 Yes, boy! How's it going? Do you know what I was just saying to you there, just about 30 seconds? Do you know how we were talking last week and you said there's a thing online? How to maximize your holidays? Yeah, you book certain days at certain times and you get longer times off. I think you can book like seven days or five days and get two weeks off. Yeah, it's just how to get the best you should have your holidays. So if you do have holidays, if you're self-employed, it's a bit tricky. But otherwise, it's good. Have you booked anything off the back of it? No, but I want to go on like I know it's there now. So I'm going to do it, you know, that's a good job. I didn't take all of my holidays last year, so... Did you not? No. Can you carry them over? Nope. No. I'm just too committed to the course. You used all your... You were off quite a bit last year or something. How many holidays do you get? Don't know, but I didn't use them all 20 days. Thank you, you're 22. Maybe, but I didn't take them all. Did you not? No. Dedicated? Just dedicated. Come here, the show you were watching last week, you watched two episodes. Oh, yeah. What's it called? Fill me once. Fill me once? Yeah. Good. It's alright, yeah. It's alright. You like it, you'd love it, but you can't wait for the weekend. No, I can't, because it's hard to beat something that you look forward to watch, and you would always give me the heads up, what's good to watch, do you know? So I started watching last night as well. It was alright. Like, we did, I didn't watch it on my own, but yeah, it's interesting to see how it'll play out. It's on Netflix. How many episodes was all together? I don't know, probably six or eight. Is that it? Eight. Yeah, if you watched it, Michaela, one second, if you watched it. Yeah, finished it. All of it. Dead. Yeah, like it were three days. Yeah, I liked it. Well, if you watched it over three days, you're a busy person. But yeah, you could binge it in one, one and a half days, maybe. Maybe, yeah. No, it's very good. How many episodes are all together, Michaela? Eight. Eight, right. What would you give her out of ten? I'd give it nine out of ten, because I was a bit disappointed in the end. Oh, don't say that. Don't say that. But it is really good. But she was only one out of ten disappointed. I have, you see, you can't spoil it, but I have my suspicions, although I don't think what I suspect is true, because they've kind of said it, and it's unlikely that, isn't it, because so. There you go. All right, it's OK. Good luck. So you're not going to watch the weekend, are you? No, I wasn't. So disciplined. No, no, but I have to. But it'll be good. No, he's a good viewer, not afraid of your Saturday night. Something's like poverty, you know? Yes, all right, just still going in the background. I'll let them sing along. All right then. Come in, Lee. Have a good day. We'll chat to you tomorrow. Wednesday again already in my word. OK, it's not yet Wednesday. Wednesday is tomorrow. OK, it is just after nine. The nine to moon show is just around the corner. But first, it's a news update, and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. It's been confirmed that the Banking and Insurance Redress focus group will continue its work. That's despite an announcement in recent days that the redress focus groups were unable to carry on due to a lack of resources, support and assistance. Members of the Banking and Insurance Redress Group have been invited to a meeting with the subgroup established by the Department of Housing to examine issues relating to the mortgage ability of homes remediated under the Defective Concrete Blocks Scheme this Thursday. Spokesperson Patrick Sharkey says the group will continue in their efforts to see remediated homes brought to a mortgageable standard. Thursday's meeting is an initial meeting. We understood it would be a process which will continue with regular meetings. So we're going to continue with our work. We are in engagement with each of the main lenders. There's Banking Culture Board, the Central Bank. It was very hard work and difficult to get that engagement up and running. But we want to continue with that and that's our intention. Action is being urged to prevent more nursing home closures. An ESRI report shows 50 homes closed on between 2018 and 2020 with providers blaming staffing difficulties and financial viability. The report revealed Donegal has one of the lowest supply of nursing home beds per capita with 204 more long-term residential care beds needed in the county to meet the national average. Ty Daly is the CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland and says he can't see 2024 being much better for the people he represents. Confidence is seeping away from the sector and while there is some development, all of those developments would have been either under construction or pre-funded. But in reality, I'm hearing from members that no new development and no additional capacity will be provided in the current funding climate. Police have confirmed an improvised explosive device was found during a security alert in Derry. The suspicious object had been found at a property in the Bars-Leon area yesterday morning which resulted in a number of homes being evacuated as a public safety operation was carried out. The device has been taken away for further examinations. Government ministers are due to sign off today on laws to reduce the supports given to Ukrainian refugees. State accommodation would only be provided for 90 days while weekly welfare supports will be reduced from 232 euro to 38 euro. It's expected the changes which will only impact new arrivals from Ukraine will be passed by the dawn next week and belong by the end of January. Finally, for weather, cold and frosty with some icy patches this morning, Clyde will gradually break up with some good sunny spells developing, highest temperatures of 2 to 4 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. Whether you're adventuring, salsa dancing, or you just popped out for some milk, you're not always home. With Unpust, that's not a problem. You can set up a safe spot for us to put your deliveries when you're not in or rearrange delivery to your local post office. And if something's not right, you can quickly return it with a collection from your door or drop at your local post office. Online shopping made easy with Unpust. Unpust for your world. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Good morning. It's approaching six minutes past nine and we're live for another Tuesday, this one, the ninth of January, 2024. You're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show here in Highland Radio with me, Greg Hughes. And, well, we've a busy one lined up for you as always. Later on, community guarder information, where you hear the latest appeals and information from guarder Hugh Connor first. And we're across all the big stories, both locally, nationally and beyond. The lines are open for you to get involved in the conversation, trigger your own on 08 660 25,000, 08 660 25,000, or give us a call at 07 491 25,000. And if you want to email the show, comments, comments at Highland Radio.com. 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When Donegal thumped an experimental RMA by 316 to 1-6 in the first round of the Dr. McKenna couple last Wednesday, it looked like the perfect way to officially launch a new era for the man who guided Donegal to the 2012 Orland. And yet, the one big detail got lost in the print of that win, promising young player, Finbar Rorty's date of birth, competition rules for senior Intercanti football state. Players must be 18 by the start of that calendar year to be eligible to play the Neve Connell teenager. It was just shy of his 18th birthday when he featured. And what seems like a simple error on Donegal's pot could cost them dearly. McGinnis has been hit with a proposed eight-week suspension whilst the player, and I'll just go back into page 46, whilst the player himself has been suspended for two weeks, McGinnis has already suggested an appeal against any bannies likely after his Donegal squad beat Tyrone by 15 points to 110 on Sunday in the second round of the competition. We'll talk about that, of course, a little later on, interested in your views out there. A lot of people online seem to think that it's sour grapes as to why there's such a heavy suspension, but it is a rule that's been in place for quite some time as well, too, so we shall wait and see. Donegal Democrat, this morning, a technical report is awaited in the case of a man charged with a hit-and-run collision in which a nine-year-old boy was killed in Bandoran. Sergei Kelly has been charged in connection with the September collision that resulted in the death of Ronan Wilson from Killed Dress in County Tyrone. Ronan was killed in the incident on Atlantic Way at around 9.20 p.m. on September 23, 2023. Kelly, a 23-year-old with an address at Upper Mollochmore County Sligo, has been charged with three offences under the Road Traffic Act and is currently on bail under strict conditions. On to the independent this morning, and almost one in five small family-run nursing homes shot down in the first three years of the pandemic, leaving many older residents now under the wing of a few for-profit private operators financed by International Private Equity, a new ESRI report warns today. The largest operator in Ireland is Orpheia, which is effectively owned by the French state after safety concerns led to it coming under the control of that country's investment fund. Between February 2020 and December 2022, there were significant closures of small homes, mainly in rural areas. There's been a consolidation of private-for-profit long-term care operators driven by recent entrance into the Irish market, who were mainly financed by International Private Equity, and these opened several large facilities recently. The report said, now, the current concern is, is in rural Ireland, will there be spaces available for a population that thankfully is growing older and would need those services, or are they going to be more centralized, where the profits are bigger, and so on and so forth. That's certainly a concern. The Irish Times this morning. Sinn Fein MLA, Jerry Kelly, has said he will study the judgment handed down in the High Court in Belfast yesterday, which labelled a defamation case taken by the former IRA man as an abusive process and criticised his legal action as a slap. That's S-L-A-P-P. It's a legal action taken to discourage legitimate scrutiny by the media and political opponents. But Sinn Fein did not comment when asked if the judgment would prompt any change in the party's attitude to defamation action. Leading figures in the party, including the President Mary Lou MacDonald, have taken defamation action against media outlets and political opponents in a trend criticised by the National Union of Journalism and Free Speech Groups. Ms. MacDonald defended the practice in a series of interviews over Christmas, but there is known to be growing unease about the political backlash against the party for the spate of legal actions taken in recent years. We'll get to something on that before the end of this show. On to the Irish Independent now, and you might remember the riots in Dublin. You'll remember the scenes, won't you? Well, the Gardner investigation is ongoing, and there's an update in The Star. Gardner have 150 people in their sites for prosecution of the Dublin riots and are working to formally identify them. The paper has learnt that a special unit set up to catch the thugs involved in the riots in the capital, last November, have amassed almost 20,000 hours of CCTV to help track the suspects down. We have established, that being the paper, that Gardner probing the November 23 disturbances have a hit list of at least 150 suspects they've isolated on camera being involved in rioting, looting, arson and assault attacks, and perhaps ironically some of the best footage in inverted commas and some of the footage where people are most easily identifiable is from citizen journalists or self-styled or self-labelled citizens journalists who are often on the ground, in amongst the crowd and filming all the faces. So that'll be very useful to the Gardner, I'm sure. As Saul said last night, there are more than 150 suspects and work is underway in identifying them. As I said, Fab for close-up mobile phone footage to be going through the far-distance CCTV. So you can be sure they've downloaded it all from that social media. On to the sun this morning, Prince Andrew appeared in sex tapes filmed by his billionaire friend Jeffrey Epstein, bombshell court papers alleged yesterday. The claims later retracted, which is quite important, heap further embarrassment on the beleaguered royal. A victim of Epstein also claimed to have seen ex-US President Bill Clinton and billionaire businessman Richard Branson having sex with a woman in the secret footage, which, it's been claimed, doesn't exist. The incredible allegations were disclosed in the latest tranche of papers that have detailed King Charles' brother taking part in an orgy on Epstein's private Caribbean island. What incredibly unpleasant people, men, people, whatever they are to have been involved in all of that and the sooner that were alleged to have been according to the papers, the sooner all of that is exposed, the better. The Irish Daily Mail, the front page, protesters will be emboldened into challenging the government to change its plans on the arrival of asylum seekers into the area, politicians fear. Last night, Tarnishedomee Hall-Martin insisted that despite plans to house 50 male asylum seekers in Bal and Robin Mail being shelved in favour of moving families in instead. This was not a U-turn, but the protesters who demonstrated against the arrival of male asylum seekers declared victory after the Department of Integration announced its change of plan yesterday after days of protests. And the plans were changed overnight, really. I was following it relatively closely. The plans were effectively changed overnight. And then some who initially sort of triggered the protests said, right, that's it, we're off. And then others said, well, where are you going? This isn't over yet. 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Paddy, good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Good morning, Greg. How are you, Judy? And same to you, Paddy, and the family. I mean, obviously there's ongoing frustration, but you've taken to social media platforms to express your frustration and your frustration of others as it relates to this scheme. And you seem to be concluding, Paddy, that it's actually designed not to work rather than to work. No, I am on the same page. You're there. I could be on that island or in a 100% reduced page. Once every couple of days, complaining about something, but then you feel like they're just complaining instead of doing something. But the frustration out there with the people, that's shocking. They've been treated like... their mental health has turned all the time low. They went to paperwork and time, and then they're worrying about their children and they're trying to get their houses fixed. There seems to be no help. No help. Like, I've been chatting to the pensioners. They have vulnerabilities, for one example, for South Nalpoth. The poor woman's gone on to the last roll-out of her life. And most of the worst Christmas she's ever had on her life. You know what I mean? Like, that should not be happening on the last roll-out. She was messed about the whole way for the last six months, bided on the go-to council. She was on stage three, ready to get the figure that she has to work with. Then she can give it to her contractor. She never got it in time for Christmas. So, the urgency that they were supposed to be there for vulnerable, that's an absolute shambles. Because there's already, there's people at some stage one, that they're getting news now that they're bypassing stage two and they're not at the stage three. So there's nothing there for the vulnerable that they were supposed to be. And that's not acceptable. Like, I'm not just talking about pensioners. There's a lot of other people that come out there under the vulnerable category. And we always knew this was going to be right. And that's the problem with the only go-to council, what's the project plan of it, the roll-out plan of it. Until there's a good, decent team involved in this, that's got the common sense to say, right, category one, we need to make sure there's some vulnerable who are looked after here first. And then you go through the lust. Because the lust is long. And if it's a scattered effect like us here, as you just take it as it comes, well, people slip through the net. Like a pensioner slips through the net. That's a bad reality of us. And that's what people should just take a step back and just wait a lot. If one of these pensioners slips through the net and, God forbid, she pass away, that house does not go to her family. Her family is inheriting a lump or rubble, racking rooms. And that's just not right there. It's a hard way to sort of, it's a hard way, isn't it, to live your life with that concern, with that concern hanging over your head. That's a mortal sum. That's what it is. Hey, that's a mortal sum. And the money in there, there's doing it while I get my house fixed before I pass away. Like, that's an absolute disgrace away of looking at it. And that's what makes me so angry and frustrated. And a lot of that is to do with the county council. And there's not just me unramping away, but kind of getting the easy target because the government are the biggest culprits here. But like if we just stick to the points of the council force on going to the government, like the amount of phone calls that I'd be getting of people, like they assess their grant, like it's over a year now that there's people out there and they're looking for the money back for their mobile homes or their rent agreement. That's the people that's already been on the scheme at Scenic, that some of them Scenic get their, has got their heat level in the house. They have no money for their mobile home with the states. They have no money for the rent. Like, that's absolutely pathetic. And it's not been processed. I'm sorry, Greg, but it's not been processed quick enough. It's not even on their portals. They haven't even got a program to do the studies on their website to get the money quick enough. So if that's the case of them people, what can happen when a boulder comes now? I'm hearing rumors, some contractors don't want it because they think the money's not going to come quick enough. That's 10% of the AM's going to kill them. They have no timeline when they're going to get it. They've got 40%, they could 10%. Like I say, on the biggest cap, that's 42,000. They have no timeline. That's going to be a month after this. It's going to be two months. Three months is going to be two years. There's a lot of them. There's a lot of them builders that might only have an overdraft of the bank of, say, 80,000. I mean, they only do two houses at house max. So that's designed there bad for them. And I know that's not the council. That's the government side of stuff. But in the council side of stuff, like really and truly the councillors, they're the people we