 Do we note off me? We note. That was great. I loved that. You got a nice top on you today, like that. I thought that was new. No, it's not new. Like sweet hoodie thing, you know. We started wearing the winter clothes and... I just like the heat. You like the heat? I do. If I turn that, that heat's not on. I know, but we're not in winter yet, Lee. Do you want me to turn it off? It will. It's very tight. And did I say I know? No, I did not. Who said that? Wasn't me. Can we have a good show, right? All right, Lee. See you tomorrow. Wednesday already. Can't believe it. Can you? I don't know. Okay, go. Go, go, go. You're good. All right, it is the 9 to Loon Show coming up after the news headlines, which are brought to you now by Donna Marie Daugherty at 9 o'clock. Good morning, Donna Marie. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The HSE and the Department of Health will be asked to explain how the health service can be run next year. Representatives of both will appear before the EROCTUS Health Committee against a backdrop of our equipment freeze and lower than expected budget funding. Sinn Féin's health spokesperson David Cullinan says honesty is needed. Already we're getting reports back in from hospitals across the state as to the impact of that recruitment embargo will have on services and management of hospitals having to make very tough decisions. We know that 7,000 jobs which were meant to be funded next year will now not be funded and they've been scrapped and with the recruitment embargo, obviously that will place real pressures on hospitals. A popular bar in Derry has revealed they will be closing their doors this coming Friday. A spokesperson from the Grand Central Bar said when the numbers aren't stacking up, we have to admit defeat. While the establishment says it's been coming up against the rising costs for the past few years, it has become financially unviable. The bar was first established over 100 years ago and has been in the hands of the current owner for the past 11. Locals have taken to social media to pay tribute to the business. A plan to offer state accommodation on a short-term basis to new arrivals from Ukraine is unworkable. That's according to a working group with refugees. Proposals to be discussed by government today would mean that after three months in Ireland, Ukrainians would have to find either a rental property or take up the offer of a home pledged by members of the public. But migrants right-grip Doris says better planning and more money is needed. Chief Executive of the organization, John Lannan, says the standard of accommodation for refugees is getting worse. This government has provided accommodation for 80,000 people from Ukraine in the last 18 months, but we're seeing an ongoing deterioration in standards to the point where people have been living in tents. A lot of the accommodation that's been provided isn't suitable for children and families. There's an over-reliance on hotels. Looking to whether any missed and fog patches will be cleared this morning, there'll be a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers for the rest of the day with some heavy showers possible. The best of the sunny spells will develop lit in the afternoon and in the evening. That's with highs of 12 to 14 degrees. That's all for now. The next news update will be at 10 o'clock. In the meantime, keep up to date with all the latest local news on our website, highlandradio.com. From myself and the news team, good morning. Whether you're adventuring salsa dancing or you just popped out for some milk, you're not always home. With unpost, that's not a problem. You can set up a safe spot for us to put your deliveries when you're not in or rearrange delivery to your local post office. And if something's not right, you can quickly return it with a collection from your door or drop at your local post office. Online shopping, made easy with unpost. Unpost for your world. The county's number one talk show, The Nine to Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine to Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. Three minutes past nine. It's Tuesday, the 24th of October, 2023. Very welcome along to the programme. How are you all keeping? I do hope you're... Well, this morning across the Northwest or wherever you're listening to us today, we really appreciate you being on board. We want you involved in the chat and the conversation. 08-660-25000, that line is open now. And let me just say that the text and WhatsApp line, if you're listening to the podcast or if you're listening overnight, hopefully you get off to bed soon, if you're listening overnight, you can text us at that time as well and we'll pick up those texts as well. So whether you're listening to the podcast or re-watching the stream or listening overnight on the radio, don't be afraid, not that you would be, but don't be afraid to take your phone out and send us a message because we can carry that over and use it the next day. 07-491-25000, that's the number live when we're on air. Caroline taking your calls today. And again, you can email us at any time from anywhere, commentsathighlandradio.com. Right, lots to get through today. Of course, community guard information coming up a little bit later and so much more besides. Let's start with the newspapers in the Irish Times this morning. Anti-terrorism Guardi worked with overseas security agencies to determine if Yusof Palini, who was yesterday sentenced to life for the murder of two gay men, was engaged in terrorism. The presence of 350,000 euro in cash in two seek cases in Pilini's home in Sligotown raised fears he had been paid by an Islamic terrorism group to carry out the attacks. However, Guardi concluded that there was no outside groups or individuals involved in the attack. A sentencing hearing at the Central Criminal Court yesterday heard Guardi did not believe Palini was radicalized despite some suggestion to the contrary. The 23-year-old murdered local men, Michael Snee and Aidan Moffatt and seriously assaulted Anthony Burke during a four-day spree of violence in Sligotown. Guardi believed he would have continued to kill gay men if he'd not been arrested. In fact, he said that himself during questioning. But what was that money for? Where did it come from? And how can Guardi be so sure that he worked alone? Well, they must have some information that's not carried in the newspapers today. Right, well, on to the Irish Independent now. And I've read, I'm reading this out because I never really tried to put a number on it myself, but I was quite shocked at the number. A quarter of adults in Ireland, nearly one million people, lived with a problem drinker as a child according to a study carried out by Maneuth University. The Adverse Childhood Experience Comparison Study found significant association between post-traumatic stress disorder and having a problem drinker in the home. It highlights the population's high level of alcohol use as a likely contributor. This week, Alcol Action Ireland is hosting a series of events as part of its Silent Voices Initiative, aiming to highlight the lasting impact growing up with a problem drinker can have on young people into adulthood. Is that something that resonates with you? One in four of us grew up in a house with a problem drinker. Quite a bit about passwords across the page. In the papers today, Irish people are being urged to stop using easily guessed passwords, such as... Now, hands up if you're using this password, though I can't really... It wouldn't be fair for me to ask you to message in, because it'd be like trying to get your password. But here are some of the passwords that people use. One, two, three, four, five, six is a password that's very common, and some people try and be clever and spell it out, so it's like O-N-E-T-W-O-T-H-R-E-E and so on. Password, still to this day, and age, is quite a popular password. And another, Liverpool. So if you've... If I've read any of your passwords there, I strongly suggest you change them, because they're associated as being some of the most commonly-weak-used passwords, or commonly-used weak passwords. According to research from court-based organization Cyber Skills and the security website HaveIBeenPwned.com, one, two, three, four, five, six remains the most guessable password in the world, appearing in more than 37 million breached accounts according to security records. So you know how people get hacked? Companies get hacked. Well, passwords then get released, so they're able to check what passwords people have. The password, password appears in 9.7 million breached documents, while Liverpool turns up 448,000 times. Other commonly-easily-guessed passwords include 11111111, and FU, well, FU, but the full word, 808,000 of you out there somewhere use FU with the full spelling as your password. Letamine is very popular as well. I don't even know what that word is. Letamine, L-E-T. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Okay, so if I've guessed your password in reading that article, folks, it is time to change your game. And let us know your any stories you have in relation to that. Oh, wait, 60, 25,000. What do you think about this? A referendum on a United Ireland should require a supermajority to pass according to Steve Baker, the UK's Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Yesterday, Mr Baker told the 65th plenary of the British Irish Parliament Assembly at the K-Club in Canticill-Dare that the referendum probably should have been a supermajority at at least 60%. Mr Baker, who was strident supporter of Britain withdrawing from the European Union, made the remarks when responding to a question about whether he had any regrets from the Brexit campaign. He said, one regret is it probably should have been a supermajority. That's a huge thing for me to say because if it had been a supermajority, we'd have lost and we'd still be in. It's easy to ask for forgiveness rather than permission though, isn't it? He's clever because he knew he'd be caught out in that question if he didn't say that. But the reason I say that is if we'd had to have 60%, everyone would have abided by the result. So, generally speaking, I suppose there can be an argument made for it, but to get a 60% majority about the future of the North, that's going to take quite some time, isn't it? And I think most people might be against that. What do you think? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The shocking story here of the mistreatment of a child in the Irish Daily Star. A father charged with child neglect after his infant daughter was allegedly abandoned in a car for 10 hours in Dublin at the weekend and has been remanted on bail pending directions from the DPP. A man raised the alarm in Clandork and guarded a station at around 2 a.m. on Saturday resulting in a major guard operation. The baby girl was found safe and weathered around 4 a.m. following a two-hour search. She was taken to Temple Street University Hospital and given the all-clear. The accused, who was in his 30s and cannot be identified, is charged with an offence under section 246 of the Children's Act. He appeared at Dublin District Court yesterday. It's alleged he assaulted, neglected and ill-treated, neglected or abandoned a child in a manner likely to cause suffering, injury from Friday to Saturday in West Dublin. 10 hours that we don't was in a car on its own. Awful, awful, awful situation. If you are a blood donor, if you've considered it and you can, there's an urgent need for blood, the Irish Daily Mirror, amongst other papers. An urgent appeal has been made to blood donors to give blood as supplies have plummeted. The national stock for blood groups, especially O negative, A negative and B negative, have fallen to just below three days supply in recent weeks. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service aims to have seven days of supply at all times. The IBTTS Director of Donor Services and Logistics, Paul McKinney, said all donations are needed to avoid any impact on our hospital system and I presume they need more going into a bank holiday and with Easter holidays, maybe people are not Easter, keep saying it's Easter, it's Halloween, but with Halloween holidays, maybe people are less likely to give blood, but they're down to three days supply and they need seven finally on health. And I've great sympathy for everyone down in Limerick or anyone who has to visit Limerick University Hospital, it's apparently a really good hospital, but they have serious issues with overcrowding. And we know what that's like up here at Lerick County University Hospital in terms of overcrowding. And I've got to read the story, but we've had unprecedented, there's nowhere in the country ever. And I'm sorry to go on about this again, okay? We're not talking about this much today because some of you might go, well, it's not on about the hospital again, is it? But it's just really important just to put it into context, we've had 78 GPs, as you know at this stage, 11 consultants write letters to their manager, the manager of the hospital, the head of the sale to group who we had on the show yesterday, the health minister, and they have said in A&E, but right across the hospital, there is a serious lack of services. They've warned of barbaric conditions. They've warned of people's outcomes being poorer GPs afraid to, or reticents send people to the A&E because of the potential negative outcomes. Nothing like that really has ever happened across the country. We've got 90 medical professionals saying there is an issue. And that all that information, the GPs letters, the consultants letters were sent to national media as well, I presume, well, I kind of know. They were posted on Twitter. Many, many journalists right across the country would have seen what was going on up here in letter Kenny. And if the truth be told, I think the mirror did a double page spread over the weekend and fair play to play to them. But if the truth be told, no one in the national media picked it up. They didn't pick it up at all. Obviously they looked at it and went, well, it's done it all, or it's not really that big a deal or it won't sell any papers or whatever. So, now, if I missed anything, please let me know. Well, wait 60, 25,000 and I will express, I will apologize and point to what was published directly. But then we have the situation of a widow of a man who died in an overcrowded hospital. She said she would rather be left at home today than go there. This is one lady who was speaking about the situation at letter Kenny University Hospital. Now, that's a very familiar story to us, but the difference is it's everywhere. This story as it relates to University Hospital Limerick is everywhere. RTE did 20 minutes on it this morning. And this is in terms of overcrowding. I don't believe Limerick has the same issues that we have here in terms of the other services which we talked about yesterday. 20 minutes they talked about it on Morning Ireland. And then it was on News Talk as well. And then it was on the service that News Talk sends out to independent media right across the country. Everywhere. This story is about Limerick University Hospital all over the national papers. A number of hospitals and in fairness, it's not just the media. This is not a criticism. It's an observation. Sinn Féin's Health Spokesperson was on Morning Ireland this morning. No mention of that at Kenny University Hospital. Now, I know he's coming up here to meet GPs, but this was an opportunity on the national media. No mention of letter Kenny University Hospital. There was five, six, seven other hospitals mentioned that are in crisis. And letter Kenny University Hospital was neither mentioned by the media outlet nor Sinn Féin's Health Spokesperson this morning. I'm not saying he hasn't mentioned it in the past, but I'm just saying even though there's been like two weeks of full on, can someone please listen towards appears to the situation? And as I say, I don't begrudge Limerick and the surrounds for their issue. Cause wait till you see how this story rolls now. Stephen Donnelly probably will go down to Limerick before he comes up to Donegal because it's on news talk. It's on RTE and it's in all the papers. Letter Kenny us up here. No one took us on really. It's all except that double page spread in the mirror on Saturday, I believe it was. No one took us on. And the story, it's just gonna drift away, isn't it? Nothing's going to change. That's how people might feel. What do you think? 08, 6, 60, 25. It's just an observation of sometimes how the media works and how we find ourselves going, well, it's different up here or we're treated different up here or well sure it's Donegal who cares. You can only sort of kind of go by what you see in the evidence, can't you? And it kind of looks like that. But as I say, maybe that's just my interpretation. Let me know what you think. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. We'll be back with our first guest shortly. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop Letter Kenny, the 2022 Seastore National Off-Licence of the Year. Make your Christmas party unforgettable at Sister Sarah's this December. Book now for the best Christmas party in town. See Facebook for menu and dates. Sister Sarah's are proud sponsors of today's show. Have you heard about the McElhenney's M-Card? Now available exclusively in store. Sign up today to start earning and redeem once you hit 500 points. Register in store at our M-Card station on the first floor or at any tell point. 