 Yeah, don't know what the fans one job. You'll think of that. It's a bit poppy, isn't it? Oh, as you play with your microphone What's wrong with it? Sorry everybody pull down your microphone. There you go. How's that? Is that all right now? Yep, come here. No, I think it's a good radio radio, but that's a bit poppy though. It's not very sure that's all right It'd be the Jonas Brothers. Yeah, could we can Maya Brennan? Yeah, great We're on Saturday night for the Donegal person of the year in the bond bond. There's more from letter Kenny And it's around in areas down there. Yeah, that's in them very well attended as well No, it was great and couldn't have gone to a better person either my brain and what she can 20 million we video played That hopefully they release it if they haven't already and lots of people playing tribute to her Bono I've done a lovely bit from America and now it was very very good very good. I'm very fitting and a very well Organized night. Yeah, lovely and tell me this it sold 20 million Albums or records or I don't have the statistics I was expecting you to be off today to be honest That's why we having a good old blast that we can't take it handy then. No, no wouldn't be at that crack No, I'm too committed to my work. Yeah, I know Right, you'll go next year. Yeah, I will I would I would love to go nice You would fun at the bottle back didn't you? I did I was just saying to marry boner there had Lee We were the big trip right gathering up all these tents and stuff and keep it short, right? So made her way through the traffic on a Saturday and busy as you know yourself And then made her way very good for the environment You stuck in traffic to go and get 15 cent back in a plastic bottle Well, we've probably got about two year old back And I was all excited because there was a big day for the Paris me and Lee going in here We get a lot of Euro and stuff and he get a few treats and stuff So made a way and made a way and tried to get a parking space in the car park got a car break There's a big then dealing with first thing when somebody showed over Or something like that there I didn't know what they were shouting and then I clicked afterwards We so we put in the first can it says out of order. Please go in the shop and tell us though No, it was a 10 a 10 and then so I says Lee is not working. Oh, I know that's going Maybe it's not working and then hopped in the car then and a man came out then right Humongous. I mean the biggest been collecting stuff up. He must have been collecting for three months And I we were going to be disappointed with 11 10s of empty 7 up But he was going to be really disappointed and he had a massive big back and I could see Do you know he was talking to himself? Do you know he wasn't so happy and where are the cans now that you Should we have to store them? I don't know where where do we put them? Oh, they're probably so you caught that these cans all the way into that account I counted them out again Yeah Brilliant. Okay. It's a good job. It's a great innovation. That's great All right, see you tomorrow. Thanks very much indeed. It is nine o'clock. Let's get a news update Donnelly Tarty's there. Thanks Greg. Good morning. Leo Veradkar will hold his final engagement as T Shock today He'll offer his official resignation to the president this evening before that he'll lead the Irish delegation in the north south ministerial council in Armagh from there. Andrew Loud reports this meeting of the north south ministerial council will be the first time the government meets with the Northern Ireland executive since the restoration of Stormont in February Trade and business issues and investment in areas of mutual interest are among the topics due to be discussed It will be the last engagement of Leo Veradkar as T Shock as it's expected He will travel to Aura Sanukter on this evening to resign It will pave the way for the new funigale leader Simon Harris to be elected T Shock when the doll resumes tomorrow Andrew Loud in Armagh Well, the minister for agriculture says today's meeting of the north south ministerial council is doubly significant Minister Charlie McConaughey says for counties like Donnie Goll. It's important to see these meetings move along It's really important for Donnie Goll and border counties in particular as well as as well as the whole island that those institutions north and south are working effectively And the north south ministerial council is absolutely central to that But the reality has been that over the last seven years Only two of those seven years has seen a function in Northern Ireland executive working in Northern Ireland And that's why it's so important to actually see the executive re-established in the last couple of months A man has been arrested in relation to an assault that happened in Donnie Goll town over the weekend It occurred yesterday. Guardi say he's due to appear before Donnie Goll district court this morning Works are to commence this week on the Rathmull and Peer refurbishment project The Donnie Goll county council says they are scheduled to be complete by November The peer will be out of use for the construction period However, access to the slipway and ferry service will be maintained under traffic management The works are essential to secure the future of the peer and safety for all peer users The northwest and west will have the best view of this evening's solar eclipse The celestial event is to happen just before eight o'clock this evening The moon is due to cover almost half the sun depending on what part of the country you're in Head of education and outreach at mtu's black rock castle observatory in cork francis mccarthy Says though in the west and northwest will have the best chance of seeing the eclipse from cork We're only going to get 20 of the sun covered up by the moon So go west if you can the further west you are the better It will be bell mullet is nearly a 40 coverage and west and north You're going to see a little bit more. I'm sorry for the people on the east coast You're looking at the smallest sliver of the moon covering up and a little bit of the sun will be extinguished Looking now to where the rain and drizzle will push northwards to most areas during the morning and early afternoon That's where the highest temperatures of seven to ten degrees. That's all for now. I'll be back at 10 o'clock Menopause can be a challenging time of life I'm Lorraine keen and I choose Irish supplement clean marine menemen because it's Ireland's number one clinically proven Perry and menopause supplement for daily nutritional support Trusted by thousands of Irish women for over 10 years Menemen contains amiga 3 dha to support brain health and vitamin b6 Which contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and all in just two capsules a day Ask for menemen at health stores and pharmacies and learn more at clean marine.ie And now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with greg hughes on highland radio Hello, good morning to you six minutes past nine on this monday It is the 8th of april 2024 and you're very welcome along to the start of another week of the 9 till noon show And thank you so much for choosing this here on highland radio. I hope you had a weekend that was good to you Let us know if there's anything you want to talk about maybe something popped up over the weekend that you think should be on the show The lines are open for you 0 8 6 60 25 000 your whatsapps and texts to that number as you know You can also send you whatsapp voice notes if that suits you better and you can give us a call as well 0 7 4 9 1 25 000 and emails come into us ask comments at highland radio dot com Watch the show on your telly your smart tv your forestic on the youtube app Just type in highland radio arland and you can watch this across facebook highland hub highland news and sport and on the x platform Right, let's have a look at what's coming What's on the front of the newspapers this morning and we'll start with the donagall news just reference there by lee before the news gridors moya brennan became the 45th recipient of the donagall person of the year award at a gala event in the bonnington hotel dublin on saturday night attended by just short of 450 guests moya was joined on the night by her husband tim jarvis daughter ashlyn and son paul together with members of the extended brennan family including her sisters dirja and bridgene and brothers barthly and paul the kealthic folk singer from the internationally known and talented musical family has had an amazing career which has spanned six decades selling over 20 million records and recording in excess of 25 albums and A lot of that was represented on the night. There was a great video as i said to lee played before moya officially took the award And it is clear that she's held in very high regard not just in the music scene as well But in other interests she has in her life From the beginning of moya's career with her father leo in the sleeve Foye band through her time in clannard the moya brennan band and with the many groups She has been a part of and artists. She's collaborated with moya has never forgotten her roots and we had the pleasure of her Quite a long sit-down conversation with moya at the time of her most recent birthday And i think the video if that's still up available somewhere or other But she's clearly a very interesting woman very humble tune very nice The dairy news this morning attacks on bosses and the fire service in dairy have been condemned Please i never understand the point of this You know people one of the first numbers they'll call when they're in bother is the emergency services And then some see fit to Target them as they go about their duties Police in the city received reports of antisocial and criminal activity in gallia over a three night period from April 2nd to 4th Bins pallets and other materials were stolen and set on fire a window Um A window of a was smashed i'm not sure what it was maybe a bus a window of something was smashed And a petrol bomb was thrown at the side of the vehicle in the fur glean park area Police said that some of the people involved in the incidents were masked On to the nationals now a big day for finnegale um leo vradcroft formally resigns today and um Simon harris will uh take over the mantlers Well, he's already the party leader isn't he but as t-shock of the country Simon harris has asked party members for manifesto ideas to support farming and small businesses In the sign he's already gearing up for a general election Well, he has to be because it's next year at the very latest Less than 11 months away the finnegale leader who is expected to become t-shock tomorrow has said it Is not his intention to hold a general election this year However last week he told party members at two internal meetings He wanted them to come back to him within a month with ideas More coverage of uh the changing of the guard there There's going to be a cabinet reshuffle of sorts speculation in the independent There are fears within the highest ranks of finnegale that moving helen mac and tea out of the department of justice could Feed into the far right anti immigration agenda three junior ministers Jennifer carol mcneill patrick o'donovan and hildegard nocton are locked in a battle for the finnegale Job as a cabinet minister, but finnegale leader simon harris is weighing up his options ahead of his cabinet reshuffle tomorrow I thought that was all today. Um, maybe the timeline's wrong. I thought he I thought the override car Anyway, I thought that was today that all this is done But anyway, the papers seem to think it's tomorrow There's been widespread speculation in finnegale that the new leader will move the justice minister out of her portfolio And leave but not but leave her hidden the cabinet There are concerns within finnegale about her performance in the justice role and mr. Harris Pledge to put a renewed focus on law and order once he is tea shock On to the irish times this morning And excessive use of social media is creating a generation of broken people according to a prominent consultant psychiatrist professor matthew saddlier Said there had been a five-fold increase in cases of self-harm seen at the matter hospital in dublin over the past three Decades with use of social media increasingly contributing to a range of mental health problems particularly among young people The irish medical organization Uh, their conference in kalarney passed motions on saturday calling on the department of education to ban smartphone use in primary schools from the start of the next school year And on the department of health to develop a detailed program aimed at uh combating social media Addiction and harm. It's just really hard to see how um Mobile phone usage is going to lessen uh from where we're at now but anyway The irish daily star this morning a clinical trial that saw high Resolution scanning technology used to identify heart disease has been held as a potential game changer for cardiac treatment A team at the university of gallway use ct scan imagery to pinpoint coronary artery disease and blockages as an alternative traditional angiographs An invasive procedure that involves the puncturing of blood vessels insertion of cables and use of dyes The team based at the university's carb core lab analyzed the images taken from patients In trial hospitals in the u.s. And europe and the research was published on sunday in the european heart journal As I say it might not come to pass anytime soon, but sounds very positive and well worth mentioning On to the irish daily mirror this morning and a man appeared in court nude naked After his emotional support cat went missing during a traffic stop arrest A joseph davis was before judge mary quirk Uh at a weekend sitting at dublin district court davis um from north dublin was charged with road traffic act Offenses of failing to give guardie his details and not keeping the car stationary on friday and fenglas judge quirk Heard the motorist refused to wear his clothes when brought into the courthouse davis entered the courtroom naked with his hands over his privates But within seconds he stood with arms outstretched to argue his case after rejecting the services of a lawyer telling him to f off judge quirk told him to sit down But he stood and claimed he'd been stripped and humiliated and on it goes um He's back in court today so Hopefully that goes okay for him And finally did you watch shea given on the tv at the weekend? He was on on saturday night I didn't see it but his performance or his appearance. Sorry performance sounds like it was put on but his appearance Has resonated people got a bit more of an insight into mr. Given Shea given bravely opened up on the tragic deaths of his mother and brother Saying life is very short at times the former republic of island gold keepers man passed away at 41 When given was only four his brother kiran died over christmas age just 52 at his home in germany And shea's uncle passed away in december or on december 25th Just two days after kiran's death speaking on saturday's tommy turn and show The ex-new castle and man city star said I get emotional when I talk about mom even now There were six of us and my dad just had to get on with it the donagall native who's 47. Wow I didn't realize he was quite that old Um, I did my brother's passing recently was tough for my dad. He is going to be 80 this year It's a tough time as you felt he was reliving losing my mom life is very short at times Indeed is very very very short And fair play to shea for speaking out it does help others, you know when they see someone that they look up to Speaking about those things in reality Okay back with more after these Daily newspapers our courtesy of kelly centra and diner mountaintop letter kenny winner of best family dining at the highland radio hospitality awards The Ninetal noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account I've been surfing all morning at fleming ltd.com to find out about Fleming doors Fleming steel and Fleming coatings and their full range of products So come surfing with me at Fleming ltd.com Fleming 91 48 234 In the next 15 seconds, you're going to find out where is the best place in the northwest to buy a bed or mattress It's rest text beds and furniture mountaintop letter kenny where comfort meets style Charge into summer with tui choose from a beach cruise our city break or mexico flying direct from dublin holiday Sort it tui live happy For day to day health care needs generations have trusted the experienced staff at mcgee's chemist letter kenny From coughs and coals to aches and pains from vitamin supplements to first aid essentials Mcgee's have what you need when you need it with a full prescription service available daily Mcgee's chemist main street letter kenny for health care help and advice you can always trust If you're with fbd insurance and your van gets robbed, it's not a flippin bloom and disaster That's not what fbd stands for fbd stands for support We support van owners like you by covering your work tools up to the value of 500 euro if they're stolen with your van Fbd insurance support. It's what we do visit your local branch to talk to your fbd insurance team Requires valid van theft claim excludes electronics and software teas and sees and normal underwriting criteria apply Underwritten by fbd insurance plc fbd insurance group limited trading is fbd insurance is regulated by the central bank of ireland Celebrate exceptional businesses and donnie gall nominate your favorite for the highland radio