represent. They're the people that should be fighting for us. Not the homeowners fighting all the time because people don't like Lussie and Dosage. We're only homeowners. So if a councillor was fighting for us, not one of them has the nerve to stand up and say, listen, I'm resigning, headline news. I'm resigning away from this party because this is not the kind of party that I thought that I actually signed up to join a party that was going to look after the people. Because most of the councillors just sat back in their seats, taking a moment. When Darryl bring the minister of housing, the motion was passed of no confidence for him. Nobody would have seen a father, seen a gale. Well, I could be wrong, maybe one or two. But the vast majority of the councillors, they all passed the motion that House was 100%. The man that has never even came up and visited Mike, our defective home in Donegal, they passed the motion that it's all right, that he's a good man. That's pathetic. And they aren't, to some extent though, waiting to see in that, you know, there's talk about, you know, there's more, and I'm trying to make an argument here, but it's difficult. There's more analysis of science that maybe the system might evolve. You know, we've been told that the system can evolve and this is just the first, this is just the first sort of incarnation of it. Is there an argument that the public reps are sort of saying, well, let's see if our parties can fulfill those commitments? No, no, there's two differences. There's two differences. There's two differences. So is there, in the right hand there, if the council is fighting for emergency accommodation and hubs, and even the government teams have got over volunteers, the councillors have got nothing on their left hand to try and start fighting stuff through the IS-465 and the science-led stuff. They've got nothing there, so they might as well fight for the people on the stuff that they can, like the low-brain fruit, as a man would say, because in the IS-465 side of stuff, that's a new level altogether. That's actually a disaster. They actually maddened me to a level that I blame them as one of the biggest culprits on us, because their delays are underpinning this whole scheme. So they're an IS-465. Like if you look at it, it's over six years since the IS-465 was supposed to review this through the MSAI. Now it's coming out tomorrow now in its own independent that they are going to take another year to review this scheme. So Greg, that means that all the homeowners now, right, all the homeowners, that's getting the decisions from the house and they need to say, now they're also working in the old IS-465 scheme. So their decisions are all based on make-up. And like the dog in the street knows now it's not. So government is allowing all the information and all the decisions now to be based on the old scheme and they're using delay tactics again to turn around and say, well, no, you're not getting demolition. We might platter plaster over a ballad wound here and we're going to decide this. And the delay in the IS-465 is not going to be reviewed for over a year. Like that is where it comes to the stage that we know that the Michael Dougherty was right whenever he left my group. And I remember everything he said, the stuff that he said was, those governments were not getting no more out of this government. So they set up a scheme to give at least amount of houses as fixed and he's 100% right? So have you ever the view that in reality, in reality for very few people, if any, this certainly isn't a 100% redress scheme and there's so much uncertainty being over the technical side of it that you're talking about, innerleaves, foundations and all that type of stuff, that really no one's going to engage with this scheme in its current form for a couple of years effectively at the very least under the current regime. Is that what you're saying that this really is, what we're talking about here is a scheme that isn't a scheme? Aye, society with a heavy heart. That's the realisation that I've come to. That's government. I'm Fina Fall, I'm Fina Gale. That's the way they've left it. And if you ask me, if there was another government in place, listen, I don't know the answer, I don't know the answer to that or that. All I know is like, all I know is some of the stuff that's going on there, like use the great, the Debbie McCoy, right? So Debbie, the Debbie McCoy, the amount of help that she's helped us through all this time, the information that we've got out for, right? Within one year, the banks and the government and the homeowners were around the table saying, right, how do we resolve this problem? Right? So, and you take them, take Ireland on the consideration. The government has done everything but come around the table with the banks and the insurances and the homeowners. That's taken the reverse focus group. This was set up by Russian Gala and her team. That's taken them to set up the banking insurance group. And only for the great laser guide of them and going through our terms and conditions that we kept plugging away at the banks, plugging away and telling the banks, there's more examples. And we asked the department of housing lesson, let's meet around the table here with the banks. No, no, no, they kept saying, no, no, no, we're all right. We don't need just around the table. But until we give the banks enough examples and telling them that these houses are not mortgageable, sellable, or insurable. And they says, no, no, no, service is us. All right, sir, we're hearing from the government. We're hearing from the minister, Michael Martin, Charlie McConnell, they're just getting 100%. No, yes, yes, must be wrong. They must be right. But no, with the persistence of the banking insurance group, they finally, the penny finally dropped with the banks. And they're saying, hold on a minute here. Yes, she has most of the points. Right, let's meet around the table. Now, this has nothing to do with our government. No, not one thing. So that's why my faith in this government is just at an all-time low. So it has to do with us. Yeah, but you've been in the game long enough to know as well. I want to say in the game, sorry, I've been around long enough to know. Like there's an awful lot of promises being made. If there were another government in place, but the one thing that people have learned over this process and it's been going on a very long time now is a lot of commitments have been made and we've yet to, some would say, sorry, some most would feel that we've yet to see them followed through on. No, listen, you're a million percent right there. And as a quote from Michael Dorday, as more or less what he said there, it's very easy to shout from the sidelines. Uses towards something here now. Or any other party out there as well. But it's very easy to shout from sidelines with them, because whenever you get into power of them and you get into the dressing room and you get tugged out, like Sinn Féin's getting close to dressing room. And when they get tugged out, how do they go to man up, can they? Well, listen, we don't know the answer to that, but I'll tell you one thing. One thing is definitely happening. There's working happening in the background, Greg. I can't tell you all about it, but this will work, perhaps, with any other parties. And we want to find out the definition of 100% redress. We're not going to be naive enough to turn around to something and say, listen, no problem at all. We'll put all our eggs in one basket and we'll tell everybody, go for you. You're sort of going to give us all the bells and whistles and you're just going to change everything. No, we're not naive enough to do that. What's happening in the background now is we're bringing up the definition of 100% redress, because if you ask somebody, you could take somebody 40 months an hour to tell you the times you could ask somebody. We want something to publicly declare that that is what 100% does. That's what they're backing. A name or any other party that does that, well, we will back them. And anybody out there, why would we not, Greg? How does that work though? We're not wishing to throw a spanner in the works, but there is obviously a defective concrete political party that's been formed now in Donegal and right from the get-go. It is kind of, it could split votes and all that type of stuff. It could get really quite complicated. Do you have a view on that? My view in that sense, I've been chatting a couple of people who are not there. I definitely support them. I think their angle is at council level, as they're telling me. They're not looking to go at the TV levels or nothing at the moment, so they're not modelling the models, but they want it on a council level. They don't think enough work has been done at the council level and I totally agree with them. I would totally ask anybody out there to, Rhys, if you were thinking of running or joining for them, and you're at a crossroads, you're thinking, no, no, no, go for it. We need people in there with big voices. I don't think that they're going to do real anything. I'm like, come back to the, come back to the more left shimfane side of it. I can, I mean, people think that all I have is shimfane. How can I not be more shimfane? Whenever all I hear, the only people I hear in the door is shimfane, starting up and calling it for us, along with the Thomas Pringles. Hey, listen, we've even got people down in Limerick, like Richard, I'm like you, shouting at the government and saying, that's as wrong. So it's not just shimfane, but credible credits. You, there are the people that, if we ask them to call, support over the door, and they do it. And me personally, I was nothing to do with politics before this year. No, I know that, but they've made an awful lot of commitments through the likes of this issue, you know, hospitals, housing, and all that type of stuff. But look at, as you say, we'll look at it and see. A caller says, finally, can you ask Paddy, has anyone got their house rebuilt under the scheme? This is the old one. And how did they fare? How did they fare? And were they happy with the deal? Do you know anyone that has successfully? I do. I just don't want to name him because he doesn't want to be named, but I do. I do. I listen, they had a wee bit of baller going through the 1910, but they've got it fixed. I listen, the crazy thing about this is there has to be a divide and conquer here, kind of thing. It was great. The person that I was talking to, he can do it when he's self-employed. He can make it work for himself whenever he does it himself and project manager himself. And he phones and he gets his prices from his engineers, his plumbers, his plasterboarders, and all the rest. When he does all the work himself, he can make it work for him. He can make it work for him, but I'm saying that, he's saving a bit of doors out of that, and doggling it. But anybody that can't do it, like I have a brother, he's an iPoster that could be project manager himself. I'm just not at the final figures yet, but I know rightly I have a brother that's all on the, he's on the computer side of stuff. Not in a million years, could he do it? Not in a million years. I hope he doesn't mind saying that. The last part, I'll say it online, the last picture he hung up, he sticked up with sticky glasses and fell out when he closed the door. All right, it's okay. He'll stick to the computers. All right. Well, listen, we'll wait and see. I think a lot of people that I speak to, and it's mostly off air, are sort of sitting tight to see where things go politically in this country in terms of commitments and fulfilling commitments and stuff. But we shall wait and see. I want to say something, I'll say Greg as well, and that's to the council side of stuff, because some stuff goes on here, it does put the pressure on the council to do stuff. As the contractors and the homeowners, I'm not coming through quick enough, and I've been talking to a couple of contractors. And what they're telling me is, one's telling me one thing and one's telling me the other thing. One's telling me that, how is Molly's coming through quick? His two houses done now. There's Molly's coming through good enough. So he's giving them a lot of praise. Though the man he's telling me, then it's not. So really, today with me talking to the two of them, that's because the council, there's no leaflets, there's no step-by-step guide, there's no blocks taking exercise of what needs to come for your first and worst or your second. Like, in a day and age, everything is stress. Everything is a drama. Like, if you were out to go to a construction site or you went to somewhere, you've got a plan. You know, how can we be in a day and age that there's not even a plan for the payments? A simple box taking exercise like that. Yep, and when it's done successfully, that should form a model that's distributed to everyone to say, this is the most effective way of doing it, follow these steps. I presume that's what you're saying there, Paddy. Yeah, exactly. Just follow the steps. Like, follow the steps. Because there's not that many people that's phoning me about the frustrations and the finance side of stuff. The finance side of stuff is massive to people. You cannot get on the scheme unless you've got about 30 or 40,000 to go forward and that means pay a deposit for a kitchen, pay a deposit for your windows, pay a deposit for this or that on, a bit of the engineers and architect fees at the start of it. So that is where the banking insurance side of stuff. And that's where the government does is where the government don't want a meeting with the banks and the homeowners and them. And that just, when they don't want that meeting, that means they don't want the scheme to work. I'm like, that's a disgrace. I'm like, ah, I'm not even going to mention Charlie Mac. I was going to get on to Charlie Mac. I wanted to do that. But there's just no point. Just waste of time. Okay, listen, Paddy, thanks for that. I appreciate your time. And the more we talk about it, unfortunately, the more it seems like we're not moving any forward. And it's a nightmare. I would not like to be at this time trying to contend with it. It's complicated and it's convoluted. Paddy, thanks very much for your time. I appreciate it. Paddy Diver, campaigner on the defective block issue and a homeowner there. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. The Nine Till Noon Show brought you by Kelly's Toyota, where you can care for your car and drive the Toyota relax, giving you a year's warranty with your service. Terms and conditions apply. Oh, Kira, congratulations. Look at her tiny fingers. She's beautiful, just like her mommy. Oh, thank you. Have you got a name yet? Well, we're thinking... She's going to call her Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Massachusetts, Phoenix, Arizona. Your vote is your voice. So if you don't speak up, someone else is deciding for you. 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Eclipse cinemas in Lifford, Straban and Bondoran was honored with the title of Best Family Entertainment Venue at the Highland Radio Customer Service Awards. Here are some of the reasons why. The director's lounge is brilliant. Homemade popcorn in a class of its own. The pizzas are amazing. The staff are friendly and helpful. I enjoyed having my hot food delivered to my seat. It's just a really class cinema. Treat yourself to a night out and enjoy the amazing off-the-shelf breakfast. I'd love to get to know you more about the community. I'm going to be talking about the community opening of the Crisla Community Links Hub. It's located on the main street in Crisla. Magylla McFadden is community links manager for the Crisla Community Association and joins us on the programme now. Good morning, Magylla. Good morning, Greg. How are you? Not so bad. facility and the services will provide Magello. Yes, so Minister O'Brien will be officially opening our facility on Friday. This Greg was a derelict building here in the middle of Chrysler's for many years and just in the middle of last year the Chrysler community had received funding to indeed come up with this community centre, a community initiative. It was through the Chrysler Together initiative to create a facility that would bring the community together again and I suppose help with the journey of healing here in Chrysler. And how will that be achieved? Like what what will be there for the community Magello? So it's been functional since August. It's a bit of a work in progress at the moment but we're almost there. At the moment we're running several programs out of here. For example, we would have a youth group in on a Monday evening. We have a youth group here on a Tuesday evening. So with we work with Boroiga and with Donegal Youth Services. We have a walking group coming out of here on a Thursday. That's very successful. We have a number of support groups as well and we would have citizens advice and mabs coming in here once a month. So yes, it's filling up fast. The calendar is certainly filling up here. Yeah and it evolves doesn't it? It evolves to the community's needs Magello. What it is now it might be something you know really quite different into the future. It's whatever the local population might benefit most from. Absolutely so it really at the forefront of all this is what as you say that what the community's needs are and it is continuously evolving and we work we're working with and building on the relationships that we've already had with some of the key stakeholders here in the Chrysler community such as the social workers and our youth workers. We've had a lot of support from the Donegal Local Development Company, DLDC as well as the Donegal Community Council. So we're very fortunate in that respect that we've had a lot of support to get this building to where it is at the moment and if anybody for anybody that has not been in here it really is it's when they walk and I suppose it's not what they expect to see. We have three office spaces here. We have a meeting room but we have a wonderful communal space which opens out to just a beautiful outdoor area and we really want to utilize that now in the coming year whether that be with markets or just getting people together. In fact with some yoga classes running here as well over the weekends and it's just a really beautiful spot and we just want to to make it work for the community moving forward. Yeah and I don't know how to phrase this but I mean obviously this has been established in the wake of the awful Chrysler tragedy and it doesn't necessarily does it directly reference that but it does sort of support the community in its recovery after it if that makes sense. Yes look we're all we're all the time remembering the families who have lost their loved ones they injured Greg you know their lives have been changed forever. This is the funding was received I suppose in the aftermath of that tragedy and that's always going to be at the forefront here so it's about bringing the community together and there's no better way to do that than with a community center such as this and I would like to add that I've had great support from the Dunfany family resource center Breige Ward and a number of the resource centers around the county they have they're just an amazing example of what it is to