 which is the right way up see this is hard to think about that what's the right way up why i don't know well i don't know if i don't know the right way up i don't know what i'll say down do they which is the top i i don't must be the bits that you pull is it i don't know when's the last time you pulled your banana anyway the winner is a miss linda da hardy killy clogged out of kenny county donnie gall congratulations thanks for everybody taking part in another chance tomorrow alright lee see you then take care it's nine till noon show now time for news updates at the top of the hour nine o'clock good morning daniel morning greg there's been a surge in the number of tenants being given notice to vacate the rental properties the residential tenancies board is reporting a 58 percent increase in the number of eviction notices issued in the first six months of 2022 almost 3000 notices to quit were issued between january and the end of june with the rtb saying the main reason is landlords quitting the private rental market so they can sell their properties shin fane who obtained the figures are now calling for a further ban on evictions like one enacted during the covid-19 pandemic housing spokesperson onal brinn says there needs no to be a crisis response the kind of things that i think the minister needs to look at is the reintroduction of the ban on evictions into homelessness is an acceleration of what we call the tenants in situ scheme where local authorities purchase private rental properties where there's a happy razz tenant in it with the notice to quit we do need to see an acceleration of the delivery of social housing including the use of high quality modular and vacant homes there has been a boom in sales of million euro plus houses despite the cost of living crisis figures obtained by the Irish independent today show that 178 homes across the country sold for more than one million euro in the first six months of this year that's off from 129 in the same period last year the legal had the fifth most such sales in the country with four homes here going for over a million euro in the period up to the end of june there was a 78 percent increase in the number of homes selling for over a million euro in Wicklow and there was a 44 percent rise in Dublin meanwhile it's been revealed that Donegal County council has approved plans for a new supermarket to be constructed in Cardona the conditional conditional approval was granted to regional foods limited who will have to construct the plant supermarket retail units and nine apartments under 20 conditions given by the council this is the latest approval granted in the area after earlier this year legal also had plans approved to begin construction of a new store in the Cardona area and finally we're getting set for temperatures in the late 20s this week Matt Aaron's weather advisory for hot weather runs until sunday at midnight the forecaster has warned of uncomfortable temperatures at night and possible heat stress for vulnerable people forecaster Brandon Christ says the weather will get much warmer from wednesday on due to a high pressure system that's building over the country we're in for a mostly dry and warm period over the coming week and there is a hot weather advisory in effect from Matt Aaron as very warm conditions will develop with temperatures gradually increasing to the mid to possibly high 20s country wise from wednesday onwards and that's all from the news desk for now i'll be back at 10 o'clock with another news update but until then good morning at Ulster Bank we are closing and as a bank that is closing we've reduced some of our services what this means for our customers is reduced counter services in branch no foreign exchange or night-save services and less Ulster Bank ATMs for customers who still have current or deposit accounts you really do need to start considering other options our branches remain open and we are here to help switch your clothes at any Ulster Bank branch or log on to ulsterbank.ie Ulster Bank Ireland DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union student loans now available and free banking for students from your local and friendly credit union call 9102126 or email loans at letterkennycu.ie and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 till noon show with greg hughes on highland radio hello good morning to you it is monday the 8th of august four minutes past nine it's another edition and another week of the nine till noon show here uh on highland radio a busy one for you today as always as i hope you would agree but still if you've an issue that you want to raise a topic you want discussed something you want to say get it off your chest you can whatsapp or text us now to 08 660 25 000 that's 08 660 25 000 the lines are open for you to call as well Caroline and Donna Marie taking your calls this morning 07 4 9125 000 that's 07 4 9125 000 emails come in 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forgotten about there's never any investment into it said Declan who's been in business for 20 years and is best known for providing Christmas day dinners for the local community i do not feel i am getting good value for money for my 6000 annual business rates he said the irish times this morning tells us that the government's climate plan is facing legal challenge uh and this was to be expected i suppose it's a key plank of the government's plan to reduce energy consumption by 2013 it's facing a significant legal challenge under EU rules Ireland must make a specific amount of energy savings within the next decade with a large part of these savings being made through a scheme that requires suppliers to support efficiency projects in business and homes across Ireland the scheme is being revised by the Department of Environment under new changes suppliers of energy used in transport will see their targets substantially increased it's understood it's now highly likely that fuels for Ireland the industry body representing oil importers and distributors will bring a judicial review against the plans when the new scheme is unveiled in the coming months legal advice supplied to ffi claims the prospect of success is good it's understood the group was told by a senior council that other providers of energy such as gas and electricity may not be subject to the same regime and this would create an unjustifiable discrimination the group will argue that the only way to make energy savings in the transport sector is by way of government policy measures and state back incentives and that the oil industry cannot implement such change because of this it will argue achieving the targets may be impossible so that's one of the main planks as is pointed out in the paper and it's facing a significant challenge the Irish Daily Mail warns us again that Ireland is the worst prepared country in Europe for an energy crisis and the possibility of rolling blackouts this winter would be catastrophic now this is according to one single energy expert the country may even be forced to curb electricity usage to prevent power cuts in the winter months as temporary emergency generators may not be up and running in time it was reported yesterday and I think we have to I mean obviously you know you know fear cells and there's an awful lot of fear about at the moment the fear that we could have electricity cuts we may well possibly could have me home Martin spoke about this at the end of last week he said that it's unlikely it's unlikely don't forget we had these warnings last winter as well and they never came to pass but it's worry worry worry fear fear and you know I was chatting there at the weekend too it's very important because hot weather affects different people differently it's important to discuss it and have good information out there but you know not that long ago there was no weather advisory over 25 26 27 degrees Celsius now you get the skin cancer warnings which are very important as well with that on top of you know talking about how people might be uncomfortable at night I also note that you know the little discs onto which they superimpose the weather they used to be orange now they're dark red even around 27 28 29 I just wonder I just hope that people aren't sort of trying to capitalize on fear and worry and that we are you know I mean obviously climate changes climate change but a spell of hot weather is a spell of hot weather we are also somewhat used to that the weather and climate is two different things that by the way I'm not suggesting they're inclined but also I just say it's like the fear that you know power could be cut by winter it's the opinion of one person that used to work for the ESB but anyway I'm rambling a bit there but it's just everything there's no joy in anything now everything seems to be you know worst case scenario and it's worrying people but anyway the country may even if you have a view on that by the way 08 660 25000 I haven't thought about that to fully formulate a an understandable view if you know what I mean but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say there but we read that the country may even be forced to curb electricity usage to prevent power cuts in the winter months as temporary emergency generators might not be up and running time as I mentioned the commission regulation of utilities now looking at ways to force large energy consumers such as data centers to use their own power supply instead of relying on the national grid yesterday the CRU said CRU said margins will remain tight as emergency generators were not built in time for winter and speaking to the Irish Daily Mail yesterday energy expert Don Moore said we put ourselves in this position we're the worst prepared country in Europe and that's saying something now he's hardened his views a little bit I heard him being questioned about whether he thought there'd be power cuts in the winter before and he says anything's possible but now the headline is as is more stark there right on to the Irish Independent today Ireland has witnessed an explosion in the sale of one million plus homes over the past 12 months the number of residential Dublin property deals valued at one million or more has soared by 44% Wicklow has witnessed a 78% increase in the number of residential property transactions sold for more than that figure with major rises also reported in core Calimeric, Tipperary, Clare and in Donegal property experts said the surge in sales of one million plus homes that's one million euro plus valued homes is underpinned by spiralling demand for quality properties a housing shortage the ongoing strength of the Irish economy and increased spending after the COVID-19 pandemic not even the war in Ukraine elade allied to fears of future recession soaring fuel prices and climbing interest rates has halted the surge the Irish independent analysis of property services regulatory authority residential price register revealed Celtic Tiger era levels of increases in the sales of residential properties valued at over one million between January the first and June 30th 2021 Dublin recorded 71 residential property sales valued at one million or more in Donegal it was two all right so it is a surge but it's a surge from a from a low base it would seem but people have money clearly because they're spending it or they're doing what we did ahead of the last recession right on to the Irish sun and there's a few different tiers of society I mean I don't think those spending over a million on a home I mean everyone can suffer from obviously poor mental health but I don't think there is is going to be triggered by the rising cost of living and social isolation which is affecting an awful lot of people there's lots of people being affected in different ways at the moment I read in the sun today that the numbers of people suffering from depression continue to soar as thousands struggle amid the cost of living crisis now a mental health charity has appealed for more volunteers for its support line as calls have increased by over 10 000 since 2019 aware which supports those affected by depression and bipolar disorder is looking for volunteers to work remotely from their home or at the charity's HQ in Dublin support line manager Lauren Smith said the plea was increased sorry the plea was being made due to a huge increase in calls to the free line during the pandemic Lauren said if you look at 2019 and 2018 we would see about 27 maybe 27 and a half thousand calls that were coming into the support line annually it's gone up in 2020 to 37 and a half thousand people so people obviously doing the right thing and reaching out for help but more people than before feeling the need or in the position that they have to do so let's go to the Irish Daily Star now and officials said there was a strong moral case for a COVID death in-service payment for health workers and that it would provide reassurance to those who continue to work in hospitals and other facilities during the pandemic a series of Department of Health submissions explained how there was no legal obligation to pay anything extra to those who died while providing health care during the COVID crisis the department were also advised that any scheme would not be compensation for any specific wrong but simply a payment made as a gesture under the scheme the families of health care workers who lost their lives through COVID-19 infection are to be paid 100 000 euro with applications for the scheme set to open shortly a note ahead of a memo for government said that by March 2021 15 health care workers had lost their lives after being infected with COVID-19 while working and very finally back to wind generation and wind energy provided 34% of Ireland's energy so far this year on the back of record figures in recent months a third of our energy is provided by wind energy these are statistics from the wind energy island it revealed it accounted for 21% of all our power at last month July saw a two-fold increase in demand met by wind compared with the same period last year wind energy island chief executive Noel Cunif said the figures show it plays a crucial role in shielding customers from rising energy prices now we pay some of the highest rates for electricity in Europe here so I don't understand precisely where they're coming from there but maybe it would be even more but why is it so high to begin with he went on to say what is heartening to seize that wind energy met twice as much of the electricity demand this July is in July 21 a significant increase but I think really the public costs we generally will only buy into that if it actually feels like it's saving us money and with the way prices are going it doesn't feel like that at all but still a third of our energy so far this year being generated by wind is not insignificant I suppose okay let's take a quick break we'll be back with our 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una ring is a victim of stalking and joins us on the program now una thanks for taking the call thanks very much having me on can you talk to us a little bit about your experience as a victim of stalking una yeah i was stalked by a former colleague there back in 2020 and it started off with an unwanted advance then there was messages back and forth messages to me i wasn't replying back and then he arrived up and he spray painted my the car wheels pink then he spray painted x's on my window with i win written across the bottom of it he then left a letter a sexually explicit letter and then he left a letter threatening to break in and rape both myself and my daughter and he was arrested on my property four nights later with the cobar rope duct tape and a sexual extract from self and he was prosecuted and he's now serving time in arbor hill prison and what was his sentence una so it started at nine that nine first there was two taken off for his guilty plea because he played guilty so that brought it down to seven then it was two years suspended so that brought it down to five but his due release date is 2024 so he will actually only serve three which is a worry to you obviously because you would fear that maybe the the behavior could begin again exactly exactly yeah yeah i don't know what a state of mind is so he might leave me alone he might not i don't think anybody anybody will know until he's out you know and was he convicted for stalking no there was no there was no crime of stalking so he was convicted of um his actual convictions were two consequential damage for the house and the car um harassment from february 2020 february 2020 to july 2020 um being arrested with health breaking implements and uh time to burglary with intent to commit rape um in relation to the new laws i mean it is clear that minister hella mac and t has taken quite an interest in this area i suppose in the first instance what do you think of victims being able to apply for a civil restraining order perhaps early in the process uh do you think that's to be welcomed absolutely like i can't understand why it hasn't been there all along like because all along it had to be you could get a restraining order but it had to be against like an intimate partner family member somebody you were like heavily involved with um or there had to be a court prosecution like i have a restraining order now against james deal um but only because he was successfully prosecuted so other than that like i i wouldn't have been able to get a restraining order out against him because he wasn't an intimate partner there was no relationship there so how i've been able to do so and had he adhered to it like none of none of this what happened there'd be no court case there'd be no prosecution there'd be no jail time like it would have saved the country an absolute fortune and including the guard of resources my own like the money i spent myself on security you know it would it would have saved an awful lot of grief if i had been able to get one earlier and if he hadn't adhered to it it would have allowed the situation uh from a criminal perspective to to to speed up in other words it wouldn't have gone on and on and on uh culminating in in in the the um the latter stages of it very worrying very distrustful now in in terms of making um in terms of making um stalking a standalone offence um do you think that part of this goes far enough is the is the punishment sufficient for the crime do you think well like the the the 10-year sentence would be fine if they served a 10-year sentence well i mean as i just stated like he was sentenced to nine years