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Expressway, bringing you the time, us. Okay, it is just approaching 19 minutes past 9. We're joined on the program now by author Paul Gosling. Paul, good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Good morning, Greg. It's great to have you on the program. Now, you've been writing about what perhaps could be done for us here in the Northwest to improve our situation. Whilst a lot of people listening might be aware that we have sort of a Northwest city status where the local councils work together, you believe we need to go much further than that? Do you for the betterment of the Northwest as a whole? Yeah, absolutely, Greg. My argument is that Derry and Donegal are inextricably linked economically and that the weaknesses in the economy in Derry is very similar to the weaknesses in the economy in Donegal. So we've got high unemployment and low pay. And one of the reasons for this is that there's no coherent strategy in terms of promoting investment and skill development in the Northwest because of the border. So for example, invest Northern Ireland doesn't really recognize that there's a cross-border labor market. So it's not saying to potential investors to come to Derry will recognize not only the labor market skills in Derry but also those across the border in Donegal. But equally, we've not got the skills that we need to support local businesses to expand. And that's because Derry has a small university campus at McGee. It needs to be significantly larger. So I think the way to get that is to recognize that Donegal as well as Derry as badly served by the small size of the university in Derry. And therefore what we need is the two governments to work together, whether that's the Northern Ireland government, if it ever gets back in running or the British government, but clearly the Irish government needs to be involved in recognizing, as I know it does on some levels, that actually Derry needs that level of support in order for Donegal to do better. Is it any coincidence the situation we find ourselves in and us both areas being so far removed in both instances from where the decisions are made? Absolutely. I think that is always the case. And this isn't just about what happens on the island of Ireland. You can tell from my accent I'm English. And it's very similar that the northeast of England is the weakest region of England. And you have that sense that the places that are geographically furthest away from the centers of power are actually marginalized also in terms of political power. It's not necessarily conscious, but it happens. And Donegal, of course, you know, has such weak infrastructural links to the center of power within Ireland that it makes it very difficult to get the movement that is needed in terms of getting the economy working. And the only way, because particularly Donegal's geographical marginalization, the only way that Donegal can strengthen its economy is through closer cooperation across the border. And do you believe that this is just an attitude situation i.e. if both governments, when both governments are there and up and running, that it's an agreement or an attitude? Or is this something that requires, you know, because of the cross-border element, something more complicated? Or is it simply just a will being there to cooperate? I think there's different issues on the two sides of the border. I don't think there's any political ill will towards Donegal from Dublin. It is simply that it's difficult to get things moving. In terms of the Northwest on this side of the border in Northern Ireland, yes, I think it's quite clear there's been a history of sectarian decision-making. And that sectarianism isn't just about religion. It's also about geographical location. And I think that's absolutely clear. And I've previously worked as an advisor to one of the MLAs in Northern Ireland, Zershnei McLaughlin. And we found that when we put in questions to the U.P. economy minister, for example, saying that Derry should be promoted as the city that connects the Wild Atlantic Way with the causeway coast, the response that we got was that from the D.U.P. Minister, well, these are competing attractions. Therefore, we can't cooperate. And I think you get that same sense with invest and I approach that it's competing with idea Ireland rather than cooperating. And I think that that is actually a challenge to the system within Northern Ireland much more. And you kind of see that some extent with tourism as well, but to a lesser extent, you also talk of an indifference amongst some politicians and parties. Can you talk to me a little bit about that? And what do you mean by that and what impact has it had? Yeah, I was trying to be polite. I mean, unionism basically, I mean, and it's quite clear that if you go back in history, that it was unionist objections that prevented Derry having a full-size university. And clearly, although unionism is supported to it's supportive of parts of the Northwest, for example, Korean, it doesn't feel that it's fully on board to me in terms of Derry. And certainly it does not want to see cooperation across the border. Now, that's not true of all unionism, but there are parts of unionism and the dominant parts of unionism in historical terms in terms of government. So currently, is it the situation that and to use the obvious example, we could have the IDA in the Republic trying to attract a business to Lifford, and we could have their counterparts in the North saying Nostra Band is the best option, when really we should have, invest in IDIS of course, when really we should have both organizations saying, have you considered this region because you have the best of both worlds from an employment section that the figures would look better because it'd be a bigger catchment area, presuming all that kind of stuff. Is it as simple as that, Paul, that we're talking? Well, clearly that's what Derry City Council or Derry and Stravon District Council and Donny Hall Council are trying to do anyway. But yeah, I don't feel that state agencies are in the same position. Hopefully things will change in terms of invest in I having announced yesterday, the appointment is chief executive for someone who was a very senior official at IDA Ireland. So perhaps that would indicate a shift in approach from invest in I, but personally I think we should go further than that. I think we should have a regional development agency for the Northwest that promotes investment with support, financial support and practical support from the two governments that actually recognizes that it needs to be this coherent push for investment, but also skills development because the two things go hand in hand. If you don't have the skills, then you don't have the economy for sure. And then you could the further you dig into it, the more it backs up even in terms of education. No professors up in the north of in the north of the Republic of Ireland, lower spend per student in the local universities, you know, it all adds up and all feeds in. I've no doubt Paul. I mean, does something like this require a name on it? You know, something like leveling up the way the governments and Belfast and Dublin recognize that you know what okay, this these regions have been underserved and they need preferential some preferential treatment. It's just not something you it would be lovely to see, but it's just not something you can imagine happening. I used to do some work for the one of the regional development agencies in England and I thought they were a really good thing. And I think that the whole of the west of Ireland has a problem that it gets neglected in terms of support. So yeah, I would like to see a northwest development agency that is cross border that is given financial backing by the Irish and the bridge governments. All right, listen, Paul. Thanks for your time this morning. I really appreciate it. Take care of yourself. That's author Paul Gosling there. Do you agree? Disagree 08 660 25000. Right, some of your comments here. Great to hear Tony Canavan on the show yesterday. Now, Highland interview the head of CHO one to find out what's happening with recruiting home helps opening beds and community home homes to assist Luh deliver acute care instead of providing the care that CHO one should be providing. And indeed it is something we've looked at in the past and will do in the future. Locke's willing needs help to stop the spread of wild giga oysters that have taken over the flat oyster bed, flat oyster fishing. We were spoke about this a couple of weeks ago in relation to a study in the area. Can you ask why the breast cancer patients who were diagnosed in the mobile unit are sent to Galway and not treated in letter Kenny? It makes the number of patients in Donegal seem low. And there's a problem with retaining professionals in letter Kenny hospitals. The figures are not reflecting true numbers. How are the positions to be filled in letter Kenny going to be filled when there's a halt on HSC recruitment? That is an issue. I did phone the waiting list. They told me they cannot do anything for me. I need a new hip and knee. I got an x-ray on my shoulder on Friday. I have a medical card. I cannot wait over four years to see a doctor about my hip. I got an x-ray on it in June. I was told I need a new hip. Listening to Greg and Highland talking to Tony Canavan. I work in letter Kenny University Hospital. And the problem with the hospital is the management. They're having a clue. Unless they get rid of them, the hospital won't change. Ask anyone who works in the hospital. They'll tell you the same. Well, we ask consultants that work there. And they say that often the calls that the management make to the HSC to advance the hospital fall on deaf ears. It's the same hospital in Galway they had to bring in an emergency team that Mr. Murphy was in charge of at the time. If he's not fit for the job, then he needs to go out. As I say, you speak to people from within the hospital and those that we've spoken to and that's not their view. Nor is it seemingly the view of politicians on the outside of it that they seem to feel that his hands are tied in that position. Let me see. There was an ambulance behind with blue flashing lights. We got up. This must have been out on the new road there in letter Kenny. There was an ambulance behind with blue lights flashing. We got up on the footpath and he got past us. But then he got stuck at the red light on the Polestar roundabout and there was nowhere for the traffic to move to let him past. We've mentioned this a couple of times to see if I suppose particularly anyone who drives ambulances could give us an insight as to how this work has affected their work. A caller says the needs a number on the left to Port Road. And other since the new traffic lights were turned on in letter Kenny can take up to one hour longer to travel from Medicise to the clownry roundabout at four o'clock in the evening. Wow, there's an extra hour. Listening. Interesting listening to the young man. What I didn't realise years ago and I'm sorry I don't know is the amount of hormone disruptors that we our kids are exposed to every plastic item every plastic toy wrapper nonstick pans waterproof clothes carpet bedding clothes even the plastic electric kettle all of this is affecting our children on ourselves children are developing sooner as a result of our own so much from Lane Fitzpatrick a hormone expert. That's as it relates to a call yesterday. Right, let me take a break for the news and not the news we're a long way from the use. Let me take a break for an advert we'll be back with our next guest then. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com Get ready for the most wonderful time of the year at Sister Sarah's letter Kenny secure your preferred party night now with fantastic food and a festive atmosphere throughout December. Sister Sarah's crowd sponsors of today's show. 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accessible lessons at highdigital.ie or free phone 1-800-20-30-30 brought to you by Vodafone Ireland Foundation and alone Vodafone Together We Can Andy very welcome back to the programme we are joined on the programme now by Sinn Fein's Spokesperson on Fisheries in the Marine Deputy Porig McLaughlin in relation to the situation at Letter Kenney University Hospital thanks for joining us this morning Porig My pleasure Greg I'll just say it to you as I said to listeners a little earlier on we've been banging this drum now for a couple of weeks and long before now but really you know since the GPs come out since the consultants come out we thought some steam was being gathered No one seems to care nationally and we feel for the people of Limerick and Surrans but L.U.H. back on the headlines 20 minutes this morning across all the papers news talk, RTE and I said earlier on and I'll say it to you again I was somewhat disappointed when your health Spokesperson was on and ran through the issues around the country numerous hospitals were mentioned there could have been an opportunity to put Letter Kenney on the national agenda there and it wasn't it was a missed opportunity so it feels like right across the political spectrum we've forgotten about up here Porg Yeah and thanks to the GPs and the consultants that there has been extensive coverage nationally of the crisis and Donegal it has been covered on news talk and RTE on many national newspapers thanks to their efforts thanks to them speaking out very bravely about what's happening in terms of David Cullen this morning he was brought on to Morning Ireland to talk about the funding crisis the fact of the government have not provided enough money to fund the health service the fact that's going to be a recruitment freeze in terms of junior doctors so while he was on they raised University Hospital Limerick and he he talked about that in detail he knows it well and he mentioned a number of different locations around the country and I spoke to him afterwards he was very annoyed of himself because he didn't mention Donegal but I can tell you this for sure David Cullen has been up to Letter Kenney Hospital he's coming up again this Thursday to meet with the GPs to meet with the consultants and he's very aware of the issues he's worked with me in Pierce Doherty and the consultants and I have no doubts following the meeting on Thursday evening you know he'll be back at it again so I have no concern about David's commitments to Donegal and I know we're going to talk about now what needs to be done in terms of the funding of the hospital the upgrading of the hospital so all of that I have no doubt will have David's full support on Yep and he'll hear at first hand himself when he's up here on Thursday as you mentioned as it relates to Letter Kenney University Hospital we had an extensive interview yesterday with Tony Canavan the head of Seattle Hospital group who acknowledged all of the issues that were raised but listeners off the back of that didn't feel that there's any plan do you know what I mean there's no actual plan for Letter Kenney University Hospital there's no plan it's not even the pipeline for a minor injuries clinic forologists to even work remotely to assist with Letter Kenney you know I don't need to go through it all again you're well aware of it Porig but whilst there's acknowledgement of the issues up here there doesn't seem to be any plan to fix them I think that and obviously I've been talking to the consultants and the GPs who have spoken out and like thank God they have because the power of a consultant telling the truth of what's happening in the hospital and the under resourcing the power of the GPs saying that they are terrified to send their patients up to that emergency department is way more powerful than any politician so like it's been extremely important that they have done that but yes they they like one of the things that we're saying is they've announced now they're going to carry out a review of the emergency department like why wasn't that done a year ago two years ago I mean we've had the permanent situation of people on trolleys now for years why why does it take a letter from GPs the consultants to to make that happen so I think the the sense in terms of Tony Canavan's interview yesterday was that and for listeners who who don't know he's the the top person the sale to hospital group which is all of the hospitals from Galway through Sligo Mayo was common right up to to Donnie Gall and it was clear that's there there hasn't been a plan there hasn't been an ambition for letter Kenny Hospital I mean I worked last weekend Greg and we briefly talked about this last Monday I worked on collating the figures so what what I have in front of me here now and I know you have them is the the number of inpatient so who who come through each hospital in the state and are discharged so we have all of those numbers we have the budget that's allocated to every hospital across the state and if you look at letter Kenny you know we're a major hospital almost the hospital last year that makes letter Kenny the six the sixth largest hospital in the state a major hospital but then when you look at the actual budget that's allocated to letter Kenny they're down in 12 12th position and that's one of the lowest allocations per inpatient in the entire state Mr. Canavan yesterday didn't really want to look at it like that he he was looking at how much he's spending in the hospitals and said look Sligo and letter Kenny if we divide it by the amount of inpatients it's half why in letter Kenny what they have in Sligo says yes I accept that but the way he views it and it was clear from the way he was trying to explain it was that letter Kenny is funded equally to Sligo but I mean obviously if you have to do more work with the same amount of money it would be impossible not to have lesser services presumably yeah and I've done that work last weekend and I've done it every year is because I've been working closely with you know senior people and letter Kenny hospital who have wanted to get a sense of what the big picture is because they knew instinctively they were being underfunded they knew they didn't have the same resources in terms of doctors nurses beds as over hospitals doing comparable work and now it's unquestionable