged of elderly people with Kathleen Lynch and she issued a statement with the bell that time that there was a new hospital going to be built in Litter County that St. Joseph's Hospital, Lifford Hospital and Remedian Hospital would be closing as a result of that. And it seems to that that actual statement has never been altered or retracted. And what we have seen in St. Joseph's is really deaths by a thousand cuts, certainly since then, even though at all the time the HSE said they're committed to maintaining St. Joseph, but the question is, what is their vision for the facility? We in the Thun Valley see it as an important facility for the care of elderly people in the Thun Valley. Now, at the moment, most people will tell you that an elderly person in the Thun Valley is nearly impossible for them to get into St. Joseph's. At the moment, even it is difficult to get them for respect into St. Joseph's. So it's been used entirely as a step down for Litter County Hospital. And I don't think that is not our view how the hospital facilities should be used. I think it should be just a very important part of community care. I think elderly people should be looked after in their own community, among their own peers, and they'll be much better off that way. And from time to time, the HSE issued these statements and say they're committed, but that's a very fine point. But there's a very huge variance between what this state and what they do in practice. And as Father Lorcan had actually said there, you know, we have these cuts. We have the dental service. We cut the day care center, been done away with, and now the physiotherapy done away with. And, you know, it's very difficult to believe that this had to happen so quickly. I know somebody who was at their last, this day week, for physio, and they were given an appointment for the first of March again. Now, if it turned out that evening, the news came out that the place was closed. The staff didn't seem to know. Now, did they blame HIKWA for the thing and that there's a room in St. Joseph's that actually needed attention. But the last HIKWA report that's on record is actually very last October. And the HIKWA report actually says that St. Joseph's record was substantially compliant. Now, if it was substantially compliant, I don't think there was anything that was a huge emergency arose in the meantime that would require just a physiotherapist section to be closed down and people moved out in a hurry. I think it should have been planned. I think there was time there to look for a different facility. The first question you'd have to ask was it actually necessary at all to move the physio? Was there, as Father Larkin says, there may have been office space there that could be much easier to use? Then was there another place in the Thun Valley on a temporary basis that could be used for this purpose? You know, there are numerous buildings in the Balboe face in our area which would be open, which could possibly be used for a short time. So it was very difficult to believe that this huge emergency came. The staff didn't know about and was in four days that they were basically gone. And we need to find out exactly what the plans are for St. Joseph's building itself. What is the plans for physiotherapist services in the Thun Town area? And what is there a plan to restore day services for the elderly at St. Joseph's? You know, the whole thing seems to be crazy. We're starting to think we have a government who tells us that we should be doing less driving. In fact, they're going to spend nine billion on a new rail system in Dublin to try to get people out of cars. Well, up here in Donegal, they're making decisions that require staff and hundreds of patients to increase their journeys by over 30 miles to get treatment. They're bringing basically the mountain to Mohammed rather than the other way about. And we just need to have a meeting with the management that he's just seen to see what their plans are. And I think it needs to be an upfront one because the, as I said to Father Lorcan, the statements are changing every single time we ask them further questions. They're saying that because of HIKWA inspection, essential fire upgrades worked well identified that needed to be completed within a specified timeframe. So, like, is it immediate? Did Quaker say you need to close this down straight away or did they have a date towards the end of February and just didn't bother telling anyone or if we need to work on this HIKWA stuff? Do you know what I mean? Like, Ethan, in that one statement, they need some clarity here. What's the urgency of this timeframe now all of a sudden? Well, this is the point. You know, the last HIKWA report was actually on sale last October. And as I said, it said that St. Joseph was substantially complained. Now, if they knew that that room had to be done up or changed last October, then that was the time to start planning where this physiotherapy was going to be delivered with another place in the building. It seemed to be a drastic step just to close down a place where hundreds of people are getting treatment and tell them to move off for either to Lifford or to Donegal Town. Either journey is going to be a round journey of over 30 miles. It defies logic what they actually have done. Maybe it had to be done by the end of February, but October was the time to plan. October was the time to let out the news. It had to be done. And we should have been at a time a limit put on it as well, that it'd be closed for a certain length of time and that this work would take an X number of weeks. In that report, you quote John. The dates, it's not like I have August. I'm not sure if there was a subsequent one in October, but anyway, the August one's on the Hickey site, but they do talk of fire. And they say although the provider had measures in place to protect residents from the risk of fire, the inspection found deficits in fire safety equipment, oversight procedures, and the emergency evacuation drill records. The provider representative committed to addressing these findings without delay. The inspector's findings are discussed under regulation 28 fire precautions. I don't really see anything that I don't see anything really that talks to the need to do the type of work that they're talking about now. Let's