 Next, he's here to tell us something good. It's Greg Hughes with the 9 till noon show. Close three hours of it. Can he wait? Good man. Thank you very much for today, Rory. It is the 9 till noon show, 9 o'clock time for our first news update to the program. It's good morning, Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Nefert is planning to discuss whether mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 should be introduced. Health officials are waiting for a report on the ethical and legal issues around at such a move. Members of Nefert have expressed concern at high on vaccinated people, are overrepresented in hospitals. Over 1,000 people with COVID are in hospital for the first time since last February. There are 1,004 patients being treated, an increase of 20 since yesterday. 82 people with the virus are in intensive care, down one. HSE chief executive Paul Reid says the hospital numbers may not have peaked yet. It's a milestone we were hoping we didn't see happening, but it has happened. The health system overall is under significant stress across the board, and that goes from our primary care services, our community services, GPs in particular, and all the way through to our hospitals. So this is normally a very busy period anyway post Christmas and early January, but they're on top of that COVID and they're on top of that the staffing impacts that were having from staff being out with COVID. There's calls for Donninggold County Council to put a time-free plan in place for temporary and permanent hyzing to meet the demands on hyzing in letter Kenny arising from the Micah crisis. Councillor Jeremy Monaghal is to bring a motion before tomorrow's sitting of the letter Kenny Milford Municipal District to address what he says is the rising pressure on hyzing and the need to rehouse families until remedial works are conducted on their affected properties. He's urging the local authority to look outside its own resources and plans to try and find a solution both for the short and long term. I certainly don't believe that our permanent house building program is going to meet the growing demand on the Micah houses in particular the ones in social housing and indeed the private housing stuff. We just haven't got the houses available to move these families into. So I think it's time that the council got their finger out there and it's time that we started looking at all the options that are open to us. Being the 29% increase in the number of tasks conducted by Guardi and Donninggold for drink and drug driving. According to the Medical Bureau of Road Safety's annual report for 2020, 337 blood and urine specimens were taken by Guardi in the county. The third highest figure in the country compared to 262 samples processed the previous year. Across the country there's been a 23% increase in specimens received by the Bureau for Intoxicant Analysis with a 39% increase in samples forwarded for drug testing. Professor Dennis Cusack, Director of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety says despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of the Bureau increased substantially in 2020 and continued to operate at the same higher level into 2021. And for whether or not you're rather cloudy and damp morning with patchy outbreaks of light rain or drizzle, it will feel mild though with highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. There are silent conversations that happen on our roads every day between drivers and older pedestrians like me. When we catch each other's eye to say, do you see me or I'm crossing, but when people don't look out for each other, those connections can be missed. And so can I. 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Well, there are more than welcome to comments at highlandradio.com. And a very good morning if you're joining us to watch the program across our social media. Feel free to say hello and comment there. We're on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, or on Facebook, Highland Radio News and Sport, or Highland Radio. Let's kick off with a look at the front of the newspapers this morning, starting with the Dairy People, Donegal News. Schools in Donegal are facing a major crisis, which is feared will get worse over the coming weeks as the Omicron variant continues to cause havoc across the education sector. Teachers unions have said one of the biggest challenges is the ability to find substitute cover to deal with staff testing positive or having to isolate because they are a close contact. And that might strengthen the argument of students that their education is again being disrupted and they need a different way of sitting the leaving cert. That's addressed in later papers, which I'll get to. It's staying with teaching in the Dairy News this morning. Dairy teachers have expressed their grave concerns over the safety of staff and pupils as they return to school during the Omicron spike. Schools across the city resumed face-to-face teaching in the classroom after the Christmas bake with no change to COVID guidance. Susan Parler, president of the National Education Union, and I said the message seems to be keep the schools open and hope for the best. It's farcical. Do you know what's not open at all? They're not back until the 19th of January. Do you think that's acceptable? And it's not just government parties. It's all parties, independents, whatever. They are staying off work as it relates to turning up at the door. They'll argue, of course, that they work very hard in their constituencies and their offices are always open and all that kind of stuff. But whilst we're having this debate about particularly, I think, cold children, you know, children are freezing in schools, many schools, or in certain classrooms. They're absolutely baltic. And even if the windows, it's not so bad today, of course, but even if the windows are open, sorry, even if the children are fully clothed, you know, extra clothing and all that malarkey if they're allowed, once you're sitting in the one position, you might even be having lunch in that space you will not belong getting cold no matter what you're wearing. So whilst that's happening, whilst NIAC are not NIAC, but Nefit, for example, are considering something as severe, although they won't do it, but they're considering it compulsory vaccination, which I think most people might be against. You know, the doll is not sitting. It's not sitting for another nine days whilst, you know, over a thousand people are in hospital with or of COVID. The doll's not sitting there to make any, to have a debate on that, to discuss what we should be doing. You know, are they assessing, should they not be meeting even maybe to assess that? Well, has closing pubs and restaurants and huge swathes of that economy, has that really had a positive or negative impact on case numbers? Should we maybe look at that? They can't discuss that because, of course, you know, they're not sitting in the doll and they won't be until at least the 19th of January. Is that acceptable to you? Maybe you feel that they've worked very hard throughout 2021 and do need that break. 086625,000 is the text line. 086625,000 or give us a call on 0749125,000 for your views on that. Principles want to return. This is the independent now. Principles want to rerun of a 2021 Star Leaving Cert as high levels of COVID-related teacher and student absences are having or have dealt another blow to exam candidates in a significant development. The National Association of Principles and Deputy Principles is seeking a hybrid approach, giving students a choice of exams and accredited grades or both. And this is a decision to relieve any additional stress and anxiety, particularly on students that needs to be made very, very quickly. Norma Foley might say, well, look, we'll wait and see. We don't know what the situation will be in this, that and then. But at this stage, we've spoken to them here and I'm sure we'll be speaking to more of them. Students are very, they're already quite worried about the situation and they require some certainty and it can be given to them. The NAPD call adds to mounting pressure on Education Minister Norma Foley to rethink Leaving Cert 2022 following unprecedented COVID transmission. Back to that Nefert story in the Irish Times. They're considering mandatory vaccination. I don't think this is an indication that it will happen. As I say, I think generally speaking, most people believe that this is not the right set. This would certainly not be the right approach. But they have to consider it to come up with a conclusion one way or other, it seems. And the state's public health team is set to consider mandatory vaccination with a new paper being prepared by the Department of Health on the legal and ethical aspects of such a move. It's also emerged that some members of the National Public Health Emergency Team, Nefert, did not agree with proposals for earlier closing times in hospitality introduced last month. Ministers are now understood to be increasingly skeptical of the measures, favouring the removal of the 8pm limit on trading hours, as well as the rule of allowing only six people to a table. But the doll, should it not? Maybe it shouldn't be sitting to discuss these issues to say, look, what is the situation? Is this working? Is it helping? Should we change this? But they're not. In a letter to government last week, the Chief Medical Officer Tony Hootland said Ireland had not yet reached the peak of the Omicron Wave. Nefert recommended that all current measures, such as the earlier closing time for pubs and restaurants and indoor events, remain in place until the end of January. On to the mail now, and Archbishop of Chum, Francis Duffy, has said more changes will be necessary from the Church in order to meet people's spiritual needs due to declining numbers in the priesthood. The cleric made the remarks in his first homily after yesterday being installed as the new Archbishop of Chum. He succeeded Archbishop Michael Neary, who had held the position since 1995. Speaking during the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Mass in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Chum, Archbishop Duffy said the number of people joining the priesthood had plummeted in recent decades. We have heard all the facts and figures, we just have to look around and see. Parishes where there were two or three priests, there's now one. And increasingly, there are none with parishes sharing a priest, he said. This is not because of any diminishing of what people think of priests and their work. If anything, the value put on priests, pastoral work, and liturgies, and the appreciation of their presence, is higher than ever, yet the decline continues. But what could you do in that regard? I wonder, how do you, what changes could you make to ensure there are enough priests to keep Masses going? Oh, wait, 60, 25,000, not Masses going, I know they do much more, but I think you understand what I'm saying. The latest opinion poll has seen Sinn Fein support rise once again to 33%, as their popularity over a Pheena fall and Pheena Gale increases. The Sunday Independent, Ireland Thinks poll saw Maryland McDonald's party rise by two points, Pheena Gale is down two points to 23%, Pheena fall rose by two points to 19%. The Green Party fell by 1.3%, which effectively would leak that the Greens are within the margin of error in terms of having zero. But I'm sure they could also argue that they could be within the margin of area of having 6%, but who's to say? Elsewhere, it would not be appropriate for Lee of Veradkar to become T-Shock, while he's still the subject of a criminal investigation. Rotten Shorthall, she's the co-leader of the Social Democrats, made the claims and RTS this week program. Mr. Veradkar's due to take over as T-Shock from Michael Martin at the end of this year, but the Pheena Gale leader is the subject of a criminal investigation over the alleged leaking of documents. When asked if she would be worried about Mr. Veradkar becoming leader, Ms. Shorthall said, I would have concerns about that, and I don't think it would be appropriate if a person was still under investigation. And last, but certainly not least, in fact it's not last, there's two more stories, a tragic story, I think we all have some sort of a connection or other to New York, and you don't even need one of course to see the horror of this story. At least 19 people, including nine children, have died in a fire in an apartment building in New York City. More than 60 people were injured, and 13 were still in critical condition in hospital last night. Mayor Eric Adams called the fire's toll horrific. He added, this is going to be one of the worst fires that we've witnessed during modern times. It seems that this fire was connected to an electrical heater that broke out on the second or third floor, and very quickly of course the fire took hold, but the smoke rose, and we know how devastating the impact of smoke can be long before the flames might reach us. Very sad news altogether. And very finally, Eric already have asked Interpol to help track down a possible suspect in the murder of Sophie Tuscant de Plantier. The man is a foreign national who lives in France and was known by the French woman's late husband Daniel. The police have his name, but no address. He was spotted following Sophie in Skoll County Court by shopkeeper Marie Farrell on the day before Sophie was murdered on December 23rd, 1996. I believe that's the same person described as wearing a trench coat and a cap and a couple of those documentaries. Well, they're looking to speak to him now. That's how they're investigating this. Filmmaker Jim Sheridan and Miss Farrell made a full statement on the matter to the Guardi last summer. Mr Sheridan reported the incident, and Miss Farrell was interviewed for two hours by Guardi. Okay, that is a look at the newspapers, welcoming Kelly's Teota on board for supporting the programme this week. We appreciate it greatly. Here's a message for them. 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There needs to be an engineering effort put in place because at this stage, there's thousands and thousands of taxpayers' money being swept down the swilly in temporary measures. Surely a good investment in a long-term fix is more sensible than squandering thousands on temporary jobs, I'm sorry, on temporary jobs. If you've an opinion on that, erosion at Lis Van and our efforts to try and sort it out, get in touch. The only time I ever get to actually get inside a bank is on my lunch hour because of my working hours and their opening time, says this caller. So imagine my anger yesterday when I made a rush to get to the Bank of Ireland to be with a sign on the door saying, closed for lunch from 12.30 to 1.30 for the foreseeable. No forewarning, nothing. What is the likes of me to do now to actually get inside a bank to do my business? These banks really are forcing people to bank online. I'm really quite surprised that in this day and age, banks would close at lunchtime, especially for the reasons that you've outlined, i.e., when it is more accessible for a lot of people. Right, okay. We spoke to Sarah Navin, a journalist in Australia last week. This was because, of course, Novak Djakovic, the controversy surrounding his arrival into Australia. He was in a hotel in quarantine at that time, pending a court hearing on Monday. Well, that court hearing has been heard and Australian judges ruled the decision to cancel Novak Djakovic visa was unreasonable. Sarah, thank you so much for accommodating us again this morning here. Right, okay. Is this decision comments a surprise? I was listening because I couldn't sleep last night to some of the comments from the judge and he seemed a bit of a Novak Djakovic fan, if you don't mind me saying so. Oh my gosh, I don't know how much of a tennis fan he is, but certainly very glowing in support of Novak and all the tables have turned. I guess it was a bit of a surprise to a lot of the Australian public, but we weren't privy to all of the paperwork that the judge was. And yeah, Novak is definitely right to play in the Australian Open and supporters from Serbia reacted in a joyous and colorful celebration, chanting his name in the street, both here in Melbourne, Victoria and in Serbia. But what happens next? Because, of course, Australia and its officials reserve the right to cancel his visa again. That would have great knock on impacts, of course, because I understand that would lead to an automatic three-year ban for applying for another visa, which means he would be out of tennis in Australia, perhaps even arguably, to the end of his career. But then again, I don't know how much pressure might be being put on by the public. Can you sort of tease that out for us, Sarah? Not be the end of the saga, because the Minister for Immigration, Alex Hawke, can now override the decision. So the Australian government reserves the right to continue to cancel his visa under the Immigration Act, only if it's found that he provided any false information. So as you say, he can be barred from entering Australia for three years. And the judge asked the Minister to think about the impact it would