bring a community together. Just the walking group they're an amazing bunch of people that come in here every Thursday and they alone if I could say one thing it if anyone's listening here that are in and around the Chrysler area now just take that one step get out and join a group or come in here give us a call if there's something that you're interested in because just taking that first step and getting out it makes a big difference in people's legs and it's making a big difference in our legs here in the community center. Lovely okay and everyone's invited in the local area to the opening at 11 a.m in attendance will be the Minister of State for Community Development Integration and Charities Joe O'Brien and again to encourage people to go and see what it's like you know to see if it is for you because not everyone will you know and it's important I think that everyone who might benefit from it does at least go in and see and see the setup and as you say be pleasantly surprised and I would say through the the community events that will follow as you mentioned with that beautiful space that you have now it'll grow and grow and grow from there Majella. It certainly is as it is growing and continuously evolving as we mentioned earlier and I would encourage everyone to come out everybody is invited on Friday to it's supposed to mark an occasion as well in this journey that we have here in Chrysler of just healing we just would invite everybody to come out come in and see the premises you know you will have ideas this what I'd like to say to everybody it's your community links hub so it's belongs to the community your ideas come out that is no there's refreshments as well actually you'll see in sandwiches after lovely stuff okay Majella thank you for your time today and best of luck with the official opening tomorrow I know you've been working away there but it's nice to get the official launched on thank you for your time today it is thank you very much take care Majella McFadden there community links manager for the Chrysler Community Association coming up after the break we're going to be talking about an increase uh in scabies what 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medical organization and local gp dr danis mccawley good morning to you danis thank you for your time as always good morning great happy new year and happy to new year to you and yours okay scabies we're seeing an increase in scabies we'll talk about it you know what might be driving that increase but firstly what is scabies and how does it present itself scabies is a very annoying condition to any any family that have had it's a little mite that lives on your skin there's about an average infection there's about 16 of these little mites on your skin and they burrow in into your skin lay eggs and become very itchy and the symptoms basically are that your skin is just so itchy there's other family members are itching at at night you just can't sleep because you itch it's so much because so therefore it's not serious but it is so demoralizing and because it's also difficult to treat and presumably due to you agitate your skin even more by involuntary scratching of the area i i think one of the reasons that you scratch your skin is because you scratch your skin the more you scratch the more itchy you'll actually get and i think it's classically it's for it's it's more inclined to get people who are under 15 and an older people but you generally get it in overcrowded situations so that's why you see students quite quite quite commonly get it also so those are the the general things school school children then nursing homes and then in situations where there's a lot of bodies lying which which you know in in in a in a crowded space if you had scabies you would know it would you or could you be something else or what i think yeah people come in and they've been scratching generally they've been scratching for many weeks if not a month and they're assuming it's an allergy they've taken an antihistamine they've assumed it's it's something in their washing powder they've changed they've moisturized and they come in and they're quite at that stage quite sleep deprived and quite annoyed quite annoyed and then when you tell them they have a skin infection with these little mites on their skin they actually get much much more annoyed and naturally you just immediately repel when you hear that diagnosis and that's why the treatment is is it's it's difficult because you have to be persistent and particular and i think that's why it's so it's so difficult because people will come in and say i've done what you told me i'm still itching i'm annoyed sorted out so the the the mites bows into skin plants eggs and then then eggs hatch do they exit your skin and locate somewhere else or or what happens they do what happens is the mites the mites lives off your skin it sort of it lives in your skin it and when it goes on to other clothing it can stay there for 72 hours particularly in in war and sort of cold con conditions this is why you when you treat it i'll just go through the actual treatment ground because it's basically that you have to apply this cream from your neck down everywhere between your fingers between your toes in your groin between the buttocks you leave it on overnight and then that night then i you get up you wash your bed clothes at a high temperature you've had clothes which you've washed at a high temperature and dried ready to wear and you don't you don't use anything other clothes for 72 hours break the cycle yeah to try and break break the cycle and everybody in the house has to do it even the even the person's well i don't have scabies i don't need to do it because treatment failure generally becomes from not applying the cream properly um not all members being being actually given it and then okay you do get resistance the problem is that with the whole like a whole lot of other medical preparations at the present moment there's way we have shortages and the problem is there's only one formulation available for scabies at the present minute which is inevitably will increase the risk of resistance there was a lot of talk of bed bugs over the summer this is something completely different isn't it oh it is yeah a bed a bed bug you will see whereas scabies you have to really have they are about a point one of them of a millimeter in large so you wouldn't like to see the actual burrows in your skin so it is it's just really annoying and um then there is a new thing you had appeared in uh on the tv i think called invermectin bor that's used for cows we use it also in very resistant forms of scabies so there is a public version also and and it spreads through closed contacts or like a glancing blow for instance the shaking of a hand is very unlikely for scabies to spread like that but if you were to lie beside someone spend a lot of time beside them in a school setting for example or a congregated setting of any description that's how it's it's they're getting from one person to the next it is yeah but i can recall our house with the children coming back from school scratching and we just said yeah here we go and then we just do it and it's usually sitting beside somebody um for a reasonable length of time they say it's very infectious but you know i would shake somebody with hands with with scabies that have no issue it would actually wash my hands but there's not it's not that infected it is it is just you have to be there for a reasonable length length of time and we are right across uh the country and the continent uh seeing an increase but it's not really clear why because i mean obviously the the ways in which it transfers to one person to the other hasn't changed so if we see more cases it's it's more prevalent but there's no real explanation as to why that is or is there well there isn't there isn't really i think i think it's so hard to actually define if i i would imagine that this it's a whole range of things i think it is more overcrowding but i think resistance is an issue and i think that is because of the the inability of us to to to sort of rotate the the medicines that we are we are using that's what happens in in all other forms of medicine if you use the one antibiotic all of the time you will get resistance are we likely are they likely to congregate in any particular parts of the body uh Dennis well they do well funny they they tend to go in your fingers and in your groin between your your fingers and in your groin really and between your tools but i think the it is just generalized and that's why it is so annoying uh call us as the cream you buy for the scabies is 25 euro um can you get that on the medical card yes you can you can but the call says they're looking for it and they're struggling to get it but you there's a general general medicines uh and there's no alternative is there there's no home remedies i mean obviously you can cope with things that alleviate itching but there isn't for scabies um it's just it is very particular there is an oral tablet called in in vermectin which we use we we all would have heard it being advertised growing up for for cows for because it's used for parasites also so we use it also in cases such as that so and the the oral tablet sounds useful but i think you would always try and use the creams first because it's really reserved for the very extreme cases people who are immunosuppressed and so forth but i mean it's a it's a it's a big deal coming into the house for all the reasons you've outlined everyone has to cream up uh you have to uh you know everyone has to be in fresh clothes all of the bed clothes have to be uh you know changed changed and washed at a high like it's a it's a problem okay listen people will have learned something i'm sure from that conversation Dennis thank you very much for your time anything you need to add right could i just say there's a very the the hsc on the website's really good information it's the best written one i've seen so i would advise people to go go there if there's any issues take care of yourself thanks Dennis that's dr Dennis McCauley there who is vice president of the irish medical organization and of course a local GP was really aware of scabies if i'm completely honest with you uh but it certainly made me itch as those conversations tend to particularly i'm not sure this is not where i'm itching um but keep an eye out particularly uh in the web of your fingers and toes and uh in your groin area according to uh Dennis McCauley there i've been asked to let you know that at uh model n road heading towards the glen at the crossroads in kiley gordon there's a car off the road uh the call assess is due to black ice and the road is lethal please be careful the road seemed a little bit on my my roots this morning seemed a little bit less icy than yesterday uh Greg it doesn't take a rocket science to realize this government is kicking the ball down the road and to leave the mess for the next government it could well be them though you see uh which people shouldn't i think people believe it's a fate to complete that after an election um the government will change dramatically it may not change at all it depends on how the numbers uh add up read the mica redress as a protest at the lack of progress on the scheme the people should not give any sitting council counselors a vote at the next election they are to represent the people and they are not so the people need to uh stand together and make a change let's make a clean sweep and get in a whole new group of counselors and let's see if they can progress as the current counselors this caller believes are not able to and i'm sure many of the counselors if not you know the majority would say they're doing as much as they can uh from within i made an appointment with a skin specialist doctors say to shower and then apply cream the skin specialist recommended that you put on the cream and then shower you do not shower first and then put on the cream yeah i think the key thing is is put the cream on leave it overnight shower the next day whether you shower before or after uh i would say it might not have a great an impact i work in a nursing home in donningall there's one case of confirmed scabies what's the protocol does everyone need cream do we need to be treated is the same protocol as a household a local gp confirmed that it was scabies well listen we'll get back on to denis mccawley and see what the advice would be uh with a confirmed case of scabies in a nursing home setting to see what the protocol should be there we'll try and find that out for you in fact we can probably check the hsc website and i'll relate that to you after we take a break for the news and obituary notices stay tuned coming up straight after we have community guarder information guarder sergeant unan waltz with the latest appeals and information the nine till noon show brought to you by kelly's toyota we can now test drive the new toyota chr combining standout styling an engaging drive and class leading efficiency it all begins with a thrump as the needle 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the last mullet she was messed about the whole way for about six months bided on the gold coin to console she was on stage three ready to get the figure that she has to work with then she can give it to her contractor she never got it in time for christmas meanwhile it's being confirmed that the banking and insurance redress focus group will continue its work thus despite an announcement in recent days that the redress focus groups were unable to carry on due to a lack of resources support and assistance members of the banking and insurance redress group have been invited to a meeting with the subgroup established by the department of housing to examine issues relating to the mortgage ability of homes remediated under the defective concrete block scheme this Thursday spokesperson patrick scharkey says the group will continue in their efforts to see remediated homes that brought to a mortgageable standard third this meeting is an initial meeting um we understood it would be a process which will which will continue with regular meetings so we're going to continue with our work we are in engagement with each of the main lenders um there's banking culture board the central bank it was very you know very hard work and difficult to get that engagement up and running so we want to continue with that and um that's our intention action is being urged to prevent more nursing home closures an ESRI report shows 50 homes closed down between 2018 and 2020 with providers blaming staffing difficulties and financial viability the report revealed also that dunningall has one of the lowest supply of nursing home beds per capita with 304 more long-term residential care beds needed in the county to meet the national average tank daily is the CEO of nursing homes arnand and says he can't see 2024 being much better for the people he represents confidence is seeping away from the sector and while there is some development all of those developments would have been either under construction or pre-funded but in reality i'm hearing from members uh that no new development and no additional capacity will provide will be provided in the current funding climate a dunningall doctor is warning of an increase in skibbies the condition is a highly contagious skin infestation caused by mites that get under the skin and lay eggs an increase in skibbies has been reported in the uk also and there's a fear extreme shortages of treatments will lead to the spread of it dr denis mccally vice president of the imo has this advice you have to apply this cream from your neck down everywhere between your fingers between your toes in your groin between the buttocks you leave it on overnight and then that night then i you get up you wash your bed clothes at a high temperature you've had clothes which you've washed at a high temperature and dried ready to wear and you don't you don't use anything and other clothes for 70 to everybody in the house has to do arland's claim to fame as 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update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this Tuesday morning January the 9th the death has occurred of dr john hines eight bali mccull carolina park letter kenny kainty dunning gull formerly of sloth berkshire john will repose at his daughter dirge's residence eight the green bali mccull letter kenny today from three o'clock until ten o'clock and tomorrow from two o'clock until ten o'clock removal from there on thursday morning at eight o'clock to travel to legland's crematorium kainty cavern for cremation at 12 noon the death has taken place in strewed Gloucestershire england of michael mike doherty formerly of glenn toher carolina michael's funeral will take place at 12 o'clock on friday at the annunciation church woodchester followed by burial at strewed cemetery horns road donations in lieu of flowers in memory of michael will be greatly received and well used by either the longfield community hospice or the soil association the death has taken place of marie mccafferty name ecmenement 14 oakfield road funeral leaving her home 14 oakfield road two more morning at 20 past nine to st judean's cathedral for requiem mass at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the city cemetery wake today from four o'clock until 10 o'clock the death has taken place of evelyn shields cross quickly's point evelyn's remains are opposing at her home funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has taken place of antony mccannery glenna givney lekemy movill antony's remains will repose at leham collins funeral home station road carndonna this evening from four o'clock to six o'clock where you're welcome to pay your respects antony's remains will leave leham collins funeral home this evening at quarter past six to arrive in synclombus church balna cray at seven o'clock to repose overnight funeral mass will take place two more morning at 11 o'clock followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only donations if desired to carndonna community hospital patients comfort fund the death has taken place of mary kilday call hill newton conningham remains reposing at her late residence funeral from there to more morning going to all since church newton conningham for recreation mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time from 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations if desired to the dunigal hospice or piata house care of any family member or charney mcclaffrey funeral director the death has taken place of ethyl scott 23 oak park convoy her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral leaving from there to more afternoon at half past one for two o'clock funeral service in convoy presbyterian church followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family time please from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations in lieu 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bundle of joy at alde award the best family friendly supermarket at the national parenting product awards baby special buys due in store thursday 11th of january go all alde all right you're welcome back to the nine klanoon show uh some of your comments on some of the stuff we've been talking about in the uh first hour of the show