now the other problem is that letter Kenny is a model three hospital which means that it's it's it is obviously resource less than a model four hospital but if you look at that list and you have it there Greg you can see that there are five model four so St. James's hospital in Dublin Tallah Hospital in Dublin St. Vincent's hospital Dublin Beaumont Hospital Dublin University Hospital Wardford so they're all model four hospitals letter Kenny has more inpatience than all of those hospitals but it's also to but Park also to it's really a model 3.5 or it should be viewed as that because it does work letter Kenny does work and operations and works in areas of cancer care and what have you that all the model threes don't so it really should be treated if not as a model four certainly as a model 3.5 Yeah and every time you have consultants who have ambition in the hospital who've tried to develop you know be it's orthopedics urology cancer care the likes of Michael who's done phenomenal work in that whole area every time they've tried to do it they've never been given support of the sale to hospital group of HSE of anything they've been curtailed and the ambition so you're a hundred percent right that letter Kenny there's two hospitals that stand out like a sore thumb there's letter Kenny University Hospital and there's our lady low lady of Lord's hospitals in Trajada those two hospitals clearly should be model for hospitals based on the area that they cover the distance I mean in the case of letter Kenny we are about four hours away from the nearest model or the problem is you see the problem is is that you we you know what I know and everyone knows maybe that the strict criteria for a model for hospital exists in other words that it does work to a certain standard and can provide if can provide certain services to a certain standard that is the that's the problem you see it's needs to be treated as a a level for hospital but because of the the the strict because of the the strict parameters to get that status and to get that funding it's not in line with the HSE's policies of center of excellence etc are yeah and I mean you know again I go back to the campaign years ago for a quality of cancer care and you know that eventually that led to the radiology unit at Alton McAlvin which services all of the people on a cross-border basis so there's no reason why you couldn't look at letter Kenny providing health service on a cross-border basis for people in Derry and West her own and that could justify then certain specialties I mean with a bit of vision you could make letter Kenny hospital a model for hospital that means it be properly resourced the other thing Greg which is really important is that it's been pointed out to surgeons and consultants at letter Kenny that you now have the introduction of these surgical hubs so that basically means that if there's some kind of a crisis in the hospital it means that you know every day procedures and operations are not interfered with and the waiting list don't grow these are going to be rolled out across the country so you're going to be looking at Galway Waterford Cork Dublin I think Limerick too so this famous Galway to Dublin lying kicks again I've argued and recently the seven of the seven yeah and and none of them Greg Norfolk of this famous Galway to Dublin lying none of them so that means that people and Dunneagall and Sligo our second class citizens that means that they're waiting list grow for our people and in the case of Dunneagall were four hours what I proposed is that one of these surgical hubs could be based at Dunneagall town to service Sligo and letter Kenny it's pretty much midway between Sligo and letter Kenny there's about 41,000 inpatients between Sligo and letter Kenny which makes it the biggest hospital in the state if you combine the two that's the biggest hospital so there's every justification for a surgical hub to be at Dunneagall town service and letter Kenny and Sligo it means people don't have to go huge distances for procedures they don't have to wait forever for operations you know living in pain so that even hasn't been conceited so these are two issues the upgrading of letter Kenny to a model for me at Dunneagall town there are two issues at SELTA but particularly minister Stephen Donley needs to grapple with and deal with urgently Okay listen thanks for your time I appreciate it Deputy Poran McLaughlin Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts Greg when was the last time the mainstream media gave the government a hard time did dropping the vat on papers of anything to do with it just wondering why they give our beloved government the easy ride every time I don't think it's to do with that to be honest but I think it's I think it's more to do I don't want to go into it here on exit sounds like it's our great but it's not but an awful lot of this country is in a very small space on the East Coast of this country people know each other if you look at if you look at a lot of the ministers who are their staff former journalists people involved in the media I don't know do you know what I mean I don't know what what are the reasons I though the reasons I don't know Hi Greg News talked to this lot last week about letter Kenny Hospital and over crowding fair play to news talk and thank you very much for that Greg more than read the hospital Sinn Fein spokesperson on health mentioned half a dozen hospitals with problems of over crowding etc but left letter Kenny off the list how could this be with two Sinn Fein TDs in this country well you heard from deputy McLaughlin there because it did stand out a little bit to me and I know there's a Charlie McGarvey given out to me on Facebook about it but it did stick out to me like a sore thumb Sinn Fein TD Poran McLaughlin accepted that Mr. Cullinan deputy Cullinan was kicking himself that it slipped his mind at that time so what I noticed and what our listener noticed has been recognised by the party itself and the person who made the comments right okay I have to take a break because we've got so much to fit in stay where you are back with more at sister Sarah's Castro Let us look after your Christmas party needs this December with excellent food and entertainment in Letter Kenny's Premier Venue 9122238 Sister Sarah's now sponsors of today's show Creative Landscaping Works are the Dunningall Distributors of Millboard Cladding and Decking thanks to its unique polymer resin construction this decking and cladding doesn't 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Right, the government's promised to examine outlawing the general sale of laughing gas after authorities in Britain said it would become a controlled substance from next month. So this is not something really I've heard too much about if I'm honest before this came up. So what is the issue here? Is it widely available? Is it widely abused or what's the problem? Well, first of all, the gas is used in labour and it's used in maternity wards and it's used in catering sector. So obviously the problem is that it's been used by young people, teenagers and younger, for quick bulls I suppose, like tip-picks, glue, you know, gases that were used back in the 70s, 80s. And ultimately we saw people dying from using these, from inhaling them and that's my concern and that's why I've been highlighting it. So yes, it is widely used in Dublin. I'm not sure up in Donegal whether it's a such an issue up there at the minute, but definitely in Dublin. And you yourself have actually noticed an increase in discarded containers and canisters of laugh and gas. Yeah, I mean the other day, friends of the Kamak, which is a local cleanup group, they did a stretch of the Kamak, which is our canal here and they found 30 empty gas canisters. These gas canisters are large canisters, you know. Now my understanding is, you asked me where they're widely available, is that they're very cheap online and you know, young people now have access obviously online and can buy stuff, you know. So they can either get it online or there's people buying it and selling it in their local parks and you know, making money obviously like any other drug or any other thing that they can make money out of. But ultimately this is very concerning because, you know, quick bulls can lead to whether you're in hiding something like this. Obviously you can weak high blood pressure, you know, we can also see the side effects can be psychosis, can be ultimately can be death. So it's very serious. Of course, and it's used in medical terms, it's used in a very controlled way. And the stats back up 22% of young people using the HSE's Adolescence Addiction Service last year admitted to taking nitrous oxide on occasion. That's a huge jump from 2021. Again, you know, I thought I was kind of across a lot of things, Francis. And this is news to me this morning. Well, of course, yeah, I mean, this is because I believe it's so cheap. I believe it's and I said it like it's quick bulls. But ultimately the message I'm kind of sad about and I'm campaigning for is that, you know, parents need to know what the children are doing. You don't need to discuss these things with with the children. Because I'm be aware of themselves. There's a lot of parents of my generation probably wouldn't be as familiar with this type of stuff. And of course, Francis, I don't want to in any way encourage or promote. I think that's obvious. But like, is it legal currently legal to buy here? Well, there isn't a problem because it's used, as I said, in the case you can quite freely buy it. There's nothing illegal about it. What we do need to do is, besides what England have done in terms of bringing in the legislation that will make it to sell us will be a 14 year and you can face up to 14 years sentence and then if you come with it will be two years potential two year sentence. Now, because England have recognized the danger of it. Now, as I said the other day, I, I understand legislation, but we've a lot of legislation that's not enacted between loads of different reasons. So I'm, I'm, I'm absolutely supportive of legislation. But I'm also more keen on education. Yeah, awareness is, I think awareness is a key as well for, for parents and guardians to say right, okay, because I presume once the immediate effects have subsided and a teenager were to return home, hopefully safe and well, as we, as Francis has pointed out, there is a great risk in doing it. It might be hard to know that they had been on that trip, so to speak. Absolutely. Like I said, dizziness, you know, all these imbalances, all these short-term effects, but like I said, the longer term effect can be respiratory issues. And of course, like I said, ultimately death. And so it's a really serious issue. And it's like, this is one of the things that like I keep saying parents and guardians need to know where the children are, what they're doing. And I know that's difficult. I know teenagers nowadays have a lot more freedom than my generation would have. But at the same time, you know, we have a responsibility to ensure that at the very least, people are educated into what they're taking and what they're using and what might be the potential of it. Okay. And so that's it. Yeah, that's really so it's a scary, scary drug at the minute. People always think it's extra scary when you potentially don't know what's out there and about. But as we said, 22% of young people using the HSC's Adolescent Addiction Service last year admitted to taking nitrous oxide on occasion. Okay, Francis, thanks for helping us raise awareness. I do appreciate it. Have a lovely Tuesday. Thank you. It's our pleasure to take care of yourself. Councillor Francis Timmons there, independent. Any of you working out there in the Tidy Towns area? Have you across this region come across empty nitrous oxide canisters about because it'd be a good indication, obviously, probably not being put in a bin. So maybe if you're out about, as I say, in the Tidy Towns sphere, have you come across this in the Northwest 086? 086 60 25,000. Greg, I came across a couple of articles on Facebook yesterday where young people have been left in wheelchairs for life after becoming addicted to laughing gas, I can imagine. The HSC talk about the regional hubs. If you live in the north of Inishone, how can you call Galway within the region? We're closer to Scotland. And that's it. What we need in Donegal is another hospital in the south of the county, letter Kenny cannot cope with the number of patients in the county, according to Bridget. Greg asks, Podrick McLaughlin, is letter Kenny a teaching university or not? How can it function without proper funding or adequate resources? That's coming in a couple of times. I'll explore that a little bit in a little bit more detail. Hi, Greg, I contacted Charlie McConnelogue's office as my husband is waiting on pain management clinic. But they told me letter Kenny hospital is not giving any information on patients for the foreseeable future. And we're going to get news shortly potentially as well too, which will bring you on this program of another important service at letter Kenny University Hospital, which is being lost, which is going to create headaches for a number of people out there, which is waiting on some confirmation on that before we bring that to you. My son was discharged from Temple Street Hospital two years ago, as he was 16 at the time, they transferred his file to letter Kenny. He needs a blood test every year, as it's to do with his blood cells. Now he hasn't had an appointment from letter Kenny, but I've received three letters asking, do we still need the blood test? It's a joke, they say. Someone sent in that from from Jenny Freel in the mirror. That's an article from Mr. Michael Sugru that I referenced. Thank you for that hospital comment. It doesn't matter how much money is pumped into the hospital. If it's not being run properly and the funds are not being put to proper use, there needs to be in order to have funds are being allocated and the overall management of the hospital, just some of the calls and comments coming in. Okay, thank you for that. Keep them coming into us. We are going to take a break now for the news and obituary notices, but stay tuned. Coming up pretty much straight after 10, we have community guard information for you. We're here, the latest news and appeals from Mongolia first here every Tuesday morning. That and so much besides coming up over the next couple of hours. So stay right where you are and keep us busy on those phone lines. The fisheries local action groups invite you to public meetings on Tuesday 24th of October to develop new strategies in the north flag area. Please come along and offer your views on what support is needed to secure the sustainable development of your local coastal area. What are the strengths? What are the challenges that need to be addressed? We invite you to join us and share your views on Tuesday the 24th of October at the Tara Hotel in Kili Beggs from 11 a.m till 1 p.m and the Mount Errigal Hotel in Lettercanny from 2 p.m till 6 p.m. Your participation is crucial in charting the future of your local coastal area. 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For more information call Highland Radio on 07491 25,000 or visit highlandradio.com live on air online and on the Highland Radio app. This is Highland Radio News. Good morning. It's Donna Marie Doherty with the news at 10 o'clock. Understanding the rules of urban warfare can help aid organizations to reach those in need in areas like Gaza. That's according to the Irish Red Cross, which is hosting the war in cities conference in Dublin this morning. Senior officials from major charities and aid foundations will address the meeting to discuss how to best serve people who are experiencing conflict. Deirdre Garvey is the general secretary of the Irish Red Cross and says rules of engagement have changed in recent years. We must speak out about the need to use these rules of war as being vitally important. And that helps us on the humanitarian side of things to bring the humanitarian aid to where it's most needed. A popular bar in Derry has revealed they'll be closing their doors this coming Friday. A spokesperson from the Grand Central Bar said when the numbers aren't stacking up we have to admit a defeat. While the establishment says it has been coming up against rising costs for the past few years, it has become financially unviable. The bar was first established over 100 years ago and has been in the hands of the current owner for the past 11. Locals have taken to social media to pay tribute to the business. The HSE and Department of Health will be asked to explain how the health service can be run next year. Representatives of both will appear before the Iraqis Health Committee against a backdrop of our equipment freeze and lower than expected budget funding. Sinn Féin's health spokesperson David Cullinan says honesty is needed. Already we're getting reports back in from hospitals across the state as to the impact of that recruitment embargo will have on services and management of hospitals having to make very tough decisions. We know that 7,000 jobs which were meant to be funded next year will now not be funded and they've been scrapped and with the recruitment embargo obviously that will place real pressures on hospitals. A Halloween decoration sold at Poundland has been recalled over safety concerns. The hanging decoration is made of white material with a ghost face and polystyrene ball as the head. It has sharp metal wires that are easily exposed that could potentially cause cuts. The Office for Product Safety and Standard say those who have bought the item can return it for a full refund. An image of the decoration and more details can be found on our website highlandradio.com. A letter Kenny Counselor says the disability committee needs additional support to continue its work. Counselor Jemik Havana