have on his income, his career, his reputation. We haven't got an outcome yet, but the government does intend to challenge it further. But I think the public feeling is that the court has decided there has to be a level of trust in the system. And I think the reason behind the initial backlash from the public's point of view was that there was that uncertainty, you know, the feeling that rules had not been followed, that people's power and prestige were seen to be getting some sort of special treatment. But the court heard that apparently he produced documents that said he did have a medical exemption not to be vaccinated, that was signed upon by a physician. So in essence, he ticked every box. And at this point, it would be pretty hard for the government to argue against that, unless they have some sort of proof that the documents were incorrect, or there has been some sort of extra wrongdoing in what was presented to Canada Australia and the Victorian government. But of course, the internet investigators have been on the case and have already spotted that in the days after he claims that he received a positive COVID diagnosis, he was out meeting fans, he was out meeting children, he was out at parties, which is his right, don't get me wrong. I for a second, I'm not judging him in that regard. And also is there not a question mark as to whether or not a recent infection of COVID actually does exempt you from the strict vaccination requirements? Or has that been clarified over the course of the day, Sarah? Yeah, I haven't heard whether or not that was part of tennis Australia's rules or not. But yes, he claims that in mid December, he was positive through COVID, lots of pictures emerging online and of him mingling with with crowds and children and an award ceremonies and things around that time that he did test positive. One could argue that just negligence that he was positive and was continuing his community efforts, if you like, as a tennis star when he should have possibly been isolating and being responsible, but whether or not there's proof in the text that he had taken that had to be registered in his home country or something. He's shown in government, see the plight for an extra couple of days with this court hearing, but that was rejected. So we're not entirely sure what they were working on in terms of trying to strengthen their case. Okay, listen, Sarah, thank you very much for your time. I greatly appreciate it. That is Sarah Navin, who is a journalist in Australia, focusing on that story which has dominated news headlines right across the world, even when some other really significant stories have not quite made the headlines in the same fashion. But it's because there's a level of interest and celebrity to it and that's just the way it is. This caller says, the story of Djokovic is an issue that affects a lot of people. There are people who cannot get vaccinated for various reasons and need to know what to do in similar scenarios. Where do they go? Who's the voice of these people? Well, people who can't get vaccinated are you know, that's fine. They're accounted for and they can get on with things. In this country, if you're talking about the way other people do, if you can't get vaccinated, there are exemptions there for people like that. Djokovic, though of course, you know, he's not just someone who can't get one for certain reasons. He's strongly opposed to seemingly vaccination, at least as it relates to himself, which again is his right. Okay. 086625,000, that is the text line. 086625,000 or call 0749125,000. You may have heard on the news and we want to tease it out further with Councillor Jerry McGonagall calls upon Donagall County Council to draw up a comprehensive time frame plan to tackle the housing demands in Lether Kenny as a result of the Micah crisis. I mean, there's a housing crisis. Is there not already, Councillor, in Lether Kenny without the extra pressures, people seeking accommodation, hopefully while their houses are repaired, that that would add to it? Very much. We've had a housing crisis for a number of years now because of the lack of social housing and indeed the private sector since the crisis being built. And that's been compounded now with Micah. And that's why I'm bringing forward the motion because I think Donagall County Council is sleepwalking under this crisis. I don't believe we're doing enough. We've had long enough now to study this and see what the needs are. And we see ourselves from our own investigations that upwards of a thousand social houses could be affected by Micah. And yet that's on top, as you say, the current pressures on housing. We have people now, I believe who are living in houses, which are not fit for purpose and that they're becoming unsafe or the families in them. And I would like to see us look outside the box and not just depend on acquiring or purchasing houses or building, but to actually maybe look at bringing the private sector into provide sort of template type of accommodation to allow the families to move into there. Let's talk about that a bit more because I think, you know, with the best one in the world and with all the effort there, in terms of, you know, even houses that might need some renovation or have you or even using up capacity that might be in the private sector, there probably isn't enough already built houses in Letterkenny realistically, given the timeframe to meet the demands that are out there. Yeah, and not just in Letterkenny. Great. It's probably right across the county. We haven't written enough houses to meet the demand and certainly to meet the demand that Micah is putting on us. We have, and I talk about Letterkenny because I was bringing the motion into Letterkenny Municipal District tomorrow. We have a number of sites in Letterkenny, which are open. We're using the past for various other uses, but our service, what they've called service sites, have actually had the water, electricity, this, the yours exact, et cetera, et cetera. And I think that we should need to be looking at this and see how within the current plan and regulations that maybe we could build or bring in. And we see them being advertised by those in the private sector who can build temporary type dwellings. Right. This is very close down, is it, to the proposals made by independent Councillor Michael McBride then we're talking about, you know, temporary houses built being put on service sites that already exist? Yeah, certainly. And I agree with the time with what Micah was proposing. And it's a long while in terms of the crisis we're in that Micah made that proposal, and to date, not how it's been done. Now, we are going to get a presentation this morning on the housing for all. But that's dealing with government policy over a long 10-year period. And it's not going to fix the problem we're in now and certainly meet the problems of this crisis that Micah and the housing shortage has thrown up there. So I think we need to think outside the box. We need to think on our feet. We need to be building these dwellings now because the demand and the need is here and then now. So I'm looking for council to look and give us a timeframe, you know, plan that some of these houses are going to be built because I'm sure, I mean, I am getting contacted on a daily basis. I see photographs of the houses which are affected by Micah. I certainly wouldn't want to live in them. And I don't think the current tenant should be and the family should be living on them. And we need to be at the council providing for them. It's very complicated, though, isn't it? Because, you know, even if you, and we'll just say, you know, these wooden temporary structures, not temporary, they're permanent, but they go up easy, let's say with a, and you create something like a, you know, a small village effectively is what it might be like on some of these service sites. You know, you can't move people in there and say, well, it could be one year, five years or 10 years, they would have to be a wider plan, would they not, would they're not for, you know, to get these, their own houses rebuilt and back in, you know, that they're able to be occupied. But because each family is responsible for that themselves and the difficulties in maybe getting a contract or how long that work might take, it becomes very, very complicated very, very quickly. And I'm sure no one would want to sort of, or maybe they would, sort of be facing six, seven, eight, nine years in one of these sort of, or be quite comfortable, temporary houses on the site of Netra Kenney. Yeah, and this is where government, you know, comes in. I mean, we have a reserve scheme, or we don't have a reserve scheme. At the moment, we don't have. And that's what the hold up is. And what we're looking for is a 100% reserve scheme. The government need to implement that ASAP. They need to free up capital and money to allow that type of work that we're talking about to begin. And that there is a time limit that people's going to be out of their own homes for them to be fixed and renovated and allowed back and again. So they're not staying there in five or six years. But at the moment, we're in a log jam. Government haven't signed off on the 100% redress. And we're in a limbo. The applications are stalled. It's going to go kind of cancel. And while all this is happening, people are living in houses, which are crumbling down around them with the one that we had in the recent really wet and cold weather, them homes are only going to get worse. And as I say, I've seen photographs in recent weeks of homes, which look, if you had, if you had one of your pets on it, you'd be condemned for it. And we need to be moving fast. And we need to get the families out of these houses. And we need to be thinking outside the box. And we need to be looking at the service sites that there is about to the county and start putting in houses, which are temporarily going to fulfill the needs and the current needs that we have in the county. And I suppose the vote to sell, though, on the government or an agency of it, taking over this on a large scale and able to say right to a contractor, we need this amount of houses done in this amount of time. That's really, is it not the scenario we'd need to try to be moving people into semi-permanent accommodation for an unlimited amount of time? Because, as I say, with people having to do all of this individually, thousands and thousands of people right across the county, you just wonder how quickly or how slowly it's going to take to get people, you know, the majority of people back into a livable house. Yeah, we know the extent of the problem. I mean, an awful lot of work has been done on this. The Micah Action Group have collated a significant amount of information that presented to governments and to councils. We know what the extent of the problem is. And yet, we don't seem to be moving any way closer to your solution. And I know the redress scheme is going to address a lot of that. But implementally, and before that would happen, we need to be putting in some systems that's going to meet the current demand. Because houses, they're not going to get any better. They're going to get worse. And as it builds up, there's going to be more and more families who are living in houses which aren't fit for purpose and need to be moved so we need to start. And that's what I'm saying. I mean, Donegal County Council, we're waiting for the nod from the department and the government. The department and the government haven't made a decision yet on it. And it's just going on and the nightmares continuing for these families. And it's just not good enough. Could I, you know, it's not good enough? With a crisis like this, with a crisis like we're seeing in the health service and others, do you not think our politicians should be back in the door already discussing these issues, discussing how parents and teachers are so upset that the children are freezing in classrooms, discussing the various elements of this health crisis, what's going on in letter Kenny today, the highest amount of people in hospital with or from COVID in the country, you know, it's only going in one direction seemingly at the moment, all of these things. Do you not think the people, our politicians should be back in the door discussing this stuff and representing the people? They're not due back to the 19th of January. It's it's almost laughable, isn't it? If it wasn't so serious. Yeah, exactly. Of course they should be back. And of course they should be discussing this, but they need to be making changes. I mean, going back into the door this week or last week or next week, if you're going to continue with the same policies and not bring in any change that's going to affect or any new policies going to affect change, then what's the use of that? Our problem is not to think in the door that it's the policies that the current government currently have to address the crisis that we have, as you say, in our health service, look at education in the back of the school and in the back alone, the arguments around that. And then we have then the Micah situation here in this county and the Mayo and others. So look, unless they go back, they look at it seriously and find solutions that are going to work and address the crisis. So that's what we need to do. But yes, of course they need to be back. This is too long of a break. And they need to be in there. We're in the middle of a pandemic. There's crisis in health, as you say, there's crisis with the Micah. There's a growing crisis within our schools. And all of us promised that we'll be done there. We're two years under the pandemic and all the issues around the air for public creation. All right, so thanks for your time this morning. That's Councillor Jerry McMonigal, 08, 660, 25,000, 08, 660, 25,000. That's the WhatsApp and text line. Right, okay. It is time for a break. Stay with us. More to come. The Nine to Lune Show brought to you by Kelly's Toyota with over 45 years of experience. Trust us to help you on your electric journey. Spaghetti bolognese and cottage pie. Eat the food you love and form new healthy habits for life. Free Slimming World magazines, only inside Monday and Tuesday's Irish Daily Star. From the smallest shrub to the largest tree in an awkward place, Donnelly Tree Services provide a complete range of tree surgery services. 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We had a statement released at the weekend, a joint statement from LWIT Management and the Students' Union which reads, discussions between Institute Management and Student Union's representatives continued over the course of Friday on plans for rescheduling of winter semester assessment. Both parties are optimistic that discussions will come to a satisfactory conclusion early next week at which point a further update will be issued. And I believe they're actually having a meeting this afternoon which is perhaps maybe a crunch meeting to try and come up with a solution there. Speaking of solutions, one of our listeners says they've got a few solutions. A few solutions for the health service here in Donegal from a texture. They say, why is there no separate minor injuries unit in Donegal? This would make vast differences if there were one to two units set up in Donegal to treat minor injuries and not have to go to the ED for hours and hours. Well, you know, that used to be the case. I remember I cut myself, had to get stitches and went to the community hospital in Donegal. I remember having to bring someone else who was having an asthma attack, took them there and they were given the appropriate treatment there. That was, dare I say it, 30 years ago, maybe even more, 35 years ago in one of the examples I gave. That's where you would go in situations like that, the community hospital in Donegal town, don't know why that changed. But anyway, now it's straight up to the ED. Their second option for now, Doc, they set up a service so that more people can be seen there, have extra teams of nurses and doctors to actually treat patients and not refer them on to ED, build up the services in the community to help ease burden on the hospital. These two things alone would make a massive difference. Now again, I'm not trying to pick holes in what you're saying, but one of the problems we have with GP services across the country is GPs are retiring and no GPs, no new GPs, very few new GPs are taking up positions. So we have GPs like, and I recall we spoke to Dr James McDade last year, maybe the year before, and he said that he felt, and he and others have said it as well, that not that they're planning to retire, but they probably would give it more consideration. But out of loyalty to their patients, they're staying on at work because they don't see necessarily staff coming through that could replace them. So there is not a whole group of GPs available to bolster the now Doc service, let alone the regular GP service again. So I mean, we could still do what you're saying, but we're going to have to find a new way of doing it, improve conditions. I don't know what it is. The third suggestion, take all COVID related work away from GP surgeries, no more PCR referral or vaccine administration by GP, set up completely different units for all COVID related calls, advice, respiratory assessment units, vaccines, et cetera. And where would they be based though? Because currently we have GP services in every corner for the most part of Donegal, where would these be centralized? Would it be in Lederkeny, Bonkran, what would happen if you lived in Donegal and so on and so forth? I believe this is our last set of restrictions. They have to move to an endemic stage living beside COVID anyway. So maybe a lot of what you're saying there will be resolved through that. But they go on stage, just think outside the box, lots of things can be done to help the current situation. And thank you so much for putting in so much thought. A lot of what you say I think makes an awful lot of sense, but it's where do you get the staff to actually come up with your suggestions because they can't get enough staff into Lederkeny University Hospital currently. Right, Adult Learning Disability Day services are closed in Kassel-Nakor again, believe it or not. We'll have a look into that and see what the story is there. Right, okay, our next guest joins us on the program after this short break. The Nine Till Noon Show brought to you by Kenny's Toyota, Port Road, Lederkeny, with offers on a wide range of passenger and commercial vehicles. Inish Fitness Dunlow is offering a free fitness plan a deal or two with every six or 12 month membership purchased in January. Call in to Inish Fitness Dunlow to find out more. Time at McElhenney's biggest ever winter sale. Grab your bargain of the year with up to 70% off in her women's, men's, kids' jewelry, home and footwear departments. 