just say maybe I'm missing something. Well, I don't know. The report that I'm talking about didn't mention that either. But if it did occur, if work has to be done, then it has to be done and we understand that. But it should be, it should be notified well in advance, well in advance to staff, well in advance to people who are attending to see a therapy there, and we should be looking at an alternative of building long ago for a driver than sending people off 30 miles. Right. Well also, by the way, just to be very clear about that 30 miles, John, we spoke to Dr. Dennis McCauley last week who says this throws this whole area into disarray because there isn't the capacity in Donegal Town or Lifford to deal with that workload. So, you know, it's not just about the travel. It's about if you can actually get the services in a timely fashion. Yeah, and the other thing is to say that it's going to continue in the hospital. Now, my understanding, I'm no medic, but my understanding is that if you have physios treatment in the building itself, that you have to have at least three people there that in many cases there are people who are not able to stand up, do different things, so you need baby physio and two assistants to be with them. Well, we don't even know what's not clear from the HSEs whether they're saying these services will be provided in the hospital. Is it in a particular ward? On the ward? Is it in a department? You know, like, again, we're going to have to go back and we're going to probably get another statement, we're going to be able to answer some very, very basic questions, John. And I think an awful lot of this could be cleared up with an interview, you know. Oh, yeah. I think really, if they made one just clear statement and tell us exactly what was actually happening, which what is happening is really we're getting drips of information out. We're getting drips as to, first of all, it's just, there was no information at all. It's just closing, full stop. Then all of a sudden, on a temporary basis, and the statement that they issued didn't actually say that the service was coming back to St. Joseph. They said that the service would be coming back to the Thun Valley or the Thun Town areas. So they didn't actually say that it was coming back to where it had been and in which case I don't understand why that would be the case. Because if the ward is fixed that needs the attention, the patient would be taken out and the physios would return there. But that statement didn't actually make that clear. So we just want to see what the situation is. Just to reference that, the HSE wishes to confirm that as part of its overall service delivery plan and in the best interest of service users in the longer term, primary care services including physiotherapy services will be provided from Finn Valley area in accordance with patients' needs. It doesn't state that they're actually returned to the hospital. It is quite ambiguous and perhaps purposely so. They're trying to find somewhere in Finn Valley is it the hospital? They would have said we hope to have these services returned to St. Joseph's hospital as soon as the works is complete or are complete. That's not in the statement. And if they're not in the hospital, it does make discharging to the hospital complicated, John, because I think they're purposely trying to confuse us. John, we're going to seek more answers and we appreciate your time. Father Lorcan's time. And as I say, we're going to try and get to the bottom of this as is your campaign group as well. Thanks for your time today. Thank you. Take care, John. Bye-bye. Choose Fundamenia. Coming to the Brunswick Movie Bowl from March 1st. Choose regular, junior or family wristbands and enjoy some of Europe's top thrill rides. Choose Fun for All Ages. A legendary Fundamenia event first to the 17th of March. For details, see Fundamenia.co.uk. Fundamenia.co.uk Fundamenia.co.uk Fundamenia.co.uk This week, it's an old dairy line-up with singer-songwriter Dektor McLaughlin. He'll be joining us for a chat on the future in five-piece rap band The Mara. We'll also be popping by. And we also welcome back the brilliant singer-songwriter and port, Danny McGillowy. So that's a Monday Night Sessions. This Monday Night between 8pm and 10pm. Right here on Highland Radio. Now, we're joined on the program by Fiona McCausland, director of the Family Mediation Services. Good morning, Fiona. Thank you for your time today. Good morning. You are most welcome. Right. The Legal Aid Board's Family Mediation Services launched a new call-back service aimed at making free mediation more accessible to families. Mediation, talking things through, especially with the third party present, it's always the best way. And I'll tell you, Fiona, we have a legal section on the show where we have a local solicitor that comes on and answers legal questions. A lot of them are relating to family issues. The first advice always is, look, if you can talk about it, that's best for everyone, especially if there's children involved and what have you. So talk to us about this new service and what you see its importance as. OK. OK. Well, first of all, the Family Mediation Service at the Legal Aid Board there has an office in Letterkenny. So the good news is that there's a local service there that people can access. And it's on the third floor in Lynn House in Letterkenny. And the idea of this call-back facility is really to make us more accessible to the public because, as you say, Mediation is the room to be in to negotiate and sort out your future plans. And we just want to make sure that people can find us. So if you go to www.legalaidboard.ie, you can put in your contact details there, any 24 hours, seven day a week, and we will give you a phone back during office hours. You can also phone our local office in Letterkenny during office hours. But the idea of the call-back is to just open the doors a little bit wider for everybody. And how does Mediation work? What's the setup? Is it in a room? Is it on Zoom? What's the story? So it is room-based. So maybe if I just say that for the first piece is that when you get in touch with us, you will have a one-to-one with the mediator. So you're not suddenly finding yourself coming into the room with the other person straight away. So you get