customer service awards An association with mckelhenny's department store or customer service awards celebrate the businesses that go above And beyond to provide excellent customer service to nominate your favorite business Simply visit highland radio dot com fill out the nomination form and tell us why you love this business The winners will receive recognition at our special award ceremony on june the 9th Plus they'll have the satisfaction of knowing that they made a positive impact on their customers nominate now nominations close 23rd of april Okay, so we got this email into the program that reads as follows could you please highlight on your show what I've felt Strongly about for years now. It's about the junction at the entrance into the village of newtown conningham I live outside the village, but I will not use that junction due to its danger There are three lanes on both sides and the traffic does not ease their speed While passing it i've seen people cross between approaching cars and they know your only seconds They have to they know they have only got seconds that they have to do so or wait Maybe another five minutes to get across people are risking their lives and taking chances at this junction It's very busy road with the local people coming out from both sides And the moille national school is just off the main road so parents and children use it every day The volume of traffic has got so heavy on the main dairy telekinny road And the speed of all vehicles do not ease while passing this junction Is there any way this could be made safer to use and maybe put a round about there It would ease the speed and make it safer for everyone I've seen so many roundabouts in other counties where junctions are not as busy Greg I live locally and I will not use that junction A lot of people go up to kerlins and come back down around again Maybe don't go kind of cancel engineers could make this a safer place for everyone I still I feel fear and anxiety if I had to use it. Please See if you can find anything out about this junction. Well, we are joined on the program now by Councillor Paul Cannon. Good morning, Paul. Good morning, Greg. Can you hear me okay? Yeah, loud and clear. Good to have you on the show. Do you recognise this listener's concerns with your local knowledge? I do recognise their concerns and they are 100% right. We have been on you know on numerous occasions with the TII which is the Transport Infrastructure Ireland and they have done feasibility studies and analysis on the on the actual location and unfortunately at this point in time it's on the long finger and so far as there's a bridge there with the crossing and there's also the National Primary Road have certain standards of a roundabout to adhere to plus the fact is the there's a part of the road that needs to be realigned and the in the Maracanigam side and so all of that has to take place as the one project so to speak so they're not going to do ad hoc work unfortunately. They have done surveys in relation to the actual traffic accidents and there's a few accidents on the way out of Newton Conningham where people run onto the back of another car which is minor and regarding serious accidents the count is not that big compared to the percentage of vehicles that's used in it so all of that they have put into their analysis and that you know that leaves you competing with other junctions. I agree with the with the lady it is a very narrow racking junction and people do tend to jump across between between traffic in relation to the mild school a lot of people that goes to the mild school is on the opposite side of the road and does need to be looked at now on the other side of the coin we are looking at an underpass to connect to a greenway that is planned for down at Newton Conningham the greenway car park so there's ongoing negotiations with TII and maybe when they're looking at that they could look at a revisit the roundabout. I don't want to shoot the messenger here but some of the reasons the TII look at is the fact that there hasn't been a large number of serious collisions but if they recognize or if we all recognize that this is a dangerous junction shortly we should be being proactive and making sure as best we can that we don't see a fatality or serious injury at this junction on a more regular occasion. Yeah you're again 100% right but it is the way it is at the moment is they do look at the the traffic accidents and there is a lot of serious accidents happen in a lot of other junctions and they automatically get priority. So for example they're looking at this junction and I suppose at the same time they might be looking at the I'm not sure if you're familiar with it or not they say the junction down in Lahey there where there have been quite a number of quite serious collisions there and they'll progress plans for that roundabout more quickly. Yes yeah that's exactly right and it's down it's again down to manpower and pound notes as we all know and they will prioritize the one that I was creating the most fatalities and that's that's how they work but I will listen I've regular conversations and emails to the TIA I could revisit that and bring it back up and I can get if the lady in question wants to get in touch with me I can get information to her as to where they're at in the whole process. Do they attribute or do they make a judgment on the cause of collisions like is it would they say right yes we can see the junction is dangerous or would they say do they go as far as say that well actually it's the way people are approaching the junction or driving the junction i.e. it's the driver's faults. Yeah they look at driver behavior along with the the the whole setup of the the actual roundabout or any junction they'll look at driver behavior as much as anything else and they'll do they'll do their complete analysis and they could be looking at it 10 miles up the road and 10 miles down the road as well to see where where else they can alleviate the the traffic. All right so but the takeaway from this is that don't hold your breath for a roundabout but maybe with the creation of an underpass or something along those lines that the the problems could be eased that way. Yeah that's exactly right you know we are as you are well aware of we are doing a lot of work within the Main Street and Newton Conningham and maybe whenever they see that as they always do when they start a project they continue with the project and maybe move out on to the Niceton Primary Road. I know it's it's two different teams that that'll be doing the work but at that point in time they could look at it and I as I say I will I will get back to you in relation to that and see whether at regarding that roundabout. All right listen thank you for that probably not the answer the listener wanted but it is the facts and we have to deal with them as well too. Thank you very much Councillor Paul Conning you appreciate your time. Thank you Greg. All right take care of yourself bye bye and if yous on that let us know 08 660 25 thousand. Can anyone explain to me how there is as much as eight and twelve cents a difference in the cost of petrol in letter Kenny. Well I mean obviously their business is right so they can charge different prices depending on what they want to do. There is also an element of when they get petrol or diesel delivered so some might be at an older rate and some at a newer rate and also to suppose it's the opportunity for the consumer to shop around. So I would say there are the factors as to why there is that bigger difference. It is the same as two shops that might one shop sells a crater coke for 22 euro and another shop will sell it for 12 euro it is also up to them what they what they charge but that would be my best guess there and there's huge variances I would say across Donegal I saw 6168 for petrol I think it was yesterday so 168 and I've seen 181 in the south of the county for some reason petrol is much more expensive in some parts of South Donegal so that's a huge difference isn't it that's like 14 cent of a difference across the county amazing stuff I think sometimes there's a geographical element to it as well. Right Amon Swithman, hi Amon. Yes great how you getting on. I'm doing okay your question is a simple one what is the Israeli ambassador still doing in this country? Yeah it's awful it's what the ADF and the I call them Zionists because they cross both religions of Christian and Jewish Jewish religion they are fanatics and what they're doing is unconscionable it's horrific it's murder and plain sight it's definitely cleansing by tens of and hopefully what they say is by two million people and it wasn't long after this episode kicked off in October I texted you to say that their main office the main owner is to make it an uninhabitable gaza and get rid of them and they would have the best each front property in the Mediterranean and to that effect actually I saw an interview on the bbc app by the order you go in and she interviewed this woman called vice and she was one of the main people who is actively looking to see get parts for people now and what is gaza to get rid of the people they've just said well Canada is big enough Africa is big enough let them go there you get rid of them and God has promised us this land they're like I mean it's truly another system and evil at the together what they're doing what they've done since 1948 and then they just went they had three main gangs the stern so Leahy and the Ergun and they just butchered their way up the coast and by the way they were actually one of the main people who armed them was a guy called everybody knows him he's called Stalin there you go now the the Israeli ambassador was speaking there not so long ago Dana Elrich and she said that we in this country have a one-sided view of the Middle East conflict and that we don't take into consideration that there are other villains she said that Israelis portray is portrayed as the only villain in Ireland and that the actions of Hamas militants should be condemned more often now every time we have this conversation there and I'm sure you would have come to it at some point obviously there is what happened early October October 67th is and that was carried out by Hamas and others is completely deplorable and you know you couldn't condemn it enough but it's what happened since obviously to we but do you think that ambassador Erlich is perhaps not given the Irish people enough credit in actually seeing with their own eyes listening with their own ears making their own minds up and concluding that what Israeli is doing is most people believe genocide what is genocide they they all have the same narrative any spokesperson for the government for the idea they all have the same narrative you listen to say channel four and they have some very excellent journalists their broadcasters and they can't make a pitch but because they will not change they just come on and the first thing you say October the 7th and then we have the right to defend herself and this and that and they just it's just so cold so calculating and you just it's just very what they're nearly like automatons you just say this narrative and they won't deviate they will they will not deviate the Israeli ambassador was disinvited from Finnegell's Ardesh at the weekend she was on the invite list but in the end was not invited and Simon Harris he said the Irish people are repulsed by Benjamin Netanyahu's actions do you think that's the step in in the right direction i.e. really I suppose the question I was going to lead on to is what actually would expelling Ms. Earl it's actually achieve well if we did it maybe another country that's waiting in the wings they might do it it could build up to show the Americans because don't don't forget the Americans they are the the main players here and Joe Biden is designed to the Clinton's were zionist the Bushes were zionist they and being zionist they want to see the expansion of Israel John Bolton he was under Trump he was the ambassador to the United Nations which he is which he actually loathed the United Nations and he was a zionist but I remember singing off in one speech he says I hope next year we'll be in Tehran you know in other words the little move there and but this is what you're up against so people have to do things but they wouldn't normally do and and they shouldn't be here because they don't care they don't care but anybody's other opinion they will do what they want they do not want a two-state solution no and that and that just for people who I mean zionism because the word's often used and I don't often hear it explained my understanding is zionism is with has the goal of creating a and a Jewish national state in Palestine so in other words if you were a zionist the way you would achieve the goal literally would be to eliminate really Palestine as it is known and for Jewish people to live there that's what a zionist is you said but Biden was a zionist he is in favor of the two-state solution would that not suggest that he's not a zionist well there's people who are dabbling here let me tell you let me tell you about a few politicians in america at the moment there was three you know I can't remember your woman's name she was a congresswoman down in Florida killed them all there's no guy called either we were all republican by the way and the ogles killed them all and the only guy he came out there he was tim wallbergs he came out the week before asked he says no what we need is a a Hiroshima and Nagasaki solution here we have had ben ben giver that uh ultra right wing guy of the column and he's he was even discussing the nuke option no where where do you stop where do you stop where do you can't give people like that credit for anything it's amazing to you would have thought that in in this day and age just referencing uh his his comments that you mentioned for the congressman to call for uh a bob to a drop down Gaza like Nagasaki and Hiroshima you would think that would encroach on some sort of a a a a a a a a a crime if you know what i mean to call for the a mass annihilation of anyone where the just manner where the from or whatever it would make it wonder how someone feels they can say that publicly but it's okay but that's what that's what they do that's what they do because there are no repercussions nobody says I about a year ago there was a democratic congresswoman and I think she may have Muslim origins and she just said the phrase from the water to the sea and the sanctions that she had to go through it horrible there wasn't one word of dissent against these people there was a congresswoman I can't remember a name another guy he's from Tennessee Andy Ogles and Tim Walberg's was his name and he was like a sake she met the comment there isn't there are no repercussions because they can see what they want because they seem to seem to control Congress and a lot of American politicians seemed to look back there's been there's been two high profile murders and people who actually put forward the two-state solution and one was a Swedish guy he was a United Nations guy I called this is 1948 actually folk Bernadotte and he was murdered by one of the three guys I don't know which one then if you look at one of let me know who's predecessors it's like we're being if you read open that he was being he was at the Oslo War Court and they had sort of agreed that there would be certain areas where the settlers would have to be removed and they're mostly all illegal they would have to be removed and the there were loads and loads of demonstrations and they were calling him adult toddler they were calling they were Nazis they were going to go through this and the main leaders of this demonstration was Benjamin Netanyahu and he would they were carrying coffins with nooses and the secret service and Israel told him to die there down and he didn't and they murdered him it's like we're being that's what that's what's special all right amen listen thanks for your time this morning take care of yourself do you agree with amen disagree 08 660 25 000 after the holocaust says a listener they said it would never happen again then came Rwanda and now Gaza and everything in between we are just that I mean just on the most basic level that a group of humans can do any of this to another group of humans is really quite remarkable hi Greg the resident in New Cat Town Cunningham is right why doesn't Paul Canning and his colleagues challenge the council for the safety of his constituents safety precautions only come after an accident or fall lazy uncaring politics this somewhat talks to the power of the the local authority though that road is not really it's the Transport Infrastructure Ireland with which is a separate entity to Donegal County Council and that's what he used to liaise with he can't liaise with the council on this matter to actually progress it so to speak hi Greg they have Newtown destroyed or Newton destroyed with big wide footpaths you could land planes they can do nothing right in this country okay there should be lights at the old Don's Junction this must be in letter Kenny is it when I drive at night I prefer to drive down Ballin McCool to avoid the area it is an accident wait to happen the rest of the town is lit up like a Christmas tree so why can't something be done there never really it felt that those two junctions that would be closed to old Don's I thought they work quite well or I found they work quite well using them but that doesn't take away from the listener from what the listener has said petrol 185 in