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Former Transport Minister Shane Ross joins us on the programme. I think you were in favour of this name and shame policy as was it's a national group of course but but founded locally here to us Park. You would have been in favour of this, I imagine. Are you disappointed to see the RSA quietly shelve these plans Shane? Taking an extraordinarily long time for this particular measure to come in so there must have been some difficulties somewhere and I think there are privacy issues involved but it was first suggested I think even before I came into office by the RSA in 2015 and I do think that you know the niche media kind of response to all nearly all legislation which is to introduce to you know driving driving legislation to say no is a bad one and we've got over that now it appears that there are real difficulties in terms of privacy but I would I would really urge the RSA to think again on this because you know I when I was Transport Minister I was happy to look at all the measures to save lives and this was this was one of the ones which which came up it seemed to me to be very very sensible but this it seemed to me that it acts deterrent it deters people in their communities from from drink driving and drug driving in particular these offenses which are you know it's a it's a more novel way and it works in terms of the revenue commissioners tax default it's a more novel way than just punishing people by putting them off the road or finding them but it actually makes them think hey what are people in my community the only thing I would say though with the revenue commissioners you know it works maybe because you know the person is chased down they're incredibly heavily penalized you will see some of those settlements whereby the initial sum is much less than the actual sum so there's a there's a a number of factors there that might see that working as a deterrent the RSA seem to think that naming and shaming in and of itself would not be a deterrent but we have to do something because seven out of ten fatal crashes are caused by ban drivers so we have if it's not going to be name and shame we have to come up with something else then because you know for every hundred people that very sadly die seven are caused by people it's not quite as simple as that but seven are caused by people that should not be on the road at all yeah I I know and and you know there is a bit of a culture here and it's all over it's country-wide it's not rural it's not urban it's country-wide of people who have been who have been banned for six months or a year whatever it is for drinking drug driving an awful lot of them as you say that they're still they're still driving and even though they've been put off the road illegally of course and if their names are published at least the people I think it would actually deterrent because the people in their communities will know them that these people who have been actually banned are now driving around at the moment nobody knows who's been banned from driving who isn't so the people who've decided to defy the sentence which has been which has been imposed upon them know that the people around them actually and that's been the newspaper should the public of course get the information that's been the newspaper they don't know so they'll take a chance if they know that their name has been published they're much much less likely yes but if they were if they were facing a much serious sentence for doing it you know if someone murders someone you know it's treated completely differently you know you don't go into court and you go oh well you know they were doing this or doing that or they had to because of this or they had to because of that you know like I mean the punishment the punishments need to be looked at surely because that is the greatest deterrent of all that if you are caught again doing it or if you end up being responsible for someone's death and especially when you are mandated not to be driving well a much much tougher sentence surely would be the deterrent that we're looking for here well I think this is probably a good idea but I also think I mean detection is probably more deterrent than anything else they think they're going to be caught people don't do it it's not going to be caught they take the risk of getting a fairly heavy sentence and I think the the real problem is obviously detection and that's a that's a that's a garter matter and obviously they're on the matter they're on the matter as well but you know the balance between the two is very very important punishments yes you know we didn't we did we did actually change things on the on the drink driving which I think provides a great deterrent there's a lot of there's a lot of row about it but drink driving legislation is very very difficult because it's always challenged and that's the problem the rsa have here they've looked at this and somebody has challenged it if it's not the darted protection people be someone else will be challenged in the in the courts so that's why this is really disappointing that this which looked like a measure which took an extraordinary long time first moved in 2015 has now been shelved it means that the rsa are going to have to come up with a a substitute or an equally an equally effective measure to deter people from from driving with their back last week we were talking about the amount of people who are seemingly caught with mobile phones getting off with it I think around about a third only end up being convicted if it goes to court and we were speaking to a former head of of traffic here inspector Michael Harrison former inspector you know and he said we and he said it before he's on the record saying it that the all the legislation road traffic legislation needs to be looked at it needs to be I don't know re-written or whatever it might be to make it more enforceable and we've had these conversations about people not handing in licenses if they've been disqualified you know people just booking a booking a driving test just so they can renew their provisional license and continue driving even if they've even if they never sit the test speeding fines being evaded you know on and on and on and on and goals I mean as a former minister for transport you're right across that legislation could you see an argument for you know not ripping it up but you know something akin to that and starting from scratch and having something that's usable that's workable in a more efficient way yeah I mean there was there was this constantly and when I was in office up to last other year for last there was there was constantly the the question of consolidating the the legislation otherwise all so this is all actually uh it's together and is consistent and that the resources for that would be enormous you'd have to take a lot and pay a lot of civil servants to do it and I think there's a very good case obviously for doing that but don't underestimate and this is where the real difficulty applies if you're a reforming minister and you really want to take the the the bull by the horns on road safety the the political resistance including in the cabinet i'd mind you to any reform measures of this sort or road safety measures is very very strong what is the motivation for that in this particular area for law who is lobbying who's trying to pull the strings what's the arguments being made if the political resistance is the what I found and I was very involved in changing the drink driving laws the resistance of that remember last the nearly two or three years there was there was there was various people in the door like you know who they are um who who resisted into filibuses who did anything to try and stop reforming legislation going through both on speed and on drink driving and um and the oh the pressure on them was undoubtedly from the vintners that situation it was undoubtedly from the drink lobby and the drink lobby was massively resistant yes but what we've seen is right uh the vintners having the impact to slow down the work that you and others were trying to do and yet they couldn't do anything about polls being closed completely for a year so in other words if the political will is there it doesn't really matter what the lobby groups do or don't because that's been proven that's absolutely true the political will is there you can you can do it and you can stand up to these people it is difficult for them remember they they you know that the big lobby groups have had an effect on the COVID regulations and how they change backwards and backwards and forwards but but on the issue of um of drink and driving and where they were much stronger they had a very very strong hold on a large number of back benches some of whom were related and some were vintners uh were were were barren as themselves so it is a very very strong lobby and that that goes cross-party i i found when you know when i was doing the drink driving or the drug driving safety measures or speeding which met massive resistance i went to the cabinet one day and uh with speeding legislation ready to go and there was a there was a kind of a revolution in the pinnagale racks that morning and we had to we had to change it around and delay it etc because of that because of that and that it indicates to me the strength of lobby group the lobby group which is which is always there now the result of that of course is great that that lives are kind of cost lives it's you know it's one of those unbelievable conflicts where commerce costs cost live commercial lobbying actually costs lives and that was that was unfortunately very sadly happening uh finally you talked about when you were in government um of course uh leo for our car is scheduled to take over his t-shirt later this year russian short or commenting at the weekend that whilst he is the subject of an investigation uh that should not happen do you have a view on that whether or not he should resume his position of t-shirt while this investigation or if this investigation was still ongoing at that time well he's not when he's in that investigation he's done actually nothing wrong as of now um i guess you know that's next december i would guess that investigation would be over i'm very surprised it's not over by by now um and obviously there's no special treatment going to anybody um no i don't really have a view i i think that that you cannot possibly uh at this stage say that someone you know who is not guilty of anything should stand should should resign at their position i think that would be absolutely wrong well maybe those maybe that were caught for example up in golf gate could have could have argued the same the court case is only ongoing now and uh quite a number of people lost elements of their jobs so their their their their their positions within parties or their actual portfolios as a result yeah some of them some of them uh admitted immediately to what had happened and i think they resigned i think the problematic in golf cases is not that people resign but the inconsistency of some people having to resign and other people not and they're being absolutely right no reason as to why you know a commission or supreme court judge is still in position but a minister has had to resign uh and that's i think that i think that's the difficulty there uh yeah there you are with the people who resigned that uh have said yeah i've come out with their hands up and and and done so and the team in the tarnish this case is of course saying he didn't do anything wrong so okay except somewhat different nothing's been proved otherwise thank you very much indeed former minister shane ross gregg can you have a discussion on how and why houses in in a show we're bought by the council yet we're known to have mike and we've covered that story uh in the past and if there's any further developments of course we'll cover it uh going forward like we do all stories uh really leaving sir my daughter is completely stressed out it's ridiculous not protecting their mental health uh predicted grades will have to be an option they were off last year for weeks and now uh no teachers in freezing conditions in schools subs are no good they don't teach they just supervise now their subs they're not just not just not familiar with the class at all i'm sure the subs are fine they're just not able to do what the teachers are doing uh the courses have not been covered and what is going to happen leaving search students are vulnerable and not being protected by our government nomofoli has to keep saying last year uh the same old story leaving search is going ahead what will it take for them to wake up to put our vulnerable children out of their misery of not knowing uh are you hearing any reports back uh from your young ones what's it like in school at the moment particularly with the uh cold causing issues let us know uh and do you agree i think we all agree don't we that the young people need to be told one way or other what's happening um because there's nothing worse than uncertainty i've said that in the past but it's true and they have it in their gift to relieve that uncertainty okay we'll be back with more after the news and obituary notices stay 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1,000 people with covid are in hospital for the first time since last february there are 1,000 and four patients being treated an increase of 20 since yesterday 82 people with the virus are in intensive care dine one hsc chief executive paul rates as the hospital numbers may not have peaked yet it's a milestone we were hoping we didn't see happening but it has happened the health system overall is under significant stress across the board and that goes from our primary care services our community services gps in particular and all the way through to our hospitals you know so this is normally a very busy period anyway post christmas in early january but they're on top of that covid and they're on top of that the staffing impacts that were having from staff being out with covid the finnegill senator is calling for the leaving search to run on the cm hybrid model as last year in 2021 six years were given the choice to accept predicted grades or sit the exams as normal senator virginia dohorty says this year's exam students deserve to know the plan for this year's leaving search the hybrid model is a compassionate one and it's i think compassion is something that they definitely need now we're talking about their mental health and where we're at at the moment is that their stress valves are close to exploding and so rather than waiting until march like we did last year i'm asking the minister to strongly work with stakeholders planning permission has been submitted for a major new innovation and business center in latter kenny the proposed development would see the construction of a multi-story building on the pierce road at the site of the former esb premises trish laffary reports plans have been submitted by donnie gall county council in partnership with donnie gall 2040 strategic development designated activity company for the construction of the alpha innovation center and the beta business center the council has already secured funding of 3.7 million euro to establish the alpha innovation center a low carbon enterprise campus in letter kenny's enterprise quarter it's proposed to demolish the former esb retail and office premises to make way for the major development once completed the buildings will provide office and research and development accommodation facilities public