in relation to the proposed eight-week suspension for jim mcginnis sideline suspension following the uh fielding of um a player contravening the rules some of your comments this morning the gga would need to cop on uh kill mccud croaks and 16 men on the pitch last year what sanctions would put on them i think it was a genuine mistake on uh jim's part if that's the case is that all right should that mean the rules don't apply uh rules are rules are not meant to be broken says another listener what is it with the gga do they think they don't have to go by the rules and regulations because that's the way they are acting did anyone watch the tonight's show last night says a caller tday td neil richmond said no one will tell us who will live in tans and villages around arland a statement like that from the t-shirt called tonastery is one thing but from the td's many of whom are making money from the housing of ipas and ukrainian so he said no one will tell us who will live in towns and villages does that mean it was these i didn't see it it's not a program i'd watch is he saying that the public won't dictate or i presume that's what he meant yeah greg strange strange how we can look after the foreigners by the thousands but our nursing homes are going to close could you warn people to slow down coming down past drumbo avenue graveyard entrance the road is very slippy it's like a bottle well there's already a crash up there the guardian council need to be notified and it needs to be gritted greg my son arranged for a couple to rent my home while i was away the people are presently three months in arrears in rent and have no intention of paying a penny of it i've had to seek a solicitor as an added cost to me when i suspect sorry when i inspected the house it is being destroyed i've been due solicitor and they tell me it's going to take months to get the moved out where is the law to protect me can anyone tell me the best way forward for me to sort this nightmare i've spoken to people off air who've had issues with similar to this it can be a very long and drawn out process i'm not sure if it's a private arrangement without the involvement of the the the the private residence tenancy board the ptsp ptsp i'm not sure if they can offer you an assistance or if it was done outside of their remit but anyone out there who can give that list of some advice let us know we'll pass it on a caller says you recently spoke about mail being sent to australia and not getting delivered i had over a hundred pounds worth of stuff in it for my grandchildren i sent it to a year ago and it came back to my house this week undelivered lucky for me i had a sender's address on it and hence it was returned to me i resented this morning but this time i paid for a tracking it at 36 euro so here's hoping yeah fingers crossed indeed hi greg i live in one of over a thousand council houses affected by defective concrete i was told by two senior council staff that funding has been requested for the housing department to rebuild affected council houses for the past three years the funding has been refused on the basis that the minister does not want to be seen to be repairing social housing before resolving the private housing issue council tenants are being treated as less than second-class citizens um i think things are starting to move in that direction i'm not sure what you were told but that's your reading of it but we did see tenders going out from the council uh before and over christmas um seeking contractors as a voter i'm really concerned about the number of civil actions being taken by high-profile shin fane personnel against journalists and new papers and newspapers taken in the hole it can only be seen as an attempt to stifle by intimidation any attempt to print a material that they don't agree with going into a general election in the new future and near future want us to be concerned as to what sort of news media we would have if shin fane were in power for that reason i definitely will be not voting for any shin fane candidate so i'm glad that the judge in belfast called mr called mr kelly's case for what it was okay interesting um for god's sakes keep warning people about the use of high vis gear metal lady this morning walking with a back to traffic on the road uh of the off the footpath with dark clothing on at navany bridge in ball of a faith please if you're out and about it's so so important if you're listening please make a note if you're a walker to walk in the correct manner but please please please wear high vis between tolly wrap a white cross on the main road in lyford there's a big pothole on the road i'm just after busting a tire other drivers please be careful now please take a picture of the pothole if you can and your tire and the receipts for its repair and you can make a claim against the council for the repair of that tire by the way and any other damage caused to your car quite a number of people do so on an annual basis it's not your fault you're going to be out quite a few quid that the tire might be shot you could have to pay 80 to 180 euro for a new tire it sounds like that could be a situation that you could take up with the council back to the gea it was a very harsh decision for an outright ban says this this listener we broke the rules it was complete stupidity i can't understand how they made such a mistake the chat from the sidelines was that rorty couldn't even play for his own team neve connelly as he was too young whoever's decision this was needs to stand up and apologize players have been working hard and now this i wouldn't be uh suspending mcginnis i'd be suspending the secretary whoever else is in charge of registration they didn't do their jobs players and supporters have been let down but look when you in terms of attributing blame there is a rule there whether we like it or not and that rule was contravened and i'm not sure what scope there is there in terms of punishment was this at the high end is that the low end is this a set punishment i'm not really quite sure anyway i'll wait 60 25 000 we'll talk about that a little later on the show in a bit more detail as well but we're going to take a break because when we return it's community garden information the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio it's time for vision ireland bingo on highland radio it's tuesday the ninth of january you're playing on the brown sheet the reference number is s7 it's game number two the numbers are 55 39 68 2 24 73 67 69 58 and finally 15 phone your claim to 910 483 before it's night leaving your name 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morning great happy new year to you and same to you and we're going to be talking to to detective jared mccready good morning jared we're going to be talking about advice really in relation to investment fraud and money mulling and we do talk about this from time to time but still it remains an issue out there that's right good morning happy new year to you um yeah it's uh it is kind of a it's a major issue all right okay well listen we've got some good advice and some real world examples as well which might help to get the message across but we'll start with um the appeals uh another information from garter garter sergeant union walsh uh and reiterating the garter appeal in relation to the fatal road crash on the outskirts of letter kenny yes Greg this is renewing the appeal again in relation to the fatal collision which occurred last friday evening at approximately 7 p.m on the main letter kenny to kill mccren and roll the n 56 as it's known uh the collision involved a car and a pedestrian uh an unfortunate pedestrian whose name is leila hussein ali age in her 20s was sadly pronounced deceased and our torts and prayers are with the deceased her family and friends at this time and we're appealing for any witnesses to the collision to come forward any road users who have a dashcam when they were traveling on the n 56 in the elistrin area between 6 p.m and 7 15 p.m last friday the 5th of january we're asking them to make the dashcam footage available to gardy and again anyone whose information in relation to the collision is asked to contact milford garter station on 07491 53060 or again the confidential line 1800 trouble six trouble one now we're appealing in relation to a series of burglaries in different parts of the county should we start in letter kenny yes this is a burglary which occurred last week greg in the townland of creve letter kenny on on the rock hill area of letter kenny they occurred between 3 p.m last wednesday 3rd of january and 12 10 a.m on hers the morning so sometime late wednesday afternoon or wednesday night so the front door of a private residence was forced open an entry was gained to the property a number of rooms were ransacked and a safe was forced open within the property and the contents of the safe were stolen and again among the items stolen were substantial sums of cash and various items of jewellery some of the jewellery taken one was a white gold diamond and sapphire engagement ring a yellow golden diamond red redding ring diamond sapphire earrings diamond drop earrings circular diamond earrings with a red stone in the center and the men's bracelet with brown stones so again anybody observed anything suspicious any vehicles or people acting suspiciously in the area of creve last wednesday to make contact with garrity letter kenny 0749167100 or again the confidential line 1800 trouble six trouble one and again we're appealing to jewellers and shop owners in the area or in the county to make contact with garrity if anybody should come to the store to have a similar type of jewellery valued or sold on and again anybody real any information please contact the garrity yeah indeed that's right across the region as well now a burglary in donnygold town yes this is a burglary that occurred in a yard in spears town donnygold town last Thursday the 4th of january uh Thursday night time between 10 30 p.m and 11 0 5 p.m locks in the gate of the property was broken and entry gained and 14 rolls of stay wire that's the wire that's used to to in the structural uh work were stolen from the yard again substantial uh value in that short appeal to anybody who may have traveled in that area between 10 p.m and 11 30 p.m on the date and who has dashcam to make the footage available to garrity and again anybody who can assist with the information or the crime to contact garrity valley shannon 0719858530 that's 0719858530 and a little further south in the murva area and yes this is burglary which occurred last night monday the 8 uh sunday night monday morning between 12 55 p.m and 1 25 p.m so the burglary occurred at murva area near the golf club entry was gained to a building via a rear window and damage it caused within internal doors to to to get entry into steel property a list of what may have been stolen is currently being compiled and we will post same onto our facebook again but for appealing to anybody who has traveled in that area and who have made observed any suspicious vehicles or activity to make contact with garrity again in bali shannon 0719858530 and again anybody in the murva area between midnight and 2 a.m and who has dashcam to please make it available to garrity and it is a quiet rural area and people in the vicinity would probably be somewhat familiar with the traffic you'd expect to see at that time so if anything stands out and they go toward a vehicle that that they've seen that's not norm to the area to make make us aware all right we're heading to quickly's point now yes this is a burglary which occurred in the white castle area of quickly's point greg uh but sunday night the 7th of january between 9 30 p.m sunday night and 9 30 a.m the following monday morning so the locks in the shed and the house were forced open and two chainsaws were stolen from the property one of the chainsaws is black in colour and the other is a still electric chainsaw which is orange in colour so they may be passed on you may be asked do you want to buy chainsaws or an ink so we're appealing for anybody who has any relevant information to contact the garrity in buccana 0 7 4 9 3 2 0 5 4 or again the confidential line 1 800 treble 6 treble 1 all right a low loader taken from the ball of fae area yes this is a yellow cane low loader trailer the registration number is attached is 0 3 d l 2 2 3 4 that's 0 3 d l 2 2 3 4 and there's a photograph of the low loader which was stolen circulating through social media which taken from yard in the karik magra area of ball of fae last monday and between last 3 p.m last monday and 10 a.m the following Tuesday morning the 2nd of january so it's sometime on years day and obviously this would have most likely have been towed away by a tractor so again any observed anybody who observed this trailer on the roads between those hours we're asked them to contact the garrity glitter Kenny and again if anybody believes that they may have captured the trailer under dash cam after it been stolen again we asked them to make the footage available to us at 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 1 0 0 yeah and it's pretty distinctive looking yes i've seen the picture myself the number plate may have gone a miss at this point but you would probably notice if you had seen it right so all crime is despicable but i think when you know places of of uh religion or where people are laid to rest it brings on a particularly sinister element to it yes and it's investigating the criminal damages Greg in the graveyard at the union's cathedral the diamond before between tuesday the 19th of december on wednesday the 3rd of january now we are aware that the number of incidents of criminal damage occurred damage was caused to eight headstones within the graveyard between those dates and in fact some headstones were broken and others were actually pulled out of the ground as you say quite despicable so on wednesday the 3rd of january we are aware that between 12 10 p.m. and 2 p.m. that specific time someone entered the graveyard and pushed over a headstone causing it to topple over we appreciated the time frame involved between the dates 19th of december and the 3rd of january is quite long for the number of incidents but we're hopeful that somebody may recall some active suspicious activity activity around the graveyard on any of the dates so again if anybody traveled in the area at the time and his dash cam we asked him to make it available to garrady at data kenny or again confidential ain't anybody with information 1 800 3rd of 6 3rd of 1 yeah and if you didn't actually see it happening it's likely it's possible that you may have seen people there that it didn't you know fit the fit fit what you'd expect somebody who's not maybe not normally at the graveyard at the time you know right um some recent thefts of industrial wheelie bins yes we have made an appeal last week actually great in relation to two industrial wheelie bins taken from the castle fin area on the 17th of december and we now have two further instance where we're making the appeals two industrial wheelie bins were stolen from the rear of letter kenny retail park on wednesday the 27th of december between 8 p.m. and 8 40 p.m. so we are interested in a sighting or dash cam footage of a white transit van that we are aware it was in the area between those times the vans believed to travel in the area of the pollster around about following the incident so that's last wednesday the 27th of december and two industrial size wheelie bins were stolen from business premises in the industrial park bridge end on saturday the 30th of december between 7 p.m. and then the following the new year's eve the 5 a.m. on sunday the 31st so sometime on saturday night the 30th december so again anybody has assistance a relevant mission to contact the local guard of station and again in light of these crimes we're advising businesses owners to secure to ensure that their bins are well secured and ccd fee is fully operational all times and good street lighting yeah for sure just a couple of questions that came in during the course of the week this is kind of a bit of a complex one because there's different rules at different times and what have you but there are basics that pertain throughout the whole year but the question is such who is responsible for dogs on the beach there are more dogs on the beach than ever and very few union are on leads you're gonna be there okay but it's quite obvious the person who owns the dog i don't know if you have a dog on that by the way so that wasn't that was an appointed look at you the dog owner is responsible for the dog wheel on the beach screen it's quite obvious under the 1986 control of dogs x all dog owners are obliged to have their dogs under what is called effectual control this means that dogs do not necessarily have to be kept on the leash but their owners must be able to control them at all times okay and some dogs under legislation must be kept on their leash below and must wear a muscle when out in the public these include bald mass thief doberman pincher english bull terrier and german shepherd but general the general house dog that we see people on the beach which are not obliged to have a lease are not obliged to have a muscle but you must have them under effectual effectual control if you have a dog and you're able to control it then well and good but if your dog is very excitable and approaches people or other animals then this may cause consideration considerable upset or fear for the other people or the other animal in question even if you feel that your dog is doing no harm so generally if your dog is excitable and runs away from you to maybe greet or say hello to other dogs you know some people might be allergic to dogs some people have a general fear of dogs unfortunately the definition is your dog is not under effectual control i just don't want someone else's stinky animal now before we get into the variations and that i think really though people are gonna say but who's enforcing who's is it like so obviously it's the responsibility of the the person okay but is it a council issue is it a guard issue could i ring the the milford and say look you know there's a there's someone walking the beach and they don't have effectual control of their dogs i think that really is what it comes down to about enforcement unit well that is clear well the day council have have uh if we move on to the blue flags and we can move on to that but relation to effectual control of dogs there are fences under the dog's act and we at the garden have powers under the dog's act the same as the dog warden in relation to not keeping your dog under effectual control so it can be enforced by ourselves right on to the blue flag variations then so when from the first of june this year on the 15th december dogs are prohibited from blue flag areas at 12 over dunigal beaches between the hours of 12 monday and 7 p.m this is under a bylaw adopted by the dunigal county council outside of these restrict times dogs are permitted and welcome in all areas of the beach but again their owners are required to keep them under effectual control assistance dogs are permitted are permitted on beaches at all times great right uh thanks for that uh unit what is the situation in relation to uh tinted windows or blacked out