our area it's 11 cents up since last Easter since Easter 185 so we've got petrol at 169 for definite I saw it might want 168.9 or something like that but let's say 169 so the dependent where you are in Donegal a 16 cent swing in the price of petrol 16 cent a litre it's really quite remarkable okay next guest on the way watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter Kenny see you.ie Sheena Noel design formally the fabric center letter Kenny is now open in boncrona with the beautiful 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camogie it's the minor moments that last a lifetime the electric island camogie minor championships this is major so another email from a listener i wonder if you your listeners the guardian or any insurance companies listening to your show can help me please i have a 20 year old son who's a car enthusiast and like thousands of others around donagolan island he would rather spend his money on his car than go out drinking he recently purchased parts to upgrade his car which included lowering springs for the suspension new side skirts and an induction kit air filter for the engine air intake costing him 700 euro which sounds a lot but he isn't a drinker and keeping his car polished and looking nice is the thing when he told me the amount of money he spent on the parts i was a bit taken aback but i thought he could be spending the money on worse things the only thing i said to him was as long as you're insured properly of no problem with you modding the car he has a full license for two years and three years no claims bonus in his own name he's driving a 2012 1.2 engine car and is currently insured with access when he goes to meet his car enthusiastic friends not boy racers at the weekend 80 percent of the cars are modded in some way either lowered or side skirts or a spoiler on the boot lid front bumper or maybe the air filter is changed and so on he contacted his insurance company to tell him he was thinking of modifying his car and what parts he wanted to change his insurance company told him that they would have to cancel his insurance if he modified the car because they do not cover modified cars he rang six other insurance companies looking to get quotes for insurance on his car and pretended that it was already modified not one company would quote him for insurance on a modified car he came to me and he said i can't get insurance but i'm going to put the lowering springs and the induction kit into the car anyway everyone else is doing it so why can't i this obviously caused a huge argument in the house and is continuing to cause a cooling between my son and myself as i want him i won't let him modify the car until he gets insured properly and on it goes um now listening to that and with a prior look at that was shane uh donahey editor of complete car dot i e and he joins us in the program now there's two things going on here shane i mean obviously you can understand exactly you know where this uh young lad and his mother's coming from but then obviously then there's other factors to consider too uh with a modified vehicle so what's your hot take i don't know it's a hot take i sympathize with uh with the guy for sure and for people like him um i mean the parent clearly had an emotive uh plant on this and pointed out that that the kid doesn't spend his money on drinking and alluded to other things like drugs etc probably you know that he basically it's a good kid all he's doing is modding his car and he doesn't drive you know the parent seems to suggest it's not a boy racer so believes that the kid doesn't drive quickly and drive dangerously around things just interested in the look of the car and what have you and so i a hundred percent sympathize with that and there's lots of people like them the issue one issue is is that there's a continuum of people like that so at one end you will have boy racers who are going out driving dangerously and then at the end of the end you have people like this who um you know potentially it's just because they like cars and like modifying them unfortunately the Irish government and there's insurance car insurance industry just just doesn't care doesn't want to know doesn't want this at all um it's it's almost impossible to get insurance on a modified car um i would suggest it isn't completely impossible but it is almost impossible especially for younger drivers yeah now i don't want to sound like a fuddy doddy but here goes i mean obviously vehicles go through strenuous a strenuous testing um and and what have you in terms of safety and it is based on you know the stock spring stock suspension and what have you like if you lower a vehicle you are changing that car's performance it's handling you know put on lower profile tires there is can i say there's no doubt the car becomes less safe once it's been it's been modified because it has not been designed to be driven like that um no i don't think you can be as absolute as actually because uh in theory if you lower a car properly and put better tires on then it has a lower center of gravity and potentially better handling potentially is safer in an emergency maneuver for example the issue is of course that as you just said the original production cars go through strict strenuous rules and regulations and testing whereas modifications don't so you know one person may do an incredibly good professional job of modifying a car and then another person might not you know and and there's no there's no way to certify all of that so we don't have a way of going to right modifying your car and then bringing it to a sanctioned organization something like the nct and saying okay here's my modified car can you please check it's all okay and certify it and you know say that it's okay we don't really have a proper system to do that and without that i can understand where the insurance companies are coming from um and you know how how are they to know how well the model car is modified and policies and prices and attitudes aren't um really gauged on the responsible young people like the one that we're talking of here are they uh they're based would or at least we're told they're based on sort of probability and actual claims and what have you so that's presumably why the red flag has gone up for insurance companies on modified cars even in this case though that we have a young person that just likes the look of it he's not there to cause any hassle yeah absolutely you're right the prices of premiums are based on statistics and the insurance companies have those statistics but they also can look at those statistics and based on them go all right but we're just not covering this risk because it is too big a risk um and that's clearly what's been decided with modified cars i guess they're also trying to discourage it um there are options though are there um i i note that um say for instance company like 123 they do a black box insurance effectively they store a monitor in your car they don't really ask an awful lot of questions i i hadn't experienced have gone through a quote with them recently because they monitor your driving very very strictly your acceleration your braking your cornering uh and your compliance with with speed limits three strikes your penalized your insurance is cancelled so they're perhaps less fussy in terms of the questions that they they ask is that an option for this driver i'm not sure if they take modified cars or not no that's kind of a separate thing really um you know whether you have an unmodified car or not you're driving standard how well you drive sticking to laws and that is quite different and it's quite clear that if you don't declare modifications on a car you're potentially invalidating your insurance so just because they don't ask a lot of questions you know that's not a that's not a defense sadly yeah but um what i mean is it's might they might not be it's not no i'm not suggesting for a second that you can mislead them it's just that maybe they put more weight to the more put more weight on how a car is driven rather than how it's modified as i said i didn't go through the the questions with that level of detail so are there any options then um other than trying your hardest maybe maybe get maybe hire a broker a specialized broker i mean we're unfortunately in Ireland it's a very small market the UK is better catered for in this in this manner there are specialized brokers for performance cars young drivers modified cars etc in Ireland we don't really have very as much of that isn't the market's much smaller i would still suggest try and employ a broker a specialized broker that deals performance cars perhaps um but it won't be cheap um but it won't be completely impossible it's not that it's illegal to modify a car in Ireland that's not the case yeah um well it's it's not illegal but the Guardian can make a judgment on roadworthiness though can't they yeah absolutely if you modify a car you are responsible to that it's responsible for its roadworthiness as you said and its safety and uh other people like people unmodify cars for ncts and then remod them again like so yeah they shouldn't that shouldn't happen um at the end of the day it actually with any car regardless whether it's modified or not the person that's driving is responsible for his roadworthiness regardless of the fact it's just gone through an nct or not so if you have a non-modified car and you're you crash it and you're driving around with a bumper hanging off it you you're going to be stopped by the Guardian and you know penalized for that and likewise if you modify a car and you know the bumpers are too sharp or it's too low or it's scraping the ground or you know the exhaust is actually too loud and i think that's quite subjective you know you are opening yourself up to being stopped by the Guardian questioned and potentially being put off the road so you just don't take the chance you just want to do it properly yeah and you know people my understanding isn't correct me from wrong like modifying a car too can be something that's not as simple but something like putting a towbar on you know we're talking an awful lot about modded cars for for younger drives and what have you but if you modify your car in any way you need to inform your insurance company don't you just generally speaking for general motorists motorists because they do try and you know in the event of a claim they do try and and ensure or to try their best maybe not to pay out the claim some would argue yeah any modifications you do on your car regardless of whether it's sporty reasons or not you absolutely need to inform your insurer that that's there's no question of that all right Shane as always thank you very much indeed lovely to chat to you that Shane Donahue there editor of complete car dot i a some comments coming in on that as you can imagine that a much more coming up after the short break the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter Kenny credit union 9102127 are you building rebuilding or renovating what heat pumps or solar panels would suit your build come along and speak to the experts efficient renewables on heat pumps and solar panels get advice on installation and grants available visit the efficient renewable showroom in newton conningham and see these products in operation for yourself house to home bridge end 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cent this would cover me for the 10 euro off 50 duns voucher when i got to the till the cashier informed me that i would need to pick up more items to qualify for the voucher as the recycling deposit return scheme money does not qualify for the voucher right okay so that means you couldn't put it towards the overall cost i'll have to look at i'll have to think about that i can't do it whilst i'm trying to concentrate as well hi greg will we see the eclipse tonight in donning all and so where's the best place to see it well the further west you are the more you'll see of it we'll try and get some information on that for you before the end of the show it's not going to be total eclipse in this part of the world i do seem to recall seeing a total eclipse back in when i was very very young so i don't know how long ago that would be but they're rare and it's only a certain section of the world that actually gets the total eclipse but we will see a partial eclipse eclipse if this guy is somewhat clear i'll try and get all the information for you on that seriously we are a banana republic think we should keep our nose out of the middle eastern affairs says a listener great to hear that gentleman on the radio about zionism and israel he is 100 right once people realize america is a terrorist state and behind most of if not all wars then that's your starting point anyone who disagrees is anti-semite racist far right the military industrial complex rules and controls everything why are they not calling the latest palestinian genocide what it is murder in capital letters if it was any other country doing this the un would be straight in after the us another nobody got rid of the us british ambassadors when they invaded iraq etc and murdered thousands yeah no one's got a completely clear copy book on the insurance issue insurance companies will not ensure a modified car if you get if you change the manufacturing of the car you're not covered if you get stopped by a guard or in a collision you're not covered even if you don't tell the insurance companies about the modifications and are covered in a collision you are not covered right okay that's a bit confusing new information for me so even if you did get insurance if your car is modded maybe that would be voyaged seems to a listener seems to say regardless of their love of cars i firmly believe that modified cars should be totally banned if you want a car like that keep it within the rally scene the noise of them is a torture says a listener there i think a lot of people may be of the same opinion but just caught a bit of the show with the guy on about insurance he spoke about an unknown car damaging a house fence this was on friday while it may be an insurance job it's actually a criminal offence to leave the scene of a road collision without notifying the owner of the damaged item or the garden it is really crucial to the safety of us all that these incidents sorted by insurance or not allowed with the garden it may also be a requirement of the insurance company that the claimant provides a guard an instant number so the sooner reported the easier to resolve thanks connell for that but the problem is is this was a listener who has a fenced property and wherever the property is located cars often crash into it but they are removed so the owner of the the fence doesn't know who's done it they can't see kenny recalls through the driver's insurance and maybe they don't have their own insurance or don't want to continue to claim on it so yep what you're saying is not incorrect connell but unfortunately these people crash into the fence and are disappeared or disappeared before the fence owner can have that conversation with them can you please put out on your morning show a significant amount of money was handed into dons in letter kenny on the seventh of april at five fifteen it was found at the front door trolley bay okay so if you lost a significant sum of money it was handed into dons in letter kenny on sunday the seventh of april that's yesterday of course it was found at around five fifteen and it was found it was found at the front door trolley bay so i imagine someone has gone through an absolute panic thinking that money is lost and gone forever a caller says as long as people like silencki and netanyahu can cause nuclear explosions none of us will be safe as far as any rule of law is concerned we're firmly in the stone age exactly where the saxon tyranny wants us that comes in from prunchies okay there are more names you can add to that list some would argue we had some contact on facebook probably a long shot at this point but karen says she's looking for a four bed house to rent in the inner shown area down to six weeks to find one or she will effectively become homeless does anyone know or is anyone willing to rent out a four bed house in the inner shown area if you want to contact us we can put you on to karen there as i say there's a massive demand on on 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right here on highland radio live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's donna marie donnie with the news at 10 o'clock minister for agriculture food and the marine says today's meeting of the north south ministerial council is doubly significant one being raising at mark's outgoing t-shirt leo varad cruise final day and the second being the fact it's the first meeting since the northern irish assembly reformed excuse me he says counties like donnie gall it's important to see these meetings move along yeah it's very significant and looking forward to attending the north south ministerial cleanery council meeting this morning it's really important for donnie gall and border counties in particular as well as as well as the whole island that those institutions north and south are working effectively and the north south ministerial council is absolutely central to that but the reality has been that over the last seven years only two of those seven years has seen a functioning north of there the executive working in northern ireland and that's why it's so important to actually see the executive re-established in the last couple of months and then has been arrested in