realm and parking plans are available for viewing until monday january 24 submissions and observations can be made in writing to the county secretariat donnie gall county council lifford before five p.m on tuesday february 8th there's calls for donnie gall county council to put a time frame in plan in place for temporary and permanent housing to meet the demands on housing in letter kenny arising from the mica crisis answer jerry mcmonigal is to bring emotion before tomorrow's sitting of the letter kenny milford municipal district to address what he says is the rising pressure and housing and the need to re-heist families until remedial works are conducted on their affected properties he's urging the local authority to look outside its own resources and plans to try and find a solution both for the short and long term i certainly don't believe that our permanent house building program is going to meet the growing demands on the mica houses in particular the ones in social housing and indeed the private housing stuff we just haven't got the houses available to move these families into so i think it's time that the council got their finger out there and it's time that we started looking at all the options that are open to us there's been a 29 percent increase in the number of tests conducted by guardie indoni golford drink and drug driving the number of tests conducted by guardie nationally is up 23 percent idrian harman has more according to the madagil bureau of road safety's annual report for 2020 337 blood and urine specimens were taken by guardie in the county the third highest figure in the country compared to 262 samples processed the previous year across the county there's been a 23 percent increase in specimens received by the bureau for intoxicant analysis with a 39 percent increase in samples forwarded for drug testing professor denis a qzak director of the medical bureau of road safety says despite the covid pandemic the work of the bureau increased substantially in 2020 and continued to operate at the same higher level into 2021 the report shows cannabis to be the most prevalent drug detected in motorists while 25 to 34 year olds continue to contribute to the greatest percentage of drivers arrested on suspicion of drink or drug driving weather now a rather cloudy and dark morning with patchy outbreaks of light rain or drizzle mild today with highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees that's all from highland video news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary note this monday morning january the 10th the death has occurred of patrick lynch maura begburn foot reposing at his lit residence this evening from four o'clock removal on wednesday morning at 20 past 10 to st murris church fawn for requiem mass at 11 o'clock fall by internment in the adjoining cemetery patrick's requiem mass can be viewed on church services family time please from 11 p.m until 11 a.m family flowers only please donations and leave desired to care of the age to care of any family member or murphy funeral directors the death has taken place of john donne eight ashley close and formerly of high road letter kenny john's remains are reposing at his lit residence sooner from there tomorrow morning for requiem mass at 11 o'clock in sin june's cathedral letter kenny fall by burial in comwall cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on the church webcam wake private to family neighbors and friends family flowers only donations and leave desired to hill crest nursing home comfort fund care of any family member the death has occurred of patrick's award glen view our draw her remains are reposing at her lit residence removal from there to more morning at half past 10 going to the church of the holy family our draw for funeral mass at 11 o'clock internment afterwards in the family plot in glenty cemetery lice is strictly private at the request of the deceased the death has occurred of anita gilday karn our draw her remains are reposing at her lit residence funeral from there this morning at half past 11 going to the church of the holy family our draw for funeral mass at 12 noon the death has occurred of peter watson eight figary heights fawn his remains will be reposing at murphy's funeral home today from three until six o'clock removal to more morning at quarter past 10 to sip mary's church cock hill for recreation mass at 11 o'clock at fall by internment in the adjoining cemetery peter's recreation mass can be viewed on church services family flowers only please donations and leave desired to bun chronic community hospital care of any family member or murphy 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please to chest heart and stroke care of quickly funeral directors the house is private to family and friends only please the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of bernadette mcconway lemma crossen quickly's point bernadette remains a reposing at her son john and daughter-in-law catherine's home in lemma crossen funeral from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock recreation mass in synclombus church drone followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard funeral mass can be viewed live on mc and media the death has taken place of joshua miller senior arch farm dromore letcher kenney remains reposing at his home funeral service at his home this afternoon at quarter past one funeral leaving their at two o'clock for burial in gortley cemetery house private to family close friends and neighbors welcome family flowers only donations of desire to alzheimer society care of any family member or patrick sweeney funeral directors and 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phone lines caroline taking your calls as always an 07 4 9 1 25 000 the bingo numbers are on the way for you but just uh some of your comments beforehand greg i hate seeing truckers with huge lorries mothers or fathers with children in the back anyone driving with mobile to the ear and uh driving never mind turning in a busy tight corner like from ballad buffet to glenn frinn street i dare any guardian playing clothes or concerned person stand there and count these dangerous on caring drivers catching lawbreakers in places like this all over donagola rland would be like shooting fish in a tank all it's needed is video cameras plus cctv all over the place uh to back the case up maybe possibly arguably uh but it's maybe even all more easy uh to clock drivers coming in on the road works into letter kenny uh greg does anyone know why the rural mobile aib bank hasn't been in our area for the last three weeks is it a result of kovat or staff shortages or bank changes uh well maybe we can put an inquiry in to find out what the story is there you'd imagine that the bank would have contacted customers if they could to let them know that hi greg that facility of treating minor injuries was in lyford hospital great idea to bring it back yeah indeed and i'm sure it was in dunlode community hospital uh in glenn teased on a balai shannon maybe the rock or shield sorry i'm sure um you know it was done all over the place there was someone on site to you know maybe strap up a an injured uh an injured ankle or or put in a few stitches that's the way it used to be uh shane ross the very mention of the man's name sent shivers through me right ruthless should be his middle name one example he ruined the wee rural pub stopped the small farmer from heading to the pub on his tractor for a pint at night uh hi i'm just wondering could you please highlight the dangerous junction at causeway road bonkrana i think i really think the council will do nothing till a serious crash happens it's unbelievable after so many years that they haven't put traffic lights up when it's so dangerous highlight it please before it's too late i'm not very familiar with uh this junction the causeway road junction in bonkrana if you travel that road and you share the concerns of your fellow listener get in touch with us uh raise the issue with us and i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand apparently the ulster banking battle phase the same it's closed for lunch i thought those days were gone you know half day wednesday's closures for lunch uh all that kind of stuff uh that used to be the case uh banks closing at lunchtime it'd be the only time i could get into a bank but and i'm sure i'm like many people out there but anyway i need a pcr test because of a positive antigen i sat up till 12 last night to get one and the appointment is for tuesday evening so it could be thursday before i get the results of other people to think about who could be close contacts these people are at work should i contact them contact them directly or leave it to the contact tracing system it's all becoming a bit facile they say i don't know what i i mean courtesy out of courtesy i'd contact people and say look uh i haven't had a pcr test but i've had a positive antigen test and let them make their decisions that's what i would do um later on in this you see that they haven't figured it out themselves they being the hsc because later this week you would now be able to upload your antigen test to the hsc website right and it has the facility then to sort of allow you to input your close contacts and then they would send out a text but they haven't decided yet whether or not they're actually going to do that they haven't figured it out yet when someone uploads a positive antigen test what to do next about what to do next about um what to do next about close contacts i mean i wouldn't say making it up as they go along let's just be very care kind and say they're working it out as they go along so 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0818 numbers but not everyone is going to hear that message and you can't relate that message enough the new now dock number is 0818400911 now when i was talking about this towards the end of last year because this is such an important surface i couldn't understand as to why both numbers could not run in tandem for a more prolonged time because as i say not everyone is going to hear the information despite everyone's best efforts and margaret is joining us to talk to us about the importance of people knowing the new number but also of course that in a very stressful situation the impact you can have in terms of people who aren't aware of the change dialing the old number margaret and we appreciate you coming on to further highlight this whether it's a great greatly appreciated but in very unfortunate circumstances margaret thank you yeah right i couldn't have helped the person who had passed away but in cases of medical emergency it could make a difference between life or death and i wasn't aware of it and anybody i've spoken to wasn't and my surgery said that it is not widely known so so what happened on sunday um it's last sunday now margaret that made you so aware of this well my my neighbour was suffering from cancer and i had he was in great pain the night before and i've said to his wife ring me anytime of the day or night so at half five on a sunday morning she rang to say she couldn't wake him up and when i went in he was actually very cold so he'd obviously passed away during the night yeah yeah so i knew i needed a death certificate first so i rang and rang one eight five oh four hundred nine one one now when you rang it did i go d d d or did it actually ring or was there a message that's a annoying part about it it rang and rang and rang as if some you know it was a valid number there was no information that it had changed so i ended up actually ringing a priest the local priest which was absolutely marvelous but um there was no information and in fact i've tried it every day the one eight five oh number since and then the last two days it actually tells you to ring back and try again right this is this is some believable stuff we've just checked that number the 18 5491 one number which no one should use is actually still ringing as if it is an active number so people are getting no indication particularly as you say in an emergency that that number is no longer in use there's no message no nothing i agree with you i i share your uh anger this is uh this is something that should not be the case there should at least be a noise that indicates it's a dud number or best case a telephone number saying ring this number or divert the number it's something yes to help people it just says it's no longer in service but it doesn't give any information and if you google the nidoc number it gives you the one eight five oh number that's a very interesting point yes and if you try what is the new number to nidoc it still doesn't give you the new number it's just ridiculous well that's it comes up at the top of the search you're 100 right there right this should have been seen coming as well don't know that yeah okay right um we're going to get on to this again and pursue this this just is uh there's a few things going on the nidoc number coming up and google is particularly worrying the fact that the 1850 number still rings um and the fact that there's no message to say otherwise uh this this with um the fact that your feeling is that a not not a lot enough people know the new number at this point and this is life and death this isn't ringing a radio station or this isn't ringing the ESB this is ringing a life and death number potentially yeah okay right can i just say Greg thank goodness for highland radio taking up these issues we would be lost in the legal if you weren't there to highlight things so thank you very much well it's you you're highlighting it you're just using us Margaret but i appreciate your kind words and we're going to see what we can do about this uh because it has to be it has to be it has to be escalated because as well uh it i would say it took a few days because of the shock of of of what you went through it's taken a few days to process this and say hold on your second you know i couldn't get through to this service it was just one step too many and i wasn't going to do anything but now i'm sort of through it i feel very strongly that i need to it could save lives no doubt no doubt okay leave it with us and and and we're going to try to see what we can we can achieve um but something has to be done here all right thanks very much Margaret okay and my condolences to your neighbor by the way as well very important thank you very much she's uh in our prayers as is her partner who passed thank you so much thank you very much all right Margaret um right that's uh that's quite significant i think uh this is the kind of stuff you'd love your politicians to be on making inquiries and doing it and that's what we're doing it as well of course but you know what i mean Greg in relation to schools there are two options if you close the schools we keep them open with the windows open that's not the case at all you see um because there are technological solutions to this relatively inexpensive air purifiers that uh that the department of education was being called on to supply through the government and they are off the government months and months ago so there are more than that options you have the windows closed you have co2 monitors and you have air purifiers in the classroom um so that's the that is a solution but anyway as i said i don't wish to contradict you but there's a glaring alternative to your two options either you close the schools or keep you open with the windows open uh another one i don't think predicted grades is a great idea this is the same texture too much pressure on teachers because parents want and expect teachers to give a good grade to their child even though the child may not be worthy of this mark look i know good students who were very disappointed with the predictive grades because they didn't get the marks the system is there it's not perfect but it's been used uh Greg no subs in secondary schools they don't teach they supervise if it's short-term example teachers are out with COVID i know but it was just them being described as useless and they are people and human beings and and that's the only uh that's that's the only reason i added that in is of course in terms of what they can do versus a teacher um it's just the useless word is what stuck with me right councillor michael mcclaffrey good morning to you good morning great thanks uh good thanks first things first uh i because when i was on with you and i challenged you on your proposal that the fire service could assist in first responding uh you know could assist the ambulance service um and in fairness to you i think it's only right uh since then uh you know there's been further calls from that and i think maybe some advances being made in terms of looking that so as i say you know i did challenge you quite strongly on it uh the last time i spoke to you so i think it's only fair to recognize that your calls have got a bit of traction and and may end up going somewhere despite i think uh you were uh unable to get any support from any other council members at that meeting is that a fair enough assessment of it yeah we're from the official yes to be fair to meet all the council members all the county counties there and see everyone