has called for funding to be set aside in Donegal County Council's budget for the provision of accessible services. He says just across the border in Northern Ireland they are streets ahead in terms of the delivery of facilities. I give the example of changing places. We will have one now in the letter Kenny before Christmas hopefully but for that we had access to three different things to get that money you know and there's very few of those in Donegal those facilities whereas Northern Ireland has over 60 changing places available so we're playing catch up here and there has been so much good progress made especially on our beaches with the number of beach wheelchairs that we're providing now. A plan to offer state accommodation on a short-term basis to new arrivals from Ukraine is unworkable that's according to a group working with refugees. Proposals to be discussed by government today would mean that after three months in Ireland Ukrainians would have to find either a rental property or take up the offer of a home pledged by members of the public but migrants right groups Doris says better planning and more money is needed. Chief Executive of the organisation John Lanin says the standard of accommodation for refugees is getting worse. This government has provided accommodation for 80,000 people from Ukraine in the last 18 months but we're seeing an ongoing deterioration in standards to the point where people have been given intense a lot of the accommodation that's been provided isn't suitable for children and families as an over reliance on hotels. Looking to whether there will be a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers for the rest of the day with some heavy showers possible the best of the sunny spells will develop later in the afternoon and evening with highs of 12 to 14 degrees that's all for now the next news update is at 11 o'clock in the meantime keep up to date with the latest local news on our website hideintradio.com for myself and the news team good morning. The obituary notices this Tuesday morning October 24th the death has occurred of Joanna Given Hillhead Ardra her remains are opposing at her home today and tomorrow from 1 p.m. until 10 p.m. funeral mass at 12 noon on Thursday in the church of the holy family Ardra followed by private cremation house private please from 10 p.m. to 1 p.m. family flowers only please donations if desired to the poor farmers association care of Derek McCabe funeral director or any family member the death has taken place of sister Maureen Boyce the holy faith sisters late of Downing's Dunny Gall California and Ireland proposing in the holy faith convent glass nevin tomorrow afternoon from three o'clock followed by removal to convent chapel at half past four funeral mass on Thursday morning at half past 11 followed by burial in the convent cemetery the death has taken place of Anthony Tony O'Donnell Corker Lane Ross Neuler and formerly of Croy Dunlowe and Manchester in the UK Tony's remains are opposing at St Patrick's Church Requiem mass there this morning at 11 a.m. followed by private family cremation at Lakelands crematorium cavern Tony's funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot TV family flowers only please house private at all times the death has taken place of Neil Doherty Thornhill Sligo and formerly of Bunkranna we're posing at Sean Philahy's funeral home Curtin Cross Sligo this evening from half past five until seven o'clock mass of the resurrection will be celebrated tomorrow morning at half past 11 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Sligo funeral mass will be streamed live via Fligo Cathedral dot i.e. burial will follow in St Patrick's Cemetery Scarden Strand Hill Road Sligo family flowers only donations in lieu if desired to northwest hospice the death has occurred of Dennis Kelly buddy Strana Clay Ily's Bali Magan Bunkranna Dennis's remains are opposing at his home funeral from there tomorrow morning leaving at 10 o'clock going to St Mary's Church Cork Hill for Requiem mass at 11 o'clock burial is afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house strictly private from 10 p.m. until 11 a.m. funeral can be viewed on church services dot TV the death has taken place of Mary McNulty mean dairy falcara Mary's remains are opposing at her home house private from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. rosary tonight at 9 o'clock funeral tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and St Finnean's church falcara with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of Angela Carlin formerly boner knee broaders 11 Lissaphin Park Sturban and formerly of New Ross County Wexford proposing at her home funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at quarter past nine for Requiem mass and St Mary's Church Melmont at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in lieu of flowers pleased to the foil hospice care of Quigley funeral directors family time from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. the Requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of Sean McKenna kill rain glinties and formerly of Midtown Bell Turbot County Cavern Sean's remains are opposing at his home today from 12 noon until 9 o'clock Requiem mass and St Connell's church glinties tomorrow at 12 noon with burial afterwards in Clare Cemetery Donegal town house private to family on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations in lieu if desired to the Donegal hospice care of any family member funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv the death has taken place of Jerry Ionitas of Menillar Derrybeg formerly of Corfu Greece funeral mass today in St Mary's Church Derrybeg at one o'clock with interment afterwards in Mahregalan Cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on Kieran Roarty funeral directors Facebook page the death has taken place of Mary Harkin Strat's Mount Cairndonna funeral is on route from her home going to the church of the Sacred Heart Cairndonna for Requiem mass at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the 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views in contact with us there needs to be a more cooperative cooperation between the north and the south health systems where there's a cross board of facility in place at the moment it's very hard to access and takes a long time for people to get their money back there should be a system where people funding coming through straight away without them having to pay for it uh by which they sign a form very ironic that all the people who say that 50 plus one majority isn't enough for united arland always urge 50 plus one is enough to maintain the union yes but if the dynamics in northern arland change further maybe it'll be 75 maybe it'll be 80 maybe it'll be 90 hedge cutters on the dual carriageway causing unnecessary stress with the new traffic system and only one lane operating on the dual carriageway this morning i don't really understand why that work was done at the same time as a such a major change to the traffic control in desert kenny but it was explained that that's when funding came through and use it or lose it on the traffic lights a call to say the lights are okay but during peak times the traffic lights are not working correctly where they make the roundabouts safer they're creating bottlenecks and backlogs of traffic during rush hour call to say it took him one hour from the on post depot to the dry arch roundabout with the buildup of traffic this would indicate that they're not doing what they're supposed to do another point here is with the amount of cars sitting with their engines running is the potential spike in carbon monoxide in the air at the time well actually you know those statistics are available i might check that out after the show to see if there's been any uh any spiking in letter kenny why do all gps close at five p.m and then shown as a new medical centre sitting wasting away over the weekend surely we need outreach mining re-injury centered to take the pressure off the main letter kenny university hospital that was a question that i put directly to the head of celta not on the cars at the moment it seems caller says that traffic is currently backed up but now this is obviously not right now caller says that traffic is currently backed up to the clanry hotel with an ambulance stock unable to get through cars cannot even move out of the way because of the height footpaths that have been built there it's an absolute disaster that was at 9 30 a.m so worrying what do you do when there's an ambulance looking to get through greg you are totally right the day you had the two consultants on i was listening to drive time and rte radio that evening they were talking about health but not a word about letter kenny i remember thinking that it was strange that there was no coverage at all especially as the consultants and the gps had spoken out i'm sure some of them would have gone on rte as well if they had been asked but not a word not even in the news headlines now some people have said there were bits and pieces of coverage here and there and that is that's that's i accept that and if i was wrong i apologize but you know 20 minutes on the prime time news program is is different to articles throughout the course of the day i'm not saying that that mitigates if i was wrong i'm just saying at my point i believe to a great extent still stands that emergency ed team supposed to come to help is like calling the fire brigade to come put out the fire and gone again something permanent needs doing at letter kind of university hospital and on it goes now just to let you know that maybe it suits you if you're in a busy house or maybe um you're you're not fantastic at writing whatever it might be and you think well i would like to have my view on on the show well for whatever reason and i'm just throwing a couple out there please feel free to send in a voice note so we can play it out on air 08 660 25 000 it's no different number all the numbers here are the same for the text of the whatsapp but if you hold 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of today's show the community information slot is brought to you by charidan security systems protecting what you value most call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro charidan security 91 26025 you welcome back to the program it is tuesday the 24th of october 2023 and it's time for the latest edition of community guard information and we're joined in studio this week by a garden sergeant charlene anderson from the boncran out garden station good morning charlene thanks so much for calling down i do appreciate it okay let's get straight into appeals and we'll start in killi begs charlene that's correct so guardian killi begs are investigating a criminal damage incident which occurred at parkhead killi begs between 11 p.m on friday the 20th of october and 10 30 a.m on saturday the 21st of october now vehicle which was parked in the area overnight had its windows smashed so no items were reported have been taken from the vehicle and entry wasn't gamed so just appeal to anyone this morning who may have witnessed the incident or indeed anybody that may have been in the area that may have dashcam footage just to make that available to guardian bali shannon on 07198 53530 now a significant amount of products stolen from a shop in bundor and charlene that's right on thursday the 19th of october and at approximately 2 p.m a pharmacy in the bundoran area noticed that a shelf in the pharmacy had been completely cleared of its stock following a restocked the previous day and it was established that a large number of expensive perfumes had been taken from the store to approximately 2,300 euro in value so i suppose look we're seeking the assistance of the public in relation to this appeal because we approach the christmas period members the public they may be offered some of these perfumes for sale people may go door-to-door attempting to sell the products on and we just ask them to contact guard the or maybe their local guard the station because it might just be in the bundoran area they might go further afield to sell the items or if they want to contact are they directly at crime stoppers 1800 666 111 you know i mean if someone lands at your door or approaches you and is selling you what you know to be an expensive product at a discount price the reality is it's probably come from somewhere again if it's too good to be true it's often these chances yeah right criminal damage in raffaul so letter kenny guard the european in this morning for information in relation to a criminal damage incident that occurred at park nebaltona in raffaul in the early hours of saturday morning the 21st of october and this occurred between 5am and 6am now homeowner woke to find that criminal damage had been caused to her front door overnight so repealant to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or indeed once again anyone that has any information in relation to this incident to contact are they in letter kenny on 9167 100 all right we'll go to kill mcrennan now and reports of a vehicle acting suspiciously so on the 17th of october gregg at approximately 8 30 p.m. gartheon millford responded to a report from a business owner in the kenan kill mcrennan area who reported that a vehicle was acting suspicious outside their vehicle outside their business premises now what we know is that two people exited a vehicle and a combination lock of a gate was removed the gate was opened and one person was seen entering the cartilage of the business premises before being disturbed and leaving the scene in a blackford mondale partial reg t nz with a rare yellow number plate and towbar so inquiries are currently ongoing in relation to this incident but we're just appealing to the public that if anyone was in the area and noticed any vehicles like a blackford mondale acting suspiciously as we said we've a partial reg here of a t nz um or indeed if they're in the kill mcrennan area it may have dashcam footage and something might have been picked up on that just to make that footage available to garthe and garthe can be contacted in millford on this one on 07493 53060 and subsequent to that if someone is aware of where that vehicle is now he's guardian for interest in that information also absolutely greg as we always say any nugget of information is always helpful all right this is um sort of a dual situation it is an appeal but also an advisory for business shop owners that's correct greg so on the 18th of october gartheon letter kenny became aware of an incident because they received a report from local business premises that a female had entered the store and placed three items into a plastic bag that she had in her possession she then proceeded to the counter and sought a refund from the shop assistant for those items now the shop assistant went to locate the manager and the female left the store with the items and without paying for them so look it's a warning for business owned owners of this type of scam and again we're coming up to a busy period the christmas period so we're just asking business owners to be vigilant and to report such incidents to greg the these types of like distraction theft and return fraud incidents where we do see them on the increase on the approach to the christmas period yeah and as well too i suppose because we are coming into a busier period it's possible that extra staff are being recruited who may not be familiar with the day-to-day runnings of stuff and are supposed to give them the best chance uh you need to be advising um and educating new staff and current staff of course about these types of scams which are ongoing as we know absolutely and that's all just about getting that information out there yeah for sure and uh any businesses i know they can contact guard of sergeant paul wallis if they ever need any specific advice on such matters okay theft of farm machinery um charlene i believe this was a question maybe that was posed last week just people a listener wanted some advice in relation to it and again this type of crimes have become prevalent in spring and in autumn so i suppose we're just reiterating the advice that we always gave like predominantly it's trailers that are stolen from you know farms um we do see quads and we see you know the likes of gates and virtualized has also been taken but it's predominantly trailers so just again the simple advice store your tools and smaller machinery in secure buildings close to your farmhouse remove keys from quads and all vehicles when they're not in use photograph machinery and tools and keep a detailed record to make zero numbers and colors available in the event that they are stolen then we'll have a correct record of what they are mark the property with you know identifiable brands or um obviously then if you have a unique number or some people have come in and done property marking in the last while they maybe have something that's unique to them whether it's a date of birth or whether it's an aircode they can get that put on their property um firearm storage uses secure firearms cabinet um and that ensure that it's secured to the wall restrict access to your farm yard by installing gates and also cctv having that installed um and of course good lighting around your house or your farm yard and if there is like a community alert group in your area perhaps consider joining up to one of those yep for sure because some people will be the victims of these crimes unfortunately uh so it's a bit of advanced warning to try and make sure it's not you uh people already being harangued with fireworks we had an appeal there a couple of weeks ago a horrible situation where a lit firework uh was uh put through the front door of someone's property and so the potential for uh injury there is uh shocking and the use of and and possession of fireworks without a license is a very