relation to an assault that happened in donnie gall town over the weekend it occurred yesterday gardy say he's due to appear before donnie gall district court this morning there are calls for cars to be fitted with more safety equipment it comes as a man in his 60s is the latest to die on the roads after his van crashed in don drum and county Dublin yesterday morning it followed two other road deaths in county's wicklow and cork over the weekend bringing the total number of people to lose their lives on the roads already this year 261 leo lehi from the irish roads victims association says one life lost is too many that cars are lethal weapons and it just can't be driven the way you want them to drive to drive them big houses regulations and rules and regulations that you have to obey and if you obey them people will stay so be alive works are to commence this week on the wrath mullin pier refurbishment project donnie gall county council says they're scheduled to be completed by november the pier will be out of use for the construction period however access to the slipway and ferry service will be maintained under traffic management works are essential to secure the future of the pier and safety of all pier users patty cause grave is back at the helm of web summit the controversial businessman has returned to the ceo role he stood down from last year after a backlash over comments he made about the israel hamas war announcing his return in a post on x patty pause grave says stepping down was the first time in 15 years that he taken time off saying it allowed him to reconnect with the web old web some of friends and listen to what they wanted a partial solar eclipse will be seen in the skies tonight with those in the west and northwest having the best chance of seeing it from 5 to 8 this evening the moon will cover part of the sun a full eclipse will be seen in the u.s canada and mexico francis mccarthy from mut's black rock castle observatory in cork is reminding people to not look directly at the sun you stare at it you're going to do damage to your eyeballs you're not going to go blind but you can damage little parts of the retina the cells in the back of your eye there are ways to see it by projecting it so a pinhole camera you find yourself a shoebox you make a little hole in one section of it put a bit of foil and make a little tiny pinhole there's the sunlight will then go through that pinhole and make an image of the sun at the other end of the box san janei blaney says much more can be done to achieve a cross border basis by working with unionist politicians in the north the european candidate met up with uu p for managerial election candidate councillor diana armstrong at baleek bridge on the border he says there's a range of issues that affect people living on both regions and that work can be done to solve these issues without sacrificing once core political beliefs senator blaney says post brexit trading is a mutual concern mutual interest from the other perspective from the point of view of brexit and post brexit and the winter framework i suppose the infrastructure deficit has been there for many decades but issues on trade and farming and we are the electronic travel scheme i suppose it was natural for us to meet because i have had many meetings with unions along the border relation to common concerns and goals and it's really bullying that trust and ensuring that our society starts now to move forward as as as one less island looking now to whether rain and drizzle will push up northwards for most area during the morning and early afternoon that's with highest temperatures of seven to ten degrees that's all for now from highland radio news back again with headlines at eleven o'clock the obituary notice says for this monday morning april the eighth the death house occurred of gary o'donnell mean more donno reposing at mcglenn's funeral home from four o'clock this afternoon with rosary at eight o'clock reposing at his own home tomorrow from four o'clock for family and close friends only please funeral mass on wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in sin clombas church acres with an hermit afterwards in velcroich cemetery highest private on the morning of the funeral please the death house occurred of helene chane gore chin north ballon dreid livered and formerly a fingerless west dublin 11 remains reposing at her late residents funeral leaving from there two more morning at 20 past 10 for requiem mass in sin patrick's church murlock at 11 o'clock and hermit afterwards in the adjoining church yard the requiem mass will be streamed live via the part at webcam at mcnmedia.tv donations in lieu of large if so desired to the irish cancer society or care of any 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for jobs because they fear the job interview process well we'll be talking about that in the last hour of the show so if you have any questions about that let us know what's the right thing to talk about and all that kind of stuff hopefully i'll go through most of it for you but if you have any questions specific to that let us know we're going to talk also a little bit later on about are we not very good at receiving compliments so that's also coming up good morning greg just listening to your article about car insurance and modified cars my son has his car modified it passed the ntt last week with the modifications done on it did you guess say that if my son has a crash his insurance will not cover him oh my god i don't think parents realize that can anyone tell me what insurance companies cover modified cars please now a listener said that the expert didn't say that i'm not saying the listener is not an expert but if your car passes the nct and your insurance company is notified of the modifications i don't see how that would how his insurance would be invalid so if there's anything else to dig into that i will certainly try and find out but please don't alarm yourself because the cars pass the nct and presumably the insurance company knows of the modifications just done a cursory search for insurance companies that cover modified cars chill insurance there's a whole section on it okay chill they are a broker chill aren't they they run online broker though i don't think they insure themselves but anyway there's a full section on it thank you very much for doing the research for us that's rubbish greg fitting a towbar does not modify your cars most cars are made by the manufacturer to fit an appropriate towbar i'm only going by uh the fact that my insurance was modified because i got a towbar fitted so that was my own experience with one insurance company so hopefully i didn't mislead anyone there my apologies uh completely shocked my son's car is modified does this mean he's not insured in the event of a collision that comes in from mary in bunkrana um maybe that's something just we need to get some absolute clarity on you need to notify your insurance company of modifications that is uh a condition of the insurance being given to you i transferred my no claims bonus seven years ago from my car to a Volkswagen camper van now i went to revert back to the car the insurance tell me my bonus is no good i have to start over again quoted over three thousand euro uh if i can't prove that i have my driving or any driving experience wow okay didn't realize that you could get caught out quite easily couldn't you uh so the insurance was transferred from a car to a camper van uh went to revert back and now effectively they've no driving experience in a car as far as the insurance company is concerned uh regaza israel conflict you posed the question how can one group of humans do this to other humans well we're doing exactly the same thing here in arland by aborting thousands of helpless innocent babies from the mother's wombs believes this listener all in the name of legal choice over 30 000 in the last few years some of the Teresa summed it up exactly with this sentence there'll be no peace in the world as long as a mother can kill her own child in the womb i utterly abhor the evil in Gaza but we in arland cannot stop what's happening there but we can stop the legal abortions and that is a matter of an opinion of course there are a lot of people that don't believe that that's exactly what's happening even though you firmly do if you know what i mean um but anyway that's your view and it has been shared there letter kenny university needs a new hospital stop adding bits to a unit that's not fit for purpose it needs a new state of the art hospital believes a listener staying with health my own father died from cancer 20 years ago he suffered greatly he was in severe pain he was on morphine for three months you wouldn't let an animal go 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thanks so much for your time good morning greg so new dawn counselling talk to us a little bit about that uh my new dawn counselling is my own private practice and i suppose i have been working as a psychotherapist for the last around 20 years uh and letter kenny so um started off very small but it's quite a busy practice now and i provide a lot of different support to to clients but also to therapists and therapists and training so um yeah that's it and we i mean not exclusively but you know sometimes it does feel we are more disproportionately affected by traumatic instances in this part of the world and and dealing with that and understanding it and recognizing that yeah completely i mean i think um i suppose as a psychotherapist you're constantly working with trauma um i think it's a word that's used a lot and not fully understood um and that you know i suppose people you know think that just say for example the events of creasley uh that's you know that was a traumatic event everybody would agree with that um and then you know as time goes on people move on and people kind of get back to normal life and and work life and you know um now i suppose what people don't recognize is so much because you can't actually see it is that um trauma is not the actual event it's what happens within the brain and the body following the event and that that part of you is is not moving on at the same level or the same pace last uh in in in discussing um people's concerns that they have uh posed the creasley tragedy last week it's incredibly uh it's incredibly it's incredibly difficult from my perspective but not in any way on on the scale that makes sense as i go in here in that you know obviously it's very important that people's voices are heard that people have a platform that they can speak but it's very very difficult because there are lots of different people with lots of different feelings and one of the things i was particularly concerned of is that though for some people because we all deal with things differently but for some people that had made progress in i don't know if it's living with or dealing with trauma you can correct me on the terminology is that that that in me doing that they could have regressed okay that it was recurring in some way or other yeah and that is that's the sort of very difficult decisions one has to try and make before talking about things like this yeah completely and again this is the bit that's quite difficult for a lot of people to understand um and you know uh again coming back to you know what what trauma is you know it is uh the the long term effect that stays with the person and that effect is impacted directly by the relationship so say for example if we're looking at who is affected there you've got parents you've got siblings families um you've got all the emergency services guards you know uh doctors ambulance people fire brigade so you have all those people plus the people that were there on site so ordinary people maybe with no training or background and anything uh and every one of those people are traumatized and then take it out another bit it's like i suppose the easiest way to explain it is if you throw a if you throw a stone into a pool and the ripple effect that that has so that those waves hit everybody in the community because you've got just take one individual there you know and if you think about yourself here you know think about how many people are you connected with and you know on average you'll have a hundred plus people that are so you take a family who has lost somebody you're you're into thousands of people being impacted take the people the emergency people who are there at the scene and uh you're you're looking at all their families as well so this again is like that ripple effect it travels right throughout the whole community and we probably you know quite rightly and innocently presumed that someone who was present um and and witnessed the the immediate impact of the explosion but not maybe weren't bereaved yeah that they would feel trauma in the same more so than someone who watched from afar and watched the media coverage but they could still be affected you know just depends on the individuals doesn't it so in other words you don't actually have to have been present in the moment that's correct so for the trauma of an event of this scale yeah completely because if you just just to give you another example of that if you look at what happened just straight after Chrysler I mean look at people right around the world you know Australia Canada different countries that took to fundraising um so it tells you there that somewhere somewhere in that network there were connected somehow but they weren't present there were thousands of miles away so it does have that ripple effect or impact people who were as both present on the site that weren't directly impacted um will have completely different uh as both symptoms of trauma than somebody who's directly impacted because somebody who's directly impacted like the families will also have the grieving process um whereas the other person you know will have a different level of trauma a different degree of trauma but again it comes down to the person's personality as well um so we're speaking about trauma generally as well so the loss of a parent yes a sibling or a child for that matter individually obviously this applies to those people as well doesn't it yes of course is everyone affected by trauma because you'll find sometimes that for different reasons someone loses someone very close to them but feels that they've processed it you know what i mean and they're okay and they've come to terms with the understand it they realize that maybe the person had a full and happy life and that this is just part of living and then you'll hear people say well it hasn't hit them yet yeah that's very true uh does it always hit someone it does it does you know uh it doesn't go away so it's about the person's ability to cope uh and i have seen families where uh you know uh somebody passes and could be somebody quite elderly um you can see uh you know in the lead up to the loss that there's denial you know they're they're living in the in in the denial they're hoping that you know again this person's becoming more and more ill but they're hoping that this person's going to recover so then you know within the family some people in the same family may have processed the loss or started the grieving process before the person actually died at all and also it depends on your relationship you can have a brother and sister uh sometimes i i'm sorry if i'm conflating to things and i hope it doesn't sound uh insensitive but it's so that it's it it broadens it out for everyone a little bit and i do want to return to the specifics of a traumatic events like creasler but it depends on say for instance a parent an elderly parent the relationship to siblings hand with that person whether there's any regrets or whether they felt they were there long enough i presume all of these things can either can lessen the impacts or or worsen the impacts of trauma yeah well well i think you said that they're you know yourself you know the the most important factor in that is the relationship that you had with the individual that you're losing and can i just be clear because i i want to be fully clear i don't want to conflate grief and trauma right are they two separate things so in other words if i lost my father what's the difference between the grief of losing him or or the trauma of losing him just to make sure i don't accidentally yeah yeah and i think they're they're confused quite often you know grieving i suppose it's a natural process uh everybody will experience grief at some stage of life trauma is a sudden unexpected event um that you know i suppose like if you go back to decrease the tragedy something you know uh if you you know normal life normal life was going on that day and then within a fraction of a second you know something tragic to that severity happens and what what makes trauma different is is that you know if you can just picture that event what happened that in that moment is that there's a sudden threat to your life so there is and and those are the people who are most traumatized from it uh so it's the ripple effect then that comes out of that so that's very different to the grieving process right focus on trauma then yeah for the rest of this because i i really don't want to to confuse uh anyone on it is there are the symptoms of trauma yes there are the you know the symptoms of trauma are um there's a multitude of them there's you know firstly intense intrusive thoughts so when we talk about intense true intrusive thoughts it's like it's the real living the real living of that experience over and over again i think it's