windows in cars yeah well i mean this is something that's very common with young males in the area at the time so excessively tinted wind screams or front side windows present a significant safety hazard for vehicle drivers and their occupants so your ability to see the road to see pedestrians the other cars is restricted by tinted windows visibility is greatly reduced particularly for nighttime driving and at times of low light so there are enforcement issues for us and garden she calling regarding to driver recognition the detection of driving offences again holding a mobile phone while driving another criminal activity so the glass in the windscreen on front side windows of a car are required to have a light transmission level of not less than 65 percent in order to pass the nct test so if you don't pass the nct test with your tinted window then you shouldn't be driving the car on the road so um our colleagues in the road policing unit have a a equipment is called a tint master which measures measures the light on your window and they can stop you measure your light and issue a summons now generally what the guys are doing is they're stopping you at the side of the road you have your tinted window if it's not within the regulations they're asking to tear it off at the side of the road to give you an opportunity if you do so you probably won't be summons but if you refuse to do so when you drive on a summons will issue yeah and it's it's for the front windows isn't the driver a passenger front seat and the windscreen obviously yes yes more so than i think all right listen thank you very much for staying where you are unan because as i mentioned at the beginning of this item we're also in studio with detective garter uh jared mccready and we have some advice in relation to investment fraud and money mulling and it's important isn't it jared that people are fully aware of this because as we've said in the past you know ignorance is not a defense as such do you want to start with investment fraud maybe tell us what it looks like in in the real world yeah i've got an example here greg on a cryptocurrency investment scam and it's um i suppose it's raised his head over the last number of months there's been a few incidents that we're aware of and i think if i give it kind of a step by step of the process of how the scam works hopefully it'll raise some red flags to your listeners who might be in the process of investing they might think they're investing with a genuine broker um so hopefully it'll be of some benefit to your listeners so it's it's kind of an elaborate scam and it really has the potential to wipe out a huge portion of somebody's savings and it relies on an app called any desk or a similar similar apps which is fast remote desk application and it allows somebody to take remote control over somebody's device from a remote location any desk is a genuine app and it is a great tool for businesses but unfortunately it's it's been abused by by the fraudsters so how the scam would work is somebody was wishing to invest in cryptocurrency they'll often research the internet for assistance on how to to invest and in some cases they'll be asked to leave their contact details and this is where the fraudster would contact them by telephone in most cases and they'd be very friendly they build up a relationship of trust with them and then they'll assist them in setting up a cryptocurrency account such as uh Binance Coinbase Crypto.com and then they'll show them how to transfer funds from their bank account into those accounts and nothing criminal has happened at this point and then the investor may tell them that there's something huge happening on the markets maybe a new a new cryptocurrency has been released and it's potential to earn huge amounts of cash from it and they'd be willing to let them in on the action and this is where the scam kind of starts and the investor might even uh gonna invest maybe a small amount for them and get them returned to show to try and make them believe that they're they're genuine and uh once they have the person on board this is where the the scam kind of starts they'll ask them to download any desk or a similar app on their device. The same viewer would be another exactly this couple of similar ones yeah excuse me and and once that's uh downloaded the last one for the activation code and the activation code then allows them to take control of their device and they'll make up some kind of story that they want to monitor their their investments to make sure they they get that it works well for them uh so so once they they're up and running in the last one to open a cryptocurrency wallet and to open the cryptocurrency wallet you're given 12 seed words and that's kind of your password to get into the wallet and uh the investor will be very staunch saying don't tell me your seed words because what i want you to know you're only one that can access your wallet but obviously whenever they're get their seed words the person has remote access and they're able they're they're kind of spying and they're collecting the seed words anyway and then uh once they're up and running and they'll say right invest as much as you can now because this is happening so we'll just take an example of a figure of 30 000 euro somebody invest 30 000 euro the investor then will will supply them with a link to a website a web page but it will be a fake web page and it'll show 30 000 euro and it'll show all these graphs and figures moving about my money working yeah and it shows the money rising but while that's going on the investor will actually log into their wallet and take their money wow and they'll kind of kind of put a true network of other wallets to to hide it kind of launder it out and the person's monitoring their their fake website thinking they're that's rising and rising and the investor will tell them look how well it's doing maybe you should put in more and if they put in say another 20 the investor will log in again take their money and show their fake website rising and rising it's scary because the the the the funny thing is is this kind of starts often with a person with a few bob to invest exactly googling where to yes they can pay for their positions higher up the search exactly so in other words they by the time the fraudster has engaged with them they know they've got probably something to invest exactly and they're prepared to invest their time like you've been outlining outlining there yeah it takes it's not it's not a quick process yeah you know what goes on for a number of weeks worrying that they're prepared to put so much time in isn't it exactly yeah uh so eventually somebody's gonna want to withdraw some of some of their investment it might have risen from their 50,000 maybe it might be hovering around 200,000 mark and they'll go to investors say I want to withdraw some of my investment and the investor will try and prolong it as much as possible but they will say okay there's no problem but there's a tax to be paid and you can't pay your tax out of your investment because that's logged in so you just need to maybe 10,000 tax if you just want to launch that again and they'll steal 10,000 and they might come up with an insurance then they'll keep going keep going until the person realizes that it's been a con all along but the victim is seeing this chart showing their money working exactly exactly so that's that's basically how it works and just just hopeful that some of your listeners maybe if they are kind of interested in investing just to make sure that they pick kind of regulated reputable investment companies and not to be picked on somebody and to be sure that they are because I think up on time the penny drops these people these fraudsters will give you the impression that they are trusting reputable like that say you know don't give me your seed words exactly you know that's for you that you know what I mean so even at that stage you might go right okay I still trust this person like their professional that's their job that's how they make money unfortunately and then to come back to the same well again saying that you know I need the tax or the insurance and then I can release yeah they'll keep going keep going until the person actually realizes it's been a scam and then they'll cut all the contact they'll stop answering emails and stop answering the phone yeah and you'll think it's money in the bank and it doesn't exist and it doesn't exist and you've lost all your savings okay so that's the investment fraud and money mulling talk to us about money mulling yeah money mulling I suppose the superintendent of GNECB was on the news during the week talking about it saying how much of a problem it is in Ireland I myself have been going to secondary schools around letter Kenny Balbuffet giving presentations on just to try and make young people aware um at a young age of what is happening and try and protect them from getting getting recruited so basically a money mull is a person who allows the proceeds of criminal conduct transfer to their financial account on behalf of others for a commission so that criminal conduct can be anything criminality but in most cases what we're dealing with is online fraud um so they're recruited by criminals to receive the money into their accounts and then they'll be asked to withdraw the money and get it returned to the criminal so their bank account has been used to move the the criminal funds and even if the money mules aren't involved in the crime that generates the money there are still illegally laundering the funds for criminal organizations uh so there's three stages of money laundering that is placement layering and integration so the placement is when the money comes out of the injured parties account and it's placed into the money mule account and then it's layered then through a network of other other money laundering accounts and money mule accounts in an effort to confuse the investigation to to kind of disguise the true source of where the funds came from and then it's integrated back into the the financial system where it's withdrawn give them back to the criminal or used to make online purchases cleaned it's cleaned exactly yeah so who's been recruited the most common profiles are new rivals into the country the unemployed students and people in economic distress and men more likely than women aged between 18 and 34 years of age because it can seem like free money effectively simple free money simple free money yes and most uh uh how are they recruited they're mostly recruited through social media apps because he's instagraming us snapchat but some are convinced to act as money mules from their peers a lot of it would be college campuses night clubs schools yeah youth clubs you know that's the they're been they're kind of been told by their peers i got this amount of money for doing this maybe you should do the same um and then why are they recruited money mules are essentially essential to the process of many types of cybercrime account takeover for example where the ip may have been the victim of a bank related smashing attack resulting from this attack then access again to the ip accounts and the funds are transferred through the money mule accounts and on to other money mule accounts until the funds are eventually withdrawn and returned to the criminal the criminal is not going to use their own yeah accounts for it to lead back to them so they need the money mule accounts so if i'm um i'm done at college you know i'm 18 years of age someone comes up to me what are they likely to say to me or how is this going to be sold to me because it is complex and you talk about the layering and the withdrawing and all but the the the person that becomes the money mule doesn't see that so what does what does that person say they say what are they likely to say to you a lot of the examples that i would have come across would be people have been approached saying that uh my father is sending me money but my account is broken right can i use your account and and i'll give you i'll give you some money if you allow it or is it often like a thousand five hundred two thousand or does it vary it can vary it can be up to tens there has been cases were up to ten thousand there has been more there has been less but as once that money goes into your account if you were if you if you were negligent not to carry out due process to find out where that money was coming from that that and uh in the law i go into the law in a minute but in the law that is and a really quite serious consequences especially for young people and their future so they're likely to say to me listen uh can i have your bank details i have to lodge a thousand into it uh you withdraw it uh and and sure you can keep a hundred for yourself that's that's that's what's happening or or do you transfer it from that account is it generally withdrawals there's been it's been it's so prevalent Greg that there's so many different variations that have some some could be either in some cases that there's there's online purchases made and the product then is delivered to address that the criminal would have access to and then go and collect the product and then sell it on and then they have the the money from the sale and it's transferred to a network of money money mail accounts some of the money will be withdrawn in cash got back some of it is wired out of the country some of it's putting in the cryptocurrency it's it's so vast of the amount of the amount of things that happen and and i've read some cases where the money mules gave over their cards is that was that just in the couple of cases i read or is it it does happen like i'm aware of excuse me one case where one case there the person was giving an address yeah and they were asked to post their card it was a po box address so they post their card and their pin number to this address uh the card was collected and somebody went to a couple of different ATMs with through all the money even the money that belonged to the recruited money mule they took that as well so they just emptied the emptied the bank account wow yeah so they just basically put given away full control of their account to somebody else to use as they see fit yeah but and but these people will if people can be desperate and trusting and they can exploit that but look that as i said is not a defense you know you we we are obliged to ensure that we know where money is coming from that's goes into our accounts and and the what are the what are the punishments yeah the defense basically i've just got the follow fence here money laundering contrary to six and seven the crime justice money laundering terrorist and finance like 2010 is a person's guilty of money laundering if they commit any of the following acts converting transferring handling acquiring possessing or using property that the person knows or believes and the important part then is is reckless as to whether or not the property is the proceeds of criminal conduct so the recklessness really is is is the one that is is there if somebody gives away their bank account to somebody else to transfer money it's reckless not to find out where this money is going to come from and the maximum penalty on an indictment is 14 years in prison and a fine or both so the implications then for somebody that receives a conviction so his conviction is huge for a young person um employment so they could have their employment opportunities limited and impacted upon vetting procedures so once you're vetted you have to give evidence of of your convictions if an employer sees you've got conviction from money laundering you might kind of have difficulty getting the job bank mortgaging is the possibility that you might not be able to open new bank accounts in the future you might struggle to get mortgages and then travel likes of Australia you must declare any convictions that have and have a visa will not be granted to anyone deemed high risk of engaging in criminal conduct or involved in money laundering is what it would be in this it's all right okay right some sound advice very useful to actually get the examples as well now particularly I think with that investment fraud you can see how quickly you might think you're onto a good thing exactly you know the any desk part of it is is crucial if anybody is asked to download any desk run away from it right okay that would be our advice and also the money mulling you have a responsibility to know where that money is coming from as well okay right listen thank you no problem I appreciate it so that was Detective Garda Jerry McCready and we also were in studio here with Garda Sergeant Union and Walsh who's very patiently there appreciate it thank you no interest in yourselves indeed it was okay that was community Garda information it'll be available for you to uh relisten to and re-watch on our facebook page uh Highland Ready on News and Sport and the Garda Shia Kana Facebook page a little later on particularly maybe if you want to uh tag in uh some of the younger 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breezes but it's still rather cold with temperatures struggling to reach highs of two to four degrees we're joined on the program now by Sinn Fein deputy podrick mcloughlin good morning to deputy thank you very much for your time today good morning Greg I just note we got clarification from on goddess you cana there that both the guardie and the fire service responded to a report of a fire at a building on main street bonkrana shortly after 1 a.m this morning they tell us that all occupants of the building were evacuated safety in a number were taken to lu h for possible smoke uh indicate inhalation preliminary indications are that the fire started and was confined within one room within the building um so it seems that it was started from within that's what the guardie is saying uh but you look forward to that investigation uh progressing and concluding um and is there any concern that this may have been started deliberately or what are you hearing no we don't have that information um i suppose first of all i want to thank the emergency services for tremendous work last night um thankfully nobody was seriously injured as i understand um and as you've said a number of people were taken to hospital actually can i just add something can i can i add something to it sorry just to better frame your comments definitely because as i say i literally just got that press release in and it says that preliminary indications are that this fire is unlikely to have been caused by malicious uh intent which i think is just an important thing and i don't want i don't want your um comments to be framed uh without that information if that makes sense so it would appear that this is a fire that started within and and there has been some speculation that it may have been malicious but the guardies initial investigations are that it wasn't uh malicious so it comes down to then i suppose the quick responses of the emergency services and limiting injury yeah and that's welcome confirmation from the guardie that the initial information is that it wasn't malicious i i i think uh for all of us in the community in bunkrana i mean you know this is an apartment uh you know high up and above the main street and it could have been a desperate tragedy so there's no doubt that the