but the officials yes um weren't weren't um weren't open to it at that particular day in and back in november there but yes other counties now have started to to take it to to acknowledge it as well so hopefully going forward i know it's it's a big ask for everybody here but at the end of the day the one thing it depends on you can't put a price to somebody's life and as i said it's the only one that the other counties have at its core because elsewhere there's no reason why don't they all here can't get it and the only reason why don't they all want to get it that the public start to get pushing themselves here really how significant this can be and hopefully through time maybe not in the future anyway that somebody at the top people will say look okay these guys have a point every time we're all out across the county and it will be helpful to us all okay i just wanted to reference that to be absolutely fair but that's not why we invited you on um it is that time of the year again where we are getting reports of dogs attacking or worrying sheep and it having a really serious impact on the animals but of course this is uh also a livelihood at stake here tell us why you're raising this issue today yeah at the moment now as you rightly said it's the time of year again from now from January on to possibly April for some farmers and their dogs out and about the particular issue that that i'm raising here today is does people going out uh to exercise their dogs to certain places let it be parks let it be beaches whatever maybe along the road back roads in some cases obviously where we live here in Donegal but the problem is here anyway at the minute there's dogs been either going out without leads or on leads and then let off the lead and the dog's running on and the dog's jumping on the fetus so on and start the chase sheep with worrying sheep there's there's a local farmer here at the minute on their on the fire near the mountain some dogs that are having he's having problems with some dogs and normally this would come up with dogs somebody's dog has left house once and away a roaming dog this is not roaming dog just to make that clear this is a few dogs that are being all i can see is the owners are being irresponsible they're letting the dogs do the wash and they don't either don't release the danger or they don't see the significance of the dog jumping into a field chase sheep and this is only going to lead to one thing it's going to lead to eventually first of all it's going to lead to the sheep these days at the moment if they're being chased aboard in lambs possibly getting harder as well for example the dog jumping into the field the sheep's going to pan the sheep's going to run they may well race themselves against the sensors to go to end up with injuries damage and eventually it will lead to death as i said there the farmer in particular this contact meter is the issue he's lost sheep last year he's lost sheep the year before and he feels the same situation is going to happen again in the coming days or something doesn't be done and he doesn't want that to be that to be the case um i think it's two years ago he hadn't been fanny as well with a separate farmer he lost quite heavily as well and no trace of where the dogs come from we weren't able to get the dogs or who owned the dogs they were dogs obviously that broke away from somebody left the house or their employer and they went to the rampage uh so this is the way we're taking the opportunity this morning Greg to highlight this and just appealing to all dog owners under the exception of your dog or whatever the case may be let it be in the beach let it be in the park uh up a back road as i say have your dog in the league and if you're not going to have them in the league have them close per se and the story doesn't change every year it's not actually a case of a dog jumping on the back of a sheep and attacking it it's the dog as innocent it might as it might seem worrying the sheep scaring the sheep making them run that type of reaction even our most smallest or passive dogs when allowed to go out at night are capable of switching it up uh becoming a bit of a predator stroke hunter and aggravating and bothering sheep and as i say you know they can be shot on sight as far as i'm aware which would be of great distress and not good for anyone uh but also you know the impact on the farming community can be huge the impact can be huge just back to your point there but be shot and say yes every farmer every farmer that holds a leash and has gone relations rightful has that has that uh uh will to do that if need be but for for not for every farmer that's not possible everywhere as such it is possible but there's a danger element as well for example if you're inside town boundaries where unless you would be uh evolving here at the minute and then a family area and say the town boundaries where the problems are raising it's not that easy going out to a rifle and shooting the dog even if you're looking up to get the dog on your side yourself because the reason would be you're a built-up area if that bothers that you fire that dog happens supposed to be it could end up on somebody's house it could end up on a passerby walking it could end up with the yard there's a lot of danger as well it's more easier for the farmers out through the country to take a shot at a dog than it does for somebody in the the town boundary area but just to point that out but just every farmer has that right and the public may not realize that he'll be aware of that but the farmers can't do that and the yard the intro wants the laws legally on their side also the fact as well which some members the public won't be aware of either these sheep are very valuable animals as in all farm animals really anybody's livelihood or product regard is what it means to turn to yourself and people need to be aware as well if your dog has got a shot for example or even if your dog is identified to a certain owner that farmer or farmer can land at your house and say look your dog is destroyed either killed, towed, mained, worried, caused lambs to be aborted you could run into hundreds of not thousands of a volume and nobody wants that it's not worth that nobody wants to get in that situation so it's just good if all people are being more respectful with the dog hopefully this morning we'll send the message out and hopefully we'll catch these catch the ears of these few people that's being irresponsible at the moment locally here as part of their maybe going out on elsewhere well then we're off all right thanks for your time this morning councillor Michael McClafferty there 08 660 25 000 that whatsapp or text line the 9 till noon show brought to you by Kelly's Toyota Port Road Letter Kenny home of the new pro a city your perfect business partner Enish fitness Dunlowe are now offering class only memberships register in person with reception to get access to the convenient Enish fitness app for booking and paying for classes if you've got great photos sitting on your phone or in the cloud why not visit magies.ie and see the range of creative options available get larger seven by five prints for the same price as a standard six by fours with 100 prints for just 12 euro or select from the great range of photo gifts like mouse and placemats phone covers jigsaws 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have to wear those it's up to you you look your hair look you don't want to ruin your hair you know that's my concern uh hu's putting the headphones on here uh hu frill men's development worker with the dunigold travellers project and i have in my hands here it's a book it's a lovely book it's called still here still proud traveller pride in dunigold 2021 um hu tell us about the book what's the background to it good morning greg yeah um i suppose we run an event every year traveller pride week runs from the 20th september to the 3rd october and we incorporated what we were trying to do this year in relation last year sorry uh relation to the covet um it was very difficult the year before that as well because we all know we're restricted by the the regulations and restricted by the virus in terms of events or getting people to participate and events um i suppose previous to this greg we run we run an event at the green and feeder of the barltap wagon the storytell and the tansmouth incorporated the public coming in and members of the travel community um throughout the day looking at the different types of accommodation and music and traditions that the traveller community hosted throughout the years um so this book uh we decided uh what could we do in 2021 in terms of traveller pride week so the manager actually came up with an initiative of um the book um she said what about you know we're coming up with all ideas but it was john mclaughlin's idea regarding the book and the history of travellers with dunigold because we're not being captured we're not being photographed we're not being you know uh part of of the dunigold photographic exhibitions so this booklet was around capturing the the the moment in time uh uh where travellers were were i suppose restricted by covet and also by you know uh movement uh by the by the the regulations and what i was saying to you a little earlier on when i was going through the book obviously you know it's a photographic collection of traveller families living through covet 19 but at the same time you know in two or three years time four or five years time in in whatever these are great photos uh to have and to have archive but they don't scream covet if you don't want them on about like so it'll still be nice to be able to look back on this uh post covet if that makes sense oh yeah correct and i think that to myself and clave watson what we had to do the the story behind it was uh clave watson the photograph um we had to take two separate cares we had a you know in preparation to that like it was to phone the family or an individual around the covet questions we had a questionnaire around covet had the any substance had that we diagnosed with covet or uh you know to preparation before we went out before uh we took the photograph so there was a lot of behind the scenes work uh in relation to um the booklet but you're right it's you know but it also captures at the back of the book the the covet aspect as well yeah there's different aspects of travellers who are living on the side of the road uh will eternally with you know the the issues of no not having water not having the facilities you know and and we all said that we're in this together the government said we're in it together but we weren't in together there were some families who were deprived of the basic facilities of you know accommodation and and space uh during the covet element of it so i mean they're they're brilliant shot photos obviously because clave was involved in yourself but they're very normal it's just normal photos of people in normal situations you know there's not they're not overly posed or anything to get around coming from like yeah yeah so what did you uh i presumed there was some plan to that so what did you sort of want to come out of this is it that it just was picturing people in normal everyday situations in their lives to to some extent you know what i mean it's just someone standing you know what i mean but it's still there's an impact of the photo at the same time there's massive impacts on the photos if you look at it throughout the very variety of them kreg there's people who had home approaches like the barltop wagon making the barltop wagon you know there's a photograph there of a man with his wife who passed away in the background they're just on it um you know so there's different photographs than two men passed away since we made this booklet but it's very the social history project that we developed around this book was very important to us to capture the the the lives of the travel community in dunagall so we could have that for future reference and also you know social media now in phones and photographs it's not the same as it used to be if you go back to you know your old boxes and that i can look at photographs there's something historical or something lovely about that a family just gone through the old photographs what we have now today is the phone social media facebook and scram and we haven't got that same kind of of i suppose family sense of sitting around the table and looking at old photographs yeah because everything's up on a phone or everything's in a cloud well you know what not in the i cloud the amount of time we get contacts you from people who don't back up their phones and they have all of their pictures on the phone not backed up to google photos or not back to the cloud back up to the cloud and they lose the phone and everything's gone and this this this book is about you know brings us back and we can look on this book in a year's time and two years time three years time and five years time and it's great to have the photographs and just to thank all the travel community who participated in that book as well because it took time out of their lives as well to do that and it was a geographical spread across the whole county to do that book as well and clave himself had great crack and great fun with the members who the poses and how to get them to stand and you know clave is very particular about his photographs and stuff and you know it was great and some of the the sites photos there's fantastic as well to get yeah okay and and of course you managed to squeeze into the book here i did and who's this over here that's my son david and grandson who's had a great year hasn't he and beyond yeah yeah so he's doing his phd at the minute yeah and that's my wife and grandson there yeah lovely stuff um i mean is this something that could be you know post covid that could be part of travel pride week all the time you know because sometimes there's the way we've had to think differently has thrown up some great ideas you know is this something maybe could become a feature every year or every other year or something do you think i think so i think it's about building positivity craig within the wider community as well travel pride week is around uh travel pride and building pride within the community because mental health is a bit very at high rates within the communities at the moment and you know being pat identity issues being a member of the travel community because of societal racism discrimination that some young travelers have been very difficult because of their maybe their living conditions and their surroundings that they're surrounded by settled people uh and that's not a bad thing it's just that they're incorporated habits of other you know ethnic minority groups or the wider community uh oh you might feel you have to hide your cultural background as well for example yeah and then you start to assimilate yourself as as one of the the bigger society with this identity crisis or guilt or whatever it come that maybe a traveler is a bad thing so you do you know like me and you and you and others and whatever we rightly so talk about the the issues right but it's the same stuff over and over again are we working to you know fix some of the issues here do you know what i'm on about yeah like whereby you know all communities listen to when we say ah right okay well we've been discussing this for a long time but this is how we move forward this is how you know people feel they have an identity but they this that you know what i'm on about like i can't even lay it out because it's five solutions but you know like what what can we do to sort of move forward or are we doing it behind the scenes and and it'll become more obvious in in in the time to come hue i think that you know integration in terms of participation through information sessions like you know the booklet or you know the the day we had in terms of the green and theater you know the settled community to engage in the travel community to engage and you know meaningful discussion Craig around you know the issues and stuff like that i think that you know travelers are sometimes my community in terms of if i come out of crime that the whole community is held accountable that's not the same for your community so i can't blame you for somebody else's actions you know so and within the travel community from the wider society we get blamed if somebody does something and relation to criminal behaviour i get the stigma for that as well you know so that always seems to happen with minority groups uh you know what i mean it could be travelers or it could be someone who's originally from a different country uh oh it's typical of that group of people do you know what i mean it's not exclusive to travelers and that's not in any way to sort of reduce the impact of how it might feel but that means that we need to widen it out then and say that you know why do we judge whole groups of people based on the actions of of one or a small group within them i think so Craig and i think that you know like if you look at the you know clave rants and clave was out with me you know and he met loads of members of the travel community and it's about you know building that