he's going to serve three like it starts at a certain length of time and it's whittled down and it's whittled down and it's whittled down and then like there's 25 taken off nearly straight away for for good behaviour you know no matter what kind of person they are or what way they behave you know it's just the prisons are so overrun and they're so overcrowded that they kind of have to bring them out earlier to make room for other people which is ridiculous but that's unfortunately the way it is so like a nine-year sentence that he started off with is ending up as three so if he had been sentenced to 15 years then he would have served with their five so that's why i think it's the 10 years would be enough if they serve the full charge but they don't they generally serve a third so you know it the punishment doesn't fit the crime then yeah and it'll also be interesting to see if any cases sort of standalone stalking cases are actually taking because what we've seen with the likes of the court of course of control legislation it's often tagged on with other charges and it's not actually coercive control that someone finds themselves being convicted for i just wonder if we could you know if in your previous case say for instance we have the stalking legislation there if he would not have actually been convicted under that but pled out to his other crimes like uh like obviously there was no crime of stalking at that time it was a crime of harassment and that led to a maximum sentence of seven years whereas the attempt of burglary with the intent to commit rape the maximum sentence for that was 14 years or obviously the prosecutors will go far this the the the crime that will give them the biggest jail time you know so he was he was convicted of all those things but like he got different he got different sentences then for the different crimes that he was um found guilty of but they all won concurrently then so if they had won consecutively he'd have been in for a hell of a long time actually like he was sentenced against the criminal damage the house they can influence the attempt of burglary the harassment he was he was given sentences against all those both they all won concurrently and um yes go ahead yeah i know so like that that would if he had been if they'd all been consecutively and they were all tied down to each other he'd been in for for a way longer you know i mean obviously do you feel since um and it's it's relatively it's it's very recent history for you in terms of when this was happening to you versus now has the conversation changed you think um in terms of people's understanding of stalking maybe people taking it more seriously who those who aren't victims or even maybe the fact that we're talking about it now again una that it might discourage people so in other words do you think as a society we are taking stalking more seriously yeah i do think so definitely it has been highlighted in the last with their 12 or 18 months um and i think like making it a crime obviously is the first step because like that there is no crime of stalking it's crime of harassment there is no crime of stalking and they are they are very different and i think it will encourage people like once it's very hard to go to the guards and say somebody isn't listening when it's not actually a crime you know you can go down and say somebody is stalking me but what does that mean it's not a crime in the country yet you know so it's very hard to to go down and say this is happening when it's not actually a crime so that that will be the first step really is making it a stand non-event yeah i suppose that i think people will be the guard of hands are somewhat tied as well aren't they too in terms of even if they want to take it incredibly seriously the hands are tied maybe in terms of up until such time as this law comes into effect there's no crime of stalking as such absolutely absolutely and unless they can prove that it's happening as well um they can't really they can't do anything about it because like the law is so fickle and like any loophole that can be found will be exploited and you know the person can get off and once once they're once they've been charged and you know they can't really be charged again you know so like they really really have to be very careful in how like catching somebody just the first step prosecuting them is the hard part so the first thing is to make it an actual crime and like that would that will help that would be a huge benefit to people and the guards lots of people are victims of stalking all that all the while all the time and there's probably people listening to us right now who uh this you know resonates with them they know exactly well not exactly but they have an understanding of because it's happening in their lives what what advice do you have for them is it is documenting everything that's happening important or what else should they be doing it's extremely important to document everything and get in as much detail as possible so if it does come to a criminal um a criminal case that you have your ducks in a row and you can like you say you know somebody was stalking it they were wearing a red top on a certain day in a certain time in a certain place and if they would say the guards have to go back on CCTV and they can spot this person wearing those clothes in that time so if the person denies it and says I was never there you know they can see that the person that is saying that they're being stalked is actually telling the truth and they mean to document everything in as much detail as possible and just let somebody know that this is going on because it's a very very lonely place to be and you really do need to share it with somebody you know what protections are there for you in place I know you talked of a restraining order but when uh James Steele gets out of prison say for instance he innocently and inverted commas decided to sit on the street where you live in a car or outside your work or turn up at the same venues says you're not having any interaction with you but trying to make your life uncomfortable I'm not suggesting that might happen but if it were to happen what protections are there there for you well there is there is a lifelong no contact order either directly or indirectly I need with me or my or my family so that is that that is reassuring there's also like he is now a registered sex offender and and he will have five years probation so if he is caught within a certain distance of me for a certain length of time like he will be re-arrested and he will be um sent back to prison for yeah yeah yeah and that's for five that's for five years would be on a strict observation for five years all right well some some um a little bit of comfort for you there then so yeah thanks for speaking to us again I appreciate it greatly thanks very much all right take care of yourself bye bye bye it's our pleasure that's oona ring there um 08 660 25 000 if you have a view or an opinion or you want to say something there um right to call us as what's the difference in a private investigator stalking your home and someone like oona stalker I had a terrible time for two months as my ex-husband had me followed by an investigator because he knew uh he would be done for it the difference would be I mean obviously maybe that text came in before you heard what this person was doing to oona and the threats the specific threats that were being made in terms of a private investigator following you on behalf of another person I don't know what the story is there I wondered if you speak to the guard and what advice did they give you um is it legal feel legal and why why would is it legal to pay an individual money to follow another individual around that doesn't feel right to me um we didn't get to bring you this on Friday I just wanted to give you an update uh we were chatting to Amon McDevitt during the week last week of course um of the uh cancer boss the charity shop you might remember there was a suite of furniture left outside the charity shop and Amon uh had CCTV footage of the car the number plates and everything and he had said to us on uh I believe it was Thursday um that if it wasn't connected by the the next morning that it would be brought to the guard's attention uh it wasn't collected by the person who dumped it off now I'm sure at this point they've managed to uh get rid of it and dispose of it but uh just to give you an update because I'm sure some of you were curious it didn't uh the the person who dumped it didn't come back and collect it so I presume they have followed through in their threat and are now um in contact with unguarded Shia Khanna okay uh let's take a quick break the 90 noon show with letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union McGinty tractors in Donegal town have a vacancy for a management accountant reporting to the management director the successful candidate will have an overall responsibility for the financial function of the business this permanent role will suit a qualified accountant will at least three years experience in a similar role email your CV for 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response network is made up of several community organizations throughout the county that open their doors to accept donations of food vouchers cash or gifts that will be distributed to those in need in their local community margaret larkin is community development manager at dl dc and joins us on the line now hi margaret good morning to you good morning greg um the donnie gall food response network this is not newly established is it no great the network came together i suppose initially and sort of organically um at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic um there was a huge need at that time for support you know for people experiencing food poverty um so at that time the dl dc sort of reached out to all community organizations all across the county just to identify who was actually providing you know support by way of food parcels to local families or individuals and so out of that thing 17 organizations charities um began working together really and at that time dl dc linked very strongly and worked very much in partnership with wecare food bank who you know i know you're familiar with and are a fantastic organization in letter kenny and do trojan work on a completely voluntary basis as well um but dl dc would have worked in partnership with wecare at that time just but um an application to food cloud to source food nationally you know so we sent fans off every monday through volunteers again to bring down food pallets of non-perishable food to the county and we distributed that out through these 17 organizations and so as i suppose we worked our way through COVID and then through that period i suppose all the organizations involved began to realize the benefits of networking the benefits of supporting each other you know of not doubling up and working together exactly and all of these organizations albeit the organizations that we're working with they are you know there's a dotted all across across the county they all do work very much in partnership with the sylvanston de paul you know and their local areas as well so they all sort of work as teams within their own local community as well you know they're best placed to know who needs support and how best to support families in the local area so it's very important that it is okay before we talk about how people can help can you give us some indication as to the demand on services like as it as it stands well has there been an increase and as it stands can we meet the needs of people um well throughout initially as i said um at the onset of COVID there was a huge demand demand increased significantly now we did find that it had leveled off again you know but coming back in recent times as you know a greg was increasing fuel costs increasing running costs or grocery the weekly grocery shop is cost is increasing week on week so the demand is increasing significantly and and i suppose as the network was meeting through february march april all of the organizations were flagging that the demand was increasing constantly um you know there's no there's they all i suppose of different demands in different areas but you know every organization on that network um supports you know between some 10 families some 20 some 30 very much depends on the area you know i suppose what it shows to is that what it shows to is that firstly unless they have to people won't reach uh you know won't seek help because obviously as you say it leveled off post pandemic presumably as people went back to work or whatever it might be but it also shows that there are a huge sway through the population on that tipping point um because what has changed over the last while is that steady increase in the cost of living and that's dragged a large group of people further down and they are now reaching out to the network for help absolutely what our network members are telling us is that people that would have previously donated to the service are now using the service um and as you say Greg it's a very discreet and confidential service it's also one that people are very reluctant to reach out you know to seek support with um so it's a very sensitive area you know and i suppose the network themselves are very conscious of that all members are very conscious of that but you know through working one-to-one discreetly with people they are realising that many that are you know the new people reaching out to the service are people that would have before been very um supportive of the service and would have donated so they very much can see that turn you know um and the pressures are going to increase now and listen i don't expect you to comment on it Margaret but unfortunately the pressures are going to increase over this month and into next month and as we head towards Christmas but a lot of it is being driven by the way we run say for instance our schools in terms of books and uniforms and voluntary and inverted commas donations that's outside of your control i understand that but you're going to see a huge increase in calls because there's a refusal to do any action or take any action in regards to those but anyway be that as it may um i presume the phones ringing more the calls are starting to increase and will so throughout august because we all have to find hundreds of euro and lots of stuff have it well that's it as Greg you know yourself a few are trying to send children back to school albeit preschool primary school secondary school or indeed third level education um across the board it's a very expensive time for families and what we are seeing is that in order to everyone wants their child to have everything they need to come back to school so they will keep that challenge as opposed and that strain on the household budget internally which means things like food um you know the basic needs have been the home will be first to be sacrificed you know because everyone does want their children back to school they don't want them to be any different to all the other children and particularly as opposed we are envisaging a very stressful quarter three quarter four this year um both getting back to school and then with the run-up to christmas and the increase you know and the cost of running a home um so particularly now at this ten years we're definitely seeing a huge increase in the need for support as people now prepared through august to get children back to school um and it's it's you know ordinarily the food response network would only you know support with food and you know maybe possibly vouchers for supermarkets but they have as a network agreed that you know any donations of stationary you know copies pencils anything like that that can help families experience in food poverty or food insecurity to get the kids children back to school we will help with all of that you know where it's available and um last year one of the food banks received you know a substantial donation of those type of items from um a local provider a local business um and I suppose the beauty of the network is because they're all working together and we have a whatsapp group and you know we communicate almost daily on that to share um supplies but you know when that organization received that donation they put out you know a call into the whatsapp group offering supplies as well to the other and food banks that are in the network um but you know it's very stressful times for a lot of families you know and it's it's little things that people may not realize that you know I ever I understand this but just to give one example like say for instance if a school quite rightly so insists on black shoes right when PE rolls around there's children out there and I say I can heart back to my past on this one there's children out there don't have a pair of runners so when PE comes around they have to do the PE in their should can you imagine the anxiety of a young one because the family maybe there's a hole in the runners and they can't afford to replace them as to say it's only a tiny little thing but just to put yourself in the position of the parents or the children the anxiety of going well I can't do PE in my shoes well you've got no choice we don't that's that's as I say it's one example it's those type of things that you wouldn't you wouldn't think of or if you've never been in that position you probably don't understand what that's like or what it's like for the child it's the same with maybe not having a proper school bag I went to school with a homemade school bag right and it was horrible like it was it was it was fine okay and everyone was doing their best but I was so conscious of what was happening do you know what I mean and it's just those things and it's the accumulative effect and the impact it can have on young people and their families and that's what we're facing into and it's going to be worse this year than it has been for quite some time just those basic essentials what seems basic but it's hugely important the proper pencils you know pens a pencil case stuff that goes by the wayside when you have to spend money to try and get food to feed a family absolutely and what we find Greg is because I suppose in this the world we live in today in social media and you know there's so much pressure on young people parents will actually go without they will not eat in order to ensure that their children doesn't have to face into that you know and that's typically