emergency services deserve huge credit for the hard work last night and thank god nobody's been seriously injured and hopefully you know they'll they'll get a full understanding of how all of this happened as soon as possible yeah indeed okay um now you also have been commenting on social media about what seems like almost a mass exodus to australia in just one year i think it's over 20 000 uh young people primarily but not exclusively have received uh visas to to work in australia i mean how many of those are going to sort of experience things and better their lives and come home and how many feel they have to leave here uh because there's no options for them you seem to be putting most of the blame at the at the feet of the government though yeah i i think it's the numbers greg you know i mean listen when i was very young um i spent a number of months in in chicago and i seen for myself in the vast majority of young people at that time were from dunny gall in the west of ireland so there's always been big emigration from particularly dunny gall and of course right down the west over the years but in the past that was down to a lack of jobs an opportunity if you look at just that one year period from mid-22 to midway through last year just one year 21 000 of our young people went to australia for work and you know we know this because anecdotally across dunny gall um you know we're seeing the images in social media of you know the football teams wishing their players well and you know the going away parties and you know we knew that there was a very big numbers um but this this information is quite dramatic um because we haven't seen anything like this ever actually uh you know to australia even in the days of of high emigration but if you look at returning emigrants uh you know the figure is less than a thousand if you want to balance it over the course of 2023 do you get any comfort from that that really you know between people going people coming back we're down about 900 if you look at the figures overall yeah you see you know if young people are going for life experience that's not a bad thing at all i think it's actually a good thing to experience in other country in other culture and to broaden your horizon that's not not an issue but i'm absolutely convinced that's the cost of rent and cost of housing uh in places like dunny gall is now a big problem for us and it's driving our young people away i mean if you look at rents and you know this Greg i mean rents and dunny gall for you know a small family home have doubled you know over the last number of years uh if you look at house prices there's a serious crisis now where the uh society of charter surveyors ireland recently revealed that to buy a three bedroom 70 touch new home in dunny gall a family would have to earn 85 000 euro i mean i don't know too many young couples that are earning a combined 85 000 euro but that's where we're at so unless we grapple with the rent uh cost of rent the cost of housing we are going to lose more of our young people and you know i see part of your i see part of your plan uh your party's plan i beg your pardon is to drive down the cost of housing is that wise to to effectively what you're doing is like there's lots of people i'd be amongst them i can't afford to pay into a pension right so really the only thing i will ever really probably leave behind me if any consequences my property but the shin fame would like to see the the value of that asset driven down i can understand the reason why but do you not expect there could be a pushback or a kickback from this because you are really effectively seeking to drive down uh for what is a lot of people they're only assets the price of it the value of it yeah that's how it's been framed i mean what we've actually said is we want to build affordable housing that is genuinely affordable so if you look at the you know the the historical way that a mortgage was reckoned is that you would look at the combined income of the family the annual income uh sustainable income and you multiply it by four now if you do that in dunny gall i mean the sums don't add up i mean the market right now the price that's been asked for a new house in dunny gall you see it uh in all the estate agents is just beyond the average uh income multiplied by four so that's what we have to get to and i i was very encouraged by the pinion poll at the weekend where a very large majority of people agreed that we need to deliver affordable housing for our family is the reality isn't it it has to be greg and you know like like we it's a social contract you know this is a social contract that our young people we say to them you know go away and get a university education or train up in a skill you know and work hard and you will be able to put a roof of your head you know comfortably put a roof over your head and we're not talking about a mansion here we're talking about a basic family home um that every family should have a right to do and and right now you know like i'm really really really concerned about this because if you look at social housing you can't go on the social housing list uh uh if you earn over 30 000 euro as a family so that those families earn over 30 000 which i would say is most families combined can't go on the social housing list there's no help for them there then they have to earn around 85 000 euro to buy a brand new modern home so you know you can see that there's a huge cohort of young people that are in serious trouble here unless we intervene and what does affordable housing mean it means that you build on public land sell at cost price uh that is a realistic price for families to afford that's an intervention made by government so you're saying so you're saying uh creating a market that that greatly reduces the overall value of property you're saying that is not the party's aim no no what i'm saying is that we want to build affordable housing uh right now for families who you know who are just priced out of the market and i deal with these families all the time indeed listen we're going to be a minute a minute late to the news but i just want to ask you in relation to uh really strong criticism of shin fain amelie jerry kelly he's been accused by a judge of illegal action uh using illegal action as a slap really which is illegal action taken to discourage legitimate scrutiny by the media and by political opponents you're on partly the mary luke mcdonald's also taken defamation action as has other members of the party we've had some contact from some today saying look what would the media look look like under shin fain want to avoid any uh critique or or questioning or or criticism have you any concerns that you're uh listed just happy in shin fain trying to stifle the medium well i mean clearly some of our um uh tds and mls you know have taken cases because they believe that their reputation was damaged in the case of jerry kelly the judge has ruled and i totally accept that decision um but it's a it's a matter for any individual you know finafall independent shin fain labor if you feel or indeed any citizen if you feel that somebody has said something that has crossed the line that has damaged your reputation you have a right to defend your good name um but also the judge decides that it's not the case i i absolutely accept that there is always going to be i mean at the end of the day it is if you sue me uh porig uh because you you think that i said something that i shouldn't have said about you it is going to potentially affect any interactions we have in the media going forward do you know what i mean it is a it's the there is it's a tough old game politicians do at least some of them maybe some of your party members have to thicken up the skin a little bit it's a very we're in a very small pool of of of of politics and journalism in this country yeah i mean listen i have no fear of criticism i mean i put my my head forward um as a public representative i have no fear of it i get it all the time and sometimes it's justified and sometimes it's not um but the issue is is that you know if somebody has said it on truth and damaged my name or reputation like any other citizen have a right to defend myself and take a court case and if i win or lose that's a matter you know for the the judge to decide in this case the judge decided jerry kelly wasn't uh it didn't have his reputation damaged but in other instances you know it was a case that reputations were damaged um i mean it's up to journalists to just make sure that they like they know the boundaries they know what they can and can't say and it's up to them to make sure they get it right and be fair and of course they need to criticise of course they need to hold everybody to a point but just to get that balance right okay listen thanks for that um always uh prepare to answer the questions like that i do appreciate that shin fame deputy podrick mcgloughlin there all right it is uh just three minutes past 11 the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio so it is time for a news update and it is good morning to mckayla clark thanks greg good morning part of boncran remains closed off today following a fire last night the blaze broke out at apartments above a restaurant on main street shortly after one a.m all occupants were evacuated and a number taken to letter kenny university hospital for treatment to possible smoke inhalation a large amount of money and a substantial amount of valuable jewelry has been stolen from a house in letter kenny a safe within the property a creve was forced open and a number of rooms ransacked between three p.m on wednesday last and 12 10 a.m on thursday among the items of jewelry stolen was a white gold diamond and sapphire engagement ring a yellow gold and diamond wedding ring diamond sapphire earrings and diamond drop earrings meanwhile gardi have described the damaging of headstones in the graveyard at syngine's cathedral the diamond were full as despicable damage was caused to eight headstones some were broken while others were pulled out of the ground between december the 19th and january the 3rd meanwhile on january the 3rd between 12 10 p.m and 2 p.m a person entered the graveyard and pushed over a headstone the enhanced effect of concrete block grant scheme is designed not to work that's according to an affected homeowner and campaigner party divers says there's widespread frustration among those impacted with their mental health suffering as a result gardi are continuing to appeal to anyone with information in connection with a fatal crash at a listerine on friday to come forward 22 year old leila his son ali died after she was hit by a car on the main road between latter kenny and kill mcranon public sector pay talks are resuming before the workplace relations commission today the previous deal at building momentum expired at the end of 2023 with a new deal yet to be agreed unions have been threatening to bald their members for industrial action as concerns were raised about the slow pace of negotiations an investigation is underway after a shop was broken into in kildawth overnight it's believed mcginnis's green grocers was targeted no further details are known at this time and a denigal doctor is warning of a rise in cases of scabies the condition is a highly contagious skin infestation caused by mites that get under the skin and lay eggs an increase in the condition has been reported in the u k also with fierce extreme shortages of treatments will lead to the spread of it those are the latest headlines we'll be back 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well by the way oh 86 60 25 000 whatsapps and texts to that number but we've loads of issues stuff coming in on different topics of course we were speaking about scams josephine's listing instrument josephine great to have you on board scammers are ringing me to say that they're taking over the heating in my house they were looking for my bank details they rang me multiple times a day yesterday they were ringing every five minutes i know they're not legit as the council pay for my heating and the council don't ask for money how do i go about trying to get them to stop it's a tough one any any advice please pass it on on investment scams every day a man rings me looking for 250 euro in investments i complained to the banks and thankfully they gave me my money back i should have known better as he called me mr george nobody in this day and age calls you that indeed well listen i'm glad that you got the the money returned to you but yeah we have to keep our eyes and ears open brendan deveney's there now good morning brent good morning greg right okay we were talking about this yesterday and the speculation what we were speculating about came to pass finbar rorty he was 17 when he played against our mile last wednesday night a day before his 18th birthday in the way the rules have been enforced since 2016 that would preclude him would it from playing for donny gol for all of 2024 yeah that's the rules greg you can play for his club now so you could have a scenario where he obviously has a very successful club and they were kicked up all the way from the austere final which we seen played out uh a few weeks like with massive crowds and that so he potentially could play in games as big as that but not first county but this and this this is about protection of young players and and you know i agree with the with the stance and g have taken on protecting young players but i think in this instance this is this is a redacted so i come to this situation um but the rules are the rules uh should someone not have known that this was the situation and um double check triple checked and made sure that we weren't contravening the rules yeah but also there's rules greg and there's rules right every competition needs framework and rules but let's put this into context for a second here these rules were brought out to protect young players right it was changed in 2016 who exactly is going to know when this rule was changed you know it's in a massive rule book it's a small change the thing that a lad can't play and as you said until the following the season from the county year detour and see a thing so this this was the the rule was brought on nobody really knew about it now if you look at that game the kennacob game pretty irrelevant our math sent down their under their under 20s team basically cure mcginney wasn't even there i mean our math played doubly and friendly in the same week i don't know is it the same right but they weren't even there so so really this was uh a mistake by people that maybe should have known the rules as you said but it was really a small small glitch now the blame john mcginnis this is some way i mean let's just say across the water man said he had an issue with a registered player the registration wasn't through properly do you think pep got a little gets banned for eight weeks i mean it's absolutely ridiculous and and if you look at it doing the bigger picture in this why was this rule brought him to protect young players therefore at the start of the season if somebody makes an error and then a relevant game then you just say here that lad can't play okay throw out a fine or say something or give the county board a slap on the rest of secondary river which i just say here you that that that can play you're not exposing them to a season you're not exposing them to what this rule is about which is protecting the player so the nobody at week ban and jim mcginnis i i think that's absolutely ridiculous i mean there's no doubt that they'll you know they'll ask for a hearing on this and and it's not just a sideline ban brendan either this would be uh taking him out of of of training and and coaching and what have you so if i understand it correctly i mean it's an incredibly tough uh sanction isn't it for fielding a player one day off the 18th birthday in the throwaway competition yeah and i'm going to talk about this i i don't even want to mention the young lad really because again at his age this is a lot of hype he put on him and what should have been a very happy occasion for him and you know we've from jim's time in the past if you if you look at it you know he obviously gave patriny birdie's debut in the same day he played for dunagall miners against android michael murphy played for dunagall when he was 17 you know there's certain lads that are ready but then the rules were changed and all in agreement and if you look at the young flits you know potentially like in any season there at his age if he's good enough he's going to play like with his club underage his school his county he could play with two county teams and then he'd be pulled in the senior team and sure you're on of its five or six teams could be pulling at the lad so the g.a is trying to say right hold on this can't happen but that's a long-term rule to stop long-term abuse of young players that are getting pulled everywhere by managers so if in one game if if something if there's a mistake in there why is there all this hype around that should they not just a went to dunagall said hold on a second that bad actually can't play you broke the rule and let's say here and everybody in the country now would wake up and go wait hold on that can't happen yeah but even they need to look at this rule don't they have of the age on the first day of the year that rules this young fellow for an amazing potential experience over the course of 2024 even that needs to be adjusted where it's middle of the year or end of the year or something I don't know but but to rule someone out for the whole year because their birthday just happens to be at the start of januaries because you talked about all of the different directions a player could be pulled in but your your your club and your county if you could line them up that would be one and two yeah 100% and following right from when we were growing up you know I was born in December which was a disaster because you must a full year but listen right you usually born in januaries a brand new thing because you have a you have a whole year nearly and some other you might be planning it but but listen it the rule it's but I don't understand the fact that they tweaked it between club and county you can understand how somebody might miss that and again look if this is a big game and somebody comes on that's not properly registered in the influence a game and I get all that and rules have to be adhered but at first rules meant they protect over exposure of young fellas and as soon as it the fellow plays it's highlighted then it's done its job for me it's already said he can't play we want to protect and he's too young to be done they go near the rules but listen at the end of the day though at the end of the day brandon isn't this how it works really the the powers that be will want to be seen to be implementing the gea rule book so they've done that but there is a process to be gone through now they don't want to surely be seen to be taking Jim McGinnis out of the scene for eight weeks for donnie goll especially with the excitement and build up heading towards the game against cork and beyond that so there's bound to we're bound to come up with a middle ground here aren't we where by his job doing his job as he wants to but also the rules are seen at least in the first instance to