kind of relationship and engagement you know coming into the project or coming into members of the travel community you know and and the booklet like this you know it also for me captures you know a moment in time for my community that i can always have uh and you don't hand it down to you know and that's the thing about it it's it hasn't been done before and as i said we've kind of been left out of of the photographic exhibitions in terms of you know done it all where you know loads of stuff has happened in terms of photo um exhibitions but travelers haven't really been mentally involved in that um i know a number of years ago maybe 10 or 15 years ago we run uh an older people's exhibition in terms of older travelers and done it all in the gradient theater um and i think it's initiatives that we have to provoke and we have to engage and we have to mobilize you know other beans uh to to host them um which is not the correct way to do things in terms of you know society should be doing that and engaging and embracing different cultures only but um you know so this booklet gives a lot of of of food for thought and if anybody needs any books that we're certainly more than happy to give one to yeah we'll talk about that towards the end but you know i mean we we had um senator eileen flinn of course uh taken the chair in the shadow than it was seen as a huge deal and it was okay uh and and also you know um david's achievement in terms of his education and what have you will we get to a point though where someone within the traveling community doing well in inverted commas isn't a big deal in other words you know it's normalized that that's the way it should be do you get where i'm coming from yeah like that it's not just david but it's like you know 30 or whatever uh proportion of of of of a community or that you know it's normal that uh all communities are represented in the doll or in the shanad or on donagall kind of council to get where i'm coming from that's not a special event yeah yeah no you're right and it is a special event i'm not taken away from what was to do you get where i'm coming from i've listened to you know my son's interviews david and i'm noticing a feminine here and you know when he passed his master's and he was the first driver to do that in the region and he didn't speak about him really about himself no he didn't interfere and you know he spoke about the community and he was saying and even noticing that this shouldn't shouldn't be about me this shouldn't be about you know how well david's doing this is not shouldn't be a novelty yeah that's that's the question that's really yeah and he he's saying like you know uh when we went to slago um the graduation in the in the reticent um the two people who he he passed his master's with come over and shook hands with us and said are you cuing on our david's father and mother and we sit down he's only for david i would never passed you know my master's he helped me out so much and i was dropping out four or five times and he kept pursuing me and kept helping me and kept be focused and that was a great moment for us especially traveller parents a settled person or two settled people coming over and saying that our son helped them and they progressed you know and that's what society should be about it shouldn't be about you know the racism discrimination and the the hierarchy of of pressing that happens the traveller community um you know and individuals and families should be treated as individuals and families and not as a community in terms of you know something happens um then the systemic racism that happens travers um but it's all you know that there's all's incorporated and it's it's great you know that we we came back you know and and we keep producing i suppose like this something positive and yeah for sure and i and i didn't want to sort of move into the negative stuff but those pictures sort of jumped out at me and i i know i've spoken to to to both eileen and your son um in in terms of of the uh traveller population it it accounts for about one or a little bit under a little bit over one percent of the the population of the country is that growing is it reducing is it staying the same it's growing a little bit yeah but what we have the pyramid and the pyramid you know the older members of the traveller community um you know we don't have that within our community our biggest population is between 16 and 30 you know and that that's unfortunate uh and the respect of you know the travers is not a lifespan it's not the same uh as the life again post a day 15 years less than yourself uh about going by statistics and it's very hard to suppose for the community in terms of you know when they see the older members dying very young big strong men as the you know people say our travelers are hardy they're you know they're all this and all that um but that's not the case the facts is there the figures is there the the health and the qualities is shown and amongst the young there is a disproportionate level of suicide massive massive you know i mean we have to talk about that as well as i say we'll finish on positives but we do have to highlight this as well so as you say there there's challenges right across all the age bands there's challenges across all the age bands and you know positive mental health mental health is a massive issue for everybody at the moment um but it's exacerbated by you know covid but mental health was also an issue within the traveller community and i suppose as i said your identity was a massive issue you know and you know this booklet as well trying to build pride within the young people and take photographs and you know show them that the book you know don't be ashamed of who you are because it's not around shame it's around it's around you know being in that place in that time and you know it's it's very difficult if you're the only traveller in the classroom yeah that you feel you're living your life outside of everybody else's lives rather than yeah exactly yeah so it's all about pride it's about saying don't be afraid to live your life publicly yeah or to be proud of who you are the same as yeah and i think that we you know like as a family who love and value our and myself and Ann and three girls and David um like we always and embraced you know around our identity to be very proud to our children to be proud of you you heard never deny who you are how would you be viewed though by people who still choose to live you know the you know a lifestyle where they might move from one area to the other or to live uh you know in a in a mobile home or caravan you live in a house do you yeah like are you viewed differently within the community or i don't know i don't i'm not craig i think that i hold on to my culture and everybody would know and but i like i job my horses and i'm not questioning that by the way i'm just i try to hold on to my my culture in terms of you know the horses and but where i've been reared up with um you know i'm trying to keep that sense of identity if you come into my house you know you'd know this is a traveller house how would i so well it's just different furniture and different stuff and that way we embrace yeah you know and i think it's it's it's different we we try to keep that we but a difference i get i think for our own our own identity for our own morale that connection that connection with our community because you know circumstances and accommodation chains and that's fine it's fine that's fine people move on you know we've moved on from tents to barltop wagons to caravans to houses you know your accommodation shouldn't define who you are no more so than a bungalow or a two-storyed house or no an apartment would determine anybody but it is very difficult for another enhance for the for the community in terms of us living in houses as well because if you're in a housing estate you know you're not allowed to keep on to your your culture and people say well sure i'm not allowed to keep things and that's fair enough you know but at the end of the day it's it's around you know uh uh your identity and who you are and who you belong to as the wider community so that can be very difficult but you know pride is not a thing that we try to embrace and enhance uh you know through the booklet through different exhibitions yes within the travel project that we we we embrace and filter that out to the community uh and ensure because if i'm not proud of who i am how can i you know speak uh on highland radio or speak another occasions about the community and you know go outside the door and hide my identity at five o'clock which is very easy to do for me well we know that people feel that they have to change their names to you know uh to to for employment options or anything like that there so you know society also forces it a little bit too at times it is and you know the employment is a big one craig and you know like there's loads of travelers out there with plenty qualifications and well able to do the job and there's plenty of work so why are they not in the work yeah like we've 83 84 percent of travelers who's unemployed in this county so it's that's statistics and if you look at the biggest employer and i said this before it's done he called travelers party and that's wrong that is absolutely wrong support it's important because we should be able to branch out in a sense and you know um but it's all around you know travel pride it's all around you know uh enhancing that and all right where can people get the book then um it's called still here still proud traveler pride in donningall in 2021 it's hard back it's not it's mostly pictures uh there's there is some some words in there but it's mostly pictures and um you heard you describe uh what it tried to achieve and i believe it does so greatly but if people want to copy of it where do they get one we can contact donningall travelers project at 0749129281 and that picture at the back craig that that actually the road um you know that that has gone up the road this is a show that we're on a journey we're still on a journey and i think it's a fantastic photo because it encapsulates culture but also encapsulates the road where we're we're trying to achieve where we're trying to you know as a community to get there and we all are and that's just a case of us all you know respecting each other and working together where where it's needed and all that listen to you it's always a pleasure thank you so much for joining us and that great work between you and clive and everyone else involved in that it's it's a lovely publication and we'll chat to you again soon thank you thanks right the nine till noon show brought to you by kelly's toyota port road letter kenny explore our wide range of virtual tools at kelly's toyota dot com enish fitness dunlow offer yoga pilates circuits and women's only weight training class to find out about their class's only membership call into any 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for a couple of months and see how it goes and from that we'll make a decision that whether we can support it supported through twosla um and they've been very uh i suppose came on board knowing the impact of stress that mica's causing for families so they wanted to do their bit as well with the local initial family action network yeah what's the uptake been like because it's it's for a lot of people it's a difficult step to sort of say i need help with how i'm thinking yeah absolutely um i suppose it came out of the fact that we ran a number of talks before you know in the latter half of the year on you know supports for families and we had a really huge response to that there's about 500 families signed up for one of our talks online so that really gave us a sense of the scale of the issue for families um so from that we we we did a survey with families out in the community through the mic action group who had actually contacted us as well as other people like the local schools as well who'd come on board and said look we're seeing it in our young people they're they're talking to us they're trying to protect their parents the parents are trying to protect the children so we i thought it was just that combination of finding ways to to be there for people and say look this is healthy this is good um you know as you say some people have a a lot around seeing counselling as something that you do when something's wrong um we're trying to really promote it as something to do early to kind of reduce stress but just the impact of all these um those stresses around mica for families and just to know that it's okay no i mean obviously you can't be cancelled to say that the house is not crumbling you can't be cancelled to say that we'll know tomorrow whether the sliding scale will be in there or whether you'll have so there's the stuff that can't be changed and also this is one of those problems where your house is your sanctuary but that is everywhere you look what reminds you of everything that might be making you feel upset so is it about tooling people to best cope with how they're feeling because we can't get rid of the fundamentals but we can uh educate people on the tried and tested ways of trying to deal with it to keep themselves as sound as they can until such time as the situation is resolved because we are in the with the best one in the world Denise we're in for the long haul here even in the most successful of cases yeah and i think that's what it's about it's about giving people the skills and the resilience to keep going because it is a long term as you probably know mic mica is not a quick fix by any stretch of imagination and people it's like we're seems like in some ways you know it's kind of like what Hugh is talking about you know home with that sense of place and the importance of that sense of security within your your space that you live in so for a lot of families they've been living with it for up to 10 years so this is certainly not a short term fix and it's not a fix no it's not about it's just about giving people that set of skills and recognizing that this is really high stress and looking at ways to kind of cope with that it get resilience tips and tools to how to look after yourself you know yeah that thing and they say about everything is put on your own oxygen mask because everybody's trying to support everybody else even within the mica leaders i look and i see them crossing a supermarket car park i've been stopped by people as they move along you know they're just constantly living this and so just how do you make space and give them people that a little bit of time out from it all as well because everybody's affected by it in the family so it's you know it's really you know it's not like something that she says not a short term fix you know and as you say too we try and protect our children as much as we can from the realities sometimes of being an adult but in this situation it is it it's next to night impossible how is the support offered then is it you know as a family group would it be children separately parents separately obviously if that's all agreeable or is it taken on a case by case basis or how what is the approach Denise well what what they've suggested that we do is allow it to be on an individual basis for the child or for the parent it's for children seven years and older now obviously the counselor will have you know a chat with the parent initially to see what it is that they're looking for you know given that there's a limit of support it's not as I say it's not a long term counseling support either it's about deciding you know who gets it is it for individual members and the family does everybody need to get it sometimes it's about you know maybe it's one child everybody deals with stress differently and there's no right or wrong way to deal with stress but some people maybe need that little bit of extra support you can look at how do I build up my resilience and how do I do this differently and how do I take time off from this and get away from it and how do I support my children maybe depends on the situation everything is different but and in some cases families will be spoken to together because like I'm just too unrealistic in real life I can imagine parents might be a little bit concerned that the seven or eight year old might go you know go well you know mommy likes to have a drink or daddy likes to have a drink or sometimes daddy can get angry and that to be misinterpreted and next thing you know dealing with problems that don't exist but you know could end up being amplified you know is all that taking consideration and dealt with yeah I mean these are professional counselors that are offering you know they've already been actively working in this arena for a long time so there's a recognition that they have the skill set to kind of process all that and know what's normal getting stressors and how people maybe let off steam versus you know something that they need to just deal with a bit more deeply and like and every life is complex you know so there's always things if you dig a little deeper sometimes it brings up stuff but also it's about how you just you know process that enough for people just get on with having a fairly