the type of stories that we are hearing is that you know parents will obviously and prioritise the children they'll prioritise their then not having you know that challenge of going to school and being different and a very common and so they themselves will go without you know an artist that cannot let that to happen you know this marker I know but just so we're clear this is all different types of families working families non-working families all being dragged into poverty because of the rising cost of living the rising cost of petrol and diesel you know we read today oils 95 dollars per barrel it's still up close to two euro at the pumps and people feel they're being ripped off there of course right so Margaret if people have something anything what kind of stuff would be really useful in the next couple of weeks and how do they get it to the likes of the food response network so it then can be distributed through the network yeah well each organisation themselves Greg will accept donations and not now and always you know throughout the year so there's 17 organisations on there now they can be viewed or you know they are on the DLDC website at www.dldc.org and I can also share that with you Greg if you want to put up on the video website and yeah there's 17 there now all of them all of those organisations will accept donations locally if there are and we in recent months I suppose in order to make that process simpler we have worked with six or seven of the organisations to set up I donate I donate platform on their websites so all of those links as well to each of those organisations are on our website and all of the others will accept literally food vouchers money stationery at their premises and as well as that if anyone wants to contact yourself or DLDC we can arrange for that in the local areas as well and I suppose previously food banks would have requested that people don't eat at food do you know and there was that process going to the shop and buying dropping it off so by setting up the donate function for all of the organisations we're sort of hoping to make that process of donating just more straightforward easier I suppose for people to do at the touch of the button yeah and I think it's interesting that that's sprung from me and it shows just how it's changing and how different people now are affected by this is that people who previously donated to help others and now and it should be encouraged they're coming forward to seek assistance themselves and that's how life is changing for a lot of people it's very much Greg it is very much it's a very hidden sort of issue but it is very much what we are seeing is very much the walking career for want of a better term but our experience instead poverty and what's happening as well at the same time you know a big bill comes in you know maybe a mortgage payments being missed or a rental payments being missed and then those letters are starting and those calls are starting and you know we just have to do everything as we can I suppose to just try and alleviate as much as we can for people absolutely and I suppose a part of this although we are calling this back to school fundraiser or appeal a part of this process as well Greg is to raise awareness so if there's a family out there if there are individuals who are experiencing food poverty please do reach out to one of the organizations there are 17 there who are will help very discreetly confidentially and compassionately and that support is there and there are organizations all across the county so you know the food response network works off that mantra that no one should ever go hungry and you know if anyone is challenged please please do reach out you know there is help there it's also the gaps are widening I mean we see now record numbers of one million euro plus homes one million plus home sales we're seeing you know car sales increasing which is great if people have money and are able to spend it I don't I wouldn't I'm not trying to guilt anyone to make them feel bad and an economy that continues to grow but there is a recession in this country people are in recession here there's a recession within a growing economy it's a bizarre scenario but we are having a conversation like you might in a recession so there's no beating around that just remind us lastly because I don't want to muddy the message how if people can help right now how do they help just recap it for me one more time please Margaret and well if we go on to the DLC website at www.dldc.org there are all of the organizations are listed and seven of those organizations do have idling options so we can donate instantly to those for all of the others they do they will accept donations of gift vouchers cash food stationery at their premises and there is somewhere local to everyone in Donegal they are spread very you know they are spread very widely across the county but also if anyone would like to contact yourself and I can give you my number Greg it's always 77633790 or contact me at mlark and at dldc.org and I can direct you to the the organization that is closest okay and and also for people that need help you know and need to avail of the service the same contact details and there's no shame no embarrassment in contacting it this is what it's there for it's being set up to help people sorry it was established to help people when they are in need ring up if you need some assistance take it and if when you get back into a better position you can become a donator or return to being a donator this is not something people should hide from if they need help you reach out and you get help and it's the same with if you've got debts get on to maps maybe it's time we spoke to maps again but don't allow yourself to slip into arrears on stuff or get yourself into debt that's just gonna build and build and build on you the likes of maps are there to offer assistance and go through your finance and speak to your creditors you know there is help out there but we have a tendency some of us and maybe I'm as guilty if this is others Margaret to bury the head in the sand and say you know I'll look at it next week or the week after you know you have to uh reach out for help wherever it might be when you need it Margaret absolutely and you know the one thing about Dunningall is Greg Dunningall has a real strong sense of community they have a great sense of volunteering and support supporting each other and you know all of these organizations and some instance of pause and as mad as you say there's so much help and support out there and it does take a village sometimes and you know everyone can experience difficulties at some stage of their lives and this this will be um I'm supposed to this is a service that is delivered very discreetly and confidentially so it is just you know to help people people over you know a certain period as you say and there is help there and you know it's I suppose all of these people um work in this sector because they know the people in the local area and want to help yeah exactly that's it they want to help Margaret thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it hopefully you got a big response to that I really do okay thanks Margaret Lark and there's community development manager at DL DC the night on 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 dot i e better value lives at done stores with 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on the way back we pulled into the service station at the bottom of len shame we pulled in there and their charger the charging point was out of order so we continued on to temple more sports complex and that one too was out of order and we just headed on home after that and you know charged at home we did get home with enough with enough power left but um you know a lot of them are out of order or there is issues with them um i find and then i shown there's only five chargers and then i shown and they're all slow chargers um the one at bunkrana the old fire station that had been broken for a while but um and the slow chargers are basically a waste of time because they have to go through a conversion and the car and it takes seven plus hours to get a full charge the fast charger and that are can you there was issues with that too or one of them yeah that was um not last thursday the thursday previous um someone had pulled into charge but they hadn't tapped the card whenever they were leaving so the machine seen it as they were still actually on on the charger so you had a call to get them off so between them from the out of a calling to see if they're working and if they can you know reboot the machine and things like that it's just it's just not really convenient how long have you had the electric car kathron since february and obviously in the middle of february you know range anxiety is a thing it's it's okay if you're local presumably because you charge it you sound like you have a charger at the home uh do you regret the decision or do you uh are you frustrated at the fact that the infrastructure is not there to support your move to a cleaner way of traveling well since since we got the car the cost of electricity is up 53 percent to charge on the charging points first of all now i wouldn't get an electric car again unless there's a rapid improvement on the infrastructure and there's a major increase on fast charging points because it's okay when it's absolutely fantastic whenever you know you're doing short trips or you're around home where you can pop on and charge but going on a long journey i just add so much stress and extra time we went to carry for a funeral and it was an absolute nightmare do you find yourself driving with the air con off and all that kind of stuff yeah yeah you can't even you know put them on the radio you're kind of you don't really want to use it but you know you know you definitely wouldn't put your phone on the charging point you know that's that's definitely stop you would never charge your phone in the car anymore you know there's a lot of you know there's a lot of you know i find like we park the car and you know walk to some shops now where we would have jumped on the car and headed on to another shop you wouldn't do that anymore i mean even with all the problems though do you feel you've saved money or is it more a contribution to the climate situation like is it cheaper for you to run that car even with the 50 odd percent increase in in charging charges monetary it's cheaper but you know stress wise i'm very wise everything else no definitely not i would rather pay the money to be honest for the fuel so you do you have buyer's remorse uh yeah yeah on on our last time you know rapidly change i will be i will be going or trying to go back to you know fuel again right i mean yeah exactly so you you are not being supported in your uh in your efforts okay listen kathryn an interesting insight thanks very much for that thank you all right take care of yourself if you had similar experiences 08 660 25 000 let's take a break for the news and a bit the 9 till 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 you'll find all the best toys at foyes ballad buffet discover great value on all the latest toys ride-ons bikes and bear go-karts with new deliveries arriving 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warning ourland is under prepared if faced with a global energy crisis a former managing director of the sb says ourland is the least prepared in europe when it comes to its energy security the EU could face challenges with energy supplies this winter as it tries to reduce dependency in oil and gas imports from russia ourland's energy regulator the cru is considering setting high tariffs on large consumers as well as data centers former head of the sb don moore this is a lack of investment has now put us in this position germany has a hundred days of gas storage and during the summer it's busy filling that gas storage to even out heavy demand during the winter austria's a year's gas storage we have chosen not to have any gas storage and we had an option the kinfield field which is now finished depleted we could have used that we chose not to spend the money on that and we've dismantled the infrastructure there so we don't have that option local councillor michael mccafferty meanwhile says that the creation of fear to facilitate price gouging in the energy industry is no the real issue to me it's all building up to a perfect storm of basically them just trying to justify these energy companies justifying uh why they're putting up prices there's nothing else going on going wrong here daniel and my my personal opinion on that all of them great and i say it's great because the reason saying it's great is nothing has changed in the country we haven't we haven't built any more belties we haven't built any more states or such nothing has changed but any power pressure on the grid and i just believe at the moment now it's just we're back down the same road again i'm not actually worse than the word today with the gal to tiger and people's getting carried away the energy companies are getting carried away there's been a boom in sales of million euro plus houses despite the cost of living crisis figures obtained in today's irish independent shows that 178 houses across the country sold for more than one million euro in the first six months of this year that's up from 129 in the same period last year then i got all had the fifth most such sales in the country with four homes going for over a million here in the period up to the end of june there is also a 78 percent increase in the number of homes selling for over a million euro in wickville compared to last year with a 44 rise in dublin there's been a surge in the number of tenants being given notice to vacate the rental properties the residential tenancies board is reporting a 58 percent increase in the number of eviction notices issued in the first six months of 2022 compared with the final six months of last year almost 3000 notices to quit were issued between january and the end of june with the rtb saying the main reason is landlords quitting the private rental market so they can sell their properties shin fian who obtained the figures have now called for a further ban on evictions like one enacted during the covid-19 pandemic housing spokesperson ono brinn says there no needs to be a crisis response the kind of things that i think the minister needs to look at is the reintroduction of the ban on evictions into homelessness is an acceleration of what we call the tenants in situ scheme where local authorities purchase private rental properties where there's a half a rise tenant in it with a notice to quit we do need to see an acceleration of the delivery of social housing including the use of high quality modular and vacant homes dunagol county council has approved plans for a new supermarket to be constructed in carndona the conditional approval was granted to regional foods limited you will have to construct the plant supermarket retail units as well as nine apartments under 20 conditions given to it by the council this is the latest approval granted in the area after earlier this year ladle had plans approved to begin construction of a new store in the carndona area as well although that plan is subject to an appeal with a decision to be made by an bloor board planola in the coming months and finally we're gearing up for temperatures in the late 20s this week madaren's weather advisory for hot weather runs until sunday at midnight the forecaster has warned however of uncomfortable temperatures at night and possible heat stress for vulnerable people forecaster brandon craig says the weather will get much warmer from wednesday onwards due to a high pressure system that's building over the country we're in for a mostly dry and warm period over the coming week and there is a hot weather advisory in effect from madaren as very warm conditions will develop with temperatures gradually increasing to the mid to possibly high 20s country wise from wednesday onwards weather now today will be dry with long sunny spells turning hazy at times highest temperatures of 18 to 21 degrees celsius that's all from the news desk for now i'll be back with headlines at 11 o'clock but until then good morning the obituary notices for monday morning august the 8th the death has taken place of gene mckelvey duherry her remains are opposing at beglens funeral home done low this evening from 6 p.m with rosary at 9 p.m and tomorrow from 5 p.m with removal at a half past six going to st connell's church duherry for seven o'clock where she will repose overnight funeral mass on wednesday at 12 noon followed by interment in the old cemetery the death has taken place of charlie mcafferty trend to boy drum king and formerly of stroban his remains are opposing at his home funeral leaving his home tomorrow morning at 20 past 10 for ecrea mass in st patrick's church drum king at 11 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of ann crofford nisweenie conlon kerry kill 239 rosie lee old town letter kenny her remains are opposing at her late residence family time from 10 p.m to 11 a.m and on the morning of the funeral funeral mass at 11 a.m tomorrow morning in st unan's cathedral letter kenny with burial afterwards in lec cemetery the mass can be viewed live at st unan's cathedral dot ie family flowers only please donations if desired to the dunigol hospice care of any family member or con mcd funeral director the death has occurred of moya ellis 103 blue cedars ballet buffet and formerly of bishops street dairy remains are opposing at mccool's chapel of rest ballet buffet removal from there this evening at 6 45 p.m to arrive at the church of mary a macket's to norther at seven o'clock recreation mass at 11 a.m tomorrow morning with interment afterwards to the city cemetery the recreation mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam at church services dot tv four slash snorler the death has taken place of maria bernadette lynch nima coy three sycamore heights park county dairy and formerly of less cool park glen gormley and remains are opposing at her late residence funeral from her late residence this morning leaving at 20 past 10 for 11 o'clock recreation mass in st nary's church alteneur interment immediately afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations if desired in lieu to the file hospice care of mcglockland funeral directors the death has taken place of bridgett brady quinn bonnet turn scraggen tolemore county