important to acknowledge that what happens you know how how does trauma trauma affect the person so it's important to acknowledge that you know our senses our senses like our vision our hearing you know our senses smell taste and touch there are primary senses they inform us of of practically everything we do so can you imagine now if you were standing just at the scene or walking into that service station at the moment that it exploded so you can see how your senses go from normal function to very high function in a fraction of a millisecond so what it's doing is it's recording you know what it sees smells hears taste and touch and that's that's exactly what the issue is here because that's what's recorded uh in your system in your brain in your nervous system and so for example you you know you're walking down letter kennie street 10 years later and somebody say for example drops a a dustbin lid so a loud bang will automatically flood your body and bring you right back to that experience and you have no control over that does time like say for instance someone had an incredibly traumatic experience without talking through it with someone like yourself or being equipped to understand and maybe deal with does trauma ease with time generally speaking well i think you know everything gets better with time um but i think uh you know sometimes it depends on the personality of the person people are very good at um parking things and putting them away and not talking about them now the reality is does it go away uh no it doesn't and so you know 10 years later you know you're you know you come across just say for example a uh a road kill a cat uh and you could have this overwhelming response to reaction to it and not understand why you're looking at it going well logically and is that a completely emotional response or you could freeze presumably in your spot you could freeze you can do you can you know you can you can do any number of things um freeze being the one i think that people most often recognize but what happens is the system has to get rid of it the brain and the system are fighting with each other so while you managed to pack it away for for most of the time a sudden again incident like that can you know it pushes past all your defenses and and you can end up in in you know uh floods at ears and you know breaking down and not know why because you're you can't logically make sense of it but if you can understand it presumably that it becomes an easier process or one you can handle better because it might you can make sense of why you've reacted like that yeah completely and i think this is why you know this is why trauma uh our therapy is so important you know for for people who were involved in any way and and you know any tragedy but you know particular creasel as we're talking about creasel it's really important even though you think you're doing okay you know that you might be doing okay for now but it will catch with you at some point and i think it's important and people have i suppose over the years become i suppose more accepting of going to therapy you know it used to be seen as you know there was something wrong with you but we're human beings we're all the same you know for me it's about giving something uh within yourself for your own well-being attention that needs to be processed because we all need to process all the time and we do whether we go to therapy or not but to talk about with somebody to go through it with somebody to work with somebody is very important and also i suppose the the other part of trauma is you know retraumatization tells me a bit more about that then yeah well that's where you know um we can very easily be retraumatized by a past event uh and and that can happen to us in in many many different ways and if i'm if i take this to the creasel apiece here because i think this is important creasel happened and if you can imagine everybody at the time experienced you know similar trauma but trauma from the same event so here we are now a year and a half you know heading on two years later and uh you know people who are directly impacted like families are are quite most of them will still be at that very early stage of trauma whereas people who are more removed from it even though they were traumatized are now starting to move on so that might be the wider community some yes in the way not not not anybody across the board but just the wider community yeah what we've learned from studies and from time and from experiences is that those that are directly they're at a different stage of their recovery they're at a different stage yeah completely they're at a different stage their recovery they may not may not have been impacted in the same way through the loss of life as the families were or losing a family member but what happens is and this is an interesting fact is that what happens is as people move away from and time uh from the event people get back to normal life and living so if we go back to the the the the whole thing about the site and what should happen with the site if we just talk about that um I can understand you know completely and and I think everybody would agree with this Creasley does need a shop it's it's a very important part of any community that shop was the heart and soul of that community however I suppose you know as time moves on people get back to life and living so what's happening at the moment is with the proposed use of the site as a shop people directly impacted like the families are retraumatized by even that thought now something interesting about that families maybe out that are not living directly in the area are better able to to voice their opinion about that people within the area they're they're living in the community um they're unsure how to respond they may well be retraumatized they may well not feel able to voice their opinion and that's another ripple effect of trauma and the aftermath of trauma in that then you have like public representatives who are not sure what to say not don't want to really say anything so you get a sudden wave of silence um but the people that can be most forgotten this is the people who are traumatized directly in this um and you know their families again so I suppose for me I think it's it's a very important thing to consider here for everybody you know out there that's listening it's important to think where am I connected into this and where do I fall into that am I am I being silenced do I need to have a voice or or you know am I one of the people who can freely speak I mean ultimately I'm not saying you're saying this but it sounds like this but ultimately then really this is a decision that primarily should be made by those obviously maybe looking to redevelop this site and those most directly affected by the traumatic events yeah completely because if in the absence of that we're not fully considering their their their emotional well-being well we're not considering the recovery process we're not considering the loss you know of 10 people's lives um we're like erasing it now on another point here I think as well Greg is is that we do know the shop needs to be put somewhere but just imagine just imagine you you put it right on the site what will it be like for everyday people in that community going back into that shop on a daily basis I mean that's something that hasn't really been considered here because you know I mean I wasn't there during the event you know I was there in the aftermath of the event but every time I pass up and down that road every time you know you're coming towards Creasley the first thing you think about is that shop and that day but for some so to stop there yeah and go in would be a major challenge for local people okay but Liam is it not possible to just to obviously trying to tease that that for some that the way they can move forward is if you know they see life returning to there or and that for instance a a memorial just might be an eternal reminder which is a positive for some but for some might be negative do you know what I mean so how do you I mean I'm sure there are people that must feel that right so how do we balance then how do we balance what the right thing to do is yeah well that's the big question that's at stake at the moment really and I think coming back to the trauma and the effect of trauma you know part of the healing process is having that site preserved for for everybody not just for the immediate families for everybody because you know something very tragic happened there if we if we move across to excuse me we move across Northern Ireland and we just look at you know driving through Northern Ireland how many you know different memorials or monuments are erected in different places they're all to mark historic events of tragedy so I suppose research would show us and tell us that you know when something like a tragedy like of this magnitude happens it's important to preserve that site for not for just the family or the families for everybody in the community like Hugh Harper made a comment that he can identify literally this position on the ground yeah where his daughter took her last breath absolutely which could be and I don't mean this in any way insensitive but theoretically could be where the monster energy drink is the store is you know the yeah display not saying that's going to be the case and I'm it actually sounds like I'm being harsh in my language but I'm not I'm trying to put myself in the mind of someone who lost someone directly by it that would be very hard it's very hard to sort of go come on pull yourself together move on you know what I mean yeah completely when someone can literally quite to the millimetre identify yeah they can find my not the final arresting pace but where the loss of life happened through her last breath yeah no I mean that doesn't surprise me and if you were talking with more of the families they will be able to know exactly you know the location on that site where their loved one drew their last breath you know and you know what Hugh Harper has said would wouldn't surprise me in the slightest because I think when again when you lose somebody you want to know exactly the point you will make it your business to find the point and that point is very important for you because that's you have a connection with that so you know you have a connection with that and that's where I suppose this this question arises now as to how do we decide and I suppose what really I suppose the purpose of I suppose this conversation really is is this is a major major piece here for people to be considering like in making any decision around a shop a shop is needed everybody accepts that you know that that shop was the hub of the community but even if it was built to the you know to a better spec than what it was it will now not be the hub of the community in that location do you think yeah I know from I know from 20 odd years of experience of working with trauma you time lined it little earlier on and sometimes you have to pinch yourself a year and a half it's would this be a different conversation if it was two and a half years three and a half years no so the timings are relevant not irrelevant or less relevant than one might think yeah no the time and the time with time people heal but you know the healing process is dependent largely on you know what what happens here going forward the retraumatization is what we don't want to happen here so this is you know the site will will 20 30 40 years be a very important part of our history our our grieving process you know our way of managing our traumas and you know I think that's the most important piece and I think that's the bit that I think that can get overlooked and even just to you know another thing too is is what we do it's it's ingrained in us almost is is at the time of anniversaries or a birthday to go back to where yeah you know and again I've tried to approach this from as an outsider as sensitive and everything as possible but I can imagine like what do you do on the anniversary of this you know if this is a hustling and bustling site absolutely um you know and and I think the bit that's important they can't coexist can they commercial premises in the memorial it's one or other yeah now I'm not saying which it should be but they can't coexist because how could you go to how could you go to grieve in that environment either well I mean I think the this site itself is a place where you know you can't you can't have a shop on it you know it can't coexist as a memorial and a shop or a business because your business is hustle bustle and you know people come and go and one's quiet and reflect yeah one that's exactly at once quiet ones meditate for you know to sit and to meditate they're with you know your memory um now people might also say out there well I mean everybody's got their loved one buried but the point that's important is that they didn't die in the grave they died on that site and we heard from Bernie last week as well um that the grave's important but what a memorial to a husband is is really where the yeah completely the connection I think I asked that and she says the connection um okay I mean that's clear in what your professional opinion is and this is a professional opinion by the way Liam you've come in here as a professional cancer and psychotherapist we're talking about trauma and we're talking about the traumatic effect or the re-traumatization that's the approach you're coming from this if you were asked you know in your opinion which you were but if you were asked formally what's the implications of this for people that's your answer effectively um so what just two last questions then what can we do to recover from from trauma I mean obviously you know speaking to professionally is helpful but it is about tooling us up to to deal with it on an ongoing basis yeah well I mean thank you the first thing we need to be considering here you know in recovery is is not re-traumatizing and then you know the second thing then is you know any type of body work so counselling and psychotherapy is talking therapy um but you know uh psychotherapy actually focuses on the body and the impact on the body uh but then other things can help as well like very simple things like reflexology reflexology is a very powerful tool and because it works directly with the body and and a reflexologist a good reflexologist can pinpoint exactly in the body where there's tension or trauma and work on it you know indirectly so those type of interventions are really important for people you know at the moment in the recovery but um so there's not one answer to that there's numerous different things that people can do but I think you know just for people out there there's an awful lot of information on you know online on trauma but you know to really get to understand trauma if you if you actually have an interest there's there's a guy on just a lot of youtube stuff he's he's Dr. Gabber Matty and he's one of the world's leading experts on trauma and he can really you know you know he can really explain it in detail and the importance of not re traumatizing people okay so we'll get his name actually off you uh because people will ring in yeah and I'm just thinking just to sort of recap here is if if if this site was redeveloped yeah and someone was re traumatized by that and came to you as a psychotherapist for healing it would be very hard for you to uh yeah it'd be very hard for you to make them feel any better about that is that the right word you get where i'm trying to phrase it well well you've got another layer you'd be sort of trying to ask them to cope with that or yeah which would be difficult to imagine even with some of the skillset that you have yeah well you know you you've got another layer of trauma they would have to accept well they're forced they're forced they're forced to accept okay I think you know I mean again it's for the people of Greece land and the people impacted directly by this the families I think you know that there's talk about you know a community center or some sort of center being built you know that might be the location for that along with the memorial garden you know and at the end of the day I think you know it it serves the community better because I do think and as I said earlier I think that you know people who are not directly impacted but live in the area and and experience the trauma from as I said the ripple effects will find it very difficult to get into that shop yeah I'm okay you know uh Liam Canning cancer psychotherapist at New Dawn counselling presumably people can search New Dawn counselling and they can yeah right all right listen thanks for your time Liam I do thank you great we'll be back with more after these thanks sleep under the stars at one of Ireland's top glamping destinations love Mardal Lodge in South Donegal offering lakeside eco lodge with luxury yurts and 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the weight of the car or the ride height will result in cover being null and void that's someone who works in insurance now towbar adding or towbar being added is not normally seen as a modification uh but other circumstances like if the driver is a mechanic may raise a chance of tow towing cars which may exceed the towing limit of the main car this risk uh this risk increase may be what the insurer wishes to avoid on the camper van issue the camper van policy uh do not have a no claims bonus but when you open a policy you must prove you are claims free but 99% of these policies are cases when the driver keeps their