contented life and I'm not suggesting for a second that that's how it is to make a household you know what I mean I'm just I'm just trying to cover any concerns that even one person out there might have because I know for myself that children could say absolutely anything sometimes as well right so in terms of you know it's resources you've is there plenty of resources to deal with people in a timely fashion because you know there's nothing worse than you know maybe mulling over a decision for two or three weeks then reaching out and then being told we'll try and get back to you in two or three months you know what I mean maybe that's the practical realities of it but you know what how is this resource how quickly are people being spoken to and helped well you know today's as I say this literally just took off before Christmas because we felt it was important to even just get it out of the you know out there before Christmas because sometimes Christmas as you know is the stressful time as well so basically people will ring in or can ring in and they ring into IDP that's where the contact point and then the service is provided by two other community organisations councillors the turnaround time to date has been within a week people have heard back at least to have an initial you know set up a time to meet look at who is looking for the counselling at the short term intervention so it's not it's not meant to be a long term intervention this is about you know families that are I suppose just needing a little bit of time out and to have a discussion about you know I've just I've hit a wall with this and I just need to get a break because what you know as well Greg is that you can have siblings like you know families that have their brother's house is gone their their sister's house you know it's not even that normal network where people go to everybody's in the same boat so there's that sense of I just need somewhere to go just for me and that's kind of what we're recognizing this is going across the community so every family may have three or four people in their family network that are also you know our parents or grandparents in this situation as well so it's trying to be as flexible again because there's a pilot the idea is that there's a real demand for it we'll we'll offer the the hours available as well so it's trying to reflect what people are looking for yeah and you can have four people under the one roof and each one of those would be dealing with this in a very different way or having a different reaction such as the sort of uniqueness of us as humans but I suppose that's why you know we have professionals that have seen much of this before do you think there'd be any benefit at some point having a wider conversation that you could never do it person to person with the general population as to you know how to support people affected by this you know or how to have the conversation or what's you know what is a good way to progress the conversation you know not now or maybe sometime down the line would there be a benefit to that do you think yeah well I mean one of the things we did in the latter half of 2021 as well as we had this program called community resilience training that was kind of that coming together to have this conversation and recognize that we're all been through this and people just hearing we've got it's good to know I'm not the only one that felt like that you know the situation so the community resilience training was so the positive feedback we got from that was immense so we're looking at running that again and that was by you know that's about you know the impact of trauma and stress because it is a form of trauma too when you 100% yeah and it can trigger all the things that can can follow trauma as well I'm sure now it's available in in a show at the moment and I just get a feeling that there could be people listening in letter Kenny who are equally stressed and this actually could compound them because then they feel like well what about us are there other services available for people in other areas I understand this is through the initial and development partnership but you know what happens if someone from letter Kenny says I need to speak to someone I'm going to ring this IDP number what what's the situation there and I'm not trying to look for problems I'm just trying to cover inevitabilities you know well I mean obviously this service is geared towards people living in a show and it's part of the show and family action network it's with all the community and boundary sector living and working in our area but obviously what has come up as well as the GP service I think they can access you know across the county can can refer people to that maybe are saying look I need to help I need a little bit of counseling for that if people ring their local GP I the HSE in my understanding are also offering some counseling support the families that are affected by Micah as well obviously you know we're piloting this if it works well and if people are responding well in terms of what the field of value but go further afield and you know it depends on that okay like I don't mean it quite like this but it could be a wee bit like a user to lose it you know what I mean the system is there but it needs to be active and people engaging with it I would suggest anyone who's been listening to this and lives in the initial area and just you know wants to see what it's like to talk to someone who you're not living with or you're not related to or whatever just speak to someone who's completely independent of your your circle 0749362218 0749362218 now in the first instance that number is to register Denise yes exactly that is not where the service is provided but that's where you ring in and we'll take some basic details to the confidential service they'll be passed on then to the councillor who will directly contact the family and work with them through that process and from there on and in terms of arranging time and a date to meet and things like that and it can be provided online just to say as well you know obviously COVID has impacted how all services are delivered but you know subject to those kind of restrictions it could be in person in Hongkwana will or Crown Donna as the three locations that they'll operate out of and they'll also provide an online option as well all right listen thanks for your time this morning Denise I really appreciate it that is Denise McCool there community development officer with initial and development partnership 0749362218 if you're in the initial area and you want to register right you know there's a 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chinks of light that are there we can't wait that we don't have to mention it hopefully and I get this genuine feeling now a sense that once we move through this situation that we're in at the moment we're going to have to come up with something new that we can't just keep doing this over and over again I think that's where we're going but Connor at the alt bar and clay you've just had enough of to see where it haven't you okay it's just um we can talk to them on say civil service at the moment um so when we leave and drink down we're sort of hearing what the conversations are about and it's just every table with the same thing and um I'll go back a couple of weeks ago there was um a lady and her husband and she was chatting about the C word I wasn't going to call it so I don't have to put any money under the jar no that was going to be I was writing down how many times you said it and then at the end of the interview I was going to make you go and put that exact amount of money in the job but you're too clever for me Connor no I'm trying to catch you so when we're on on here now you're talking that's my job now to try and catch you all right well we'll we'll both try and avoid it but go on you were saying um so I was going and I got chatting with him and just glad he was chatting with me and I could just hear the fear and of course when she was chatting about it and I was like she hadn't about her house in so many months nearly a year and she had me about the door and there was a first time at her house and I really enjoyed it um I don't think she was enjoying it at all because I could hear her voice just chatting about the virus um so myself and Chris were just talking and we said um no we'll do for for about a month see how it goes we'll just have to just put the jar we're blessed with great staff here and I so we rumble met them I know you're at the stage where a second woman was shouting she said the pieces of so we're just going to burn the jar and we're putting money on it and I can't believe how far it's sort of spread like so um no 78 times people have mentioned the word though because you as of the we as of us connecting to you this 156 euro in the jar which is going to the Donegal Hospice by the way maybe people are letting the word slip now to support the Donegal Hospice and and yet you're making the situation worse whilst obviously making it better exactly great it's going to burn of course um my mom passed away a few years ago and she was at the Donegal Hospice so it's it's something very close to my heart so as you know um we're making a money for that charity by doing it so it's like a fun like we've great customers on here and uh you know they're very loyal and there's people just stepping on their pocket and putting money on the jar now so once they know where it's going um but it's just a renavig of it like it's just sort of it's just sort of caught fire now and a lot of people are talking about it but it's it just adds to the conversations and people are talking about all our things even though the conversations are changing they're talking about football that's strange when you talk about it when you're you're in a bar chairman they'll be talking about the weller anymore they're talking about the cringe right and i think yeah they're all talking about the america stuff so it's just nice to see people have their hair done no other jobs and everybody's had a and it's kind of unique to this country you know there are people you know they're coming back from america or portugal or spain and and obviously the entire world's facing the same issues and and obviously there's the same group of people who sort of think we're not and and that conversation goes on but you know they're gonna come after there has to come a point and we try as much as we can on this program to to move past it and talk about other things the only problem is is everything sort of you know you talk about education or you talk about health or you talk about it's very hard not to come back to that but we need to find and move to a space where we can move forward connor because there's lots of other stuff that needs to be talked about as well in a serious setting but also having the crack in a pub setting exactly great you know we come up with all the lines aren't from your brother brother life or work schedule and you know that's just like as soon as you turn on the phone in the morning you know what you see and we turn on the news or the radio that's that's all on your face all up and like so we're just trying to make that safe haven where people come on or two years and just and just talk about what they don't do we can talk about work talk about other things and just sort of trying to be stressful a little because we all know that it's that is very stressful and just for that or two that you're not talking about it won't help it won't help everybody just not talking about it because yeah we have the founder of already but yeah and get back to get back to talking to each other about how we each other are as well you know how are you how am I you know well that's a big thing that I think it's it's went on notice like it's we all know the fact that the virus has had on people but it's just like you might look over people can't do somebody and you know they're not themselves and you're saying you're right no you don't see enough of that and I think if you if you worry about hours nine more I'm just sure to ask them if you need anything um look I'm going on the toilet or maybe you can't do things and this would be a very very type of year that a lot of people would do that I don't know that's no you wouldn't notice people are very generous and um there's no problem asking people if they're eating stuff and that's what I love about I'm here in this area let's see what's you're a hundred cent right there all right good stuff as you say you know it's a bit lighthearted uh you have caught some people out I've seen some videos of of of uh cancers in fact being caught out I believe but all the while it we've got a we've got out a local coin for here now it was good it wouldn't be very uh the government these parking lots it was very nice about did anything else come out any any cobwebs any moths or anything else come out it was funny somebody wrote up on the chat and I'm surprised he doesn't pay us a check I don't know the ins and outs of that but anyway listen Connor um continued success at the out bar hopefully now he's will be able to open uh for for more especially in January uh hours that are more reflective of the situation soon but anyway we appreciate you coming on 156 euro already raised for Donagull hospice but it's a nice breaker I think it's nice if people come in and like the people you talked of they're a bit nervous it gets the conversation on to something else and shows that there is life going on and should go on as well as we deal with that we appreciate your time Connor and and uh continued success for you and all at the out bar and clay great thanks for my little thanks for your claim fair play and I don't think either of us should be punished I think we both avoided it thank you very much indeed that is Connor there 086 60 25000 I don't think it's a bad idea at all albeit uh uh you know um it is lighthearted there's there's something to it as well uh the new now dot number apparently now has been sent to Google uh and is being reviewed by them so that's uh thank you very much that's someone involved with tech there that advised us of that I can't believe that nephra to trying to make vaccinations compulsory that's against our rights listen to not trying to make vaccinations compulsory they're discussing it uh they're discussing it so there's a position on it should have been done by now there is no appetite for this I think there'd be a revolt if it did it would slap the 94 and a half percent of people who did it voluntarily across the face and it would obviously impact on those that have decided to that they don't want to or they can't you know you can't make people do something like this a medical intervention I think that's generally what the general population think I think really one newspaper has said it's up for discussion it doesn't mean it's going to happen and I don't think there's any appetite for it uh within nephra either but presumably it's something that has to be uh discussed so there's a position on it but I can understand people's anger this texture is furious and can't believe nephra are even considering mandatory vaccine I think it's pure evil I believe people should have a choice over their own bodies and people can have medical reasons other reasons not to get it I think it's time people started rioting up the doll well you know the riots up the doll end up just being um you know a load of people gathered and then a few of the familiar faces saying the same thing on stage and nothing ever sort of I'm not criticizing that by the way but um uh that that doesn't seem to be uh I don't think riots would would help uh to be honest with you uh good to hear guardian catching more drivers who are under the influence of drinking drugs however how many are actually are convicted at this of this offense sadly I suspect more than a few escaped court appearances after favours from the usual connections are granted uh call us as I had a positive antigen test on Tuesday I rang for a PCR from a GP on Wednesday morning as I could get nothing booked online still have no nothing I rang again this morning the GP reception told me that I would have been missed and it's happening a lot listen the bottom line is is right they can test something like um what what is the figure they can test around 40 000 people a day I think it is um it's probably about 45 50 000 at the max they can test a day and there's about 150 000 people per day looking for tests so listen two out of three people probably aren't ever going to get a PCR test the antigen test can be used to get yourself on a positive antigen test can be used to get yourself on the the the um the payment and stuff but look there's lots of people two into three into one is simply not going to go uh if Nefert think they're bringing in mandatory vaccinations in Ireland that's the end of the rights time for people to take the streets as I say I am of the opinion uh that that's newspaper reports uh remember there was a a report from page newspaper you still see it from times time Stephen Donnelly made some remarks like war on the unvaccinated or something he never said that but it was interpreted by the headline writer