serious crime but more generally um just to remind people of that what that warning charlene yeah so igniting any illegal firework thrown in ignited firework at a person or property or possession of illegal fireworks would intend to sale or supply their all offenses and they carry up to ten thousand euro of a fine and five years imprisonment but also fireworks that cause significant stress to vulnerable people in our community also to elderly people and people with sensory issues um so it's just to be mindful of that um i suppose they're the things when you're young you can't you don't think about it's something i certainly didn't think about anyways until i got got older but um they can cause stress and great harm too to pets and that so we just ask everyone to refrain from purchasing or using the legal fireworks um if anybody has any information in relation to you know people that maybe have bought fireworks that are tempted to sell them we'd ask them to contact our the like letter kenny bonkran and millford and ballish annan are all 24-hour stations um and again after the program those numbers will be will be on our page yeah okay um and again we know because unfortunately uh these things happen there will be people presenting to letter kenny university hospital with potentially very serious injuries uh damage to the eyes loss of fingers it happens every year let's hope it doesn't happen this year we're heading into a bank holiday and uh we've seen that there's a potential for for new uh rules that might increase penalty points over bank holiday weekends and the reason for that is is that we do see and unfortunately we're seeing a consistent level of fatality on our roads but we we can tend to see a peak over bank holiday periods and that's why uh in the approach to a bank holiday often uh charlene we have a specific warning from you guys that's correct correct so just look as you said there as we approach the busy bank holiday weekend period we're just asking drivers to take greater care on the roads um to date 155 people have been killed on irish roads um and that's up on 37 as this period last year so we're just once again just ask people slow down never drive whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs don't use your phone whilst driving or drive whilst you're tired and that's a big one that we're seeing so and always ensure that you and everyone in your vehicle is wearing a seatbelt so look we I suppose we all need to examine our driver behavior and ensure that we're not doing anything that's contributing to serious or fatal road traffic collisions like road safeties everyone's responsibility now it is expected that a large number of people would be traveling and using the roads this bank holiday weekend so we just ask motorists to plan their journey and pay attention to other road users we do want everyone to have a safe and enjoyable bank holiday weekend and simply remember that every decision that you make on the road counts um people that are going out socializing this weekend Greg we just urge them to leave their car at home plan ahead maybe book a taxi or organize a designated driver and um the same applies to if you are going walking this weekend particularly in rural areas or in areas where there is no street lighting um we're high something high you know that you're visible high visibility jackets something like that be safe and be seen out there and also this weekend I suppose we're we're coming into Halloween as well kids are going to be out and about they're going to be on the roads they're going to be trick or treating and that's I suppose something else that we kind of don't think about until it's too late so for them there's glow sticks that you can buy they're if you call into a garden station you can get some of the smaller high visibility jackets that you could put on them put reflective tape on them because I have seen kids with black bags on them or false faces that you know they're just like they're all black and they're invisible and that's what you cannot see them and particularly when you are in rural areas and then there is no lighting in that so it's just those wee things they're just even put bright colors on them or a bag on their back and if you use the road cycling or walking um as well the clocks go back on Sunday it's going to get dark early don't get caught out if you're on a walk and find yourself having to walk back without clothing on uh without vis hi vis clothing on because if you look at the the breakdown of the fatalities it's it's across the board it's pedestrians motorcyclists cyclists car drivers car passengers like there's not an awful lot that we have the power to control in terms of you know deaths but we can hear if we all do our bit you know an extra 37 people on top of an already awfully high number an extra 37 live lost so far this year compared to the same period last year I mean that's 37 huge holes in communities and families and it's it's shocking really isn't it Charlie it's we know the we know the message it's just heeding it's and not getting sort of complacent and not thinking that it won't happen to us exactly and of course for road users that are out there if they come across something that they think it's or they believe is dangerous and they would report it contact your local guard the station and report it to us and we'll investigate it from there call could save a life okay listen thank you very much indeed as always god of charlene anderson from the bunkrana guard station that was community guard information will be available for you to listen back on the podcast or watch back on our facebook pages and the on god of shea carna facebook page a little eight later on today and it's back live for you after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com looking for the perfect christmas party venue join us at sister seras for a mouth watering christmas party menu now available to book on 91 222 38 sister seras out sponsors of today's show without the tricks 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info at country music tours dot i will see you in sunny saloon okay we're joined on the program now by tv chef donal skihan who's uh got his 11th book out now uh it's called home kitchen can you hear me okay donal i can can you hear me that and clear good morning to you okay so congratulations on your 11th book great achievement this one's uh described as a little bit more personal yes it's a bit of a story of coming home we were living in las angeles for five years and we moved home at the beginning of the pandemic and in lots of ways we've been i think we've for for a long time we've been searching for home and and getting back to ireland and you know in lots of ways this is the companion of of you know our our young family and it hopefully serves a purpose for a lot of other families out there it's it's you know a collection of recipes that serves uh weekday rushes you know your weekend feast the classics that you need to get you through the week but ultimately yes it's a story of of what home kitchen means to me and and hopefully it'll uh it'll serve a purpose for other people as well but uh yeah we we've only this year just bought our first home and um we're back in ireland for for for good i think i think i thought you were about to say only this see we bought our first air fryer uh do you do you embrace the air fryer i had to stop talking about air fryer's on this program because i think listeners thought i had some sort of an issue uh with them because uh i was an early adopter and now i've got my ninja next to my air oven because i believe that one is good for cooking certain things and and the other uh for other things um do you feature air fryer's in your book i i blame uh nathan from board of lunch for being did i never knew nor denier ur fryer would ur fryer i the ur fryer so i uh i absolutely he's he's convinced me that this is the way forward and um yeah we featured it in the new tv show it's in the new book and i mean look i think i'm always going to be a lover of the classics a good casserole pot is you know and the oven is never going to replace the air fryer but i what i will say about them is that they are a convenience just like the microwave is a convenient they're the kind of thing that i think a lot of people have embraced because of that fact that it's convenient so you know even on a meal prep we've got two young boys who got a five year old and a three year old so anything that can help me get the dinner to the table a little bit quicker is a is a plus in my book so the air fryer comes in quite handy we use it for simple things like you know you can you can char grill you know broccoli in a in the short space of time you can do potato sweet potato chips the easy things that are the building blocks of weekday meals or even on the weekend so i do see the value in it however it won't replace the classic oven of course but in a way like you know obviously you know you use less fat and all but because we're all getting so conscious of our bills you know why you spent wait 20 minutes to eat a huge oven and then you know but as you say the oven you have to lean on it time from time to time it'll never go away now in terms of i think you want this to be really accessible i know you do anyway but in terms of like you can get this book and people can cook lovely food that has sort of a restaurant feel to it i think sometimes people are scared off by the names of things right so sheet pan sticky korean popcorn chicken with rice and slaw right i'm like oh no i can't make that no yeah exactly but then it's your job isn't it say no you can have fancy fancy sounding delicious i'm really letting people know who i am here delicious food but you can make it at home and here's how look i think my job in the last kind of 10 years i've been really clear about that i've always looked at recipes and how to kind of make them accessible so there's not too many ingredients they're you know they're simple to do and oftentimes it's about the building blocks of your home kitchen i mean most i know there's so many at home cooks out there who are passionate about their cooking and then there's people who are beginners who never have stepped you know who air fryer might be their first way in to cook in in the kitchen so ultimately it's about the building blocks of becoming a confident home cook and i think you know i talk about it quite a lot during throughout the book is that you know we have different scenarios of how we cook throughout the week and that might be the weekday rush which we have a whole chapter on the everyday dinners but you also have time for like the slow weekend cooking and you know there's moments in the kitchen where you do how you can stick on the radio you stick on highland radio and you're cooking away doing nice things but ultimately you know even a long winded sounding title like that you know their store cupboard pantry ingredients you know sriracha sauce is probably you know a hot sauce like that you might only use a tablespoon of it but it's going to keep for ages in your store cupboard you know soy sauce you know you buy the big bottles and again you're only using a tablespoon here a tablespoon there but they are the building blocks of really great meals and my biggest thing with my recipes has always been number one that they're accessible but number two that there's a huge payoff at the end so if you're going to go to the effort even if you're a new cook you're going to go to the effort of making the recipe you're going to get that payoff at the end you're going to sit down with something that's absolutely delicious and worth your while of actually getting into the kitchen and making it so I do see that as a big job as as part of the recipes we put together so it might be a long winded recipe title but ultimately you're going to come and sit down and I often say you know like break at break down that recipe into your protein your carbohydrate and your vegetable like I like I said with two young kids I'm always trying to make sure we have the balanced meals as much as possible so you're looking at it from that perspective and what I like to do is just sprinkle in those little elements that make them exciting and that make them a little bit different you know there's a there's a recipe for like popcorn chicken that has corn flakes I mean like everyone has bacon corn flakes so it is that idea that you can take something and really use it to to uh to elevate and what about if you you know those hot Doritos could you switch out the corn flakes for the hot Doritos I know I've been in America but you can't be leading me down that path now why not come on they're everywhere I'm flaming hot Cheetos on your chicken is that what we're doing? Why not? Come here yeah so as you say it's the everyday dinners it's the it's the the weekday rush but you know as we head into the autumn and the nights are drawing in and and you know maybe a little bit more time at home and even maybe to refocus and get back to enjoying you know making that Sunday dinner or the the slow cooker that might be sitting in the bottom shelf of your kitchen right behind all the panels that you use every day and it hasn't been out in ages you know get it out because there's nothing nicer than going into the kitchen and lifting well you're not sure if you're supposed to lift the lid or not but do you know what I mean and you can see it bubbling away there it's really satisfying now there is that element and I think like I said you know the book is broken up into how we use our weeks like your make-ahead Sundays the busy weekday rush but also those weekend moments and I think they're the times that I love cooking where I really have time to cook and you know there's a slow cooker chicken stew which literally tastes like a chicken a roast chicken dinner in a in a comforting bowl so you know and it's basic ingredients it's chicken thighs it's it's onion celery and carrot and then time and you know little little little moments like that that you have up your sleeve that you can throw out that really bring everyone to the table and my favorite moment and my memories of growing up with my mom as a great cook was the the windows steaming up at this time of year where you knew there was something good in the oven and you knew she'd put a little bit of love and effort into what was going on the dinner table so you know the recipes are in there for that and you know they're like I said it's a companion for people in the in their home kitchens so that you have that sort of playbook of recipes that are easy to dive into and slow cooker chicken roast chicken there's beautiful and very simple things that just bring you know like a roast pork dinner with really good crackling and you know all the extra sides this has to you know these are the recipes that serve a purpose in our weekday and and our week week live so I think ultimately it's trying to have those recipes up your sleeve so that you have the opportunity to get something tasty to the dinner table yeah and you know we talk about how we're all really really busy but you know I sat back there not so long ago and what are we all as busy as we actually really think or are we just not really managing our time very well and we're just conditioned to be you know always rushing and rushing I'm trying to drop the shoulders a little bit and breathe a bit more and go right do maybe you do have an hour to cook something a little bit long form now do you know what I mean I think I think more than anything you know during COVID and the pandemic we've all kind of the amount of people who are cooking you know the amount of people who are kind of seeing that as a moment of solace and personally speaking you know I I kind of were like like most people you're running around you're trying to raise a family you're doing you're keeping work going but like these are the moments like there is self-care in cooking and you know there is those moments where you know you've kind of looked after yourself when you sat down and and cooked and like that doesn't have to be every day like everyone kind of has enough pressures in life you don't have to be cooking every day you can take the shortcuts take the cheats but when you do when you do really take that moment of solace to enjoy stick the radio on and you know a Saturday morning or a Sunday morning and you cook something that you're all going to sit down to like for me that is the magic moment of cooking and why it's all worthwhile you have the solution you have the solid you know the solid recipes that get you through the week but those little ones that you kind of that you make with a bit of love and a bit of passion those are the ones that I think we all find a little bit more mindfulness and solace in so yeah it's important I'm doing the same and trying to put the shoulders back in and take the deep breaths when you have exactly you have to don't you and the TV show don't talk to us a little bit about that yeah so it's the TV show starts on or T1 on the first of November on Wednesday next week actually so it's kicking off it's an eight-part series we're a Christmas special part of it but it's it's basically celebration of home you know we've like I said we've been traveling and we're this is a moment to come home so you know these are the recipes that get us through the week and it's been a lovely one to shoot because we've shot it around where I live here in Hoates in Dublin and close to our family home and and from that perspective you know actually it was very funny because we had the kids kids kind of feature a little bit but our eldest fella he's five now and he told me Papa I'm done I don't want to do any more of this because only because he was having to change out of his clothes five times in one day and he was completely over it so I think we have to respect that now he's done he's done with the the quick changes so