car policy for daily use as a camper is a recreational vehicle thus less than daily use this customer's insurance broker for van will be able to get an act anticipated ncb scale so that driver can get a car policy again so get on to your broker and they should be able to um prove your driving experience through the camper van so that's the advice on insurance thank you for reading my comment he has not notified his insurance company just presumed by putting on a kit on his car it would be okay all his friends are the same i'd hate to think they are now driving around unwittingly insured according to the people that we've spoken to that work within the insurance industry unfortunately if you've modified your car and you have not insured your insurance that you have not unfold your insurance company then i'll read it directly here non-disclosure of modifications to a vehicle that affects body work power your brake hose power weight or ride height will result in cover being null and void uh null smarty pants i'm gonna read it anyway uh hi greg why did you get a tow bar surely caroline is the one who needs a tow bar she's been carrying you for years that's lovely roshine thanks very much indeed but the problem is is that it's primarily true i appreciate it anyway thanks very much uh someone said the quiet bit out loud finally okay coming up after 11 o'clock 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update and this good morning to donna marie daherty thanks greg good morning a 35 year old woman from starban has passed away following a collision on the a5 yesterday in a burns was driving a white sea at leon on the victoria road when it left the carriageway close to the junction with the grange foil road at around 1 40 p.m she was pronounced dead at the scene the road has since reopened and ps and i are appealing for information or dash cam footage to assist with investigations the minister for agriculture food and the marine says today's meeting of the north-south ministerial council is doubly significant one reason being it marks outgoing titically over at chris final day the second being the fact that it's the first meeting since the northern irish assembly reformed he says for counties like donnie gall it's important to see these meetings move along 1.2 million euro worth of cultivate loans for farmers in an issue were granted by the credit union since mid 2022 there's been a 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concern and finally there are calls for cars to be fitted with more safety equipment it comes as a man in his 60s is the latest to die on the roads after his van crashed in drum dun drum in county doublin yesterday morning it followed two other road debts and counties wicklow and cork over the weekend bringing the total number of people to lose their lives on the roads already this year to 61 that's all for now from hide and video new best again with news headlines at 12 i don't worry thank you very much indeed as soon as we mentioned the following from alde you probably won't be able to concentrate on anything else so hope you're not doing dental work cottage pie made with board be a quality assured irish organic lean round steak mince five percent fat was 4.99 now 3.99 one of our super six fresh meat offers this week buy all six and save even more follow the path to lower prices go all alde see in store or online for offers terms and conditions while stocks last so maria rush is uh back blogging again maria how are you getting on good morning to you thanks so much for joining us thank you for having me you're looking great oh you're looking fabulous as well great thank you very much i think you're right we're getting there no we're talking about uh we're talking about compliments let's test you brie car you know brie yes congratulations maria queen of compliments totally deserves recognition for a hard work on positivity she's been proactive for as long as i've known her and i'm delighted her blog is going from strength to strength well done maria wow thank you very much from one queen to another then so because she's just as amazing herself since we were talking about compliments so yeah on your latest blog uh you frame it so i don't miss frame it i actually wrote this about six years ago this particular piece um i have been trying to get back into writing again we've spoken about this before um i had taken a bit of a break i suppose with my job change and stuff over the last two years um in the last few months i've set myself or the last few weeks sorry i've set myself a target of writing again every day so on thursday or friday last week i actually went through my memories and this one came up as a memory and i thought wow that's still relevant so i just tweaked a wee bit and posted it again but the reaction to it has been so much bigger this time than the first time around um i think a lot of people are agreeing completely that we're not very good at taking compliments um and i think i suppose i write this from the point of view of being a mommy um and being aware that my daughters are listening to me when i answer compliments um there's no right or wrong way so what are our quirks then i mean what are the indicators that we're not good at taking compliments i think it's a it's a humility thing like people will we automatically go straight to self-deprecating you know oh god no this whole thing or you know even they're joking aside when you come in all your tops lovely oh god i've had this for ages because if you answer with well actually i saved up for three weeks or three months to buy that because i really liked it and i worked really hard people will look at you as i have to say what are you on about um i think it's a cultural thing for us we are we're not very good at taking compliments we tend to see people who accept compliments as perhaps being big headed or overly confident and then there's that fine line between confidence and arrogance how do you accept a compliment though well i think the main one is just thank you you know thank you very much i acknowledge it you know oh thanks man yeah i try harder yeah thank you so you give some examples i love your top yeah pennies best yeah pennies oh we all say it pennies best or done stores or you know it's like you nearly have to i think we're so so afraid of being evaluated negatively by the person who's given the compliment but as i say in the piece if someone gives you a compliment and they mean it if you answer positively and they judge you for that they didn't mean the compliment you know so it's a two-sided thing yeah is that a hill figure shirt oh it was on sale the funny thing is is the flip side what i noticed about it uh because you know when you're at a function or something whatever people get a lovely dress and you get that reaction right that you talk of but then people started uh shopping in charity shops or secondhand shops right yeah and then all of a sudden yeah five euro can you believe it you know uh so when it genuine who's bought really cheap people will scream it from the the the rooftops presumably because they think it makes them well firstly they've done something good right but because they think that's more societally acceptable than i paid four hundred quid for a dress yeah and it is societal norms isn't it it's what we it's what's in vogue at the time and i don't just mean in sense of fashion you know what's cool at the moment what is it okay to say and i think we're living in a world at the moment where social media is so it's you nearly can't say that you like apples for fear of being accused of being mean to the pairs you know so when it comes to this kind of thing you know yeah i'm not going to say that that cost that cost me 300 euro because people will say oh isn't it good for you well actually i work 90 hours a week and i'm i've traded myself to that quote so i just i think we do we were all brought up to be humble and to be um not not to not to brag not to boast and that's that's right that's the way we should be nobody wants to listen to someone bragging about how well they've done about something but i do think there's a fine line between being aware of being being aware of your achievements and being able to accept them and acknowledge them and give yourself the credit due for whatever it might be and completely to like degrade yourself when someone gives you the confidence you know so and there's one too about personal growth and confidence and happiness right so this could just be a i mean it's a minor thing isn't it really but it is could be symptomatic of how we view ourselves or our place in the world and then of course as you said you know our little children around us are sponges right so they really effectively copy everything that we do uh and you know when you speak to people about history and and we talk about it on this show sort of the way we are you can trace it back like hundreds of years and and where it comes from and where it started but that doesn't mean we always have to persist in the way we are no i think i think it's important too especially with children around to teach them that it's okay to acknowledge their strengths um it's okay to acknowledge their you know i use the example of my eight-year-old who have i tell her she's beautiful she every day will answer with i know that gives me such joy you know because it's going to come to a point somewhere she won't answer like that and when does that happen and what's the influence i think i see it already with the older girl um i think once social media isn't introduced once they go into a certain point of school um as a former teacher i've dealt with this for years as well i used to teach sphe and one of the activities i used to do with the groups and they used to laugh at me when i would say right it's compliment day but every one of them would have left the room 40 minutes later feeling great because the simplicity of passing on a compliment to the person beside you you know those those things those lessons or classes are always seen as just being odd yeah i should just do that session today but there's so much in that that might be the only compliment that child has received all weekend yeah but you know this is all within our power as well as adults and you're you you've set a challenge really for people um um on how to approach compliments and to observe the reaction to it so someone says to you your hair looks lovely today yeah what do you say well my automatic react i've just come out of the gym it does not but thank you for the compliments you know i didn't say it did no i know greg i know you're lovely as well well that's not comfortable yeah but you see that's a particularly shiny no but one point is this but say in earnest so i said to you out in the street say your hair looks lovely today so they're all it's like actually what you probably just did right because to me your hair looks really perfectly fine but you you actually you fell into the trap didn't you you say no it's not because i went to the i was at the gym or whatever you said and is it a trap is it a fear of a trap i think that's an interesting word actually because are we afraid that if someone is giving us praise that there's an ulterior motive possibly possibly don't mean it you know generally if you're someone who gives compliments and he makes an effort to give compliments i think you become more aware of how important it is to react to them in a certain way um i i love giving compliments it's something i do in my work every day all the time in the gym i'll say to someone if i know especially that they have maybe been working on something in particular and i'll say god you're looking great it just gives you a lift you see it just gives you a lift and something but the but the reaction generally is oh i do not well actually you do yeah you know um and then it's always really refreshing there was one lady last week i think maybe that's the reason that i i brought this one back up i said to god your arms are looking amazing because i know that was one of her goals and she started with us about two years ago and she turned and she said i know i'm so happy yeah brilliant that's brilliant that's like that's conversely to um i got up one morning and i felt great you know i'd look you know you look yourself in the mirror and i said you know i feel really good and i came into work and i sat down opposite caroline for a you know a pre-show meeting it says geez you're very tired looking it ruined my day oh bless but one comment cam you know we're so sensitive yeah we are and one comment that but if i was tired looking i was going oh thank you for recognizing that because so it would have it would have worked for me that it didn't mean anything bad right yeah and i didn't take it but my point is is we're very sensitive it's a ripple effect doesn't it and also too you've heard the comment oh he's full of himself so then people kind of want to sort of offset that a little bit don't they but i do address that in the piece as well you know we if someone is going to be negative about you they're going to be negative about you whether you're winning losing or or it doesn't matter what you're doing and that's on them like my my very wise father always taught us always remember who has the problem that's one line that he has always since we were we kids always and still to this day will say just remember who has the problem um and i think if you're living your life where the person beside you success is constantly making you angry have a look at what's happening here it's not their success that's annoying yet it's maybe what you don't have or what you want to have or there's some insecurity perhaps highlighted and we all do it we all look at certain things and get annoyed by them that's fine but i think to to understand that someone giving you some positive praise yeah is something that you should say thank you very much there's plenty of people that will try to tear you down but ideally we want to empower ourselves not to need to be reliant and i can't remember what the there was an old saying and i can't even attempt it right but effectively it was about your life and it was coming from an older person and there's age brackets so at a certain age you know you don't care what anyone thinks of you so that's probably when you're young then at some other age you think the whole world is thinking about you and then there's another stage and finally you're an older person you realize no one actually cared at all yeah you know what i mean and you know really what you need to do is you have to be able to give yourself compliments and feel good about yourself because if someone goes to get their hair done or the nails done or has a really good gym session yeah you can see them yeah leaving in a in a different state of mind right so they've been able to do that to themselves yeah isn't that better than really waiting on someone to say something nice to you to try and make it all to take you down yeah for that matter and like you know there's so many things now the affirmations and all these different things that the world is telling us we have to do that you know you should be looking in the mirror every day and saying i am beautiful i am strong and there's that there's an awful lot of research behind that idea of positive thinking so why when someone tells it to you do we automatically like ping pong it away it's you know that's hard because i think i don't know it's it's an interesting it's a really interesting question so you know if someone pays you a compliment today say thank you very much and then see what the person's reaction is yeah i think too yeah i think too i feel you know i feel sorry really for young people and that sounds terrible but i feel sorry for young people now with with filters and what have you in that say for instance you are inclined to use a particular filter that gives you you know something does something with your eyes and teeth or whatever and you get a lot of compliments on social media you look great and you accept those compliments then there becomes a great deal of pressure in the real world and that is something i don't think you had to do with the younger person or i had to and it's a whole layer on top of this as well because it's probably is a reality and a fantasy representation of ourselves out there but i think with all things social media and i could talk about social media for days on end it's it's learning to read it and learning to realize that what you're seeing is not real life and even the people who are as real as possible online still show you what they want you to see um filters you mentioned are a massive issue at the moment even for adults and i think what's also happening with social media is that the norms that we're setting for ourselves as normal are not normal so if someone looks a certain way with a filter that's not real life if someone is posting how organized their fridge is and all this different stuff is going this is how i live my life every day although that's them that's their choice that's fine in their own home but if you're looking at that thinking oh i'm not doing that's why i'm feeling there's a problem there yeah you know yeah the caller says uh greg often hear my wife being complimented for an example on something she's wearing in her responses this is in pennies which is is fine and i get why people do that but that's one of the examples you actually gave in the blog uh another caller says yes we all know that us irish aren't good at taking compliments myself included if someone comments