have been fully adhered to isn't that how it works we'll come up with a wee solution here won't we yeah well but but you're great why the need for that why don't why isn't there a better sense here as I say when you look at the bigger picture of the rule you know we've had instances there with players and situations and you know if you look at the club final last year with the 16 players in the pitch like their proper instance is where someone has messed up and the actual outcome of the whole competition or the game which which was a final is a question mark around that so they're they're pretty big things and you can see all the furor and with this here if you look at this rule which is about protecting players long term you are young players if someone makes it and straight away it's highlighted then the rule for me is already done its job in terms of right he can't play we don't want that to happen why isn't this need for a sanction and listen I think it's a touchstone thing but listen it could be wrong but again even that as you said with with all the hype that's around Jim now and and with the GAA and that I mean rather to that when people say it shouldn't matter who does or what the situation is but I just think there has to be I mean we're looking at common sense Jim for one if you look at the team Jim around him he's a massive team around him why because he needs that and what has his job he's concentrating on developing those players on getting them to their their best and and getting a group set and getting their tactics in place and getting everybody in their position we're done it all done it all can compete for honors okay well listen the sideline the sideline of of registration or that rule that was changed in 2016 how would he be aware of that who did blame him for that I don't know that's okay I have a sense that a feeling the common sense will prevail but in the first instance the rules were seen to be to be put in place but look at you were at the game at the weekend I'm not sure if you're at the rmar game or not it's two games the rmar game for what it was I don't know it's always good to beat Tarone if you're a donnie golfan what's your takeaway in terms of how he's put in the team how the playing how they're pressing do you do you think he's he's changing changing the game playing a different way what's he trying to achieve there and from your perspective great story you can see a different vibe in the team the fitness levels and I think particularly if you're basing on last year the team came in very late and there obviously was issues around training and even s and c and donnie gol got off to such a slow start that they were playing catch-up and that's why you had the horrific league campaign that you had and you did obviously stabilize coming into the championship obviously after the first round exit to down which which really looked like we were going down a terrible path it was like a right off season but they did stabilize so what you see now we don't ignore it and you can see it in the legs and some runs were made during that match by a lot of the players have already upped the gears in terms of training so instead of coming in the league a bit flat it's going to be a direct opposite this year you know your players back that hadn't played last year you know legs around the cue she ended on there the last day flying pattern moving you know injury free moving brilliant you know lying in as well injury free so a lot of the players are coming back players are injury free you can see the training and the buzz is up so the mechanic up there's loads of different things been trialed you know it's it's early January but I think it's going to be a completely different dunnig all this year and based on what the lads did last year and they keep going back they really pulled it together in the group stages of the championship to come through and you know they give Derry that Derry team a great game for for 45 minutes or so without all those players missing so you know that's where I think a lot of people dunnig all are really positive get into this season because there's no doubt in that dunnig all be completely different force this year and they'll have another six or seven eight players added to what they had last year so listen looking forward to this and this is why it's a bit of a how do you say it's a wee bit of a sickness in terms of the great buzz around dunnig all now we have this silly situation happen so as you said hopefully a common sense I think it will without a doubt because as I say the game needs the gym beginners as well it's not just about county it's that it's the national element to it as well as always brandon thank you very much indeed take care of yourself brandon donnie there uh who is brand presenter of highland radios dl uh debate 08 6 60 25 000 is the whatsapp and text number if you want to get involved in the conversation or give us a call on 07 4 9 1 25 000 right let us take a break back with more after these the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon 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in the run-up to christmas it was one of uh the highlights for me anyway in that christmas week uh we visited a number of uh nursing homes community care settings and it was wonderful and we were able to leave a lovely big hamper and 500 euro for the comfort fund for each of those places too right okay we're talking shop okay now and if you're watching the program you'll see over my back of my shoulder under my telly on top of the radiator um 5.7 million euro and change we're going to put that into context now because we're joined in studio by two guests they are namely tony forester ceo of letter kenny chamber and our own finula rabbit who's president of letter kenny chamber both of you thank you so much for joining us it's been great to have you in right shop okay uh tony i'll start with you if that's all right a huge success uh this year absolutely delighted um i i kept being challenged you know will it go over five this year and i'm like no no i don't think we'll make it last year was 4.1 no but i am stunned by the figure we've got today and over five 5.7 million is just a huge figure for considering this a letter kenny card you know it's it's just to be sold to be used in that kind of yeah and finula rabbit um that's a really important part of this it's not really about oh look we've created a card look how popular it is it's actually where the money goes as well it's feeding in this is where it this is this is why it's such a wonderful initiative well that's what it's so fantastic i mean we're heading into the 20th year of shop lk scheme that was set up by the chamber long before my time me even being here in dunny gall and it's just grown and grown all the time and i mean that 5.7 million this year was such a tremendous figure to hit but i think the other thing that people need to realize is is that very rarely do people just spend what's on their card you know stats have shown us that people actually spend almost for up to four times what's uh what the figure is which means that this is going to be anything up to 20 million that will be spent in or around um the letter kenny area in the letter kenny um shops and services you know both retail and services we've members uh shop lk members from all different areas um that take that accept the card and it just means that that's a huge figure that will be spent in the next year two years another card's lasted i think it's five now isn't it with the new thing but to be honest i'd say most people have them spent the time i want to focus on that because it's important people get out and spend the money on the cards as well too you know because we are some of us are can be quite laxadaisical in that regard and just have it sitting there and then we realize a year later oh which there you know that one is there to be spent absolutely and i know you know i know myself you sometimes you get christmas presents or different things through work because a lot of this might be vouchers and bonuses people got to work and it kind of goes up in the press and then you might forget about it until you're clearing out the press one thing to remember is yes they do last up to five years but the other thing is is it's no good having the money sitting there it's not earning you any interest is not earning you any it's not feeding into the local economy exactly it's not doing anything uh it's not doing anything to help you or to help the local economy as you say so people should be you know get out and spend it and think about it and as i said it's not just you know sometimes people think with these cards it's just retail it is obviously retail but it's not just retail there's a lot of services and you can check out um the chamber website and you'll see the list of all the shops and that or check out our socials and that you'll see them all the time listed the different uh businesses across letter kenny they're involved yeah no um in relation to um where the cards are being bought obviously with tax and all that kind of stuff a lot of them are businesses uh who would be buying them um as bonuses but it's not all that i mean that that's obviously going to be a significant part of it but there's more to it than that we think about 75 percent are corporate but that's anything from the big corporates buying for all their staff to the tiny tiny businesses who buy directors by them and whatever now the government incentive of the thousand euro tax free is huge you know and that that probably it's um increased the program last year probably fairly substantially but we thought that would sort of stabilize but that seems to be keeping on going and it's great that the Irish government do that so with 75 percent but also our our ordinary person buying it has increased as well it's it's phenomenal we had a pop-up shop in the courtyard shopping center they're very good to to keep us there um and we had only had it open for December and that it just blew our socks off you know in terms of it was a queue every single day um 10 people long and people were um our young people spend them in the young people's shop yeah i know i'd be in there spending mine and i bump into other young people as they as they did yeah of course i meant you as one of the youngest broadcasters here just going to the first page of where you can spend these and this is just to emphasise the the point you make it's a minimum of 240 254 outlets uh gibbons tires gaugly tires do you know what i mean tires in the car abracadabra get yourself a kebab haven't had one of those for ages uh financial advice aldi uh amazon is outdoor store brilliant store actually that is um if you just want to go and look around you'll come out with something the theater tickets to a show arena seven uh i'm on the a atlantic travel do you know what i'm about like if you have one of those say you got a couple hundred quid that's a big chunk of your you know your early summer break or something i would say that some people joined us a number of years ago when the larger companies buy them for their staff and some people joined us purely because they knew these were going out and they would raise so so people go in and they say to the cost to the outlet do you take these and then we might get phone calls and could we take these so and and it's brilliant we see that's why it's that's the important that's why it's successful you see because it's it's a competitive advantage now to accept them you know you're starting to get into a winning formula and if i would say years ago you know people when the scheme was first set was poor my time but um they talked about you know should this just be local should just be you know independence but we've always agreed in the chamber that this would be everybody could be in this anybody who's based in letter candy could be in shop okay and it's it's proven to be the right way to do it because everybody you know if you you were saying about maybe putting in the press people use it for their groceries even before christmas you know we can see them being spent in various places and or they use them for their daily shopping um because you know you can then put the other few hundred the few hundred you maybe got on the card in a way something special and i think too there are people who would be a little bit oh do you take them like i wouldn't be the type that would ask you know so that's why the website seems for you can check in advance it can be air uh curries into sport highland and on it goes and on it goes and as i say just it's important now to transfer that into the potential 20 million in the local economy because these are the businesses for the most part that support our charities that offer prizes for raffles and that employ our children employers pay our mortgages okay so that's good um all right okay i think that's a really huge number um as we had into 2024 uh what do you think 2024 holds for us uh finula uh things seem to have held up we are looking at what are you laughing at i don't know i do you suddenly think i turned psychic over to christmas but i appreciate your confidence in me well maybe you could look at your sentiment reports maybe look at the fact that interest rates might be coming down maybe try and spread a little bit of positivity do you want to swap seats well come here oh no god no i definitely end up in court i couldn't even talk to talk her into to an evening show i did try about three please tell me no not that i have the power but i thought you should be doing i definitely get into trouble no i think look at i think the the the year is starting what starting strong and hopefully that's what's going to keep going through and i think that's the main thing what it is what we are here to do is to support business as part of the chamber we want us to support you know businesses local businesses here in letter kenny but also and businesses throughout the county a lot of the work that we do is not just local but it's also national and international you know through chambers arland we do a lot of um work i know there's trips to brussels and different things that are coming up during the year we hope to be going up and down to um the doll and that in the in the near future you know we've got a few elections coming up now this year and um we'll be seeing a national election within the next 12 to 14 months or so so i think that that's why the chamber is so important that we have a strong voice and that we're there to be able to promote um not just the good things but also to be able to highlight the things that need to be sorted out and and worked on in the county but all in all i think the the beauty of dunny gall is the um the way that people work together for the you know for the strength and for the growth of the county you know there's a great kind of collaboration i think between all uh not just businesses but other stakeholders like we've always getting great support from the council we get great support from um businesses you know our relationships with letter kenny letter sundary dairy chamber of commerce and ourselves you know we do projects with sligo we do projects with gallway and these are all things that are all about promoting the west of arland i think that's that's really what i look forward to for the next years that we keep this possibility going i suppose we're we're always trying to be there on the positive side so we've had our challenges businesses have had their challenges god knows i tried to set it up for that she wouldn't bite she did her way i don't have a crystal ball i'm very positive person i think i've lost my true you were gonna talk about 2020 yeah so and i think there were challenges yeah last year and there will be challenges there's just a few like bits of legislation coming in for businesses that you know will will cut put their costs up and you can only pass so much of that on to customers but i suppose i was saying this is somebody yesterday i i look back at all these years i've been around for this is my 17th year and you kind of go through all the adversity and all the stuff we've gone through people our businesses who want to be there and they want to be a business and they keep on going you know and they they they just have to sway with whatever's happening um they can't change we can lobby which we do but we we can only change certain things now there's a few things that we definitely know the housing needs to be sorted it's a childcare all our business is all of that and the cost of childcare big big things like that we we need to sort but and the chamber will do what they can for that you know i think really it's having the environment finula that allows the growth potential that's there because it's frustrating if you have an area that can grow and grow and grow and i think letter kenny and donningall is that but the the uh the the infrastructure and not mean physical uh necessarily it has to be there to permit that growth as well we don't want to be stymied here do we want to be able to not hit a glass ceiling but to to realize our full potential and that's where the chamber's relationship with with the government or whatever government might be coming in or the the business minister or whatever that's why that's really important that lobbying well i think important for us as as we always say when we go to any of these events in which there's opportunities for us to lobby is we're not asking for people to give us any handouts the people here in dunningall and the businesses here in dunningall as tony says are very resilient you know they've had a lot of ups and downs over a longer time than even i would know of but that as long as the the region is brought up to a level that's of a standard to everybody and then we're just left to it really what we want is we want to take care of any of the historical issues that are that are in place as you say infrastructure not necessarily the physical but just everything you know with our with regard to having the schooling you know health different things like that as well that once we're given that given a fair playing field we're good to go we were calling it uh i suppose one of the things we've been using the term we've been using is enabling investment so if if we got what we were sort of entitled to this was over the years and and brought up to a level as panilla said we believe that this place can fly you know there's lots of stuff um i would go back we've been infrastructure and say we do need our infrastructure to get us in and out you know the the road to doblin all that can't stop a five that's important and the tenti you know we really we'll keep keep on batting that drum um until such times as it started what was the feedback from business um through with with the traffic issues and stuff because there were you know like it's a tough one from in this chair right because i if you've got you know 12 13 14 000 people feeling they're being discriminated you can't ignore that voice but at the same time you have to ensure that you're not amplifying it to the point where it's damaging to to let a penny in and of itself businesses seemed not to be as concerned maybe as uh commuters uh were with the traffic disruptions i think greg to be fair and see that first week of poll star being turned on it was tight