yeah but they do feature and I mean my two boys are absolutely feral so the fact that we got them to feature in any way shape or form is is a success story but we look forward to that the new book home kitchen home kitchen everyday cooking made simple and delicious is out now it's in hardback but also to an e-book because you know more and more people now are using the tablet or the laptop don't tell them that I'm pushing the kindle but it is cheaper if you want to buy it all right well listen continued success we look forward to show the book is out there in all the usual in all the usual places it's available as an e-book and we really appreciate you coming on as I say continued success you're a busy man donal and we appreciate your time this morning thank you so much for having a great fun memories of heading up to Highland radio over the years well sure you're always welcome it's an open invitation all right donal take care of yourself that's donal skee and their author of a home kitchen that book out now and his show begins on rte next week if you're interested in that dear greg maybe you can listen maybe you can help out there dear greg I bought a washing machine three weeks ago in a local store it stopped working I rang a number on the receipt it's an 0818 number no one's rang me back since yesterday morning I tried ringing since 9 30 today still holding would you please know do you know what I can do can I ask for the machine to be lifted and get my money back thank you was it delivered to you by this is a multinational store by the way not one of the local it is a local store as well but it's multinational so the boat and washing machine three weeks ago it stopped working do you know out there do you have to leave it into the store are they obliged to come and collect it for you and replace it or can they offer to repair it any of you out there have had that experience please let us know 08 660 25000 these laughing gas canisters are a huge issue in Britain parks cluttered also on the streets indeed and in Dublin as we heard from a councillor there I'm just curious have they come up on the radar here from I think maybe tidy towns might be tidy towns groups might be the most likely to see them but maybe they haven't maybe the use appears not widespread though I did get a message from someone to say that there was an instant in involving involving that product in the region across the northwest somewhere not too long ago so some people maybe though they know exactly what we've been talking about okay our next guest joining us very shortly make your Christmas party unforgettable at sister Sarah's this December book now for the best Christmas party in town see Facebook for menu and dance sister Sarah's are proud sponsors of 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milligram 20 milligram etc instead all the pharmacist could locate at suppliers was in 18 milligram capsules which couldn't be dispensed without a consultant adjusting my daughter's script our pharmacist said that yesterday he had no supply of prescribed cream for a customer and no asthma pump for the same woman's son she said his pharmacy recently went a whole year with no supply of paracetamol I think all pharmacists are affected they've got no stock and cannot order as the suppliers have no stocks a great one on earth is going on with supply to which jurisdiction is the supply going because it's not just specialist meds it's everyday meds that are becoming unavailable in Ireland my daughter's medication cannot be stopped without a controlled reduction over time my heart breaks for the parent who couldn't get an asthma prescription for her son yesterday asthma can kill I'm not able to manage this listener I'm close to burnout okay so that's a shocking situation Margaret O'Doherty is a pharmacist at Riffau pharmacy and a regular contributor on this program which we're very grateful for and joins us now Margaret how typical is is is that listeners situation I wonder unfortunately it's very typical and my heart goes out to her because she's obviously in a very difficult situation her child she probably had a long way to get an appointment with cams first of all and the service is very busy it's about an excellent service but it's quite hard to get into and you have problems I mean she has to arrange her life around getting appointments getting her medication her child's medication so I know how difficult it is for parents in that situation and my heart really does go out to her and to all the others who are in it and unfortunately some of my own patients are in exactly the same position and what's the issue Margaret well the issue I mean we've spoken about it before but in this particular case the the drugs there's been a big increase in demand for it there's been a lot more awareness around these conditions and particularly um and adults it used to be we only saw these drugs prescribed in children now a lot of adults are being are getting a late diagnosis of it and they're taking these medications and it's very beneficial for them but it has caused a big surge in demand internationally it's not just an Irish problem it's an international problem and for a long time the drugs have been what they call an allocation which means that we only get a certain amount of them every month so if I have two patients on a particular strength I can only get two packs of that and so on um so that if you have new patients you're sort of going to the company again saying can I get my allocation increased sometimes you can sometimes you can't depend on availability but now we're in the the bane basically that we can't get our allocations it used to be every month you couldn't get it to the start of the month then it was you know it was a weekend to the month the middle of the month now they just don't have any stock to supply you with at all I think that's really quite an interesting insight because people might have thought that you just get a lorry load of drugs in and then they're drawn down as needed but you have to make enquiries specific to your customers exactly um when drugs are in short supply the suppliers that we use to main wholesalers they have the stocks they get the stocks from the manufacturers who supply what they consider to be suitable for the Irish market or what the demand should be that's then divided among pharmacies on the basis of what you normally buy so as I say if I have two patients on it I'll get two packs of it if I have three patients I might get three packs of it but getting the allocation you're constantly onto them like can I get my allocation increased sorry we can't increase it sorry we can't even give you what your allocation was last month off and that's the case you know or we can't give you anything and that's happening more and more so the listener says it appears things are getting worse I mean you've confirmed that this obviously there's more demand suppliers can't meet the demand so is this going to be a long-term issue or is there any talk of suppliers ramping up productivity or um well that that's one possibility but it certainly won't be won't be happening in the short term and the in the short term that's it's not just as simple as ramping up it making drugs is a complex process it's a highly regulated process so it's very difficult to to just ramp up supply that's that's part of the problem as well is is this person obviously dealing with a specific pharmacist would there be any advantage for them ringing around pharmacies that maybe unfortunately not great because as I say we have an allocation the allocation is what you bought over the last six months last year so in this particular case some cases and drugs that aren't what we call on allocation you may have you know some pharmacists may have more stock than others but in this particular case unfortunately I wouldn't I would say she'd only be stressing herself more ringing around pharmacies she'd all tell her the same thing sorry I can't help you yeah and are we are we particularly disadvantaged because we're a relatively smaller market that may be the likes of Britain or France can put the squeeze on these companies for supply more than we might as I say we're effectively a city the whole country's the size of a city of another country and that's certainly part of the problem but it's not it's not the whole problem in the UK they have exactly the same problem and just when Caroline rang me this morning I just checked on the 27th of September they issued a patient safety alert around these drugs specifically warning the prescribers and that they weren't going to have stock of them with the stuff that they had weren't going to meet demand advising them not to start new patients on it we've had no guidance whatsoever here in Ireland they've given very specific guidance here it's been left to the patients and their parents and pharmacists to try and scramble around trying to find stock and see what worries me and I would love to see maybe the hsc putting out some public information in relation to this like another very popular drug or medicine that seems in short short supply is an injection that quite a lot of people more and more people seem to be using for weight loss and there was a warning issue yesterday that there this product is being offered on the internet and it's actually really quite dangerous that's just one example I just hope people don't get desperate and try and source any drugs at all online through that desperation and find themselves causing harm or injury to themselves or their their children I mean obviously I would echo that Greg particularly in the case of these medications for for people that are suffering that are attending mental health services it's absolutely critical that they don't take anything that isn't prescribed by their consultant and obtained from a registered pharmacy there's a lot of stuff on the internet you can get anything you want online unfortunately it's not always what it says it is so I would be very very careful on that so Margaret finally all we can do really is sympathise with our listener and sort of confirm what they already know to be true and not a great deal of medium to to short term hope to offer them at this point this is a global issue at the moment it is and but I think we could we should see a great deal more leadership from the the HSE and the HPRE who regulate it the information on their website is very very limited it's telling people that there are suitable alternatives available when really there aren't it doesn't emphasize how difficult it is to access them that these drugs have to be used under specialist supervision and that's putting a lot of pressure on a service that's already grossly overworked as it is and you are the ones fielding the calls in inverted inverted commas because you're the cold face at the cold face and they say well I saw the HSE say this give me it well that that's exactly it I mean and as I say my heart goes out to the people who are suffering and it's very frustrating for us and for the pharmacy teams who are working so hard to it looks as if we're doing absolutely nothing but under I mean so much of our time is spent on this issue with very very little results unfortunately do you agree that a consultant has to be consulted for any changes to to medicine or do you believe there could be some flexibility in some areas to allow pharmacists maybe to offer alternatives or do you think given what we're talking about it's important that consultants are consulted and in this particular case on patients that are under cans that they have to see their consultant or a doctor that's that's very experienced in using these drugs most of the other shortages and pharmacists and GPs are well able to manage them it takes time and it's frustrating but it's it's something that we can do in this particular case our hands are completely tied because you do have to have a lot of expertise to handle these patients. Okay well Margaret thanks as always for your insight I do appreciate it and as you pointed out you're like all our pharmacists incredibly busy so thank you so much for your time that's Margaret O'Daherty who is a pharmacist at Rafoe Pharmacy 086 60 25000 if you want to have a view on that or give us a call on 07491 25000 okay it is just approaching 11 o'clock it's time for a news update and it's back over to Donna Marie Daherty. Thanks Greg good morning Akara had its window smashed while it was parked overnight at Parkhead in Kelly Beggs the incident happened between 11 o'clock on Friday night last and half past 10 the following morning entry was not gained the vehicle and no items were reported to have been taken. Gherty and Bunkrana are appealing for information. 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gedor hi gene kern here to let you know that our next highland radio book club choice is the last devil to die the fourth installment of the thirsty murder club by Richard Osmond an old friend in the antiques business has been killed and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing will the gang solve the crime we will review the book on my show on Sunday the 12th of November and as always if you would like to take part in any of the reviews email me gene kern at highland radio dot com okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show court short there with the ad break but anyway here we are and we are discussing or we're asking you are you interested in knowing more about artificial intelligence how it can be used in an ethical and responsible way and how best to regulate it whilst also enabling innovation navigating the future of regulation and a to you don't go tomorrow will feature a keynote speech by now Watson an international trailblazer in emerging technologies including a I and it's ethical and safe use Eleanor good morning to you thank you so much for joining us thank you it's a pleasure to join you today yeah it's great it's great it's great to have you on it'll be great to have you speaking at this event and hey AI it's almost like a genius out of the bottle now is it can it be controlled can its usage be controlled because even you know major governments seem to be caught out by how quickly it's developing and somewhat behind the curve you might not agree with that analysis of it but that indicates to me that this is almost racing ahead of us to some extent yes in many ways AI can be likened to magic right it's the closest thing to to magic in the world today in many ways and we should be careful with such power we should we shouldn't use it like muggles we should use it cleverly and carefully and certainly the the genie is out of the bottle because we have rapidly accelerating and increasing returns on investment and development and so there's a very rapid takeoff and capabilities and that means that these developments are going to come thicker and faster especially because they're they're kind of self-reinforcing you know the more that we develop machine learning capabilities the more that we understand the human brain the more that we can replicate those capabilities within AI and essentially there's there's no sign of any slowdown or stoppage or winter ahead of us it's it's only going to get faster for the feasible and you know when we talk about you know the ethics of it all and protecting human rights infusing ethic safety and the values that elevate the human spirit the concern is is who is the arbiter of that who decides that you know what I mean because there can be biases even now in some of the responses that you get even just at the most basic level of our interaction with with AI so you can almost feel that whoever controls AI controls its values that elevate the human spirit well I think all of us have had some experience for example with a social media algorithm that decides we've done something wrong when it was completely innocuous or even simply just a just a bug within the system that illustrates how systems with power over us can potentially disenfranchise us from various services and of course if those are used and things like justice or healthcare etc the stakes are much more higher than simply being locked out of your your social media for a week or so it's very important that we come together to develop and implement international standards for improved transparency mitigation of these disproportional biases to improve the accountability of systems so we know what went wrong and why and how to prevent that in future to reinforce privacy and there's some fantastic new encryption methods we can use that enable us to do machine learning even on encrypted data which is very promising and of course ultimately to help to ensure that there is fairness built into these systems now of course to some degree this is going to be an individual preference it's also going to be a cultural preference and it's going to be legal and jurisdictional reasons as elements as well to this so it's important that we have basic ground rules as internationally as possible and then enable both national governments and individual people crucially to choose their own preferences for working with AI but I would like to see is a world where AI can learn and adopt our values and be able to fit with our own preferences that it molds itself to our our needs and our our desires yeah which is complex because someone engaging with AI in Afghanistan might have very different expectations for responses as someone living in Britain or Ireland for an example absolutely so how do you how do you how do you manage that I think most people listening to this program now are watching the show AI is in their lives already whether they realise it or not be it on social media or what have you it is going to increase rapidly and you know we've seen some of the stuff in terms of you know what Google are working on and other companies in terms of you know engaging with your local hairdresser where you but you know