are that's a nice top they'd probably get the reply i've had this top for years which you talked about jeans as well or uh your haircut suits you and i reply i'm fed up with it instead of just replying thank you which is exactly what we're talking about so there's an awareness of it there is and i think we're becoming more aware as well of um of we mentioned those those kind of social norms it's it's putting yourselves under it's becoming aware of of what's in front of you as your reality um and the targets that you have in your own life and the things that you want to achieve in your own life they don't have to be the same as the person that you're watching or following or that you're listening to on the radio we're watching on the tv um i do you mentioned about the children you know i do worry that age group have an awful lot to deal with an awful lot of an awful lot to contend with and with ai now as well it's so difficult to know what's real and what's not real i can we're getting to the stage where what's in front of you in your hand and what you can see with your eyes in this room right now that's all you can actually be sure of um and we're seeing that more and more and more so that's another but again it comes back to that idea of being aware of it being aware of these things and been able to read them been able to be aware of them but also just give compliments if you thought you know it doesn't have to be just someone you know i'm the best in the world if i'm in a in a restaurant or a bar or a bathroom or whatever and you say oh i love your top or i love your it may be nice just it's not that hard sometimes it's actually just that it's something you know it's very hard really i suppose to it's a hard but you to accept so i expect someone to love us right if we don't love ourselves do you know what i mean if you if you if you've not if you don't you know if you don't love yourself it's a lot to ask someone else to love what you don't be you know and for some people it doesn't matter how much you compliment them or how much you tell them that they are one thing or the other if they can't say it there's nothing no but then we're complex because sometimes you look in the mirror and you go you know i feel great man yeah and then like the next day you're looking and for some people it can get to a point where it's really you know damaging uh there's something that needs attention but then the other day you can look at it you'd think you're looking at a completely different person it's just whatever way your mind is going i think it's important too to remember that you know even someone who comes across and says oh i'm good at looking at the positives i'm good at those things that doesn't mean that that's how they feel all the time like people would say oh you're very confident i still get nervous about doing things like this i still get but for me it's i weigh up the do i enjoy doing it am i making a point that i want to make or do i be nervous for five minutes beforehand and that's that's a choice i make um but no one ever is constantly happy all the time with everything you're about their lives and if they are i wish i could find the magic i could bottle that and make a fortune you know but yeah i think small small steps small things being nice people make a compliment use people's names i think people also love to hear their name which is i'm called you marie once by accident but no i think people people love if you pay an accompaniment use someone's name as well and it really will you know make them feel it's affirmation isn't it yeah excellent uh all right marie i keep it up pay away can people find your blog and the latest writing because we've kind of touched on it but uh there's a lot in here for people there's a lot and to recognize as well yeah because it's funny the people and they may not necessarily necessarily have read your blog but they've sort of come back with the same sort of examples of how they bat away the compliments yeah well i was always writing as they asked one blog um i stopped writing with the kids a few years ago and just kind of i left it for a while i just parked it so it's more of a lifestyle now but i am still going to obviously talk about being a parent because that's what i am i'm a mommy of two beautiful girls um but i do tend to dip my toe into it's just lifestyle whatever i feel like rambling about sometimes it's funny sometimes it's serious sometimes it's colorful um i'm trying to get back into it myself more as well so um i'm on facebook is probably where you'll see the most regular uh posts at the moment on living out loud and then i also have a website um that i'll be 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helps us to connect to our family friends and loved ones connect hearing connecting you to life as soon as we mentioned the following from al d you probably won't be able to concentrate on anything else so hope you're not doing dental work cottage pie made with board be a quality assured irish organic lean round steak mince five percent fat was 499 now 399 one of our super six fresh meat offers this week buy all six and save even more follow the path to lower prices go all algae see in store or online for offers terms and conditions while stocks last danie good morning to you good morning greg you're looking well hello again it's not it's not been that long since we last spoke it was the February the 14th valentine's day that's correct i remember quite clearly right okay what's your view about us and our ability take compliments i thought the the interview there was very interesting and not i've been i was looking at it and i i can't take a compliment like at all really because oh you know we never used to get them as children i don't know just because of an irish thing you know my mother and father were both irish but uh but back in my day or when i say like that uh like in the 50s and 60s even at school nobody complimented you that if you've got something correct or done well that they just expected that off you you only got scolded when you did something wrong so so compliments was very scarce like you know and and and i realized that now so so with my nieces and nephews i've always sort of complimented them well when you know just to to give them sort of like self-confidence you make a conscious decision yeah yeah but yeah no if they do something well i say that's a good job because you see i used to do like good i still do good jobs but but you never got any compliments because it was just expected the people it wasn't harsh like my mother and father was very loving people but they just expected you to to pick it up straight away and do everything correctly yeah you know and as a youngster you you make mistakes but then i find in life like that that was going through school but then when i left school and i was a a young lad like i was very conscious of different things but not like my body in a way but but my hair used to i used to be conscious conscious of that because my hair was a bit un unruly like you know even if now now i comb i brush and comb my hair in the morning but but when this wind comes it sends it all over the place i might as well not bother right does that and does that bother you it does indeed yeah yeah because i like to be you know my my relatives they always used to look sort of like spick and span but but i looked you know like a bit dishevelled as my niece said to me one time because i was doing the farming i had i think i had different boots on like working trousers and he was tied up with with rope and she said what do you look like i said i'm look like a sort of farmer she said you look like compo you know and and i i i found that very funny but but that's it i'm not self-conscious of barmy appearance that way but my as a youngster like in my teens my hair was was very um uh something i was sensitive about but does it has has safe i get you but say how you you say right you didn't receive compliments as a young person in fact you were only spoken to when you were scolded we all remember you know children speak when they're spoken to has that in any way damaged you as an adult not damaged in a i'm not trying to say you know in a in a necessarily uh you know very very bad way but it has do you do you think it's affected you as an adult and your confidence so oh yes it's impacted on my life a bit yeah because you know you not self-conscious but i am conscious of things like that and i don't go around looking for praise or compliments but but there and when i do get some now in later life i get quite embarrassed yeah you know the only time i've really accepted a compliment is when elderly men unfortunately that they've all you know because that they would have been familiar with my grandfather and they said oh god you know you you've done that just like your grandfather you work just like your grandfather and and i accept that compliment with pride but anything else if they say uh you know it's a nice appearance i like your suit i just get embarrassed with them okay well you shouldn't Danny you shouldn't you should embrace your goals no no it's not i mean i'm because i'm not like a totally self-conscious you know like i say about my hair i've been cutting my own hair for over 50 years now i got fed up with going to the barbers and paying them to to cut my hair make such a bad job of it that i had to come home and rectify it so for the last 52 years i've been cutting my own hair which wasn't a problem for for me during covid and also shoes my father was a great lover of good pair of shoes and so i am like like to keep them in good order good but an expensive pair of leather shoes you know was too costly well when i was younger so i had to go and get the cheaper version and if any of my friends found that i had the cheaper version i would be slated like you know it was all about aspiration you know sort of money and things like that you know that you're wearing more expensive that that's why i was pleased when you said about about the uh the charity shops because i've done a lot shopping in charity shops yeah people would be proud of it now yeah going into them i think so when people pick up a bargain in a charity shop it's a double wabby because they get a compliment and happy about that but also you know they're donating to a charity and for some reason that seems to be like a shield that allows them to say thank you i do look great danie listen keep it thank you very much we'll chat to you again young people seem to believe table manners are no longer relevant a uk study by census wild has found more than three quarters of people over sixteen think keeping elbows off the table is outdated nonsense with a while a third use their phones at dinner the mere utterance of such a statement i can see uh on my screen here that no cunning and briefly passed out uh but he has recovered and joins us now good morning noll how are you i'm very well and a very good morning to you and your listeners as usual uh you with the bell of the ball at uh the bonnington on saturday night looking fabulous and i have to say sporting a lovely pair of white shoes which set off the entire outfit rather remarkably well what a splendid opportunity to celebrate somebody that i think is slightly um how shall we say flowing under the radar moya brennan is respected and loved all over the world and she's one i mean when you think forget about broadway in new york and hollywood she's won every possible award and accolade that can be attributed to any international star and to see her talk with such passion about her love of dunny gall and her lovely mother um baba brennan and her late father it was a joyous occasion and it has to be marked with enthusiasm and excitement because she deserves that uh incredibly humble lady as well at least that's uh the impression i got i can't play i've interviewed moya a couple of times but certainly the way she holds herself uh which is perfectly as well though it if you didn't know of her achievements she doesn't give off that that uh of the country it's the contribution he has to not just to music but to culture and you know absolutely and you are so right i have seldom met someone of such renown and such a note that carries her humility like a beautiful cloak a gorgeous person a lovely soul a lovely family beautiful son and daughter who who have a lot of their lovely mum and dad's quality so a really cosy lovely evening and well done to the dunny gall association and doublet and just finally on that i mean you know bono gets a bit of criticism in arland but he's one of the biggest superstars in the world uh packing out that new uh dome over in america you know internationally renown recognized i thought he was never gonna shut up in his praise of of moya brennan on the night he went to town it was absolutely unbelievable it was lovely now bono has been accused of being a bit like myself tends to talk a little bit too much at times and he didn't let us down shall we say but you know what uh behind all the beautiful um sort of things he said and reading between the lines you could see the respect and love he has very clever his language was very clever and it landed right on point obviously you know it was in his own inimitable way but the points that he wanted to make were all there landed there talked of the the change uh the change in the rules somewhat where someone from outside of the county can now be uh dunny gall powers and it just set the whole i think it was he referenced that but anyway it was and it just set up the night really really nicely so lovely to to actually be able to touch base with you on that no um because it was just a lovely evening and just to recognize that but talking about table manners i find i'm confused on this one right because you know what i'm one of these live and let live types as well do you know what i mean but you do you can't help but notice that sometimes you see people i've got a son myself who despite my protestation struggles to actually use an iphone fork should i care you know what i have i have this wonderful wonderful sentence that i use when i'm discussing this with younger members of my family my loving nephews and nieces and now their children because their children are now coming of an age my grand nephews and grand nieces or rather i'm i'm of an age and i say to them look at a b or c you take a girlfriend or a boyfriend out to dinner why would you bother if you want to spend the entire evening on your mobile phone on instagram on snapchat on whatever and may i ask you do you think a girlfriend or a boyfriend is going to be very impressed if you're gobbling down your food speaking with your mouth full unable to use a knife and fork properly and you know we have to have some basic standards the lovely freda stare going back a lifetime ago said how do we expect our children to have good manners and how to conduct themselves socially when they see none of it in the home and it should begin in the home because my point is always this i'm not an old buddy duddy i think i'm quite cool for an old fella that's the reason for putting on my sneakers with my beautiful mickey suit on saturday night to be real cool but i say there is nothing old-fashioned about doing things right also too i think to know people might get mixed up in what we're talking about here because people might think it's about class or i don't recognize classes by the way but people might think it's about you know whether you're wealthy or you're not what your background might this is nothing in my view anyway it's got nothing to do with that this is about i suppose you know a celebration of the food a recognition of it and respect for that but also those in your company as well that you know what i really believe um greg that you have hit the nail on the head we confuse doing things properly conducting ourselves in a proper manner turning up for an interview are properly attired knowing how to address someone hold the door open all of those things are nothing to do with class but we kind of have that bloody inferiority complex that that's all to do with class and upper class what a load of nonsense because i have been in the company of many so-called or so titled upper-class people and some of their manners left something to be desired so it's not about class about it's about me instilling in my children and anybody i come in contact with by example that there's a better way of doing things and a nicer way of doing things otherwise why would we set a table why do we look at things of beauty why do we sort of immerse ourselves in art and beautiful music those are the refinements that have come with evolution of man and why should we now decide to start a retrograde process of going back to live in trees i mean for heaven's sake it's pure common sense do things beautifully do things nicely and it looks and is so much better in the societal situation lovely stuff no always a pleasure thank you so very much indeed have a wonderful monday and rest of the week and to your listeners and to you greg and your team thank you so much bye bye no that's noel cunning him there what do you think 08 660 25 000 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on 0749102126 or apply online via our app or in office today testing testing do you need to get your hearing tested test your hearing with a free sample hearing aid from hidden 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sarah hi great how are you good morning i do fantastic great to have you on the program right okay i was saying a little earlier on