awfully late of graistel county dairy her remains are opposing at her home removal this morning to st colman's church muckler for recreation mass at 12 noon interment afterwards in the adjoining new cemetery family flowers only please donations instead if desired to the friends of tolemore hospital the death has taken place of hubie mccarroll driven the raw creasler his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral mass in st michael's church creasler this morning at 11 a.m. with burial afterwards in do cemetery the mass can be viewed live on mcn media st michael's church creasler family time please on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of carmel sherrydon glenville court lower cleiborne road knock nakara golway and formerly of rosemount kiln mcrennan remains are opposing at the family home in kiln mcrennan recreation mass today at 12 noon in st columbus church kiln mcrennan with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed on church services tv st columbus church kiln mcrennan family time please on the morning of the funeral and the death has taken place of tony connelly seven laurel drive straban and formerly of bridge street straban his remains are opposing at his home funeral leaving his home this morning at 11 30 a.m. for ecurean mass in st mary's church melmont at 12 noon private cremation afterwards in lakeland's crematorium the ecurean mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam at melmont parish dot com for more details including any family health guidelines for weeks and funerals please go to island radio dot com and you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show well good morning if you are just joining us so wait six sixty twenty five thousand that's the number you're contacting us on and thank you very much for your contacts you can call us to an o seven four nine one twenty five thousand and a reminder for you on social media you can watch the show on highland radio island on youtube like and subscribe if you don't mind same as facebook and also directly on our website highland radio dot com right let's get to some of your texts coming in so far this morning and also by the way a little later on in this hour we'll be playing a piece of music if you have any requests or dedications feel free to get them into us now we'll dedicate them for you morning greg as any of your listeners received the back to school allowance i applied for it six weeks ago and i still have not received anything you'd hope it'd be available now as people are starting to plan for that sorry to younger ones listening they don't want to be reminded that schools on the around the corner but anyway a call us says make all politicians buy an electric car and god knows they can afford it see how many charging points pop up then or maybe if maybe some of them became involved in a charging points company they might win a big contract to provide one at every single corner in the country another caller says in reality how many car chargers would we need in ireland with our history of screw ups i predict it's not going to be a success sadly um what you need firstly is i think most serious people who are committed to electric car going forward maybe have a home charging point so the majority of charging especially with these longer range vehicles and there is really excellent range on a lot of these newer cars if you can afford the up front costs um the majority would be done at home uh but you do need a network of reliable fast chargers around the country that's not there at the moment um and they keep saying it's going to happen and we're committed to this that and the other but the real world experience is a lot of people uh there's problems with them or they're not available at all at all so they can get it right and as i say i think if it's made and it's for some it's pretty affordable to get a home charger that's where most of it will be done and you just need a decent good network of fast chargers which is not there at the moment and they have to be uh reliable can you imagine pulling in to every other garage or every you know going to three garages and all of them they said sorry our our diesel pumps out of order we can't help you and you'd have to pull off the orange light is on go to the next one sorry the the the nozzle's not working on that diesel pump you know so they're gonna have to get rid of that crisis that situation for electric car owners uh on top of the back to school allowance what about the hard working parents that have worked long hours weekend and week out to make sacrifices to buy food school uniforms and books and not spend the time that they would like with their children sometimes you wonder would we be better off not working in claiming everything going if a percent of the parents would stop smoking drinking and taking drugs maybe they wouldn't find themselves in a situation that they put themselves in right you see this is a slight problem uh but it's fantastic for the government by the way this uh or not just this government any government by that we you are of the opinion that if you can't afford uh school or something that you're smoking drinking and taking drugs i mean that is it's simply just not the case other texts are coming in uh that believe that people on social welfare have no issues at all that they are minted and that they don't have to worry about sending their children back to school that's also um completely untrue um the majority of people on social welfare are struggling to make ends meet as well uh but it suits the powers that be if we're blaming members of society for putting themselves in that position or members of society for uh exploiting the system they love it because whilst that's happening then nothing else really needs to be done because it's not the government's problem it's the people's problem and the more we turn on each other the more they love it and that's not a criticism of the elected government necessarily uh you know it's every country in the world it's perfect for every uh particularly i think the permanent government that pull most of the strings i don't think that's a conspiracy i think that's pretty much accepted those elected politicians have said that in this county uh out of my son's class two mothers work in the other 17 seem to be living the high life on the handouts the government are giving well that's your opinion i'm not going to shut down opinion either by the way i just want to throw in the caveats there uh almost 100 euro was spent by the t-shock's office on shamrock bow ties green shamrock dog collars uh further 317 euro was paid for floral arrangements for a virtual meeting with joe biden and 300 euro for the online presentation of a crystal shamrock ball to the u.s president do you support this we'll go on to our social media that's a question we're putting out today on instagram twitter and facebook as well you'll get the details read through it and vote see what you have to say maybe it's small change for what was achieved from it that's a valid point of view too if you believe it sadly in this country those who are working are worse off those on social welfare want for nothing believes a caller if any family settled for less than top of the range everything is affordable it's all about the lack of ability to budget another it goes to show how the government has failed this country when we need to have food banks it's a disgrace it's just so maddening it's no wonder people's mental health uh is in decline another the grid is behind the times the national grid and won't be able to cope with the automation of everything um the only house in my area that has a transfer switch that even outage occurs i will be able to cope we aren't ready for the eco policies that are coming tell us a bit more about a transfer switch um greg it's a pity that sofa wasn't dumped at the man's house that dumped it you know that would be uh that would be one solution uh good time to buy an electric car gone by the headlines in the paper about all the outages come winter time well even if there are outages um it the stages right let's just say if there were outages and we've talked about this before you know they're not going to there's a plan in place whereby obviously like the hospital schools power would be maintained there in in homes power would be maintained that would be one of the last to go there's other areas uh industry say in germany for example they're hitting the the factories and stuff in the first wave of uh power cuts if it has to happen or gas gas shortages you know i mean i i don't foresee it happening um to be honest with you i think residential homes because just think about it how many people in this country because sometimes you have to go past the headlines uh and you have to go past the rhetoric and the scare tactics to make you buy a paper but let's put it to you like this right how many people listening today either someone in their house or someone close to them requires electricity say for breathing for for supply of oxygen or some other essential medical need there's a lot of people out there i think so and with electricity you can't cherry pick who's on and who's off you know everyone would have to go off so they would have to put in place a system that would allow those who are reliant on electricity all the time for for those types of reasons and others to have a power supply it's not doable right so what do they do they go well where else can we save power could we shut it down to you know uh industry in this county or whatever it might be so if you'd think about it logically and pass the fear and rhetoric right practically to cut power to residents would be the last thing that you would do for the reasons that i've outlined and i'm sure there are other reasons that i can't think of right now but just purely based based on the probably thousands of people that are relying on um electricity in this county alone for for life support of some form or other you know babies as well um that that uh parents would need to to have electricity to provide for them just think about that logically so it would be an absolute worst case scenario the last thing any government would want to do is to switch power off to the general population just think about it logically how that wouldn't work i could be proven wrong on that but if i am it's then we're going to be talking about a real crisis in this country and a real pushback and a real kickback so uh i can't see that happening for the reasons i've outlined if you disagree 08 660 25 000 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2021 almost 3000 notices of termination were received in the first half of 2022 compared to over 1800 in the final six months of 2021 according to the rtb analysis most landlords are exiting the market because they say they want to sell their property these figures were obtained i believe by shin fain's housing spokesperson oh no brin who joins us on the program now oh and deputy oh and oh brin thank you very much as always for joining us um i can't hear you oh and if you just unmute yourself please rookie mistake after two and a half years of zoom but it's not your first video it's not how are you i'm fine thank you right okay so why did you seek this information what was sort of being flagged that made you think right there could be something going on here well greg obviously like a lot of constituency tds we get a sense of what's going on on the ground by what's coming into our offices on a weekly basis and the number of families in particular in many cases working families being presented with notices to quit and ending up homeless has increased dramatically in in the last couple of months now i've been tracking these figures anyway since 2017 and on friday the rtb issued me with the most up-to-date figures what they show is in the last year we've seen a hundred percent increase in notices to quit been issued by landlords and the vast majority of those are for sale of property what we understand is happening is is look there are some landlords out there who never wanted to be landlords these are people who got trapped in negative equity um and now that obviously house prices are high they're selling up we have other landlords out there who were never really in the game for the rental yield they wanted a pension lump sum at the end they're also cashing in because of the high prices and then there are also other landlords out there who for a variety of other reasons have decided to sell the problem is because government has not been delivering an adequate volume of social or affordable homes then these families getting noticed to quit have nowhere to go whether they're social housing applicants or families who just want to be able to rent or buy affordably they are being stuck and that is one of the reasons why homelessness has reached historically high levels and unfortunately on the basis of these figures is going to continue to trend upwards right i mean obviously and if there was a government rep on this call they would say they have a plan i think it's 18 000 affordable rental properties by 2030 and we'll see if that pans out and short term options as well but i mean i presume that you believe that well let's focus on the short term because this is an immediate problem um what would what do you think it needs to be done because as you've quite rightly pointed out the different scenarios firstly i think we all know someone who's been an accident landlord and it's an absolute they would say it's a nightmare they're seen as you know they're seen as not very nice people and all of that right but also why wouldn't you try and get out at the top of the market uh you know with everything else that's going on you wouldn't compel people to keep property would you so what would the plan be what would your plan be the immediate sort of plan to fix the problem right now so we absolutely do need an emergency response and i've written to dara bryan first of all asking him to convene an emergency meeting this month at that meeting should be representatives of landlords and tenants organizations the residential tenancies board and opposition housing spokespeople and the idea would be among all the stakeholders agree a crisis intervention plan and there's four or five key policies that i think need to be on the table i do think we need to reconsider a temporary ban on evictions simply to try and stem the tide of of families presenting as homeless i do think local authorities need to be given additional money to purchase properties where there's a hop or razz tenant in situ and they have a notice to quit we do need to see an acceleration of an increase in the delivery of social housing and landlords organizations particularly some of the single property landlords are often heard to be aggrieved at the fact that the large institutional landlords pay no tax on the rental and the single property landlords pay the marginal rate of tax and therefore the call for tax reform of all categories of landlords i think also needs to be on the table crucially what we need is this we need a stable private rental sector that supports good tenants and good landlords that gives tenant security and affordability and also makes a legally compliant landlords able to make a fair return on their investment that is not what we have at the moment so you know darrow brian can tell us what's going to happen by 2030 all he wants that is no comfort to the families who are getting notices to quit day and daily and who are ending up homeless i now have an increasing number of families coming into my clinic who aren't eligible for social housing aren't eligible for hap aren't eligible for emergency accommodation and they have notices to quit and because of the rising level of rent in the private rental sector when that notice terminates they will not be able to afford the market price so we need an urgent intervention now and i'm willing to work with the minister with the tenants and landlords organizations on a cross-party basis to put in place that emergency response and do it quickly i mean we have a big problem because this is coming down the line we know say for example a huge tranche of people will effectively become homeless at the end of august as uh say for instance um uh ukrainian refugees and others are asked to leave student accommodation um and and maybe i don't know what the hotel availability would be like or how is that seen as some sort of a a medium term solution like things are going to get an awful lot worse there's no houses you know there's no houses available things are going to get an awful lot worse before they get better and it seems a little unfair that private homeowners who are accidental had negative equity for all the reasons that you've outlined it could be forced to try and be the government's solution to this problem absolutely and and i've been making that very point for quite some number of years this the core problem here is a failure of government over the last decade to deliver a large amount of social and formal homes they have been over relying on the private sector particularly the private rental sector for student accommodation for social housing through happen razz and also because there aren't enough affordable homes for people to rent or buy they're all loaded into the private rental sector so in fact i think the most important part of the emergency response here is two-fold first of all as i've said if a landlord with a half a razz tenant wants to sell up that's fine let the local authority buy the property subject to price and quality of the property turn it into a social home is that good is that a good use of public money though sorry to cut across you it is getting a local authority to pay you know top of the top of potentially top of the market prices for homes that could possibly build potentially i mean i'm just pulling figures out but could probably build three affordable units of accommodation is that a good use of money well first of all it would be better to buy it now then continue to pay half a razz for the next 10 20 or 30 years and that's according to a report for the department of public expenditure and reform but also in fact a tenant in-situ purchases usually represent very good value for money and obviously it has to be within that but the equally most important thing is government needs to accelerate the delivery of large volumes of social affordable homes we need to start using good high quality modular building technology