it speaks to you we don't understand you it can schedule you and all that type stuff so it's going to really become an integral part of everybody's life whether they like it or not I believe where do you rate where do you grade this as much as we can in terms of you know shifts in in humanity if that makes sense I'm not trying to overstate it but do you know what I mean in terms of big things that have happened along our timeline where do you place this it is it is a it's a Promethean development in many ways you know it is it is like likened to the printing press perhaps even the wheel or fire it's an invention that gives us potentially future inventions right and that makes it also potentially our final invention because it may invent something beyond human and that might involve uplifting our humanity helping us to be better human beings helping us to understand each other in new ways to um self-actualise better right because our civilisation is quite good at solving for food and housing and security increasingly for more people around the world in better ways but we don't have good answers for love and belonging for um helping people to to reach the the maximum heights that they can and potentially that's something that AI could help us with however the inverse is that AI could ultimately end up manipulating us in various ways that we don't find preferable it could seduce us in various ways our relationships with AI could become more compelling than our human relationships which could be uh ultimately not to our benefit and ultimately AI is emerging as a as a tool of war AI a a method of fifth generation hybrid warfare which is all about plausible deniability and attacks which gradually and slowly and exibly demoralise people so that the the target society collapses in on its own weight but not a single shot has been fired and the speed with which it's developing is like I would suggest I'm not overstating it maybe it's even now but you talk about even in a war environment or controlling the narrative or whatever it might be like it's probably available now but widely available it might be very difficult in a year two years as soon as that to determine to be impossible really almost to determine what is presented as reality and what is not even in terms of sort of video generation that's how significant this is and how imminent it is absolutely I mean we're already seeing today that anyone with a with a quite a quite a small subscription fee can now gain access to tools to edit reality in a sense that only intelligent services or possibly Hollywood with major multi-million dollar budgets had access to now any one of us can alter a scene replace a character um magically erase somebody out of existence or completely change how a scenario happened and that's going to have major impacts not only on things like propaganda but also potentially within judiciary and evidence and having to struggle to verify whether a piece of evidence is indeed genuine or not and sorry for it to be so linear the question but if you had two emotions like excitement and fear where is the where is the scale there for where is the where is the weight personally I'm I'm exhilarated which is a mixture of excitement and fear it's it's when you're on the roller coaster stop the world word gymnastics you're sort of enjoying it but you also want to bar for the same time that's kind of right I'm personally right I'm cautiously optimistic yeah I'm cautiously optimistic because we we have the beginnings of good standards and certifications to help to um to help to support and and provide a foundation for the development of more ethical and responsible and robust AI and really I liken it to air travel in the 1950s where you know it was exciting but very scary at the same time but at least humans were at least humans were flying the planes but I take mostly yes but we had to create good rules around that yeah of course we had to we had to um have lots of accidents but we learned from them we learned from them quite quickly and then air travel changed dramatically in its safety you just wonder where we're at now in terms of AI's influence on the world order and you know how much of an influence is it having now obviously with with with human guidance versus you know where we might actually go I think that's really untold at this point Deirdre Hart is project manager at Donegal County Council and anyone who might not have been interesting you know knowing more about artificial intelligence Deirdre after listening to Eleanor there may have their interest piqued because this is sci-fi but we're living in it right now if you know what I mean it's like if anyone watched the the most recent um mission impossible film it's the most plausible of all as implausible as it might seem um in a way uh Deirdre you're looking forward to a big attendance um at the uh at the event tomorrow yes great we have about a hundred people registered in person and we've got about another 70 online because for us this conference is part of um something bigger it's looking at the future of regulation and how we in the northwest could be in a absolutely brilliant position in terms of capitalising on that we regulation affects all of us and there's some of these key issues across international boundaries and in the northwest where we've been working as cross-border collaborations for a long time now so we we feel like here we are in terms of the the two local authorities working on a cross-border basis and the academic um institutions and we we're the interface now in terms of the EU in the UK and we also have a huge amount of north american interest because what happens in regulation is that often where EU goes north america follows so we we think we're poised now in terms of setting up a super cluster that focuses on regulation um to capitalise and nowhere else in the world has done that there's clusters that um might look at technology in financial services or technology in medical devices but there's nowhere in the world at the minute that looks at this cross sector across all sectors and you can't look at the future of regulation without looking at AI because both it's how you regulate AI as now has talked about in a responsible and safe way but also you can use AI in a way that will help us comply with regulation um there's a huge cost to industry at the minute in all in their compliance a lot of it is still paper based so there's huge potential to use AI in a really good way to reduce the costs and really make lives easier for people but it's that very careful balance in terms of how you regulate AI in a way that keeps that level of innovation so that can actually help us as well in quite a tricky area um and here we are we're trying to um I suppose builders build ourselves up somewhere in the world that people then could look to as a center of global excellence um and that's why in in pulling this conference together it was great to get now involved because we knew we really wanted AI to be a part of that um to look at how we do that in the future so I mean obviously it is uh the the opening gamut there is are you interested in knowing more about AI but who I mean maybe you can even look at those that have already um said they are going who's interested in this really like who is making up your your delegates there and who do you hope to see there as I say it is you know open to to most but is it people that you feel could could help shape what we're talking about here no absolutely it's probably it's probably a really good mix of like the public agencies who might and the regulators people who are looking at regulation in the future it's also um businesses and industry who are regulated and know that they have to um comply with regulation and then it's um academic institutions they to the Ulster University and so on who are looking at you know ensuring their students um of the future have the right skill set and talent and these fields are in terms of regulation and artificial so it's it's a really nice mix across if you imagine those um kind of three sectors public and private and and academic yeah and all of those are including now they're all of those are sort of reflected in the in the speakers list as well that's right yes we've we've tried to capture all those different sectors um and we've tried to look at cross-sectoral issues including AI but also ESG climate sustainability the regulations around that are only going to get more complicated um so we want to focus on that in terms of gear enough getting businesses to think about the regulations that are coming down the line quite soon um and making sure that they're geared themselves up in that and we we think if we set ourselves up as a centre of excellence here then we'll have all that um expertise and knowledge on this doorstep so it'll really help the industry in the northwest if that's you know on their doorstep and also in terms of opportunities for um getting further investment into the northwest and jobs because as you know um the the two councils come at that at this very much in terms of the economic development perspectives for us it's all about inward investment and creating jobs um for our young people of today and making sure that they're um leading the way in terms of that that knowledge and specialist skills yeah for sure and with that in mind you know we do need our although it might they're very young but our 13 14 15 year olds and so on looking to see where the world's going to be in four five six years all of us reminds me of the time of the economic crash no one signed up to be architects and no one signed up in certain areas of work and then like we do we rebounded and where was all the architects do you know what I mean so we have to and parents guide their young people to sort of maybe where the world's going rather than sometimes where it's at uh right now um now so where do you see us in five years you know not from an educational perspective but from an AI perspective in five years time AI will be deeply embedded within our personal and professional lives we will have kind of AI concierge that is helping us with all kinds of different tasks you know helping us to prepare documents helping us to find a nice place to eat etc it's it's kind of kind of the dream of what Siri was supposed to be 10 years ago but turned out to be don't mention Siri that's why I stopped using iPhones because they wouldn't put Siri on the iPhone 3 but they put it on the iPhone 4 who's laughing now yeah finally we're going to get to that we're going to get to that point where we're having um a kind of relational experience as well with machines that are able to to follow up with us and ask you know how was your day at the park or you know you said you had a bit of a bad back last week how are you doing now and that's that's going to have a that's going to have an impact on many people's lives maybe possibly even the area of mental health you know absolutely and the stuff like that it's all like there's there's so many things that are really exciting but as you say also things we have to be nervous and cautious of as well thanks so much now we look forward to hearing you tomorrow thank you so much for joining us I really do appreciate it Deirdre how do people get involved if they want to attend where is it when is it and how do you get to it so it's at ATU Levenkenne campus tomorrow and if anyone registrations close at four o'clock today so if this really has got your interest in and getting involved probably the best thing to do is go on to donagall.ie and there you can find a few recent news articles on the link to register so if people can do that before four o'clock today and also if you can't join physically there's an option to kind of it's going to be live streamed so you can also register just tick online and then you'll get a link to join us tomorrow morning all right enjoy it probably in five years time we two computers talking to each other I mean you'll be retired all right thanks great all right Deirdre thank you very much indeed for your time Deirdre Hart there 08 660 25000 I just want to let you know that the redress focus group meeting is tonight at 7 p.m. in on Greenon Theatre if you can get along to that it's really important not just for those that are involved in the redress groups but for everyone as a whole fantastic work and information at those meetings so in on Greenon Theatre sorry I beg your pardon I'll just double check that it's an on Greenon Hotel tonight at 7 p.m. that's the redress focus groups meetings so as I say get along to that if you can and there's a couple of 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32 from letter kennedy doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time us uh 11 28 now the israeli embassy has admitted a tweet by one of its sinew diplomats was wrong after she claimed arland was funding tunnels under gaza that are used by hamas uh she said the deputy with the deputy head mission of the israeli embassy in arland made the claim on x which is formally uh twitter miz maus wrote arland wondering who funded those tunnels of terror a short investigation direction one find a mirror to direct it to yourself three voila all right okay we're joined on the program now by uh liam liam what's a reaction to that kind of language uh albeit deleted it's still there it's still out there and it's not sort of the only reprimand arland has had from his uh people who represent israel and kreger janitor was quite annoyed uh this is the kind of rhetoric that's going around the whole time by israel and israeli uh representatives that diplomat had no right whatsoever to use that kind of language but then we have our own ambassador here in arland and she wasn't very very helpful what she said about uh uh president hegan said from what i recollect pregnant he can basically said it's a war crime well well great can i give you a little comparison and maybe you can help me out here i'm not really familiar with what's going on uh i'm ignorant of the thing in the sense 47 uh the british was giving back what was called edda waterland they were giving it back to the palestinians but at the same time they went along and brought in the uh the jews and by bringing in the jews war erupted between 1947 and 48 which 750 palestinians were thrown out burnt out kicked out and charged out of their homes and they had to find refuge somewhere else and this is one of the starts of it in 1947 and 48 and has continued ever since we had we had a leader there i think his name was yasser arafat and he even though he was a member of the plo he was trying in the latter end i think they brought up an agreement in 1943 called the oslo um a chord a mama should that's what was called and basically that was what he said was that the israel should live in peace would equally the people of palestin should live in peace the problem with israel and all its leaders they just want to own the whole world that's it but it is complex well i'm sure they i mean you saying jewish people want to own the whole world that's right relatively what you said well well well okay okay i mean that's i don't want to they want they want to take over that whole area there uh in that part but also there are those in that part of the world as well that want the complete annihilation of all uh jewish people so whoever is it see i don't who people sort of say no it's their fault it's their fault it's their fault the bottom line is is my concern is is particularly what men do particularly mostly men shoot at each other and blow each other up or whatever i'm not sure we can ever stop that but whether it's israeli children and and civilians or those in gaza or palestine more genuine generally that's just unbelievable the wrongs and the right people go back and forward and back to the 40s and i get that and sometimes you have to go back in history to find out where we are and where we're going but there's no now to be fair to you grand i agree with you i know i probably should have said it first i'm totally opposed to what amas did that time apparently there was 1400 people uh murdered that that week uh where the hammas came in and just shot and kidnapped rent with it now somebody forces 1200 of them were or israeli soldiers i don't actually know but but you're writing what you're saying it's all wrong but how to start us i'm not sure but i mean the americans pumping in money left right in center definitely not going to start anything because if you have money in power and guns coming in like that you're going to do like pewton above in in in russia he wants to take over he doesn't he wants to annihilate all the ukrainian people and he wants that part of the world so that he can grow food and control the world so the next president of america one time says if we can control the clouds we can control the weather we can control the world and then he changes he said if we can control the food we can control and that's basically what pewton is doing the one thing too when i think this talks more to your point as well is that it seems that even qualified criticism of israel you'll you could you you get into bother for it so even if you say even if you say right israel are entitled to defend themselves but they can't go in blanket bombing civilians because that's a war crime even if you said that and i think to most right thinking people not just in arland but across the world that would be an acceptable statement it seems and that's really as much as i heard from the president really if the truth be told you can get into serious bother for that so so can i can i give you an analogy we'll just say we're back in 1980 in ireland or 85 or 86 and a certain terrorist group which was then called i don't know if the out where terrorist group they were called the ira and they went along and planted off a few bombs and and killed some people that gives the british the right to come in and murder bomb