as if he had said that and then it was like the government has a war on the unvaccinated some might still feel that to be the case but those words were never uttered it was just a newspaper article and that's the same thing today there's one paragraph in a newspaper saying it's been discussed and then they're on to other 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about changing our careers and to help us make the changes and decisions we talk to Nicky Corrin job search expert and coach with Nicky Corrin career clinic good morning to you Nicky morning how are you I'm good I'm good now I mean they say you know changing homes or something can be one of the most stressful things you can do but I imagine changing jobs is the same because it might be different say for instance you're in a job and you're approached or you get an offer it might be easier than that but if you're just unhappy in your work and you want to do something else it can be a daunting enough prospect for many of us I think it's that I think we find it daunting because we get into comfort zones with regard to our careers and I also say to clients that we also need to remember that there's 24 hours in a day and we only work eight of us so we need to put that into perspective but we also when we're in those eight hours should enjoy it so it is something I think and I say to people you should look at every five to seven years at least you know am I happy in the job and it may mean that it's not the industry it could be the company that you're working for or whatever but you should check it so yeah that's where I'm at and then though you have to make sure that you know it might feel like a gamble I mean I think most people would have a you know responsibilities you know bills to pay mortgage pay whatever it might be you know and they don't want a period of time you know in other words if they're handed in their notice and then struggle to actually get a job you know equal certainly in terms of income you know what to do in the year in terms so what's the best way to approach it generally speaking yeah so what I say to people is first of all you need for me there's five pillars like I say for job search and what happens is that you need to to kind of set your stall out so I the first thing is that I say to you you need to to the five pillars are the first one is two together assess and explore so assess where you are how happy are you what's not what's making you unhappy in your job and you need to identify and learn about yourself so that when you decide and make a decision either I'm moving or I'm staying then you have tools to go forward with as in you know what you want and what you don't want from the job and everything is doable so even though you say well I've been in this job for 10 years and will anybody want me everybody you know has transferable skills they've got skills that they can bring to a new employer and also when you break down what seems to be a very daunting task it is all manageable and so the first part as I said is assess and explore so it's assessing yourself and what benefits you're bringing to a potential employer and then exploring the market and finding out within the market and within your skills are there gaps and what do I need to fill the gaps to go forward for the job that I would really like I also say to people this is the hardest part is you know finding out what you want what the market is looking for and marrying those skills together and can you do that on your own or do you need to speak to an expert really because you know you could be inflating your ability or you could be underestimating yourself as well and to be honest with you because it's the fields that I work in I would say you need somebody I think to be honest with you where we are within job search and all this kind of coaching business is where we were 20 years ago with psychotherapists and the Americans and we laughed at them with the therapist couch and now we all know that we need to talk at some level so I kind of say the same about this the other thing that I absolutely find with people is that they completely underestimate themselves and and we as an Irish nation find it hard to sell ourselves well because you say we are we have to do but we can be conditioned to that because you know exactly but also your employer for example you know if you've gone for a pay rise or something you know they might end up making you feel that you know you should be lucky you're getting what you're getting and you should be lucky that we take you on because you know where the old you know so you know that can reinforce any sort of negative feelings you might have about yourself because that's every time an employer praises you or says you do a good job they're opening the the office door for a pay rise request if there isn't you know a schedule in place true but we also have a responsibility to us to value ourselves when I start working with the client and they have to start doing this as as an explorer they find it really difficult but at the end of it they go oh my god I never saw all the things that I have plus also they begin a narrative when you sit working with me that the narrative change it's all I can't really do that well no you may not be able to do that but you have an appendix or you really enjoy learning so that can be taught to you but something that you have innate in you which is excellent customer service are always people dealing with people with respect that is something that you know no company can can train on so if that's innate in your personality that's really valuable say there is about seeing those things and then also too though if I do see a gap right do I fill that gap with training myself for something or a cause or would an employer fill that gap would they not see that as a problem if I could demonstrate in other areas how quick I am to learn and to adapt again that might be something that might make me nervous about trying something new yeah exactly and it's about analyzing that and that's what we do when I you know when I work with people if they want to do the CV and the interview skills we'll say it's about matching the job specs and then if there are gaps you then have to make a calculated decision is this something that you think that the employer is going to be happy to retrain or to provide training for because they're getting the respect or the other things that are innate in you that don't cost anything but mean the world so that you kind of have to marry all the bits together when you're identifying jobs to go for before we get on to the other pillars then I mean is there an answer to should you be looking for alternatives while you're in work or do you pack in your work and put yourself under that pressure you know and motivate yourself to seek that alternative whilst you're between jobs you know is there a right answer to that or does it depend on circumstances there isn't a right answer Greg in one way I would always say it's easier to find work when you are in work but I think the other part of it is that if you've been made redundant and you have no choice I don't want you to think that it's all lost either because it isn't yeah and there are ways to do things if you can imagine that you know I always say to people step into the employer shoes because this process is all about the employer it is not about the person interviewing and you know if they see that you're out of work and it wasn't through your own fault but you're doing things like you're upskilling or you're volunteering that tells the story in itself so there are ways to do things so that and it's also about how you tell the message when you get into the and of course hiring is a tough job whoever's involved in that you're the solution to their problem so if you go in there and fix their problem it's like happy days everyone's a winner here you're a solution and that's what you you need to remember going into the interview it's a two-way process I keep saying to people it's not a firing squad I know there's three people probably interviewing you but it's not a firing squad and it is a two-way process you are interviewing that company as much as they are interviewing you because you're giving them eight hours of your waking day yeah and we need to remember that have you any questions and people probably sit down and don't want to say anything offensive no absolutely that is as important those questions are as important in the interview it tells a story about you but it's also things that you need to get from them before you make the decision as to whether you're going for that job preparation hugely important I presume yeah everything everything for me if I could say three things you know people often say to me what are your top three tips I go preparation preparation preparation you know they are and that's research it's you know it's doing a load of things is the preparation yeah but it's also not to be obvious like you know to sort of know four things about the company or maybe that's important too it's more random than that isn't it presumably it's preparation in all areas yeah it's the preparation in the yes going into the interview because you need to say to the company I value I've researched you I'm not wasting your time here I'm not a tire kicker I am in here because I've seen what I you know seen about you and I've done my research and that's why I'm employing or applying to you for job but it's also researching you know I keep saying to clients how long are you on your iPhone or your iPad for a day and they go three four hours social media well you need to give me an hour you know on this research you need to be out there researching researching the market how much value is you know because you might have applied for a job for 10 years so you don't know what the going ratio and different things are it's also researching looking at jobs out there learning to speak because there is you know job lingo and how you say things well just in case that makes everything easier yeah just in relation to that if someone's been in work for 10 years and they apply for another job you know they might sort of think that the new employer might think there are problem or something's come up or there's disciplinary going on or maybe they've just become lazy and they want something like how do you I mean there's ways to phrase you wanting even after say 10 or 15 years to want to try something else there's correct ways of saying everything and presenting everything I presume absolutely and when I work with people it's I first of all I don't do things like I won't do your CV I never think that's a very good idea people go off and they pay somebody to do their CV when you work with me I do the CV with you I make you fight for every word that's on the page so that you know what inside out and back to front because that's the fodder that you present to a company to ask questions so you need to know what inside out and back to front but equally when you go when you when I get you to plot and think about your interview because that's the ultimate aim all that in the next part of the Assassin Explorer after that is the preparation and there your marketing tools there you're linked in your interview skills and your CV and you're preparing for to get the interview because that's the goal to convince the employer that you're the person who's fit for that job and they reading through anybody's CV things will pop when I'm scanning a CV things will pop into my mind and what you're trying to do in an interview is to allay their fears for anything that might have popped into their mind you go and you address it straight up and you go yeah there was a gap in my CV I went traveling or I took off time to look after family issues so you're addressing it and you're putting a tease but while I was doing the family issues you know I decided I was going to do an excel and ECDL course because I had never done that volunteering or anything yeah and that's for every issue that we think that they might have you have a solution that's all that they're looking for is that wherever the issues are that you have a solution to that problem now implement what's implement yeah implement is it's a doing the starting to apply for the jobs which is doing your boards on social media which is um indy.ie and monster and all of those but the other side um which people sometimes struggle to believe is that a lot of the jobs in this country aren't even advertised they're done through networking or speculation you putting in your CV into a company and they go I know that this person is going on maternity leave or going on you know a year's leave of absence and your CV just happens to land in on the desk at the right time and LinkedIn is massive in this country and globally and it's how everything works so a lot of the time it's getting ahead of the curve you know getting your CV into the people who do the hiring or the recruiting and before they know you know trends that are coming up they know they're going to be taking on somebody and that's that's such an important point there is to identify who is the person that might actually make a decision about you because sometimes people can go try and go straight to the top right and the person that actually might give you that job would never even know your CV ever existed dependent on the system within the company as to things filtered down but you know don't don't think that you can go over people's heads either you have to make sure that you know and sometimes it works the other way it might be that you know somebody in the company yes yes for sure exactly and you say listen would you give me an introduction and then there's a whole other avenue that we can explore there so yeah it's about exploring all the tools and the avenues like LinkedIn all the the new things that have come on now that make it easier to get into companies because what you're trying you need to remember that when they're recruiting it's costing them money they put in an ad they so if you can make their life easier and you present yourself on their desk when they know that there's a job coming up in two months time you've you've just done half of their work for them decision making a lot of this overlaps and some of the decision making processes you've already reflected on but it is one of the pillars there and some of it stands alone tell us about that so when you get into a job search if you if you're doing it you know strategically you're applying to a lot of different places and you'd be amazed at the amount of people clients that I work with who then are left with deciding two jobs and at that stage it connects back then to the assess and explore it's right what were the dealbreakers for me you know what and then you start to see clearly which company is a heads up because people are left with the decisions and I also say because you've networked it's a very small country it's it's a very small world you'd be surprised when you go to move jobs oh yeah I knew such and such and such and such there so you never want to burn bridges either so it's about handling all of that and negotiating there's always a regular room in packages so it's about getting the best deal that's possible for you because remember they're trying to get the best deal that's possible for them and it's as I said it's a two-way process you make need to make sure that you got the best deal possible for you so that's all in the negotiating and making sure that you're picking the right move for you because you may have been in a job for 10 years it's not easy to move jobs as we said at the opening of this discussion yeah so you need to make sure that all the cards are on the table you've done all of the work and then things become clear where are all these jobs that you talk about Greg I just spent a year on job path applying for at least 20 jobs a week and not a single interview to speak of you know that's gonna be a frustration out there another one says all these jobs are for employment advisors and the ilk it's just a numbers game out there but if you dig deep you know there's a communications problem I think uh because for my to that person I would say is the reason why you need to ask why am I not getting interviews is it because my CV if there's there's issues there so are you saying are you saying that could be a case that if you'll meet if you meet 20 problematic people in the one day you might be the problematic person maybe maybe there's something that's a red flag in your own CV or something yeah now if they're working with job path they should have I would have presumed they would have looked at all of that but maybe they're not applying for the right job but they're absolutely the the market has never been as buoyant but I do think it's connecting the people who are looking for jobs with the people that are actually seeking people to work in these jobs there seems to be a huge disconnect there we've recently started your network yeah you know you know somebody in that it's about using that and not just relying on getting in through the avenues of landing on the right desk at the right time 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