and the large volumes of vacancy that are out there that are quicker and cheaper to turn around and bring back into use if government gave our local authorities and approved housing bodies the money took the shackles off in terms of red tape and said you know in letter kenny for example or or in many of the other towns and villages around the country it's only go and elsewhere go out and acquire subjective value for money and appropriateness of the property type but get those units into either social stock or affordable stock what is not good value for money is is allowing these families and single people slip into emergency accommodation for a year two years three years i mean apart from all of the stress and emotional heartache for the families the cost for the taxpayers enormous so emergency intervention but you're right the private landlords didn't create this crisis this crisis was created by a failure of government to invest sufficiently in social and affordable homes this year so far they are so far behind their social affordable housing targets that's why we need a crisis intervention but we do also need to stop the flow of families and single people into emergency accommodation therefore a reintroduction of of the ban on evictions on a temporary basis is also going to be required in my view it just seems unbelievable i think it's what three or four million for a hundred million on spend from the department of housing in a couple of months this year two billion wasn't spent in 2020 i mean this is this is uh this is money that could be fixed in these problems um it's not a question i'm comfortable asking uh to be honest with you uh but in for those who are homeless in this country and also the quality of of of accommodation that we can provide is it time for us to have a a reasonable balanced discussion about limiting the amount of people coming into our end as i say it's not even a question i'm really comfortable asking but when i mean we're probably going to be looking at tented villages you know people back at city west and i know people are coming from an awful situation and and safety and and some sort of shelter maybe might be better than where they're coming from but like do we have to maybe try and see if there's a conversation to be had in that area well first of all this is a conversation we shouldn't be scared of having and i'm more than happy to have it with you Greg the first thing i'd say is is there are enough properties in the country right now both to meet the emergency accommodation needs of people fleeing the war in ukraine another part of the world as well as meeting the long term housing needs of our population we have 159 000 vacant homes across the state that's not including the 60 000 holiday homes that are out there and the refugee council of ireland has from the very start of the ukrainian war made a very very strong point and i supported which is let us ensure that the emergency accommodation for ukrainians is outside of the mainstream housing system let's offer owners of holiday homes a 12 month license agreement a modest administrative payment of five or six hundred euros a month to provide emergency short to medium term accommodation for ukrainians at the same time while roger goorman of the department of children is doing that darrell brine of the department of housing needs to accelerate the delivery of social affordable homes we have thousands of vacant homes in fact when i was last up in dunagall i met with the folks from the letter kennedy cathedral quarter and there are tons of vacant properties that if the local authorities were given the opportunity to acquire and refurbish they could let out a social housing affordable rent or affordable purchase when i met with dunagall county council's housing department and planning department they were actually saying that the quickest way to deliver large volumes of good quality social and affordable homes is by assisting dunagall county council get the vacans back into stock so i absolutely believe with the right kind of policies we can provide those people fleeing russia's brutal war in ukraine with temporary sanctuary but we can also meet the housing needs of the population of people who are already resident here that can be done i put this question to a government rep last week it's only reflecting what people are out there are saying to me is that you know a someone who has a home a second home or something they're being offered 400 euro a month to make it available uh to to refugees that possibly might not even cover the oil heating dependent on the home yet a hotel will pull that in in three or four days on one single room how is that fair um you know you talk of those those hundred thousand plus spare homes if people not necessarily made money but at least felt that all their their cover all their their bills were covered they may consider that but instead as i say they're being offered for a month for an entire house potentially the equivalent of what a hotel well i won't get into i won't say what i was going to say but what they can get for one room in three days yeah and this has been a problem not just in the debate on on providing emergency accommodation for people fleeing the war in ukraine but also for homeless families i mean we are spending hundreds of millions of euros every single year putting single people and families with children up in hotels that money could be used to provide good quality long-term housing what i would say about the holiday home offer however is this if you're offering people a basic administrative payment for access to their holiday home that is in addition to the cost of heating because of course those other things will have to be paid separately and not by the home owner i suppose the point i'm making is more important we can provide emergency accommodation outside of the housing system by tapping into for example holiday homes and others and at the same time we can deliver large volumes of good quality social affordable homes through vacancy through modular technology and through accelerating social housing program there how do you persuade the owners of those holiday homes then to make them available because that is a choice that they would have to make how do you incentivize you you wouldn't be in favor of compelling them i'm sure absolutely no absolutely not and look i talked to lots of people about this there are 60 000 holiday homes across the state if you were to get five percent of those 10 percent of those that's three to six thousand homes and that would house you know 18 000 plus adults and children so it has to be voluntary and i think if the type of offer that the refugee council of ireland called for at the start of this crisis 12 month license agreement so there's legal certainty for the property owner and an administrative payment every month that more than compensates them for that i think the generosity of the irish people will be showing our difficulty is this we cannot continue to rely on hotels alone because hotels are also housing families who are homeless they're also obviously trying to get back into their own commercial activity and i for the life and we can't understand why that eminently sensible proposal from the refugee council of ireland at the outset of the refugee crisis in ukraine hasn't been taken up i'm hearing that government might be talking about doing it it's also much better than asking people to take ukranians into their own home because while a lot of people will have done that very generously at the start it's a very very different thing having somebody living in your home for a six to twelve month period than leasing out effectively a holiday home if you have one but i go back to the main point there is no reason why we cannot meet the needs both of the people who are fleeing war and persecution and other parts of the world and the resident population here one is through the department of housing and darryl bryan the other is through the international protection accommodation service and rodrigal government we need to get the policies right but crucially we have rising levels of homelessness and we need emergency intervention by government now to address that and the the various issues that i've outlined earlier today and i outlined in an email to darryl bryan this morning i believe are the way forward the conversation we also need to get the language and the messaging correct because it's generally accepted there's been reports on this that the way this is going it is causing division and it's causing anger and it's causing people turning on people and i think it's very much important whomever is in government that the messaging is is is very clear so people understand what's going on and who's looking after which group and how those needs are being met okay listen thanks for your time as always this morning i appreciate 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rural Ireland cutting turf started off as an environmental issue then burning turf became a health issue smokeless claw replaced smoky coal and what happened next the tax the living daylights on it why do we allow this to happen to us the thing is and what people need to and it's going to happen soon is that and it's happening in other countries already as soon as more people adopt to the likes of elect or adapt to the likes of electric cars and what have you the incentives your discounts when you're buying a car your discounts to get a home charger you know maybe even some discounts as it relates to the cost of charging your car that will all go by the way that's not a long term future the idea is not that you will save money driving an electric car over a petrol or diesel car that's not the plan the plan is to get you out of the petrol and diesel cars and into an electric car to try and assist that transition they'll incentivize it but as soon as more electric or hybrid cars are sold to the petrol or diesel cars are sold they'll believe that that is job done and then a lot of the incentives that you see now will go and they've already start to ease they already start to have begun to ease back on them so the idea of driving the long-term plan is not that you save money driving an electric car it's incentivized now so that you might switch but if don't be switching over I mean switch don't be switching over thinking that you're going to save a fortune and that's the way it's always going to be and it's going to be cheaper because that's not what's going to happen in the medium to long term um I'm on the market for buying a house but I was considering booking a holiday I seen you should keep unnecessary spending to a minimum should I skip the holiday I think in the wider scale of things you should go on holidays personally if you have the resources do it um and enjoy yourself um the footpaths in letter Kenya not maintained by the council they're getting narrower due to not being trimmed signs are obstructing obstructed by growth of trees and weeds what do you think about that it's not the first time that's been mentioned too many have seen the pictures a lot of the hedges and trees outgrowing on the footpaths um and you know for people without say for instance vision issues or mobility issues it's problematic enough imagine walking with your your guide dog or a cane and getting slapped in the face by these hedges I don't know it's a mixture of private and um private hedges encroaching on to the footpath and public ones are you I don't have a hedge are you not allowed to cut hedges at the moment is that why or is it that it's not just the maintenance is not being done which oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand I'm sure it's not just letter kenny ether I'm sure there's plenty of towns around the county and villages where people are noticing the same situation repower cuts there are medical situations that will need generators this will require thousands to obtain these and people simply cannot afford it then the house needs to be wired there's no option for them or backups we are trying to suss out what we can do to help out well look that's exactly one of the reasons why uh residential properties will be one of the last in my view if there is there's nothing at this moment to a concrete suggests that power cuts will be required uh you know I mean the government is going to look at industry like the the data centers and say look we need you off the grid what are they five or six percent something like that there um what can you do to provide your own energy Greg you really dismissed that text uh people no longer hide their habits I operate nice green van and I see it firsthand parents drinking and smoking cannabis it's no longer cigarettes they smoke children are getting the scraps off the table after the parents habits are fed I know there's a typical attitude that it's families on social welfare and many think that's a very fair attitude to have but in my personal experience that is a true fact okay I understand what you're saying and I'm not saying it's not the case right but you say that you see parents drinking and smoking cannabis and and and you know that's your observation I wouldn't doubt that but do you know that they are also not do you know that they don't work or they're not spending money on their children I mean it's a big leap to is it not to connect I wasn't being dismissive of it but I'm just it seems to be a held view out there and I just think it's very unfair on a huge group of society many I know who run on social welfare and many I know also who are working are struggling to make ends meet and are very worried about autumn maybe there's what people out there in that category that I don't know but I'm on about the people that I know um they're they're struggling and they don't have fancy cars and holidays and and all the the bells and whistles of things that's that's just my experience maybe everyone else is is wrong I think that the back to work allowance should be paid out in vouchers just my opinion have a nice day yeah I was told three weeks ago a man paid 36,000 upfront for the rent of a five-bedroomed house that landlord gave him it back and said he was selling the house it turned out he didn't sell the house but put refugees in the house which he's getting paid 16,000 a month from the government you can't blame him for doing that but this government is totally incompetent when it comes to the country's money so someone I thought it was 400 euros available someone's getting 16k a month for renting a house out to refugees any more information on that is that true I'm not saying it's not true by the way but you heard it third hand I'm just suggesting perhaps maybe all the details weren't there just spent the weekend reading up on irish green levels etc our level is 0.09 percent of the overall pollution when we do everything getting asked we will be lucky to hit 0.08 and we will strive to starve the nation for this please ask people have finished showing to look out at Sri Lanka at the minute they're doing these things exactly what we're being asked it's easy to find this is true please hide and tell the people to look it up okay but that I didn't I don't fully get the point there but I'm sure the information's out there and people can look is the Ukrainian funding not coming from the UN or Europe as opposed to our own pockets separate tranches of funding there we are told right let's take a piece of music we'll be back with more I just want to say for mom and dad Marion and Francis Duffy of Lisvanon 50th wedding anniversary today hope you have a lovely day from all the family all right that's Laura Branigan there and Gloria okay we'll be back with our next guest joining us on the program after we take these messages the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our 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housing this figure said there's just recently yeah it's uh it's good to have you on it's 33000 for 31 local authorities or a thousand per local authority but a full page in the newspaper stating that the 31 local authority is about 261 houses over the last four years not a good return some idea right but we're speaking to you about the health system is it particularly as it relates to a public versus private I think it actually is both because I'll tell you why you can't be critical of the public sector because the price of the round there is enormous I see a figure for 19 000 witnesses and that again is here in the hospital when you imagine that your own people say this is unbelievable when you look at the options for people who say the nice NPT NPF TF the nice treatment for just fun if you look at it and if you look at the cross border treatment Greg why I'm talking about to you today as the possibility of setting up a revolving fund with a point of contact for people who are waiting well over a year and so on so is this you're saying for those who might want to avail of the cross border scheme whereby they can go and get their operation in Daryl Belfast or wherever they have to front load that and not everyone can put their hands on that money are you talking about the establishment of a fund that would help those people Greg I'm looking at will say what friends of the hospital hold on funding and I'm looking at any other if you look at how they don't think all people have provided care for the hospice that's an example of would say what can be done because I'm looking at a few set up a fund for argument sake of 20 000 to 50 000 tomorrow morning Greg and that the patient was waiting to get in and didn't have the funding that that fund would pay for them as soon as they signed when the grant would come out it would be returned to the fund can you understand where I'm coming from yeah no no it makes because a lot of people are doing this privately they're going to the credit union or wherever to borrow exactly Greg and that's an added cost to people and now the other thing I do want as well Greg because what I said you know with fairness to the staff I have talked to some of the staff including people with the waiting lists and all the rest and so on and they thought it would be very very important if something somebody was identified to take the person's complaint number one look at the options open till number two and that the person would have known for their input only if it were a read and the signed up that they would return the grant and that it would be collected by the fund rather than by themselves so that they would actually know