it's really important isn't it that we present ourselves best prepare ourselves best for the job interview process but because there are actually those actually are stuck where the rat because they don't really want to go through that oh it's so much more common than we think you know i meet people all the time who are really capable and they've loads of great experience and they'll often say i'm not going to go for it and when you drill down into it with them it's because they don't want to go through the interview process and but what i'd really impress upon people is that if you can prepare in the right way you're putting yourself in a really really great position and not only to do a good interview but also to feel confident and prepared about doing it you know because they'd always say like confidence can't just be plucked out of the thin air you know you have to get it from somewhere so a couple of the pitfalls that we see people make and throughout my job in the communications clinic are that people prepare but they don't prepare in the right way so they might for example have put together a super cv and a great cover letter but when it comes to the interview for i was just listening to your ads there you know for the bus driver to be you know working car sales to go in for a role in johnny gall county council and they've learned maybe their cv off by heart but that hasn't put them in a position that you're doing every day i suppose which is going and talking like a human being out loud to another group of human beings you know so the first thing that i would say to do is you want to be really really clear on what the job is and not just what the spec says because sometimes the job spec can be a language of its own which you want to be really really clear on the needs of the people hiring so the needs of that bus company the needs of johnny gall county council what specific skills are required what will help them what will add value to them and then gregg your best friend is coming up with a bank of stories that's going to help prove to those people that you have the skills and the competencies and the experience and the attributes required and in the environment that we're in like you want to fix the problem for the person because you know it can be difficult to hire at the moment so you and if you really want that job you have to also recognize all right you've got a problem and i'm the solution that's such a brilliant way of putting it i put it like that it's a you know a job spec is often a set of problems and i'm going in to prove that i can solve your problems or it's a set of needs so how do i go in and address those needs and that kind of comes to one of the greatest pitfalls that people make they don't approach the job interview from the employer's point of view they approach it from their point of view so it's interesting that you say that because i was talking to a vet a couple of weeks ago and the vet had all the qualifications and the academics that you would expect a vet to have thank god um but when we drill down into it what they realize going for an interview in a rural practice was that the the the boss the person in charge was looking at retiring in probably about 10 to 15 years or less than that if they were lucky and what they really wanted was someone who was going to be a safe pair of hands and that they could eventually pass this practice which was like their baby over to this new person who was able to build and maintain relationships with farmers in the local area and things like that so absolutely that's a set of problems and you're going in to say i know what your problems are let me help you solve them here's some evidence here's some stories to prove that i can do it for you yeah brilliant makes its common sense but often this is the the things that we over or these are the things that we overlook can we tend also to get together a decent cv and then sort of think that that's it it's a finished product rather than updating it tweaking it find out what might not be working or even maybe tailoring it that it seems more attractive to the role that we are applying for absolutely so great there's no point in me put together putting together a cv for highland radio and firing the same one out to dunagall county council to the insurance company in the area and to a couple of cafes and restaurants in the same you know in bunkrana and let her Kenny because they're going to look at it straight away and say you know do they know what we need do they know what our problems are do they know what our needs are and so absolutely i would say your cv is always it's always a work in progress and you should always be looking at adapting and tweaking it you can absolutely get a master copy down you know where it it it it has basically the components that that a good cv it requires but what i'd advise your listeners to do is have a little section at the top that you could call a profile summary a professional summary that has no more than five bullet points that are short and concise and to the point that speak to highland radio for example and say that you know i'm flexible and adaptable i'm willing to learn or you know dunagall county council i understand that and people in the local area the heart of everything that we do you know but they have something at the top of the page that will immediately jump off the page because remember everybody people going through cv's are doing a lot of that right they're reading through a lot of cv's and i want mine to be different to yours and you want yours to be different to your best friends and so on and so on so have a piece of the top that isn't just your leaving cert and you know the jobs that you've done over the past 15 years that it speaks to the job you're applying listen we're top third conditioned now whether it's you know the websites social media whatever you need to you need to hit us quick don't you um you uh also we were talking earlier on by coincidence about confidence you know we were speaking to a lady behind a blog about how we're not really good except in compliments so if you are that way how are you going to sit down really and talk about how great you are because you might have doubts in relation to that and i can imagine a lot of your conversations that you might have sarah is finding people's positives what they bring how good they are and you say no write that down that's a really good thing and they're like oh well i didn't really do you do you find that you sort of have to tease that out of people absolutely and what you really have to do is more than just write it down and say it out loud you know great i'm sure you're very familiar with the fact that you can't just think about what you're going to say when you come on air every day you're going to have to practice you're going to have to talk it out loud with the people that are around you in there it's the same with job interviews what i would say is if you can match your evidence so your your your objective facts to prove that you can do something so you know in my last job in a restaurant for example i was communicating non-stop with chefs who were under pressure with customers who required a high level service that's your evidence you match that with the talking out loud and remember forevermore everybody that the only way to prepare for a verbal interaction is to prepare verbally so if you can match those two things together that's where your confidence should come from because let's face it i mean everybody has experience you know it doesn't have to be record breaking communication skills but it can be let me tell you about a time when there was something confusing that needed to be explained and i did it or somebody was upset or i rate and i was able to bring them back down and they were able to understand what i was saying so the confidence like i said needs to come from somewhere and that confidence for job interviews comes from your bank of evidence and matching that with your uh dedicated and willingness to speak out loud to yourself as much as possible that's the local memory developed have you any questions about the company uh how important is that question it so it seems to always be in there and and maybe people don't think is it a place of space work and genuinely uh ask a question like you know uh will i get a will i get a promotion in 10 minutes or is it or is that a test you know what how do you answer that question if it's you know what Greg i i actually think it's not a test i do a lot of work with the interview panels themselves i think it's an unwise move in an interview because what's going to happen you're probably going to get people who have bought into the idea that you have to ask a question yeah for sure you know yeah i have to be a clever one or where do you see the company in five years you know and that's not what the question's about no and i don't not craving my ability to do the job either but then if you go no no actually i don't yeah so is there a response do you say no actually i think most of what we were what most of the questions i would have had have been covered in the course of the interview i think that's bang on i think what you can do there is say thanks a million for the opportunity just to reiterate you need someone who's got strong communication skills has an excellent ability to empathize with others and as a track record and project management just to remind you i have all those skills built up over 10 years um i've no questions everything's been covered in the job spec in our conversations beforehand or whatever yeah but i would certainly not advise anybody to go in and say when am i going to hear back or you know is there a work from home day that i can choose myself all of those things they're probably not adding value to you as a candidate and that's always the question to ask yourself is what i'm saying next going to add value to me as a candidate do all the same rules apply for internal promotions or i just wonder maybe people can be even maybe a little bit more laxie daisy because they think well sure you know i'm brilliant um i've seen people devastated as a result of that you know what also greg i've seen internal panels devastated because they've known you know sarah garity is great she's been doing this for six months she's been filling in for greg and she's done a brilliant job and then she shows up on the day and she doesn't do a great interview so my advice for internal promotions is not to take it for granted i would be preparing in exactly the same way i would also have a really really good think about maybe how i'm already perceived you know um what i've been doing what i've been bringing to the table already but don't take it for granted because on the day that panel has to treat you like the external candidates everybody has to have a fair shot at it so don't take it for granted because that's my advice and have you any simple tips to control the nerves because but i think i think a good interview panel should be able to put someone at ease and understand that maybe you know them being nervous in that environment has no real consequence on on the job they're you know they're applying for so we'd hope a panel does some of that work in that regard do you say listen sorry i'm a little bit nervous or how do you keep how do you cope with nerves in that interview environment you're right let's just accept the panel will know you're nervous i would always say Greg that i get nervous for people who aren't nervous going for a job interview going on radio going to deliver a presentation the interview panel should know they're human beings but what i would say the first thing to remember is talk out loud to yourself as much as possible that's probably the best piece of advice i could give to somebody when it comes to addressing the nerves secondly i would i wouldn't bother saying i'm nervous they'll know and you don't want to diminish yourself before you start speaking have a glass of water at the ready and don't be afraid to use it and make sure that you take a few deep four or five deep and breaths in and out before you go into the interview itself and in the run up to what like i said build up that bank of stories talk out loud to yourself as much as possible and remember that if you have the experience and you've practiced it out loud and you're coming at it from the employer's point of view and not your own point of view you're making sure that you're practicing then in a way that will allow the nerves to you know give you that oomph that you need to perform in the interview but aren't going to impact your performance so the nerves are nothing to worry about in fact we need them to perform use them it's the flight and it's the flight or fight you know what i mean use them to your advantage is all in the same space okay interesting if anyone wants more information about the communications clinic sarah what do they do so we have a lovely new website called communications clinic dot i e and we have a dedicated careers clinic website attached to that if people check us out on linkedin as well we're constantly updating our linkedin with advice and little nuggets like we've talked about this morning that should help people to get their minds in the right zone when it comes to interviews but remember to build up your bank of stories talk out loud to yourselves look at the spec in forensic detail and understand what it is that person is looking for and believe in yourself you know believe in yourself as well there's an awful lot of people there that would want to detract from yourself you don't want to be doing it to yourself sarah lovely thanks so much been lovely having the program take care 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sets the moon will be rising so it will and you'll just see the the bottom of the sun with the moon coming up into it and as it sets you know that's roughly about half an hour is the time it's further west we are which is donnie gall which is favours donnie gall the best and over here it's going to be in county andrew it's 23 minutes you want to see that effect if it's going to be clear now the weather forecast is always uh against this is going to be raining here so we won't see it at all so the best chance will be in donnie gall if it's going to be kind of broken cloud you'll see it you know out into the west and get get the high ground or out to the coast there if you can or whatever so 755 is it yeah 755 ish about 755 p.m. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes of course around about that just as the sun's starting to set there you'll see it uh don't look directly at the sun you know if your sunglasses are you know or get a bit of paper and put a pinhole in and another paper that uh get the project the sun's image on date that's the safest way or if you've got solar glasses not to be even better you know but uh definitely don't look directly at the sun no of course not now in america though it's going to be it's going to be huge because there's millions of people descending uh to the part of the states that actually will see the total eclipse i mean it's a massive deal in that area i know i know and there's people have come over from the whole length of breath of air and the astronomers here amateurs they've went over to america to see it so they've posted and not the ones in uh a few year in montreal you know up in canada and negra falls and arkansas and all that sort of places it's basically the lines for montreal down through delos of san antonio torino and the anapolis so it's basically the whole length of that bear even the whole like the united states even in new york just gets 60 80 percent or 60 percent so and the further west you go it's up in the states it's going to be 60 and 40 and 20 percent but so you anywhere in the united states will see it but totality runs right the whole right through it so those you know right okay i do say there'll be big clouds out big crowds out there so hopefully the clouds will stay away but they're gonna have big clouds crowds we're gonna have big clouds johnathan i think is the story of our lives but you never know we might get no no no no all right listen we make it okay it's a story it's stable yes enjoy it thank you so very much all right take care johnathan no problem thank you very much okay who's chair of the northern arland amateur astronomy society so around 755 and the way uh our beautiful uh county is and uh all of the northwest for that matter is that some people will see it uh and some won't because the weather no uh driving from doblin yesterday and driving to doblin the day before it was like driving in seven or eight different countries from storm rain driving rain hail glorious sunshine rain hail glory it's unbelievable the way it is what a breath of fresh air we need more noel cunningham well said noel yet well we always love having noel on the show can i just reiterate that everything noel says is completely true he is a complete gentleman i've read his book cover to cover and it was great okay i don't have time for any more comments so i'm going to carry them over uh to tomorrow so thank you so much for all of you that have been messaging in in the show it's been lovely having you listening for the last three hours thanks very much uh we'll be back tomorrow morning at nine um but for me Greg Hughes uh caroline or who researched and produced the show assisted by uh shannon wilkin have a wonderful day stay tuned because mackayla clark is around the northwest after we take a break for the news at 12