anyway and we had businesses large companies phoning us to say what's going on and who's going to manage this stuff being late and everything but actually after that it calmed down pretty well um there's there's still letter kenny's at capacity in terms of of how we move around it it's not infrastructure's max it's yes it is and and everybody would agree that um i suppose i always say i have a bit of patience you know we we will get through and the thing with the traffic light seems to be you'll get through as opposed to you'll sit there for the last like even the council put the cars on the table they said look at and for the reason you've just outlined we're not really likely to make anyone's uh experience quicker that's not what this is about this is about managing the traffic that's there because you can't reduce the amount of vehicles and until such time as we get the infrastructure that you talked of this is the hands i would suggest that over christmas um there was very much less locking up than there had been in other previous years um that i used to see and i suppose where our office as you can see it locking so there was one maybe day one or dare and a few weekends were just got a bit tight but it's christmas and if we were sitting here going there wasn't any traffic at christmas we were we're in i know some people that that they moan like they don't want anyone else to be using the road except them at the particular time that they choose to use it at the end of the day you know some of us go we go to other places um doubling for example i had to go down i i wasn't doubling a lot the more last year than they have been before and i'm sitting in traffic for a good half an hour in between trying to get into the city centre so letter kenny actually isn't as bad as as that and i'd not be a little in it but i i um you know i come in the in the forlain road every single day in terms of the nice thing is can i just say this the nice thing is i can go home that road every single day whereas i used to maybe go off and do a little back road i take it just off the back of a couple of comments the chamber is actively uh campaigning and making representations on the new bridge or the 10 t more generally speaking because it's the 10 t generally speaking because um it's it's a package it's gone to government as a package and my understanding is that i would hope that before any election is called our local elections even that it would get a positive response from government fairly quickly yeah okay fenula how long is your left in your term now oh just until the end of february oh really yes wow year flew into i know it did it went very fast really yeah so by the end of february now we will have a new president so um it's been a great year i've really enjoyed it it's been fantastic i definitely recommend to people um you know business people out there even people who are thinking of setting up a business to contact the chamber and and you know one in ways that we can help you and engage with us but two to even think about ways in which you might be able to help the chamber as well you know we're always looking for new members it's good to have fresh voices coming in and and you know talking about what they feel that they need or and that has been great growth in membership over the last uh oh it's been absolutely tremendous we've hit uh you know record breaking figures for ourselves so we're just delighted with it but uh i think we we can always accept more people we're always happy to have more people and plus we're always happy to have more people involved in you know in the board and if you don't feel able to take take on a commitment to the the board which even it's not a huge commitment but if you're not if you feel that that might be a step too much for you but that you can contact um also become part of our committees you know we do a lot of social stuff as well as doing um uh events with our members we also do the you know we'll have the same patrick's day parade now it'll be coming up um in march that's how the year goes and invite size chunks it actually is it is amazing to think of this that is adding that's going to be starting uh tonight is our first meeting back and that's going to be one of the main things that'll start is when uh when does the when are the dates or what do we do and when do people have to have applications in it's amazing how quickly it comes around really is but the chamber is involved in a lot of stuff and i think that it's good for people to get involved to uh you know come on board engage with us yeah and just see what it is that we do listen brilliant stuff uh tony forrester ceo flutterkenny chamber thank you very much for your time thank you uh and also finula rabbit president of flutterkenny chamber lovely to see you uh back in studio again we'll be back with more after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine-toned show brought you by kelly's toyota with over 45 years of experience trust us to help you on your electric journey oh kira congratulations look at her tiny fingers she's beautiful just like her mommy oh thank you have you got a name yet well we're thinking she's going to call our brooklyn brooklyn massachusetts phoenix arizona your vote is your voice so if you don't speak up someone else is deciding for you baltimore kentucky morphe al-nail who's that hospital porter just back from his american road trip make sure you're registered to vote go to check the register 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we're joined on the program now by uh cancel me whole column of gull and aspect good morning to you thank you for joining us it's good to have you on board okay thank you we are talking about uh road safety here particularly in certain conditions what happened uh yesterday well this is unfortunately an ongoing story since i've been elected as a counsellor in 2014 yesterday a young father was dropping off his kids at a school and after just dropping them off up the road he went to get on with his business and the road in particular we're talking about is many a dollar and he slid on non-gritted road and the van that he was driving coped in the middle of the road not on the field or in the ditch running but in the middle of the road itself this is a road that is probably one of the main arteries common from i suppose the week he got to hike in that direction and take it over it's an extremely busy road in relation to a number of reasons there's lesbis quarries there there's jim's call there's no kelly or declin kelly and there's a lot of other businesses there's aris kiddo or the old folks home we have schools there we have no dock there we have the funeral home there we have the chap hobble the chapel the caclic chapel there a number of house knee states it's an extremely busy road but unfortunately it's graded as a secondary road now the surface of the road there's no doubt about it there's been works done and thanks to the council over this last number of years on it but what the problem here is which is a number of things first and foremost is the fact that this road is not on a gritting program and since i got elected as a councillor and i'm not and i'm just to be very clear but this year i'm not the only one that's been raising this but since i got elected as a councillor in 2014 there has been other roads that we were successfully able to work alongside the community who put on a huge amount of work and making sure that their own community was looked after in terms of the grip and one of them i was very proud to work on and and get on the list was around the first year and over one year and heading over her follow and and it's really important that we organize for this many another road as well to get it on the grip and program because if you have people who are delivering maybe in choppa valoi or diva key or any of them shops down in daribaga that's the main road that the leverage comes to it's an extremely busy road extremely busy road and and it's not acceptable in 2014 that we don't have it on a gritting program can it go on a get a gritting program if the will is there or do because of the the status of the road it being a secondary road it can't be gritted no it can it's down to a number of things first and foremost what it's down to is as the as if the fianna fell from the gale government would adequately fund our government our council if they would fund us in a manner that wouldn't that we need we can't absolutely and i appreciate that you can't correct every road and so does the public the public very much recognizes that but what we do recognizes that the roads that are extremely busy are roads that are extremely important to us as a community needs to be on a gritting program it's not acceptable that we have a road that is that we have the main church in the area we have the main school in the area we have at us good door we have house in these states we have a huge number of businesses in the area and just the general community itself who are working day in and day out trying to get to work and farm on the road and so on that it's not on a gritting program anybody that knows west and they call will know the many in all the road and and what we need is like it says that the fianna fell from the gale government to adequately fund us so that we can actually buy the additional vehicles like more lorries to give us the more capacity because even though that and then some were saying the other day that well the yard is up the road from this very spot and yes the yard is council yard is up the road from it but it's far more complex the gritting program is quite a complex and mathematical why you start where you can go when you're in the crossover the mountain and our staff do fantastic work and the staff who goes out and risk their own safety and during frosty times to to make sure that roads because they're driving on non-gritted roads to greater roads so you have to recognize that but it's not acceptable and we need to move towards getting this road as other roads like going out to the Mahara and other roads that needs to go on it and buying additional lorries would mean that means then allowing us more capacity lorries what the capacity is what bigger spreaders and then the capacity the ability to offer for senior staff to calculate where and when and how and all that there is a second nature to them I mean obviously the the next solution though beyond that that's the aim is having grit available for locals if they choose to spread it have you not been able to secure that during your tenure in the council well yes we do we do generally what happens and unfortunately to what I could see yesterday there was no grip left on the side of the road and generally there is grip left and on the sides of the roads there is a program there for any community that wishes to come up to the to the council yard and pick up grit granted there are a case where maybe people don't have that ability or capacity so generally there are grit left on the side of the road and the community is quite good to spread it but that said we have a community and then I'm not going to be people listening to me on Monday night not going to be happy with what I'm going to say but we have an age in population in west and Ego and it's not acceptable that we are expected at a certain age to go out on the road and start spreading grit what we need to be in a position on roads that are key infrastructure roads that are that are that are important to our community needs to be on a grit and program should be gritted based on the amount of traffic and facilities and amenities in the area rather than sort of their status you know when it turns into sort of like a an auction then when it comes up for discussion annually I mean the busiest roads should and roads that have a certain level of traffic and amenities should be gritted by default it shouldn't be something we have to bang a drum about surely would that not be a better way to look at it yes I fully agree with you Greg absolutely and and if you look at that road to many another and if you look at the footfall that's on that road it's absolutely massive even our staff going to work to add a ski door our staff going up to the negall shores our staff going up to james calls or to gillespie's quarry or wherever the staff are going or people coming and going to their own homes it's a massive massive footfall and and yes the main artery would be to head down cross clarity coming around one big over by derry beg but that's not the way things happen the way things are happened that people look for the shorter route and that's understandable that's why we invested as a council and quite a lot of money over the last x-men years to give it a good service that it has now there's all the works that needs to be done on that road in terms of there's pinch points that needs to be widened because you have to slow down at certain points to allow all the cars to pass and if there's two lorries passing well that's just a stop and wait do we see how we get on here so there there's a lot of work that needs doing that the community demands and i used the word demand because it is after all our community and they have every right to demand that the proper investment is invested into the community considering the fact that our roads infrastructure had been very very purely over many years but there has been a huge investment done by the senior staff and then west and negall to make sure that we're using back mac over okay well we have to leave it there councilor thanks for your time bye bye okay that is uh council let me hold column a gallon aspect if you use that road affected by it let us know 08 660 25 000 does anyone know how to register a card for one for all this is a different initiative i've tried to spend but because it's not registered i can't use it this is very unfair uh how do you do it how do you go about doing it i've not done that i went to london mid 80s with one suitcase and 200 pounds in my pocket i worked full-time and in the evening after working all day worked in two different pubs over the week weekends i saved hard and in 1993 i bought my first home with my boyfriend i would never have done that if i'd sat back and listened to what was on the media as that time when i bought the interest rates were through the roof my point is if you want something badly enough knuckle down work hard and you will get there might take a bit longer but anyway all right just time for a brief conversation with finna girl councillor johnny mcginnis uh and we're not talking about politics in this instance johnny we're talking about your family business tell us what happened there over the last uh while break um well we woke this morning to a phone call um just after six o'clock from one of my senior management who had come into work and discovered that um we had been broken into and she was afraid to proceed into the building at that time and i told her to just hang tight and i made my way over there as quickly as i could i got there a few minutes later and uh it was obvious then that um there had been extensive damage down to the rear of the the building uh of the shop and entry had been gained a number of doors have been kicked down into storage areas where high value goods were stored and the place had been ransacked from from top to bottom basically and uh the contents were had been taken along with that quite a large um amount of uh single packet cigarettes from the shop itself also so they do you believe the culprits would have to have been on site for a period of time or there had to be a number of them in other words it's likely surely that someone saw something well uh it would seem like they may have been um they may have been afraid of somebody having seen them because they seem to have left and quite a hurry because they didn't take all of the goods from the from the shop area from behind the counter so i'm not sure if uh if that was by coincidence or or i mean sometimes if a car pulls up there at the junction they're they're looking straight in you know the headlights come straight into the shop so they might have thought they'd been rumbled and and and had to make a quick getaway but either which way um they didn't go empty handed and and there was from what i can see there was three of them at least uh i believe that there's from inquiries that i've been making and from other there's been a number of other burglaries in the area of recent and even last night a farm yard in proximity to us here had had also some good stolen and it looks like possibly some of those those tools and posts and things have been used here on site here at our own premises to gain access into our into our business here right okay um so the loss the damage the damage is significant the loss extensive uh the damage is any of the damage you can always fix the damage uh it's the it's a high value of the goods that have been stolen you know it's it's it's a blow that that that's no business can take and then certainly businesses and and rural don't like ourselves so you know we're we're trying our best to to maintain an existence and to preserve the jobs that are in place for the community and preserve the service that that we've given here as a family for for for decades for for over 100 years it's just it's very upsetting to think that there's there's people out there that are that are profiting on the misery of others and you know they're they're putting all those jobs at risk um for ourselves and for any other businesses that have been burgled and targeted over over the last 18 months i believe this gang are acting in the area here we've had a spate of burglaries in different in different towns of late and i think they're opportunistic to start off with and then the obviously they come across high value targets and throughout their night but somewhere between i think we had we had noises reported by a neighbor here at around 4 50 a.m and another neighbor heard voices sometime between 3 30 and 4 i've had calls about a car being seen in by jackson's lane which is a sort of a a dead end road just outside the village and i've been having calls coming in from the public which very grateful for for all the calls that are coming in i put a post up on facebook earlier seeking any information that might be pertinent to the case and and and i would ask you to do the same if you could ask anybody to to to reach out with any tidbit of information how however so meaningless it might appear to them it could be the missing link for for ourselves to piece together exactly what's what's going on here okay we do have a definite line of inquiry and we have a couple of vehicles of interest and um we will be we'll be garnering uh footage from from um shops in the vicinity where that that think they may have dealt with these people the hours leading up to last night okay there's a lot of info to be working through john and again as listen thank you for your time this morning sorry for for what you and the family are going through there we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock but stay tuned her mckayla's going to join you now with the news at a minute past 12 and after that it's around the northwest with john bresden but as they as they say for me Greg Hughes of the team we'll chat to you tomorrow morning at nine thanks Greg