and put it all and only arrangements would be made for them because may have said he two things Greg I have had recently two people written and has no hope of being seen and someone couldn't even walk to the shop yeah there's thousands of people say if we only talk about hips there's thousands of people in this county waiting in operation they can't sleep properly at night they can't get about right there are other because of the restriction in the mobility maybe other areas of their health are disimproving I mean and yet if they had the funds or the transport of the proper support they could probably get seen in weeks in Northern Ireland was within weeks Greg this is the this is the point of making Greg and don't think that I don't admire the people who are walking because I know that amount of staff that's about letting any hospital I know the amount of consultants and all the amount of doctors and all the amount of administrative staff and all the there but haven't said all that great those people are working with the limits and constrictions that was there and they can't step outside so I was looking for the last couple of minutes we have then Ian just talk to me then about who do you think how big should this fund pot be and who do you think should administer it Greg I I again haven't talked to staff there's hospital staff could administer alongside their day job and not a bother because this is a simple operation for them the other thing it would establish Greg as a body that would be recognized by the cross-border and the national purchase treaty fund fund and everything else as an authority to actually discuss the interest of the individual because they'd signed up to and that the fund when it would come back to them wouldn't even have to wait it would cost them nothing tall but it would come back to the fund against Greg so what we're talking about the kind of a revolving fund that would go nowhere would always be available and would be very beneficial to many the big the big winner is out of all of this so the private hospitals and they say look we've got the staff we've got the capacity why don't they why don't they maybe come up with some sort of a funding that they bridge the money until such time as the HSE pays Greg what you say is correct Greg what it's lack of ability to go out and do something new because look what I'm talking about this would run from government to the HSE and to the cross-border facilities that are available all linked together because I have said for a long time that's pure madness and it's cruel on people who cannot walk to be waiting and waiting just because and either of the funds they can't make the arrangements and everything else cataracts treatment where they're live so they're very they're about 55 different things that the letter can a hospital would deal with so it gives you an idea all those things should be the same right Ian McGarvey Councillor thank you so very much for that it's a it's a good suggestion thanks for your time today 08 660 25000 what's apps and texts that number after the break the night till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today Patterson's massive 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economic action from energy companies is reminiscent of the end of the Celtic Tiger leaving many people struggling he's appealed to energy providers to stop chasing profits in the face of a cost of living crisis you can hear from him on our website now that's islandvideo.com there's a warning that Ireland is under prepared if faced with a global energy crisis a former managing director of the ESB says Ireland is the least prepared country in Europe when it comes to its energy security the EU could face challenges with energy supplies this winter as it tries to reduce dependency and oil and gas imports from Russia former head of the ESB Don Moore says a lack of investment has put us in the worst position in the EU a fragile ceasefire deal ending nearly three days of fighting between Israeli and Palestinian militants appears to be holding more than 40 Palestinian civilians have been killed including 15 children in what Israeli forces are calling pre-emptive strikes Israel has faced widespread criticism for launching the airstrikes on heavily populated civilian areas without provocation the Israeli attacks happened after Palestinian Islamic jihad had threatened to seek revenge for the arrest of one of its leaders the head of the United Nations says continuing attacks on Europe's largest nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine is suicide shelling over the weekend hurt one worker and damaged radiation sensors at the facility in Zaporizhia Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations about who was responsible today the UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez has said he wants inspectors from the international nuclear watchdog to be allowed in there's been a boom in sales of million euro plus houses despite the cost of living crisis figures obtained in today's Irish independence show that 170 at houses across the country sold for more than one million euro in the first six months of this year Donegal had the fifth most such sales in the country with four homes here going for over a million euro up to the end of June and finally there's been a surge in the number of tenants being given notice to vacate their rental properties the residential tenancies board is reporting a 58 percent increase in the number of eviction notices issued in the first six months of 2022 almost 3,000 notices to quit rescue between January and the end of June with the RTB saying the main reason is landlords quitting the private rental market so they can sell their properties that's all from the news desk for now I'll have headlines again coming up at midday but until then good morning thanks Daniel at Ulster Bank we are closing and as a bank that is closing we've reduced some of our services what this means for our customers is reduced counter services in branch no foreign exchange or night-save services and less Ulster Bank ATMs for customers who still have current or deposit accounts you really do need to start considering other options our branches remain open and we are here 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Good morning Brendan. Good morning Greg. How are you keeping? How's your weekend? What did you do? Good just um yeah I enjoyed the Sunday. Sunday equals you know you weren't done at all? I was yeah yeah okay I'm not going to mention the staycation word at all you know but um people don't like that word no it's it's one any word that gets overdone then gets a bit annoying doesn't it but no we had to be trapped the tenorary fairly under your knees to break so I think that was that was me I always try and go away when it's uh the weather's maybe not as good and just enjoy the summer here but you can't be anywhere better in particularly in good weather but anytime the don't don't go in good weather is just it's happen isn't it wherever you go but you're close to the beach then and we'd be doing good work a lot like obviously I think you chat Campbell or plug is that all right? Do you have a few quotes for that if I mention it or no sure coffee? Yeah that's for me or Jack? Bring it on if I'm getting coffee plug why don't you look um come here um what's the story now our focus because of the split season I suppose our focus is now on the club action club action yeah Greg I suppose we're pouring off end this season for Donnie Gull so we're looking for a bit of a lift from from the championships and at the weekend the intermediate and junior kickoff and was nice and away like that they didn't all start together because obviously with the senior being you know the big pull out there um you know some fantastic stuff going on at junior and intermediate level and it was nice that they had the full lights on on the weekend and you know in particular our intermediate championship there's so many good teams in it and there's so many even teams in it which we maybe don't have at senior level so in many ways maybe the other championships particularly intermediate is more interesting championship in terms of teams that can possibly want it because we seem to be throwing up the same old same old with with the seniors which is you can't blame the top teams for that but we're waiting for a side to maybe break them all to the senior but at the weekend as I say intermediate and junior got us kicked off so Ryan Fair he's going to join us to shoot the breeze over all that run through that okay um and you're also going to be joined by a couple of guys to talk about the Dr. McGuire uh McGuire club including uh Kilkars Michael Hagerty and and St. Unes Brendan Kilkoyne but what uh talked to us about Michael Hagerty and what he's achieved yeah he's already done a quarter of a century that's uh it doesn't seem real great you're probably old enough to remember Colt Severs the six million dollar man do you remember him though that might be just out of your eight no no you're you're in the you're in the did you remember that I was only a wee wee man there's probably a lot of listeners would remember but uh he was rebuilt again they made him superhuman but I don't I really like when you look at that a few times I had to re look at it a few times because I know Michael started playing 2006 round that time so I think it's 26 27 years now most players will play you know senior football around about 12 odd years you know give or take injuries or whatever lose interest or whatever happens around your senior team you know and quite a few go longer than that don't get me wrong right but to go to this 26 27 year mark is I mean you know what level of commitment in terms of training that would take because as we get older uh you know to achieve where we were at 10 years ago you have to do yeah well you have to maybe adapt your style of play but you certainly have to live a certain life that's very committed to being fit yes and able to operate at a good level yeah but not doing what I did at the weekend basically did you ask that to upgrade burgers and beers but no Michael's one lose um I guess he had that kind of um uh he had that type of build that he was a real kind of classy footballer and it wasn't that he ever physically exerted himself on the game because he was one of those players that found time and space brilliant range of passer you know brilliant brain in the game so his type of skill range and he could put the ball over the bar was as as the rest of us maybe injuries or started slow down on that because he was so intelligent on the pitch he still was able to operate but the fact that he kept going and going to this level because it's just phenomenal yeah and in terms of the senior championship and you talked about you know the level of uh you know that you probably could pick the the last four to all intents and purposes is there anyone out there any teams out there that potentially could break through it's it's hard to know listen every week at a brilliant league everyone there they're they're playing a bandone this weekend you know you're looking at Glenn Funn decent league as well you know dogged sides out there like for years there it was it was teams except michael's and that we're trying to make the breakthrough as well and that so you know that the top sides are just that bit ahead and how the other teams play them then is is the interest and scenario because a lot of teams have have gone defensive and then they have been defensive we've talked about this many times right so we're probably just trying to get the balance between a team coming through on our own teams opening up and playing you know but outside those top four just yet they seem to be continually getting better all the time now that said like under underage ways the last few years there's loads of clubs have been won in titles and coming up and now it's not the big teams have been dominating underage so there might be a change coming down the line but just as we see it this season you can't see again like certainly because I would expect particularly that the winners since unions to have gotten better and of course Rory Kavana stayed in place there as well so there's still be an interesting championship come down the line but those teams do seem that bit of a step ahead right so for those teams under the top four there hopefully the managers are recording this now and they can play it into the dressing room and so they can stop it to stop it to do any well yeah yeah especially if they bought the D thrones in New Orleans yeah I would imagine yeah you we were just basking in the glory of St Unis last season what are you doing well listen in many ways if they admitted themselves they kind of like kind of limped on their final like they didn't set the world a light they won brilliant game and that was in the final and I think the lads know that but there was a wee bit of a monkey on their back because it lost a couple of games particularly the Neve Conlon when they needed to make a breakthrough so in terms of that where that takes them to this season it'll be interesting can they can they grow and get better but listen Gokair obviously Barry O'Hagan you know former Armagh county player is in there and they obviously go meld on the league and they'll be a dangerous proposition and of course Neve Conlon are going to be coming back in the mix and of course Ghidor view management down there as well and looking to get back on the front foot and that said McFadden-Ferry one of their main men had a bad injury there he's out for the season which is a huge blow do we uh Trevor Alcorn chairman man he's going to win taking the reins down in Ghidor so listen lots lots to happen in there yet this season all right plenty for you to talk about so Brennan's going to be joined by Brennan Kilcoin and Michael Hegerty to preview next week's senior football championship and he and Ryan Ferry reflecting on the junior and intermediate competition any um any further speculation or or white smoke as it relates to Declan Bona replacement yeah lots lots of rumors out there I don't know many of them but that's serious I know that Maliki Rourke which was a lot of people's if we're going out of Chandler County I know that Meeth those talks that and it was a figure thrown out there that did he ask for everything you know you hear all these things Greg you didn't you don't want to repeat them factually you know but certainly that was that was a possibility that could happen of course Monah and themselves are looking for a manager Maliki had great success here before but you know there's guys inside the county different guys from from around their age to do the likes of Rourke have and people talking about Jim and and McQ and and a whole lot of things being thrown about there I mean I did talk interesting I did talk to one guy about we had a conversation I had another conversation with a guy about it around getting in there myself you know um and uh you know just in that conversation time is the thing uh Greg you know this so someone who might have been interested in it was looking who else around the county might be joining part of their team yeah yeah yeah what yeah yeah listen I we had a good conversation we surprised at what level of commitment would be required from the likes of you for a role like that yeah um well when we had the conversation in this league it was um you know about coming in fall and then it was is there is there another way I think you've got to be full time on there and if you are then it's X amount of evenings during the week and then it's you it could be a Saturday it could be a Sunday it could be both you know such as a level and you have to commit for you know I mean initially at least the term of whatever the new manager commits to it's a big ask like it's huge it's a huge huge risk huge rewards not money but in terms of you know in terms of maybe money well you know yourself to be to be part of something that could be I it comes down to the kids for me yeah you know you time time with that this but you did but did you say no yeah well so you ruled yourself out of that yeah yeah all right yeah I should I should bomb sale exclusively but Greg listen if if time was at a different if your kids were a different stage you know how it gets on now your father yourself once you get the stage where they can occupy themselves and we mile this lad you know there's no there's no issue there he doesn't need my attention all the time now my youngest this morning I'm trying to read a few newspapers and he's hanging out spending time with them yourself too isn't it's a two way so yeah it's just I mean if you're both people I think from years ago like if you take it now both parents are working now and so if you have this thing number you're away in the evening so if we both come back from working and I'm away to training you know you have that thing with that in mind though Brendan is there a way of managing it better though because do you know like a lot of people would feel that you you know you would have a you'd have an interesting influence and I think tactically whomever was you were speaking to absolutely we don't want to say who it is but you would have to have they would have to be like minded in terms of a style of play for example I don't think you'd be interested in going in and being involved in you know this sort of lateral play and defensive play whatever about the time I don't I'm not sure you'd want to be involved in that yeah oh you're right we actually had a chat about tactics you're 100% right yeah because I think that's important Greg and listen there's there's there's a way of playing the modern game and but you got to look at what squad you have and that's the thing about the about the GA you know you have who you have you have your done it all boys and you got to work with that and I think as we've spoken before the way we we ended this season the two defeats that we had now has probably made a lot of people question mark you know where this team's at I think some people make those periods within one of those games at least yeah whereby if we had adapted in that moment we would just be in it you know it's like the butterfly effect yes the whole conversation would just be so completely exactly there's aspects to your game in our squad which is top top drawer but then there's issues on there you know I think physically and defensively at times where we can get strangled a bit by by that