meeting your mediator, and that is room-based. We do facilitate through online mediation and phone-based mediation. I mean, that started during the COVID years, and we've kept that as part of how we work because, as I say, it's all about accessibility. But really the room is the place to be. You meet with your mediator, the other person meets with the mediator, and then you both come in, you sit down, you sign your agreement to mediate. So that it's however many sessions, always free, that you need to work with the mediator. And we've quite a structured process. So, you know, we know this terrain well, and we know how to set up the negotiations, keep you safe, keep you productive, and most importantly, move you from maybe a time when it feels, God, this is just impossible, how do we sort this out to, you know, we've done it, we've done the right thing for our family, and we have a future. This is all well and good if you've got two parties that are prepared to sort of engage. Right, so do you have any roles? So say I came to you and it says, look, I've broke up with my partner. I would like this to be as amicable as is possible. But how do I get that, if they're a little bit reticent or there's no contact or whatever. So how do you get the parties into the room? Okay, so that's really the scale of the mediator and also the trust. That's why you meet with the mediator one-on-one first. And if you think of any type of dispute or conflict or disagreement, really we always start in a place where we don't want to have to talk to the other person. Otherwise, we'd sort it out ourselves, you know. So the first thing you do is you meet with the mediator and Emer there in letter Kenny, you know, she's very, very experienced. You build your trust with her and then the other person does the same. So you're really working with the mediator first, even though all three of you may be in the same room. And the expertise there of Emer is to listen and hear. What is it that's really at the heart of this? Because, you know, at the end of the day, everything can be worked out. It's a question of how do we get from there to there? And it's a conflict resolution process. So we are the people to talk to if you are finding it difficult. And all that we are doing is putting out a hand and saying, we can help you. Trust us. We're experienced. And let us hear what matters to you. And then we help you build the plan forward. And is it often or what is the pattern? Is it sort of like quite soon after a breakup? Is it maybe after people have been through the courts process or ahead of that? Or where does the mediation work best? Or where do we see it most? Yeah. Well, so first of all, people come to us at any stage. And in terms of where we see people coming to our service most, it really is that broad spectrum. I suppose you get to a moment where you're thinking, you know, what we really do need to sit down and work this out with somebody who can help us. Where does it work best? We would suggest that come early. You know, as you say, you know, we're not going to celebrate this as difficult. Pick up the phone. We work with solicitors in the sense that most divorces in particular require legal advice. That's absolutely fine. Financial advice, that's absolutely fine. We're in the negotiators. We are in the seat to help you negotiate. And what we want is for people to come into the sessions with as much good quality information and advice as possible. So we often will send our, people are working without two solicitors and two financial experts and so on. And then they come back. And you know, if it makes the agreement last better and work better, that's good for everybody. What's the stickiest wicket in mediation? Well, so I would say in my own experience of mediation, there are two pieces. One, the children are always central. And funnily enough, in a way, it's not the stickiest wicket because parents are parents and there's lots of different ways we help parents, stay parents, regardless of the separation. The stickiest wicket is often the family home. It's the biggest thing in terms of the decision. And also, are you keeping it? Are you selling it? Are you moving out? There's a little bit of an element of a binary quality about it. One of the things I really learned first when I was working in family mediation was there's a pot of money and there's a home and it's going to have to work somehow or other. So, you know, Mary and Johnny fighting over the family home doesn't make another house appear. And at the heart of that, it's very, very hard for somebody to move out of home they've been in for 20 years. So there's a kind of combination there. And that can be very sticky. Because also, fundamentally, there's an emotional element to it. There's an emotional attachment. There's some people that think, well, if I can kind of stick with some ownership of the home, maybe we can get back together or what? You know, we're so complex, aren't we, as humans? Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, how many of us think of our home in terms of finance? Our home place that we've built together, you've put the shelves up, you've done whatever it is. And then something that is particularly hard, if you are the one that wants to stay in the marriage and you find you're the one that's having to leave the home, that's unbearable. That is so hard. And I think if I was to say a core piece of what we do is show compassion. We show compassion for people in these situations, but we still ask them to step up to make the difficult decisions. So the wicked is sticky and it's got to be worked out. Yeah, and the statistics show, unfortunately, there is an increase in divorce in relationship break-up or we're getting better at sort of identifying, and I'm not really quite sure if we're all just splitting up more or if we're just collating the information just better. What's your take on that? Well, I think that's a really interesting point in making there in that I think we are collating better. I think that for sure, that's there. But I also think that as a society, we are more supportive of allowing families to separate if they're miserable in the one house. You know what I mean? I've never believed that this generation or the next generation are unhappier at marriage. I think what's happened is that we've moved to a place in society where, look, if this is really not working, I mean, kids are in the middle of whatever, in the middle of a house, then look at this and make a decision separate. I think the only thing that is unmeasurable is the thing that might change over time is if we are a bit more transient and maybe we don't try as hard to make things work. Like any of us with older generation parents, we can remember them, you know, arguing like cats and dogs and you think that's it, but they find a way, you know? Whereas I think maybe nowadays people say, right, I'm on to option B or something. But anyway, it's always good. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry, Fiona. No, no, I'm just going to say something that's often said. And you know what? I've been working in this field for about 24, 25 years. I've never been in a room with a couple that got there easily. No, for sure. If we still fall in love, we still want it to work and we're still brokenhearted when it doesn't work. And I think that that is at the heart of it. And I get it. I understand why, you know, my own parents, you know, might say the same, but we still want marriage to work. I see that. And it's heartbreaking when it doesn't. OK, listen, a amicable, through a very tough time, an amicable breakup is always better for both parties, especially if there's children there as well. The legal aid boards, family mediation services, they're available to you and they've launched a new callback service aimed at making free mediation more accessible to families. And just remind us once again, if you don't mind Fiona, how people can sign up or register or whatever the phraseology might say. OK, so OK, so they can go on to www.legalaidboard.ie and put in their details. And the family mediation service at the legal aid board will phone you back. And we have an office there in Letcher Kenny for anybody who wants to call in there as well. Thank you very much. It's been a really interesting conversation. Take care of yourself, Fiona. That's Fiona McCausland there. We'll be back with the weather and news of a great competition we've got running for you this week. 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For teasing season rates unohenergy.ie, suppliers pricing may change. And now Imro's 2023 best local original news program, The Voice of the Northwest, The 9 Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes. Alright the HSC unfortunately has again this one in decline to put someone forward to answer a couple of simple questions as it relates to services at St. Joseph's Hospital which is regrettable but we continue to endeavour on those who are concerned behalf. Some of your comments in relation to that story if the work in St. Joseph's Hospital needs completed, I'd prefer the physio appointments are relocated rather than the patients in the hospital being relocated. We'll get to that later. Hi Greg, St. Joseph's closing before everyone's eyes. Patients can't get physio for a start when they are not going to be in the building and the equipment all gone. Such a walkover. If people believe counsellors and politicians that are misleading them, they knew it was happening and acting now as if they didn't but they assured me they didn't. Well spoken Father Lorcan and John only for your group and COVID St. Joseph's to seat them by stealth. I hope this becomes a local election issue and that this essential service as COVID showed remains for generations. Please note Charlie McConnelogue did not save St. Joseph's last time with his attitude. Greg, unfortunately government don't care about Irish people that just has the rest of the world. By filling our hospitals with foreign nurses and doctors we're depriving their countries of an adequate health service. We should be paying hospital staff enough so Irish nurses and doctors can afford to stay in Ireland. It's a colonial mindset to want cheap labour and I put that point actually because it is one I've mused over before and apparently we are in some countries it depends where you're taking the doctors and nurses from. It does deprive that area but in others they have incredibly good education systems and there is an excess in those areas. Even if you paid increase the wages and what have you done. If you paid the hospital staff and Irish nurses that will want to travel the world and even if they all came back I've read somewhere that that wouldn't be enough to meet our needs. They're closing down nursing homes everywhere in the country to house refugees it's the elephant in the room. There's private nursing homes, people that are in the private nursing home sector you're quite correct it is happening they're saying right there's not enough money in nursing homes we're going to do that. There's not an awful lot you can do I mean this St. Joseph's is a public building but there is no doubt the private nursing homes that the owners of them who are you know obviously businesses have closed to patients and opened them up to other residents there's just no doubt about that. Hi Greg can we get the bosses of the St. Joseph's they are the people who signed off on and are responsible for these decisions well we've requested them of course that would have been one of the first things that we did it's a total disgrace that St. Joseph's physio is being closed down a family member attended recently received brilliant treatment in a family modern, fully modern and fully equipped centre ballerba phase a totally forgotten term the HSC will be happy or won't be happy until the hospital is closed completely that's according to Ann. 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bowl in Derry from the 1st of March to the 17th of March you're being told to get ready to be swept away by the greatest fairground extravaganza you'll ever encounter from hot pumping roller coasters to adrenaline pumping bumper cars they have it all the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio it's time for Vision Ireland Bingo on Highland Radio it's Monday the 26th of February you're playing on the green sheet the reference number is S1 it's game number 9 the numbers are 33 30 86 14 45 71 68 51 59 and finally 48 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 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