less than butcher and slaughter the people in northern ireland it is it didn't that's basically what's happening well that's what's happening well that's what that's what's happening in that's what's happening in gaza um leah so so israel israel israel is bombing the civilian population and killing innocent people with a view with a view with a view to altering the stance of the leadership of that country that's what uh that's what terrorist groups and inverted commas do you that's what they presumed the ira tried to do they bombed uh britain and elsewhere with a view to changing the policy of that government that is some might say and i'm seeing anti-israel is such that's what israel are doing they are bombing the general population because we know that because thousands upon thousands of them are dead with a view to changing and eliminating the leadership of of that country so some might say some might equate it that way that's all i'm saying that that's you've brought in the sort of that analogy some might feel well that's exactly what's happening right now so so it is and you will agree that america is supporting and not alone america our own thonister was very vocal the very first days after uh gas uh i'm not gonna have that went in and date for the date which was totally wrong but our thonster was very supportive uh in fairness leah i think in the in the immediate aftermath of what happened uh with that hamas attack and this and there was an awful lot that went on before that we both know that leah him as well on both sides but it was horrendous uh what what those individuals do and and i'll be honest if the world was not shocked to its core at those type of actions i'd even almost be more worried so i wouldn't blame the thonister for an immediate response i think the thonister the the thonister and um the the president and others within arland have i've said look stop it we need to stop this now we can't be doing this to civilians the t-shirt but we're never going to stop but greg we're never going to stop if we have americans pumping millions billions in armory entered we're never going to stop but i get you and i understand that leah but who's funding who's funding uh hamas it's aran who's funding who's supporting hamas it's russia so this is what makes me laugh when the some people uh of a certain political persuasion on social media seem they back israel and they back russia at the same time which is crazy because uh they are enemies of each other effectively but if russia and aran are are backing hamas which they are okay is it not then understandable as apparent as it is that these us bombs are killing civilians in gaza is it not understandable though in a geopolitical sense that western allies are going to roll in behind israel because it's effectively israel the west versus hamas aran russia well greg i i'm of the older uh on members of the world and i think the very opposite i think if israel actually pulled back totally pulled back and i mean that they have a lot to suffer from the fact that people are killed and innocent people and people are kidnapped i think if they pull back because if they go forward with this uh ground force and they're going to mormon butcher everybody and level us in front of them but you're dead right then iran is going to come in that's going to be worse that's going to be way worse the iran is only looking for an excuse to go in and they actually have announced that if there's a ground force going in they'll be there as we speak at the moment they're having meetings on this now they're in the north uh on the the northern border and we've got israel bombing in syria at the moment it really is a powder keg uh i i do think the likes of biden are starting to get a wee bit worried about it because their language is changing and i think they are trying to uh they're trying to uh they're trying to prevent israel from from doing exactly what you've talked about for the exact reasons that you talked about i don't think the west can afford to fight two wars on two fronts ie in ukraine and ie in the middle east but again you know it's the incredible loss of life you know it's like the the amount of young russian men and young ukrainian men and women uh the young israelis the young uh everyone in gaza i mean it's just the world's going to pop yeah it's it's gone to gone totally bad if if and i agree again now i'm of the older persuasion um if there was a such a thing as a god now is the time the fact coming down because the world needs him or needs somebody because it's gone absolutely and and someone said to me is it what's it all over is it about power is it about religion is it about greed i'm not sure break power you know i mean there's a lot of money in war um and that's that's it's made off the back of of soldiers uh really who are sent into these scenarios probably not really knowing what they're fighting for um to die yeah yeah it is it's it's horrendous uh what's going on and listen i mean like i was listening to a senior police officer with these uh israeli police force and he said that uh to those that are protesting israel's actions in gaza he'd round them up and put them on buses and drive the buses into the center of gaza uh you know which often which effectively meant that if you if they oppose them within israel they'd just be part of the the collateral damage in in in gaza that kind of language from senior police um i don't i don't see any space for it i don't know enough about it to have an opinion no you're more than me and you are leon but this is horrendous the type of language that's being used by by all sides like but by well i'll tell you good one before i let you go great because i don't want to be holding up your time we would ought to visit our son in south korea and being the first i am i would go through a police man and then asking certain questions the speed of the traffic down along and things like that and i happen to coincidently say to what do you think of the american president which at the time was uh mr trump and he said he said once he's there we're safe and i go i go sorry i don't understand he says and our korea is mad the leader jim trump wherever his name is but he knows that president trump is more mad and once he knows that we're safe it's not unreal that was a please i actually can understand it because at that time trump was was meeting with kim jung and that's what he wants he wants to be sort of anyway we're that that uh we're a million miles away from that now because that's another area of the world and then you also take in the the 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your calls and contributions on the program today we'll get to some of those before the show ends but we want to welcome on to the program now connor galler crime and security correspondent with the irish times and we're going to speak about yosef palani who murdered two men in sligo last year and targeted his victims due to hostility and prejudice towards gay men well he's been sentenced to life in uh prisonment connor i mean all of cases of these natures are very difficult but this was a particularly gruesome and brutal uh case absolutely um i mean just all murders as you said are horrific uh greg bus um this one just had that added level of brutality and inhumanity and not these the nature the incredibly violent nature of the attacks carried out by palani on his three victims two of which he killed and uh mutilated their bodies i won't go into the the exact detail but it was just incredibly distressing for the friends of aiden moffis the first fatal victim who discovered his body in the home and then the nieces of michael snee who's the second fatal victim not to mention the the ongoing trauma been suffered by anthony burk who was um palani's first victim who he stabbed in the eye and miraculously um burk managed to to call 999 and anthony managed to pull through and he's a very resilient oppressive person and then there's this sort of kind of sensitivity around it that these were um palani's targeted these men because they were gay he used gay dating apps um to to meet them and to kind of convince them that he was you know a normal guy uh and in the case of anthony burk at least the circumstances of the murder meant he had to come out as gay everyone knew he was gay and and he was quite happy with you know uh people not knowing that so another awful side effect is you know added to the trauma is it kind of forced him against his will to come out as gay and and now he he told me that he feels forever associated with these murders you know the people of slago have been very very supportive to him but people will still stop and stare and and look at him and he knows what they're thinking uh palani said that he would have continued if he wasn't stopped that's right yeah um so palani was arrested uh following this um very dramatic guard a manhunt you know he got a convoy of eight or nine vehicles a heavy armed guardie traveling around distancing the homes of gay men in the slago area um with the assistance of mr burk uh in an effort to find his next victim or at least warn people to be very very careful about who they talk to online so palani um he was finally arrested uh guardie got a photo of him and was shown around slago town and someone recognized him and was able to give that school address guardie planned a massive arrest operation cleared out all the neighboring house and signed a spotlight into the house uh then ordered palani to come out hands up and and he did he came out peacefully initially an interview he made no admissions uh said he's nothing to do with it wasn't there uh but then by the third interview i think the uh the enormity of the evidence what he was insurmountable he realized and he made admissions and made very full and graphic admissions um he said that being gay is a sin under islam but he also said he didn't hate the men because they were gay so it's quite contradictory in places and um he also said the voices made him do it he was hearing voices he said he was had had mental health issues and um and and it was the voices really that made him do it this was an attempt an early attempt at you know preparing an insanity plea both the guardie and indeed psych psychiatric evidence and assessments found he wasn't insane he might be very disturbed individual but he didn't meet the legal definition of insanity and what about this money found in his property an enormous amount of money the guardie don't believe that this was you know part of him being radicalized or the funding of his actions but it still remains a mystery does it some lot of a mystery yeah this is 350,000 euro in cash large nomination denomination notes which were found in two suitcases in the home and obviously guardie's mind went to maybe there was an outside organization extremist organization involved in funding Pallani to carry out these acts and it was a daily age with their international partners and intelligence agencies to see if Pallani was on any any of their raiders he wasn't criminal assets bureau had a look at us they couldn't find any evidence of illegitimate uh uh sources the work in theory is that this is just the savings of the family over the years it's a family of eight siblings and two parents they came from Iraq about 17 years ago when you said Pallani was six years old and settled here under a refugee resettlement program it's understood they had a relatively high standard living in Iraq and brought some of that cash with them but only some the rest was was saved up over the years the family were very frugal and don't trust the banks and but I think the exact source of the money might remain a mystery but guardie seems very very confident it's not linked to terrorism or organized crime or anything like that okay Conor listen thank you so much for your time this morning I greatly appreciate it Conor Gallagher who is crime and security correspondent with the Irish Times giving us details of that trial yesterday uh at which uh Yusuf Pallani was sentenced to life imprisonment haven't taken the lives in the most horrific circumstances of Aidan Moffatt and Michael Snee and he was also sentenced as having pled guilty to the serious harm to Anthony Burke right okay on or back to other matters ironically poor McLaughlin is the spokesperson for fisheries in the marine a man who spoke against the reintroduction of the voice niche which was massively negative implications for small inland fishermen and then voted for the reintroduction in the doll so I wouldn't pin my hopes in him to get a result on the hospital it would appear from your initial interactions with him that the figures he worked on over the weekend on funding missed the point it was only on you pointing out that the hospital needs to be upgraded only when you pointed this out did he adjust the position so for a man supposedly working on this issue for years he appears to have a poor understanding of the issues I don't think that's a fair assessment I think most people across all political parties speaking on the hospitals speaking on the hospitals issues are well versed but listen that's your opinion a call to say Sligo hospital has a 359 bed capacity the population of Sligo 69,819 L.K. Leicester University Hospital 302 beds Leicester County population 167,000 why is that Leicester County has a smaller hospital with such a big difference in population not to mention refugees that have come into the county since is that actual Sligo's population because of course Leicester University Hospital services at North Mayo I think North Ross Common Leetrum as well but anyway be that as it may your point for the most part still stands there Greg we in Ireland do not know enough about the situation in Israel Palestine Gaza the history culture etc it's complicated all actually all I can see is the Old Testament being revived in the same wars and massacres and destruction being perpetrated perpetrated there's not a lot we can do only to try to suggest humanitarian and peace plans it would fit President Higgins to look at the thousand killed in Ireland since 2019 which was facilitated by the stroke of a pen the referencing abortion there he could do something to stop or lower the number of these deaths is that a false equivalence though you know we're talking about the people of Gaza and Israel of course being murdered in their thousands and comparing that to abortion in this country which many see as a healthcare as many don't and which the majority of people in this country voted in favor of why are we not commenting on the fact that Israel is the aggressor backed by the U.S. and have been oppressed in Gaza since 2006 7 long before that some would say that's precisely was the nature of the the conversation Greg I'm sorry to disagree with Liam on the 1948 date as the start of the Israeli-Palestinian war it started over 4 000 years ago and I've stuffed together to that effect by agree with most of his other statements thank you for that just to remind you once again the redress focus groups they're holding their update and support meeting tonight at 7 p.m it's an on green on hotel in bird everyone is welcome so get along if you don't mind and support the work of the redress focus groups it's a relatively small amount of people doing an awful lot of work that is making a difference in certain areas one step at a time so you can get along to on green and hotel bird to get an update and support and just to chat really I suppose as well tonight at 7 p.m there are six narrow bridges on the road from letter kennedy glentes these bridges recently had work done on them but instead of building them wider and making the road safer they built them exactly as they were how does this make any sense I don't know I don't know uh yes halloween next Tuesday Greg time I hate I'm so scared of bangers yeah I think most people don't realize you're the person using them and I haven't really so I don't know um bangers and how and fireworks are unpleasant Greg I'm not being facetious but I was just wondering how many cow farts would it take to equal the air pollution from the bombs etc exploding in both the Russian Ukrainian and the Israeli Palestinian Hamas war it is affecting climate change I don't hear any government politicians climate protesters or even our president talking about this air pollution or did I miss it there are some speaking about it of course but not in the way you not world leaders like you're talking of billions involved in profits for the munitions and ammunition industry is that why no one is complaining I'm heartbroken at the thousands of precious lives lost in these wars there are many many different contradictions in this world Oshin says no sides but take a look at the history we the west created Israel initially to solve a problem but eventually to control a region hence Israel created terrorist groups the brigade which carried out the attacks was the most extreme with the result Hamas shall have to negotiate with them for hostages the whole Arab world is not eating popcorn they are getting angry now Greg would it not be better to have those traffic lights at the pool star roundabout working part time like the ones in dairy at strand road roundabout they seem to be a good job there I presume the council aren't ruling anything in or out they're reviewing what's going on it's a complex junction on a relatively small roundabout they've just been switched on in fairness they're out there with their laptops assessing traffic moving sensors around too slow for some people but look personally me I'll wait a month and see what the story is then but some might say well that's easy for you Greg you're not running a business that's losing out so I understand all the variations okay no that's Tuesday's show in the bag we're back with you tomorrow morning at 9 for another episode of the 9 till noon show for me Greg Hughes and Karlo Norr who researched and produced