position I think that's the thing that we got a but you got to figure out a way to play to the best of what you have yeah there was another thing I was going to say to you though sorry and then I rambled off like what other really good football people are we not do we not have in the game because they have to make a decision between being involved in a county setup or an intercounty setup and family life do you know what I mean is it possible that we we need to or could look at that so we have the best of the best available and not having to make a decision between spending enough time with their young ones or their partner and and you know being involved in an intercounty setup but just I know there's a certain amount of time that has to be committed but can you maybe we need to look at that yeah I think that probably comes down here there's a whole issue they say if you're the manager and it's a it's a big job in this and if you are being somebody compensated for that I think you can you know that fits for you in your life and if you have this you have a young family yeah for instance whereas say you're a you're a selector or you're someone that's getting involved in some other way to commit to that their time without all that there it can be a harder sell you know so if you're I think if you're on about the the best people the main trainers and people about they're committed to that life anyway yeah but they're already there they're in the pool what we're talking about you know yeah no disrespect to them but you see you can't get that pill without kind of being in it anyway do you know what I mean yeah well you're not in the pool and you could have been well that's a good one you're a joint manager but I'm on about currently yeah I know I know your record is there I don't mean that but I'm just saying what I'm trying to get at is that I think a lot of people think that you would have a valuable role to play and the fact that you would have to make a decision in doing so between your life not your life but your family and your that's all but anyway listen it's sport and maybe that's the way it is is is Jimmy gonna still be linked to Mayo I haven't followed up yeah I mean that's a perfect appointment for him can you imagine I think he goes in there with a pretty decent team yeah and breaks the who-do yeah I think they're in the way down you see Greg again a lot of question marks about Mayo can they come back again yeah and and listen a lot of their players legs they're not the replacements aren't there for them I mean Mayo if you take it back to when Jim took Donny Gull if he took Mayo then they had a 1x amount all errands there's no doubt if he had to put that into Mayo because they had an unreal team then and over the years they've replaced an odd player and they've been up and down a bit but I think now Mayo are on the way and I mean Galway are certainly if you look at them Galway are on the up compared to that there's an interesting squad there I mean if you ask a lot of managers now that Galway team I know probably Josh has made it but they're on the way up you know our man the way up maybe Derry but you know so different squads are you not sure about if Derry can do it two seasons in a row yeah yeah I just think Greg listen they can't tactics again as we spoke many times just we've seen it come up sharp how many times and they can be figured out they're forward lane Derry don't have the forward lane you know if we're going to match if we're going to mismatch between us and Derry you'd have some say put it again a proposal right the Derry defense the Derry defense and we take the midfield and forwards maybe so um just one final question then on the management system and this is not an accusation against Jim McGinnis or anyone else has it always been the case that the potential managers factor in whether or not they can sort of get a bit of glory with it as well do you know what I mean has that changed is that because of the pressure from social media or everywhere else or has it always been a case in other words was it not a case that a manager went in and they wouldn't go in necessarily thinking well can I keep them in this division or can I get to an all island semi-final you know maybe they have to look after their egos as I'm not saying that's against anyone specifically but is that always been the case or is that a new thing I think they want the one there's probably people take a county job it's a huge job to get good regardless and particularly if they're from the county you know um if you're going to step in from another county you're going to either want to either be somewhere or there's obviously money involved in it as well you're going to have to be properly compensated and a lot more maybe from than a county man in there but it depends on you're right on the squad now if you look at certain teams or even club teams I know bandone is shared no manager and Peter McIntyre of the Alingham stepped in and me Barney Curran come up with that and that was a last minute thing just because there was nobody there to take it so it depends on the situation of the job so at the minute it's done all the job that a lot of people are are looking after or going for they're not great as almost as if it's opposite we're going after certain people they say do you want do you want to have a do you want to take this job on I think that's more more we're seem to be reaching out more than a load of people saying I want that job and do you think down the country maybe Ulster football looks a wee bit toxic like that you could be you know you know yourself you've seen this on the game you know the instant default position it's huge you've Ulster football then you've rest ironed it's a complete uh it's a complete different world country and get involved in that yeah yeah quite would you there's a strange reaction to everything that happens in Ulster but the tactics and the love of football and also I think is growing out of that there and you just have superpowers down the country that stand out from all the counties whereas nearly everybody in Ulster in this last 15-20 years has had a cut of the other teams and has been able to beat them now I know this last while there's been a bit of domination but by and large nearly every team in the province has had a has can beat the other teams from year to year or time to time have been able to do it you don't get that in other provinces and that's why also so different and then the tactics that Ulster brought it then kind of stuck it up to a few of the a few of the say the superpowers and they found that hard to take particularly some of the in your face type tactics so there is a thing lingering there all the time that we Ulster and the rest well maybe with the change of the the panel up at RT I suspect RT you'll come back with a whole new approach next year I think you'll see the presentation of that sport completely different on RT yeah and then might go more to the sort of the Sky Sports model where it's more just based on analyzing particular elements of the game not necessarily about opinions or scorn pointing or banter whether people like that or not I think they're going to change a big time next year there's more criticism of Sunday game I think than there is of any football match that's that's that's mad so just to recap you were approached by a potential candidate uh uh what was it in in a in a coaching role yeah something they got you and you just you know but just we had a target but have you ruled yourself out of it completely not just with that individual because you know yeah I think it's not about the individual you know and obviously I'd never say who it was to anybody when you said to my wife um I don't keep I don't keep any secrets from her of course you didn't tell your wife you better not have her but it wasn't about hungry it was just about time and we talked about about the lessons he's a good fella and we talked we were about tactics and and where the team needs to go on that so listen that that was just just something that was happening but it was good to know he had a keen interest and a tune I think that's what we need uh we need people as I say because someone has to step up I think someone's going to take someone to step up yeah and I think whoever it is we've got to give them time because at the minute things aren't right we've got to probably get a wee bit of energy back in from the county because we're very poor support those to find them it's definitely a Dharma game so I think we've got to maybe get new players and give a wee bit of a different style and get a wee bit of love by the game I think too maybe how things are communicated would help too you know every element of the this is not a criticism of anyone as such but every element of the game has been modernized and I think maybe just the how the inner workings or the team or whatever or manage how it's communicated with the public I just think that could switch up a little bit do you know what I mean I don't know um but I think there's something could be done there because the message has to be gotten out that do not expect necessarily you know a semi-final year one that's unrealistic yeah there'll be quite a bit of negativity at times hanging about there too uh Greg you know I think some of it's um unwarranted you know particularly when you just think about right you've a manager in there you know we've seen there's a lot of stuff towards boner at the end listen for all he's done they're doing on plus listen he's trying to do his best so who's all the players you know things don't work out sometimes they don't work out some things you know yourself if you spend 300 quid taking a family up to watch a team you think you've bought the right even if you don't go to all the games because there's this thing too you can't say anything unless you go to every club game every training game every you know that you can't have an opinion unless you are you can't have a pain I would find that just the personal opinions sometimes it can be about sometimes it can be I think on the soccer season kicked off right and I didn't miss it I watch it but instantly it was like it wasn't like it was people say for instance reveling in Manchester United's performance it was no it was just like jeering each other right which is fine and maybe that's part of it and it's a bit of back but you just really don't want to see that being the norm here I don't think you know look at your own team see how they're doing have a bit of crack but anyway yeah I didn't miss that negativity I think you should turn up a pain more than that I mean obviously it's not going to the players to manage it and it's GA you know where no but of course I get that it's family and people feel they have then they they feel they can go you know what that game was nonsense but then to individualize it and say nasty things about individuals that's yeah of course yeah yeah no because I mean look at what Harry Maguire is is it Harry Maguire is to put with Man City you know it's in Manchester United sorry you know that's not you know the abuse he gets in social media is not okay like if you look at people that revolving GA if they've had anybody that's played it or played to themselves everybody kind of knows you know what's what's going on in the background and you know if something doesn't happen or somebody doesn't perform it's all right you had to be disappointed in that but not not to the individual you know to that player but not to the person I think that's I understand I do understand where you're coming from and I just hope we can find that that right balance Brendan yes right okay so the deal debate tonight Ryan Ferries on it with Brendan going back over the intermediates and the juniors and they'll also be looking forward to the seniors with uh Brendan Kilcoin and Michael Hagerty and just to recap if he plays this year he's over a quarter of a century he's going to be tugging out for 26 26 or 27 I'm going to have to you're going to have to find that out tonight very good exclusively on the you'll be given half of it take a year off with that exactly that was probably the tough year that you've taken off all right Brendan thanks back with more after the break the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter can you credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account the big bucks are 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property purchasing and we're delighted to welcome on to the studio adel quinn over owner of adel quinn properties hi adel good to have you with us good morning gregg how are you not too bad at all right we read in the papers today sales of million euro houses soaring uh wicklow witnesses 78 percent increase in the number of homes selling for above seven figures there's a big jump in uh doubling a big jump in donnie gall from a very very very low base i mean how many million dollar properties so euro properties do we have in the counties there many um other than your own obviously pardon other than your own obviously um the uh donnie gall is lucky that it is a lot of coastline so i mean that jumps up the prices straight away you know once you have a c view so i suppose the last few years we're seeing a lot of people um that are buying second homes and that in donnie gall again instead of going foreign so that all has had an effect and then of course build costs and that um so your prices are definitely getting up there you know yeah and you deal too with new builds um are we seeing a lot of new housing or housing developments coming on stream or is it still just one or two sort of headline ones um well i suppose i'm primarily south donnie gall and west donnie gall so around donnie gall town itself like we've had quite a few new developments recently um and i suppose with regards first-time buyers it's more favorable for them to go down those routes because you have um the different schemes available to them for grants to help them on the property ladder yeah some reports today saying fewer first-time buyers will have access to the uh controversial five hundred and sixty million help to buy scheme under new plans to narrow the criteria for those eligible it's all these little decisions though that do have impacts on the housing markets and people's ability to to get their first home yeah well i suppose the first home scheme if you just look at that um it is captain donnie gall for 250 000 uh so you can avail of um up to 30 percent of uh that amount and you can also have the help to buy scheme run concurrently with that so where you're going to buy a new build um under the help to buy scheme that's where they would look at your last four years of tax uh you have to be employed in the country in the last four years so you can get uh 20 percent uh the help to buy scheme i'm sorry up to 30 000 and then you can put the first home scheme on top of that for another 20 percent so there are a lot of things out there i suppose there are five main different schemes you can avail of most of them though are for primarily new builds yeah indeed and then of course that we're seeing that's we need more new builds to come on stream just some questions and if you have any questions oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand text to whatsapp them into us a lot of people uh don't know when the right time to buy is you know like are we at the top of the market now if we're not do you wait for a year i mean obviously you know you've got uh you could you would love as many houses as possible to meet demand but is there a right time to buy or build and is it now well i suppose uh the biggest factor is uh buying versus renting and i know in south dunningall the the rental market is is you know virtually non-existent so people have no choice but to buy you know um and again when is the right time it's all relative to you know how long do you plan to stay in the house um you know if you're if you're selling out to buy something else it's all relative to the price at the time so yeah and also uh in terms of cost certainty because if you were to get a mortgage and to fix it you know you might know what your outgoings are going to be dependent on how long you fix that for with rent i mean particularly here in dunningall we just don't you don't know where that's going as well so if you have the resources that's something to be factored in i presume it is yeah um i suppose and then again getting back to like the first time buyers uh if you're buying a new home and a development they're fixed prices whereas if you're going to build at the moment it's very difficult to factor in prices because you know things are fluctuating yeah of course uh even key in the door sort of uh charges you don't know if they go up or down they could be uplifting some of those contracts as as well does it surprise you to uh read today that so many landlords uh are having to to issue eviction notices or termination notices because uh they want to sell their homes are we seeing much of that in dunningall maybe former landlords whatever they might be uh opting to to sell up their second home or their investment property and get any money they can out of it now uh i think so i think it's a very um difficult uh market to be a landlord um the you know the laws and that they really aren't very favorable to especially like uh small time landlords that may just have one house rented out it's it's very difficult i suppose and the the tax that you would have to pay then against what the government would see as earnings uh which is even though you know you would have a mortgage against your rent so it's kind of it's now the prices are like have come back a good bit from the recession before it's probably the optimal time for small time landlords to sell and it's just it's not feasible for them and they uh many would feel that the system is stacked against them because you know sometimes saying you're a landlord could be a i'm not a landlord by the way sometimes saying you're a landlord could be a dirty word uh and yet people might not understand that a lot of people feel the system is very much stacked against them beat through tax or beat through their rights as as the property owner yeah i mean it's it's definitely got its ups and downs but i suppose that's a conversation for another day yep what are the important questions people should be asking uh at a viewing someone wants to know oh okay um i suppose um sorry uh the first thing before going to a viewing is is getting your own ducks in a row um get your mortgage approval as soon as you can it puts you in a better buying place the first thing people do ask then uh interviewing is what is the building energy rating because again that reflects back on um sustainable mortgages that you can get and you can get lower interest rates and fixed interest rates because of that as well yeah so the number one at the moment then would be asking um you know what's it said what's the energy rating of course and that's not an opinion that's certified isn't it Adele it is yeah and oh um i suppose with the scai grants then they can look at if it is an older property um what they would need to do to get the energy rating up and again that reflects positively then on your mortgage uh are asking prices uh generally being met at the moment or exceeded or is there still some some bargaining with the list price um i suppose every property is different but for the most part especially with us we're definitely getting the asking price and some of them are going to both again it all depends on the the property the location and yeah i suppose work that needs to be done to the properties you know yeah and the vision of the the property purchaser i i think the last time i spoke to you we talked about um we talked about a lot of people maybe moving back to dunagall and looking for properties you know maybe people wanting to remote work from here is that still uh you're still getting a lot of inquiries in that regard or is that tapered off a bit or um i suppose and it's tapered off a little from last year because it was crazy last year when everybody had to work from home but we're definitely still seeing it uh seeing a lot of it i suppose last week i had a few couples in uh it's it's you're getting to work from home there's a better quality of life you're in dunagall there's there's a beach never going to be too far from you do you know what i mean and when the suns out as they say like twice a year it's lovely but yeah they've been one of those days but you know you're getting to avail of the the quieter life here but you're still getting your uh higher income yeah um is mica testing now automatically provided when buying a house or is it something i need to request and if i do request it who foots the bill now uh i mean obviously i think really maybe we're only learning of the extent of defective concrete blocks in south dunagall i mean this has been primarily sort of letter kenny and to the north but i think anyone buying a property in dunagall now would be very interested in in in a test for mica pyrite or whatever it might be so uh do you have to have a test and and who pays for it you don't have to have a test um i've had a few properties recently that the uh purchasers decided to do uh mica tests of their own avail and they paid for it just to do their due diligence so down the line they're not going to be caught on it but um i suppose we have another case at the moment that um the purchasers and the uh defenders are they're going to split the bill half half because it's in both of their interests um but again there's there's nothing set in stone so all right there's no rules it's just but i would say very few people uh or maybe that's an accurate statement very few people if the if the property was built at a certain time in a certain way there'd be very few people making the biggest investment of the of their life without checking if mica was present at the moment i mean it's definitely a conversation in every house we go into uh when was it built where did the blocks come from etc but um it's definitely something that you know you you must consider because as you say it's going to be one of the biggest purchases of your life so um but i suppose it's a newer thing and so i've done it all at the moment it's not um it's it's not as vocal as you know understood a caller says in your experience is it more cost-effective uh going for a fixer upper house it seems more in our price range on paper but in reality would we end up paying more and old people would buy them to flip them or enjoy the the the prospect of doing them up i mean it really depends on your circumstances because you could be the type of person that could do a lot of that work yourself or you could have to foot the bill and uh so it's there there is value in a fixer upper or would you say look at if you can afford a house sort of effectively turnkey almost you should go down that road what's your view um first of all it's very very hard to uh to find a fixer upper they're they're like the gold dust um sorry that's okay but um that could be someone with a fixer upper for you all right but um look if the last year or two with with material costs it leaves it very unknown whereas if you're going to buy a house it's already done you know the final cost um but again i think things are leveling off that way so it's always nice to do your own staff on something as well yeah exactly um a caller wants to know are there any main hidden fees or charges that we as first-time buyers might miss or don't realize no i suppose your your biggest um costs are um as a buyer you wouldn't uh be uh given a cost over to us but your solicitor fees um your engineers report that's very important um i know if you are a cash buyer if you're lucky enough to be in that situation you don't have to have one of them but it's it's always better um to to get it to to know exactly what you're what you're getting but um that's kind of the main fees and then the stamp duty is one percent up to a million so when you're up with that bracket then it gets gets higher but that's solicitor fees engineer stamp duty that's probably your your main ones you know yeah and i think um things are very different now i mean there's lots of people involved in the business like yourself and it has to be as as as easy and simple as possible for the purchases and the vendor as can be yeah i mean listen you can make it as difficult or as easy as possible but at the end of the day everybody has one objective one person wants to sell one person wants to buy and you know the easier that you get the quicker process goes through it can take anywhere up from probably the quickest one i ever had there uh was uh for like a mortgage property the whole thing went through in six weeks because everybody had all our information at the offset and you know it can go anything from that to six months yeah but even six weeks for such a big transaction it's pretty impressive um finally then so in terms of where we're at in terms of property availability versus demand is demand still currently outstripping um properties that are available uh it's it would be yeah absolutely um especially because of the lack of new builds in the last 10 years so it's only now we're starting to see um you know a lot more properties coming on the market but the demand is still there because again it all comes back to materials and building the one off is still trigger at the moment than buying something that's already there yeah and we wonder how we compare with other counties in terms of property turnover uh you know in terms of buying it and then selling it on down the line we probably rely more so don't we on on new builds to sort of keep the keep the wheels moving yeah yeah but again until lately there i suppose there weren't a lot built uh it's only in the last few years down around so i think all down around all time maybe the last three years that you have been developments uh i'm not sure if this is one for for yourself uh dallo maybe an accountant but you might be able to help myself and my partner are not yet thinking about getting a house it's about five years down the line what can we do now to make the process easier for example we don't have a joint account is that essential i'd imagine a joint account would be is it essential i don't know no but uh the biggest thing is and it's probably more for a mortgage broker to uh to give advice on but your spend before like say the two years previous to you applying for a mortgage is so important get your deposit together and just watch your spending because that's what it'll all be judged on and then also it's it's different to uh for if yourself employed it's more difficult then to get a mortgage so uh they they can look at up to three years i think figures at least um it all boils down to how extravagant you are very and there are there i've seen the forms myself and i speak to people in the industry you're talking about that important two years in advance i'm not sure how big a factor it is but i have seen the box for uh lotto and for lotto and also for transferring to gambling companies as well it does appear on some of those forms yeah they'll they'll see it you know and and that will just reflect very negatively against an application so you just you need to be smart and you know yeah here's a call of suspicious of a bargain uh and its last one for now if a house is well under market value does it mean there's a problem with it i mean why is it well under value it's it's it's a question like it's a red flag it's a red flag yeah i mean it could be it's at the market value of what it's worth so uh there there may be a planning issue that hasn't been started or there's there's an issue there anyway i mean you're not going to give away for do you do diligence that's the question or write Adele of Adele Quinn properties covering the south and west of the county anywhere i'm sure based in donningall town what's your number if anyone wants to has a question for you yeah sure our number is oh seven four oh my gosh sorry uh nine seven two five seven two zero all right good stuff all right or you can in full addie delphin dot ie lovely stuff thanks for your time this morning take care of yourself okay 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championship heading for 27 years of service to his club it's called carol agent michael higgory that's a deal debate just after 70 news this monday in highland video and podcasted on highland video dot com the deal debate with sister serah's letter candy serving food you'll love in serah's kitchen for me it started with especially selected parma ham from aldi so silky so melt in the mouth you'll speak italian after it what about the specially selected sourdough cob irish so you'll still sound irish after eating that and don't even get me started on the line basil amandron hand and body lotion shame you can't smell it over the radio all this choice starts with aldi every day amazing all right um we are joined on the program now by uh david frill david how are you getting on thanks for taking the call good afternoon greg how's things it's good it's good right now you posted a comment did you was it on a uh a bbc post on on social media uh tell us that what the post was and the thrust of your comment david if you don't mind well for for some of the listeners who don't know greg um i'm a member of the travel community um and i was approached by bbc and to do one of the factors behind the high um suicide rates and per mental health of irish travelers so i was kind of reluctant that the start and i wasn't sure um to engage in the program because unfortunately you know when you're in that public sphere you're open to the public debate and opinion and so on so anyway i did i did the program with the bbc and it was quite an eloquent and very kind of provoking an emotionally led kind of program talking about my experiences as a traveler and man and donnie gall in terms of mental health and you know when we're going through the issues i was talking about you know racism and discrimination and you know the kind of prejudice um the embedded prejudices in our society against travelers so the documentary was kind of um shown worldwide it was on bbc international and so on so bbc obviously had it on their twitter platform and i was just going through the twitter platform he kind of shortly after and i was reading through the comments and it was just you know completely reflective of the just reinforced great and actually proved the discriminatory and racist attitudes of individuals and this was um and this was in plain sight as well because if i'm looking down a couple of these comments right and i'm replacing some of the slurs against the traveler community with maybe some slurs that might be used against people of color and i don't think they would be on twitter or facebook for a second before they were removed but here this is people expressing their prejudice using really offensive terms in plain sight it's so obviously within at least a cohort of people having a go at travelers is fair game i think i think it just reflects um greg became of attitude towards the general population towards travelers which is kind of historically situated i think it has been perpetuated throughout the years in terms of who the last accessible form of racism on my island of ireland now that's not creating a hierarchy greg between us and the black community in terms of who faces worst racism or discrimination but what would be kind of evidence is it's it's much more accessible and that's why you know minister how mackin t is kind of working on the the criminal justice or the hate crime bill and kind of you know um reimagining this but it needs to be implemented it needs to have really kind of strong provisions against hate speech like you see there that kind of individual racism against travelers and it's personally affecting greg you know in terms of yourself and your identity and your ethnicity because regardless of what kind of a resiliency you have or what kind of position that you're in you do internalize these these negative connotations around around your culture or ethnicity you know and and i have a son and to be very frankly honest and this is terrible in 2022 that we're sitting saying this but i'm generally scared for him going up uh and and the negativity and the prejudice and the racism and discrimination all these overlapping kind of um um i think if you'd like to say that's going to be faced against them just on the single entity of the ethnicity nothing else yes and and and the identity crisis that causes because we know some people might change their name um for example how is that being you know proud proud of your heritage or your your your your background you shouldn't be you shouldn't find yourself in anyone shouldn't find themselves in that position for example and that's just one element of it but greg and we have this kind of mental health crisis this is what the program was centered on this mental health crisis was in the travel community suicide uh is 11 percent of all travelers death we have the highest suicide rates among any indigenous ethnic minority in europe and anywhere else this would be an absolute crisis and as you just said anyone knows if you're lgbt if you're from the black community if you're having an identity crisis it correlates with poor mental health and then that's being perpetuated by the general population as that we're undeserving devaluated subjugated group obviously has an impact on individuals mental health and the community's mental health you know um and what do we do david in in terms of and we only for a couple of minutes now we should have more time we have to return to this but like banning people using this language on social media uh that's that just hides what's out there right so in some ways maybe it's uh it's not better but sometimes we can see what people think right so what do we do how do we get past this right it's unacceptable nowadays for people to publicly uh speak like this about a lot of minority groups okay and that's the way it should be for everyone but clearly it's not people have a view uh and they feel they're entitled to express it so what do we do to rather than fixing a symptom in other words hiding what people are thinking and saying what can we do to try and change attitudes i think that's kind of multi-dimensional greg but like as we see in irish society you know settled white irish people um are afforded most of the political and traditional economic power so i think it has to trickle through like if we think of education just for example we're fighting since 2000 and for a couple of years now for the for the traveller culture and history to be implemented in schools to educate children about traveller culture you know children and then when i was in the playground it was very much similar and that's not that long ago children learn from their parents and if their parents have negative attitudes or using slur words that they won't say on the radio or by travellers um then that kind of beats embedded in them as well so they perpetuate that so like that bill is a remedy they're proposed by travellers and other senators in the government to be implemented and won't be implemented and is being being um being um kind of uh impeded in its implementation um but i think it's about representation kreg it's holding though the countable we've seen in donny gall especially it's been rife of politicians openly standing up and and and spewing anti-traveller rhetoric so if it's acceptable for them then general society thinks it's acceptable and there's no repercussions you know the hate crime legislation that was there there was many complaints net about a particular um politician who made really per the negative comments about travellers um and there was no repercussions partner with tv programs do it the media do it they spend all this kind of you know really negative images perpetuate and really negative images about travellers but there's no repercussions so it has to come from that institutional and systemic place great because people on the ground and the grassroots levels don't have the power to make that change we can influence it but it lies with the government to implement like the likes of the travel history and culture bill the hate crime legislation we have to change them attitudes but unfortunately here in ireland and it's absolutely right racism discrimination and oppression are like shadows that hang over the traveller community racism hangs there between us and the state of population and it's creating this divide and the divide is getting ever bigger as these things are worsening not improving yeah all right david thanks for your time i said it's worse i'm not improved and i was agreeing with you just in case there was any misunderstanding there no david thank you very much indeed david freel there okay we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at nine have a great